WEBVTT - Episode 1: Beekeeping with Granger Smith 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.440 Hello, This is Christian Bush and welcome to the first 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:11.959 episode of Geeking Out, my new podcast. Every episode is 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.240 a new person talking about what they're obsessed with that 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.280 has nothing to do with their job. The only requirement 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.760 is that they're totally geeking out on it and they 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.599 want to talk about it. From Game of Thrones to 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.240 craft beer, from rescuing dogs to remodeling airstream trailers, from 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.360 collecting retro Barbie dolls to three D printing. Tell me 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.320 about what you love, why you love it, how you 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.760 got into it, what makes it awesome, and really why 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.440 someone else could get into it too. Each episode is 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.279 presented in three chapters. In chapter one, my guest and 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.720 I will go deep diving on whatever they're passionate about. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.520 Chapter two is a game I call trade jo, where 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.200 my guests and I turned each other onto one thing 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.360 that we've just discovered. And Chapter three closes the show 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.440 with me talking about music that I'm currently geeking out 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.279 on and why I believe that curiosity is contagious and 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.440 that life is better with a soundtrack. So let's go 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:20.200 Chapter one. This week's guest is Granger Smith. Granger is 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.960 my label mate at Wheelhouse Records. Whose debut album, Remington's, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.640 featured number one hit back Road song. You might know 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.920 him better as his alter ego Earl Dibbel's Jr. If 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.639 you're not already a member of the Nation, you're about 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.759 to be. Because I'm always moving around and I can't 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.199 always predict where my perfect next guest will appear. I'm 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.119 sometimes on location. So here Granger and I are talking 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.280 in the lobby bar of Hilton Garden Inn and Charleston, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.080 South Carolina, after a show that we played together for 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.840 the local radio station. You can hear us occasionally laughing 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.240 with our band at the table, or uh talking to 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.880 the waitress, or enjoying that old time tradition of a 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.920 last drink before bedtime. Enjoy I mean with a Granger 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.680 and I'm eating French fries. Awesome. Yeah we are, UM, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.040 so welcome to the podcast. It's good to be here. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.880 I like this podcast. You know it's on location. We're 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:24.120 in a lobby about us. Say they're not even paying 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.640 us to say not yet. You know what, I like 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.480 your entrepreneurial spirit and that's one of the things that 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.639 really bonds us, you and me. Besides we're on the 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:37.080 same record there. Um Okay, So you know, the reason 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.040 that you're here, or at least I'm putting you on podcast, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.839 is because I'm interested in what you're into right now, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.880 what you're kind of geeked out on that has nothing 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.840 to do with your job. The first thing comes from 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.679 my mind because I was just dealing with this yesterday. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.280 But I'm into bees. I'm a beekeeper. It feels awesome 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.400 to say that. By the way, I'm a I'm a beekeeping. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.280 I am a new beekeeper. Your new beekeeper. Huh. Aren't 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.119 like people from Brooklyn that are like hipsters into beekeeping? 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.800 Probably so? Um, but so are farmer type guys too, right. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.680 So there's because my bees are not garden bees. They 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:25.359 actually have you know, space country country are these are? These? 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:30.200 Are these free range bees? Free range country? Somebody asked 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.880 me one time when I first brought this up. They said, so, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.880 how do you get into their area? And I said 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.520 what area? And they said, you know what the net 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.240 like the little house with the net. And I said, man, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:48.160 they just go everywhere. How they know when to go back? Well, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.360 I don't know. That's its nature's mystery. They know how 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.240 to get back. They travel five miles every day. Bees 0:03:55.280 --> 0:04:00.480 travel every day. They will go miles in their life, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:06.120 and they only lived thirty five days. Let's facts keep coming. Okay, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:11.960 how did you get into Okay, I it's probably started 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.080 with me with fruit trees. I love trees. I love 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:20.360 planting trees, I love established trees, I love planting new trees. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.320 I like planting seeds. I just for some reason, I 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.400 think my dad was into it. It's in my mom's 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.560 side of the family too. There's something about it. In 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.719 every house I've ever lived in, I've planted a tree 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.279 at some point in my life. I got into fruit 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.880 trees about four years ago. I got two peach trees, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.280 two plum trees, um pomegranate. I have BlackBerry bushes and 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.880 a fig tree, all kind of this one little area. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.839 And the number one way to really escalate the pollination 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:58.560 is beats. There's number one pollinator for any I mean, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:03.040 there's there's butterflies, there's other things, but birds, But the 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:07.520 biggest pollinator of anything is bees. And so I thought, Okay, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.880 what do I have enough bees? I don't know. I 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.880 don't know. How does anyone know if they have enough 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.919 bees in their area? And I've seen bees, But but 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.840 then I started thinking, what if I brought in beat 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.800 A lot of people do that, I could bring in bees. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.520 So I started researching, looking on the internet, typing in bees. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.599 How long ago with this? This was about? This was 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.479 the right around two years ago. And the reason I 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.440 know that is because I went to a show. I 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.760 was a show and a friend of mine from high 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.520 school shows up and we were just talking and I'm 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.480 happen to mention I was interested in bees, and he 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.000 goes me too, I'm actually about to buy something from 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.760 my house And I said, wow, that's incredible. I said, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.720 I wish I could do that, but I'm touring all 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.800 the time, so there's no way I could go buy bees, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.440 build the hives and paint them and get them. I 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.520 would love to one day, ten years down the road, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.920 and love to do that. And he goes, tell you, what, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.520 whyn't you just give me your credit card number, will 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.080 buy a couple of hives for you, and then I'll 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:03.560 go buy a couple of homes from me. We'll deliver 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.680 them all to my house. I'll set it up for 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.279 you and I'll get the bees going at my house. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.000 That way, I'll get the hard part, the really, you know, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.400 the extensive work that it takes, the early be years 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.839 or tough years. And I was like, that's awesome. Yeah, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.599 so he did it. This was so he got he 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.640 ordered him. He got him in about six months later. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.920 So he had him at his house about a year 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.120 and a half. And then this was the year when 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.480 they're established strong, ready to go. And he called me. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.800 He's like, hey, your bees are ready. So I got 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:42.360 them in March this year. Um so so now it's June. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.680 So I went down and to San Antonio. I'm in Austin. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.960 He was in San Antonio, drove down and uh, he 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.280 put them. We put them. We took them out of 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:57.640 their hives and put them in nukes, which was really funny. Yes, yes, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.240 so we take the frames of their brood box. This 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.880 is getting crazy. But the brood boxes where the bees. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.240 As you could tell, I'm am obsessed with this, But 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.600 the brood box is where um that's where they live. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.040 That's where the queen lives. That's where she makes all 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.880 her larva. That's where they make all their their food. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.119 That's going to supply him for the winner. At my house, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:26.280 I need a brood box bread box. My favorite new 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.320 indie band yes, bread box is amazing. So what you 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.160 take the brood box and then you put a queen 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.400 excluder on top, which is a screen that allows all 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:37.960 the rest of the bees to go through it. But 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.360 she can't because she's too big, so it traps her 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.120 in the brood box, which is fine. She needs to 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.160 be busy making her eggs, layer eggs. And then you 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.080 you put these supers on top. A super is essentially 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.120 the same thing as a brood box. It's got tin 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.200 frames in it with a little little uh manmade honeycomb 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.680 replica that they go. They are attracted to and they 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.360 build out their comb. So when you put a super 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.280 on top of a broodbox, you never touched the brood box. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.080 That's their food, that's their supply, that's how they live. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.600 But the super on top of that is what you 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.880 can harvest for your own honey. You can pull that out, Yes, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.120 they don't need that. You can make two supers on 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.600 top of that per hive. So we take the brood 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.280 box frames out. You've seen the frames on everyone's seen 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.600 the frames. You take the frames out and we put 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.920 them in this little, this little nuke, which is basically 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.840 a cardboard box that you put the frames in and 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.680 then close it seal it. So I take those so 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.959 I put all the bees in there. It's crazy, seal 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.240 it up. Put them in the back of my truck. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.720 Is it like a kid? Like a kid's on board. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.800 I'm gonna dry fifteen thousand bees in each hive, and 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.800 I had two hives. I had thirty thousand bees in 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.679 the back of my truck. I had to pull over 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.360 and get gas on the way there, and I was like, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:59.480 oh my gosh, you know, because because not all of 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.640 them made it into the into the sealed box. You know, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.360 some of them are just kind of around and there. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.920 But they're just gonna keep up. So I get to 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:14.000 my house and I put on the suit and I'm 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.600 following the exact instructions that he gave me. I build 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.440 the hive just like it was at his house. And 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.040 then my wife and I, luckily I had her with me. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.360 We're smoking him too. You smoke him with a little 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.280 little smoker because it chills him out. It disorians. This 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.160 is not like a Washington State. It's a little bit different. 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.200 Is a different kind of smoking, but essentially the same 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:38.120 the same effect. It chills him out. M out distorians, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.560 Can we stop? Are you actually stoning the bees? You're 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:50.040 stoning the bees totally? I love it. Yeah, cedar chips, 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.760 that's what we want to call it. Yeah, yeah, So 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.679 my wife and there we are. We're, you know, smoking 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.000 them like crazy. We open up the site of opening 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.600 up that that nuke for the first time and seeing 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.240 them in there, fifteen thousand bees and you've got to 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.679 reach in there with your hand, gloved hands. You've got 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.960 to pull out a frame and they're just coded on 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.080 each side of the frame, and then walk it over 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.480 and put it into their new box, like here's your home. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.360 It is the biggest rush I've had. I was. I mean, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:34.559 my heart's pounding. I'm holding YouTube. Yes. So then you 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.760 have super is built on top of right exactly. So 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.840 what happened is the queen. Everyone's attracted to the queen. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.040 She's the leader. And I didn't see her. I could have, 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.199 but I was preoccupied. But she was somewhere on one 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.160 of those frames, crawling around. You could see her because 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.040 she'd be bigger than all the REPSOD So I put him, 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.160 I put him into the food box and then I 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.480 cover it with the being the queen excluder, and then 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.840 I put the um. I I didn't put a super 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.640 on yet because they don't need it yet. They needed 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.200 to fill out the rest of their frames, right, But 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.240 I did put on a little a little feeding box 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:14.880 on top, so that feeding boxes half sugar half water mish. Yesterday, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.760 for the very first time, I went in there and 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.120 added a super because they had filled out their brood box. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:26.400 So when I took off the feeding box, they had 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.320 been building comb all under the feeding box on top 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.840 of their brood box. So I just was like, hey, 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.880 I gotta I got a spoon and a tupperware and 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.440 I just pulled off all of this comb with a 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.600 big spoon and put it into the tupperware and got 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.160 back and I had a whole bowl full of honey. Okay, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.240 So how often do you think about the bees now 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.480 that you're out on tour. I think about it all 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.440 the time. I'm texting my wife that you feed the bees? 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.080 You know, the strangest, the strangest text. And do you 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.320 have children? I do? We have three little ones. You 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.000 do you like worry more about the bees than the children. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.360 Since I'm a man, probably not to be honest. Let's 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.280 be honest, probably not, but I do think about him 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:11.320 a lot and my kids. I would think that bugs 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.640 are kind of icky to some kids. But they want 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.600 to put on the suit and they want to go 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.240 right up to the box. And if you look right 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.040 at the entrance, they have a little entrance. It's it's 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.559 an inch long entrance and they they go in there. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.480 And these bees constantly going in, constantly going out all 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.480 day long. And the ones going in got the little 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.439 pollen sacks on their legs and they're going in. They 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.360 deposit the nextar and the nectar and pollen they head 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.440 to right back out. The funny thing is, if you 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.480 watch it close enough, there's these guards. There's bouncers, but 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:48.480 guard the outside seriously. They check i'd ease, and they'll 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.040 find a little robber by that tries to get in there. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.000 He's either a local bee or he's one from next door, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.160 and they will kick his ass. Kid, they will kick 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.800 the ship out of Have you slow mode your bees yet? 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.760 Have you gone to the SlowMo setting on your phone? 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.400 I phone? That's a great idea. I should do that. Okay, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.120 I have not done it. That's a great idea. Yeah, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.040 when when when when we do when we post this podcast, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.280 we need to have at least a SloMo of your bees. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.040 I will have that done for you. Okay. So, um, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:22.280 now that we understand the full breadth of your obsession, um, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.040 and why you're kind of geeking out on this, how 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.960 would you recommend someone else get into this? Like? What's 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.680 the gateway drug? Well? How do you start? Um? You know, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.560 the internet is so full as of any other subject, 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.319 it's just full of It's a wealth of knowledge of 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.480 of ways to use. Yeah to to be able to 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.680 sit there and watch a YouTube video of a guy 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.960 actually setting up it's really easy. You can get everything online, 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.680 deliver it right to your house. And a musician like 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.920 me traveling all the time, it makes it tough. But 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.520 if you're nine to five or this is this is 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.000 easy you could You could literally do it in your garden. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.880 Is it in a morning? Ritual? Is an evening? Like? Well, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.680 I have learned that in the afternoon my bees are crazy. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.679 In the afternoon, they're crazy, They're they're way more chill 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.800 in the morning. They're really calm at night, and when 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.480 it rains they all go home, they all go home. Yeah, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:22.680 so these bees live thirty five days. This is what's crazy. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.080 So the queen is like any other normal bee. She 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.880 lives longer because she's been fed the royal jelly from 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.240 not making this up. The royal jelly. It's like straight 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.920 out of a Disney movie. Now, when she's at the end, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.560 they will elect a new queen out of the worker bees. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:40.840 I don't know how they elect one that, but they 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.280 all find one. She gets elected and they feed her 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.840 the royal jelly and she grows to the size of queen. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.920 I think, I think I think they're doing that in 0:14:51.920 --> 0:15:09.600 the UK right now, Chapter two. In every episode of 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.120 Geeking Out, I see if I can trade one thing 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.600 I've discovered recently with one thing that my guest has discovered, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.200 like a friendly exchange. I call it trade you. So 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.440 this is called trade you. I'll trade you one thing 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.800 for one thing. Right, you turn me onto something, I'll 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.720 turn you onto something. So I'm obsessed currently a little 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.760 bit with cold brew coffee. Right, and so this is 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.280 coffee that is steeped for a whole day. It takes 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.200 a whole day to make a gallon usually if you 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.480 do it the right way, and there are there there 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.560 are a lot like Kraft beers. You know there are 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.520 people that are making this. And one of the cool 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.320 things that it does it takes the acid out of 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.360 the coffee, so that doesn't hurt your stomach. The awkward 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.040 thing that it does is it triples the caffeine. So 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.320 when you pour yourself a cup of coffee, if cold 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.960 brew that would be normally your regular cup of coffee, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.720 it's now like you're on adderall right, you gotta be really, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.680 really really careful not to overdo it. So the cold 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.400 brew coffee that I love is obviously from Atlanta, Georgia. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.360 It's called Banjo coffee. But when somebody turned me onto 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.400 not just the cold brew, but recently mixing it with lacroix. Lacroix, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:22.360 you know this, uh, this soda that's not a cola, right, 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.640 and it's a coconut version. Everybody's got there on the 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.280 rider these days. Yeah, Well it's awesome because it keeps 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.840 you off drinking dice coke. Right. Um, But the lacroix, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.400 or the lacroix that I love now current obsession is 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.360 a coconut which tastes like sunscreen. Um, if you could 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.920 drink sunscreen that's carbonated, or the cold brew coffee half 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.520 and half exactly into it with ice, a glass of ice, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.560 cold brew coffee, and the coconut lacroix, lacroix, however you 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.320 want to pronounce it. It is the most refreshing summer 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:04.480 drink ever. It's like coffee plus it's like a Mound's bar, 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.720 but coffee but has zero calories. Okay, that's incredible. I 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.639 don't have a name for yet, but that's that's what 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.920 you need to text me. That word for word, what 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:22.240 you said, I'm next to that plus that equals joy. Okay, Okay, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.320 now you turned me on to Okay, I'm gonna I'm 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.480 gonna turn you. I'm gonna turn you onto something because 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.159 of you said cold brew coffee. This guy's probably know 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.560 what I'm gonna say, cold water therapy. It's a lot 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.879 less enjoyable than cold brew coffee. You gonna put it 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.120 that way. But cold water therapy is something I got 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.639 into because, um in December, I broke a couple of 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.840 ribs and punctured alone, fell off the stage when I 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.119 when I got home, I wanted to be able to 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.280 recover as fast as possible. I just hate sitting on 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.800 a couch and recovering, and I didn't want anything to 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.320 slow that down. So I started researching how how would 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:06.359 Troy Aikman, you know, recover the fastest he could possibly recover, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.920 or how would any you know, NFL quarterback figure this out? 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.520 Because I fin I kind of put those guys as 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:16.600 the guys that would have the ultimate scientists a lot 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:21.640 of money, right, So everything came back to cold weather 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.800 therapy as that you know, you know, all professional athletes 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.680 take ice bass and there's a reason. So I really 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.879 got into this. And this was in December, so it 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.359 was perfect because I would I would go to my 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:39.040 pool and I would measure my pool at somewhere in 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:45.159 the mid fifties. This is in December, so so it's 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.240 that actually sounds to some people that sounds warm, but 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:52.200 that's freaking cold. It's freaking cold, especially when outside. It's 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.960 in the forties the temperature outside. So I would I 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.720 would go get in there, and I started in a minute. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.879 Then I worked up to ten minutes, but three minutes 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.600 is what I preferred. But what's crazy is you go 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.919 in there and with whatever your whatever your ailment, or 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.280 maybe you don't have an ailement, you just you just 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.120 want to be completely what happens is you get completely 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.119 recirculated with all your blood. Tell me how that works. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.520 So you jump in and you have you have the 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.240 the Caveman brain effect of I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.400 You do you think I'm going to die, because that's 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.199 what it feels like. So every all the blood in 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.360 your body rushes to your court and it holds there 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.159 to protect your vital organs. That takes about thirty seconds. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:39.840 Because I had a timer. Every day I would do 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.960 this and had a timer. It takes thirty seconds for 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.600 all the blood in your body to rush to your court. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.440 When that happens, you hit a euphoria. Ah, this isn't 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.680 too bad. You're kind of just bobbing in the water 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.840 like hey, and everybody's like you Okay, It's like it's 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.919 not too bad. And at that point you're good. You 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.680 could wait for ten minutes if you want. Thank you. 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:08.359 This is perfect. Anything we need to get out, Thank you, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.639 thank you, Thank you for being here. Man. Now we're 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:17.200 gonna eat our food. Yes, thanks Buddy Ranger Smith. Chapter 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:23.760 three me geeking out on music. Surprise surprise, right, all right. 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.720 This week I'm diving into a record that was a 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.639 really big deal for me, and later in life I 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.040 got to explore it in in in a brand new way. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:37.800 But the artist name are the Police, and the album 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.880 in question here is Ghost in the Machine, and when 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.800 you look at it, it is a black album with 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.040 like a digital read out looks like a digital clock, 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.520 but each of their faces the way they did it 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.200 with the you know, sting of spiked hair and and 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.119 Andy Summers hair is going to the side and stuff 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.840 like this, and it's it's a very enigmatic record for them. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.640 But what's most interesting to me is the second single 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.159 off of this album was called every Little Thing She 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.440 Does Is Magic. And I was always obsessed with this 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:12.000 song for a very specific reason. I at the time 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:14.960 that this came out, or at least by the time 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:19.840 I heard it, I believe I was let's see what 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.400 year did it come out? In? Eight one? So by 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.480 the time I really dug into this record, I was 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.440 twelve or thirteen, and I was learning to write songs 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:32.879 at the time, and um, you know, these Police songs 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.840 were complete thoughts and complete statements, and they they sounded 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.040 like nothing else on the radio. Is some sort of 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:42.280 strange British reggae rock and every little thing she does 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:46.480 is magic. Is exactly like you know, a squared off, 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:48.399 well written pop song, or even a country song to 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.199 that matter. And what was fun to me about the 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:56.040 recording is that there's just very little going on until, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.320 of course, the drums sort of take over in the courses. 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.800 And the obsession that I had was kind of these 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.439 beautiful melodies in the verses and here that's what they 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:20.479 sound like. Okay, So the way this kind of works 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:24.520 is I had suddenly been listening to Adam and the 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.400 Ants and a couple of things that probably a kid 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.560 from East Tennessee just had no business listening to. And 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:32.199 I realized that you could put things on top of 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.840 each other. And I was trained as a classical musician, 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:38.800 so it made sense to me. Counterpoint, Uh, you know, 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.960 one one part of the score layered with another part 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.400 of the score later both that had appeared individually earlier. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.560 And what happened so at the end of this song, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.040 there's what's called a fade. And nowadays, you know, we 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.159 just kind of draw a fade on a computer, but 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.879 at the time you had to actually physically have your 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.400 hand on the fader, the master fader on your counsel 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:04.439 and then you would slowly fade it down right, and 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:07.680 depending on how much coffee your engineer had had that day, 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:12.040 your fades were quick or you know, depending on how 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:14.240 much of a I don't know, a stoner or something 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:16.800 that they were, that they would if they would fade 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:20.360