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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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When you truly take the time to listen to people speak,

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they come across as a broken record. That's how my

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father used to describe his children. Every day, our conversations

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were constantly filled with things that we thought that we

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needed in our life, and he would say, stop sounding

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like a broken record. Breaking the Habit requires awareness and

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inner strength to tell those that we're talking with to

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stop talking about the same subjects every day. When I

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go into the essential job, I do some show prepping.

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I really do, and I think it's the radio guy

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in me, but it's also the human being in me,

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someone who doesn't want to sound like a broken record.

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So I go over the news headlines, what's going on

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in the sports world, the weather forecast, and entertainment news,

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just so I don't come across as that broken record.

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One of my co workers, Ryan, not so much. It's

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the same aim questions over and over again. It's almost

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like he wants me to rewrite the story. And then

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there's Dave who can't stop asking me why I feel

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no need to return to terrestrial radio. Those people on

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the outside don't understand the business as I experienced it.

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Dave is a broken record? What about you? Are you

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a broken record? Am I a broken record? Probably? Probably

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in this day of turntables making a huge comeback, the

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music has got to change. Hey, it's arrow. This is

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the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world.

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I am a daily writer. I'm also the silent wolf.

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I sit on the edges and I just watch, I listen,

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I study, I show prep so I don't have to

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be a broken record. This is the daily Mess. Oh,

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there's a lot of promising going on these days. Promise

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this promise. That promise isn't a positive word in my

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life and style, so much so that my wife and

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I we didn't use the word promise in our wedding

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vows thirty one years ago. We guaranteed each other that

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we would never use the word promise. As of late,

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I keep hearing so many people whip out their promises,

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whether it's a politician a religious leader. The word is

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put into play because it's so easy to use, and

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it has a way of calming anxiety. How do you

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react when a car salesman leans across that large wooden

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table and says, we promise to help make this a

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great experience. That's usually when I sit up straight and

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start listening for things that are going to go wrong. Recently,

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a rep from an appliance store was saying promises a

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little bit too much. When it came to pay for

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the item, he looked across that computer and he suddenly says, oh,

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I know, I promised you that we could have this

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delivered tomorrow. It looks like it's not going to be

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able to make it to your house for another week.

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And the icemaker, I know, I promise to put that

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in there. The one we have doesn't come with an

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ice maker or the capability of having one. Breaking a

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promise habit. See, the thing is it starts with stop

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accepting the promise as a word, because promises are easily broken.

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Guarantees come with a warranty. I'm eryl, and that's the

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daily mess