Speaker 1: Call it what it is. Creativity is an addiction unplugged
because we will always say yes to creativity, totally uncut
because we all make mistakes. So turn it into a tool.
This is arrow unplugged. If you don't know it already,
I am the king of awkward dreams. No day or
no night passes that I'm not stepping into a mentally
designed crazy dream. I mean, last night's adventures dealt with
selling our home of thirty four years, but it came
with one strict stipulation. Because I've written seven books during
these thirty four years inside this beautiful home in South Charlotte,
North Carolina. The new owner had to be a writer
or an author, and I I had to enjoy their
expressions put on a page. That's what was going on
in this dream. The reasons for such a request or
demand was pretty simple inside my creative heart. The reason
why is because I've never believed that I am the
writer or the author. This forest is speaking and it's
just moving through me. I wasn't the first author to
stand in these very tall grasses overlooking Carolina born trees
and a stream leading to a lake. It was by
calling in this dream to do all I could to
locate another author. It had to be somebody of creativity
who was going to live on this lay of land,
a place where the sources of energy are endless, and
it's brought to us by this forest. And then I
woke up. And the reason why I woke up was
because I heard myself physically say, this home isn't up
for sale. Dude, you're in a dream. Hey, it's harrow.
This is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through an
everyday world. I am a daily writer, taking notes the
things that we go through, move through, the things we fear,
we question. But why aren't we talking about it with
the inner core of who we are. Oh, we'll brag
about it on social media and we'll post things for
other people to see wherever we travel. But when it
comes to having a real physical relationship with the intercore
of who you are, h I ain't going there, but
I do. This is the daily Mess. As an everyday,
average normal person, I have spent a lot of time
wondering about the true effects of what's going to happen
to the future of television and movies in America during
this current writers and Actors' strike. Now the main issues
at hand are the residual payments and AI technology, And
as a podcaster, I totally get this. One report claims
that three billion dollars has already been lost due to
this strike. The human mind and heart relies so much
on entertainment without new attractions, do the Internet sensations get
bigger and better than what they already are? Will there
be a sudden resurgence of reality shows, you know, cooking, sports, survival.
I truly support the purpose behind the strike. How can
fans and followers, though, help out the cause? Here's what
it hit my heart. Is it considered crossing the picket
line If we continue to binge watch TV shows that
are available, and or go to movies in theaters, Are we,
the fans and followers, breaking the rules? Some would say, no,
you're not breaking the rules because you're not part of
the union. The union means they are united as one
and they are supporting as one to get residuals as
well as get AI under control. But as a fan
and follower, I do feel like that we are giving
into the movie companies when we do go to the theaters.
But the human mind needs entertainment. I know this for
a fact. Because during the lockdown in September of twenty twenty,
we were four months into it, I was freaking out.
I needed to be with people, So I took up
a job at a grocery store just so I could
be entertained by other people. And I truly believe inside
my soul the funniest, greatest people on the planet are
those who go shopping. You can be anybody in the
political world, in the movie world. You can be an author.
You can be just someone who has lived the life
and come walking into a grocery store as a normal
everyday person. But what's so fascinating about that is that
we all carry with us stories, and everybody loves to
share their stories. So I ask, during this writer and
actors strike, where is the next form of entertainment going
to come up? You can come into my grocery store.
We'll hire you right on the spot. But is that
the kind of entertainment you're looking for? These Internet sensations
are making millions of dollars while the actors are making
eh with those residuals. How can the fans and followers
support the actors and the writers so that our lives
and their lives can unite, Now, that's a union that
will work. I'm Arrow, and that's the daily mess.