Listener Mail Fall 2025

It's time for a virtual campfire sits out with Terry Weiss. Wilcome to Weiss's box. You've got mail message from the Dark Side to mail. The mail is here. What he allenic you got mail? The following program contains mature content. Any opinions expressed are those so only of the host and any guests. Listener discretion strongly advised. Now here he is tenacious. Ah, Yes, it's that time again, my friend. It's time for another Wis's Thoughts episode of listener Mail. That's where you reach out to me via the web forum on the website at wye thoughts dot com or Purplefitstudios dot com, or directly by Terry at Weiss's Thoughts dot com and I answer all your questions, comments, and or suggestions. And every once in a while we do one of these shows where I read some of them to you and comment on them. All we ask is that keep it clean, keep it constructive, And we do that all right now, Like I said, you can do that all at weisspots dot com. Just be sure that you're spelling my name correctly. W y Ce Weis's Thoughts dot com. Hedihidh there, how are you are you doing all right? I hope so, because, uh, I'll tell you the last episode of Wie's Thoughts, I was talking. I was all excited. I was over the moon because I was going to be getting water hooked up at the Ponderosa at the homestead here at the Weis's homestead. And lo and behold it happened. Yes, we got hooked up the next day with water. We are hooked up now to the county water line. Hip Berey loving that. So so thankful for being hooked up to the county water. Yeah anyway, okay, so AnyWho, We're so thankful for that. To be hooked up to the county water it was like magic. It was Yeah, Yes, we're very happy we have water again. I can shower, we can use the restrooms, we can do all kinds of good things, all courtesy of modern technology and being hooked up to water at the Weis's home, which is great. And for those of you who maybe just tuning in for the first time to the White Thoughts podcast, and thank you, appreciate that we were without water for over a month. Running water in the house. It was bucket showers over the head. Thankfully, my in laws who are just a neighborhood or so over from us. I was pilfering water, pilfering water off of them. Thankfully they allowed us to do that. So thank you to the in laws, Mom and popa, the in laws. We appreciate it. But we're back. Everything's good, everything's done. We're moving on, moving forward with twenty twenty five. I'll tell you the summer at twenty twenty five. That's what I think of the summer at twenty twenty five so far that it's over, thank goodness. And the fall didn't start out too great either, But I digress. We overcome and we adapt, you know, we improvise, overcome and adapt. Nothing I would want to wish on anyone, but better days are forging ahead. So hope all is well with you and your family. I hope, and things are going swimmingly and we are going to do. Yes, we are going to do this edition of Listener Mail. And again, as I spoke about in the opener, you can send me an email at Terry at Weis's thoughts dot com. You can also go to Weis's Thoughts dot com online at the Internet or Purplepetchstudios dot com and use the form there and you can send an email in if you have questions about this podcast or anything else, but mainly this podcast. And we ask again that you keep it clean, concise, to the point, and constructive. Don't be don't be a knucklehead. All right, that's don't be a knuckle in the world's there's enough knuckleheads on social media. We don't need any here. No, thank you. So let's get into the grab bag, shall we. Let's uh, let's start this off. And I'm gonna grab I've printed some out here as you can help it, rustling in my hands. All right, this one comes, and just to give you an idea how this works, I just say your first name in this in the and where you're from. That's all. First name and where you're from. I don't use any other even if you include the other information, just for privacy's sake. You know, nobody needs to know that that other information. So the first one comes from let's see Rick Rick in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So I'm sure there's more than one. Rick Rick writes to me and says, hey, Terry, love the podcast, enjoy it, enjoying hearing your take on many things. One question that I did want to ask about how long have you been doing the podcast and where you were you tentative at first about doing that? In other words, stage fright, Thanks for that information, appreciate the program, looking forward to more episodes down the road. All right, well, thank you, Rick, appreciate that. So how long have I been doing this? A number of years now? I started it initially, I started in a kind of a different form, probably back I want to say, around two thousand and golly, sixteen seventeen, somewhere in that range, and it was in a couple different forms, and I don't believe those episodes. I don't believe unless you should probably search the internet archives. But there was a different form of the show. It's called something different totally and kind of a total different take on things. And was I a little apprehensive before stepping behind the microphone to record this. Not really. I have a radio background, and I've always been in one form of another in front of a microphone doing things I was. I was on air and radio for a while. I done had done things in high school with the local you know, the high school radio station and college radio station, and in commercial radio stations, and you know, doing events were back in the day, you know, the music sound system and things and playing in bands and such. So it did really honestly didn't bother me. I mean, for those of you who know me, I've mentioned it many times on this podcast. I'm a voice actor. Some people like to call it a voiceover artist. I could just call myself a voice actor. I've done a number of audiobooks for Audible. Just look for Terry Weiss if you search Audible, done a number of commercials, events, e learning stuff, all that, and if you want to hire me for those services. By the way, shameless plug shameless plug weisproductions dot com. You can go there check out some samples and what have you. Anyway, so no, I was not apprehensive about stepping in front of the microphone and doing that. I got more comfortable with the format because podcasting was kind of something different. I still try to, I guess I still approach it as almost like a radio, live radio program. I mean, I know that you can do lots of back end editing and all kinds of things which I'm exploring. I'm doing some things with that and exploring it. But that being said, however, I just tend to, you know, approach it as a live thing, like there's people on the other end listening immediately. And that's the kind of the way I approach recording every podcast and kind of have been. I mean, there have been other times when I've put together mishmosh and past episodes of the show, Like usually every year I try to do a best of program around the New Year's or before New Year's and just include snippets of past programs and things like that and do a past Greatest Hits montage to roll out the end of that year looking forward to another one. But no, And I don't know Rick, if you wrote because you were thinking about getting into podcasting. I mean, everybody think about it. Almost everybody has a podcast, whether you're famous or not. I mean, you know, your grocer down the road, your plumber, everybody. You know. It's just a way for people to express themselves and get thoughts off their mind. Now some people should they have a podcast. Probably not. There's some things we really don't want to know, you know what I'm saying. But other than that, you know, it's a great medium like it. I enjoy it. I don't make any monetary income off the podcast, per se. I don't do you know. They run some ads in that and that helps just keep the lights on, as they say, But other than that, no, I do it. It's a labor of love, all right. But thank you Rick for that. I appreciate it. Let me grab another one here, all right. This one comes from Kimberly and Kimberly is in Tallahassee, Florida. Tallahassee, Florida, where all the good weather is and thankfully no hurricanes there if you got this year, And Kimberly writes in, Hey, Terry, really appreciate the podcast. I get a kickout of listening to you, a longtime listener, first time actually reaching out to you. Well, thank you, Kimberly. I appreciate that. I just wanted to know. You say a lot of times that you live in a rural area without obviously stating where you live. What advantages do you find of living in a rural area as opposed to maybe living in the suburbs or city life. Thanks appreciate it well, Kimberly from Tallahassee. Yes, I do live in a rural area in the northeastern half of the United States. That's all Iowa State. Because there are Unfortunately, some people on the internet that you know can't be trusted. I guess it's the easy way to say it. But anyhow, Yes, I live in the north eastern half of the United States and in a very rural area, farm country. Some people might even call it flyover country. Here. My neighbors are very spread out and far where the Weiss Chateau is, and we've got about an acre or so land. And I love it. In answer to your question, I love it because when it gets dark here, it gets dark, it's quiet. There's not a lot of traffic, you know, although there is a major road at the end of our very long driveway, but there's not a lot of traffic out here. My neighbors are just far enough away to give us enough privacy or privacy depending on how you say the word. And we can you know, we can have a backyard barbecue, we can have a bunch of people over what have you, and we all watch out for each other. That's a nice thing about a rural area too, is there's more of that Americana feel. We watch out for each other and we look out and I've got great neighbors. Now. I've lived in suburban areas like smaller than the city. You have the city than the suburbs, and then the rural. And I prefer the rural lived in them all. Actually, I've lived in the city. I've you know, in the suburbs, suburbs. It is great. But what I'm finding over the probably the past twenty years about the suburbs from what I've seen and heard and know people who live in the suburbs, is that they're getting just as bad as the city with the crime rates and the people being indignant, the neighbors just kind of being indignant. Now, this may not be where you are or your particular situation, but that's what I'm kind of finding. So and then the city forget about it. I wouldn't live in a big city now, no thank you, I no events to people who love the big city. I mean the big city has an advantage is that the advantage of living in a big city is that you don't have to have necessarily an automobile. If you can find a job and you could probably take a bus or you know, the subway or what have you and walk to the grocery store, walk home, you know, walk to the dock. You know, that's that's nice because it probably saves you a considerable amount of money. But also there's the flip side of that. There's a lot of other factors. You The crime rates are pretty much astronomical in big cities. There's really no sense of dare I say community in a big city. Everybody just kind of keeps their head down or their eye, you know, their hands on the side of their eyes, and just kind of keep moving, stare straight ahead. Nobody really wants to engage it. I don't feel that there's that collective sense of community. Now again, that may be different where you are if you're living in a big city, but at least around here in the northeastern half of the United States, that's what I found. So I, out of all three, out of city living, suburban living, or rural, I prefer rural living. I just think it's the best lifestyle right now in twenty twenty five in the United States of America. So thank you very much, Kimberly, appreciate it. All right, let's grab another one here, man, time is just flying by. I wanted to get to a lot of these, all right. This one is from Charles, and Charles is said they are located in Phoenix, Arizona, OO, the other half of the country. Charles from Phoenix writes in he says, Hey, Terry, great podcast. Love the program, kind of stumbled on you about six months ago. Really enjoy the topics that you cover. Keep up the great work. Well, thank you for the ego the ego uplift Charles. I appreciate that. Quick question for you, what do you think about society as whole in the United States of America in twenty twenty five? Do you think we're heading for a civil war? Do you think that people generally just don't carry anymore. I've seen lots of videos on YouTube and various other social media sites where somebody is getting beat up or something like that, and people just stand around and take pictures of it and videotape. No one helps out. Great question, Great question, Charles. Okay, so let's tackle these one at a time. What do I think about society as whole? As a whole in the United States of America in twenty twenty five, We've got some work to do. I'm all about community, I'm all about caring for thy neighbor. I'm all about helping out while respecting our differences, but as a collective, the population of this country, we are very, very from what I can see, divided. You know, that seems to be a couple of different factions. There's the conservative faction and then there's the radical type liberal faction. Now I know there's others that are more moderate out there that just say, hey, you know, you leave me alone. I leave you alone. We can have differences of opinion and we can still hang out. But there's a very in my home. And again these are just my opinions. There's a very, very loud, vocal, and dare I say, unfortunately mostly violent segment of the population that are radicalized by the mainstream media in my humble opinion, and the constant lack of searching for the overall picture of information, the arc of information. They live inside a bubble and they only want to hear what they want parroted back to them. And it's a lot of extremism and stuff, and definitely definitely politically and socially motivated, but more so politically. I have never seen my country so divided and so divisive, and so angry and so intolerant politically as I have in the past probably ten plus years ten to fifteen years. And it's a shame because I grew up in a time were that never really. I mean, we had our differences, mind you, Okay, we had our differences, but we could talk to each other. Even if we vehemently, vehemently, wholeheartedly disagreed with each other. We could talk to each other. We could say, you know what, No, I totally disagree with you. I think you're five hundred percent wrong. But you know what, man, I still love you. You're a human being, You're my friend, you're my sister, brother, uncle, aunt, whatever. And now you've got a certain segment of the population that if they disagree with you, they want to disown you, not talk to you. They act they act like you, you know, you got AIDS or something, you're or leprosy or a pariah. And I that I don't get. I mean, maybe someone can explain it to me, email me or what you know, let me know. Why can't you disagree with someone, okay without having to be a violent and be cut them off? I mean I could understand if they were saying, all right, I'm going to sacrifice kittens or people or whatever, you know, and I believe, Okay, I gonna get away from those people, report them to the authorities, what have you. But just having a fundamental difference of opinion, and you're just gonna totally excommunicate yourself in that person's life. And some people you have been friends with for decades, I've seen family members that won't talk to each other because of political shit. Folks, I got some news for you. These politicians on all sides, all sides of the aisle, don't give a flying shit. Okay, whether you're friends with your and you stay with your aunt, uncle, mother, father, sister, brother, they don't care. Most politicians on all sides, I'm saying all sides, left leaning, right leaning, centrist. I would say a good majority of them only care about lining their pockets. That's my belief. And it's we the people, the American people, that kind of get the leftover scraps. So you have to kind of wade through the mud to try and get somebody that you hopes will do the best for the majority. And I've voted. I have voted Democrat, I have voted Republican, I have voted independent. Hell a couple times throughout my life voting. I wrote my name in for President of the United States. I didn't win, but I'm just saying so, I don't have any blind loyalty. Now. I tend to lean more towards independent conservative values, but I don't have a blind loyalty to one party or one faction or one tribe, as they say. I want what's best for everyone, including myself and my family, and I vote my conscience, and I try to listen to various sources of information. I don't just listen to the left side. I don't listen to the right side. I don't listen to the centric side. I take that whole, big melting pot of information and absorb it and make my own independent decisions and rational thought from it. And that's what America is lacking. A lot of America, I would say, probably a good majority of US seventy five percent or more, are lacking the basic fundamental skills for independent thinking and analysis and thought. And that's what needs to come back. And we have to be willing to talk to each other across the aisle, you know, in life, in politics, everything, we have to be able to talk to each other without getting violent. And I don't like the trend that's happening in this nation. Where it's going toward violence. That no, I'm sorry. The only time you have a right to lay hands or take action is if you are in imminent danger or your family or someone you know, or you see someone who is in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm absolutely or invasion from a foreign invader. That's the only time that you have, in my humble opinion, the green light to defend yourself, your home, your family, your neighbor, people that you might see on the stree that are being you know, in serious imminent threat of danger or bodily harm or even death. Then you you know, yeah, intervene, absolutely, use whatever means necessary to circumvent and stop that. But this violence for violence sakes because you don't like the words coming out of someone's mouth, you don't like their thought process on a policy that you want to take their life. To me, that is disgusting. You are the lowest form of scum on the planet and you deserve not to be here. And if you know, perpetuating harm in someone, they should If you are caught, had a fair trial and they find you guilty, then you deserved Off you go, man. Society doesn't need you anymore. You got to go because you are a stain on the morality of the human race. But that's my opinion. But thank you, thank you for the question. I appreciate it. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back after this. Hey, thanks for listening to the podcast. And by the way, don't forget to drop by the website Purplepitstudios dot com and check out all the other podcasts that we have to offer. Just go to Purplepitstudios dot com and find your favorite podcast there. Now, let's get back to the show. Hey, everybody, welcome back to Why's Thoughts and it is the listener Mail edition for Fall of twenty twenty five. And thank you so much for tuning in today. And we've read a few already. And before the break, we were talking about things that you know, that I thought are wrong in the United States and society and things you know where I see society going. Yeah, just a couple quick thoughts on that. We'll move on to the next one here. We've got to learn to get together, we've got to learn to love thy neighbor, help thy neighbor. And as far as the comment that was made on the left, asked from the last listener. You know about seeing people out in public that are like getting the ever loving shit kicked out of them, you know, by a mob of people or even one person, and all people want to do is pull out their phones and record it. Help that person call the police. You know, if you're there's a group of you out there, surround them and stop that. I mean, what the heck, there's something wrong with you if you want to sit there and watch somebody get pummeled, whether they're a person getting pumbled and deserves it or not, you know, that's just your what you're enjoying violence. This isn't a video game, Okay, be a decent human being and not a piece of garbage. All right. Anyway, let's move on to another one here, all right. This one comes from Amy Amy is contacted us. Where are you from, Amy? Did you say, Amy? Amy? Amy? Amy? Amy? Where are you Atlanta, Georgia? There? It is Amy from Atlanta, Georgia, And she writes in Hey, Terry, love the podcast. Enjoy it immensely. I've learned a couple of things and it's helped me to think about a couple things. So thank you very much. Keep up the great work. Well, thank you, Amy, appreciate that quick question for you. I know it might be silly or kind of, you know, pretty vague, but what's your favorite food? Oh? Okay, Well, you know what, I don't know if I've ever been asked that. I've talked about a lot of foods that I love, and I've talked about my ongoing effort to drop a few pounds. By the way, I am down over seventeen pounds. So we are on our way, my friends. So we're down. We're down to like two fifteen, and that's down from a high of almost two twenty eight a mere few months ago. So yay. Anyway, my favorite food, you know what, Amy, I really man, that kind of puts me on the spot because if I have to pick one, I'm not sure. I mean, I love I love I love the carbs, I love pasta. I mean, I love pizza. I love a good deep dish pizza. I'm not a fan of the thin. I like like the Chicago style deep dish pizzas with you know what everything. I mean, A like a Meatlover's pizza. I love that. I love a good lasagna Me and Garfield. If we have a lot in common. I love a good gulash, I mean, but I also love beef stew, a good steak, you know, lobster tails, crab cakes, stuff like that. A good chicken parmesan will definitely turn my eye and get me at the table right quick. But if I man to pick one, man, I can't narrow it down to just one. I mean, if somebody said you're gonna be on a deserted island, you're gonna have enough food to survive for the rest of your life, but it's only one. What's your favorite, I'd be like, uh, I don't know. I guess I would. I guess I would pick pizza Deep Dish Meatlover's Pizza. I guess it would be my ultimate. But there's so many more that I do love. I mean, I don't know, but that would that would be the one. So thank you, thank you, Amy appreciate it. We appreciate that. And hey, folks, we appreciate you hanging around for the podcast today. 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 Weis's thoughts dot com just to make sure you spell my name right. Wysee Wiss 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,