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Speaker 2: Hey Zaro, And this is vocal d fragging. Vocal d

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fragging is taking the time to get to know who

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you are as a person.

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Speaker 1: Do you do that?

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Speaker 2: I mean, how old are you really? Seriously do you

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feel old? Do you feel crumpled up? Do you feel used?

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Do you feel like you're not getting anywhere in life?

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Have you ever asked yourself questions? And then you know

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kind of question the answers that you gave yourself or

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are you pretty much which typical like everybody else? And

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you run to bosses, friends, psychologists, psychotherapists, doctors and other

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people to give you the answers that you don't want

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to put your energy into You don't want to invest

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in the answer, because what happens if you're wrong? I mean,

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we tend to forget that life is all about that

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being wrong. That's where you learn, that's where you grow,

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That's where the sunshine comes from, or that ray of

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light that gives you the inspiration to try, try, try again.

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But you've got to ask yourself the questions and then

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question the answers. I call it vocal d fragging. I

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also dfrag in a journal, which I've been doing since

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November of twenty seventeen. My god, we're about ready to

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answer twenty twenty six. So nine years of asking questions

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and questioning the answers has been in front of me.

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And the only reason why I went into a vocal

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dfrag is because I can go back to that writing

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anytime and it becomes the interpretation of the moment of

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now and not the interpretation of the moment that it

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was felt lived out. So therefore, when you vocalize your

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questions and then question your answers, man, you can't change pitch, volume,

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and tone. It's documented inside this digital device, which probably

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will scare the crap out of a lot of people

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because it's like, oh my god, it's my voice. I suck. Yeah,

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you suck. We all suck. Just get over it. Okay,

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you're never going to like your voice. You're never going

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to like anything that you truly say. And if you do, okay,

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tell me the path that got you there to where

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you finally became satisfied with the victory that you had

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in your personal life. I mean, seriously, be honest with yourself.

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Where along the way did you find your victory? And

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in that process of a victory, how many times did

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you swing at that ball and you struck out? See

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it's part of the process of not just growing up,

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but growing wiser. This is vocal deep ragg This eftic

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this week actually came to me late late last night

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as I was wrapping up a full day of creativity,

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and that usually means that I was probably defragging. And

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the thought that came to me was time to pull

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it off the highway and allow the mirages to pass.

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I want to say that one more time, because I

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really wanted to sink inside your mind, body, and soul.

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Time to pull it off the highway and allow the

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mirages to pass. Now, instantly, I took it as being

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the message I'm supposed to give to the fourteen year

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old creative self that I was in Billings, Montana who

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wanted to have a radio job as his career. He

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didn't want to be the architect anymore. He didn't want

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to sit there and mess around with being a school teacher.

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He thought, radio is my life. I've been trying to

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do something with it in my bedroom since the mid

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part of the nineteen seventies. I want to do radio

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as a profession. This is the fourteen year old in Billings, Montana. Now,

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at sixty three, people will say, forty six years of broadcasting,

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what are you going to retire? My reply has always

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been a very calm. I don't know how to tell

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the fourteen year old who is still living in Billings, Montana,

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that I am hanging up his dream because I'm not.

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But yet this quote came to me. Pull it off

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the highway and allow the mirages to pass. So my

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d fragging today was based one hundred percent on one thought,

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what in your life do you think is a mirage? Okay,

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you're going to have to put on your own shoes.

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You cannot wear the shoes of those that inspire you,

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to influence you and or give you empowerment. You got

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to put on your own shoes and answer this question.

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What in your life do you see as a mirage

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and why aren't you letting it pass. I grew up

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in the state of Montana, and one of the things

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that I saw a lot of while we were out

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there on those long ass highways going up to Bear

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Lake or Cooney Dam, or going down to Sheridan, Wyoming

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to be with family, is that when it's hot out there,

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you see a lot of mirages right there on the horizon.

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And Mom used to joke around all the time saying,

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you can never catch up to a mirage. And I

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pretty much said, I'm going to change that. I'm going

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to change the fact that we can touch the mirage

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and we can become something from that mirage. I will

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allow that mirage to serve as the purpose to plan,

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the idea, the gift of the presence of now, because

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I see it right now. Therefore it must be something

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that I can utilize as a tool right now. And

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then how can I teach everything that I learned from

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that mirage now? I don't know if I was just

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full of crap or what I was thinking when I

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was that age up there in Montana. But right now

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at sixty three, I'm really looking at this quote. Time

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to pull it off the highway and allow the mirages

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to pass? Is that my answer for the fourteen year

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old kid and building's Montana? What's your answer? Because I'm

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still trying to figure out what in your life do

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you see as a mirage and is it time to

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allow it to pass? Did my father ever pass a

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mirage on a highway? Here's a thing. I never looked

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behind the vehicle to see if that mirage was ever

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behind us. Do you see what I mean? Did we

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ever pass the mirage? A mirage is usually right there

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on the horizon in front of us. So therefore, what

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was the writer putting on the page last night through

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methods of defragging, and what was he trying to say?

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Pull it off the highway and allow the mirages to pass?

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I'm asking you what mirage is? Do you have in

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your life that you need to allow to pass you?

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And if they do pass you, do they serve as

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an inspiration? Because I just mentioned this not even two

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or three minutes ago. That mirage is to me where

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I'm going to reach it, going to find out what

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that mirage is about. I'm going to teach it. I'm

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going to incorporate it in other people's lives. So I

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bring it back to you again only because I like

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using examples so that people can grow from the paths

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that we've already walked upon. And did we pull it

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off the highway and we're allowing the mirage to pass us?

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Does a mirage physically exist? One of my podcasts, which

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is called stream Thinking, I will sit there and say

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before I jump into the story, it's time to believe

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in the mirages. It's time to trust the mirages. It

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is time to grow with the mirages. Does that mean

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that you're going to become a mirage? I don't think so.

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There's a lot more to you than that. And the

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reason why is because in reality, when you look up

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the word mirage, it is something that exists. You can

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see it right there in front of you. But if

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you touched it, have you learned from it? Have you

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heard from a mirage? What is a mirage in your

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personal life? And how can you grow with it? And

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why would that fourteen year old kid in Willain's Montana

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tell his mother that I am going to reach that

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mirage and then I'm going to teach it, pull it

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off the highway and allow the mirages to pass. It's

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a heavy thought, but do you see yourself in that

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mirage or the reality of the moment? Ask yourself the

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questions and then question the answers. I call it defraying.