WEBVTT - Reject the idea of NEW NORMAL 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.960 So many things that I've learned, because guys, I get nervous, 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.680 I get anxious, and I tell you, the root of 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.879 so many of these problems is these phones. And if 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.600 you get there and you just look at social media 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.760 long enough, you can go down these rabbit holes and 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.120 it really starts to mess you up. So one thing 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.880 is limiting the phone use, especially in the mornings and evenings, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:39.240 and just limiting it during the day to allotted times. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.519 What's up, guys. This is the Granger Smith Podcast, Episode 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.040 twenty seven. Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.840 on YouTube. And if you haven't heard any other episodes, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.360 first of all, welcome, and second of all, I would 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.680 encourage you to go backwards a little bit and check 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.080 out some of the old episodes. It it seems like 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.280 a lot of them in the old days. The old 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.560 episodes were done in the back of my bus Wildflower, 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.119 in the parking lot of a venue we were about 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.880 to play. Lately, I've been here in this room at 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:24.360 home for obvious reasons. Touring is not happening right now. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.759 So I'm doing the best I can, and we're doing 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:31.280 the podcast every single Monday. There's a new one gonna 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.399 come out sometimes I'm gonna have guests. Today, I'm gonna 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.360 read some questions that I fielded from Instagram. Yesterday, I 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.480 threw up on the Instagram I said, ask me a 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.039 question hashtag Grangersmith podcast. So you could be looking for that, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.560 or you could just ask me a question on any 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.640 piece of social media, whether it's Facebook or Twitter or 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:56.520 instill whatever, it's hashtag Grangersmith podcast. After that, ask your question. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.560 That way, I can go on any of those formats 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.920 and search for it and answer and and this is 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.840 this is a good thing for me because it allows 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.960 me to be able to put out a podcast and 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.200 and kind of source from endless questions that I could 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.079 always answer, and a lot of them I've I've answered 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.320 some of these questions really in depth, like entire podcasts 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.880 uh in the past. Today, I'm gonna kind of just 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.280 go through some some ones that I found on Instagram 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.519 here on my phone. And before we start, I want 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.800 to say I hope everyone is doing good. I usually 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.560 mentioned a sponsor of the podcast. 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That's basically we find a 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.440 shirt or a hat or a different different pieces that 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.080 we have and we will randomly fill it according to 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.080 your size. So that's mystery boxes go out. That's that 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.040 seems to be really popular. So that is the best 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.040 way right now to be supporting us. You could also 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.160 I'm about to do this here in a few minutes 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.520 right after this podcast, I'm doing a virtual meet and 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:39.000 greet and it's on an app called looped in. I've 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.960 never seen it before until this morning, and this is 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.040 set up through a radio station in Indianapolis. So they 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:48.040 have ten meet and greet winners and they are going 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.280 to log into this app the same time I do. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.160 And they're actually waiting for me right now because I 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.200 just checked out this app and it's pretty cool. So yeah, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.400 there's that says there's six people on standby and nine 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.800 people reserved, and it says I'm going live in forty 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.720 one minutes, So that's pretty cool. So basically I'm going 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.560 to get on here and have a meet and greet. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.719 It's basically like like I'm skyping or facetiming them, and 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.400 then it sets a timer on it for I think 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.359 at two and a half minutes, so we'll chat for 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.560 two and a half minutes. Then we could take a 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:31.080 screenshot and then I think according to this app, it 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.240 says I could also extend, like if we're having a 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.760 really deep conversation, I could extend by ten seconds at 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.000 a time. Other than that, I don't know anything about this, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.000 so I will I'll give you the feedback on this 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.800 next Monday. But another way to get involved with me 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.839 is through cameo, and I've been doing a lot of 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.680 these and this is really fun. This is an app, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.160 or you go to cameo dot com or you can 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.440 download the Cameo app. And this is a way you could. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.599 You could book me essentially for me sending you a 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.760 video message. So you book me and I go on 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.760 and I could tell you tell you or your friends, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.880 or your spouse or your kids happy birthday, or maybe 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.320 something encouraging during this crazy virus time and so that 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.719 I've been doing this for a few years, but during 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.599 this stay at home thing, it's really been neat to 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.120 be able to so people could still get me to 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.120 wish them a happy birthday or say I'm so sorry 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.840 that we couldn't see you on this tour date. We 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.720 were supposed to see you at happy engagement, happy graduation, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:44.440 congratulations on marriage, or just what's up. Or some people 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.560 book it for themselves, like some of my best fans. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:51.960 I've been seeing you guys booking and saying hey, I 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.159 miss you. And these are some of my front row 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.080 fans that have been to forty or fifty shows total, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.120 I mean talking really hardcore fans, and so I'll you 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.800 I'm on cameo and then it allows me to go 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.560 on there and just say, oh my gosh, I miss you. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.640 I'd miss you in your face on the front row, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.000 singing along to the songs. Because we would have these 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.760 weekends where we'd go like Friday, Saturday, Sunday and different cities, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.840 and some of these fans will travel each night and 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.200 make a whole weekend of it and travel along with 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.159 the buses, and that is so cool. Fans are so 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:29.240 amazing like that, those are. It's like the eighty twenty 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.800 rule again. I wish I had, I would basically twenty 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.080 percent of all my fans will support me for eighty 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.640 percent of what we do. And it's an amazing thing. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.800 How are you guys doing? How are you guys doing 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.080 through this whole this whole virus, this whole stay at home? 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.120 It would it would be remiss if I didn't at 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.040 least bring it up. And because here we are several 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.400 weeks in, I know people listen from all over the 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.440 world to this too, or at least they're on these 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.280 this podcast or this my YouTube channels. How are you 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:09.880 guys doing? Uh? Comment below or send me a message. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.520 It's it's really interesting to me to kind of keep 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:17.520 up worldwide with different people and different cultures and different 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:23.000 towns and villages and cities of people that are are 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:28.240 experiencing this all in different ways. Here I am, you know, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.560 however many weeks we are and I've lost I've lost 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:35.480 track of days. But but I find it very alarming 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.119 that that all of our rights have been taken away 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.040 all of our our essential human rights freedom of religion, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:48.360 and freedom of speech, freedom of you know, right to 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:54.560 bear arms, and and uh freedom of trial, because I 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.440 feel like some of that has been taken away as well. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.040 I mean there, I went through the Bill of Rights 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.480 today and I was like looking at it and thinking 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:06.200 about how backwards things have become. And I understand why. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.560 And we can't minimize what is happening in the world. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:14.480 We can't minimize that everyone is telling us to stay 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.160 at home, the social distance, and that that is actually 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.920 going to work, And so we can't minimize that. A 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.320 this is a huge tragedy because lives are lost, and 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.960 even one life is a tragedy. We all know that, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.520 and so we have to listen to them. But at 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.680 the same time, what we need to all collectively know 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.480 you as listeners, is when this is over, because it 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.760 will be over. Everyone knows it's going to be over, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.560 like it's going to end at some point. When it's over, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.240 we need all those rights back instantly. So when you 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.200 start hearing things on the news about well, this is 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.200 just the new normal or we're going to have to 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.400 get used to a new way of life, be very 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.360 careful when you hear that stuff. Question that stuff. When 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.600 you hear that stuff in the media, When you hear 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.040 people talking about a new normal or the new way 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.320 of life, or just the way it's going to start being, 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.640 or all the things that are going to change because 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:16.959 of this virus, you should question that. Because living separately, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.880 not being able to socialize with each other in person, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.760 the thought of people actually coming into your house and 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.120 taking someone sick out of your house, which is what 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.040 the World Health Organization has talked about, these are not 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.840 normal in any circumstance, new old whatever, that's not normal. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:44.240 So question that you should be We collectively need to 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.640 understand that when this is over and on the social 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.400 distancing crap is done, we're going to all stand up 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.280 and go, Okay, we want all of our rights back. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.360 We want our freedom of speech, we want our freedom 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.199 of religion, we want to be able to Yeah, I 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.440 mean they're closing gun stores in Los Angeles because they 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.320 say it's putting people at risk. Well that's violating one 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.520 of our bill of rights. So just saying we need 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.480 all these back, and I know that most of my 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:17.120 listeners will or ride on with me on that, and 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.120 I have to continually say when I speak about this 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:24.840 kind of stuff, that we can't minimize the fact that 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:31.679 people are actually dying. And so every life represents a 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:38.800 story and a family and a great tragedy, a loss, grief, morning, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.040 it represents all that stuff. So you can't minimize any 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.559 of that by saying this is dumb, why is it? 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.680 Why don't we just all go back to work. You 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.840 have to always throw in the fact that, well, it 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.040 is also a tragedy at whatever level you want to 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.320 call it. One life is a tragedy, One life lost 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:03.040 is a tragedy, whether there's one life or one hundred million. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.559 So we have to always say that. But all I'm 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.199 saying is be aware, keep your eyes open. This is weird, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.080 This is weird stuff. Don't let people weaponize fear. Don't 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:17.160 let people weaponize the unknown on you, because you just 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.520 just think a little bit when you see a headline, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.880 when you see New York Times saying something when whatever 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.439 it might be, just think a little bit, like digest 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.760 that that headline and question it. It's healthy to question it. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.520 That's where I am today here in my house. I 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:41.320 have been going to the ee farm every day, and 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.480 I've been going to see Mom. So I've been going places, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.000 but I've just I basically go out my house, get 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.520 my truck and go to the farm, get back of 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.680 my truck, go home, get back of my truck, go 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.480 to mom's. Our old Evils Juniors made a massive comeback 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.679 during this whole thing, by the way, which is a 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.400 blessing in itself. Never had time to just continue to 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.760 put out one Earl video a week. Actually we're doing 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.559 two because we're doing things country Boy just don't say. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.480 And then we're doing what I call porch Earl. That's 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:16.760 when he's sitting on his porch at home. So that's 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.760 been great for me to bring back Earl. And the 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.000 other thing is I've been bringing back well, I didn't 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.920 bring it back. I started a web series on YouTube 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:31.560 called Restoring Earl Dibbles Truck and I'm currently filming I 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.199 think part five of that right now. And that has 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.680 been so fascinating to be with my two bus drivers, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.520 Bull and Butch restoring this old nineteen seventy four GMC 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.560 that has kind of made famous or notorious on YouTube 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.480 from Earl Dibbles. But it was my first truck and 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.760 seeing it come back to life again, hasn't started in 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.800 six years. And the reason it hadn't started in six 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.880 years is because it broke down with that truck. My 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.080 dad bought that truck for eleven hundred bucks, and so 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.040 what do you do when it eleven hundred dollars truck 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.719 breaks down, and you probably know that it's going to 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.960 cost more than what you have in your pocket right 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.040 now to fix it. So it just stayed right there 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.760 on the side of the barn until this whole crazy 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.360 virus and I was able to have time to go 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:20.920 get it, put it on a trailer, to bring it 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.480 to Yegee Farm and start restoring it. For what really 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.160 cool YouTube series in my opinion, And I've learned a 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.600 lot from these guys. So there's that. There's the Smiths. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:32.880 If you haven't been keeping up with the Smiths, we'd 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.160 put that out every Tuesday Thursday. Then Amber has a 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.760 show called a Rise with Amber that comes out on 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.400 that channel on Sundays. So, man, we've been smoking the 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.559 YouTube thing right now. It has been crazy at one 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.800 video every day, plus promoting it, plus filming it. I 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.760 do all my own filming, So I'm sitting there looking 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.560 around me at all my projects that I have to do, 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:01.240 including this podcast, So there is there has been some positives. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:06.800 I've worked definitely tripled down on YouTube and making videos 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.960 and making content for you guys, because I'm trying to 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.360 add value to you as the viewer and the listener. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.160 And yeah, it's cool to go Insta Live and play 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:22.360 a couple songs and Insta Live. That's cool, but it 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.440 doesn't totally add value, and so I'm trying to. I'm 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:31.240 really trying to build value through these web series and 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.040 stories and trying to make some really nice looking content 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.600 so that you guys could It's basically an investment for me, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.280 investing because I'm not making money on it, but I 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.720 could invest into these videos into you so that who knows, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.120 six months from now we're back touring again. You might say, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.400 somebody might say, I'm gonna go see that guy that 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.880 restores the Truck. I don't know who he is. I've 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.560 never heard his music, but I've seen this restoring the 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.320 Truck thing on YouTube and I like it. So I 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.840 want to go see these guys in concert, and that's 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:14.880 an investment and I'm trying to pay forward. I want 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:21.520 to get to some of these questions here here's one 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.400 that says, can you say hello to my son Lane? 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.720 He just finished Navy boot camp today and he's an 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:34.560 official US soldier, So what's up Lane? Thank you for 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.280 your service. Thank you for making the decision of your 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:44.400 life that's really important, and especially now to be in 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.280 to be in your shoes is uh, it's a big 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.120 it's a big deal. So thank you for that, buddy. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:57.080 And I wanted to read some of these. I picked 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:03.360 just a few here. Somebody says, hey, Granger, I'm an 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:08.560 expecting father, what pointers can you give me? First of all, 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.680 if you're an expecting father, I would I would put 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.680 a lot of energy in on the mother, you know, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.640 focusing on her right now. The crazy thing about pregnancy 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.520 is that God. I feel like my belief is God 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.680 gives us the perfect amount of time to learn how 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.760 to be a parent as we go. And what I 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:33.960 mean is there is there's the nine months of pregnancy, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.120 which is divided up into the trimesters, which is it's 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.640 like the perfect amount of time to study and learn, 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.960 and right at the beginning you don't have to do anything, 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.920 and then you kind of learn with your girl on 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.040 how to breathe and where you're going to go to 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.400 the doctor and how and how you're gonna then you 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.720 find out if they're just the right time, whether it's 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.120 a boy or girl. Then you find out you know 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.240 where they're going to live, and what kind of nursery 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:59.800 they're going to have, and what color you're gonna paint 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.520 the way all and that's all perfectly timed out in 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.800 this nine months that God gave us, in my opinion. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.480 And then the same thing when when the baby's born, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.000 you get this the perfect amount of time, Like they're 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.359 not crawling anywhere, so they're in that little basinet next 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.879 to your bed for just a certain perfect amount of 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.720 time until you're ready and you've learned enough and they're 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.160 ready to graduate to the crib. And then once they're 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.040 in the crib, it's that you don't have to childproof 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.040 the house yet. You have plenty of time to do 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.439 that because they're not crawling. And then when they start crawling, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.040 then you could start childproofing the house. You've had that time, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.800 and then they're gonna start walking, and then they're gonna communicate, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.240 which is huge for dads, is when they can actually 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:47.399 communicate when things are wrong. Anyway, my point is My 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.639 pointers for being expected father is you got plenty of 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.600 time to learn about babies and toddlers and kids and teenagers, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.000 and it is all spaced out in the perfect amount 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.040 of time. So right now my point is focus on 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.080 the girl. Focus on your girl and give her all 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.040 the love and attention and support. If it's her first 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.440 she's probably scared and going through a lot of anxiety, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.280 especially during this crazy time in the world. So just 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.880 focus on her, love on her, support her, encourage her, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:24.359 and everything will be timed out perfectly. And kind of 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.240 relate it to that. What's your favorite way to spend 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.080 time with your kids individually? And it's different, as we 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.679 all know, kids are. Kids are so different. Right now, 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.280 London and I really bond well. She likes to make 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.560 up dances and I like to and then she wants 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.639 to put me on the couch and show me her 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.600 dances to different songs. And we also bond through reading 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.640 where right now we're reading Where the Red Fern Grows 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.719 by Wilson Rawls. Great book. She is she eats it 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.199 up every night we get We get in there and 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.520 in her bed and pull out that book and read it. 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.400 And she just loves that that's a really special time 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.240 for us. We also pray together that night, me in London, 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.600 and we have a special way of praying and a 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.040 special way that we do it. And she thinks that 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.000 that's her her secret, our secret together that the world 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.719 doesn't know about, and that's really special. Lincoln and I 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.840 we bond through wrestling and fighting. We fight, and I 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.119 do these levels where it's like level one. Did you 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:24.520 guys remember Mike Tyson's punch out on Nintendo a long 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.640 time ago. I kind of build it like that, where 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.720 it's like level one Glass Joe and he comes out 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:32.879 and he's like real weak, and I'm on my knees 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.439 and Lincoln fights him. And every opponent that Lincoln fights 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.800 has a special weakness, so like Glass Joe could be, 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.199 you have to pull. You have to pull on his 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.480 right ear. So when you pull on his right ear, 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.800 you you takes him down and defeats him. And then 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.280 every level gets a little harder and a little harder, 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.920 and I do this big introduction like in the right corner, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:58.760 wearing the blue pants and the Captain America's shirt, undefeated 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.080 Lincoln mond Arc Smith, and then I'll introduce to you 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.200 his opponent, So we bond through that. We also bond 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.080 through movies. Star Wars has been huge for us, and 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.600 right now it's Avengers, so he's really into Avengers and 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.360 so we could lay down on the couch and pull 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.800 out my phone and like cuddle up and watch that stuff. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.119 So that's how that's how I bond with the different kids. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.440 And that also kind of answers that what's your favorite 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.959 part about being home on quarantine? And that's really what 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:33.280 it is. It's focusing in on them. It's it's overcoming 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.480 the fact that I need to work. I need I 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.600 feel like I need to have a purpose in work, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.080 and it's hard to just justify it by saying, well, 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.600 hope you're having fun with your kids. Well, like literally 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.000 Amber's in there right now in the other room. I 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.560 could hear them. They're doing school, doing their little homeschooling, 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.679 and so that's that. This is what Amber does in 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:58.040 the mornings. But uh, it's it's hard to justify just 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.800 spending time with their kids is enough. So I'm working 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.280 on that for me mentally, and I'm trying to find 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.200 all the good I can in this deal, and that's 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:12.560 part of it. It's definitely spending spending time with them. 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.760 It says, here's another question that says, how do you 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:23.440 remain calm during such a tough time? Is it your faith? Yeah, definitely, 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:28.960 it's my faith. I try to apply so many things 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.080 that I've learned, because guys, I get nervous, I get anxious, 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.560 And I tell you, the root of so many of 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.560 these problems is these phones. And if you get there 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:40.399 and you just look at social media long enough, you 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.240 can go down these rabbit holes and it really starts 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.320 to mess you up. So one thing is limiting the 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.119 phone use, especially in the mornings and evenings, and just 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:55.760 limiting it during the day to allotted times. But yeah, 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.560 faith is faith is a big deal. I've really I've 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.520 been doing so much reading in the Bible, and I've 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.439 kind of cut out some of my other personal growth 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.800 type reading and really honed in on the Bible. Started 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:12.399 with the Gospel of John, So I'm almost finished with 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:17.240 that right now, and just going through that and reading 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.040 the Gospel without someone telling me what I should think 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.600 about it or without telling me the lesson to be 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.760 learned from it. I'm just reading it just myself and 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:31.760 thinking about it myself, and it's been rare in my 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:33.960 life that I've done that, just to try to think 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:39.159 of my own about what Jesus is saying, and that 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:42.399 calms me because guess what he preaches so many times 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.520 besides love one another, he preaches so many times that 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:50.320 he is the path to peace. He's the path to 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:55.439 alleviating stress and not worrying about tomorrow. And so that 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:57.159 seems to be a really good thing for all of 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:00.919 us to hone in on. I would definitely say that 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.480 if there's anything if you if you see anything calming 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.959 about me, it's because I'm doing that and stuck right 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:14.879 now in the Gospel of John for sure. Here's a 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.280 here's a big huge turn from that. What's your favorite 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:23.200 firearm to use in both self defense and hunting? And uh? 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:27.119 That's from Garrett on Instagram and I carry daily. My 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.520 daily carry is a Glock forty two. It's a three 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:33.800 eighty and I love that. I love that little thing. 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:41.119 It's very comfortable, it's very comfortable to fire, it's very safe. 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:43.520 I feel really good about it, and so I love 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:45.320 my forty two. I also have a forty three, I 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.960 have a twenty six, I have a two seventeens soa 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:52.800