WEBVTT - If this happens, call the cops 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.640 What's up, everybody. Welcome to the podcast is episode fifty 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.960 nine Grangersmith Podcast. I'm in the back of my bus. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.160 That is something that's going to be rare here in 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.440 twenty twenty. I only have, including tonight, I'm in Fredericksburg, Texas. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:20.720 I have tonight, I have another show in Odessa next 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.919 week the day after Thanksgiving, and then I have a 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.400 show in Corpus, Christy somewhere around the first week of December, 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.240 second week of something like that, and that's it. That's 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.879 it for twenty twenty. So in a way, in a 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.839 strange way, I'll probably celebrate at the end of the 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:42.280 show in Corpus the end of the craziest tour season 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:47.400 of my musical life, as far as just the unknown 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:57.400 and so many countless cancelations and rescheduled, rescheduled, reschedulings. And 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.920 I mean we have played everything from driving movie theater 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:12.560 side stages to outdoor venues with tables to chairs separated 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:18.200 into groups, two minor league baseball stadiums separated into little 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.000 pods on stilts. I mean, we've seen it all. And 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:26.679 I will be so happy to close this year out 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.360 of touring. Not to say that twenty twenty one is 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.160 gonna be perfect. It's gonna definitely as we could all see, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.120 start off shaky. But I would imagine we're going to 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.759 end twenty twenty one on such a better high note 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.679 than we did this year. What's crazy is for me, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:50.800 we started this year in I believe our first show, Yeah, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.520 our first show was on the Loop Brian crashed my 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.920 ply A tour in Mexico and can Kun, which is 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.360 just so much fun. Big stage on the beach, a 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.320 bunch of people in the sand as the sun's going down. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.079 That's how we started the year. And then we went 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.200 from there to Los Angeles and played the Staple Center 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.200 with Kane Brown and some other people I've already forgot 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.960 who was on that show. Staple Center sold out my 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:28.280 first time there. And then that's how the years started. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.959 And then we're going to end like this in total despair. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:39.080 In some way, there couldn't be a bigger contrast in touring. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.320 I don't know, I don't know. I'm kind of over it. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.320 I'm sure you guys are too. That's not what I'm 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.680 here to talk about, not here to talk about the 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:51.000 pandemic or the music business. I am here to talk 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:57.800 about a couple things. One, social media and uncensored social 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.480 media is what I want to talk about a little bit. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.960 A lot of people have been asking me questions over 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.519 the last couple of weeks. Why in the world are 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.760 you going to parlor? Why are you setting up social 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.519 media on parlor? That's a that's a right wing conspiracy 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.399 theory social media platform. And I'm gonna talk a little 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.840 bit about that. I'm gonna answer some of y'all's questions 0:03:20.400 --> 0:04:00.040 right here on the podcast. Roll that intron times and 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:23.120 long line up and down the back, rangyation. Okay, first 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.720 of all, crazy Week coming up. You guys are hearing 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.839 this on Monday. Where I'm sitting it is Saturday in Fredericksburg, Texas, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.200 back of the bus. That means for you listening, if 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.320 you're listening on in real time. And by the way, 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.479 these podcasts come out every single Monday morning, bright and early. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.240 So you know, the purpose of us putting it out 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.359 early morning on Fridays, my brain is lost. But the 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.960 purpose of us putting these out early mornings on Mondays 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.680 is so that you could get a kickstart into the week, 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:57.880 so that maybe you're you're going into work, you're commuting 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.240 your starting your day with your coffee and you need 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.359 something to listen to. Maybe that's on a job, or 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.359 maybe that's at the gym, or like I said in 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.200 the car, whatever, I want to jump start your week 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.719 and get you on the podcast. So that is why 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.880 we do this early Monday morning. That's why we don't 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.760 release it at like two o'clock or noon or whatever. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.680 We want to jump start your week with the Grangersmith Podcast. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.960 This week is going to be crazy because of Thanksgiving 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.960 on Thursday and then Black Friday on Friday, which is 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.560 pretty much the busiest day we'll have at ee Apparel 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.640 because we'll be doing all kinds of crazy sales and 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.360 people will be going to get stuff from ee Apparel 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.320 for Christmas, so we'll be in a mad rush like 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.360 we are every year to take those orders and turn 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:58.240 them around so that you could get your delivery before Christmas. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.480 And that is a little bit of an unknown factor 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:06.480 this year with COVID and with the maybe the delays 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.840 in the postal service, not sure yet, so we're going 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.640 to be going double time. We're also, as I mentioned 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.640 a little bit earlier, we're also playing a show in Odessa, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:22.400 Texas on that Black Friday. And on top of all that, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.680 that's not even the biggest part of what Friday is. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.320 The biggest part of what Friday is Black Friday, November 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:33.159 twenty seventh is the completion of my new album Country Things. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.280 So this will be volume two. Volume one came out 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:41.800 in September, and Volume two is eight new songs, and 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.480 this will complete the sixteen. So not only will you 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.560 be able to get Volume two in a digital format 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:55.560 where that's Spotify or Amazon or Apple YouTube, wherever you 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.200 like to listen to music, you'll be able to hear 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.280 those new eight songs. But what I think is cool 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:06.320 is this will also complete the project into the physical copy, 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.799 so you'll be able to actually get the physical CD, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.400 which I understand not that many people have CD players anymore, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.560 But I think in a lot of ways, some of 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.840 you might some of you might be like, no, that's 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.760 how I listen. But I think in a lot of ways, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.680 this is a collector's item. That's how I would look 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.480 at it. You get the physical CD. The ones we're 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.600 selling on our website grangersmith dot com or EEE dot 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.560 com are signed by me, So it's a collector's item 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.600 and you get to go through all the liner notes 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.440 and all that kind of stuff. We're also selling vinyl, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.040 So if you're into vinyl, same thing. You get the 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.840 big vinyl record in the case and you could either 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.920 I know some of you will probably want to play 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.960 that on your record player, and some of you may 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.560 not even have a record player. You just want the 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.440 vinyl because it looks cool and you could frame it, 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.040 you could put on the wall. This is a nice 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.760 little collector's piece. But bottom line is, I'm I'm so excited. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.640 I haven't even mentioned the music through all this, But 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.760 the most important thing to me is the music and 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.320 that you guys connect to these songs, that you could 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.560 relate to them, that they could move you, make you 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.280 feel something in some way, some kind of emotion. That's 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.920 what it's all about to me. And I believe that 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.240 this at least with the sixteen songs total and on 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.000 the by the way, on the physical CD, it's sixteen 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.920 songs plus that that's why I love Dirt Roads Lace 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.200 than Warlick version plus Holler. So there's eighteen songs on 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.520 the CD itself, and I think out of those eighteen songs, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.280 one of those songs is going to make you feel something. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.720 It's going to hit into your alley, I would imagine, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.000 I would hope, And that's always my goal is to 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.920 be able to as a songwriter, as a singer, as 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.599 a producer. I want to make a song, a collections, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:58.240 a collection of songs from based on my stories where 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.360 I could tell it in a way that connect with 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.760 you as well. So big deal, really big day. This 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.240 is my tenth studio album, Country Things, and it all 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:13.640 comes together. It's all finished this Friday, November twenty seventh, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.120 So you know that what that usually means is that night, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.480 wherever you are, whatever time zone you're in, it's going 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.120 to come out. So I'm in Central time zone, so 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.320 it's going to come out at eleven pm Central on 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.719 Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night. Digitally, you'll be able to hear 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:33.320 all these songs, and then through just the month of 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.800 December we'll be I'll be promoting that, we'll be putting 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.760 music videos out. There's two new, brand new Earl Dibbles 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.920 songs on this volume two. So we've already filmed one 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.600 of the music videos, which I'm going to approve today 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:51.280 from Paul, and then we're filming another one with another 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.920 YouTuber named whistland Diesel, and we're going to be filming 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.840 that coming up here. Actually this coming Sunday, we're rolling 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.400 Indiana on this bus to go film the music video 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.559 for a song called Diesel. That's an Earl song with 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.000 a YouTuber named Whistling Diesel. So that's going to be 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.360 a blast. Even if we don't get anything cool out 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.440 of that, I'm this is gonna be amazing experience for me. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.280 He's a cool YouTuber if you want to check it out. 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.319 He's got all kinds of diesel trucks and soups him 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.319 up and does crazy stuff out on his Indiana form. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.640 So so much stuff going on. You could you could 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.520 always find me an Amber on cameo if you want 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.760 like a quick shout out, like a I think we're 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.319 doing a Christmas special on cameo, So that's that's if 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.360 you want, like a you want to send a quick 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.440 gift to your friend or your family member of me 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.520 saying Mary Christmas or happy Birthday or Happy anniversary, or 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.640 a shout out of any kind of video message, then 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.760 I literally do it right here on my phone. So 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.400 that's what that's what is cool about cameo and then 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.400 the last thing I'll say before I get to these 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.880 questions is ye Nation dot com, which is the new 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.320 website that we started that's kind of an exclusive website 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:09.880 to fans that want to have an inside scoop, previews 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:14.720 of songs, me and Amber going live and answering your questions, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.840 exclusive content that no one else could find. That's an 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.679 e H dot com and you can get your first 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:24.480 month free with that. I want to address this question 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:30.200 that has come up overwhelmingly recently. I've joined this social 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:36.600 media website called Parlor. And when I joined, I went 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.960 to the other socials like Facebook and Twitter, and I 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.720 believe on my instat story and I said, hey guys, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.840 I'm on Parlor, now come follow me at granger Smith. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.520 And I got a lot of a lot of people 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.120 that are like, awesome, cool, And then there was a 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.520 handful of people that were like no, or goodbye or 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.559 see you later or I won't be following you there. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.480 And so let me explain that a little bit, because 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.959 then I got some questions through the podcast email, which 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.440 is Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. You could ask 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.360 me anything at any time, and I have that pulled 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.240 up on my phone right now Grangersmith podcast at gmail 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.080 dot com. If you want to ask me something could 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.520 be about anything. And I got a handful of them 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:28.520 boom that day. That was like, I'm very confused. I've 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.840 been a fan of you and your music, and I 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:37.200 respect your your your views and your your spiritual views 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.560 and your faith based views. But now I'm just so 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.680 confused because you joined Parlor and that is a terrible website. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:50.559 It harbors right wing conspiracy theories. And there was this 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.600 there was this little meme going around from Parlor that 0:12:54.720 --> 0:13:00.520 was like this this big, big conspiracy of some guy 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.839 on Parlor that was saying, I want to let's get 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:11.400 together and murder these democrats are something, and it was 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.840 and it was terrible to see that, to read that. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.559 But then I quickly looked on Parlor and that bad 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:21.000 account was obviously fake. It didn't exist, It was made up. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.560 So not to say that there aren't bad people on there, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.920 but the initial shock value of some of this stuff 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:34.520 was fakes, as in so many other things, and there's 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.880 bad people on every platform of social media. Why did 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.760 I join it? I got on there because I'm on 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.959 every social media platform. The only ones I'm not on 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.600 is I think it's called We Me, and maybe there's 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.080 a couple other smaller ones, and so I'm looking into 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.280 that right now. But Parlor was at the time it 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.760 might still be the number one downloaded app So anytime 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.360 something like that happens, as a as a musician, as 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.280 a public fit, I have to go. I have to 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.959 go capture my domain. At Granger Smith at Yee was 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.960 already taken, you know. So we got at Granger Smith, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.800 at Earl Dublins Junior, at Eye Apparel, and we have 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.960 to get that. If we don't, someone else will, So 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.240 someone else will go and get at Granger Smith and 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.960 then start posting as me. So to answer your question 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.840 in a very non exciting way, the main reason I 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.680 joined Parlor was to go and grab my domains. And 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.920 also I know that some of my fans are leaving 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.400 Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and going there exclusively, so 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.400 I don't want to lose them. So I'm all I'm 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.200 really doing is I'll go in and make a post 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.040 on Twitter and then I'll go to the same exact 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.840 post on Parlor. What is nice and a little bit 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.720 different about Parlor is it's uncensored. So that's that's The 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.520 thing that you guys are so worried about is that, 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.760 oh my go, it's uncensored. There's gonna be conspiracy theories 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:09.200 about right wing stuff. Well, what's nice for me is 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.840 that I can go deer hunting and post a picture 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.880 of me and the gun or which boom, I even 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.360 say that word and it picks up some algorithm on YouTube. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.240 But I could I could show that, I could show 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:27.400 harvesting a deer, which on a lot of other platforms 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.400 you get flagged for, you get banned for. And Earl 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.720 Dibbles Junior is constantly having stuff taken down because he's 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.040 posing with his twelve gauge or something like that. So 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.920 it is nice that I can go to parlor and 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.360 Earl Dibbles Junior could have his twelve gauge, or I 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:51.000 could have a deer or little things like that. But 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.280 other than that, there's not gonna be I'm not gonna 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:59.000 be posting anything different than I would on Twitter or 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.240 Facebook or Instagram or I mean, I'm on TikTok, I'm 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.120 on Snapchat, guys, I'm on all of them and looking 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.120 into whatever the newest thing is. That's just what I've 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.560 had to do. I was on my Space when it 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.840 was out, So that's just what I have to do. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.360 That's part of my job is to collect information. It's 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.560 not to go in and have some little secret meeting 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.080 on parlor where I'm listening, I'm watching all the secret 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.240 conspiracies and embedding myself and you know that's not that. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.280 It's not that. So yeah, if it offends some people, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.800 I understand that some people are probably still mad about 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.400 Parlor because they think that that's where people go to 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:43.480 bash the people of their kind. Man as simple as this, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.800 I'm not leaving your social media platform, so just don't 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.000 follow me there, but know that I'm just going on 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.240 there to post the same stuff. So it's just really 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:59.280 not that big a deal. I want to get into 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.640 some of these QUI questions now, So, like I said, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.639 Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com, I'm gonna get in 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.840 here and answer some of your questions. I have some 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:14.240 queued up right here. This one is from Alex from 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.679 Montana and the question says, Hey, Granger just wanted to 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.800 say I love watching your family on YouTube and listening 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.960 to your podcast. You guys are such an inspiration to 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.560 me and I'm so thankful for all and everything that 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.359 you do. Thank you. Alex says, I have a question 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.119 for you. I heard somewhere the other day. I forget 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.119 if it was in a video or a podcast about 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.120 being generous and having good things come back to you. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.400 When I have to turn down an opportunity. For example, 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.800 at the DMV the other day, the worker asked if 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.560 I would like to donate to a charity fund. It 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.640 was a ten dollars donation, but unfortunately I don't always 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.320 have an extra ten dollars to spare. When I have 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:57.600 to turn down these opportunities, does that bring me bad fortune? 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.880 I felt bad because I couldn't donate, so I made 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.840 it up in another way later that day, and I 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.440 was just curious what your thoughts are on that. Shout 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.760 out to Alex, thanks for the question. Shout out to Montana, 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.560 one of my favorite places, Alex, I do have an 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:18.480 answer for you, buddy, and me personally, I do not 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.560 believe in fortune of any kind. I don't believe in 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:31.240 I don't believe in luck or four leaf clovers or coincidences, 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:39.160 or fortune telling or card reading or tear a cards. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.679 I don't believe in any of that stuff around the 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.560 word fortune. Because and maybe you don't either, but you 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.879 did word it saying does that bring me bad fortune? 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.000 Maybe you meant to say something else. I don't know 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.640 how you could even not say it in that way 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.200 if you said karma. I don't believe in karma either. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:09.760 I'm a Christian. I have faith in God as a 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:16.400 sovereign God, meaning an all powerful creator that is in 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:21.600 control of everything. And and hey, if you don't believe 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:26.639 in God or a higher power or a creator, I 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.720 understand that you don't. But what I don't understand is 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.160 if you do believe there's a God or a creator, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.960 how could you not also believe that he is in control, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:43.400 complete control? So I don't I don't think it's very 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.159 hard for me to understand how you could think there 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:50.320 would be an all powerful being creator that just kind 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.000 of lets us do our thing, and he is He 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.480 kind of jumps in when he wants to and avoids 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.680 us at other times. That's it's not what the Bible 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.760 says at all. So if you read the Bible, it 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:08.200 is very clear that he is all sovereign, all powerful, 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:14.560 all controlling. And that's a deeper conversation and another kind 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.560 of question. And I don't mean to get good to 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.720 go down that road and sound like a Bible beater, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.680 but I do have Biblically, I do want to talk 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:27.920 about that alex and say that For example, Proverbs three, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.760 verses nine and ten says, honor the Lord with your 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.960 wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.240 Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:44.119 vats will overflow with good wine. So it's kind of 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.359 a biblical way of saying good fortune, right, like, you 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:55.320 give two places that need, and God will bless you 0:20:56.240 --> 0:21:00.840 with wealth, and it's not necessarily This might be a 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:06.080 misconception here. That's not necessarily money wealth or barns with 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.680 grain and vats with wine. That is definitely possible. He's 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:16.720 a god of every possibility in all miracles, but sometimes 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:20.600 it could just be blessings of hope or peace or 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:26.680 joy or contentment, which is so ultimately more important than 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:31.760 that money. Anyway, to get back to your question, though, no, 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.679 I absolutely do not believe that. If you're at the 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.880 checkout line at a grocery store and they say would 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.880 you like to donate to Saint Jude's Children's Hospital one 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.960 dollar and you say no, I don't believe that later 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.280 on that day you have a dark cloud over you 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.200 that then brings you some kind of weird bad luck 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.240 and you're going to step off the curb and twist 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.800 your ankle and your your ankle's gonna break and you're 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.280 going to go to the emergency room. Don't believe in that. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.760 You know some people do, but I would, if you're 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.960 asking me, Alex, dismiss that completely and say no, no, 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:12.359 I don't believe in bad karma, weird fortunes. I believe 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:18.040 that when I feel compelled by God to give, and 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.240 that could be you're walking on the street and you 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.080 see somebody and they're they're on the ground and they're 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.720 holding the sign, and sometimes you pass them and you 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.760 go that guy's fake. Sometimes you pass them and go, man, 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.080 something's tugging me to do something here. I might want 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:35.560 to pull a dollar out of my wallet and hand 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.080 it to the sky or girl. So that I believe 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.000 that that is when God speaks to you and goes, 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.159 I need you to help this person. In order to 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.240 do that, you really need to free your mind. You 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:50.880 really need to be open to listening to this kind 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:55.240 of direction, which is it's not easy if you're clouded 0:22:55.320 --> 0:23:02.280 by all the problems of the world. So yeah, I 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:04.760 believe listened to your heart and through your heart, that's 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.240 where God speaks to you. Don't worry about bad luck. 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:11.399 Don't worry about bad fortune. Give where you can, and 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.600 I do believe that the more you give, the more 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:15.639 you'll be blessed in return. If it's coming from the 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:18.600 right place, if you're coming from a place of man, 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:21.280 I'm so I got so much money that I could 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:24.080 give a little bit here and it doesn't even break 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:28.159 the bank. That's different. I'm talking about giving where you 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:34.280 can give, and you'll you'll eventually be judged on how 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.879 much you can give and how much matters, And so 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:42.880 I would I would encourage to give generously. Thank you, Alex. 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:47.639 I appreciate you, dude very much. I'm going to go 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:54.160 to I've kind of gotten these organized into light questions 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:56.520 and heavy questions. I started doing that because we could 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:59.080 get into too many heavy questions. So I'm going to 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:03.600 jump into a light of my light category. This question 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:05.800 is from Ben. He says, would you ever come to 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:08.200 Traverse City, Michigan for a show. I'd love to come 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.480 see you in concert. I love your music. It makes 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:12.200 me have a good day. So thank you buddy, Thank 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:18.399 you Ben. Absolutely, Traverse City is is on our stop. 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:21.159 We have stopped. We have played there before. I cannot 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:23.680 remember the life of me. I can't remember the name 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:26.159 of the venue, but we have played Traverse City and 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:31.399 up that upper hand of Michigan. Absolutely love Michigan some 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:37.000 of our favorite fans. Unfortunately, I know that our fans 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.639 in Michigan are struggling right now big time with this 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:42.960 with the virus. Not only the virus, but with the 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:46.879 government restrictions that you guys are having. So Michigan is 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:49.800 one of the places we won't be able to go 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:53.480 to for a while. This question is from Caleb. Next 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:55.520 it says, Hey Granger, my name is Caleb. I'm twenty. 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:57.920 I live in round Rock, Texas. Shout out to round Rock. 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:00.840 I've never been hunting before, but I've always wanted to 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:02.840 go ever since my dad told me a story of 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:06.000 his childhood hunting days. I'm looking at buying a rifle, 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.240 but I'm not sure which is the best for all 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:12.399 around game and or where I could hunt. Was curious 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:16.880 as to what kind of gun you would recommend, And yeah, 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:20.160 great question, I would say, first of all, you don't 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:23.800 need to break the bank on this, Caleb, and you 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:27.600 want to get something that is you're from Round Rock, 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:32.440 I'm assuming you're thinking mainly about white tailed deer. So 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:34.879 the reason I say that is be gonu to be different. 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:36.159 If you're like, man, I'm trying to go up to 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:39.440 the Northwest Territory of Canada and shoot a bear or 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:46.720 caribou or elk. So your your options for whitetail you're 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:51.880