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Vocal De Frag Episode 219 The Old Man And Woman With A Blanket On Their Feet · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Arrow, and this is Vocal Defrag. Vocal Defragging
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  Speaker 2: is asking yourself the questions and questioning the answers. Having
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  Speaker 2: the courage and the confidence to be able to stare
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  Speaker 2: at yourself in the mirror or to just be sitting
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  Speaker 2: in a frumpy old man or old woman's chair. The
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  Speaker 2: blanket is over your feet, and you're saying, I'm tired
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  Speaker 2: of this world. And then that other side of your
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  Speaker 2: subconscious mind goes, really? You're not as old as what
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  Speaker 2: you think you are. How can you be tired of
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  Speaker 2: a world that's always evolving? Where can you fit in? See,
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  Speaker 2: we quit thinking like that because everything has been handed
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  Speaker 2: to us over the past 25 or 30 years. And
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  Speaker 2: so therefore, when it comes to actually doing something in
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  Speaker 2: life that would uniquely put us in a position of
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  Speaker 2: personal growth and outreach and activation, We're choosing instead to
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  Speaker 2: sit on the sofa like an old man or old woman,
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  Speaker 2: the blanket on our feet. See, that's what I envisioned
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  Speaker 2: my grandma Dobrins was doing her entire time, because that's
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  Speaker 2: how I saw her as a kid. Every time we
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  Speaker 2: visited in Sheridan, Wyoming, it was always my grandmother sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the same chair with the blanket on. on her feet.
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  Speaker 2: Except I haven't talked about the sounds that my grandmother
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  Speaker 2: used to make. It would be a ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, not like
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  Speaker 2: a Santa Claus. It would be like she's just yawning,
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  Speaker 2: as if to be taking on God to say, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: I've put in some time here. I went through World
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  Speaker 2: War I, World War II. I've been through the recessions.
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  Speaker 2: I've been through so much change, Lord. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to rest. Now, here's the thing. Growing up in Billings,
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  Speaker 2: Montana and seeing my grandparents in Sheridan, Wyoming, I never
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  Speaker 2: even thought about when you reach a certain age, that's
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  Speaker 2: all you want to do. You want to rest. That
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  Speaker 2: maybe you need to be sitting on that chair like
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  Speaker 2: an old man or an old woman with a blanket
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  Speaker 2: on your feet. You got to ask yourself the questions
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  Speaker 2: and then question the answers because you've learned so much
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  Speaker 2: in so very little time that the fact of the
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  Speaker 2: matter is, is that it's test time. And maybe nature
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  Speaker 2: is saying, so how much do you really know? How
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  Speaker 2: much did you pick up? Are you in harmony with
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  Speaker 2: where you're going to be growing next? Or are you
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  Speaker 2: going to challenge this as well? That's an interesting question.
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  Speaker 2: Because where are you on your map? It's not my map.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not wearing your shoes. And you wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 2: wear my shoes because I don't like to wear socks.
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  Speaker 2: And my shoes stink. They do. I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: Because you know what? That tells my subconscious mind I've
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  Speaker 2: been walking through a forest. I've been taking a walk.
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  Speaker 2: I've been working out. I've been creating sweat. I've been
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  Speaker 2: doing something. Accomplishment, recovery, replenishing, influencing. You see what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It's all around us. But do we sit in those
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  Speaker 2: chairs as old men and old women with the blanket
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  Speaker 2: on our feet? And let me tell you something. You
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  Speaker 2: notice I haven't said anything about an age. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: drawing this picture of an image of an old man
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  Speaker 2: and an old woman, because each and every one of
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  Speaker 2: us know somebody, or we have said it ourselves, between
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  Speaker 2: the ages of 18 and wherever my mother would be today,
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  Speaker 2: we will sit there and say, I'm getting too old
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  Speaker 2: for this. You're getting too old for what? Life? I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so. I can sit here and look at
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  Speaker 2: a tree that is three and four times older than me.
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  Speaker 2: There is a doe That is currently on the path
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  Speaker 2: walking straight for us right now. What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Now there's a second go. You don't think I instantly
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  Speaker 2: just became a child? Do you see what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It is a matter of choice. I could be an
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  Speaker 2: old man all day. Look at you. What are you
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  Speaker 2: guys doing? Holy cow. What's got you? No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on. Don't chase her. But all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: now I've gone from being a child who was giggling
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  Speaker 2: to a very concerned adult wondering why the deer... are
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  Speaker 2: running toward the human. It's almost they've got fear in
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  Speaker 2: their eyes. And so you learn to ask the questions
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  Speaker 2: and question the answers. And part of that process of
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  Speaker 2: discipline is looking at the everyday world and still having questions.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just about you, but for a strong, strange
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  Speaker 2: moment there, it now included two deer that were looking
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  Speaker 2: straight into my soul with unbelievable fear in their eyes.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I'm not the old man or
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  Speaker 2: the old woman sitting on a chair with a blanket
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  Speaker 2: on my feet. Now it's become a decision of concern
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  Speaker 2: to figure out what is going on in this forest
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  Speaker 2: for these deer to have so much fear inside their
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  Speaker 2: mind and coming to the guy that would do nothing
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  Speaker 2: to bring any harm to them. That was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of words. That was a lot of thoughts. Did you
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  Speaker 2: get any of it to put in your notes? All
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  Speaker 2: you can do is laugh about it. Just as much
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  Speaker 2: as I laugh. at being an old man or an
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  Speaker 2: old woman sitting in a chair with a blanket on
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  Speaker 2: their feet. I refuse to act my age. And I
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  Speaker 2: guess maybe that's the lesson. And the way that I
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  Speaker 2: get beyond those challenges and changes of the everyday world,
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  Speaker 2: we're all going to die eventually. We just don't know how.
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  Speaker 2: Ask yourself the questions and question the answers. I put
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  Speaker 2: it in a journal. Because I want people to find it.
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  Speaker 2: I want people to learn from it. It's the same
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  Speaker 2: thing as a vocal defrag. Someone's going to find it
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  Speaker 2: long after I'm gone. But because I was able to
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  Speaker 2: stare into the soul of those two deer that were
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  Speaker 2: coming out of the forest with fear in their eyes,
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  Speaker 2: maybe there's a lesson that I wasn't supposed to learn,
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  Speaker 2: but rather it was meant for you. Ask yourself the questions,
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  Speaker 2: question the answers. I call it vocal defragging. I'm Arrow.