Speaker 1: Patty, everybody, Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Welcome back
Speaker 1: if you're returning, good morning, Thank you for listening. Have
Speaker 1: you ever had a d w I or d u
Speaker 1: I or had anybody involved with the d u I.
Speaker 1: One of my one of my very close friends, Caleb,
Speaker 1: who's been on this podcast several times, has some great
Speaker 1: news to share today as he's come to the end
Speaker 1: of his d UI process and they finally removed the
Speaker 1: apparatus from his car. It's been a a journey that
Speaker 1: sometimes you could think is never going to end. And
Speaker 1: I have been with him through this, watching this go down,
Speaker 1: and it's been it's been groose them watching it happen happen,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to I wanted to talk about today
Speaker 1: because not only is it relevant for that situation, but
Speaker 1: it's relevant for a lot of people that feel stuck.
Speaker 1: You feel stuck right now? Do you feel like you
Speaker 1: can't move forward with whatever you're dealing with, or it
Speaker 1: feels like the light at the end of tunnel is
Speaker 1: so far away it feels like you're never gonna get there.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could look at it and say, I
Speaker 1: have seventy two months of this before I could ever
Speaker 1: see something normal. Maybe you're just thinking about the state
Speaker 1: of the world today. Maybe you're just thinking that things
Speaker 1: aren't going to be normal until this happens. And I
Speaker 1: don't think I could wait that long. You're gonna want
Speaker 1: to listen to this podcast. We're going to hit on
Speaker 1: all those things, and I think it's really important to
Speaker 1: talk about and spread that kind of message. I do
Speaker 1: want to give a few shout outs before we start,
Speaker 1: before we roll that intro. This is the shout outs.
Speaker 1: If you have a question or a shout out, email
Speaker 1: Granger Smith Podcast gmail dot com. This first shout out
Speaker 1: goes to Hayden, Lancaster, Thank you for listening, Buddy, Dustin
Speaker 1: Kaufman from Lancaster, p A. He likes by Boy Baseball.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dustin Herman P N R. From South Africa.
Speaker 1: P I E N A A R. Shout out to
Speaker 1: South Africa, Thank you Herman. Cheyenne Nelson shout out to you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much. From Concordia, Kansas. Mitch Kajar Mitch,
Speaker 1: shout out to you, Buddy, thank you for listening. And
Speaker 1: Steven Poke Hulk P A C H O L K E.
Speaker 1: What is my problem? With pronouncing names today. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Stephen, Thank you so much. You're from Grain Valley, Missouri.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys so much. This podcast means a
Speaker 1: lot to me because it's putting content into the world
Speaker 1: that I I feel like could help people, could be meaningful,
Speaker 1: could give someone a purpose. Could someone could take just
Speaker 1: a little sliver of something that we say and apply
Speaker 1: it to make something in their life a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Then imagine that concept of a lot of people making
Speaker 1: something tiny in their life a little bit better. That
Speaker 1: adds up to a lot of good for this world.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. This is episode sixty five. Roll
Speaker 1: that intro. Yee yee did chance in DC longline five?
Speaker 1: Fool up and down going back rangey co yeah yoution.
Speaker 1: So I have Kayla back with me. There's actually two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row for you. Two weeks. You're you're
Speaker 1: a regular. I like you. You're my sidekick, and you
Speaker 1: have good stories, and you you have I don't know,
Speaker 1: you're just one of my best friends. And you you're
Speaker 1: so resilient. You're like a ping pong ball. You just
Speaker 1: keep bouncing back and sometimes you don't think you're bouncing,
Speaker 1: but I know you're bounding like, Man, you got this.
Speaker 1: And yesterday I was leaving the farm and you driving
Speaker 1: in and I was driving out. I pulled over, rolled
Speaker 1: the window down. You rolled your window down, and there
Speaker 1: was something very different about you yesterday. Yep, something different
Speaker 1: specifically about your vehicle yesterday. Yes, you had a lot
Speaker 1: of apparatus that was previously there that was now gone.
Speaker 1: So I said, man, wa, I got to get you
Speaker 1: on the podcast. We got to talk about this because
Speaker 1: I think it's a message that a lot of people
Speaker 1: could hear. And the people on this podcast, I'm always
Speaker 1: blown away with the diversity not only geographically that listen,
Speaker 1: but the diversity of age. I all get shout outs
Speaker 1: from people that are thirteen years old and seventy five
Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, it's so, it's crazy, and so that
Speaker 1: when I hear a story like yours, Yes, I think
Speaker 1: we got to get that other podcast because it's a
Speaker 1: story of hope. It's a story of not only overcoming adversity,
Speaker 1: but overcome you know, like you put you close the
Speaker 1: book of that piece of adversity. And what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about is several episodes of this podcast ago I had
Speaker 1: you on here and we talked about your journey. Your
Speaker 1: journey not only with me as my old drummer now
Speaker 1: you're the warehouse manager here at EE Apparel, but your
Speaker 1: journey that you've had. You've had a mountain, I could
Speaker 1: say that because you're from Colorado. Yeah, you've climbed mountains
Speaker 1: in your life, and you always seem to make it
Speaker 1: over the mountains and get to the other side, even
Speaker 1: though it might not seem like it on your way up.
Speaker 1: Never does this latest mountain that you have now cressed,
Speaker 1: is you've your car is now clear of the what
Speaker 1: what's it called. It's called the ignition interlock device. Some
Speaker 1: of you out there will be familiar with it, at
Speaker 1: least a handful of you. Yes, Unfortunately, there was the
Speaker 1: ignition interlock device on there as a result they do
Speaker 1: that as a result of d U S, d W I,
Speaker 1: S Y. You got a A W or you on
Speaker 1: those last one I think it was a U. So
Speaker 1: you got different Some different states do them different, and
Speaker 1: you got a d U I And it was from
Speaker 1: craziness that had happened. That was you know, that was
Speaker 1: the result of it. And it's been years, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been years, and so I wanted to bring you on
Speaker 1: here because it's there's there's people that they could have
Speaker 1: struggled with something in their life. They could have they've
Speaker 1: could have gotten a d U I or a d
Speaker 1: W I or something worse. And then you get you
Speaker 1: get plunged into this turmoil of remorse and regret and
Speaker 1: repentance and recourse and a lot of other things to
Speaker 1: start with red and and you look at it like,
Speaker 1: there's no way I'm going to get through this this
Speaker 1: probation time or you can't. You can't do this and
Speaker 1: this and this and this and this, and you got
Speaker 1: to get into your car and literally breathe into this
Speaker 1: plastic tube and with a camera to tiny camera for
Speaker 1: years looking at you for three years. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: the whole the whole process is just is unbelievable. I
Speaker 1: will say, on the outset of what I'm about to say,
Speaker 1: none of that would have happened if I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: given them a reason to, you know, to arrest you too,
Speaker 1: for you to get in trouble, because if they pull
Speaker 1: you over and you've got nothing going on, well then
Speaker 1: they just kind of let you go. But unfortunately they
Speaker 1: gave him you know reason to do that. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, some people, some people get pulled over, some
Speaker 1: people don't. I typically will get pulled over or I
Speaker 1: will get I have like anti lottery luck. It's a
Speaker 1: but I'm about to start defensive driving me myself too.
Speaker 1: So and and I got to add to what you're
Speaker 1: saying that, you know, we got to thank goodness that
Speaker 1: those those those kind of drastic measures go in place
Speaker 1: to discourage drinking and driving because of the damage far
Speaker 1: worse than a dw I that it can cause. So yeah,
Speaker 1: not neither one of us are talking about how that's
Speaker 1: a pain, because that needs to be in place as
Speaker 1: a pain, as a huge roadblock. But what we're no,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about that. We're talking about you were
Speaker 1: faced with that and you did it, and you didn't
Speaker 1: break your probation and you did nothing else happened during
Speaker 1: the time. And so now that your car is clean, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so now you could take where you are now in
Speaker 1: your life and you could rewind ten years and go, man,
Speaker 1: you you really have a fresh start now that you
Speaker 1: might not have seen coming. That you might not have
Speaker 1: you probably doubted yourself that you could even have this
Speaker 1: clean And this is this clean of a slate as
Speaker 1: I've probably ever known you to have. Yeah, that my
Speaker 1: perspective on everything's a little different, and I'm grateful for,
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to just kind of restart everything.
Speaker 1: And I'm definitely a little wiser. I think this is
Speaker 1: supposed to This is what all this is set up
Speaker 1: to do. Is it just kind of let you know, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, start start doing things different, start
Speaker 1: thinking different, start making different decisions, and stop being so
Speaker 1: reckless and kind of you know, you know, just go
Speaker 1: go about things a little differently. Then you think that
Speaker 1: you did right. Yeah. I mean when they you know,
Speaker 1: when they the rest you and and they tell you're
Speaker 1: on probation they're like, you can't do this or that
Speaker 1: for two years, and it's like, okay, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do it. I know there are lots of people
Speaker 1: who have, you know, difficulty during probation stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't you know, just do whatever they tell you
Speaker 1: to do. But there there are some people who have
Speaker 1: a massive problems. I remember probation officer for telling me
Speaker 1: that people would show up drunk to their probation meeting.
Speaker 1: I I don't know what makes you think you're not
Speaker 1: get caught, but it does feel like you are. It
Speaker 1: does feel like you're never going to get over that,
Speaker 1: because there's always one thing that follows. You know. The
Speaker 1: best way to describe going through probation is they chop
Speaker 1: you off at the knees and then they tell you
Speaker 1: to run. It's like, well, now I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: do this because you took that away. But you expect
Speaker 1: me to do this, you know, like you need to
Speaker 1: be able to go to work and be employed and
Speaker 1: show up to all these meetings immediately after they suspend
Speaker 1: your license and say, wow, am I going to make
Speaker 1: it to the meetings? And how am I going to
Speaker 1: do all these classes and go do community service and
Speaker 1: all that? You took my license away? If you've done
Speaker 1: it out, yeah, I used to. I used to look
Speaker 1: at people who were in the system, the criminal justice system,
Speaker 1: who said it's hard to get out, and I would say, no,
Speaker 1: you're just lazy, or you don't care to get out,
Speaker 1: or you don't want to get out, or you're just
Speaker 1: used to it. And now I look at it a
Speaker 1: little differently and that it is a little bit harder.
Speaker 1: It's just harder, you know, to jump through all those hoops.
Speaker 1: It's harder than it looks. You know, that doesn't look
Speaker 1: like it's that hard from the outside, but once you're in,
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit harder to do. But to
Speaker 1: just kind of put one foot in front of the
Speaker 1: other is the only thing you can do. They say,
Speaker 1: keep doing the next right thing, and that's all you
Speaker 1: can do. The next right thing. That's awesome. Just keep
Speaker 1: doing the next right thing, Keep doing the next right thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think of every you always have little pieces
Speaker 1: that I've never heard you say that. They're like just
Speaker 1: good pieces of life advice you could take and apply
Speaker 1: to any person. The next right thing. It's not now,
Speaker 1: it's easier to mess up, but it's a guideline if
Speaker 1: you ever go, well, what should I do the next
Speaker 1: right thing? Which one is that? It's you could always
Speaker 1: tell yeah, you know, yeah, like what's the next right thing.
Speaker 1: You wake up in the morning, Well, get up, get dressed.
Speaker 1: What's the next right thing? After that, we'll go to work.
Speaker 1: What's the next right thing? Do my job? What's the
Speaker 1: next right thing? You know? Just keep doing the next
Speaker 1: right thing? Yeah, go home, what's the next right thing?
Speaker 1: Not doing the next wrong thing. You know, what's the
Speaker 1: next right thing. Go ahead and have a couple of
Speaker 1: beers with people. No, not really, No, that's not the
Speaker 1: right thing. So do the next right thing. So keep
Speaker 1: doing the next right thing, and you'll get through it.
Speaker 1: And it's a season. We talked about this about how
Speaker 1: life is seasonal, and that's important to remember in anything.
Speaker 1: But it's a season that will pass. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it's going to pass, because sometimes it could take
Speaker 1: years for you to get through whatever difficulty you put
Speaker 1: yourself in or or you found yourself in. But life
Speaker 1: is seasonal, you know, just that summer will come rolling
Speaker 1: around again, Winter will come rolling around again. You're not
Speaker 1: constantly going to be in this season that you're living in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even if it's a good season, you think this is great,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hold right here. And life always changes
Speaker 1: on you. You could go back to your hometown. You
Speaker 1: can try to go back to your old your favorite
Speaker 1: burger joint it's probably gone, yeah, or change names, or
Speaker 1: the burger doesn't taste the same anymore because those new owner.
Speaker 1: Things like that, even those tiny things like that. But
Speaker 1: it constantly is a turnover and you have to learn
Speaker 1: to readapt to the present. You can never chase the past,
Speaker 1: and you certainly can't put things in place that you
Speaker 1: think are the future. So what there's people listening right now?
Speaker 1: I would assume a lot of people listening right now
Speaker 1: they're kind of stuck in a place where either they're
Speaker 1: mentally stuck or they're legally stuck like you were, where
Speaker 1: you know, they're literally breathing into a plastic tube every
Speaker 1: time they try to start their engine of the car.
Speaker 1: They're working out like you worked out with your wife
Speaker 1: for years, you're driving situation like who's going to take
Speaker 1: the car? Or am I going to drive? You need
Speaker 1: to drive? Who do you have to? I can't but
Speaker 1: I can't drive because of this? And then and she
Speaker 1: has to take the car. That is a mess that
Speaker 1: you guys had to work out for three years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she's she's an angel. Without her, it would have
Speaker 1: been significantly harder, probably impossible. But it just yeah, that
Speaker 1: was really that was a really rough time trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how that goes. Which brings up a point
Speaker 1: that is it it doesn't just affect you, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, it affects everybody. Then your kids got
Speaker 1: to get in the car and you have to explain
Speaker 1: to your kids why in the world you have to,
Speaker 1: you know, do that to get the car started. But
Speaker 1: I will in the way I go about doing any
Speaker 1: of my mistakes, which there have been a lot of,
Speaker 1: is just be upfront with it. You know. I told
Speaker 1: the kids, this is what happens when you make a mistake.
Speaker 1: This is what happens when you you know, when you
Speaker 1: do this wrong, do that, everything has consequences. This is
Speaker 1: exactly what you're going to get, you know, play stupid games,
Speaker 1: win stupid prizes. This is what happens. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's another way to go around to go about it
Speaker 1: than just being upfront with it. But yeah, it's definitely
Speaker 1: a tricky. So if you're speaking to them, the people
Speaker 1: listening right now, I didn't really ask that. I didn't
Speaker 1: really set that up right. But if the people that
Speaker 1: are listening that are stuck either mentally or legally or physically,
Speaker 1: and you look at three year timeframe and you look
Speaker 1: at that mountain, you go, I'd rather just quit. I'd
Speaker 1: rather just not do anything than to try to do
Speaker 1: this for three years, just to maybe have a normal
Speaker 1: life at the end of the tunnel. What do you
Speaker 1: say to those people that are stuck? Well, you're getting
Speaker 1: to you're just you know, like it's a season. You know,
Speaker 1: if you look at if you're haven't even gone to
Speaker 1: your core date or you know, it just happened, you know,
Speaker 1: there might be one person out there who just got
Speaker 1: arrested two nights ago or something like that. No matter
Speaker 1: what the situation is, you're looking at a long span
Speaker 1: of time. To you, what looks like a long span
Speaker 1: of time, and when you look back on it, it's
Speaker 1: you just have to go do that next right thing, text,
Speaker 1: take the next step, you know, do your best, and
Speaker 1: you can look at it this way is it might
Speaker 1: look like a long time. Three years looks like a
Speaker 1: long time, or four years looks like a long time.
Speaker 1: But I mean, do you have what was junior high? Like?
Speaker 1: What was high school? Like? I mean you got through that,
Speaker 1: that was three years, that was four years, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean do you remember junior high? I mean it
Speaker 1: seems like a brief period of time in your life
Speaker 1: right now looking back, it's like, oh, junior high was nothing.
Speaker 1: Well this is going to be as long as junior high,
Speaker 1: you know, only you don't have to go to you'll
Speaker 1: have to go to classes. Sound like Junia High. Let
Speaker 1: me go. Let me make that even more specific and
Speaker 1: go to a question from a listener. Uh this This
Speaker 1: question comes from Kevin and he emailed Grangersmith podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. It says, Hey, Granger loved the podcast
Speaker 1: and the Smith channel. My name is Kevin. I'm a
Speaker 1: YouTube listener and watcher from Cincinnati, Ohio. I wanted to
Speaker 1: write in and ask how do I overcome the stuck
Speaker 1: feeling at a job? Have you ever had to figure
Speaker 1: out how to get over the monotony of a day
Speaker 1: to day job that always feels like you're going nowhere. Currently,
Speaker 1: I'm working at a power plant that will be shutting
Speaker 1: down in the next five to seven years, and I
Speaker 1: just struggle figuring out the next step. I have a
Speaker 1: wife and four kids to support, so I feel like
Speaker 1: I have to stay at this current job and never
Speaker 1: get to take a leap into a new one. With
Speaker 1: the struggle of bills or to make sure I have
Speaker 1: health insurance, etc. But always hopeful that I'll find the
Speaker 1: next a new job that's right that I can apply for.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you can give me some advice on this issue.
Speaker 1: So there's the stuck issue coming from Kevin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: That's very specific to his job at a power plant
Speaker 1: that's probably closing down in the next five to seven
Speaker 1: years and he pretty much hates it. What do you
Speaker 1: say to Kevin, where's that five to seven year period
Speaker 1: that's like junior high? You know, yeah, you know, like
Speaker 1: eventually this is going to end, but it's not super
Speaker 1: happy about being there. I would say is if you
Speaker 1: start making some moves, you know now to where it's
Speaker 1: gonna make that five seven years shorter. You'll be doing
Speaker 1: things like try and start to find somewhere else to
Speaker 1: try and start now trying to look for someone in
Speaker 1: some other place to work at, and don't do it
Speaker 1: obviously the last minute, because that's gonna make that last
Speaker 1: year absolutely awful. And then it'll give you something to
Speaker 1: focus on instead of focusing on the job that you
Speaker 1: absolutely hate, don't like doing, or is eventually going to end.
Speaker 1: You'll start to focus on that next step that you're
Speaker 1: gonna make, that next season that you're going to walk into,
Speaker 1: and it'll make that season bearable. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of people, if you hate winner, you're not just gonna
Speaker 1: sit there and think about winter all the time. You're
Speaker 1: going to plan a spring break or something like that,
Speaker 1: or you know, you don't just sit there and think
Speaker 1: about the horrible thing you're dealing with, Try and think
Speaker 1: about something you know new. So I would start planning
Speaker 1: right now for that next job and then not focus
Speaker 1: will help keep you through that job. You're going to
Speaker 1: get something better than the one you have right now,
Speaker 1: but only you know, only if you're out there doing it.
Speaker 1: Do the next right thing. If you know that your
Speaker 1: job is going to end the next five to seven years,
Speaker 1: the next right thing for you to do would be
Speaker 1: look for something else, something better, and then set your
Speaker 1: goals higher. You know, nothing changes if nothing changes. So
Speaker 1: your situation with your job that you're not happy with
Speaker 1: right now, nothing's going to change. If your attitude doesn't
Speaker 1: change towards that job, nothing changes, if nothing changes. If
Speaker 1: you go I deserve a better job. My kids deserve
Speaker 1: me to be happy, not just coming home from this
Speaker 1: job that I absolutely hate. So I'm going to find
Speaker 1: a job that I like. I remember driving around doing
Speaker 1: electrical work and I needed benefits, and I just remember
Speaker 1: seeing a Brink's armored car truck drive by and was like,
Speaker 1: that'd be a cool job if I could ever get
Speaker 1: that job. And I ordinarily might not have said I
Speaker 1: could have that job, but I was like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It was the supply. So it's called and
Speaker 1: applied and got the job. I mean, because nothing would
Speaker 1: have changed if I hadn't changed my attitude. So right there,
Speaker 1: I changed my attitude and said I'm just gonna call
Speaker 1: and then they were like, yeah, we're hiring, so I
Speaker 1: worked there. Yeah. I think this question is there's two
Speaker 1: parts that I want to say to you, Kevin. One
Speaker 1: is exactly what Caleb's saying. You can start today, Start
Speaker 1: right now, as soon as you hear this podcast. Start
Speaker 1: on the job search. And the job search comes in
Speaker 1: a couple different ways. It either comes by what Caleb said,
Speaker 1: he saw that Brinks armored truck drive by and he
Speaker 1: thought that's something I could do. I'll apply, So that
Speaker 1: comes with an application, or it comes with you educating
Speaker 1: yourself for something else, whether that means you're reading a book,
Speaker 1: you're literally researching on YouTube, or you're actually getting some
Speaker 1: kind of tech schooling. But you have to make that
Speaker 1: investment today, and it's going to cause you to have
Speaker 1: less sleep, a little less leisure time because you're going
Speaker 1: to be doing your power plant job and either early
Speaker 1: in the morning is your new reading for your research time,
Speaker 1: or you're applying for jobs, or after you get off
Speaker 1: from the power plant, you're spending at least an hour
Speaker 1: starting today and then every day from now on investing
Speaker 1: in this research or application or job search or schooling,
Speaker 1: and that motivation should trickle into every other piece of
Speaker 1: your life. You're not going to feel less because instead
Speaker 1: of feeling stuck, you're hunting, and hunting is a lot
Speaker 1: different than turning spin your wheels because you don't feel
Speaker 1: stuck if you're hunting. So it's like I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: You'll think, well, I am going somewhere, I just haven't
Speaker 1: found it yet. And there's a big difference in that feeling.
Speaker 1: And then the second, the second piece of what I
Speaker 1: feel like I need to say is that there's a
Speaker 1: couple of different groups of people in this world. Monks
Speaker 1: are one of them, Navy seals or another. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting because I read this book by Jesse Itzler called
Speaker 1: Living with a Monk and Living with a Seal, So
Speaker 1: he did both of these groups of people, and he
Speaker 1: will go with them for like thirty days and just
Speaker 1: absorb what you could learn from a monk or from
Speaker 1: a navy seal. And it's funny because when I read
Speaker 1: those two books, then I started the little pieces sorted
Speaker 1: coming into my daily life. For instance, I take off
Speaker 1: a shirt and I I put it on a hanger,
Speaker 1: and I put it in a closet and it's kind
Speaker 1: of wrinkled, and it's like falls it. You put it
Speaker 1: on the in the closet and it slips off the
Speaker 1: hanger and falls to the ground. And sometimes my reaction is, ah,
Speaker 1: I get it later, Just walk just walk out of
Speaker 1: the closet, walk away, which is right now. My closet
Speaker 1: right now is in an RV. It's actually the bathroom
Speaker 1: of an RV. That's my current closet. So I walk away.
Speaker 1: But then there's a little thought that comes to my
Speaker 1: head and says, when a navy seal will walk away,
Speaker 1: or what a monk walk away? And so I literally
Speaker 1: will turn around and I'll get that little shirt that's
Speaker 1: slipped off on the ground. Then I'll put it back
Speaker 1: on a hanger and I'll shake it out, shake the
Speaker 1: wrinkles out, and I'll put it back on the rack
Speaker 1: on its hanger, and then and I straighten it and
Speaker 1: then I look, I go. Now that's what a monk
Speaker 1: will do, or that's what a Navy seal will do,
Speaker 1: and then I leave. And if you could apply that
Speaker 1: mentality and to all these little pieces of your life,
Speaker 1: especially your power play job, like you wake up one
Speaker 1: morning on a Monday morning ago, I'm going into work
Speaker 1: to a job I hate, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do so good today. I'm gonna do a perfect job today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go in to this power plant like I'm
Speaker 1: a monk, and like these monasteries where monks live currently,
Speaker 1: they always have jobs. It could be it could be
Speaker 1: like the one with Jesse Hitzler in the book. They
Speaker 1: were dog trainers, so they train like seeing eye dogs
Speaker 1: and military dogs and it's all German short German shepherds.
Speaker 1: And they could go in and then there's a guy
Speaker 1: that does laundry, and then there are the guys that
Speaker 1: cleaned the bathrooms. Then they're guys that does that cooks
Speaker 1: the food. But everything they do is when they make
Speaker 1: up their bed to when they brush their teeth is perfect.
Speaker 1: There is no time limit on it. They just do
Speaker 1: it perfectly. And then it's so interesting to think about
Speaker 1: applying a monk's life or a Navy seals life into
Speaker 1: your everyday life and watch it eliminate that feeling of
Speaker 1: being stuck. Because when you start mastering the monotonous, you
Speaker 1: become the king of the monotonous. And then it's no
Speaker 1: longer monotonous. You're now the king of something. You're the
Speaker 1: master of something. It's not the master of you anymore.
Speaker 1: Do you walk away from the powerplant and you go, dude,
Speaker 1: I just had a perfect day. I crushed this day.
Speaker 1: Everything I did, I did perfect. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: things I tried to cut corners on. I went back
Speaker 1: and I did it perfect. And it doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: your boss notices you or not, or if your colleagues
Speaker 1: your peers notice you. Doesn't even matter. You get back
Speaker 1: in your car to go home knowing you're the master
Speaker 1: of that day. And that's huge and crushing. The feeling
Speaker 1: of being stuck. Yeah, it's true. And just that piece
Speaker 1: of knowing that you did you know, you said that
Speaker 1: you did the best that you could for that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the humility, I think it takes a good amount
Speaker 1: of humility to go about life that way, which if
Speaker 1: you're if you have the humility to if you're humble
Speaker 1: enough to go into a situation where it's like I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna nobody's gonna see it, but I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: do it, you know, the best I possibly can. Your
Speaker 1: attitude will get better and it'll get noticed too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say this, Kevin, here's my mission for you.
Speaker 1: Start with sixty seconds. And it sounds crazy, but set
Speaker 1: an alarm on your phone for sixty seconds and say,
Speaker 1: art today, I'm gonna for sixty seconds, I'm gonna think
Speaker 1: about a new job, a new position, a new way
Speaker 1: to search out and apply for a new job. And
Speaker 1: set your timer and hit go, and sixty seconds is
Speaker 1: gonna go off, and you're gonna go, well, dang, that
Speaker 1: was that was quick. I didn't even get a really
Speaker 1: chance to think about it. But stop and move on.
Speaker 1: And the next day, set it for one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seconds. The next day, come in and go all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give themself five minutes. So you're gradually you're
Speaker 1: not just saying all right, must spend two hours a
Speaker 1: day looking for a new job, because you're gonna get bored. Yeah,
Speaker 1: doing that, you're gonna drive yourself and your brain's gonna
Speaker 1: go no, I can't do this. You get less time
Speaker 1: and be more frustrated. Exactly, less done, more frustrated. So instead,
Speaker 1: give your work your way up to like a ten
Speaker 1: minute week where each day you're spending ten minutes on
Speaker 1: this new job, and then see if you can get
Speaker 1: up to thirty minutes. And then maybe in a month
Speaker 1: you can spend an hour a day. Don't start at
Speaker 1: an hour, start at one minute. And so if you
Speaker 1: could do those two things where you're dedicating a certain
Speaker 1: amount of time every day to your new job, your
Speaker 1: new search, or your re education, and then you go
Speaker 1: back to your power plant and you treat that power
Speaker 1: plant like you're a monk and a monastery. I promise
Speaker 1: you you're gonna alleviate that stuck feeling and take a
Speaker 1: break to bear it back. Thank you guys for listening
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Speaker 1: this question came in and if you have any question
Speaker 1: for me, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. And
Speaker 1: this one came in and I thought right of you, Caleb.
Speaker 1: It says, what is your favorite pocket knife to carry?
Speaker 1: My favorite pocketknafe to carry is almost always a Kershaw
Speaker 1: and this one we both have someone because you bought
Speaker 1: this for me for my birthday. My brother Jordan got
Speaker 1: me this and it is First off, it's the uh
Speaker 1: we have the same one month's black art there news's chrome.
Speaker 1: Oh no, might've just been worn out. Oh yeah, same
Speaker 1: exact model, the eight c R one three m o V.
Speaker 1: This is not paid for by Kershaw. No, it's just
Speaker 1: a really good n This is awesome. So it I
Speaker 1: carry this one. I like the knuckle stop. Should I
Speaker 1: have to need a knuckle stop. It also has a
Speaker 1: quarter inch nut driver, small ruler. It's got two flat
Speaker 1: tip screwdriver tips that you put into your quarters magnetically
Speaker 1: hooks all. Yeah, and this thing. I use this for
Speaker 1: everything so much so to everybody always knows that I
Speaker 1: have it on me. Actually it's the truck giveaway. When
Speaker 1: one of the Covert guys came and said, you have
Speaker 1: a screwdriver, I had one on me. He goes, I
Speaker 1: just needed to change license plates, and I said, well,
Speaker 1: you might need a bigger screwdriver. And I pulled out
Speaker 1: my pocket knife like this. I said, here's here's a
Speaker 1: bigger Phillips tip and he was like, yeah, that'll work perfect.
Speaker 1: Where'd you get that knife? And I told him where
Speaker 1: it was. So this is the one I carry on
Speaker 1: me all the time because I can always the stuff
Speaker 1: that I do at the warehouse. Sometimes I'll be doing
Speaker 1: fiddling with electrical or need a Phillips tip or putting
Speaker 1: this together, putting that together, and there's just there's like
Speaker 1: a thousand different things you can do this with this.
Speaker 1: So the Kershaw assisted opening ones are awesome, But this
Speaker 1: thing I do like a thousand different things with and
Speaker 1: that got you that because I just use it all
Speaker 1: the time. I have a couple other Kershaw's too that
Speaker 1: I have struggled because occasionally I won't know where this
Speaker 1: one is and then I'll grab the other one off
Speaker 1: off my desk. The command Kershaw really is benefiting from this.
Speaker 1: They really didn't pay us a penny to say all this.
Speaker 1: I will say that if you haven't assisted opening one,
Speaker 1: I've I've had like four or five of them. And
Speaker 1: if you're spring breaks, you call them and they just
Speaker 1: ship it to you for free. Have you ever done that?
Speaker 1: They're so cool, they just they're yeah, nobody's getting paid
Speaker 1: for this. They just have really good They just take
Speaker 1: care of you. And they're pretty reasonably priced too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they're not going to break the bank. But it's
Speaker 1: a solid, solid knife. My grandfather on my dad's side
Speaker 1: always carried a pocket knife, but he had those old
Speaker 1: timy ones that that have like the uh, the wood
Speaker 1: on the side, and they're like impossible to open if
Speaker 1: they're if you don't keep it oiled, you have to
Speaker 1: get your fingernail in that little groove and pull it,
Speaker 1: and so he would lose it all the time. So
Speaker 1: it was like the joke of the family was at
Speaker 1: Christmas time, every person in the family would get him
Speaker 1: one of those. So for Christmas he'd get like seventeen
Speaker 1: of them, and that by the end of the year
Speaker 1: he would have lost all seventeen. I like that. I
Speaker 1: love redundancy because you never know and stuff like that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Well, if he if he would have had
Speaker 1: a curse, he could have opened the I know, I
Speaker 1: thought of it. That's what I started saying that because
Speaker 1: it's like, man, if Paul had had one of these,
Speaker 1: I whant to changed the game for him. Those things
Speaker 1: are terrible, but I still have When he died, we
Speaker 1: each got like his latest inventory, like the grandkids, so
Speaker 1: I have one from him. Do they all collect eventually?
Speaker 1: Like so you found them? They were just lost. Well,
Speaker 1: at least we found the current inventory. The other ones
Speaker 1: just went into the endless pit that his knives fell into.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read another question. This is says hey Grainew.
Speaker 1: My name is Nick. I live in a small town
Speaker 1: in Sweden called Scovde Skovdeled. I've been listening to buy
Speaker 1: Boy Baseball over and over. My own father wasn't present
Speaker 1: during my formative years, and I've basically had to teach
Speaker 1: myself how to be a good man. I'm now twenty
Speaker 1: seven years old, and even though I have children on
Speaker 1: my own, there's still a bit away, and I've thought
Speaker 1: about what kind of father I've let me read that again,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven years old, and even though having my
Speaker 1: own children is still a bit away, so he doesn't
Speaker 1: have them yet, I've thought about what kind of I've
Speaker 1: want to be. Listening to By Boy Baseball has put
Speaker 1: so many emotions into words for me and gave me goosebumps.
Speaker 1: I now know what kind of father I want to
Speaker 1: be and what kind of example I want to set
Speaker 1: for my future children. Thank you so much and everyone
Speaker 1: involved in making this song. So that's I guess this
Speaker 1: is kind of a shout out, and so thank you Nick.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening from Sweden. As I was reading that,
Speaker 1: I could almost hear your accent. Here's your typing this,
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you, buddy, And here's to be in
Speaker 1: twenty seven still being single and with no kids. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Hang in there. You got about three more years hanging there.
Speaker 1: I always think thirties are a good age to have
Speaker 1: kids to start thinking about that. Unless you are kids,
Speaker 1: then forty fifty, Yeah, sixty, just don't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's a question from Tim, and this is interesting and
Speaker 1: you probably help with this, Kala, but says hey Grangeer,
Speaker 1: I hope you guys are having a great holiday season.
Speaker 1: We've constantly got you streaming throughout our office in Auburn, Alabama,
Speaker 1: and it dawned on us. How do you guys get
Speaker 1: weather forecast and make plans when weather becomes an issue
Speaker 1: both on the road and at the farm. Thanks so much. PS,
Speaker 1: if you need a company watching your back, let us know,
Speaker 1: because Tim works for AWIS Weather Services in Auburn, Alabama.
Speaker 1: So we're Caleb. Were you in the band when Frank Maglan,
Speaker 1: our audio engineer, was like heading up weather services for us?
Speaker 1: Or did he take that on after years? That problem
Speaker 1: was probably after me. It's funny because our old audio
Speaker 1: engineer took on like his own division of our production
Speaker 1: staff as a weather analyst, and he would study the
Speaker 1: weather before we laughed for a tour, and then we
Speaker 1: had a special groutiny you're laughing this is serious. I
Speaker 1: can just see. Okay, so there's high pressure. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like that. So here you go, all right,
Speaker 1: guys on Friday, That's how Frank talked. All right, guys
Speaker 1: and Friday, des Moines, Iowa supposed to be clear skies
Speaker 1: sixty degrees that evening, a low pressure system will be
Speaker 1: moving in about the time were loading the trailer. We
Speaker 1: should get a little precipitation, so bring your raincoat and
Speaker 1: a sweater. The next day we will be heading into Lincoln, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: should be overcast skies with a thirty chance of rain,
Speaker 1: high of fifty three degrees. God, what should see? And
Speaker 1: it was so funny because we would actually go by
Speaker 1: that and be like, you know if because when you're
Speaker 1: on the road, and Tim, Tim has a good point,
Speaker 1: because when you travel it's far and as much as
Speaker 1: we did before COVID, you easily could end up in
Speaker 1: a really different weather system than you thought you would be.
Speaker 1: For instance, it could be August and you're touring in
Speaker 1: the up of Michigan and it's going to get down
Speaker 1: to thirty at night, and you're completely unprepared. So eventually
Speaker 1: our buses just got completely stocked with every kind of
Speaker 1: weather gear, whether it was rain or beanies and gloves
Speaker 1: and jackets. But then to answer your question, tim it
Speaker 1: evolved into like the bus driver job. The bus drivers
Speaker 1: took on being aware of weather because they needed to
Speaker 1: know what they were driving through. And the key times
Speaker 1: that we really had to look at usually was load
Speaker 1: in and load out and showtime. So if it was
Speaker 1: an outdoor show, we always had to pay attention to
Speaker 1: show time, but always we had to pay attention to
Speaker 1: load out time, which is, say it's midnight to one am,
Speaker 1: what's happening at the loading dock or the back door
Speaker 1: of the venue, and do we need to push that
Speaker 1: load earlier or later because of a storm. And we
Speaker 1: have dealt with this, like in the summer touring season,
Speaker 1: like during festival season, whether it's always a really big
Speaker 1: deal because it's we're constantly bringing tarps and the guys
Speaker 1: will put saran wrap around their guitar pedal boards because
Speaker 1: we play no matter what, we play in rain or shine,
Speaker 1: if it's an not door festival. The only time we
Speaker 1: don't play is if it's high winds and the stages
Speaker 1: in danger, or if it's lightning. But if it's just
Speaker 1: just rain, we're going to play unless for some reason
Speaker 1: the promoter has a reason to call it off. But
Speaker 1: we can't personally call it off because we're contracted to play.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna pay us if we say we're going
Speaker 1: out there because it's raining. So we've had we've had
Speaker 1: countless hundreds hundreds of stories of iffy weather conditions. Do
Speaker 1: you remember any of them in the van days? I
Speaker 1: remember stuff got blown down. We were like a festival
Speaker 1: and it was a tent but around the Houston area. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: blew down on us when we were inside of it.
Speaker 1: But a massive tit. I mean that sucker was massive.
Speaker 1: But that was that was the only one that I remember,
Speaker 1: And that and the entire tit went down. We didn't
Speaker 1: have weather man Frank at that or he wasn't weatherman
Speaker 1: at that point, which I still trying to envision him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: giving the forecast so awesome question, Tim forecast. Thank you
Speaker 1: for asking a question that no one would have thought
Speaker 1: to ask. But besides the weather man, and it is
Speaker 1: just like you suspected, Tim, it's a big deal for driving,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal for show playing the show, and
Speaker 1: it's a big deal for carrying gear through the show,
Speaker 1: and it just it's all over the map on how
Speaker 1: that changes. I'm gonna do one more cool, all right?
Speaker 1: This question is from John without an h says, Hey, Grangeer,
Speaker 1: my name is John. I've been a fan of yours
Speaker 1: for years, and I love the music and the content
Speaker 1: you put out and find myself relating to you in
Speaker 1: many ways. This has been a crazy year and one
Speaker 1: many people have struggled to agree on. I agree with
Speaker 1: taking precautions or relation to COVID nineteen, but not shutting
Speaker 1: down your whole life to avoid the chance of getting
Speaker 1: it Right here we go, enjoy life to the fullest
Speaker 1: while you can, on the chance the virus or the
Speaker 1: multitude of other things might happen tomorrow, it says, might
Speaker 1: be happened. I do my best to read these emails
Speaker 1: words verbatim, but sometimes it's it's hard. Yeah, sometimes they
Speaker 1: trip me up. I've heard you speak about child safety,
Speaker 1: and this is an issue you feel strongly about that
Speaker 1: others may not. My question is how do you factor
Speaker 1: that into considering other strong feelings towards precautions quarantine because
Speaker 1: of the loss of their family due to COVID nineteen. John,
Speaker 1: I think I kind of understand what he's saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and let me go back. He says, I agree with
Speaker 1: taking precautions in relation to COVID nineteen, but not with
Speaker 1: shutting down your whole life to avoid the chance of
Speaker 1: getting it. And so maybe he's struggling with some friends
Speaker 1: who are thinking against that, which is why he's saying,
Speaker 1: how do you deal with an issue that you feel
Speaker 1: strongly towards it? Others may not? It's crazy. I don't
Speaker 1: really get that question too often, but it's surprising that
Speaker 1: it don't get it every question these days. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: interesting that more people don't ask you that, especially as
Speaker 1: a touring musician and travel such a party to life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't deal with this too much, John,
Speaker 1: because the this whole stuff, this whole virus thing, I'm
Speaker 1: just over it. I'm completely over it. And I don't
Speaker 1: put hope in twenty twenty one. I don't put hope
Speaker 1: in the vaccine. I don't put hope in a new president.
Speaker 1: I don't put hope in a find a medical advisor.
Speaker 1: I put hope in God. And there's so much there's
Speaker 1: so much grace given when you just finally give up
Speaker 1: trying to put hope in man, and don't hear me wrong,
Speaker 1: and saying that just means it means I don't care
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna live my life the way I
Speaker 1: want to live it. That's not exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm not going to I'm not going
Speaker 1: to stress and destroy myself because I'm worried about other
Speaker 1: people in humanity holding up to something I believe in.
Speaker 1: So this question is not And your subject line is relatability,
Speaker 1: and I just I'm over it. And you see me,
Speaker 1: you see me. Deal with this year, you see me?
Speaker 1: You know, start with where everyone was scared at the beginning,
Speaker 1: and I say this year. I'm talking about twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one now, but the beginning of the shutdown, YEA, everybody
Speaker 1: believed it in them. Not that you don't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's believable. It's a virus. People are catching it, people
Speaker 1: are dying from it. Yeah, it was. It was initially
Speaker 1: a whole lot. I mean I'll no, no, go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I mean I've really And that's kind of
Speaker 1: my answer. I'm early over it. I We're all gonna
Speaker 1: die at some point, and as adults, that's our responsibility
Speaker 1: as children. We want to talk about children here, that's
Speaker 1: not their responsibility, that's ours. So that's why we do
Speaker 1: everything we can and precautions and we we make sure
Speaker 1: everything is it's right when it comes to child safety.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to adults and we're in trying
Speaker 1: to work for a living and someone wants to take
Speaker 1: the most extreme measures for a virus, that's totally up
Speaker 1: to them, and I'm not ever going to argue. We
Speaker 1: went to an ice cream place the other day with
Speaker 1: me and Hamber and the kids, and the lady said,
Speaker 1: and I'm not really, I'm not really anti mask and
Speaker 1: I'm not really and I'm kind of right in between. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I literally just forgot to put it on.
Speaker 1: But we went into this ice cream place and she said,
Speaker 1: do you mind, do you just mind putting on your
Speaker 1: mask because we're really struggling, This company's really struggling, and
Speaker 1: and the city will find us fifteen hundred dollars if
Speaker 1: they catch someone in here without a mask. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And do you know I'm not gonna look her in
Speaker 1: the eye and say, well, then I'll be taking my
Speaker 1: business elsewhere. You know, Yeah, you just you want to
Speaker 1: that place and doing a favor, you know, just trying
Speaker 1: to find said yeah, I said Tom, I said, that's
Speaker 1: my fault, and I forgot about it and I just
Speaker 1: pulled up my little gator above my face and I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't think I was anti patriotic for that
Speaker 1: or you know, I'm just, uh, I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: numb on the whole thing. I think everybody's getting more numbs,
Speaker 1: especially with all the the I mean, you just looked
Speaker 1: at the leadership of the all the all the all
Speaker 1: the politicians who are telling you to do one thing
Speaker 1: and they're doing another. I mean, as soon as they
Speaker 1: start doing another that I'm nobody's going to follow. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how serious. That's how serious the whole situation is.
Speaker 1: Is the people telling you that it's this serious and
Speaker 1: we need to do all these different things are doing
Speaker 1: different things than that. And we got it. What is
Speaker 1: a certain politician for for the city of Austin issued
Speaker 1: a you should stay at home order from Mexico. That's
Speaker 1: how should not go anywhere where are you I'm in Mexico.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely ridiculous from our mayor in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: not our he's the city over. We're in Georgetown, and
Speaker 1: the mayor of Austin telling everybody to stay home from
Speaker 1: a video that he recorded in Mexico on vacation at
Speaker 1: his daughter's large the attend wedding. What do you what
Speaker 1: do you want? Yeah, well it was it was a wedding,
Speaker 1: it was already planned. Well, everybody else has other stuff planned.
Speaker 1: If you're not going to take it that serious, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't need to take it that serious. Kevin Neson said,
Speaker 1: you guys should know no dying. You guys just need
Speaker 1: to cancel this, cancel that. Well, then he goes to
Speaker 1: Napa vel and has dinner. We will take it as
Speaker 1: serious as you do. Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take it more serious than you do. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to I'm not going to take a
Speaker 1: stance on this podcast that's too far from what people
Speaker 1: have already said a million times. It's like, if you
Speaker 1: feel like you have some kind of pre existing conditions,
Speaker 1: stay home, absolutely, stay home. Yeah, and if you know
Speaker 1: that you might have it, I don't think you need
Speaker 1: to be like you said. It's not like this draw
Speaker 1: line in the sand. I will not wear a mask
Speaker 1: at any point. Well, that's just yeah, that's I mean,
Speaker 1: if you have someone that you love who is you know,
Speaker 1: compromise compromised, then don't go around them. And then it's
Speaker 1: just if if people applied to compassion to this situation
Speaker 1: a little more, then that would work kind of work
Speaker 1: itself out. If you're if you're at risk, don't go
Speaker 1: out and do stuff. And if you you know, if
Speaker 1: you're not at risk, you know, just go about your life.
Speaker 1: What happened to free choice? There's another story and Chipotle
Speaker 1: down the road. I was getting a burrito and Chipotle
Speaker 1: is pretty pretty mask heavy. You know, they want they
Speaker 1: want you to wear a mask. And it's the same
Speaker 1: thing like the city is going to find you. And
Speaker 1: so you can't totally blame the individual's business that that's
Speaker 1: under threat of getting the fine. You blame the city,
Speaker 1: but not the business. So I went to go get
Speaker 1: a burrito and they asked me to please put my
Speaker 1: mask on. So I put it on, got my burrito,
Speaker 1: left and Bull was like, where'd you go for lunch?
Speaker 1: That's my bus driver, Bull love him. He said, where'd
Speaker 1: you go for lunch? I said, chipotlet and go they
Speaker 1: make you wear a mask. I said yeah, and he
Speaker 1: said did you put it on? I said yeah, and
Speaker 1: he goes, huh, you just did what they said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to breed. Oh he said, So if they
Speaker 1: came to your house tomorrow and said I want all
Speaker 1: your guns, you just say okay, because that's that's what
Speaker 1: they tell you. Like, well, I don't. That's the problem
Speaker 1: with ideology is you go, you go all the way
Speaker 1: down one road, and you can't turn back on one road.
Speaker 1: One solid ideology. It gets very dangerous when you try
Speaker 1: to apply it to everything else in your life. I
Speaker 1: think that's the I think the it's natural. I think
Speaker 1: it's extremely uh embedded in the American that if someone goes,
Speaker 1: you know, this thing's dangerous, masks are probably a good idea,
Speaker 1: Like sounds pretty reasonable. But when someone goes you have
Speaker 1: to wear a mask or else, we're like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna wear a mask. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: an American you know. Yeah, we've been doing that since
Speaker 1: we were throwing tea in the harbor. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: if you ask us, it's very yeah, but if you
Speaker 1: just tell me to or else, then I'm like, not
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, don't feel like wearing this just yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm also an at the point where I'm going
Speaker 1: to look an old, older lady in the eye that
Speaker 1: owns a little small mom and pop ice cream shop,
Speaker 1: and she says, can you can you please put that on?
Speaker 1: Just because if someone sees me, I could I can
Speaker 1: get fine, And I'm already hanging on just as it is.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look at her and go no, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: give you my ice cream, keep your you keep your
Speaker 1: two dollars and thirty cent ice cream woman, Yeah, not me.
Speaker 1: Instead I just go, yeah, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, And
Speaker 1: I give her the money for the ice cream, and
Speaker 1: me and the kids leave. That doesn't seem that that
Speaker 1: big a deal to me. No, you know, like if
Speaker 1: if you were to go visit somebody who has a
Speaker 1: family member who's you know who who could get sick
Speaker 1: very quickly and not survive code you know, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: you know, just just do it. It's it's the when
Speaker 1: that oh we went we went to eat to dinner.
Speaker 1: This is the one that's ridiculous. We went to eat me,
Speaker 1: how do you want to eat? And uh, we're walking outdoor.
Speaker 1: You walk up to where they sign you in and uh,
Speaker 1: and then you go there's a door into the restaurant. Well,
Speaker 1: only from standing outside the door to inside the restaurant,
Speaker 1: did I have to wear my mask? Hmm? All of
Speaker 1: five feet one door? And then I could take my
Speaker 1: mask off. And it's at that point where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I did nothing to protect myself from So there's there's
Speaker 1: things where there's reasonable to do it around people who
Speaker 1: were That's just where. And it goes back to if
Speaker 1: you if you want to go eat, go eat and
Speaker 1: don't wear a mask. No I'm not. I'm not into
Speaker 1: going to get into the science. And I hate that
Speaker 1: word now, like I hate the word science and I
Speaker 1: hate the word virologist. I hate those words because some
Speaker 1: everyone goes, oh, you know science, now you know you
Speaker 1: know virology? No I don't. I don't. Well have a friend.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows a friend, and so as a virologist, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to my small brain that a little
Speaker 1: piece of cloth around my face and those would stop
Speaker 1: the virus. It doesn't totally make sense to me. So
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if I was worried about it, or
Speaker 1: I knew someone that was susceptible to it. I would
Speaker 1: not be around them, or I would stay home. That's
Speaker 1: the best way. That's the best way to not get it,
Speaker 1: if you don't leave the house or don't go to
Speaker 1: someone else's house that is sensitive to it. But going
Speaker 1: to the restaurant and wearing a tiny piece of cloth
Speaker 1: on your face when you walk in the door and
Speaker 1: then taking that tiny piece of cloth off when you
Speaker 1: sit down. And I'm just preaching to the choir here,
Speaker 1: and there's people I'm suspecting that people listening to this
Speaker 1: are split about fifty to fifty. Some people are like
Speaker 1: one hundred percent mask, and then there's probably people that
Speaker 1: are like one hundred percent no mask, and then both
Speaker 1: of those probably overlap to guys like me. That's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, that's uh, I'm over it, I'm over it, off,
Speaker 1: I'm over I've seen that. Was it the football games
Speaker 1: where like the band has masks that split in the
Speaker 1: middle so they can play the trumpet. Mm hmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that was Texas A and M. My album Alma
Speaker 1: Mater is absolutely ridiculous. And this just in case you're
Speaker 1: getting your keyboards ready to start putting hate on me,
Speaker 1: because when you take a neutral position, like a little
Speaker 1: bit like I am. That's all people are going to
Speaker 1: want to do is hate because there's going to be
Speaker 1: people that say I need to advocate for only one
Speaker 1: side or the other, or I'm wrong because it's that
Speaker 1: old Aaron Tippins song you got the stand for something
Speaker 1: or you'll fall for anything. And once again, that's an
Speaker 1: ideology that can get dangerous. That kind of mentality can
Speaker 1: get dangerous. And here's what I'm saying on me sum
Speaker 1: everything up. I'm not worried about it because I don't
Speaker 1: trust man kind. I put my faith in God. I
Speaker 1: put my faith in the Almighty, the Creator, who I
Speaker 1: find peace from who I get grace, and I am
Speaker 1: better mentally, maybe better physically, I don't know. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: better mentally, uh for putting my faith there. And I
Speaker 1: don't have to When I have my faith there, I
Speaker 1: don't have to go all out and say this is
Speaker 1: where I draw the line in the sand. That's what
Speaker 1: I'll say, although I will say God said you have to,
Speaker 1: I would rather you lukewarm or cold? Yeah? Him to him,
Speaker 1: I else spit you outline. Now he did say that
Speaker 1: about him, and I am definitely hot for him land there.
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