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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, I want to thank you for checking out the podcast,
- 0:01Speaker 1: but did you know that Arrow.net is a podcast network? Yeah,
- 0:05Speaker 1: when you get tired of listening to the rock stars,
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- 0:19Speaker 1: your exploration. Hey, it's Arrow, and this is Vocal Defragging.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Vocal Defragging is asking yourself the questions and questioning the answers.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Notice I didn't say asking your brother, asking your best friend.
- 0:32Speaker 1: I'm not saying don't ask a mental health expert, because
- 0:35Speaker 1: we all need some of that action sometimes. But the
- 0:38Speaker 1: thing is, though, is that we spend so much time
- 0:40Speaker 1: asking other people what we should do, what we shouldn't do,
- 0:43Speaker 1: that we totally forget about why we're even in this
- 0:46Speaker 1: position anyway. And most of the time, the information.
- 0:49Speaker 2: That we get is usually... I don't know. That's why
- 0:52Speaker 2: I'm coming and asking you. I don't know either. So
- 0:56Speaker 2: now you're stuck in the I don't know. But we
- 0:59Speaker 2: are the most educated and most brilliant generation ever in
- 1:03Speaker 2: the history of this country. And we have to run
- 1:06Speaker 2: to somebody to locate an answer about a personal decision?
- 1:10Speaker 2: I'm always reminded of Bruce Lee who used to tell
- 1:14Speaker 2: people that I don't let anybody know what I'm studying,
- 1:19Speaker 2: what I'm wondering about. What I'm worrying about, the reason
- 1:23Speaker 2: why is because it serves as a weapon for them.
- 1:26Speaker 2: You may not see it as a weapon, but it's
- 1:29Speaker 2: one of those, he said, she said, you said you
- 1:31Speaker 2: were going to do this. You told me in that
- 1:34Speaker 2: conversation that you were worried about this. Oh my God,
- 1:37Speaker 2: now you're on the defense. You got to protect yourself
- 1:40Speaker 2: with a subject that was supposed to be close and personal.
- 1:42Speaker 2: But now, because you passed it forward to somebody else,
- 1:45Speaker 2: He pretty much started the game called the telephone game,
- 1:48Speaker 2: where by the time he gets around the entire circle,
- 1:50Speaker 2: everybody's going to have your path all wrong. Ask yourself
- 1:55Speaker 2: the questions and then question the answers. This is Vocal Defragging.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Question today is, what are you doing with your story?
- 2:02Speaker 2: I know nothing about my mom and dad. So obviously
- 2:05Speaker 2: it must have been in their plans to basically just
- 2:09Speaker 2: take on life, enjoy the moment of now and leave
- 2:11Speaker 2: nothing behind for those that they brought into the world.
- 2:14Speaker 2: I don't know. There is no writing. There was no
- 2:16Speaker 2: storytelling that my mother would share. Every now and then
- 2:19Speaker 2: she might say, well, you know, when I was out
- 2:20Speaker 2: on the Powder River in Wyoming, or my father would
- 2:23Speaker 2: never talk about his journey at World War II, which
- 2:26Speaker 2: I understand because that's just what happens when you dedicate
- 2:29Speaker 2: your life to a nation and you're protecting our democracy
- 2:32Speaker 2: in this country. You just don't talk about it. But
- 2:35Speaker 2: my question to you is, what are you doing with
- 2:37Speaker 2: your story? I mean, you'll post it on social media sometimes.
- 2:41Speaker 2: You'll brag to your friends about what you did, what
- 2:43Speaker 2: you didn't do, what you want to do, and how
- 2:45Speaker 2: can we do this? You're asking those questions to them,
- 2:48Speaker 2: but you're not asking yourself, what are you going to
- 2:50Speaker 2: do with your story? Now, this is coming from somebody
- 2:53Speaker 2: who is a daily writer. I've been daily writing since
- 2:56Speaker 2: July of 1994. That's a lot of ink and a
- 3:01Speaker 2: lot of hardcover books that have all of this damn
- 3:05Speaker 2: chicken scratch in it. And the question is, what are
- 3:08Speaker 2: you doing with a story? Now, I have to face
- 3:12Speaker 2: that as a writer. I know the stories that I
- 3:14Speaker 2: share verbally on iHeartRadio, Spotify, and every digital platform that's
- 3:18Speaker 2: out there. But it's not the full story. It's the
- 3:21Speaker 2: digital story. The cut-up story. You thought Twitter was bad
- 3:25Speaker 2: when you could only use a few words a couple
- 3:27Speaker 2: of decades back? Well, how about you telling your own story?
- 3:35Speaker 2: And the person that's receiving it is going,
- 3:37Speaker 2: shut up, shut up, shut up. Please, please shut up.
- 3:42Speaker 2: But I'm asking you, what are you doing with your story?
- 3:45Speaker 2: Because somewhere along these steps, someone is going to ask,
- 3:49Speaker 2: what did they do? How did they react? If you
- 3:53Speaker 2: don't think that we're not educating the unborn future right now,
- 3:57Speaker 2: you're crazy. Because we are. What we're going through as
- 4:01Speaker 2: a generation on a global basis... is something that the
- 4:04Speaker 2: future is going to need. What are we going to do?
- 4:06Speaker 2: Rely on the government to share our story? Well, you
- 4:09Speaker 2: know how they've been, that crap. What are we going
- 4:11Speaker 2: to do? Rely on social media? Well, we go on
- 4:14Speaker 2: there to feel pretty. We go on there to put
- 4:17Speaker 2: this down and we'll put something so tragic down that,
- 4:20Speaker 2: oh my God, it's enough to depress any generation that's
- 4:23Speaker 2: up there in front of us. But it really wasn't
- 4:25Speaker 2: that bad, but it's being read as something that's bad.
- 4:30Speaker 2: What are you doing with your story? I'm a daily writer.
- 4:32Speaker 2: 34 years. What am I doing with the daily writing? Well,
- 4:36Speaker 2: I can tell you where it's going. It's not on
- 4:39Speaker 2: a podcast because I have to edit the hell out
- 4:41Speaker 2: of that stuff. And I do make it look a
- 4:43Speaker 2: little pretty sometimes. I'll get real, but how real is real?
- 4:47Speaker 2: What are you doing with your story? Are you even
- 4:50Speaker 2: writing a story? Are you leaving your legacy for somebody
- 4:54Speaker 2: to go through in the future? I don't want someone
- 4:56Speaker 2: to read my stuff in the future, people will say.
- 4:59Speaker 2: What I live through on this day is between me, me,
- 5:02Speaker 2: and me. Well, I'm asking that person, you, you, and you.
- 5:05Speaker 2: What are you going to do with your story? Were
- 5:07Speaker 2: you born to live in the moment of now and
- 5:10Speaker 2: not do anything about it and give nothing to the future?
- 5:13Speaker 2: Is that the way you were born? Not to sound
- 5:15Speaker 2: like your father or your grandfather. I don't know. None
- 5:19Speaker 2: of them left anything behind. I would love to look
- 5:22Speaker 2: at their handwriting. I would love to listen to their
- 5:25Speaker 2: voices again. Is that my fault for not pushing it
- 5:28Speaker 2: when I was a kid? I don't know. I just
- 5:31Speaker 2: know that whoever is in my sight is After I'm gone,
- 5:36Speaker 2: they got a lot of reading to do. Or is
- 5:38Speaker 2: that really what I want to do? And the answer
- 5:40Speaker 2: to that is no, that's not what I want to do.
- 5:43Speaker 2: What am I going to do with my story? I'm
- 5:44Speaker 2: going to put it in the ground. I have 34
- 5:46Speaker 2: years of the daily writing like I told you about.
- 5:49Speaker 2: Does it belong to anybody? No, it belongs to this forest.
- 5:52Speaker 2: It's going in the ground. So then what about the legacy?
- 5:57Speaker 2: That's the part I'm asking about when it comes to you.
- 6:00Speaker 2: What is your legacy? How do you want to be remembered?
- 6:04Speaker 2: And whatever age you are, and you should know this
- 6:07Speaker 2: by looking at social media or the old-fashioned newspaper, life
- 6:11Speaker 2: is very short. When you're gone, you're gone. But inside
- 6:17Speaker 2: your mind, don't you believe that you were supposed to
- 6:21Speaker 2: leave something here for the future? What is your story?
- 6:27Speaker 2: What is your purpose? I hear that all the time.
- 6:30Speaker 2: What is my purpose? What is my plan? Oh my God,
- 6:32Speaker 2: I don't know where I'm going. I'm going to have
- 6:34Speaker 2: to quit this job because it doesn't fit into my requirements.
- 6:38Speaker 2: I got to do this. I got to do that. Well,
- 6:39Speaker 2: why aren't you doing it? Maybe that's your story that
- 6:42Speaker 2: you spent an entire lifetime searching for happiness when in
- 6:47Speaker 2: fact it wasn't in that box of chocolates. It wasn't
- 6:50Speaker 2: in that favorite song, but it's right here inside your heart.
- 6:56Speaker 2: And did you listen to it or did you let
- 6:59Speaker 2: outsiders show you the way and you never found the
- 7:03Speaker 2: way Because you use their words and their directions without
- 7:07Speaker 2: using your imagination and God-given talent to be a visionary.
- 7:15Speaker 2: What is your story? Preserve it. Shove it in the ground.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Save it for a rainy day. What was the notebook
- 7:25Speaker 2: about the movie? Yeah, is that where you want to be?
- 7:28Speaker 2: It could be. It proved to be a very heartwarming movie.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Very sad, but but at least they knew where their
- 7:34Speaker 2: story was. What's your story? Where's it at? Ask yourself
- 7:41Speaker 2: the questions and question the answers. It's called vocal defragging.
- 7:45Speaker 2: My name is Arrow.