2026 Winter Gold- Miracles, Manners, and Moving On

The following program is a HURL Studios production. Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to another virtual campfire sit down on White's Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss. I'm so glad you decided to drop by and spend some of your valuable time with me today. And hey, if you're enjoying the podcast, won't you leave us a positive rating? Interview youew at wie thoughts dot com. We're on your favorite podcast provider, whichever you prefer. I don't care. And if you want to hit me up on X or, as I used to say, tweet at me on Twitter, it's at Terry Weiss. Just make sure you spell my name right w y s E. You gonna look for me on YouTube as well at Terry Weiss or at Weiss's Thoughts either or we'll get you to me. Let's dive right into the show. Got a lot of talk about let's do it. Hey, everybody, Welcome to the podcast. Welcome to Weis's Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss. I am so glad you're here today. Lots to talk about today on the program, and uh just wanted to let you know we are in the revamped remodeled news studio here Purple Pitt Studios to be as in to be or not to be And when you say Terry, I really don't care. But we had to do some We had to do some audio treatment because we were getting a terrible echo in here and it just sounded awful. So we went and got some of the studio panels from a great company called Audie Mute au d I m Ute. And no, they're not paying me for this. I didn't get anything for free. We spent it with our own hot end coin and we got some Audi Mute panels on the walls, replaced a couple of areas, did some did some sound treatment, and I'll tell you if you're if you're doing podcasting, all right, just a here's a Nichols worth of free advice. As my grandfather used to say, treat your room first before you go out and spend thousands of dollars on equipment and microphones and interfaces. Start with the basics. I mean, you can start. I started this podcast about ten years ago in a closet. Okay, just to you know, I've come out of the closet. Oh stop, all right, I know, mister producer extraordinaire just says, I'm, you know, being silly anyway, I no, seriously though, I started the podcast, you know, talking into a recorder in the in the in the closet, many many a moon ago, and we have since graduated in the purple bit. Studios have grown and waste productions has grown. So some say that is a good thing, and some people say, you know, who really cares? Hang on, some something's by my feet here. Oh well that's nice. Okay, sorry, I just found something on the floor of the desk carrier. Now we know where that is. Now we were looking for that earlier today. Anyhow, how are you so? I got to ask, did you watch the men's final gold hockey game between the United States and Canada? What'd you think? Now? Being a resident of the United States of America, obviously I am very happy and overjoyed with the outcome. I am. It was a hell of a game. Okay, it really was it. It had the tension of the game they were talking about from forty six years ago, from the nineteen eighty men's Olympic team, the last time, by the way, that the United States actually won gold. That's how forty six Yes, forty six years. Forty six years ago was the last time the men's Olympic hockey team won gold. And it was amazing. This game was equally as amazing and being forty six years older, because I was a teenager back back then when they won the gold the first well the second was it the second time? Yeah? I was in nineteen sixties and nineteen eighty and now this year, twenty twenty six. I was a mere teenager back in the day when they won gold in the eighties, the nineteen eighty Olympic team here in the good old state of New York at Lake Placid. But what a game. I mean, it had missed opportunities on all sides, although some would argue some of the biggest missed opportunities came from the Canadian team. And there's a couple of players I'm sure that are kicking themselves in the ass here for the next few days. But outstanding stellar goaltending by the American goaltender Hullabuck Hollerbuck is that how you pronounce his name. I mean, he was unbelievable the performance. Some might even say Hashik esque Domina Kashik. I'll of the Buffalo sabers. Back in the nineties, some would say just just flopping around in the ice and just going for broke. And the beginning of the game was tight, and the United States team scored about six minutes in and I thought, Okay, here we go. However, towards the end of that first period and basically through the whole second period, the United States was getting kind of outplayed. They were I mean, Canada is no slouch team, my friends, Canada, no, no disrespect to be our neighbors to the north, the Canadians. They have a very, very, very good team. Now, they mentioned about twenty five times during the broadcast that Sidney Crosby wasn't dressed for the game, he was injured. Sid the kid, well he's no longer a kid. It's more like sid the middle aged man. Would he have made a difference? Could he have made a difference? I don't know. Just one player that make you know, honestly, I think the only one player on a hockey team that can make that much of a difference. And then, and this is a just purely unsupported sports opinion, but I think in hockey it's the goalie, because if you got a shit goalie, forget about it. I mean, if they can't stop a beach ball, your odds are winning are not that great. But if you've got a good goaltender, you know, mediocre to even stellar near odds increase triplefold. I would think at least that's that's what I think. And Hollerbuck was unbelievable. I mean he was just wow, right, you know, and and here's a goal in him. That was what was They said. He was picked sixteenth, I believe, sixteenth down the draft line. He's had some knocks on him in the NHL due to the fact that, you know, he hasn't won the big game per se in the NHL, the Stanley Stanley's Cup, the Stanley Cup. However, he played phenomenally in this game. I just wow. He kept him in it when they needed to be kept in it because they were getting out played a good portion of the middle portion of that game by the Canadian team. And no detriment to the Canadian goaltender either. Okay, they played he played well too as well, but wow, man, what uh what a game it was. And fittingly, when you're going for the top prize, the gold medal, why not folks overtime, why not right one to one overtime three on three is the format, and they would play a twenty minute period and then have another eighteen minute break and come back out if they needed to. But it didn't take that long for the Americans to strike and win the game. And what an emotional moment. I'm proud of our proud of our team, proud of our country. Congratulations because we needed, you know, and this. You know, the United States has kind of been kicked around the past ten plus years or so by the world stage, and with all the infighting unfortunately going on in our nation, you know, we needed something positive, something we could all look to and say, yes, this is this is a good thing. Very emotional Jack Hues scoring the winning goal in overtime. What a what a nice young man he is, and what a professional, consummate professional, very he was very emotional when they interviewed him after the game. He ended up actually losing a couple of teeth because he got a stick in the mouth, you know, from a penalty from the Canadian player, an aaron stick as it were. I don't think there was anything intentional about it. Good old old time hockey, you know, lose a couple of chicklets, as they say. And then during the gold ceremony, after the ceremony, very emotional, and they brought Johnny Goudro's children out onto the ice. Johnny Hockey, who some of you may know and for Nato. If you don't, I'll tell you him and his brother were tragically killed a couple of years or so back. He was a National Hockey League player, they called him. His nickname was Johnny Hockey. And as him and his brother, where I believe it was was at Atlanta. They were in they were riding their bikes and they were you know, was the off season, and they were tragically both of them riding together and hit and killed by a drunk driver. And I sincerely hope that individual is in jail for the rest of their life. I really do. I mean, he killed two people in the prime of their lives, in their thirties. Took a man, a husband, a father, a son, a brother, away uncle. What have you? You know? From the world, my friends, there's just no excuse for drunk driving in this day and age. I mean, with uber and lyft friends, cabs or just sleep in your freaking car. There's no reason to be out on the roads and intoxicated and inaugurated in any form. I don't care, no reason for it, and I hope that is I suffering the fullest extent of the law. And my opinion they should be in jail for the rest of their life without the possibility of parole because you basically murdered two people because of your shitty judgment. But that's just a personal opinion anyway. But they brought the children out on the ice, you know, took a picture with them for the team picture. What an emotional moment that was, paying tribute, had his jersey there. It was very emotional. I found myself getting choked up. But it was a great day for America, a great day for the United States. You know, our Olympic team has done rather well this time around in the Winter Olympics, the twenty twenty six Olympics in Italy, and a great showing it really was. There was a little bit of controversy with some athletes being espousing their political views, and you know, I've had some people, you know and friends asking to and they said, hey, Terry, you know, what do you think about these athletes, you know, knocking the country knocking their countries, And then I look at it this way. You're there to represent your nation in international competition, and my humble opinion is for whatever it's worth. And I'm just some yokl okay, I'm just some average guy. But my opinion is, you know what, keep that to yourself. You're representing the whole nation, no matter what you think politically, which way you lean left, right, center, up, down, backwards forwards, no matter what country you come from, keep that nonsense to yourself. You know, if you want to start an organization afterwards and whatever, but when you're there representing your nation, just be humble, be respectful, and be proud. And if you can't be that, then maybe you shouldn't be representing your nation, no matter what the circumstance. Okay, no matter what the circumstance. That is not the place. You know, there's no old expression. You probably heard it, Read the room. Read the room. You know. You don't go to someone's funeral and say, boy, what an asshole they were? You known you just you read the room. Be respectful, be humbled, be proud that you are given the opportunity, no matter what nation you come from. That you are given the opportunity to represent your country. And if not, if you can't do that, if you just if and hey, if you just cannot do that, if you cannot respect the nation that you're going to go represent in an international competition, all right, fine, that's fine, bow out and give someone else a shot. Then if you, you know, stand on your laurels, stand on your beliefs, you have every right to do that. But when you're there representing your nation, you're working for your nation. Okay, your work, You're at your place of employment. That is not a place to make a political statement. You know. That's like somebody punching into Wendy's or Burger King or Walmart or wherever you may work and then just sitting at your desk and saying I'm not working today because I don't believe in X y Z. Well, most companies will tell you, well, then there's the door. Don't let it hit you on your keyster on the way out. We're here to pay you and you're here to provide a service and do a job. Same thing if you're representing your country in competition, whether it be professional athlete, minor league athlete, what have you entertainer. I feel the same way about entertainers. I don't, and not just on one political side, all sides. Keep your personal political opinions to yourself. I paid a ticket to watch your you know, hear your music, go to your concert. I paid a ticket to go see a movie. I paid a ticket to listen to you read poetry, see a play. Whatever. I didn't pay a ticket, pay my price of admission to listen to your political beliefs, no matter what they are, left, right, center leaning, whatever. Now, if you want, like I said, if you want to start an organization, a foundation. Hell, if you want to run for office, there you go, there's your form. Go ahead, go do it. But when you punch into your job, whether you're an entertainer, a service worker, okay, what have you, go, do your job, keep that private stuff to you. I think that's just the best for everybody involved. And again, I'm very proud of our boys and ladies, our men and ladies this year representing the United States of America. Thank you for all your hard work, and for those of you that you know remained professional and you know, I get it. The reporters at these these international events, you know, with all certain. I guess they call it wokeness and what have you. We'll try, you know, just to get that sound bite, that video video bite or that's sound bite in the news. They'll ask you loaded questions. You know, well, you know what, you should have to be an adult enough to respond to. Somebody'd say, let's say I was I don't know, an Olympic hockey player and I was on that team and I won, and they'd say, hey, Terry, you know what do you what do you think about what's going on in your country right now? And say, you know what, I'm not knowledgeable enough to know everything, you know, all the ramifications, and man, I'm so proud of our hockey club. I'm so proud to be an American. I'm so proud to represent my country that I was, that I got this opportunity that I've been working for my whole life. I'm just so proud of everyone that I played with. You know, I'm proud of the other team. I'm proud of this event, and I'm just glad to be alive and be here. And you know, thank you, well what do you? And if they kept pressing, I'm going to say, you know what again, I'm just proud to be here in the Olympics. I'm proud to represent my nation. You know, I'm so proud of the athletes I'm playing against and with on my team, and I'm proud of my nation, and I'm proud to be an American. That's it very simple. It's called the broken record technique. That's how you shut people down. You just keep going. You just don't acknowledge it. At some point, you know, you say, once politely, we're gonna not talk about this topic of discussion, and then you just do the skipping, the broken record, like a skipping for those of you young enough to remember records. You just keep reverting back to that. That's what you do, the broken record technique. And anyone of marginal intelligence will get the hint. And if they don't, well, then, as they say, as the youngsters say, it sounds like a you problem. But again, congratulations to the men's Olympic team twenty twenty six men's ice hockey Olympic team and the women both, I should say, I dare digress. The women's team as well went undefeated in the tournament as well, when one gold as well, they did a hell of a job as well, played hard, hard fought games. I mean both these hockey teams, the men's and the women's. It was just it just makes me so proud to be an American. It gives us something to all look at and say, hey, this is a good thing. And in today's world, sometimes you need a good thing every once in a while instead of all the moratorium, you know, let's put a moratorium on the terrible things going on. There's enough terrible and evil things going on in the world enough to bring you sadness, shock and despair. It's time to look for more happier things, you know. And this is good. This is a good thing, and it's something hopefully we can carry for a while and not just give it ten seconds of attention and move back into the other shenanigans and nonsense that goes out in the world. But this was a good thing. I'm proud of all of our Olympic athletes and their heartfelt competition, their dedication, and their progress that they made. And that's all I got to say about that. Hey, thanks for listening to the program today. I truly appreciate each and every one of you out there, and remember to see a change in the world. You have to be the change in the world you want to see. It all starts with you, the person looking back at you in the mirror every morning. Remember to be kind to yourself, be kind to others. If you want to tweet at me on Twitter, it's at Terry Weiss. Stop by the website Wis's thoughts dot com just to make sure you spell my name right. Wysee Wis's thoughts dot com, and hey, leave us a positive rating and review on your favorite podcast provider. Won't you tell your friends, tell your family, tell your pets about wife's thoughts. And I look forward to gathering yet again around the virtual campfire with you real soon. Take care.