This is the voice of the report of the week signing on. You know when it comes down to topics, there is an entire hierarchy of things to talk about.

There are some topics out there which, granted, aren't very serious. You have some topics

that are very, you know, in the moment, best way to put it, where it may be one of those discussions

that works out best when talked about immediately, but let's say six months from now, just doesn't work out perhaps it's focused

on a current event or something that is more relevant now than it was or will be

weeks or months going forward.

And then you have evergreen topics.

And I mean that's how I think of them.

You know there's always a term of course in journalism that mentions evergreen stories

things that work out and are applicable at any given time. That means it would pretty much work today.

We've worked a year ago, two years ago, or two years from now, etc, etc.

And I've never been a fan of the term evergreen.

Because the way that I've always seen it

is it almost undermines any sort of potential seriousness that the topic would have to offer.

It's kind of like, well, it's just one of those boring, useless, innocuous things that can work anytime.

Something for a rainy day, right?

When you have nothing better to share, just throw in an evergreen story.

That's just sometimes an attitude that I see toward it, not always, but it's just something that I've certainly seen myself. And as a result of that, I've never been a fan of that name, because like I said, I think it just detracts from it, to be quite honest.

But in short, this is an evergreen topic, and it's one that I've talked about before and one that I will most likely talk about again at some point in future programs

Because to be honest I find it so important that whether you've been listening for the first 10 minutes and you are a brand new listener, or whether you've been listening for years.

This in my eyes anyway is one of those topics that I think all of us, myself included, need a refresher course on, because I think it's one of those things

that's important in life. And those things that are very important in life, there is nothing

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