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,
hey Saro, And this is vocal d frag. Vocal dfragging
is an opportunity for you to ask yourself questions and
then question the answers. We're all guilty of one thing,
asking other people questions about us. Why why do we
do that? Why do we feel like those outside of
our body, a family member, a friend, or somebody you
just met. Why do we think they know more about
us when the reality is you've never walked in my shoes.
I don't know if you could tell, but I was
interrupted there for a second because I heard somebody running
behind me. Strangest thing, how the great Creator didn't put
eyeballs behind our heads, because we tend to miss a
lot of stuff that's going on behind us. I once
had a general manager at a radio station tell me.
He says, I don't want to put the logo on
the front of your shirt. And the reason why I
don't want the radio station logo on there is because
people with their eyes will only see you for a
split second. But yet if that logo is on the back,
they'll follow you and know what radio station you're connected with. Interesting.
Also interesting was who I was visited by and with
just a couple of seconds ago, a fifth grader who
just happened to move into the neighborhood. He said, I'm
exploring this forest. I looked at him and I said, what,
you're exploring this forest? You actually chose those words, I'm
exploring this forest because in my own heart, how many
times have I said I'm exploring this forest. I shared
with the visitor some of the history of this forest,
because I've been in this forest since nineteen ninety two.
I gave him enough space to ask questions. And yet
that's what we talked about in the very beginning. Why
do we allow ourselves to ask other people questions? And
I guess the answer is to learn. But when the
questions are about our own decisions and our own path
in life, is that the place to go? Why don't
we start asking ourselves the questions? First? I did tell
the little fifth grader that I'm the guy that planted
seventeen hundred of these trees in this forest in nineteen
ninety seven. He kind of looked at me. He didn't understand.
I get it. I don't understand. But for some reason,
back in nineteen ninety seven, I answered a calling, and
the calling was plant the trees, replenish the land, do
something hand in this forest. Since nineteen ninety seven, I've
published seven books by asking questions and questioning answers, not
by sitting around saying, well, what do you think? Should
I write another book, Should I do a podcast, Should
I get back into terrestrial radio? What do you think?
I'm not asking people that question because they haven't walked
in my shoes, and I think sometimes you need to
ask yourself that question. Why do we depend on other
people's opinions and or answers to shape our path. It's
raining now in the forest. Maybe you'll hear the rain
drops as they hit this microphone. It's a light rain,
and you feel like that nature is giving you a bath.
You've been muddied up, torn apart, thrown into areas of
your life that are dark. But we're going to ask
somebody else how to get out of there. Why not
ask yourself how to get out of a situation like that?
Why are you here? Okay? That's a good answer. But
now the question is what puts you here? How do
you plan on either escaping or learning from it. I
love it when people say I didn't make a mistake today,
I learned a lesson, or when they say we didn't
lose the game today, we didn't. What we learned today
and what we did today was we found a fault
and we're going to correct it. So that's stuff right there.
Those are seeds to be planted in your forest. You
don't have to put seventeen hundred trees on a lay
of land and say, hey, I am the guy. But
what you can do is you can plant a thought
that was created inside your mind, bodying soul into the
idea of another soul. We travel a lot mentally physically.
The reason why I bring that up is because I'm
going to go camping with my nineteen year old granddaughter
in the next couple of days. And in my defrag journal,
I asked the question, what does a nineteen year old
think in twenty twenty three compared to a nineteen year
old that thought in nineteen eighty one. That was me
the year of Ronald Reagan. It was before the Berlin
Wall came down. What was I thinking at nineteen? I
know what I was thinking. How am I going to survive?
I'm married at nineteen, starting off on a broadcast career.
How the hell did I get here? But said he
had asked the questions, and I didn't question the answers,
not until everything completely broke down in November of twenty seventeen.
So when I created d Fragging, it's really nothing new.
He just has a weird name. I'm weird and I
live it every day. I only want to open the
door for you to ask the questions and question the answers.
This forest where we planted seventeen hundred trees, the vision
is to invite people to this forest today. It was
a fifth grader, a brand new kid on the block
who is very friendly, very courageous, because he really wanted
to go up in Pet Jazzy. You know Pat Jazzy.
Jazzy's a protective dog, overprotected. But he asked questions, and
I asked him questions back. And you wonder, is that
how the universe really works? Because I know who inspired
me when I was in the fifth grade. Write about it.
Go into a journal and ask yourself the personal questions.
Who was the inspirer in your life, the influencer that
helped guided your way when you were in the second grade,
missus Keith, Ponderosa Elementary School, Billings, Montana. I'm a writer
today because she gave me the opportunity. She says, just write.
You don't have to do the math, You don't have
to do anything but write. Feed it. And I did.
Asking the questions, question and the answers, ask yourself the
person in the mirror, not the friend next to you
or this said late next to you. Asking questions doesn't
always lead to answers, but it really puts you in
a place of exploration, like this fifth grader today running
through this forest, seeing all these really cool things, especially
the deer, the hawks, the squirrels he talked about. He
was all over his forest because this imagination wanted to
find something new to think about. Now before I said
so long to this kid, I said to me a favor,
write a story, because I've been writing all these years
i've been here, and he goes, I love writing. I
really do love writing. Ask the questions, question answers. It's
called d fragging. I vocal d frag so I can
go back and listen to the pitch, volume, and tone
so I can understand the emotion that was sent. I
also do my vocal D fragging in a journal where
I can't hear my voice. It's just words, and then
it becomes an interpretation. Vocal D frag him Marilyn