The Human Cost of Conflict: A Serious Discourse with Gray Haired Dave

Welcome to five Minutes with Grey Hair Dave.

He has grey hair, he has a grey beard and he wears glasses like the guy in the artwork.

Oh, and the guy in the artwork is better looking.

Now here is gray haired Dave.

Well, well, thank you very, very much for that great intro that for my, my buddies over there at 11 labs.

11 labs.

I, oh, I'm sorry that I don't take any shame in the fact that I let them do all the introducing.

All I do is go over there, type in what I want the intro to say and boom, there it is.

Gives me a choice of all kinds of different wordings too.

And the price is not bad, folks.

The price is not bad at all.

So how are we doing today?

I hope that you are doing great because I'm having a fantastic day here in central Florida.

Looks like it might rain soon.

Seems like at that time of year starts earlier and earlier.

But it's afternoon rain season and I heard some thunder a little bit ago, so I thought, well, let me get, get this done.

How about all the craziness going on with the weather here in the United States?

I this week here, here in the United States.

And, and if you're listening, today is June 28th of 2025, okay?

It has been hotter in the northern states.

In the Midwestern states, it's been up in the high 90s, in the hundred and the low hundreds for the better part of the week.

They're, they're not prepared for this, folks.

Most people, I don't want to say most people, but a lot of people up north, they don't have air conditioning because they don't need air conditioning.

Never really gets hot enough for it, you know, open windows or fans or whatever.

But I mean, this is what I remember when I left And I left 19 years ago, folks.

I've been down in Florida for 19 years.

God, it seems it has flown by, I tell you.

But yeah, I feel for everybody up north.

I mean, and don't get me wrong, we have our hot days, our feel like days here lately have all been over a hundred.

But here in Florida you expect that, you know, because you're in the south, you're down closer to the equator, you expect that kind of temperature.

But not in New York City, not in Chicago or Detroit.

You know, Cleveland.

You know those places are those people, they, that's not what they signed up for.

But yeah, that's just, you know, I have never been a proponent of global warming, never have.

But I'm starting to think that something's going on Here and I might be wrong now.

If I am, I'm here to admit it.

And maybe it just took an extra 10 or 15 years for me to say, okay, yeah, there's global warming.

I don't know.

All I know is it'd be getting warm, okay?

I mean even out in Vegas.

It's not, it's just now summertime and Vegas is going to start hitting 110s but they get that all the time.

They're more in a, a desert type of an atmosphere out there.

So it's going to get soggy here soon and I just to get going and say hi.

I realize that this has become a Saturday podcast only because I just don't have the time.

I don't want to say it that way.

It doesn't take long to produce this.

I have the time.

I just Saturday or I have more time to think about what I want to say when it's usually just right off the cuff anyway.

So, so that's, that's, that's the way it's going here.

I got this letter in the mail to.

We're changing subjects now.

I got this letter in the mail earlier this month where I have the inevitable duty of going to jury duty.

Maybe rephrase it.

I have jury duty on Monday.

Now I have to wait till after 5 o' clock on Friday on Sunday to call this the number that they give you to see if my number has been picked or not.

Now going to downtown Orlando isn't no big deal except I have to be there.

I think it said at 7:30 or 8:00 clock in the morning, which is fine.

Maybe I'll beat some of the traffic going and going downtown.

But I haven't been downtown in a long time, been a few years and I, I, I don't know how I feel about it.

You know, I've done jury duty two or three times.

One a couple times when I was in Michigan I was called and back then you didn't.

You just had to go and show up and whether, and then they decided whether they needed you or not.

And down here they do it a little differently.

They have you call and the night before they'll give a range of numbers.

This number through this number does not need to show up.

Where this number through this number does need to show up.

I'm personally hoping I'm in the number that doesn't need to show up.

The last time I was in on jury duty here it was in a different county and the courthouse was put probably smaller.

I don't know, I haven't been to the courthouse in Orlando yet, but it's, you know, it's, it was easier for me, but I, I was picked to be on a jury and I sat there for the whole day, you know, went to lunch when it was lunchtime, and I listened to this thing and I was taking my own mental notes and, and I had my thoughts on, on how it was going and whether or not I believed that the gentleman was guilty.

And the, It's a, it's a one day trial.

Thank goodness.

At the end of the trial, he points at my number and says, sir, thank you very much, Mr.

Carter, you are the designated alternate for this trial.

You are your, you're free to go.

You're released from, from jury duty.

He sees a look on my face of a little bit of disappointment because I said, you know, in my mind I'm thinking, well, geez, I sat here all day.

I at least want to know what the, the outcome is.

He goes, Now, Mr.

Carter, if you, if you're curious as to the outcome of this trial, please feel free to call my office tomorrow and we'd be happy to tell you what the verdict was.

If a verdict is given today, you know, if, you know, if not, then we'll let you know when to call back.

Which I thought was a very, very good idea.

I mean, that's, that's a smart way to do it.

But I was a little disappointed.

You make me sit there all day and then you don't use me.

So.

And maybe, maybe it was, it was better off that way.

I, I don't know.

All I know is I didn't have to sit in the jury room and deliberate.

And I'm hoping that I don't have to go deliberate on Monday, but if I do, I do, I go.

It's no big deal.

I'm off tomorrow.

I mean, I'm sorry, Monday.

So it's not like I have to take off work.

Oh, and hey, I'm gonna end up with a 15 check if I have to go.

I would rather go on a day I had to work because then Disney pays me for the day and I just give them the $15.

Well, no, this time now I've got to go and take their $15 and cash it.

Which is fine, you know, at least I give you something.

But ever since I started my first time with jury duty, it's always been $15.

It never goes up.

I think that they ought to raise that.

It's just my personal opinion, maybe that should be the Vote this time.

Let's raise the price of what people pay for, get paid for jury duty.

But I don't think that's going to happen.

What else is happening?

We'll get off of that.

Oh, I tell you, the world's a little crazy too.

Everybody by now should know about everything that's going on over in Iran and Israel.

If you're paying any attention at all.

And if you're in that area, you know, I wish you all the best and all the luck in the world.

It's amazing how those with so little always pay more than those making the decisions or those who are just who.

Those who are doing just fine and work, you know, they're.

You're working.

It's just like you and me.

They're, they go to work every day, they come home, they have a family or they're going to school or they're retired.

And the next thing you know, boom.

Somebody just blew up my house or blew up my life or killed me or, you know, that's, it's that human cost that, that's bothering me in my older years.

I'm not against war.

And if you are serving in a military situation, you know what you're signing up for.

It's the innocents who don't know what they're signing up for, or the dictators who want more land or the dictators who want this or that and just go in and start taking it where all.

It's just the innocent people who lose every time.

And I personally have come to the point where I don't like that anymore.

And I'm, I'm not against it.

Yes, I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon so that I as I think nuclear weapons have long since past their, their time of need.

There is no more argument between the US and Russia about these things.

The Cold War is over.

These bombs should be, should be gone.

There should be no need to find one.

Why do you need a nuclear nuclear bomb when a regular bomb can kill lots of people?

And that's not right either.

We got to stop killing each other, folks.

That's what it comes down to.

It really, really does.

You watch some of these science fiction shows and I do, but you look at and it's a staple.

I mean it's been around since mid, early mid to early 60s.

Star Trek is set in the future and it's not about money, it's not about power.

It's about the expansion of knowledge and learning about new peoples and all kinds of things.

It may sound Corny to say that, but it would be nice if we could work a little harder at getting there, you know, not worrying about what this country did or didn't do.

So I have to either, yes, go in and kill people and drop bombs or not.

And I know, I'm sure every president of the United States who's had to do that must weigh those problems and those issues, and it can't be easy.

I wouldn't want to be the one to say, okay, go.

It's another reason I don't ever want to be any in.

In his seat.

I just don't.

It just doesn't make sense to me.

That's my rant for today, folks.

I should probably get music Dave's rant for the day.

Gray Haired Dave's on another roll or something like that.

But that's, that's, that's how I feel.

And my feelings have changed over the years, folks.

And it's, it's honest, it's true.

I don't feel the same way I did about things 30 years ago that I feel today.

So with that.

Do you hear all this I just been doing today?

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If you want to start a podcast or if you have a podcast and would like some suggestions or if you have a podcast and you want somebody to edit it for you, if you have a video podcast or you're a YouTuber or.

I don't know so much about TikTok yet, but yeah, I know about TikTok.

Don't get me wrong.

Video editing, that might be easier, I don't know.

But talk to me about if that's something you want some help with.

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I know, but YouTube's a little more sophisticated and takes a little more time.

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Also, folks, if you're out and about this fine day, or this weekend, or even this week, and you see somebody you don't know, smile at them and you'll make their day.

And in turn, that'll make your day.

It'll make you feel better.

Or say hi.

Don't be afraid to say hi to somebody you don't know.

Sometimes it's the hardest thing in the world to do, but after you do, you'll feel better.

So on behalf of everybody here at Gray Hair Productions, which is me, I will see you and talk to you next week.

Oh, yeah, that might be a hint.

See you later.

Bye.

Bye.