Friday, May 28, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut May 28th

 Today Friday May 28th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut.


Her goal is to invite kids and young adults to drop their digital devices and take up nature. Outdoor School from Mary Kay Carson is the perfect at home summer camp. 11am post


A huge major first this weekend. Hollywood has released two blockbusters to theaters for the first time in a year. Ryan Jay Reviews Cruella and A Quiet Place 2. 1pm post


Ever had a fear of traveling inside a tunnel? Thorbjorn Harr's new On Demand movie The Tunnel will keep you away from traveling through mountains and water. Always an action packed conversation with him. 4pm post


Then we are Playing It Forward with the winner of season 20 on NBC's The Voice. Cam Anthony!!!!! 7pm post

Giggling With The Little Things

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May 28, 2021

The little things!  Those itty bitty moments that we tend to ignore until something stops your ever present need to keep growing forward. The little things.  Today is 5-28.  I put my first words on paper this morning at 5:28.  The little kid in my thought that was cool as s***! Twenty seven years of daily writing and something so tiny stopped my creative spirit and energy and said whisper, “Well look at that.”  Being in the “right” place at the “write time.  Ha!  You know what we all need?  A little more time to recognize the rays of light that lend an avenue of peace over unrest. We’re an overcrowded generation.  We want it all.  Compared to other levels of travel, it might actually look like we do have it all.  If not, I’m headed to Amazon.com.  The only thing unavailable to every one of us is time.  Truth is, we wouldn’t know what to do with more time.  Too much of the time we have today is wasted.  A year ago at this time we had all the time in the world.  Lockdown 2020.  I yearn for those days.  I loved every second of every moment my wife and I created with our disaster artist dog Jazzie.  We respected that moment in time.  We planned things out better and wiser.  We allowed that open field of time to have its rightful space in what time would eventually erase.  The little things.  How did we ever forget to take the time to recognize them?  Sure, I guess we can try and go back to show some homage.  But in reality that’s nothing more than rewriting your history.  Being mindful of your little things right now creates childlike giggles you’re never going to get back.  Wow that seems a little dark.  Not if you live for the next little thing. It’s right there in front of you.  Play with it.     


Thursday, May 27, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut May 27th

 Today Thursday May 27th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut!!!


Have you ever heard of Story Terrace? Rutger Bruining and his massive amount of brilliant writers help you put your history inside a hardcover book. An autobiography featuring you and your family. 11am post


Something's going on in southern Cal. Sunset Strip is bringing in a new age of great Rock. One of the front runners is JT Loux. 1pm post


Here comes season number two of Common Knowledge on GSN. Joey Fatone is a very funny and revealing personality. Yeah the guy from NYSYNC. 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with MTV's senior manager of Social Impact. Getting very real with Vaughan Bagley. 7pm post

Living Off A What If

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May 27, 2021

I belong to the Artist Way Facebook group.  The Artist Way has been my walk and way since July of 1994.  In my heart, it’s the only book series that reaches into the mind body and soul of a creative person and allows them to trust in the evolution of becoming. Today someone posted a very open and honest thought, “Over the years I’ve worked through The Artist Way three times.  The only thing I found itchy was the God, power and universe bit.  Because I’m Agnost, would I profit from the Listening Path on my creative painting journey?  Appreciate the feedback.”  I love her self honesty.  She’s allowing her inner being to ask an outside question.  I wrote back, “In all things there is energy.  Belief is a choice.  Writing is action.”  You don’t have to believe in anything to be creative. It’s energy.  It’s a choice to use it or abuse it.  Whether she’s painting and or I’m writing.  There’s action involved.  We spend way too much time hemming and hawing about the “What Ifs” in the world.  The energy used in a “What If” generates action causing a reaction.  What if the Mars rover Perseverance discovers the shapes and shells of ancient life?  How will that affect our religious beliefs back here on earth?  What if President Biden’s 90 day command to locate the source of Covid 19 proves that it was created in a Chinese lab?  What will that do to world peace?  What if these news stories about UFO’s and our military truly do point to a reality?  They’re there!  But what are they? Space aliens? Other countries spying on us?  Are we doing the same thing to them?  I had to do some internet research.  How do conspiracy theories get started?  A connection to the masses.  Social media with all its multi layers of reach from blogging, to YouTube videos, emails, podcasting and beyond, a conspiracy gets its first rush when the receiver starts to believe. What are we doing to ourselves? Have you ever posted something that’s reached around the world then come back to you by way of someone claiming they started the belief?  What’s this have to do with The Artist Way Facebook group?  Because it took less than two minutes for people to respond. People I don’t know.  People from other countries.  And all I ever wanted to do was say, “Don’t give yourself permission to stop creating action if what you believe or don’t believe in is standing in the way.  Create to create.  How it got there doesn’t require anything but you.  If you feel you have to believe in something.  Believe in you.” 


Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut May 26th

 Today May 26th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut!!!

World Heavy Weight Champion Drew McIntyre gets real about the ring as well as the fan. His book says it best Chosen Destiny. 11am post
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45047441 No matter who won NBC's The Voice Kenzie Wheeler is going to do quite fine in the moments that lay ahead. Who is this kid and that voice! 1pm post
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45047783 Do you believe in Crop Circles? Are they messages from space aliens? What if it's energy is coming from beneath the surface of the earth. Crop Circle Realities. We're talking with Darcy Weir and Gary King. 4pm post
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45048079 Then we're Playing It Forward with Michael Brewer from Brewer and Shipley. Was the song One Toke Over The Line truly taken off the radio because of subject matter? What happened in the moments before the song was written? Were they toking? 7pm post

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 247

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May 26, 2021

The most important part about daily writing is knowing in your heart that the experience always carries forward energy.  How can a frozen day on February 20, 2021 be a source of inspiration when everything around us looks as if it’s been shaken but never stirred?  I’m extremely guilty of a lifestyle change that I would’ve never predicted.  During the opening moments of the Covud pandemic and all things political I took up a different kind of podcast listening.  I dug in deeply.  I’d crank up Chris Cuomo only to follow it with Limbaugh or Dan Bongino.  I always had to have both sides!  The more I listened the weaker I became.  I had somehow turned their word into what would shape my path making ability.  I totally recognized this evil habit on that February morning 2021.  My early morning walk before the sun rises came with no smartphone or digital device.  It was me and nature.  What?  No Anderson Cooper?  No Trevor Noah?  Not even the rants and raves of Marc Maron and Howard Stern?  Just me and the bird songs.  No screaming black crows or screeching Red Tail Hawks.  The gentle jazz the birds bring to a waking Carolina morning.  As a child I’d spend hours listening to the Western Meadowlark in Montana.  How about that Red Wing Black Bird?  Here in Carolina we have the Cardinal, wild Finches, Sterling, the occasional Morning Dove and the ever present owl.  For some odd reason on that February morning I elected to exchange Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly for something as simple a bird song.  The retraining of the human heart and mind.  To rethink the negative effects of that other people’s opinions have on the day gifted to you but given to them.  Music.  Bird songs.  Not Foreigner, Journey, Justin Bieber, Jagger or Miley and Taylor.  Bird songs.  The most important part about daily writing is knowing in your heart that the experience always carries forward energy.  Today’s date is May 26, 2021.  Three months have quickly passed since that entry in journal.  Reading about that morning walk in February not only serves as a reminder to keep free of the opinion makers but to spend more time listening to the rhythm and pace of those blessed with feathers.  Jazz…


Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut May 25th

 Today Tuesday May 25th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut!!!


Daria Peoples Riley has made a huge impact with her new book America My Love America My Heart. This is one of those books for young adult readers that'll be carried with the many years down the road. 11am post


Today is Pod Crashing day! Always introducing you to quality driven podcasts. Amy Over is featured in Confronting: Columbine. Being there at Columbine and how life and all the events after continue to create amazing and moving conversation. 1pm post


Who is Rachel Mac and how has taken over NBC's The Voice? 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with Darren G Davis from Tidal Wave Productions. They're creating a lot of talk with their latest comic book production about Dolly Parton. 7pm post

Stream Thinking To Wear Or Not Wear A Mask

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May 25, 2021

To wear a mask or not to wear a mask.  I honestly thought it would’ve been easier to make the choice. Last Monday I felt peer pressured into not wearing one.  Everyone at my lecture elected to not wear the mask.  There I was up front sporting mine!  Until I realized how uncomfortable their freedom felt.  This past Friday I was the featured attraction at a musical event attended by 297 people.  None of us wore the mask.  I’m fully vaccinated.  I say that not to brag but to relieve myself from the building anxiety.  I also don’t want to be a carrier. Over the next three days I was face to face with three times that amount of people fearing if I took off my mask I’d be the infector.  Sure, the government has cleared the way for no mask wearing. I see the daily numbers!  Those struck by the virus.  They had to get it from somewhere.  I put myself through a daily test.  Before anything happens I taste test, check my smelling and hit the path with a brisk walk to check in with my breathing.  During those moments that I chose not to wear a mask it truly felt like I wasn’t wearing underwear.  Which you’ll never catch me doing.  Chafing is painful.  So is the thought of bringing the Covid bug to an innocent bystander.  A woman said to me, “I wear a mask in public not because of me but my two children aren’t old enough to get vaccinated.”  Then there’s LeBron James.  The modern day Marvel hero.  The false God to sports fanatics.  He was recently asked if he’s been vaccinated.  It’s his choice to say yes or no.  But to admit nothing just invited millions of his followers to keep clear of what could save their life or someone associated to it.  It all reminds me of the opening scene of the movie Saving Private Ryan.  Thousands of young men are storming the beach.  Hundreds of them are instantly gunned down.  I went there because of a news story that claims the world hasn’t seen this much change since WWII.  The power of choice. What you decide today will affect and infect others.  How much care do you put into the decision?   


Thursday, May 20, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut May 20th

 Today May 2th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut!!!


We've spent the past five years yucking it up with Dad jokes. Now Lisa Beth Johnson and Phoebe Bottoms have released Mom Jokes. 11am post


He's in the top five of season 20 on NBC's The Voice. Jordan Matthew Young. 1pm post


There's no challenge like an MTV Challenge and Mark Long knows how to bring out the best and worst of every hardcore contestant. 4pm post


Then we're Playing It Forward with Simone Davies whose new book Montessori Baby creates a new path and way to raise the kids. 7pm post

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 246

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May 20, 2021

Hardcore question.  You probably won’t answer it.  I get it.  Too many things already on your mind.  What is your inner happiness?  Not enter happiness.  Inner happiness.  Look at the world around us and know what keeps you from being overtaken by looming clouds, a sky of gray, extremely cold rain.  Crows freely playing in the background.  Did I lose you?  Not if you’re truly being honest with yourself.  Finally someone that knows the junk in your trunk!  We hold onto a portrait of what we want life to look like.  How it’s supposed to feel, smell and inspire and or influence.  A portrait.  Yet here we stand in the center of society’s constant mental attack on all things that are supposed to be ambitious.  We are amped up by the headlines.  When there gets to be too much guess what!  We’re overtaken by looming clouds, a sky of gray, extremely cold rain.  Crows freely playing in the background.  I study the forest that which I live within.  It’s a storyteller.  I look like it and it looks like me.  I’ve put a lot of faith in its amazing ability to speak out when I’ve chosen to go silent.  It’s very selfish to always want bright shades of green and white colored wild roses.  I look at this forest and it looks at me.  Oh oh.  Talk about setting yourself up for a serious guilt trip.  Overtaken by looming clouds, a sky of gray, extremely cold rain.  Crows freely playing in the background.  Then we’re invited to walk out into the public eye.  For a year we got to hide.  No matter how much we complained about being locked up and trapped behind a mask.  My God!  We got to hide!  As things loosen up, the newly planted you gets the blessed opportunity to step free of being overtaken by looming clouds, a sky of gray, extremely cold rain.  Crows freely playing in the background.  Where is your source of inner happiness? Please don’t walk out there faking it.  We’ve had enough time to and way too much space to identify with the false motivators.  That itty bitty teeny bit of inner happiness that’s expected to push your Covid 19 weight forward has been overtaken by looming clouds, a sky of gray, extremely cold rain.  Crows freely playing in the background.  Time to find a ray of light.  Only you know where it is. Look at yourself in the bathroom mirror and say your name.  Look at your name tag at work and read your name.  You are the inner source of your happiness.  You have the ability and strength to stop being overtaken by looming clouds, a sky of gray, extremely cold rain.  Crows freely playing in the background.  Say your name.  Identify with who you are.  Your parents knew how to get your attention and I bet 100% of the time it was because the first thing out of their mouth was your name.  Say your name. 


Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut May 18th

 Today May 18th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut!!!


If Steve Miller keeps on rockin you then Breaking Ground is your hook up. Steve had somehow buried this live performance in the vault and totally forgot about it. He's got the entire story. 11am post


It's Tuesday which means its time to introduce you to another binge listening podcast on Pod Crashing. Season 3 of 27 Club with Jake Brennan. This season its all about Janis Joplin. 1pm post


In the 1980's she totally dominated radio and television. Tiffany!!! 4pm post


Then we're playing it forward with Pinky from The D.O.O.D. Theatrical Heavy Metal has a new face and image. Did I mention and a new song? 7pm post

Stream Thinking: I Don't Know What To Say

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May 18, 2021

A lot of things used to get under my father’s skin.  So much so that I was truly bothered as a kid.  I always assumed he was pissed off at the world.  Rightfully so.  He was a sergeant in the Army during WWII.  He never spoke of the experience.  It was wrapped up so tight inside of him.  Is that why he always let the smallest things irritate him?  I’m not him but I’m at an age he once lived and just like my father there are a lot of things that find their way under my skin.  One of them being someone who literally finds a place, a platform of potential change and they elect to project, “I don’t know what to say.”  You don’t know what to say?  You are studying to be Broadcaster!  You want to be that person!  You feel this need to be a source of energy for others.  “I don’t know to what to say.”  Fear plays one hell of a game on our heart.  I understand the pressures behind stepping out to be seen, heard and experienced.  For the love of God do you think it’s easy to write a Blog like this?  The real subject of today is what we should all be saying, “Masks are a pain in the ***!”  But this was the week they came off.  But only if you’re vaccinated.  Which basically means that this is the week masks came off.  What I want to say…  This is the WEAK.  Am I the only one hearing about India?  Oh wait.  The war in the Middle East is clogging up the front page.  India is still experiencing the worst of conditions.  A nation that bragged about being thee place to visit because they were cured from Covid 19.  I must admit.  Being with no mask yesterday at a lecture shared with future Broadcasters that it felt pretty darn good not having to fight for air when my emotional message required my style of energy.  It was a culture shock!  What kind of habits have I developed with a diaper on my face?  How about hiding boogers!  I was horrified that people might catch a snot channel oozing from my nose because of allergies. The view was no longer into my eyes but they saw the rest of me.  I had something to say.  While the future Broadcaster kept interrupting the moment at hand with a constant grumbling that only they could control, “I don’t know what to say!”  Then don’t…  In a world situation such as the one we’ve been delivered if the choice is to complain about not knowing what to say.  Then don’t.  Excuse not accepted.

Friday, May 14, 2021

Unplugged and Totally Uncut May 14th

 Today Friday April 14th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut!!!


Andrea Wang and Jason Chin have created a writers/illustrators collaboration that's capturing the hearts of YA reads around the world. For all of us it's time to sharing family stories. The book is titled Gathering Watercress. 11am post


As season 20 starts its big push toward the final episode always remember that every performer has a story and they love sharing it. Corey Ward! 1pm post


It's a brand new weekend and you need some On Demand. Killer Among is your action and drama. It stars Yasha Jackson. 4pm post


Then we are Playing It Forward with the president of the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame Greg Harris. What were his reactions to the Hall's newest members The GoGo's, Foo Fighters and Tina Turner? How did you feel about Todd Rundgren? 7pm post.