Arroe Collins: Unplugged & Totally Uncut

From multi-talented creator and debut author. SARA AMINI comes her semi-autobiographical graphic middle grade, MIXED FEELINGS. Through a mix of humor and heart, this charming middle grade graphic memoir explores evolving friendships, puberty mishaps, and finding a place to belong. Perfect for fans of Real Friends, The New Girl, and Pizza Face.

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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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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 the choices we make to put on display our egos.  What is the strategy behind an ego trip?  Plus…why did iHeart Radio and other major broadcast companies stop saying Classic Rock?  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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Do you believe in resurrections?  They happen every day.  But are you willing to listen, to participate, to explore and find newer ways to understand your personal journey? This podcast isn’t about what we study and see through the eyes of religion. My Boy Boy Ernie spoke with me every chance we had together.  But this isn’t about resurrecting a spiritual brother of nearly 34 years.  This resurrection is that of a writing instrument. Verbal documentation of what some may call a vision quest.  Trusting the great mysteries of life.  Tools are handed to us to carve out each expectation.  This tool was laid to rest inside a forest floor.  To experience the elements of reality while connecting with a universe that unconditionally shares its stories.  But whose writing it?  Welcome to The Resurrection…   Close:    The Resurrection is a true story.  Learn more about this forest and My Boy Boy Ernie on Arroe.net.  His story, journey and new path with a writing instrument are available on the podcast The Lyrics From Ernie’s Forest. Future episodes of this podcast will focus on the transition of materialistic value to that of an authentic storyteller.  The ice storms, a record setting 11 inches of snow, the fear of walking to the grave site to find nothing. The Resurrection.  Faith, hope, forgiveness and discovery. What lessons will the writing instrument bring back to the surface of walking forward?  Let it rise above our tears.  

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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   Can the U.S. handle a serious homeless crisis in the way Gaza and Ukraine are being tested?  Plus…the power of relating.  There are two different ways, which are you?   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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Those things our parents would say. One that once popped up a lot in the lives of young adults was the infamous birds and the bees.

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NEGOTIATING WITH TRUMP is not a book just about politics. It is a practical field guide for anyone who has ever faced a difficult conversation, a high-pressure deal, or a counterpart who plays by their own rules. Johnston translates the lessons of the most important negotiations on earth into a framework readers can apply immediately—whether they admire Trump, oppose him, or simply want to understand the forces that shape their world.

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To video your podcast or to audio your podcast. Almost every ad on social media has started calling you a non podcaster if you choose to stay only with audio. Is video podcasting a fad or are we here to stay? And is a video making more money?

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Adam Mansbach's #1 New York Times bestselling book Go the F*ck to Sleep resonated with parents everywhere. With graduation here, he humorously and poignantly delves into the mixed emotions in his new book, Go the F*ck to College. Ted Danson narrates the audiobook.Illustrated with humorous images by Owen Brozman, the book channels Mansbach's complicated feelings about sending his daughter into the world and captures the difficulty in celebrating your child's growth while wanting to keep them close.Mansbach’s complicated feelings about sending his daughter into the world and captures the difficulty in celebrating your child’s growth while wanting to keep them close.*WHEN YOUR KID IS LITTLE, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to death and also be willing to do anything to get them to go the f*ck to sleep. But by the time your precious little baby bird is getting ready to spread its wings and leave the nest? You want them to know that they can always come home, but also, you're turning their bedroom into a gym.With his trademark honesty, humor, and profanity, Go the F*ck to College perfectly captures the complicated emotional reality of this poignant, fraught, exciting time. This book somehow encapsulates everything you'd ever want to tell your kid . . . along with a few things you'd never dream of saying out loud.

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