Arroe Unplugged Page Two Thousand Three Hundred Eighty Nine Vocal De Frag

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. Hey,
this is aro and this is vocal dfrag.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Vocal D fragging is asking yourself the questions and questioning
the answers.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I do it in two different places.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I have a vocal D frag journal that I've been
keeping since November of twenty seventeen, and then I decided,
wait a second. When I go to those pages, it's
the interpretation of what I put on a page. I
assume I know what the writer was going through. So
therefore I wanted to one up the game. I want
to hear the pitch, volume of tone. I want to

(00:37):
hear the emotions of the person. Now what we're doing
here is not vocal D fragging. This is this is
a lesson. This is like going to martial arts class
and you're sitting inside my dojeong and we're going to
learn how to do a vocal D frag so that
you can find out more about you and your journey
growing forward.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
This is vocal D frag.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
This came to me in the most odd ball but
unexpected way in how life happens. I've been injured to
the point to where I can't use my left arm.
Not at this time. I'm in physical therapy, I'm going
to the doctors. I'm doing everything I'm supposed to be doing. Everything,
muscle relaxes, the whole works. And my neighbor yesterday, showing

(01:17):
absolutely no compassion for the fact that I could not
raise my arm, literally looked at me and said, admit
that you're old and grow with it. Let's stop right there.
Admit that you're old and grow with it. That's a
tough place to hang your hat. And the reason why

(01:38):
is because we do everything we can to stay away
from this thing called old. Now, my mother and father,
they were very active, but I never heard them say
they were old. Even my grandparents, and I was blessed
with three different grandparents because that's what a split family does.
But I never heard them ever say they were old.

(02:01):
How do you define old and what is old? Because
I hear a lot of twenty one year olds say
that I'm old at twenty one year old. At twenty one,
there was fire underneath my feet and I wanted to
make it big in the broadcast industry. It didn't play
out the way I wanted it to. But it doesn't
mean that I'm old. How do you define the word old?

(02:22):
I came across a really interesting quote that really got
inside my heart today, and the quote was old is
a gift.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Not everybody gets to do it. WHOA, WHOA?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Take ten steps back, please, Old is a gift, not
everybody gets to do it. Suddenly you have a reflection
on your personal life of all the people that you
have known, friends, family members that didn't get the opportunity
to find this thing called old. So you sit back

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and you go so, if this is a gift, what
can I do with it? How can I learn from it?
More importantly, how can I teach from it? Going to
the doctor, one of the things that they give you
is this huge booklet that explains everything that's going wrong
and what they're going to do to help you get

(03:20):
it right. But the thing that stood out the most
out of all of these things that I was taking
as negative, because you know, when you can't use your
left arm, how do you put on your shirt?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
How do you hold your hair back? Those little ties?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I've got long hair, I admit it, it's not gray.
So I don't see myself as being old, and yet
my neighbors said, admit that you're old and.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Grow with it. Wow.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Is that where the change of life begins to happen?
Because everything I've ever learned about the change of life
or a grumpy old man's syndrome is based on that.
We basically compare our lives to who we used to be.
And in the rules of getting old, that's one of
the very valuable things you should never do is say, well,
when I used to be able to stand on my head,

(04:09):
when I used to do this, when in fact, you
focus should be on when I do do this. When
we get the time, and that time is right now,
we're going to build this, We're going to explore this,
We're going to find ourselves in a place a victory
because old it's a gift. Not everybody gets here. So

(04:32):
I ask again, what is your definition of old? Your
old job? You want it back for what reason? What
was it that you wanted to experience over and over again,
when in fact, the majority of us bitch and moan
about having that old job, and you want to go back.
Here's one that I'm putting a lot of interest in

(04:52):
especially since I watch a lot of cooking shows, those
old family recipes. Gordon Ramsay and others on the flat
screen TV are saying, yeah, that's cool, but take what's
old and make it new, make it your own. I
think that's what I've done with podcasting is the fact
that I was playing by the old rules of radio broadcasting,

(05:15):
where they were telling me what to do, how to
do it, where to be, how to dress, how to
look at the world through their research, and all of
a sudden, as a podcaster, I'm going I'm taking this
brilliant old idea, this connection to listeners, this opportunity to
be with real people, always.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
On the goal.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
But I want to take an old idea and I
want to make it new. I ask you again, what
is the definition in your life of what old is?
And how can we turn this gift in life being old,
because not everybody gets to do it, turn it into
a positive so that you can grow with it. Ask

(05:55):
yourself the questions and question the answers. I'm arrow, and
that's vocal, frag