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Speaker 1: I live a lifestyle where I openly admit that creativity

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is an addiction. Unplugged because we will always say yes

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to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. So

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let's turn it into a tool. This is Arrow unplugged.

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Just looking at this studio, I wish I could invite

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you over and explain all the stuff that's inside this studio.

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I'm seeing all of these Mick Fleetwood style hats to

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my left. Why would I keep something like that? Well,

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because when I've performed on a live stage, They've been

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a part of it, and I'm just that guy. It

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was part of my stage. Therefore, I'm going to keep

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it because what I may need it. I may need

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it for the future. You like me. It's like it's

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like I have this roll of toilet paper in here.

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I may need it. Well, I will need it because

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you know I've got allergies. I live in the South.

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We're constantly blowing our snases. I have an arrow bobblehead

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over here that was given to me while I was

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with the Pam Stone Show. I don't know why I

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still have it. It looks like me. It bobbles its

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head like me. I don't know, trophies for employees of

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the years. There's so much in this studio. But the

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thing about it is is that it brings energy. In fact,

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right over here to my left is a gigantic wall

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plaque that was on my wall when I was with

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iHeartRadio and it was autographed by so many famous people

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who came onto my shows. And here's the cool thing.

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But at the same time we're in the emotional state

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of this cool thing. We're doing the Swedish death cleaning.

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That's when you turn to your children and you say, hey,

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when we passed, do you want this? No, throw it away?

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Throw it away. And so we're not into this studio yet.

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We're still underneath the house and we're in the garage,

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and we're at that emotional stage where you're going, oh god,

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I still have connections with that, and you've got to

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make your way through it. It's a very very tough journey.

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And when we get to this studio and these Mick

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Fleetwood style hats have got a go oh boy, that's

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a podcast all its own. M As my grandma Dobrins

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would say, Hey, Saro, this is the Daily Mess, A

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chronological walk through an everyday world. This room a daily mass. Yeah,

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I am a daily writer. I've been doing it since

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July of nineteen ninety four. There's a lot to be

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learned when you allow the universe to move through. You

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just shot it down because you may not need it now,

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but you're going to. That's why I always do whatever

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I can to invite you to write your thoughts. This

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is the Daily Mess. I shared a conversation with a

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guest yesterday about how we define what a weekend is.

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So I ask you, what is a weekend to you?

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Before the COVID lockdown, Friday's led to Saturdays. Welcome to

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the weekend, right because we got used to being at

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home Monday through Thursday, many people have rearranged their lives

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today to take a mid week weekend. I'm guilty of this.

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Our weekend actually starts on a Monday, and if I'm

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hired to do a live performance on a Friday or Saturday,

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I'm going to have a weekend with an extension to it.

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I was reshaped during the COVID lockdown. Is that a

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lack of business loyalty? I remember my day's in terrestrial radio,

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where a weekend was just one day off. I mean

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we work six back to back days, eight to ten hours.

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No questions ever asked. So what is the definition of

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a modern day weekend? If you're days off a week

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are two to three days apart, that's not a weekend.

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Can some people live like this? Or do we need

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to realign the way that we define what a weekend is?

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This life in the post COVID world is all about

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get what you can because tomorrow it may not be there.

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There are no guarantees. And we learned that in March

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of two twenty what is a weekend? And because we

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are taking weekdays off and they're not together, or your

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boss man has giving you a Monday and a Friday off,

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can we really say it's the weekend. Now here's how

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we tried to make it happen. I told you that

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we usually start our weekends on a Monday and it

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goes through a Wednesday. And we thought, okay, wow, we're

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going to go camping and be at these beautiful places

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of nature when there's hardly anybody around Monday through Wednesday.

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But the problem with that is is that our other

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positions in life are other jobs. Because we like to work,

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we really do. We have a lot of fun things

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going on. The world doesn't work Thursday through Sunday. Major

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league businesses work Monday through Saturday or Monday through Friday.

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So these jobs that we do, they expect us to

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be there Monday too, Tuesday or Wednesday. So the days

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that we call a weekend really aren't a weekend at all.

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They're just another work day. I'm not the only one

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who's going through this. There are a lot of people

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who have redesigned their lives with several different part time jobs,

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or just several different jobs, or just having one job.

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But you have to break up your days off, and

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it's hurting us mentally because I don't know about you,

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but having one day off, you didn't give me a

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chance to even rest. Because on the days off, aren't

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you just running around trying to catch up? Yeah, gotta

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get the tire fixed, got to go to the doctor,

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the dentist. We gotta go this, we got to go that.

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And if you've got kids, you've got soccer games, you

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got baseball, you got basketball. Oh wait a second, we've

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got ballet and it's supposed to be your day off.

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So what are you using for a mental day off?

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Can you do it in one day. I can't. I can't,

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which is one of the reasons why I do everything

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humanly possible to find meditation, prayer, or just give me

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enough time to write. I don't care what I write about,

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just let my imagination rest. Where are you at, how

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are you dealing with it? I'm Marril, and that's the

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daily mess.