1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:08,240 yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. 3 00:00:08,679 --> 00:00:12,039 So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,640 Oh my god. The excuses that people use to keep 5 00:00:16,719 --> 00:00:20,399 themselves from having to go into work absolutely no different 6 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:22,640 than what we used to share with teachers when they 7 00:00:22,679 --> 00:00:26,280 said where's your homework? At the dog ate it? I 8 00:00:26,399 --> 00:00:27,960 lost it in the mud. I didn't want to bring 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,320 it in here. But I've never heard of the one 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,320 that came up to me yesterday. I can't come into 11 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:37,560 work today because my car has a flat tire. Okay, 12 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,479 now here's the thing. Instantly I could have had a reaction, 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,840 and not a positive one at that, But I'm trying 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,439 to understand the current situations of this modern day world. 15 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,759 The reality of that person saying my car has a 16 00:00:52,759 --> 00:00:57,439 flat tire. Where I planted my heart was, oh my god, 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,600 we're there. Everyone can afford a brand new tire lit 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,719 alone just getting it fixed, because if you show up 19 00:01:05,719 --> 00:01:07,920 at some tire place, they're going to charge you an 20 00:01:08,079 --> 00:01:10,519 arm and a leg. And especially if you have to 21 00:01:10,599 --> 00:01:13,719 buy a tire, a pre owned one is going to 22 00:01:13,799 --> 00:01:16,079 cost you seventy five to one hundred and fifty bucks. 23 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,400 So in reality, my reaction to the person saying my 24 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,040 car has a flat tire was, oh, my god, I 25 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:26,519 am so sorry that you're going through this. If you 26 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,239 don't have the money to fork out to fix a tire, 27 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:34,519 where are we growing as a generation? Now? Here's the thing. 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,959 I had to google the subject the craziest excuses that 29 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,359 people use to not have to come to work. Here's one. 30 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,760 My cat is caught in the dashboard of my car. 31 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:48,000 I do not want to start my car. My parakeet 32 00:01:48,879 --> 00:01:50,760 it's got the flu. I think I need to be 33 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,159 here with my parakeet. The roots of my true hair 34 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,319 color are showing. I can't put myself out there. You 35 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,640 don't need to know what the roots of my hair color. 36 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,439 It is. The universe is talking to you, and you 37 00:02:04,519 --> 00:02:08,319 decide to stay home so you can receive it. Now. 38 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:10,159 Am I guilty of this kind of stuff? Of course 39 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:13,680 I am. My excuse and I usually do this a 40 00:02:13,719 --> 00:02:16,680 month or two months out, and in some cases it's 41 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,319 been almost a year out. Because I am an entertainer. 42 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,280 When my stages are calling me, I have to show up, 43 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:25,360 and I've got to place myself there and I come 44 00:02:25,439 --> 00:02:30,680 up with one thing. I am not available. Now that's 45 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:36,120 not an excuse. I'm just telling you I am not available. Hey, serol. 46 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,080 This is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in 47 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,280 everyday world. I am a daily writer, a silent wolf. 48 00:02:43,199 --> 00:02:46,560 It is my calling to just observe life, to be 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,639 able to listen, to write notes, to become a student 50 00:02:50,759 --> 00:02:54,360 of life as well as a teacher, to create conversation. 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,800 This is the Daily Mess. You know you're old when 52 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:06,319 dot dot You know you're old when most of the 53 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,800 time that statement is associated with the music that you're 54 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,919 listening to. Be it that you're not old enough to 55 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,560 listen to what I'm listening to, or I am too 56 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,680 old to listen to your modern school. The other day, 57 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:21,000 I brought up the TV show Scrubs and how it's 58 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,919 made its way back to digital television. The twenty year 59 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,960 old co worker gave me the most odd ball look. 60 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,879 I followed with, you know, Zach Braf, Zach Braff is 61 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:36,199 in Scrubs. This was it? An empty expression, lit up 62 00:03:36,199 --> 00:03:39,360 his continuation of not knowing what I was talking about. 63 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,919 When Zach Braf makes you feel old, it makes you 64 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,919 want to reevaluate what you're watching on television. Now, I'm 65 00:03:48,919 --> 00:03:52,199 not watching the sitcom based on reliving my past, but 66 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,639 rather finding amazing interests in some of the best television 67 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,719 writing in entertainment. The same is almost true when I 68 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:03,599 taped into Johnny Carson on the HD antenna. I'm not 69 00:04:03,639 --> 00:04:07,639 there to watch Johnny Carson, but rather to try to 70 00:04:07,639 --> 00:04:09,599 figure out what the hubbub was all about. Why do 71 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,240 they look at him as being one of the greatest 72 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,800 of all time. I didn't live it, but at least 73 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,279 I'm trying to be the student to understand it. I 74 00:04:17,439 --> 00:04:21,040 just want to see what the stink has always been 75 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,920 about when it comes to Scrubs, when it comes to Frasier, 76 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:27,959 when it comes to Friends. I'm still not a Friends fan, 77 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,360 and I feel like that whoa dude, whoa what is 78 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:38,839 your situation? Buddy? You know you're old When dot dot 79 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,560 dot take away the music, take away the entertainment on television? 80 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:45,519 What's going on in society that makes you feel like 81 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:50,079 I just no longer fit in? And why don't you 82 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,720 fit in? There are many times that I have to 83 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,079 explain to my wife it's not that we're old, we 84 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,439 just want to be the cool people that happen to 85 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,600 have some experience. We want to be those that want 86 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:02,759 to go out and have a great time with any 87 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,759 generation without any type of judgment. We just want to participate. 88 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,680 What makes us old is when your body says it's 89 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:13,399 time to go home at eight thirty or nine o'clock 90 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:17,279 and they're just getting the party started. You know you're 91 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,519 old when what a great writing subject for you to 92 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,920 even begin a writing journey, Not to sit there and 93 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,879 make fun of yourself or to downplay your ambitions in life, 94 00:05:29,959 --> 00:05:33,879 but to understand your evolution, to see what you've experienced 95 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:37,279 versus what you don't want to go through because you think, well, 96 00:05:37,319 --> 00:05:43,519 I'm old, No you're not. Life is beginning every single day. 97 00:05:44,199 --> 00:05:48,399 Take that step, I'm arrow, and that's the daily mess.