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Speaker 1: Padi. Everybody, Welcome to the Granger Smith podcast. What's Up?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Would traveling to another country right now

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Speaker 1: to a completely different country during the craziness of this

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Speaker 1: world right now, in the state we're in, would that

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Speaker 1: be smart? And if I did well what I see,

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Speaker 1: would I feel safe? Well, I'm here to tell you

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Speaker 1: I just did it. I actually just got back, and

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Speaker 1: I learned a lot from this trip. And probably most

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Speaker 1: importantly was when I was deciding to go in this

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Speaker 1: crazy time and leave my family and go to another country,

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Speaker 1: and I was having some serious commitment remorse, like maybe

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't like now I'm scared, Maybe I should be scared.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's telling me I should be scared. I should try

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Speaker 1: to be super safe right now. And then I decided

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Speaker 1: against it, and I decided to go with my gut

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Speaker 1: and go with the original commitment. And I was really happy.

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Speaker 1: I was really really happy that I did. I felt

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Speaker 1: like I'm better for it. I felt like nothing bad

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Speaker 1: happened from it. I'm want to tell you all about

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Speaker 1: that where I went, How I did it, what it

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Speaker 1: was like on this podcast. I want to read a

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Speaker 1: few shout outs here before we get started, because shout

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Speaker 1: outs on this podcast are really important to me. So

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Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to Jesse Nettie

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Speaker 1: Covin that is any tt E k O v E N.

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Speaker 1: Sorry if I'm so bad at these names from oshcost, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give a shout out to Justin Toner

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Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. Landon Manzonis from Durango, Colorado, thirteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Landon. Here's a shout out to Love Cows.

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Speaker 1: Love Cows always listen to this podcast. I don't exactly

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Speaker 1: know who you are, but what's up? Thank you? You said?

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Speaker 1: Will you ever have Matt character on this podcast? Yes?

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Speaker 1: I will. Good question. Love Cows shout out to Spencer

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Speaker 1: Nielsen from Boise, Idaho. Love Me from Idaho. Thanks Spencer.

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Speaker 1: Here's a question from our Here's a shout out to

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Claverweedon. Thank you Isaiah for listening. Appreciate you do

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Speaker 1: a few more. Alexis Valeda from Minneola, Texas. What's up, Alexis,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Justin Zevenbergen, sixteen years old from

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Speaker 1: Mason Corral from Tiffan, Ohio. Caleb Sea Hand see hand

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Speaker 1: Dylan Dillon Dylan Sorry, Dylan Shavers thirteen years old, Dylan,

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Speaker 1: that's the second. Thirteen year old. Mandy Clevinger from Southwest Missouri.

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Speaker 1: What's up? Mandy Bryson bocom is turning eleven years old

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Speaker 1: on January sixteenth, shout out. Thanks for listening to Diesel Bryson.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. I mean you could. You could

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Speaker 1: get a shout out if you want. Grangersmith podcast at

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com. I can't do them all, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: but I would like that. I'll go through and just

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Speaker 1: this platform. I'm not only going to tell you about

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Speaker 1: going to a foreign country and why I think you

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Speaker 1: should consider it and get your comments ready because you're

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Speaker 1: about to attack me. I know some of y'all are

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Speaker 1: also want to answer some of your questions. There's some

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Speaker 1: really good questions today, including one that says, how could

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Speaker 1: unpacked that really good question on this podcast. Appreciate y'all listening.

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Speaker 1: Love y'all, Ye yee did chant in DC mon tires

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Speaker 1: just got back from Mexico last night, really late last night.

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Speaker 1: make memories. And I was like, into my mind, I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: I know that this wasn't your totally your question, how

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Speaker 1: i am, Courtney, let me get back to your question

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Speaker 1: another huge problem to your brain. You're not giving your

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Speaker 1: brain good food, good fuel, good power on an already

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Speaker 1: off situation. So I'm guilty of that. You could double

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Speaker 1: up your problems. What I've done lately, probably the past

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Speaker 1: couple of years, is if I'm taking an early flight

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Speaker 1: during touring days normal year, normal touring, almost every single Sunday,

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Speaker 1: I was flying home from a city, and almost every

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Speaker 1: time I would take the earliest flight out of that

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Speaker 1: city to try to have the most family time I

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Speaker 1: can at home. So usually that flight is between five

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Speaker 1: and six am, which means I'm getting up really early

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Speaker 1: to get you a ride to the airport, and I

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Speaker 1: would just make up my mind then I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to eat anything at the airport and it's easier to

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Speaker 1: say I'm not going to eat anything than it is

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Speaker 1: to say I'll wait and see what they have at

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Speaker 1: the airport, because it's never going to be good. So

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Speaker 1: I would rather fast and go on no sleep and

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00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: no food, just coffee. That way, I'm not putting anything

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00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: worse into my body that is having to deal with

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00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: digestion blah blah blah blah whatever. And I could get

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00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: straight to and get straight home and try to get

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Speaker 1: some good food in me and then go to bed.

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Speaker 1: I know that that's probably way around what your question was, Courtney,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's a great question, David says. Hey man,

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Speaker 1: I'm David from Colombia. You don't have to answer this

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00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: if it's too personal, but I wanted to know what

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Speaker 1: inspired you to write the song Letters to London Thank

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Speaker 1: you and Yeye. Yeah, David, good question. It's not too personal. Actually,

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Speaker 1: that song Letters to London is on my what album

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Speaker 1: is that? What's that called? It's called Poets and Prisoners.

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Speaker 1: I believe that was twenty eleven Poets or maybe twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: One of those two years eleven, I think, yeah, Dirt

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Speaker 1: Road Driveway was two thousand and nine, so Poets and

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Speaker 1: Prisoners was twenty eleven, and there's a song on there

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Speaker 1: called Letters to London. That song idea came from Amber

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Speaker 1: when we were we got engaged in Europe because her

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Speaker 1: family is from England. She's a once removed I don't

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Speaker 1: even know how you say it. Her grandmother's is from London.

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Speaker 1: So her grandmother came over and moved to the US

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Speaker 1: accent and all. So we went over there and we

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Speaker 1: were visiting and basically her homeland, which is it's mine too,

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00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,439
Speaker 1: just many generations before that, and we were just having

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00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: this great trip. It was her first time over there,

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00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 1: and she said, I got a good idea for a song.

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Speaker 1: It's called Letters to London. I was like, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I don't know what it means, but

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Speaker 1: I really like it. It It was soon after and I'd

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Speaker 1: have to ask her to confirm this, but it was

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00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: soon after that we decided if we had a little

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Speaker 1: girl one day, we would name her London. So I

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00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: started writing the song and then thinking about the perspective

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00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: of actual girl named London, not the city. If it

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Speaker 1: was a girl, Letters to London, the girl. That's where

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00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: that song came from. This is all the way back.

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Speaker 1: This question came from September twenty eighth from Amy. It says, Hey, Granger,

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Speaker 1: I've always wondered when I pay a dollar twenty nine

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Speaker 1: to download a song from iTunes, how much of that

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00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: actually goes into your pocket? Yeah, great question, and that's

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00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 1: different for every artist. I'm gonna answer me. I have

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00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,479
Speaker 1: a record label. They're really good people. It's a record

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00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: label called BMG, and for most artists that have record deals,

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Speaker 1: it is they are essentially a bank. So it costs

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Speaker 1: usually a lot of money to make an album, and

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Speaker 1: everything that goes into that album includes music videos, which

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00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: music videos are really really expensive, the high budget ones

702
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: because you're hiring a crew. You're hiring a director that's

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Speaker 1: that people know, and he's going to guarantee you a

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Speaker 1: good product. So there's album art, which you know, good

705
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: photographers cost money, and graphic designers cost money. Co producers

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00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: cost a lot of money, and then studios and musicians

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00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: and everything. So an album could end up being I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna I mean, I'm gonna throw it out there, but

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Speaker 1: it could be you know, a quarter million dollars, It

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Speaker 1: could be a total of two hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars to make an album, so I mean it could.

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Speaker 1: I've also made albums. I've made albums in my life

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Speaker 1: for five grand and forty five hundred of that was

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Speaker 1: packaging and the rest I just did out of my house.

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Speaker 1: So I've really done the whole gamut of the album

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Speaker 1: budget budget albums. But amy what the record label will

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Speaker 1: do is they they come forward as really a bank.

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00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: They'll say, hey, we'll pay for the album. We'll pay

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00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: for all that quarter million dollar album, don't even worry

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Speaker 1: about it. And then as you start selling the dollar

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Speaker 1: twenty nine, that's gonna go to us until we pay

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Speaker 1: ourselves back. And then after we pay ourselves back, you

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00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: could have whatever's left and it ends up being a

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Speaker 1: good deal. I don't, I don't. I mean I don't

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Speaker 1: want to pay a quarter million dollars to make an album.

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00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: Once again, not saying you have to, but if you

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Speaker 1: want to get into three really big music videos and

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Speaker 1: hire a photographer that you know is gonna nail it

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00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: for you, there's a lot of things. You know. This

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00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: this last last album I had had sixteen songs on it,

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Speaker 1: so there's a lot of players, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: studio time, so I don't want to dump that out,

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Speaker 1: so I happily give the label your dollar twenty nine

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00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: to repay until we get to that quarter million. So

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00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: let me put it this way, I don't see any

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Speaker 1: of it typically, and that's okay, that's okay. That's the

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Speaker 1: choice I make to make an album like that. That's

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Speaker 1: the decision I make. If I was pinching pennies, then

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00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,399
Speaker 1: I would say, I ain't signing an old record deal.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna budget this album and make it myself,

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00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna nickel and dime every musician, and I'm

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00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna nickel and dime every studio, and I'm not gonna

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00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,959
Speaker 1: hire a high dollar video director. And then I'm gonna

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00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: keep your dollar twenty nine for myself. I just don't

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00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: think that's not an efficient way of making a living.

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00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: Touring selling tickets is the way I really make a

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00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: living in the music business. So and for your listeners

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00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: on this podcast, that's another way. So that's pretty much

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00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: your answer to where the dollar twenty nine goes, Amy,

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00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: let me get another one. I have time. Yeah, I

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00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: got another guy. I got time. This question is from

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00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: Ken I like this question, Ken. I looked at this

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00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: right before I did the podcast. It says, Hello, this

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00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: is ken Seymour from upstate New York. Shout out to

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00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: upstate New York. I don't want this to come across

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00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: as judgmental, but I have a question. I watch and

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00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: listen to your podcast and YouTube channel. I hear your song,

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00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: I hear your strong belief in God, but I've noticed

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00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: you use your use of tobacco and drinking beer and

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00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: other alcohol. How do you explain this contradiction. It seems

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00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: in your songs you're almost glorifying it. I've been thinking

762
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: about writing you. I know we are not perfect, and

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00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: we all have our struggles with sin, but I'm curious.

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00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 1: Please understand, I'm asking one man who is a fallen sinner,

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00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: just trying to live my best life for Christ. Let

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00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: me read that sentence again, because sometimes I struggle reading

767
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: these sentences if I'm looking on my phone. Please understand,

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00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: I'm asking one man who who was a fallen sinner,

769
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: just trying to live my best life for Christ, ken Seymour.

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00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: I like this question a lot, and it comes up

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00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: a lot. I get a lot of questions like this

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00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 1: on this podcast and I don't think I've really answered one.

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00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: I don't think one has come up in the raffle

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00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: yet until now. But let me try to unpack it

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00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: a little bit, because Ken, I don't disagree with you.

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00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: Let me start with this, and I'm not gonna I

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00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: don't have a Bible in front of me, and so

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00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into specific scripture. But I

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00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: have read the whole Bible many times. So, first of all,

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00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: tobacco use is not a sin. There is It's not

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00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: a sin. There's nothing in the Bible that says it's

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00:49:54,360 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: a sin. If I was under age, which in Texas

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00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:07,839
Speaker 1: seventeen for tobacco, and I illegally got the tobacco under

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00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:12,760
Speaker 1: the age of seventeen, then there would be a sin involved.

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00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:19,800
Speaker 1: It is also not a sin to drink alcohol. Drunkenness

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00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: is a sin, drinking alcohol is not. Most people historically

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Speaker 1: believe that at the Last Supper Jesus was drinking wine

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00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: with his disciples. It was fruit of the vine, as

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00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: it says in the Word. So there is an argument

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00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: that it could have been grape juice, but it's unlikely,

791
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: historically unlikely that it would have been grape juice. It

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00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: most likely was fermented making it wine. The problem with

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00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: alcohol and what Paul talks about many times with drunkenness,

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00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: and there's many mentions in the Old Testament about it

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00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: as well, is drinking too much fermented fruit of the

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00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:10,439
Speaker 1: vine and becoming drunk. And the problem with drunkenness, which

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00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: is the sin drunkenness, is what you do with an

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00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: impaired mind and what that leads to, what that opens

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00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: the door to in your life with that and paired mind.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with alcohol. I do partake in alcohol.

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00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 1: I do have a beer. I do have a ceremonial

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00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: drink with the band, and I am learning this is

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00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: a new path for me, guys, my strong conviction to

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00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: Christianity and what I call my rebirth, which happened about

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00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. I've always been a believer,

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00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: but I was born again about a year and a

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Speaker 1: half ago. Since then, I have made a sincere commitment

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00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 1: to myself to avoid drunkenness. I haven't I haven't committed

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00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: cutting off alcohol because I genuinely have a pretty strong

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00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: willpower and I've always had a pretty strong discipline with

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00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: myself and so I can control only having one or

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00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: two drinks max, and that's it. I can control that.

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00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: If I thought there was just a sliver of a

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00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: chance that I wouldn't be able to handle limiting myself

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Speaker 1: into three, four or five sixty seven drinks, I would

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00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: not touch it at all. I wouldn't take a drop

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00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: of it, knowing that once I have one drink, it

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00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: could lead to many more, which could lead to drunkenness,

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Speaker 1: which could lead to all kinds of problems. And I'm

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00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: a married mayn and I have kids that could lead

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Speaker 1: to many problems. So so because of my my, my

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00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: me understanding my personal self discipline, I feel like I

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00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: could still have uh you know, like I was in

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00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: Mexico the last this past week, and after we would

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00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: come in from the hunt, we would have a cold

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Speaker 1: surveysa waiting for us out of the ice chest. Takata

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00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: is what they served there. And it was awesome. It

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00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: was awesome. You know, sun's going down, just finished the hunt.

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Speaker 1: You just crack open it's cold takata. It was delicious.

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Speaker 1: And I didn't I didn't go past that. I didn't

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Speaker 1: go I didn't go to the second drink. It was

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00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: enough for me. It was enough for me. To have

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00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: the one and then switch to water. So let me

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Speaker 1: go to tobacco. I like I said, the tobacco is

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Speaker 1: not a sin. If it became a crutch for me,

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00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: if it became something I needed for my brain to

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00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 1: focus or to if it became an addiction, an absolute addiction,

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00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: or had to have it in front of me all

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Speaker 1: the time, or if it became if I was needing

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00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: it to support me in any way that was taking

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00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,240
Speaker 1: away from the support I need from God. That's a problem.

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00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: That becomes a sin right there. But in itself, it's

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00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: not unless it's illegal. Now, let me deal. Let me

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00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: let me get to the part of your question that

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00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: is probably the most important part of your question. It says,

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00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: where'd you say it? Oh? It seems in your songs

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00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: you're almost glorifying it. Okay, there's the problem. This is

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Speaker 1: the so in everything you've said, ken for me, I'm like, good,

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Speaker 1: got it, got it? Not a sin. Drinking alcohol is

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Speaker 1: not a sin. Tobacco's another thing. Okay, But then we

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Speaker 1: get to a problems. Here's my problem that I struggle with.

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Speaker 1: It seems in your songs you're almost glorifying it. You're right,

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Speaker 1: You're right, Earl Dibbles the country boy song. It says

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Speaker 1: in the bridge of country boy song, And I wrote

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Speaker 1: this eleven years ago, now ten years ago, getting country

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Speaker 1: drunk in the back of my truck. The night is young,

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Speaker 1: gonna get messed up. Boom there it is this you

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Speaker 1: know that's glorifying drunkenness. So so what do I do?

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Speaker 1: This is you know, it's a song, it's my most

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Speaker 1: popular song, a lot of a lot of stages. What

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Speaker 1: do I do? So I'm asking you, ken one, as

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Speaker 1: you said at the at the end of your question,

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Speaker 1: from one fallen man to another, just one sent er

864
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 1: to another, trying to live my best life for Christ.

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Speaker 1: If it was today, if I was writing that song today,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have put that line in there. And that

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Speaker 1: was a night me and me and my tour manager Chris,

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Speaker 1: my buddy Matt, my brother Tyler wrote that song. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have written that today. I see the world differently,

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Speaker 1: and I see that that could be you know, it

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Speaker 1: could be young people listening to that and they take

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Speaker 1: it too far, and I just don't. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: that's the right message I need to be saying. So

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Speaker 1: it weighs it weighs on my conscious that maybe there need,

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Speaker 1: maybe I need to take that bridge, or maybe I

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Speaker 1: need to say new words like when I perform it,

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Speaker 1: maybe I need to change those words to something else,

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Speaker 1: something not a little less dramatic and move forward with that.

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Speaker 1: And it's uh, it's it's something I deal with as

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00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: far as far as anything Earld devils Junior, It's just

881
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: a comedy. It's a comedy act. You don't see me

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Speaker 1: with fat dip in and you know, slamming back, you know,

883
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Speaker 1: shotgun and cold ones. I don't do that in my videos.

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Speaker 1: That's Earl And it is something I'm kind of working

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Speaker 1: through on how do I how do I make this

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Speaker 1: transition if I'm truly trying to live better for Christ,

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Speaker 1: as you said, trying to live my best life for Christ,

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Speaker 1: how do I knowing what I know and moving forward

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Speaker 1: and knowing my place of influence. It crosses my mind

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Speaker 1: and it's a good question, and it's I think you're

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00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: right to ask it and let me know how you

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00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:33,959
Speaker 1: think I answered it. Let me know how you think

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Speaker 1: I tackled the components biblically of tobacco and alcohol. You

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00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: could probably find ways to argue me on all of that,

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Speaker 1: and that's you know, theology is always there's always an

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00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: argument in theology. And I'm telling you what I read

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00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: and what I believe and what I see. But great question, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Upstate New York. Shout out to you, Ken,

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Speaker 1: and please keep in touch, write me back, let me

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Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. And I think I amount of

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Speaker 1: time here on this podcast. I love you guys for

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Speaker 1: asking these questions and for challenging me. I have some

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Speaker 1: really cool guests lined up for the future these next

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Speaker 1: few weeks, so hang with me. Thank you for being

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Speaker 1: such a big part of my life. And the podcast

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Speaker 1: has come to life really and through these questions. It's

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Speaker 1: no longer just me talking to a camera and uploading

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Speaker 1: to Paul and it goes on the podcast app. It

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Speaker 1: has come to life when you guys pour in your

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Speaker 1: questions and some of these questions that that means so

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Speaker 1: much to you and your life, and then I get

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Speaker 1: to to engage them. So I just appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: so much and it means a lot to me. I'll

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Speaker 1: see you guys next Monday. Ye ye, thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: me on the Granger Smith podcast. I appreciate all of

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