Speaker 1: What's Up? This is the granger Smith Podcast, Episode eleven.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's been that many so far, but
Speaker 1: thank you guys for listening, as I always say, and
Speaker 1: thank you for inspiring me to know that they matter.
Speaker 1: I just think, in this crazy, fast faced world, every
Speaker 1: once in a while, you need the whole story, and
Speaker 1: that's what these are about. Well, I'm in the back
Speaker 1: of my bus Wildflower, like I usually am for these podcasts,
Speaker 1: and like I usually am, I'm right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the crazy tour because that seems to be the
Speaker 1: time I could sneak away and get away from the
Speaker 1: madness outside and make a little podcast. Talk to the People,
Speaker 1: Talk to ye Nation. This week is particularly crazy. We've
Speaker 1: been to Columbus, Ohio, Austin, Ex's Columbus, Ohio again, Birmingham, Alabama,
Speaker 1: West Virginia, New Jersey, Philly, Little Rock, Huntsville, Tennessee, Lexington, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California, Perry, California, and back to Austin And yes,
Speaker 1: all of that is within one week. If you want
Speaker 1: to catch me in one of these cities, go to
Speaker 1: Grangersmith dot com forward slash Tour nowhere you could find
Speaker 1: out where we're going in advance and get your tickets,
Speaker 1: get your v If you meet and greet, she can
Speaker 1: come on the bus right here where I am now
Speaker 1: and say hello. This is a fun podcast. Today, I
Speaker 1: was going to continue the story I left off in
Speaker 1: episode ten, which is leading to two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: in my music career, and I was working in my
Speaker 1: house in my home studio on a brand new album
Speaker 1: that was arguably the most important one I've ever had
Speaker 1: in my life because it's how I met my wife.
Speaker 1: And I want to tell that story in detail because
Speaker 1: that is so much of who I am now in
Speaker 1: that album. That was my first music video. That was
Speaker 1: a side of me musically, in songwriting wise that I
Speaker 1: still continue on the same path today. But before I
Speaker 1: dropped that story on you, I have another little thing
Speaker 1: I want to talk about, actually two little things I
Speaker 1: want to talk about. A few days ago at home,
Speaker 1: I brought in my oldest daughter, London, she's six years old,
Speaker 1: and my middle son Lincoln, he's four years old, and
Speaker 1: I let them ask me some questions. There's a front
Speaker 1: door swing at Jemma's house and a little stream up
Speaker 1: in the mountains, a shot gun seed and a ocean breeze,
Speaker 1: there's the fairest wheel, just spending around a midnight moon,
Speaker 1: I shining down a red sunset and the cotton dress.
Speaker 1: You read it every single good time, win a press,
Speaker 1: Rea Mine in mine Jam if you have a question
Speaker 1: for me on social media hashtag Granger Smith Podcast asked
Speaker 1: and asked the question that way I could search for
Speaker 1: it just like I'm doing. Now read the question and
Speaker 1: answer it right here on the podcast, Mackenzie del Fridgsture says,
Speaker 1: are there any plans for a vinyl edition of When
Speaker 1: the Good Guys Win? It's a great question. We made
Speaker 1: a vinyl edition of Remington album a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was a really cool deal. Even
Speaker 1: if you don't have a record player, it's a cool thing.
Speaker 1: I love to collect records, and you could have it.
Speaker 1: You could hang it in a frame on your wall,
Speaker 1: get it signed. So know that we don't have any plans,
Speaker 1: but if enough people want them, if enough people react
Speaker 1: to this, then yeah, we'll make a vinyl edition of
Speaker 1: my new album, When the Good Guys Win. So let's
Speaker 1: get to this exclusive interview. So if you guys have
Speaker 1: any questions from me, I do you do. You already
Speaker 1: have three questions? Lincoln, do you have any questions for me?
Speaker 1: I have two questions. All right, let's let Lendon go
Speaker 1: since she hasn't written down, and then you could ask
Speaker 1: if pretend that you're a fan of me, because I
Speaker 1: know you don't know this, but there's people that actually
Speaker 1: like my music out there. You do, okay, So pretend
Speaker 1: that you're one of them, and maybe there's something you
Speaker 1: want to know about me that they don't know, and
Speaker 1: you want to ask me that question. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: so Sissy you go first. Okay, First question, what is
Speaker 1: it like being a dad? That's a great question. Thanks
Speaker 1: for asking that, London. Well, having you three is amazing.
Speaker 1: You make it easy. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes,
Speaker 1: but that's good because that means you're a challenge and
Speaker 1: being a dad is what I've always wanted to do
Speaker 1: my whole life. You're a dad? Yep, yep, I sure am.
Speaker 1: Second question, what is it like being on stage? Wow?
Speaker 1: Did you write that? Now? You did? That's a good one. Well,
Speaker 1: it's in adrenaline rush. Do you know what adrenaline is, Lincoln? No,
Speaker 1: adrenaline is when you're really excited and your heart starts beating,
Speaker 1: and your blood starts pumping through your veins, and you
Speaker 1: kinda get, you know, a little jittery and a little
Speaker 1: bit nervous. Do you know what that is? What I mean?
Speaker 1: Do you know have you ever had that feeling before? No,
Speaker 1: You've never been nervous or excited about something. So at
Speaker 1: school the first day, I was like, oh, no, I'm scared.
Speaker 1: I'm scared to go to school. In the second day,
Speaker 1: I got lost, and I got scared again, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to go to school. But the next day,
Speaker 1: when I actually wasn't, when I actually was in specials,
Speaker 1: I actually was like, I love this school. I want
Speaker 1: to go here forever. Yeah, exactly. That means you were
Speaker 1: excited about it. Have you ever had that Lincoln that feeling? No,
Speaker 1: you've never been excited about anything. No, what about when
Speaker 1: I get What about when I gave you my old
Speaker 1: phone case in the little squishy? Yeah, so that feeling
Speaker 1: when you got the old phone case and the squishy,
Speaker 1: that's what I get when I go on stage. You said,
Speaker 1: what's it like being on stage? It's like getting that
Speaker 1: old phone case in the squishy. Second question, when did
Speaker 1: you start being a singer? Well, I started when I
Speaker 1: was about fifteen years old singing George Straight. You know
Speaker 1: who that is? Lincoln? Who George Straight? Ooh? Do you
Speaker 1: know who that is? Who? That's what I'm asking you?
Speaker 1: Who not? I'm asking you? Do you know who it is? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: I do? I do? Do you know a song a
Speaker 1: country singer? That's right? Do you know any songs that
Speaker 1: he sings? No? Well, who's your favorite singer? Daddy? Who's
Speaker 1: your favorite singer besides Daddy? The girl that sings Stay?
Speaker 1: You know that girl that sings Stay. That's how I
Speaker 1: feel about George Straight. So I know about you because
Speaker 1: Jazz told me when you were a little kid you
Speaker 1: to listen to George Straight a lot, and then you
Speaker 1: started singing him, and then you become my grandma, you dad,
Speaker 1: your mommy? All right, now, Lincoln's turn to ask a question.
Speaker 1: Two two, I'm sorry, two questions go let them Let
Speaker 1: don't you feel like when you're a cowboy? Wow? What
Speaker 1: do I feel like when I'm a cowboy? When you
Speaker 1: were a cowboy? When I was a cowboy? When was that?
Speaker 1: And when you when you wear a Drea cowboy cat?
Speaker 1: You mean when I'm Donnie cowboy or back when I
Speaker 1: used to wear cowboy hat, when I used to sing
Speaker 1: all the time, and when you were it's just sing
Speaker 1: all the time. Well, I used to wear a cowboy
Speaker 1: hat because George Strait wore a cowboy hat and I
Speaker 1: always did, and I really liked wearing the cowboy hat.
Speaker 1: Made me feel like I was a real country singer.
Speaker 1: But then I realized that I had to be who
Speaker 1: I was, not who George straight was. And it's good
Speaker 1: to be yourself right and to feel comfortable. And when
Speaker 1: you go to a restaurant and you're with your friends,
Speaker 1: you want to be yourself. And when I was at
Speaker 1: a restaurant with my friends, I was wearing a ball
Speaker 1: cap like a cap, like a eeee cap like I
Speaker 1: always wear now, and I was wearing one of those,
Speaker 1: and I thought, this feels like me. So it's important
Speaker 1: to feel like yourself right. And when if you do
Speaker 1: something wrong, like if you're at school and you're doing
Speaker 1: like challenges with different classes, like me, I'm about to
Speaker 1: do that, and I'm kind of scared. But the thing
Speaker 1: you do do if you want to win, all you
Speaker 1: have to do is just to be yourself exactly right. Lincoln,
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? Ah? What was your
Speaker 1: second question? What do you feel like when you're a
Speaker 1: little well like a little baby. I'm the same age
Speaker 1: as when River was used to be, same age as
Speaker 1: River now, which is two years old. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great question. So I don't remember being two years old.
Speaker 1: My first memory was when I was four years old.
Speaker 1: Guess how old you are? Yeah, so that means right
Speaker 1: now you might be making memories right now that you'll
Speaker 1: remember when you're my age. Can you believe that? And
Speaker 1: I remember when I was four years old and two
Speaker 1: years old because I remember when I was outside at
Speaker 1: our old house and I was saying, Dad, Papa, you
Speaker 1: remember that? What's your very first memory? My whole life?
Speaker 1: That I used to sit? We watched a video the
Speaker 1: other day. It was a long time ago, and we
Speaker 1: kept doing it over and over again because we were
Speaker 1: laughing at it. And we saw this video of me
Speaker 1: playing the piano when I was no I think I
Speaker 1: was three and Lincoln was one, and he kept laughing
Speaker 1: at me playing the piano. Got your first memory? Yes?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, then what's your first memory, Lincoln? When
Speaker 1: I was when I was one? I want I don't
Speaker 1: know I did when with one? Maybe when you were three? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: when I was on three, went all three? What did
Speaker 1: I do since you? When I was three? You had
Speaker 1: when you were one, you were turning one. On your birthday,
Speaker 1: you had a tractor birthday and you smacked your head
Speaker 1: in the cake so hard that you hit the table
Speaker 1: and there was cake all over you. Yes, do you
Speaker 1: remember that, buddy? Yes? I got a question for both
Speaker 1: of you. Two my turn asked the questions more. Oh,
Speaker 1: you have one more? Then I get to ask my questions.
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Speaker 1: We're going to read them all. When did wait, never mind?
Speaker 1: Do you miss us so much that you have hat
Speaker 1: hat have to cry in public when I'm on tour? Yes,
Speaker 1: I miss you guys so much. But did that really happen?
Speaker 1: You mean the tears? Yeah, you cried in public? Well,
Speaker 1: I have I have a question too. You said, I've
Speaker 1: got is that I'm going on tour in two weeks. Yeah, buddy,
Speaker 1: you're going to go on tour with me? Wow? What's
Speaker 1: your question? You said, when I will go in two weeks? Yeah?
Speaker 1: In two weeks, you're going to go on tour with
Speaker 1: me by yourself, buddy, just me and you. You excited? Yeah? Wow,
Speaker 1: because I'm the only one who used to always go
Speaker 1: You're gonna go on tour with me? In one month.
Speaker 1: Did you know that? No? Yeah, Lincoln's going to Texas,
Speaker 1: and in Texas, in Arkansas, in London, You're going to Utah,
Speaker 1: Montana and Idaho, Santana. Wait going there too? Did I
Speaker 1: already go there before? I think you've been to Utah,
Speaker 1: But I don't think you've been to Montana, am I?
Speaker 1: I think Utah was the place that was really cold,
Speaker 1: and we went to get donuts and we went to
Speaker 1: that little place where you were doing your That was Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1: I go where I go to. You're gonna go to Montana. Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to Arkansas. That is gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun ride. You're gonna ride the bus with me. You're
Speaker 1: gonna sleep? Are you gonna sleep in my bed or
Speaker 1: in a bunk? Babes' easy? Fu in a bunk? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna get lonely? It gets really dark in the bunk,
Speaker 1: and it's also really dark. What's it like sleeping in
Speaker 1: a bunk, a tour bus bunk? Well, so first when
Speaker 1: I get in, I just get in, grab my phone,
Speaker 1: and I watch my phone, and then I turn off
Speaker 1: the lights when I want to go to sleep, and
Speaker 1: I just go to sleep and It feels like you're
Speaker 1: on and you're in a car and you're in a
Speaker 1: car ride, but you're in a bed. Yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 1: much it. And it's really bumpy. I think when iron
Speaker 1: in my bunk, I I just I just weigh in
Speaker 1: my bunk, and then and then and then I and
Speaker 1: then and I called Daddy, and then and then I
Speaker 1: just and then I just and then you good, Just
Speaker 1: help me to on the TV and then just go
Speaker 1: watch TV in my bed. Yeah? Are you going to
Speaker 1: sleep good in your bunk? Do you? So? London has
Speaker 1: done it several times. You have not slept in a
Speaker 1: tour bus bunk yet, so you're excited, all right? So
Speaker 1: I want to ask you guys a question. Okay, what
Speaker 1: does YE mean? Shurry up London? What does you mean?
Speaker 1: It means bass and casts. That's bass and cats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my god, I know what it means. I know what
Speaker 1: it means. Uh Usa. Yeah, Oh, I know what it means.
Speaker 1: I know what it means, Usa, Texas, USA, Texas, bass
Speaker 1: and cats. That's what YE means. No, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know what YE means, but they
Speaker 1: wear it on a hat. Some people have it tattooed
Speaker 1: on their arms. Can you believe that? Would you tattoo
Speaker 1: yeee on your arm? Yes? I would not let you.
Speaker 1: Why because I'm in I'm your daddy, I get to
Speaker 1: tell you what you get tattooed on your body. Well,
Speaker 1: Mama tells me if I could put like animals or
Speaker 1: butterflies or anything on my pat she did not tell
Speaker 1: you that. Would you get a tattoo of ye? Buddy?
Speaker 1: But but when I got your red poppy, I got
Speaker 1: a spider man a Spekerman face on an elbow. But
Speaker 1: that was a temporary tattoo, which means it washes off.
Speaker 1: Those are the best kind of tattoos, right. I have
Speaker 1: another question for you. When I say when the good
Speaker 1: guys win? Who am I talking about? Don't you love it?
Speaker 1: Win the good guys? Don't you love it when is
Speaker 1: shit comes in? Yeah? Man, every now and then what
Speaker 1: goes around comes around again? Don't you live at long shot? Prayer?
Speaker 1: I'm a dog on a hill. Love a kid? Do
Speaker 1: you want to kiss and she? Don't you love him? Win?
Speaker 1: The good guys win? The good guys in the world
Speaker 1: that that help and be kind to other people and
Speaker 1: don't be mean or steal or bully. What do you
Speaker 1: think it means? Buddy? Okay, So like if the good
Speaker 1: guys in the world are running a race and that
Speaker 1: if they win, then they get a special the specialist
Speaker 1: little prize, or if they get none, they might just
Speaker 1: say okay, thank you. I love that. Another question for
Speaker 1: you ready, who is Earl Dibbles Junior Daddy? But when
Speaker 1: you it's not me? Yeah, yes, you were in the water,
Speaker 1: biz because because you are more because I was at
Speaker 1: the ranch and you took me off to at the
Speaker 1: ranch new and you turned into or Dibbers and then
Speaker 1: and then you go by the pond. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think me and Earl are actually two different people. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think it's another person. Yes, it's not really me.
Speaker 1: What if it's another guy? It is big on on YouTube.
Speaker 1: We watched Daddy sing on the songs and then and
Speaker 1: then we see you sitting in a chair and then
Speaker 1: old Birds appears in the chair. Yeah, see you see
Speaker 1: him at the same time. It's another guy, Yes it is.
Speaker 1: So what do you think, Lennon? It's a country boy,
Speaker 1: but it's a different person. But do you know what
Speaker 1: I want you to do right now? Make the face
Speaker 1: it's you Daddy? It's you. How about that video where
Speaker 1: it's me and him in the same video. Well, you're
Speaker 1: just doing You're just doing one video first and then
Speaker 1: pause it and then do another video. But you have
Speaker 1: to dress up in Earle and then you cut it
Speaker 1: and it shows both of y'all. You think you're so
Speaker 1: smart because you're six. That's not true. There is a
Speaker 1: completely different person name Earl. No, there's not, I see you.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Lincoln? There is? But yeah, but
Speaker 1: you have the closer Earl. Then why do I see
Speaker 1: you dress up on stage? I'm just resting on the
Speaker 1: bus when Earl comes out there. No, you're not. You
Speaker 1: take your shirt off and I see you walking walking
Speaker 1: down to get back in the bus. Lincoln, what do
Speaker 1: you think? Ahmah ah everything. Hey, I thought you just said,
Speaker 1: don't bully good guys, Remember we don't bully. When I
Speaker 1: sing country Boy love you, you haven't dressed up as
Speaker 1: the Earl. Okay, that brings up a good point. What's
Speaker 1: your favorite song that I sing, Lincoln, Country bull Love? Well,
Speaker 1: that's Earl dibbles. What's your favorite song that I sing?
Speaker 1: The good Wite Lynn? I like it when the good
Speaker 1: boys win? How about you, Lennon, it was full drive.
Speaker 1: What's that one that's those three ws? What's that one
Speaker 1: that you just did? You're in it? No, you had
Speaker 1: that one for a long time there, No, it just
Speaker 1: just came out. You're talking about a brand new song
Speaker 1: that I just wrote that's not even on an album
Speaker 1: in the world. You're talking about Gosh, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I can't keep Why wouldn't we? It's why wouldn't we?
Speaker 1: Lincoln knows it. Why wouldn't we? Dave that forket Saturday
Speaker 1: Time fevers to girls getting it free? Guys, that's brand new.
Speaker 1: The rest of the world doesn't get to hear these
Speaker 1: brand new songs that I just write, but you do.
Speaker 1: So that's the benefit of being my kid. I guess you.
Speaker 1: Guys always like my newest songs, don't you? And my
Speaker 1: second one is happing like cats I can make I
Speaker 1: can make a cat sound. Do you have a cat? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's his name? Goose? Do you have a cat? Lincoln? No?
Speaker 1: But but but I woked up the cat some the
Speaker 1: cats that pet's market, and it really wanted me. And
Speaker 1: it was white and black, and it really wanted me,
Speaker 1: and and the name was called Bettye. May, Minie May no,
Speaker 1: Betty May. Okay, do you guys mind if I ask
Speaker 1: you one more question before we finish this. I do music.
Speaker 1: You guys know that? Yeah? Did you know that music
Speaker 1: is how I met Mama? No, you didn't know that.
Speaker 1: But but archtensn you talked about Mama? You singing about Mama?
Speaker 1: What do you think about Mama? What's he saying? What
Speaker 1: are you saying? Or you're saying oxygen? Yeah? When when
Speaker 1: when you sing about Mama? Yeah? I wrote Oxygen for
Speaker 1: Mama Season the Seas in Mama, She's my life? Take
Speaker 1: like occy. Did you know that Mammy and I had
Speaker 1: our first dance at our wedding to Oxygen? No, that's
Speaker 1: why I wrote that song. I should sounds just like it?
Speaker 1: I should dance do that right now? So did you
Speaker 1: know If it wasn't for music, you guys wouldn't even
Speaker 1: be here. Not crazy? But do you know how I
Speaker 1: met your mommy? I know we've told you guys at
Speaker 1: least right she was your friend? Nope, dryden Well, I
Speaker 1: wrote Oxygen after I met her. But do you know
Speaker 1: how I met her? No? I met her on a
Speaker 1: music video? What video was it? Guess? You've seen on
Speaker 1: my videos. Right then, guess which one. Guess what I'm
Speaker 1: asking you to guess, Octygen No, sir, that wrote that
Speaker 1: after we met? Was it for a real drive? There
Speaker 1: was a music video? Oh oh oh no, that's not it,
Speaker 1: because She's oral Drive just came out. It's a song
Speaker 1: from a while ago. But I wrote the song and
Speaker 1: I had the music video road song. No, don't listen
Speaker 1: to the radio, Yes, don't listen to the radio. That
Speaker 1: song and that music video is the first time we met.
Speaker 1: And don't listen to the radio if you caan't your
Speaker 1: heart ron because it always knows exactly wanted to play.
Speaker 1: You're bounding less, remembering you she's gone because you did
Speaker 1: your rod and drove her away song you do to
Speaker 1: get ready your hands, you know, but wherever you go,
Speaker 1: don't listen to the radio. The day that we met
Speaker 1: was in that music video. So if you go watch
Speaker 1: the video, you guys have seen that, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the first time we met. Was that video. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1: And if it wasn't for don't listen to the radio,
Speaker 1: I would have never met your mama. And that's another
Speaker 1: story that I still need to tell on another podcast.
Speaker 1: I need to tell that because that album was so
Speaker 1: impactful for me, but I still had such a long
Speaker 1: journey ahead before the world ever knew my music. And
Speaker 1: that's what you guys need to understand, is that life
Speaker 1: is the journey and those years made me who I am,
Speaker 1: and your years will make you who you are. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. What do you say? Bye? Everybody? See?
Speaker 1: We'll see y'all on tour. Happen out of the New
Speaker 1: statlast Yeah, when it happens that nothing the news into you?
Speaker 1: You mean or you can, dude, just to keep her
Speaker 1: around and the moon goes down. When you're back at
Speaker 1: your house, one thing to another, you love each other
Speaker 1: when look can you never loved back? It happens like
Speaker 1: like that. This podcast is brought to you by ee
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Speaker 1: Forward Slash Tour, see you down the road. Is there
Speaker 1: anything you want to say to anyone that's listening today? Yes,
Speaker 1: at the end, though, well this is kind of the end, right,
Speaker 1: you'll end it right after this, You'll end it right
Speaker 1: after the thing I say if you want me to, Okay, yay,
Speaker 1: good job, buddy, you get good, you did good too,
Speaker 1: sis