Speaker 1: So many things that I've learned, because guys, I get nervous,
Speaker 1: I get anxious, and I tell you, the root of
Speaker 1: so many of these problems is these phones. And if
Speaker 1: you get there and you just look at social media
Speaker 1: long enough, you can go down these rabbit holes and
Speaker 1: it really starts to mess you up. So one thing
Speaker 1: is limiting the phone use, especially in the mornings and evenings,
Speaker 1: and just limiting it during the day to allotted times.
Speaker 1: What's up, guys. This is the Granger Smith Podcast, Episode
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching
Speaker 1: on YouTube. And if you haven't heard any other episodes,
Speaker 1: first of all, welcome, and second of all, I would
Speaker 1: encourage you to go backwards a little bit and check
Speaker 1: out some of the old episodes. It it seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of them in the old days. The old
Speaker 1: episodes were done in the back of my bus Wildflower,
Speaker 1: in the parking lot of a venue we were about
Speaker 1: to play. Lately, I've been here in this room at
Speaker 1: home for obvious reasons. Touring is not happening right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing the best I can, and we're doing
Speaker 1: the podcast every single Monday. There's a new one gonna
Speaker 1: come out sometimes I'm gonna have guests. Today, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: read some questions that I fielded from Instagram. Yesterday, I
Speaker 1: threw up on the Instagram I said, ask me a
Speaker 1: question hashtag Grangersmith podcast. So you could be looking for that,
Speaker 1: or you could just ask me a question on any
Speaker 1: piece of social media, whether it's Facebook or Twitter or
Speaker 1: instill whatever, it's hashtag Grangersmith podcast. After that, ask your question.
Speaker 1: That way, I can go on any of those formats
Speaker 1: and search for it and answer and and this is
Speaker 1: this is a good thing for me because it allows
Speaker 1: me to be able to put out a podcast and
Speaker 1: and kind of source from endless questions that I could
Speaker 1: always answer, and a lot of them I've I've answered
Speaker 1: some of these questions really in depth, like entire podcasts
Speaker 1: uh in the past. Today, I'm gonna kind of just
Speaker 1: go through some some ones that I found on Instagram
Speaker 1: here on my phone. And before we start, I want
Speaker 1: to say I hope everyone is doing good. I usually
Speaker 1: mentioned a sponsor of the podcast. Usually it's EE Apparel
Speaker 1: and Ye Apparel is is still It's still rocking. We
Speaker 1: have a shirt of the month subscription service you could
Speaker 1: sign up for. You can get a shirt of the month.
Speaker 1: And that is the best way you could support EEE
Speaker 1: is signing up for that service or just going and
Speaker 1: we have these really cool mystery boxes at ee By
Speaker 1: the way, we have gee dot com now, so you
Speaker 1: could It used to be ye Apparel dot com. Before
Speaker 1: that it was grangersmith dot com, but now we have
Speaker 1: eee dot Com, so you could go there and you
Speaker 1: can get a mystery box. That's basically we find a
Speaker 1: shirt or a hat or a different different pieces that
Speaker 1: we have and we will randomly fill it according to
Speaker 1: your size. So that's mystery boxes go out. That's that
Speaker 1: seems to be really popular. So that is the best
Speaker 1: way right now to be supporting us. You could also
Speaker 1: I'm about to do this here in a few minutes
Speaker 1: right after this podcast, I'm doing a virtual meet and
Speaker 1: greet and it's on an app called looped in. I've
Speaker 1: never seen it before until this morning, and this is
Speaker 1: set up through a radio station in Indianapolis. So they
Speaker 1: have ten meet and greet winners and they are going
Speaker 1: to log into this app the same time I do.
Speaker 1: And they're actually waiting for me right now because I
Speaker 1: just checked out this app and it's pretty cool. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's that says there's six people on standby and nine
Speaker 1: people reserved, and it says I'm going live in forty
Speaker 1: one minutes, So that's pretty cool. So basically I'm going
Speaker 1: to get on here and have a meet and greet.
Speaker 1: It's basically like like I'm skyping or facetiming them, and
Speaker 1: then it sets a timer on it for I think
Speaker 1: at two and a half minutes, so we'll chat for
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes. Then we could take a
Speaker 1: screenshot and then I think according to this app, it
Speaker 1: says I could also extend, like if we're having a
Speaker 1: really deep conversation, I could extend by ten seconds at
Speaker 1: a time. Other than that, I don't know anything about this,
Speaker 1: so I will I'll give you the feedback on this
Speaker 1: next Monday. But another way to get involved with me
Speaker 1: is through cameo, and I've been doing a lot of
Speaker 1: these and this is really fun. This is an app,
Speaker 1: or you go to cameo dot com or you can
Speaker 1: download the Cameo app. And this is a way you could.
Speaker 1: You could book me essentially for me sending you a
Speaker 1: video message. So you book me and I go on
Speaker 1: and I could tell you tell you or your friends,
Speaker 1: or your spouse or your kids happy birthday, or maybe
Speaker 1: something encouraging during this crazy virus time and so that
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for a few years, but during
Speaker 1: this stay at home thing, it's really been neat to
Speaker 1: be able to so people could still get me to
Speaker 1: wish them a happy birthday or say I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: that we couldn't see you on this tour date. We
Speaker 1: were supposed to see you at happy engagement, happy graduation,
Speaker 1: congratulations on marriage, or just what's up. Or some people
Speaker 1: book it for themselves, like some of my best fans.
Speaker 1: I've been seeing you guys booking and saying hey, I
Speaker 1: miss you. And these are some of my front row
Speaker 1: fans that have been to forty or fifty shows total,
Speaker 1: I mean talking really hardcore fans, and so I'll you
Speaker 1: I'm on cameo and then it allows me to go
Speaker 1: on there and just say, oh my gosh, I miss you.
Speaker 1: I'd miss you in your face on the front row,
Speaker 1: singing along to the songs. Because we would have these
Speaker 1: weekends where we'd go like Friday, Saturday, Sunday and different cities,
Speaker 1: and some of these fans will travel each night and
Speaker 1: make a whole weekend of it and travel along with
Speaker 1: the buses, and that is so cool. Fans are so
Speaker 1: amazing like that, those are. It's like the eighty twenty
Speaker 1: rule again. I wish I had, I would basically twenty
Speaker 1: percent of all my fans will support me for eighty
Speaker 1: percent of what we do. And it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing? How are you guys doing
Speaker 1: through this whole this whole virus, this whole stay at home?
Speaker 1: It would it would be remiss if I didn't at
Speaker 1: least bring it up. And because here we are several
Speaker 1: weeks in, I know people listen from all over the
Speaker 1: world to this too, or at least they're on these
Speaker 1: this podcast or this my YouTube channels. How are you
Speaker 1: guys doing? Uh? Comment below or send me a message.
Speaker 1: It's it's really interesting to me to kind of keep
Speaker 1: up worldwide with different people and different cultures and different
Speaker 1: towns and villages and cities of people that are are
Speaker 1: experiencing this all in different ways. Here I am, you know,
Speaker 1: however many weeks we are and I've lost I've lost
Speaker 1: track of days. But but I find it very alarming
Speaker 1: that that all of our rights have been taken away
Speaker 1: all of our our essential human rights freedom of religion,
Speaker 1: and freedom of speech, freedom of you know, right to
Speaker 1: bear arms, and and uh freedom of trial, because I
Speaker 1: feel like some of that has been taken away as well.
Speaker 1: I mean there, I went through the Bill of Rights
Speaker 1: today and I was like looking at it and thinking
Speaker 1: about how backwards things have become. And I understand why.
Speaker 1: And we can't minimize what is happening in the world.
Speaker 1: We can't minimize that everyone is telling us to stay
Speaker 1: at home, the social distance, and that that is actually
Speaker 1: going to work, And so we can't minimize that. A
Speaker 1: this is a huge tragedy because lives are lost, and
Speaker 1: even one life is a tragedy. We all know that,
Speaker 1: and so we have to listen to them. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, what we need to all collectively know
Speaker 1: you as listeners, is when this is over, because it
Speaker 1: will be over. Everyone knows it's going to be over,
Speaker 1: like it's going to end at some point. When it's over,
Speaker 1: we need all those rights back instantly. So when you
Speaker 1: start hearing things on the news about well, this is
Speaker 1: just the new normal or we're going to have to
Speaker 1: get used to a new way of life, be very
Speaker 1: careful when you hear that stuff. Question that stuff. When
Speaker 1: you hear that stuff in the media, When you hear
Speaker 1: people talking about a new normal or the new way
Speaker 1: of life, or just the way it's going to start being,
Speaker 1: or all the things that are going to change because
Speaker 1: of this virus, you should question that. Because living separately,
Speaker 1: not being able to socialize with each other in person,
Speaker 1: the thought of people actually coming into your house and
Speaker 1: taking someone sick out of your house, which is what
Speaker 1: the World Health Organization has talked about, these are not
Speaker 1: normal in any circumstance, new old whatever, that's not normal.
Speaker 1: So question that you should be We collectively need to
Speaker 1: understand that when this is over and on the social
Speaker 1: distancing crap is done, we're going to all stand up
Speaker 1: and go, Okay, we want all of our rights back.
Speaker 1: We want our freedom of speech, we want our freedom
Speaker 1: of religion, we want to be able to Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they're closing gun stores in Los Angeles because they
Speaker 1: say it's putting people at risk. Well that's violating one
Speaker 1: of our bill of rights. So just saying we need
Speaker 1: all these back, and I know that most of my
Speaker 1: listeners will or ride on with me on that, and
Speaker 1: I have to continually say when I speak about this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, that we can't minimize the fact that
Speaker 1: people are actually dying. And so every life represents a
Speaker 1: story and a family and a great tragedy, a loss, grief, morning,
Speaker 1: it represents all that stuff. So you can't minimize any
Speaker 1: of that by saying this is dumb, why is it?
Speaker 1: Why don't we just all go back to work. You
Speaker 1: have to always throw in the fact that, well, it
Speaker 1: is also a tragedy at whatever level you want to
Speaker 1: call it. One life is a tragedy, One life lost
Speaker 1: is a tragedy, whether there's one life or one hundred million.
Speaker 1: So we have to always say that. But all I'm
Speaker 1: saying is be aware, keep your eyes open. This is weird,
Speaker 1: This is weird stuff. Don't let people weaponize fear. Don't
Speaker 1: let people weaponize the unknown on you, because you just
Speaker 1: just think a little bit when you see a headline,
Speaker 1: when you see New York Times saying something when whatever
Speaker 1: it might be, just think a little bit, like digest
Speaker 1: that that headline and question it. It's healthy to question it.
Speaker 1: That's where I am today here in my house. I
Speaker 1: have been going to the ee farm every day, and
Speaker 1: I've been going to see Mom. So I've been going places,
Speaker 1: but I've just I basically go out my house, get
Speaker 1: my truck and go to the farm, get back of
Speaker 1: my truck, go home, get back of my truck, go
Speaker 1: to mom's. Our old Evils Juniors made a massive comeback
Speaker 1: during this whole thing, by the way, which is a
Speaker 1: blessing in itself. Never had time to just continue to
Speaker 1: put out one Earl video a week. Actually we're doing
Speaker 1: two because we're doing things country Boy just don't say.
Speaker 1: And then we're doing what I call porch Earl. That's
Speaker 1: when he's sitting on his porch at home. So that's
Speaker 1: been great for me to bring back Earl. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is I've been bringing back well, I didn't
Speaker 1: bring it back. I started a web series on YouTube
Speaker 1: called Restoring Earl Dibbles Truck and I'm currently filming I
Speaker 1: think part five of that right now. And that has
Speaker 1: been so fascinating to be with my two bus drivers,
Speaker 1: Bull and Butch restoring this old nineteen seventy four GMC
Speaker 1: that has kind of made famous or notorious on YouTube
Speaker 1: from Earl Dibbles. But it was my first truck and
Speaker 1: seeing it come back to life again, hasn't started in
Speaker 1: six years. And the reason it hadn't started in six
Speaker 1: years is because it broke down with that truck. My
Speaker 1: dad bought that truck for eleven hundred bucks, and so
Speaker 1: what do you do when it eleven hundred dollars truck
Speaker 1: breaks down, and you probably know that it's going to
Speaker 1: cost more than what you have in your pocket right
Speaker 1: now to fix it. So it just stayed right there
Speaker 1: on the side of the barn until this whole crazy
Speaker 1: virus and I was able to have time to go
Speaker 1: get it, put it on a trailer, to bring it
Speaker 1: to Yegee Farm and start restoring it. For what really
Speaker 1: cool YouTube series in my opinion, And I've learned a
Speaker 1: lot from these guys. So there's that. There's the Smiths.
Speaker 1: If you haven't been keeping up with the Smiths, we'd
Speaker 1: put that out every Tuesday Thursday. Then Amber has a
Speaker 1: show called a Rise with Amber that comes out on
Speaker 1: that channel on Sundays. So, man, we've been smoking the
Speaker 1: YouTube thing right now. It has been crazy at one
Speaker 1: video every day, plus promoting it, plus filming it. I
Speaker 1: do all my own filming, So I'm sitting there looking
Speaker 1: around me at all my projects that I have to do,
Speaker 1: including this podcast, So there is there has been some positives.
Speaker 1: I've worked definitely tripled down on YouTube and making videos
Speaker 1: and making content for you guys, because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: add value to you as the viewer and the listener.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's cool to go Insta Live and play
Speaker 1: a couple songs and Insta Live. That's cool, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't totally add value, and so I'm trying to. I'm
Speaker 1: really trying to build value through these web series and
Speaker 1: stories and trying to make some really nice looking content
Speaker 1: so that you guys could It's basically an investment for me,
Speaker 1: investing because I'm not making money on it, but I
Speaker 1: could invest into these videos into you so that who knows,
Speaker 1: six months from now we're back touring again. You might say,
Speaker 1: somebody might say, I'm gonna go see that guy that
Speaker 1: restores the Truck. I don't know who he is. I've
Speaker 1: never heard his music, but I've seen this restoring the
Speaker 1: Truck thing on YouTube and I like it. So I
Speaker 1: want to go see these guys in concert, and that's
Speaker 1: an investment and I'm trying to pay forward. I want
Speaker 1: to get to some of these questions here here's one
Speaker 1: that says, can you say hello to my son Lane?
Speaker 1: He just finished Navy boot camp today and he's an
Speaker 1: official US soldier, So what's up Lane? Thank you for
Speaker 1: your service. Thank you for making the decision of your
Speaker 1: life that's really important, and especially now to be in
Speaker 1: to be in your shoes is uh, it's a big
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. So thank you for that, buddy.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to read some of these. I picked
Speaker 1: just a few here. Somebody says, hey, Granger, I'm an
Speaker 1: expecting father, what pointers can you give me? First of all,
Speaker 1: if you're an expecting father, I would I would put
Speaker 1: a lot of energy in on the mother, you know,
Speaker 1: focusing on her right now. The crazy thing about pregnancy
Speaker 1: is that God. I feel like my belief is God
Speaker 1: gives us the perfect amount of time to learn how
Speaker 1: to be a parent as we go. And what I
Speaker 1: mean is there is there's the nine months of pregnancy,
Speaker 1: which is divided up into the trimesters, which is it's
Speaker 1: like the perfect amount of time to study and learn,
Speaker 1: and right at the beginning you don't have to do anything,
Speaker 1: and then you kind of learn with your girl on
Speaker 1: how to breathe and where you're going to go to
Speaker 1: the doctor and how and how you're gonna then you
Speaker 1: find out if they're just the right time, whether it's
Speaker 1: a boy or girl. Then you find out you know
Speaker 1: where they're going to live, and what kind of nursery
Speaker 1: they're going to have, and what color you're gonna paint
Speaker 1: the way all and that's all perfectly timed out in
Speaker 1: this nine months that God gave us, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: And then the same thing when when the baby's born,
Speaker 1: you get this the perfect amount of time, Like they're
Speaker 1: not crawling anywhere, so they're in that little basinet next
Speaker 1: to your bed for just a certain perfect amount of
Speaker 1: time until you're ready and you've learned enough and they're
Speaker 1: ready to graduate to the crib. And then once they're
Speaker 1: in the crib, it's that you don't have to childproof
Speaker 1: the house yet. You have plenty of time to do
Speaker 1: that because they're not crawling. And then when they start crawling,
Speaker 1: then you could start childproofing the house. You've had that time,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna start walking, and then they're gonna communicate,
Speaker 1: which is huge for dads, is when they can actually
Speaker 1: communicate when things are wrong. Anyway, my point is My
Speaker 1: pointers for being expected father is you got plenty of
Speaker 1: time to learn about babies and toddlers and kids and teenagers,
Speaker 1: and it is all spaced out in the perfect amount
Speaker 1: of time. So right now my point is focus on
Speaker 1: the girl. Focus on your girl and give her all
Speaker 1: the love and attention and support. If it's her first
Speaker 1: she's probably scared and going through a lot of anxiety,
Speaker 1: especially during this crazy time in the world. So just
Speaker 1: focus on her, love on her, support her, encourage her,
Speaker 1: and everything will be timed out perfectly. And kind of
Speaker 1: relate it to that. What's your favorite way to spend
Speaker 1: time with your kids individually? And it's different, as we
Speaker 1: all know, kids are. Kids are so different. Right now,
Speaker 1: London and I really bond well. She likes to make
Speaker 1: up dances and I like to and then she wants
Speaker 1: to put me on the couch and show me her
Speaker 1: dances to different songs. And we also bond through reading
Speaker 1: where right now we're reading Where the Red Fern Grows
Speaker 1: by Wilson Rawls. Great book. She is she eats it
Speaker 1: up every night we get We get in there and
Speaker 1: in her bed and pull out that book and read it.
Speaker 1: And she just loves that that's a really special time
Speaker 1: for us. We also pray together that night, me in London,
Speaker 1: and we have a special way of praying and a
Speaker 1: special way that we do it. And she thinks that
Speaker 1: that's her her secret, our secret together that the world
Speaker 1: doesn't know about, and that's really special. Lincoln and I
Speaker 1: we bond through wrestling and fighting. We fight, and I
Speaker 1: do these levels where it's like level one. Did you
Speaker 1: guys remember Mike Tyson's punch out on Nintendo a long
Speaker 1: time ago. I kind of build it like that, where
Speaker 1: it's like level one Glass Joe and he comes out
Speaker 1: and he's like real weak, and I'm on my knees
Speaker 1: and Lincoln fights him. And every opponent that Lincoln fights
Speaker 1: has a special weakness, so like Glass Joe could be,
Speaker 1: you have to pull. You have to pull on his
Speaker 1: right ear. So when you pull on his right ear,
Speaker 1: you you takes him down and defeats him. And then
Speaker 1: every level gets a little harder and a little harder,
Speaker 1: and I do this big introduction like in the right corner,
Speaker 1: wearing the blue pants and the Captain America's shirt, undefeated
Speaker 1: Lincoln mond Arc Smith, and then I'll introduce to you
Speaker 1: his opponent, So we bond through that. We also bond
Speaker 1: through movies. Star Wars has been huge for us, and
Speaker 1: right now it's Avengers, so he's really into Avengers and
Speaker 1: so we could lay down on the couch and pull
Speaker 1: out my phone and like cuddle up and watch that stuff.
Speaker 1: So that's how that's how I bond with the different kids.
Speaker 1: And that also kind of answers that what's your favorite
Speaker 1: part about being home on quarantine? And that's really what
Speaker 1: it is. It's focusing in on them. It's it's overcoming
Speaker 1: the fact that I need to work. I need I
Speaker 1: feel like I need to have a purpose in work,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to just justify it by saying, well,
Speaker 1: hope you're having fun with your kids. Well, like literally
Speaker 1: Amber's in there right now in the other room. I
Speaker 1: could hear them. They're doing school, doing their little homeschooling,
Speaker 1: and so that's that. This is what Amber does in
Speaker 1: the mornings. But uh, it's it's hard to justify just
Speaker 1: spending time with their kids is enough. So I'm working
Speaker 1: on that for me mentally, and I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: all the good I can in this deal, and that's
Speaker 1: part of it. It's definitely spending spending time with them.
Speaker 1: It says, here's another question that says, how do you
Speaker 1: remain calm during such a tough time? Is it your faith? Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: it's my faith. I try to apply so many things
Speaker 1: that I've learned, because guys, I get nervous, I get anxious,
Speaker 1: And I tell you, the root of so many of
Speaker 1: these problems is these phones. And if you get there
Speaker 1: and you just look at social media long enough, you
Speaker 1: can go down these rabbit holes and it really starts
Speaker 1: to mess you up. So one thing is limiting the
Speaker 1: phone use, especially in the mornings and evenings, and just
Speaker 1: limiting it during the day to allotted times. But yeah,
Speaker 1: faith is faith is a big deal. I've really I've
Speaker 1: been doing so much reading in the Bible, and I've
Speaker 1: kind of cut out some of my other personal growth
Speaker 1: type reading and really honed in on the Bible. Started
Speaker 1: with the Gospel of John, So I'm almost finished with
Speaker 1: that right now, and just going through that and reading
Speaker 1: the Gospel without someone telling me what I should think
Speaker 1: about it or without telling me the lesson to be
Speaker 1: learned from it. I'm just reading it just myself and
Speaker 1: thinking about it myself, and it's been rare in my
Speaker 1: life that I've done that, just to try to think
Speaker 1: of my own about what Jesus is saying, and that
Speaker 1: calms me because guess what he preaches so many times
Speaker 1: besides love one another, he preaches so many times that
Speaker 1: he is the path to peace. He's the path to
Speaker 1: alleviating stress and not worrying about tomorrow. And so that
Speaker 1: seems to be a really good thing for all of
Speaker 1: us to hone in on. I would definitely say that
Speaker 1: if there's anything if you if you see anything calming
Speaker 1: about me, it's because I'm doing that and stuck right
Speaker 1: now in the Gospel of John for sure. Here's a
Speaker 1: here's a big huge turn from that. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: firearm to use in both self defense and hunting? And uh?
Speaker 1: That's from Garrett on Instagram and I carry daily. My
Speaker 1: daily carry is a Glock forty two. It's a three
Speaker 1: eighty and I love that. I love that little thing.
Speaker 1: It's very comfortable, it's very comfortable to fire, it's very safe.
Speaker 1: I feel really good about it, and so I love
Speaker 1: my forty two. I also have a forty three, I
Speaker 1: have a twenty six, I have a two seventeens soa
Speaker 1: m glad guy for sure. When it comes to hunting.
Speaker 1: I love my Riminton shotguns. I have a also have
Speaker 1: a Rayminton seven hundred seven millimeter H eight dear rifle
Speaker 1: and that's been a gun that I grew up with,
Speaker 1: so I love that thing, and those are I have
Speaker 1: a I have several others. I'm like trying to I'm like,
Speaker 1: my mind is scanning, like thinking, what's YouTube gonna hear
Speaker 1: right now be monetized or whatever. But yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty good answer. I carry that forty two with me
Speaker 1: all the time. Here's one that says, what is your
Speaker 1: music goal and what do you want to achieve musically?
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this a few times on these podcasts,
Speaker 1: but this is something that I've definitely learned as I've
Speaker 1: gotten older that I'm trying to not put goals in
Speaker 1: my life anymore. You know, I've lived a life of
Speaker 1: having goals and trying to achieve these goals and it's
Speaker 1: healthy and it's okay, but there is I've noticed some
Speaker 1: negative impacts on my life when I try to set
Speaker 1: too many goals, especially when you get a little bit
Speaker 1: older and you've achieved a lot of goals that you want.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you could reach a level of disappointment and missing
Speaker 1: the expectations that you thought you might have, And when
Speaker 1: you miss several expectations in a row, it's demoralizing to yourself,
Speaker 1: and then you start thinking that there's a problem when
Speaker 1: there might not even be a problem. The problem might
Speaker 1: have been that you set a goal that wasn't right,
Speaker 1: because when you set a goal, there's nothing about a
Speaker 1: goal besides your brain shooting in the dark and saying,
Speaker 1: here's something, let's go for that, when in reality, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to be the best person you can, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to set out with a purpose of being
Speaker 1: the best version of yourself every day and incrementally growing
Speaker 1: that progression, then who's to say that that goal was
Speaker 1: way off mark and it should have been something completely different?
Speaker 1: Hemisphere that it's actually way better. But you couldn't possibly
Speaker 1: have imagined that at some point in your past just
Speaker 1: setting a random goal like I want to play music
Speaker 1: in stadiums. You know, let's say that's a goal headlining
Speaker 1: a stadium. That's a pretty awesome goal. But what if
Speaker 1: that was way off the mark of what it should
Speaker 1: have been, Like, what if what if doing a personal
Speaker 1: growth public public seminar, speaking seminar or something like that
Speaker 1: in a stadium was actually what I was able to
Speaker 1: achieve before musically selling out a stadium, And I would
Speaker 1: have had no idea that I'm just throwing this out there,
Speaker 1: But I would have had no idea in the past
Speaker 1: ten years ago if I just said I want to
Speaker 1: sell out a stadium, because what happens if I didn't?
Speaker 1: Does that mean I missed my I missed the goal.
Speaker 1: I failed on the goal. That sounds terrible. And this
Speaker 1: isn't about failure, because that's going to happen. Failure is
Speaker 1: just part of it. It's about not meeting expectation and
Speaker 1: losing your gratitude. That's what's destructive because when you start
Speaker 1: losing gratitude and it starts falling below your expectations, that's
Speaker 1: when unhappiness sets in. That's when forms of depression start
Speaker 1: setting in. So that was a weird way to answer
Speaker 1: that question. But that's where I am right now, trying
Speaker 1: to be the best person I can every day, incrementally
Speaker 1: judging myself on who I was yesterday in comparison to
Speaker 1: who I am today. What could I do? What little
Speaker 1: things could I do every single day to make myself better?
Speaker 1: That's the goal. Here's another one that says, what has
Speaker 1: been the best part of your YouTube channel? Oh my gosh, well,
Speaker 1: I I love all my YouTube channels. That has been
Speaker 1: I try to call myself am I called a YouTuber
Speaker 1: yet I don't know. I like that title YouTuber Granger
Speaker 1: Smith YouTuber I've I think that would be a really
Speaker 1: cool title. I don't think I've quite earned that title yet.
Speaker 1: But country music singer turned YouTuber, our country music singer
Speaker 1: morphed into YouTuber. I like that. I'll do another one here.
Speaker 1: This says are you moving and what will happen to
Speaker 1: the house you live in? Now? You are very observant,
Speaker 1: Yes we are. This has been this is a temporary house.
Speaker 1: We moved here after riv that was kind of a
Speaker 1: good landing spot, and we are we are moving. But
Speaker 1: this whole thing, this whole virus thing, is really put
Speaker 1: things in a in a weird, weird place. So I
Speaker 1: will be telling you way more about that on the Smiths.
Speaker 1: I'll be kind of revealing that I've wanted to reveal
Speaker 1: it early, but everything is on hold right now, so
Speaker 1: there's more to come. On that there's more to come
Speaker 1: on all these stories. Keep asking your questions, guys. Everyone
Speaker 1: stay safe, but don't forget to question everything that you
Speaker 1: see in the headlines everything. Don't wash away all your
Speaker 1: rights just because someone tells you to. That's so important.
Speaker 1: Love you guys, thank you for listening, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next Monday. Gee ye