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Speaker 1: Patty, everybody, Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: if you're returning, good morning, Thank you for listening. Have

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Speaker 1: One of my one of my very close friends, Caleb,

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Speaker 1: who's been on this podcast several times, has some great

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Speaker 1: news to share today as he's come to the end

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Speaker 1: of his d UI process and they finally removed the

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Speaker 1: sometimes you could think is never going to end. And

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Speaker 1: I have been with him through this, watching this go down,

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Speaker 1: You feel stuck right now? Do you feel like you

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Speaker 1: can't move forward with whatever you're dealing with, or it

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could look at it and say, I

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Speaker 1: have seventy two months of this before I could ever

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Speaker 1: see something normal. Maybe you're just thinking about the state

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Speaker 1: of the world today. Maybe you're just thinking that things

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Speaker 1: aren't going to be normal until this happens. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think I could wait that long. You're gonna want

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Speaker 1: to listen to this podcast. We're going to hit on

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Speaker 1: all those things, and I think it's really important to

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Speaker 1: want to give a few shout outs before we start,

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Speaker 1: before we roll that intro. This is the shout outs.

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Speaker 1: If you have a question or a shout out, email

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Speaker 1: Granger Smith Podcast gmail dot com. This first shout out

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Speaker 1: goes to Hayden, Lancaster, Thank you for listening, Buddy, Dustin

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Speaker 1: Kaufman from Lancaster, p A. He likes by Boy Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Dustin Herman P N R. From South Africa.

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Speaker 1: P I E N A A R. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: South Africa, Thank you Herman. Cheyenne Nelson shout out to you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much. From Concordia, Kansas. Mitch Kajar Mitch,

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Speaker 1: Steven Poke Hulk P A C H O L K E.

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Speaker 1: What is my problem? With pronouncing names today. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to Stephen, Thank you so much. You're from Grain Valley, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys so much. This podcast means a

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Speaker 1: lot to me because it's putting content into the world

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Speaker 1: that I I feel like could help people, could be meaningful,

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Speaker 1: could give someone a purpose. Could someone could take just

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Speaker 1: Then imagine that concept of a lot of people making

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Speaker 1: something tiny in their life a little bit better. That

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. This is episode sixty five. Roll

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Speaker 1: that intro. Yee yee did chance in DC longline five?

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Speaker 1: Fool up and down going back rangey co yeah yoution.

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Speaker 1: So I have Kayla back with me. There's actually two

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Speaker 1: weeks in a row for you. Two weeks. You're you're

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Speaker 1: a regular. I like you. You're my sidekick, and you

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Speaker 1: have good stories, and you you have I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you're just one of my best friends. And you you're

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Speaker 1: but I know you're bounding like, Man, you got this.

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Speaker 1: And yesterday I was leaving the farm and you driving

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Speaker 1: was something very different about you yesterday. Yep, something different

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Speaker 1: specifically about your vehicle yesterday. Yes, you had a lot

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Speaker 1: what's it called. It's called the ignition interlock device. Some

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Speaker 1: then I look, I go. Now that's what a monk

429
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Speaker 1: will do, or that's what a Navy seal will do,

430
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: and then I leave. And if you could apply that

431
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: mentality and to all these little pieces of your life,

432
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: especially your power play job, like you wake up one

433
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: morning on a Monday morning ago, I'm going into work

434
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: to a job I hate, but I'm gonna I'm gonna

435
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: do so good today. I'm gonna do a perfect job today.

436
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go in to this power plant like I'm

437
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: a monk, and like these monasteries where monks live currently,

438
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: they always have jobs. It could be it could be

439
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: like the one with Jesse Hitzler in the book. They

440
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: were dog trainers, so they train like seeing eye dogs

441
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: and military dogs and it's all German short German shepherds.

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00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: And they could go in and then there's a guy

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Speaker 1: that does laundry, and then there are the guys that

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00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: cleaned the bathrooms. Then they're guys that does that cooks

445
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: the food. But everything they do is when they make

446
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: up their bed to when they brush their teeth is perfect.

447
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: There is no time limit on it. They just do

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Speaker 1: it perfectly. And then it's so interesting to think about

449
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: applying a monk's life or a Navy seals life into

450
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: your everyday life and watch it eliminate that feeling of

451
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: being stuck. Because when you start mastering the monotonous, you

452
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: become the king of the monotonous. And then it's no

453
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: longer monotonous. You're now the king of something. You're the

454
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: master of something. It's not the master of you anymore.

455
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: Do you walk away from the powerplant and you go, dude,

456
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 1: I just had a perfect day. I crushed this day.

457
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Speaker 1: Everything I did, I did perfect. There's a couple of

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00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: things I tried to cut corners on. I went back

459
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 1: and I did it perfect. And it doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: your boss notices you or not, or if your colleagues

461
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: your peers notice you. Doesn't even matter. You get back

462
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: in your car to go home knowing you're the master

463
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: of that day. And that's huge and crushing. The feeling

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00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: of being stuck. Yeah, it's true. And just that piece

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Speaker 1: of knowing that you did you know, you said that

466
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: you did the best that you could for that. Yeah.

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00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: And the humility, I think it takes a good amount

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Speaker 1: of humility to go about life that way, which if

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Speaker 1: you're if you have the humility to if you're humble

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Speaker 1: enough to go into a situation where it's like I'm

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00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: just gonna nobody's gonna see it, but I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: do it, you know, the best I possibly can. Your

473
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: attitude will get better and it'll get noticed too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say this, Kevin, here's my mission for you.

475
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: Start with sixty seconds. And it sounds crazy, but set

476
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: an alarm on your phone for sixty seconds and say,

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00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: art today, I'm gonna for sixty seconds, I'm gonna think

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Speaker 1: about a new job, a new position, a new way

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00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: to search out and apply for a new job. And

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00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: set your timer and hit go, and sixty seconds is

481
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: gonna go off, and you're gonna go, well, dang, that

482
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: was that was quick. I didn't even get a really

483
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: chance to think about it. But stop and move on.

484
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: And the next day, set it for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty seconds. The next day, come in and go all right,

486
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give themself five minutes. So you're gradually you're

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Speaker 1: not just saying all right, must spend two hours a

488
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: day looking for a new job, because you're gonna get bored. Yeah,

489
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: doing that, you're gonna drive yourself and your brain's gonna

490
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: go no, I can't do this. You get less time

491
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: and be more frustrated. Exactly, less done, more frustrated. So instead,

492
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: give your work your way up to like a ten

493
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: minute week where each day you're spending ten minutes on

494
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: this new job, and then see if you can get

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00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: up to thirty minutes. And then maybe in a month

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Speaker 1: you can spend an hour a day. Don't start at

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Speaker 1: an hour, start at one minute. And so if you

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Speaker 1: could do those two things where you're dedicating a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of time every day to your new job, your

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00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: new search, or your re education, and then you go

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00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: back to your power plant and you treat that power

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00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: plant like you're a monk and a monastery. I promise

503
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: you you're gonna alleviate that stuck feeling and take a

504
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: break to bear it back. Thank you guys for listening

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Speaker 1: this one came in and I thought right of you, Caleb.

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Speaker 1: It says, what is your favorite pocket knife to carry?

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Speaker 1: My favorite pocketknafe to carry is almost always a Kershaw

582
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: and this one we both have someone because you bought

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Speaker 1: this for me for my birthday. My brother Jordan got

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Speaker 1: me this and it is First off, it's the uh

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Speaker 1: we have the same one month's black art there news's chrome.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, might've just been worn out. Oh yeah, same

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Speaker 1: exact model, the eight c R one three m o V.

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Speaker 1: This is not paid for by Kershaw. No, it's just

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Speaker 1: a really good n This is awesome. So it I

590
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: carry this one. I like the knuckle stop. Should I

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Speaker 1: have to need a knuckle stop. It also has a

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Speaker 1: quarter inch nut driver, small ruler. It's got two flat

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Speaker 1: tip screwdriver tips that you put into your quarters magnetically

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Speaker 1: hooks all. Yeah, and this thing. I use this for

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Speaker 1: everything so much so to everybody always knows that I

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Speaker 1: have it on me. Actually it's the truck giveaway. When

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Speaker 1: one of the Covert guys came and said, you have

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Speaker 1: a screwdriver, I had one on me. He goes, I

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Speaker 1: just needed to change license plates, and I said, well,

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Speaker 1: you might need a bigger screwdriver. And I pulled out

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Speaker 1: my pocket knife like this. I said, here's here's a

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00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: bigger Phillips tip and he was like, yeah, that'll work perfect.

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Speaker 1: Where'd you get that knife? And I told him where

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Speaker 1: it was. So this is the one I carry on

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Speaker 1: me all the time because I can always the stuff

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Speaker 1: that I do at the warehouse. Sometimes I'll be doing

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Speaker 1: fiddling with electrical or need a Phillips tip or putting

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Speaker 1: this together, putting that together, and there's just there's like

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Speaker 1: a thousand different things you can do this with this.

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Speaker 1: So the Kershaw assisted opening ones are awesome, But this

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Speaker 1: thing I do like a thousand different things with and

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Speaker 1: that got you that because I just use it all

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Speaker 1: the time. I have a couple other Kershaw's too that

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Speaker 1: I have struggled because occasionally I won't know where this

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Speaker 1: one is and then I'll grab the other one off

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Speaker 1: off my desk. The command Kershaw really is benefiting from this.

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Speaker 1: They really didn't pay us a penny to say all this.

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Speaker 1: I will say that if you haven't assisted opening one,

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Speaker 1: I've I've had like four or five of them. And

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Speaker 1: if you're spring breaks, you call them and they just

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Speaker 1: ship it to you for free. Have you ever done that?

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Speaker 1: They're so cool, they just they're yeah, nobody's getting paid

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Speaker 1: for this. They just have really good They just take

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Speaker 1: care of you. And they're pretty reasonably priced too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like they're not going to break the bank. But it's

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Speaker 1: a solid, solid knife. My grandfather on my dad's side

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00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: always carried a pocket knife, but he had those old

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Speaker 1: timy ones that that have like the uh, the wood

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Speaker 1: on the side, and they're like impossible to open if

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Speaker 1: they're if you don't keep it oiled, you have to

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Speaker 1: get your fingernail in that little groove and pull it,

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Speaker 1: and so he would lose it all the time. So

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Speaker 1: it was like the joke of the family was at

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Speaker 1: Christmas time, every person in the family would get him

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Speaker 1: one of those. So for Christmas he'd get like seventeen

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Speaker 1: of them, and that by the end of the year

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Speaker 1: he would have lost all seventeen. I like that. I

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Speaker 1: love redundancy because you never know and stuff like that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. Well, if he if he would have had

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Speaker 1: a curse, he could have opened the I know, I

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00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: thought of it. That's what I started saying that because

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00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: it's like, man, if Paul had had one of these,

643
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: I whant to changed the game for him. Those things

644
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: are terrible, but I still have When he died, we

645
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: each got like his latest inventory, like the grandkids, so

646
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: I have one from him. Do they all collect eventually?

647
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: Like so you found them? They were just lost. Well,

648
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: at least we found the current inventory. The other ones

649
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: just went into the endless pit that his knives fell into.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read another question. This is says hey Grainew.

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Speaker 1: My name is Nick. I live in a small town

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Speaker 1: in Sweden called Scovde Skovdeled. I've been listening to buy

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00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: Boy Baseball over and over. My own father wasn't present

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00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: during my formative years, and I've basically had to teach

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00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: myself how to be a good man. I'm now twenty

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00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: seven years old, and even though I have children on

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00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: my own, there's still a bit away, and I've thought

658
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: about what kind of father I've let me read that again,

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00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven years old, and even though having my

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00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,439
Speaker 1: own children is still a bit away, so he doesn't

661
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: have them yet, I've thought about what kind of I've

662
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: want to be. Listening to By Boy Baseball has put

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00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: so many emotions into words for me and gave me goosebumps.

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00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: I now know what kind of father I want to

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00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: be and what kind of example I want to set

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00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: for my future children. Thank you so much and everyone

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00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: involved in making this song. So that's I guess this

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00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: is kind of a shout out, and so thank you Nick.

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00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening from Sweden. As I was reading that,

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00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: I could almost hear your accent. Here's your typing this,

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00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you, buddy, And here's to be in

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00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: twenty seven still being single and with no kids. That's awesome.

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00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: Hang in there. You got about three more years hanging there.

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00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: I always think thirties are a good age to have

675
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 1: kids to start thinking about that. Unless you are kids,

676
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: then forty fifty, Yeah, sixty, just don't do it. Yeah,

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00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: here's a question from Tim, and this is interesting and

678
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: you probably help with this, Kala, but says hey Grangeer,

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00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: I hope you guys are having a great holiday season.

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00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 1: We've constantly got you streaming throughout our office in Auburn, Alabama,

681
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: and it dawned on us. How do you guys get

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00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: weather forecast and make plans when weather becomes an issue

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00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: both on the road and at the farm. Thanks so much. PS,

684
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: if you need a company watching your back, let us know,

685
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: because Tim works for AWIS Weather Services in Auburn, Alabama.

686
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: So we're Caleb. Were you in the band when Frank Maglan,

687
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: our audio engineer, was like heading up weather services for us?

688
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: Or did he take that on after years? That problem

689
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: was probably after me. It's funny because our old audio

690
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: engineer took on like his own division of our production

691
00:40:55,120 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: staff as a weather analyst, and he would study the

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00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: weather before we laughed for a tour, and then we

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00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: had a special groutiny you're laughing this is serious. I

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00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: can just see. Okay, so there's high pressure. Yeah yeah,

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00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: I was like that. So here you go, all right,

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00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: guys on Friday, That's how Frank talked. All right, guys

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00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: and Friday, des Moines, Iowa supposed to be clear skies

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00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: sixty degrees that evening, a low pressure system will be

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00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: moving in about the time were loading the trailer. We

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00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: should get a little precipitation, so bring your raincoat and

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00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: a sweater. The next day we will be heading into Lincoln, Nebraska,

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00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: should be overcast skies with a thirty chance of rain,

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00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: high of fifty three degrees. God, what should see? And

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00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: it was so funny because we would actually go by

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00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: that and be like, you know if because when you're

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00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: on the road, and Tim, Tim has a good point,

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00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: because when you travel it's far and as much as

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00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: we did before COVID, you easily could end up in

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00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: a really different weather system than you thought you would be.

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00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: For instance, it could be August and you're touring in

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00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: the up of Michigan and it's going to get down

712
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: to thirty at night, and you're completely unprepared. So eventually

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00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: our buses just got completely stocked with every kind of

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00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: weather gear, whether it was rain or beanies and gloves

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00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: and jackets. But then to answer your question, tim it

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00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: evolved into like the bus driver job. The bus drivers

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00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: took on being aware of weather because they needed to

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00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:52,280
Speaker 1: know what they were driving through. And the key times

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00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: that we really had to look at usually was load

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00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: in and load out and showtime. So if it was

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00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: an outdoor show, we always had to pay attention to

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00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: show time, but always we had to pay attention to

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Speaker 1: load out time, which is, say it's midnight to one am,

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Speaker 1: what's happening at the loading dock or the back door

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00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: of the venue, and do we need to push that

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00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: load earlier or later because of a storm. And we

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00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: have dealt with this, like in the summer touring season,

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00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: like during festival season, whether it's always a really big

729
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: deal because it's we're constantly bringing tarps and the guys

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00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: will put saran wrap around their guitar pedal boards because

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00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: we play no matter what, we play in rain or shine,

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00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: if it's an not door festival. The only time we

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00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: don't play is if it's high winds and the stages

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00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: in danger, or if it's lightning. But if it's just

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00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: just rain, we're going to play unless for some reason

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00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: the promoter has a reason to call it off. But

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00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: we can't personally call it off because we're contracted to play.

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00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: They're not gonna pay us if we say we're going

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00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 1: out there because it's raining. So we've had we've had

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00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: countless hundreds hundreds of stories of iffy weather conditions. Do

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00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: you remember any of them in the van days? I

742
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,720
Speaker 1: remember stuff got blown down. We were like a festival

743
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: and it was a tent but around the Houston area. Yeah, yeah,

744
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: blew down on us when we were inside of it.

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00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 1: But a massive tit. I mean that sucker was massive.

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00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: But that was that was the only one that I remember,

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00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: And that and the entire tit went down. We didn't

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00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: have weather man Frank at that or he wasn't weatherman

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00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: at that point, which I still trying to envision him. Yeah,

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00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: giving the forecast so awesome question, Tim forecast. Thank you

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00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: for asking a question that no one would have thought

752
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: to ask. But besides the weather man, and it is

753
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: just like you suspected, Tim, it's a big deal for driving,

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00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: it's a big deal for show playing the show, and

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00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: it's a big deal for carrying gear through the show,

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00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: and it just it's all over the map on how

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00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: that changes. I'm gonna do one more cool, all right?

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00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: This question is from John without an h says, Hey, Grangeer,

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00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: my name is John. I've been a fan of yours

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00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 1: for years, and I love the music and the content

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00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: you put out and find myself relating to you in

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00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: many ways. This has been a crazy year and one

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00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: many people have struggled to agree on. I agree with

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00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 1: taking precautions or relation to COVID nineteen, but not shutting

765
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: down your whole life to avoid the chance of getting

766
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 1: it Right here we go, enjoy life to the fullest

767
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: while you can, on the chance the virus or the

768
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: multitude of other things might happen tomorrow, it says, might

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00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: be happened. I do my best to read these emails

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00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: words verbatim, but sometimes it's it's hard. Yeah, sometimes they

771
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: trip me up. I've heard you speak about child safety,

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00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: and this is an issue you feel strongly about that

773
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: others may not. My question is how do you factor

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00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: that into considering other strong feelings towards precautions quarantine because

775
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: of the loss of their family due to COVID nineteen. John,

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00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: I think I kind of understand what he's saying. Yeah,

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00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: and let me go back. He says, I agree with

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00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: taking precautions in relation to COVID nineteen, but not with

779
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: shutting down your whole life to avoid the chance of

780
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: getting it. And so maybe he's struggling with some friends

781
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: who are thinking against that, which is why he's saying,

782
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: how do you deal with an issue that you feel

783
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: strongly towards it? Others may not? It's crazy. I don't

784
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: really get that question too often, but it's surprising that

785
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: it don't get it every question these days. Yeah, it's

786
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: interesting that more people don't ask you that, especially as

787
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: a touring musician and travel such a party to life. Yeah,

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00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't deal with this too much, John,

789
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: because the this whole stuff, this whole virus thing, I'm

790
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: just over it. I'm completely over it. And I don't

791
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: put hope in twenty twenty one. I don't put hope

792
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: in the vaccine. I don't put hope in a new president.

793
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: I don't put hope in a find a medical advisor.

794
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: I put hope in God. And there's so much there's

795
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: so much grace given when you just finally give up

796
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 1: trying to put hope in man, and don't hear me wrong,

797
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: and saying that just means it means I don't care

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00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna live my life the way I

799
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: want to live it. That's not exactly what I'm saying.

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00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm not going to I'm not going

801
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: to stress and destroy myself because I'm worried about other

802
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: people in humanity holding up to something I believe in.

803
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: So this question is not And your subject line is relatability,

804
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: and I just I'm over it. And you see me,

805
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: you see me. Deal with this year, you see me?

806
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: You know, start with where everyone was scared at the beginning,

807
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: and I say this year. I'm talking about twenty twenty

808
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: one now, but the beginning of the shutdown, YEA, everybody

809
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: believed it in them. Not that you don't believe it.

810
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: It's believable. It's a virus. People are catching it, people

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00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: are dying from it. Yeah, it was. It was initially

812
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: a whole lot. I mean I'll no, no, go ahead,

813
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: go ahead. I mean I've really And that's kind of

814
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 1: my answer. I'm early over it. I We're all gonna

815
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 1: die at some point, and as adults, that's our responsibility

816
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,439
Speaker 1: as children. We want to talk about children here, that's

817
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: not their responsibility, that's ours. So that's why we do

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00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: everything we can and precautions and we we make sure

819
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: everything is it's right when it comes to child safety.

820
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: But when it comes to adults and we're in trying

821
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: to work for a living and someone wants to take

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00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: the most extreme measures for a virus, that's totally up

823
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: to them, and I'm not ever going to argue. We

824
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: went to an ice cream place the other day with

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00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: me and Hamber and the kids, and the lady said,

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00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: and I'm not really, I'm not really anti mask and

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00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: I'm not really and I'm kind of right in between. Yeah,

828
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 1: and so I literally just forgot to put it on.

829
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: But we went into this ice cream place and she said,

830
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: do you mind, do you just mind putting on your

831
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: mask because we're really struggling, This company's really struggling, and

832
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: and the city will find us fifteen hundred dollars if

833
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: they catch someone in here without a mask. That's ridiculous.

834
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: And do you know I'm not gonna look her in

835
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: the eye and say, well, then I'll be taking my

836
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: business elsewhere. You know, Yeah, you just you want to

837
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: that place and doing a favor, you know, just trying

838
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: to find said yeah, I said Tom, I said, that's

839
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: my fault, and I forgot about it and I just

840
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 1: pulled up my little gator above my face and I

841
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't think I was anti patriotic for that

842
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: or you know, I'm just, uh, I'm just kind of

843
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: numb on the whole thing. I think everybody's getting more numbs,

844
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: especially with all the the I mean, you just looked

845
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: at the leadership of the all the all the all

846
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: the politicians who are telling you to do one thing

847
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: and they're doing another. I mean, as soon as they

848
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: start doing another that I'm nobody's going to follow. I mean,

849
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: that's how serious. That's how serious the whole situation is.

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00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: Is the people telling you that it's this serious and

851
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Speaker 1: we need to do all these different things are doing

852
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: different things than that. And we got it. What is

853
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: a certain politician for for the city of Austin issued

854
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: a you should stay at home order from Mexico. That's

855
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 1: how should not go anywhere where are you I'm in Mexico.

856
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 1: It was absolutely ridiculous from our mayor in Austin, Texas,

857
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: not our he's the city over. We're in Georgetown, and

858
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: the mayor of Austin telling everybody to stay home from

859
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: a video that he recorded in Mexico on vacation at

860
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: his daughter's large the attend wedding. What do you what

861
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: do you want? Yeah, well it was it was a wedding,

862
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 1: it was already planned. Well, everybody else has other stuff planned.

863
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: If you're not going to take it that serious, you know,

864
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: we don't need to take it that serious. Kevin Neson said,

865
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: you guys should know no dying. You guys just need

866
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: to cancel this, cancel that. Well, then he goes to

867
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: Napa vel and has dinner. We will take it as

868
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: serious as you do. Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm

869
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: not gonna take it more serious than you do. And

870
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 1: I'm not going to I'm not going to take a

871
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: stance on this podcast that's too far from what people

872
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,320
Speaker 1: have already said a million times. It's like, if you

873
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: feel like you have some kind of pre existing conditions,

874
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: stay home, absolutely, stay home. Yeah, and if you know

875
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: that you might have it, I don't think you need

876
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: to be like you said. It's not like this draw

877
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: line in the sand. I will not wear a mask

878
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: at any point. Well, that's just yeah, that's I mean,

879
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: if you have someone that you love who is you know,

880
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: compromise compromised, then don't go around them. And then it's

881
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:01,280
Speaker 1: just if if people applied to compassion to this situation

882
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: a little more, then that would work kind of work

883
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: itself out. If you're if you're at risk, don't go

884
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 1: out and do stuff. And if you you know, if

885
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: you're not at risk, you know, just go about your life.

886
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 1: What happened to free choice? There's another story and Chipotle

887
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: down the road. I was getting a burrito and Chipotle

888
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: is pretty pretty mask heavy. You know, they want they

889
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 1: want you to wear a mask. And it's the same

890
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: thing like the city is going to find you. And

891
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: so you can't totally blame the individual's business that that's

892
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: under threat of getting the fine. You blame the city,

893
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: but not the business. So I went to go get

894
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: a burrito and they asked me to please put my

895
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 1: mask on. So I put it on, got my burrito,

896
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: left and Bull was like, where'd you go for lunch?

897
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,839
Speaker 1: That's my bus driver, Bull love him. He said, where'd

898
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: you go for lunch? I said, chipotlet and go they

899
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: make you wear a mask. I said yeah, and he

900
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: said did you put it on? I said yeah, and

901
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: he goes, huh, you just did what they said. Yeah,

902
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to breed. Oh he said, So if they

903
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: came to your house tomorrow and said I want all

904
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: your guns, you just say okay, because that's that's what

905
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: they tell you. Like, well, I don't. That's the problem

906
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: with ideology is you go, you go all the way

907
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: down one road, and you can't turn back on one road.

908
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: One solid ideology. It gets very dangerous when you try

909
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: to apply it to everything else in your life. I

910
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: think that's the I think the it's natural. I think

911
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: it's extremely uh embedded in the American that if someone goes,

912
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 1: you know, this thing's dangerous, masks are probably a good idea,

913
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: Like sounds pretty reasonable. But when someone goes you have

914
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: to wear a mask or else, we're like, yeah, I

915
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna wear a mask. Yeah, it's just

916
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: an American you know. Yeah, we've been doing that since

917
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 1: we were throwing tea in the harbor. It's just you know,

918
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: if you ask us, it's very yeah, but if you

919
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: just tell me to or else, then I'm like, not

920
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, don't feel like wearing this just yeah.

921
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: And I'm also an at the point where I'm going

922
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: to look an old, older lady in the eye that

923
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: owns a little small mom and pop ice cream shop,

924
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: and she says, can you can you please put that on?

925
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: Just because if someone sees me, I could I can

926
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: get fine, And I'm already hanging on just as it is.

927
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look at her and go no, yeah, no,

928
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: give you my ice cream, keep your you keep your

929
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 1: two dollars and thirty cent ice cream woman, Yeah, not me.

930
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: Instead I just go, yeah, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, And

931
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 1: I give her the money for the ice cream, and

932
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: me and the kids leave. That doesn't seem that that

933
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: big a deal to me. No, you know, like if

934
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: if you were to go visit somebody who has a

935
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: family member who's you know who who could get sick

936
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: very quickly and not survive code you know, for whatever reason,

937
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: you know, just just do it. It's it's the when

938
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,720
Speaker 1: that oh we went we went to eat to dinner.

939
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: This is the one that's ridiculous. We went to eat me,

940
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: how do you want to eat? And uh, we're walking outdoor.

941
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: You walk up to where they sign you in and uh,

942
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: and then you go there's a door into the restaurant. Well,

943
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: only from standing outside the door to inside the restaurant,

944
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: did I have to wear my mask? Hmm? All of

945
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: five feet one door? And then I could take my

946
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: mask off. And it's at that point where I'm like,

947
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:26,919
Speaker 1: I did nothing to protect myself from So there's there's

948
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: things where there's reasonable to do it around people who

949
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: were That's just where. And it goes back to if

950
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: you if you want to go eat, go eat and

951
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: don't wear a mask. No I'm not. I'm not into

952
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: going to get into the science. And I hate that

953
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: word now, like I hate the word science and I

954
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: hate the word virologist. I hate those words because some

955
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: everyone goes, oh, you know science, now you know you

956
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: know virology? No I don't. I don't. Well have a friend.

957
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: Everybody knows a friend, and so as a virologist, it

958
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to my small brain that a little

959
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: piece of cloth around my face and those would stop

960
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: the virus. It doesn't totally make sense to me. So

961
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if I was worried about it, or

962
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: I knew someone that was susceptible to it. I would

963
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: not be around them, or I would stay home. That's

964
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 1: the best way. That's the best way to not get it,

965
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: if you don't leave the house or don't go to

966
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: someone else's house that is sensitive to it. But going

967
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: to the restaurant and wearing a tiny piece of cloth

968
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: on your face when you walk in the door and

969
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: then taking that tiny piece of cloth off when you

970
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: sit down. And I'm just preaching to the choir here,

971
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: and there's people I'm suspecting that people listening to this

972
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: are split about fifty to fifty. Some people are like

973
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: one hundred percent mask, and then there's probably people that

974
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: are like one hundred percent no mask, and then both

975
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: of those probably overlap to guys like me. That's like,

976
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: you know what, that's uh, I'm over it, I'm over it, off,

977
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm over I've seen that. Was it the football games

978
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 1: where like the band has masks that split in the

979
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: middle so they can play the trumpet. Mm hmm, yeah,

980
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: that's that was Texas A and M. My album Alma

981
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: Mater is absolutely ridiculous. And this just in case you're

982
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: getting your keyboards ready to start putting hate on me,

983
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: because when you take a neutral position, like a little

984
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: bit like I am. That's all people are going to

985
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: want to do is hate because there's going to be

986
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: people that say I need to advocate for only one

987
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: side or the other, or I'm wrong because it's that

988
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: old Aaron Tippins song you got the stand for something

989
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: or you'll fall for anything. And once again, that's an

990
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: ideology that can get dangerous. That kind of mentality can

991
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: get dangerous. And here's what I'm saying on me sum

992
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: everything up. I'm not worried about it because I don't

993
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: trust man kind. I put my faith in God. I

994
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: put my faith in the Almighty, the Creator, who I

995
00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: find peace from who I get grace, and I am

996
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: better mentally, maybe better physically, I don't know. I'm definitely

997
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: better mentally, uh for putting my faith there. And I

998
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: don't have to When I have my faith there, I

999
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: don't have to go all out and say this is

1000
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: where I draw the line in the sand. That's what

1001
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: I'll say, although I will say God said you have to,

1002
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: I would rather you lukewarm or cold? Yeah? Him to him,

1003
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: I else spit you outline. Now he did say that

1004
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: about him, and I am definitely hot for him land there.

1005
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: We'll see you guys. Thanks for joining me on the

1006
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could

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00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,200
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1010
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1011
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,920
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1012
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:06,240
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