Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Hey, Sarah, hyness is vocal d frag. Vocal d fragging
is an opportunity for you to ask yourself questions and
then question the answers, getting to know who you are
by way of building a strong relationship required for those steps,
those misguided falls.
Speaker 3: Asking questions so that you.
Speaker 2: Can better prepare your mind, body, and soul to be
able to handle things that are being delivered to you daily.
When I go out in one of these vocal d frags,
I'm walking through a forest. I call it a transition walk.
I'm here to listen to the atmosphere of everything that
is right now. It could be the hawk that flies
over my head every freaking time I come out here.
It's like, dude, do you need a friend? Why don't
you come sit beside me sometime and have a conversation.
Don't be zooming buy me at all times. So asking
the questions and questioning the answers can be, you know,
kind of stupid, Like when you first start doing a
vocal d FRAG. Now I also do a d FRAG journal,
which I've been doing since November of twenty seventeen, asking
those questions, getting to the point, and then taking that
point and say, you know what, You're not a point,
You're a dull edge.
Speaker 3: I need to ask more questions. This is vocal d FRAG.
Speaker 2: One of the things that's pretty heavy on my heart
today is something that happened yesterday. My wife and I
do a lot of things for the community. We were
raising some funds. Did you hear it the hawk? Did
you hear that? I'm telling you, man, every time that
little bugger flies across and he's gonna sit here and
soar buy us over and over again. Anyway, my wife
and I, we do a lot in the community to
help raise funds for different nonprofit organizations. Go into those
projects with our music expecting to make nothing. I want
that to kind of soak in a little bit. Okay,
how often in your everyday walk do you go into
a place of performance. Be it that you're a boss
at a job, an employee that just wants to empower
others to be lifted, going into a performance expecting to
make nothing. So heavy thing to carry because we live
in the society these days that I ain't doing it,
not unless there's something in it for me, I ain't
doing it. We've all played that card. Sometimes we have
a victory with it. Other times it's like, well, man,
that guy's a jerk. Don't work with him.
Speaker 3: He's a jerk. There's always got to be something in
it for him. What are you giving.
Speaker 2: Today that you're not expecting a return on your investment?
And if you don't yet a return, you're okay, right,
you're right. I mean, you went to work, you listen
to people that stepped in there as your guests. They
needed to be uplifted and they didn't. They didn't leave
you a tip. But you feel good, right because you
made their day. There's a big thing that's going on
right now here in the States, and that is an
article that says that people are tired of giving tips.
People are tired of rounding up at the register. People
are tired. You got something. The very fact that you
are there and they did bring you something opens up
your heart to maybe you give something. At my essential job,
I take our guests to the bananas they can't find,
or to the peanuts to the frozen section that they
can't seem to find those little barbecued ribs. They can't
find it. So with a big smile, we take a
walk and I show them more. It's at Do I
deserve to receive a tip? No, because I went into
it expecting to receive nothing. I don't know if I
ever shared this on vocal d frag before, but usually
when somebody who plays the lottery gives me a tip,
I keep that money in my wallet. And the reason
why is because there's always going to be a guest
who's a couple dollars short and I'm there, so I
keep the tips so I can give it back to
the community. When I went into this past week, I
didn't expect to get tips. What I expected was to
get closer to my community because I make it a
physical effort. It's all part of that game sharing and taking.
Are you receiving or are you taking? Because you expect
to get this from your return. When I go into
a broadcasting school and I share the lessons that I
have carried with me for nearly forty four years, I
don't go in there expecting them to take things because
I'm not a very good teacher. When people take things,
I like to share ideas, share experiences, share visions, listen
to their visions, and then share even more. It's not
that I'm preaching, because I don't preach. What I do
is I share, and so in the process of sharing,
it becomes my goal to share with them. Don't be
a taker, be a receiver. Be grateful for what you're receiving.
And the thing is is that what you're receiving in
this class today is never going to be what someone
else received because I grow from each class, and with
each receiving, you carry a story, one that's yours.
Speaker 3: I don't train you to be me.
Speaker 2: I know what I went through, and I'm going to
do everything I can to keep you out of hell
going into a project or a performance without expectation. Do
you have the courage and the confidence to begin a
lifestyle like that that? When you receive money from out
of nowhere, have you thought about just putting it away
for somebody else who needs to receive? Being kind, being peaceful,
being somebody who cherishes their community. I'm on a path
in a forest. It's already eighty one degrees. The sun
is bright, there's light, clouds, in the sky and Jazzy
and I we're currently looking at three deer on the hillside. Oh,
she's locked in on them. Beautiful. They're eating the leaves
off the tree. They got to eat too. You see,
I went into this forest not to get something back
from it, but what I'm receiving is nature. It's a
place of peace, mindfulness, being grateful for all the hell
that it's taken to help keep this force alive. You
got to prune. We've been doing that now for two weeks.
You got to keep it looking good because the animals,
they don't need to be tripping. I don't want to
see a deer with a hurt foot because well I
was too damn lazy to pick up the log, the
fallen tree, going into things without expectation. This may make it,
it may not. It has to go through one hell
of an editing process that takes physically a lot of weeks.
Because when we listen to it again, if I'm not moved,
nor will you be? Or is that expecting a reaction
from you?
Speaker 3: Question it? Then question the answers him ryl and that's vocal.
D Frank