Hi everyone TheReportOfTheWeek checking in! And...
Here you can see it's a different setting.
Reporting in from base from the from the command post
(i.e. bed). But uh...
Oh man, it's been one of those days, you know, it's been one of those days and I said because originally, right?
I was gonna do a review today.
It's not gonna happen, that's all that I can tell you. And I thought to myself,
I think this would be a good chance to kind of set the camera up, you know, do it maybe a little casually and
just try to, you know,
just vent it out to you and try to get maybe a little bit of a message across at the same time.
Ehh, I mean don't don't even get me started. All right, it was one of those days, you
know? You know when just everything goes wrong and you
have absolutely no control over the situation whatsoever.
One of those days
Where, you know, I'm filming this on a Thursday, right? So it's not it's not live, but that's okay - that's an aside.
You know, it's Thursday evening. It's around
7:18 p.m. And,
for those you that know those of you that don't, every Thursday is the day that I do my radio show. And
you know, I call it a radio show. It's really like a glorified podcast.
You know?
I get it up on the SoundCloud and TuneIn and then it goes out 15 times on shortwave to, you know,
the international audience there and
this week's show... I mean, I was really feeling it! Like the last few weeks,
I wasn't really feeling the best one week. I had some terrible anxiety one week.
I had some bad migraines, so I was able to put something together.
But, you know, it could have been a little better, but I was just inhibited by just how I was doing physically.
This week I was feeling it and I said, you know what?
I'm gonna work hard at this. I'm gonna get a good show out for everyone and...
And you know? I did. I really put a lot of time into it. I worked for a few days.
I actually made the show about an hour longer than it usually is,
where I just I had a lot to talk about.
Got some good music played and I was just on a roll. I got the show set up.
I edited it, you know, I really wanted to promote it too.
So I was trying to get the links, you know, to where it it streams on tune in and
the shortwave frequencies and listening times to everyone that wrote in, you know?
I was working for 8 hours straight.
I was getting to about 4 or 500 emails. I was responding and I thought yeah, I mean,
I'm really on a roll today. I was feeling this show I'm gonna get it out. I'm gonna get it promoted and
I was exhausted by the end of it. You know, I was working through the night finally fell asleep.
I woke up just in time for the first broadcast airing to, you know,
start checking it out and make sure everything's going all right. And...
I'm not hearing in the show!
It's just it's it's dead air!!
I checked the tune in stream and it's just silence! There's nothing there!
I checked the short wave frequency, you know, where the radio station is supposed to be broadcasting it. There's nothing.
I'm scratching my head. I'm trying to think. Oh, wait a minute, you know, I I know I sent them the file.
I know I, you know, I submitted the show to them. So so what's going on?
So I sent the manager of the radio station an email, you know, not not angry,
we're on really good terms and I just said, you know, well, you know,
"What's going on? Is everything all right with the computers?" You know?
I just wanted to check and my my I don't see my show airing. What's uh, what's up? And...
Then he broke it to me.He said listen, you know, we we kind of have a problem!
Someone hacked into our computer system,
deleted or I think encrypted all the files that they had every audio program and then was demanding money
to get them restored. And
they said, you know, "Look we're dead in the water here!"
"We can't even access any of the shows that we're supposed to air. We're not going to give in to this guy's demands!"
"So we need to get a whole new computer system set up and unfortunately..."
"It's not going to be finalized until maybe maybe tomorrow at the earliest."
Which, in short, means that everything that I was working on and
promoting and doing over the last few days for this radio show
was for nothing! And
It was due to circumstances
outside my control,
outside the control of this radio station. It was just some hacker that
decided to screw with them and,
you know just try to get a ransom kind of like, you know...
You remember those old viruses that used to infect your computer and say it was locked by the FBI?
Unless they give him like five hundred bucks? And, you know, that kind of deal same type of thing.
I knew that it wasn't
my fault.
It wasn't the fault of the folks who work at the radio station. They were working to get it fixed.
Man, I couldn't help but feel so disappointed.
I was I was feeling disappointed. I was feeling down. I was feeling frustrated.
I was shaking my head and I was just saying damn it, you know,
I spent so much time.
So much energy.
I was just trying so hard to get a good show out to all these people who were looking forward to it and
It's not gonna happen.
Yeah, there's a few people that's still tuned in on the SoundCloud.
But, I know the tens of thousands of people listen on shortwave and
on TuneIn they weren't notified that this was gonna happen. No one knew that it was all gonna go down.
And I was just kicking myself. I was just I was just saying, you know,
total loss!
Just a complete and total loss. I kept kicking myself!
Like I kept I just kept beating myself up.
Getting down on myself. I was getting into a real I was digging myself into a hole, you know.
My mind was just beating me up. It was trying to find a way to blame me for this issue. And...
you know,
say, "You screwed up! You messed this up!" You know, I was just trying to make me feel like a piece of...
"you know what"!
And I stopped.
I took a deep breath.
I stopped and I remembered something and that's why I have the camera on right now.
This situation, this problem, is unique to me.
But I think in a very broad
generalization,
we've all had these days.
We've all had these problems where something happens to us. Okay, it could be on a personal level.
It could be at work, could be at school, could be with family, friends,
relationships,
business... anything. And
something happens, something doesn't go the way that it was supposed to go at all and could end up being a complete failure
due to reasons
totally out of our control. And..
I know a lot of us have gone through this. You might be going through this right now? I Know I Am.
The best thing to do, is
to stop!
Take a few deep breaths. Just
Inhale for a while.
Exhale. Just take those slow breaths. That's a good way to just calm your body and especially your mind. And ask yourself this,
"This situation is out of my control at this point."
"What is my anger,
my frustration and
my tantruming
going to do to solve it?" Look at look at my situation!
So these guys hacked into the radio station, they're pretty much extortionists, and
what am I gonna do about it?
You know, what am I gonna do?
The staff at that radio station, they're already working on it!
They're already trying to replace the files and get a new security system and computer program
updated. They're on it. So...
What's my anger gonna do?
Yeah, we have every right to be frustrated because it didn't go our way, but we cannot let that get the best of us!
Never forget that! If the situation is out of hands,
It's out of our hands!
Yeah, it's okay to blow off some steam. You got to do it in respectful and appropriate ways though.
But if the situation's out of our hands, you just got to ask yourself,
"What is all this needless anger and frustration?"
"What's it gonna do for me?"
"How is it gonna help?"
And really the short answer: It's not going to!
Best thing to do is to cut the losses as best you can and
move on!
Just say,
"Tomorrow is another day!"
It's a blank slate.
Yes, what happened today is what happened. But tomorrow is a blank slate - it is what we can do with as we
choose.
We can pick the pieces back up,
put it back together,
try and recover from whatever set us back today.
Just keep that in mind dear listeners and viewers.
We've all gone through a rough day.
Sometimes we'll beat ourselves up over it. But, just remember: We're still here!
We're still going. It's not the end of the world
Situation's out of our hands.
We still have tomorrow and lets just keep that going. We don't know
what tomorrow is gonna be. Lets just say, "Hey, it might be a better and brighter day ahead!"
That's the way I'm looking at it. And, I know, this radio show, it had its setbacks today,
I'm not gonna let that get the best of me and I'm gonna put together a darn good radio show for next week too.
You want to check it out? You can find it on SoundCloud!
soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
That's all that I have for you.
Thank you for listening to my little talk, just kind of venting it to you. And do take care!
I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek.