Speaker 1: That's why I love joy sob and stirring on myself
Speaker 1: that while you got of style at every mine and
Speaker 1: y that's why tis a gun Lost by New Way
Speaker 1: by Mountains. What's up, y'all? This is Granger Smith Granger
Speaker 1: Smith Podcast, Episode nineteen, listening to that song again. That's
Speaker 1: why I love Dirt Roads. I feel like that could
Speaker 1: be a hit. Man. I'm proud of that song. And
Speaker 1: this is going to be the year twenty twenty when
Speaker 1: we find out if it is a hit or not.
Speaker 1: And that, as I've learned, is determined by you, by
Speaker 1: the fans. So you, guys, if you do love it, hey,
Speaker 1: even if you just like it, if you think it's
Speaker 1: mediocre and you just want to support the best thing
Speaker 1: you could do to support that song and me and
Speaker 1: my music and my band is to stream it, to
Speaker 1: play it, to request it from your local radio station,
Speaker 1: to tweet, our Instagram, our Facebook, sirius XM. When you
Speaker 1: hear them play it, say man, I like that song.
Speaker 1: If you could watch it on YouTube, I'm not asking
Speaker 1: for any kind of money investment. All you gotta do
Speaker 1: is stream it on YouTube. If you like it, just
Speaker 1: play it. The music video will be coming soon. Right now,
Speaker 1: you could just watch the audio. We have a lyric
Speaker 1: video coming soon, so all that stuff is coming twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this. It's all fun to me. It's
Speaker 1: like putting together a puzzle, you know, and you know
Speaker 1: how you want the final puzzle to look. But you
Speaker 1: have all these pieces and you're like, man, how could
Speaker 1: I put these pieces together? And how could? And that
Speaker 1: also makes me think that, you know, you got to
Speaker 1: have someone helping you put it together with you, many
Speaker 1: people in my case, helping me put together the puzzle
Speaker 1: of what could be a hit song. It's a fun challenge.
Speaker 1: I'm at home today off tour. In fact that this
Speaker 1: is the month of January. I don't know when you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, but this is the month of January
Speaker 1: when I'm recording it twenty twenty. That's such a crazy
Speaker 1: thing to say, isn't it twenty twenty? It sounds like
Speaker 1: at the future. I can't believe I've made it to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I was talking to my son Lincoln, and
Speaker 1: I said that if he lives long enough, God willing,
Speaker 1: we don't know what tomorrow brings, but if he lives
Speaker 1: long enough, he will see the turn of the century
Speaker 1: twenty one hundred. I believe he'll be eighty six. London
Speaker 1: would be eighty eight, and that crazy to think. Twenty
Speaker 1: one hundred, I will be long gone. I won't be
Speaker 1: around for that unless I'm like one hundred and seven.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's a lot. I'm home. The
Speaker 1: January is typically a slow touring month on purpose. I've
Speaker 1: been going to the gym and people are like, you're
Speaker 1: coming to the gym again. Usually you're gone. I'm like, no.
Speaker 1: January is typically pretty slow on purpose. There's not that
Speaker 1: many festivals. The rodeos haven't started, fairs haven't started, and
Speaker 1: it's a good time for all of us, me and
Speaker 1: the band to kind of regroup. We are heading to
Speaker 1: la next week. We're going to play the Staples Center
Speaker 1: with Caine Brown and I don't know who else is
Speaker 1: on that show, but that's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. We've been looking forward to that when that
Speaker 1: was rescheduled from I believe last October when Cain, his drummer,
Speaker 1: tragically died in a car accident, so they had to reschedule.
Speaker 1: Terrible news for that. We were all good friends. We
Speaker 1: toured a Lot with Caine in twenty nineteen. After that
Speaker 1: we'll be heading to Mexico with Luke Bryan for Crash
Speaker 1: My Plaia, and that is it pretty much for touring.
Speaker 1: We don't really start the tour until January thirty, first
Speaker 1: we get back out there. I know Kansas City is
Speaker 1: on that list, Saint Louis, Oklahoma City. That's about as
Speaker 1: far as I can remember. I have some fun hunting
Speaker 1: trips coming up this month. I have a trip I'm
Speaker 1: going to take with the family to Idaho here in
Speaker 1: a week or so, which I'm really excited about. I
Speaker 1: haven't taken the family to Idaho with me to see
Speaker 1: the Sawtooth Mountains. It's just unbelievable nature, unbelievable country, and
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to get them out there. We're going
Speaker 1: to stay at a friend's cabin and we are going
Speaker 1: to film an episode of The Smiths or two while
Speaker 1: we're there, just because I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: a really fun adventure. My friend sent me a picture
Speaker 1: from his living room of this cabin we're going to
Speaker 1: be in. You could see elk walking through the woods
Speaker 1: right outside the window. So I showed Lincoln in London.
Speaker 1: They're really excited. So that's me. That's my life right now,
Speaker 1: and I like it. It's really slow, and I'm in
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in my closet in my little studio, my studio,
Speaker 1: I say studio. It's actually a bedroom that I converted
Speaker 1: into a studio. And I've been doing this bedroom conversion
Speaker 1: thing in many houses, in rent houses and apartments that
Speaker 1: I've lived in over the last couple of decades. And
Speaker 1: this is this is always where the magic happens, I guess.
Speaker 1: And I am in the We've lived in this house
Speaker 1: now since July, so not that long, and and I
Speaker 1: have everything set up ready to go. I've sang a
Speaker 1: couple of songs. This is where I've seen all my
Speaker 1: records in a closet just like this, and so all
Speaker 1: the new album, the new stuff will be recorded right here,
Speaker 1: which you will hear new music from me this year
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. I'm excited about, very excited about, and
Speaker 1: it will be recorded in this little closet. This is
Speaker 1: the first podcast I've recorded in this little closet. Now.
Speaker 1: The cool thing about this episode nineteen is I'm not
Speaker 1: going to continue on the story that I was on
Speaker 1: in episode eighteen, I told you leading up to a
Speaker 1: record deal and Backroad song, and I played you an
Speaker 1: old recording when I first wrote Backroad Song with different lyrics,
Speaker 1: which is kind of vulnerable but fun to play for
Speaker 1: the very first time to hear new lyrics, you know,
Speaker 1: actually old lyrics that are new to you. And I
Speaker 1: have that with every song. But what's gonna make this
Speaker 1: podcast different is I'm going to go to the Smiths,
Speaker 1: which is our YouTube channel. It's a family vlog channel.
Speaker 1: We've been recording most of twenty nineteen, will continue through
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. We put out episodes on YouTube on our
Speaker 1: channel every Tuesday and Thursday. And this is a family
Speaker 1: blog channel. It's either me with the kids in Amber
Speaker 1: at home, or it's Amber and the kids at home
Speaker 1: versus me on the road, and we kind of have
Speaker 1: that dynamic back and forth. So I'm going to go
Speaker 1: to one of these episodes. It's called Answering Your Questions,
Speaker 1: and I thought, hey, this could be a cool podcast.
Speaker 1: Everyone's always asking Amber and I have some questions, and
Speaker 1: so I thought, you know, I'll take the audio from
Speaker 1: that video and throw it on this podcast so that
Speaker 1: those of you, those that are podcasters and not YouTubers.
Speaker 1: I know some of you are going to overlap, but
Speaker 1: the ones that are just solely podcasters, you like to,
Speaker 1: you know, get in your car, your truck, drive down
Speaker 1: the road, maybe you're on a road trip, maybe you're
Speaker 1: going to work, maybe you're commuting, whatever you're doing, taking
Speaker 1: the kids to school, whatever. You listen to podcasts and
Speaker 1: you don't YouTube. So I'm gonna throw the audio on
Speaker 1: this so that you could listen to these answers and
Speaker 1: if you like it, maybe we could do more. We
Speaker 1: could do more, and go ahead and go and go
Speaker 1: to social media. Let me know what you think, hashtag
Speaker 1: Granger Smith podcast. What do we need to do? Moving on?
Speaker 1: And I'll follow your lead. So I'm going to go
Speaker 1: now to this audio. This is from me and Amber.
Speaker 1: We're sitting on our porch answering questions that she asked
Speaker 1: on her Instagram, which is Amber Emily Smith. She said,
Speaker 1: ask me some questions, and this is us answering them.
Speaker 1: Love you guys. Here we go. All right, Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: we're going to spend today answering questions. So we have
Speaker 1: your questions. I asked you guys on Instagram a few
Speaker 1: questions so let's just start with something Christmas Eve. It's
Speaker 1: your favorite Christmas movie. Favorite Christmas movie is probably oh same,
Speaker 1: watch that again last night last night. Yeah, fell asleep
Speaker 1: to it last night. Actually, sorry about the airplane. Every
Speaker 1: time I start filming the Smith's an airplane pause over,
Speaker 1: and I think that's river thinking about us. I had
Speaker 1: somebody ask who is your target audience because they said that.
Speaker 1: They said them, their husband and their child all love
Speaker 1: the Smiths, So who's our target demo? So looking at
Speaker 1: the analytics behind the scenes of the YouTube app, looking
Speaker 1: at the Smiths, it's like sixty five percent women, majority
Speaker 1: are five, which is crazy because then my Granger Smith
Speaker 1: YouTube has always been like eighty percent male. So I
Speaker 1: think we're kind of I think that's probably how we're working.
Speaker 1: I'm probably working towards the male crowd, and she's probably
Speaker 1: working towards the female crowd. And then for the kids.
Speaker 1: They obviously they won't see that in the analytics because
Speaker 1: usually the parents put their ages in, but we hear
Speaker 1: a lot of you kids like the Smiths too, so
Speaker 1: kind of everybody, we're kind of go yeah ages. Something
Speaker 1: actually I can announce now? Is it on tour in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, we're going to open meet and greets because
Speaker 1: we do a paid meet and greet so that you
Speaker 1: could be guaranteed to come backstage. So we're gonna in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I don't even I told you, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna make kids free, so kids could go to meet
Speaker 1: and greet with an adult, but as many as many
Speaker 1: kids as you want. So we're doing them all free
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Okay, So that was another question, can
Speaker 1: we meet you and Amber together at a meet and greet?
Speaker 1: So Grangeer and I were just talking about this yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to travel during the school year
Speaker 1: with him a lot because I've got the kids and
Speaker 1: we've got school during the summer, I try to get out,
Speaker 1: but we talked yesterday about maybe doing a meet and greet,
Speaker 1: me having a separate meet and greet, and we like
Speaker 1: announced dates that I'll be on tour with him. And
Speaker 1: then I was thinking we could just take donations for
Speaker 1: the River Kelly Fund for that, because like Granger's meet
Speaker 1: and greets are usually paid, but I don't. I would
Speaker 1: rather just donate the money to the fund, I think,
Speaker 1: So that might be something that we're gonna do in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, we'll make say, we'll say, Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be at these five dates, get your tickets to
Speaker 1: and then come see me, come see both of us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This last West Coast tour we just did. Sorry about
Speaker 1: the birds, Yeah, birds in their sorry, but this last
Speaker 1: West Coast tour we just did. During the meet and greets,
Speaker 1: I swear it was like every third person was like,
Speaker 1: is Amber here on meet Amber? And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's with the kids. It's difficult, but yeah, So what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is twenty twenty, she'll go on tour
Speaker 1: with me some of the time, but whenever she does,
Speaker 1: we'll announce Amber's with me, Amber's gonna do a meet
Speaker 1: and greet. And I gotta tell y'all the the reason
Speaker 1: they're paid there's you know, I think the probably the
Speaker 1: main reason is just to try to control it because
Speaker 1: they can't just open it up to anyone. Well, and
Speaker 1: he's still he's still having to meet. He's getting to
Speaker 1: meet I should say, he's getting to meet all you
Speaker 1: guys before the show, but sometimes that could be upwards
Speaker 1: of two hundred people, and if it was all free,
Speaker 1: he would never get on stage, So usually about fifty
Speaker 1: to seventy five of those are already free because they're
Speaker 1: coming through winners at the radio station, or friends of friends,
Speaker 1: or somebody that some kind of disability or underprivileged situation
Speaker 1: that we just meet them anyway. But yeah, so Amber's
Speaker 1: gonna come in twenty twenty, well, and we'll announce when
Speaker 1: she's coming. I need to come back out more too. Okay,
Speaker 1: how do we keep the romance going? Since we've been
Speaker 1: married for ten years, we probably have different answers. But
Speaker 1: one of the ways for me, for sure is my
Speaker 1: work schedule. I know through friends that sometimes there's a
Speaker 1: tendency for one spouse to wish the other would slow
Speaker 1: down and work and just stay there all the time.
Speaker 1: And from my experience, not our experience, but me seeing
Speaker 1: other people, that seems to be kind of a drag
Speaker 1: on a relationship is when you're just always together. So
Speaker 1: because of her schedule and my work schedule, when we
Speaker 1: are together, we make the most of it. And sometimes
Speaker 1: when I'm gone, like I was just gone for ten days,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a lot these days. Usually it's
Speaker 1: like four or five. It was gone for ten days,
Speaker 1: and when I got home it was like a brand
Speaker 1: new relationship. You know, it keeps it, It keeps it fresh,
Speaker 1: It keeps it, it keeps us missing each other. You
Speaker 1: need to miss each other, you need to like long
Speaker 1: for each other. You can't. There's no way in my
Speaker 1: mind to keep a relationship hot and heavy if you're
Speaker 1: just with each other twenty four to seven or I
Speaker 1: just that's in my opinion. Yeah, yep, I agree. Plus
Speaker 1: he sends me you know here, or we leave each
Speaker 1: other notes like if he goes on the road, I'll
Speaker 1: stick something in his bag or I'll find one under
Speaker 1: my pillow, or you know, sweet texts and things like that.
Speaker 1: But plus, like for me anyway, I just love him.
Speaker 1: So that's how that's how I keep it special since
Speaker 1: we've been married. Okay, will we ever film a house tour?
Speaker 1: I thought about that today because I see that a lot,
Speaker 1: and it's okay. One reason is we still haven't totally
Speaker 1: moved in. There's still I was just upstairs and there's
Speaker 1: still like pictures that are leaning on the wall and not.
Speaker 1: But two, you know, when we bought this house, it
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't a super proud moment. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: you know a lot of YouTubers that are like, just
Speaker 1: bought our dream house full tour. You know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a YouTube move for us, it you know, it was
Speaker 1: it was at a necessity and needed. It was a
Speaker 1: safe spot, it was a safe place to land. So
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever looked at it as an
Speaker 1: YouTube video opportunity to show off this house. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to make it our home because when
Speaker 1: we're in therapy a few weeks ago on a retreat,
Speaker 1: and one kind of one of the things we walked
Speaker 1: away with after therapy was coming home and making this
Speaker 1: house a home because you know, to be totally honest,
Speaker 1: I find myself late at night on my phone and
Speaker 1: looking at real estate apps. Seemed if I could find
Speaker 1: something that's better suits me and her. But and that's
Speaker 1: just the honest truth. Yeah, I mean, we could take
Speaker 1: a camera through here and show you guys everything, but
Speaker 1: it you know, and and we're proud and grateful to
Speaker 1: be in this home. It's it's beautiful, and it's a
Speaker 1: it's an amazing place to land. It is. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not like our old home, which we made into
Speaker 1: our home, and you know, we had all the kids'
Speaker 1: memories there, and I don't know, Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: We came from a ten acre farmhouse that I worked
Speaker 1: to clear that land and cleared every cedar tree on
Speaker 1: it with either my hands or a chainsaw or a
Speaker 1: skid steer that I leased, and and then the boys
Speaker 1: helped me and I planted the grass with you know,
Speaker 1: seeds from my own hands. And then we came here
Speaker 1: and it's three acres and there's really not much work
Speaker 1: to even be done done here. So besides, I built
Speaker 1: the fire pit. I just need to. I don't know's
Speaker 1: it's a hard it's a hard situation. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you guys understand maybe something. Yep, our Granger and Lincoln
Speaker 1: excited for Mandalorian and Star Wars movie. Yeah, So we
Speaker 1: came home from tour. I landed at eight thirty am
Speaker 1: on Sunday this past Sunday from Denver, Colorado. They picked
Speaker 1: me up and we literally went straight to the movie
Speaker 1: theater and saw Rise of Skywalker. Because Lincoln and I
Speaker 1: have really bonded over the Star Wars series over the
Speaker 1: last several months. Baseball and Star Wars have been like
Speaker 1: our two major bonding things, and so we all went
Speaker 1: as a family, and yeah, it was got little Star
Speaker 1: Wars cups and yeah it was good. It was really fun,
Speaker 1: really fun. Love. Is there going to be new River merch? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm working on the new River shirt. I was hoping
Speaker 1: to have it out beginning of January. I still am
Speaker 1: probably going to be pretty close to that. We just
Speaker 1: had a lot of designs and I think I was
Speaker 1: being really picky because I wanted to be perfect. But
Speaker 1: I asked you guys on Instagram some of your favorites.
Speaker 1: So I think what we're gonna do is just every
Speaker 1: few months we'll come out with a new one and
Speaker 1: then that money will be donated to the River Kelly Fund.
Speaker 1: So yes, I'll have stickers and a new River shirt soon.
Speaker 1: How do we stay so fit? Do we diet? Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean when it comes to being fit, this is
Speaker 1: this is a something that I've had to learn over
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, a lot of years. It's eighty
Speaker 1: percent diet. You can go to the gym every day,
Speaker 1: you could run, you could do pilates or yoga or
Speaker 1: whatever you're into, but it's eighty percent when you eat.
Speaker 1: And so are we perfect at that? And no, no,
Speaker 1: I just had lucky charms. No, we're not perfect at that,
Speaker 1: but that's just if you want results, it's it's not
Speaker 1: finding some crazy fashion trend diet, you know, it's you know,
Speaker 1: whatever the latest diet is. There's I've read so many
Speaker 1: studies on diets, dieting and fad dieting, and they all
Speaker 1: have pretty much the exact same result. Whether you're talking
Speaker 1: about keto or Paleo or Atkins ort, whatever's it all
Speaker 1: has the same average result and it just depends on
Speaker 1: if you stay with it. So it's more of trying
Speaker 1: to find what fits your lifestyle, like what do you
Speaker 1: enjoy eating that's also healthy that you could maintain for decades. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a balance. I mean we've been going
Speaker 1: to the gym, trying to go every day, but some
Speaker 1: days obviously I don't. I've got kids and sometimes they're sick,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I can't, and I try to eat healthy,
Speaker 1: but I also enjoy cookies and wine, and we pick Sundays.
Speaker 1: We eat whatever we want on Sundays, So we typically
Speaker 1: will do our dinner will be like a grilled chicken
Speaker 1: and vegetables and you know, not a lot of bread
Speaker 1: and not a dessert. And stuff like that, and nothing fried.
Speaker 1: And then on Sundays we'll get pizza and we'll go
Speaker 1: get big, huge cheeseburgers and fries and and milkshakes and
Speaker 1: so kind of opening that up on the seventh day
Speaker 1: of the week allows me to be better on six
Speaker 1: to six days before. Can we tell them about our
Speaker 1: wedding day? Will we ever share a photo? That's interesting question.
Speaker 1: That means somebody's been searching. So when we got married,
Speaker 1: it was February eleventh, twenty ten, and I wasn't a
Speaker 1: very well known singer. You're more well known than I
Speaker 1: was as an actor, I'm sure, but we just kind
Speaker 1: of decided early on that that's going to be our day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And who knows if we had this smiss going that
Speaker 1: back then, if that would have if we would have
Speaker 1: put that on there, I don't know, but but we
Speaker 1: always decided that that was gonna be our special day.
Speaker 1: And listen, we didn't even have friends. It was really
Speaker 1: very small. We got married at Horshoe Bay Resort. It
Speaker 1: was we narrowed it down to fifty people, which was
Speaker 1: just family. I mean even cousins couldn't come and got
Speaker 1: upset and we just decided. It was just a very
Speaker 1: intimate day for us. We were supposed to get married outside,
Speaker 1: but it ended up being freezing cold, so we got
Speaker 1: moved in in the Texas hill country, central Texas. It
Speaker 1: was raining, it was freezing rain, and we got moved
Speaker 1: up up inside the building. So that was you know,
Speaker 1: just lots of things went that technically could be called
Speaker 1: went wrong happened, but it was all perfect. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was incredible. It rained, The door got stuck when
Speaker 1: I was walking out. I walked out with my dad
Speaker 1: and my stepdad both on either side, and the door
Speaker 1: got stuck. I forgot. Lots of other things happened, but
Speaker 1: it was a perfect day and we just haven't We
Speaker 1: haven't posted any photos or shared any photos. We also
Speaker 1: tried to save a lot of money because we kind
Speaker 1: of paid for it ourselves, and obviously our parents helped,
Speaker 1: but we were trying to cut cut money out anyway
Speaker 1: we could. I remember our cakes. Our cakes were like
Speaker 1: this big. We skimmed on the cakes and I skimmed
Speaker 1: on a videographer. We didn't have a videographer, so I
Speaker 1: think it was filmed on somebody's cell phone, which I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I have that anymore. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we talked about maybe doing a ten year reading our
Speaker 1: bowels and maybe filming that and making that a big deal.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, it was a small wedding and we
Speaker 1: saved money and then we had a reception for all
Speaker 1: of our friends like a week later. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: in Fort Worth, Texas, which is really fun. By the way.
Speaker 1: On a side note, I'm looking out right now into
Speaker 1: the woods and our cedar trees are pollinating right now,
Speaker 1: and those of y'all that live around Juniper Mountain cedar,
Speaker 1: it is crazy. They literally a tree will just go
Speaker 1: and just explode pallen that looks like white smoke and
Speaker 1: then it just dissipates into the woods. It's the weirdest.
Speaker 1: It's like the trees are alive and they just go
Speaker 1: and explode. If you haven't seen it, there's videos of
Speaker 1: that on YouTube. It's crazy. Sorry, go ahead, Okay. Do
Speaker 1: we ever feel guilty for having fun now and feel
Speaker 1: like River should be here or do we ever? There
Speaker 1: are times when if I'm laughing really hard with the
Speaker 1: kids or we're all having fun, I do in my mind,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, like I shouldn't be shouldn't
Speaker 1: be laughing, you know, but you have to. You have
Speaker 1: to enjoy life and you have to you have to
Speaker 1: enjoy your kids, and you have to have fun. And
Speaker 1: River would want that. And River is not thinking about
Speaker 1: us right now. He's in the most amazing place. He's
Speaker 1: not sitting there looking at us saying, oh, gosh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're having fun without me. So I think it's natural
Speaker 1: to do that. And it's it's natural. And all the
Speaker 1: things that we do now that are fun, and I think, gosh,
Speaker 1: you know, he would love that, he would love this
Speaker 1: or wish, wish you know, he was with us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's natural. It's interesting because that thought of
Speaker 1: guilt comes with the loss of any body that you love.
Speaker 1: And we learned so much in therapy and just experience.
Speaker 1: But they taught us in therapy that the price of
Speaker 1: grief is love. Like that, it's not the other way around,
Speaker 1: because you don't You could love someone and not always
Speaker 1: grieve them, But when you grieve someone, it's because you
Speaker 1: love someone, and how hard you grieving is how hard
Speaker 1: you love them. And the interesting thing about that is
Speaker 1: about the guilt, is that anyone that you love, think
Speaker 1: of anyone, whether it's a grandparent or a friend or
Speaker 1: a neighbor or anybody that you grieve, if you're having
Speaker 1: fun after they're gone, that's what that person would want.
Speaker 1: They want to look down from heaven. And if you
Speaker 1: can look down from heaven, they want to see you smiling.
Speaker 1: They don't want to see you sad. So it's interesting
Speaker 1: that internally we think we should be sad. It's really range,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it is a battle, and it's a
Speaker 1: legit question. Yeah, do you guys still have River's room
Speaker 1: together and all of his stuff? Well? Interesting question, Interesting questions.
Speaker 1: So in our old house, River and Lincoln shared a
Speaker 1: room their roommate, So there was a bunk bed in
Speaker 1: his crib. So really the only thing in that room
Speaker 1: that was Rivers was his crib, which, on a side note,
Speaker 1: he never got out of his crib in three years.
Speaker 1: The other the other kids left, you know early they
Speaker 1: got they climbed out of the crib. River just liked
Speaker 1: his crib. You just chilled in there, and so all
Speaker 1: you ever had was that crib. And we had a playroom,
Speaker 1: so all the kids toys and stuff were in the playroom.
Speaker 1: They were only really ever in their room if they
Speaker 1: were sleeping. So whereas some people that it was really
Speaker 1: hard to take down their room. If you if you
Speaker 1: lose somebody, you know, you want to see all their stuff.
Speaker 1: And for some reason, it just wasn't as hard for me.
Speaker 1: I think for one, because he shared it with Lincoln too,
Speaker 1: because they were never in there, so it was hard
Speaker 1: to take the crib down. That was a really hard
Speaker 1: day when we moved. You know, I cried and the
Speaker 1: kids cried, and so that was really hard. But and
Speaker 1: it's now in our bus driver's house, my bus driver Bull,
Speaker 1: who you guys have seen on the Smiths. Him and
Speaker 1: his wife are having a baby in March, and so
Speaker 1: Bull has that crib and they've set it up in
Speaker 1: their baby boy's room and so he always talks about
Speaker 1: it as River's crib and it's really special and it
Speaker 1: means a lot to me. Yeah, he showed me a
Speaker 1: picture on the bus the other day of the room
Speaker 1: set up in the cribs and you know, along the wall,
Speaker 1: and so all three babies had that crib too. There's
Speaker 1: like little teeth marks from them biting it and stuff.
Speaker 1: But to answer your question about stuff, when we when
Speaker 1: we moved. Granger's been really good about helping me that
Speaker 1: things are just things and that if they're if they're
Speaker 1: very important, take a photo of them or you know,
Speaker 1: but you can't take them with you when when we're gone.
Speaker 1: So we're very into donating things that we don't need anymore.
Speaker 1: We're trying to get rid of clutter. We're trying to purge.
Speaker 1: So I have a lot of his special his special
Speaker 1: things that he always had, and so I have those.
Speaker 1: We have those in this house, and his blanket, you know,
Speaker 1: little things that were super special. We made a nice quilt,
Speaker 1: a beautiful quilt with all of his favorite T shirts
Speaker 1: and all his T shirts that he wore all the time.
Speaker 1: So we have that. But we don't have like a
Speaker 1: whole room or a shrine or anything set up to him.
Speaker 1: We have his little tractors in this little tire that
Speaker 1: he used to play in over on the side of
Speaker 1: the house. But yeah, that's pretty good. Yet he's in
Speaker 1: our heart and in our memories, in our brains. Will
Speaker 1: we ever do more reaction music videos? Like don't listen
Speaker 1: to the radio like we did when we do? You
Speaker 1: guys want to see more reaction videos? Comet Blow I
Speaker 1: guess because we have. We've done almost fifteen together. He's
Speaker 1: been in a lot of music videos and the ones
Speaker 1: that we've done just us alone have I almost Am
Speaker 1: And we could put that link in just in the
Speaker 1: description below. I almost Am never gets talked about And
Speaker 1: that was such a big deal for me. That was like,
Speaker 1: it was such a beautiful song, and I cried and
Speaker 1: I was just I loved that he asked me to
Speaker 1: be in it with him, and it was right around
Speaker 1: the time we had got engaged and we were talking
Speaker 1: about marriage, and so it's really special if you go
Speaker 1: back and watch it. Yeah, yeah, Bare Mean Blue Jeans
Speaker 1: is another special one, Yeah, that we were in together.
Speaker 1: But I also have a lot of other family in there.
Speaker 1: My grandmother who is ninety four, are about to be
Speaker 1: ninety four, and she's actually kind of sick, pretty sick
Speaker 1: right now. She just got a pacemaker put in. But
Speaker 1: she's my only grandmother I have left and out of
Speaker 1: both of us, and the kid's only great grandmother and
Speaker 1: parent grandparent at all. So she's sick and she's in
Speaker 1: very mean blue jeans, and so that video is special
Speaker 1: for that reason. But it's also really special. I had
Speaker 1: just lost my dad when we filmed that, and it
Speaker 1: was kind of part of the inspiration for the video itself.
Speaker 1: And so I mean, it's crazy looking back that that
Speaker 1: video is has me driving in my truck, which I
Speaker 1: still have now, and I'm going to the church and
Speaker 1: the cemetery where Rivers buried now And we shot that
Speaker 1: five years ago. So it was a lot of foreshadowing
Speaker 1: in that music video. And that's really special and that
Speaker 1: would probably be a kind of a neat reaction video
Speaker 1: that we should do one day and Tyler and everybody
Speaker 1: all thea. Can the kids sing like a granger? Do
Speaker 1: the kids have good voices? I hope not. I think
Speaker 1: think being in music business is kind of a curse,
Speaker 1: and it's like a blessing, a huge blessing and a
Speaker 1: huge curse, and I don't want I honestly, I worry
Speaker 1: about my children being in it because of as hard
Speaker 1: as it is on your heart and on your spirit
Speaker 1: and on your soul, and it's so fulfilling and all
Speaker 1: of those three things also, but it takes a long
Speaker 1: time to realize that fulfillment. It takes a lot of
Speaker 1: years to realize that kind of fulfillment. And in the meantime,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of heartbreak that I just can't imagine
Speaker 1: my kids going through. That doesn't have anything to do
Speaker 1: with them being able to sing. And I think sing
Speaker 1: sings a lot, love and sings a lot. And didn't
Speaker 1: you just say it took her eight years to get pitched.
Speaker 1: She just got her pitch. Yeah, And Lincoln doesn't sing
Speaker 1: that much. He kind of dances more. Do we ever
Speaker 1: go out in public or are they're too many fans? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hecky go on, Punkywhere well do you think I am? Luck? Bryan?
Speaker 1: We don't get I got stopped a target the other
Speaker 1: day and some lady said I know you, and I
Speaker 1: said you do and we just stopped and talked and
Speaker 1: she we gave each other hugs. And it happens. He
Speaker 1: gets recognized a lot more than I do. But I
Speaker 1: love when people come and say, hi, Hi, your popularity
Speaker 1: is skyrocketing. It's crazy, like you're people think people just
Speaker 1: love you. And I mean a lot of times people
Speaker 1: are like, is your wife around? But that's great? No,
Speaker 1: And occasionally, like if we got to dinner or something,
Speaker 1: people are very kind and they'll wait till after we're
Speaker 1: done eating and then they'll they'll come say hih as
Speaker 1: we're leaving or something. But we don't ever get like
Speaker 1: bombarded or anything. It's no, it's very sweet, very sweet,
Speaker 1: and people are very respectful of the kids and and
Speaker 1: don't really want to bother us if we're busy eating
Speaker 1: or something like that. Will we keep the Smith's intro
Speaker 1: or will we eventually change it? Yeah, eventually it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's just going to change. It's gonna be really hard.
Speaker 1: I don't know. And actually that video we we that
Speaker 1: intro we threw together and you can still tell London's
Speaker 1: next really hurt. Like the one of the very first
Speaker 1: videos we did was when she got hurt skiing or
Speaker 1: she got that virus in her little neck. She's walking
Speaker 1: up to the camera and I always was gonna have
Speaker 1: us redo it, and we just never got around to
Speaker 1: redoing it. So and now it's like we can't redo
Speaker 1: it because River's in it, and maybe we'll always have
Speaker 1: to keep it at the end or something. It's like
Speaker 1: we got to keep it. Yeah. We mentioned Brian kimball editing.
Speaker 1: He's the one that built that intro back in like
Speaker 1: April or May. The kids didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to get dressed. They were like fighting.
Speaker 1: Typical day, typical typical kid day. What was your first
Speaker 1: job you or me? Both? Mine was I worked for
Speaker 1: a paint contractor that was also my English teacher in
Speaker 1: junior high and so I would go paint houses. But
Speaker 1: when I first started, I was just the taper. I
Speaker 1: would just tape. He'd put me in a room and say,
Speaker 1: all right, take these windows so we could paint, and
Speaker 1: it is ten minutes. So he would give me a time,
Speaker 1: so I just because I was getting paid by the hour,
Speaker 1: so he would just call out a time. So I'd
Speaker 1: watch my watch and tape for a long time. I taped.
Speaker 1: That's what I did. I taped. But we would start
Speaker 1: about seven am, and about ten am we'd go to
Speaker 1: Taco Cabana or somebody would go to Taco Cabana for
Speaker 1: us and get tortillas and salsa, and it was amazing.
Speaker 1: We'd sit out because it was usually the summer when
Speaker 1: we were working and when I wasn't playing football and
Speaker 1: he wasn't teaching English, and we'd get it, go out
Speaker 1: and sit in the in the underneath the shade of
Speaker 1: a tree and roll those tortillas and dip them in salsa,
Speaker 1: and that was our ten o'clock snack. It was amazing that.
Speaker 1: That was amazing, and sorry I learned. I learned Keith
Speaker 1: Whitley during those those years, and to this day, Keith
Speaker 1: Whitley is one of my all time favorite country singers
Speaker 1: and the Keith Whitley greatest hits it's the black and
Speaker 1: white album cover. We would just listen to that on repeat.
Speaker 1: Every song is good and it really changed my life.
Speaker 1: While I was taping, it's not as exciting as that.
Speaker 1: I just wanted a car. So I walked in Fort Worth,
Speaker 1: in White Settlement, where I grew up. I walked to
Speaker 1: this little grill, which was pretty far now that I
Speaker 1: think about it. I walked all the way there to
Speaker 1: fill out an application and I worked at this little
Speaker 1: grill and they had the best food. I was fifteen
Speaker 1: years old, and then I remember, I think they didn't
Speaker 1: know I was fifteen, and it was like child labor laws.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be sixteen. I didn't lie or
Speaker 1: anything on my application, but they had to cut my
Speaker 1: hours back because they couldn't work me so many hours.
Speaker 1: But I worked in the drive through line of that place,
Speaker 1: and I worked waiting tables, and I think every person
Speaker 1: should wait tables at some point in their lives because
Speaker 1: you have to know what it's like to be a
Speaker 1: server and a waiter and be kind to your servers.
Speaker 1: You know, some days they're having hard days and bad days,
Speaker 1: or things are getting mixed up in the kitchen. But
Speaker 1: you can always tell a lot by somebody about how
Speaker 1: they treat their server. Yeah, treat a waiter, how they
Speaker 1: treat servers, and how they treat dogs. I could learn
Speaker 1: a lot about it. If you don't know somebody really well,
Speaker 1: just take them to lunch and see how they truth
Speaker 1: the waiter and then introduce them to your dog. That's
Speaker 1: good advice. My dad used to tell me that have
Speaker 1: you ever considered doing an all acoustic album of all
Speaker 1: like like your most popular songs. No, I have not.
Speaker 1: I think they probably mean re record it just me
Speaker 1: and my guitar, because I could easily I do all
Speaker 1: my editing on my albums myself. I've been doing that
Speaker 1: for years, and so I could easily go and edit
Speaker 1: acoustic versions when I just get to just isolate the
Speaker 1: vocals and acoustics. But you probably mean re recorded like
Speaker 1: when you hear the different versions on the Smith's, when
Speaker 1: you hear like that's why I love Dirt Roads and
Speaker 1: it's just keyboards and vocals like stripped down. That's just
Speaker 1: me building that so I could do any version of
Speaker 1: any song you've ever heard me do. Ever, are like, man,
Speaker 1: I would like to hear a stripped down version of
Speaker 1: happens like that? Whatever? I have everything, So every time
Speaker 1: you hear a version on the Smith's, that's just something
Speaker 1: I've built. Is there more women's stuff coming to yee Apparel? Yes,
Speaker 1: we have some stuff coming out in the spring, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna keep kind of designing things every now
Speaker 1: and then for women and kids, maybe every season or
Speaker 1: every few months or something. So yes, there will be
Speaker 1: more coming out soon. Yeah, it's actually awesome, awesome stuff
Speaker 1: you showed me. I'm excited. Yeah, it's this is somethingye
Speaker 1: Apparel has missed for years now? Is her touch? Because
Speaker 1: it's just been me and my two brothers, Tyler and Parker,
Speaker 1: we've never really had a you know, obviously we haven't
Speaker 1: had a good insight on women's apparel, but she showed
Speaker 1: me the other day what you're gonna when is it springing?
Speaker 1: Spring twenty twenty. But I'm not allowed to come up
Speaker 1: with like a whole bunch, so we only get to
Speaker 1: get to pick like two or three, maybe four items
Speaker 1: per season. But it's still still have a bunch of ideas,
Speaker 1: and I'm bring back some regular women's baseball cats, not
Speaker 1: like the trucker hats and tank tops and leggings and
Speaker 1: jean jackets and all kinds of fun stuff. So that
Speaker 1: brings another point up, because I need to say about
Speaker 1: EE Apparel, think of thank you to everyone who has
Speaker 1: ever bought something from EE Apparel and supported that. It's
Speaker 1: really difficult. And those of you that own small businesses,
Speaker 1: family runs small businesses will understand that it's taken us
Speaker 1: a long time to kind of realize financially how to
Speaker 1: do it. Because we've tried to kind of make everybody
Speaker 1: happy and keep a bunch of sizes in stock so
Speaker 1: that you can go and order a certain shirt and
Speaker 1: get a large and there it is and shipwret to you.
Speaker 1: But it's so expensive to keep that stuff, to keep
Speaker 1: the inventory on the shelves of the EE Farm. Recently,
Speaker 1: we've kind of had to let that go and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stick with with a few core you know,
Speaker 1: the the fundamental items of EE apparel, will keep that
Speaker 1: in stock. But the anytime we do like a spring
Speaker 1: launch or a fall lunch or a Black Friday launch,
Speaker 1: we're gonna just we're gonna sell out of that stuff.
Speaker 1: So you got to get it. And I don't want
Speaker 1: you guys to feel upset that you waited and then
Speaker 1: went to go order something and it's out of stock.
Speaker 1: It it just we could make a certain amount of
Speaker 1: money on eu peril and then when it's time to
Speaker 1: get new hoodies or new t shirts, guess what we
Speaker 1: spend the exact amount, and guess we have left nothing.
Speaker 1: So we're trying to we're trying to learn that and
Speaker 1: kind of navigate that part of this business. And part
Speaker 1: of that is going to be when we do a
Speaker 1: spring launch or a fall lunch or whatever, it's gonna
Speaker 1: sell out in a couple of weeks, and we're just
Speaker 1: gonna be okay with that. And so that's gonna that's
Speaker 1: why she's saying we couldn't do everything when she had
Speaker 1: all these ideas like those are amazing. Now let's pick
Speaker 1: this many so that doesn't cost a guazilian amount of
Speaker 1: money to make all these and small, medium, large, ex large,
Speaker 1: double X, triple X and keep them in stock. Let's
Speaker 1: just do that. Yeah, that'd be good. It'll keep it
Speaker 1: fresh for you guys to and you guys can grab
Speaker 1: new stuff all the time. Yeah. How did you guys
Speaker 1: come up with your affirmations for the kids? So if
Speaker 1: you guys have seen us do that in the car,
Speaker 1: that kind of just started. I remember, I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: seen it on YouTube. There's that little girl and she's
Speaker 1: standing on the on the bathroom counter and she's like,
Speaker 1: I am smart, I am awesome, I am all this
Speaker 1: and I just thought it was adorable. So we don't
Speaker 1: say the same thing every day. We change it up
Speaker 1: depending on their mood or whatever they have going on
Speaker 1: that day, and we just you just make it up
Speaker 1: as you go. Yeah, and it just gives the kids
Speaker 1: a little boost before they go to school. This came
Speaker 1: from did you say? These came from her Instagram? How
Speaker 1: did Granger propose? Did you help him pick out the ring?
Speaker 1: How did I propose? Well, there's an episode of The
Speaker 1: Smiths and I don't remember the title or thumbnail, but
Speaker 1: we were in Did we talk about it in Europe? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're in York, England and we just went recently back
Speaker 1: to the same spot. And that video is a link
Speaker 1: it in the description. If I can remember all these links.
Speaker 1: It has a picture of him and I and it's
Speaker 1: like backwharre it all started, backward, all started, I think,
Speaker 1: or back where I proposed or where we got engaged,
Speaker 1: something like that. But we only dated for seven months,
Speaker 1: not even dated. We knew each other for seven months
Speaker 1: before I bought the ring. No she didn't. No, I didn't.
Speaker 1: She didn't improve it, she didn't even know it exists.
Speaker 1: I didn't help it. I didn't even give him any
Speaker 1: ideas or anything. It was a total secret and I
Speaker 1: had to hide it on this little trip we flew
Speaker 1: to England. Sorry, we flew to England, and I was
Speaker 1: so scared because I had to go through security with
Speaker 1: it and I had it. I didn't want it to
Speaker 1: show up in the screen. I had this thought that
Speaker 1: she was going to walk through before me and then
Speaker 1: look on the screen at my stuff and for some
Speaker 1: reason have these eagle eyes that saw a ring in
Speaker 1: my bag. So I kept it in my pocket. But
Speaker 1: he was like fumbling and bumping into me, and I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it then, but now I think back, and
Speaker 1: I could tell he was a little distracted, I guess, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: and he like slept, we slept on this train and
Speaker 1: he had the bag like he wouldn't let me hold
Speaker 1: his backpack or carry his backpack or anything for him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and so you can go back and watch
Speaker 1: that video. I think we talked about it. We went
Speaker 1: to the spot. We went to the spot, to the church,
Speaker 1: the Westminster, and he proposed right in front of that
Speaker 1: church and it was raining. And no, I didn't have
Speaker 1: any idea Yorkminster, york Minster, Yeah, I said, Westminster, didn't Yorkminster. Sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then we called our parents in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. Yep, yep, all right, did it? One more?
Speaker 1: One more? Last one? Lincoln's at the door. What are
Speaker 1: your goals for twenty twenty? I want That's why I
Speaker 1: love dirt roads, to do good. It's like a short
Speaker 1: term career goal. Yeah. And so, by the way, I
Speaker 1: mentioned on the Smith to message your local radio station
Speaker 1: or sirius XM the highway and you did, you guys
Speaker 1: did it was awesome, Gus. You guys messaged and emailed
Speaker 1: and instagram. Serious XM. It was kind of an experiment
Speaker 1: by me. And then I heard from Buzz Brainer, one
Speaker 1: of the personalities on air personalities, and he was like, man,
Speaker 1: your fans have been have been blowing us up about
Speaker 1: this song. And I was like, yeah, smiss my secret weapon.
Speaker 1: These guys are amazing. Thank you for that. Yeah, keep
Speaker 1: doing it. It's funny. How about you goals for me
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty goodness, I think continuing to live in
Speaker 1: the present moment and find joy. Yes, a River Kelly
Speaker 1: fund we want to grow. We just announced it, but
Speaker 1: this year we'll start like fundraising efforts for all kinds
Speaker 1: of different charities and organizations that are close to our hearts.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to get that going and get that
Speaker 1: started and give the money there. Growing the E Apparel
Speaker 1: women's line I think will be super exciting. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just excited for twenty twenty in general, because twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen is a year that I'm gonna want to forget.
Speaker 1: But I know that we learned so much from twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen and I think one day we'll look back and
Speaker 1: it was like a pivot moment in my life, pivot
Speaker 1: for the good. But right now I'm just ready for
Speaker 1: a fresh start and a new date on the calendar
Speaker 1: and new year. Thank you guys. There's gonna be one
Speaker 1: more episode of this year Tuesday. There's gonna be one
Speaker 1: more video, and we're gonna do like a you don't
Speaker 1: maybe you don't know. Me and Paul have already discussed it,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna do a all of this Me, you
Speaker 1: and Lincoln in London will find our favorite moments from
Speaker 1: the Smiths and we're just gonna kind of do a
Speaker 1: reaction video to some of our favorite moments and what
Speaker 1: the Smiths have meant to us since March and the
Speaker 1: almost the first full year of you Okay, me and
Speaker 1: you and in London and want to but yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: just we'll kind of do a recap of what this
Speaker 1: year and what the Smiths have meant to us and
Speaker 1: the magic and having the Smiths and through the life
Speaker 1: that has happened to us. And it was all recorded.
Speaker 1: So it's just a massive blessing that we have so
Speaker 1: many videos and high death you know, right there at
Speaker 1: our disposal of our lives, and so it's meant a
Speaker 1: whole lot to us to have in this channel, y'all.
Speaker 1: That like you too. Please go to our channel that's
Speaker 1: the Smiths. Hit that little subscribe button and we'll do
Speaker 1: more videos if you want to watch that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: If you want more podcasts. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: those two. I got more stories. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of you have been asking me to continue these and
Speaker 1: I will, I promise. Thank you for all the support.
Speaker 1: I love seeing everyone wearing this Yegie apparel and supporting
Speaker 1: the brand that we are. More stories coming soon, thank y'all.
Speaker 1: And it happens like that, nothing to lose. He turns
Speaker 1: right into you. Due or you can do just to
Speaker 1: keep her around till the moon goes down in her
Speaker 1: back into your house. One thing will do another. You
Speaker 1: love each other when looking you never live back. It
Speaker 1: happens like that. Thanks for listening to the Grangersmith podcast.
Speaker 1: I want to see you on tour in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Go to grangersmith dot com forward slash tour. See you