Unplugged and Totally Uncut December 4th

Today December 4th on Unplugged and Totally Uncut... A brilliantly designed global getaway awaits your arrival in the newly released Drives Of A Lifetime. We're talking with Allyson Johnson from National Geographic. 7am post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42312316 Ryan Jay returns to review four movies. Some of which will be up for Oscars. Mank hits Netflix this weekend. Ryan says its a little long but time well spent. New on Demand is Ammonite starring Kate Winslet. One of the steamiest love scenes in movie history. Then in theaters Nomadland. A film that should've been labeled a documentary. How does Ryan feel about the authenticity? And finally there's All My Life also in theaters. You will be moved. 10am post https://www.spreaker.com/user/6391785/just-another-day-with-ryan-jay-episode-1_23 Time Magazine's Kid Of The Year Gitanjali Rao. 1pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42316528 Then we are playing it forward with the legendary Eddie Kramer who has a new hookup for fans of Jimi Hendrix. 4pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42312606

Use Your Words

Listen to "Use Your Words" on Spreaker. December 4, 2020 Words. I love me some words. Always have. My second grade teacher Mrs. Keefe caught onto that very early. Using my words got me through graduation. The teachers all came together and agreed to give me more writing time. It kept me interested in school. It was a lot better than being who I was. An injured hockey player with his knee swollen bigger than an old oak tree down by the lazy river. Three knee surgeries kept me out of school. But the teachers wouldn’t let me stop. Words! They let me use my words. I had a great conversation with John Holiday from NBC’s The Voice yesterday. I thought I loved words until I sat down with John. Oh my! His passion for words electrifies the atmosphere. He’s having a difficult time writing. I get it. He’s on one of the biggest shows on the planet! Words don’t always have to be used. As writers we’re all different. We craft our way through the process of thought coming up with our own set of plans and rules. Sadly we also feel a huge guilt trip when we can’t live up to our daily expectation. Melissa De La Cruz and I talked about her limitations. She’s written fifty books. She stays strong because writing to her is a job and nobody gets in front of her weekend. Not even a passion to write. Because I’m a daily writer. I make it my discipline to show up every day. It’s my open conversation. A spiritual walk. A place to reshape a frame of mind as well as plan things out. When I do get hired to write. I’m not so much the free form thinker. I dig in. The personality changes. The goals are set and met. A completely different personality. I do wonder a lot about words. How many of them do we physically use? Not say! Use… Most radio stations have 350 songs on their daily playlist. What’s on our daily verbal list? How are you using your words? These Covid days have quieted a lot of creative minds. We’ve gotten busy trying to catch up while not get caught up in all the drama. Words today have been silenced because of what we believe and all we really want is peace. So we stop using our words. Things are building up. You’re gonna pop. When you do. Make sure you choose your words wisely. Grow forward and outward. Use your words.

Unplugged and Totally Uncut December 3rd

Today December 3rd on Unplugged and Totally Uncut... At the age of 23 Taryn Papa knew her love for music was a force of nature that needed an open ocean to sail. So she moved to Nashville. Now she's on NBC's The Voice. 7am post https://www.spreaker.com/user/6391785/taryn-papa-from-nbcs-the-voice With more than 4.25 billion bottles purchased by Americans just last year — followed closely by 3.6 billion by France and 3 billion by Italy — there is no time like the present to learn about the captivating world of wine. For more than 25 years, The Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia has been a beloved resource for wine aficionados from across the world. We're talking with Jamie Ritche from Sotheby's. 10am post https://www.spreaker.com/user/6391785/jamie-ritchie-releases-the-sothebys-wine_1 Court Cam is unique in its own right. Action packed drama filled with the most unexpected moments caught on camera. The host is Dan Abrams. 1pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42295281 Then we're Playing It Forward with Matt Iseman. Maybe I should say Doctor Matt. He was practicing medicine before landing a comedy gig in LA. Then he hosted American Ninja Warrior before moving into a smooth slot at Live Rescue. 4pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42296626

Coffee Grounds

Listen to "Coffee Grounds" on Spreaker. December 3, 2020 I remember hearing Dolly Parton share the story of how extremely early Country Music was how people learned of regional news. They’d put tragedy and or experience into the lyrics of a song. Then it was sent on its way. Look at how the times have changed. It’s getting very difficult to keep free of the evolving headlines. CNN and FOX fool us by changing the title but the story remains. You think you’re on the brink of something breaking and it’s the same ole crap you read three days ago. Now we’ve entered the age of television shows embracing the issues by including Covid and our nation’s struggles into what used to be an escape from the world. We can’t get away. In prayer this morning I mentioned that the Sunday morning pulpit motivational speeches weren’t healing us. Lifted yes! But for how long? An hour? A couple of days? How do we get to this thing called healing? Do we reach for it? How do we prepare for it? What is the total emotional cost to get a chunk or a chip of this thing called healing? Part of my greater worry is how affected we as a generation will be in the aftermath. Yep! That time period where we come to an agreement of finally being set free from the struggles of uncertainty. The aftermath. What will we look like? How will we think? Kids are living an educational nightmare right now. They’re mentally and physically evolving in ways no person could predict. The economy isn’t a bouquet of roses. Companies remain frozen inside a type of history they didn’t ask for. I feel deeply for remote employees. I spend a lot of time sharing conversation with them at the grocery store. They keep coming back because they need someplace to go without feeling guilty about being socially distanced. The daily goal shouldn’t be an hourly grind. We’re tired! Here’s something to think about. Coffee beans have to be ground. I mean give that bean hell. I want the best flavor and the air has to be scented with elegance. Grind those beans! Your life is currently being ground. For many of us we’ve got uncertainty covered. It’s not comfortable but our daily grind is feeding our willing walk and way. But what are you doing with your grounds? You can’t reuse coffee grounds. What are you doing with your grounds? My father would take them outside and spread them across the lawn. He said, “Worms love coffee grounds.” Those worms loved my father. His lawn was always incredible. Are you replenishing your soil with used coffee grounds? Being present in your presence. Grinding through life then taking those grounds to reinforce the foundation. Find focus on being aware of how this new way of living is moving through you. It’s too easy to #weneedamiracle. You are the miracle. Every day. Take care of your soil. My coffee grounds are the words I put onto paper. I don’t sip from that cup but the unpredictable first steps of a daily new beginning serve as a place of outreach. Stop throwing out your grounds. Utilize the continued strength. For today is a new day to grind.

Unplugged and Totally Uncut December 2nd

Today December 2nd on Unplugged and Totally Uncut... Ryan Gallagher is suddenly off NBC's The Voice? We had a twenty minute conversation. 7am post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42276062 There's a new age of poetry blanketing the nation during this Covid pandemic. Leading the way is Jessica Care Moore. 10am post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42276221 Today on Pod Crashing we get inside an extremely deep conversation with Kesha. 1pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42276491 Then we're playing it forward with episode 155 with Actor Director Alex Winter from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Wait until you see his newest documentary on Frank Zappa. 4pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42278701

The Big Change

Listen to "The Big Change" on Spreaker. December 2, 2020 I could give you a long list of excuses. But that’s all they are. I’ve been absent from this recording studio for eleven unanswered days. The daily writing hasn’t stopped. If anything it’s gained. I just can’t figure out how life got in the way except to say we’re all going through the big change. Not the big change your parents always talked about. The big change of 2020. Mine includes being out on the frontline. Yeah! Out there! Not for a quick trip then back in the studio but hours at a time. Face to face. Got my mask. Wear it with pride. No plastic gloves though. Not fighting anything. Just use my hands a lot. Out there on the frontline. With you, your neighbors, community and people you’ve never met. My daily de-frag journal is filled with so many questions without having to raise the voice or increase the beats in the heart. I had to face the big change. Answer the calling. Allow the command to put me right there. The big change. So many of us are going through it. Careers that ended or have been stalled. Making up our minds to take what we know and put it on a different playing field. And you know what? It’s working. Using the very skills that have shaped a forty one radio career out there on the frontline in the center of real people. You honestly are so incredibly funny. I always thought being in a studio sharing content and music was being with you. No! There’s a huge difference between being with you and being there, right there with you. As a people going through the big change you’ve got stories. I’m listening. We’re sharing compassion, laughing about anything and still carrying life’s Olympic torch to a path of victory. The big change. Are you having to make choices that don’t agree with your dreams? Do you fear you’ll never get back what a pandemic has taken away? Don’t walk away from the big change. In everything you have done there is a connection. What truly appears to you as a wall is actually an open door or window. Move through it. I’ve learned so much about you by being with you. Not for a brief moment but to replenish, repair and recognize a newer path of accountability that reaches beyond what we felt comfortable with in that place called Normal. Is there such a place? Normal? The big change with Normal. My wife is back to remote teaching. I’m in the studio. Our new normal feels like we’ve returned to March 2020. Not in lockdown yet but when the big change doesn’t call me in to work, it’s like Normal has turned back the hands of time. I don’t want to get back to Normal by walking back through February and January of 2020. Then December 2019. Normal! The big change. Then this thought fell from my writing instrument. Normal is invisible. Some people believe in it. Some don’t. Normal is invisible. Jesus is invisible. Some people believe. Some don’t. The big change. Keep walking forward.

Unplugged and Totally Uncut December 1st

The 1st day of December!!! Today on Unplugged and Totally Uncut... The always funny and very unpredictable Judy Tenuta. 7am post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42255326 Richie Faulker knows how to keep pushing Judas Priest forward. Putting the fans first. 10am post https://w331ww.spreaker.com/episode/42255 Inside the craftsmanship and design of Juliette Lewis is a journey beyond creating a conversation. 1pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42255336 Justin Hayward from the Moody Blues. The moment you hear his stories the purpose behind his lyrics begin to take shape. 4pm post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42255354