HAT 24b : Understand What’s Going On  Calm is not a catchy slogan on a t-shirt. Calm is the result of knowledge, understanding, and preparation. So, turn off the Bachelor, get your phone out of your face, and understand what is happening. Tectonic shifts are unsettling, but one need not panic. The following is from a well-situated friend who requests no attribution. I’m please to share this person’s thoughts, so pay attention today on… HERE’S A THING.

Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, and good day, HAT Family. It's your rambling, random, cheerful bonus content. I hope this finds you truly well and joyful. Remember when put your feet on the floor each morning to be better than you were the day before and always be authentic. It'll pay off!

HAT 23b: Danger, Will Robinson  Do not listen to this if you are politically correct, clutch your pearls on a regular basis, or prefer to keep your world G-Rated.If there are children near you, send them away or press pause. If you are a delicate snowflake drifting along the gentle breeze; get out now. If you simply object to coarse and indecent language; run while you still can. I am lit up and I am not holding back. Fair enough? Good. You’ve been warned. We’re going to find out where this audience stands in a few minutes. Well… HERE’S A THING.

An informal chat about the upcoming week. Well, perhaps not a chat as that would involve more than one person. A rambling, unprepared monologue regarding the upcoming week's subject matter. Thanks for being part of the HAT family!

HAT 22: Tolerance  Among the countless cultural catechisms inflicted upon the good people of the western world is the pleasant little litmus test known as tolerance. Ah, tolerance; a term co-opted from the realm of science whose definition has been distorted from imperviousness, immunity, resistance, and resilience to now mean total submission to whatever the ruling class dictates. What would happen if you stood in the town square and proclaimed your intolerance of raw onion sandwiches? Well… HERE’S A THING.

HAT 21: Random Day In The Rain   As a one-man show podcast entertainment personality, many times life… well, it just gets in the way of the fun stuff. I had too much crap to get done today to put my full might into proper production of an episode. So, at the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney and Bill Engval’s very improbable offspring, I give you random scatterings of my brainwaves on… HERE’S A Thing.

HAT 20: Get Off My Lawn!   Historically, there have been two cultural forces engaged in a global battle for control of the masses. At stake… the long-sought new world order, a treasure so desired by the powerful and elite that it was buried by warrior monks on Oak Island. As long as these two mortal enemies remain at war, we exist in a state of equilibrium. Much like matter and antimatter, they can’t coexist. If they meet, they destroy one another. But, allow one to gain an unnatural advantage over the other… well, HERE’S A THING.

HAT: 19 Manners    Bad medicine. Bad moon rising. Bad at math. Bad mama jama. Bad bad Leroy Brown. Bad company. Bad credit. Bad day. Bad decision. Bad hair day. Bad headache. Bad influence. Bad idea. Bad joke. Bad luck. Bad news. Bad omen. Bad posture. Bad vibes. Bad weather. What spoils the proverbial meal more indecorously than bad manners? Well… HERE’S A THING.

HAT 18: Influ-ential-enza   As I return to the world of the living after my flu-activated productivity hiatus, I find myself eager to direct my attention once again to the primary theme of this message delivery platform. And that is, of course, authenticity. I had the flu. My wife had the flu. Our daughter… did NOT suffer the effects of this malady though collectively we share a common space. This has generated an operational shift for us going forward. Who, what, where, when, why, and how? Well… HERE’S A THING.

HAT 17: Dead Inside? I Refuse.  I stand on the verge of laryngitis as I fight off this flu. As such, to the antecedent, please forgive the poor quality of my voice. Instead of giving you an encore of a previous recording, I found a little missive I wrote a couple of years ago to no one in particular. It was likely part of the mental and emotional lead-up to this podcast. My hope is that you get a lift out of this today and going forward on… HERE’S A THING.  According to the archives, I wrote this two years ago. I re-read it and wanted to share it here, mostly for myself. I'm sad all the time these days. Not because of the idiotic shenanigans of politicians or the showcase of morons on parade. I've so shut down the world that mostly those things no longer penetrate my shell.  I'm sad all the time because I look around my actual world, the real space around me, and most people are just dead inside. I feel like if people didn't have to pay their data andwifi bills that the streets would be littered with dead bodies next to dead cell phones.  Anyway, I thought this was worth the time here on this platform. Treat one another with basic kindness. Elevate yourself and those around you, and surround yourself with those who elevate you. The following was inspired by a photograph I made of the sunset color and light show displayed on the frosted glass of my front door.