Finding Light in the Darkness: A Call for Balance in a Broken World

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After reading disturbing reactions to a tragic murder in Midtown Manhattan, the host reflects on the moral decay and cruelty that social media often amplifies. But amid the grief, he shares a deeper message: the need to reclaim our humanity through stories of kindness, heroism, and hope. From early-morning prayer to mentoring ex-inmates, and drawing inspiration from True Detective, this episode is a personal and passionate plea to build something brighter—an "ark" of positive stories in a world drowning in darkness.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Finding Light in the Darkness. Yesterday, late afternoon, again, I
doing show prep, doing my homework and reading reading stories
about the woman who was murdered in midtown Manhattan. The

(00:37):
gunman drove across country, went into a Midtown Manhattan building, shooting, spree, killed,
killed a woman. And I went down a kind of
a dark hole at the time because I started reading

(00:57):
story after story of people from all over the country
celebrating her death, celebrating her death like it was a
wonderful thing. Again, she worked for were for black Rock
and was involved in the real estate business. And again

(01:21):
I've gone off on how real estate is handled here, uh,
in this country, and it's you know, it's terrible the
way it's structured. Again, it's all basically due to tax
laws and the power that certain institutions have. And people
are not happy about the price of homes. Yet yet

(01:41):
a woman who was gunned down, murdered office two kids,
the Victriol, the nastiness out there, you know, going after
her children. I bet they go to private school. All
of these things really really bothered me. And it's not
the first time. We go back to the Luigi Mangoni

(02:05):
case there, you know, gunning down the insurance executive in
midtown Manhattan. It's it's hard. It's hard. It's one of
the things to do with, you know. It's the amount
of negativity that's out there in the world and how
we are constantly bombarded with it all the time. And again,

(02:27):
I don't look to avoid it. It's my job. I
have to cover it. But we do need some balance.
It's one thing we're missing. I get a very early
in the morning, and I have my time. My time
is from three o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in

(02:50):
the morning until four thirty. I it's my time. Let's
just leave it at that. I leave for the gym.
At that point, I'm actually gonna do my interns as
I get off the beaten track right here. Oh you
got to you know, you've got to film yourself. You've
got to like do a day in a life. And
I'm like, I'm not going to do that, but I
will I will explain my schedule to people. Again, It's

(03:12):
interesting a lot of younger people are asking me how
I'm doing things now, which is kind of nice. But anyway, anyway,
my time today again, I reflect on things, I pray
on things, and you know how basically I'm here on
this program on a regular basis where we're here servicing
our clients. We're trying to make the world a better place.

(03:32):
And again it came to me, I don't know how
I'm going to put this together. I'm going to try.
I'm going to try. We almost need a separate, separate
form of media to some degree that just focuses on
the positive in the world. And again, it can be

(03:54):
it can be people's response to something horrific, the stories
that we heard, the heroism that took place with the
Texas floods, whatever it may be. I interviewed a gentleman
yesterday on my other radio show, work Time and Efforts.
Guy's a pilot and does all of these things. He's

(04:16):
you know, a flight training school, does all this stuff.
But he also he also you know, goes out of
his way and helps people that are in jail, were
incarcerated kind of adjust to coming out of prison and
helping them find jobs, so we don't have that recidivent
rate and stories like that, unfortunately, they don't really get told.

(04:38):
And I don't know what it was. And again, to
my mind and how it's sub references, I was thinking
about the phenomenal television show years ago, True Detective, the
original series, and it was it was creepy, it was dark,
without a doubt. Matthew mcconniey one of my favorite actors.
Woody Harrel's another great actor and the best buddies in

(05:00):
real life. And again the show was awesome, but at
the end, the very very end of the story, and
it doesn't it's not a spoiler if you haven't seen it,
talking about you know, the darkness. They're outside and staring
at the stars and you know the darkness in the world,
and you know, Woodyhouse and made the point there's a

(05:21):
lot more dark than light that's out there. And Matthew
County again was very very dark. Again the murder investigation
that we're conducting over a ten year period of time,
and he basically kind of changed his view. He says,
I don't know, he said there was nothing but darkness,

(05:41):
you know, look at the lights now. I said that,
you know, the lights may be winning. I think maybe
we need that to some degree because it's very easy.
It's very easy to get really you know, go down
to a dark hole, reading some of these messages and
just see how people are are. I try not to

(06:03):
get angry at these people. It sickens me, but these
are these are sick people. And that's one of the
things we fail to reckon everybody's in our country. It
seems to'spay me social media rather lash out at someone.
I try again. I always trying to see what other

(06:25):
people's points are, what their perspectives are on various different things.
But more than that, I find myself, I find myself
feeling really sorry for individuals like this because you got
to think about what type of life that they have,
that this is how they're going, how they react with
with you know, supposed pleasure at the murder, the murder

(06:51):
of someone in New York City because you don't like
her career and what she does for a living that
maybe maybe I don't know that was described to me,
you know, almost like using maybe even using AI to
kind of gather stories and whatnot. And one way that

(07:11):
it was put to me, is like almost almost like
building like an arc if you will, of nothing but
positive stories, uplifting stories that you know, because we're constantly
bombarded with the black, with the darkness all the time,
can't do anything about that. Again, I think we're hit
with it in today's day and age more than most.

(07:33):
Quite frankly, we're surrounded by it. It's on our phones,
it follows us around it. We're getting hit all the time.
That almost almost just like I said, it's a place
of piece where we can kind of go and read
a wonderful story, an active heroism doing something for someone else.
Next project. Okay, I got to think a way I

(07:56):
can work on this and put this together. We shall
see uh. Watchdog on Wall Street dot com