Arroe Collins Like It's Live

I’m a daily writer of over 32 years.  A terrestrial radio and podcasts host for 46 years.  Everything I create and share through broadcasting is a personal experience. Alexa hasn’t lived a day in any decade or century yet endlessly offers information and acceleration to anyone tapping in.  Street Speak is all about making an authentic connection with a digital device and sheer know it all.  None of this is scripted.  This really is Alexa from Amazon.  You can’t predict a single word Alexa shares.  She’s AI technology.  Endlessly we are warned to never believe what she shares.  Yet it sounds amazingly authentic.  Ultimately, it’s your choice.  So why am I using my real name versus Arroe?  The AI unit thinks if she he or it has to be authentic so do I. This is Street Speak with Alexa and Clarence…

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   Are movie theaters really truly losing big Hollywood money?  Plus…why are grocery stores and other retail outlets always cutting back their staff?   I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…

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Tastykakes, Soul Songs and Shining Stars is a rich and passionate record of a life-long obsession with soul music and Rhythm & Blues from music industry stalwart Joe McEwen, legendary A&R man for acts including Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, K.D. Lang, Wilco, Nick Lowe, Built To Spill, Queen Latifah, the Frank Sinatra catalogue, and many others.Tastykakes, Soul Songs and Shining Stars is a labor of love, half a century in the making, for music industry veteran Joe McEwen. A Philadelphia native and legendary A&R executive for Columbia, Sire/Warner Brothers, Verve, and Concord Music Group, McEwen now McEwen gathers a lifetime's worth of encounters, essays, and reveries into one radiant collection-a love letter to the rhythm-and-blues and soul music that shaped him.Its pages are bursting with vivid, compelling, up-front and personal profiles and encounters with a host of important figures: Pops and Mavis Staples, George Clinton, Allen Toussaint, Betty Wright, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Don Covay, and many more. Alongside these portraits are heartfelt musings spanning the 1960s through the '80s, illuminating the creative processes behind the songs that defined a generation.Interwoven throughout are reflections on basketball, memory, and movement-parallel sources of rhythm, improvisation, and joy. The book culminates in an extended 2024 conversation with esteemed music author and longtime confidant Peter Guralnick (Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke), a fitting finale to a collection that captures the soul of a lifetime in music.

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53% of singles report dating burnout, and 32% have deleted the apps entirely, but the women most affected aren't passive or disengaged. They're the ones doing everything: initiating, overgiving, showing up, and still watching him pull away. Kelsey Gaudreault's debut book From Chasing to Chosen (launching April 25, 2026) challenges the premise of nearly every dating framework on the market. After coaching 700+ high-achieving women, Gaudreault argues that chasing isn't about who texts first. It's an unconscious wound rooted in the belief that love must be earned.Here are a few angles that may resonate with your readers:Overgiving is manipulation in disguise - because giving from a place of unworthiness ("if I do enough, will you love me?") is a transaction, not intimacy. This conversation is completely absent from mainstream dating advice.The "black cat" backlash - acting unbothered isn't empowerment, it's the same wound with a different name. Women who've traded overgiving for hyper-independence are still performing — just differently.Why he pulls away (and it has nothing to do with him) - the unconscious mirroring pattern that sends men running before a woman even knows she's doing it.

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For those of you who enjoyed the magic and heart of Remarkably Bright Creatures and the spellbinding undertones and fictionalized history of Last Call at the Savoy, you’ll absolutely love this tale of second-chances, family, and the overarching question we find ourselves asking: after everything is said and done, what am I worth in the end? Grace Schaffer's talent once landed her a coveted spot on Antiques Roadshow, where she charmed legions of viewers. But she’s recently fallen from her gilded perch, losing her career, her marriage, and her very identity in the process, leaving her with the same question her clients so often ask of her: What is it worth? Or, the question that beats beneath it, what am I worth?
In a last-ditch attempt to revive her career, she signs on to an amateur traveling show, where an old, tarnished necklace grants a strange and sudden confidence; she begins predicting the precise amount that objects will sell for at auction—prices that have more to do with the sentiment attached to the object than their market value. But the gift of divination comes with a price; Grace catches the attention of detractors and fans alike, all clamoring to see what she’ll do next.
Caught in the necklace’s strange and possibly dangerous thrall, Grace joins the hunt to uncover a lost masterpiece … before it disappears forever, taking her hopes and dreams with it. You don’t want to miss this glittering debut that marries the beauty of the past with a touch of the fantastic, offering an irresistible tale of second chances. 
“Panitch’s first novel is a touching story about the value people place on the objects in their lives and on themselves; fans of Antiques Roadshow will especially enjoy.”

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   Is Power Point still a powerful tool inside the constantly changing world of success?  Plus…how important is AI technology experience on your resume?    I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…    

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At 82, while others are slowing down, R.W. Fields published his first book to prove the conversation about racism is far from over I am reaching out to see if you might be interested in featuring author RW Fields. I believe his story and his book would really resonate with your audience.“What growing up in the 1950s taught me about character and courage”RW Fields is an 82 years old author who proves that creativity, humor, and new adventures do not have an expiration date. His book Mullet Man is a heartfelt and humorous story that explores friendship, reinvention, and embracing who you are at every stage of life. It’s a story that reminds readers that getting older doesn’t mean life gets smaller — sometimes it gets more interesting, more meaningful, and even more fun.Mullet Man is a unique and heartfelt story that really emphasizes the friendship between two very different people — separated by both age and socioeconomic background. One is older, set in his ways and shaped by a very different era, while the other is younger and navigating a completely different world financially, socially, and culturally. What develops between them is an unexpected friendship that crosses generational and class lines, and it becomes a story about dignity, understanding, and how people from completely different walks of life can still profoundly impact each other.

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The rock group Fleetwood Mac is one of the most well-known and beloved in music history, but it certainly wasn’t that way when they started in 1967. Before finding international success with the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1975, they had numerous personnel changes at the guitarist position. In fact, before Lindsey, they changed guitarists five times in seven years, as they ran the gamut from hardcore British blues to contemporary rock to breezy L.A. soft pop. In his latest article for the Strange Brew, Scott G. Shea tells the story of this magnificent band’s development through its guitarists. He describes how they arrived at the band, what they contributed, and why they eventually broke down. If you’re interested in discussing the story of Fleetwood Mac, I hope you’ll consider inviting Scott G. Shea, a leading music historian and the author of the best-selling book “All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart,” to your program. Scott can discuss what went wrong with the five guitarists who preceded Lindsey Buckingham and why Buckingham was able to make it work, at least for a little while.

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I’m CT…  When I’m not busy being Arroe the podcaster, I live in the real world.  Everybody has to have a job.  Mine is C.S.  Customer Service.  Solutions, relationships while keeping my team motivated to keep a constant connection with each guest who’s chosen to stop their day to visit our location.  Episode 221 The scent of pot, best bagger in the district plus grocery store bloopers…

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   Is it a smart business decision to add small talk to your daily requirements at work?  Plus…a greedy old man’s war versus the effect of life back home.  Who wins?    I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…

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