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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Welcome to The Granger Smith Podcast, Episode

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Speaker 1: thirty six. Thank you guys so much for watching, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening. I'm grateful for this platform. I'm grateful for

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Speaker 1: the first amendments that I could exercise my freedom of speech.

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Speaker 1: Get on here, speak to you guys, tell you what's

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Speaker 1: on my mind, tell you about what's going on in

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Speaker 1: my life, tell you about the stay of the world,

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Speaker 1: at least the way I see it, and to invite

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Speaker 1: some of my friends on here to chat. So, if

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Speaker 1: you're new to this podcast, thank you, Thank you for watching.

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Speaker 1: If you're on YouTube, and I would encourage you to

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Speaker 1: go backwards. This whole thing started in the back of

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Speaker 1: my bus on tour, and I wanted to give people

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Speaker 1: an idea of who I am and where I came from,

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Speaker 1: especially when it comes to music business. How we ended

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Speaker 1: up here, How did ye ye come around? How did

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Speaker 1: I start even playing guitar? Who are my influences? That's

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Speaker 1: that was the inspiration behind this podcast originally. Then it

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Speaker 1: is now shifted to every Monday. We're gonna put these

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Speaker 1: out early every Monday, so hopefully you're commuting to work

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Speaker 1: and it gives you something to do. To listen to,

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Speaker 1: to watch wire commuting to work, and it gives me

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Speaker 1: a platform sometimes to answer questions, sometimes just to get

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Speaker 1: in front of a camera and keep you guys updated.

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Speaker 1: So regardless, thank you for all that. The world, as

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Speaker 1: far as my world and touring is still very slow.

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Speaker 1: We're looking to get back soon. I know we have

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Speaker 1: a couple of dates in June. Those are in Texas.

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Speaker 1: There are some dates in July, and I would expect,

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Speaker 1: and I've been saying this that this will continue to

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Speaker 1: we're back. I mean, our December is full, so hoping

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Speaker 1: that that stays the same like it's always been. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be really fun. And as I believe, and

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Speaker 1: I kind of preach this to people, I feel like

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Speaker 1: we're living in a pent up economy right now. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people that just want to go out

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Speaker 1: I know I do, and so I feel like so

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Speaker 1: many people, especially those the majority that have not lost

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Speaker 1: whiteboard right here that I've written all of the songs

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Speaker 1: the process that those songs are in as far as

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Speaker 1: He is notorious on the internet, so many people know

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Speaker 1: him for his big personality and big biss. I want

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Speaker 1: with Chris Lee did kids in dcl my tires and school.

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Speaker 1: Long line of five, four of husband dined back rang

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Speaker 1: I just moved to Nashville. I moved to Nashville July first,

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Speaker 1: Chris Lely, the drummer from the Garland Opry, moved to

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Speaker 1: So fast forward a few months. I'm in I'm in

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Speaker 1: I barely recognized him. Cowboy hat. No no, no no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: and we weren't really I wouldn't consider as good friends. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and our relationship grew basically building the backstory of us

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Speaker 1: because I don't think anybody really knows you other than

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Speaker 1: you're you're actually a really good artist, really good songwriter.

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Speaker 1: You've always been a great singer, great guitar player. Not

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Speaker 1: district manager, district manager. That was a hard and I

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Speaker 1: You know, you were trying to develop some roots and everything.

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Speaker 1: But it still was a difficult decision for me not

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Speaker 1: of the night. And yeah, we got bigger problems. Yeah,

429
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Speaker 1: Tyler says, Bro, you got to get bigger problems. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's interesting because those guys would, uh, you have

431
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Speaker 1: to understand that them doing that. It's a lot easier,

432
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: I should say, to play a show loads of stuff

433
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Speaker 1: put in the trailer when there's not that many people

434
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: there and no one really cares, or if you're tired

435
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: and you're you're ready to get home. But the thing

436
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: was this was new to everyone. An exciting crowd that

437
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: loved us, that was packing in the doors of these

438
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: small clubs. Was very fun for the band too. So

439
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: you got a lot of pretty girls, a lot of

440
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: cool guys that are wanting to buy you a shot,

441
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: wanting to tell you how great your guitar playing or

442
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: your drumming is or your bass playing whatever. And so

443
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: it's a huge distraction because you got a lot of it.

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Speaker 1: You got seven hundred new friends every night. Man, I'll

445
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: come everybody. You play guitar so good, picking on Todd,

446
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: Let me buy you a shot, and then that turns

447
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: into two shots, and then some pretty girls come up

448
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: and they want to they want to tell you how

449
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Speaker 1: good you are, and some of the guys would want

450
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Speaker 1: to exchange numbers, and it was just it was overwhelming

451
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: to the ego. So it's hard to blame them for

452
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Speaker 1: what they were doing. They weren't just lawless, they weren't

453
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: just revolting against us. Yeah, but at the end of

454
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: the night we had to look after the crew guys,

455
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: and my did. So you fast forward seven years and

456
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Speaker 1: your job what did you say, how many years with these?

457
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Speaker 1: It was yesterday? You texted yes, seven years yesterday, seven

458
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Speaker 1: years yesterday. So your job has changed so much in

459
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: seven years from those days being that your responsibility to

460
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: now many times are managing an arena tour, right, which

461
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: is much more an arena tour for you say, it's

462
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: a Cane Brown tour, Luke bran Tor. It's much more

463
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: hands off of the band and much more hands on

464
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: with the venue and the promoter for sure, and our

465
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Speaker 1: meet and greets and radio facilitating, and yeah, it's been

466
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: it's a whirlwind. It's definitely perceived as bigger things, but

467
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, it's from

468
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen to twenty twenty. Your goal is to get

469
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: whatever vehicles you're traveling in, get them parked, get everything

470
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: loaded in, soundcheck, do a show, do a meet and greet,

471
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: or do a meet and greet, and then do a show,

472
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: collect money at the end of the night. I mean,

473
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: those basic principles never change. It just becomes a more

474
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: vast view. You a greater amount of people to deal with. Yeah,

475
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: but the principles are the same. Yeah. It might be

476
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: important to say too, because somebody might listen and go, man,

477
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: he met everybody at the end of the night and

478
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: took pictures and autographs. Why doesn't he still do that. Well,

479
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons, one of them being just

480
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: the longevity of our touring life. The lifestyle of touring.

481
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: It was crushing, not just me, and it was it

482
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: was the venues had to deal with the lines of

483
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: the people. You had to be pulled away from your

484
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: job as actually getting paid and getting the band in gear,

485
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: and it became a security issue every night, which was

486
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: overstaffing venues or that were always understaffed and so and

487
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: maybe even bigger than all those was we needed to

488
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: go to sleep. Yeah, sure, we needed to stop and unwind. Also,

489
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: the toll that that puts on your voice, Yeah, I

490
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: mean I would be horsed at the end of the

491
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: night just from Also, because you're a lot of these nightclubs,

492
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: the DJ keeps on playing, and the DJ even gets

493
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: louder after the live music is stopped. So here you

494
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: are at the merch table and every single person that

495
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: comes along, and you're not one of those that just

496
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: doesn't talk to people. You talk to every person that

497
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: comes through, and so you're shouting and you're screaming over

498
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: the DJ. And by the end of the night, it's

499
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: like you've done three shows. Yeah, because you've done your

500
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: ninety minutes and you've done two hours worth of screaming

501
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: at people at the merch table. So we transitioned into

502
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: meet and greets before the show, which was unheard of

503
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: at the time for us, for that level, for that level.

504
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: So we did meeting greets before and then we realized

505
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: we should probably charge money for those meet and greets.

506
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: Otherwise we're dealing with five hundred who wouldn't want to

507
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: go buy a ticket and go see the artist first,

508
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: and then I would if it was George Straight, So

509
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: then we put a money on it, and then we

510
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: put a limit on that. Right. But it's been a

511
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: f on evolution and I don't want to I don't

512
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: want to spend this whole conversation talking about that. I

513
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: kind of want to get into your new life as

514
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: a comedian. I want to take a quick break, quick

515
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: break from the interview with Chris. I hoping you're liking

516
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: this podcast so far. My name is Granger Smith. This

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Speaker 1: is the Granger Smith Podcast, Episode thirty six. I want

518
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: to tell you just a couple things before we get

519
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: back to Chris. Ways to find me grangersmith dot com.

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00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: If you go right to that homepage, boom, you're going

521
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: to find out when these tours are going to start

522
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: back up and when you can get tickets. I'm hopefully

523
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Speaker 1: going to announce this on social media as they start

524
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: trickling in, because they will, because we will be completely

525
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: back to normal. It's not a matter of if it is.

526
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Speaker 1: When reject the idea of the new normal, the way,

527
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: the new way of life, all that is false. Reject

528
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: that because collectively as people we're going to come together

529
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: and realize that we could defeat any kind of enemy.

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00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: I want you to go to Grander Smith because you

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00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: could you could find that I'm doing virtual meet and greets.

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00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: We typically do these on Wednesday nights, and they do

533
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: sell out quickly, but usually around Thursday or Friday. We

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00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: announced the next week when we put them on the

535
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: website right there on the homepage, so you can get

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00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: a meet and greet with me, and it's basically holding

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00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: the phone and I'm basically skyping facetiming you and we

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00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: get to have a five or six seven minute conversation.

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00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: Those have been really cool. You could also find me

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00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: on Cameo. It's an app or website cameo dot com.

541
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: You can find me on there and you could book

542
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: me to give you a video, and I'll literally send

543
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: you a video saying what you want me to say,

544
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: whether it's happy birthday, happy anniversary, happy graduation, get well soon,

545
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: you name it. I do these daily. It's so fun.

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00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: Cameo it also allows you to direct message, so we

547
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: could literally direct message text back and forth. And these

548
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: are these are ways for me to make up on income.

549
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: So that and and I'm okay, here with you apparel.

550
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: But this is to try to build our touring company

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00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: back up to take care of the guys. We still

552
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: have to pay health insurance, bus insurance, liability insurance, UH

553
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: bust payments, so there's there's a certain amount of business

554
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: expenses that we still have to maintain to stay alive.

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00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: So I'm doing everything i can UH and it also

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00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: just allows me to to keep in touch, to keep

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00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: in touch with you guys, and and feel your heartbeat

558
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: of what you're needing, what you're liking, what you're wunning,

559
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: and that's important. Last thing we're doing in these live streams,

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Speaker 1: and some of you might have seen them, but we're

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00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: gonna try to put out these live streams twice a

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00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: week and we're gonna do these on YouTube and Facebook.

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00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: You could come, you could watch it. We're gonna do

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00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: some throwback songs. Comment below if you have a song

565
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: request and we'll put it on the next the next

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Speaker 1: live show we do, or we're getting the guys together.

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Speaker 1: We're calling it live at the EE Farm. It has

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00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: been a blast. You could see the old ones on

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Speaker 1: my YouTube page and they're all free, and just like

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00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: this podcast, it's all free. We do offer a virtual

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00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: tip jar at Venmo forward Slash, granger Smith PayPal is

572
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: info at grangersmith dot com and the cash app is

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00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: dollar sign Earl Dibbles Junior. So I do want to

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00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: set that up and I do want to talk about

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Speaker 1: it because in this whole crazy mess, I'm trying to

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00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: I'm trying to just maintain a livelihood that we could

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00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: go right into touring and boom, no problem. So I'm

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00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: definitely not asking for much. Zero dollars is totally acceptable.

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Speaker 1: One dollar is perfect. That's all we're saying. Love you guys.

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00:33:51,920 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: Back to Chris Lee. When did Chris Game Means start.

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00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: Chris Gaines has always been here. Yeah, no, you know

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00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: the whole gains mantra thing. It started with weightlifting, and

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00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 1: about six or seven, about seven years ago, right before

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00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: I moved down here, I got into fitness. I started

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Speaker 1: looking in the mirror and I had had a couple

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Speaker 1: kids at the time. Started looking in the mirror and

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00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, I just I'm not going to make

588
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: it to sixty years old. I'm not going to see

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00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: these kids graduate and everything. So I knew I had

590
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 1: to make some changes. So long story short, I got

591
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: really serious about my health. When I moved down here

592
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 1: and I started to go lift with you and Tyler,

593
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: it became an extra motivation and extra challenge for me

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00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: to not just be fit, but to see if I

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00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: can outlift you guys, which I'm still trying to do.

596
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: So that's when that whole thing came along. And I've

597
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: always loved the Garth Brooks character Chris Gaines, I always have.

598
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: I thought the album was cool, I thought the idea

599
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: was brilliant and everything. So I liked pairing that kind

600
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: of using that little spin off with my name and

601
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: Chris Gaines and you know, only it spelled G A

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00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: I n Z. So that's kind of where that started.

603
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: And you know, all my social media and everything was

604
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: based around, hey, look I'm lifting weights, because it's it's

605
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: an old late weightlifting adage, right if you're if you

606
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: don't take an Instagram photo of you lifting weights, then

607
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: did it really happen? So that was kind of the

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Speaker 1: what started that mess. So a few episodes ago, I

609
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: had Dusty on here and I was telling Dusty that

610
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: he's like a sneaky, funny yeah, and I came up

611
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: because when Earl came out and people were the radio

612
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: would always say, you're so funny, You're so funny, Earl

613
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: is so funny? Were you always so funny? Were you

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00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: always the class clown you were? And I would always answer, man,

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00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not even the third or fourth funniest

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Speaker 1: guy on my bus. And I throw Dusty into that

617
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: category above me because Dusty is a quiet comedian. He's

618
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Speaker 1: he doesn't burst open the door. And here's the joke.

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Speaker 1: There's Dusty, we all laugh, he's we're all having a

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Speaker 1: conversation and he's in the background and he says something

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00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: that just gets us really laughing. But you are the

622
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: bust in the door with the joke guy, and that

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Speaker 1: that's not recent. You've just always been that guy for sure.

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00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: Since the Garland Opry playing drums. You were the guy

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00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: that had the funny quip that was had people rolling

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Speaker 1: and uh. And that that's why I recruited you for

627
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: a country boy song at the very beginning, because I

628
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: need this guy and I think you were. What were

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Speaker 1: some of your lines in that song? It was like, yeah,

630
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: the math head was the most notable. I keep a

631
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Speaker 1: twelve gauge by my waterbed because the next trailer over

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00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: there's a meth head. Yeah. Now I remember thinking that

633
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: and like writing it down at the time, thinking there's

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Speaker 1: no way he's going to go for this lyric. It's

635
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: it's too far out there, but it's funny to me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, through our days in Nashville, many many years ago,

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00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: you were writing funny songs. Yeah, you were taking either

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00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: a popular song and making a funny parody, but not

639
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: not like a silly parody, like a ridiculous version, right,

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00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: And then you were writing original funny songs. And it's

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Speaker 1: funny because I remember you thinking, your your grandpa, you

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Speaker 1: your biggest advocate, your biggest fan, who is also the

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Speaker 1: man that raised you, taught you to be a man,

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00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: taught you everything you know from birth, and you felt

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Speaker 1: a little bit of regret because he was a musician

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Speaker 1: and loved country music. You felt a little bit of

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Speaker 1: regret to write funny songs where you could be using

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Speaker 1: that talent to write serious songs to change people's lives.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. What I learned with Earl is that you

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Speaker 1: can change people's lives being funny. Also, Yeah, absolutely, a

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Speaker 1: smile is a cure to many many ailments. So you

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Speaker 1: were you were always funny, but then you started a

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel You're keep meanwhile, you're keeping us laughing constantly

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Speaker 1: on the road and the bus. But you started a

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel about really fitness and weightlifting, and the funny

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Speaker 1: pieces of that started to evolve into a comedy channel.

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Speaker 1: And then you told me a few years ago that

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Speaker 1: I never knew about you that you actually had a

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Speaker 1: dream of yourself being a stand up comedian. Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 1: and that so tell me how that what that is now,

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Speaker 1: and how your YouTube page looks now and the direction

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Speaker 1: that you want to take that. Yeah. Obviously I like

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Speaker 1: the weightlifting aspect of the channel and everything, but I

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Speaker 1: found myself only enjoying doing the funny parts of it.

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Speaker 1: And I kept asking myself, am I contributing in a

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Speaker 1: positive manner really with this weightlifting because there are a

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Speaker 1: gazillion weightlifting channels out there, And I noticed that I

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00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: didn't have the passion for the weightlifting part of it.

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Speaker 1: I really had the passion for making people laugh. And

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Speaker 1: I've always had that. I mean, going from getting in

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00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: trouble in Sunday School for cracking jokes and making people

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00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: laugh and everything. That's always just been a part of me.

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Speaker 1: And so I thought, you know, I can contribute to

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Speaker 1: this world, and it doesn't have to be in a

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Speaker 1: serious manner, because who doesn't need a smile this day

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Speaker 1: and age, right, And if I could put a little

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Speaker 1: something out there, bring a smile to somebody's face, make

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Speaker 1: them chuck a little bit, I've made a contribution. That's everything.

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Speaker 1: That's everything. So what's your YouTube channel? YouTube channel is

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Speaker 1: Chris Gaines g A I n Z comedy. Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: often are you putting out videos? And when did the songs?

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Speaker 1: Because you know, I'm all about the songs. I love

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Speaker 1: like you should do nothing but songs like it takes time.

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Speaker 1: I love when you do the song. So what's your

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Speaker 1: plan with this channel? And it's definitely taken on a

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Speaker 1: new life with this whole shutdown. Yeah, for sure. The

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Speaker 1: plan is so I do a weekly video. Every Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: I put a new video out. My goal is to

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Speaker 1: put a new song out every month. I just put

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Speaker 1: the Frozen parody out last week. So my goal with

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Speaker 1: that is just to do a song every month, to

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Speaker 1: do a new video every week, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: keep making these funny videos as long as people keep

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Speaker 1: watching them. I legitimately enjoy doing this stuff. I mean,

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00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: it just fuels my creative juices. I have a good

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Speaker 1: time with it. And like I said, if I can

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Speaker 1: bring a smile to somebody's face, make somebody laugh and

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've done something, it's awesome. It's really

699
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Speaker 1: good too. So if you guys haven't seen it, go

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Speaker 1: check out his YouTube page and then comment on his

701
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: latest video Granger Smith Podcast, so that we know it worked. Yeah,

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00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 1: we know the engagement worked. Man. I'm just even thinking

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Speaker 1: about the twenty five years that we've known each other

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Speaker 1: and the evolution in our friendship. I'm excited to see

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Speaker 1: what the next twenty five will bring. And we've gone

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Speaker 1: from work partners to friends back to work partners slash friends. Also,

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Speaker 1: we don't have a whole lot of work now as

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Speaker 1: far as tour management side. You do a few things

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Speaker 1: schedule wise. I've seen them, and I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: mention specifics, but I've seen a couple of shows come

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Speaker 1: through on email this week and I'm just a static. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like, my favorite part of this week this week

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Speaker 1: is getting those emails and being able to enter them

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Speaker 1: into our schedule. And I love that you love touring

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Speaker 1: you have a massive passion for touring, for being on

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Speaker 1: the road, for basically managing the entire touring operation. And

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Speaker 1: if you ever wonder what personal manager does versus a

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Speaker 1: tour manager, it's exactly in the title personal manager, which

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00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: is Tyler manages my music life and Chris is in

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Speaker 1: charge of the tour. And it's it's really refreshing to

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Speaker 1: see some one that loves their job like you do

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Speaker 1: and so passionate about it, and that is diligent in

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Speaker 1: staying and just growing that because I've even speaking of

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Speaker 1: job offers. I've even talked to you before about Hey,

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Speaker 1: do you want me to we could open something up

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Speaker 1: in EEE Apparel. As ee Apparel continues to grow, eventually

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Speaker 1: we're going to need a warehouse manager of that sort,

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Speaker 1: and that would provide you an opportunity to get off

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Speaker 1: the road, maybe make the same money, but still be

730
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Speaker 1: involved in the team, but not travel. You're like, nope,

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Speaker 1: I like I love the show man I do. I

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Speaker 1: love going to new towns, I love meeting fans. I

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Speaker 1: love to see your growth as an artist. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: see this thing through. You know, as long as you

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Speaker 1: keep doing this, I'm going to be right there, unless

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Speaker 1: you get rid of me, which would be silly. I've

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00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: tried to a couples. Eventually, everyone does it. Something We

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00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: have fought like brothers and h but more often we

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00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: have fought on the same side verse bad patrons and

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Speaker 1: bad club owners. We have we have carried people out,

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Speaker 1: or I've at least watched you carried people out. It

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Speaker 1: hasn't happened lately, no, thank god. But Hayes, Kansas, twenty fourteen,

743
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 1: many many stories. If you guys want to hear some

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00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 1: more of these stories, comment below. We'll get Chris back on.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do an episode of just road Stories, Just

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Speaker 1: tour Stories, the good and the bad. So anyway, I

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Speaker 1: hope you come back man again. Thanks for having me,

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Speaker 1: and we'll do it next time, maybe on the bus

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Speaker 1: when we're deep into toury. Yeah, I like the sound

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Speaker 1: of that. See you guys,