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Speaker 1: Hey, Sarah, and this is vocal d frag. Vocal d

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fragging is an opportunity for you to ask yourself questions

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and then question the answers. We're all guilty of one thing,

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asking other people questions about us. Why why do we

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do that? Why do we feel like those outside of

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our body a family member, a friend, or somebody you

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just met. Why do we think they know more about

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us when the reality is you've never walked in my shoes.

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I don't know if you could tell, but I was

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interrupted there for a second because I heard somebody running

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behind me strangest saying how the great Creator didn't put

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eyeballs behind our heads because we tend to miss a

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lot of stuff that's going on behind us. I once

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had a general manager at a radio station tell me.

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He says, I don't want to put the logo on

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the front of your shirt. And the reason why I

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don't want the radio station logo on there is because

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people with their eyes will only see you for a

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split second. But yet if that logo is on the back,

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they'll follow you and know what radio station you're connected with. Interesting.

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Also interesting was who I was visited by and with

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just a couple of seconds ago, a fifth grader who

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just happened to move into the neighborhood. He said, I'm

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exploring this forest. I looked at him and I said, what,

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you're exploring this forest? You actually chose those words, I'm

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exploring this forest because in my own heart, how many

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times have I said I'm exploring this forest. I shared

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with the visitor some of the history of this forest,

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because I've been in this forest since nineteen ninety two.

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I gave him enough space to ask questions. And yet

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that's what we talked about in the very beginning. Why

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do we allow ourselves to ask other people questions? And

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I guess the answer is to learn. But when the

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questions are about our own decisions, in our own path

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in life, is that the place to go. Why don't

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we start asking ourselves the questions? First? I did tell

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the little fifth grader that I'm the guy that planted

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seventeen hundred of these trees in this forest in nineteen

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ninety seven. He kind of looked at me. He didn't understand.

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I get it, I don't understand. But for some reason,

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back in nineteen ninety seven, I answered a calling, and

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the calling was plant the trees, replenish the land, do

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something hand in this forest. Since nineteen ninety seven, I've

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published seven books by asking questions and questioning answers, not

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by sitting around saying, well, what do you think? Should

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I write another book? Should I do a podcast? Should

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I get back into terrestrial radio? Well? What do you think?

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I'm not asking people that question because they haven't walked

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in my shoes, and I think sometimes you need to

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ask yourself that question. Why do we depend on other

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people's opinions and do or answered to shape our path.

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It's raining now in the forest. Maybe you'll hear the

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rain drops as they hit this microphone. It's a light rain,

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and you feel like that nature is giving you a bath.

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You've been muddied up, torn apart, thrown into areas of

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your life that are dark. But we're going to ask

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somebody else how to get out of there? Why not

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ask yourself how to get out of a situation like that?

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Why are you here? Okay, that's a good answer, But

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now the question is what puts you here? How do

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you plan on either escaping or learning from it? I

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love it when people say I didn't make a mistake today.

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I learned a lesson, or when they say we didn't

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lose the game today, we didn't. What we learned today

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and what we did today was we found a fault

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and we're going to correct it. So that's stuff right there.

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Those are seeds to be planted in your forest. You

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don't have to put seventeen hundred trees on a lay

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of land and say, hey, I am the guy. But

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what you can do is you can plant a thought

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that was created inside your mind, body, and soul into

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the idea of another soul. We travel a lot mentally physically.

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The reason why I bring that up is because I'm

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going to go camping with my nineteen year old granddaughter

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in the next couple of days. And in my defrag journal,

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I asked the question, what does a nineteen year old

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think in twenty twenty three compared to a nineteen year

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old that thought in nineteen eighty one? That was me

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the year of Ronald Reagan, it was before the Berlin

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Wall came down. What was I thinking at nineteen? I

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know what I was thinking. How am I going to survive?

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I'm married at nineteen, starting off on a broadcast career.

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How the hell did I get here, but said he

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had asked the questions, and I didn't question the answers,

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not until everything completely broke down in November of twenty seventeen.

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So when I created d Fragging, it's really nothing new.

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He just has a weird name. I'm weird and I

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live it every day. I only want to open the

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door for you to ask the questions and question the answers.

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This forest where we planted seventeen hundred trees, the vision

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is to invite people to this forest. Today. It was

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a fifth grader, a brand new kid on the block

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who is very friendly, very courageous, because he really wanted

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to go up in pet Jazzy. You know Pat Jazzy.

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Jazzy's a protective dog, overprotected. But he asked questions, and

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I asked him questions back. And you wonder, is that

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how the universe really works? Because I know who inspired

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me when I was in the fifth grade. Write about it.

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Go into a journal and ask yourself the personal questions.

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Who was the inspirer in your life, the influencer that

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help guided your way when you were in the second grade.

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Missus Keith Ponderosa Elementary School of Billings, Montana. I'm a

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writer today because she gave me the opportunity. She says,

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just write. You don't have to do the math. You

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don't have to do anything but write. Feed it. And

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I did. Asking the questions question and the answers, ask

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yourself the person in the mirror, not the friend next

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to you or the sibling next to you. Asking questions

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doesn't always lead to answers, but it really puts you

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in a place of exploration like this. It's greater today

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running through this forest, seeing all these really cool things,

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especially the deer, the hawks, the squirrels he talked about.

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He was all over his forest because this imagination wanted

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to find something new to think about. Now. Before I

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said so long to this kid, I said to me

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a favor, write a story, because I've been writing all

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these years i've been here, and he goes, I love writing.

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I really do love writing. Asked the questions, question answers.

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It's called d fragging. I vocal d frag so I

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can go back and listen to the pitch, volume, and tone,

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so I can understand the emotion that was sent. I

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also do my vocal d fragging in a journal where

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I can't hear my voice it's just words, and then

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it becomes an interpretation vocal D frag. I'm Marylyn