Getting a little sick of all the “look at the Left exploding, aren’t they a bunch of fuckwits” videos and such. They sucked (and still do), they lost, they don’t deserve our attention, fuck ’em, time to move forward.
Like Oz commentator John Anderson has done with Victor Davis Hanson in this podcast. Now go and spend a couple hours to a) see how a real interviewer approaches a topic and b) bask in the clear wisdom and analysis of VDH.
By the way — and this next isn’t a political interview — go and watch Rick Beato talking with maestro keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Strawbs, Yes, etc. As with Anderson, Beato only asks a few questions — I think it’s fewer than half a dozen over the entire 90-minute interview — as Wakeman walks us through recording techniques, musical history and how Yes put their wonderfully-complex songs together.
And finally, even if you aren’t at all interested in Formula 1 racing, spend some time as former team principal Otmar Szafnauer (American, not German) shows his considerable managerial capabilities in an interview with some guys I’ve never heard of, but who also give the interviewee the extreme courtesy of asking only a few questions, not interrupting his answers, and basically giving the audience the benefit of his insight.
It’s a common thread running through all three, and I don’t want to hear any bleats of the foul “tl;dr” genre. Knowledge isn’t gained from bumper stickers, but from knowledgeable people giving us the benefit of their wisdom and experience. And the more time we give them to share with us, the deeper our understanding becomes and the more our lives are enriched.
I happen to know a great deal about all three topics, and I still learned a whole lot from all three interviews.
You’re welcome.
Victor Davis Hanson? Why would I listen to an intelligent person with good provable points when I could listen to a blowhard fucking moron like Allan Lichtman?
Allan Lichtman said Kamala would win. And he was… wait for it… WRONG!
All good suggestions.
One of the interesting things about Professor Hanson is to watch him become more and more redpilled as time goes by. He may never get all the way there, but he has certainly moved from the purely observational historian to a more “holy shit, we have to do something” attitude. He’s still not ready to say exactly what, but watching him you can almost see that he wants to shout it out.
As for Beato, he is at his best when he interviews the giants and his heroes, such as Sting or the Steely Dan session guys, and keeps his own massive ego in check. Like VDH, you can watch him edge up to the cliff … WTF is wrong with contemporary music … and struggle to not just start yelling. He’s gone there a couple times, but it’s clear he wants to keep a broad appeal.
Leading up to the election, I started following X again, and got hooked.
After the election, I took some joy in all the melt-down videos the loser femmes are posting.
This was brought to a new level when Justine Bateman started a series of professional critiques of those videos, from a professional filmmaker’s perspective.
I happened across the Beato/Wakeman interview just after it dropped, and must say it was one of the best examples of a properly done interview I’ve seen.
You REALLY know that your daily-blog follow is on your wavelength when he follows two other disparate people that you also follow
Brother from a different mother!