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Speaker 1: Call it what it is. Creativity is an addiction unplugged

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because we will always say yes to creativity, totally uncut

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because we all make mistakes. So turn it into a tool.

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This is arrow unplugged. If you don't know it already,

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I am the king of awkward dreams. No day or

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no night passes that I'm not stepping into a mentally

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designed crazy dream. I mean, last night's adventures dealt with

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selling our home of thirty four years, but it came

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with one strict stipulation. Because I've written seven books during

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these thirty four years inside this beautiful home in South Charlotte,

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North Carolina. The new owner had to be a writer

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or an author, and I I had to enjoy their

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expressions put on a page. That's what was going on

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in this dream. The reasons for such a request or

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demand was pretty simple inside my creative heart. The reason

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why is because I've never believed that I am the

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writer or the author. This forest is speaking and it's

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just moving through me. I wasn't the first author to

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stand in these very tall grasses overlooking Carolina born trees

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and a stream leading to a lake. It was by

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calling in this dream to do all I could to

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locate another author. It had to be somebody of creativity

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who was going to live on this lay of land,

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a place where the sources of energy are endless, and

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it's brought to us by this forest. And then I

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woke up. And the reason why I woke up was

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because I heard myself physically say, this home isn't up

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for sale. Dude, you're in a dream. Hey, it's harrow.

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This is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through an

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everyday world. I am a daily writer, taking notes the

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things that we go through, move through, the things we fear,

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we question. But why aren't we talking about it with

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the inner core of who we are. Oh, we'll brag

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about it on social media and we'll post things for

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other people to see wherever we travel. But when it

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comes to having a real physical relationship with the intercore

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of who you are, h I ain't going there, but

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I do. This is the daily Mess. As an everyday,

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average normal person, I have spent a lot of time

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wondering about the true effects of what's going to happen

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to the future of television and movies in America during

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this current writers and Actors' strike. Now the main issues

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at hand are the residual payments and AI technology, And

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as a podcaster, I totally get this. One report claims

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that three billion dollars has already been lost due to

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this strike. The human mind and heart relies so much

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on entertainment without new attractions, do the Internet sensations get

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bigger and better than what they already are? Will there

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be a sudden resurgence of reality shows, you know, cooking, sports, survival.

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I truly support the purpose behind the strike. How can

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fans and followers, though, help out the cause? Here's what

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it hit my heart. Is it considered crossing the picket

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line If we continue to binge watch TV shows that

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are available, and or go to movies in theaters, Are we,

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the fans and followers, breaking the rules? Some would say, no,

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you're not breaking the rules because you're not part of

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the union. The union means they are united as one

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and they are supporting as one to get residuals as

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well as get AI under control. But as a fan

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and follower, I do feel like that we are giving

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into the movie companies when we do go to the theaters.

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But the human mind needs entertainment. I know this for

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a fact. Because during the lockdown in September of twenty twenty,

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we were four months into it, I was freaking out.

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I needed to be with people, So I took up

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a job at a grocery store just so I could

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be entertained by other people. And I truly believe inside

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my soul the funniest, greatest people on the planet are

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those who go shopping. You can be anybody in the

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political world, in the movie world. You can be an author.

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You can be just someone who has lived the life

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and come walking into a grocery store as a normal

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everyday person. But what's so fascinating about that is that

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we all carry with us stories, and everybody loves to

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share their stories. So I ask, during this writer and

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actors strike, where is the next form of entertainment going

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to come up? You can come into my grocery store.

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We'll hire you right on the spot. But is that

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the kind of entertainment you're looking for? These Internet sensations

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are making millions of dollars while the actors are making

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eh with those residuals. How can the fans and followers

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support the actors and the writers so that our lives

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and their lives can unite, Now, that's a union that

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will work. I'm Arrow, and that's the daily mess.