WEBVTT - Shake the dead wood out of the tree 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:06.399 What's up, guys. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast, Episode 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.840 thirty one. Thank you for joining us on this journey, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.400 Thanks for listening, thanks for watching. I'm grateful as always 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.560 to have this kind of platform for speaking my mind, 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.079 telling stories, telling you about future events, talking about where 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.560 we are in our lives, and answering your questions, interviewing 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.440 some of my friends. I'm thankful for this podcast for 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.920 all the above, and I don't have an agenda today. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.760 I'm going to answer some more questions that I fieled 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.199 it off Instagram. I want to start before I say 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.760 anything else. I want to start you with this one. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.720 I heard this this morning. Abraham Lincoln said people are 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:50.760 just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Thought, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.680 that's a great way to open this podcast. And happiness 0:00:54.760 --> 0:01:01.480 is something that's constantly misunderstood, misquoted, and Lincoln said it 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.640 right in my mind, Lincoln said it right. Your's happy 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.000 as you make up your mind to be. How do 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.319 we know this? How do we know there's evidence of this? Well, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.080 because you hear stories all the time of people in 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.440 prison or in death camps, or in the rock bottom 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.200 what might appear to be rock bottom, and they have 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.600 good days, they find happiness. People are so resilient. And 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.959 then look at the opposite. You see people living life 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.880 in Hollywood at the very top of what you think 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.080 could be the financial food chain, and they're not happy. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.080 They're addicted to drugs, they're getting divorces, their kids don't 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:45.399 even come around. So success in a financial term, in 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:51.640 a monetary term, in a career type term, is not 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.800 relative to happiness at all. Happiness is mental. Happiness is 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.720 something that you make up your mind to be. Abraham 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.400 Lincoln and said it right. The guy became president for 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.520 a reason, and I think that's a that's a great 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.239 thing to be thinking about during this time, during the craziness. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.480 I just talked to a guy just now that's busier 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.600 than he ever has been, working more than he ever 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.440 has been. Business is great. And at the same time, 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.440 right before that, I talked to a guy who's out 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.600 of work completely with no side of coming back. So 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:30.120 I'm seeing both both sides to the story. The world 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.200 is not completely tanked, you know, because there's a lot 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.519 of people that are doing great, and I would like 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.160 to think that those people that are doing great could 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.960 then in turn stimulate the economy in certain ways that 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.760 will lead to helping the people that aren't doing great 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.960 the music business. Where I am, the touring business is tanked. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.760 There's nothing, there's no word of anything I've been I've 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.160 been trying. It's been, you know, the top priority to 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.320 get us touring again in some capacity, not even to 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.680 make money, but just to get our feet wet and 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.280 just to kind of begin the story. So we've been 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.480 talking to this amphitheater in South Austin about coming in 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.160 and everyone's social distancing, wearing masks, all that kind of stuff, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.400 and us putting on a concert for that that kind 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.400 of environment, maybe selling out a couple of nights in 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.919 a row. But a bunch of people got cold feet. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.040 So you know, I don't I don't totally blame them. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.600 I mean, I'm gung ho for it, but there's people 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.840 that are getting cold feet in terms of you know, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.800 whether it's a vendor or the venue itself, or insurance companies, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.800 booking agents, radio stations. Because everyone looks at this as 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.080 their reputation is on the line. I look a little 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.680 past that, but most people are looking at it like 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.320 you don't want to be the pioneer in this field, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:54.320 because the pioneers get the arrows, if you know that 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.040 what I mean, the first one, the first one out 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.600 on the prairie, gets the aros. And that's kind of 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.200 what everyone's thinking right now as far as the music 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.520 booking world. They don't want to go out on a 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.320 limb and put on a concert and then have the 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.400 media just crucify them saying you're being unsafe, you're putting 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.840 people at risk, you're causing death, you're putting lives in 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.880 your hands. The blood is on you. You know. They 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.280 don't want to hear that. That's going to look bad 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.880 upon them. So the plan B for me was possibly 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.320 a parking lot concert, going and putting on a show 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.320 to a parking lot where everyone's in their car or 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.920 sitting on their tailgate. So that's a really good option. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.880 And then the third option is online concerts, which we're 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.200 planning on starting here next week with the band. We're 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.520 going to do live from the Eege Farm, and we're 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.679 gonna do several, probably two episodes a week, several a month, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.200 and different locations on the EEG Farm. We'll do some 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.440 old songs, we'll do some acoustic, we'll do some full 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.039 band we'll play in the cornfield, We're play by the lake, 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.240 and we'll do it probably like Facebook Live and do 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:04.520 it like a Venmo tip jar for the band, something 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:10.359 like that. And and it is worth saying that, you know, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.719 I've done well. I've done well in the music business, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.360 me and my brothers, but not well enough to pay 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.640 everybody in the in the band and crew. Not not 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.159 well enough to pay seventeen people in their families and 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:26.919 keep everyone everyone you know. So and this is this 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.799 is not a rant, this is not a complaint because 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.039 as of right now, as of today, I feel very blessed. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:40.040 And as Abraham Lincoln said, I feel happy because I 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.240 was talking to my accountant today this morning, and it's 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.200 doom and gloom for a lot of accountants in the 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.320 music business. It's like, oh more bad news. Here's here's 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.200 the next bad news. You know, here's the next loan, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.640 or we extended the line of credit again, or we're 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.000 to take another loan out. And I just I told 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.560 her this morning, I said, you know what, she said, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.800 this is terrible, it's terrible. And I said, it's not terrible. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:09.240 It's not terrible. It's a setback. It is an obstacle, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.800 and I firmly believe that we will learn from this 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.159 and will be better because of this obstacle, because of 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.240 the setback. I firmly believe that I believe that we'll 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.880 all be kind of shaking the dead wood, shaking the 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.560 dead limbs out of the trees, and that makes for 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.680 a much more beautiful tree. When you do that, you know, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.720 it might take some weight off of it, it might 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.760 open up some sunlight a little bit, but it makes 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:36.000 a much more beautiful tree. And so we're gonna move. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.719 We're gonna get out of this house. We're gonna go. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.679 Me and the family are gonna go live in an 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:44.040 RV for a while, and so much more to that story. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.120 Don't worry, I will inform you of everything. And I 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.360 know I've kind of been teasing that idea we're gonna 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.680 inform you of everything on the Smiths, But there's a 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.839 lot more to that. And I'm so excited about this, y'all. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.240 I'm fully embracing it. The family's pumps. This is gonna 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:02.039 be a huge adventure and we're gonna we're gonna wade 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.880 out this craziness until we start touring, and it's going 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.440 to be so good. We're shaking all those all the 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:13.120 dead wood out, and I feel good. I feel really good. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.640 I'm way past the shock of twenty years of touring 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.960 and staying at home. Now is the new the new 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.680 life I have, and I'm I'm rejecting the term new normal. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.560 We're just we'll be back to where we were, and 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.360 I know that I feel confident about that. And when 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.080 we do start back, we'll be better. And and you 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.680 watching and you listening, you will too. You will too. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.120 There is no doom in gloom. This isn't terrible. You 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.800 know that this is uh, this is just a setback, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.440 and a lot of us are going to learn from this, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.080 and we'll we'll learn as a world, and we'll learn 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.480 who to listen to and learn who to trust, learn 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.960 learn what information is real and what's not. And and 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.720 by doing that we'll pay attention. We'll keep our eyes open, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.040 you know, we'll we'll keep our eyes open once again. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:05.840 Not a rant, not a rant, But I just want 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.360 to tell you guys, I am feeling good. I'm feeling 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.640 good because I do not tie my happiness or my 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:18.800 well being, or my gratitude or my gratefulness to a paycheck. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.400 No no, And I feel like, and I've said on 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:27.400 here before, our worth, our value is people, me and you. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.880 Our value is us. It's within us. It's not the 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.600 paycheck or what's sitting in some bank account or asset 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.640 of some kind. It's us. We're the value. We choose 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.800 to be the value. It's within us, and we are 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.840 the ever flowing waterfall of wealth that will keep replenishing 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.360 itself if we just let it and we realize that 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.200 and we don't stress over the few things that we 0:08:53.280 --> 0:09:00.319 do have. Right. How's that for a Monday morning. 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It's a way 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.960 of life that that I'm proud to be a part of, 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.640 and I hope that you are too, and I hope 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.640 that that's what we are offering when you join us 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:58.800 in a club like EE Apparel. I'm gonna get to 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.160 these questions. Filled it off of Instagram. Welcome to the 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:23.440 Granger Smith Podcast. During that intro break, I did a 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.520 conference call with the record label and we talked new songs, 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.120 and so I might as well just tell you guys 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.480 what we talked about. But we talked about I have 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.800 several songs. I have nine of them that are finished, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.560 and like several more that are in progress that I've 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.520 been writing and or they're already the work tapes are done, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.239 their demos are done, and we're ready to record the record, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.760 which I always do remotely. I do half of it here. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.880 I sing everything right here in this room, So there 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.599 is this whole shutdown thing. Is not any different for 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.400 me to be recording songs like this. So we're just 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.600 trying to decide on how to get them to you guys, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.040 talking about maybe a full album in September, talking about 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.160 maybe an EP before that. That's an option. There's many options. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.360 So the cool thing is we're getting approval on all 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.720 these songs to go ahead and put them out to you. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.120 It's exciting. Love it. I want to get to some 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:26.280 of these questions for you guys. How do you get 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.920 amped and ready for a show when you're not feeling 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.480 it that day? And I like that. I screenshoted all these. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.800 I did not prepare any of these, didn't take any notes, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.600 so I'm just gonna spit ball off the top of 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:37.959 my head. But I like that one. How do you 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.520 get amped and ready for a show when you're not 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.679 feeling it that day? And the reason that's a good 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:47.440 question is on a normal touring season, we will play 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.760 two hundred shows, and I'd be lying if I said 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.560 I was excited about every single one. Now, what determines 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.560 me being excited, I've learned, for the most part is 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.120 getting good sleep. If I don't get good sleep, it 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.080 doesn't matter if it's a stadium full of crazy people. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.120 It's hard when you get four hours of sleep to 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:13.800 get amped for anything and you're just you're mentally exhausted. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.359 You go through meet and greets, you go through soundcheck, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:21.960 and then here comes the show. And there's there's those 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.680 times there's there's a lot of shows that I'm so 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.440 excited for, and there's also a handful of shows that 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.520 I think I'm gonna be excited for, and then when 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.600 the day as the day starts unfolding. And a lot 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.760 of this, Guys, has to do with the flights man, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.880 and we take a lot of flights. And if I 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.560 if I, for instance, if I leave Austin, Texas on 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.720 a five am flight, I have to leave my house 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.720 two hours early. So I'm leaving the house at three, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.800 which means I'm waking up at two forty and then 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.400 I'm flying to Pennsylvania and we're doing a big show 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.440 there that night. If I don't, if I'm doing constant 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.120 meet and greets radio stuff, i don't have a nap, 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.800 and by the time the show comes around, I'm exhausted. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.080 So it's so this is why it's a good question. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.920 So I have to amp myself up. I have to 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.600 kind of get myself in the zone thirty minutes before 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.040 the show. I mean I have seriously sat backstage sometimes 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.200 and just slapped myself or have my drummer slap me. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.319 We like to do some kind of tequila or whiskey 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.240 shot that usually Guy opens my eyes. I used to 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.720 drink Aye Energy all the time. One before every show, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.640 we turn the music up really loud, whether we're on 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.679 the bus or in a green room, to kind of 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.679 acclimate our ears to the loud craziness that it's going 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:46.160 to be. And what usually happens is I'll walk out 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.200 on the stage and the lights come on and the 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.440 crowd's amped up, and it will energize me no matter 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.000 if I'm down or not. So I could literally be 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.000 backstage ten minutes before the show and feel like I'm 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.559 not ready. I don't have it. This crowd is too 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.640 good for me right now, I don't have it. But 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.040 then walk out there and it slowly charges me back up, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.920 and by song number three, I'm feeling great. The good 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.160 thing after that is then I'll crash and sleep so 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:21.720 good as soon as I get off the stage. The 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.800 next question is will you have an album with all 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.560 of your music from Holler and forward? And that kind 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.400 of goes to what this phone call I had, And 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.360 that was one of the exact questions that we talked 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:37.040 about will we include on this album Holler, Heaven, Bound Balloons, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.720 Damn Straight. That's why I love Dirt Road's four songs 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.880 that came out kind of on their own without an album, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.480 And the answer is probably yes, maybe not all four 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:52.240 of those, but maybe half of them, because we don't 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.080 want to come out with an album that has too 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.400 many songs that you already know, Otherwise that it decreases 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.480 the value for you as a listener if you're like, great, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.000 there's a new album and it's got most of the 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.120 songs I already know. So that's that devalues it a 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.320 little bit. So we want to we want to heavy 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.800 load it with things you've never seen or heard before, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.520 and that's going to be important, but we will probably 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.080 include a couple of those. What's the most humbling experience 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.920 you've had, without a doubt, as far as business, as 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.560 far as music business is concerned, without a doubt, falling 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.280 off the stage, breaking ribs, puncturing a lung in New 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.880 Jersey and then going to the emergency room right after 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:40.600 that show. And they didn't know it at first, but 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.480 there was a some kind of spinal threat that I 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.080 could have had a spinal problem, and so when they 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.000 figured out there could be a spinal problem, they immediately 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.440 put me on a stretcher to put me on an 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.160 ambulance and sent me to another hospital that was specialized 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.400 in spinal injuries, and they had a neck brace on me. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.000 And when I got to that hospital, they cut all 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.760 my clothes off of me. So I'm talking, no sheet, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.240 no nothing, I'm just laying on the you know, the bed, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.920 and there's like eight doctors and bright lights, and they 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.880 cut all my clothes off of me, and in fear 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.600 that you know, you start pulling clothes off and it 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:22.240 could rupture a spine that's already out of whack. So 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.240 I was just I was really drugged up, you know, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.560 I had morphine in me and whatever else they were 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.440 pumping me, so that that really helped that situation. But 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.080 at the same time, it was still the most humbling thing. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.800 And I remember then finally covering me up and wheeling 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.360 me out, and I was I was kind of in 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:44.360 the hallway on the bed, the rolling bed. I heard 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.840 someone down the hall plane if the boot fits on 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.960 the computer looking me up to see who I was. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:56.080 So humiliating, humbling. At the same time, I was grateful 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.800 that they were working so hard to get me feeling 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.680 good again. It was a terrible can those two ribs 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.760 in the back and puncture the lung. Is Oh, this 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.800 is such an annoying pain. It just constantly hurt. If 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.720 anyone's broken a rib, comment below on this YouTube page 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.800 or comment on social media. Have you broken a rib? 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.800 And mine were like split all the way, so completely separated, 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.640 and then they went into the lung so it punctured 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.080 it and I couldn't breathe. And if you if you've 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.040 had this happen, comment below. If you know someone that's happened, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.840 comment below. I'll see there, I'll see your comments. But 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:34.480 it is a it hurts really really bad. That goes 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.239 without saying. But at the same time, I like to say, 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.919 it's also just annoying. Man. It's annoying because you just 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.879 you finally kind of get comfortable and then you then 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.040 you gotta go pee. And there was this moment I'll 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.680 never forget from between getting comfortable with the ice pack 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.160 on my back, am I you know pillow under my knees, 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.879 I'm kind of propped up watching Netflix, and I'd have 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.680 to go pee really bad because I'm you know, drinking 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.960 a lot of water. So there's this moment halfway between 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.400 sitting and standing. That's the most excruciating pain I've ever 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.440 had in my life. So it was, you know, right 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.280 when i'd lean up, it would just send this shockwave 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.879 of nerves that were just nerves touching the spine and on, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.960 you know, the ribs. You can't secure them. You can't 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.680 you can't wrap your ribs or put a cast on 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.920 because it contracts your breathing. You have to breathe otherwise 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.240 you'll get in pneumonia. You have to deep breathe, so 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:36.200 that's part of the practice. So they're just flopping around 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.360 and you could feel the ribs flopping around and rubbing 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.919 on each other and hitting the spine all in the 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.239 nerves and it's like I've never been tased, but it 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.359 feels like it's just someone's just tasing you in the 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:53.360 back when you're trying to stand up. It's terrible. Let's 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:58.359 see the next question here. I'm ready for a new guitar. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.680 I want a twelve stream. What brand should I get? 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.200 I have a lot of thoughts and I kind of 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:06.639 feel like maybe one of these days I should do 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:12.840 a podcast on learning guitar and I am a little 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.439 bit against twelve string unless you're just a virtuoso and 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.600 you're a studio player and you or you love the Eagles, 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.000 or you know, unless you have a real reason for 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.000 getting a twelve string, I would be against a twelve 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.120 string guitar. It sounds cool, it looks cool, it's nice 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:29.640 for an album, you know. I used to have one 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.600 just for playing on the records, where I could just 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.119 give a nice little strum every now and then. But 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.800 what you really need is a six string, And especially 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.960 if you're a beginner, and the more of a beginner 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.080 that you are, I recommend Rick, or excuse me, I 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:47.399 recommend putting nylon strings on your six string, taking them 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.040 these steal strings off, just to go a little bit 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:55.040 easier on your fingers. And nylon strings are a lot softer. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.800 Some people call them gut strings. They're a lot softer 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:59.320 on your hands. When you're trying to learn and you're 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:03.040 trying to build up callouses. On a twelve string, it's 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.680 double the strings on each finger, so you got two 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.919 strings on each finger, and they are just it's harder 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.280 on your fingertips, and until you build those callouses, there's 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.320 just not a point to have a twelve string, So 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.200 I would stick with six. And when you stick with six, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.520 I would go with more of a name brand. I'm 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:28.720 always a Martin guy. You could go and when I 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.040 say Martin, there's high end Martins, and then there's there's 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:38.000 very affordable Martins. There's tailors, there's Takamini's, there's there's a 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.760 lot of brands. I would say, go with a more 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.920 well known brand and a lower model of that well 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.920 known brand, and then put nine on the strings on it. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.800 Any advice for feeling stuck in life, I'm on the 0:20:54.880 --> 0:21:01.359 right track, bad timing or so, it seems. Great question, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.280 really great question. And it's so easy to get stuck 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:11.920 in life, and it's so easy to feel like it's 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.879 so easy to feel like we are not achieving what 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.359 we need to be achieving, or we're not going in 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.560 the direction and we need to be going, when in reality, 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.119 all of that is mental. All the roadblocks are mental 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.840 that we have created. For instance, this whole shutdown thing, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:33.199 it's is it is it a derailment of what we 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.600 do or is it a way to refocus ourselves, knock 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:39.679 off some of the dead wood out of the tree 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:46.040 and refocus ourselves to a better way of doing the 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:54.240 same thing. And it's such an interesting mindset that feeling 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:59.080 stuck might not exist. It might all be mental. The 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.720 other thing to do is, if you're truly feeling stuck, 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:08.840 why not quit? Why not quit what you're doing. If 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.240 you're feeling stuck in your job, or if you're feeling 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:15.000 stuck in a relationship and you're not married, it's time 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.520 to break up. Period. As long as kids aren't involved, 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:19.320 that makes it more complicated. As long as you're not married, 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.119 that makes it more complicated. If you're feeling stuck in 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:25.639 a career, why not quit. If there's something you feel 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.960 like you could be doing that's better, why not go 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:35.560 after that? And that might require getting upgrading a degree 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.920 of some sort, which might require working some night hours 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.040 or studying some night classes while you're on the current 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.119 job you feel stuck in. So you feel stuck in 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:49.400 your job, and during the evenings you're upgrading your education online, 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.359 helping your resume build towards something that's bigger and better. 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:59.160 If you're feeling stuck monetarily money wise, why not sell 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.959 some stuff? Why not get out of that car that 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.960 costs six hundred dollars a month that it's you know, 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:08.560 it's a really nice car, it looks cool, but it's 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.200 six hundred dollars a month. And you know, you could 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:13.679 turn it in and you can get something that's one 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:15.840 hundred dollars a month, or you could pay cash or 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:17.800 something you could pay. You know, you could, you could, 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.040 you could buy something for two grand. You know, borrow 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:25.200 a little cash from your uncle, get something for two grand. Uh. 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:29.080 My point is stuck is such. I don't blame you, 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:33.320