Speaker 1: I live a lifestyle where I openly admit that 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.
Just looking at this studio, I wish I could invite
you over and explain all the stuff that's inside this studio.
I'm seeing all of these Mick Fleetwood style hats to
my left. Why would I keep something like that? Well,
because when I've performed on a live stage, They've been
a part of it, and I'm just that guy. It
was part of my stage. Therefore, I'm going to keep
it because what I may need it. I may need
it for the future. You like me. It's like it's
like I have this roll of toilet paper in here.
I may need it. Well, I will need it because
you know I've got allergies. I live in the South.
We're constantly blowing our snases. I have an arrow bobblehead
over here that was given to me while I was
with the Pam Stone Show. I don't know why I
still have it. It looks like me. It bobbles its
head like me. I don't know, trophies for employees of
the years. There's so much in this studio. But the
thing about it is is that it brings energy. In fact,
right over here to my left is a gigantic wall
plaque that was on my wall when I was with
iHeartRadio and it was autographed by so many famous people
who came onto my shows. And here's the cool thing.
But at the same time we're in the emotional state
of this cool thing. We're doing the Swedish death cleaning.
That's when you turn to your children and you say, hey,
when we passed, do you want this? No, throw it away?
Throw it away. And so we're not into this studio yet.
We're still underneath the house and we're in the garage,
and we're at that emotional stage where you're going, oh god,
I still have connections with that, and you've got to
make your way through it. It's a very very tough journey.
And when we get to this studio and these Mick
Fleetwood style hats have got a go oh boy, that's
a podcast all its own. M As my grandma Dobrins
would say, Hey, Saro, this is the Daily Mess, A
chronological walk through an everyday world. This room a daily mass. Yeah,
I am a daily writer. I've been doing it since
July of nineteen ninety four. There's a lot to be
learned when you allow the universe to move through. You
just shot it down because you may not need it now,
but you're going to. That's why I always do whatever
I can to invite you to write your thoughts. This
is the Daily Mess. I shared a conversation with a
guest yesterday about how we define what a weekend is.
So I ask you, what is a weekend to you?
Before the COVID lockdown, Friday's led to Saturdays. Welcome to
the weekend, right because we got used to being at
home Monday through Thursday, many people have rearranged their lives
today to take a mid week weekend. I'm guilty of this.
Our weekend actually starts on a Monday, and if I'm
hired to do a live performance on a Friday or Saturday,
I'm going to have a weekend with an extension to it.
I was reshaped during the COVID lockdown. Is that a
lack of business loyalty? I remember my day's in terrestrial radio,
where a weekend was just one day off. I mean
we work six back to back days, eight to ten hours.
No questions ever asked. So what is the definition of
a modern day weekend? If you're days off a week
are two to three days apart, that's not a weekend.
Can some people live like this? Or do we need
to realign the way that we define what a weekend is?
This life in the post COVID world is all about
get what you can because tomorrow it may not be there.
There are no guarantees. And we learned that in March
of two twenty what is a weekend? And because we
are taking weekdays off and they're not together, or your
boss man has giving you a Monday and a Friday off,
can we really say it's the weekend. Now here's how
we tried to make it happen. I told you that
we usually start our weekends on a Monday and it
goes through a Wednesday. And we thought, okay, wow, we're
going to go camping and be at these beautiful places
of nature when there's hardly anybody around Monday through Wednesday.
But the problem with that is is that our other
positions in life are other jobs. Because we like to work,
we really do. We have a lot of fun things
going on. The world doesn't work Thursday through Sunday. Major
league businesses work Monday through Saturday or Monday through Friday.
So these jobs that we do, they expect us to
be there Monday too, Tuesday or Wednesday. So the days
that we call a weekend really aren't a weekend at all.
They're just another work day. I'm not the only one
who's going through this. There are a lot of people
who have redesigned their lives with several different part time jobs,
or just several different jobs, or just having one job.
But you have to break up your days off, and
it's hurting us mentally because I don't know about you,
but having one day off, you didn't give me a
chance to even rest. Because on the days off, aren't
you just running around trying to catch up? Yeah, gotta
get the tire fixed, got to go to the doctor,
the dentist. We gotta go this, we got to go that.
And if you've got kids, you've got soccer games, you
got baseball, you got basketball. Oh wait a second, we've
got ballet and it's supposed to be your day off.
So what are you using for a mental day off?
Can you do it in one day. I can't. I can't,
which is one of the reasons why I do everything
humanly possible to find meditation, prayer, or just give me
enough time to write. I don't care what I write about,
just let my imagination rest. Where are you at, how
are you dealing with it? I'm Marril, and that's the
daily mess.