Derate The Hate

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Do you trust that our public health officials are telling you the truth? I for one find myself very skeptical these days. As many who've listened to the DTH podcast for long know, I've been highly critical of the government's response to the pandemic from the very beginning. How does someone like me have a...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) "Don't Believe The Lies, Believe Your Life"... it wasn't but a few months ago when I first heard of Brian Echevarria. Nationally, he was little known with respect to politics but then a video of him speaking in front of his local school board went viral. This episode is not about politics, but about B...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Does money buy happiness? If you find your happiness in material things, you might say yes. I would challenge whether that is real happiness. Material things may bring moments, or even periods of joy in one's life, but moments of joy are only a sliver of what amounts to true happiness. Should money be the yardstick...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) I recently read that a Gallup poll revealed that a record low number of Americans now believe in God . As I look around at all those that seem to be drifting through life like a ship without a rudder, it really comes as no surprise. It is very disheartening, but comes as no surprise. Is there answers to this age of outra...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Have you ever asked yourself the question, "what is the best way for me to obtain and secure a meaningful life?" or "Is hate getting in the way of me winning at life?"    What is a meaningful life? People find meaning in all different sorts of ways. For some, it's family, some it's career, s...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Is hate being taught to our children in the public, and some private schools ? A couple months ago my cousin brought to my attention a book that his 8th grade daughter had been assigned for a book review in her NW Iowa school. I was familiar with some of the toxicity that Ibram X. Kendi had been spreading, but I was not...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) I started this podcast a couple years ago with the slogan, "Bettering the World, One Attitude at a Time"... That is more than just a mission statement for me, that has become one of my central purposes in life. Why you might ask? In many ways, it's because I see our world, but more specifically our country...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) I have said it time and time again on this podcast, and many of my guests have referenced the notion, that a common factor that leads to much anger and hate, is ignorance.  It should come as no surprise then, and cannot be overstated, how much effort is put in by opportunist politicians and media outlets in driving the H...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Well my friends, it has finally happened, I have the Covid-19... It's bound to catch us all at some point and this is my week. I'm beyond the worst of it, but not feeling up to doing a whole show, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to run a replay of one of my great guest interviews. In light of the fa...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) With the news in recent  leak coming out of the Supreme Court that the landmark case of Roe vs. Wade will be overturned in the very near future, I thought it only made sense to reach out to my friend Kevin McGary of Every Black Life Matters. You may remember Kevin from our conversation back in Episode 88 of the podcast w...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) My heart is heavy in the wake of another senseless evil act carried out this week by someone who allowed hate to overtake them. The world in which we live is a dark place, and it is up to each and every one of us as individuals whether we want to be a light in that darkness, or be a contributor to the darkness. Human bei...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) In this week’s episode, I am joined again by my friend Dan Garscia of FAIR Twin Cities. We’re shaking things up a little this week and doing things a bit different. Some current events have been on my mind as they are quite divisive, bringing out the hate in a lot of folks, so I’ve asked my friend Dan to join me for a co...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) I'm sure you've heard the phrase, and it may sound cliche, "Don't be mad that it's over, be glad that it happened." Now, quite often this is said in regards to a relationship that has ended,  but this is not one of those times... This week I was devastated by some revelations having to do wi...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Are we able to manifest the life we truly desire by having the right mindset? For some, this may be hard to believe, yet there are others that are sure of it, because they are living it. I say it in every episode, "Make each and every day the day that you want it to be". This is, in fact, what I am saying with...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) It is a well known problem in the course of discussions, especially when someone is having a discussion with someone with whom they disagree, that they spend more time listening with the intention of responding rather than with the desire to truly understand. I am fully aware, and can readily admit that I am personally g...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Have you ever wondered how to have a meaningful conversation with someone with whom you disagree vehemently on a particular topic? Do you have family members that you disagree with politically, and cannot have a conversation without things becoming heated and toxic? What if there were a book that could teach you "Ho...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Have you ever heard someone use the phrase, "Correlation does not equal Causation"? More importantly, have you ever taken the time to think about what that means? Quite often there are those on social media, in the main stream media, or opportunist politicians that love to take a situation, ignore all variables...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) As many of the regular listeners know, I love organizations that are all about bringing people together, promoting unity and community while also recognizing that we are all individuals with our own thoughts and ideas. This is why I truly adore and respect organizations like FAIR (Foundation Against Intolerance & Rac...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) We as a society cannot be expected to bend reality in order to accommodate those who lack the ability to accept reality. We also must acknowledge that truth, no matter whether it offends me, you, or anyone else, is still the truth and by inhibiting one's ability to speak the truth, it does not make it any less true....

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) I often say that it's unfortunate that those who know the least tend to say it the loudest. Social media, the main stream media, and politicians who would rather be in front of a camera or a microphone have proved this for us time and time again. As our next guest phrased it very well, "the internet ecosystem a...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Have you ever stopped to really think about what the root cause of racism is? Politicians at every level, and those in the media, now more than ever before, speak in platitudes about race, finding new ways to interject race and racism into every story and topic, but do you ever hear them present real solutions that speak...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) In this short video Daryl Davis talks about the very first time he experienced racism. Daryl Davis joins Wilk for a discussion on the Derate the Hate podcast to discuss, racism, and how he made it his goal from a very young age to learn what makes people hate others because of their skin color. This clip is just a small...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) One of the greatest problems we face in the battle we are fighting against woke culture and the perpetual victim mentality is that not enough young people are getting involved in a meaningful way. Striving for a more meaningful and civil discourse among those who have differing thoughts and opinions is not particularly f...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) One of the reasons I do this podcast is to help others that are getting, or have become discouraged. My primary reason for doing the DTH podcast is to Better the World, One Attitude At A Time. I believe the best way to do that is to tame the toxicity in our public discourse through individual accountability and having a...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) "Don't just go through life, GROW through life". That is a phrase I had not heard before, but recently I found out about Haran Singham and his group, "The Happiness Mission" . That phrase means a lot to me, because I have much personal experience in that arena. As I look back on my life, I see a...