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Speaker 1: the Grangersmith Podcast. Ye Ye did Kids and dun tires
Speaker 1: and school, long line of five, four of husband downed
Speaker 1: on the back range and cold. Yeah you'retion you are
Speaker 1: ready for this? You want to tell me? I want
Speaker 1: to tell you something that is man. This gives me
Speaker 1: that he with gs gives me the goosebumps. We're living
Speaker 1: amber and I and the kids are living in a
Speaker 1: barn right now. We're living in an RV, an awesome
Speaker 1: RV from Explore USA, and we're building, or we're about
Speaker 1: to start building a farmhouse that we've designed out in
Speaker 1: the pasture in front of the barn. So I thought
Speaker 1: it'd be a great adventure to live in this barn
Speaker 1: as opposed to you know, some people when they build
Speaker 1: a house, they live with friends, or they lease or
Speaker 1: rent a house, they get a little condo. And I
Speaker 1: just didn't want to do any of that. I wanted
Speaker 1: an adventure, and I wanted something my kids could remember
Speaker 1: for a long time. So I told Amber, I said,
Speaker 1: what if we actually got an RV pulled it into
Speaker 1: one of the barns, which is a great perk of
Speaker 1: the property to have these two barns. It didn't have
Speaker 1: a house on it, but it was beautiful piece of
Speaker 1: land and it had two barns and a windmill and
Speaker 1: a well. So I was like, well, we got you know,
Speaker 1: half the battle right there. All I ever want on
Speaker 1: property is barns. Anyway, So this one's aready got it?
Speaker 1: Why don't we live in it? And then we could
Speaker 1: have this adventure and we could watch the house come up,
Speaker 1: the kids could have great memories. And what has happened though,
Speaker 1: And it's been awesome, but it has a few setbacks.
Speaker 1: And one of the setbacks is we are at the
Speaker 1: mercy of the elements at all times. Like if it's
Speaker 1: hot outside and it's been one hundred and five in
Speaker 1: Texas these last few weeks, it is hot in that barn.
Speaker 1: I mean it gets up to over one hundred inside
Speaker 1: the barn and it's insulated, and then the RV, of
Speaker 1: course it has acs on it, but it has trouble
Speaker 1: keeping up with that kind of temperature. So we're really
Speaker 1: looking forward to September when things are cooling down and
Speaker 1: we could relax a little bit and actually hang out
Speaker 1: in the barn itself instead of being cooped up in
Speaker 1: the RV and sweating. But that being said, I got
Speaker 1: to tell you something terrifying last night. And before I
Speaker 1: start that, let me just say we've seen we have
Speaker 1: been at the mercy of the elements. We've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, and we the last several years. Amber
Speaker 1: and I have lived in Central Texas for a long time,
Speaker 1: and so we're used to scorpions and spiders and snakes
Speaker 1: and mice and lizards and skunks and possums, raccoons, bats,
Speaker 1: We've had bats in the barn, so you name it.
Speaker 1: We've been exposed. I just killed a rattlesnake day before yesterday, Luckily,
Speaker 1: I was dove hunting with Lincoln, so I'd walked up
Speaker 1: on a rattlesnake in the pasture with a loaded shotgun
Speaker 1: on my shoulder, so that was convenient. But we have
Speaker 1: seen all these creatures and they have all made their
Speaker 1: appearances in the barn. Had a baby snake in the
Speaker 1: bathroom in the barn. Like I said, We've had a bat.
Speaker 1: We've had countless scorpions that I find in my boots
Speaker 1: that I dump out, which is always shake your boots
Speaker 1: before you put them on, great piece of advice there
Speaker 1: the scorpion might fall out. But we see spiders, a
Speaker 1: lot of spiders, and we're used to trantulas, we're used
Speaker 1: to spiders, but in this particular barn, we have a
Speaker 1: lot of wolf spiders. Do you guys know what wolf
Speaker 1: spiders are? They get really big. I mean those suckers
Speaker 1: will get as big as they'll get as big as
Speaker 1: my palm without the fingers, and we see we see
Speaker 1: them everywhere, and we're just kind of used to them.
Speaker 1: It's not that big a deal. We you know, we
Speaker 1: go into the bathroom to brush our teeth in the
Speaker 1: morning and there's a there's a big wolf spider like
Speaker 1: right there on the ground, and we usually kill them.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't really mind them that much. Besides,
Speaker 1: they're just hideous to look at. So usually just get
Speaker 1: a paper towel and you know, drop it on top
Speaker 1: of them, and it's kind of squish them with your
Speaker 1: fingers and throw them in the trash. That's kind of
Speaker 1: the routine except for last night. And here's my story.
Speaker 1: Last night, I'm getting out of the bathroom out of
Speaker 1: taking a shower, and I'm just coming in there with
Speaker 1: my shorts on, nothing else, just shorts on. And I
Speaker 1: walk through barefoot all the time. I walk outside barefoot,
Speaker 1: I walk in the past your barefoot. I walk on
Speaker 1: the gravel road barefoot. I walk all in the barn barefoot,
Speaker 1: and probably shouldn't do that. Like I said, I killed
Speaker 1: a snake the day before yesterday, and scorpions are everywhere,
Speaker 1: but I'm just I just don't care anymore. So I
Speaker 1: just I'm barefoot, and I'm walking through the barn and
Speaker 1: I look over and Gypsy and Remy are two dogs
Speaker 1: are laying in their beds, and right next to them
Speaker 1: there's this big wolf spider big. It's bigger than anything
Speaker 1: i've described. I mean, it's all the way as big
Speaker 1: as my hand, including my fingers spread out. And I
Speaker 1: was like, ah, I mean it looked when I saw
Speaker 1: it because it was kind of dark in the barn
Speaker 1: at night. When I saw it, it looked like a crab.
Speaker 1: Like you're out on the beach. Have you ever been
Speaker 1: to the beach and at night and all the crabs
Speaker 1: come out. It looked like a big crab. And I
Speaker 1: was like, God, I got a little shiver. It's just like, God, Lee,
Speaker 1: that's a big old mama wolf spider right by the dogs.
Speaker 1: And I was like, got a little closer to it.
Speaker 1: I kind of crept in and got a little closer,
Speaker 1: and I noticed that it was not only was it big,
Speaker 1: it's a big wolf spider, but it was super hairy,
Speaker 1: like a lot of hair, and not not tarantula hair.
Speaker 1: I don't mind tarantulas at all. I could live with trantlas.
Speaker 1: They they're slow, they don't bother humans. But this one
Speaker 1: was a really hairy mama wolf spider. The reason I
Speaker 1: say mama is because they're massive. And then I got
Speaker 1: closer and I was like, I mean not only hairy,
Speaker 1: but like naughty hairy, like bumpy, hairy, all on her
Speaker 1: abdomen and all you know, it's like really hairy, and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is gross. So I got my boot,
Speaker 1: my boots sitting on the ground, I pick up my boot.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm just gonna knock her out, smash
Speaker 1: her real quick. Get a paper towel. I'll be done
Speaker 1: with this. And I'm not even thinking this is a
Speaker 1: routine thing for us guys. Get that boot, I get
Speaker 1: it right over. I go whack, and dude, as soon
Speaker 1: as I whacked her right unto squished her. I kid
Speaker 1: you not. Ten thousand baby spiders explode everywhere, all over me,
Speaker 1: all over the dogs. They spread out all the and
Speaker 1: then like thousands of them are running in every direction.
Speaker 1: It's like a straight up horror movie. They're running in
Speaker 1: every direction. And they're tiny. I mean they're like the
Speaker 1: tip of a pin. They're just tiny. Thousands of them,
Speaker 1: just every direction. So that's what that's what the hair
Speaker 1: was like. That's what the naughty, ugly hair. That's what
Speaker 1: I thought looked like naughty hair. She was covered in
Speaker 1: ten thousand baby wolf spiders and they went everywhere, and
Speaker 1: oh my god, I just sat there. I realized what
Speaker 1: had happened. And I realized they were all on me
Speaker 1: and all on the dogs, and all on the floor,
Speaker 1: and I'm barefoot and they're just running on my feet
Speaker 1: and running everywhere. A big squished mama spider right in
Speaker 1: the middle of all of them. When I realized what
Speaker 1: had happened, I just got goosebumps from the head to
Speaker 1: my toes, and I just the only thing I could
Speaker 1: do is I went and got a big shot back
Speaker 1: and just literally went. They were still just scurrying everywhere
Speaker 1: as I got the shot back and just vacuumed all
Speaker 1: of the babies on me, on my chest, on my legs,
Speaker 1: all in the dog's beds, and just vacuumed them up.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Oh, another day in the barn.
Speaker 1: What's funny is then this morning, this morning, when I
Speaker 1: was coming and getting ready to come here to the
Speaker 1: Ee farm, Amber had the same thing happened to her.
Speaker 1: She went around the corner and there was one. And
Speaker 1: I had already told her the story, so she knew
Speaker 1: when she saw that hairy mama, she knew that it
Speaker 1: ain't no hair. That's babies hanging on for dear life.
Speaker 1: On the mama back. So just so you know I'm
Speaker 1: not lying. Okay, everyone get your phone and google mother
Speaker 1: Wolf Spider with babies. Google that, okay, and you could
Speaker 1: see exactly what I'm talking about and see mother Wolf
Speaker 1: Spider with babies and then hit images. Y'all for real?
Speaker 1: Yah yah, y'all are ready for this. Some of you
Speaker 1: have probably seen it before. I don't know. Some of
Speaker 1: you may have it if you're watching on YouTube. I'm
Speaker 1: not showing the camera right now. It's the most Oh
Speaker 1: my god, look at this. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: could see that or not in a camera. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Oh I got goosebumps just talking about it. Terrifying, Absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 1: Is it okay? If I read you got some questions?
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of questions on Instagram. This one's
Speaker 1: from Big Tony and he says, with all the different
Speaker 1: instrumentations in Country Things, will you be playing it live?
Speaker 1: And he's talking about the song Country Things has a
Speaker 1: lot of it's got banjo, steel fiddle, mandolin, acoustic, it's
Speaker 1: got basically has way more instruments than we have band members.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we've been working on that song and the
Speaker 1: way we have it right now, Todd is going to
Speaker 1: be playing mandolin, fish, my other guitar player is going
Speaker 1: to be playing dobro, and then I'll be playing acoustic.
Speaker 1: So we're just going to do the best we can
Speaker 1: and that song will, probably, like any other song we
Speaker 1: play live, will evolve as we go forward. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good question, and I'm not exactly sure, but
Speaker 1: we're going to definitely play country things in our live
Speaker 1: show starting this weekend at Billy Bob's and Fort Worth
Speaker 1: and see how that goes. Shane on Instagram says, what
Speaker 1: made you make Hate You Like I Love You? And
Speaker 1: that is funny because back to back questions about the
Speaker 1: two songs that are out right now. Hate You Like
Speaker 1: I Love You is an idea that I wanted to
Speaker 1: write for a long time. And I was with two
Speaker 1: of my buddies on Wildflower, my bus. We're out on
Speaker 1: tour early twenty nineteen, and we had written a little
Speaker 1: bit already, and I got together with these guys and
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this idea of how hate and
Speaker 1: love take the same amount of passion to have those
Speaker 1: either one of those two emotions, and so I told
Speaker 1: the guys, I said, hey, guys, question, what is the
Speaker 1: opposite of love, And everyone says hate, You're right, I
Speaker 1: unanimously hate. It's like, no, it's not. The opposite of
Speaker 1: love is indifference. The opposite of love is I don't
Speaker 1: I could care less, I don't care either way. That's
Speaker 1: the opposite of love. But a close brother, a close
Speaker 1: cousin to love is hate because it takes a lot
Speaker 1: of emotional passion to love. Takes a lot of emotional
Speaker 1: passion to hate. So it's a close cousin, it's not opposite.
Speaker 1: So I said, what if we wrote this song about
Speaker 1: this this guy that's just kind of desperately misses this
Speaker 1: girl and he loves her and he wishes that he
Speaker 1: could change that love to hate, and he wishes he
Speaker 1: could transfer that energy from all love to hate, which
Speaker 1: is how we get to the line I just want
Speaker 1: to hate you like I love you. So that's where
Speaker 1: that song came from. And we had a blast writing it,
Speaker 1: blast recording it. And if you guys haven't heard it,
Speaker 1: I hope you. I hope you get to listen to it.
Speaker 1: Eric on Instagram says, whose idea was it to make
Speaker 1: the original country boy video? So I believe you're talking
Speaker 1: about the first Earl Dibbles video ever when Earl Dibbles
Speaker 1: debuted on YouTube and we all believe it's called Earl
Speaker 1: Dibbles Junior Country Boy Part one, and that is a
Speaker 1: very important video to me in my life because it
Speaker 1: started ye yee. That was the first time I said
Speaker 1: yee yee was in that video. It started Earl Dibbles Junior,
Speaker 1: which led to a lot of things in my career.
Speaker 1: It led to making the album Dirt Road Driveway a
Speaker 1: lot more popular because there was two Earl Dibbles songs
Speaker 1: on there. It led to our first national tour. It
Speaker 1: led to my first sold out show out side of
Speaker 1: the state of Texas, which was in Iowa, by the way,
Speaker 1: and it changed, it changed the trajectory of my life.
Speaker 1: That one video is the first million view video on
Speaker 1: YouTube I ever had. So that was my first viral
Speaker 1: video and that was my goal. To get a million
Speaker 1: views on YouTube was my goal, and that happened in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven. Eric's question is whose idea was it? It
Speaker 1: was probably I would probably give the credit to my
Speaker 1: brother Tyler to actually shoot the video. But the character Earle,
Speaker 1: I'd had that voice in that character for a long time.
Speaker 1: A couple of years before the video, and I kind
Speaker 1: of knew that we were gonna we were going to
Speaker 1: shoot a video eventually, and it was Tyler that nailed
Speaker 1: it down and said, hey man, let's go shoot the
Speaker 1: country guy, let's go shoot that video. And we're at
Speaker 1: mom and Dad's place. And I grabbed some overalls. I
Speaker 1: grabbed a white tank top, grabbed some boots, an old
Speaker 1: truck or cap, got some sharpies, drew on some tattoos.
Speaker 1: These are just all things that are just laying around
Speaker 1: in the closet and mom and Dad's gotten and what
Speaker 1: was my old truck when I was a teenager that
Speaker 1: then became Earl's old truck that we are now restoring
Speaker 1: on YouTube on this same channel. And that video was
Speaker 1: born and it changed my life. Jordan says, how do
Speaker 1: you stay so strong in the Lord but constantly stay
Speaker 1: busy with songs, videos, et cetera. Another great question, And
Speaker 1: it's not easy, and it's it's like anything with life.
Speaker 1: It's a matter of priorities. You could tell any husband
Speaker 1: and wife, like how do you stay committed to your
Speaker 1: wife when you're so busy with work and everything? Like, well,
Speaker 1: having my wife as a priority so I put her
Speaker 1: before my job. So that's the same thing with God,
Speaker 1: like this question, and I've had I've had to make
Speaker 1: the Lord my top priority. I've had to place him
Speaker 1: there and that importance there. And in doing that, when
Speaker 1: you do that, it's not something you just say. You
Speaker 1: actually have to act on that. And so part of
Speaker 1: my daily prayer is so that God strengthens my desire
Speaker 1: to seek him and long for him and wonder about
Speaker 1: him and love him and search for him and ask
Speaker 1: for him and think of him and have him and
Speaker 1: filtrate everything into my life. And that's my prayer because
Speaker 1: that's what I need to constantly cultivate so that I
Speaker 1: don't start going through the day and go, you know what,
Speaker 1: I haven't even thought about God. I just thought I
Speaker 1: was doing good, Like I'm good. Man. I bet things
Speaker 1: are going pretty good. This new album is going to
Speaker 1: come out of things are going pretty good. Hey, the
Speaker 1: podcast is getting some good hits on it. You know,
Speaker 1: I must be doing good. Then I have to stop
Speaker 1: myself and take I out of all that and go, Man,
Speaker 1: thank you God for the opportunity for this podcast and
Speaker 1: from the opportunity to have this platform. And that's a
Speaker 1: complete mental exercise that I put myself through. And every
Speaker 1: morning I'll read. I'll go and read the Word. I'll
Speaker 1: read the Bible usually about an hour every morning, and
Speaker 1: that's the first thing I do. And this is a
Speaker 1: newer routine for me. And I've always read in the mornings,
Speaker 1: but I changed my reading like self help and philosophy,
Speaker 1: you know, all that kind of stuff. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of that, but I changed it to just reading
Speaker 1: the Bible. So now I'll get up up and make
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee and go out before the sun
Speaker 1: comes up. And I usually go out to my fire
Speaker 1: pit outside the barn and barefoot, and I sit out
Speaker 1: there and make a fire. And if it's cold right now,
Speaker 1: it's not, so I don't make fires and read. And
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite parts of the whole day. Really,
Speaker 1: it's one of my favorite parts. I'll sit there and
Speaker 1: open up the book and the first thing I do.
Speaker 1: And I learned this from this preacher named John Piper,
Speaker 1: who's an amazing, amazing man of faith, if you want
Speaker 1: to look him up. I has a YouTube page called
Speaker 1: Desiring God, and I listened to him daily. But John
Speaker 1: Piper says it's important to before you start reading the Bible,
Speaker 1: to say a prayer that says, hey, God, about to
Speaker 1: start reading your word, meet me in the middle of
Speaker 1: my understanding to what you need me to know from
Speaker 1: this word. And if you don't say that prayer, then
Speaker 1: you can get lost, you could daydream, you could lose
Speaker 1: what you're trying to get out of it. So that's
Speaker 1: another that's another daily routine, daily habit that it put
Speaker 1: myself through. And if I could do that, Jordan on
Speaker 1: your question, if I could do that hour, that really
Speaker 1: sets me on a good path. And that's that leads
Speaker 1: me to the prayer of let me seek you, let
Speaker 1: me long for you, and that helps that set the
Speaker 1: pace so that while I'm making songs and videos and
Speaker 1: busy with work and busy with the family, that the
Speaker 1: foundation is set. And I hope that answers your question.
Speaker 1: And I can get deeper into that if you guys
Speaker 1: want me to at some point, But that answers that.
Speaker 1: Keegan on Instagram says, what is the hardest thing you
Speaker 1: had to overcome throughout your music career? And the I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take this two different ways. One the hardest thing
Speaker 1: I had to overcome through my music career was the
Speaker 1: two major losses I've had, losing my dad and losing
Speaker 1: my son, and re engaging in tour life and music
Speaker 1: life and entertainment. Imagine entertaining like smiling and making people
Speaker 1: smile and entertaining while dealing with extreme loss. That's the
Speaker 1: hardest thing is to re engage and to find a
Speaker 1: new normal again of working and selling, trying to sell
Speaker 1: tickets and sell songs and trying to make people smile
Speaker 1: while while you're dealing with that. So that's the hardest thing.
Speaker 1: But that might not be the question you're asking, Keegan.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're asking what's the hardest thing you had to
Speaker 1: overcome inside your music career, Like was it getting a
Speaker 1: record deal or was it working a single at radio?
Speaker 1: Was it going out and meeting all the radio programmers?
Speaker 1: Was it building one fan at a time through touring?
Speaker 1: That might be what you're asking, And if you're asking that,
Speaker 1: I would say the hardest thing I had to overcome,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, was the the period in my
Speaker 1: life when I lost my voice. And that was there's
Speaker 1: been a podcast about that. I believe, but I lost
Speaker 1: my voice on tour September fifth, twenty thirteen. It was
Speaker 1: a just a terrible time. I was just rough housing
Speaker 1: with some of the guys in the crew, and we
Speaker 1: were wrestling and my sound guy, Blake, has forearm hit
Speaker 1: my Adam's apple and it bruised it. And I didn't
Speaker 1: really know. I just it's swelled up on me, and
Speaker 1: I didn't really know that that what that was doing.
Speaker 1: But when I sang that night in Illinois, it ruptured
Speaker 1: a blood vessel on the vocal cord and it went
Speaker 1: out like the voice went out like a light gone,
Speaker 1: absolutely gone. And that was It was a terrifying thing
Speaker 1: because then we had to cancel a bunch of shows.
Speaker 1: It was unknown. I didn't know if my voice would
Speaker 1: come back the same or different, or if it would
Speaker 1: come back at all. And I had to keep going
Speaker 1: to these doctors and they would stick a camera down
Speaker 1: my nose and run it down in the back of
Speaker 1: my throat and to give me a progress report, and
Speaker 1: then I had to slowly work the voice back up.
Speaker 1: And so the unknown of that circumstance was difficult. It
Speaker 1: was probably the hardest thing that I had to overcome
Speaker 1: because I didn't know if I was gonna make it,
Speaker 1: and all I could do was do what the doctors
Speaker 1: are telling me and have faith, and I would just
Speaker 1: had all these thoughts of like, well maybe I'll never
Speaker 1: sing again, like I'll I got to get a new career.
Speaker 1: That was that was tough, really tough. Aiden on Instagram says,
Speaker 1: are you the founder of EEE Apparel? Yes? I am
Speaker 1: kind of because I share that with my brother Tyler.
Speaker 1: We're both co founders and co owners of EEE Apparel.
Speaker 1: And then my brother Parker, the youngest brother, is like
Speaker 1: the CEO of this company. And I'm sitting in the
Speaker 1: in the offices of ee Apparel at the Eue Farm
Speaker 1: right now, and so we we share that title. And
Speaker 1: we were all three there the first day when Earl
Speaker 1: Dibbles said yee on camera, which goes back to that
Speaker 1: first question about the country Boy video. So that's where
Speaker 1: you came from and that's where a lot of this started.
Speaker 1: And now we're all owners of this company and a
Speaker 1: lifestyle brand really really, which is something just to blows
Speaker 1: my mind that we we have a lifestyle brand that
Speaker 1: is bigger than the music, and it's bigger than me
Speaker 1: as an artist or me as an individual. And I
Speaker 1: absolutely love that. I love every bit of it. Tiffany says,
Speaker 1: will you be releasing a vinyl option for the new album? Tiffany,
Speaker 1: the answer is yes, we will be Well, we definitely
Speaker 1: will release vinyl for this album, and I already have
Speaker 1: the artwork all approved and it's ready to go, but
Speaker 1: it's not gonna The vinyl won't come out until the
Speaker 1: full project comes out. So Volume one comes out September
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, and Volume two is going to come out
Speaker 1: around Thanksgiving. So when they both when the Thanksgiving Volume
Speaker 1: two comes out, then they'll be combined and digitally they'll
Speaker 1: be combined, and then you'll get we'll have at that
Speaker 1: point with CDs, remember that it's called compact disc. CDs
Speaker 1: will be for sale and it'll have all the songs
Speaker 1: on it, and then the vinyl will come out. Vinyl
Speaker 1: will not have all of the songs because there's sixteen
Speaker 1: songs and a vinyl album, you could only have twenty
Speaker 1: minutes of music per side on the vinyl. That's the
Speaker 1: space that it allows you to have. So there I
Speaker 1: left some of the songs off, and I tried to
Speaker 1: pick songs that it sounded more vinyly so that if
Speaker 1: you're the true listener of vinyl. I picked the songs
Speaker 1: that would sound better on that. But I figure most
Speaker 1: people probably want vinyl to hang on the wall or
Speaker 1: to display in some way. That's what I would want.
Speaker 1: I actually don't have a record player, so I would
Speaker 1: want one to frame it and put on the wall.
Speaker 1: But yes, the answer is yes. Yee e O six ' six.
Speaker 1: On Instagram, ask what's your favorite car. I've never owned
Speaker 1: a car in my life, so I will have to
Speaker 1: answer what my dream car would be, and that is
Speaker 1: a sixty nine Charger. The reason for that is because
Speaker 1: I as a little boy. It's early as young as
Speaker 1: I could possibly remember. I mean I'm talking three or
Speaker 1: four years old. My very first memories. I remember watching
Speaker 1: Dukes of Hazard and not being my favorite show, and
Speaker 1: being addicted to that show, and watching Dukes of Hazard
Speaker 1: every single episode and loving that car, that sixty nine Charger.
Speaker 1: And I've never driven one, and so I would first
Speaker 1: love to drive one. I would love to test drive one,
Speaker 1: and then maybe one day way down the road, I'll
Speaker 1: own one. But that car is absolutely ridiculously expensive. I
Speaker 1: guess it's because of Dukes of Hazzard. I guess because
Speaker 1: they trashed and wrecked so many of them. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: other reasons I'm not thinking of, but that those cars.
Speaker 1: If you want a really nice, like really nice sixty
Speaker 1: nine charger, we're talking one hundred thousand dollars, guys like
Speaker 1: you can get one for maybe forty or fifty thousand,
Speaker 1: and it's junked out. That's how popular that car is.
Speaker 1: So more than likely it won't own one. But I
Speaker 1: just want to test drive one. Test driving would be
Speaker 1: really cool. I'm gonna take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. You know something I love these days, especially
Speaker 1: during the craziness of the world, is Cameo. Cameo allows
Speaker 1: me to be in close contact with fans. It's almost
Speaker 1: like I get to have meet and greets every day.
Speaker 1: And what it is, it's an app website where you
Speaker 1: go to cameo dot com and you could find me
Speaker 1: on there and then you could request me. You could
Speaker 1: DM me. We could chat through a DM or you
Speaker 1: could request a video of anything you want me to say.
Speaker 1: It could be a congratulations or happy birthday or a
Speaker 1: happy anniversary. It could be something like, Hey, everybody go
Speaker 1: check out Joe's barbershop. You know this is Granger Smith
Speaker 1: tell them I sent you. I do stuff like that too,
Speaker 1: but it's a really neat It's a neat way to
Speaker 1: stay in close contact with fans that I don't get
Speaker 1: to see every day on meat and greets anymore. And
Speaker 1: I can't forget to tell you guys that coming up
Speaker 1: on September eighteenth is Ye Apparel's Fall Lunch and this
Speaker 1: is our best launch we've ever done. A portion of
Speaker 1: these proceeds are gonna be going to Veteran Outdoors, great
Speaker 1: friends of ours and just a great charity organization that
Speaker 1: helps veterans in need, and it involves outdoors, getting them hunting,
Speaker 1: getting them fishing. Very proud of these guys and what
Speaker 1: they have done. This launch has some awesome merchandise and
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of it, we're
Speaker 1: gonna launch it at ten am on Friday, September eighteenth,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna need to be there in the store
Speaker 1: or right around that time because things will start selling quickly.
Speaker 1: And I don't want you to see something in a
Speaker 1: promo and man, I love that hat or I love
Speaker 1: that shirt, or I love that women's line that Amber has.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to see that and then turn
Speaker 1: around and you go to the store and the mediums
Speaker 1: or the larges or the exls are sold out and
Speaker 1: you don't get it. So go as early as you
Speaker 1: can to ye ye dot com. On Friday, September eighteenth,
Speaker 1: here's the question on the Instagram says, is your real
Speaker 1: first name Granger? It is? It is? My name is Granger.
Speaker 1: That's my first name. And I've had to show my
Speaker 1: driver's license many times because people for some reason think
Speaker 1: I've maybe made that up or let's say, maybe like
Speaker 1: a stage name or something. But yeah, Granger Smith is
Speaker 1: my name. Paddock on Instagram says, do you have a
Speaker 1: tattoo that is for London and Lincoln? Yeah? I have
Speaker 1: right here under my left arm. I have London, Lincoln
Speaker 1: and Rivers birthdays and Roman numerals and it started obviously
Speaker 1: with London right here in the middle. So this was
Speaker 1: my first tattoo. The ten six eleven was my very
Speaker 1: first tattoo, and then I added the boys around that,
Speaker 1: so yes, I do. Maybe there'll be more. I don't
Speaker 1: know that. Ford Kid on Instagram says, your music and
Speaker 1: YouTube helped me get through nine months in Iraq, so
Speaker 1: thank you and Yigi, thank you, buddy. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your service, and thank you for telling me that because
Speaker 1: it makes me. It makes me feel like it's worth it.
Speaker 1: You know, when the harder days when we were making
Speaker 1: music or on tour away from our families are like
Speaker 1: staying up all night trying to record something and it's
Speaker 1: not right and we're doing it over and over and over.
Speaker 1: It's good to know it during those times that, man,
Speaker 1: is it's worth it. Somebody out there is listening. It's
Speaker 1: worth it. So thank you, buddy. Nate on Instagram says,
Speaker 1: how often do you carry your handgun while traveling? Nate,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here at this table in this podcast carrying
Speaker 1: right now. I always carry. So I'm here at Yegee Apparel,
Speaker 1: I'm in my office doing a podcast alone in this room,
Speaker 1: and I'm carrying. They always carry, and partly while I
Speaker 1: do that is why I do that, is because I'm
Speaker 1: used to it. It's like my phone and my wallet.
Speaker 1: It's just it's like a part of my body. So
Speaker 1: I feel weird if I'm in jim shorts. I carry, so,
Speaker 1: especially with the craziness of the world these days, you
Speaker 1: just never know. And I hope to God, I pray
Speaker 1: to God it never comes out for any kind of
Speaker 1: bad reason, right, That's what we all hope. I hope
Speaker 1: it just it just stays and is hidden forever, forever,
Speaker 1: thousand years. But unfortunately you have to prepare that insurance
Speaker 1: policy for the one crazy, one out of a million chance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Nick Shelton, what's your workout routine? Nick? I, I do
Speaker 1: strength training, and I've been doing it for a long
Speaker 1: long time, where I do isolate muscle groups. So usually
Speaker 1: on Mondays I'll do chest, upper body. Usually on Tuesdays
Speaker 1: I'll do lower body, legs. Usually on Wednesdays I'll do back.
Speaker 1: Thursdays I'll do shoulders, and Fridays will do arms, triceps
Speaker 1: and biceps. Usually do a little bit of cardio each
Speaker 1: of those days. And I've done that, give or take
Speaker 1: switching the days around. I've done that for manrobably since
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight consistently, and that's that's just what
Speaker 1: I do. I've I've changed the routine. Sometimes I go
Speaker 1: super heavy, sometimes I go super light and a lot
Speaker 1: of reps. Sometimes I alternate. Sometimes I'll combine chest and shoulders,
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll combine back and buys, but regardless I'll do
Speaker 1: I keep with the muscle groups, and I keep them separated,
Speaker 1: so I'm having rest days in between. Sometimes I'll add
Speaker 1: an extra chest day, like on Saturday, but I always
Speaker 1: like to have at least forty eight hours between muscle groups.
Speaker 1: Kay Ambry on Instagram says, win are Earl Dibbles Junior
Speaker 1: new songs coming out? Because I can't wait to hear them.
Speaker 1: That's a great question, and I'm glad you asked it
Speaker 1: because on Volume one is you, You've probably got you.
Speaker 1: You'll probably know I've been teasing. There's a song called
Speaker 1: country and you Know It that features Earl Dibbles, and
Speaker 1: that is similar to Holler, where I'll sing most of
Speaker 1: the song and then Earl come in and sing like
Speaker 1: a bridge. But Earl has his own songs coming out,
Speaker 1: two of them where it's only Earl is more like
Speaker 1: you're used to, like city Boy, Stuck in America and
Speaker 1: Country Boy Love. He has two of those coming out
Speaker 1: on volume two, so hang on, it's coming. Here's a
Speaker 1: question that says, how do you feel about fans recording
Speaker 1: a concert and taking pictures instead of soaking it in?
Speaker 1: And I get what you're saying. I get that we
Speaker 1: live in a world where people are kind of stuck
Speaker 1: to struck to their screens, and they're not taking life in.
Speaker 1: They're not soaking life in with their own eyeballs. But
Speaker 1: from a marketing promotion standpoint, I don't mind if people
Speaker 1: are filming so then they can go promote it to
Speaker 1: their friends, because it helps me or any other singer
Speaker 1: if you take a quick recording of me and then
Speaker 1: blast it out to all your friends and say, look
Speaker 1: where I am. I'm having so much fun, So that
Speaker 1: really helps. So I think the answer ultimately is a
Speaker 1: healthy balance, like, don't film the whole show for your
Speaker 1: own sake. I hope you get to enjoy the sights
Speaker 1: and sounds and feels of this concert without being distracted
Speaker 1: by your device. But I think you could throw in
Speaker 1: a little healthy pull out your phone every once in
Speaker 1: a while and capture a few things just to have
Speaker 1: the memories of that. That being said, all that being said, now, today,
Speaker 1: the craziness of the world, the tour dates that we
Speaker 1: do go out on, we are asking that people keep
Speaker 1: their phones in their pocket because if you film something
Speaker 1: now at a concert and then promote it to everyone,
Speaker 1: there's no way that you're not going to offend that's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: we should all be staying at home. You're spreading the
Speaker 1: virus everywhere. Oh my god, everyone's gonna die. So it's
Speaker 1: just better in all of our interest if you just
Speaker 1: during this time of the virus, just don't don't propagate
Speaker 1: the fact that you're at a concert, because you might,
Speaker 1: even if it's socially distanced or whatever, you might not
Speaker 1: the shot that you're taking and with it could be
Speaker 1: shooting over people's heads and it just might not look good.
Speaker 1: So all that being said, here's Carter Hathaway says, any
Speaker 1: advice for seniors having trouble deciding what to do with
Speaker 1: their life after high school, that is a deep question
Speaker 1: that could probably be an entire podcast answering. I'll say this, Carter,
Speaker 1: if you if you're in high school and you're getting
Speaker 1: close to graduating, I would, And you do you don't
Speaker 1: know what to do, right, you don't have a plan.
Speaker 1: I would. I would try to coast for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Probably not what you were expecting, right, It's not the
Speaker 1: advice you were expecting, but I would coast. And it
Speaker 1: depends on your financial situation, like maybe maybe you have
Speaker 1: to make money just to keep bread on the table,
Speaker 1: or maybe you can go live with mom and dad
Speaker 1: and eat out of mom's pantry. Maybe you could live
Speaker 1: with brother or a cousin or a best friend. You
Speaker 1: could stay on the couch. But I would try to
Speaker 1: coast for a little bit, not in a way to
Speaker 1: just pass time and be lost in the world, but
Speaker 1: to exhale and evaluate your next move, because if you
Speaker 1: go straight into something quickly, like you go into a
Speaker 1: trade school, you want to going to welding school, Well,
Speaker 1: that costs a lot of money, and you like, you
Speaker 1: don't even know if you want to go in to
Speaker 1: welding school, or if you just go into a job,
Speaker 1: some kind of career. It's easy to get trapped in
Speaker 1: that career, especially if you're good at it. You could
Speaker 1: get stuck and climbing a ladder somewhere and look back
Speaker 1: in ten years and go, well, now I'm thirty years
Speaker 1: old and I've wasted the opportunity to go to a
Speaker 1: trade school or go to a college and get an undergrad,
Speaker 1: or go change. You can get stuck. So I would say,
Speaker 1: for any advice for seniors having trouble deciding what they're
Speaker 1: going to do after high school, decide take your time.
Speaker 1: Don't make your decision now. If you don't know what
Speaker 1: that decision is yet, then then take the pressure off
Speaker 1: the timeline and coast. Hey, go be a bomb in
Speaker 1: Florida and live on the beach. If you could do
Speaker 1: that and watch the sun come up and sit up
Speaker 1: there and watch the sun come up in Florida on
Speaker 1: the beach after you just slept there all night, and
Speaker 1: you'll be able to do some thinking. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to decide what you're gonna do in your life during
Speaker 1: those quiet times like that in some kind of travel situation.
Speaker 1: But it's harder if you have to jump straight into
Speaker 1: another job and straight into your career. So take your time.
Speaker 1: You have time now, but you won't in ten years,
Speaker 1: So take your time. Ricky says, who is your biggest
Speaker 1: idol and or the country singer you look up to most?
Speaker 1: And why? And those of y'all that have heard this
Speaker 1: podcast before are heard at other episodes of this podcast,
Speaker 1: you know that I don't like that word idle. I
Speaker 1: always renounce that word and say, let's choose a different
Speaker 1: word than idle, because if you put the word idol
Speaker 1: on another human, that human is going to fail you.
Speaker 1: Because that's what humans do best. We fail each other
Speaker 1: because we're human. We're not perfect, We're not God. So
Speaker 1: let's leave the idle stuff to God. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to humans, we can call them heroes or role models. Right.
Speaker 1: Heroes can fail, role models can break. I get it.
Speaker 1: All that being said George Strait. I've looked up to
Speaker 1: George Strait for a long time. He's been a big
Speaker 1: role model for me, and I started listening to his
Speaker 1: music early on and kind of emulating that when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. And there's a good argument that it
Speaker 1: was George Strait that got me into this entire mess
Speaker 1: to begin with. Mason asked me on Instagram, will you
Speaker 1: ever make it back to North Carolina after this is
Speaker 1: all over with? And ironically I got a couple of
Speaker 1: North Carolinas and a couple of South Carolina's all in
Speaker 1: the same big batch of questions, but read regardless of
Speaker 1: where you are, wherever you are listening, you know what
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have her here? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: here it is too. Ever been to Germany? Will you
Speaker 1: come to Germany? I got two Germany's in this, so
Speaker 1: let me say this from North Carolina and Germany wherever
Speaker 1: you are. When this is over with, We're going everywhere.
Speaker 1: We definitely will be back to North Carolina. We definitely
Speaker 1: will be back to South Carolina, no doubt, many times
Speaker 1: we will be back. We'll never go a calendar year
Speaker 1: and skip a state like yours. In fact, I don't
Speaker 1: think we'll really skip any of the lower forty eight
Speaker 1: ever in a calendar year. Germany. I love Germany, Absolutely
Speaker 1: love Germany. I love the heritage, I love the food,
Speaker 1: and I love the country. And we have toured there
Speaker 1: a bunch, but that's been been ten years since I've
Speaker 1: toured Germany. We will definitely be back as soon as
Speaker 1: this crazy mess is over. I got to go get
Speaker 1: me a Snitzel and some beer. Yes, okay, here's a question,
Speaker 1: a new album related question. Why did you change the
Speaker 1: name ye Nation to the song Chevy's, Himmy's, Yoda's and Fords.
Speaker 1: And to answer that question that the Yee Nation was
Speaker 1: really just an intro track that I made for the
Speaker 1: beginning of the song Holler at our live show. So
Speaker 1: it's the song and there's like a Doughbro part that
Speaker 1: goes doom dann oh no no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: that do don no, no, no no. That's a song
Speaker 1: that was just a track intro for us to walk
Speaker 1: on to before we played Holler. And in the background
Speaker 1: there's these voices that are like yee ye Nation, yeee Nation.
Speaker 1: And I used that track because it became popular among
Speaker 1: the fans. I used that track and wrote actual words
Speaker 1: to it instead of just yee Ye Nation. I wrote
Speaker 1: a song Chevy's and Jimmy's and Yodas and Fords and
Speaker 1: wrote words to it about how it's always a big
Speaker 1: discussion between country boys and country girls of where to
Speaker 1: put your money. Chevy'shimmys, Yoda's are Fords. Not to be confused.
Speaker 1: All this can't be confused with the other intro song
Speaker 1: that we used to use that now is in the
Speaker 1: intro of this podcast. So you heard that at the
Speaker 1: beginning of this podcast, and that's a completely different version
Speaker 1: of Ye Nation. There's my Germany question, and then I'm
Speaker 1: going to do one more here. How about this one?
Speaker 1: What happened to your dad? And maybe I maybe I
Speaker 1: never said this, but dad died from a heart attack
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, and I could probably do a tire
Speaker 1: episode on that because that was a crazy time in
Speaker 1: my life. But yeah, it was sudden. There was no
Speaker 1: there was no medical problems leading up to it. There
Speaker 1: was no he had no issues, no symptoms, no anything.
Speaker 1: It's just one day Mom was with us and we
Speaker 1: had just had baby Lincoln at home, and Mom was
Speaker 1: visiting with us and baby Lincoln, and when she went
Speaker 1: home she found Dad and he was sitting in his
Speaker 1: chair and he was gone. It was just a crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy thing. And maybe one doctor's appointment they could have
Speaker 1: found that he had some kind of huge, massive blockage
Speaker 1: and they could have done emergency surgery or given him
Speaker 1: some kind of statin medical something maybe maybe could have
Speaker 1: fixed it. I know now. So those of you out
Speaker 1: there that are over fifty years old, or you're you've
Speaker 1: got parents, make sure you go to the doctor, make
Speaker 1: sure you're checking out that old ticker of yours, check
Speaker 1: out the heart. You just don't know. And man, it
Speaker 1: took dad quick. It took him. It took him without you,
Speaker 1: like a thief in the night, without any warning. So
Speaker 1: just be careful. It is the number one killer heart disease,
Speaker 1: the number one killer. So it will happen to someone
Speaker 1: around you if it hasn't already, or if it's not you,
Speaker 1: So that's something we should probably talk about it on
Speaker 1: another podcast. But thank you guys for listening, thank you
Speaker 1: for watching, Thank you for this platform, thank you for
Speaker 1: allowing me to express myself and my feelings and all
Speaker 1: my maybe strange to you views, but it means a
Speaker 1: lot that you're listening. And if you haven't subscribed to
Speaker 1: this podcast yet, please subscribe. It helps me know we're
Speaker 1: doing good, helps me know that I need to keep
Speaker 1: making more of them, and it helps like that ad
Speaker 1: that I read at the very beginning, helps people like
Speaker 1: that go, hey, we're gonna support this podcast with our
Speaker 1: with our stuff. So I love you guys, See you
Speaker 1: next time. M hm.