Arroe Unplugged Page Two Thousand Three Hundred Eighty Three Vocal DeFrag

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Creativity is an addiction. Unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity totally and kad because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is Erro unplugged, hey, Zaro,
And this is vocal D frag.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Vocal D fragging is asking yourself the questions and then
questioning the answers. It's not putting yourself on the spot.
It's just getting to know who you are. I do
it in a journal, which I've been doing since November
of twenty seventeen. And the vocal D fragging gives you
the opportunity to hear it in your voice, the emotions,
the pitch, the volume of the tone, which I think
is the greater tool because this way you can go

(00:33):
back in there and not interpret what you wrote, but
you can hear what you're speaking. This is vocal D
frag today. You know, it's kind of an interesting subject.
I can go in any direction because there's so much
going on in our world that we tend to set
things aside. I was talking to a very good friend
who happens to be a student in broadcasting, and he says, yeah,

(00:53):
I keep setting things aside and.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
From out of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I wrote back to him and said, the more you
set things aside, that box that you're putting it in
is going to get too full, and when you're gone,
only those that are here after you are going to
be able to sift through it. You've got to stop
setting things aside and start making the move. Make that
call now, Make that decision now, or it's going to

(01:18):
end up in that box and that box becomes two boxes, three, four, five, six.
And you know what, if you're still saying, well, I'm
just going to set it aside, then somebody else is
going to take your dreams, which they have no part
of that in walking your shoes, but here it is
everything that you wanted to accomplish that was set aside. Now,

(01:42):
the real subject of the story is is that the
story is always building.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
That's what the roots of all of this is about.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
The story is always building, and it's based on something
that I've personally gone through.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
For the past couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I've got a horrible amount of pain on the right
side of and being somebody who likes to seek solutions,
I'm trying to figure out what did I do? Was
I sleeping wrong? Is it my medicine, the statins making
my body ache? Did I lift something wrong? What did
I do? The more and more I defragged about it,
asking the questions and question and the answers. I realized

(02:18):
that this has been going on for a couple of weeks.
From washing the RV at the campsite, my little tiny
arms and that big, tall monster of an RV, to
chopping down trees this past week, replacing the jack on
the RV this past week, all heavy things, and now
throw in two weeks worth of working in retail, on

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your feet, lifting, doing things that are pretty much abnormal
to the human body. The story has been building. The
aches in your body didn't just happen because of right now.
The story has been building. So I ask you to
put that on your own path, the pains in your life.
It doesn't have to be physical, It doesn't have to

(03:01):
involve your muscles. But what about the journey that dream
that you wanted but you keep striking out? You keep
setting it in a box of one to three different places.
You keep doing things, but you don't finish them. It's
an idea that just sounded so incredible in the moment

(03:22):
of now, but you set it aside. The story has
been building. So every time that you teach yourself to
set something aside, oh, I'll get around to it one day,
and you never do.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
The story has been building. So I ask you what
story has.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Been building in your life that is keeping you away
from what you think in the moment could be the
happiest time of your life. I was in an interview
this past week. An entertainment journalist was asking me questions
about one moment on my path and broadcasting during these
forty four years. One moment, and it was about being

(04:02):
the host of this nationally syndicated radio show. And it's like,
I've got forty four years of experience and the only
thing that you're interested in is that one moment. And
I openly said in that conversation, I said, my greatest
moment wasn't receiving the letter from Los Angeles saying, hey,
look we have an opportunity here. My greatest moment was

(04:24):
realizing that I didn't get the job. That meant that
I didn't have to move. I didn't have to put
myself in a position of change because you know, I
don't know about you. I don't like change. But I
knew if I landed that job with a syndicated program,
I was going to have to leave this place where
my roots are. So it changed me in a way,

(04:47):
but it wasn't the real story. The real story was
I was in a lot of pain. But I've learned
over these years that that pain was actually the process,
meaning the sto has been building. That pain that I
had back in nineteen eighty eight seemed to be, Oh
my god, this is life changing. How could I have

(05:09):
ever allowed myself to do this to myself, because you know,
syndication is and was a big thing. How could I
put myself in a position where rejection was going to
do something? I did an ours show in New Orleans.
It failed tremendously, to the point to where I haven't
painted on a canvas ever since the rejection. So what

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happens is is that people want to know those moments
of struggle. They ask questions that get inside your mind, body,
and soul that sort of reverberate in ways that turn
you into someone who lives in the past, and you
start to realize the story has been building Again. I
turn it to you, what story is building and has

(05:54):
been building, that is keeping you away from who you
need to be. And really, all it's going to take
is you asking questions and then questioning the answers. But
don't be a parental figure. Don't sit there and discipline yourself.
I'm just asking you to ask the questions and question
the answers. It is a simple process. But most of
the time we don't like the answers that we get,

(06:15):
so we.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Try to rewrite them.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
We want to make them look really super cool and
make it look like that we've got things under control.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
But hey, the story is building, and one day you're
gonna look back and you're gonna say, that's not the
way it really was.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I was building the story, So ask yourself those questions.
I'm Marrow and that's focal.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
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