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I want 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.720 to tell you something that is man. This gives me 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.880 that he with gs gives me the goosebumps. We're living 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.560 amber and I and the kids are living in a 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.720 barn right now. We're living in an RV, an awesome 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.120 RV from Explore USA, and we're building, or we're about 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.400 to start building a farmhouse that we've designed out in 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.039 the pasture in front of the barn. So I thought 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.719 it'd be a great adventure to live in this barn 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.800 as opposed to you know, some people when they build 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.240 a house, they live with friends, or they lease or 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.719 rent a house, they get a little condo. And I 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.400 just didn't want to do any of that. I wanted 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.680 an adventure, and I wanted something my kids could remember 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.039 for a long time. So I told Amber, I said, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.359 what if we actually got an RV pulled it into 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.560 one of the barns, which is a great perk of 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.520 the property to have these two barns. It didn't have 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.600 a house on it, but it was beautiful piece of 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.200 land and it had two barns and a windmill and 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.960 a well. So I was like, well, we got you know, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.760 half the battle right there. All I ever want on 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.479 property is barns. Anyway, So this one's aready got it? 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.359 Why don't we live in it? And then we could 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.839 have this adventure and we could watch the house come up, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.000 the kids could have great memories. And what has happened though, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.039 And it's been awesome, but it has a few setbacks. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.560 And one of the setbacks is we are at the 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.320 mercy of the elements at all times. Like if it's 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.520 hot outside and it's been one hundred and five in 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.880 Texas these last few weeks, it is hot in that barn. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.400 I mean it gets up to over one hundred inside 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.120 the barn and it's insulated, and then the RV, of 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.120 course it has acs on it, but it has trouble 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.200 keeping up with that kind of temperature. So we're really 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.839 looking forward to September when things are cooling down and 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.560 we could relax a little bit and actually hang out 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.680 in the barn itself instead of being cooped up in 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:52.320 the RV and sweating. But that being said, I got 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:57.080 to tell you something terrifying last night. And before I 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.400 start that, let me just say we've seen we have 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.040 been at the mercy of the elements. We've seen a 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.159 lot of stuff, and we the last several years. Amber 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.279 and I have lived in Central Texas for a long time, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.280 and so we're used to scorpions and spiders and snakes 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:20.320 and mice and lizards and skunks and possums, raccoons, bats, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.800 We've had bats in the barn, so you name it. 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:28.640 We've been exposed. I just killed a rattlesnake day before yesterday, Luckily, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.960 I was dove hunting with Lincoln, so I'd walked up 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.120 on a rattlesnake in the pasture with a loaded shotgun 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.520 on my shoulder, so that was convenient. But we have 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.080 seen all these creatures and they have all made their 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.000 appearances in the barn. Had a baby snake in the 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.680 bathroom in the barn. Like I said, We've had a bat. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.359 We've had countless scorpions that I find in my boots 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.120 that I dump out, which is always shake your boots 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.560 before you put them on, great piece of advice there 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.159 the scorpion might fall out. But we see spiders, a 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.800 lot of spiders, and we're used to trantulas, we're used 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.279 to spiders, but in this particular barn, we have a 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.560 lot of wolf spiders. Do you guys know what wolf 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.400 spiders are? They get really big. I mean those suckers 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.520 will get as big as they'll get as big as 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:21.960 my palm without the fingers, and we see we see 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.600 them everywhere, and we're just kind of used to them. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.720 It's not that big a deal. We you know, we 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.560 go into the bathroom to brush our teeth in the 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.960 morning and there's a there's a big wolf spider like 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.360 right there on the ground, and we usually kill them. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.080 You know, I don't really mind them that much. Besides, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.000 they're just hideous to look at. So usually just get 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.160 a paper towel and you know, drop it on top 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.800 of them, and it's kind of squish them with your 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.120 fingers and throw them in the trash. That's kind of 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.200 the routine except for last night. And here's my story. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.280 Last night, I'm getting out of the bathroom out of 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.680 taking a shower, and I'm just coming in there with 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.920 my shorts on, nothing else, just shorts on. And I 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.400 walk through barefoot all the time. I walk outside barefoot, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.120 I walk in the past your barefoot. I walk on 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.560 the gravel road barefoot. I walk all in the barn barefoot, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.040 and probably shouldn't do that. Like I said, I killed 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.480 a snake the day before yesterday, and scorpions are everywhere, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.720 but I'm just I just don't care anymore. So I 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.280 just I'm barefoot, and I'm walking through the barn and 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.880 I look over and Gypsy and Remy are two dogs 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.160 are laying in their beds, and right next to them 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.960 there's this big wolf spider big. It's bigger than anything 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.520 i've described. I mean, it's all the way as big 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:45.080 as my hand, including my fingers spread out. And I 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.600 was like, ah, I mean it looked when I saw 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.000 it because it was kind of dark in the barn 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.760 at night. When I saw it, it looked like a crab. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:55.760 Like you're out on the beach. Have you ever been 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.560 to the beach and at night and all the crabs 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.280 come out. It looked like a big crab. And I 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.480 was like, God, I got a little shiver. It's just like, God, Lee, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.640 that's a big old mama wolf spider right by the dogs. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.840 And I was like, got a little closer to it. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.679 I kind of crept in and got a little closer, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.600 and I noticed that it was not only was it big, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.120 it's a big wolf spider, but it was super hairy, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.839 like a lot of hair, and not not tarantula hair. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.600 I don't mind tarantulas at all. I could live with trantlas. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:30.480 They they're slow, they don't bother humans. But this one 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.760 was a really hairy mama wolf spider. The reason I 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.160 say mama is because they're massive. And then I got 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.720 closer and I was like, I mean not only hairy, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.800 but like naughty hairy, like bumpy, hairy, all on her 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.320 abdomen and all you know, it's like really hairy, and 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.880 I was like, this is gross. So I got my boot, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.520 my boots sitting on the ground, I pick up my boot. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.680 I'm just like, I'm just gonna knock her out, smash 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.040 her real quick. Get a paper towel. I'll be done 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.800 with this. And I'm not even thinking this is a 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.680 routine thing for us guys. Get that boot, I get 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.120 it right over. I go whack, and dude, as soon 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:15.360 as I whacked her right unto squished her. I kid 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:24.600 you not. Ten thousand baby spiders explode everywhere, all over me, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.520 all over the dogs. They spread out all the and 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.880 then like thousands of them are running in every direction. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.120 It's like a straight up horror movie. They're running in 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.640 every direction. And they're tiny. I mean they're like the 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.600 tip of a pin. They're just tiny. Thousands of them, 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.440 just every direction. So that's what that's what the hair 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.080 was like. That's what the naughty, ugly hair. That's what 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.400 I thought looked like naughty hair. She was covered in 0:10:53.480 --> 0:11:00.480 ten thousand baby wolf spiders and they went everywhere, and 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.320 oh my god, I just sat there. I realized what 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.000 had happened. And I realized they were all on me 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:06.880 and all on the dogs, and all on the floor, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.920 and I'm barefoot and they're just running on my feet 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.640 and running everywhere. A big squished mama spider right in 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.040 the middle of all of them. When I realized what 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:19.120 had happened, I just got goosebumps from the head to 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.079 my toes, and I just the only thing I could 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.679 do is I went and got a big shot back 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.040 and just literally went. They were still just scurrying everywhere 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:33.160 as I got the shot back and just vacuumed all 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:38.160 of the babies on me, on my chest, on my legs, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.880 all in the dog's beds, and just vacuumed them up. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.240 And I was like, Oh, another day in the barn. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.320 What's funny is then this morning, this morning, when I 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:50.640 was coming and getting ready to come here to the 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.800 Ee farm, Amber had the same thing happened to her. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.320 She went around the corner and there was one. And 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.199 I had already told her the story, so she knew 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.960 when she saw that hairy mama, she knew that it 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:05.360 ain't no hair. That's babies hanging on for dear life. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.040 On the mama back. So just so you know I'm 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:15.559 not lying. Okay, everyone get your phone and google mother 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:21.960 Wolf Spider with babies. Google that, okay, and you could 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:27.240 see exactly what I'm talking about and see mother Wolf 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:35.280 Spider with babies and then hit images. Y'all for real? 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.560 Yah yah, y'all are ready for this. Some of you 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.600 have probably seen it before. I don't know. Some of 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:47.480 you may have it if you're watching on YouTube. I'm 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:54.120 not showing the camera right now. It's the most Oh 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.719 my god, look at this. I don't know if you 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.720 could see that or not in a camera. Oh my god. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:07.240 Oh I got goosebumps just talking about it. Terrifying, Absolutely terrifying. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.880 Is it okay? If I read you got some questions? 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:18.320 I got a bunch of questions on Instagram. This one's 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:24.280 from Big Tony and he says, with all the different 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.079 instrumentations in Country Things, will you be playing it live? 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.880 And he's talking about the song Country Things has a 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:37.199 lot of it's got banjo, steel fiddle, mandolin, acoustic, it's 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.000 got basically has way more instruments than we have band members. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.840 So yeah, we've been working on that song and the 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.160 way we have it right now, Todd is going to 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.040 be playing mandolin, fish, my other guitar player is going 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.360 to be playing dobro, and then I'll be playing acoustic. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.200 So we're just going to do the best we can 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.599 and that song will, probably, like any other song we 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.960 play live, will evolve as we go forward. So yeah, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.680 it's a good question, and I'm not exactly sure, but 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.840 we're going to definitely play country things in our live 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.920 show starting this weekend at Billy Bob's and Fort Worth 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:18.040 and see how that goes. Shane on Instagram says, what 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.600 made you make Hate You Like I Love You? And 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.440 that is funny because back to back questions about the 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.120 two songs that are out right now. Hate You Like 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.680 I Love You is an idea that I wanted to 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.720 write for a long time. And I was with two 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.080 of my buddies on Wildflower, my bus. We're out on 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.600 tour early twenty nineteen, and we had written a little 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.160 bit already, and I got together with these guys and 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:48.480 I was thinking about this idea of how hate and 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.760 love take the same amount of passion to have those 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:54.600 either one of those two emotions, and so I told 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.960 the guys, I said, hey, guys, question, what is the 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:02.840 opposite of love, And everyone says hate, You're right, I 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.720 unanimously hate. It's like, no, it's not. The opposite of 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:11.400 love is indifference. The opposite of love is I don't 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.800 I could care less, I don't care either way. That's 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.080 the opposite of love. But a close brother, a close 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:24.440 cousin to love is hate because it takes a lot 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:29.640 of emotional passion to love. Takes a lot of emotional 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.520 passion to hate. So it's a close cousin, it's not opposite. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.320 So I said, what if we wrote this song about 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:40.160 this this guy that's just kind of desperately misses this 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.200 girl and he loves her and he wishes that he 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.440 could change that love to hate, and he wishes he 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:52.800 could transfer that energy from all love to hate, which 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.240 is how we get to the line I just want 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.960 to hate you like I love you. So that's where 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.160 that song came from. And we had a blast writing it, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.520 blast recording it. And if you guys haven't heard it, 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.240 I hope you. I hope you get to listen to it. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.480 Eric on Instagram says, whose idea was it to make 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.840 the original country boy video? So I believe you're talking 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.960 about the first Earl Dibbles video ever when Earl Dibbles 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.680 debuted on YouTube and we all believe it's called Earl 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:32.000 Dibbles Junior Country Boy Part one, and that is a 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.760 very important video to me in my life because it 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.080 started ye yee. That was the first time I said 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.760 yee yee was in that video. It started Earl Dibbles Junior, 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:47.320 which led to a lot of things in my career. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.960 It led to making the album Dirt Road Driveway a 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.280 lot more popular because there was two Earl Dibbles songs 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:58.240 on there. It led to our first national tour. It 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.320 led to my first sold out show out side of 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.160 the state of Texas, which was in Iowa, by the way, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:09.560 and it changed, it changed the trajectory of my life. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.239 That one video is the first million view video on 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.720 YouTube I ever had. So that was my first viral 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.639 video and that was my goal. To get a million 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.240 views on YouTube was my goal, and that happened in 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:29.199 twenty eleven. Eric's question is whose idea was it? It 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.199 was probably I would probably give the credit to my 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:36.680 brother Tyler to actually shoot the video. But the character Earle, 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.880 I'd had that voice in that character for a long time. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.440 A couple of years before the video, and I kind 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.280 of knew that we were gonna we were going to 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.680 shoot a video eventually, and it was Tyler that nailed 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.399 it down and said, hey man, let's go shoot the 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.800 country guy, let's go shoot that video. And we're at 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.280 mom and Dad's place. And I grabbed some overalls. I 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.920 grabbed a white tank top, grabbed some boots, an old 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.359 truck or cap, got some sharpies, drew on some tattoos. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.680 These are just all things that are just laying around 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.280 in the closet and mom and Dad's gotten and what 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.840 was my old truck when I was a teenager that 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.960 then became Earl's old truck that we are now restoring 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.680 on YouTube on this same channel. And that video was 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:34.560 born and it changed my life. Jordan says, how do 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.879 you stay so strong in the Lord but constantly stay 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:43.360 busy with songs, videos, et cetera. Another great question, And 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.160 it's not easy, and it's it's like anything with life. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.679 It's a matter of priorities. You could tell any husband 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.280 and wife, like how do you stay committed to your 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.840 wife when you're so busy with work and everything? Like, well, 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.560 having my wife as a priority so I put her 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:08.480 before my job. So that's the same thing with God, 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:13.840 like this question, and I've had I've had to make 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:20.800 the Lord my top priority. I've had to place him 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.640 there and that importance there. And in doing that, when 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.399 you do that, it's not something you just say. You 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:30.520 actually have to act on that. And so part of 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:37.800 my daily prayer is so that God strengthens my desire 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:43.840 to seek him and long for him and wonder about 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.680 him and love him and search for him and ask 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.919 for him and think of him and have him and 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.000 filtrate everything into my life. And that's my prayer because 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.480 that's what I need to constantly cultivate so that I 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.359 don't start going through the day and go, you know what, 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.679 I haven't even thought about God. I just thought I 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.200 was doing good, Like I'm good. Man. I bet things 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.000 are going pretty good. This new album is going to 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:09.440 come out of things are going pretty good. Hey, the 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.080 podcast is getting some good hits on it. You know, 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.439 I must be doing good. Then I have to stop 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.240 myself and take I out of all that and go, Man, 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:23.560 thank you God for the opportunity for this podcast and 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.960 from the opportunity to have this platform. And that's a 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:34.160 complete mental exercise that I put myself through. And every 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.880 morning I'll read. I'll go and read the Word. I'll 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.000 read the Bible usually about an hour every morning, and 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.560 that's the first thing I do. And this is a 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.240 newer routine for me. And I've always read in the mornings, 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:53.080 but I changed my reading like self help and philosophy, 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:54.720 you know, all that kind of stuff. I have a 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.920 lot of that, but I changed it to just reading 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:00.920 the Bible. So now I'll get up up and make 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.080 a cup of coffee and go out before the sun 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:04.760 comes up. And I usually go out to my fire 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:09.120 pit outside the barn and barefoot, and I sit out 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:13.440 there and make a fire. And if it's cold right now, 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.680 it's not, so I don't make fires and read. And 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:21.400 that's one of my favorite parts of the whole day. Really, 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.159 it's one of my favorite parts. I'll sit there and 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:24.720 open up the book and the first thing I do. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.480 And I learned this from this preacher named John Piper, 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:32.000 who's an amazing, amazing man of faith, if you want 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.160 to look him up. I has a YouTube page called 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.720 Desiring God, and I listened to him daily. But John 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.800 Piper says it's important to before you start reading the Bible, 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:49.639 to say a prayer that says, hey, God, about to 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:53.640 start reading your word, meet me in the middle of 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.600 my understanding to what you need me to know from 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.280 this word. And if you don't say that prayer, then 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.920 you can get lost, you could daydream, you could lose 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.720 what you're trying to get out of it. So that's 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:10.800 another that's another daily routine, daily habit that it put 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:13.119 myself through. And if I could do that, Jordan on 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:17.280 your question, if I could do that hour, that really 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.879 sets me on a good path. And that's that leads 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.920 me to the prayer of let me seek you, let 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:28.800 me long for you, and that helps that set the 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:33.080 pace so that while I'm making songs and videos and 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.040 busy with work and busy with the family, that the 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:40.359 foundation is set. And I hope that answers your question. 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.440 And I can get deeper into that if you guys 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:45.679 want me to at some point, But that answers that. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:50.639 Keegan on Instagram says, what is the hardest thing you 0:22:50.680 --> 0:23:00.400 had to overcome throughout your music career? And the I'm 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:03.639 gonna take this two different ways. One the hardest thing 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:07.560 I had to overcome through my music career was the 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:10.480 two major losses I've had, losing my dad and losing 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:17.160 my son, and re engaging in tour life and music 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:22.920 life and entertainment. Imagine entertaining like smiling and making people 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:29.320 smile and entertaining while dealing with extreme loss. That's the 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:33.800 hardest thing is to re engage and to find a 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:38.680 new normal again of working and selling, trying to sell 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.720 tickets and sell songs and trying to make people smile 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:45.880 while while you're dealing with that. So that's the hardest thing. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:49.439 But that might not be the question you're asking, Keegan. 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:52.879 Maybe you're asking what's the hardest thing you had to 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:58.480 overcome inside your music career, Like was it getting a 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:03.399 record deal or was it working a single at radio? 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:07.240 Was it going out and meeting all the radio programmers? 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.200 Was it building one fan at a time through touring? 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:14.240 That might be what you're asking, And if you're asking that, 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:17.200 I would say the hardest thing I had to overcome, 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:21.040 believe it or not, was the the period in my 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.600 life when I lost my voice. And that was there's 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.920 been a podcast about that. I believe, but I lost 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:37.520 my voice on tour September fifth, twenty thirteen. It was 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:40.760 a just a terrible time. I was just rough housing 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:42.320 with some of the guys in the crew, and we 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:47.160 were wrestling and my sound guy, Blake, has forearm hit 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:52.119 my Adam's apple and it bruised it. And I didn't 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.399 really know. I just it's swelled up on me, and 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:57.919 I didn't really know that that what that was doing. 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:03.360 But when I sang that night in Illinois, it ruptured 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:05.760 a blood vessel on the vocal cord and it went 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:08.560