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.
Let's be honest here. Okay, anybody who gives you just
enough attention to find interest in what you're doing, be
it a hobby, be it your job, be it something
that you just want to explore. To find somebody to
be truly interested in what you're doing can be a long,
long process, and when you do, you try to explain
it in a way that kind of dummies down the
conversation because if you were to bring your entire self
into it and why you've got this strange passion to
bring these things to life, they're gonna go a, I
don't get it, I don't get it, and they end
up going Okay, at least I ask, but I have
no idea where you are. And that has happened to
me so many times when it comes to the subjects
of podcasting. If you don't live the life, if you
don't listen to podcasting, if you are not part of
that circle, it can be something that is very, very
difficult to truly understand because there are so many moving
parts that have all got to come together to create
a connection not between me and the podcast, but me
and you. Now, how do we grow from this? Heyt Zero?
This is the daily Mess, the chronological walk through an
everyday world. I am a daily writer. I am the
silent wolf. I sit beneath the brush of the trees
and I just watch life. You learn from things when
you have the patience to just watch and then do
a little bit of research, dig in and find out
why is it this is happening? It creates a greater,
better conversation. This is the daily Mess. I did do
it yesterday. I made the attempt to explain to a
coworker how time isn't important in the world of podcasting.
He's going, do you try to break the latest news?
Are you like releasing everything so that people can be
in the moment? And it's like, well, it doesn't work
that waycause because I could talk about this gigantag movie
opening up for the weekend, and by the time a
listener receives that episode of the podcast, that movie premiere
could have been one week ago, a year ago, maybe
even a decade ago. Here's a good example, I was
blessed to speak with one of country music's biggest legends,
Roy Clark, in the year two thousand, fourteen. Nine years later,
it's still getting a huge amount of listens. Those receiving
aren't thinking, wow, that sounds like twenty fourteen. I often
wonder if we should practice this more in our everyday society,
spending less time mile marking our experiences and just going
with the flow. It's completely one hundred percent natural to
use music as a free ticket to ride, to allow
your thinking and other motions to go back into those
days that we always called the good old days. Well,
here's the challenge. Don't go back allowed the those old
songs to have your present day experience. So many people think,
how is it, How is it you don't act like
you're an old man? Because I don't believe I am,
even though the numbers say, yeah, you're an old guy.
But the way I think and the way that I
lived my life, I take those old songs and I
give them new experiences. I don't sit around saying, man,
back in nineteen seventy seven, oh my god, you should
have seen the world. Back then, they were wearing bell
bottoms or even today, that's one of the biggest things.
I'm in a mile market right now. One of the
biggest fashion statements in twenty twenty three is the return
of the bell bottoms. Now here's where I've made my
mistakes in trying to build a conversation around today's bell
bottoms versus the bell bottoms that we had in nineteen
seventy five nineteen seventy seven. See, back then we were
writing Stingray Bicycles. We had ten speeds, we were always
on that bike, and we wore our bell bottoms, and
what would happen The bell bottoms would get caught up
in the chain. Now, have that conversation with somebody wearing
bell bottoms today, they look at you and they go, huh,
I don't get it. The reason why you don't get
it is you just told me you don't ride a bike.
But in nineteen seventy five we did. Everywhere every kid
had a bike. So when I say that, when I
made the attempt to explain to a co worker what
podcasting was all about, it's the same thing about having
a conversation with somebody who's wearing modern day bell bottoms.
Try to explain to them what we did right or
wrong back in the seventies compared to how they're designed today.
And it's what exactly, And so that's why I say,
let's take the old songs and give them a new experience.
Don't rely on your past to become your legacy. Let
your now be the story writer. I'm Arrow, and that's
the daily mess.