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Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 70: Virtual Summer Camp Kids love adventure, sports, the arts and STEM. Sadly many of the summer camps that allow them to expl...

We often define life by the things we have. Boxcar Junkies lead vocalist and principle songwriter Brandon Reid Allen defines his by the things he’s survived. He was born in Indiana but his nomadic ways often led him astray. With extreme hearing loss as a child and subject to a tougher start than most, Allen wasn’t exactly someone you’d expect to catapult to a career as a singer-songwriter. But one...

Martha McSally is a fighter, a survivor, a leader, and a champion of never giving up. In DARE TO FLY, McSally shares inspiring life stories and timeless principles on how to overcome obstacles and adversity. She believes that none of us is born either courageous or afraid, but rather we all possess the ability to see opportunity in obstacles, cultivate inner resilience, and to succeed when others...

A young, award winning director desperately trying to complete a movie on the open sea, whilst battling a comedy genius who is trying to sabotage his own film. SYNOPSIS In September 1973 Peter Sellers embarked on the production of a 17th Century pirate comedy in Cyprus for Columbia Pictures ( Ghost in the Noonday Sun ). Sellers lost confidence with the film as soon as it began and desperately trie...

June 25, 2020 Open mouth. Put foot in. Not just me! I’m falling witness to a lot of free form talkers putting things out there that are sharply judged. Hip Hop artist Lil Twist told me the other day that he’s working extremely hard on making sure everything he says is clearly thought out. On this podcast episode we jump into the subject of why we think have to always say something. Even while dail...

About 1:37 this morning.  I woke up from a horrid nightmare.  Eyes wide open . I really saw a person, angry, shaking the bed.  They got up and made their way to the door.  A white gown of sorts.  I felt no fear.  I know why I had the dream.  Covid 19 is now in the neighborhood.  The mind has a strange was of allowing all things to move through your sleep.

Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 69: Marriage Bootcamp 101 Since March, many relationships have been tested.  For many couples, locked up in quarantine du...

Ralph Nader is best-known for his social critiques and his efforts to increase government and corporate accountability, but what some might not know about him is his lifelong commitment to healthy eating. Born in Connecticut to Lebanese parents, Nader's appreciation of food began at an early age, when his parents, Rose and Nathra, owned an eatery, bakery, and delicatessen called the Highland Arms...

Jill Sherer Murray, award-winning journalist, founder of Let Go For It®, and TEDx speaker with over 2 million views, has written an honest, heartfelt guide to finding the way back to the self you've lost. In Big Wild Love (May 12, She Writes Press), Jill describes her experience of staying in a dead-end relationship into her forties before she let...

Dan Burke Currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the frontman of the band Twenty Love. He has a very unique style and tone to his voice. His song “Numb” is a wake-up call. He scrolls on social media and watches the news and sees terrible things that are going on but he really doesn’t do anything about it. Dan thinks the song really fits Julia’s way of portraying a story. Julia thinks th...

June 24 2020 Do you physically know anyone that hasn’t being wondering, “What if and when if?” How much will we change when it does? I can stop asking. A Covid-19 case has made an appearance in places we had hoped it wouldn’t. Hearing the news about someone we love brought on the natural reactions. Not shock! But personal worry and a heaping heart full of compassion. You play games in your head ba...

Dreams still pushing forward.  Elon Musk from SpaceX has put 500 satellites into orbit to create a global internet.  They are Beta testing it.  I write this because in one year to twenty five years we're going to look back at this and chuckle like a child.  We were here when it was introduced.  Just like we were there when Apple and Microsoft changed the world.  The t...

Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 68: America What Went Wrong? The Crisis Deepens… Long before COVID-19 ravaged the economy, millions of middle-class Americans...

Few would know the business and human side of the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson better than his confidant, friend, and former manager Dieter Wiesner. His new book "Michael Jackson: The Real Story" dives deep into Michael's visionary business plans and offers an intimate look at MJ's personal life. "You were with him for a long time. You need to tell the story! You need to tell the real story about...

In All the Horrors of War (published by Johns Hopkins University Press), Bernice Lerner follows the remarkable lives of Rachel Genuth, a 15-year-old Jewish teenager from the Hungarian provinces, and Brigadier Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes, a high-ranking military doctor in the British Second Army. The two stories finally converge in Bergen-Belsen, where the girl fights for her life and the doctor stru...

David Thewlis stars in National Geographic’s upcoming limited series BARKSKINS, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Annie Proulx. BARKSKINS, premiering this Memorial Day on National Geographic, examines the mysterious massacre of settlers in the vast and unforgiving wilds of 1690s New France that threatens to throw the region into all-out war. The series tells a thrilling story of e...

June 23, 2020 I love studying the habits of nature. From the long limbs of a Carolina Pine to the tall grasses snuggling up to a stream pushing energy to a nearby lake. There’s something in nature that speaks to their human neighbors but few are choosing to listen. To fall witness to. To grow with and from. My walk at five this morning was a total image of nature having a presence. The sweet scent...

If I leave this page blank...  Will it inspire newspapers, magazines and television anchors to calm down their headline hunting?  What would the world be like if for one twenty four hour period there was no news?  Would it invite peace into the morning becoming night?  Sadly most of us don't get our updates from corporate journalists.  Its on Facebook, Twitter and Instagra...

Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 67: Author Kimberla Lawson Roby is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 28 books. This go around she made the...

Pod-Crashing Episode 61: Keeping It Local With Pete Kaliner Podcasts are no different than snowflakes. There are no two the same. They may resemble each other. The same intensions at hand. Probably the same listening audience. It’s still impossible to call them the same. Making each podcast unique are the captains running the ship. Their visions. Ambitions. Connections and reactions. All four play...

When nine-year-old Cali Sky Braithwaite discovers an acoustic guitar mysteriously left in her bedroom closet, the muses descend, possessing her for the next fifteen years, tantalizing her with visions of a musical ideal. By 1980 disco was dead, punk had reared its pissed-off head, New Wave had washed ashore, and Cali Sky remained oblivious to it all, thanks to her protective parents. Until she mee...

St. Louis native  Bruce Franks Jr. , is a battle rapper (known as Ooop’s) who became a community activist after the 2014 events of Ferguson, Mo., and was later elected to the Republican Missouri House of Representatives. The Oscar-nominated documentary  St. Louis Superman  (airing May 18 on MTV, VH1 and MTV2) tells his story as he must overcome unresolved childhood trauma -- includi...

June 22, 2020 From early on I took note of the energy behind the nib of a writing instrument. While writing, your entire body becomes part of the flow. You lean in to a thought, move to the right or left when challenged with an idea or dream, push harder into the paper while trying to express and lightly rub the page with your opposite hand when trying to further the mental location. Handing writi...

I don't know how to best describe our present place in history.  Which actually sounds like an oxymoron.  How can we be in the present and in a place of history?  That's a backstage pass to our past.  The view of the ambition should always be outward.  We've spent too much time traveling inward.  It requires a road map that many of us usually drop.  So we get los...

Multiple layers of an invisible source of change mandating the existence of what is and isn't common sense.  Through the presence and power of choice we step into a world knowing all that we once had cannot return, sod we've mastered the art of "Give me another chance."  Expand your voice.  Push forward your visions to make this moment less divided and more in tune with why we've be...