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STORYTELLING 101 with Mike Rowe, Part Five: A HUMAN CONNECTION

Bill Whittle Network

Bill Whittle Network

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

How do you personalize a really BIG story, a sweeping saga of a tale? Host Bill Whittle and master storyteller Mike Rowe do a deep dive into LES MISERABLES in order to get the answer: you do it by finding THE HUMAN CONNECTION.

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0:00.0

When I was doing the historical series for Daily Wire and Empire of Terror in the Cold War,

0:12.3

you've got this, you're like Dorothy in the middle of the tornado.

0:16.0

You know, there's just, here comes a cow, here's a woman on a bike, and all of this, all of this stuff that you can pull

0:21.6

from. And the trick to it is, what can humans connect to? What, what in this enormous

0:28.8

tapestry of horror or war, whatever, what are the actual human things that the people can

0:35.1

connect to? And that storytelling aspect of it I think is

0:38.7

always about finding the the little thing among the big things that can take a person listening

0:45.5

to the story and say okay I can I can imagine myself in that in that world and in that environment

0:51.1

I want to I mean obviously we go wherever you want with this, but you mentioned the audience

0:56.0

before.

0:57.1

And I think, I just think it's so important, you know, whether it's a cold crowd or a hot

1:02.1

crowd, whether you're broadcasting, whether you're podcasting, on the one hand, it's so

1:08.2

important to know who you're talking to.

1:10.1

But on the other hand, you know, when to know who you're talking to, but on the other hand,

1:11.6

you know, when you talk about your favorite comedians, you know, who are those people,

1:16.3

really?

1:17.1

You know, are, are they people who have focused grouped their work?

1:21.9

Are they looking at the, no, man, they're people who are trying to amuse themselves.

1:26.6

Yeah, when Sam Kinnison came out and said,

1:28.2

you live in a desert. Nobody approved, nobody, no committee ever approved that. I thought I was

1:33.5

going to have a brain hemorrhage. I did too, man. That was the single funniest thing I felt like

1:38.5

I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, I thought so too. Yeah. And maybe on paper, no. Maybe in a

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