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.
Oh my god. The excuses that people use to keep
themselves from having to go into work absolutely no different
than what we used to share with teachers when they
said where's your homework? At the dog ate it? I
lost it in the mud. I didn't want to bring
it in here. But I've never heard of the one
that came up to me yesterday. I can't come into
work today because my car has a flat tire. Okay,
now here's the thing. Instantly I could have had a reaction,
and not a positive one at that, But I'm trying
to understand the current situations of this modern day world.
The reality of that person saying my car has a
flat tire. Where I planted my heart was, oh my god,
we're there. Everyone can afford a brand new tire lit
alone just getting it fixed, because if you show up
at some tire place, they're going to charge you an
arm and a leg. And especially if you have to
buy a tire, a pre owned one is going to
cost you seventy five to one hundred and fifty bucks.
So in reality, my reaction to the person saying my
car has a flat tire was, oh, my god, I
am so sorry that you're going through this. If you
don't have the money to fork out to fix a tire,
where are we growing as a generation? Now? Here's the thing.
I had to google the subject the craziest excuses that
people use to not have to come to work. Here's one.
My cat is caught in the dashboard of my car.
I do not want to start my car. My parakeet
it's got the flu. I think I need to be
here with my parakeet. The roots of my true hair
color are showing. I can't put myself out there. You
don't need to know what the roots of my hair color.
It is. The universe is talking to you, and you
decide to stay home so you can receive it. Now.
Am I guilty of this kind of stuff? Of course
I am. My excuse and I usually do this a
month or two months out, and in some cases it's
been almost a year out. Because I am an entertainer.
When my stages are calling me, I have to show up,
and I've got to place myself there and I come
up with one thing. I am not available. Now that's
not an excuse. I'm just telling you I am not available. Hey, serol.
This is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am a daily writer, a silent wolf.
It is my calling to just observe life, to be
able to listen, to write notes, to become a student
of life as well as a teacher, to create conversation.
This is the Daily Mess. You know you're old when
dot dot You know you're old when most of the
time that statement is associated with the music that you're
listening to. Be it that you're not old enough to
listen to what I'm listening to, or I am too
old to listen to your modern school. The other day,
I brought up the TV show Scrubs and how it's
made its way back to digital television. The twenty year
old co worker gave me the most odd ball look.
I followed with, you know, Zach Braf, Zach Braff is
in Scrubs. This was it? An empty expression, lit up
his continuation of not knowing what I was talking about.
When Zach Braf makes you feel old, it makes you
want to reevaluate what you're watching on television. Now, I'm
not watching the sitcom based on reliving my past, but
rather finding amazing interests in some of the best television
writing in entertainment. The same is almost true when I
taped into Johnny Carson on the HD antenna. I'm not
there to watch Johnny Carson, but rather to try to
figure out what the hubbub was all about. Why do
they look at him as being one of the greatest
of all time. I didn't live it, but at least
I'm trying to be the student to understand it. I
just want to see what the stink has always been
about when it comes to Scrubs, when it comes to Frasier,
when it comes to Friends. I'm still not a Friends fan,
and I feel like that whoa dude, whoa what is
your situation? Buddy? You know you're old When dot dot
dot take away the music, take away the entertainment on television?
What's going on in society that makes you feel like
I just no longer fit in? And why don't you
fit in? There are many times that I have to
explain to my wife it's not that we're old, we
just want to be the cool people that happen to
have some experience. We want to be those that want
to go out and have a great time with any
generation without any type of judgment. We just want to participate.
What makes us old is when your body says it's
time to go home at eight thirty or nine o'clock
and they're just getting the party started. You know you're
old when what a great writing subject for you to
even begin a writing journey, Not to sit there and
make fun of yourself or to downplay your ambitions in life,
but to understand your evolution, to see what you've experienced
versus what you don't want to go through because you think, well,
I'm old, No you're not. Life is beginning every single day.
Take that step, I'm arrow, and that's the daily mess.