Arroe Collins: Unplugged & Totally Uncut

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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-Missed Opportunity- I love sharing conversations.  Hosting requires show prep.  My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests.  What you don’t have access to are the missed opportunities. The show prep was completed.  The conversation didn’t happen.  I keep all my notes! Paths will cross again.  Let me explain Missed Opportunity.  It’s my questions and statements without their answers.  I’m leaving open enough space at the end of each question hoping they’ll download the talk and insert their answers.Missed Opportunity is a lost piece of history.  Like a message in a bottle tossed out to sea. I hope to locate a destination…
  This week we’re putting focus on my missed opportunity with singer songwriter Noah Spencer Missed Opportunity.  A lost piece of history.  You know the questions.  Let’s locate the reactions.  The door is always open.  If you are or know Noah Spencer please reach out to me at [email protected] that’s [email protected] Be brilliant!

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Liberty and the American Idea calls for a national dialogue rooted in truthfulness, trustworthiness, and forbearance.  Will the United States survive as the republic envisioned by the Founders, or be torn apart by alienation, distrust, and enmity?  Do we have the fortitude and grit to learn the lessons and embrace the principles that will lead to an authentic American renewal?  This book brings together a brief history of ideas that have influenced the United States with a strategic proposal to help Americans engage in genuine dialogue about the future we want to see.  Are we willing to rise above our differences to the extent necessary—to build a future we can respect and believe in?  This is a severe proposition.  Are we prepared to give America the respect, loyalty and commitment it deserves?Part One: Concerns and Considerations: This part proposes a range of ideas and influences from American history for citizens to consider and evaluate. It asks if the nation can survive as the republic envisioned by its founders, or if it will be torn apart by alienation, distrust, and enmity.Part Two: The Courage to Build Anew: This part presents a pragmatic, long-range strategy for making genuine dialogue possible and for overcoming the distrust, antipathy, and incivility that currently abound.It urges a return to the core virtues that underpinned the colonial commonwealth and the moral order enshrined in the Constitution.The book aims to provide constructive solutions and strategies for rebuilding a functioning community life, going beyond merely appraising the nation's ills.The author argues that an acceptable future can only be sustained by genuine dialogue among a broad plurality of Americans.The strategy offered is challenging, yet rational and pragmatic, providing practical means for securing order while ensuring freedom and protecting personal integrity.The book observes the decline of 21st-century civic life in the tradition of the American jeremiad.


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Are there loan companies that will now pay your rent?  How legal is that?  Plus… coffee, when comparing it to my parents in the 1950’s… who is drinking more coffee, them or us?   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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Pod Crashing episode 452 with DJ Hesta Prynn from the podcast DJ Hesta Prynn’s Music Is Therapy. What if the song you can't stop playing isn't random?What if it's pointing to something you want - or someone you're becoming?DJ Hesta Prynn's Music Is Therapy is a podcast about identity - and how music shapes the way we see ourselves, make decisions, and move through the world.Hosted by Hesta Prynn, an NYC-based DJ and licensed therapist, each month focuses on one area of life - money, love, self-worth, relationships, career - using music not as entertainment, but as a tool.Through personal storytelling, conversations with experts, and Hesta's Music Connection Therapy method, the show explores how the songs you love can help you shift how you show up in your life.This is not just a podcast.It's unconventional therapy for your entire life.Music is Therapy - your session starts now.Episodes available here:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-dj-hesta-prynns-music-is-314213684/about

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Steven C. Law, author of the new book, THE STORY OF BOB (Feb. 16, 2026)? Steven tells the life of Reverend Robert W. Wood: a World War II veteran, ordained Christian minister, and early gay rights advocate who chose visibility at a time when silence was often the only path to survival. In 1960—nearly a decade before Stonewall—Wood published Christ and the Homosexual, a radical act that openly affirmed gay people within a religious world that overwhelmingly rejected them.Drawing from intimate interviews and deep archival research, Law traces Wood’s life from his early awareness of his identity, through wartime service, to his involvement with the Mattachine Society and his quiet but consequential role in shaping early LGBTQ+ advocacy. Wood was never famous, never safe, and never passive. His activism came with real costs—professional, personal, and spiritual.What makes The Story of Bob especially compelling for LGBTQ+ readers is its human scale. This is not a mythic hero’s tale, but the story of a gay man navigating love, faith, fear, desire, and integrity in a world that offered him very few models for living openly. The book restores Bob to queer history as someone who lived authentically when doing so could cost everything.

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Banned In Sparta”- Collaborative Album with Classical Greek Poets and Modern Folk Singers Helmed by Robin BatteauRobin Batteau’s “Banned in Sparta” is a collaborative album of songs based on poems by Classical Greek poets and recorded by a number of friends Tom Paxton, Eric Andersen, Livingston and Kate Taylor, Matt Nakoa, Robin Lane, 2-time Tony winning actor James Naughton and his gifted children Keira and Greg, plus Carolyn Hester.  Robin was inspired by an Ancient Greek History class he took when he returned to Harvard during the Pandemic to finish a degree he started in the 1960s. Robin earned the World Record of taking a 50-year break (between 1970 to 2021) to return to Harvard and finish his degree in 2022.   “Banned In Sparta” focuses almost entirely on poets from Ancient Greece between 700 and 400 BC.  One poet, Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), as smitten with the ghost of Sappho as Robin or Alcaeus, is from Rome during Julius Caesar’s reign, for whom Eric Andersen performs “Cross (of Gold),” an ode to interlaced and conflicted feelings, “Odi et Amo"— I hate and I love.The title “Banned in Sparta” finds its name from Archilochus, the Bob Dylan of the 7th century B.C., a warrior-poet so irreverent he was “Banned in Sparta.”  James Naughton sings the song “Archilochus Re-Deemed (I Am a Servant of the Lord God of War).” Kate Taylor performs “Telesilla’s On the Wall,” from the female poet Telesilla, who led her fellow women warriors to victory against those same renowned Spartans. “The Greek Lyric poets performed live, and were the stars of their day,” says Robin. “They were singer/songwriters, they played the lyre (hence "Lyric") and danced around the stage like Tom Paxton and Taylor Swift.”Robin, who studied Ancient Greece and Integrative Biology at Harvard, found that most of what was left of the poems were fragments and myth, “So I mosaic-ed songs to reflect their expressions and intentions— who they were, and are to me.”         A range of female poets contributed to the lyrical history of Greece including Corrina, whose “In Her Loving Arms” is sung by Carolyn Hester, and Praxilla’s “The Most Beautiful Thing in the World,” a hymn to Adonis, sung by Keira Naughton.  Sappho’s writing inspires “Terra Cotta Heart,” sung by Robin Lane.  Livingston Taylor sings “My Sappho, Sweetly Smiling” from the smitten neighbor and rival Alcaeus. The fun and frolicking “Shake your Hair (You Thracian Filly),” sung by Tom Paxton. Pianist and folk singer Matt Nakoa offers a Bruce Hornsby-like treatment for Simonides of Ceos’s “Theatre of Memory (Man of Gold).”    


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I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   How much of our life goes unremembered?  Plus… is it true that we only remember 20 to 30 of the days during a single year?   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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