Play It Forward Episode 125

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41226736" data-resource="episode_id=41226736" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 126 With Dr Jasmine Williams Captain Compassion" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 126 with Dr. Jasmine Williams…

As much as I believe it should be promoted every day, we should all 

know that October is National Bullying Prevention Month and

Global Diversity Awareness Month. Now more than ever,

our world could use some empathy and understanding.

Committee for Children has launched its third annual

Captain Compassion® campaign to teach kids how to use their

bystander power to put a stop to bullying.

After this summer’s protests over racial discrimination and police brutality, many families and educators are seeking resources to help teach kids the value of diverse, equitable, and inclusive communities. According to the United States Department of Education, although Black students make up 15% of student enrollment nationwide, 35% of Black students report being bullied or harassed on the basis of their race, more than any other racial group.  

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

CammWess

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41225481" data-resource="episode_id=41225481" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "CammWess From NBC&#39;s The Voice Season 18" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Camm was raised in a strict, athletic household where sports became his priority. His mother, a registered nurse, and his father, an Army Ranger, always pushed him to play two sports. Camm loved basketball and dreamed of playing in the NBA until an injury in high school turned his focus toward music. He dedicated himself to singing in choir and taught himself to play piano after spending all of his free time practicing. Camm has put college on hold while he pursues music full-time.

Sandra Brown

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41223672" data-resource="episode_id=41223672" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Sandra Brown Releases The Book Thick As Thieves" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-one New York Times bestsellers. There are over eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide, and her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Her books have been made into TV movies and she has held multiple positions in the literary thriller world.  Her newest book is THICK AS THIEVES, a gripping novel of danger, vengeance, desire and greed.

Jane Lynch

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41223388" data-resource="episode_id=41223388" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Jane Lynch From NBC&#39;s Weakest Link" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

NBC is bringing back hit British import and international game show phenomenon "Weakest Link," co-produced by BBC Studios' Los Angeles production arm and Universal Television Alternative Studio. The network has greenlit 13 episodes of the rapid-fire quiz show with Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning host and actress Jane Lynch ("Hollywood Game Night," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") set to host and executive produce. "Weakest Link" will begin production later this year.

The new version of "Weakest Link" will deliver the fast-paced and quick-witted pillars of the original British format created by the BBC with a few modern twists. The hybrid game show sees contestants answer general knowledge questions to bank prize money across multiple rounds. At the end of each round, the contestants vote out who they perceive to be the "Weakest Link" remaining.

"I've been a longtime fan of this game-changing quiz show since it first debuted," said Lynch. "Each time the phrase 'You are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.' passes my lips, it will be with great reverence and delight."

"'Weakest Link' became an instant fan-favorite when it first aired on our network, and we are excited to bring a fresh, new take to the timeless format," said Meredith Ahr, President, Reality and Alternative Group, NBC Entertainment. "Jane Lynch has been a beloved staple in our NBC family for years, and her sharp wit and engaging personality will be the perfect match for this highly entertaining game show."

"'Weakest Link' is an iconic format that BBC Studios has distributed across the globe for the past two decades, capturing audiences and earning a place in pop culture history," said Matt Forde, Managing Director, International Production & Formats, BBC Studios. "Our Los Angeles production arm is proud to partner with NBC to bring the fastest and fiercest game show on TV back to America, and Jane Lynch is the ideal host to bring her own signature brand of fearless comedy to this fresh version of 'Weakest Link.'"

In each episode, eight contestants enter the studio as total strangers but must work together to bank the maximum amount of prize money available in each round. The contestants take turns to answer general knowledge questions to build chains of correct answers. Consecutive correct answers greatly increase the value of the chain, while incorrect answers break the chain and force the contestants to start over on the lowest rung with the smallest amount money. At the end of each round, contestants vote to eliminate the fellow contestant they consider to be the "Weakest Link" in the chain. The contestant who receives the highest number of votes leaves the game as the host declares the iconic phrase, "You are the Weakest Link. Goodbye."

For 20 years, "Weakest Link" has been the fastest and fiercest quiz show on television. The massively successful format distributed by BBC Studios has been produced in 44 territories around the globe, with over 1,500 episodes having aired in the UK alone.

The original run of "Weakest Link" on NBC launched on April 16, 2001 with 15.1 million viewers, giving NBC its biggest audience in the timeslot with regular programming in nearly five years, since May 1996. For that season, "The Weakest Link" averaged nearly 13 million viewers to rank among television's top 35 primetime broadcast series. Then presented by the original UK host, Anne Robinson's contemptuous interplay with the competitors set the show apart from its contemporaries.

"Weakest Link" is casting now. Put your trivia skills and pop culture knowledge to the test. If you have the speed and smarts to win the grand prize, apply at theweakestlinkcasting.com. You must be 18 years or older, and other terms and conditions may apply.

The Falling Moon

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41222749" data-resource="episode_id=41222749" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "The Falling Moon" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script> 

September 30, 2020

Wow!  Here we are!  The final day of the ninth month!  A year that’s moving so quickly and yet it feels like we’ve not moved an inch with Covid-19, politics, protests and the invisible fear of the bottom falling out of the economy.  A lot of people under a lot of pressure.  At least with a highly pressurized Hot Pot dinner’s ready in thirty minutes.  Not out here in the realms of authentic behavior lacking a connection with accountability!  On this podcast episode the goal is to create a positive and not burden your experience with more Debbie Downer news.  I had to set it up.  Season the opening.  Stir the veggies in the pan.  I stood beneath the falling moon this morning at five.  I stared into the illuminated clouds physically feeling the presence of something in my forest.  The nearby stars painted their own greeting while the animal kingdom seemed to pause.  It was if the owls, wandering deer, hopping rabbits and shivering copperhead snakes were allowing the universe to have a voice.  I walk in the forest every morning long before the sun pulls itself out of bed.  There’s enormous peace inside the collection of trees.  When I write these itty bitty bits each day it’s meant to be nothing more than a conversation.  A reflection.  Two neighbors standing in their yard talking about the actions and reactions without having to wade in the waters of judgement and betrayal.  Our minds have been overtaken by conflict and confusion. Something as simple as the moon setting allowed my early morning moment to locate just enough space to deflate without injury.  We’ve entered this age of free speech where having something to say is probably going to fire up the emotions of a passerby not interested in religion, politics, local sports and or the price of rice.  This journey we’re presently trekking through feels more like the Lewis and Clark expedition rather than a Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls celebration.  CBS Sunday Morning reported this past weekend that 63% of those polled no longer have faith in the hardworking men and women of the newsroom.  I was there when Walter Cronkite was named the most trusted man in America.  Look at all the masters that have moved in and out of those anchoring positions without ever seeing a headline that says we’ve lost our faith in you. A question came to me while daily writing.  Where do the masses turn when there’s no longer any trust in those who once led the way?  Where are you getting your news?  It’s a human need to be kept up to date.  Our systems of choice demand the latest word.  So many times the word on the street has always been linked to a story laid out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  I’m extremely guilty of getting my news from the BBC.  Because I’m part of that 63%.  Are we too far along the way to go back to the beginning?  Local television, radio and newspaper.  You don’t need me to tell you what’s happened on that front.  Local!  Kevin’s Barber Shop is now owned by some guy named Jim.  Local!  Stacy got married over the weekend to that long haired kid she’s known since the third grade.  Local.  The grocery store has that new box of macaroni and cheese everybody’s screaming for but it’s never on the shelf.  Local!  I did read a pretty cool story last week about where broadcasting is growing.  These tiny little stations in very little America, the ones owned by passion driven broadcasters and not corporate bankers.  They’ve taken note of how the local folk are leaning on them for not just music but local stuff.  The article reports that our communities are evolving into the true definition.  Which is a seed for other podcasters to hold.  It feels unbelievable when your analytics showcase some brilliant listening habits from people in the UK, India and Canada but what if you took a chance on local?  Cuz Old Hank over there at the hardware store just got in the nifty cool sleds for the winter of 2021.  Man!  You’ve got to help get the word out!  Local…

Play It Forward Episode 125

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41209034" data-resource="episode_id=41209034" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 125 With Madelyn Deutch From Teenage Bad Ass" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 125 with Madelyn Deutch.

Writer, director, musician, actor, and film photographer from Los Angeles. Beginning in music, she attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a vocalist and received a BFA at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music on scholarship. She then turned much of her focus to filmmaking - acting in films like 50-1 and her new one TEENAGE BADASS.  Plus Madelyn made a mark in the mini-series Texas Rising and Cinemax's Outcast.

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

Pod Crashing Episode 75 With Laura Wasser

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41204947" data-resource="episode_id=41204947" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Pod Crashing Episode 75 With Laura Wasser From All&#39;s Fair" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Pod-Crashing Episode 75 with Laura Wasser

She’s a celebrity divorce attorney.  She’s seen it all, and in her 20 plus years practicing Family Law in Hollywood the one thing she's certain of is that all is fair in love and war. 

Each week on the All's Fair With Laura Wasser podcast, she and It's Over Easy's Chief Content Officer Johnnie Raines chat with celebrities, innovators and experts about all kinds of relationships, breakups, love, war and everything in between.

Jill Twiss

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41204670" data-resource="episode_id=41204670" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Jill Twiss Releases The Book Everyone Gets A Say" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script> 

Jill Twiss has won multiple Emmys, WGA Awards and Peabody Awards for her work as a writer on HBO’s acclaimed hit series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In addition, Jill is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo and The Someone New – two picture books that teach children about tolerance for those that are different and the power of kindness over fear.

Just in time for the 2020 Presidential Election, Jill’s new children’s book Everyone Gets a Say offers a timely message about the importance of voting and democracy. In this sweet-natured story, Pudding the snail and his friends can’t seem to agree on anything. So when Toast the butterfly suggests they need a leader, the friends try to figure out the best way to pick someone to be in charge. It’s up to Pudding to show his friends that there just might be a way where everyone gets a say. Illustrated by Jill’s regular collaborator EG Keller, the book cleverly underscores the importance of speaking up and using your voice.

Carly Ciarrocchi And Charlie Engelman

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41204375" data-resource="episode_id=41204375" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Carly Ciarrocchi and Charlie Engelman From Weird But True On Disney+" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script> 

The newest season of WEIRD BUT TRUE! on Disney+ gets even weirder! Set both in studio and in the field, the award-winning WEIRD BUT TRUE! integrates a mix of arts and crafts, unbelievable facts and real-life exploration. Whether hunting for dinosaur fossils, hiking volcanoes or flying planes, the science-loving duo of Carly and Charlie inspires kids to get excited about the world around them. This season includes guest appearances from Nat Geo Photographers and Explorers, including Anand Varma, who teaches Carly and Charlie the correct way to take the perfect photo, and professor and founder of SciStarter Darlene Cavalier, who describes how she is exploring new ways to connect people with science.

Carly Ciarrocchi serves as producer of the award-winning WEIRD BUT TRUE!, fulfilling children’s curiosity of the world around them. Brooklyn-based Carly, who is also a performer, writer, creator and morning enthusiast, is best known for her work as a host and writer for “Sunny Side Up,” Sprout's live, morning show for preschoolers. Other hosting credits include “Snug’s House” and “The Big Fun Crafty Show” for Universal Kids. All three shows earned Daytime Emmy nominations.

Charlie Engelman returns to host the third season of WEIRD BUT TRUE! with new co-host Carly Ciarrocchi. He also serves as writer, co-executive producer and production designer of the award-winning series. Charlie, who is based in Chicago, earned a Daytime Emmy Award for his writing on WEIRD BUT TRUE!. He has also created multiple award-winning programming for National Geographic, Disney and FOX, including the Emmy-nominated short series Nature Boom Time, which he created after winning a pitching contest for Nat Geo Kids.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Episode 220

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41201533" data-resource="episode_id=41201533" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 220" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

September 29, 2020

More than any time any other time in our life, everything about us is very much aware of how the atmosphere is endlessly changing.  In a world forced to take a different path, all things moving from the clouds to the yellowed leaves falling to the ground to the pesky playful squirrels, the dampened human desire only feels like a cloud burst.  I find myself staring at a lot of trees.  I walk through the forest every day.  Listening.  Wondering if they know history before it gets here.  Somehow a tree is always prepared to take care of the human.  Whether it’s providing shade on a hot summer’s day to acting like a large rock when winter’s wind and bite wants to cut through everything but it doesn’t make it through a tree.  How does it know?  There’s a lot of that sort of stuff being unveiled during this pandemic.  How did Elevation Church grow from a planted church in a school cafeteria to being a global teaching tool by way of always being digitally active?  They did this years before people began to believe? How did they know?  How did the incredible staff at Zoom know that their visual product would keep human eyes and hearts in harmony by way of education, business meetings and family gatherings?  How did they know?  No day passes that I don’t bump into someone that wants to go back to the way life and living were before Covid.  I stand there saying nothing.  But I think a lot.  They want to go back?  Don’t you realize to go back you’ve got to one day move forward?  We make the choice to stop, sit and patiently wait for change to take its rightful place.  That’s doing nothing more than creating distance.  Sure, being the watcher puts you there.  But you could’ve been here.  The human mind body and soul were created to endlessly grow.  Like a tree.  Endlessly reaching by way of limbs and root.  Stretching outward and upward.  From scraping clouds to nestling up to another tree by way of building a protective wall for the human.  What do you know that your conscious mind isn’t allowing you to release?  It doesn’t want you to be judged or injured by other people’s opinions or the stumbles that lead to failure.  What do you know that needs to be known by others?  Your subconscious mind has been patient with your endeavors too long.  It’s the evil step child in the family that nobody wants to acknowledge.  I mean what does your subconscious know right?  This is the part of our moment together where you need to pull the lens of the camera back and look at the entire story.  March 2020 forward.  No matter how hard you tried to keep yourself and family protected during the pandemic by way of gifting energy to your conscious mind.  How you have grown personally and professionally has been in the hands of your subconscious.  That’s the game changer.  It doesn’t want a bowling trophy for the tiny victories.  It only wants to be trusted during these days of new invention.

Play It Forward Episode 124 With Damon Johnson

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41120405" data-resource="episode_id=41120405" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 124 With Damon Johnson" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 124 with Rocker Damon Johnson…  

Damon Johnson has been a triple threat…guitarist, singer, songwriter…since his early days fronting Brother Cane and scoring three #1 singles at rock radio in the 1990s.

With that band, he honed his craft with relentless touring with Van Halen, Aerosmith and Robert Plant. He’s co-written songs for Stevie Nicks, Carlos Santana, Steven Tyler, and Sammy Hagar. 

Plus let’s not forget about his stint with John Waite and Alice Copper. 

 Big career.  Active life.  Extremely creative.  Which he’s put to work during these Covid days.  Although he and band had laid down three songs before the shutdown, the last seven months have been about keeping in touch with fans and followers with new songs and streaming live performances.  He’s not letting a pandemic get in the way of making music and history.

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

Darcey And Stacey Silva

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41118115" data-resource="episode_id=41118115" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Darcey and Stacey Silva From TLC" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

There’s double to love now as TLC is giving 90 Day Fiancé fans more of Darcey and Stacey Silva! Fans of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days have been glued to Darcey through four seasons of globe-trotting, long-distance love affairs followed by heartbreaking, tear-filled break-ups, always with her devoted twin Stacey by her side to lend a shoulder to cry on. Viewers will now get to know the sisters on a whole new level -- their lives, their loves and their supportive family members in the all-new series, Darcey & Stacey.

The twins open the doors wide to their lives while they juggle relationships, family and their unique world of being twins. As the series begins, we follow while Darcey heals over yet another failed relationship with British ex-boyfriend Tom and as Stacey gears up for a major step in her own love life. After a five-year engagement to Albanian fiancé Florian, they have finally been approved for the K-1 Visa. Florian and Stacey will have 90 days to get married once Florian arrives, but Darcey has lingering doubts about his commitment to Stacey after photos of him with another woman surfaced online, sparking rumors that he was unfaithful.

The twins have always done everything together – they were married and divorced at the same time, have raised their families in the same home and even got cosmetic surgery together! Now, Stacey is preparing for her new life with Florian while Darcey is on a mission to find a whole new love. And, while Darcey always seems to get hit by cupid’s international arrow, she finds, once again, that love is never easy. From their hair extensions and nails to their eye-catching fashions, Darcey and Stacey are as over-the-top in their style as their joint determination to find international love. Yet they are also relatable as great mothers, devoted sisters and fabulous women in their 40s yearning for stable, long-lasting love. This season will also take a closer look at the rest of the Silva family including their father Mike, Darcey’s teenage daughters Aniko and Aspen and their mother, Nancy.

Karin Slaughter

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41117572" data-resource="episode_id=41117572" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Karin Slaughter Releases The Book The Silent Wife" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

For the past twenty years, #1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter has captivated readers with her poignant yet gripping New York Times bestselling thrillers. Fans around the globe enjoy not only the depth, detail, and creativity that goes into every book, but Karin’s strong themes of female empowerment, her incredible skill for holding a mirror up to society to explain what is going on in the world, her endless support of local libraries, and her effervescent personality on social media and in real life. Karin also recently collaborated with Lee Child on a short story Cleaning the Gold; bringing together their two legendary characters Jack Reacher and Will Trent and her bestselling novel, Pieces of Her is soon to be an eight-part Netflix adaptation, starring Toni Collette, directed by Lesli Linka Glatter (Mad Men), produced by Charlotte Stoudt (Homeland) and Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies).  Karin recently competed on the mini-gold game show, Holey Moley.

Ryan Jay Reviews

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41117665" data-resource="episode_id=41117665" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Just Another Day With Ryan Jay Episode 092520" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Five new movies make their way into our world this weekend.  In theaters and on television.  Ryan Jay Reviews them all starting with Kajillionaire.  Not to be a review spoiler but lets just say this film even with Deborah Winger is a total swing and a miss.  You won't be getting your time back.  The same is true with Disney+'s Secret Society Of Second Born Royals.  But you will dig in and have a good time with Enola Holmes with Millie Bobby Brown on Netflix.  Spiral on Shudder and yes even the haunting and scary Shortcut which is in theaters and drive ins.  Find out more at ryanjayreviews.com 

The Difference

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41116128" data-resource="episode_id=41116128" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "The Difference" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

September 25, 2020

I am amazed at how something as simple as a passing tropical storm plays out in our moment of Now.  Especially when it marches through the city long before sunrise.  We decide to either make it a great day or take on the image of the heavy dark gray wet clouds.  Maybe it’s because it’s 2020.  Everything that comes into play seems to carry weight.  A squirrel drops his acorn and it feels like the end of the world.  Every step in forward motion and emotion is challenged by the depth of our decision to turn it into a moment of drama or just another event we have no control over.  On this podcast episode we go inside to talk about how being natural looks like a ticket to physically run away.  To hide.  To bury ourselves under a blanket and binge watch extremely bad television.  Sadly we aren’t supposed to treat Friday’s like a Saturday or Sunday.  It’s still a workday in a world that has every right to keep people away from gathering in the workplace due to a virus that none of us brought to this zone. Yet we have to face the crud and all its unglamorous reality like big boys and girls with giant boots on our feet so we don’t get wet.  Mentally the entire world is being led through a huge storm.  Not just you.  Not just me.  The world!  Everybody!  Chefs, musicians, magicians, comedians, teachers, CEO’s, preachers and even the people of homelessness. We are in the center of an event that without a doubt has to be treated everyday with caution because living with uncertainty is forcing too many of us to make decisions that will have an effect on our families two decades from now.  Look at yourself in the mirror and whisper these words, “I’m not a super hero.  I am not a state or national leader.  I’m plain ole every day me with literally no ability to walk into a Walmart and ask for my money back on a product that was never purchased there.”  I hate it when the mail carrier drops stuff off my box.  Which bill is it today?  Oh it’s another politicians spouting their propaganda.  Oh look Val Pac is still trying to convince me to use them like a coupon! How does AARP know how old I am?  Throw it on the stack.  I’ll come back.  Honestly… How large is that pile of envelopes?  We’re looking like hoarders.  Not just in the physical sense but within the channels of a self that’s been forced to plant their feet in a chapter of history that could’ve been prevented but the human ego got in the way.  The choice becomes a reason to look away.  We’ll deal with it another day.  Our moodiness is blamed on the passing rain.  The one thing I’m noticing during Zoom meetings is how people are beginning to wear the world in their eyes. Remember those old photos your parents had that featured people that never smiled.  Mom used to tell me, “Don’t judge.  They were living tough times.”  We’re barely into this pandemic and Zoom people are showcasing their empty eyes and reasons to no longer believe in the spirit of pushing their bums into better times.  Go ahead say it, “That’s not true.  Dude you need to get with a different group.”  Yep paint that picture.  Make it all seem pretty pink.  If you don’t want people to judge your book by its cover then we need to make the empowered decision to turn this moment of Now into a victory.  I was with Rock legend Damon Johnson yesterday.  We spoke openly about the walk and way of the everyday normal person and vowed to continue using our creative energy to get inside the process of bringing people forward.  It begins with believing in your gifts given at birth.  Just because there’s no payoff now doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have an impact on your future possibilities.  Don’t turn yourself off.  Be a light to those eyes you stare into while in the bathroom.  Talk to that person in the mirror.  Let them know you care about the vibration that’s quaking the situation.  You can’t be anything to anyone else unless you are to yourself first. If the world was perfect we’d all be essential employees still working.  But that’s not how the cards were laid out.  Pick up a different deck and put value in the core of your soul that’s been sidelined by a career that wanted a bigger paycheck over happiness.  You are the President and CEO of Me Incorporated.  Don’t fail you because of a pandemic.  Lead yourself and others toward a victory.

Play It Forward Episode 123 With Adrian Wooldridge

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41102412" data-resource="episode_id=41102412" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 123 With Adrian Woodridge The Wake Up Call" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 123 with journalist Adrian Wooldridge:  

Americans have died from Covid at 4 times the rate that Germans have and 50 times the rate for the Japanese or South Koreans. The disease has killed at least 20,000 New Yorkers and 6,000 Londoners—but fewer than approximately 100 people combined in the equally huge Asian cities of Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Hong Kong. The official numbers for Mainland China are even better.   

Covid has been a test that some countries passed triumphantly--and others, notably America and Britain, failed. The crisis has not only highlighted the failures of Western leadership; it has also shown how far Asia has sprung forward.

Some say that Covid may mark the end of the American era and the beginning of a new world. 

So what went wrong? And can the West—and the United States—do anything to fix things? 

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

 

Dave Mustaine

 

On the 30th anniversary of Megadeth's thrash metal masterpiece "Rust in Peace," lead vocalist and guitarist of Megadeth, Dave Mustaine will reveal the behind-the-scenes making of the iconic album in RUST IN PEACE: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece available on September 8, 2020 via Hachette Books.

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41100412" data-resource="episode_id=41100412" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Dave Mustaine Releases The Book Rust In Peace" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Released in 1990, at an incredible time of flux and creativity in the rock world, Rust in Peace still stands as one the greatest metal albums ever made. In his new book, Mustaine reveals the process of establishing Megadeth's lineup and hiring the band and supporting cast. He details the pains of trying to handle the ensuing success, and ultimately the pressure of fame and fortune that caused the band to finally break-up. He also takes a hard look at the music landscape of the late eighties-early nineties.

Little did Mustaine know that the birth pangs of the record were nothing compared to the oncoming pain and torment that would surround it. Alcohol, drugs, sex, money, power, property, prestige, the lies the band was told by the industry - and the lies they told each other - were just beginning, and much like rust in real life, these factors would ultimately eat away at the band's bond until only the music survived.

RUST IN PEACE is a true story of groundbreaking anti-pop that was moving toward the mainstream (or the mainstream that was moving toward the band), at a time of great cultural change, power, ego, drugs, and other vices that went hand-in-hand with Rock N' Roll. It is about perseverance, of scraping off the rust off that builds over time on everything: ourselves, our relationships, pop culture, art, and music.

Liza Nash Taylor

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41099486" data-resource="episode_id=41099486" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Liza Nash Taylor Releases The Book Ettiquette For Runaways" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

In ETIQUETTE FOR RUNAWAYS, May Marshall returns to her father’s orchard in 1924, only to find it is now the site of a lucrative moonshine enterprise.  Despite warnings she joins her father’s illegal business, but when authorities close in, May goes on the run.  Arriving in New York City, May reinvents herself and follows in her mother’s footsteps to become a costume designer.  She ends up designing costumes for a newly formed troupe of black entertainers bound for Paris, but when she gets to the City of Light her luck finally runs out.  A dark secret of her past is unraveled, and she must decide to face the truth or keep running before she can reclaim what her heart craves most.

Carlos Watson

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41099139" data-resource="episode_id=41099139" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Carlos Watson Is Back For Lots More Talk" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Carlos Watson is CEO of OZY Media, a forward-looking media company focused on the next and the new. The Miami native is a former contributor to MSNBC and anchor on CNN who has hosted OZY TV shows on Hulu, Amazon Prime, BBC Worldwide, and PBS, among others. A graduate of Harvard and Stanford Law School, Watson is known for his ability to persuade high-profile guests to open up about a wide range of topics on camera. He launched OZY, a daily digital news and culture magazine, in 2013.

Clutter Versus Chaos

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41098581" data-resource="episode_id=41098581" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Clutter Versus Chaos" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

September 24, 2020

I’m that person that’s bothered by clutter.  A house can look lived in but it can’t come across as being cluttered.  Yet!  I find fuel in chaos.  I’m huge on time management and will still figure out ways to stuff more things onto my Google calendar.  I’ll get in long deep conversations that bring chaos to the decisions being made then laugh about it when we break free.  Clutter versus Chaos.  During these days of continued social distancing where businesses and schools still can’t open at full capacity there’s a tremendous amount of global clutter.  We’re unable to turn this planet into a giant living room and order the kids to pick up their dirty socks, put your plate and fork in the sink and please do your homework.  Nope!  All of that clutter is sitting there like a slow moving hurricane trying to lineup with the right section of land that it’s going to wreak havoc with.  On this podcast episode we’re gonna attempt to find some focus in the words, thoughts and actions that are creating reaction.  Taking all of this clutter and turning it into acceptable chaos.  I call it: Controlled Chaos.  Most of us wake up each morning feeling like we’re ten feet below something we can’t identify.  The evidence of constant change.  The ringing in our ears isn’t a whisper but a reminder.  A nagging vibration of who we used to be rather than a feeling of where we are growing.  Do we run?  Should we swim? Nobody has promised us an open field but in all of this clutter it feels like there’s one out there.  It reminds of a skyscraper in New York City.  It’s looks to be three blocks away and by the time you get there it feels like you walked ten miles.  Life is no longer a mystery.  Not with social media.  Your every step and breath has been shaped by the presence of the world’s clutter.  Anxiety’s bite is an open wound that’s too sore to bandage.  It sits there looking at us hoping that each new decision is fed by its presence and delivery.  Clutter!  So how can we turn it into chaos?  The first step is to put your eyes back on your path and not the world’s wonder and worry.  Get into your moment of Now by being mindful of what you can control.  Chaos can be shaped and reshaped without having to throw another Lego block onto the floor.  That’s clutter.  Know who you are and what you can handle.  Stop trying to write the story before history’s been made.  Yeah there’s a very important election coming.  You’re only job is to vote or don’t vote.  The results aren’t in your hands.  Nor are the cluttered actions and reactions that will follow.  Find your peace by being present with peace.  Your conscious and subconscious mind are being brutally beat up by the headlines or lack of communication.  When confronted with clutter I write down three points of view.  Mine.  The Clutter Makers.  And how does the universe or God see it?  It helps to clear the clutter by turning it into chaos that can be used as fuel.  We’ve all been reshaped.  It’s time for you get to know you. Be nice.  We don’t need any more clutter.

Play It Forward Episode 122

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41084554" data-resource="episode_id=41084554" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 122 With Sonia Manzano From Sesame Street" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 122:  

During an unprecedented time when the world truly must come together as one, Sonia Manzano, “Sesame Street’s” beloved character Maria, offers readers warmth and wit in a timely picture book that looks across cultures and generations to celebrate what unites us, wherever we come from. 

Found within this unique title, Manzano’s lyrical touch combined with stunning photography of people from dozens of countries around the world — including Thailand, Egypt, France, the U.S. and countless more — explores how all of our lives are enriched by our geographic and cultural diversity. Kids will see how people around the world look, dress and spend their day, and learn that what we enjoy and value — friends, family, food, play — may sometimes look different, but deep down is the same wherever you go.

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

Jack Kane

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41084142" data-resource="episode_id=41084142" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Jack Kane From The Movie Short Cut" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Jack Kane was born in North London in 1999. Jack appeared in many stage plays at his school from a very young age and competitions but his first professional role was in 2011 at the age of 10. Jack has appeared on TV in dramas and in feature films. He plays the piano, the drums and saxophone. He is an accomplished singer and has performed at many prestigious events. His hobbies are making short films, swimming and diving. Jack is a very accomplished diver and has earnt gold and silver medals in high diving. He has also earnt Cut Film National Awards 2014 for film making. Winner of 'Judges choice' and winner of '15 to 17 year olds'. He can act, sing and dance.

Jack stars as Lukas in the Universal's Dragonheart: Vengeance opposite Helena Bonham Carter. He also plays Season Regular Zac in the TV series The A List and played the role of Clyde in the BBC hit series Years and Years. Up next, he will star in SHORTCUT,

Ken McNab

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41082408" data-resource="episode_id=41082408" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Ken McNab Releases The Book And In The End" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

In AND IN THE END, McNab reconstructs for the first time the seismic events of 1969, when The Beatles reached new highs of creativity and new lows of the internal strife that would destroy them. Between the pressure of being filmed during rehearsals and writing sessions for the documentary Get Back, their company Apple Corps facing bankruptcy, Lennon's heroin use, and musical disagreements, the group was arguing more than ever before and their formerly close friendship began to disintegrate. 

AND IN THE END draws on more than 30 interviews, many with people who have never spoken publicly before, such as Les Parrot, a cameraman on "Let It Be"; Bruce McBroom, the photographer who conducted the band's last shoot; Derek Seagrove, an Abbey Road employee depicted on the album's cover; Roy Connolly, a journalist caught between the Lennon and McCartney camps; and Russ Gibbs, the Detroit DJ on the ground floor of the "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy. All have fascinating insights into how the band, in the middle of disharmony and rancor, created the ragged genius of Abbey Road, their incredible farewell love letter to the world.

7 Angels

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41081564" data-resource="episode_id=41081564" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "7 Angels Josh Eagan And Mark Slaughter Release The Song 7 Angels" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

7 Angels’ sound is pure, straight forward in your face rock and roll! 

No gimmicks No apologies! 

Driven by infectious hooks and a groove so wide you can drive a freight train through it, 7 Angels blend organic rock and roll with a classic style of melodic songwriting. The blistering vocals of Bob Reynolds cut through the song like a knife. Bob is a true rockstar vocalist that has an extensive career both signed with major labels including MCA & Atlantic Records, as well as performing on live tours and recordings. Featuring an iconic power and vocal range, he is a mainstay in the Los Angeles music scene. 

Giving the bottom to their sound is Jesse Vasquez, who is dripping with soul! Jesse hails from an r-n-b / funk music background that is strongly rooted in groove playing. Being also versed in jazz and latin music has made Jesse an extremely versatile and highly sought after musician. 

Driving the freight train is drummer Joshua Seth Eagan. As a studio musician, he has worked with many high-profile artists and recorded on Grammy Award winning and nominated projects.  Joshua creates a hard driving pocket that lets the rest of the Angels spread their wings!

Magnetic

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41080242" data-resource="episode_id=41080242" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Magnetic" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

September 23, 2020

I’m far from being a wordsmith.  But that doesn’t mean I can’t be in love with words.  I love to look them up in the dictionary.  To study their history while looking for newer ways to use them.  Words!  Every morning at 4:30.  The very second my eyes pop open I hear a word.  It becomes my word of the day.  I have no idea why it was placed in my thoughts but let’s run with it.  My word this morning was magnetic.  Which instantly created a question that we’re gonna talk about on this podcast episode.  Magnetic.  What are we holding onto that others see as being unnecessary weight?  And if connected with truth and trust would you allow yourself to set it free?  This is where the inner core of the mind body and soul begin to defend.  Mentally we’re all hoarders.  We love hanging onto things.  Magnetic.  Why do we hold onto stuff?  We have no problem creating the excuses, “I need it because.  I require it.  It’s what I desire, demand and expect.  No matter how much we want to change, little is done to reshape the image.  Magnetic.  Such a big word.  It involves a lot of things coming together.  But here’s my issue.  I’m about to unveil a different view.  As a child, I loved playing with magnets.  Couldn’t get enough of it.  Not because it brought things together.  I was fascinated with how it pushed things away.  Two magnets flipped over creating a push away.  Not a moment of domination or power trip.  The imagination was trying to piece together the answers required for my questions.  Pushing away is just as important as connecting with.  Which is why so many of us are addicted to Google.  We’re magnetic with the idea of knowing more than ten minutes ago.  Too much content though damages the process of personal growth.  It pushes you off the path.  Pulling the lens back and taking a deeper look at the picture.  By way of interpretation we are the makers and takers of Fake News.   Magnetically we are pulled into the idea of being seen as current, up to date, willing and able to keep a great conversation moving in forward motion.  We fill ourselves up to the top then spill it out with family, friends and coworkers.  Depending on which websites we visit determines how the magnetic push away is deemed a success.  Are you truly in control of your emotions or is the social media magnetic field masterfully developing your choices and opinions?  When they talk about other nations manipulating our Presidential election it’s not always in the shape of advertising.  The magnetic push away is how you’re evolving. Corporations are no different.  Paintings and posters on the wall that promote how great business is has a way of pulling you into the process of their success.  The connection becomes greater by way of memos, meetings and internet connections promoting newer levels of education and expectation.  The magnetic push away is how you once thought.  Which makes me wonder about the social distancing we’ve all endured since March 2020.  A pandemic that pushed a lot of hard working dedicated and loyal employees away from the magnetic structure of the company.  Going back to a work place seems magnetic to those in need, desire and demand.  But what’s the natural reaction of being there after experiencing the unexpected push away? Parents having to make the decision of sending their children back to a physical school.  Seven percent of the football field will be open for fans to enjoy the game but with so much time away does the man cave feel safer?  I’ve only been to one indoor restaurant since things began reopening.  The magnetic push away was how I didn’t trust anyone that walked through the door.  Magnetic.  Collaborations are still the greatest tool on the planet.  But how does it infect your present place of now?  How will you move through this push away?

Play It Forward Episode 121

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41064923" data-resource="episode_id=41064923" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 121 With Adrian Crutchfield" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script> 

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 121:  

Adrian Crutchfield, a celebrated jazz saxophonist, is adding ‘host’ to his ever-growing resume. The international touring star has been named emcee to Live From The Playroom, the award-winning live stream production from The Queen City’s oldest music production facility, The Playroom Recording Studio.

Known for his neo-soul sound and alchemy-level talents, Crutchfield performed on icon Prince’s last three albums. In addition to working with Prince’s backing band, the New Power Generation, Crutchfield’s robust touring schedule in recent years has included performances with Lionel Ritchie, Bette Midler and Cee Lo Green. His 2017 album Leap cemented Crutchfield’s footprints into a searing, genre-bending sound.

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

Pod Crashing Episode 74

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41063353" data-resource="episode_id=41063353" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Pod Crashing Episode 74 With Adam Gidwitz Grim Grimmer Grimmest" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Pod-Crashing Episode 74 with Adam Gidwitz

Grim Grimmer Grimmest.  The Hair-Raising, Original Podcast Series Based on the Grimm Fairy Tales. 

Every episode is a story retold with a fresh and surprising twist. Featuring curious creatures and mischievous foes, each story punctuated by hilarious commentary from a classroom of kids who question their way through these creepy tales. 

The podcast series is the perfect entertainment alternative to screen time for kids whether listening at home, on the go, in cars, or in classrooms nationwide, and it activates kids’ imaginations and instigates fantastic, fun conversation.

Bradley Garrett

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41061033" data-resource="episode_id=41061033" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Bradley Garrett Releases The Book Bunker" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script> 

A thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily prescient look at "prepper" communities around the world that are building bunkers against a possible apocalypse.

Currently, 3.7 million Americans call themselves preppers. Millions more prep without knowing it. Bradley Garrett, who began writing this book years before the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, argues that prepping is a rational response to global, social, and political systems that are failing to produce credible narratives of continued stability. Left with a sense of foreboding fueled by disease outbreaks, increasing government dysfunctionality, eroding critical infrastructure, nuclear brinksmanship, and an accelerating climate crisis, people all over the world are responding predictably-by hunkering down.

For this book, Garrett traveled across four continents to meet those who are constructing panic rooms, building underground backyard survival chambers, stockpiling supplies, preparing go bags, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile "bugout" vehicles, and burrowing deep into the earth. He has returned with a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings our times into new and sharper focus.

The "bunker," Garrett shows, is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he reveals, it's in our minds.

Sara Evans

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41060700" data-resource="episode_id=41060700" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Sara Evans Releases The Book Born To Fly" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Sara Evans- the fifth most-played female artist at country radio in nearly the last two decades and an ACM and CMA Award-winning country music star who's been named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" and competed on ABC's Dancing with the Stars-has been inspiring fans throughout her successful music career.

In this powerful, personal, and often humorous book, Sara opens up and shares stories from her career, describing what it's like living in the spotlight and how her family and her faith keeps her strong. She writes about overcoming life's most challenging experiences, from a childhood accident that nearly took her life, to the loss she experienced when her parents divorced, to her honest struggles with panic and anxiety.

As she weaves the narrative of her life, Sara candidly reveals the things that are most important to her and her family now, her favorite tips about staying true to herself and her faith, knowing when to ask for help, abandoning perfectionism, and the importance of a strong support group of friends and family. Fans old and new will enjoy this inspiring, heartfelt book.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 219

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41059416" data-resource="episode_id=41059416" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 219" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

September 22, 2020

We can learn a lot from a tree. The first lesson would be patience.  It’s a one hundred year old plant.  Imagine facing the daily grind of having to stand there and never move your roots.  The multiple storms it faces during the seasons.  A tree can’t run inside while a tropical storm is passing.  A tree can’t torch up the leaves on the forest floor to keep itself warm during the winter.  Look at how many trees become leaning posts for other trees that could’ve fallen the entire way.  But it doesn’t because trees love other trees even when their strength is being challenged by erosion and or any other manmade disease.  On this podcast episode, a day in my forest showcases a newer way to look at what humans are facing day to day during our storms.  I was sitting within the trees during a cold late summer rain.  Just listening.  Watching how the limbs with leaves became full without complaint.  Here we are inside the depths of the Covid pandemic, out of control politics, wars on the street, fires on the west coast and the biggest hurricane and tropical storm season of all time.  Where does a mind need to escape?  My choice was into the trees.  The common step of the average person carries with them the weight of personal history with no guarantee of there being a tomorrow.  Any and or all forests serve as a spiritual connection to a giving and loving universe that wants nothing more than a relationship.  You can see it in the trees.  All things here are somehow connected.  There are no words or judgement.  Only acceptance.  The gift from the trees is having the courage to be open with all things, even when it appears to be an unnatural fit.  A forest is peace filled especially while it’s raining or being tossed about by horrid winds.  It’s somehow mastered the art of turning a raindrop into music.  What does any of this jibber jabber mean?  Rip down the walls of poetic expression Mr. Writer.  Rather than busting serious tail trying to shake off the effects of the pandemic, the word from the restless street, the out of tune politics and everything else going wrong in 2020, stand up and face the storm.  Just like the tree.  Dig your heels into the soil and straighten your back.  Stretch out your arms and reach for balance.  Stop running away from the boulders being tossed at us by things we can’t control.  Face the storm.  Embrace the change.  Hold onto what you believe.  Be strong in your experience.  Let the winds of time scrape the old skin off your trunk so your body can grow into a new age of rebirth and resurrection.  It begins with one simple step.  Choice

Sam Kleiner

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41060250" data-resource="episode_id=41060250" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Sam Kleiner Releases The Book The Flying Tigers" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

THE FLYING TIGERS back story of the American volunteer pilot unit that flew in China in the early days of World War II.

How the unit was made famous by their shark-faced P-40s and the John Wayne movie of the same name.

How he obtained and used handwritten WWII love letters to trace the story of the Flying Tigers.

Working with Flying Tigers families to track down letters, diaries and photographs from the unit’s exploits in China and Burma.

Meeting the last surviving Flying Tiger, Frank Losonsky, who took him to see one of the P-40s at a museum in Georgia.

Attending the private meetings of the family member group -- Flying Tigers Association and learning the history of those families after their veterans returned from WWII.

Tracing the minute-by-minute accounts of the battles he found in combat reports left in the basement of an unremarkable building in Washington D.C.

Though the Flying Tigers’ shark-nosed P-40s remain one of the memorable images of America at war, the authentic story of the Flying Tigers had never been told before. It’s a story of young Americans who came from all walks of life and from all over the country but banded together for a common purpose and went on to become the first Americans to strike back against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. It’s a story of how the Roosevelt administration was secretly sending over planes and men to help China even before Pearl Harbor.

Play It Forward Episode 120 With Nik Wallenda

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40976158" data-resource="episode_id=40976158" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 120 With Nik Wallenda" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 120:  

Nik Wallenda, face of "The Great Wallendas" has just released his "Facing Fear: Step Out in Faith and Rise Above What's Holding You Back." 

With his daring televised tightrope walks over Times Square, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, and most recently over an active volcano.  Nik is known for pushing the envelope and identifying new, iconic locations around the globe to conquer. He takes stepping out in faith to a whole new level and shares the lessons he's learned along the way.

"Facing Fear" is a practical guide to overcoming fears that unpacks the life of the seventh-generation member of The Great Wallendas who had never experienced fear until a tragic accident in 2017. That’s when an eight-person pyramid he and several members of Wallenda's family were practicing collapsed, and five of its members fell thirty feet to the ground. Miraculously, they all survived, but the accident changed Wallenda's life forever. For the first time, he felt fear, and he had to learn to get past it to get back out on the wire.

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

Steve Lemme And Kevin Heffernan

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40972899" data-resource="episode_id=40972899" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan From TruTV&#39;s Tacoma FD" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Created by and starring Broken Lizard’s Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan of the Super Troopers franchise, truTV’s Tacoma FD is a half-hour comedy set in a firehouse in one of America’s rainiest cities. Light on blazes that need extinguishing, these firefighters keep themselves entertained with creative competitions, friendly first responder rivalries and no shortage of bizarre emergency calls. Chief Terry McConky (Heffernan) and Captain Eddie Penisi (Lemme) lead the firehouse shenanigans and are joined by an eclectic crew played by Eugene Cordero (Andy), Marcus Henderson (Granny), Gabriel Hogan (Ike) and Hassie Harrison (Lucy). This season, the squad finds themselves fighting fires at a haunted house, trapped in an elevator during the annual Firefighter’s Ball, joining a firefighter’s choir and learning some new dance moves. To date, season two of Tacoma FD has reached over 10 million viewers and has had a rare season-over-season ratings growth with a top 5 cable comedy ranking on ad-supported cable this year.

Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan are best known for creating and starring in the Super Troopers film franchise. The two are also members of the Broken Lizards comedy group and have starred together in films including Beer Fest and Club Dread.

Terresa Shelton

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40974741" data-resource="episode_id=40974741" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Teressa Shelton Releases The Book The Sergeants Daughter" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

A moving account of overcoming extreme adversity in the pursuit of independence, reminiscent of The Glass Castle and Tara Westover’s Educated. Teressa’s sergeant father brings his military life to their already unstable home, meeting each of his daughters’ infractions with extreme punishment while their mother remains unsupportive and silent. Aided only by the solace of books, music, and a few kind figures, Teressa finds an eventual path to survival and redemption, finding pride in the fact that her father was never able to break her, no matter how hard he tried.

Ryan Jay Reviews

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40973892" data-resource="episode_id=40973892" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Just Another Day With Ryan Jay Episode 091820" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Holy binge watching movies Batman! Ryan Jay Reviews five brand new flicks. Two in theaters. One on Apple TV+, Netflix and another on demand. This week its Antebellum, The Nest, Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarfs, The Devil All The Time and The Secrets We Keep. If fake crowds in the background during college and pro football games is boring you. You have new movies to watch! Suit up! Get on that field with a bucket of popcorn and a giant soda! Move it! Or should I say movie it!!!!

One Day Strong

 

<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40972250" data-resource="episode_id=40972250" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "One Day Strong" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

September 18, 2020

I’m not one to air my dirty laundry.  Yet I find the methods of madness that we’re all wading through during this season of 2020 to be nearly next to being scrap metal.  Not a Debbie Downer!  Over the past six to seven months, during these days of safe distance and working from home we’ve forgotten how to properly communicate.  To play nice.  Not be a Know It All or a chaser of keeping up with the Jones’.  No day passes that we aren’t bumping into enormous amounts of out of control, heavily unfocused and almost never researched points of view.  I physically want to stop asking why.  There are too many answers coming back at you!  On this podcast episode I bring up the subject of family.  Multiple broken families right now.  We read about it and we live through it.  We try to fix it only to watch it break down again and again.  The Brady Bunch and Partridge Family were broken as well.  But they were healed about 25 minutes into the show and it was never talked about again!  Be honest with yourself.  During these Covid days of individualism with a fake shade of being a team player, we’ve all become incredibly head strong.  Friends take forever to call you back or maybe you’ll get a reply to your email.  Nobody wants to deal with truth.  Then again, with so many points of view what part of this conversation can you believe?  My sister and I are a fractured fairytale.  We love each other then we Ghost each other for months.  We can’t be the only ones injured by two different sides to the story.  Especially these day, we all want to be heard.  The Governor of NC has opened the schools for the kids to return.  Put that thought in the center of a group of people.  The fight begins in three, two and one.  Don’t even bring up the Presidential election, the out of control climate or Drew Barrymore’s new daytime talk show.  The filters are off.  We’ve given ourselves permission to Ghost each other.  You’ll come back!  It may take a couple of months or years but God keeps making more.  I’ll be ok.  Every one of us are students of life.  And look at how we’re acting and reacting.  Wanna meet me over by the tree?  Make sure you show up!  There’s more than a ripple in our flow through life.  We’re into making huge waves.  The physical idea of wanting and needing to talk openly is being met with yet another fight or indifference caused by this requirement to be heard.  Our number one goal today and every day is to be confident and filled with courage.  To lead ourselves first through a desert that’s somehow connected to a Promise Land.  I totally get into being different, unique, a one of a kind snowflake.  But for some sick reason it’s leading to violence.  The divorce rate in the U.S. stood at 51% in February 2020 before Covid.  It’s up 31% in September 2020.  Top rated comedians with talk shows are being accused of being verbally abusive.  Trust me.  She isn’t the only one.  No need to throw our place of business under the bus.  It was accepted in the past.  If we didn’t like it.  We left.  It’s going to get worse.  Cuz being nice and getting along looks more like a weakness than a daily victory.  So, my sister and I talked last night.  Been a long time.  Longer than the struggles on Modern Family and Blackish.  I hear people from AA talking about being 15 years dry.  Six weeks dry!  It’s their personal victory and it rightfully should be celebrated.  As should my relationship with my sister.  One day strong!   Mom and Dad we’re getting along.  One day strong!  The moral of this story?  You aren’t alone during these chapters of invisible words and too many points of view.  The goal shouldn’t be to shut people out.  Verbal openness is an exercise.  Family is all you have.  Not one person on this planet needs to be alone.  God isn’t making more brothers and sisters.  You can’t just go out and find a friend that agrees to be bent into a person you accept.  Before you drop everything on your plate and plant a new forest with your family and friends, the first step needs to be a relationship with yourself.  Do you honestly know who you’ve become over the past seven months?  Do you even like yourself?  There’s always a sheet of paper somewhere nearby that would totally embrace your journey and answers without there being judgement.  Invite yourself to that circle of love and remove the inner struggles.

Play It Forward Episode 119 With Eric The Trainer From Maine Monster

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40958588" data-resource="episode_id=40958588" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Play It Forward Episode 119 With Eric The Trainer Of Maine Monster" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Hey it’s Arroe.  This is Play It Forward.  A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. 

Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  

Episode 119:  

Hollywood Physique Expert, Eric the Trainer has been using the safer at home orders to live his best life.  His latest endeavor stems from his love for music and he’s called upon some of his most talented celebrity friends and clients to make his rock star dreams come true.

The band’s name is Maine Monster.  A super band filled with members of HALL & OATES, NICKELBACK, AIR SUPPLY, JOURNEY.   Their first release is a love song titled “I’m Yours” all of the proceeds from this first single go to the nonprofit organization Feeding America.

 According to Eric, “In lockdown, my creativity flourished and I woodshedded a batch of songs that reflected the times.  Realizing that most major tours were postponed until next year, I called my pals and invited them to join me in the studio.  It’s been a once-in-a-lifetime experience to hear the songs come to life.

That’s Play It Forward.  You can listen to the full conversations with these artists on three different podcasts. Like Its Live, Unplugged and Totally Uncut and View from the Writing Instrument found on all digital platforms.

Lukr

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40958063" data-resource="episode_id=40958063" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Lukr From NBC&#39;s Songland" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Lukr, a nickname he got from his grandfather, started songwriting at just 14 to express how he felt and communicate his emotions to connect with other people. After high school, Lukr attended audio engineering school but eventually realized that he wanted to be an artist and a songwriter. At 27, Lukr moved to Nashville to pursue music full-time. Before that he was working as a movie projectionist at a movie theater and participated in medical studies for pay. Although Lukr has had some success in music, including more than 13 million streams on his Spotify channel, working with successful producers and sync placements, he is still looking for his big break. 

Tehlor Kay Mejia

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40952649" data-resource="episode_id=40952649" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Tehlor Kay Mejia Releases The Book Paola Santiago And The River Of Tears" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Space-obsessed 12-year-old Paola Santiago and her two best friends, Emma and Dante, know the rule: Stay away from the river. It’s all they’ve heard since a schoolmate of theirs drowned a year ago. Pao is embarrassed to admit that she has been told to stay away for even longer than that, because her mother is constantly warning her about La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night, looking for young people to drag into its murky depths. Hating her mother’s humiliating superstitions and knowing that she and her friends would never venture into the water, Pao organizes a meet-up to test out her new telescope near the Gila, since it’s the best stargazing spot. But when Emma never arrives and Pao sees a shadowy figure in the reeds, it seems like maybe her mom was right. . . . Pao has always relied on hard science to make sense of the world, but to find her friend she will have to enter the world of her nightmares, which includes unnatural mist, mind-bending monsters, and relentless spirits controlled by a terrifying force that defies both logic and legend.

Kamie Crawford

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40952382" data-resource="episode_id=40952382" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Kamie Crawford Returns From Catfish On MTV" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

Based on the hit 2010 documentary film Catfish, MTV’s Catfish: The TV Show brings together couples who have interacted solely through computer screens, helping people find the answers they deserve. Now, Catfish: The TV Show returns with its first-ever virtual season, airing Wednesdays at 8pm ET/PT on MTV. While the world may still be socially distancing, people are online now more than ever looking for social connections and answers. Catfish hosts Nev Schulman and Kamie Crawford will go to the ends of the internet to find them.

For the first time ever, Nev and Kamie work together remotely to do what they do best: track down the truth. This season, Nev and Kamie have their work cut out for them as they must play by new rules, encounter new obstacles and dive head first into the world’s ‘new normal’ to uncover lies and potentially find true love.

 

Kamie Crawford is a TV Host, Content Producer, Model and Former Miss Teen USA with a love for all things beauty, fashion and pop culture. Kamie has always had a passion for investigative journalism and is now putting her own “FBI” skills to the test while working alongside Nev Schulman as co-host of Catfish: The TV Show. When she's not in front of the camera, Kamie is collaborating and creating social content with major beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands like Swarovski, Lancôme, Dove, Rent the Runway and so many others. Working as a model in a fashion world that deems anything over a size 4 as “plus sized” and in a digital space that often lacks inclusion has sparked Kamie to use her influence to spread the importance of body positivity and diversity in the digital sphere and beyond.

The Music In Our Dreams

 <a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40953441" data-resource="episode_id=40953441" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "The Music In Our Dreams" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>

September 17, 2020

Those songs!  The tunes we hear while dreaming.  They play so vibrantly without skipping like an old fashioned CD.  Those songs are endlessly playing and all we’re trying to do is get some sleep.  I’m shocked that the music industry hasn’t figured out a way to monetize this connection we have with their beats and lyrics.  I’m not talking about streaming on your smart phone or chumming up with your old iPod.  Nope.  Those songs that somehow someway make an appearance within the moving pictures displayed in your dreams.  The experts say that music is a representation of emotion.  How it arrives is based on each individual situation.  Personally, I’ve always wanted to keep a list of what song was playing the night before.  To do some research.  To study the layout of words and or lyrics.  But I always pull myself back.  I don’t listen to song lyrics!  It’s my radio weakness.  I put up the block on song lyrics way back in the days of Michael Bolton being played 400 times every show.  I had to create a mental break in the action so it wouldn’t come across that I was extremely tired of hearing When A Man Loves A Woman.  But it doesn’t keep the music from playing late late at night. Is it really hooked up to emotion or is it quite possible that during these pressurized days and nights of Covid, the political elections, protests, forest fires and hurricanes that our minds are dumping.  Creating room for more bad news.  What’s something easy the system can toss out?  I know!  The music!  The reason why any of this has been brought up is based on my wife waking up this morning talking about a Supertramp song playing in her thoughts last night. A deep cut that radio doesn’t play.  I know she’s not watching YouTube videos and streaming isn’t going to touch it.  How did the song from Supertramp get into her dreams?  How do any of the songs get there?  Should we be paying a royalty?  I’d be glad to but under one condition.  I need to be given the power to hit the next button.  If I don’t want the Supertramp deep cut playing then give me permission to leap to the next then the next then the next.  Damn!  Now it’s time to get up for another workday.  And if the experts are right about music being a representative of our emotions, I’d love to know the numbers of those hearing AC/DC and Godsmack.  Hardcore Rock during a time when we’re trying to shut out this messy careless planet.  The funny thing about that is how we don’t have a volume control.  We can’t turn it down or off.  Whoa… wait a second.  What if while we’re sleeping we’re nothing more than a speaker on a wall or an earbud?  A strange place we are in.  Let’s go listen to some music!