Arroe Collins: Unplugged & Totally Uncut

Welcome back to the studio.  This is My Day of Play, where you’re taken into the real events and actions of how it happens long before the process of editing or cleaning up.  This episode takes us to February 10, 2025.  The top subject was the newly unveiled Superbowl commercials. We begin things with Adweeks chief content officer Alison Weissbrot. Then we’ll wrap things up with not just another brilliant storyteller but and astronaut and researcher…the legendary Leland Melvin This is My Day of Play.  Monday February 10, 2025 completely unedited in the way of meeting the wizard behind the curtain.  

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"This astounding book is both a finger pointed directly at the rotting heart of colonial greed and a truly heart-pounding mystery." — Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Compound FractureKeala Kendall is available to talk about the book on May 7. Ask her about:Why she chose the typically dark gothic horror genre to tell this story, set in Hawaii, a beautiful and bright paradise.
The novel explores the impact of colonization, inherited trauma and the real human cost behind paradise and luxury in Hawaii. As Hapa Native Hawaiian, what she wants readers to know about the anger, grief and love you carry for a place that keeps being taken.
The story revolves around the protagonist, Lehua’s search for her missing twin sister, Ohia, after Ohia goes missing after traveling to Hawaii to work at Kōpaʻa Island Resort. Tell us about the sisters’ complex, dynamic relationship.
In addition to telling a great supernatural horror story, THAT WHICH FEEDS US invites readers to reconsider the real human cost behind paradise and luxury. Hawaii is seen as an island paradise designed for tourists, but not locals. With native Hawaiians being priced out of their homeland and trying to hold on to what no longer exists. If that is a tension that she is intimately familiar with.
If taking the deep dive into the colonial history helped her to better understand her past.

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GRAMMY® Award‑winning acoustic guitar trio The String Revolution have a cinematic new instrumental single, “West of Spaghetti” now available on all streaming platforms. Written, arranged, and produced collaboratively by Janet Robin, Markus Illko and Rober Luis, the track blends the spirit of classic spaghetti‑western soundtracks with the trio’s bold, modern acoustic style.Mysterious, filmic, playful, and rhythmically charged, “West of Spaghetti” showcases the group’s signature blend of global influences, intricate guitar interplay, and genre‑defying creativity. The track was mixed and mastered by acclaimed engineer Matthew Hyde (Rodrigo y Gabriela, Slipknot).“Pure and simple, this was a complete collaboration from the composing to the performance,” says guitarist Janet Robin. “Ensemble creation. We were heavily inspired by Ennio Morricone with all the Spaghetti Western scores and the simplicity of Gustavo Sanatolalla's compositions. We wanted to create something cinematic, but with only 3 instruments. The recording features a Charango, Requinto Guitar and a Steel String Acoustic. 

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When it’s extremely difficult to make up your mind.  Having the power of choice can actually weaken someone.  On this episode we’re going to put focus on the choice to fall witness to yet another political figure walking away from the position they were voted into office to serve.  Plus…facing a wall of burned-out coworkers.  What’s our choice in trying to stay productive as well as positive?  I’m Arroe.  Life is a series of choices.  Who decides when you’re not making it the right choice?  Is it the fear of going wrong?  The greatest lessons in life are often lost inside hidden away attempts and concepts.  It’s time to reopen your heart. Having a choice is a daily gift.  On this highway we learn to trust mirages… What is the choice? 

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Digging deeper into the channels of where a writing instrument was located gives the author a better view of who was holding onto the instrument before the creative process turned into a story. Suddenly this writing instrument has a connection to the early 20's of Ford and then a secret missile making plant. Then, its 103 degrees and the pen is taking a huge hit in the forest floor. All this before sharing an amazing talk with a beneath the soil expert.

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   What will be federally legalized first, full access to marijuana or psychedelic alternatives?    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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Although we don't really write physical U.S. mail delivered letters anymore, this phrase continues to live on. Nothing to write home about. It's all-over social media and for some reason we care when years past that handwritten letter would've been trashed.

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From one of cinema's wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film historyDavid Thomson has been called "the greatest living writer on the movies." Here is a career capstone of sorts-a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brothers to the Coens, Thomson glories in the great movies, but admits to increasing unease over what the medium has done to us-promoting fantasy, misleading models of sexual identity, the cult of authority, power, and happy endings.This revisionist history is as alert to technology and business as it is to art and fun in tracing our pursuit of the lifelike instead of life. By turns trenchant, lyrical, and comic, Thomson uncovers our addiction to voyeurism and villainy, and a habit of passivity that has betrayed our political and cultural identity. In a survey that reaches from Metropolis to Rear Window to Anora, this will redirect ideas about film everywhere. As The New York Times has put it, "Thomson proves anew that he is irreplaceable.=

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There's word on the podcast street of having a more open format when it comes to sharing politics. Especially as we get closer to the midterm elections. Do you or don't you include a political figure? The ups downs twists and victories. Invite them but play by your rules. A Politician can talk about any subject including yours. Don't stray from your vision. Tap into how they fit into yours. They need you.

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