Still Something to Say: Wayne Watson on his Life, Music and What Comes Next

I have been doing the podcast for a while now.

I am in awe of people that populate their podcast with hundreds of episodes of interesting episodes.

So I'm trying not to do too many that are just space fillers.

And hopefully this is not one of those for you.

I was thinking today as I was preparing the last couple of days to share some things with you.

Things are different.

Things are different right now.

I find myself paying attention to news because I want to be aware of what's going on in the world.

But it seems like every day it's weather, politics, some disruption between parties, something going on around the world, catastrophes.

And I asked a friend of mine the other day, I said, do you think the world is groaning? Do you think the earth is groaning? with all these natural disasters.

I mean, in Colombia, not too many days ago, this horrible earthquake that it looked like a movie set was being destroyed.

And it was real life and people not too far away, maybe a hundred feet, a couple hundred feet away from buildings just collapsing.

flooding right now as we're speaking in Indiana where dear friends live.

My friend Sandy Patty and her husband Don live in Indiana.

I just checked on them and they're high and dry.

Bill Gaither and Gloria, many of you will know that name, they live in Anderson or Alexandria, Indiana, and it's very, very bad there.

And so I wonder, is it because we know so much more about weather? Is it because we are constantly bombarded with news that has to fill the time to pay for advertising, to make stories bigger and bigger? bigger and in their case better than if there were no stories.

I've shared this before, but I don't think there's any shock to realize that many of the things we see are programmed to make us be either afraid or we have to watch the next segment to find out what the answer is.

And I'm not sure what the case is.

Social media these days can cause fear and and also influence how we think, what we consume, what we buy, what we eat.

And it's completely unregulated, and there's no accountability there.

My little boy is fascinated with e-bikes.

He asked us about, can I have an e-bike? And that's a hard no.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by motorcycles.

I wanted a motorcycle.