Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome to the podcast is episode fifty
Speaker 1: nine Grangersmith Podcast. I'm in the back of my bus.
Speaker 1: That is something that's going to be rare here in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I only have, including tonight, I'm in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Speaker 1: I have tonight, I have another show in Odessa next
Speaker 1: week the day after Thanksgiving, and then I have a
Speaker 1: show in Corpus, Christy somewhere around the first week of December,
Speaker 1: second week of something like that, and that's it. That's
Speaker 1: it for twenty twenty. So in a way, in a
Speaker 1: strange way, I'll probably celebrate at the end of the
Speaker 1: show in Corpus the end of the craziest tour season
Speaker 1: of my musical life, as far as just the unknown
Speaker 1: and so many countless cancelations and rescheduled, rescheduled, reschedulings. And
Speaker 1: I mean we have played everything from driving movie theater
Speaker 1: side stages to outdoor venues with tables to chairs separated
Speaker 1: into groups, two minor league baseball stadiums separated into little
Speaker 1: pods on stilts. I mean, we've seen it all. And
Speaker 1: I will be so happy to close this year out
Speaker 1: of touring. Not to say that twenty twenty one is
Speaker 1: gonna be perfect. It's gonna definitely as we could all see,
Speaker 1: start off shaky. But I would imagine we're going to
Speaker 1: end twenty twenty one on such a better high note
Speaker 1: than we did this year. What's crazy is for me,
Speaker 1: we started this year in I believe our first show, Yeah,
Speaker 1: our first show was on the Loop Brian crashed my
Speaker 1: ply A tour in Mexico and can Kun, which is
Speaker 1: just so much fun. Big stage on the beach, a
Speaker 1: bunch of people in the sand as the sun's going down.
Speaker 1: That's how we started the year. And then we went
Speaker 1: from there to Los Angeles and played the Staple Center
Speaker 1: with Kane Brown and some other people I've already forgot
Speaker 1: who was on that show. Staple Center sold out my
Speaker 1: first time there. And then that's how the years started.
Speaker 1: And then we're going to end like this in total despair.
Speaker 1: In some way, there couldn't be a bigger contrast in touring.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I'm kind of over it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys are too. That's not what I'm
Speaker 1: here to talk about, not here to talk about the
Speaker 1: pandemic or the music business. I am here to talk
Speaker 1: about a couple things. One, social media and uncensored social
Speaker 1: media is what I want to talk about a little bit.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have been asking me questions over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Why in the world are
Speaker 1: you going to parlor? Why are you setting up social
Speaker 1: media on parlor? That's a that's a right wing conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory social media platform. And I'm gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about that. I'm gonna answer some of y'all's questions
Speaker 1: right here on the podcast. Roll that intron times and
Speaker 1: long line up and down the back, rangyation. Okay, first
Speaker 1: of all, crazy Week coming up. You guys are hearing
Speaker 1: this on Monday. Where I'm sitting it is Saturday in Fredericksburg, Texas,
Speaker 1: back of the bus. That means for you listening, if
Speaker 1: you're listening on in real time. And by the way,
Speaker 1: these podcasts come out every single Monday morning, bright and early.
Speaker 1: So you know, the purpose of us putting it out
Speaker 1: early morning on Fridays, my brain is lost. But the
Speaker 1: purpose of us putting these out early mornings on Mondays
Speaker 1: is so that you could get a kickstart into the week,
Speaker 1: so that maybe you're you're going into work, you're commuting
Speaker 1: your starting your day with your coffee and you need
Speaker 1: something to listen to. Maybe that's on a job, or
Speaker 1: maybe that's at the gym, or like I said in
Speaker 1: the car, whatever, I want to jump start your week
Speaker 1: and get you on the podcast. So that is why
Speaker 1: we do this early Monday morning. That's why we don't
Speaker 1: release it at like two o'clock or noon or whatever.
Speaker 1: We want to jump start your week with the Grangersmith Podcast.
Speaker 1: This week is going to be crazy because of Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: on Thursday and then Black Friday on Friday, which is
Speaker 1: pretty much the busiest day we'll have at ee Apparel
Speaker 1: because we'll be doing all kinds of crazy sales and
Speaker 1: people will be going to get stuff from ee Apparel
Speaker 1: for Christmas, so we'll be in a mad rush like
Speaker 1: we are every year to take those orders and turn
Speaker 1: them around so that you could get your delivery before Christmas.
Speaker 1: And that is a little bit of an unknown factor
Speaker 1: this year with COVID and with the maybe the delays
Speaker 1: in the postal service, not sure yet, so we're going
Speaker 1: to be going double time. We're also, as I mentioned
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, we're also playing a show in Odessa,
Speaker 1: Texas on that Black Friday. And on top of all that,
Speaker 1: that's not even the biggest part of what Friday is.
Speaker 1: The biggest part of what Friday is Black Friday, November
Speaker 1: twenty seventh is the completion of my new album Country Things.
Speaker 1: So this will be volume two. Volume one came out
Speaker 1: in September, and Volume two is eight new songs, and
Speaker 1: this will complete the sixteen. So not only will you
Speaker 1: be able to get Volume two in a digital format
Speaker 1: where that's Spotify or Amazon or Apple YouTube, wherever you
Speaker 1: like to listen to music, you'll be able to hear
Speaker 1: those new eight songs. But what I think is cool
Speaker 1: is this will also complete the project into the physical copy,
Speaker 1: so you'll be able to actually get the physical CD,
Speaker 1: which I understand not that many people have CD players anymore,
Speaker 1: But I think in a lot of ways, some of
Speaker 1: you might some of you might be like, no, that's
Speaker 1: how I listen. But I think in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: this is a collector's item. That's how I would look
Speaker 1: at it. You get the physical CD. The ones we're
Speaker 1: selling on our website grangersmith dot com or EEE dot
Speaker 1: com are signed by me, So it's a collector's item
Speaker 1: and you get to go through all the liner notes
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. We're also selling vinyl,
Speaker 1: So if you're into vinyl, same thing. You get the
Speaker 1: big vinyl record in the case and you could either
Speaker 1: I know some of you will probably want to play
Speaker 1: that on your record player, and some of you may
Speaker 1: not even have a record player. You just want the
Speaker 1: vinyl because it looks cool and you could frame it,
Speaker 1: you could put on the wall. This is a nice
Speaker 1: little collector's piece. But bottom line is, I'm I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I haven't even mentioned the music through all this, But
Speaker 1: the most important thing to me is the music and
Speaker 1: that you guys connect to these songs, that you could
Speaker 1: relate to them, that they could move you, make you
Speaker 1: feel something in some way, some kind of emotion. That's
Speaker 1: what it's all about to me. And I believe that
Speaker 1: this at least with the sixteen songs total and on
Speaker 1: the by the way, on the physical CD, it's sixteen
Speaker 1: songs plus that that's why I love Dirt Roads Lace
Speaker 1: than Warlick version plus Holler. So there's eighteen songs on
Speaker 1: the CD itself, and I think out of those eighteen songs,
Speaker 1: one of those songs is going to make you feel something.
Speaker 1: It's going to hit into your alley, I would imagine,
Speaker 1: I would hope, And that's always my goal is to
Speaker 1: be able to as a songwriter, as a singer, as
Speaker 1: a producer. I want to make a song, a collections,
Speaker 1: a collection of songs from based on my stories where
Speaker 1: I could tell it in a way that connect with
Speaker 1: you as well. So big deal, really big day. This
Speaker 1: is my tenth studio album, Country Things, and it all
Speaker 1: comes together. It's all finished this Friday, November twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: So you know that what that usually means is that night,
Speaker 1: wherever you are, whatever time zone you're in, it's going
Speaker 1: to come out. So I'm in Central time zone, so
Speaker 1: it's going to come out at eleven pm Central on
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night. Digitally, you'll be able to hear
Speaker 1: all these songs, and then through just the month of
Speaker 1: December we'll be I'll be promoting that, we'll be putting
Speaker 1: music videos out. There's two new, brand new Earl Dibbles
Speaker 1: songs on this volume two. So we've already filmed one
Speaker 1: of the music videos, which I'm going to approve today
Speaker 1: from Paul, and then we're filming another one with another
Speaker 1: YouTuber named whistland Diesel, and we're going to be filming
Speaker 1: that coming up here. Actually this coming Sunday, we're rolling
Speaker 1: Indiana on this bus to go film the music video
Speaker 1: for a song called Diesel. That's an Earl song with
Speaker 1: a YouTuber named Whistling Diesel. So that's going to be
Speaker 1: a blast. Even if we don't get anything cool out
Speaker 1: of that, I'm this is gonna be amazing experience for me.
Speaker 1: He's a cool YouTuber if you want to check it out.
Speaker 1: He's got all kinds of diesel trucks and soups him
Speaker 1: up and does crazy stuff out on his Indiana form.
Speaker 1: So so much stuff going on. You could you could
Speaker 1: always find me an Amber on cameo if you want
Speaker 1: like a quick shout out, like a I think we're
Speaker 1: doing a Christmas special on cameo, So that's that's if
Speaker 1: you want, like a you want to send a quick
Speaker 1: gift to your friend or your family member of me
Speaker 1: saying Mary Christmas or happy Birthday or Happy anniversary, or
Speaker 1: a shout out of any kind of video message, then
Speaker 1: I literally do it right here on my phone. So
Speaker 1: that's what that's what is cool about cameo and then
Speaker 1: the last thing I'll say before I get to these
Speaker 1: questions is ye Nation dot com, which is the new
Speaker 1: website that we started that's kind of an exclusive website
Speaker 1: to fans that want to have an inside scoop, previews
Speaker 1: of songs, me and Amber going live and answering your questions,
Speaker 1: exclusive content that no one else could find. That's an
Speaker 1: e H dot com and you can get your first
Speaker 1: month free with that. I want to address this question
Speaker 1: that has come up overwhelmingly recently. I've joined this social
Speaker 1: media website called Parlor. And when I joined, I went
Speaker 1: to the other socials like Facebook and Twitter, and I
Speaker 1: believe on my instat story and I said, hey guys,
Speaker 1: I'm on Parlor, now come follow me at granger Smith.
Speaker 1: And I got a lot of a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are like, awesome, cool, And then there was a
Speaker 1: handful of people that were like no, or goodbye or
Speaker 1: see you later or I won't be following you there.
Speaker 1: And so let me explain that a little bit, because
Speaker 1: then I got some questions through the podcast email, which
Speaker 1: is Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. You could ask
Speaker 1: me anything at any time, and I have that pulled
Speaker 1: up on my phone right now Grangersmith podcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. If you want to ask me something could
Speaker 1: be about anything. And I got a handful of them
Speaker 1: boom that day. That was like, I'm very confused. I've
Speaker 1: been a fan of you and your music, and I
Speaker 1: respect your your your views and your your spiritual views
Speaker 1: and your faith based views. But now I'm just so
Speaker 1: confused because you joined Parlor and that is a terrible website.
Speaker 1: It harbors right wing conspiracy theories. And there was this
Speaker 1: there was this little meme going around from Parlor that
Speaker 1: was like this this big, big conspiracy of some guy
Speaker 1: on Parlor that was saying, I want to let's get
Speaker 1: together and murder these democrats are something, and it was
Speaker 1: and it was terrible to see that, to read that.
Speaker 1: But then I quickly looked on Parlor and that bad
Speaker 1: account was obviously fake. It didn't exist, It was made up.
Speaker 1: So not to say that there aren't bad people on there,
Speaker 1: but the initial shock value of some of this stuff
Speaker 1: was fakes, as in so many other things, and there's
Speaker 1: bad people on every platform of social media. Why did
Speaker 1: I join it? I got on there because I'm on
Speaker 1: every social media platform. The only ones I'm not on
Speaker 1: is I think it's called We Me, and maybe there's
Speaker 1: a couple other smaller ones, and so I'm looking into
Speaker 1: that right now. But Parlor was at the time it
Speaker 1: might still be the number one downloaded app So anytime
Speaker 1: something like that happens, as a as a musician, as
Speaker 1: a public fit, I have to go. I have to
Speaker 1: go capture my domain. At Granger Smith at Yee was
Speaker 1: already taken, you know. So we got at Granger Smith,
Speaker 1: at Earl Dublins Junior, at Eye Apparel, and we have
Speaker 1: to get that. If we don't, someone else will, So
Speaker 1: someone else will go and get at Granger Smith and
Speaker 1: then start posting as me. So to answer your question
Speaker 1: in a very non exciting way, the main reason I
Speaker 1: joined Parlor was to go and grab my domains. And
Speaker 1: also I know that some of my fans are leaving
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and going there exclusively, so
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose them. So I'm all I'm
Speaker 1: really doing is I'll go in and make a post
Speaker 1: on Twitter and then I'll go to the same exact
Speaker 1: post on Parlor. What is nice and a little bit
Speaker 1: different about Parlor is it's uncensored. So that's that's The
Speaker 1: thing that you guys are so worried about is that,
Speaker 1: oh my go, it's uncensored. There's gonna be conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: about right wing stuff. Well, what's nice for me is
Speaker 1: that I can go deer hunting and post a picture
Speaker 1: of me and the gun or which boom, I even
Speaker 1: say that word and it picks up some algorithm on YouTube.
Speaker 1: But I could I could show that, I could show
Speaker 1: harvesting a deer, which on a lot of other platforms
Speaker 1: you get flagged for, you get banned for. And Earl
Speaker 1: Dibbles Junior is constantly having stuff taken down because he's
Speaker 1: posing with his twelve gauge or something like that. So
Speaker 1: it is nice that I can go to parlor and
Speaker 1: Earl Dibbles Junior could have his twelve gauge, or I
Speaker 1: could have a deer or little things like that. But
Speaker 1: other than that, there's not gonna be I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be posting anything different than I would on Twitter or
Speaker 1: Facebook or Instagram or I mean, I'm on TikTok, I'm
Speaker 1: on Snapchat, guys, I'm on all of them and looking
Speaker 1: into whatever the newest thing is. That's just what I've
Speaker 1: had to do. I was on my Space when it
Speaker 1: was out, So that's just what I have to do.
Speaker 1: That's part of my job is to collect information. It's
Speaker 1: not to go in and have some little secret meeting
Speaker 1: on parlor where I'm listening, I'm watching all the secret
Speaker 1: conspiracies and embedding myself and you know that's not that.
Speaker 1: It's not that. So yeah, if it offends some people,
Speaker 1: I understand that some people are probably still mad about
Speaker 1: Parlor because they think that that's where people go to
Speaker 1: bash the people of their kind. Man as simple as this,
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving your social media platform, so just don't
Speaker 1: follow me there, but know that I'm just going on
Speaker 1: there to post the same stuff. So it's just really
Speaker 1: not that big a deal. I want to get into
Speaker 1: some of these QUI questions now, So, like I said,
Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com, I'm gonna get in
Speaker 1: here and answer some of your questions. I have some
Speaker 1: queued up right here. This one is from Alex from
Speaker 1: Montana and the question says, Hey, Granger just wanted to
Speaker 1: say I love watching your family on YouTube and listening
Speaker 1: to your podcast. You guys are such an inspiration to
Speaker 1: me and I'm so thankful for all and everything that
Speaker 1: you do. Thank you. Alex says, I have a question
Speaker 1: for you. I heard somewhere the other day. I forget
Speaker 1: if it was in a video or a podcast about
Speaker 1: being generous and having good things come back to you.
Speaker 1: When I have to turn down an opportunity. For example,
Speaker 1: at the DMV the other day, the worker asked if
Speaker 1: I would like to donate to a charity fund. It
Speaker 1: was a ten dollars donation, but unfortunately I don't always
Speaker 1: have an extra ten dollars to spare. When I have
Speaker 1: to turn down these opportunities, does that bring me bad fortune?
Speaker 1: I felt bad because I couldn't donate, so I made
Speaker 1: it up in another way later that day, and I
Speaker 1: was just curious what your thoughts are on that. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Alex, thanks for the question. Shout out to Montana,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite places, Alex, I do have an
Speaker 1: answer for you, buddy, and me personally, I do not
Speaker 1: believe in fortune of any kind. I don't believe in
Speaker 1: I don't believe in luck or four leaf clovers or coincidences,
Speaker 1: or fortune telling or card reading or tear a cards.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in any of that stuff around the
Speaker 1: word fortune. Because and maybe you don't either, but you
Speaker 1: did word it saying does that bring me bad fortune?
Speaker 1: Maybe you meant to say something else. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you could even not say it in that way
Speaker 1: if you said karma. I don't believe in karma either.
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian. I have faith in God as a
Speaker 1: sovereign God, meaning an all powerful creator that is in
Speaker 1: control of everything. And and hey, if you don't believe
Speaker 1: in God or a higher power or a creator, I
Speaker 1: understand that you don't. But what I don't understand is
Speaker 1: if you do believe there's a God or a creator,
Speaker 1: how could you not also believe that he is in control,
Speaker 1: complete control? So I don't I don't think it's very
Speaker 1: hard for me to understand how you could think there
Speaker 1: would be an all powerful being creator that just kind
Speaker 1: of lets us do our thing, and he is He
Speaker 1: kind of jumps in when he wants to and avoids
Speaker 1: us at other times. That's it's not what the Bible
Speaker 1: says at all. So if you read the Bible, it
Speaker 1: is very clear that he is all sovereign, all powerful,
Speaker 1: all controlling. And that's a deeper conversation and another kind
Speaker 1: of question. And I don't mean to get good to
Speaker 1: go down that road and sound like a Bible beater,
Speaker 1: but I do have Biblically, I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about that alex and say that For example, Proverbs three,
Speaker 1: verses nine and ten says, honor the Lord with your
Speaker 1: wealth and with the best part of everything you produce.
Speaker 1: Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your
Speaker 1: vats will overflow with good wine. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a biblical way of saying good fortune, right, like, you
Speaker 1: give two places that need, and God will bless you
Speaker 1: with wealth, and it's not necessarily This might be a
Speaker 1: misconception here. That's not necessarily money wealth or barns with
Speaker 1: grain and vats with wine. That is definitely possible. He's
Speaker 1: a god of every possibility in all miracles, but sometimes
Speaker 1: it could just be blessings of hope or peace or
Speaker 1: joy or contentment, which is so ultimately more important than
Speaker 1: that money. Anyway, to get back to your question, though, no,
Speaker 1: I absolutely do not believe that. If you're at the
Speaker 1: checkout line at a grocery store and they say would
Speaker 1: you like to donate to Saint Jude's Children's Hospital one
Speaker 1: dollar and you say no, I don't believe that later
Speaker 1: on that day you have a dark cloud over you
Speaker 1: that then brings you some kind of weird bad luck
Speaker 1: and you're going to step off the curb and twist
Speaker 1: your ankle and your your ankle's gonna break and you're
Speaker 1: going to go to the emergency room. Don't believe in that.
Speaker 1: You know some people do, but I would, if you're
Speaker 1: asking me, Alex, dismiss that completely and say no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in bad karma, weird fortunes. I believe
Speaker 1: that when I feel compelled by God to give, and
Speaker 1: that could be you're walking on the street and you
Speaker 1: see somebody and they're they're on the ground and they're
Speaker 1: holding the sign, and sometimes you pass them and you
Speaker 1: go that guy's fake. Sometimes you pass them and go, man,
Speaker 1: something's tugging me to do something here. I might want
Speaker 1: to pull a dollar out of my wallet and hand
Speaker 1: it to the sky or girl. So that I believe
Speaker 1: that that is when God speaks to you and goes,
Speaker 1: I need you to help this person. In order to
Speaker 1: do that, you really need to free your mind. You
Speaker 1: really need to be open to listening to this kind
Speaker 1: of direction, which is it's not easy if you're clouded
Speaker 1: by all the problems of the world. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: believe listened to your heart and through your heart, that's
Speaker 1: where God speaks to you. Don't worry about bad luck.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about bad fortune. Give where you can, and
Speaker 1: I do believe that the more you give, the more
Speaker 1: you'll be blessed in return. If it's coming from the
Speaker 1: right place, if you're coming from a place of man,
Speaker 1: I'm so I got so much money that I could
Speaker 1: give a little bit here and it doesn't even break
Speaker 1: the bank. That's different. I'm talking about giving where you
Speaker 1: can give, and you'll you'll eventually be judged on how
Speaker 1: much you can give and how much matters, And so
Speaker 1: I would I would encourage to give generously. Thank you, Alex.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, dude very much. I'm going to go
Speaker 1: to I've kind of gotten these organized into light questions
Speaker 1: and heavy questions. I started doing that because we could
Speaker 1: get into too many heavy questions. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: jump into a light of my light category. This question
Speaker 1: is from Ben. He says, would you ever come to
Speaker 1: Traverse City, Michigan for a show. I'd love to come
Speaker 1: see you in concert. I love your music. It makes
Speaker 1: me have a good day. So thank you buddy, Thank
Speaker 1: you Ben. Absolutely, Traverse City is is on our stop.
Speaker 1: We have stopped. We have played there before. I cannot
Speaker 1: remember the life of me. I can't remember the name
Speaker 1: of the venue, but we have played Traverse City and
Speaker 1: up that upper hand of Michigan. Absolutely love Michigan some
Speaker 1: of our favorite fans. Unfortunately, I know that our fans
Speaker 1: in Michigan are struggling right now big time with this
Speaker 1: with the virus. Not only the virus, but with the
Speaker 1: government restrictions that you guys are having. So Michigan is
Speaker 1: one of the places we won't be able to go
Speaker 1: to for a while. This question is from Caleb. Next
Speaker 1: it says, Hey Granger, my name is Caleb. I'm twenty.
Speaker 1: I live in round Rock, Texas. Shout out to round Rock.
Speaker 1: I've never been hunting before, but I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: go ever since my dad told me a story of
Speaker 1: his childhood hunting days. I'm looking at buying a rifle,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure which is the best for all
Speaker 1: around game and or where I could hunt. Was curious
Speaker 1: as to what kind of gun you would recommend, And yeah,
Speaker 1: great question, I would say, first of all, you don't
Speaker 1: need to break the bank on this, Caleb, and you
Speaker 1: want to get something that is you're from Round Rock,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're thinking mainly about white tailed deer. So
Speaker 1: the reason I say that is be gonu to be different.
Speaker 1: If you're like, man, I'm trying to go up to
Speaker 1: the Northwest Territory of Canada and shoot a bear or
Speaker 1: caribou or elk. So your your options for whitetail you're
Speaker 1: going to get. Want something that's light and flat shooting caliber.
Speaker 1: So you know, you know a lot of people a
Speaker 1: good all around gun that has that has power, but
Speaker 1: it's still relatively light, and you could you can go
Speaker 1: anything from small game all the way up to shooting
Speaker 1: an elk. I love the two seventy for that. So
Speaker 1: what kind of brand that's really up to you? I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think if you got something synthetic, like a
Speaker 1: synthetic stock, and you got you a nice to seventy,
Speaker 1: you're not going to break the bank. Get you a
Speaker 1: decent scope on there. I shoot right now. I shoot
Speaker 1: a seven milimeter eight, which I've just shot since I
Speaker 1: was a little kid. I like seven milimeter eight for
Speaker 1: a white tail, and I don't. I just you can't
Speaker 1: go wrong with just a solid bolt action dear rifle.
Speaker 1: Can't go wrong. So go up to your you're in
Speaker 1: Round Rock, go to academy in Round Rock, or go
Speaker 1: to the academy in Georgetown and talked to those folks
Speaker 1: up there. They usually know what they're talking about. You
Speaker 1: could find something that doesn't break the bank. And you
Speaker 1: could get so much from YouTube these days, so you
Speaker 1: could literally go out in the field and watch the
Speaker 1: whole process on YouTube on cleaning a deer and processing
Speaker 1: and how to do everything you could find. You could
Speaker 1: find your answers. My dad, who I learned to hunt
Speaker 1: from his father, was not a hunter. My dad learned
Speaker 1: from a Field and Stream magazine, and he found how
Speaker 1: to gut a deer and pull pulled that page out
Speaker 1: of a Field and Stream magazine, cut it out, folded
Speaker 1: it up, put it in his pocket, and took that
Speaker 1: in the field with him. Shot his first deer, pulled
Speaker 1: that thing out of his pocket, unfolded that piece of
Speaker 1: paper and followed those with his sat there with his
Speaker 1: knife and followed the instructions on the Field and Stream page,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to me. That that's what he did.
Speaker 1: He was all by himself. So if my dad could
Speaker 1: do that, Caleb, you could do it too, buddy. And
Speaker 1: plus you'll have YouTube. It's a lot better than a
Speaker 1: folded up, filled the stream magazine article. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: a break. Grateful today that this podcast is sponsored by headspace,
Speaker 1: and you guys have heard me talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about the need to unwind in this craziness that we
Speaker 1: live in today, to be able to rest the brain.
Speaker 1: You always think about resting your legs, like you walk
Speaker 1: too long and you're like, man, I gotta sit down.
Speaker 1: I have to sit down and rest my legs. No
Speaker 1: one ever says that about the brain, like I need
Speaker 1: to sit down and rest my brain. But isn't it
Speaker 1: like the most powerful muscle in your body is the brain.
Speaker 1: The thing, the organ that sucks the most energy from
Speaker 1: your entire being, from all all everything, is your brain.
Speaker 1: It takes the most energy, and why would you not
Speaker 1: put that as a top priority to rest it. That's
Speaker 1: where headspace comes in, and I love this. It's just
Speaker 1: a simple app to be able to go and grab mindfulness.
Speaker 1: It's not a spiritual thing, by the way, too, like meditation,
Speaker 1: and mindfulness. Don't confuse that with some weird Eastern spiritual thing.
Speaker 1: It's not that mindfulness is slowing down your brain. Stop
Speaker 1: thinking for a second and let it recharge. Let it
Speaker 1: think about the present moment, like think about the next
Speaker 1: breath right here, right now for a moment and recharge now.
Speaker 1: The cool thing about headspace is that you could jump
Speaker 1: in and do like a crazy hour long session. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna do that. I don't do that.
Speaker 1: Or you could jump in and do a sixty second session.
Speaker 1: You could jump in and do a three minute session,
Speaker 1: ten minute session. Just unwind and they come in all
Speaker 1: different ways. You could also get in there and just
Speaker 1: have someone read you a story, like an old classic story.
Speaker 1: As you're falling asleep. You could listen to music. You
Speaker 1: could listen to like a soothing voice to get you
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Speaker 1: If it's not for you, which I think it's for everybody,
Speaker 1: but you could you could use it for your kids,
Speaker 1: Like imagine using it as a parent to help ease
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Speaker 1: during this craziness of twenty twenty, you're going to feel
Speaker 1: a lot better and have more energy if you sit
Speaker 1: down and rest your brain. Coming out of the break,
Speaker 1: I found a question here that's super heavy and I
Speaker 1: wanted to read it. It's eye opening and so brace
Speaker 1: yourselves a bit. But this question comes from Drew. It says,
Speaker 1: Hey Granger, my name is Drew Cole. I'm from Winchester, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I'm fourteen. I just wanted to say when I'm feeling depressed,
Speaker 1: or I'm upset, or i'm just happy, I just watch
Speaker 1: your channel in the Smiths. They helped me a lot.
Speaker 1: I lived with my mom for the first twelve years
Speaker 1: of my life, and her husband would punch me, break
Speaker 1: my arms with the baseball bat, and he would break
Speaker 1: anything I would get. And I've always wanted a Ye
Speaker 1: Yee shirt and hat, and every time I save up
Speaker 1: my money and get it, he would steal it. I
Speaker 1: still never got one, and I keep asking for something
Speaker 1: from ye dot com from Christmas for Christmas, but no
Speaker 1: one ever has enough money. Anyways. Thank you for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you because watching you and the Smiths inspired me
Speaker 1: to call the cops on my mom's husband, so now
Speaker 1: I don't have to hurt all the time. Thank you, Granger, dude, true,
Speaker 1: thank you for the email and your honesty. It's really
Speaker 1: it's really, it's really tough reading your words as a
Speaker 1: fourteen year old, because no fourteen year old should ever
Speaker 1: have to deal with something like this, being in a
Speaker 1: situation where your arms are being broken with a baseball bat.
Speaker 1: You did the right thing by calling the cops, and
Speaker 1: I hope you didn't ask me about any of this,
Speaker 1: so I hope I'm not speaking out of line, but
Speaker 1: I feel like because you're fourteen and you still have
Speaker 1: you still have so far to go. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm needing to just address the fact that I think
Speaker 1: you're right by calling the cops. You're right in everything
Speaker 1: you're thinking, and you're right by emailing verbalizing what's going
Speaker 1: on getting out of the situation. I'm going to email
Speaker 1: you back, which I don't like to do on this.
Speaker 1: I don't like to email back because I don't want
Speaker 1: this to be any kind of correspondence for most questions,
Speaker 1: but this is different. So I'm going to email you
Speaker 1: back from this account, and I'm just telling you so
Speaker 1: that you know it's me. But I'm going to email
Speaker 1: you Drew, and we'll talk, and I'm going to get
Speaker 1: you anything you need from yei dot com for Christmas,
Speaker 1: no questions asked. I'll see to it personally that I
Speaker 1: package it, autograph it, take care of you. And then
Speaker 1: I want to go even further than that and have
Speaker 1: you use this email to get a hold of me
Speaker 1: and we could talk anytime you if you get into
Speaker 1: this kind of situations again, and I need you to
Speaker 1: be able to reach out and just say hey, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm in trouble. It may maybe your situation is completely
Speaker 1: taken care of because, as you said at the end, anyways,
Speaker 1: thank you for dismiss because you inspired me to call
Speaker 1: the cops on my mom's husband, so now I don't
Speaker 1: have to hurt all the time. Buddy, I am. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna email you. I won't say this on the air,
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna I'm gonna take care of this
Speaker 1: the best I can. But just know that, dude, you're
Speaker 1: You're right by what you're thinking. Stay strong, stay tough.
Speaker 1: This will be the years that give you your power
Speaker 1: in the future when you get older. This, these stories,
Speaker 1: these moments, although crazy, tough and something I can't relate to,
Speaker 1: I do know that these stories will make or break you.
Speaker 1: And they'll either break you by just saying you don't
Speaker 1: want to do this anymore, or they'll make you by
Speaker 1: saying that's my power. That's where I learned how to
Speaker 1: fight through adversity, how to be strong, to be courageous,
Speaker 1: to appreciate those that are kind to me, to be
Speaker 1: accepting and forgiving and loving. And you'll be a man
Speaker 1: of integrity to its truest extent if you can make
Speaker 1: it through this and let this be your power to grow.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna email you Buck Drew, and then
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you, dude, thank you.
Speaker 1: Next question from Steve says, Hey Grander, my name is
Speaker 1: Steve from Pennsylvania. I love your music in your family.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear your input on the new
Speaker 1: concert restrictions they are trying to put an effect in
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania or maybe everywhere else. Not sure. I hear they're
Speaker 1: going to make you show COVID test results on paper
Speaker 1: to buy tickets and to get into a venue. I
Speaker 1: can understand that being safe, but I think this is
Speaker 1: going a little too far. I would love to hear
Speaker 1: your input. Thank you for giving us healing in your music,
Speaker 1: in your videos. Thank you, Steve. Shout out to you,
Speaker 1: and shout out to my people in Pennsylvania. Love that state. Okay,
Speaker 1: Here's what I think, and probably what you've seen, Steve,
Speaker 1: is the messages on social media about Ticketmaster, who is
Speaker 1: a third party ticket distribution company. They are the mediator
Speaker 1: between a venue or promoter and the fans to in
Speaker 1: a ticketing platform that allows people to go online and
Speaker 1: search for a concert they find it on Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster
Speaker 1: then has the back end for their website and everything's
Speaker 1: set up perfect boom, buy the ticket, it filters back
Speaker 1: through the to the venue, the Ticketmaster team gets a
Speaker 1: cut for being the host of it, and then the fan,
Speaker 1: the customer could print out the ticket or use an
Speaker 1: online version and then go to the concert. It's a
Speaker 1: super easy system and it's it just becomes the middleman
Speaker 1: between the music venue and the customer, so that the
Speaker 1: music venue doesn't have to be in the ticketing business.
Speaker 1: They could just worry about putting on a concert, putting
Speaker 1: on a good show, putting you know, facilitating fans and
Speaker 1: restrooms and concessions and drinks and lines and parking. They
Speaker 1: could deal with that, then don't have to deal with
Speaker 1: the ticketing aspect. That's what Ticketmaster does. So although Ticketmaster
Speaker 1: is not a necessity, they're just a nice luxury that
Speaker 1: most venues would like to pay someone to do it.
Speaker 1: Ticketmaster is one of them. And what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do here is I'm trying to build up this story
Speaker 1: where I'm not demonizing Ticketmaster. I don't have any Ticketmaster
Speaker 1: is not a company that's like going to help me
Speaker 1: further my career, you know. So it's not like I
Speaker 1: need to build them up because it doesn't matter my
Speaker 1: relationship with Ticketmaster. The only thing that matters for me
Speaker 1: is that people buy tickets to my shows. What I
Speaker 1: think that they're doing is, and what you're alluding to, Steve,
Speaker 1: is that Ticketmaster announced recently that they would be requiring
Speaker 1: vaccination proof before you purchase a ticket, which a lot
Speaker 1: of people just went into an uproar about this. What
Speaker 1: they're trying to do is in my opinion, I haven't
Speaker 1: talked to them. I don't know, but I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at it from a business standpoint, and Ticketmaster is probably
Speaker 1: just dying right now as a company without live music
Speaker 1: or live entertainment or sports, they're probably just being crushed
Speaker 1: right now. So they're thinking, you know, in their little
Speaker 1: board meetings, big board meetings, they're thinking, what can we
Speaker 1: do to build the confidence back up into the ticket
Speaker 1: buyer so that they feel comfortable and confident to go
Speaker 1: to live events again In twenty twenty one, oh, somebody's like,
Speaker 1: I got an idea. Let's make sure that when they
Speaker 1: have the COVID vaccine that you have to scan that
Speaker 1: in or put your COVID vaccine number or whatever they're
Speaker 1: going to do, and you have to do that as
Speaker 1: part of the purchasing process. And then they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a great idea, and they're what they
Speaker 1: probably didn't think maybe they did they maybe they underestimated
Speaker 1: the amount of people that were going to be like,
Speaker 1: that's private information that my health records is private information
Speaker 1: that I should not have to disclose to somebody I
Speaker 1: don't know for it to verify me to go to
Speaker 1: some kind of entertainment. So I don't really care. I
Speaker 1: don't really lean either way to answer your question, Steve,
Speaker 1: like I'm not I'm not gonna sit here and say
Speaker 1: Ticketmaster you are wrong, you need to revoke that statement.
Speaker 1: I don't really care because I operate in my business
Speaker 1: through many third party ticketing systems, including mom and pop
Speaker 1: prints out the tickets, you know, at the out of
Speaker 1: the printer. So I mean a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of concerts, Like I'm thinking the one tonight you could
Speaker 1: purchase online, but if you walk up to the door,
Speaker 1: you could probably just you know, purchase at the will
Speaker 1: call and go right in. So there is not a
Speaker 1: Ticketmaster involved today, and there's not Ticketmaster involved in a
Speaker 1: lot of shows just the big the big time here,
Speaker 1: huge massive arena shows like Staple Center we played earlier
Speaker 1: this year. Here's my point, there's going to be a way.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of ways around this. And
Speaker 1: how how would Ticketmaster enforce that? If you how would
Speaker 1: Joe Bob buys ten tickets for his family online? How's
Speaker 1: he supposed to get everyone's vaccination records? And if they
Speaker 1: are requiring that, that's going to be really difficult to
Speaker 1: prove and really tough on that company. When a lot
Speaker 1: of venues, when they see that happening and they see
Speaker 1: Joe Bob doesn't want to go anymore, they're gonna go, well,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna use Ticketmaster. We're gonna print the tickets ourselves.
Speaker 1: Point being, Steve, I don't think it's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: I think I think you're gonna be fine. I think
Speaker 1: this whole proof of vaccination thing could be a bigger
Speaker 1: problem than itself through a lot of other ways. And
Speaker 1: I think if it is a problem in other ways,
Speaker 1: then live event ticketing is going to be the least
Speaker 1: of our concerns. If it gets to be what some
Speaker 1: of the conspiracies have said on parlor just kidding, just kidding,
Speaker 1: just kidding. So that that's my thought, Steve. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the question. Man. Cannot wait to see you at a concert,
Speaker 1: probably without Ticketmaster. Here's a question that says, Hey Granger,
Speaker 1: my name is Ansel Frost. I'm from the Upper Peninsula
Speaker 1: of Michigan, which we just talked about. I saw you
Speaker 1: play at the Escanaba State Fair a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I've been following you and Yee Nation long before
Speaker 1: and after that. You are an inspiration to me and
Speaker 1: everything you do, especially you as a dad. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I have a question about the truck giveaway. If you're
Speaker 1: not of the age of eighteen at the time of
Speaker 1: the giveaway, but the person you bring is over the
Speaker 1: age of or actually twenty one and up, could you
Speaker 1: still have a chance at winning the truck? Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. And it ends with never stop saying yee yee.
Speaker 1: I like that, never stop saying ee. Shout out to you, Ansel,
Speaker 1: shout out to the up of Michigan. Such a crazy place.
Speaker 1: If y'all haven't. If you haven't problem, I'm assuming most
Speaker 1: people listening to this podcast have never been to the up.
Speaker 1: It's a different world. It is a very different world
Speaker 1: up there. And she's referring to the truck giveaway. I'm
Speaker 1: giving away my personal truck that I've been driving for
Speaker 1: ten years. I'm going to give it away. And the
Speaker 1: way you enter the contest is either one dollar spent
Speaker 1: at ee dot com enters you into the Raffle, you
Speaker 1: buy one album that's twenty Raffle tickets, or you can
Speaker 1: use the no purchase necessary at ee dot com. You
Speaker 1: could find the info for that. You actually send a
Speaker 1: letter and that letter becomes your entry to the contest.
Speaker 1: We are going to pick five winners on December fourth
Speaker 1: and fly everyone down to the EU Farm. You put
Speaker 1: your hand on the truck. If the last person take
Speaker 1: their hands off the truck wins the truck. That's the contest.
Speaker 1: So what you're referring to is if you're not the
Speaker 1: age of eighteen, you we're also going to fly a
Speaker 1: teammate in. So yeah, absolutely, Ansel, don't even worry about it.
Speaker 1: If you've got someone that's twenty one, we could just
Speaker 1: register that contest through that person. And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: exactly all the legal stuff, but it's really not going
Speaker 1: to be a big deal. I hope that you win.
Speaker 1: I hope that you come all the way from the up.
Speaker 1: Next question from Johnny B says Christmas album question mark.
Speaker 1: Say hey Grangel, my name is John Bonnet. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you a question. Have you ever considered
Speaker 1: putting out a Christmas album or just a few Christmas songs?
Speaker 1: I know every artist in their mama has a Christmas
Speaker 1: album and it would seem like white noise out on
Speaker 1: the market, But to be able to add a Christmas
Speaker 1: album to your collection? Also, what's your favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 1: Mine and my daughter's favorite is Silent Night. Hope you
Speaker 1: and your family have a wonderful and blessed Christmas this year.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Johnny doesn't say where you're from. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: thank you Johnny wherever you are. Appreciate your writing to
Speaker 1: the podcast. And I have thought about Christmas albums, and
Speaker 1: it's always just a matter if you need to record those,
Speaker 1: or at least you need to be on the ball
Speaker 1: by June to get everything rolling for it Christmas release.
Speaker 1: So I'm always like, yeah, I need to do it,
Speaker 1: and then June comes and I'm working on some other
Speaker 1: project and it gets pushed back. But I've always thought
Speaker 1: it'd be really cool for Earl to have a Christmas
Speaker 1: song or a Christmas collection of songs. Have like a
Speaker 1: redneck Christmas collection. I think that would be great. My
Speaker 1: favorite Christmas song is probably not what you expect, but
Speaker 1: I love Blue Christmas by Elvis. It's just unassuming Christmas song.
Speaker 1: But I always like really sad music that makes you
Speaker 1: feel good on the inside, and something about that song
Speaker 1: always makes me feel good. I also really like bluegrass
Speaker 1: acoustic Christmas classics with no singing, so that's what I
Speaker 1: would put on in the background. Amber doesn't it. Amber
Speaker 1: likes the rat pack, old jazz and super modern pop
Speaker 1: like those are the two the only two stations that
Speaker 1: would be playing in our house. Like the I say
Speaker 1: super modern, but she would lean towards like the Mariah
Speaker 1: Carey Christmas album I think, and I like a country
Speaker 1: acoustic bluegrass Christmas tunes. It's probably strange, that's just where
Speaker 1: I lean. Thank you, Johnny. Let me see what else
Speaker 1: we have here. This question says, Hey, Granger and Amber,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to take time to thank you all
Speaker 1: for being so genuine and open about your loss. I
Speaker 1: lost a cousin when I was eleven years old. He
Speaker 1: was thirteen, and I'm twenty five now. I'm listening to
Speaker 1: your podcast with Amber, and Mallory asked the question, how
Speaker 1: do you not be afraid of loss? That's something that
Speaker 1: I've struggled with since my cousin died in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. Loss is horrible. Loss is hard, but it's
Speaker 1: something that we all go through, and I appreciate Amber's
Speaker 1: comment about how when you're living in constant fear, you're
Speaker 1: missing the moments in life where you are. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm newly married and we're starting a family, and I'm
Speaker 1: honestly tired of living in that constant fear that something's
Speaker 1: going to happen to my husband. I'm robbing myself of
Speaker 1: all the wonderful memories that we are making in this
Speaker 1: life together. Thank you for your encouraging words about living
Speaker 1: each day fully. God is in control, and what a
Speaker 1: sigh of relief to know that I don't have to
Speaker 1: be our God is a loving God, and I truly
Speaker 1: feel that the loss of your son has been in
Speaker 1: the way God can touch those around you. Thank you
Speaker 1: for being inspiration and letting God shine through your family
Speaker 1: and you. I'm so sorry for the pain your family
Speaker 1: has been through. I'm amazed by the strength that God
Speaker 1: can give us to push forward. God bless you all, Amber,
Speaker 1: Thank you for this question. It's such a good question,
Speaker 1: so important. The question of struggle and loss and perseverance
Speaker 1: and pain and suffering is something that will always plague humanity,
Speaker 1: always has, always will, and the search to cure that
Speaker 1: well is just as prevalent as it is real in
Speaker 1: our lives. The crazy thing about your question, Amber, how
Speaker 1: you're saying, where's your actual question to see? I'm living
Speaker 1: in constant fear? How do you not live in constant fear?
Speaker 1: And then you go on several times in this email
Speaker 1: you go on to answer your own question in a
Speaker 1: really good way, and you're saying you've struggled with the
Speaker 1: question how do I not be afraid of loss? And
Speaker 1: then you'll go right back and say, but I'm robbing
Speaker 1: myself of all the wonderful memories we're making this life together.
Speaker 1: So you know, I can't answer the question better than
Speaker 1: you already phrased it in all of your different moments
Speaker 1: here in this email, Amber, But I would say this,
Speaker 1: you don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. You
Speaker 1: don't know, and you're so right when you say you're
Speaker 1: robbing yourself of today when you're worried about tomorrow. So
Speaker 1: you could you have a choice. All of us have
Speaker 1: a choice to live timid, to live scared, to live afraid,
Speaker 1: or to live fully. And even if, even if that's
Speaker 1: a short life, would you rather I mean, you might
Speaker 1: lose your husband tomorrow, you might lose them tomorrow. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest. Everyone listening to this podcast knows that that's
Speaker 1: a possibility because there's one there's one statistic that is
Speaker 1: absolute in humanity, and that's death. Last I checked that
Speaker 1: that statistic is ten out of every ten people will die.
Speaker 1: So me, you, your husband, and everyone listening to this
Speaker 1: podcast will die. It's just a matter of when and how.
Speaker 1: That's the only things we don't know is when and how.
Speaker 1: But we all know that we will. It's it's what's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's actually easier to think that other people will die
Speaker 1: than it is thinking we will. Like it's very weird thinking.
Speaker 1: Granger Smith me, I have a exact day in time
Speaker 1: and second that that will happen. It's already written. It's
Speaker 1: already in stone of some sort, not on this earth,
Speaker 1: but it is written the exact second that I will
Speaker 1: take my last breath, my last moment, it's already done.
Speaker 1: That is that is unavoidable and very very strange. This
Speaker 1: it could be today, it could be today, it could
Speaker 1: be in forty years. So that's the choice we're given.
Speaker 1: How do we live knowing that fact? And how do
Speaker 1: we love knowing that fact? So if you could say,
Speaker 1: if you know that your husband's going to die, you
Speaker 1: hope that it's in sixty years, but it could be today,
Speaker 1: how does that affect your love? Because if you live
Speaker 1: scared and love scared for forty or fifty or sixty years,
Speaker 1: that's a pathetic life. You know that. I know that.
Speaker 1: But what if you loved him like today was your
Speaker 1: last day, and then you wake up tomorrow and you
Speaker 1: got him again for another day, so you love them
Speaker 1: again like it's the last day, and then that becomes
Speaker 1: three days, and then four days, and then two weeks,
Speaker 1: and then that becomes two months, and that two months
Speaker 1: becomes a year, and one year becomes five years. And
Speaker 1: what if you go through these months and weeks and
Speaker 1: days these years loving like you don't know what tomorrow
Speaker 1: is gonna bring. I think that's your answer. That's how
Speaker 1: you do it instead of being scared of loss, you love,
Speaker 1: like loss is very possible, Like loss could happen at
Speaker 1: any time, Like every time he gets in the in
Speaker 1: the truck to go to the grocery store, you hug
Speaker 1: him because he might not come home if you lived
Speaker 1: your life not in fear, not in a scared way,
Speaker 1: like not like hey, come here, hug me real quick.
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose you. It's it's more like, hey,
Speaker 1: come here, give me a hug, and you squeeze him.
Speaker 1: I was telling Amber just yesterday when I saw her,
Speaker 1: I was leaving for this little tour, and she hugged
Speaker 1: me and she squeezed me, and I said, you better
Speaker 1: squeeze me. I might not come home. And it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of a joke, sick, a sick joke, but it's true.
Speaker 1: And my uncle Johnny, who is always very aware of
Speaker 1: things like this, and he was with the his wife
Speaker 1: one day and they were visiting her father and as
Speaker 1: they were leaving, they got in the car and she's like, hurry,
Speaker 1: we got to get home. We got to get home.
Speaker 1: And he was like, hey, go go hug your dad
Speaker 1: one more time. She's like, oh, we got to go,
Speaker 1: and we're late. Johnny were late, and he's like, go
Speaker 1: hug your dad. You just never know, you never know
Speaker 1: if you're going to see him again. And she said, Johnny, go,
Speaker 1: So he left, and shortly after that he died. The
Speaker 1: father and my uncle Johnny's wife never lived that down,
Speaker 1: that she didn't listen to Johnny's advice to just hug
Speaker 1: him one more time. She never never lived that down.
Speaker 1: And it's really difficult. You don't want to be in
Speaker 1: that situation. Amber, You don't want to be in that
Speaker 1: kind of situation. So take that advice. Hug him one
Speaker 1: more time, treat him like today's the last, but you
Speaker 1: hope it's going to be another sixty years. And I
Speaker 1: think you'll see a wonderful, fruitful life because of that.
Speaker 1: Good questions, guys, and if anyone else has any email me.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to answer them.
Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. I'll break right here,
Speaker 1: see yeah bye. Thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast.
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