Speaker 1: What's up, guys, Welcome back to the podcast, this time
Speaker 1: live again. Second time in a row we've done a
Speaker 1: live podcast. So part of you will listen to it
Speaker 1: right now, and then part of y'all will listen to
Speaker 1: it when it comes out on Monday. I got a
Speaker 1: bunch of people in the studio today, a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people. Ant Man producing the show, and I got
Speaker 1: Chris Lee, the Mighty Chris with the big arms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a mind, he's got the wide mic,
Speaker 1: but he's here just to make sure things. You know,
Speaker 1: no intruders come in here, and that's with us. That's
Speaker 1: why he has big guns. And then we're coming this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna answer your questions, and if you have a question,
Speaker 1: you could do it in a couple of ways. You
Speaker 1: could email podcast at grangersmith dot com. We're gonna answer those,
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Speaker 1: So you could either comment in real time on any
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Speaker 1: can just email podcast at grangersmith dot com. We are
Speaker 1: also going to talk about ee E Day, which, as
Speaker 1: we are recording this live, is Manyana. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really fun day. We've got a mud bog, two
Speaker 1: mud bogs in fact, a dot track which is street
Speaker 1: legal trucks and UTVs, and then a big boy track
Speaker 1: for the unlimited class I E. Monster trucks.
Speaker 2: Wasn't there going to be a third one?
Speaker 1: Well, there's three categories, two tracks. What were you thinking?
Speaker 2: Kids track?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and then we will have kids. If
Speaker 1: you're listening, We're going to do a called power Wheel
Speaker 1: Race in between the two tracks. That's awesome. Maverick will
Speaker 1: be entering in that. I'm gonna be racing you, racing Chris.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm staying far far away.
Speaker 1: Is your truck your truck four will drive? It? Is not? Oh?
Speaker 1: Is your truck four will drive in?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Both of y'all got the white trucks.
Speaker 2: I know, okay, the don't give me some This has
Speaker 2: been a topic in our house all the way up
Speaker 2: to yesterday. Literally, I have gone to the dealership to
Speaker 2: trade in my truck because I wanted a four by four.
Speaker 2: When I bought it in twenty twenty, none were available. Remember,
Speaker 2: everything was short. But I needed a new car, okay,
Speaker 2: and so I bought the one I have, And now
Speaker 2: they're three times as much just for four wheel drive.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 2: I bought that truck for maybe thirty thousand a four
Speaker 2: by four right now? Brand new?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, sixty grand? Okay, Well maybe y'all could use
Speaker 1: the old seventy seven i've got Okay, Okay, you trust
Speaker 1: us with that? Yes, I don't trust myself with it.
Speaker 1: So could we go see the guys at Ege Apparel?
Speaker 1: We can assume we should be able to go. Oh,
Speaker 1: there they are right there. What's up, fellas? Y'all getting ready?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 5: My question is to Chris and everybody else that doesn't
Speaker 5: have a four by four truck, what's the point of
Speaker 5: having a truck if it's not four by four?
Speaker 4: Is that a dumb question?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Tyler, don't get this. This podcast is about answering questions
Speaker 2: for the fans, not for me explaining why I don't
Speaker 2: have a four by more.
Speaker 1: All right, city city boys. It's for city boys. Yeah, Tyler,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get your your red Ford wet.
Speaker 4: I mean I pulled you out yesterday.
Speaker 1: He did, so we didn't have the hubs walked in.
Speaker 1: So do we do? We have Justin there with you guys.
Speaker 1: Is he out working on the truck. He's working on
Speaker 1: his on his truck he just bought. Yeah, he's out here.
Speaker 1: So we have Justin Hildebrant, who is a big time
Speaker 1: YouTuber and he does this stuff. He actually told us
Speaker 1: the other day a couple of weeks ago, he said
Speaker 1: he's been doing this most of his life. Didn't he
Speaker 1: say something like that, I've been doing this most of
Speaker 1: my life. So I think that qualifies him as knowing
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. Yee Day is open to the
Speaker 1: public for the first time ever, And I'll be totally
Speaker 1: honest with everyone listening right now. This is really a
Speaker 1: trial year for us. Opening it up to the public
Speaker 1: is a trial year. We're gonna see how it goes
Speaker 1: and really shoot for you know, I hope decades, Lord Willing,
Speaker 1: decades of ye Day where you could bring you can
Speaker 1: come and bring your kids and bring your power wheels
Speaker 1: and bring a pickup truck that's four wheel drive and
Speaker 1: put it in the mud and celebrate with us.
Speaker 2: I'll park over there with Chris. I guess.
Speaker 3: I don't understand, Like I know, it's cool to have
Speaker 3: a four wheel drive pickup truck. That's like the cool
Speaker 3: thing to have, right, it makes you more manly and everything.
Speaker 4: It's no, no, no, no, Chris, you don't understand.
Speaker 1: Aside from hold up, Chris, don't have headphones on.
Speaker 3: Chris speaking over you Smith boys again, how does it
Speaker 3: feel you do it to me? You do it to
Speaker 3: me all the time?
Speaker 2: Nothing over here.
Speaker 1: Let me explain what Tyler saying. Go ahead to the.
Speaker 4: City boy, and he's never been in the mud, so
Speaker 4: he doesn't need a pit.
Speaker 1: He said, you're a city boy, and you don't. You've
Speaker 1: never been in the mud, so you don't need a
Speaker 1: four wheel drive.
Speaker 3: It's right, Okay, I never claimed to be a country
Speaker 3: boy by any means. But if I'm not, if my
Speaker 3: daily life isn't getting stuck possibly getting stuck in the mud,
Speaker 3: like I'm not getting stuck in the mud taking my
Speaker 3: son to baseball practice, right, So what's the point of
Speaker 3: having the four wheel drive? I don't live up north
Speaker 3: where there's snow during the winter. So unless you live
Speaker 3: on a farm, what's the purpose. Or you're doing this
Speaker 3: mud bogging thing, what's the purpose of having it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good argument. You have to love you
Speaker 1: have to love the fun of mudding, I guess. Or
Speaker 1: you have to be going to the deer blind that's
Speaker 1: very difficult to get to or there. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not the only two reasons. But but if you're taking
Speaker 1: your kid to baseball practice and you just like a
Speaker 1: pickup truck, then get a two wheel drive. Like Ant said,
Speaker 1: you're gonna save a lot of money.
Speaker 2: What if it's a wet day at the baseball park? See,
Speaker 2: that's what I always think of. What is Yeah, what
Speaker 2: if it's.
Speaker 3: Been raining, like it's about to this weekend and it's
Speaker 3: probably gonna get rained out. But what I don't get.
Speaker 3: What I don't get is the and I really get
Speaker 3: it from these Smith brothers. Here is the condescending tone,
Speaker 3: the let down when you when you state that you
Speaker 3: don't have And I get this not just from you guys,
Speaker 3: but from other people. It's like, oh, you don't have
Speaker 3: a four wheel drive. Oh, I guess we see who's
Speaker 3: running that family, right.
Speaker 1: Parker doesn't have a four wheel drive either. Parker's driving
Speaker 1: Dad's old truck, not not the old the seventy four
Speaker 1: old truck, but the other old truck, the uh, the
Speaker 1: one that was sitting at at Moms forever. And Parker's like,
Speaker 1: I'm want to save some money and drive that.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, he's the smartest of everyone here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the only.
Speaker 6: Reason to have four wheel drive is so you can
Speaker 6: tell people you have four wheel drive.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, be fair again.
Speaker 4: I just pulled Granger out yesterday.
Speaker 5: I literally pulled out the forklift that somebody drove in
Speaker 5: the grass that's not supposed to be in the grass
Speaker 5: and pulled them.
Speaker 4: Out three days ago.
Speaker 5: So it's like, we like to Chris's point, Yeah, Chris,
Speaker 5: the condescending thing, Like I get it, Like if you're
Speaker 5: never if you're always on the pavement, two will droves fine.
Speaker 5: But being out on the farm, living on a farm,
Speaker 5: at the ranch, going hunting on Granger, so you just
Speaker 5: have to have a four by four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you guys could join in on this conversation.
Speaker 1: Anyone could comment and give us a good reason why
Speaker 1: you need a four wheel drive I think there's I
Speaker 1: think they're personally are There are many and I think
Speaker 1: Parker has a point as well. So Crystal says, my
Speaker 1: husband's dream truck was a ninety five to two thousand
Speaker 1: and Ford F three fifty super duty Diesel four by
Speaker 1: four and w R was I mean bought one, and
Speaker 1: we bought one. Okay, we bought one without the four
Speaker 1: by four. And as much as he loves our truck
Speaker 1: with a Texas flag on the tailgate, he still complains
Speaker 1: about not having four wheel drive.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have no need for one, and I
Speaker 2: complain every day too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what it came in Andy was the
Speaker 4: ice storm in Texas.
Speaker 1: Truck the ice the ice storm was huge, and we
Speaker 1: have you know, usually once a year in Texas you're
Speaker 1: going to need a four wheel drive. I spent a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I spent a couple of days
Speaker 1: just pulling, pulling people out of the ditch with that
Speaker 1: when I had that Ford. Adam says, let's hear what
Speaker 1: Earl Dibblis Junior would say about all this. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think Adam Earl would say, if you're going
Speaker 1: to drive a truck, I mean, why are you even
Speaker 1: gonna get no two wheel drive and doesn't even make
Speaker 1: no sense, just going tire spinning, spinning, spinning, like yet,
Speaker 1: I don't even like them too. Will drive bowler drives
Speaker 1: the only way to go for a country boys, That's
Speaker 1: what I think. That's what he would say. Probably he
Speaker 1: said that before, right, Yeah, so guys, uh, before we
Speaker 1: let you go, what we know about tomorrow? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: head up there just a little bit to get you guys,
Speaker 1: or to to see if we can get some water
Speaker 1: from the big track to the little track. But what
Speaker 1: else should we know about ye day tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Don't show up if you don't have a ticket. I
Speaker 4: think we still have tickets available today. But it's a
Speaker 4: pretty pretty uh. You won't let you won't be let
Speaker 4: in at the gate if you don't have a ticket.
Speaker 4: So go get a ticket now.
Speaker 5: We still have some available. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 5: of fun. Next year, we'll probably do a Saturday. I
Speaker 5: think the only reason we did Friday this year was
Speaker 5: because Granger, you're leaving the some other country or state
Speaker 5: or something again to go speak.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. Okay, we got.
Speaker 6: Trucks, we got beer, we got the mud, bogs being
Speaker 6: worked on right now. This is the most insane mud
Speaker 6: bog I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: They're like four or five feet deep.
Speaker 6: There's literally like half a million dollar machinery like digging
Speaker 6: into the mud making sure that it's like the perfect
Speaker 6: the perfect amount of mud to be able to let
Speaker 6: certain trucks get far enough but then get stuck at
Speaker 6: certain points. We have like redneck scientists out there perfecting it.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be like one of the greatest days in
Speaker 6: Yee history, honestly, and we're super exciting, and we got
Speaker 6: we got a.
Speaker 5: Bunch of friends and guests like Neil Brisbee, Hannah Baron.
Speaker 5: I think Weston Champlain's coming is coming. A bunch of
Speaker 5: people like that, a bunch of friends over the years.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be hanging out, so it's gonna be a
Speaker 5: fun time.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree with Parker. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be It's gonna be one of the coolest days
Speaker 1: we've had at Ee Farm since Holler, and it may
Speaker 1: even be better than Holler, since the Holler music video shows.
Speaker 6: It'll be better because everybody who's seen this place for
Speaker 6: years is finally gonna be able to be here and
Speaker 6: like be and when a helicopter comes roaring in right
Speaker 6: over their heads, like.
Speaker 1: Don't give away all the surprises, Parker. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: All right, guys. Well, I'll see you in a few
Speaker 1: hours and everyone else you'll all see the EUEI farm tomorrow.
Speaker 4: See you guys.
Speaker 1: Yep. All right. So let's get to what we do
Speaker 1: on this podcast, and that's answer some questions. And thankfully
Speaker 1: it's not just my brain working on this. We got
Speaker 1: Chris and ant Man. This question comes in from We'll
Speaker 1: see who. This is from Garrett, and Garrett wants to
Speaker 1: argue about some stuff here. Just kidding, he says this,
Speaker 1: Hey Granger, longtime music follower, new to the podcast, but
Speaker 1: really love it. I don't remember the episode number, but
Speaker 1: you had a Mennonite gentleman on there, and you guys
Speaker 1: were discussing using firearms for protection. I'll preface my question
Speaker 1: by stating that I am a firm believer in the
Speaker 1: right to bear arms, as I believe it is necessary
Speaker 1: for the protection of innocent life here on earth. I
Speaker 1: feel like your conversation with that gentleman ended too soon,
Speaker 1: and basically what I gather from his perspective is that
Speaker 1: he believes you don't need a gun for protection if
Speaker 1: you trust God. I'm curious to hear your thoughts about
Speaker 1: that stance. Personally, I don't agree, because by that logic,
Speaker 1: nobody who has faith in God should ever wear a
Speaker 1: seat belt on a fighter fire extinguisher, or wear a
Speaker 1: harness and a tree stand, et cetera. I just don't
Speaker 1: see how being cautious and prepared could mean you are
Speaker 1: lacking faith. Just curious about your further thoughts on this topic.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Garrett. Yeah, man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Garrett.
Speaker 1: You're talking about my buddy Marv, and love Marv to death.
Speaker 1: He's we met on this podcast. We met as he
Speaker 1: was a listener to it, and then we became friends.
Speaker 1: He's a dear brother in Christ. And then eventually he
Speaker 1: was a guest on the podcast. And one of the questions,
Speaker 1: you know, Mennonites believe in gosh ly, what is that?
Speaker 1: What is that doctrine? It is the non aggression, the
Speaker 1: doctrine of non aggression. And I think there's a I've
Speaker 1: heard that, Yeah, it's you didn't know that. So it's basically,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say the word pacifist. The people
Speaker 1: they just they believe they lean more on the turn
Speaker 1: your cheek side of Jesus and.
Speaker 2: Less on the less on the turn over the tables.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And it's it's actually funny you say that
Speaker 1: because those are the two extremes, and I believe if
Speaker 1: you lean on either extreme, you can't be correct. You
Speaker 1: can't pin Jesus on the flipping the table guy or
Speaker 1: the we only turn the other cheek guy. Because you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting when when the when the Jews and it
Speaker 1: came to arrest him in the Romans, they came to
Speaker 1: arrest him in the garden, he spoke a word and
Speaker 1: they fell to the ground. You know, he he defended
Speaker 1: the disciples in a way with just his voice. Just
Speaker 1: his voice knocked him to the ground. So it's interesting
Speaker 1: to look at it in that perspective. I think, I
Speaker 1: think here's where I land on this. And Garrett, I
Speaker 1: hope you hear my heart on this. I have nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with the second second Amendment, and neither does Marv.
Speaker 1: You first want to say that like the guy loves
Speaker 1: to hunt, and I don't think there's anything I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything wrong with desiring to protect you innocent
Speaker 1: life in your family. I think that is something that's
Speaker 1: God given. I think that's something that's inside of God
Speaker 1: has given that to all men, a desire to protect
Speaker 1: and and so there is a nuance to this that
Speaker 1: we have to dive into. And so I want to
Speaker 1: we should test our hearts to see are we approaching
Speaker 1: this with the Clint Eastwood mentality, come on, punk, make
Speaker 1: my day, or are we saying my last resort in
Speaker 1: life is to use deadly force. It's a last thing
Speaker 1: I want to do. I will protect my family from
Speaker 1: from someone, just just as I would protect to my
Speaker 1: immediate family from a sibling that comes home drunk and
Speaker 1: starts beating on his mom, like I'm gonna stop him
Speaker 1: with force. Marv. Part of Marv's argument on this was,
Speaker 1: and I think it's right. It's like, look, if I'm
Speaker 1: carrying a gun with me all the time, then I
Speaker 1: could be tempted to lean to the side of me
Speaker 1: that says, come on, punk, make my day. I could
Speaker 1: be tempted to use it out of anger, which is
Speaker 1: a sin of ours, to be aggressive to a point
Speaker 1: of I want to fight you because I want to
Speaker 1: prove that I'm right, or prove that I'm stronger a
Speaker 1: prove that I'm a better protector. Jesus would have never
Speaker 1: done that. Jesus was perfect and sinless, and so he
Speaker 1: would have never used it in that way. But I think, Garrett,
Speaker 1: there's a nuance to this, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: category error to say, well, then we shouldn't wear a seatbelt,
Speaker 1: or we shouldn't carry a fire extinguisher, or we shouldn't
Speaker 1: wear a harness and a tree stand. I think that's
Speaker 1: a category error because killing someone has way more consequences
Speaker 1: than putting out a fire with a fire extinguisher, or
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you don't want to
Speaker 1: be wrong about that. You don't you don't want to
Speaker 1: be shoot somebody between the eyes because they're on your
Speaker 1: front lawn and you did it at a mistake, or
Speaker 1: or they were somebody's son that was having a bad
Speaker 1: day with alcohol and you just shot them between the
Speaker 1: eyes and killed them to prove a point that you're
Speaker 1: gonna protect your family. I think there's a danger in
Speaker 1: that and the other thing we have to bring up
Speaker 1: before then I'll let you guys talk. We have to
Speaker 1: bring up. We're talking about something that is so rare.
Speaker 1: The instance you have to pull the trigger on a
Speaker 1: gun to protect your family. I've never met anyone that's
Speaker 1: had to do that. I'm sure it happens, but it
Speaker 1: is the far extreme case. It's a it's a one
Speaker 1: in a million chance. And so do we do we
Speaker 1: base all of our thinking on a one and a
Speaker 1: million chants or do we want to actually think through
Speaker 1: it and go, Look, I'm not the flip the tables Jesus.
Speaker 1: I'm not only to flip the table, Jesus. I'm not
Speaker 1: only to turn your other cheek Jesus. In fact, I'm
Speaker 1: not Jesus at all. And I have a tendency to sin,
Speaker 1: and part of that sin is aggression. So I want
Speaker 1: to do all I can to protect that aggression. Let
Speaker 1: me let you guys dive in, and then you guys,
Speaker 1: I want to see some comments on here too, because
Speaker 1: this is a this is a very nuanced question.
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you, I just firmly believe Jesus wants
Speaker 3: me to have an ar fifteen brother. I just don't
Speaker 3: see any way around it.
Speaker 2: Right, That's the best I can get you in the
Speaker 2: camera too, right here. So it's just the only adswer.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of in between in some of that and
Speaker 2: and the fact I carry, but I've never I also
Speaker 2: did all the training to actually I've done training twice.
Speaker 2: That is, you know, never pull. It was the whole
Speaker 2: never point at anything that you don't intend to kill.
Speaker 2: Never pull your gun if you don't intend to use it.
Speaker 2: So that's always been it's there in the in the
Speaker 2: extreme that that I haven't and I wasn't in a
Speaker 2: situation that I wish I would have, you know, I
Speaker 2: think it's it's very different for every person. If you
Speaker 2: are a person who does lean into Okay, I lose
Speaker 2: control when I get angry, or I you know, I
Speaker 2: jump to an extreme when I get upset. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just like being that person owning a gun. You should
Speaker 2: be a responsible gun owner. It's the ones who are
Speaker 2: irresponsible are the ones who make all the responsible ones
Speaker 2: look bad, right, and and and lead to the conversation
Speaker 2: of well, you know, nobody should or we should have
Speaker 2: a band on X, Y and Z, And that's not
Speaker 2: what this podcast is about. But what my point is
Speaker 2: is that you need to be real and judge yourself
Speaker 2: very honestly. If you are an extreme. It doesn't have
Speaker 2: to be with a gun it could be with something broke,
Speaker 2: you knock something over broke. Did you get very upset
Speaker 2: when you stub your toe? What do you do? You know,
Speaker 2: are you are the one who cusses everybody that you see,
Speaker 2: or are you sit down and pray over it and
Speaker 2: and hope that you didn't break your toe? Where do
Speaker 2: you land? That kind of that kind of should help
Speaker 2: you maybe a little bit dictate what you should do
Speaker 2: about carrying every day.
Speaker 3: What you got on is, Chris, you know, it's a
Speaker 3: I've done training and as ant Man mentioned, it's you know,
Speaker 3: you pull that gun up and you pointed at someone.
Speaker 3: Through my training. Anyway, you're pulling the trigger. You're not
Speaker 3: pulling it up and pointing it to scare or anything
Speaker 3: like that, and you're shooting to kill. You're you're shooting
Speaker 3: for center mass, right between the chest bone. So, man,
Speaker 3: my prayer every morning, not that I live the streets
Speaker 3: or anything like that. Sounds really dangerous.
Speaker 2: Thanks in your two wheel drive.
Speaker 3: You gotta get out of that neighborhood, pow uh. But
Speaker 3: my prayer every morning is I don't have to use
Speaker 3: that weapon. That's the last thing. I mean. There's all
Speaker 3: kinds of you know, first and foremost, you don't want
Speaker 3: to take another life, right, you don't want to kill somebody.
Speaker 3: But second, you know there's so many legal consequences that
Speaker 3: come along with that, and you're probably going to court,
Speaker 3: and there's a good possibility you're going.
Speaker 2: To be sitting at night. So the idea of.
Speaker 3: Almost kind of welcoming that challenge of somebody coming into
Speaker 3: your house. And I know there's a lot of a
Speaker 3: lot of people out there that have that sentiment, people
Speaker 3: I know closely. I don't get it. I don't get it,
Speaker 3: and I think it's a it's kind of a dangerous mindset.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so that's where that's where I agree with Marv.
Speaker 1: I mean, granted, I love mar like I would I
Speaker 1: would rather I think what you're saying is, I'd rather
Speaker 1: follow on that side. I'd rather follow on the mind
Speaker 1: in Night's side going because you know what Marv says
Speaker 1: is he's like, I don't know what I would do
Speaker 1: in that situation. And I think what he's what he's
Speaker 1: kind of implying is I don't really trust myself with
Speaker 1: what I would do. And and I think, Garrett, Man,
Speaker 1: I love you too, Man, I don't I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you emailed, but but it sounds like you're
Speaker 1: It sounds like the sentiment of Clint Eastwood. Here. This
Speaker 1: sounds like I carry because I want to say, come on, punk,
Speaker 1: make my day. You want to step on the threshold
Speaker 1: of my house, I will blow your brains out. And
Speaker 1: I think if you have that, I that idea, I
Speaker 1: think that I think that's a sin and I think
Speaker 1: it's Yeah, for sure, I think it's a lot of
Speaker 1: trouble you could be in. Yeah, we'll continue on. But
Speaker 1: if but if someone has a comment about this, is
Speaker 1: anybody comment about this in or are they stay in
Speaker 1: silent because I don't blame them if they are and.
Speaker 2: Know there are some comments? Can we take a break?
Speaker 1: REQUI yeah, let's take are.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: You said you have some comments on here?
Speaker 2: Yes, we have. So, uh, there's a couple of I
Speaker 2: plan on Okay.
Speaker 1: Brandon says, I'm twenty. I plan to get my concealed
Speaker 1: carry permit after college. I strongly believe in self defense,
Speaker 1: and I know that I'd only use it if I
Speaker 1: am in a life or death situation. Yeah, it's good,
Speaker 1: Michelle says, thank you for speaking on this today. Love
Speaker 1: the podcast. Y'all are great, God bless, Michelle says, and
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not offering my opinion. I don't blame
Speaker 1: me at all. Bruce says, I don't know how this
Speaker 1: begins something we should be prepared to give up if
Speaker 1: the government bans guns.
Speaker 2: Sorry, there's the beginning.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay. One way I thought about it is it's
Speaker 1: a privilege that is Christians we can use. I think
Speaker 1: he believes guns. However, can you go back one more
Speaker 1: time yet? However, I think it would be something we
Speaker 1: should be prepared to give up if the government bans guns,
Speaker 1: seeking to be subject to government, as Romans thirteen talks about.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. So that's not where I thought he
Speaker 1: was going. I thought he was going to say, we
Speaker 1: need to be ready when the government comes, so we
Speaker 1: keep them. But he's saying, yeah, we could use them.
Speaker 1: It's a privilege we have if the government comes, we
Speaker 1: should be ready to give him up. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Andrea says, I teach CPO classes, and we always teach
Speaker 1: our students that it is a tool of last resort.
Speaker 1: We always go through the pyramid of the escalation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Amen, I've done that class. As well. And then here's
Speaker 1: Bruce again in the New Testament.
Speaker 2: Believe, I believe it's one of the apostles.
Speaker 1: I believe it's one of the apostles that commands a
Speaker 1: congregation for joyfully accepting the seizure of their property, realizing
Speaker 1: that everything on earth is temporal. You have to remember, Bruce,
Speaker 1: I mean these apostles the time that early church, the
Speaker 1: first century, what was constant oppression. And Jesus think about this, y'all.
Speaker 1: Jesus never rebuked a soldier for being a soldier. So
Speaker 1: you could look at that a couple of different ways. But
Speaker 1: he never when the Roman soldiers came in different instances
Speaker 1: and said what should we do to be saved? Jesus
Speaker 1: never said stop being a soldier. Put down your guns,
Speaker 1: which would would have been swords, obviously, put down your weapons,
Speaker 1: and don't be a soldier anymore. And John the Baptist
Speaker 1: same when he encountered these centurions. He never once said,
Speaker 1: stop being a soldier. That is a sin. Don't be
Speaker 1: a soldier. Put down your swords, you infidels. You never
Speaker 1: said that. You brought up another one. Brian says, I
Speaker 1: am a former l e O and marine and I
Speaker 1: understand a gun as a tool, and like any other tool,
Speaker 1: it requires training for proper use. I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to take another life, but I do want to
Speaker 1: protect life. Yeah, amen, Brian, Yeah, we are here to
Speaker 1: UH as men. Part of part of what we do
Speaker 1: is we want to protect and make.
Speaker 2: Prosper you know, and.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think anyone disagrees that at the
Speaker 1: hands of life and death, especially with a child or
Speaker 1: a and someone that's can't defend themselves as much, you
Speaker 1: will step in between the aggressor and the victim. You
Speaker 1: will step in between it and stop whatever's happening.
Speaker 3: Again, I think the gray area that's so interesting to me,
Speaker 3: and I think about this often very circumstantial. So someone
Speaker 3: comes into your house, they're wielding a weapon, that's.
Speaker 2: Pretty cut and dry.
Speaker 3: It's like they got to be done with, you got
Speaker 3: to get rid of, or a school. Okay, but someone
Speaker 3: breaks into your house. Let's just say a teenager, one
Speaker 3: hundred and one hundred and seventy five pound teenager comes
Speaker 3: in unarmed.
Speaker 2: What do you do at that point?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Is it do I use my martial arts stuff on them?
Speaker 3: Do I start shooting? Do I point try to get.
Speaker 2: Him to leave. You know, what's the how do you react.
Speaker 3: In that gray area there? And that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like what I told Marv when he was
Speaker 1: on the podcast, I said, I've told Amber before, I'm
Speaker 1: shooting all the knee caps out and then I'm taking
Speaker 1: my belt off as a tourniquet and preaching the gospel
Speaker 1: to him and Marv Marv laughed, and he's like, I
Speaker 1: think I would do the same thing. He's like, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I would trust myself. So that I think that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to, is that teenager comes in
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have any kind of deadly weapon, but
Speaker 1: say he's on drugs and he's wanting to hurt. He's
Speaker 1: wanting to rape your daughter, you know. And so I
Speaker 1: don't know if my first reaction isn't I want to
Speaker 1: I want to throw a grenade into his mouth, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if that's my first reaction, because
Speaker 1: it's impossible to know how we react. But whenever you
Speaker 1: have accessible to you, you will use right. These are
Speaker 1: all quotquestions. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer,
Speaker 1: but These are questions we need to really think about,
Speaker 1: and we need to think about why we're asking the
Speaker 1: question once again? Is it a come on punk, make
Speaker 1: my day. Let me show you who I am. I
Speaker 1: protect my family at all ends. Or is it I
Speaker 1: want to love and protect and preserve life and I
Speaker 1: want as many people saved as possible. Is that your desire?
Speaker 1: Or is it you step on my grass I blow
Speaker 1: your brains out? This is interesting? Are we chewing up
Speaker 1: too much time on one topic? Thanks a lot more.
Speaker 2: There is a there's a comment from on instagram from
Speaker 2: from Costa sixty three. You should never carry just to
Speaker 2: go out to find a situation to put yourself in.
Speaker 2: It should only be pulled off a threat. Is there
Speaker 2: pulled off a threat? Is there better to retreat than
Speaker 2: running to unless you truly needed?
Speaker 1: Okay, see it's hard. It's hard reading questions like that,
Speaker 1: is right? Yeah, that's a good point. Are you wearing
Speaker 1: a red bandana and going into the crips neighborhood?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Is that you? We need to test ourselves in these
Speaker 1: kind of ways. Are what are we getting ourselves in? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You want some other comments? People ask a few things?
Speaker 1: We should I mean yeah, another question.
Speaker 2: Well, there are just other comments that have come in,
Speaker 2: not about the comic.
Speaker 1: Marian says, Hey, Granger, We're in London, Ontario, and Amber
Speaker 1: just spoke and our Amber has spoke at would love
Speaker 1: to see her, only ninety minutes from me. And I'm
Speaker 1: and what is she saying? Winds around Ontario, Canada? Uh?
Speaker 1: Is Amber? I don't know? Is Amber gone? I don't
Speaker 1: think Amber's gone there yet. I think she's has she
Speaker 1: got she's going there tomorrow. Actually really think she's going
Speaker 1: in there tomorrow. Okay, yeah, and then I.
Speaker 3: Think she's downstairs.
Speaker 1: Now she's down there.
Speaker 2: I think I saw.
Speaker 1: Katie says, are you planning to see George Draydon June?
Speaker 1: I am, I'm not Katie, I'm not Amana says Granger.
Speaker 1: How's your family doing?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Lovey all? So they're all great, busy, busy, busy. We've
Speaker 1: got ee day tomorrow, so everybody's kind of prepping for that.
Speaker 1: Plus Amber's going somewhere Canada, I think obviously. Anna says,
Speaker 1: I really love that your episodes every Monday. Thanks for
Speaker 1: sharing them. Yeah, thank you. Anna. Caleb says, Hey Grange,
Speaker 1: been dating my girlfriend for three and a half years.
Speaker 1: I'm eighteen. My parents are super overprotective even with my
Speaker 1: everyday life. It's to the point where it makes me
Speaker 1: put up a wall from them. Any advice, Yeah, Caleb,
Speaker 1: that means you've been dating this girl since you're in
Speaker 1: your you know, fourteen and a half years old, and
Speaker 1: your your parents. I think all of us either have
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old or or have had one, or
Speaker 1: almost have a fourteen year old in this room right now.
Speaker 1: And so when you say your parents are putting you
Speaker 1: know they're over protective. Great, great, Like shouldn't parents want
Speaker 1: at all costs to protect now? The thing is you're
Speaker 1: right at the end of their jurisdiction over your life.
Speaker 1: You're most likely going to leave here pretty soon, and
Speaker 1: you could do whatever you want. But while you're still
Speaker 1: under their roof, as the old saying goes, I would say,
Speaker 1: just honoring them, loving them, understanding that they truly want
Speaker 1: what's best for you. They don't want to overpower you
Speaker 1: and overprotect you because of they have some kind of
Speaker 1: motive for theirselves, some selfish motive. They probably see something
Speaker 1: in this girl. Since you've been dating since you're fourteen
Speaker 1: and a half years old, they probably see something that
Speaker 1: it's a little scary to them, and it may be
Speaker 1: just as simple as they are. They think she's moving
Speaker 1: a little too fast, and they might like her, but
Speaker 1: they're wondering if you're going to give up all of
Speaker 1: your teenage years for her and not just be a
Speaker 1: teenage boy for once, because you haven't been able to
Speaker 1: do that. Maybe the worry is as simple as that.
Speaker 1: And so that comes across as overprotective guys.
Speaker 2: What do you all got to go.
Speaker 3: In a world full of parents that I believe do
Speaker 3: not care enough and do not put enough restrictions on
Speaker 3: their kids. Keep in mind, I grew up very very
Speaker 3: old school raised by my biological grandparents, and they knew
Speaker 3: exactly what I was doing, when I was doing it,
Speaker 3: where I was doing it. So in this world, I
Speaker 3: think having parents like that is a real blessing. It's
Speaker 3: not going to make sense to you at eighteen right now,
Speaker 3: because you're at that age where you want to be free,
Speaker 3: you want to have no chains attached to you. But
Speaker 3: it's going to make sense one of these days, I
Speaker 3: promise you. I was questioning those parental decisions when I
Speaker 3: was your age, and now having a couple of teenagers.
Speaker 3: I'm telling them the same thing. Believe me, this is
Speaker 3: going to make sense to you one of these days.
Speaker 3: We're trying to shape you into being a good human.
Speaker 3: And hang in there. It sounds like you got some
Speaker 3: good folks. And as long as they're not beating you
Speaker 3: too much, you know you're you're okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The cool thing about this live podcast is Chris
Speaker 1: We're we're we're not speaking to an email. We're speaking
Speaker 1: to him. He's listening right now, exactly.
Speaker 2: It's really cool, right. I love that aspect.
Speaker 1: Of this live, this live answering questions. Should we go
Speaker 1: back to the email speaking of or You've got.
Speaker 2: More in a couple more comments here, uh this yee
Speaker 2: day tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Fine wife bought me a ticket to celebrate my birthday.
Speaker 1: Ee y day, Marcus my man, I will I will
Speaker 1: see you tomorrow, buddy awesome And Nora six three six
Speaker 1: says saying hello from Fort Worth, Texas. Love genuine you
Speaker 1: are in your podcast. Thank you, no, thank you, Susan
Speaker 1: says Granger. How could we best pray for you and
Speaker 1: your family and this season of life. That's a great question,
Speaker 1: and it you know, it changes, I would say right
Speaker 1: now I'm in a a little bit of a busy season,
Speaker 1: just coming back from Honduras and going heading into EED
Speaker 1: Day tomorrow preaching in uh Costa, Mesa, CALIFORNI yes Sunday,
Speaker 1: delivering a message on Wednesday in Albuquerque, and then another
Speaker 1: message on Friday in Bismarck, North Dakota. So all of
Speaker 1: those messages require time, research, reading, writing seminary on top
Speaker 1: of that. So if you just pray for endurance through
Speaker 1: the season. And I'm trying to be better about saying
Speaker 1: no to things, I just I thought I was getting
Speaker 1: better at saying no to things, and even now I'm
Speaker 1: still struggling a little bit because then another message will
Speaker 1: come in and somebody invites me to their thing, and
Speaker 1: I just go, oh, I really like this person, I
Speaker 1: respect them, or I would love to be part of this,
Speaker 1: and I say yes, and then it just fills up, you.
Speaker 2: Know, the saying. And we probably said it before, but
Speaker 2: is that you do say no to things when you
Speaker 2: say yes to things?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when you.
Speaker 2: Say yes to something, you say no to something else.
Speaker 2: Just pick which one you want to say no to.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. I needed to hear that in I
Speaker 1: needed to hear that. Yeah, like right out, I'm doing
Speaker 1: an interview. It's ten thirty six, yeah, Central time. Right
Speaker 1: now as we recorded, I'm doing an interview at eleven.
Speaker 2: You jumping from this into an interview.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's one great memory from your recent mission? Be grateful?
Speaker 1: Says you know. This is a second time in just
Speaker 1: a few months I've done some kind of mission in
Speaker 1: Central America, and I want to say I've seen or
Speaker 1: Latin America. I should say, I have seen a joy
Speaker 1: in these people, and it is it shouldn't be thought
Speaker 1: of as Americans that we need to go and help
Speaker 1: them because their life is struggling in some way, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 1: they they don't have what we have, we should help them.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I've spent a significant amount of time recently
Speaker 1: with these with people from these different countries, and they're
Speaker 1: not hurting for Joel, our happiness, our peace or rest
Speaker 1: like we are in the United States. And they don't
Speaker 1: have what we have material wise, but they don't need it.
Speaker 1: And so I think I learned those lessons.
Speaker 2: Let's say it's probably a bigger learning lesson for you.
Speaker 2: On those trips. You don't have Instagram at the time.
Speaker 2: They don't either and there's more joy. There's no emails
Speaker 2: flying in and they have joy.
Speaker 1: And one of the countries I've been to recently is
Speaker 1: all communists, and so they definitely don't have anything material
Speaker 1: that we have, especially food and medicine things like that.
Speaker 1: But really they're happy. They don't need what we think
Speaker 1: we need. But I'm not going. The reason I go
Speaker 1: to these places is to share the gospel. That's what
Speaker 1: we all need collectively, is all of us image bearers
Speaker 1: of God need the gospel, and we need leaders to
Speaker 1: teach the gospel. And so we go to support the
Speaker 1: leaders and provide the leaders with the resources or information
Speaker 1: or just encouragement that they might need, so that these
Speaker 1: leaders in these different regions can help teach each other.
Speaker 1: That's really the what it comes down to.
Speaker 2: Hit an email.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this email here, how we doing on time? Good
Speaker 1: on cameras? From anonymous? It says, Hey, Granger, I want
Speaker 1: to remain anonymous. I'm a teenager who lives in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I'm homeschooled, and at the moment, I'm doing homeschool most
Speaker 1: of the time. I've been struggling with friendship issues in
Speaker 1: my past. I hung out with a really bad crew
Speaker 1: who drank, smoked, et cetera. I want friends who love Jesus.
Speaker 1: But at the church I attend with my family, there
Speaker 1: seems to be a bunch of surface level people. I've
Speaker 1: been putting myself out there, only to seemingly get rejected
Speaker 1: or get left in a month's time. I don't want
Speaker 1: to act high and mighty, but I also want those
Speaker 1: iron sharpens iron friends. In the past, I've been taken
Speaker 1: advantage of and drained, and I'm going through a really
Speaker 1: hard time and I just want to be poured into.
Speaker 1: What would you do to make more friends that are solid?
Speaker 1: Thank you for time of your podcast. Oh boy, this
Speaker 1: is a great question, but it's very difficult because of
Speaker 1: the information I'm lacking. I don't know how old you are.
Speaker 1: I don't know what town you're in. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's a rural town with fifty people or if
Speaker 1: you're in a city. I don't know if you're going
Speaker 1: to the only church in town. I just don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of things. This was one of these questions.
Speaker 1: It just requires more. But I do want to say
Speaker 1: that you're right in needing those those core relationships. I
Speaker 1: appreciate Daniel one recently, and something that's so evident in
Speaker 1: Daniel as he was about, we believe, about fourteen years old,
Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen, when he was exiled to Babylon, and
Speaker 1: he had three godly friends with him, and to collectively
Speaker 1: those four boys their faithfulness changed the entire kingdom and
Speaker 1: rout the Bible. We see continually this idea that you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be alone, you should do it together, you should
Speaker 1: do it in community, you should do it with your
Speaker 1: fellow brothers and sisters. In fact, it's like you can't
Speaker 1: do it alone. Do not do it alone. These are
Speaker 1: the commands given for us. And so Anonymous, you're right
Speaker 1: in thinking, man, I need that iron sharpens iron kind
Speaker 1: of friend. And without me knowing exactly the situation, it's
Speaker 1: hard for me just to tell you how to find
Speaker 1: a friend. But I would say that there could be
Speaker 1: other churches. Either there's a couple of things going on here.
Speaker 1: Either you really are at a bad church with a
Speaker 1: bunch of service level people, or you're also just not
Speaker 1: seeing yourself as that same hypocrite. The church is full
Speaker 1: of hypocrites. But technically the Christians are the only ones
Speaker 1: in the world that should be able to admit wholeheartedly
Speaker 1: that they are in fact a hypocrite themselves. Every human's hypocrite.
Speaker 1: So maybe maybe that's part of this, as you're just
Speaker 1: not seeing yourself for who you are, anonymous that you
Speaker 1: are service level, you are a hypocrite, and go into
Speaker 1: it with more humility. Or I might be totally wrong
Speaker 1: and you might actually be at a bad church and
Speaker 1: there is another church down the road that you could
Speaker 1: find these iron sharp and iron iron sharpend's iron friends
Speaker 1: a lot of times too. I I say, follow your hobbies.
Speaker 1: So if you if you love, if you love chess,
Speaker 1: find a chess team you know and and meet those
Speaker 1: core people in the chess group.
Speaker 2: Or if you love baseball, do that.
Speaker 1: If you love bowling, go to the bowling league and
Speaker 1: you'll find these people that love what you love. Once again,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's exactly what he's asking. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's saying that I need someone from
Speaker 1: the church, and so I would say, there might be
Speaker 1: other churches out there. What do you guys got.
Speaker 3: I think, first and foremost good for you for holding
Speaker 3: your standards of what a what you looking for in
Speaker 3: a friend. I think that's that's really awesome you could.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you're easily able to identify the wolves
Speaker 3: in the herd of sheep. Second, I would encourage you
Speaker 3: to maybe shrink your focus a little bit to finding
Speaker 3: one good friend that's good, one good friend that you
Speaker 3: can that you can rely on, and you know, iron
Speaker 3: sharpens iron, make each other, you know, accountable to being
Speaker 3: better believers is so important. I'll take one good friend
Speaker 3: over five flaky friends that could possibly be in a
Speaker 3: bad influence any day of the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. He's he's talking about, Hey, I've been
Speaker 1: with this bad crew who drank and smoked. So I
Speaker 1: don't want to leave that part out in my in
Speaker 1: my answer that this guy actually is looking for, yeah,
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Speaker 1: All right, Catherine, says head granger. I'm curious if you
Speaker 1: have plans to visit SLC. That is the good old
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Speaker 1: of your sermons. But also missed your meet and greet
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Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Uh, Francisca Francesca, how do you say that?
Speaker 2: Probably Francesca.
Speaker 1: Francesca says, do you think X's can be friends or
Speaker 1: possibly do business together in the future relationship was kind
Speaker 1: of toxic? No, I mean, do I think you can't?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: But do I advise it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Not if it was a toxic relationship, you don't want
Speaker 1: to do business together. I'm currently sixteen. New comment, currently sixteen.
Speaker 1: I'm personally glad with the restrictions. Oh this is the
Speaker 1: right is the same guy?
Speaker 2: I think it's just a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm personally glad that the restrictions I had as
Speaker 1: a kid. Seeing people are in high school and it's
Speaker 1: just crazy here. Yeah, you're gonna look back, y'all teenagers
Speaker 1: that are watching right now, You're gonna look back in life,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be You're gonna be thankful for the
Speaker 1: parents that had restrictions on you, for the restrictions they
Speaker 1: put on you, as as opposed to being thankful that
Speaker 1: they let you do whatever you want. It's always the
Speaker 1: other way. People always respect their parents for the discipline
Speaker 1: they gave them and not for the freedom they gave them.
Speaker 1: As a kid. Hey, Graingeer. This is conservative American, conserve American. Hey, Grangeer,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of questions I would love to
Speaker 1: pick your brain on, but the one I would love
Speaker 1: your perspective on is the current state of the church
Speaker 1: in America right now. Yeah, I mean, that's it's a
Speaker 1: it's it's a broad question. God God preserves his church,
Speaker 1: so we got to start there. The gates of hell
Speaker 1: will not prevail against it. So he has built his church.
Speaker 1: He will preserve his church, he will preserve his word,
Speaker 1: he will preserve his people. What changes as the pendulum
Speaker 1: swings is the way that church is carried out in
Speaker 1: its polity, which means church government, and the amount of
Speaker 1: nominal Christians that attach themselves to it or fall away
Speaker 1: from it. So at certain points in our history there's
Speaker 1: going to be times when culture aligns with the church
Speaker 1: and a bunch of people pile on and it might
Speaker 1: look like from a distance, church is really good in America.
Speaker 1: Right now it's huge. There's a bunch of people that
Speaker 1: look at the buildings are amazing, and then it's the
Speaker 1: pendulum swings and culture now is against the church. Whenever
Speaker 1: that might happen, or if it does, I don't know,
Speaker 1: not making a comment for it or against it, but
Speaker 1: when it switches and the church shrinks down, an that's
Speaker 1: not a message that God has given up on the
Speaker 1: Church or that America has turned in the Christians in
Speaker 1: America have turned against God and they need to be punished,
Speaker 1: like some people would preach. Instead, I think that's more
Speaker 1: of an indication that nominal Christianity is now falling off
Speaker 1: and the church is slimming down in those slimming moments,
Speaker 1: which I think we're kind of in a slimming era
Speaker 1: right now. It's really cool because it's as the fat
Speaker 1: goes away, you start to reveal the muscle of the
Speaker 1: actual church and you see people that are actually gravitating
Speaker 1: towards good, sound doctrine, and I think that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: So what's my opinion on the state of the church.
Speaker 1: It's probably the same opinion that it's been in the
Speaker 1: last two thousand years that ebbs and flows, God will
Speaker 1: preserve it. We need to preach a sound gospel, we
Speaker 1: need to preach good doctrine. We need to tell people
Speaker 1: about hell and sin that is a direct ticket to hell,
Speaker 1: and we need to tell them about Jesus who is
Speaker 1: the redemption to close the gap of separation between us
Speaker 1: and God and what He did on the cross so
Speaker 1: that He could reconcile those same sinners away from Hell
Speaker 1: back to himself. We need to teach the full Gospel
Speaker 1: and that we need to believe that repent, turn away
Speaker 1: from our sin, turn to Him. Anything more, it's just
Speaker 1: fluff and anything less. It's not Christianity.
Speaker 2: It's about all the time we have.
Speaker 1: Oh is that it already? I got that interview at eleven. Okay,
Speaker 1: love you guys. Comment Please help us know if you
Speaker 1: want Chris to be back here, because I'm kind of
Speaker 1: thinking he shouldn't be back here.
Speaker 2: If he is, we got to get him a camera.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: Some headphones, right, some people aren't meant to be seen.
Speaker 1: Common If y'all like the Live Edgy podcast with all
Speaker 1: of us in the room, I personally love it, even
Speaker 1: though it just take it. It takes a long time
Speaker 1: to set up. Hopefully we're getting better at the setup.
Speaker 1: But I love this and I hope that we can
Speaker 1: continue to do this at least once a month, maybe
Speaker 1: even more and answer your questions.
Speaker 2: So I will say from what was happening two minutes
Speaker 2: before we went live to have it go as well
Speaker 2: as it has today. It's great. It's true.
Speaker 1: We won't even tell them the panic we were having
Speaker 1: right it live.
Speaker 2: Love you guys.
Speaker 1: If you have a question, even podcast at grangersmith dot
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