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The Daily Mess Why Are People Still Trying To Do Radio Plus Inside Gordon Lightfoot · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I really do love it when people say, your podcast
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  Speaker 1: is all over the place. You're not focused. I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly the way that we lead our lives, right?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing today versus what you did yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: How about five minutes from now? How about in maybe
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of an hour to three days? We're all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. So why shouldn't your podcast? It's about
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  Speaker 1: your taste. Arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy your exploration. There are 21
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  Speaker 1: different podcasts to explore. Now, It's time for you to
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  Speaker 1: accept the journey and go grow forward. Hey, it's me,
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  Speaker 1: the question guy. You know, the dude that's always asking
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  Speaker 1: questions about things in life and where am I going
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  Speaker 1: to go to find the answer to this one? Here's
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  Speaker 1: a question for you. If terrestrial radio is constantly accused
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  Speaker 1: of being on its last breath, why are people still
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  Speaker 1: trying to play the radio game? Plus, Gordon Lightfoot. Why
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  Speaker 1: did this singer-songwriter out of Canada always have two microphones
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  Speaker 1: with him on stage? My name is Arrow. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: daily writer, a silent wolf. I stand on the sidelines
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  Speaker 1: and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate. I
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  Speaker 1: happen to call it the daily mess because it's a
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  Speaker 1: chronological walkthrough in everyday world. It is my daily writing.
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  Speaker 1: As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people
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  Speaker 1: tend to throw things to the side because we think
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  Speaker 1: we're going to deal with it later on. When a
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  Speaker 1: subject arrives inside of me, dude, it's time to dig in.
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  Speaker 1: It's still keeping that daily journal, but by doing the research...
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  Speaker 1: I know the picture is always going to become clearer.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Daily Mess. Radio people, and I'm one
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  Speaker 1: of them, so I can say it. Radio people getting
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  Speaker 1: fired is far from being something new to the industry
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  Speaker 1: with its ultimate heroes and long-term connections to the community.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter anymore. Why do people still try to
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  Speaker 1: land a radio job, Dan, on iHeartRadio 1 or another
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  Speaker 1: system of broadcasting? You ready for this? It's 100% based
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  Speaker 1: on love. Their fingers are deeply dug into the veins
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  Speaker 1: of their current broadcasting career, hoping that the shrinking radio
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  Speaker 1: industry in America doesn't force them into a moment of
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  Speaker 1: having to recover from being cut loose. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a genuine love for radio as a whole. How did
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  Speaker 1: they even get to this level of the performance? It's
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  Speaker 1: called dreams. The majority of all radio people or speaker
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  Speaker 1: jockeys truly have this love for radio. It's a real,
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  Speaker 1: honest to God, I'm slipping away from life, nothing is
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  Speaker 1: more important, love for radio. Radio of any generation, especially today,
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  Speaker 1: craves the radio fulfillment. It wants your writing, your audio skills,
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  Speaker 1: your voice on air passion. No matter how many unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: radio people have been sent packing the industry as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: it's still being loved like that of a drug dealer
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  Speaker 1: taking care of its addicts. It's like, I got your
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  Speaker 1: fun over here. Come on over here. Because here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: The majority of us would do anything we can to
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  Speaker 1: sit in that chair and wrap a pair of earphones
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  Speaker 1: around our head. In a broadcaster's life and heart, there's
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  Speaker 1: always that slim chance that you could be the next it.
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  Speaker 1: Build it and the listeners may come. You better sit
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  Speaker 1: down and have a real conversation with a real broadcaster. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: coming up next, why did Gordon Lightfoot have two microphones
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  Speaker 1: with him up on stage? Hey, welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: Daily Mess. Why did singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot have two microphones
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  Speaker 1: with him up on stage? I've been in the third row.
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  Speaker 1: I've also been in the final row. Those two microphones
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  Speaker 1: were always present on Gordon Lightfoot's live stage. I was
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  Speaker 1: shocked to learn that it isn't about using his voice
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  Speaker 1: technique by way of using two microphones shooting through a harmonizer. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: This stretches all the way back to the 1960s. It
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  Speaker 1: actually separates independent audio feeds. The house system PA picks
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  Speaker 1: it up, then sends it out in the way of
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  Speaker 1: giving off a reliable microphone splitter. The second microphone usually
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  Speaker 1: went back to a broadcast truck, meaning it was being recorded.
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  Speaker 1: Having two microphones up on that stage was usually very expensive,
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  Speaker 1: and wow, so many engineers did not trust it. But
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  Speaker 1: it served as a practical way to capture a clean
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  Speaker 1: recording without messing up the main live microphone mix. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a fail-safe backup in case the microphones failed, which I
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  Speaker 1: have personally experienced up on that live stage. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I totally get it. As for my feelings of Gordon
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  Speaker 1: Lightfoot hooking his vocal cords up to a harmonizer, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a myth, and it's totally not true. Gordon Lightfoot
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  Speaker 1: never used a harmonizer or vocal effect. Raw, organic, and unaltered.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the thing. His band members didn't have microphones.
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  Speaker 1: They always stood with him. Gordon Lightfoot wanted nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with vocal track manipulation. I'm Errol, and that's The
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  Speaker 1: Daily Mess.