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The following program. This is a Studios production. Hey, everybody, welcome, Welcome to another episode of Why's Thoughts. Each and every episode of White's Thoughts is a step inside my mind. As we gather around our virtual campfire. I'm so glad you decided to spend some of your valuable time with me. We're going to get into the program in just a bit. Make sure you visit the website weissthoughts dot com. Just spell my name right w y C. E. Weiss Thoughts dot com. There you can listen to each and every episode of this podcast. If you want to comment on it, you can do that as well, or you can email me directly at Terry to eat r y at Weis's thoughts dot com. Lots to say, lots to do, lots to talk about this time on the program. So grab your favorite beverage, pull up a comfortable seat around a virtual campfire. Let's get into it, shall we. Hey, everybody, welcome to the podcast. Welcome to Weis's Thoughts. I am Terry Weiss, so glad you're here today. I'm gonna just we're gonna jump right into the program because I got a lot on my mind. A lot's been happening in the world since last we spoke, and personally for me as well. So let's just get right into it, shall we. First of all, I hope everyone out there is doing great. I hope you're doing well. I hope your family's well and everyone is happy, safe and healthy. We are official into fall at the airing of this episode of the podcast, it will be one fall plus the start of fall plus one day. So I hope everything's going well. And in the northeastern half of the United States of America, those leaves are starting to turn. Yes, they are, and kind of my favorite time of the year, spring and fall. I find, as I gain in years, I'm enjoying spring and fall more than I am winter in summer. I don't know how about you, you the same way. I'm just finding that I'm enjoying spring and fall a hell of a lot more than I do the winter in the summertime. I don't know why that is. Tell my mister producer, extraordinary. Why why is that you don't know either? You're the same way now you like the summer months? Well, Hey, to each their own, But isn't it nice that we can disagree without you know, making a big deal out of it. I want to talk about some things that have been going on in the world, and I want to preface my comments with a disclaimer. I am a firm believer of everyone's right to speak. Okay, even if you do not agree with that speech, if you do not agree with an opinion, but we should all be able to express ourselves in a peaceful, nonviolent matter, and we should be able to have conversations. And unfortunately, about a week or so back, a person who is trying to have conversations with people of a different belief system or peoples that have different beliefs than his, and different political beliefs as well, not just ideological ideological beliefs, religious beliefs, what have you, and but different some different political beliefs. This person would go to the college campuses and go to you know, arenas and different venues throughout the country and just talk with people. From what I've seen, from what I know of Charlie Kirk, he would just go and talk with people. He never called for violence, He never called for you to hate someone to shun them. That In all of videos I've seen, and I've watched a lot of his, I watch a lot of different things because I like to not live in a fish bowl. I like to not like be like certain segments of the population that just get their own beliefs paradig back to them and never listen to the other side. I'll listen to differing points of view in different belief systems. Doesn't mean I agree with them always, if ever, or maybe in part. However, in the United States of America, which is where I live, I'm not sure where you're listening. In a nation founded on freedom, especially religious freedom, freedom to be able to speak out against what you feel are injustices or things that you don't feel are right what this country's fundamental tenants were founded on. Okay, you should not have violence perpetrated against you for speaking your mind, as long as when you do that, you are not calling for violence or harm to anybody else. You know, if somebody says, hey, I love chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, and that's all I believe in. I don't like vanilla cake, I don't like you know, yellow cake, I don't like strawberry type cake. Chocolate cake is the only cake that should ever be served anywhere in the free world. And if someone comes up and says, well, you know, Terry, I like yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I even like yellow cake with strawberry frosting. I'm gonna be like, Okay, well, you have the right to believe that. I don't agree with you. But for me, I just think chocolate cake is the is the cat's ass, the cat's mew. It's the way it should be, and it should be chocolate cake and chocolate frosting for all. But you do you, I'll do me great to meet you. What's wrong with a scenario like that, my friend? Or what's wrong with saying, well, you know, sir madam, why do you not like chocolate cake? Why do you think yellow cake with strawberry frosting is better? Explain it to me, Tell me about your experiences, what leads you to that point of view, And then I would listen, and then I would retort, well, it's been my experience that strawberry a lot of people are allergic to that, etc. And we could have a back and for dialogue. This is how I viewed Charlie Kirk. He you know, and that's just a really goof ball off the wall example. But that's kind of what Charlie Kirk he did, Okay, he would go and because he went to college campuses where a lot of minds are forming. You know, people are moving out of their house for the first time or second time or whatever, or maybe still living at home and going to college. They're being exposed to different thought system belief systems, different information. And he just went there to find out and to challenge them a little bit and say, well, you know you're being told this bay let's say XYZ institution. Have you ever thought about that? Or have you ever thought about this point? Or have you ever thought about this this other point here? And tell me, mister student, miss student, why do you think the way you do? Why do you feel is it because this is what professors are telling you, or what your peer group is telling you, or what your maybe your people in your neighborhood tell me? Why do you believe the way you do? And they would have it back and forth, and sometimes it would get intense as far as people challenging Charlie, but he was always from everything I've seen, always respectful. Sometimes it did get loud back and forth when people were talking over it, but he was always respectful. He never in my experience in what I've observed of him in print and in video and audio, and in interviews I've seen with him during his interactions on his time on our glorious planet. Was never disrespectful to people that I saw. Now, if I miss something, then, but I watched a lot of hours, listen to a lot of audio, read a lot of things. And for someone out there to decide to be judge and jury on Charlie Kirk to try and silence him and say you don't have a right to speak, that person deserves the fullest extent of punishment to the law, up to and including whatever the state and the federal government may decide. And I would say the same thing if it was something that happened to the opposition side of the coin, that they should never be silenced for stating their beliefs, having conversations, having interaction, having a dialogue, Ladies and gentlemen, What has become of us as a society here, especially in the USA, where we can't have a dialogue with each other anymore. I don't expect to wake up every day and have everybody agree with hell. I can't even get my wife to agree with me. Half the time, and my kids, and my sister and my family members to agree on things. What gives someone the arrogance to think that someone should be signed because they have a different point of view and see the world a different way than they do, No matter how one hundred and eighty degrees it may be from them, Who are they to be judge, jury and in this case, executioner? Who are any of us? This nonsense has to stop. I grew up in a time, back in my day, break in my day. Yes, I'm gonna sound like an old an old fart now, or as George George Carlin used to say, an old fuck. There's an old fart, and then there's an old fuck. And yes, you know, there's a disclaimer on the podcast. Little cook on the mic, there, little hair on the mic. Sorry, too much information for you, I know. Uh. George Ireland, you know, was very to the point and eloquent in his euphemisms and opinions, and he was spot on about a lot of things. Trust me, he wasn't right on everything, but on a lot of things. George Carlin, god rest his soul, was right on a lot. But I was saying, this program has a disclaimer, so if harsh language offends you, well you have the choice to turn it, turn it turn me off. That being said, this nonsense of we can't talk to each other and everybody or not everybody, that would be a generalization. A lot of people, the first thing they want to run to is violence. I'm gonna slap you in the face, I'm gonna push you, I'm gonna grab your sign out of your hand, I'm gonna punch you, I'm gonna throw rock at you, I'm gonna throw things at you, or whatever. Why why have we gotten to this point? Many will cite different exams, amples on this side or that side, or both sides, but I think it's an overall lack of maturity in the culture. It's a lack of maturity and it's dare I say, a lot of self important people and narcissists and social paths living in our society that have been conditioned to think that you are the most important thing on this planet. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to tell you something right now, and it's something that it took me many years to grapple with you. Ain't all that none of us are, even these Hollywood celebrities and these musicians and authors and writers and the politicians, and you know, these influencers on social media, and that you ain't shit, You ain't nothing, because at the end of the day, I'm just going to say it as basic as I can. We're born, we live, however many years the Good Lord gives us, and we die. That's it. Now. If one of you out there is immortal, then you'll be the shit. I guess you will be the be all end all. But other than that, none of us are that, myself included. We're all on this journey together. We're only here for a finite amount of time. And to be so arrogant to think that, well, I don't agree with you, So you're going to have to pay the consequences to be so arrogant and so hateful and such a disgusting human being to do that to someone, you know, you need to pay the price from a civilized society. And if the individual they have in custody, said individual did this, okay, if they are tried and found guilty by a jury of their peers, I hope that they suffer the most severe punishment possible because they deserve it. You took another person's life all over the fact that they didn't agree with you, Contrary to the garbage that the mainstream media is putting out there that threat to democracy, or this side's a threat to democracy, or that sidees a threat to democracy. Folks, wake up and realize when you're being played. Okay, all sides are doing it, All sides are playing you, and the quicker you wake up and realize it, the better off you're going to be. And there's been pushback, you know, I've seen some people online write some really disgusting things about a man who was murdered, murdered who leaves behind a widow and two young children. How can you write such vile, terrible things? What is wrong with you? I don't understand it. I maybe I'm not meant to understand it. I don't know. I just don't get how you could be so insensitive and so cruel. I have people I don't like. I have people I vehemently don't like. That I almost there's a few individuals I would dare I say I loathe them. Look up the word loathe and you'll know what that means loa tg loathe. However, if something was to befall them, tragically, I would feel bad and compassionate for them, because I consider myself a decent human being. I have I made mistakes in the past and been non empathetic and you know, earlier in my life, and so yes, absolutely I have time. We all slip and fall, we all fall fall short of the grace of being a better human being. However, I have enough as a human being, as a conscious human being and not an animal that just reacts, that I can form cognitive thought, and I don't have some mental disorder, you know, interfering with my thought process, that I can be empathetic even to people I can see don't consider friends or people that I particularly care for. But some of the things that I have seen online firsthand with my own eyes, not through the news blurbs and not through these news stories I'm talking myself witnessed, seen on social media various places and in forums, is just utterly disgusting. Has society sunk so low that we just don't give a shit about human life anymore? No matter whose it is. Let me ask you this, those of you that write those disgusting things, no matter what side of the political or social spectrum yourn, If that happened to your family. If it was your son, your daughter, your sister, your brother, your mother, your father, your aunt, your uncle, your child, would you feel the same way if people wrote those things about them and something tragic before tell them, how would you feel then? How would you feel? I bet you'd be singing a different tune as they say. It's just utterly horrific. I think we as a species, we've got to be better or we're going to destroy ourselves. I really do. We're gonna just I mean, I can understand. I always used to shake my head growing up in school, in history classes, like, how could all these wars happen? Over and over? How could World War One happen? And then you know, not even twenty years later, World War Two? How could that happen? How could the people not learn? Hey, you know, all these thousands and tens of thousands, one hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and then twenty years later we do it again. How could it happen? How could human being? Human beings can't be that's stupid. I wonder, I really wonder, because the things I see going on, it's disgraceful. Charlie Kirk rest in peace. You were a good man. From this guy's eyes, and from what I've known of you and seen of you and heard of you and watched of you, you were a good man who was just trying to do something and engage, and you had your beliefs, and you were a good family man. And may you rest in peace, my friend. Well we weren't friends, but you know what I'm saying, Rest in peace, and the best to you in your family during this difficult time. And may they take your memory with them forward every day and try to make the world a better place. Maybe we should all try to do that and say enough is enough with the hatred and the violence. But that's that's my take on that. Moving on, some other things have been going on personally. Our household has been without water now for almost a month. Huh what Yeah, I'm going to tell you about that when we come back. Probing one again. He should not be locked out supervised. Let's get back to the show. Yes, sorry, wow, Oh yeah, Well I'll tell you something, my friend. I'll tell you if if the past thirty days or three weeks, almost thirty days has taught me anything, it's that life is unpredictable and you can make plans and have a itinerary, but don't count on anything to go to plan. Be flexible. I am learning that. Welcome back to the program, Welcome back to Whye's thoughts. I am Terry Weiss, and you know, a little heavy on the first part of the show. But I'm gonna go into another segment here and right now with y'all, and we're going to talk about as I talked about before the break, my home has not had water running water in it per se for almost a month now. And here's what's going on where I live in a rural area. We you used past tense and now a well lived here for almost twenty five years, over twenty five years, and in fact, my neighbor had built our home along with his father when he was growing up. That's how rural I am. And people out here a lot of them still and have welt great water, none of that stinky smelly thing you know, like sometimes you can have with a well. You can have a sulfur smell or an iron content smell, kind of a sulfur smell, or you know. We are blessed to live in an area where our soil is really sandy and like I said, twenty five years a little over twenty five years in this current home and never had any issues. Always had plenty of water, even when when it got dried, Plenty of water, plenty of things like that. No issues. However, however, this year, around mid to latter part of this August, we started running out of water, and I was like, oh boy, now it's been kind of a dry summer here in the northeastern half of the United States, and so we started cutting back and being more mindful, I mean, not that we were wasting water anyhow, started being more mindful of our water use, and eventually the well ran dry. As they say, my neighbor still is using their well and they're nursing it, coaxing it, pleading with it. Thankfully, it's just one individual that lives there now, you know, it's over here. It's just me and my wife. And when our water stopped, we now we had to improvise, overcome and adapt. And thankfully my in laws, who are just about the next county over have water and they're on a well and they haven't had no issues. They got plenty of it. So we started filling up big gallon jugs, you know, ten to twenty of them for use of the toilet facilities, for flushing, washing our hands and such. I went down to the local stores and stocked up on plenty of drinking water in bottled water cases and large jugs of spring water. What have you to kind of hold us over here. So we've decided we are hooking up to them. You know, the county water supply cost a good chunk of money. But we are still not hooked up. We're in the final step of the process. We've got the pipe that was run from the home, the interior plumbing to hook us in at all that's ready willing and enable and waiting, and the pipe still sticks out and buy our property at the front of you know, by the curb, waiting for them. I am told that hopefully sometime within the next seven to ten days we will be hooked up and going. So we have abandoned the well. But I'll tell you it has taught me and my wife, especially me because I can be in a very impatient fellow. Taught me patients and that yet again, there's an old saying or saying as it goes, that the best laid plans of mice and men can be disrupted, you know. It just it seems like the more I gain in years, the more I am learning that you know, should happens. I guess that's the only nice way to say it. And you have to be willing to overcome and adapt and be ready in a moment's notice to pivot change course and be willing so that I can offer you some advice on that, you know. Also, I learned of a very dear friend who had a tragic medical issue over about a week and over about a week ago or so, is not doing well unfortunately. Had Our thoughts are in prayers are with him and his family. He's a younger, a little bit younger than myself, and he had a tragic medical incident, an emergency medical incident, and he is fighting for his life. But we certainly send our best wishes and prayers and good intentions to all those and to his family, hoping he will make a full and complete recovery. So these are things that are just, you know, it just seems like odd. I mean, I told my wife the other day, I said, you know, if I looked outside and saw pumpkins falling from the sky, it wouldn't shock me, you know, this past thirty days or so, I had another birthday, another trip around the sun for myself, and kind of just was very mellow and celebrating that and done some more done, some more voice over work here and there, you know, and trying to get myself some more work on that front. By the way, you can go to Waste Productions wycvoice Productions dot com if you're looking for any of that, if you need an audiobook voice or commercial work, if you want some podcast promos and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, shameless plug, shameless plug. But I guess the point I'm trying to make here, folks is that you know, you have to be open, you have to be amenable, you have to be flexible, malleable. Look up all those words, because life can change in an instant. I come from the point of view that I like things planned. I like rigid structure. I guess would be a good thing. I like structure. You know, every once in a while I like to mix it up and get a little crazy. But for the most part, I think a lot of us at least I can say I like structure. I like structure. And when something gets thrown, when the monkey wrench gets thrown into the spokes of the wheel and it goes and things go off crazy. I'm still learning to deal with that. I still have some ways to go. Sometimes you just have to laugh and say, you know what, gonna just bear down, put our head down and plow forward and make the best of any situation, you know, because every day alive is a good day, all right, Not to be too morbid on this episode of the podcast, but every day alive, every day above ground unless you're a goal miner, but every day alive you're breathing, here is a chance. Every tomorrow is a chance to begin again when you wake up in the morning and be a better person than you were the day before. You know, so much has gone on in the past two weeks or so, especially in the world, and the craziness, especially here in the United States of America. Don't know where you're listening from, how things are where you are. But I'm hoping it's peaceful. I'm hoping everyone is safe. It's just that it's crazy, crazy times. And sometimes I you know, sometimes I just want to hang my head and I want to just say it's enough and just think what, you know, why? Why? Why? Is all this crazy shit happening? Why is all this going on? Why can't people just get along? Why can't we respect one another? Why can't we, you know, have dialogue with one another? Why can't we have well wishes for one another? Why do we have to certain numbers of the population have to walk around like narcissists and you know, sociopaths and act that way. I don't get it. And again I'm not I'm not trying to preach and say I am holier than now and I'm on a soapbox and looking down on you out there listening saying I've got my shit together and everything. Believe me, I go through probably many of the same struggles you do. You know, you wake up and why am I here? What am I doing with my life? Is my life? Have meaning? Have I done? Have I made a difference in people's lives? You know? Were there times that I could be better? And the answer is yes to allie above. Can you know we can all do better? All of us can do better, And instead of trying to maybe put each other down, tear each other apart and tear each other down, wouldn't it be just wonderful if we could look at that person across the table, that person on the other side of the keyboard, on the other side of the tablet screen, when you're on social media, person on the other side of the room, and just say, you know what, I'm a human being. You're a human being. I wish the best for you. 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 Wyse Wiys'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 White's Thoughts. And I look forward to gathering yet again around the virtual campfire with you real soon. Take care, Di