18 Minutes with Joe and Dave

Joe Rogan conducted a very interesting interview with a very interesting man, David Lee Roth. For you young reader(s) interested in the creative arts, we suggest listening to what Roth has to say. 

Roth talks about 'contribution'. What contributed to you? That is, what are your influences? 'How'd you get there?' Rogan asked how long it took Van Halen to write Runnin' with the Devil.  Roth goes on, 'If you watch a thousand movies, many of them multiple times. If you've played thousands and thousands of hours....if you've read, I don't know, 500 books. Tried to memorize all the good parts....take about 18 minutes....the whole point is not 18 minutes, it's everything that led up to that.'

By the many arms of Vishnu is that ever right. To Defend the Earth isn't so much a novel of alien invasion but a novel that describes what influenced the way we would see an alien invasion. That would be War of the Worlds (1953), Independence Day, Jerry Pournelle's and Larry Niven's Footfall all through the prism of a Tom Clancy technothriller.

So how long did that take? Well, sometimes we can crank out a thousand words in about 18 minutes.

Not kidding. 

The Darkest of Webs

Yesterday was Ben Shapiro's birthday

Mazeltof!

A decade ago we were following Ben when he was Andrew Breitbart's (PBUH) protégée.

Now at the Daily Wire he is a 'thought leader'* of the so called Intellectual Dark Web.

Briefly, the IDW is a lose network of writers, lecturers, podcasters and thinkers, who are, for lack of a better term, Not-Left.

They are interested in ideas, intensely curious and enjoy long-form discussion.

Shapiro has a talk show called the Sunday Special. Lot's of these guys have them, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan...and they all interview one another.

It seems redundant for Rogan to go on Shapiro and then for Shapiro to go on Rogan but it's actually quite interesting. This lose association of intellectuals is having a conversation, in public, threshing out post-neocon conservatism and Trump.

The latest example is Tucker Carlson's verbal vivisection of Mitt Romney. This kicked off a debate on the issue of markets and capitalism in which Shapiro responded forcefully to Carson.

Shapiro should have Carlson back on for a good threshing out of ideas.

Joe Rogan can be addictive. He just hangs with guests as varied as Jay Leno, Jordan Peterson, Les Stroud, Steven Crowder and of course, Shapiro. Sometimes the chats go on for three hours.

Are you watching? If not, why not?

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*We should be pistol whipped for even using the term.