Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
When you truly take the time to listen to people speak,
they come across as a broken record. That's how my
father used to describe his children. Every day, our conversations
were constantly filled with things that we thought that we
needed in our life, and he would say, stop sounding
like a broken record. Breaking the Habit requires awareness and
inner strength to tell those that we're talking with to
stop talking about the same subjects every day. When I
go into the essential job, I do some show prepping.
I really do, and I think it's the radio guy
in me, but it's also the human being in me,
someone who doesn't want to sound like a broken record.
So I go over the news headlines, what's going on
in the sports world, the weather forecast, and entertainment news,
just so I don't come across as that broken record.
One of my co workers, Ryan, not so much. It's
the same aim questions over and over again. It's almost
like he wants me to rewrite the story. And then
there's Dave who can't stop asking me why I feel
no need to return to terrestrial radio. Those people on
the outside don't understand the business as I experienced it.
Dave is a broken record? What about you? Are you
a broken record? Am I a broken record? Probably? Probably
in this day of turntables making a huge comeback, the
music has got to change. Hey, it's arrow. This is
the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world.
I am a daily writer. I'm also the silent wolf.
I sit on the edges and I just watch, I listen,
I study, I show prep so I don't have to
be a broken record. This is the daily Mess. Oh,
there's a lot of promising going on these days. Promise
this promise. That promise isn't a positive word in my
life and style, so much so that my wife and
I we didn't use the word promise in our wedding
vows thirty one years ago. We guaranteed each other that
we would never use the word promise. As of late,
I keep hearing so many people whip out their promises,
whether it's a politician a religious leader. The word is
put into play because it's so easy to use, and
it has a way of calming anxiety. How do you
react when a car salesman leans across that large wooden
table and says, we promise to help make this a
great experience. That's usually when I sit up straight and
start listening for things that are going to go wrong. Recently,
a rep from an appliance store was saying promises a
little bit too much. When it came to pay for
the item, he looked across that computer and he suddenly says, oh,
I know, I promised you that we could have this
delivered tomorrow. It looks like it's not going to be
able to make it to your house for another week.
And the icemaker, I know, I promise to put that
in there. The one we have doesn't come with an
ice maker or the capability of having one. Breaking a
promise habit. See, the thing is it starts with stop
accepting the promise as a word, because promises are easily broken.
Guarantees come with a warranty. I'm eryl, and that's the
daily mess