The Village Oak Tree

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. In the last week, the United States has started to become that pariah state I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Between publicly coming out and lying about a murdered young woman being a domestic terrorist, declaring the ICE agent who shot her immune from prosecution, before the ev...

Authors warning: Today’s episode of The Priest has adult language. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me again this week. With all of the drama from Trump’s military operation last weekend going on, let’s talk a little bit about the repercussions that few are talking about in the main stream media. I also want to offer up a brief look...

A word of warning. Today’s chapter of The Priest has adult language in it. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Welcome to the last podcast for 2025 I want to talk about something that’s barely registering in the news these days. That’s this current Super Flu, H3N2, that’s now widespread across the country earlier than normal. The n...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. As we come to the close of another year, according to the Roman calendar, I’m hearing more and more that people are suffering from burnout. A burnout caused by sensationalist news media that hits us every waking moment of our lives nowadays. We’re tired of hearing about economies failing, hearing...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This is another one of those weeks when I struggle to find something to talk about with all of you. There is so much flooding the media zone right now, that anything I say will sound like just another repeat of the talking heads on the telly. So, I’m going to talk a little about how the U.S. west...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I have so much going on this month, I’m having trouble keeping up, so I’m going to make this a short one this week, sort of. Lately, I’ve been picking up more and more IT gig work from this company I’ve been working for, for the last five years. They want me to take care of corporate computer ref...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I’m a bit angry these days as I watch everything collapse around me. I went to a Thanksgiving dinner party last Thursday at the behest of my wife and as usual, there was someone there whom I hadn’t met before, who just had to ask me about my life, just because I’m different, as in not Chinese. I...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I'm back and still wicked busy right now but I'm taking some time out from all of my projects to, once again, talk about what’s on my mind. The topics I have in mind are also probably on a lot of other people's minds as well as the country heads into what the retailers call the holiday season. As...

A word of caution. The reading of The Priest has adult language so be aware when listening to the podcast. Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I’m going to make this as short as possible this week as I have a lot of pressing things going on these days. I was contacted today by a IT staffing company that I occasionally do gig work f...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I’m going to take a break from most of the news this last week of the Celtic new year, what we in the Gaelic world call Oiche Shanhna (Ee-heh How-ná) or Samhain. I want to take this time to outline the future of this podcast going into my new year ahead. This is the time of year I typically make...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Over the last couple of weeks. I’ve given you a couple of long winded podcasts so this week, I’m going to give everyone a bit of a break. This one will be much shorter. I’m still going with this whole business of Trump’s personal militia, that call themselves DOH or Department of Homeland Securit...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Today, I’m going to talk about the failing economy, both here in the U.S. and in Europe, and what that may portend for the future. I am also going to talk about some dystopian fiction novels I’m reading to provide examples of what things could look like when things collapse, and they will soon. T...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Today, I want to talk a little about the history of rebellions from around the world, the looming hunger in the United States, the terrorism on display in Chicago, that maybe coming soon to your neighborhood, if you live in a democrat led state or city. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere co...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Where to start. It seems that every week, there is so much going on in the news, especially in the U.S, that I struggle to know where to start. This week, I am going to take us around the world a little bit to try and not talk about Trump so much. Trump just sucks the oxygen out of the air every...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. I the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder (I refuse to call it an assassination) and funeral, The United States has started becoming even more unraveled than before, if that’s even possible. It doesn’t help that they have a president who is actively helping to stoke those divisions as much as he can....

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. The United States and thew world, is at a crossroads and things are starting to get violent everywhere. I've decided to move away from this idea of the U.S. states seceding as it doesn't make economic sense. But changes need to be made if the U.S. is going to survive. The same can be said for Eur...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This week, we take this internal cultural and political division in the U.S. a little further, with the prospect of a split up of the states in the U.S., what that might look like and why that might not be a good idea. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I offer a gl...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This week, We're continuing about the extreme divisions between the different people in the U.S., and Canada, and what the ultimate outcome of what that will look like eventually if things keep going as they are. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable for a bit as I talk about the h...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This week, I'm going to continue talking about human nature, with a focus on the current authoritarian crisis in the United States and in Palestine. In this instance, the deliberate extermination of a people out of a sense of extreme tribalism. So, gather round, sit you down somewhere comfortable...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This week, I'm continuing what I started last week. I'm going to talk some more about humans and their innate ability to destroy nearly everything they come in contact with. I'm starting off with an expanded version of a blog article I wrote back in late 2022 about tribalism. It didn't get much t...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. A couple of weeks ago, an online friend from northern California wrote a short blog article wondering what north America might look like if the Europeans had never arrived. There was much online speculation about that, and I got the idea to explore that a little bit more. I had asked my friend to...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. This week, I want to ask what does a fascist United States looks like under Donald J. Trump? I offer a perspective that no one is talking about, that I think, based on his life so far, fits the narrative we're seeing to a tee. All I ask is that you listen with an open mind and think about this af...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. Firstly, I want to let everyone know that the experiment of posting one of my fictional Irish stories was a bust. Only a couple people liked it, and I lost two free subscribers over it so I won't be doing that anymore. I'll just save them for my next book. In the meantime, it's been a busy week a...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree I am your seanchaí, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for joining me. As I said last week, and in keeping with my theme of talking about the things that matter most to regular people, I have found some news articles that do have an impact on everyday life for most Americans. Today, I'm going to talk about the U.S. power grid. How it is set up across the country...

Fáilte Welcome to the weekend edition (maybe) of The Village Oak Tree. I decided to see about posting part 1 of a story I wrote a couple of years ago on my substack page, and I recorded an audio file as well. Which I'm adding here. I hope people enjoy it and reach out to me to let me know. If people like my stories well enough, I'll present some more. Thank you. I'll be back next week with my regu...