WEBVTT - My kids are ruined 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.519 She is my rock. I don't know what I will 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:06.280 do without her. What happens if I lose her? And 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:13.840 I've said that, I'm screwed. My kids are ruined. Daddy 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:17.639 is looney. He has lost his mind. Why because he 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:19.919 lost his rock and he didn't know what he was 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:21.400 going to do without her, and then he lost her 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.799 and guess what, he doesn't know what to do. She 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.400 was my rock and I didn't know what to do 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:42.040 without her, and now I'm lost. What's up? Everybody? Welcome 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.120 to the podcast. Happy Monday. I hope everybody got their 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.440 share of Thanksgiving. If you're watching this real time, if 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.480 you're listening real time, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.280 It's just me today. I'm gonna do the podcast alone 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.720 because of everyone traveling and because of the crazy schedules. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.800 I could have pulled a guest in here, and then 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.920 I would have been getting them away from their family. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.080 So I decided to just do it myself. Eventually, I'm 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:12.880 gonna get amber. We're still trying to figure out how 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:17.399 to how to watch the baby and the kids, and she's, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.000 you know, breastfeeding every sixteen seconds right now, so it's 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:22.800 still a little tough, but I'm definitely gonna get her 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.120 back as a guest. For those of you that are 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.720 not familiar with this podcast, the way that we set 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.200 this up is usually it's me and a guest and 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.080 I'll go through your questions. If you have a question 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:39.120 for me, email Graingersmith podcast at gmail dot com. It 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.679 could be about any subject. I'll answer it for you 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.920 and the best way that I know how. It's not 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.240 always the correct answer, it's not always the wrong answer, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.720 but it's just a conversation as if I'm giving you 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:57.720 advice in a normal campfire. Hey, can I ask you 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.880 something that's really bothering me, or it's really been on 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.920 my mind, or this is weighing heavy on me, and 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.320 I walk through it with you as if you're my friend, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.679 and I feel like you are, if you're listening to 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.160 this podcast and you've been on this journey for me 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.840 for a long time, years many episodes that I feel 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.560 like we're friends. I look just the other day and 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.959 this podcast was on the Apple Charts, the Top Charts. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.680 It was number four, ranked number four in the music 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.840 genre of all podcasts in the world in the music genre, 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.800 Which blows me. It blows me. Away. I can't believe 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:47.720 that this podcast has come so far to be consistently 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.760 in the top You might think, well, we need to 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.239 get it to number one. Well, what's important to remember 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.600 is we're playing the long game here, so as you 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:03.320 listen to this podcast episode after episode after I'm we're 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.680 keeping it in the top charts week in and week out. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.400 We're not. What I mean is we're not pushing it 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.040 to trying to push it to number one for one 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.600 particular time frame. We just wanted to stay relevant for 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.160 a long time frame, Like we just want to stay 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.360 in the top fifty for a long time. That's the goal, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.960 not a quick number one and then it falls back 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.840 to number sixty eight tomorrow. You know what I mean? 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:36.560 Bottom line is thank you. I just it's it's I 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.240 just got nothing but gratitude. I love this this platform, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.280 and I love being able to be able to speak 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:48.119 in to your work or your truck or your traveling 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:52.600 or wherever your workouts. Wherever you listen to this podcast, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.160 thank you, and whatever platform you listen to, whether it's 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.520 YouTube or Spotify or Apple Music or whatever podcast app listening, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.560 just thank you. I'm gonna dig into these questions once again. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.000 If you have a question for me, email Grangersmith Podcast 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:13.280 at gmail dot com. And the first one. And I 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.560 haven't really vetted any of these except for the first one. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.440 I just grabbed the first one because I was like, Okay, cool, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.400 this is this is a good way to get into it. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.480 It says who the heck is Earl Hi Grangeur. I've 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.480 been watching your family YouTube videos for over a year now, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.760 and I listen to your podcast. Don't be mad at me, 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.799 but I haven't been watching or listening from the very beginning. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.120 So your character Earl Dibbles is so weird to me. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.240 Can you explain where he come, where he came from, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:48.240 and why he's a thing? Thanks? This is Kelly from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.040 I guess if you haven't been listening from the beginning, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.040 it's a legit question, Kelly, And I don't blame you 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.440 at all. I'm not mad at you at all, because 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.599 you're actually right. It is so so weird. It's so weird. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:10.719 So if you guys know this story, then you could 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:16.840 just fast forward. But for Kelly, two thy eleven, I 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.640 was coming out when I was working on an album 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.719 called Dirt Road Driveway Now you gotta imagine in twenty eleven, 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.440 I had maybe a small, very small following in Texas, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:33.080 but nothing outside of the state. And the following I 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.359 had would be I could go to several of the 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.599 major cities in Texas and pull about eighty ninety or 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.560 one hundred people. That's what I'm talking about, small following, 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.320 and that was great compared to five years before that, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:53.680 when I could pull five people maybe sometimes zero. So 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.400 Tyler and I and my brother we were watching a 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.920 lot of YouTube in twenty eleven. YouTube was still pretty 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.080 new and not a lot of people used the platform, 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.720 but we watched some comedy stuff on there. There was 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.560 a channel called Balloon Shop, and we watched this and 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.719 we laughed and laughed at these guys, these like guys 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.320 in their twenties, and they would just make these skits, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.960 just funny skits, and Tyler and I laughed and laughed. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.800 We'd watch it. No one else was really watching it 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.599 at that time, and we thought, let's make some skits. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.960 It'd be fun and maybe if one of them goes viral, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.359 which not much was going viral in that time on YouTube, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.760 if one of them went viral, then maybe that would 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.360 help the music and if anything, we're just gonna have fun. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:45.360 So we made we started many videos. One of them 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.800 and by the way, this was in two thousand and 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:54.000 about eight. Earl Dibbles didn't come to twenty eleven, but 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.360 this YouTube conversation thing I'm talking about was like two 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.000 thousand and eight. So we started making what we called 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.000 video of the weeks. If you want to go down 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.480 this rabbit hole of me on YouTube, sometimes we did. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.040 We actually did it with the band not too long ago. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.080 Because you can go down this crazy rabbit hole of 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.960 finding me in these skits to two thousand and eight, nine, ten, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.280 and they just keep going and going, and then you 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.560 keep discovering new things, even for me because I forget 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.280 about them. But there's this there's these videos. We called 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.080 them video of the weeks. And I had this single 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:36.400 called Colorblind, and there's one called El Mattador. There's one 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.520 called Where's the Radio Station, There's one called Don't Take 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.160 Your Pants Off, There's one They just go on and 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.040 on and on. These are little titles and these little 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.120 skits that we did, and we were looking for one 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.680 of them to pop, to go viral. And so the 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.720 first character I did, I believe is called Don't Touch 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.360 the Turtles, and that was just a random country character 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.160 called Don't Touch the Turtles, and that was a little skit. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.600 And then I believe the second character we did was 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:16.440 called Freddy's Enchiladas. The third character I believe was called 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:23.120 Live with lionel In. The fourth character I believe was 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.760 called Earl Dibbles Junior. So this is I'm trying to 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.280 give you the timeline the evolution of these videos. And 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.960 we were making skits and making not vlogs. They were 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.680 someone else Filming vlogs wasn't a thing. Then Earl Dibbles 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.040 was just another one of these characters coming down the line. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.800 It was his country character, and I had spoken in 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:50.360 that voice. I'm Earl Dibbles Junior. I'm a country boy. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.000 I would use that voice, you know, because it represented 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.079 half of my family and people we'd met on the road, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.200 and it was real easy to get into that voice 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.560 and start talking real country like Earl Devils Junior. He's 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.240 a country boy, So I would. It was a voice 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.640 before it was a video. Then then we decided to 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.400 make a video. So we were at my parents' house 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.679 and I had these old overalls that I used to 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.560 wear in my senior year in high school on game days. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 We wore them to school. And then I always wore 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.880 red wing boots. I had those, and I put on 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.400 this white tank top and this one of my dad's 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.400 old farm caps, and then Tyler draws these tattoos on 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:38.920 me with sharpie, and it was just we just didn't 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.200 think that this was going to be something I was 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.920 doing ten years from then that I still do today. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.600 We didn't think that that was gonna happen. We went 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.280 out and made this video and I set up a 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.880 tripod and I basically I sat in the tripod and 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.200 I said, I sat in front of the tripod and 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.320 I said this series of things just to whatever came 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.920 off the top of my head. And then we went 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.560 back and filmed the things that I said. So, for instance, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.200 I said, I wake up, put a good dip in, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:18.720 crack a cold, get dressed, and start the day. And 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.600 then I went through that down this line of things 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.160 where I would say and I was just making it 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:29.280 up as I go, whittle a good stick, I do 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:34.679 exploring in the woods, fix the tree, shoot the gun, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.640 and walk around, sit on logs. I mean, like the 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.840 most random things, and then we played it back and 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.719 then I and then I acted out that, and then 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.720 I when I edited it that day, I put those 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.000 those that that b roll what we call it, on 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.440 top of the a roll literally threw it out. The 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.439 next day wasn't it was no big deal and it 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.559 went viral. So that is and then a lot of 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.720 things happened after that, like ye ye was in that 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:12.520 video that that's the very beginning, Kelly answer to answer 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.800 your question. It's funny. It's really early in the morning 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:21.280 right now as I'm recording this podcast, and so it's 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.600 still easy even in the morning to talk it like 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.040 Earl Dubbles Junior because he's counchy and he gets up 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:32.480 when the sun comes up, all right time to get 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.160 to something. I saved that one, but I think I 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:41.400 think there's there's more on here that are more serious. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.760 Some of y'all are, like I thought Earl Dibbles Junior 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:49.760 was serious. Shoot, okay, here how about this one. It's 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.480 called advice on cars, Hey Granger. I'm fourteen years old 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.640 outside of Denver. I started to save up for my 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.800 first car, and my parents said they will support me 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.800 in whatever I choose to get I'm looking to get. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:08.440 I'm looking at Crownvix around two thousand era Mustangs. Crownvix 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.440 and two thousand era Mustangs. When I told my parents this, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.760 they told me a car like that will tempt me 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.160 to street race. You want a car like that because 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.319 because they are more damaged and easier to have problems 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.800 that I can learn to fix. What should I do? Sorry, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:32.439 I'm trying to read this comes from Nathaniel. What your 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.839 question is? What should I do? Two parts? One, listen 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:46.959 to your parents. Listen to your parents. Two. I think 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.200 you're putting I think it's a good side project for 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.319 you to be thinking about this, and it's definitely good 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.960 to be saving money. But I think you're putting too 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:04.720 much emphasis on this car at fourteen, when two years 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.719 your your whole opinion could change. And so I think 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.040 you're worried too much, especially if you want to right 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.040 into this podcast about this. I think you're just you're 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:19.560 just anticipating a little too early on a question like this. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.040 So I would say the answer is easy. Your parents 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.080 said you're going to They're gonna support you in whatever 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.760 you get. Cool, Just save the money, don't worry about 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.720 telling them what you want right now, and then when 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.800 when you have enough money and you're looking on Craigslist 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:39.600 or wherever you're looking eBay whatever, use car lot and 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:44.400 then you see that that two thousand era Mustang for 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:51.000 fifty eight hundred dollars and you've saved sixty one hundred dollars. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.800 Then you go to your parents and you go, look 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.000 here it is. I've got this money, and it's it's 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.800 a safe car, and it's it's a V six. I'm 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.360 not going to street race in it, mom, And that 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.319 conversation is very different. But the most important thing besides 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.320 saving your money is is respecting your parents. Your parents 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.640 are doing this out of love. They love you. Why 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.440 do they not want you to street race? First of all, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.360 they probably maybe they see something in you that could 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.520 be I have a tendency to be crazy, and so 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.960 they want to protect you. They don't want you to 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.400 get in trouble with the law. So there's a lot 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.480 of they're not telling you to not do this because 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.440 they just are bored and have nothing else to tell you. Nathaniel, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.680 listen to your parents, save your money, make this decision 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:49.080 two years from now. That's my vice. Next up, it 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.760 says The subject line says struggling. I have not read 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.400 this yet. I'm about to read it right now. Hey Granger, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.960 I would like to remain anonymous, but I'm twenty seven 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.080 years I'm a twenty seven year old girl from in 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.440 I like to start off by saying thank you for 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.760 everything that you do. There's always a lot of comfort 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.160 in the words that you that you have from your 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.680 friends and your family and the word of God. I 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.360 feel like this is something I've always struggled with, but 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.920 it seems like it's getting harder with time, and I'm 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.480 not really sure how to put this into a question. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.680 It seems that every time I turn around, it's the 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.560 cruel people around me that are the ones who win 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.760 when it comes to time here on earth. There have 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.720 been countless times where I thought about just giving up 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.920 and being as harsh and mean as everyone else to 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.440 see if it would change my luck or outcome. But 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.200 ultimately that's just not who I am as a person. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.560 I love to love and I love to be kind 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:52.040 to people. I'm just feeling overwhelmingly beat up. It just 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.160 doesn't seem like this is a specific area of my life. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.640 But everywhere you're sorry again, it just doesn't seem like 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.240 this is in a specific area of my life, but 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:10.200 just everywhere I turn. Without really having a question, I'm 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.880 just writing you to look for more, I guess advice 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.960 on why not to be discouraged. Thank you, Anonymous from Indiana, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:24.680 twenty seven. Well, first of all, Anonymous, this is biblical. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.600 What you're saying is there. It's in the Bible. It 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.560 says that you know, the sun shines on the wicked 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:39.920 just as it shines on the righteous. So I'm paraphrasing here, 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:46.040 but there is there's this idea that God's blessing, he 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.560 will bestow his blessing upon the earth, upon mankind, upon 0:16:51.600 --> 0:17:00.200 his image bearers, and that that doesn't that doesn't reflect 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:06.320 because of the person that you are. It doesn't. God 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.080 doesn't put more blessings on the good people or the 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:16.320 nice people. That's obvious, right, Like there's the the person 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.840 at the biggest house on the street up on the hill, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.399 with all the with all the all the fences and 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.520 gardens and workers and roads and pathways and stories and 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.239 cars in the garage. That doesn't mean that they're a 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.639 good person. This is not front page news. We just 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.040 know this is how the world works. It doesn't matter. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:45.439 God doesn't doesn't choose blessings based on your actions. And 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.719 that's actually a very important concept of the Bible because 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:56.960 God doesn't show favor on us based on our works anyway. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:06.560 It's always based on our faith, and his blessing ultimately 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:12.679 comes in salvation after this life after life here. So 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.280 if you look back in the historical characters of the Bible, that, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:23.399 for instance, we'll start with Abraham, Abraham was blessed because 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.240 of his faith, not because of his works, not because 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:31.040 of things that he did, not because of his generosity. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.160 The generosity and the things that he did are an 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.280 outcropping of the faith. They came afterward. They were the 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:44.960 result of his faith. So what I'm telling you, Anonymous, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.880 is you can't just throw up your hands and go, well, 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.679 I'm trying to be a good person here and God's 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.440 not blessing me. That's not exactly what you're saying. But 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.000 the Bible says that your works you're trying to be 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.359 a good person is like dirty rags to him because 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:10.080 you can't be good enough for God can't. So your 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.639 question is basically, how do I not be discouraged? Should 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.760 I just give up and be bad like everyone else. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:22.800 No by no means no no. But you you just 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.480 need to realize the way that this this globe in 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:32.280 the universe is turning. And and you will never you 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:38.320 will never be discouraged because you decided to be good, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.760 a good person with integrity. Because at the end of 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.320 the day, when you lay your head on your pillow 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.560 and you chose to chose to be take to take 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.680 the higher road, to have integrity, you will you will 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:58.880 ultimately sleep better. And that's not gonna You're not gonna 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.760 guarantee people are nice to. You are nice to in 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:07.720 your return. But over time, the more integrity you have, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:17.160 and I'm talking integrity meaning honesty, trustworthiness, kindness, the ability 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:22.639 to listen more than you talk. There's these attributes that 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.280 over time you practice these things, over time, you're going 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.199 to see the fruits of that from the people around you. 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.000 And if you don't, it's time to change the people 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.760 around you. So and I don't know where you are 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.080 in this situation, but sometimes you need to change the 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:45.600 people around you. And I would say, I would say 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:47.840 that's most likely the case. Is what's happening with you 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.040 is you're surrounding yourself with people that are angry and cruel, 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.280 because I don't think you're talking about the lady that's 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.919 serving you McDonald's. I think you're talking about your family 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:02.160 or your friends that are immediately around you. And it's important. 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.399 It's important that sometimes you need to put up your 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:12.199 hands and go. Friend. I love you, but but I 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.760 need some space away from you because because I can't 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.720 be around this kind of negativity, because it is, it is, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:27.399 it's becoming a problem to me. So stay around positive people. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.760 Remember that your face that God's favor doesn't fall just 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:34.399 upon the good people. Remember that you being good doesn't 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.640 help you get closer to God. And remember that being 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.840 around positive people will help you sleep better at night. 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:46.920 And you could never be wrong with upholding your own integrity. 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:54.680 I'm gonna take a break and be right back. Thank 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:56.840 you for listening to the podcast. I have a few 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.840 sponsors today and they're all by people very well over 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.879 at EEE Apparel. 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