1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome to the podcast is episode fifty 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: nine Grangersmith Podcast. I'm in the back of my bus. 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: That is something that's going to be rare here in 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I only have, including tonight, I'm in Fredericksburg, Texas. 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: I have tonight, I have another show in Odessa next 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 1: week the day after Thanksgiving, and then I have a 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: show in Corpus, Christy somewhere around the first week of December, 8 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: second week of something like that, and that's it. That's 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: it for twenty twenty. So in a way, in a 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: strange way, I'll probably celebrate at the end of the 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: show in Corpus the end of the craziest tour season 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: of my musical life, as far as just the unknown 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: and so many countless cancelations and rescheduled, rescheduled, reschedulings. And 14 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: I mean we have played everything from driving movie theater 15 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: side stages to outdoor venues with tables to chairs separated 16 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: into groups, two minor league baseball stadiums separated into little 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: pods on stilts. I mean, we've seen it all. And 18 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: I will be so happy to close this year out 19 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: of touring. Not to say that twenty twenty one is 20 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: gonna be perfect. It's gonna definitely as we could all see, 21 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: start off shaky. But I would imagine we're going to 22 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: end twenty twenty one on such a better high note 23 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: than we did this year. What's crazy is for me, 24 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: we started this year in I believe our first show, Yeah, 25 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: our first show was on the Loop Brian crashed my 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: ply A tour in Mexico and can Kun, which is 27 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: just so much fun. Big stage on the beach, a 28 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: bunch of people in the sand as the sun's going down. 29 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: That's how we started the year. And then we went 30 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: from there to Los Angeles and played the Staple Center 31 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: with Kane Brown and some other people I've already forgot 32 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: who was on that show. Staple Center sold out my 33 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: first time there. And then that's how the years started. 34 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 1: And then we're going to end like this in total despair. 35 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: In some way, there couldn't be a bigger contrast in touring. 36 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I'm kind of over it. 37 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys are too. That's not what I'm 38 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: here to talk about, not here to talk about the 39 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: pandemic or the music business. I am here to talk 40 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: about a couple things. One, social media and uncensored social 41 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: media is what I want to talk about a little bit. 42 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: A lot of people have been asking me questions over 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Why in the world are 44 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: you going to parlor? Why are you setting up social 45 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,519 Speaker 1: media on parlor? That's a that's a right wing conspiracy 46 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,399 Speaker 1: theory social media platform. And I'm gonna talk a little 47 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: bit about that. I'm gonna answer some of y'all's questions 48 00:03:20,400 --> 00:04:00,040 Speaker 1: right here on the podcast. Roll that intron times and 49 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: long line up and down the back, rangyation. Okay, first 50 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: of all, crazy Week coming up. You guys are hearing 51 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: this on Monday. Where I'm sitting it is Saturday in Fredericksburg, Texas, 52 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: back of the bus. That means for you listening, if 53 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: you're listening on in real time. And by the way, 54 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: these podcasts come out every single Monday morning, bright and early. 55 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: So you know, the purpose of us putting it out 56 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: early morning on Fridays, my brain is lost. But the 57 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: purpose of us putting these out early mornings on Mondays 58 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: is so that you could get a kickstart into the week, 59 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: so that maybe you're you're going into work, you're commuting 60 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: your starting your day with your coffee and you need 61 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: something to listen to. Maybe that's on a job, or 62 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: maybe that's at the gym, or like I said in 63 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: the car, whatever, I want to jump start your week 64 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: and get you on the podcast. So that is why 65 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: we do this early Monday morning. That's why we don't 66 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: release it at like two o'clock or noon or whatever. 67 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: We want to jump start your week with the Grangersmith Podcast. 68 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: This week is going to be crazy because of Thanksgiving 69 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: on Thursday and then Black Friday on Friday, which is 70 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: pretty much the busiest day we'll have at ee Apparel 71 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: because we'll be doing all kinds of crazy sales and 72 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: people will be going to get stuff from ee Apparel 73 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: for Christmas, so we'll be in a mad rush like 74 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: we are every year to take those orders and turn 75 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: them around so that you could get your delivery before Christmas. 76 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: And that is a little bit of an unknown factor 77 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: this year with COVID and with the maybe the delays 78 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: in the postal service, not sure yet, so we're going 79 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: to be going double time. We're also, as I mentioned 80 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, we're also playing a show in Odessa, 81 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: Texas on that Black Friday. And on top of all that, 82 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: that's not even the biggest part of what Friday is. 83 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: The biggest part of what Friday is Black Friday, November 84 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: twenty seventh is the completion of my new album Country Things. 85 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 1: So this will be volume two. Volume one came out 86 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: in September, and Volume two is eight new songs, and 87 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: this will complete the sixteen. So not only will you 88 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: be able to get Volume two in a digital format 89 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: where that's Spotify or Amazon or Apple YouTube, wherever you 90 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: like to listen to music, you'll be able to hear 91 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: those new eight songs. But what I think is cool 92 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: is this will also complete the project into the physical copy, 93 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 1: so you'll be able to actually get the physical CD, 94 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: which I understand not that many people have CD players anymore, 95 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: But I think in a lot of ways, some of 96 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: you might some of you might be like, no, that's 97 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: how I listen. But I think in a lot of ways, 98 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: this is a collector's item. That's how I would look 99 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: at it. You get the physical CD. The ones we're 100 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: selling on our website grangersmith dot com or EEE dot 101 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: com are signed by me, So it's a collector's item 102 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: and you get to go through all the liner notes 103 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. We're also selling vinyl, 104 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: So if you're into vinyl, same thing. You get the 105 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: big vinyl record in the case and you could either 106 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: I know some of you will probably want to play 107 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: that on your record player, and some of you may 108 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: not even have a record player. You just want the 109 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: vinyl because it looks cool and you could frame it, 110 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: you could put on the wall. This is a nice 111 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: little collector's piece. But bottom line is, I'm I'm so excited. 112 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: I haven't even mentioned the music through all this, But 113 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: the most important thing to me is the music and 114 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: that you guys connect to these songs, that you could 115 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: relate to them, that they could move you, make you 116 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: feel something in some way, some kind of emotion. That's 117 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: what it's all about to me. And I believe that 118 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: this at least with the sixteen songs total and on 119 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: the by the way, on the physical CD, it's sixteen 120 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: songs plus that that's why I love Dirt Roads Lace 121 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: than Warlick version plus Holler. So there's eighteen songs on 122 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: the CD itself, and I think out of those eighteen songs, 123 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: one of those songs is going to make you feel something. 124 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: It's going to hit into your alley, I would imagine, 125 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: I would hope, And that's always my goal is to 126 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: be able to as a songwriter, as a singer, as 127 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,599 Speaker 1: a producer. I want to make a song, a collections, 128 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: a collection of songs from based on my stories where 129 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: I could tell it in a way that connect with 130 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: you as well. So big deal, really big day. This 131 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: is my tenth studio album, Country Things, and it all 132 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: comes together. It's all finished this Friday, November twenty seventh, 133 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: So you know that what that usually means is that night, 134 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: wherever you are, whatever time zone you're in, it's going 135 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: to come out. So I'm in Central time zone, so 136 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: it's going to come out at eleven pm Central on 137 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 1: Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night. Digitally, you'll be able to hear 138 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: all these songs, and then through just the month of 139 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: December we'll be I'll be promoting that, we'll be putting 140 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: music videos out. There's two new, brand new Earl Dibbles 141 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: songs on this volume two. So we've already filmed one 142 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: of the music videos, which I'm going to approve today 143 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: from Paul, and then we're filming another one with another 144 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: YouTuber named whistland Diesel, and we're going to be filming 145 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 1: that coming up here. Actually this coming Sunday, we're rolling 146 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: Indiana on this bus to go film the music video 147 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: for a song called Diesel. That's an Earl song with 148 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: a YouTuber named Whistling Diesel. So that's going to be 149 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: a blast. Even if we don't get anything cool out 150 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: of that, I'm this is gonna be amazing experience for me. 151 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: He's a cool YouTuber if you want to check it out. 152 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 1: He's got all kinds of diesel trucks and soups him 153 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 1: up and does crazy stuff out on his Indiana form. 154 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: So so much stuff going on. You could you could 155 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: always find me an Amber on cameo if you want 156 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: like a quick shout out, like a I think we're 157 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,319 Speaker 1: doing a Christmas special on cameo, So that's that's if 158 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: you want, like a you want to send a quick 159 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: gift to your friend or your family member of me 160 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: saying Mary Christmas or happy Birthday or Happy anniversary, or 161 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: a shout out of any kind of video message, then 162 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: I literally do it right here on my phone. So 163 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: that's what that's what is cool about cameo and then 164 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: the last thing I'll say before I get to these 165 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: questions is ye Nation dot com, which is the new 166 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: website that we started that's kind of an exclusive website 167 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: to fans that want to have an inside scoop, previews 168 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: of songs, me and Amber going live and answering your questions, 169 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: exclusive content that no one else could find. That's an 170 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 1: e H dot com and you can get your first 171 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: month free with that. I want to address this question 172 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: that has come up overwhelmingly recently. I've joined this social 173 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: media website called Parlor. And when I joined, I went 174 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: to the other socials like Facebook and Twitter, and I 175 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: believe on my instat story and I said, hey guys, 176 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm on Parlor, now come follow me at granger Smith. 177 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: And I got a lot of a lot of people 178 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: that are like, awesome, cool, And then there was a 179 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: handful of people that were like no, or goodbye or 180 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 1: see you later or I won't be following you there. 181 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: And so let me explain that a little bit, because 182 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: then I got some questions through the podcast email, which 183 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: is Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. You could ask 184 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: me anything at any time, and I have that pulled 185 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: up on my phone right now Grangersmith podcast at gmail 186 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: dot com. If you want to ask me something could 187 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: be about anything. And I got a handful of them 188 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: boom that day. That was like, I'm very confused. I've 189 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: been a fan of you and your music, and I 190 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: respect your your your views and your your spiritual views 191 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: and your faith based views. But now I'm just so 192 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: confused because you joined Parlor and that is a terrible website. 193 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: It harbors right wing conspiracy theories. And there was this 194 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: there was this little meme going around from Parlor that 195 00:12:54,720 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: was like this this big, big conspiracy of some guy 196 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: on Parlor that was saying, I want to let's get 197 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: together and murder these democrats are something, and it was 198 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: and it was terrible to see that, to read that. 199 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 1: But then I quickly looked on Parlor and that bad 200 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: account was obviously fake. It didn't exist, It was made up. 201 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: So not to say that there aren't bad people on there, 202 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: but the initial shock value of some of this stuff 203 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: was fakes, as in so many other things, and there's 204 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: bad people on every platform of social media. Why did 205 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: I join it? I got on there because I'm on 206 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: every social media platform. The only ones I'm not on 207 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: is I think it's called We Me, and maybe there's 208 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 1: a couple other smaller ones, and so I'm looking into 209 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: that right now. But Parlor was at the time it 210 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: might still be the number one downloaded app So anytime 211 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: something like that happens, as a as a musician, as 212 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: a public fit, I have to go. I have to 213 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 1: go capture my domain. At Granger Smith at Yee was 214 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: already taken, you know. So we got at Granger Smith, 215 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: at Earl Dublins Junior, at Eye Apparel, and we have 216 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: to get that. If we don't, someone else will, So 217 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: someone else will go and get at Granger Smith and 218 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: then start posting as me. So to answer your question 219 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: in a very non exciting way, the main reason I 220 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: joined Parlor was to go and grab my domains. And 221 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: also I know that some of my fans are leaving 222 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and going there exclusively, so 223 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to lose them. So I'm all I'm 224 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: really doing is I'll go in and make a post 225 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: on Twitter and then I'll go to the same exact 226 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: post on Parlor. What is nice and a little bit 227 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: different about Parlor is it's uncensored. So that's that's The 228 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: thing that you guys are so worried about is that, 229 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: oh my go, it's uncensored. There's gonna be conspiracy theories 230 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: about right wing stuff. Well, what's nice for me is 231 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: that I can go deer hunting and post a picture 232 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: of me and the gun or which boom, I even 233 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: say that word and it picks up some algorithm on YouTube. 234 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: But I could I could show that, I could show 235 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: harvesting a deer, which on a lot of other platforms 236 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: you get flagged for, you get banned for. And Earl 237 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: Dibbles Junior is constantly having stuff taken down because he's 238 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: posing with his twelve gauge or something like that. So 239 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: it is nice that I can go to parlor and 240 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: Earl Dibbles Junior could have his twelve gauge, or I 241 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: could have a deer or little things like that. But 242 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: other than that, there's not gonna be I'm not gonna 243 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: be posting anything different than I would on Twitter or 244 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: Facebook or Instagram or I mean, I'm on TikTok, I'm 245 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: on Snapchat, guys, I'm on all of them and looking 246 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: into whatever the newest thing is. That's just what I've 247 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: had to do. I was on my Space when it 248 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: was out, So that's just what I have to do. 249 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: That's part of my job is to collect information. It's 250 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: not to go in and have some little secret meeting 251 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: on parlor where I'm listening, I'm watching all the secret 252 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: conspiracies and embedding myself and you know that's not that. 253 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: It's not that. So yeah, if it offends some people, 254 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: I understand that some people are probably still mad about 255 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: Parlor because they think that that's where people go to 256 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: bash the people of their kind. Man as simple as this, 257 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: I'm not leaving your social media platform, so just don't 258 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: follow me there, but know that I'm just going on 259 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: there to post the same stuff. So it's just really 260 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: not that big a deal. I want to get into 261 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: some of these QUI questions now, So, like I said, 262 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com, I'm gonna get in 263 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: here and answer some of your questions. I have some 264 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: queued up right here. This one is from Alex from 265 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 1: Montana and the question says, Hey, Granger just wanted to 266 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: say I love watching your family on YouTube and listening 267 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: to your podcast. You guys are such an inspiration to 268 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: me and I'm so thankful for all and everything that 269 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: you do. Thank you. Alex says, I have a question 270 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: for you. I heard somewhere the other day. I forget 271 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: if it was in a video or a podcast about 272 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: being generous and having good things come back to you. 273 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: When I have to turn down an opportunity. For example, 274 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: at the DMV the other day, the worker asked if 275 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: I would like to donate to a charity fund. It 276 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: was a ten dollars donation, but unfortunately I don't always 277 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: have an extra ten dollars to spare. When I have 278 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: to turn down these opportunities, does that bring me bad fortune? 279 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: I felt bad because I couldn't donate, so I made 280 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: it up in another way later that day, and I 281 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: was just curious what your thoughts are on that. Shout 282 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: out to Alex, thanks for the question. Shout out to Montana, 283 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: one of my favorite places, Alex, I do have an 284 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: answer for you, buddy, and me personally, I do not 285 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: believe in fortune of any kind. I don't believe in 286 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: I don't believe in luck or four leaf clovers or coincidences, 287 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: or fortune telling or card reading or tear a cards. 288 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: I don't believe in any of that stuff around the 289 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: word fortune. Because and maybe you don't either, but you 290 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: did word it saying does that bring me bad fortune? 291 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: Maybe you meant to say something else. I don't know 292 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: how you could even not say it in that way 293 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 1: if you said karma. I don't believe in karma either. 294 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: I'm a Christian. I have faith in God as a 295 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 1: sovereign God, meaning an all powerful creator that is in 296 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: control of everything. And and hey, if you don't believe 297 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: in God or a higher power or a creator, I 298 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: understand that you don't. But what I don't understand is 299 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: if you do believe there's a God or a creator, 300 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: how could you not also believe that he is in control, 301 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 1: complete control? So I don't I don't think it's very 302 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 1: hard for me to understand how you could think there 303 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: would be an all powerful being creator that just kind 304 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: of lets us do our thing, and he is He 305 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: kind of jumps in when he wants to and avoids 306 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: us at other times. That's it's not what the Bible 307 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: says at all. So if you read the Bible, it 308 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: is very clear that he is all sovereign, all powerful, 309 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: all controlling. And that's a deeper conversation and another kind 310 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: of question. And I don't mean to get good to 311 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: go down that road and sound like a Bible beater, 312 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: but I do have Biblically, I do want to talk 313 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: about that alex and say that For example, Proverbs three, 314 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: verses nine and ten says, honor the Lord with your 315 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. 316 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your 317 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: vats will overflow with good wine. So it's kind of 318 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: a biblical way of saying good fortune, right, like, you 319 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: give two places that need, and God will bless you 320 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: with wealth, and it's not necessarily This might be a 321 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: misconception here. That's not necessarily money wealth or barns with 322 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 1: grain and vats with wine. That is definitely possible. He's 323 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: a god of every possibility in all miracles, but sometimes 324 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: it could just be blessings of hope or peace or 325 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 1: joy or contentment, which is so ultimately more important than 326 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: that money. Anyway, to get back to your question, though, no, 327 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 1: I absolutely do not believe that. If you're at the 328 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: checkout line at a grocery store and they say would 329 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: you like to donate to Saint Jude's Children's Hospital one 330 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: dollar and you say no, I don't believe that later 331 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: on that day you have a dark cloud over you 332 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: that then brings you some kind of weird bad luck 333 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: and you're going to step off the curb and twist 334 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: your ankle and your your ankle's gonna break and you're 335 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: going to go to the emergency room. Don't believe in that. 336 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: You know some people do, but I would, if you're 337 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: asking me, Alex, dismiss that completely and say no, no, 338 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: I don't believe in bad karma, weird fortunes. I believe 339 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: that when I feel compelled by God to give, and 340 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: that could be you're walking on the street and you 341 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: see somebody and they're they're on the ground and they're 342 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: holding the sign, and sometimes you pass them and you 343 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: go that guy's fake. Sometimes you pass them and go, man, 344 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: something's tugging me to do something here. I might want 345 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: to pull a dollar out of my wallet and hand 346 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: it to the sky or girl. So that I believe 347 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: that that is when God speaks to you and goes, 348 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: I need you to help this person. In order to 349 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: do that, you really need to free your mind. You 350 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: really need to be open to listening to this kind 351 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: of direction, which is it's not easy if you're clouded 352 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: by all the problems of the world. So yeah, I 353 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: believe listened to your heart and through your heart, that's 354 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: where God speaks to you. Don't worry about bad luck. 355 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: Don't worry about bad fortune. Give where you can, and 356 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: I do believe that the more you give, the more 357 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: you'll be blessed in return. If it's coming from the 358 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: right place, if you're coming from a place of man, 359 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: I'm so I got so much money that I could 360 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: give a little bit here and it doesn't even break 361 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: the bank. That's different. I'm talking about giving where you 362 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 1: can give, and you'll you'll eventually be judged on how 363 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: much you can give and how much matters, And so 364 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: I would I would encourage to give generously. Thank you, Alex. 365 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: I appreciate you, dude very much. I'm going to go 366 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: to I've kind of gotten these organized into light questions 367 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: and heavy questions. I started doing that because we could 368 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: get into too many heavy questions. So I'm going to 369 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: jump into a light of my light category. This question 370 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: is from Ben. He says, would you ever come to 371 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: Traverse City, Michigan for a show. I'd love to come 372 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: see you in concert. I love your music. It makes 373 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 1: me have a good day. So thank you buddy, Thank 374 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: you Ben. Absolutely, Traverse City is is on our stop. 375 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: We have stopped. We have played there before. I cannot 376 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: remember the life of me. I can't remember the name 377 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 1: of the venue, but we have played Traverse City and 378 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 1: up that upper hand of Michigan. Absolutely love Michigan some 379 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: of our favorite fans. Unfortunately, I know that our fans 380 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: in Michigan are struggling right now big time with this 381 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: with the virus. Not only the virus, but with the 382 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: government restrictions that you guys are having. So Michigan is 383 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: one of the places we won't be able to go 384 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: to for a while. This question is from Caleb. Next 385 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: it says, Hey Granger, my name is Caleb. I'm twenty. 386 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: I live in round Rock, Texas. Shout out to round Rock. 387 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: I've never been hunting before, but I've always wanted to 388 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: go ever since my dad told me a story of 389 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: his childhood hunting days. I'm looking at buying a rifle, 390 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: but I'm not sure which is the best for all 391 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: around game and or where I could hunt. Was curious 392 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: as to what kind of gun you would recommend, And yeah, 393 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: great question, I would say, first of all, you don't 394 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: need to break the bank on this, Caleb, and you 395 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: want to get something that is you're from Round Rock, 396 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're thinking mainly about white tailed deer. So 397 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: the reason I say that is be gonu to be different. 398 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 1: If you're like, man, I'm trying to go up to 399 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 1: the Northwest Territory of Canada and shoot a bear or 400 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: caribou or elk. So your your options for whitetail you're 401 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 1: going to get. Want something that's light and flat shooting caliber. 402 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: So you know, you know a lot of people a 403 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: good all around gun that has that has power, but 404 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 1: it's still relatively light, and you could you can go 405 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: anything from small game all the way up to shooting 406 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: an elk. I love the two seventy for that. So 407 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: what kind of brand that's really up to you? I wouldn't. 408 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: I wouldn't think if you got something synthetic, like a 409 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: synthetic stock, and you got you a nice to seventy, 410 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 1: you're not going to break the bank. Get you a 411 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: decent scope on there. I shoot right now. I shoot 412 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: a seven milimeter eight, which I've just shot since I 413 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: was a little kid. I like seven milimeter eight for 414 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: a white tail, and I don't. I just you can't 415 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: go wrong with just a solid bolt action dear rifle. 416 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: Can't go wrong. So go up to your you're in 417 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: Round Rock, go to academy in Round Rock, or go 418 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: to the academy in Georgetown and talked to those folks 419 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: up there. They usually know what they're talking about. You 420 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: could find something that doesn't break the bank. And you 421 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: could get so much from YouTube these days, so you 422 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: could literally go out in the field and watch the 423 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: whole process on YouTube on cleaning a deer and processing 424 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,360 Speaker 1: and how to do everything you could find. You could 425 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: find your answers. My dad, who I learned to hunt 426 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,719 Speaker 1: from his father, was not a hunter. My dad learned 427 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 1: from a Field and Stream magazine, and he found how 428 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: to gut a deer and pull pulled that page out 429 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: of a Field and Stream magazine, cut it out, folded 430 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: it up, put it in his pocket, and took that 431 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: in the field with him. Shot his first deer, pulled 432 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: that thing out of his pocket, unfolded that piece of 433 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: paper and followed those with his sat there with his 434 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: knife and followed the instructions on the Field and Stream page, 435 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 1: which is crazy to me. That that's what he did. 436 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: He was all by himself. So if my dad could 437 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: do that, Caleb, you could do it too, buddy. And 438 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: plus you'll have YouTube. It's a lot better than a 439 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: folded up, filled the stream magazine article. I'm gonna take 440 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: a break. Grateful today that this podcast is sponsored by headspace, 441 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: and you guys have heard me talk a little bit 442 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: about the need to unwind in this craziness that we 443 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: live in today, to be able to rest the brain. 444 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: You always think about resting your legs, like you walk 445 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: too long and you're like, man, I gotta sit down. 446 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: I have to sit down and rest my legs. 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And 488 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: during this craziness of twenty twenty, you're going to feel 489 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: a lot better and have more energy if you sit 490 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 1: down and rest your brain. Coming out of the break, 491 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: I found a question here that's super heavy and I 492 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: wanted to read it. It's eye opening and so brace 493 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: yourselves a bit. But this question comes from Drew. It says, 494 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: Hey Granger, my name is Drew Cole. I'm from Winchester, Kentucky. 495 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: I'm fourteen. I just wanted to say when I'm feeling depressed, 496 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: or I'm upset, or i'm just happy, I just watch 497 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: your channel in the Smiths. They helped me a lot. 498 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: I lived with my mom for the first twelve years 499 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: of my life, and her husband would punch me, break 500 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: my arms with the baseball bat, and he would break 501 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 1: anything I would get. And I've always wanted a Ye 502 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: Yee shirt and hat, and every time I save up 503 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: my money and get it, he would steal it. I 504 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: still never got one, and I keep asking for something 505 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 1: from ye dot com from Christmas for Christmas, but no 506 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: one ever has enough money. Anyways. Thank you for you. 507 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: Thank you because watching you and the Smiths inspired me 508 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: to call the cops on my mom's husband, so now 509 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: I don't have to hurt all the time. Thank you, Granger, dude, true, 510 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: thank you for the email and your honesty. It's really 511 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: it's really, it's really tough reading your words as a 512 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: fourteen year old, because no fourteen year old should ever 513 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: have to deal with something like this, being in a 514 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: situation where your arms are being broken with a baseball bat. 515 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: You did the right thing by calling the cops, and 516 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: I hope you didn't ask me about any of this, 517 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: so I hope I'm not speaking out of line, but 518 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: I feel like because you're fourteen and you still have 519 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: you still have so far to go. I feel like 520 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: I'm needing to just address the fact that I think 521 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: you're right by calling the cops. You're right in everything 522 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: you're thinking, and you're right by emailing verbalizing what's going 523 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 1: on getting out of the situation. I'm going to email 524 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: you back, which I don't like to do on this. 525 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,239 Speaker 1: I don't like to email back because I don't want 526 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: this to be any kind of correspondence for most questions, 527 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: but this is different. So I'm going to email you 528 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 1: back from this account, and I'm just telling you so 529 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,760 Speaker 1: that you know it's me. But I'm going to email 530 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,359 Speaker 1: you Drew, and we'll talk, and I'm going to get 531 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:38,320 Speaker 1: you anything you need from yei dot com for Christmas, 532 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: no questions asked. I'll see to it personally that I 533 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: package it, autograph it, take care of you. And then 534 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: I want to go even further than that and have 535 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: you use this email to get a hold of me 536 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 1: and we could talk anytime you if you get into 537 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 1: this kind of situations again, and I need you to 538 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: be able to reach out and just say hey, I'm 539 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,320 Speaker 1: I'm in trouble. It may maybe your situation is completely 540 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 1: taken care of because, as you said at the end, anyways, 541 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: thank you for dismiss because you inspired me to call 542 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: the cops on my mom's husband, so now I don't 543 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:25,359 Speaker 1: have to hurt all the time. Buddy, I am. I'm 544 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: gonna email you. I won't say this on the air, 545 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna I'm gonna take care of this 546 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,879 Speaker 1: the best I can. But just know that, dude, you're 547 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: You're right by what you're thinking. Stay strong, stay tough. 548 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: This will be the years that give you your power 549 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 1: in the future when you get older. This, these stories, 550 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:54,759 Speaker 1: these moments, although crazy, tough and something I can't relate to, 551 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,800 Speaker 1: I do know that these stories will make or break you. 552 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,359 Speaker 1: And they'll either break you by just saying you don't 553 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: want to do this anymore, or they'll make you by 554 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: saying that's my power. That's where I learned how to 555 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 1: fight through adversity, how to be strong, to be courageous, 556 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: to appreciate those that are kind to me, to be 557 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 1: accepting and forgiving and loving. And you'll be a man 558 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,000 Speaker 1: of integrity to its truest extent if you can make 559 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 1: it through this and let this be your power to grow. 560 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna email you Buck Drew, and then 561 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you, dude, thank you. 562 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: Next question from Steve says, Hey Grander, my name is 563 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 1: Steve from Pennsylvania. I love your music in your family. 564 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 1: I would love to hear your input on the new 565 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: concert restrictions they are trying to put an effect in 566 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania or maybe everywhere else. Not sure. I hear they're 567 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 1: going to make you show COVID test results on paper 568 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 1: to buy tickets and to get into a venue. I 569 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,400 Speaker 1: can understand that being safe, but I think this is 570 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 1: going a little too far. I would love to hear 571 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,720 Speaker 1: your input. Thank you for giving us healing in your music, 572 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: in your videos. Thank you, Steve. Shout out to you, 573 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: and shout out to my people in Pennsylvania. Love that state. Okay, 574 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 1: Here's what I think, and probably what you've seen, Steve, 575 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 1: is the messages on social media about Ticketmaster, who is 576 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 1: a third party ticket distribution company. They are the mediator 577 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 1: between a venue or promoter and the fans to in 578 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:51,840 Speaker 1: a ticketing platform that allows people to go online and 579 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,800 Speaker 1: search for a concert they find it on Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster 580 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 1: then has the back end for their website and everything's 581 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,160 Speaker 1: set up perfect boom, buy the ticket, it filters back 582 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 1: through the to the venue, the Ticketmaster team gets a 583 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: cut for being the host of it, and then the fan, 584 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 1: the customer could print out the ticket or use an 585 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: online version and then go to the concert. It's a 586 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,480 Speaker 1: super easy system and it's it just becomes the middleman 587 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 1: between the music venue and the customer, so that the 588 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,840 Speaker 1: music venue doesn't have to be in the ticketing business. 589 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,120 Speaker 1: They could just worry about putting on a concert, putting 590 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 1: on a good show, putting you know, facilitating fans and 591 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: restrooms and concessions and drinks and lines and parking. They 592 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: could deal with that, then don't have to deal with 593 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:48,360 Speaker 1: the ticketing aspect. That's what Ticketmaster does. So although Ticketmaster 594 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,320 Speaker 1: is not a necessity, they're just a nice luxury that 595 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: most venues would like to pay someone to do it. 596 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: Ticketmaster is one of them. And what I'm trying to 597 00:38:58,719 --> 00:38:59,960 Speaker 1: do here is I'm trying to build up this story 598 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 1: where I'm not demonizing Ticketmaster. I don't have any Ticketmaster 599 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: is not a company that's like going to help me 600 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 1: further my career, you know. So it's not like I 601 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: need to build them up because it doesn't matter my 602 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 1: relationship with Ticketmaster. The only thing that matters for me 603 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,719 Speaker 1: is that people buy tickets to my shows. What I 604 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 1: think that they're doing is, and what you're alluding to, Steve, 605 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: is that Ticketmaster announced recently that they would be requiring 606 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:37,120 Speaker 1: vaccination proof before you purchase a ticket, which a lot 607 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: of people just went into an uproar about this. What 608 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: they're trying to do is in my opinion, I haven't 609 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,400 Speaker 1: talked to them. I don't know, but I'm just looking 610 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: at it from a business standpoint, and Ticketmaster is probably 611 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 1: just dying right now as a company without live music 612 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 1: or live entertainment or sports, they're probably just being crushed 613 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,919 Speaker 1: right now. So they're thinking, you know, in their little 614 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,719 Speaker 1: board meetings, big board meetings, they're thinking, what can we 615 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:12,800 Speaker 1: do to build the confidence back up into the ticket 616 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: buyer so that they feel comfortable and confident to go 617 00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:23,400 Speaker 1: to live events again In twenty twenty one, oh, somebody's like, 618 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: I got an idea. Let's make sure that when they 619 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,840 Speaker 1: have the COVID vaccine that you have to scan that 620 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,440 Speaker 1: in or put your COVID vaccine number or whatever they're 621 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,399 Speaker 1: going to do, and you have to do that as 622 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,399 Speaker 1: part of the purchasing process. And then they're like, yeah, 623 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 1: that sounds like a great idea, and they're what they 624 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:48,160 Speaker 1: probably didn't think maybe they did they maybe they underestimated 625 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 1: the amount of people that were going to be like, 626 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:57,240 Speaker 1: that's private information that my health records is private information 627 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:02,719 Speaker 1: that I should not have to disclose to somebody I 628 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,600 Speaker 1: don't know for it to verify me to go to 629 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:14,080 Speaker 1: some kind of entertainment. So I don't really care. I 630 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,120 Speaker 1: don't really lean either way to answer your question, Steve, 631 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,399 Speaker 1: like I'm not I'm not gonna sit here and say 632 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 1: Ticketmaster you are wrong, you need to revoke that statement. 633 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 1: I don't really care because I operate in my business 634 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:33,799 Speaker 1: through many third party ticketing systems, including mom and pop 635 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,560 Speaker 1: prints out the tickets, you know, at the out of 636 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: the printer. So I mean a lot of a lot 637 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,839 Speaker 1: of concerts, Like I'm thinking the one tonight you could 638 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: purchase online, but if you walk up to the door, 639 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:50,120 Speaker 1: you could probably just you know, purchase at the will 640 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,759 Speaker 1: call and go right in. So there is not a 641 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,400 Speaker 1: Ticketmaster involved today, and there's not Ticketmaster involved in a 642 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,920 Speaker 1: lot of shows just the big the big time here, 643 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,640 Speaker 1: huge massive arena shows like Staple Center we played earlier 644 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,839 Speaker 1: this year. Here's my point, there's going to be a way. 645 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of ways around this. And 646 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 1: how how would Ticketmaster enforce that? If you how would 647 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:21,040 Speaker 1: Joe Bob buys ten tickets for his family online? How's 648 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:25,279 Speaker 1: he supposed to get everyone's vaccination records? And if they 649 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,480 Speaker 1: are requiring that, that's going to be really difficult to 650 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:33,160 Speaker 1: prove and really tough on that company. When a lot 651 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,160 Speaker 1: of venues, when they see that happening and they see 652 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,719 Speaker 1: Joe Bob doesn't want to go anymore, they're gonna go, well, 653 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,040 Speaker 1: we're not gonna use Ticketmaster. We're gonna print the tickets ourselves. 654 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,800 Speaker 1: Point being, Steve, I don't think it's gonna be a problem. 655 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,640 Speaker 1: I think I think you're gonna be fine. I think 656 00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: this whole proof of vaccination thing could be a bigger 657 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:54,160 Speaker 1: problem than itself through a lot of other ways. And 658 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,360 Speaker 1: I think if it is a problem in other ways, 659 00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,960 Speaker 1: then live event ticketing is going to be the least 660 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: of our concerns. If it gets to be what some 661 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,120 Speaker 1: of the conspiracies have said on parlor just kidding, just kidding, 662 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,880 Speaker 1: just kidding. So that that's my thought, Steve. Thanks for 663 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,760 Speaker 1: the question. Man. Cannot wait to see you at a concert, 664 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:20,520 Speaker 1: probably without Ticketmaster. Here's a question that says, Hey Granger, 665 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,920 Speaker 1: my name is Ansel Frost. I'm from the Upper Peninsula 666 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 1: of Michigan, which we just talked about. I saw you 667 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,640 Speaker 1: play at the Escanaba State Fair a couple of years ago, 668 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,440 Speaker 1: and I've been following you and Yee Nation long before 669 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,680 Speaker 1: and after that. You are an inspiration to me and 670 00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,840 Speaker 1: everything you do, especially you as a dad. Thank you. 671 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,680 Speaker 1: I have a question about the truck giveaway. If you're 672 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,480 Speaker 1: not of the age of eighteen at the time of 673 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,520 Speaker 1: the giveaway, but the person you bring is over the 674 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,360 Speaker 1: age of or actually twenty one and up, could you 675 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,200 Speaker 1: still have a chance at winning the truck? Thank you 676 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,160 Speaker 1: so much. And it ends with never stop saying yee yee. 677 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,560 Speaker 1: I like that, never stop saying ee. Shout out to you, Ansel, 678 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 1: shout out to the up of Michigan. Such a crazy place. 679 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,520 Speaker 1: If y'all haven't. If you haven't problem, I'm assuming most 680 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,879 Speaker 1: people listening to this podcast have never been to the up. 681 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,520 Speaker 1: It's a different world. It is a very different world 682 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:24,400 Speaker 1: up there. And she's referring to the truck giveaway. I'm 683 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 1: giving away my personal truck that I've been driving for 684 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 1: ten years. I'm going to give it away. And the 685 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,799 Speaker 1: way you enter the contest is either one dollar spent 686 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,200 Speaker 1: at ee dot com enters you into the Raffle, you 687 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:45,480 Speaker 1: buy one album that's twenty Raffle tickets, or you can 688 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,680 Speaker 1: use the no purchase necessary at ee dot com. You 689 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,279 Speaker 1: could find the info for that. You actually send a 690 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: letter and that letter becomes your entry to the contest. 691 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,160 Speaker 1: We are going to pick five winners on December fourth 692 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 1: and fly everyone down to the EU Farm. You put 693 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,879 Speaker 1: your hand on the truck. If the last person take 694 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,960 Speaker 1: their hands off the truck wins the truck. That's the contest. 695 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,440 Speaker 1: So what you're referring to is if you're not the 696 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: age of eighteen, you we're also going to fly a 697 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,960 Speaker 1: teammate in. So yeah, absolutely, Ansel, don't even worry about it. 698 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,040 Speaker 1: If you've got someone that's twenty one, we could just 699 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:29,399 Speaker 1: register that contest through that person. And I'm not sure 700 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,960 Speaker 1: exactly all the legal stuff, but it's really not going 701 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,000 Speaker 1: to be a big deal. I hope that you win. 702 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:37,799 Speaker 1: I hope that you come all the way from the up. 703 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,440 Speaker 1: Next question from Johnny B says Christmas album question mark. 704 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,440 Speaker 1: Say hey Grangel, my name is John Bonnet. I just 705 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,240 Speaker 1: wanted to ask you a question. Have you ever considered 706 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,320 Speaker 1: putting out a Christmas album or just a few Christmas songs? 707 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,800 Speaker 1: I know every artist in their mama has a Christmas 708 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,920 Speaker 1: album and it would seem like white noise out on 709 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,240 Speaker 1: the market, But to be able to add a Christmas 710 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,920 Speaker 1: album to your collection? Also, what's your favorite Christmas song? 711 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,000 Speaker 1: Mine and my daughter's favorite is Silent Night. Hope you 712 00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,799 Speaker 1: and your family have a wonderful and blessed Christmas this year. 713 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:16,680 Speaker 1: Thank you. Johnny doesn't say where you're from. Yeah, well, 714 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,360 Speaker 1: thank you Johnny wherever you are. Appreciate your writing to 715 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:24,960 Speaker 1: the podcast. And I have thought about Christmas albums, and 716 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,520 Speaker 1: it's always just a matter if you need to record those, 717 00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,399 Speaker 1: or at least you need to be on the ball 718 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,960 Speaker 1: by June to get everything rolling for it Christmas release. 719 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,840 Speaker 1: So I'm always like, yeah, I need to do it, 720 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,920 Speaker 1: and then June comes and I'm working on some other 721 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,000 Speaker 1: project and it gets pushed back. But I've always thought 722 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,080 Speaker 1: it'd be really cool for Earl to have a Christmas 723 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,080 Speaker 1: song or a Christmas collection of songs. Have like a 724 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,880 Speaker 1: redneck Christmas collection. I think that would be great. My 725 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:54,239 Speaker 1: favorite Christmas song is probably not what you expect, but 726 00:46:54,360 --> 00:47:01,839 Speaker 1: I love Blue Christmas by Elvis. It's just unassuming Christmas song. 727 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,400 Speaker 1: But I always like really sad music that makes you 728 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,279 Speaker 1: feel good on the inside, and something about that song 729 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,040 Speaker 1: always makes me feel good. I also really like bluegrass 730 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,239 Speaker 1: acoustic Christmas classics with no singing, so that's what I 731 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,400 Speaker 1: would put on in the background. Amber doesn't it. Amber 732 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:26,000 Speaker 1: likes the rat pack, old jazz and super modern pop 733 00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,719 Speaker 1: like those are the two the only two stations that 734 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,440 Speaker 1: would be playing in our house. Like the I say 735 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 1: super modern, but she would lean towards like the Mariah 736 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:41,920 Speaker 1: Carey Christmas album I think, and I like a country 737 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:47,319 Speaker 1: acoustic bluegrass Christmas tunes. It's probably strange, that's just where 738 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:53,319 Speaker 1: I lean. Thank you, Johnny. Let me see what else 739 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:59,840 Speaker 1: we have here. This question says, Hey, Granger and Amber, 740 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,239 Speaker 1: I just wanted to take time to thank you all 741 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,279 Speaker 1: for being so genuine and open about your loss. I 742 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,880 Speaker 1: lost a cousin when I was eleven years old. He 743 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,560 Speaker 1: was thirteen, and I'm twenty five now. I'm listening to 744 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,120 Speaker 1: your podcast with Amber, and Mallory asked the question, how 745 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,759 Speaker 1: do you not be afraid of loss? That's something that 746 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,600 Speaker 1: I've struggled with since my cousin died in two thousand 747 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:25,160 Speaker 1: and seven. Loss is horrible. Loss is hard, but it's 748 00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,080 Speaker 1: something that we all go through, and I appreciate Amber's 749 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:31,879 Speaker 1: comment about how when you're living in constant fear, you're 750 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,040 Speaker 1: missing the moments in life where you are. Right now, 751 00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,640 Speaker 1: I'm newly married and we're starting a family, and I'm 752 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,400 Speaker 1: honestly tired of living in that constant fear that something's 753 00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,680 Speaker 1: going to happen to my husband. I'm robbing myself of 754 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,800 Speaker 1: all the wonderful memories that we are making in this 755 00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,560 Speaker 1: life together. Thank you for your encouraging words about living 756 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,640 Speaker 1: each day fully. God is in control, and what a 757 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,160 Speaker 1: sigh of relief to know that I don't have to 758 00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,120 Speaker 1: be our God is a loving God, and I truly 759 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,600 Speaker 1: feel that the loss of your son has been in 760 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,040 Speaker 1: the way God can touch those around you. Thank you 761 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,800 Speaker 1: for being inspiration and letting God shine through your family 762 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,319 Speaker 1: and you. I'm so sorry for the pain your family 763 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,359 Speaker 1: has been through. I'm amazed by the strength that God 764 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 1: can give us to push forward. God bless you all, Amber, 765 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,879 Speaker 1: Thank you for this question. It's such a good question, 766 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:29,680 Speaker 1: so important. The question of struggle and loss and perseverance 767 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:36,160 Speaker 1: and pain and suffering is something that will always plague humanity, 768 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,239 Speaker 1: always has, always will, and the search to cure that 769 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,680 Speaker 1: well is just as prevalent as it is real in 770 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:49,080 Speaker 1: our lives. The crazy thing about your question, Amber, how 771 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:58,799 Speaker 1: you're saying, where's your actual question to see? I'm living 772 00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,719 Speaker 1: in constant fear? How do you not live in constant fear? 773 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:07,200 Speaker 1: And then you go on several times in this email 774 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,120 Speaker 1: you go on to answer your own question in a 775 00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:16,440 Speaker 1: really good way, and you're saying you've struggled with the 776 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:21,080 Speaker 1: question how do I not be afraid of loss? And 777 00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,839 Speaker 1: then you'll go right back and say, but I'm robbing 778 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,320 Speaker 1: myself of all the wonderful memories we're making this life together. 779 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,440 Speaker 1: So you know, I can't answer the question better than 780 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,400 Speaker 1: you already phrased it in all of your different moments 781 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:39,239 Speaker 1: here in this email, Amber, But I would say this, 782 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:50,080 Speaker 1: you don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. You 783 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:55,359 Speaker 1: don't know, and you're so right when you say you're 784 00:50:55,480 --> 00:51:03,800 Speaker 1: robbing yourself of today when you're worried about tomorrow. So 785 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,200 Speaker 1: you could you have a choice. All of us have 786 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:13,040 Speaker 1: a choice to live timid, to live scared, to live afraid, 787 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:18,839 Speaker 1: or to live fully. And even if, even if that's 788 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:25,880 Speaker 1: a short life, would you rather I mean, you might 789 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,080 Speaker 1: lose your husband tomorrow, you might lose them tomorrow. Let's 790 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,839 Speaker 1: be honest. Everyone listening to this podcast knows that that's 791 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:38,000 Speaker 1: a possibility because there's one there's one statistic that is 792 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:43,440 Speaker 1: absolute in humanity, and that's death. Last I checked that 793 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,640 Speaker 1: that statistic is ten out of every ten people will die. 794 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:53,279 Speaker 1: So me, you, your husband, and everyone listening to this 795 00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:58,319 Speaker 1: podcast will die. It's just a matter of when and how. 796 00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,879 Speaker 1: That's the only things we don't know is when and how. 797 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,920 Speaker 1: But we all know that we will. It's it's what's crazy. 798 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:10,200 Speaker 1: It's actually easier to think that other people will die 799 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,760 Speaker 1: than it is thinking we will. Like it's very weird thinking. 800 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:20,680 Speaker 1: Granger Smith me, I have a exact day in time 801 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:26,759 Speaker 1: and second that that will happen. It's already written. It's 802 00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,640 Speaker 1: already in stone of some sort, not on this earth, 803 00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:36,399 Speaker 1: but it is written the exact second that I will 804 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:41,000 Speaker 1: take my last breath, my last moment, it's already done. 805 00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:50,000 Speaker 1: That is that is unavoidable and very very strange. This 806 00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,000 Speaker 1: it could be today, it could be today, it could 807 00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:58,520 Speaker 1: be in forty years. So that's the choice we're given. 808 00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:04,080 Speaker 1: How do we live knowing that fact? And how do 809 00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:08,480 Speaker 1: we love knowing that fact? So if you could say, 810 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,800 Speaker 1: if you know that your husband's going to die, you 811 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,240 Speaker 1: hope that it's in sixty years, but it could be today, 812 00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:22,480 Speaker 1: how does that affect your love? Because if you live 813 00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:28,000 Speaker 1: scared and love scared for forty or fifty or sixty years, 814 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,680 Speaker 1: that's a pathetic life. You know that. I know that. 815 00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,920 Speaker 1: But what if you loved him like today was your 816 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,880 Speaker 1: last day, and then you wake up tomorrow and you 817 00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,040 Speaker 1: got him again for another day, so you love them 818 00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:47,800 Speaker 1: again like it's the last day, and then that becomes 819 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,600 Speaker 1: three days, and then four days, and then two weeks, 820 00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,759 Speaker 1: and then that becomes two months, and that two months 821 00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,200 Speaker 1: becomes a year, and one year becomes five years. And 822 00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,680 Speaker 1: what if you go through these months and weeks and 823 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:04,320 Speaker 1: days these years loving like you don't know what tomorrow 824 00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:09,279 Speaker 1: is gonna bring. I think that's your answer. That's how 825 00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:13,879 Speaker 1: you do it instead of being scared of loss, you love, 826 00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,560 Speaker 1: like loss is very possible, Like loss could happen at 827 00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,960 Speaker 1: any time, Like every time he gets in the in 828 00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,799 Speaker 1: the truck to go to the grocery store, you hug 829 00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,520 Speaker 1: him because he might not come home if you lived 830 00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,640 Speaker 1: your life not in fear, not in a scared way, 831 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:31,439 Speaker 1: like not like hey, come here, hug me real quick. 832 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:35,759 Speaker 1: I don't want to lose you. It's it's more like, hey, 833 00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,040 Speaker 1: come here, give me a hug, and you squeeze him. 834 00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,239 Speaker 1: I was telling Amber just yesterday when I saw her, 835 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,560 Speaker 1: I was leaving for this little tour, and she hugged 836 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: me and she squeezed me, and I said, you better 837 00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,560 Speaker 1: squeeze me. I might not come home. And it's it's 838 00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,160 Speaker 1: kind of a joke, sick, a sick joke, but it's true. 839 00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:57,040 Speaker 1: And my uncle Johnny, who is always very aware of 840 00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,399 Speaker 1: things like this, and he was with the his wife 841 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:05,000 Speaker 1: one day and they were visiting her father and as 842 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,200 Speaker 1: they were leaving, they got in the car and she's like, hurry, 843 00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:08,440 Speaker 1: we got to get home. We got to get home. 844 00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,560 Speaker 1: And he was like, hey, go go hug your dad 845 00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,800 Speaker 1: one more time. She's like, oh, we got to go, 846 00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,480 Speaker 1: and we're late. Johnny were late, and he's like, go 847 00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,520 Speaker 1: hug your dad. You just never know, you never know 848 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,200 Speaker 1: if you're going to see him again. And she said, Johnny, go, 849 00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:27,759 Speaker 1: So he left, and shortly after that he died. The 850 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:33,759 Speaker 1: father and my uncle Johnny's wife never lived that down, 851 00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,560 Speaker 1: that she didn't listen to Johnny's advice to just hug 852 00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,799 Speaker 1: him one more time. She never never lived that down. 853 00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,920 Speaker 1: And it's really difficult. You don't want to be in 854 00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,000 Speaker 1: that situation. Amber, You don't want to be in that 855 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:50,600 Speaker 1: kind of situation. So take that advice. Hug him one 856 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,640 Speaker 1: more time, treat him like today's the last, but you 857 00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,600 Speaker 1: hope it's going to be another sixty years. And I 858 00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:02,080 Speaker 1: think you'll see a wonderful, fruitful life because of that. 859 00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,800 Speaker 1: Good questions, guys, and if anyone else has any email me. 860 00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,759 Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to answer them. 861 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,759 Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. I'll break right here, 862 00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,400 Speaker 1: see yeah bye. Thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. 863 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,960 Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you. Guys. You could help me 864 00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,560 Speaker 1: out by rating this podcast on iTunes. If you're on YouTube, 865 00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,040 Speaker 1: subscribe to this channel. 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