WEBVTT - Zero desire to know God 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:04.880 I love that your heart is asking this question. I 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.400 love that your heart is saying you want to get 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:09.440 to know God and become a light in this dark world. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.159 Not everybody says that. In fact, there's a lot of 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.200 people listening to this podcast right now that probably think 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:20.200 I have zero desire to want to know God, zero 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.400 desire to be a light in a dark world. In fact, 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:36.880 I don't even think this world is that dark. Hey, guys, 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.280 welcome to the podcast. This is episode ninety six, and 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.000 I am by myself today, no guest. I'm winging it. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.360 I like that I had a last minute cancelation. It 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.360 was actually Parker canceled on me last minute, and I thought, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.280 you know, should I wait, should I rebook it, or 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.040 should I just do it like I used to do. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.440 I used to sit here and do these by myself, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.400 and so I think it might be kind of refreshing 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.279 for me to reset do one by myself, and then 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.480 we'll go next week. Next Monday. We do these every Monday, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.679 we'll be back with the guest. The format of this podcast, 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.399 if you are new here is I answer your questions, 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.200 usually ME and a guest. Today's just me. You will 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.200 email these questions to Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.440 Could be about any subject as you see today. As 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.880 you will see, I've picked some questions that are just 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.080 all over the map, so it doesn't really matter what 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.880 the subject is. I want to hear from you, Grangersmith 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:35.039 Podcast at gmail dot com. Shoot it over and we'll 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:36.800 get on this podcast and we're going to answer it. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.440 We have episode one hundred coming up. I think we're 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.440 gonna do an all star cast. At least that's what 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.720 I've seen you guys talk about in the comments, and 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.400 I've talked to some of my guests about it. Maybe 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:55.280 bringing some of my most most excited, most well received 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.120 guest back here on episode one. I think it'd be awesome. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.120 I want to give a shout out to all platforms 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.040 that listen, you know. I want to thank the Apple 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.280 podcast listeners, to Spot, the Spotify listeners of course, to 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.000 YouTube listeners. Those are the ones that point at. I 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.880 could point at the YouTube listeners because they actually are watching. Now. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.720 Everybody else, thank you so much, whatever platform you're on, 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.640 Thank you for making this one of the top music 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:24.480 podcast all genres in the world. Love that. I'm it 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.360 just blows me away that this podcast which a lot 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.360 of times we start talking about God could be at 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.120 the top of a of a pop group of podcasts. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.520 That's really exciting for me, and that's a testament to 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.320 you guys for making that what it is. Let me 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:46.480 get started. This first question comes from Logan. It says, Hey, hey, Granger, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.920 my name is Logan. I'm from Missouri. I wanted to 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.120 know what is your personal best bass? And I also 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.520 wanted to know how you find the courage and energy 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.480 to get up and accomplish everything you need to accomplish. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.120 Those are two very different questions. And I'm assuming Logan 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.680 that you don't mean bass like bass guitar. What's your 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.880 personal best bass? I'm pretty sure you're talking about bass 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:16.120 bass and my best bass eight pounds. That's That's an 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.240 honest truth. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sugarcoat this. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.040 I'm not gonna pretend like I've caught a ten pound 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.920 bass or eleven pound bass. My best bass is eight pounds. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.440 I measured it with the scale on the dock and 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.520 I was probably nineteen years old, and this was an 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.320 East Texas on a smaller lake next to Lake Fork. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.240 Great bass out there, and it was funny because I 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.000 remember this trip so specifically. We went out there with 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.320 some friends and we camped out there, and we took 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.040 these little boats, and we're going out all day, fishing 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.480 this lake hard all day, and we were having some luck. 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.520 We're catching some small fish. But I remember we came 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:03.080 back and we started fishing in with perch, just just 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.000 hooking the perch through their lip and fishing right at 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.160 the dock at the lake where the other people put 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.520 their boats, and we were just pulling these huge lunkers. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.839 So it's just funny. It's a testament to you could 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.279 work all day and think you're going out and the 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.440 reeds and the nice little coves and the creeks, and 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.599 you think you're finding the perfect spot, and all the 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.520 big bass we're right there where we are camping. So 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.400 second part of your question, logan, how do you find 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.159 the courage and energy to get up and accomplish everything 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.960 you need to accomplish? That is a loaded question, and 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.360 it really depends on the context of how you're asking it, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.360 like are you are you dealing with something? Are you 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:48.159 are you not loving work? Are you struggling in some 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.760 area that would that would change the way I would 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.919 I would answer this if I'm just gonna give you 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.640 a general answer, how do I find the courage and 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.120 energy to get up? Which is an interesting way of 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.039 wording it, right, how do you find the courage? That 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:10.039 means that would imply to me that you're having trouble 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.400 building up courage to start a day will to tell 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:21.880 me there's other things going on. I start my day 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:28.520 every morning by reading the Bible, and that definitely gives 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.920 me courage. It definitely gives me energy, and I start. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.719 You know, after a while. You put this in routine 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.640 and I just crave it and I need it, and 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.520 every once in when I have to skip it because 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.599 I have like an early flight, and so I have 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.280 to put it off. It's not the first thing I do. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.000 It's like the tenth thing I do if I have 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.120 an early flight, and it throws me off a little bit, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.599 and then I just can't wait to get back to 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:57.599 that routine. So man, that's what I do, and everything 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.200 else kind of trickles down from that. If you want 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.960 to talk about specific ways to get things accomplished, I'd 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:11.520 love to make lists. I'm not always great about completing 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.080 the list, but just making it helps you really get 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.120 those big chunks of things that you need done, like 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.640 say you need to do one, two, three, four things 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.040 and then then you would like to do about ten 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.440 things after that. Well, making that list, that to do list, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.159 my brother calls it power list. You make that power list, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.279 and that you can go in and go no matter 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.320 what happens today, no matter what I do, I'm going 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.680 to get these three things done. That's my power that's 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.520 the top of my power list. And you put them 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.760 in order, and I'm going to make sure that I 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.960 go one, two, three today boom. I could do a 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.400 lot of other things, but I'm going to make sure 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.240 no matter what, my power list gets done. And make 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.360 your powerless short. Don't make thirteen things on your power list. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:03.599 Make two to five max. And you need to trust yourself. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.040 If you're gonna write it down, you need to be 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.040 able to trust yourself that you're gonna accomplish those things. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.400 And what I mean by that is if you if 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.920 you stop trusting yourself, then you're gonna you're not gonna 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.360 make the list anymore. You're gonna go I'm writing this down, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.160 but I know I mean, I'm not gonna do it. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.640 I don't trust myself. So how do you trust yourself? 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.680 You trust yourself by making your list shorter and easier 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.200 to begin with. So if you are terrible at crossing 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:35.480 off a power list, then make your list tomorrow. Brush 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:40.280 your teeth. I'm talking that's easy. You're gonna do it, 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.400 and then you're gonna brush your teeth in the morning. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:48.440 You're gonna go check did it right? And then and 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.480 then you slowly build up your confidence that every time 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.040 I write something on this page, I'm gonna check it 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.640 off every single time. Right, So then you build up 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.360 a trust with yourself and a lot of people, don't 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.960 you think of trust as being with other people, But 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.160 trust you have to trust yourself first, otherwise you're never 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.800 gonna get anything done. Logan. If you don't trust yourself 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.880 that you will hold yourself accountable to whatever you hold 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.200 yourself accountable to. Right, does that make sense? It's easy 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.680 to tell someone else do this, but can you tell 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:27.320 yourself to do it and actually do it? So powerless? 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:34.680 That's your thing, Logan. Let's move on here. I'm gonna 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.800 pull up I have a little little pocket of questions 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.040 that I have ready for today, but I'm gonna skip 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:45.960 around not really knowing what I'm clicking on. This one 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:51.360 says the subject line is how to find God? Hey, Grangeer, 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:57.800 just wondering how you know God loves you. I believed 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.480 in God my entire life, but these last two years, 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.080 I'm having trouble thinking he really cares about us. All 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.280 three deaths and one year is a lot to swallow. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:17.240 But I'm wondering why he feels the need to hurt us. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:23.400 That's such a common question, Sharon, But that does not 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.600 make the question any easier to answer or easier to digest. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.080 The fact that it's common doesn't make it lesser of 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.840 a question. In fact, it just makes it more justified 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.160 that you're going to ask it. And it's a loaded 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:44.400 question because you say, I'm having trouble thinking he really 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:51.520 cares about us all, and then you have to ask yourself, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.800 but how much do I care about him? You say 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.679 you've believed in God your entire life. That's good, that's 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:07.120 a start. But have you trusted in God your entire life? 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.800 That's obviously a no. That's that's what I'm gonna say. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.559 That's a no for me. Have I trusted in God 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:19.040 my entire life? No? But when did you start or 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.880 have you started? It? Was it yesterday or was it 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.640 ten years ago? So what are you What are you 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.360 giving back to God? What kind of faith and trust 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.600 are you putting back to God? When you're expecting everything 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:40.440 from him, You're expecting prosperity and peace and happiness and joy. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:46.440 You're you're expecting that after you've had trouble, you then 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.040 question it and you say, you know what, I don't 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:54.480 I don't think he cares about us. So I said 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.200 this in the in a sermon that I did recently, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:01.720 But why do we expect the fruits of the spirit 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.679 when we're not giving the faith that it requires. And 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.560 you might say, well, I have faith, I believe. Well, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.000 this is what I said in the sermon. But are 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.320 you using faith as a noun or a verb, because 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.040 you might be just saying one time, one and done, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.760 I have faith, I believe. But it's supposed to be 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.439 a verb. Faith is supposed to be a verb. It's 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.199 supposed to be active. It's supposed to be something we do. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:34.320 Jesus asks us to keep his word daily, to take 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.839 up our cross daily, to keep his word daily, so 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.840 it's active. Our faith has to be cultivated daily, and 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.440 so it's a daily it's a daily exercise of saying, God, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.080 you know what, there's trouble. You told me there's going 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.000 to be trouble. Jesus says, in this world we will 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.680 have tribulation. But take heart, I have overcome the world. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.679 That's John sixteen thirty three. So if that's promised, then 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.679 why are we so surprised when we get it. You've 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:06.120 had death in the family. That's terrible, but it's common 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.320 and we're all gonna see that, and it's promised. So 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.319 at what point do we go, God, I'm gonna stop. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.160 I'm gonna stop wondering why you're doing things, and I'm 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.640 gonna start wondering what You're trying to teach me in 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.760 them through it? God, what do you have in store 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:29.120 for me? Things are changing. I heard a pastor say 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.880 one time on YouTube. He said, when when things start 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.160 happening around you, God's talking. God's trying to talk to you. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.839 And so at what point do we go, I'm tired 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.680 of your talking? And then when do we change and 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.480 go what are you trying to tell me? What is 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.320 it You're trying to tell me in this situation? God, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.240 I've had death in the family. I need to know 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.719 where do I go from here. I'm gonna trust. I'm 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.560 gonna trust that you have a plan for me, that 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.720 you want me to prosper, that you I want things 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.520 to be good for me. So I'm gonna trust in you. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.880 How do I trust? Go to his word or read 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.520 his word? That might not be the answer you want, Sharon, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.120 but the fact that you've had death in the family 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.319 is not a shock and it has nothing to do 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:21.160 with God's lack of love for you. What's he trying 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.640 to tell you? God's talking, Sharon, It's time to listen. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.520 It goes both ways. Your faith is a verb. Use it. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:35.079 It's a verb. Let's gip around here. And here's one 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:41.560 that says subject line Grandpa in World War Two. It says, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.000 deer Granger, can you talk about your grandpa in the war? 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.480 I would love to know more about him. I've seen 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.920 your YouTube video at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.880 That's my favorite place, only three hours from me. I've 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.040 phoned in a B seventeen and a B twenty five, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.880 and if possible, can you even send me a picture 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:04.480 of him? Says parentheses. I'm only twenty eight years old. 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.199 But I love war history and aviation. You need to 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.319 come to Dayton to the D Day re enactment. It's 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.760 the best in the country. This is coming from Zach 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.040 in Ohio. Zach, what's up? Brother? Thank you for the email. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.800 Shout out to our friends in Ohio. I love this question. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:28.080 I love war history, specifically World War Two. I love 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.880 Vietnam history and Civil War history and World War One history. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:37.360 I really love World War Two. It's my favorite. My 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.880 granddad flew Auld be twenty four in nineteen forty four, 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.880 he was stationed out of Italy. He flew out of 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.720 Italy and he did most of his bombing raids into 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:53.520 Romania and Germany. And I am obsessed with that history 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.480 in our time, and I wish, I wish I could 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.560 talk about it more often. I want to because it's 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.400 such a hugely impactful part of our history, and yet, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.880 like so many other things in our life, overlooked and 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.920 maybe a little bit forgotten, especially today, when what was 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:21.240 happening in World War Two in the nineteen forties was unprecedented. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:26.000 It was a time when there was a world power 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:32.080 quickly gaining that power, and that was Germany and if 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:40.040 it wasn't for a complete Allied alignment coming together, so 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:46.160 many countries, so many leaders, so many heroes on the 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:50.520 front lines and at home, coming together for one unified cause, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.560 then the Allies would have lost. And none of us 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.280 want to imagine if the Nazis had won that war 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:03.200 what things would be like. Even today, we're talking about 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:10.640 a time when people at home, like the Ford Dealership, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.720 I mean, they'll just give me the Ford manufacturers and 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:17.640 the GM manufacturers in Michigan were making airplane parts. And 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.840 this was happening all across the country, not just Michigan, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:25.000 people making tank parts and airplane parts and cockpits and 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:32.120 wings and ammunition and guns. It's a complete unified effort, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.520 maybe like this country has never seen, probably like this 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:41.320 country has never seen. Can you imagine today, our country, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.920 our people, whatever country you're in, it's not just mine, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:51.760 coming together for one unified purpose, and everyone agrees that 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.080 this is what we need to be doing. Men, women, children, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:02.200 elderly people coming together for one purpose. Unbelievable. My granddad 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.399 was a you know, obviously a tiny, tiny fraction of 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.359 that effort, but he was one of them, and he 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.159 was flying to be twenty four and he had to 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.119 fly fifty missions. And so I started reading his flight 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:17.840 diary after he died. My dad compiled it made an 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:24.120 easily digestible book for all of the family to read, 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.720 and it was just it was unbelievable reading his day 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.399 by day events, you know, and what was happening. And 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.840 he was waking up at at three am, and he 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.960 would get briefing for the mission, and then they would 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.719 they would get together and they would go through like 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.280 the maps and the pre flight design, and then they 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.080 would go out and they would go on their bombing raid. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.240 And sometimes you'd completely miss the target. Sometimes you'd hit it. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.719 Sometimes he wasn't able to drop it all. Sometimes they 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.240 had enemy fighters and flack. In fact, most of the 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.720 time he had enemy fighters in flack that threatened his life. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.720 Two different times they would have accasionally they would have 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.320 a day off or like a few days off, and 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.120 two different times the day that he had a day off, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.960 another team took his ship out, his B twenty four, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.879 and it was shot down and destroyed. Everyone killed. That 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:19.560 happened twice, so the first time his ship was called 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:25.399 the Ginny Abel destroyed on his first day off. They 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.360 gave him another ship. They called it the Genny Abel two. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.920 He flew it for a while and then he took 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.200 a day off and then it was destroyed. So then 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.080 they gave him a third ship, and he said, we're 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.200 not naming this one, so it was just a serial number. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.679 They did not name it the Genny Abel. Unbelievable stuff. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.360 I mean, there are so many stories where he had 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.000 to crash land and he was scared out of his mind. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:50.639 And he was twenty four years old, and he was 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.600 the oldest because he was the captain. He was the 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.879 oldest in the crew, which is just how it was. 0:18:54.920 --> 0:19:00.520 When you're twenty four and you're the oldest. Just blows 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.119 my mind and I could talk about it forever. But 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.439 but yeah, Zach, great question. I have a passion for this, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.120 and so I've been a Dayton, Ohio and I've seen 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.840 the Air Force Museum. I've also gotten to fly in 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.040 a B twenty four, which is a bucket list thing 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.920 for me. There's only one still flying B twenty four 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.160 in existence. So I love it and it's a huge 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:27.560 passion of mine. Next question says, Hey Granger, did you 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:32.000 play sports? That's the subject? It says, Hey Granger, I 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.120 wanted to know if you ever played any sports growing 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:35.879 up and what your favorite sport is and what you 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.640 love to watch. I love to watch baseball. That comes 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:43.280 from John John says he loves to watch baseball. Yeah, John. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.679 I grew up in Texas and the thing that we 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.640 did was play football. So I have a passion for football, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.359 just like just like B twenty fours. I love football. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.040 I love the sport. I love what it the camaraderie, 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.119 I love what it does to those young men on 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.399 the field. I started when I was in sixth grade 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.720 and then started playing team on my school team in 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.280 seventh grade, and we played all the way through high school. 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.080 And there's so many things that happened to me in 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.480 my life today that I still attribute the lesson that 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:26.680 I learned from football. And there's a unification that happens 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.640 in football with those eleven guys where every man has 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.040 to do his job and if they don't, there's a leak. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:37.280 You know, there's a problem, there's a flaw. And that's 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.359 such a great little piece of life to learn that 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.960 everyone has to hold their own weight. You do different things. 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.120 Football players on the field are all different sizes too. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.080 I love that you got a four hundred pound guy 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.240 standing next to one hundred and sixty pound guy, and 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:55.480 they both have to do their job. They both have 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.840 to do exactly what they've learned and at the technique 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.680 that they exactly have, they're supposed to do it. And 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.280 it's very unique in that way. And you're going to 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:09.639 war and it's strategic and it's physical, and it's above 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.560 all that, it's mental. And my dad was a huge 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.159 part and me playing and he used to always be like, here, 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.400 it's a mental game. It's a mental game. The first 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.120 thing you ever told me when I started seventh grade 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.600 football and I was a little guy, you can imagine 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.040 I played. I played the skill positions. And so my 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.119 dad said, when you go in as a seventh grader, 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.800 I want whenever the coach says, get me someone, I 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:38.320 want you to volunteer, even if that means offensive line 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:42.760 or linebacker or defensive end like positions that obviously are 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.119 not suited for me. It's for the big guys, the 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:50.000 strong guys. And so that's that's exactly what happens with 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.159 the first practice. Coach goes, give me an offensive lineman, 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.840 and I'm like, boom, I'm ready to coach and he's like, Smith, no, 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.520 no, no no, no, no no no. Give me like a 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:01.040 big guy like offensive linemen. Man, I could do a coach. 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:04.439 And so then he'd flip and he'd be like, Okay, 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:07.680 give me somebody volunteer for a defensive end. I jump 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.480 in there. I'm ready, Coach. No, Smith, you're like a 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:15.680 safety or a running back, not a defensive end. But 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:18.760 when it did something, it did something to coach, and 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:21.040 that came from my dad. It was great advice. And 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.480 basically it just says, coach, I'm ready for whatever you have. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:30.160 I'm here. I don't care, use me, use me, use 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.680 me for the tool that you need. And I don't 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:35.879 care what it takes. I want to do it. And 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.600 that was that was such a such an awesome thing 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:46.000 about being a young teenager playing football. We do, we 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:53.280 do one more question? Take a break. This one says, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:58.320 Hey Granger. My name is Doakes. I'm from Orum, Utah. 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.080 I'm fifteen years old, sting in school. I have a 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.880 major self esteem issue. I have no motivation in school anymore. 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.960 I just need some advice. I've talked to my parents 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:12.199 about it and they have helped me very little. But 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:14.120 I just want to hear what advice you want to give. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.800 Thank you for being an example and for producing great music. 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:22.520 Thank you Doaks well Man. First of all, I don't 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:26.040 think it's a coincidence that I just read that question 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:30.480 right before this one and then yours, and so it's 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.200 something I would say to you, buddy, Have you thought 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:38.520 about football? Have you thought about football or any sport? 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:41.280 And keep in mind what I love about football as 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:50.280 opposed to baseball and basketball track. Football can require much 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:55.520 less skill than the other sports because it's a mental game. 0:23:55.680 --> 0:24:01.399 It's physical and mental, but above all mental. Down the 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:06.800 list is skill in fundamentals. So somebody like you Doaks, 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:09.520 I don't know anything about you. You say you ever 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:11.800 made your self esteem issue, But when you put on 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.120 that helmet and those shoulder pads in your school in Utah, 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:16.840 and I know they have football in Utah, I just 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:23.520 saw it. You become a warrior. You're a warrior for 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:28.280 the for this army, this army of soldiers, and you're 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:31.600 one of the warriors in the army. And this might 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:34.119 not be the advice you want, but it's a coincidence 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:37.399 that I'm coming right off of that other question. But 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:41.359 you want to talk about building up your self esteem 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:43.320 is getting in there and putting on a helmet and 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:48.720 hitting somebody and forgetting about your troubles and going after 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:54.120 somebody and volunteering for everything that coach has. I'm here, 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:56.520 I'm here. Doaks, get out of here. No, I'm here, coach. 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.679