They talk about nothing as if they know everything. So did my Uncle John—and he made it an art form. One had a microphone, the other had a First Sergeant’s stripes, and only one really knew what he was talking about.
I catch the Boston sports talk shows via YouTube. I often wonder how people can be paid for speculating about sport’s teams. They have people like me listening to them and commenting on the YouTube videos. I don’t know what that says about me and how little it takes to entertain me when they are really talking about nothing. My favorite uncle, John, had a career military in the US Army. He was a first sergeant when he retired. When he retired he’d give me a call and say, “Ray, let’s shoot the shit..” and that’s what we would do for 45 minutes, we would shoot the shit. We would talk about nothing as if we knew everything about what we were talking about. In the end, we both left the call feeling pretty good about life. We solved multiple problems and some we kept for a future date. I miss those calls with my uncle John. The talk show hosts who speculate about my sports teams do a very good job of shooting this shit. They’re talking about nothing as if they knew everything. They’re not in my uncle John’s league. They didn’t spend 30 years in the military. I think you learned to survive in the military for 30 years by shooting the shit.
