Speaker 1: Padi. Everybody, Welcome to the Granger Smith podcast. What's Up?
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Would traveling to another country right now
Speaker 1: be a smart thing to do? If I just packed
Speaker 1: my bags and headed off to the airport and went
Speaker 1: to a completely different country during the craziness of this
Speaker 1: world right now, in the state we're in, would that
Speaker 1: be smart? And if I did well what I see,
Speaker 1: would I feel safe? Well, I'm here to tell you
Speaker 1: I just did it. I actually just got back, and
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from this trip. And probably most
Speaker 1: importantly was when I was deciding to go in this
Speaker 1: crazy time and leave my family and go to another country,
Speaker 1: and I was having some serious commitment remorse, like maybe
Speaker 1: I shouldn't like now I'm scared, Maybe I should be scared.
Speaker 1: Everyone's telling me I should be scared. I should try
Speaker 1: to be super safe right now. And then I decided
Speaker 1: against it, and I decided to go with my gut
Speaker 1: and go with the original commitment. And I was really happy.
Speaker 1: I was really really happy that I did. I felt
Speaker 1: like I'm better for it. I felt like nothing bad
Speaker 1: happened from it. I'm want to tell you all about
Speaker 1: that where I went, How I did it, what it
Speaker 1: was like on this podcast. I want to read a
Speaker 1: few shout outs here before we get started, because shout
Speaker 1: outs on this podcast are really important to me. So
Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to Jesse Nettie
Speaker 1: Covin that is any tt E k O v E N.
Speaker 1: Sorry if I'm so bad at these names from oshcost, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give a shout out to Justin Toner
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. Landon Manzonis from Durango, Colorado, thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Landon. Here's a shout out to Love Cows.
Speaker 1: Love Cows always listen to this podcast. I don't exactly
Speaker 1: know who you are, but what's up? Thank you? You said?
Speaker 1: Will you ever have Matt character on this podcast? Yes?
Speaker 1: I will. Good question. Love Cows shout out to Spencer
Speaker 1: Nielsen from Boise, Idaho. Love Me from Idaho. Thanks Spencer.
Speaker 1: Here's a question from our Here's a shout out to
Speaker 1: Isaiah Claverweedon. Thank you Isaiah for listening. Appreciate you do
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Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Justin Zevenbergen, sixteen years old from
Speaker 1: Low Michigan. It's crazy. You have to read some of
Speaker 1: these names, and I think it's going to be a
Speaker 1: foreign country and it's it's Michigan. What's up? Sixteen years old?
Speaker 1: Justin thank you for listening. Man and Tyson Lindbergh. Appreciate you. Buddy.
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,
Speaker 1: that's the second. Thirteen year old. Mandy Clevinger from Southwest Missouri.
Speaker 1: What's up? Mandy Bryson bocom is turning eleven years old
Speaker 1: on January sixteenth, shout out. Thanks for listening to Diesel Bryson.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. I mean you could. You could
Speaker 1: get a shout out if you want. Grangersmith podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. I can't do them all, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I would like that. I'll go through and just
Speaker 1: shotgun through some of them like that. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys so much, love you, thank you for giving me
Speaker 1: this platform. I'm not only going to tell you about
Speaker 1: going to a foreign country and why I think you
Speaker 1: should consider it and get your comments ready because you're
Speaker 1: about to attack me. I know some of y'all are
Speaker 1: going to attack me for even saying that, but I
Speaker 1: also want to answer some of your questions. There's some
Speaker 1: really good questions today, including one that says, how could
Speaker 1: I get on stage and glorify alcohol and tobacco when
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a man of Christ? How could
Speaker 1: I do that? And so I dug in and completely
Speaker 1: unpacked that really good question on this podcast. Appreciate y'all listening.
Speaker 1: Love y'all, Ye yee did chant in DC mon tires
Speaker 1: and school, long line of good by, fool of up
Speaker 1: and down during back rangy cog yeah goation. So I
Speaker 1: just got back from Mexico last night, really late last night.
Speaker 1: Flew in the last flight out of Atlanta from Mexico
Speaker 1: City from Airmasile, and so I have a little little
Speaker 1: tired today, but good to be back home, Good to
Speaker 1: be back on the podcast. This trip to Mexico, it's
Speaker 1: interesting and I want to talk about it because, uh
Speaker 1: my good buddy Preston from I know him from We
Speaker 1: went to grade school together and then college together and
Speaker 1: then our lives became very different when he went into
Speaker 1: commercial real estate. He's really really smart guy, brilliant guy,
Speaker 1: and he's one of these guys you meet him, you
Speaker 1: just know he was going to be successful, and he
Speaker 1: is very successful at what he does. And then I
Speaker 1: went and joined a band out of college. So we
Speaker 1: our lives took really really big turns away from each other,
Speaker 1: but we talk a lot still and we share a
Speaker 1: love for the outdoors. We always have ever since we
Speaker 1: were kids. So we go hunting at least once a year.
Speaker 1: We'll go hunting for something, whether it's bird or deer.
Speaker 1: This time it was mule deer in Mexico. And the
Speaker 1: reason this happened was he called me of just about
Speaker 1: two days before we left and said, hey, man, I
Speaker 1: have this trip planned to go to Mexico and the
Speaker 1: state of Sonora and I was going with my dad
Speaker 1: and my dad got diagnosed with colon cancer and needed
Speaker 1: to get some test done so he can't go. Do
Speaker 1: you want to take a spot? And I said, hey, man, awesome,
Speaker 1: let me check with Amber, let me look at the
Speaker 1: schedule and I'll get back to you soon. So hung
Speaker 1: up with him. And it's interesting because I went to
Speaker 1: Amber and she was like, yes, do it. You need
Speaker 1: to do it. You know, these kind of opportunities are rare,
Speaker 1: and you only live once. And Amber, you know, since
Speaker 1: Amber is always really into you only live once, take
Speaker 1: advantage of life when you can, because tomorrow is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1: And this was a special trip with your friend. So
Speaker 1: I was like, cool, cool. So I texted him and said,
Speaker 1: I'm in give me the details, you know, let me
Speaker 1: get the flight and everything. And then when I said that,
Speaker 1: I started getting sort of building up the slow remorse.
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about buyer's remorse. For me, there's
Speaker 1: something that's what I call commitment remorse. It's like I
Speaker 1: commit to something and then I go, oh, why did
Speaker 1: do this? So I just wrestle in my brain and
Speaker 1: I was literally laid down on the bed and you know,
Speaker 1: face down in the pillows, and I was just like, shoot,
Speaker 1: do I need to be leaving the family right now?
Speaker 1: You know, the world's weird right now? Do I need
Speaker 1: to be traveling to Mexico? And Amber the whole time?
Speaker 1: Thank God for Amber, She's just reassured me like, yes, babe,
Speaker 1: do it, do it. These opportunities don't come you're gonna
Speaker 1: make memories. And I was like, into my mind, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the farm and do a podcast
Speaker 1: and you know, get stuff done around the house and
Speaker 1: work on you know, do radio interviews. And I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I do those all the time. Anyway, why do I
Speaker 1: Why do I want to be stuck to this routine?
Speaker 1: And so I was like, well, I started thinking, well,
Speaker 1: Preston asked me for a reason. There has to be
Speaker 1: a reason. There's a reason for everything, and maybe I
Speaker 1: actually just embrace this, embrace an adventure, embrace the unknown,
Speaker 1: give up on this commitment remorse. And so it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I just committed my mind to it. I'm gonna be gone.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be like five days. So I did, and
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that I did. It was it was
Speaker 1: an amazing trip. We flew into we I flew from
Speaker 1: Austin to Phoenix to airma Cillo and from airm Cillo,
Speaker 1: our guide, which is basically the owner of the ranch,
Speaker 1: picked us up at the airport and we drove about
Speaker 1: an hour and most of that drive was on a
Speaker 1: dirt road. We went to that I mean, we throw
Speaker 1: around the phrase middle of nowhere in the Sonoran Desert,
Speaker 1: you could really get in the middle of nowhere. I'm
Speaker 1: talking no first of all, just no roads. There's no
Speaker 1: road there's no county roads, there's no power lines, there's
Speaker 1: no buildings, there's no civilization at all. So down a
Speaker 1: certain point on these dirt roads, you just start going
Speaker 1: through ranches and you're we're going through other people's ranches.
Speaker 1: Every land, every piece of land and Sonora is privately owned,
Speaker 1: and they're massive ranches because it's just arid desert. So
Speaker 1: I mean it's heavily vegetatd heavily vegetated, is that right.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of vegetation, so it's not open desert.
Speaker 1: It's it's like mesquite trees and all different kinds of
Speaker 1: cactus and PalaVerde trees. But it's it's still very arid desert.
Speaker 1: So you're driving through ranches and going through these cattle gates.
Speaker 1: It's all cattle country. In fact, this country is known
Speaker 1: for this part of the country is known for carnee asada.
Speaker 1: They invented carne asada. So they know their beef very
Speaker 1: very well, they know their cattle very very well. They
Speaker 1: could tell you what breed of cattle and what cut
Speaker 1: produces what taste, and the reason in the difference of
Speaker 1: breeds for that taste. So you're driving through these different
Speaker 1: ranches and you have a key that will get you
Speaker 1: through the gates of different people's ranches. So that's how
Speaker 1: far you're going away from civilization and out there. We
Speaker 1: finally got to Beto is his name. We got to
Speaker 1: Beto's ranch and it's twenty thousand acres all just free range,
Speaker 1: and there's no power that they run a backup generator
Speaker 1: and then they have a solar system, which the solar
Speaker 1: power was pretty iffy. It would go off a lot,
Speaker 1: would lose power a lot, so they have to crank
Speaker 1: up the backup generator. No water, of course, it was
Speaker 1: all well water, hand dug well water. And then there's
Speaker 1: some cowboys that lived there and it was to me
Speaker 1: like what Texas would have been one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five years ago, you know, just modern technology is not
Speaker 1: there yet, and I just loved it. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: The hunt was all high rack hunting. So we're in
Speaker 1: the back of a pickup. There was two pickup trucks,
Speaker 1: and then they built these metal high racks basically platforms
Speaker 1: in the beds of the truck. And then Preston went
Speaker 1: with a guy and would drive around, and I went
Speaker 1: with the guy. We'd drive around and we would just
Speaker 1: drive around all day down these dirt roads, very slow.
Speaker 1: Just he's looking left and I'm looking right, and we're
Speaker 1: just scanning the brush looking for desert mule deer. And
Speaker 1: of course I filmed the whole thing. You guys know me,
Speaker 1: I like to film everything. So I made a video
Speaker 1: for my YouTube channel called Gigge Life, and I made
Speaker 1: it a video for the Smiths. The Smiths are always
Speaker 1: the ones that don't include the hunt, you know, don't
Speaker 1: include any animals in it. And then Yege Life, there's
Speaker 1: no rules because you know, I'll just show everything. But
Speaker 1: just fantastic trip. Saw every sunrise and every sunset, ate
Speaker 1: some incredible Mexican food, and was so grateful that I
Speaker 1: gave up on my commitment remorse and did it. Just
Speaker 1: sucked it up and did it. Everything went smoothly, made
Speaker 1: it back home, grateful for that. So I can't wait
Speaker 1: for you guys to finally see these videos. The Smith's video,
Speaker 1: which is just about mainly about the food and the scenery,
Speaker 1: will come out for you for those of y'all listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast real time, it'll come out tomorrow. All
Speaker 1: my smith's come out Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Ye Life,
Speaker 1: the full video of the Mexico Trip. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: because that's going to take a lot of editing, so
Speaker 1: that might be we might be a week or so
Speaker 1: out at least from finishing that video. Pump for you
Speaker 1: guys to see it. And uh, maybe that's just a
Speaker 1: message to everyone that when an opportunity comes up and
Speaker 1: you feel like you should probably stay stuck in your routine,
Speaker 1: and you should probably, you know, keep your nose with
Speaker 1: the grindingstone. You might want to second guess that and go,
Speaker 1: you know what, you only live once. You gotta be
Speaker 1: smart about it. You know, you don't want to tell
Speaker 1: your boss that you're leaving tomorrow, but uh, you only
Speaker 1: live once. You only have Sometimes these opportunities never come.
Speaker 1: I've never done anything like that. And then I got
Speaker 1: back and taught to my brother Tyler was like, I
Speaker 1: want to go. I want to do it next time
Speaker 1: and maybe we will. I want to I want to
Speaker 1: also get into y'all's questions. You guys have been so
Speaker 1: good emailing me your questions and you could email anything
Speaker 1: you want to Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. I
Speaker 1: get these emails every day and I enjoy reading them,
Speaker 1: and I god kind of racking my brain and plowing
Speaker 1: through these questions with you guys, because the questions are
Speaker 1: usually all over the place. I'm gonna start with, let's
Speaker 1: see a boom. I'm going to hit a random one here.
Speaker 1: This is from Cody and it says, Hey, Granger, I've
Speaker 1: been singing for about six years now, and I've always
Speaker 1: enjoyed performing for others. About half a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago, my voice started getting very rough. I've not
Speaker 1: been able to sing for that period, and when I
Speaker 1: try to, it sounds the same as my voice would
Speaker 1: after yelling and screaming for a long period of time.
Speaker 1: A t's cannot figure out what is going on. Do
Speaker 1: you have any remedies that you use whenever your voice
Speaker 1: gets rough or sore? Also, love your music, your concerts,
Speaker 1: and your outlook on life. Keep being an inspiration. Thank you, Cody.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, buddy. Thank you for emailing. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the question. It's a good question and I've dealt with
Speaker 1: this for quite a while. Vocal cords are you know,
Speaker 1: that's your that's your main tool as a performer. And
Speaker 1: over the years, you know, I've been singing for singing
Speaker 1: on stage for twenty five years, and I think over
Speaker 1: the twenty five years I have won, for one, I
Speaker 1: have cared a little bit less about making sure that
Speaker 1: they are always clear and staying the same vocal cords
Speaker 1: because you look at you look at some people and
Speaker 1: as they get older, your voice is just naturally going
Speaker 1: to get rougher and deeper as you get older. Like
Speaker 1: an old man doesn't talk the same as he did
Speaker 1: when he was thirty years old. So that's the natural
Speaker 1: wear and tear on the muscle of the vocal cords.
Speaker 1: So I don't talk the same. In fact, if I
Speaker 1: ran audio and I have before on this podcast of
Speaker 1: me talking when I'm seventeen, I sound like a different person,
Speaker 1: a different human. And I've looked at that now. It's
Speaker 1: not a bad thing. It's an evolution of the sound
Speaker 1: and you just kind of go with it. So if
Speaker 1: your voice is getting rough, you just kind of go
Speaker 1: with it and that becomes your sound. There's a difference though,
Speaker 1: in if it starts hurting, if it's hurting you, then
Speaker 1: there's a problem. There's a problem. If your voice is
Speaker 1: rough and it doesn't hurt at all, then that could
Speaker 1: be a lot of people do great and you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of singers that sing with a rough
Speaker 1: voice and they everyone loves it. In fact, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of times I wish my voice was rougher than
Speaker 1: it was because people love that. That being said, though,
Speaker 1: you said it's the same as if I had been
Speaker 1: yelling and screening for a long period of time. So
Speaker 1: that indicates that maybe there's something something else going on.
Speaker 1: And I would think, because I have this problem, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna assume that is your talking voice that's the problem,
Speaker 1: not your singing voice. Your talking voice is being strained
Speaker 1: and it's putting a lot of stress on your vocal
Speaker 1: cords themselves. So I want to start with a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Sleep is number one for vocal cords for
Speaker 1: me and I know a lot of other people, as
Speaker 1: is with a lot of things in life. Sleep is
Speaker 1: a remedy that it's probably the ultimate healer. The ultimate
Speaker 1: physical healer is getting sufficient amounts of sleep. Lack of
Speaker 1: sleep leads to fatigue all over the body, including the
Speaker 1: vocal cords. It's no different. Hydration is number two. Hydration
Speaker 1: is so important. Drink plenty of water. Every time you
Speaker 1: drink a cup of caffeine of any kind, you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to double up on water. So one cup of
Speaker 1: coffee equals later that day to extra glasses of water.
Speaker 1: So if you're unsure on how to measure that, try
Speaker 1: to drink a gallon a day. And the way you
Speaker 1: do that is just a milk carton. Grab a milk carton,
Speaker 1: fill it with water in the morning, and start pounding
Speaker 1: it during the day and make sure you ration enough
Speaker 1: to get that entire gallon done. By the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you're gonna be going to the restroom all day.
Speaker 1: But that's a good test, and you don't quite need
Speaker 1: a gallon unless you're a bodybuilder or an extreme athlete,
Speaker 1: you don't quite need a gallon. But that's a good
Speaker 1: marker on what kind of hydration you're getting, especially, I
Speaker 1: would say at least marking down what kind of water
Speaker 1: you're drinking, how many cups are you drinking a day,
Speaker 1: and keep a tally of that at the beginning so
Speaker 1: you'll know this is what's happening. Three alcohol. Alcohol is
Speaker 1: a huge, huge problem with the vocal cords and with
Speaker 1: drying them out or being rough. So alcohol is worse
Speaker 1: than caffeine on the vocal cords. So whatever you've read
Speaker 1: about using whiskey to help warm me up, it's a myth.
Speaker 1: It's a complete myth. I usually will take like a
Speaker 1: shot of whiskey with the guys, a ceremonial shot with
Speaker 1: the guys. But I know that that shot of whiskey
Speaker 1: before the show is not to make me sing better.
Speaker 1: It's more ceremonial, and it's kind of a just a
Speaker 1: little bit of an equalizer to the body itself, but
Speaker 1: it's not benefiting me singing, unlike some people will tell you.
Speaker 1: So go through those things right there. Sleep, sleep, reduce
Speaker 1: your caffeine, increase your hydration, reduce your alcohol. Start with that,
Speaker 1: and then if you don't see an improvement right away,
Speaker 1: then you need to think about how you're talking. If
Speaker 1: you talk from your throat like this like I'm doing
Speaker 1: right now, you are using the upper part of your
Speaker 1: chest and your throat, and it is a big strain
Speaker 1: on the vocal cords. Or if you come and put
Speaker 1: your chin down and you breathe out of your belly,
Speaker 1: so your air comes from your belly, and you exhale
Speaker 1: with your muscles in your belly, and you talk from
Speaker 1: deep down in your body. And you could tell the
Speaker 1: difference even on this podcast with me talking like this
Speaker 1: with my chin is down and I'm up on the mic,
Speaker 1: so my eyes are literally looking down at the floor.
Speaker 1: Chin is down, my shoulders are back, and I'm breathing
Speaker 1: out of the bottom of my sternum as a post
Speaker 1: and then I'll reverse it and I'll start looking up now,
Speaker 1: So now I'm looking up at the ceiling and taking
Speaker 1: quick breaths out of the top of my chest, and
Speaker 1: all the pressure is going straight through my throat and
Speaker 1: that will wear if you're doing that. Not necessarily. I
Speaker 1: know you're not looking at the ceiling when you're talking,
Speaker 1: but if you think about when you're talking to your
Speaker 1: buddies or wherever you are at work and there's loud noises,
Speaker 1: try to keep your chin down and breathe out of
Speaker 1: your belly. So these are all just this little tricks,
Speaker 1: and you could practice that breathing technique just throughout the day.
Speaker 1: It's really important. You could also be having trouble while
Speaker 1: you're sleeping, breathing out of your mouth, and it could
Speaker 1: be a snoring thing, it could be an acid acid
Speaker 1: reflex thing. And if you're experiencing acid reflex in when
Speaker 1: you're sleeping on your Hey, by the way, Cody, you
Speaker 1: didn't know this was going to be so in depth
Speaker 1: when you ask me, But I do. I know a
Speaker 1: lot about this stuff. So you could be sleeping and
Speaker 1: your body is literally regurgitating acid out of your stomach
Speaker 1: and it's going into your throat and it's burning your
Speaker 1: vocal cords. It is common. It's terrible for your vocal cords,
Speaker 1: and you might not even know what's happening. So if
Speaker 1: you wake up in the morning with this rough, dry feeling,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance that could be happening. An instant
Speaker 1: remedy for that is sleeping with a humidifier, and I've
Speaker 1: done that before in my life. I've had if we're
Speaker 1: touring in a really arid climate, for example, possibly put
Speaker 1: the humidifier just rolling a cloud of mist over into
Speaker 1: my face and it's like instant relief to your throat.
Speaker 1: So that's something to think about. And then the acid
Speaker 1: reflex thing, there's medication for that over the counter and
Speaker 1: you could start realizing, oh, you're eating too much foods
Speaker 1: with tomato in it or onion or you Probably people
Speaker 1: listening probably know a lot more about that than I do.
Speaker 1: But google it. Google acid reflux. You want to stop that? Man?
Speaker 1: Is that it? So? Other remedies hot tea, no caffeine,
Speaker 1: Cut off the caffeine and drink non caffeinated hot tea.
Speaker 1: Put a little lemon in it, A little bit of
Speaker 1: honey helps. Those are remedies that help immediately. If you're
Speaker 1: trying to get on stage and you need a little
Speaker 1: bit of a jolt of power to your vocal cord,
Speaker 1: get a hot tea with lemon and honey, just a
Speaker 1: touch of honey, not too much honey because you don't
Speaker 1: want sugar will do the same problem as caffeine eventually.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a lifelong expedition, my friend. Dealing with
Speaker 1: your vocal cords is a it's a lifestyle that you
Speaker 1: cannot ever break that lifestyle if you truly want longevity
Speaker 1: in your vocal cords. So, if you're sitting around a
Speaker 1: campfire with your buddies and smoke is rolling into your face,
Speaker 1: you're talking loud because there's music playing out of a boombox,
Speaker 1: and you're drinking alcohol, talking loudly using the top of
Speaker 1: your chest, breathing in the smoke, and drinking alcohol and
Speaker 1: staying up till two am. You're doing all the things
Speaker 1: wrong to the vocal cords. And so then you go,
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. So that could be your problem, Cody,
Speaker 1: that could be it. So there's a lot of ways
Speaker 1: to deal with it. And that's my vice. So right,
Speaker 1: let's go through some of these things, Cody, and then
Speaker 1: right back into this podcast and we'll see exactly what's
Speaker 1: going on. Let me move on. This question is from
Speaker 1: Steve and it says, Hey, Granger, I'm a big fan,
Speaker 1: not just of your music, but if you as a person,
Speaker 1: your new album. I really love on your new album,
Speaker 1: I really love I Kill Spiders. My question for you is,
Speaker 1: when you're writing music, how do you decide what the
Speaker 1: rhythm of it is and the tempo and what key
Speaker 1: to write it in and where to put a bridge
Speaker 1: in the song, et cetera. Thanks Steve, Bakersfield, California. It's
Speaker 1: a great question, Steve. And you live in Bakersfield. That
Speaker 1: is a dry climate, so make sure you're sleeping with
Speaker 1: a humidifier, Just kidding. It's a good question. And those
Speaker 1: aspects of the song during the making of the song, Steve,
Speaker 1: like the rhythm, tempo, same thing, and the key are
Speaker 1: always decisions that we make in the pre production of
Speaker 1: the song itself, So that starts with making a work tape.
Speaker 1: And a work tape is me and my guitar and
Speaker 1: a metronome, and I sing it in its entirety, and
Speaker 1: I listen back to it and I get a feel
Speaker 1: of it, and I go, could this song be a
Speaker 1: click faster or could it be a click slower? Maybe
Speaker 1: two clicks slower or faster? And does my voice sound
Speaker 1: like I'm straining to hit the notes? Maybe we should
Speaker 1: lower it a key a half, or if am I
Speaker 1: struggling to get the lower notes, should we raise it
Speaker 1: a half? So it's usually and tell you to tell
Speaker 1: you what. There's been a lot of times when I'll
Speaker 1: do two versions and I'll try to live with it
Speaker 1: in my truck. So I'll go, man, I can't decide
Speaker 1: if this tempo is going to be ninety six or
Speaker 1: ninety four. That's beats per minute, So I'll do a
Speaker 1: version of each ninety six and ninety four, and then
Speaker 1: I'll go drive around and I'll go, yep, ninety six.
Speaker 1: It needed to be ninety six because the second verse
Speaker 1: there was too much space in between the words at
Speaker 1: ninety four beats per minute and ninety six it speeds
Speaker 1: it up. Or sometimes it's the opposite. It needs to
Speaker 1: be ninety four because in the bridge the words get
Speaker 1: too jumped, well, because I'm trying to say I'm too fast,
Speaker 1: and that's because it's ninety six feets per minute needs
Speaker 1: to go down in ninety four, so that happens the key,
Speaker 1: same thing driver. Sometimes I'll do a key and in
Speaker 1: a flat, and then I'll do another version of it
Speaker 1: in G and then I'll drive around and I'll go,
Speaker 1: you know what I really like? I think I like
Speaker 1: the G or I really like the A flat because
Speaker 1: it gives the verses are warmer in a flat than
Speaker 1: they rang. So that's it's always a big consideration. And
Speaker 1: then the bridge. You're asking me where the bridge is.
Speaker 1: That's that's the easiest of all your questions because in
Speaker 1: country music the bridge is always either after the second
Speaker 1: course or after the solo, which comes after the second chorus.
Speaker 1: And the country music is pretty predictable in that way.
Speaker 1: You you usually go intro verse one, chorus, turnaround verse two,
Speaker 1: chorus two solo, or bridge course three outro. So right
Speaker 1: around that that area, you can go solo bridge, or
Speaker 1: you can go bridge solo, or you can go just solo,
Speaker 1: or you can go just bridge, or you could either
Speaker 1: go you could you could do a half verse where
Speaker 1: the bridge is. But basically that's that spot right there,
Speaker 1: that little space after the second chorus is like three
Speaker 1: or four combinations. But the bridge, if it's if it's
Speaker 1: in the song, the bridge is always living in that
Speaker 1: area between chorus two and chorus three, and sometimes chorus
Speaker 1: three is breakdown course at the beginning, it means everybody
Speaker 1: gets quiet and it's just vocal, or sometimes it's full,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's a double. Regardless, the bridge is gonna fall
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Speaker 1: in the world Cranger Smith podcast at gmail dot com,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. Make sure you put your name
Speaker 1: and where you're from. This question is from Courtney and
Speaker 1: it says, Hey, Granger, I just want to know how
Speaker 1: do you reboot yourself or switch your mood on an
Speaker 1: off day? And how do you stay motiv motivated? I
Speaker 1: listen to your podcast every week and love you. Thank
Speaker 1: you Courtney. Great question. How do I reboot myself or
Speaker 1: switch my mood on an off day? The first step
Speaker 1: to that for me is realizing it's an off day.
Speaker 1: Once you realize it's an off day, then you could
Speaker 1: deal with it. The problem is for me is when
Speaker 1: I don't realize I'm having an off day and I
Speaker 1: think the world is off that day, and there's a
Speaker 1: big difference between the world old is off that day
Speaker 1: and I'm not seeing it like I should. Number one
Speaker 1: for me, first and foremost, by far, hands down Number
Speaker 1: one is lack of sleep that happens to me. I
Speaker 1: am having an off day, and I'm just I'm either
Speaker 1: physically having an off day, as in, I'm clumsy, I'm
Speaker 1: dropping things, I'm tripping on things, I'm banging my head
Speaker 1: on cabinets, i have a headache, those kind of things,
Speaker 1: or it could be mentally. And usually it's it's the
Speaker 1: mental side. Usually I'm frustrated, I'm mad at something or somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm uptight. The kids are driving me crazy because they're
Speaker 1: they're doing something and it's and I can't focus because
Speaker 1: they're talking a lot. And then I realized it takes
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of practice to do this. But
Speaker 1: I realized, wait a minute, it's not the world, it's
Speaker 1: not the kids, it's not the cabinet. It's me. I
Speaker 1: didn't sleep much last night. I had an early flight,
Speaker 1: you know, I took off it. I got up out
Speaker 1: of the hotel at four am, and I had a
Speaker 1: six o'clock flight and I flew to Austin and now
Speaker 1: here I am. I'm running on four hours of sleep boom,
Speaker 1: and then everything is skewed. So what I do now
Speaker 1: is at least I try to I'm now. I'm guys,
Speaker 1: I'm always a work in progress. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you're listening to this podcast, you're listening to my advice.
Speaker 1: I'm always a work in progress. I'm always trying to
Speaker 1: get better. I'm far from having everything figured out. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk through these things, and then I
Speaker 1: might revise it in a month or a year, because hopefully,
Speaker 1: if I'm available, open to listening and learning and watching,
Speaker 1: then I could always become a little bit better than
Speaker 1: the yesterday version of myself. That's always the goal, And
Speaker 1: in that I will say I try to, as a
Speaker 1: general rule in life, when I'm in conversations and groups,
Speaker 1: listen more talk less, listen more talk less. I tell
Speaker 1: myself that in the morning today I'm going to listen
Speaker 1: more than talk less, because when I'm listening, I'm learning,
Speaker 1: I'm absorbing. It doesn't matter if the person's right or wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm learning in some way from that. If I'm talking,
Speaker 1: I'm just regurgitating what I already know. So if I
Speaker 1: want to bet a fit, I need to listen. So
Speaker 1: I try to identify before I engage the world that
Speaker 1: I am running on four hours of sleep and a courtney.
Speaker 1: I know that this wasn't your totally your question, how
Speaker 1: do you reboot your So I switch on an off day,
Speaker 1: But a big part of that question to me is
Speaker 1: realizing it's an off day. In most of my off
Speaker 1: days revolve around either a lack of sleep or some
Speaker 1: kind of bad news that I'm dealing with. But then
Speaker 1: I project to everything else. So say I get the
Speaker 1: news that a good money a buddy of mine, Preston,
Speaker 1: just found out his dad is diagnosed with colon cancer.
Speaker 1: And I find out in the morning. So as I
Speaker 1: move on through the day and other people are dealing
Speaker 1: with me and I'm dealing with them, I'm looking through
Speaker 1: the lens of my best friend's dad is diagnosed with
Speaker 1: colon cancer, and I have to remember that that lens
Speaker 1: is a little skewed, it's a little bit different than
Speaker 1: on a normal day. And realizing that is such a
Speaker 1: big part of life and in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: I can say either I'm looking through that lens or
Speaker 1: I'm running on low sleep. I could just say I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna deal with this problem or this person today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna deal with them tomorrow. And I know I
Speaker 1: always say, don't put off till till tomorrow what you
Speaker 1: could do today, But forget that. If you're having an
Speaker 1: off day, a lot of times you have to make
Speaker 1: a concession for yourself and just say I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be my best dealing with this situation
Speaker 1: in the current state of mind I'm in. So if
Speaker 1: i am, Courtney, let me get back to your question
Speaker 1: on how do I reboot. If I am and I
Speaker 1: can't take a nap, then I try to really focus
Speaker 1: on slowing down and staying present in the moment instead
Speaker 1: of I'm trying to multitask. I'm a bad multitasker. Anyway,
Speaker 1: add a problem to my life and I'm really bad multitasker.
Speaker 1: So I try to do everything one thing at a
Speaker 1: time until I could finally get into bed and get
Speaker 1: a good night's sleep. So that is that's me and
Speaker 1: one of the tendencies I have. If I'm going on
Speaker 1: low sleep or or having had bad news. One of
Speaker 1: my tendencies is to eat like crap, especially on the
Speaker 1: low sleep days. For some reason, I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is, but if I'm if I'm lacking sleep, I'll
Speaker 1: just crave some really bad fast food. And it's almost
Speaker 1: like it's such an easy answer because you don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with anything else. You just want something quick,
Speaker 1: so fast food fits. And the problem is you're adding
Speaker 1: another huge problem to your brain. You're not giving your
Speaker 1: brain good food, good fuel, good power on an already
Speaker 1: off situation. So I'm guilty of that. You could double
Speaker 1: up your problems. What I've done lately, probably the past
Speaker 1: couple of years, is if I'm taking an early flight
Speaker 1: during touring days normal year, normal touring, almost every single Sunday,
Speaker 1: I was flying home from a city, and almost every
Speaker 1: time I would take the earliest flight out of that
Speaker 1: city to try to have the most family time I
Speaker 1: can at home. So usually that flight is between five
Speaker 1: and six am, which means I'm getting up really early
Speaker 1: to get you a ride to the airport, and I
Speaker 1: would just make up my mind then I'm not going
Speaker 1: to eat anything at the airport and it's easier to
Speaker 1: say I'm not going to eat anything than it is
Speaker 1: to say I'll wait and see what they have at
Speaker 1: the airport, because it's never going to be good. So
Speaker 1: I would rather fast and go on no sleep and
Speaker 1: no food, just coffee. That way, I'm not putting anything
Speaker 1: worse into my body that is having to deal with
Speaker 1: digestion blah blah blah blah whatever. And I could get
Speaker 1: straight to and get straight home and try to get
Speaker 1: some good food in me and then go to bed.
Speaker 1: I know that that's probably way around what your question was, Courtney,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a great question, David says. Hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm David from Colombia. You don't have to answer this
Speaker 1: if it's too personal, but I wanted to know what
Speaker 1: inspired you to write the song Letters to London Thank
Speaker 1: you and Yeye. Yeah, David, good question. It's not too personal. Actually,
Speaker 1: that song Letters to London is on my what album
Speaker 1: is that? What's that called? It's called Poets and Prisoners.
Speaker 1: I believe that was twenty eleven Poets or maybe twenty ten.
Speaker 1: One of those two years eleven, I think, yeah, Dirt
Speaker 1: Road Driveway was two thousand and nine, so Poets and
Speaker 1: Prisoners was twenty eleven, and there's a song on there
Speaker 1: called Letters to London. That song idea came from Amber
Speaker 1: when we were we got engaged in Europe because her
Speaker 1: family is from England. She's a once removed I don't
Speaker 1: even know how you say it. Her grandmother's is from London.
Speaker 1: So her grandmother came over and moved to the US
Speaker 1: accent and all. So we went over there and we
Speaker 1: were visiting and basically her homeland, which is it's mine too,
Speaker 1: just many generations before that, and we were just having
Speaker 1: this great trip. It was her first time over there,
Speaker 1: and she said, I got a good idea for a song.
Speaker 1: It's called Letters to London. I was like, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: I love that. I don't know what it means, but
Speaker 1: I really like it. It It was soon after and I'd
Speaker 1: have to ask her to confirm this, but it was
Speaker 1: soon after that we decided if we had a little
Speaker 1: girl one day, we would name her London. So I
Speaker 1: started writing the song and then thinking about the perspective
Speaker 1: of actual girl named London, not the city. If it
Speaker 1: was a girl, Letters to London, the girl. That's where
Speaker 1: that song came from. This is all the way back.
Speaker 1: This question came from September twenty eighth from Amy. It says, Hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: I've always wondered when I pay a dollar twenty nine
Speaker 1: to download a song from iTunes, how much of that
Speaker 1: actually goes into your pocket? Yeah, great question, and that's
Speaker 1: different for every artist. I'm gonna answer me. I have
Speaker 1: a record label. They're really good people. It's a record
Speaker 1: label called BMG, and for most artists that have record deals,
Speaker 1: it is they are essentially a bank. So it costs
Speaker 1: usually a lot of money to make an album, and
Speaker 1: everything that goes into that album includes music videos, which
Speaker 1: music videos are really really expensive, the high budget ones
Speaker 1: because you're hiring a crew. You're hiring a director that's
Speaker 1: that people know, and he's going to guarantee you a
Speaker 1: good product. So there's album art, which you know, good
Speaker 1: photographers cost money, and graphic designers cost money. Co producers
Speaker 1: cost a lot of money, and then studios and musicians
Speaker 1: and everything. So an album could end up being I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I mean, I'm gonna throw it out there, but
Speaker 1: it could be you know, a quarter million dollars, It
Speaker 1: could be a total of two hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to make an album, so I mean it could.
Speaker 1: I've also made albums. I've made albums in my life
Speaker 1: for five grand and forty five hundred of that was
Speaker 1: packaging and the rest I just did out of my house.
Speaker 1: So I've really done the whole gamut of the album
Speaker 1: budget budget albums. But amy what the record label will
Speaker 1: do is they they come forward as really a bank.
Speaker 1: They'll say, hey, we'll pay for the album. We'll pay
Speaker 1: for all that quarter million dollar album, don't even worry
Speaker 1: about it. And then as you start selling the dollar
Speaker 1: twenty nine, that's gonna go to us until we pay
Speaker 1: ourselves back. And then after we pay ourselves back, you
Speaker 1: could have whatever's left and it ends up being a
Speaker 1: good deal. I don't, I don't. I mean I don't
Speaker 1: want to pay a quarter million dollars to make an album.
Speaker 1: Once again, not saying you have to, but if you
Speaker 1: want to get into three really big music videos and
Speaker 1: hire a photographer that you know is gonna nail it
Speaker 1: for you, there's a lot of things. You know. This
Speaker 1: this last last album I had had sixteen songs on it,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of players, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: studio time, so I don't want to dump that out,
Speaker 1: so I happily give the label your dollar twenty nine
Speaker 1: to repay until we get to that quarter million. So
Speaker 1: let me put it this way, I don't see any
Speaker 1: of it typically, and that's okay, that's okay. That's the
Speaker 1: choice I make to make an album like that. That's
Speaker 1: the decision I make. If I was pinching pennies, then
Speaker 1: I would say, I ain't signing an old record deal.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna budget this album and make it myself,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna nickel and dime every musician, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna nickel and dime every studio, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: hire a high dollar video director. And then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep your dollar twenty nine for myself. I just don't
Speaker 1: think that's not an efficient way of making a living.
Speaker 1: Touring selling tickets is the way I really make a
Speaker 1: living in the music business. So and for your listeners
Speaker 1: on this podcast, that's another way. So that's pretty much
Speaker 1: your answer to where the dollar twenty nine goes, Amy,
Speaker 1: let me get another one. I have time. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got another guy. I got time. This question is from
Speaker 1: Ken I like this question, Ken. I looked at this
Speaker 1: right before I did the podcast. It says, Hello, this
Speaker 1: is ken Seymour from upstate New York. Shout out to
Speaker 1: upstate New York. I don't want this to come across
Speaker 1: as judgmental, but I have a question. I watch and
Speaker 1: listen to your podcast and YouTube channel. I hear your song,
Speaker 1: I hear your strong belief in God, but I've noticed
Speaker 1: you use your use of tobacco and drinking beer and
Speaker 1: other alcohol. How do you explain this contradiction. It seems
Speaker 1: in your songs you're almost glorifying it. I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about writing you. I know we are not perfect, and
Speaker 1: we all have our struggles with sin, but I'm curious.
Speaker 1: Please understand, I'm asking one man who is a fallen sinner,
Speaker 1: just trying to live my best life for Christ. Let
Speaker 1: me read that sentence again, because sometimes I struggle reading
Speaker 1: these sentences if I'm looking on my phone. Please understand,
Speaker 1: I'm asking one man who who was a fallen sinner,
Speaker 1: just trying to live my best life for Christ, ken Seymour.
Speaker 1: I like this question a lot, and it comes up
Speaker 1: a lot. I get a lot of questions like this
Speaker 1: on this podcast and I don't think I've really answered one.
Speaker 1: I don't think one has come up in the raffle
Speaker 1: yet until now. But let me try to unpack it
Speaker 1: a little bit, because Ken, I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 1: Let me start with this, and I'm not gonna I
Speaker 1: don't have a Bible in front of me, and so
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into specific scripture. But I
Speaker 1: have read the whole Bible many times. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: tobacco use is not a sin. There is It's not
Speaker 1: a sin. There's nothing in the Bible that says it's
Speaker 1: a sin. If I was under age, which in Texas
Speaker 1: seventeen for tobacco, and I illegally got the tobacco under
Speaker 1: the age of seventeen, then there would be a sin involved.
Speaker 1: It is also not a sin to drink alcohol. Drunkenness
Speaker 1: is a sin, drinking alcohol is not. Most people historically
Speaker 1: believe that at the Last Supper Jesus was drinking wine
Speaker 1: with his disciples. It was fruit of the vine, as
Speaker 1: it says in the Word. So there is an argument
Speaker 1: that it could have been grape juice, but it's unlikely,
Speaker 1: historically unlikely that it would have been grape juice. It
Speaker 1: most likely was fermented making it wine. The problem with
Speaker 1: alcohol and what Paul talks about many times with drunkenness,
Speaker 1: and there's many mentions in the Old Testament about it
Speaker 1: as well, is drinking too much fermented fruit of the
Speaker 1: vine and becoming drunk. And the problem with drunkenness, which
Speaker 1: is the sin drunkenness, is what you do with an
Speaker 1: impaired mind and what that leads to, what that opens
Speaker 1: the door to in your life with that and paired mind.
Speaker 1: So let's start with alcohol. I do partake in alcohol.
Speaker 1: I do have a beer. I do have a ceremonial
Speaker 1: drink with the band, and I am learning this is
Speaker 1: a new path for me, guys, my strong conviction to
Speaker 1: Christianity and what I call my rebirth, which happened about
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. I've always been a believer,
Speaker 1: but I was born again about a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago. Since then, I have made a sincere commitment
Speaker 1: to myself to avoid drunkenness. I haven't I haven't committed
Speaker 1: cutting off alcohol because I genuinely have a pretty strong
Speaker 1: willpower and I've always had a pretty strong discipline with
Speaker 1: myself and so I can control only having one or
Speaker 1: two drinks max, and that's it. I can control that.
Speaker 1: If I thought there was just a sliver of a
Speaker 1: chance that I wouldn't be able to handle limiting myself
Speaker 1: into three, four or five sixty seven drinks, I would
Speaker 1: not touch it at all. I wouldn't take a drop
Speaker 1: of it, knowing that once I have one drink, it
Speaker 1: could lead to many more, which could lead to drunkenness,
Speaker 1: which could lead to all kinds of problems. And I'm
Speaker 1: a married mayn and I have kids that could lead
Speaker 1: to many problems. So so because of my my, my
Speaker 1: me understanding my personal self discipline, I feel like I
Speaker 1: could still have uh you know, like I was in
Speaker 1: Mexico the last this past week, and after we would
Speaker 1: come in from the hunt, we would have a cold
Speaker 1: surveysa waiting for us out of the ice chest. Takata
Speaker 1: is what they served there. And it was awesome. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. You know, sun's going down, just finished the hunt.
Speaker 1: You just crack open it's cold takata. It was delicious.
Speaker 1: And I didn't I didn't go past that. I didn't
Speaker 1: go I didn't go to the second drink. It was
Speaker 1: enough for me. It was enough for me. To have
Speaker 1: the one and then switch to water. So let me
Speaker 1: go to tobacco. I like I said, the tobacco is
Speaker 1: not a sin. If it became a crutch for me,
Speaker 1: if it became something I needed for my brain to
Speaker 1: focus or to if it became an addiction, an absolute addiction,
Speaker 1: or had to have it in front of me all
Speaker 1: the time, or if it became if I was needing
Speaker 1: it to support me in any way that was taking
Speaker 1: away from the support I need from God. That's a problem.
Speaker 1: That becomes a sin right there. But in itself, it's
Speaker 1: not unless it's illegal. Now, let me deal. Let me
Speaker 1: let me get to the part of your question that
Speaker 1: is probably the most important part of your question. It says,
Speaker 1: where'd you say it? Oh? It seems in your songs
Speaker 1: you're almost glorifying it. Okay, there's the problem. This is
Speaker 1: the so in everything you've said, ken for me, I'm like, good,
Speaker 1: got it, got it? Not a sin. Drinking alcohol is
Speaker 1: not a sin. Tobacco's another thing. Okay, But then we
Speaker 1: get to a problems. Here's my problem that I struggle with.
Speaker 1: It seems in your songs you're almost glorifying it. You're right,
Speaker 1: You're right, Earl Dibbles the country boy song. It says
Speaker 1: in the bridge of country boy song, And I wrote
Speaker 1: this eleven years ago, now ten years ago, getting country
Speaker 1: drunk in the back of my truck. The night is young,
Speaker 1: gonna get messed up. Boom there it is this you
Speaker 1: know that's glorifying drunkenness. So so what do I do?
Speaker 1: This is you know, it's a song, it's my most
Speaker 1: popular song, a lot of a lot of stages. What
Speaker 1: do I do? So I'm asking you, ken one, as
Speaker 1: you said at the at the end of your question,
Speaker 1: from one fallen man to another, just one sent er
Speaker 1: to another, trying to live my best life for Christ.
Speaker 1: If it was today, if I was writing that song today,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have put that line in there. And that
Speaker 1: was a night me and me and my tour manager Chris,
Speaker 1: my buddy Matt, my brother Tyler wrote that song. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have written that today. I see the world differently,
Speaker 1: and I see that that could be you know, it
Speaker 1: could be young people listening to that and they take
Speaker 1: it too far, and I just don't. I don't believe
Speaker 1: that's the right message I need to be saying. So
Speaker 1: it weighs it weighs on my conscious that maybe there need,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to take that bridge, or maybe I
Speaker 1: need to say new words like when I perform it,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to change those words to something else,
Speaker 1: something not a little less dramatic and move forward with that.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, it's it's something I deal with as
Speaker 1: far as far as anything Earld devils Junior, It's just
Speaker 1: a comedy. It's a comedy act. You don't see me
Speaker 1: with fat dip in and you know, slamming back, you know,
Speaker 1: shotgun and cold ones. I don't do that in my videos.
Speaker 1: That's Earl And it is something I'm kind of working
Speaker 1: through on how do I how do I make this
Speaker 1: transition if I'm truly trying to live better for Christ,
Speaker 1: as you said, trying to live my best life for Christ,
Speaker 1: how do I knowing what I know and moving forward
Speaker 1: and knowing my place of influence. It crosses my mind
Speaker 1: and it's a good question, and it's I think you're
Speaker 1: right to ask it and let me know how you
Speaker 1: think I answered it. Let me know how you think
Speaker 1: I tackled the components biblically of tobacco and alcohol. You
Speaker 1: could probably find ways to argue me on all of that,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, theology is always there's always an
Speaker 1: argument in theology. And I'm telling you what I read
Speaker 1: and what I believe and what I see. But great question, buddy.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Upstate New York. Shout out to you, Ken,
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