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Shout Shout Let It All Out Roland Orzabal From Tears For Fears Welcome To Your Life · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Unless you're an avid listener of podcasts, it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a crazy idea. Somebody creating a network of choices when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to podcasting? Really?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How many times have you been locked in traffic or
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  Speaker 1: at work and you're going, I don't want to hear
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  Speaker 1: about the news. I'm tired of true crime. I need
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  Speaker 1: just a break, but I also need a story. I
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  Speaker 1: need something to get inside. Well, it's called arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net.
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  Speaker 1: 21 different podcasts to choose from without having to go
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  Speaker 1: to Google or go to Bing and sitting there going,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's on here. I think it's on here.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's on here. Well, yes, you can. Arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E.net.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Rowan, I got to tell you, thank
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  Speaker 1: you from the very beginning. The reason why is because
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  Speaker 1: when you guys first popped onto the music scene, I
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  Speaker 1: was in AM radio, and we had many meetings about
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  Speaker 1: you guys in Tears for Fears because we knew that
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  Speaker 1: you were going to save us. We needed whatever we
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  Speaker 1: could get to have that moment of just hanging on
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  Speaker 1: as an AM radio station. So this is a full
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  Speaker 1: circle moment for me. Thank you for helping to save
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  Speaker 1: my early days of radio.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome. I never, ever saw myself as a savior,
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  Speaker 3: but now you mention it, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the journey that you have taken, and first of all,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have something in common. We love the stars.
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  Speaker 1: I follow the stars. I listen to the stars. I study.
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  Speaker 1: I do everything. And it's like I really do base
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  Speaker 1: my life on what's going on above us. And it
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  Speaker 1: fascinates me that you're the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of.
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  Speaker 3: I don't actually live by it, meaning I don't see
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  Speaker 3: where the planets are and decide to do something or
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  Speaker 3: not do something.
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  Speaker 2: I use it as a toolkit.
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  Speaker 3: Of self-analysis to try and understand what is going on
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  Speaker 3: inside me and to understand the changes that are occurring
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  Speaker 3: in the real world and the changes that are occurring
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  Speaker 3: inside of me as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's almost like I was recently out at
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  Speaker 1: Cane Creek and we had four planets that were lining
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  Speaker 1: up that night. And of course I wrote about that
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  Speaker 1: because that's and I just feel like there's something hidden
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  Speaker 1: away there for the creative mind, because as creative people,
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  Speaker 1: we are connected to a universe that most people don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: We're connected. I don't like using the word universe. I
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  Speaker 3: like using the words solar system.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Because we are connected to that system because we are
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  Speaker 3: inside it, and it's strong enough to create life as
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  Speaker 3: we know it, which some people may see as being
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  Speaker 3: completely accidental. I think it is part of an organic
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  Speaker 3: process called that the solar system is really like a
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  Speaker 3: holistic entity in itself. And we are merely part of
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  Speaker 3: it the way that cells are part of our body.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's really fascinating, Roland, is the way that
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  Speaker 1: you can't take a camera and capture the essence of
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  Speaker 1: that solar system above us. But boy, when you listen
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  Speaker 1: to a piece of music, that right there puts it
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  Speaker 1: right there inside our heart and our imaginations. It just
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  Speaker 1: fascinates me what writing does compared to a photograph.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: I think that there are, I mean, you know, you've
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  Speaker 3: heard of that saying, the music of the spheres. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there are harmonies being produced all the time by the
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  Speaker 3: planetary bodies. And there is also discord. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that part of us really, really tunes in to that,
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  Speaker 3: that mood music, if you.
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  Speaker 1: Like, So now when you write a book called Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Your Life, Love, Death, and Tears for Fears, Julia
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  Speaker 1: Cameron will tell you that's what she calls cleaning out
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  Speaker 1: the closet. Did it open up your imagination and your
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  Speaker 1: creative soul in the way of saying, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go look at new things because this old stuff is
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  Speaker 1: now in a book and it's gone. So do you
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  Speaker 1: feel refreshed and replenished?
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  Speaker 3: That's an interesting question, you know, um, While I am
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  Speaker 3: promoting this book and talking about it, I get very
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  Speaker 3: sad sometimes about what's happened in my life, some of
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  Speaker 3: the more unfortunate things.
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  Speaker 2: And so in a sense.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of like re-traumatizing myself, but I'm hoping, I'm
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  Speaker 3: kind of hoping that, yes, it does clear the decks
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  Speaker 3: and it becomes like a, you know, stage that I can,
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  Speaker 3: for the future that I can build upon.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. We'll be right back with Roland Orzabal
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  Speaker 1: from Tears for Fears coming up next. The name of
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  Speaker 1: the book, Welcome to Your Life, Love, Death, and Tears
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  Speaker 1: for Fears. We are back with Roland Orzabal. Well, what
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  Speaker 1: I love about your book is the fact that you're
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  Speaker 1: open and honest because I've always believed that creativity is
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  Speaker 1: an addiction and there's not enough creative people that are
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  Speaker 1: openly stepping forward. Your book is such a fabulous tool,
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  Speaker 1: but it also gives us the opportunity to explore newer
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  Speaker 1: ways to live.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I don't really know what people
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  Speaker 3: are going to take from it, but I'm hoping, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's an element. The reason it's called Welcome to Your
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  Speaker 3: Life is and not welcome to my life is because
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping it's kind of like a self help book
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  Speaker 3: as well. And I'm hoping that people will use this
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  Speaker 3: to make sense of what is going on in their life,
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  Speaker 3: which a lot of the time is difficult. Um, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, you, it helps, I think, to realize that
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  Speaker 3: you are a character in a story. So I, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I wrote the book that has a narrative arc. It
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  Speaker 3: starts with the death of my wife and it ends
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  Speaker 3: with the birth of my daughter. Um, I realized when I.
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  Speaker 2: Wrote it, I thought, well, this is a story. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a story.
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  Speaker 3: I was the main character and I'm hoping that other
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  Speaker 3: people will read it and they'll think, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: I am a character in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But who, who is the narrator? Who is the, who
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  Speaker 3: is the author? So if you can then just try
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  Speaker 3: and elevate yourself to the role of author, even if
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  Speaker 3: it's for five minutes, you could step outside of your life.
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  Speaker 1: You are so spot on because I looked it up going,
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  Speaker 1: do I have multiple personalities? And it said, no, you've
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  Speaker 1: got multiple roles in a story. You are so spot on.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great way of putting it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you create music while you were writing? Because my
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  Speaker 1: past two books, I had to go into the recording
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  Speaker 1: studio because I just felt alive as the words were
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  Speaker 1: popping out. What about you? Did you go into that studio?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was, well, it was last year, and
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  Speaker 3: my wife Emily was pregnant with Eula, and that gave
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  Speaker 3: rise to a lot of creativity, and I wrote about
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  Speaker 3: nine songs.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Last year, it was a very productive period. And
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  Speaker 2: that was going on while I was writing.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about this
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  Speaker 1: book and your journey? And I want them to really
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  Speaker 1: step into your process of really studying the solar system
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  Speaker 1: because it's up there and we're ignoring it right now. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to Mars. We're going to moon. No, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more up there than that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is because, you know, this is the difficulty
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  Speaker 3: I think that most people have. They see the planets
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  Speaker 3: up there and us down here. They think we're neutral
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  Speaker 3: and that everything is going on outside of us. But
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  Speaker 3: the fact is we are made from the same stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We are made from underlying principles, the principles that have
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  Speaker 3: created the planets. They came first. They are part of us.
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  Speaker 3: So what's going on inside of us? you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: this saying as above, so below. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think, don't think of us as, don't think of
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  Speaker 3: it as us. And then just think about it as us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: That is so beautiful. Please come back to this show
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  Speaker 1: anytime in the future. The door is always going to
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  Speaker 1: be open for you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You be brilliant today. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.