Episode 150: The TBWS Brain Trust : "Afghanistan, what a Catastrophe"
Release Date: 09/02/2021
Episode 255: Surprising Facts About CO2 with Dr William Happer and Gregory Wrightstone
The Bill Walton Show
We’re inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and "experts" saying that our climate is changing for the worse, and that it is our fault because of man-made CO2 emissions. But despite apocalyptic predictions about climate, our earth, the planet is improving. Why? And why aren’t we hearing about it? It is possible that Co2 is not a pollutant? Rather, that it’s a miracle, and not a curse? In this episode of Dr. William Happer, Co-Founder and Chair of the CO2 Coalition and Gregory Wrightstone, its Executive Director explain why they believe this to be true. ...
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Episode 254: A Global Reality Check with Stephen Bryen
The Bill Walton Show
In this candid and insightful episode of the "Bill Walton Show," Stephen Bryen, a seasoned expert with over half a century of experience in national security and arms trade, shares his incisive views on the current state of global geopolitics. Stephen Bryen’s been called the Yoda of the arms trade. He was the Pentagon's top cop, the man whose job it was to ensure that sensitive technology would be kept from enemies, potential enemies and questionable allies. As both the wars for Ukraine and Gaza Strip have the potential to widen, even while Taiwan looms, Bryen warns about the United...
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Episode 253: Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet w/Marian Tupy
The Bill Walton Show
You can’t fix what is wrong in the world if you don’t know what’s actually happening. Polls show that most smart people tend to believe that the state of the world is getting worse. In the United States, almost 3/4 of Americans believe the world is getting worse and only 6% think it's getting better. But according to Marian Tupy, our guest on this episode, “this dark view of the prospects for humanity, and the natural world is, in large part, badly mistaken.” As a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, coauthor of the Simon Abundance Index...
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Episode 252: Confronting Brute Force Economics with Rob Atkinson
The Bill Walton Show
The Chinese Communist Party sees technology innovation as the main battlefield of its industrial policy - and its ultimate weapon for achieving global dominance. The United States and the Biden Administration needs to confront the reality of what has been called China’s “brute force economics” and abandon the possibility that competing on a level playing field with China’s is possible. We have to face up to the fact that we are not simply in an economic competition with China. We’re in a war. Joining the Bill Walton Show to explore this troubling reality is our returning guest:...
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Episode 251: A Conversation with the Extraordinary Winsome Earle-Sears
The Bill Walton Show
Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she pulled off her stunning upset victory in November 2021 and became the first lieutenant governor of Virginia who is a woman, the first naturalized female citizen, the first female veteran elected to statewide office and who also happens to be black. Not relying on identity politics, she earned intense national coverage because of her unwavering support for Second Amendment rights and her strong commitment to education opportunity for all students. A devout Christian, Winsome believes in the...
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Episode 250: The Terrifying Truth About China's Grip on America | A New Cold War Unveiled - Frank Gaffney and Bradley Thayer
The Bill Walton Show
China is the single most formidable strategic threat the United States has ever faced. It alone has the potential to replace the United States as the world’s hegemon. China is not a typical foreign adversary on another shore, gathering behind its army, aggressive, thinking about land warfare, even nuclear warfare. This is an enemy that's permeated the United States, it's infiltrated into our culture and China’s strategy of “elite capture” is working. A lot of the leadership class in America seems to be in the pocket of the Chinese. Deng Xiaoping, probably the greatest strategist of the...
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Episode 249: You Can’t Win the Culture War Without Making Movies -Michael and Thomas Pack
The Bill Walton Show
In the United States just four networks: Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and HBOMax spend almost $75 billion every year on film, TV and streaming content. And most of this spending goes toward woke, progressive-themed entertainment. The progressive Left has come to dominate our institutions and our culture and they’ve been remarkably successful in using the art of narrative storytelling to promote their agenda. Conservatives complain that they are losing the culture wars And they are. But that won’t change until they actually begin producing cultural content that embodies their values...
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Episode 248: “The Golden Gate: Power, Sex, Class and Justice in 1940s California” with Amy Chua
The Bill Walton Show
In this episode of the Bill Walton Show, my conversation is with Amy Chua, a provocative and original thinker about culture, world politics, and political tribes. Our main topic is her latest book, The Golden Gate, is a novel set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1930s and 1940s. Best known for her Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a memoir about her parenting journey using strict Confucianist child rearing techniques, she is a highly accomplished professor at Yale Law School, and has been named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, The Atlantic's “Brave Thinkers”...
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Episode 247: “You Can Prevent a Stroke” with Dr Joshua Yamamoto
The Bill Walton Show
Our guest on this episode of Backstage with Bill Walton is Bill’s cardiologist Dr. Joshua Yamamoto who has some startling and optimistic things to say about our heart health. “There is almost no such thing as heart disease: it’s just natural aging and you can manage it,” declares Josh. “We now look at aging not just as a bag of diseases, but as a process.” While health issues are not normally among our Show topics, unlike our polarized politics, our personal health is something we can actually do something about. The biology of aging is no longer mysterious. If we...
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Episode 246: "What Really Happens at Burning Man: An Insider's Story" with Kenny Reff
The Bill Walton Show
nce a year, roughly 70,000 “Burners” gather two hours north of Reno in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary city “dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.” Burners declare that Burning Man isn’t a “festival.” Rather, “it’s a city wherein almost everything that happens is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience.” This year Burning Man was much in the news because of the sensationalized coverage about the rain that fell on it. But was it as bad as the press made it sound? In this...
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- What were we doing there?
- Where we're going to go from here?
- What this means for the country, and the rest of the world, going forward, since we cannot trust this Administration’s leadership to protect America.
With me for some plain talk about this are some of my brain trust, the smart people involved with The Bill Walton Show. Today we’ve got Rich McFadden, Greg Corombos and Brian McNicoll.
We get into what we're all seeing and feeling and what we think's going to happen next. Some predictions, mostly questions.