1 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: You guys have been asking me some good questions. If 2 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: you have ever sat down and been like, I wonder 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: what Granger would think about this? You could email me anything, 4 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: any question, any subject, Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,319 Speaker 1: Ask the question. And I've been loving the questions that 6 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: have been rolling in and I get it. I get them, 7 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 1: and I stored them and I say, oh, this is 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: a career question, or this is a girl question, this 9 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 1: is a music question, this is a touring question, and 10 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: I kind of get them all put together and then 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: depending on who my guest is, I'll go through that 12 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: list and pick the right ones for that episode. This 13 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: is a great one, and these are good questions. And 14 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: my brother Parker is helping me today. Love having Parker on. 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: He's so he's so good at going through these questions 16 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: with me and like having a good thought behind it, 17 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: as if we're in sitting in the truck driving down 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: the road and two buddies are having a conversation about 19 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: a question, or even better yet, we're sitting at a 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: campfire chilling. Here comes the question and we get a 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: long form, thoughtful answer. And I love this podcast and 22 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: that's that's so much of what this podcast is is 23 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: just having a conversation with you guys and answering your question. 24 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: So thanks for that. Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. 25 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: Ask me anything. That's what we're gonna do today. I've 26 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: been pretty pumped today because we've been also been talking 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: about touring, and on this podcast, I'm gonna talk about 28 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: some of the dates that are starting to come in. 29 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: We're seeing more and more. There's like a run, a 30 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: five show run. We're doing it in April. There'll be 31 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: some in May, and then June, more and more July. 32 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: It is starting to look like, hey, we're gonna be 33 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: busy and then after that we'll be on the road. 34 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: We're becoming to your town. So pumped about that. We'll 35 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: get the podcast back on the road again, back on 36 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: Wildflire just like it started. It's all coming full circle. 37 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: This craziness is almost over. This is episode seventy seven. 38 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Great shift podcast, did kids in decent 39 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: much tires and long line of five, fool of husband 40 00:02:50,280 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: dined back. It's crazy, cool wagation. Good to have whole 41 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: Parker back, brother Parker helping answer some questions. I want 42 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: to start out with some really profound, deep questions. The 43 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: subject line is Parker. It says, Hello, I'm Mariah from Michigan. 44 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: Shout out to Michigan love the podcast. Number one, Why 45 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: is Parker single? Number two? How old is Parker? So 46 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: she sent this and I immediately put it into the 47 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: Parker folder, waiting for you to be back so you 48 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: could answer these profoundly interesting questions for the world. Well 49 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: we could. We could switch it and we'll start with 50 00:03:53,920 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: number two. I am twenty seven years old. Question number one. 51 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: I have not ever been somebody to get in a 52 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: relationship just for the sake of being in a relationship. 53 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: I don't see myself as someone who enjoys just having 54 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: someone else's company just for its own sake. I date. 55 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: I haven't been on a date in probably over a year, 56 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: because if I'm going on a date with someone, it's 57 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: because I have vetted them and I see qualities in 58 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: them that could be a potential wife and mother to 59 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: my children and grandmother to my grandchildren. Vetting by social 60 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: media or mutual friends. I gotchau and so I just 61 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: have I just have standards that I put in place before. 62 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 1: I don't date casually. I date to marry, and so 63 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: if I go on one date with you, and I 64 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: don't see myself marrying you, then I don't go on 65 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: a date with you again. So that's why I've been 66 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: single for most of my life. You you could have 67 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: when you're twenty two. That's probably different. When you're twenty seven, 68 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: that's changed, right, You would casually date when you're twenty two, 69 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: like just have fun because you weren't. Yeah, just because 70 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: I was just a completely different person. So that's more 71 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: of just a matter of you're like dating just for 72 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: the social aspect of it, to like go to like 73 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: go to dances in college and formals and just because 74 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: you're always around them and like hanging with friends and 75 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: it's fun sort of thing. But yeah, when you when 76 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: you're out of college and like you're a young man 77 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: and you have work and responsibilities, I don't just do 78 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: it casually. So what's something that you would see on 79 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: say Instagram or Facebook. What's something that you would see 80 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: that's agreeable, like, ah, this person has potential. Well, I 81 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: personally have six non negotiables that I have written down 82 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: here we go. No, And this may sound pretentious, and 83 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: I don't mean it to be said that way. I 84 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: don't think I'm that great of a guy by any means. 85 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: But it's the most the person that you end up 86 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: with for the rest of your life is it's the 87 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: most arguably the most important decision, one of the most 88 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: important decisions you'll ever make your whole life. It determines 89 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: the generations of thousands of people that come after you, 90 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: of your kin and your grandkids. And yeah, and it's 91 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: the person that you will be with more than anybody 92 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: else for the rest of your life. Like they are, 93 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: they become You become one flesh when you get married, right, 94 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: So anyway, my non negotiables are sweet. It's the six 95 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: s's wow, sweet, secure, social, sweet, secure, social, spiritual, servient, 96 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: and smoking hot, which sounds sounds really that Really it 97 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: just means beautiful. And by servient servant could be taken 98 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: the wrong way. I really don't mean that in a 99 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: way like I want you to like be my slave 100 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: and like do everything for me, but just servient and 101 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: like God gave you a servant heart and you genuinely 102 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: enjoy being a caretaker and being a mother and the 103 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: person that and I deserve, I mean I don't deserve. 104 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: I enjoy caring for others as well. So I don't 105 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: mean that in that way. Well speak, I'm your brother, 106 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: so I can tell you that you're not saying this, 107 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: but in coming up with those six non negotiables, you're 108 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: also I'm assuming you're holding trying to hold that same 109 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: standard to yourself as well. So I like the old 110 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: saying of there's a guy who he was like kind 111 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: of known for being the single guy who didn't date 112 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: just to date, and when I think he was like 113 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: thirty three or thirty four, he finally found the girl 114 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: that he was going to marry and he said, there's 115 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: a quote that he said that when I became the 116 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: man I knew I was capable of becoming the woman 117 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: I was worthy of appeared m So that's just kind 118 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: of like my never ending quest thus far to become 119 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: the best possible man that I know I'm capable of 120 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: on earth, and then a woman that I could potentially 121 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: be worthy of would come into my life through that. Dude. 122 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: That's awesome. Okay, so those are the six that not negotiable. 123 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: What are what's something that you would see on social 124 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: media from a girl that you'd think she's out really 125 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: if you're I mean, gosh, it's it's so it sounds 126 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: kind of pretentious for me to say you're out, Like 127 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: I really don't mean it like that. But I could 128 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: say just some of the things that I may look 129 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: for in terms of like if I'm going on, like 130 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 1: say your social media, which I don't like to just 131 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: judge someone based on their social media, Like I don't 132 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: like to do that either, But if someone showed me 133 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: a girl's social media page, I would look for pictures 134 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: with her and her family to see if she has 135 00:08:54,040 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: a good relationship with them, not a lot of overfiltered selfies. 136 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: When the girl has a lot a lot of selfies 137 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: or a lot of like risque pictures and like bathing 138 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 1: suits and stuff, then it it's typically a sign that 139 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: like maybe you're not the most secure, maybe you're trying 140 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: to get social validation through likes versus a girl who's 141 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: just genuinely knows her worth and knows her value is 142 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 1: not going to rely on likes on social media to 143 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: validate herself. She'll post a picture with her grandma and 144 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: it'll get six likes, and she's just like I literally 145 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: don't care, Like that's totally fine with me. Yeah, that 146 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: sort of thing I would say what a good judge, 147 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: I could say, is and this is disqualifies probably the 148 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: music business because if you're like a girl singer, most 149 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: of your pictures are probably gonna know, yeah, you on 150 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: stage or something. But if it's a personal page, it's 151 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: a good indicator. With how many pictures on your Instagram 152 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: are you with someone else, like a friend, like your 153 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: arm around somebody, you're doing something kind of activity with 154 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: other people. That's a really good indicator. If you see 155 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: someone on social media and every single picture is them 156 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: with friends and they're smiling, and they're with family or 157 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: friends or dad or mom, or sibling or niece or 158 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: nephew or or you know whatever, that's a good indicator 159 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: that this person, this person is pretty secure in themselves 160 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: because they've established a group around them that they love 161 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: and trust. The opposite is if you see someone that's 162 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: not not in the music business or whatever, that every 163 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: single picture is them by themselves in some kind of pose. 164 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: You got to wonder, like, why why do you don't 165 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: have any pictures with friends? Yeah, agreed, Let's move to 166 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: a question. And by the way, if you have any 167 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: question for me, anything at all, email Granger Smith Podcast 168 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com I'll check these, I'll kind of 169 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: categorize them and throw them into the podcast with my guest. 170 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 1: This one. The subject matter or subject line of the 171 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: email is business advice, says Hey Granger, your my name 172 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: is Clay. I'm from Tennessee. Shout out to Tennessee. I'm 173 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: seventeen years old. I just started a business this past 174 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: summer making wood flags, and I'm soon going to be 175 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: making gun holsters out of KAIDEKX thermoplastics. I'm wanting to 176 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 1: eventually start making all tactical items such as police s, 177 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: gear racks, consalment flags, concealment coffee tables, gun holsters. I'm 178 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: also wanting this to eventually be a full time business. 179 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: Just wondering if you had any advice for someone trying 180 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: to run a successful business. And I put this into 181 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: the Parker category because you do run a successful business 182 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: at Ee Apparel. And the first thing that comes to 183 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: my mind, Clay, well, you know, congrats man. You've got 184 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: a lot of ambition, and you're a step of head 185 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: already with having this kind of ambition and wanting to 186 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: run a successful business, and you're only seventeen. So the 187 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: first thing that pops out to me is you're seventeen, 188 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: and when I was seventeen, I was playing high school 189 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: football and singing on the weekends and didn't have that 190 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:27,839 Speaker 1: kind of ambition like you do. So that's really cool. 191 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: And then at the same on the flip side of that, 192 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: I would say, whatever you do in life and business 193 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: and dreams and goals, whatever you do, don't skip over 194 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: being seventeen. Don't let this year fly by because you're 195 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: planning for the future. The most important thing you could 196 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: do right now, and this is maybe contrary to what 197 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: you might think, I'll say the most important thing you 198 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: could do right now is just soak up being seventeen. 199 00:12:57,679 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many songs I've written about 200 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: being Saideen are being eighteen or being in being that 201 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: age group and the girl you're dating at the time, 202 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: or the friends that you have, or the trouble you're 203 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: getting into with your buddies, you know, the late nights, 204 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: the early mornings, that just enjoy that because you're only 205 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: seventeen once and so it's so awesome that you have 206 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: these dreams and goals. But don't worry about it and 207 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: don't let it become so much of a focus that 208 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: you're skipping out on just being a seventeen year old. 209 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: Enjoy making this stuff, like you're making these holsters and 210 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: wooden flags. Do that and put it on social media 211 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: and perfect that craft. But only do it out of 212 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: love of it and the fun of it. Don't already 213 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: start preparing yourself for being twenty seven or twenty eight, 214 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, right, Yeah, Yeah, and while 215 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: you're doing it, enjoy the process. Don't be worried about 216 00:13:57,559 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: It's hard to say that to a seventeen year old, 217 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: but yeah, try to not try to not have a 218 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: monetary goal in mind of why you're doing it. Like 219 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: once I have ten thousand dollars of sales, one thousand dollars, 220 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars, you know, whatever it may be. Yeah, 221 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: that's just good life advice. And then on the business side, 222 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: I can't really attest. I was thinking yesterday about how 223 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: people ask us all the time about business advice, and 224 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: I was like, man, I can only speak for what 225 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: I'm just so fortunate enough to have been in a 226 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: brand where we were in a different spot where our 227 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: marketing kind of outgrew the product, and it was like 228 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: the brand just took off and it's just been us 229 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: trying to create quality product to catch up with it. 230 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: But if I could do it again, I would just 231 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: say it comes down to two things from a business 232 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: sense form, and that's do you have an A plus 233 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: quality product that's there's a million different people out there 234 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: doing that these days. Do you have a product that 235 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: you know we call it? We try to say, what 236 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: is the word remarkable? Well, it's something that's worth remarking about. 237 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: When someone gets that, wholester is it? Is it thing 238 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: that it's going to just say, Wow, I'm going to 239 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: tell my buddy about this. And so you got to 240 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: have a great quality product and then you have to 241 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: market it in an interesting way. See, you have your product, 242 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: and then you need to get that product in front 243 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: of eyeballs for the least amount of money possible. Right So, 244 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: whatever that may be for your customer or your position 245 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: in your life right now, whether that may just be 246 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: posting on your Instagram or going to going to tailgates, 247 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: or walking around the high school or walking to a 248 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: local gun club or whatever that may be, focus on 249 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: those two things and have persistence and don't give up 250 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: and be focused on the journey and not the outcome. Yeah, 251 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: I would say immediately. What you could do is start 252 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: an Instagram page that's separate from your clay personal page 253 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: and make it, you know, quote unquote your business page 254 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: and concentrate I've heard people say this, like, especially in 255 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: the photography world and the video world, concentrate on your 256 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: top nine. Your top nine post on your Instagram are 257 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: your most important post at all times. So whatever your 258 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: top nine is, most people won't scroll below that. So 259 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: get these awesome holsters and wooden flags and position them 260 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: in really cool spots. Like sometimes with EE Apparel, we'll 261 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: literally use an old stump and put a hat on 262 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: top of the stump, and we have a couple where 263 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: there's snow in the background, and then a couple where 264 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: there's like wildflowers or green grass or just make it 265 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: look really cool in that environment. And take take a 266 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: couple angles, you know, edit it, color it a little 267 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: bit so it looks it looks really sharp, and make 268 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: your top nine on this new business page all the 269 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: different varieties of what you can do and make them awesome, 270 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: make them cool enough where people go, that is the 271 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: coolest wooden flag I've ever seen. And then I would 272 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: go to your local police department and bring a prototype 273 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: of these gear axts that you're talking about or one 274 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: of the things that you've made out of thermoplastic and 275 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: go talk to a deputy there and just say, can 276 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: I show you something? You know, my name is, I'm seventeen. 277 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: I'm trying to start a business, and I'm trying to 278 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: get into making tactical items and police gear racks. Could 279 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: I show you a couple of things I've been working on, 280 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,959 Speaker 1: See what you think, how if you would actually use it? 281 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: And could I give you guys one for your department? 282 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: Start it with that way, and then if they like it, 283 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: then say, oh, by the way, we follow my Instagram 284 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 1: page and share it. And that's the beginning of all this, 285 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: while keeping in mind to just enjoy being seventeen. But 286 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: that's the beginning, Parker. Set it right, enjoy the process. 287 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: Don't think about mass producing or just think about making 288 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: the best, coolest, best quality items you can and make 289 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: only like four or five of them, perfect them. If 290 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: it's not right, make another one, Get really cool pictures 291 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: and fill that top nine of your Instagram. You do 292 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: all that, You're off to the races, all right, here's 293 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: the let me pop up another one. I'm trying to 294 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: build up into some of the heavier ones here. I'm 295 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: gonna read this cold. I don't know what this says. 296 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it cold. The subject matter is life advice. 297 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: It says, Hey, I would like my name to remain anonymous. 298 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: He says, I just wanted to say that, even from 299 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 1: a big city, I still find your music very relatable 300 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: and meaningful in certain ways. Listening through a shuffle of 301 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: every single one of your songs since the late nineties 302 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: is great because it touches on so many aspects of life. 303 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: I'm seventeen. Here we go again, seventeen years old and 304 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 1: about to go to college. I'm planning to go to 305 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: med school and be a doctor. I would love to 306 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 1: know what advice you have for dating. I have absolutely 307 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: no experience, never been to a school dance or asked 308 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 1: a girl out. I've always thought it was too early 309 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 1: to be dating, and that I should focus on school, 310 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: albeit my school's valed victorian, but at the cost of 311 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 1: me being a bit uncomfortable socially in certain situations, like 312 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: maybe talking to a girl or being at a party 313 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: with a girl. But now I'm looking to change that. 314 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: I don't want to just be single until I'm like 315 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: thirty years old or something. Thanks so much for your time. 316 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: Why right, No, right, This is a good transition from 317 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: what you just talked about being twenty seven and still single. 318 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: So I think you to remain your name remains anonymous. 319 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: I think, first of all, it's okay if you're still 320 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: single at thirty. Dude, you're about to be a doctor, 321 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: a val Victorian, super smart guy. There is nothing wrong 322 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,959 Speaker 1: with you having not dated or been to a school 323 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,439 Speaker 1: dance or asked a girl out. There's nothing wrong with 324 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: that at all. So, first of all, change your mindset 325 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: from thinking you're missing out or you're not living appropriately, 326 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: because that is what the world wants to tell you, 327 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: and that's what so social media wants to tell you. 328 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: Sitting here next to a twenty seven year old, I 329 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: didn't get married till I was thirty. My brother Tyler 330 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 1: is single and he's what thirty eight, So yeah, we 331 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: come from a family of waiting for the right girl, 332 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: and to be honest, when you find a girl, and 333 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: you will, eventually, you're gonna find someone that's compatible with you, 334 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: and it's going to appreciate your vulnerability and you saying 335 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: and all the girls out here could listen, could and 336 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: probably agree by you saying, I'm really nervous right now. 337 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: I've never asked a girl out. I've never been on 338 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: a date. Probably most girls listening would think, well, that's 339 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: pretty sweet, Like I have a chance. This is great, 340 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: Like I could I could come in and I'll show 341 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: him everything for the first time, Like I'll go and eat, 342 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: we'll eat dinner for the first time together. I could 343 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: be his first kiss ever. That's that's really attractive to 344 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: the girl that you're wanting to be with. Okay, if 345 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: a girl is not attracted by that or is turned 346 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: off by that, she's not the right girl for you. Dude, 347 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: you don't want a girl that's been like I've been 348 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: dating since I was eleven years old, So you don't 349 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: want that. You're you're mister val Victorian and mister doctor. 350 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: You're gonna go along your path. You're gonna go to 351 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: medical school. You're gonna focus on you. You have to 352 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: put you number one. You are number one in your 353 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 1: life right now, because eventually, when you find a girl 354 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: and you get married, you're no longer number one and 355 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: this is This is guys and girls both. You have 356 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: to be selfish when you're single, and people go selfish, 357 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: that's that's rude. You don't want to be selfish when 358 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: you're married, so you want to you want to focus 359 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,479 Speaker 1: on yourself, develop yourself, focus on school, get your good 360 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: grades in medical school, get that land, that good job. 361 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: If along the way you meet someone, that's great. But 362 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 1: if you get all that and you focus on yourself, 363 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: you're going to be ready to open up and give 364 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 1: the rest of yourself to your spouse eventually when the 365 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: time comes. And then when you're forty, you're not going 366 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: to have any kind of regrets. You're not going to 367 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: say I wish i'd focus more on school. You're going 368 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: to say, I'm ready to give my life completely to you. Yeah, 369 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: it's like what we're talking about. You become the man 370 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: that you can become. Focus on your mental health, your 371 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 1: physical health, your spiritual health, get your finances in order, 372 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: and when you do that, the woman that you're worthy 373 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: of will appear. The type of girl that you're looking 374 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: for will probably be probably a peer. There's you know, 375 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 1: at seventeen, you'll probably only have so much to offer, 376 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 1: right but you know, I was a loser at seventeen, 377 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: pretty much like to get the girl of your dreams, Like, 378 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: you know, a supermodel girl that's twenty four, that's everything 379 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: that you could dream of. Probably is not going to 380 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: go for a seventeen or a twenty or twenty one 381 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: year old guy in college that hasn't nothing to offer, 382 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: that's overweight, that's just studying all the time, that has 383 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: no time, that has no money or no way to 384 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: no way to provide for potential children. But the more 385 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: you develop yourself and and as time goes by, you 386 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: will be in a better place to attract that type 387 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: of girl and then really to bring I think about 388 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: it all the time. It's a it's a line of 389 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: you know, having faith too and trusting God and knowing 390 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: you know. I struggle with it as well, saying you know, 391 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: you alone are sufficient, Christ, You are all I need. 392 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: You know, That's my prayer every night. It's like, Man, 393 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: I want somebody to share life with. Man, I want 394 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: children and more than anything, but but I know that 395 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: this is your plan and you alone are sufficient if 396 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: I don't find anybody, And so always having that in 397 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: the back of your mind, knowing, hey, no matter, true 398 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: confidence that life comes from knowing no matter what I know, 399 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: I'll be Okay. That's so good man, so good. So 400 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: once again, you're seventeen. Enjoy being seventeen. Focus on yourself, 401 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: get done what you need to get done now, and 402 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: don't worry. There's a lot of people in your same 403 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: boat that have not dated or asked or grow out 404 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: or been to a school dance at age seventeen. There's 405 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: a lot of you. It might seem like you're the 406 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: only one, and you probably look at TikTok and think, wow, 407 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: I am a loser. You're not. You're normal. So just 408 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: remember you're normal and you're doing everything right. The fact 409 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: that you're even asking these questions, the fact that you 410 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: even emailed this podcast because it's on your heart. You're 411 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: on the right path. Man. Hang in there, and congrats 412 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: on being Valvatorian. That is an unbelievable accomplishment that I 413 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: couldn't even come close to doing, never would in a 414 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: million lifetimes. So you got so much going on for you. 415 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: And I always say when I talk to law enforcement 416 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,239 Speaker 1: or our veterans, our active duty military, I always say 417 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: thank you for your service, but we also need to 418 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: say that to medical personnel and not just nurses. We 419 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: need to say it the doctors too. Thank you for 420 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: your service. And you haven't done it yet, but what 421 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: you're about to do. Thank you for what you're about 422 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: to do is sacrifice a decade, just shy of a 423 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: decade of your life to medicine, to learning a craft, 424 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: a trade, so then you can go into the field 425 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: and heal people and make people's lives better. And that 426 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: is a massive sacrifice that might get overlooked because you're 427 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: really smart and you're gonna make money doing it. And 428 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: because you're really smart and you're gonna make money doing it, 429 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: people go, oh, privileged. No, that's a massive sacrifice that 430 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: you were making, you're preparing to make, and God puts 431 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: you on this earth with your brain to be valedictorian 432 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: so you can go into that medical field and make 433 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: a difference. So thank you for your service, buddy. You're 434 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: going to be just fine. Let's see, here's a this 435 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: is almost on the same line. This question says, good morning, 436 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: Granger and Parker. He just happened to know you're here. 437 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: I'm coming to you from San Bernado County, California. My 438 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: name is Chance and I'm also a smith. My question 439 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 1: is I heard that you are looking for a charity 440 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,959 Speaker 1: for different launches while I'm a volunteer out of Southern 441 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: California and we have a nonprofit here that's the Silver 442 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: Valleyfirealliance dot org. Check it out. It is to help 443 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: us get out and get new gear in our neighborhood neighborhooding, neighboring, 444 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: excuse me, departments. If you could help out, that would 445 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: be amazing. Your Cali friend, so that's interesting, and anyone 446 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: else that hasn't an idea of charity. We usually every 447 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: time a new launch is coming up, we have this 448 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: discussion internally, and Ye Apparel will always support a different 449 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: charity for every big launch. And there's something we haven't 450 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: done yet, Silver Valley Fire Alliance. So that's awesome. Thanks 451 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: for the info. And God knows California needs Southern California 452 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: needs firefighters and gear and equipment. So yeah, that's that's 453 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: pretty cool cool. I have time for another We have 454 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 1: one more question before for a break. This is my 455 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: name is Dylan. I'm from Shawnee, Oklahoma. Shout out to Oklahoma. 456 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: Just wanted to drop in a line and say thank 457 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: you for being in encouragement to so many people through 458 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: your many different social media accounts. I personally feel as 459 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: though we are truly friends sitting in your truck having 460 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: a conversation, which is what I want this podcast to be. 461 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: So thank you, says I also appreciate how much you 462 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: respect our military and first responders. As an EMT, I 463 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: could say, it's nice to know people there's still good 464 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,040 Speaker 1: people out there and who appreciate what we do. My 465 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: question is this, when the Country Things win? Is the 466 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: Country Things Vinyl album going to come out? My wife 467 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: tried to order me one for Christmas, but it was 468 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 1: not on yigie dot com website or Amazon. Please help. 469 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: My wife got me a record player for Christmas and 470 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: I really want this album. Thank you, Dylan, s are 471 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: we gonna do that? Didn't we already do that? I thought? 472 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 1: I don't remember. I think we went through them and 473 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 1: sold out. We did a short run and we did 474 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 1: like five hundred of them and sold out. So I'll say, 475 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: first of all, Dylan, thanks for your service, thank you 476 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: for being an EMT, and shout out to Shawnee, Oklahoma, 477 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 1: love that town, and also thank you for appreciating the 478 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: music so much. That you wanted to be on vinyl. 479 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: That is a good question. I don't know the answer. 480 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: I'd have to ask Tyler, and I don't know where 481 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: we are if we're going to reorder vinyl. But if 482 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: we do, I'll announce it on this podcast and social 483 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: media and maybe we'll do like another short run this song. 484 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: The reason we don't is the reason we don't just 485 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: have them in stock is because we order them. Looking 486 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: at it right here, the Remington vinyl We ordered a 487 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: bunch of those on the Remington launch and then we 488 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: got stuck. They didn't sell very well, so we got 489 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: stuck with it, just piles of them in the warehouse. 490 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: We still were like, how are we going to get 491 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: rid of these vinyls? And the things we finally got 492 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: rid of them, people start saying, where's your vinyls? Yeah? 493 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: It's hard, y'all. It's hard running not only apparel but music, 494 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: music memorabilia because it's so expensive. I don't know how 495 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: much a vinyl record for us would be fourteen or 496 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: fifteen bucks, you know, it's like pretty high for us 497 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: for our cost, and so to go in and order 498 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: five hundred and it's kind of taking a risk that 499 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: they might sit on the shelf. That's a long way 500 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: to answer. I don't know, but thank you for caring. Man. 501 00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: We'll take a quick break of you right back. This 502 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: podcast is free to you wherever you're watching or listening, 503 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: but it does cost me some production costs. So I'm 504 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: very lucky, very grateful to have some sponsors. Today's sponsor 505 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: brand new. I haven't done this before. This is called Candid, 506 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: and it's crazy. I started reading about it, and I 507 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: know people have told me before, Like one guy said, 508 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: the two greatest gifts your parents ever gave you was 509 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: your name and your dental work. 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Speaking of touring, we do have some tour 592 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: dates that are just like starting to come in in 593 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,399 Speaker 1: April on April twenty second, Shy and Wyoming April twenty third, 594 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 1: inmand Kansas April twenty fourth, Manhattan, Kansas April twenty fifth, 595 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Then there's that's a little run. 596 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 1: We're gonna do. We're gonna then there's nothing really until June, 597 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,439 Speaker 1: and then we're gonna be shooting out to We're gonna 598 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: have some Texas dates in June, including New Bronfels on 599 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 1: the twelfth, Rockdon, Illinois is on the seventeenth. I know 600 00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: we're doing Countryfest and cat at Wisconsin on June twenty fifth, 601 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 1: So there are dates starting to fill in as this 602 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,319 Speaker 1: crazy mess is starting to clear up and people are 603 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,399 Speaker 1: starting to feel more confident and shows are booking, So 604 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: I'll keep you guys up to dated, up to date 605 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:17,200 Speaker 1: on that too. This question comes from Mark from Pensacola, Florida. 606 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: He's thirty years old. Shout out to Florida. He says, 607 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 1: my wife and boys love your music and how God 608 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: is using you amber and your family in such a 609 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: positive way. I'm reaching out because I just landed a 610 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,239 Speaker 1: new job and will likely be bringing in much more 611 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: money than my prior job. Congrats man, he says. My 612 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: family and I are followers of Christ and we want 613 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: to be good stewards of our money. We know having 614 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,959 Speaker 1: money is a blessing, but we don't want to get 615 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: caught up in loving it to a point where we 616 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:49,720 Speaker 1: become materialistic. It feels in this season, especially many people 617 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,200 Speaker 1: who are struggling with job security and finances and we 618 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 1: want to remain humble through it all. I'd love to 619 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,240 Speaker 1: hear some tips or life lessons with what you've learned 620 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 1: going on from going paycheck to paycheck to having a 621 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: little bit more freedom financially and how to be wise 622 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,080 Speaker 1: with it. Thanks for advice, ee ye, thank you, Mark. 623 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 1: It's a good question and it comes up a lot, 624 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: especially internally, like what do you do And we spoke 625 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,839 Speaker 1: about it a minute ago that you know, first of all, 626 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,839 Speaker 1: Gee Apparel, we feel like we exist because the community 627 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 1: and our fans and friends choose to support us. So 628 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: we always want to be able to give back to 629 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: the community every single launch and throughout the year. It's 630 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: very very important to us on a personal level. It's 631 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 1: it's always good to think about it and ten percent increments. 632 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 1: So if you get, you know, your paycheck at the 633 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: end of the month or every two weeks, and it's 634 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 1: you just want to take ten percent of that and 635 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: give it back to your church or local charities that 636 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: you trust. So that's a really good way to start. 637 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: And the fact that you're being you're wanting to be 638 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:16,320 Speaker 1: good stewards of your money is most of the battle 639 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:17,960 Speaker 1: right there. The fact that you even care and you're 640 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 1: thinking about it already makes me think that you're going 641 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 1: to continue to remain humble no matter what, because, as 642 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 1: we all know, dude, you got this good job. It's awesome. 643 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 1: You can get fired next week, or you can get 644 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: some kind of disability that takes you out of it, 645 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,960 Speaker 1: or a pandemic hits like it did for us, and 646 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 1: all of your tour dates go away. So we don't 647 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 1: worry about tomorrow, but we financially prepare for it, but 648 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: we don't worry about it. So there's a big difference. 649 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 1: And so you prepare like it could all be gone tomorrow, 650 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,400 Speaker 1: and you live your life in a humble way knowing 651 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 1: that it could all disappear tomorrow. And you also live 652 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:03,719 Speaker 1: a life of complete gratefulness knowing that in a way, 653 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: and I'm sure you're an awesome dude, and you work 654 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: really hard and you really so, I'm sure, but in 655 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: a way, you don't deserve it in the same way 656 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,480 Speaker 1: that I don't deserve it. I don't deserve any kind 657 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: of human success that we've had. But when we get it. 658 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: I put gratefulness at the top of the list instead 659 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: of thinking, well I did the man, I did good. 660 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,480 Speaker 1: Look how good I'd done. Instead of that, I put 661 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,600 Speaker 1: gratefulness to the top, like wow, wow, we're really really 662 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: feel grateful And you could verbalize it, you could say 663 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: it out loud, but it's it's a big part of 664 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: leading to answering your question. Yeah, I think that's a 665 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 1: great answer. I like to I like to think that 666 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 1: you know, we're just vessels that money can just pass 667 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 1: through and we you, you, us, whoever is doing okay, 668 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 1: who is more than just can pay the bills anything. 669 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,320 Speaker 1: Everybody knows you get that security, You can pay your mortgage, 670 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,000 Speaker 1: you can put food on the table, you have water. 671 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,399 Speaker 1: You know, anything past that is not going to bring 672 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,640 Speaker 1: you any more happiness, right, So, just trying to view 673 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,040 Speaker 1: yourself just as a vessel of you just so happen 674 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,200 Speaker 1: to be offering a good or service to the market, 675 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:20,520 Speaker 1: so that you have some leftover money, give it back. 676 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: You know that's going to come through you and it's 677 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,280 Speaker 1: just going to pass and it's going to be nothing 678 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 1: but good to go back into the economy, go back 679 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 1: into the market. So, yeah, everything you said right, there's 680 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: a number that came out. Some kind of research team 681 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 1: did this number, and I think it was sixty five 682 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: thousand or seventy thousand dollars collective household income. If you 683 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,800 Speaker 1: make sixty five or seventy thousand dollars a year collective 684 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: between you and your spouse in your in your house, 685 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:52,839 Speaker 1: that is the max that you need to meet all 686 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:57,480 Speaker 1: your needs and to not have any kind of financial worries. 687 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,279 Speaker 1: Something like that, like, that's the max you need unless 688 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 1: you're just buying a house that's too big or a 689 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,800 Speaker 1: card that's too big. And so a lot of people 690 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,360 Speaker 1: will actually look at it that way, like if I 691 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,160 Speaker 1: make seventy thousand in my house, that's then I'm rich 692 00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: and that's all I need. And anything after that is 693 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:21,040 Speaker 1: you know, I'll use it for experiences. I'll spend it 694 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:26,040 Speaker 1: on experiences instead of junk, instead of buying more junk 695 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:30,280 Speaker 1: that you can't You can't pull a U haul behind 696 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,880 Speaker 1: your hearst. Do you hear that a million times? You 697 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,759 Speaker 1: cannot take you haul to your to your grave. So 698 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,520 Speaker 1: it's better to spend the money. If you're not going 699 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,120 Speaker 1: to go to a charity or donate it, it's better 700 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,880 Speaker 1: to use your money to buy experiences with you and 701 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,160 Speaker 1: your kids and your wife and things that are that 702 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,319 Speaker 1: will last a lifetime. So you're on the right path. Man. 703 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,640 Speaker 1: Congrats on the job, the new job, and we we 704 00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: truly wish you the best. Here's here's a question. It says, Hey, Grangeer, 705 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,719 Speaker 1: I found you on YouTube first, and since then you've 706 00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: become one of my favorite two artists. Who's the other. 707 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,759 Speaker 1: One says, I go first to Pandora or just to 708 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 1: play your music, and I love it. I remember a 709 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,200 Speaker 1: video of the Smiths where Amber asked you about how 710 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,800 Speaker 1: you didn't you don't cough on stage and you mentioned 711 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: it came from the core cadets at Texas A and M. 712 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: Did you or did you just go through the core 713 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,080 Speaker 1: program at A and M. Also, i'm the history major myself. 714 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,760 Speaker 1: I didn't go to A and M, but I love history. 715 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,239 Speaker 1: It says at the end here it says you mentioned 716 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,320 Speaker 1: your grandfather was a pilot, and sadly we're losing the 717 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: Greatest generation more and more each year. So it's good 718 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,720 Speaker 1: to know that we have plenty of people who appreciate 719 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,400 Speaker 1: the subject and want to ensure we aren't the generation 720 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,319 Speaker 1: who has to repeat history due to not learning from it. 721 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,680 Speaker 1: And I saved this question because Parker was in the Core. Also, 722 00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 1: neither one of us served in the military. But we're 723 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,560 Speaker 1: in the Core cadets at A and M, which is 724 00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:03,359 Speaker 1: a what did they call that, it's n R O TC. Yeah, 725 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,040 Speaker 1: n RTC. It used to be A. A and M 726 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,239 Speaker 1: was a military academy until I believe the sixties or 727 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,960 Speaker 1: seventies when they opened it up to a regular university. 728 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 1: Is it used to be only military academy. So when 729 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 1: they opened it up to everyone else, they offered at 730 00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: A and M the Core to opened up to an 731 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,960 Speaker 1: option called d n C, which is Drill and Ceremony, 732 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,640 Speaker 1: which means you can go and join the Core and 733 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,920 Speaker 1: you could go into the military and they'll pay for 734 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,080 Speaker 1: your school and your books and they send you off 735 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 1: to officers training and boot camp and all that stuff. 736 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,000 Speaker 1: Or if you go dn C, that means you're only 737 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,560 Speaker 1: doing it for the camaraderie and the discipline and the 738 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:53,759 Speaker 1: work ethic and the military environment in college for your 739 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:59,800 Speaker 1: own growth. Akay, you're a crazy person. Yeah, so you're yeah, 740 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,520 Speaker 1: you're crazy. So Parker and I and our dad did 741 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,400 Speaker 1: the Core and it's funny. I don't remember saying that 742 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,279 Speaker 1: on the Smiths about coughing on stage, but coughing and 743 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,480 Speaker 1: sneezing because of the core. We would have to, you know, 744 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,480 Speaker 1: every morning formation, we would we would they call it 745 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,520 Speaker 1: getting crapped out. We'd have to go like on a 746 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,919 Speaker 1: run or do push ups or whatever, and then we'd 747 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,040 Speaker 1: have to be up on the wall and they would 748 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,279 Speaker 1: inspect us or talk to us, or yell at us, 749 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,600 Speaker 1: or discipline us in some way. And while we're standing 750 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,240 Speaker 1: against the wall, you just have to be locked on forward, 751 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,640 Speaker 1: just eyes locked on, glazed over, looking straight ahead. Can't 752 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,279 Speaker 1: look at can't look any direction or look at an upperclassmen. 753 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,640 Speaker 1: You can't move, you can't sway, you can't scratch an itch, 754 00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,840 Speaker 1: God forbid. You cannot cough or sneeze. You cough for 755 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,400 Speaker 1: sneeze while you're doing an inspection. Like here you and 756 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,520 Speaker 1: all your buddies are going to do push ups till 757 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,799 Speaker 1: you just about die. So you just learn how to 758 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,400 Speaker 1: not cough for sneeze. And think about that. Sometimes on 759 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,560 Speaker 1: stage I'll think like a sneeze is coming on, or 760 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,440 Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm at a meeting, you know, and somebody's 761 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,360 Speaker 1: talking in the meeting. I mean, maybe it's something important 762 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,520 Speaker 1: and I feel a sneeze coming on, and I'll just 763 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,120 Speaker 1: go straight back to the core. I'm like, don't you sneeze? 764 00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,600 Speaker 1: Don't you sneeze? Smith, And I could get it where 765 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,759 Speaker 1: like not even my nose moves, and it's just a 766 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,600 Speaker 1: mental exercise. Do you do this, Parker? Can you do this? 767 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,040 Speaker 1: You can? I know you can. I don't. I don't 768 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,160 Speaker 1: ever really think about it with sneezes when you didn't 769 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,439 Speaker 1: sneeze in the core. No, but no, I was really 770 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,680 Speaker 1: I was a good freshman in the court. Your freshman 771 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,560 Speaker 1: year is the year that you're that's like your your 772 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,640 Speaker 1: intro year where you're the follower, where anything you do 773 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,600 Speaker 1: that's wrong, you're you're in training, so you have high 774 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,880 Speaker 1: standards that you have to follow. But uh, it's the 775 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:57,960 Speaker 1: being a freshman is is the ultimate training of not 776 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:03,160 Speaker 1: letting your outer surroundings affect what's going on internally, keeping 777 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,200 Speaker 1: a thousand yard stare, your perfect hands, the exact way, 778 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,640 Speaker 1: standing at attention, not sneezing, not coughing, not moving your 779 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,000 Speaker 1: mouth or blinking or turning around. It's really a great 780 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,840 Speaker 1: lesson probably for you in concerts with you know, thousands 781 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,279 Speaker 1: of people screaming random things that you throwing things at you, 782 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,880 Speaker 1: things going wrong, and you just have to stay internally 783 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,239 Speaker 1: calm and laser focus to get the job done, which 784 00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,040 Speaker 1: obviously is why. And in ROTC programs they're doing that 785 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,840 Speaker 1: so that you can stay calm in a life or 786 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:39,640 Speaker 1: death combat situation. Yeah, but not so much. I don't 787 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 1: think I hold back sneezes, specifically from my training in 788 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,160 Speaker 1: the Core. I don't think I really ever hold back 789 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,520 Speaker 1: a sneeze. Honestly. I'm just not in a situation where 790 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,000 Speaker 1: if I sneeze, something bad happens. Granted, I don't know. 791 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,279 Speaker 1: I don't know if like it looks bad if you 792 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,200 Speaker 1: sneeze on stage when I say a meet like I'm 793 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 1: in a meeting. Of course, there's nothing wrong with sneezing 794 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,160 Speaker 1: in a meeting, But I just it's almost like a 795 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,839 Speaker 1: fun challenge in Trouble, it's like a fun challenge like, oh, 796 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,040 Speaker 1: can you completely suppress this? And you can, you definitely can. 797 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,280 Speaker 1: Amber doesn't understand that, but she could too if she tried. 798 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,320 Speaker 1: On stage. I do remember a few times I sneezed, 799 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,520 Speaker 1: and I'll do it like almost as a joke because Todd, 800 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,319 Speaker 1: my guitar player, he notices everything I do that's out 801 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,399 Speaker 1: of the ordinary. But sometimes I'll just turn my back 802 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,840 Speaker 1: to the audience and sneeze really big, like onto the ground, 803 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:32,479 Speaker 1: and he'll start laughing at me. But it's really rare 804 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,520 Speaker 1: that I'll ever anyone will see me sneeze or cough 805 00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,319 Speaker 1: on the stage. I could do it off Mike, But 806 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,160 Speaker 1: that's a funny thing. That Probably what I learned from 807 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,680 Speaker 1: the core that I use more than that every day 808 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:51,359 Speaker 1: is when we had to greet our upperclassmen. We had 809 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,520 Speaker 1: to stick out her hand and offer her hand like 810 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,960 Speaker 1: a handshake, and you squeeze as tight as you can 811 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,440 Speaker 1: in the firmest handshake you could imagine where you're You 812 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,799 Speaker 1: basically want to crush every bone in their hand. That's 813 00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,440 Speaker 1: the goal. And if if they do it back to 814 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,799 Speaker 1: you at the same time, you're okay. If you beat 815 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,080 Speaker 1: them to it, you could actually hurt them, which is good. 816 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,359 Speaker 1: If they beat you to it, they're going to hurt you, 817 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,400 Speaker 1: which is bad. So both of you had the mindset 818 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,719 Speaker 1: of I got to just intensely shake his hand as 819 00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,759 Speaker 1: hard as I can and at perfect attention with your 820 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,680 Speaker 1: eyes now your eyes if you're meeting them, are locked 821 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,239 Speaker 1: right on his and you're speaking clearly. And that's the 822 00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:31,879 Speaker 1: only time they ever let you look them in the eyes, 823 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,359 Speaker 1: the only time you can look them in you. It's 824 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,080 Speaker 1: called the whip out. Yeah, it was when you're shaking 825 00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,320 Speaker 1: their hand and you look them straight in the eye, 826 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,919 Speaker 1: never breaking it, and you speak clearly and loudly. And 827 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,239 Speaker 1: that is missing so much in culture. I see it 828 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,560 Speaker 1: all the time with little kids, like you get a 829 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,959 Speaker 1: limp handshake. They're not looking at you, they're looking down. 830 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,480 Speaker 1: They're not speaking clearly, like what what are you saying? 831 00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:01,399 Speaker 1: And that's to meet you don't mumble, especially for meeting someone. 832 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,640 Speaker 1: So I think about it. When you're in the core 833 00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,359 Speaker 1: at A and M. We would meet upper classmen, and 834 00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:11,400 Speaker 1: these guys are intimidating. You know, they come at you 835 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,680 Speaker 1: and if you mess up, you're going to pay for it, 836 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,480 Speaker 1: and you have no choice. There is if an upper 837 00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,920 Speaker 1: classman that you've never met walks down the hallway or 838 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,719 Speaker 1: into the hallway or out of his room, you have 839 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:29,200 Speaker 1: to immediately meet him immediately, so there is no hesitation. 840 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,880 Speaker 1: So that translated to my life, Like I've walked in 841 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:37,279 Speaker 1: a lot of rooms with semi important people, and it 842 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:41,440 Speaker 1: never crossed my mind to hesitate in that moment to 843 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,400 Speaker 1: go and meet them, look them in the eye and 844 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,560 Speaker 1: shake it. I remember when I met George W. Well, 845 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,760 Speaker 1: I was like, that was probably George w was probably 846 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,680 Speaker 1: the most intimidating person that ever walked into a room 847 00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:55,520 Speaker 1: that I was in, because he just has this booming personality. 848 00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:01,120 Speaker 1: Unlike you see on TV. He's actually pretty tall, big presence, 849 00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,200 Speaker 1: loud voice. So when he came in the room, like 850 00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,240 Speaker 1: my heart was pounding. But I snapped him too freshmen 851 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,480 Speaker 1: in the core mode and gave him my best handshake, 852 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,520 Speaker 1: tried to crush his bones in his hand, you know, 853 00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,080 Speaker 1: and looked him straight in the eye and said nice 854 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,719 Speaker 1: to meet you, sir, you know, like in a clear presence. 855 00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,719 Speaker 1: And I attribute that to the core, which is it's 856 00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,080 Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's a long way of answering the question 857 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:36,160 Speaker 1: of do I call on stage. I'll see this question. 858 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,560 Speaker 1: This is not a question. This is a thank you 859 00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:44,440 Speaker 1: from Edward said thank you from Eddie and Arkansas. It 860 00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,239 Speaker 1: says that he was in the Marine Corps stationed in 861 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,239 Speaker 1: Okinawa and that's the first time he went to a 862 00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,319 Speaker 1: country bar. And heard the country boy song in Earl 863 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,919 Speaker 1: Dibbles Junior. So that's awesome, man, he said. About six 864 00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,960 Speaker 1: months ago, I discovered your podcast and I've listened to everything. 865 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,200 Speaker 1: The title of this is to thank you, because once 866 00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,400 Speaker 1: I started listening to your podcast, I've tried to be 867 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:10,759 Speaker 1: as good as you. I don't necessarily like that that 868 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:15,560 Speaker 1: sentence because I'm I'm a work in progress. But thank you, buddy, 869 00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,640 Speaker 1: he said. I've changed my morning routine and started reading 870 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,279 Speaker 1: the Bible and turning my phone off and I just 871 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,239 Speaker 1: sit and enjoy the morning. This has really changed my 872 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,880 Speaker 1: life for the better. By doing this morning routine. It 873 00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,680 Speaker 1: makes every day so much better. Thank you for all 874 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:36,200 Speaker 1: your due, dude, Eddie, thank you man. That's awesome. God, 875 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,000 Speaker 1: somebody's listening. Anytime someone says they listen to the podcast 876 00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,880 Speaker 1: and they've heard all the episodes, I think, Wow, somebody's 877 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,000 Speaker 1: actually listening. Because I sit in front of this mic 878 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,080 Speaker 1: and I don't always know. I wonder if people like 879 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,319 Speaker 1: listen to thirty seconds and then move on. So, yeah, 880 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,719 Speaker 1: Parker does the same thing. I get up at five thirty. 881 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,200 Speaker 1: What do you get up at five? I five thirty 882 00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:01,439 Speaker 1: five thirty. I get a pit five thirty. It's every 883 00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,880 Speaker 1: since Daylight Saving time, it's turned into five point forty 884 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,680 Speaker 1: ever since, I still haven't. It took me about a week, 885 00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,040 Speaker 1: so I used to have it was six that week. Dude. 886 00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,279 Speaker 1: It's hard to day a savings time. But I get 887 00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,760 Speaker 1: up at five thirty and my alarm goes off five thirty, 888 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,960 Speaker 1: and then I have I had this, you know, morning routine, 889 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,160 Speaker 1: and a big part of that routine is reading the 890 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:27,040 Speaker 1: Bible and no phone, cup of coffee, no one's up, 891 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,600 Speaker 1: everything's quiet. Do you still meditate? I do not. I 892 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,080 Speaker 1: do not, even though on this podcast I advertise headspace 893 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:38,480 Speaker 1: a lot. I haven't done it probably six months, because 894 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:46,080 Speaker 1: I've been kind of replacing it with just pure honest prayer, quiet, 895 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,040 Speaker 1: you know, Like I'll get I'll get up five thirty 896 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,279 Speaker 1: and I'll go in there and I'll get like a 897 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,520 Speaker 1: cup of coffee, and I'll get my stuff set up 898 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,879 Speaker 1: on my little table in the barn. And before I cut, 899 00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,280 Speaker 1: before I touch the coffee, it's still hot and steaming. 900 00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,400 Speaker 1: So before I even touch it and take my first sip, 901 00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:07,680 Speaker 1: I close my eyes. Then I start praying, and it 902 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:15,759 Speaker 1: always starts with like, dear Father, you know, your I'm 903 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,759 Speaker 1: so grateful for another day, you know, to start another day. 904 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:25,000 Speaker 1: Sustain my life for your purpose. And whatever happens today, 905 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:33,360 Speaker 1: whatever I do, let it manifest for your promise, your purpose, 906 00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:38,080 Speaker 1: your will. And then and then I'll more thanks. I 907 00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,120 Speaker 1: try to do all my thanks at the beginning before 908 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,200 Speaker 1: I ask anything, you know, if you could get that 909 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,360 Speaker 1: out of the way, then then I make my meaningless requests, 910 00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:52,440 Speaker 1: you know, my little human request, and then I usually 911 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:56,520 Speaker 1: finish it with somewhere around saying I'm about I'm about 912 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,319 Speaker 1: to jump into this word. I'm about to jump into 913 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,480 Speaker 1: this Bible. And I know that this is the living words. 914 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,040 Speaker 1: That's because that's what you said. This is the living words. 915 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,040 Speaker 1: So let this word come alive to me. Let me 916 00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,680 Speaker 1: learn it more about you today, let me see something 917 00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,480 Speaker 1: I haven't seen before in a new light that helps 918 00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,719 Speaker 1: me to be closer to you, to seek you more. 919 00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:23,799 Speaker 1: And that's kind of replaced meditating and because and I 920 00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,680 Speaker 1: probably there's nothing wrong with using them. I loved my 921 00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,920 Speaker 1: meditation out, but I kind of run out of time 922 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,000 Speaker 1: if I do that for an hour and then the 923 00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:37,160 Speaker 1: kids are up, and so there's a there's actually this 924 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:42,160 Speaker 1: apper here. It's called Logos Logos Bible and I started 925 00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:46,600 Speaker 1: this and it's really awesome, and this is going to 926 00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:48,720 Speaker 1: freak some people out, but I've been reading the Bible 927 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,480 Speaker 1: on my iPad and I know some people are like 928 00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:55,959 Speaker 1: paper people, and I get that. But I read there's 929 00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:00,879 Speaker 1: this pastor that I follow on social media and he 930 00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:06,000 Speaker 1: says he does this, and so I started looking into 931 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,560 Speaker 1: it and sure enough, it's this really awesome program called 932 00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,759 Speaker 1: Logos and you could start reading plans. And so my 933 00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,759 Speaker 1: reading plan is McShane reading Plan. I think that's how 934 00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,200 Speaker 1: you say it, m c h E y n E. 935 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,520 Speaker 1: And the McShane reading plan is in one year, you're 936 00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:28,040 Speaker 1: going to go through the Old Testament once, the Psalms twice, 937 00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,200 Speaker 1: and the New Testament twice, and so it just every morning. 938 00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,440 Speaker 1: It's like, lately mine has been one chapter in Genesis, 939 00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:40,600 Speaker 1: one chapter in Matthew, one chapter in Nehemiah, and one 940 00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,279 Speaker 1: chapter in Acts. So what's that for. I feel like 941 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,560 Speaker 1: it can make it easier to read because it's it's bright, 942 00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,000 Speaker 1: the words are bigger than they are on a Bible 943 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,200 Speaker 1: where they're a little bit smaller, which kind of adds 944 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,600 Speaker 1: a little bit of a potential disconnect. I feel like, 945 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,200 Speaker 1: I've never done that before, but that could help. Here 946 00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:01,520 Speaker 1: it is and you hit next at each page, and 947 00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,920 Speaker 1: so now we're in Matthew. And the cool thing is 948 00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,239 Speaker 1: these little numbers right here, like the little letters. You 949 00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:10,840 Speaker 1: tap the letter and it goes that's the reference for 950 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,359 Speaker 1: that verse, and it says the same thing in Luke 951 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,919 Speaker 1: as it does in Matthew years and you could jump 952 00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,600 Speaker 1: to that reference. Sometimes there's a word you could you 953 00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:22,560 Speaker 1: could check out the Greek or the Hebrew translation for it, 954 00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,960 Speaker 1: which is just really cool. So I've really dug this, 955 00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,799 Speaker 1: and I've dug this. I'm on day sixteen right now 956 00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:34,560 Speaker 1: of this program, and you can see I'm fifteen completed 957 00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:36,640 Speaker 1: out of three hundred and sixty five, and by the 958 00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:38,279 Speaker 1: end of the year, I'll be like, wow, I've read 959 00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,120 Speaker 1: the New Testament twice, Psalms twice and on. It's pretty cool. 960 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,560 Speaker 1: The question that everybody has when they hear that is 961 00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:46,520 Speaker 1: how do you build the discipline to wake up that early? 962 00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,640 Speaker 1: That's my number one question. When I say that, I'm 963 00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:50,920 Speaker 1: sure that's yours, It's like, well, cool, I would love that. 964 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:52,880 Speaker 1: Of course, my life would be better if I did that, 965 00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,400 Speaker 1: because it's all about having a mental check in in 966 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,960 Speaker 1: the morning before you get your busy life going. How 967 00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,279 Speaker 1: do I feel right now? Why do I feel that way? 968 00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,160 Speaker 1: And how can I talk to my creator in a 969 00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:08,040 Speaker 1: one on one quiet place. But I can't get up 970 00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,480 Speaker 1: there early because I don't have the discipline and not 971 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,040 Speaker 1: hit snooze. Okay, well, so first question is why why 972 00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:18,160 Speaker 1: do you do it? Answer for me, mornings are much clearer. 973 00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,720 Speaker 1: My brain is much clearer and relaxed in the morning. 974 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,479 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's trashed. My brain 975 00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:27,000 Speaker 1: is trashed. I've made too many decisions I've thought about 976 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,480 Speaker 1: to me that I'm worried of whatever. My brain is trashed. 977 00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:35,720 Speaker 1: So the key to getting up early is going to 978 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,920 Speaker 1: bed early. Like that's the key. Yeah, you don't wake 979 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,160 Speaker 1: up at five point thirty if you go to bed 980 00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,720 Speaker 1: at midnight. Yeh, you just don't. No human, that's not right. 981 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,760 Speaker 1: Like humans need seven to eight hours to sleep minimum. 982 00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,280 Speaker 1: That's just it. So you got to go to bed earlier. 983 00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,919 Speaker 1: So you start by getting up early the first time, 984 00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,360 Speaker 1: and you feel terrible all day and then you're ready 985 00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:57,320 Speaker 1: to go to bed early, so you're automatically on schedule. 986 00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,720 Speaker 1: And the theory behind it is some people are like, dude, 987 00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,720 Speaker 1: I can't I have to go to bed at midnight 988 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,720 Speaker 1: or I have to go to bed at eleven thirty. Okay, 989 00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,880 Speaker 1: and this is scheduled. It's not sick. I'll say one 990 00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:11,800 Speaker 1: thing real quick. I heard someone say the other day, 991 00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,800 Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything people, You literally don't 992 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,360 Speaker 1: have to do it. No, I got I got a 993 00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:19,760 Speaker 1: mortgage de Bay. You don't have to pay your mortgage. 994 00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,400 Speaker 1: I have to go to work tomorrow. You don't have 995 00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,720 Speaker 1: to go to work tomorrow. It's like life is just 996 00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,960 Speaker 1: about thinking about the consequences that happen. It's like, I 997 00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,120 Speaker 1: don't we don't start working here until nine. I don't 998 00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:33,640 Speaker 1: have to wake up at five thirty. I could wake 999 00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,200 Speaker 1: up at eight forty every day and rush here. I 1000 00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:37,960 Speaker 1: don't have to even come here and do this. I 1001 00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,200 Speaker 1: could go work at Starbucks if I wanted to. But 1002 00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:44,840 Speaker 1: it's about asking yourself why. Well, it's because I genuinely 1003 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,840 Speaker 1: know my life will be better if I wake up 1004 00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,560 Speaker 1: at five thirty. In the moment, it's hard to get 1005 00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,360 Speaker 1: over that feeling of being tired. But I know for 1006 00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:54,920 Speaker 1: a fact that when I wake up and I have 1007 00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,160 Speaker 1: my quiet time and I go work out, and then 1008 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:03,040 Speaker 1: I come to work my life and my everything about 1009 00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,200 Speaker 1: my life is better and I'm more fulfilled and satisfied. Yep. 1010 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:11,200 Speaker 1: So Tyler always says this or other brother, but and 1011 00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:15,640 Speaker 1: he always puts it right about seven pm. I mean 1012 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:19,600 Speaker 1: he might even say five pm and on after that 1013 00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:24,280 Speaker 1: is trash time for the brain, like there's you're probably 1014 00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:28,920 Speaker 1: not doing anything productive in your life after seven pm. 1015 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:33,800 Speaker 1: Intellectually you're just kind of existing. You eat dinner, You're 1016 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:37,280 Speaker 1: doing some just like easy TV watching or Instagram scrolling 1017 00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:41,160 Speaker 1: or TikTok scrolling or watching YouTube, but none of it's 1018 00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,400 Speaker 1: really You're not doing any work for your You shouldn't be, 1019 00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,919 Speaker 1: because if I try to do work at eight pm, 1020 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:52,040 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna accomplish anything substantial. And 1021 00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:54,680 Speaker 1: some people are listening right now and going no way, 1022 00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,800 Speaker 1: like that's my best my best time in every videographer 1023 00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,040 Speaker 1: and photographer, and it seems to be creatives for whatever 1024 01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,440 Speaker 1: reason late at night love doing that. So I'm a creative. 1025 01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,720 Speaker 1: And I'm saying my brain just the way I'm wired, 1026 01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,880 Speaker 1: is better in the morning because I'm fresh off asleep 1027 01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,280 Speaker 1: and i haven't made any decisions the day has not 1028 01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,320 Speaker 1: stressed me at all, and I'm completely fresh. I haven't 1029 01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,520 Speaker 1: eaten anything yet. I'm just drinking coffee. So that's my 1030 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,800 Speaker 1: best time. And if you if you get it right now, 1031 01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,600 Speaker 1: at nine o'clock every morning the five thirties, it's like 1032 01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,720 Speaker 1: a nightmare. So you got to build into it. And 1033 01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:31,480 Speaker 1: if you would have asked me four years ago, I 1034 01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,880 Speaker 1: would have said the same thing. You're crazy. But you 1035 01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,200 Speaker 1: build into it and then you just it becomes your life. 1036 01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,800 Speaker 1: You get used to it. So the point being at night, 1037 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:46,000 Speaker 1: if you think you're so busy that you have to 1038 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,320 Speaker 1: go to bed at midnight, then I go back to 1039 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:52,840 Speaker 1: this time. Block your day, meaning for seven days in 1040 01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:57,880 Speaker 1: a row, write down each hour what you're doing, and 1041 01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:02,320 Speaker 1: be disciplined enough for seven days to be honest and go. 1042 01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:07,880 Speaker 1: From four thirty to five, I sat here and looked 1043 01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:13,520 Speaker 1: at Instagram. From five to five thirty, I talked to 1044 01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,400 Speaker 1: my girlfriend on the phone. From five thirty to six, 1045 01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:20,800 Speaker 1: I ate a snack. You'll realize when you look at 1046 01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,760 Speaker 1: that that man, there's like five hours of this day 1047 01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:28,600 Speaker 1: that I'm just kind of wasted. And I know there's 1048 01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:31,360 Speaker 1: people that listen that work sixty hours a week that's awesome. 1049 01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,760 Speaker 1: We work super hard. Like when I'm on tour, we 1050 01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:40,640 Speaker 1: have crazy schedules. But even in the craziest craziest of schedules, 1051 01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,400 Speaker 1: like for me, when I'm traveling, there's airplane time or 1052 01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,520 Speaker 1: airport time. What am I doing in the airport time? 1053 01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:51,240 Speaker 1: Like there's you could always find these windows of Man, 1054 01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:53,320 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have been just sitting there scroll on Twitter. 1055 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:59,240 Speaker 1: I should have been on Headspace. So anyway, Eddie, appreciate you. Dude. 1056 01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,920 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm glad somebody's listening. And I'm glad that 1057 01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:05,960 Speaker 1: you know you're a marine so you understand it. But 1058 01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,080 Speaker 1: I'm glad that someone looks at it and goes, dude, 1059 01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get up early and read little Bible and 1060 01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:15,680 Speaker 1: start my day off, and then here's your testimony. It 1061 01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:18,800 Speaker 1: makes my day better. I love that, dude. I mean, 1062 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:20,640 Speaker 1: if you're the only one listening, you're the only one 1063 01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,040 Speaker 1: that's ever done that, that's listened to this podcast, then 1064 01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,440 Speaker 1: to me, this podcast has been a success because I 1065 01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,240 Speaker 1: could truly say that the last two years of us 1066 01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,400 Speaker 1: doing it every single morning, I'm talking about it. I 1067 01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,600 Speaker 1: do it on Sundays, I do it on Saturdays, I 1068 01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,280 Speaker 1: do it every day. If I'm on tour, it's becomes 1069 01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,000 Speaker 1: I have to refigure. If I'm planning a show and 1070 01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,560 Speaker 1: getting off the stage literally at twelve thirty, then my 1071 01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:48,680 Speaker 1: next morning is not five thirty. At seven thirty. So 1072 01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:52,600 Speaker 1: if I'm staying up late working on stage, I set 1073 01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,400 Speaker 1: my alarm seven hours from when my head hits the pillow. 1074 01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,080 Speaker 1: So if my head hits the pillow at eight at 1075 01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:02,400 Speaker 1: one am, I'm setting my arm for eight am, and 1076 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:06,000 Speaker 1: that still works for me. Yeah, everybody will go, well, 1077 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:07,400 Speaker 1: if I can't do it five thirty, I'm not gonna 1078 01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:09,560 Speaker 1: do it at all. It's like and they'll say, well, 1079 01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,320 Speaker 1: you can't do it. That's that's exact time. Every day. 1080 01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,600 Speaker 1: It's like, no, but you just work it in because 1081 01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,040 Speaker 1: life happens. I get my eight hours. You like to 1082 01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:19,280 Speaker 1: get your seven hours. People always tell me it must 1083 01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:21,680 Speaker 1: be nice to not have kids. You just wait, buddy, 1084 01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,040 Speaker 1: all that's going down the joints. I love being here 1085 01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:26,400 Speaker 1: with you because you have kids and you still do it. 1086 01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,800 Speaker 1: I got kids, and you know, I get up at 1087 01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,800 Speaker 1: five thirty and they're usually rocking by seven. By six 1088 01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,680 Speaker 1: thirty to six forty five, they're coming in and rocking. 1089 01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,400 Speaker 1: So my window is five thirty six thirty. I have 1090 01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:43,920 Speaker 1: that window, and that window's going to end. It's cool. 1091 01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:47,040 Speaker 1: Thank you, Eddie. Appreciate all you guys for asking questions. 1092 01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,560 Speaker 1: H Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. If you have anything, 1093 01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:53,320 Speaker 1: If you want to see more Parker, hear more Parker, 1094 01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:58,760 Speaker 1: put in the comments more Parker. If you think Parker's stupid, crazy, 1095 01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:01,960 Speaker 1: If you think I'm crazy, If you think we have 1096 01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:05,560 Speaker 1: bad ideas, put that in the comments. Yeah, love you guys. 1097 01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:08,760 Speaker 1: Ye thanks for joining me on the granger Smith Podcast. 1098 01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,280 Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you guys. You could help me 1099 01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,920 Speaker 1: out by rating this podcast on iTunes. If you're on YouTube, 1100 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,400 Speaker 1: subscribe to this channel. Hit that little like button and 1101 01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:22,240 Speaker 1: notification spell so that you never miss anytime I upload 1102 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,760 Speaker 1: a video. If you have a question for me that 1103 01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:28,800 Speaker 1: you would like me to answer, email Graingersmith Podcast at 1104 01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,080 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. 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