WEBVTT - STUCK (life not mud) 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.960 Patty, everybody, Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Welcome back 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:20.560 if you're returning, good morning, Thank you for listening. Have 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.760 you ever had a d w I or d u 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.160 I or had anybody involved with the d u I. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.600 One of my one of my very close friends, Caleb, 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.680 who's been on this podcast several times, has some great 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.960 news to share today as he's come to the end 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.920 of his d UI process and they finally removed the 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:46.159 apparatus from his car. It's been a a journey that 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:51.199 sometimes you could think is never going to end. And 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.440 I have been with him through this, watching this go down, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:01.880 and it's been it's been groose them watching it happen happen, 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.880 and I wanted to I wanted to talk about today 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.200 because not only is it relevant for that situation, but 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.520 it's relevant for a lot of people that feel stuck. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.800 You feel stuck right now? Do you feel like you 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.760 can't move forward with whatever you're dealing with, or it 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.400 feels like the light at the end of tunnel is 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.000 so far away it feels like you're never gonna get there. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.480 I mean, you could look at it and say, I 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.600 have seventy two months of this before I could ever 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.319 see something normal. Maybe you're just thinking about the state 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.520 of the world today. Maybe you're just thinking that things 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.360 aren't going to be normal until this happens. And I 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.039 don't think I could wait that long. You're gonna want 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.920 to listen to this podcast. We're going to hit on 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.400 all those things, and I think it's really important to 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.880 talk about and spread that kind of message. I do 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:51.600 want to give a few shout outs before we start, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.200 before we roll that intro. This is the shout outs. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.080 If you have a question or a shout out, email 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.160 Granger Smith Podcast gmail dot com. This first shout out 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.160 goes to Hayden, Lancaster, Thank you for listening, Buddy, Dustin 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.359 Kaufman from Lancaster, p A. He likes by Boy Baseball. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:16.480 Thank you, Dustin Herman P N R. From South Africa. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.519 P I E N A A R. Shout out to 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:25.720 South Africa, Thank you Herman. Cheyenne Nelson shout out to you. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:32.280 I appreciate you so much. From Concordia, Kansas. Mitch Kajar Mitch, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.960 shout out to you, Buddy, thank you for listening. And 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:42.840 Steven Poke Hulk P A C H O L K E. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.840 What is my problem? With pronouncing names today. Shout out 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.080 to Stephen, Thank you so much. You're from Grain Valley, Missouri. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.640 I appreciate you guys so much. This podcast means a 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.760 lot to me because it's putting content into the world 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.200 that I I feel like could help people, could be meaningful, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.920 could give someone a purpose. Could someone could take just 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:10.520 a little sliver of something that we say and apply 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.240 it to make something in their life a little bit better. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.320 Then imagine that concept of a lot of people making 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.520 something tiny in their life a little bit better. That 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.520 adds up to a lot of good for this world. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.440 Thank you for listening. This is episode sixty five. Roll 0:03:29.480 --> 0:04:10.520 that intro. Yee yee did chance in DC longline five? 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:26.400 Fool up and down going back rangey co yeah yoution. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.360 So I have Kayla back with me. There's actually two 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.160 weeks in a row for you. Two weeks. You're you're 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.600 a regular. I like you. You're my sidekick, and you 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.680 have good stories, and you you have I don't know, 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.760 you're just one of my best friends. And you you're 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.280 so resilient. You're like a ping pong ball. You just 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.560 keep bouncing back and sometimes you don't think you're bouncing, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.600 but I know you're bounding like, Man, you got this. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:05:00.599 And yesterday I was leaving the farm and you driving 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.520 in and I was driving out. I pulled over, rolled 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.520 the window down. You rolled your window down, and there 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:12.080 was something very different about you yesterday. Yep, something different 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:17.000 specifically about your vehicle yesterday. Yes, you had a lot 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.479 of apparatus that was previously there that was now gone. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.840 So I said, man, wa, I got to get you 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.279 on the podcast. We got to talk about this because 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.719 I think it's a message that a lot of people 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.880 could hear. And the people on this podcast, I'm always 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.719 blown away with the diversity not only geographically that listen, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.280 but the diversity of age. I all get shout outs 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.279 from people that are thirteen years old and seventy five 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.480 years old. Yeah, it's so, it's crazy, and so that 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.120 when I hear a story like yours, Yes, I think 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.720 we got to get that other podcast because it's a 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:10.120 story of hope. It's a story of not only overcoming adversity, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.920 but overcome you know, like you put you close the 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.680 book of that piece of adversity. And what I'm talking 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.480 about is several episodes of this podcast ago I had 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.720 you on here and we talked about your journey. Your 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.760 journey not only with me as my old drummer now 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.800 you're the warehouse manager here at EE Apparel, but your 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:40.240 journey that you've had. You've had a mountain, I could 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.200 say that because you're from Colorado. Yeah, you've climbed mountains 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.880 in your life, and you always seem to make it 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.320 over the mountains and get to the other side, even 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.640 though it might not seem like it on your way up. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.800 Never does this latest mountain that you have now cressed, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:03.160 is you've your car is now clear of the what 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.560 what's it called. It's called the ignition interlock device. Some 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.080 of you out there will be familiar with it, at 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.000 least a handful of you. Yes, Unfortunately, there was the 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.560 ignition interlock device on there as a result they do 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.200 that as a result of d U S, d W I, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:25.080 S Y. You got a A W or you on 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.120 those last one I think it was a U. So 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.640 you got different Some different states do them different, and 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:35.920 you got a d U I And it was from 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.680 craziness that had happened. That was you know, that was 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.760 the result of it. And it's been years, Yeah, it's 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.680 been years, and so I wanted to bring you on 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:50.240 here because it's there's there's people that they could have 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.680 struggled with something in their life. They could have they've 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.720 could have gotten a d U I or a d 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:01.520 W I or something worse. And then you get you 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:07.440 get plunged into this turmoil of remorse and regret and 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.800 repentance and recourse and a lot of other things to 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.280 start with red and and you look at it like, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.360 there's no way I'm going to get through this this 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.360 probation time or you can't. You can't do this and 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:22.840 this and this and this and this, and you got 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.440 to get into your car and literally breathe into this 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:30.280 plastic tube and with a camera to tiny camera for 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:35.079 years looking at you for three years. Yeah, it's it's 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.160 the whole the whole process is just is unbelievable. I 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.440 will say, on the outset of what I'm about to say, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.839 none of that would have happened if I wouldn't have 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:53.600 given them a reason to, you know, to arrest you too, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.959 for you to get in trouble, because if they pull 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.400 you over and you've got nothing going on, well then 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.560 they just kind of let you go. But unfortunately they 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.200 gave him you know reason to do that. And uh, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.679 you know, some people, some people get pulled over, some 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.599 people don't. I typically will get pulled over or I 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.160 will get I have like anti lottery luck. It's a 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.559 but I'm about to start defensive driving me myself too. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.559 So and and I got to add to what you're 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.000 saying that, you know, we got to thank goodness that 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.680 those those those kind of drastic measures go in place 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:37.240 to discourage drinking and driving because of the damage far 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.960 worse than a dw I that it can cause. So yeah, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:47.000 not neither one of us are talking about how that's 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.679 a pain, because that needs to be in place as 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.000 a pain, as a huge roadblock. But what we're no, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.520 we're not talking about that. We're talking about you were 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.400 faced with that and you did it, and you didn't 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.040 break your probation and you did nothing else happened during 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:09.120 the time. And so now that your car is clean, Yeah, 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.199 so now you could take where you are now in 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:17.680 your life and you could rewind ten years and go, man, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.160 you you really have a fresh start now that you 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.480 might not have seen coming. That you might not have 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.000 you probably doubted yourself that you could even have this 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.839 clean And this is this clean of a slate as 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.679 I've probably ever known you to have. Yeah, that my 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:39.199 perspective on everything's a little different, and I'm grateful for, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.200 you know, to be able to just kind of restart everything. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.079 And I'm definitely a little wiser. I think this is 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.480 supposed to This is what all this is set up 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.720 to do. Is it just kind of let you know, hey, 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.480 you know, you know, start start doing things different, start 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.920 thinking different, start making different decisions, and stop being so 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:05.079 reckless and kind of you know, you know, just go 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.120 go about things a little differently. Then you think that 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.880 you did right. Yeah. I mean when they you know, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.560 when they the rest you and and they tell you're 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.280 on probation they're like, you can't do this or that 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.600 for two years, and it's like, okay, I'm not going 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.640 to do it. I know there are lots of people 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:26.280 who have, you know, difficulty during probation stuff like that. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.400 I didn't you know, just do whatever they tell you 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.640 to do. But there there are some people who have 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.360 a massive problems. I remember probation officer for telling me 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:39.040 that people would show up drunk to their probation meeting. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.120 I I don't know what makes you think you're not 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:48.120 get caught, but it does feel like you are. It 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.120 does feel like you're never going to get over that, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.599 because there's always one thing that follows. You know. The 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.520 best way to describe going through probation is they chop 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.000 you off at the knees and then they tell you 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.200 to run. It's like, well, now I can't. I can't 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.360 do this because you took that away. But you expect 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.640 me to do this, you know, like you need to 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.800 be able to go to work and be employed and 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.800 show up to all these meetings immediately after they suspend 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.679 your license and say, wow, am I going to make 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.839 it to the meetings? And how am I going to 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.160 do all these classes and go do community service and 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.319 all that? You took my license away? If you've done 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.719 it out, yeah, I used to. I used to look 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.040 at people who were in the system, the criminal justice system, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.319 who said it's hard to get out, and I would say, no, 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.760 you're just lazy, or you don't care to get out, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.079 or you don't want to get out, or you're just 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.040 used to it. And now I look at it a 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.120 little differently and that it is a little bit harder. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.960 It's just harder, you know, to jump through all those hoops. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.040 It's harder than it looks. You know, that doesn't look 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.839 like it's that hard from the outside, but once you're in, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.920 it's just a little bit harder to do. But to 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.959 just kind of put one foot in front of the 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.280 other is the only thing you can do. They say, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.319 keep doing the next right thing, and that's all you 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.840 can do. The next right thing. That's awesome. Just keep 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.280 doing the next right thing, Keep doing the next right thing. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.959 I don't think of every you always have little pieces 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.640 that I've never heard you say that. They're like just 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.240 good pieces of life advice you could take and apply 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:23.920 to any person. The next right thing. It's not now, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.840 it's easier to mess up, but it's a guideline if 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.400 you ever go, well, what should I do the next 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.400 right thing? Which one is that? It's you could always 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.880 tell yeah, you know, yeah, like what's the next right thing. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.600 You wake up in the morning, Well, get up, get dressed. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.839 What's the next right thing? After that, we'll go to work. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.719 What's the next right thing? Do my job? What's the 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.800 next right thing? You know? Just keep doing the next 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.440 right thing? Yeah, go home, what's the next right thing? 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.959 Not doing the next wrong thing. You know, what's the 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.839 next right thing. Go ahead and have a couple of 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.800 beers with people. No, not really, No, that's not the 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.040 right thing. So do the next right thing. So keep 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:00.679 doing the next right thing, and you'll get through it. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:06.199 And it's a season. We talked about this about how 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.640 life is seasonal, and that's important to remember in anything. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:17.400 But it's a season that will pass. It doesn't feel 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.520 like it's going to pass, because sometimes it could take 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.120 years for you to get through whatever difficulty you put 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.560 yourself in or or you found yourself in. But life 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.720 is seasonal, you know, just that summer will come rolling 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.520 around again, Winter will come rolling around again. You're not 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:37.760 constantly going to be in this season that you're living in. Yeah, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.480 even if it's a good season, you think this is great, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.680 I'm just gonna hold right here. And life always changes 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.720 on you. You could go back to your hometown. You 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.720 can try to go back to your old your favorite 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:55.000 burger joint it's probably gone, yeah, or change names, or 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.800 the burger doesn't taste the same anymore because those new owner. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.440 Things like that, even those tiny things like that. But 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.520 it constantly is a turnover and you have to learn 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:09.400 to readapt to the present. You can never chase the past, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.840 and you certainly can't put things in place that you 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.680 think are the future. So what there's people listening right now? 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.880 I would assume a lot of people listening right now 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:25.680 they're kind of stuck in a place where either they're 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.560 mentally stuck or they're legally stuck like you were, where 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.440 you know, they're literally breathing into a plastic tube every 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.080 time they try to start their engine of the car. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.600 They're working out like you worked out with your wife 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.520 for years, you're driving situation like who's going to take 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.520 the car? Or am I going to drive? You need 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.320 to drive? Who do you have to? I can't but 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.080 I can't drive because of this? And then and she 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.880 has to take the car. That is a mess that 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.280 you guys had to work out for three years. Yeah, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.800 and she's she's an angel. Without her, it would have 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:06.200 been significantly harder, probably impossible. But it just yeah, that 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.520 was really that was a really rough time trying to 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.720 figure out how that goes. Which brings up a point 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.160 that is it it doesn't just affect you, you know 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.560 what I mean, it affects everybody. Then your kids got 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.480 to get in the car and you have to explain 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.600 to your kids why in the world you have to, 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.040 you know, do that to get the car started. But 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.040 I will in the way I go about doing any 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.320 of my mistakes, which there have been a lot of, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.080 is just be upfront with it. You know. I told 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.520 the kids, this is what happens when you make a mistake. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.600 This is what happens when you you know, when you 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.200 do this wrong, do that, everything has consequences. This is 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.320 exactly what you're going to get, you know, play stupid games, 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.640 win stupid prizes. This is what happens. I don't think 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.520 there's another way to go around to go about it 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.320 than just being upfront with it. But yeah, it's definitely 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:05.080 a tricky. So if you're speaking to them, the people 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.000 listening right now, I didn't really ask that. I didn't 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.159 really set that up right. But if the people that 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.680 are listening that are stuck either mentally or legally or physically, 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.280 and you look at three year timeframe and you look 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.720 at that mountain, you go, I'd rather just quit. I'd 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.080 rather just not do anything than to try to do 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.960 this for three years, just to maybe have a normal 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.440 life at the end of the tunnel. What do you 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.320 say to those people that are stuck? Well, you're getting 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.000 to you're just you know, like it's a season. You know, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.720 if you look at if you're haven't even gone to 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:43.240 your core date or you know, it just happened, you know, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.439 there might be one person out there who just got 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.280 arrested two nights ago or something like that. No matter 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.600 what the situation is, you're looking at a long span 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.880 of time. To you, what looks like a long span 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.080 of time, and when you look back on it, it's 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.240 you just have to go do that next right thing, text, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:06.080 take the next step, you know, do your best, and 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.119 you can look at it this way is it might 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.440 look like a long time. Three years looks like a 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.800 long time, or four years looks like a long time. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.399 But I mean, do you have what was junior high? Like? 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.320 What was high school? Like? I mean you got through that, 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.600 that was three years, that was four years, you know, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.800 I mean do you remember junior high? I mean it 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.920 seems like a brief period of time in your life 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.640 right now looking back, it's like, oh, junior high was nothing. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.440 Well this is going to be as long as junior high, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.360 you know, only you don't have to go to you'll 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.520 have to go to classes. Sound like Junia High. Let 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.960 me go. Let me make that even more specific and 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:43.639 go to a question from a listener. Uh this This 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.800 question comes from Kevin and he emailed Grangersmith podcast at 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.200 gmail dot com. It says, Hey, Granger loved the podcast 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.639 and the Smith channel. My name is Kevin. I'm a 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.440 YouTube listener and watcher from Cincinnati, Ohio. I wanted to 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.359 write in and ask how do I overcome the stuck 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.919 feeling at a job? Have you ever had to figure 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.240 out how to get over the monotony of a day 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.439 to day job that always feels like you're going nowhere. Currently, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.359 I'm working at a power plant that will be shutting 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.520 down in the next five to seven years, and I 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.520 just struggle figuring out the next step. I have a 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.280 wife and four kids to support, so I feel like 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.960 I have to stay at this current job and never 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.040 get to take a leap into a new one. With 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.680 the struggle of bills or to make sure I have 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:35.399 health insurance, etc. But always hopeful that I'll find the 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.080 next a new job that's right that I can apply for. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.879 Hopefully you can give me some advice on this issue. 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:48.320 So there's the stuck issue coming from Kevin and Cincinnati. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.480 That's very specific to his job at a power plant 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.760 that's probably closing down in the next five to seven 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.159 years and he pretty much hates it. What do you 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.440 say to Kevin, where's that five to seven year period 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.000 that's like junior high? You know, yeah, you know, like 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.680 eventually this is going to end, but it's not super 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:12.240 happy about being there. I would say is if you 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:18.320 start making some moves, you know now to where it's 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:23.760 gonna make that five seven years shorter. You'll be doing 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.200 things like try and start to find somewhere else to 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.320 try and start now trying to look for someone in 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.080 some other place to work at, and don't do it 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.400 obviously the last minute, because that's gonna make that last 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.280 year absolutely awful. And then it'll give you something to 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.399 focus on instead of focusing on the job that you 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.879 absolutely hate, don't like doing, or is eventually going to end. 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.520 You'll start to focus on that next step that you're 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.680 gonna make, that next season that you're going to walk into, 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.119 and it'll make that season bearable. You know a lot 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.040 of people, if you hate winner, you're not just gonna 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.200 sit there and think about winter all the time. You're 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.320 going to plan a spring break or something like that, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:05.800 or you know, you don't just sit there and think 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.800 about the horrible thing you're dealing with, Try and think 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:13.600 about something you know new. So I would start planning 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:15.960 right now for that next job and then not focus 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.720 will help keep you through that job. You're going to 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.040 get something better than the one you have right now, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.560 but only you know, only if you're out there doing it. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:27.399 Do the next right thing. If you know that your 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.360 job is going to end the next five to seven years, 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:31.000 the next right thing for you to do would be 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.199 look for something else, something better, and then set your 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:40.040 goals higher. You know, nothing changes if nothing changes. So 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.119 your situation with your job that you're not happy with 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.560 right now, nothing's going to change. If your attitude doesn't 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.600 change towards that job, nothing changes, if nothing changes. If 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:52.679 you go I deserve a better job. My kids deserve 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:55.720 me to be happy, not just coming home from this 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:57.600 job that I absolutely hate. So I'm going to find 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.840 a job that I like. I remember driving around doing 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.720 electrical work and I needed benefits, and I just remember 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:08.480 seeing a Brink's armored car truck drive by and was like, 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.760 that'd be a cool job if I could ever get 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.280 that job. And I ordinarily might not have said I 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:16.639 could have that job, but I was like, well, I 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.879 don't know. It was the supply. So it's called and 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:23.680 applied and got the job. I mean, because nothing would 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.040 have changed if I hadn't changed my attitude. So right there, 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:28.239 I changed my attitude and said I'm just gonna call 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:30.399 and then they were like, yeah, we're hiring, so I 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:35.639 worked there. Yeah. I think this question is there's two 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.680 parts that I want to say to you, Kevin. One 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:43.440 is exactly what Caleb's saying. You can start today, Start 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:47.200 right now, as soon as you hear this podcast. Start 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.920 on the job search. And the job search comes in 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:54.600 a couple different ways. It either comes by what Caleb said, 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:56.359 he saw that Brinks armored truck drive by and he 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.680 thought that's something I could do. I'll apply, So that 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:05.120 comes with an application, or it comes with you educating 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.120 yourself for something else, whether that means you're reading a book, 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:12.000 you're literally researching on YouTube, or you're actually getting some 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.520 kind of tech schooling. But you have to make that 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:20.200 investment today, and it's going to cause you to have 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:24.400 less sleep, a little less leisure time because you're going 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:27.560 to be doing your power plant job and either early 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.800 in the morning is your new reading for your research time, 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.320 or you're applying for jobs, or after you get off 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.160 from the power plant, you're spending at least an hour 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:43.520 starting today and then every day from now on investing 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:51.080 in this research or application or job search or schooling, 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:57.920 and that motivation should trickle into every other piece of 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:01.320 your life. You're not going to feel less because instead 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:04.760 of feeling stuck, you're hunting, and hunting is a lot 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:09.040 different than turning spin your wheels because you don't feel 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:12.600 stuck if you're hunting. So it's like I'm not going anywhere. 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:14.400 You'll think, well, I am going somewhere, I just haven't 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:17.080 found it yet. And there's a big difference in that feeling. 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:20.800 And then the second, the second piece of what I 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:25.440 feel like I need to say is that there's a 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:29.080 couple of different groups of people in this world. Monks 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.520 are one of them, Navy seals or another. And it's 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:35.240 interesting because I read this book by Jesse Itzler called 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:39.119 Living with a Monk and Living with a Seal, So 0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:42.680 he did both of these groups of people, and he 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:45.639 will go with them for like thirty days and just 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.199 absorb what you could learn from a monk or from 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:50.200 a navy seal. And it's funny because when I read 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:53.560 those two books, then I started the little pieces sorted 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:57.960 coming into my daily life. For instance, I take off 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:00.760 a shirt and I I put it on a hanger, 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:03.720 and I put it in a closet and it's kind 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:06.680 of wrinkled, and it's like falls it. You put it 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:09.080 on the in the closet and it slips off the 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:13.640 hanger and falls to the ground. And sometimes my reaction is, ah, 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:15.760 I get it later, Just walk just walk out of 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:19.280 the closet, walk away, which is right now. My closet 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:21.560 right now is in an RV. It's actually the bathroom 0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:24.879 of an RV. That's my current closet. So I walk away. 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:26.560 But then there's a little thought that comes to my 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:29.160 head and says, when a navy seal will walk away, 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:34.560 or what a monk walk away? And so I literally 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:37.200 will turn around and I'll get that little shirt that's 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.400 slipped off on the ground. Then I'll put it back 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:41.639 on a hanger and I'll shake it out, shake the 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:43.960 wrinkles out, and I'll put it back on the rack 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:48.720 on its hanger, and then and I straighten it and 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:50.320 then I look, I go. Now that's what a monk 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:52.000 will do, or that's what a Navy seal will do, 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:55.040 and then I leave. And if you could apply that 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:57.920 mentality and to all these little pieces of your life, 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:01.800 especially your power play job, like you wake up one 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:04.400 morning on a Monday morning ago, I'm going into work 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.280 to a job I hate, but I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:12.840 do so good today. I'm gonna do a perfect job today. 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:16.040 I'm gonna go in to this power plant like I'm 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:19.359 a monk, and like these monasteries where monks live currently, 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:23.040 they always have jobs. It could be it could be 0:26:23.240 --> 0:26:25.600 like the one with Jesse Hitzler in the book. They 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:30.280 were dog trainers, so they train like seeing eye dogs 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:34.840 and military dogs and it's all German short German shepherds. 0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:38.680 And they could go in and then there's a guy 0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:40.159 that does laundry, and then there are the guys that 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:42.840 cleaned the bathrooms. Then they're guys that does that cooks 0:26:42.880 --> 0:26:45.800 the food. But everything they do is when they make 0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:49.000 up their bed to when they brush their teeth is perfect. 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:51.440 There is no time limit on it. They just do 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:54.400 it perfectly. And then it's so interesting to think about 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:58.760 applying a monk's life or a Navy seals life into 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:02.399 your everyday life and watch it eliminate that feeling of 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:06.600 being stuck. Because when you start mastering the monotonous, you 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:09.720 become the king of the monotonous. And then it's no 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:13.280 longer monotonous. You're now the king of something. You're the 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:16.440 master of something. It's not the master of you anymore. 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:19.280 Do you walk away from the powerplant and you go, dude, 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:22.400 I just had a perfect day. I crushed this day. 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.600 Everything I did, I did perfect. There's a couple of 0:27:25.640 --> 0:27:27.560 things I tried to cut corners on. I went back 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:30.439 and I did it perfect. And it doesn't matter if 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:32.920 your boss notices you or not, or if your colleagues 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:35.639 your peers notice you. Doesn't even matter. You get back 0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:38.480 in your car to go home knowing you're the master 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:42.840 of that day. And that's huge and crushing. The feeling 0:27:42.920 --> 0:27:46.680 of being stuck. Yeah, it's true. And just that piece 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:49.840 of knowing that you did you know, you said that 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:52.240 you did the best that you could for that. Yeah. 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:55.480 And the humility, I think it takes a good amount 0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:59.119 of humility to go about life that way, which if 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:03.960 you're if you have the humility to if you're humble 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:06.760 enough to go into a situation where it's like I'm 0:28:06.760 --> 0:28:09.520 just gonna nobody's gonna see it, but I'm just gonna 0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:11.600 do it, you know, the best I possibly can. Your 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:14.880 attitude will get better and it'll get noticed too. Yeah, 0:28:15.200 --> 0:28:18.680 I would say this, Kevin, here's my mission for you. 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:25.720 Start with sixty seconds. And it sounds crazy, but set 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:28.840 an alarm on your phone for sixty seconds and say, 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:33.760 art today, I'm gonna for sixty seconds, I'm gonna think 0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:37.720 about a new job, a new position, a new way 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:39.360 to search out and apply for a new job. And 0:28:39.400 --> 0:28:41.720 set your timer and hit go, and sixty seconds is 0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:44.120 gonna go off, and you're gonna go, well, dang, that 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:46.560 was that was quick. I didn't even get a really 0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:49.440 chance to think about it. But stop and move on. 0:28:49.960 --> 0:28:52.960 And the next day, set it for one hundred and 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:56.640 twenty seconds. The next day, come in and go all right, 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:59.680 I'm gonna give themself five minutes. So you're gradually you're 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:01.960 not just saying all right, must spend two hours a 0:29:02.040 --> 0:29:04.960 day looking for a new job, because you're gonna get bored. Yeah, 0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:07.680 doing that, you're gonna drive yourself and your brain's gonna 0:29:07.680 --> 0:29:09.640 go no, I can't do this. You get less time 0:29:09.680 --> 0:29:13.120 and be more frustrated. Exactly, less done, more frustrated. So instead, 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:16.080 give your work your way up to like a ten 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.960 minute week where each day you're spending ten minutes on 0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:22.640 this new job, and then see if you can get 0:29:22.720 --> 0:29:25.680 up to thirty minutes. And then maybe in a month 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:28.000 you can spend an hour a day. Don't start at 0:29:28.000 --> 0:29:30.720 an hour, start at one minute. And so if you 0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:32.880 could do those two things where you're dedicating a certain 0:29:32.880 --> 0:29:35.200 amount of time every day to your new job, your 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:38.720 new search, or your re education, and then you go 0:29:38.880 --> 0:29:41.160 back to your power plant and you treat that power 0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:44.960 plant like you're a monk and a monastery. I promise 0:29:45.040 --> 0:29:50.600 you you're gonna alleviate that stuck feeling and take a 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:57.800 break to bear it back. Thank you guys for listening 0:29:57.800 --> 0:30:00.520 to the podcast. This one is brought to you by 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:04.560 Best Fiends. 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And 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:30.760 this one came in and I thought right of you, Caleb. 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:35.160 It says, what is your favorite pocket knife to carry? 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:41.160 My favorite pocketknafe to carry is almost always a Kershaw 0:34:41.640 --> 0:34:45.319 and this one we both have someone because you bought 0:34:45.360 --> 0:34:48.440 this for me for my birthday. My brother Jordan got 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:54.040 me this and it is First off, it's the uh 0:34:54.400 --> 0:34:56.560 we have the same one month's black art there news's chrome. 0:34:56.760 --> 0:35:00.759 Oh no, might've just been worn out. Oh yeah, same 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:04.400 exact model, the eight c R one three m o V. 0:35:05.480 --> 0:35:08.880 This is not paid for by Kershaw. No, it's just 0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:12.000 a really good n This is awesome. So it I 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:15.440 carry this one. I like the knuckle stop. Should I 0:35:15.520 --> 0:35:19.880 have to need a knuckle stop. It also has a 0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:25.600 quarter inch nut driver, small ruler. It's got two flat 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:32.040 tip screwdriver tips that you put into your quarters magnetically 0:35:32.360 --> 0:35:34.680 hooks all. Yeah, and this thing. I use this for 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:37.640 everything so much so to everybody always knows that I 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:42.120 have it on me. Actually it's the truck giveaway. When 0:35:42.160 --> 0:35:44.320 one of the Covert guys came and said, you have 0:35:44.440 --> 0:35:46.880 a screwdriver, I had one on me. He goes, I 0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:50.080 just needed to change license plates, and I said, well, 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:52.719 you might need a bigger screwdriver. And I pulled out 0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:55.640 my pocket knife like this. I said, here's here's a 0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:58.000 bigger Phillips tip and he was like, yeah, that'll work perfect. 0:35:58.120 --> 0:35:59.759 Where'd you get that knife? And I told him where 0:35:59.760 --> 0:36:01.640 it was. So this is the one I carry on 0:36:01.800 --> 0:36:03.640 me all the time because I can always the stuff 0:36:03.680 --> 0:36:05.279 that I do at the warehouse. Sometimes I'll be doing 0:36:05.880 --> 0:36:09.360 fiddling with electrical or need a Phillips tip or putting 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:12.120 this together, putting that together, and there's just there's like 0:36:12.160 --> 0:36:14.120 a thousand different things you can do this with this. 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:17.680 So the Kershaw assisted opening ones are awesome, But this 0:36:17.880 --> 0:36:20.560 thing I do like a thousand different things with and 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:22.799 that got you that because I just use it all 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:24.960 the time. I have a couple other Kershaw's too that 0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:28.320 I have struggled because occasionally I won't know where this 0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:29.799 one is and then I'll grab the other one off 0:36:30.120 --> 0:36:33.719 off my desk. The command Kershaw really is benefiting from this. 0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:36.200 They really didn't pay us a penny to say all this. 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:39.000 I will say that if you haven't assisted opening one, 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:40.920 I've I've had like four or five of them. And 0:36:41.040 --> 0:36:42.960 if you're spring breaks, you call them and they just 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:45.200 ship it to you for free. Have you ever done that? 0:36:45.280 --> 0:36:49.120 They're so cool, they just they're yeah, nobody's getting paid 0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:51.640 for this. They just have really good They just take 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:53.960 care of you. And they're pretty reasonably priced too. Yeah, 0:36:54.040 --> 0:36:56.040 like they're not going to break the bank. But it's 0:36:56.120 --> 0:37:00.759 a solid, solid knife. My grandfather on my dad's side 0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:04.759 always carried a pocket knife, but he had those old 0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:07.759 timy ones that that have like the uh, the wood 0:37:08.480 --> 0:37:12.160 on the side, and they're like impossible to open if 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:15.320 they're if you don't keep it oiled, you have to 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:18.880 get your fingernail in that little groove and pull it, 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:21.840 and so he would lose it all the time. So 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:23.520 it was like the joke of the family was at 0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:27.480 Christmas time, every person in the family would get him 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:30.960 one of those. So for Christmas he'd get like seventeen 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:33.239 of them, and that by the end of the year 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:36.000 he would have lost all seventeen. I like that. I 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:38.399 love redundancy because you never know and stuff like that's 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:39.920 gonna happen. Well, if he if he would have had 0:37:39.960 --> 0:37:42.759 a curse, he could have opened the I know, I 0:37:42.960 --> 0:37:45.000 thought of it. That's what I started saying that because 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:47.759 it's like, man, if Paul had had one of these, 0:37:47.880 --> 0:37:50.640 I whant to changed the game for him. Those things 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:55.440 are terrible, but I still have When he died, we 0:37:55.640 --> 0:37:59.640 each got like his latest inventory, like the grandkids, so 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:02.720 I have one from him. Do they all collect eventually? 0:38:02.920 --> 0:38:05.640 Like so you found them? They were just lost. Well, 0:38:05.680 --> 0:38:09.000 at least we found the current inventory. The other ones 0:38:09.080 --> 0:38:13.239 just went into the endless pit that his knives fell into. 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:20.640 I'm gonna read another question. This is says hey Grainew. 0:38:20.680 --> 0:38:22.919 My name is Nick. I live in a small town 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:30.200 in Sweden called Scovde Skovdeled. I've been listening to buy 0:38:30.280 --> 0:38:33.760 Boy Baseball over and over. My own father wasn't present 0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:36.799 during my formative years, and I've basically had to teach 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:39.600 myself how to be a good man. I'm now twenty 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:43.560 seven years old, and even though I have children on 0:38:43.640 --> 0:38:47.759 my own, there's still a bit away, and I've thought 0:38:47.800 --> 0:38:50.799 about what kind of father I've let me read that again, 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:53.920 I'm twenty seven years old, and even though having my 0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:56.439 own children is still a bit away, so he doesn't 0:38:56.480 --> 0:39:00.520 have them yet, I've thought about what kind of I've 0:39:00.600 --> 0:39:04.359 want to be. Listening to By Boy Baseball has put 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:08.040 so many emotions into words for me and gave me goosebumps. 0:39:09.480 --> 0:39:11.360 I now know what kind of father I want to 0:39:11.400 --> 0:39:13.080 be and what kind of example I want to set 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:15.840 for my future children. Thank you so much and everyone 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:18.400 involved in making this song. So that's I guess this 0:39:18.560 --> 0:39:20.879 is kind of a shout out, and so thank you Nick. 0:39:21.600 --> 0:39:25.840 Thanks for listening from Sweden. As I was reading that, 0:39:25.920 --> 0:39:28.920 I could almost hear your accent. Here's your typing this, 0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:36.000 So I appreciate you, buddy, And here's to be in 0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:39.760 twenty seven still being single and with no kids. That's awesome. 0:39:40.080 --> 0:39:42.440 Hang in there. You got about three more years hanging there. 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:45.640 I always think thirties are a good age to have 0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:48.439 kids to start thinking about that. Unless you are kids, 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:54.000 then forty fifty, Yeah, sixty, just don't do it. Yeah, 0:39:55.760 --> 0:39:59.759 here's a question from Tim, and this is interesting and 0:39:59.800 --> 0:40:01.960 you probably help with this, Kala, but says hey Grangeer, 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:06.200 I hope you guys are having a great holiday season. 0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:12.280 We've constantly got you streaming throughout our office in Auburn, Alabama, 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:15.319 and it dawned on us. How do you guys get 0:40:15.400 --> 0:40:19.120 weather forecast and make plans when weather becomes an issue 0:40:19.160 --> 0:40:23.200 both on the road and at the farm. Thanks so much. PS, 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:25.759 if you need a company watching your back, let us know, 0:40:25.920 --> 0:40:31.719 because Tim works for AWIS Weather Services in Auburn, Alabama. 0:40:33.520 --> 0:40:36.600 So we're Caleb. Were you in the band when Frank Maglan, 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:41.719 our audio engineer, was like heading up weather services for us? 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:44.680 Or did he take that on after years? That problem 0:40:44.719 --> 0:40:48.400 was probably after me. It's funny because our old audio 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:54.920 engineer took on like his own division of our production 0:40:55.120 --> 0:41:00.880 staff as a weather analyst, and he would study the 0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:05.040 weather before we laughed for a tour, and then we 0:41:05.120 --> 0:41:08.600 had a special groutiny you're laughing this is serious. I 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:12.160 can just see. Okay, so there's high pressure. Yeah yeah, 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:15.719 I was like that. So here you go, all right, 0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:19.279 guys on Friday, That's how Frank talked. All right, guys 0:41:19.360 --> 0:41:23.080 and Friday, des Moines, Iowa supposed to be clear skies 0:41:23.320 --> 0:41:28.000 sixty degrees that evening, a low pressure system will be 0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:31.239 moving in about the time were loading the trailer. We 0:41:31.320 --> 0:41:34.600 should get a little precipitation, so bring your raincoat and 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:39.400 a sweater. The next day we will be heading into Lincoln, Nebraska, 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:43.520 should be overcast skies with a thirty chance of rain, 0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:47.560 high of fifty three degrees. God, what should see? And 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:51.239 it was so funny because we would actually go by 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:54.000 that and be like, you know if because when you're 0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:56.640 on the road, and Tim, Tim has a good point, 0:41:56.680 --> 0:42:00.600 because when you travel it's far and as much as 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:05.920 we did before COVID, you easily could end up in 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:11.360 a really different weather system than you thought you would be. 0:42:11.480 --> 0:42:15.080 For instance, it could be August and you're touring in 0:42:17.080 --> 0:42:19.799 the up of Michigan and it's going to get down 0:42:19.880 --> 0:42:26.080 to thirty at night, and you're completely unprepared. So eventually 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:28.719 our buses just got completely stocked with every kind of 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:33.480 weather gear, whether it was rain or beanies and gloves 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:38.279 and jackets. But then to answer your question, tim it 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:42.480 evolved into like the bus driver job. The bus drivers 0:42:42.800 --> 0:42:48.000 took on being aware of weather because they needed to 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:52.280 know what they were driving through. And the key times 0:42:52.320 --> 0:42:54.360 that we really had to look at usually was load 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:56.719 in and load out and showtime. So if it was 0:42:56.719 --> 0:42:58.520 an outdoor show, we always had to pay attention to 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:02.080 show time, but always we had to pay attention to 0:43:02.200 --> 0:43:04.560 load out time, which is, say it's midnight to one am, 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:08.920 what's happening at the loading dock or the back door 0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:11.920 of the venue, and do we need to push that 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:16.920 load earlier or later because of a storm. And we 0:43:17.000 --> 0:43:19.239 have dealt with this, like in the summer touring season, 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:22.560 like during festival season, whether it's always a really big 0:43:22.600 --> 0:43:29.040 deal because it's we're constantly bringing tarps and the guys 0:43:29.080 --> 0:43:33.120 will put saran wrap around their guitar pedal boards because 0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:39.640 we play no matter what, we play in rain or shine, 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:42.440 if it's an not door festival. The only time we 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:44.600 don't play is if it's high winds and the stages 0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:47.680 in danger, or if it's lightning. But if it's just 0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:52.000 just rain, we're going to play unless for some reason 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:54.040 the promoter has a reason to call it off. But 0:43:54.200 --> 0:43:57.640 we can't personally call it off because we're contracted to play. 0:43:58.480 --> 0:44:00.239 They're not gonna pay us if we say we're going 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:05.399 out there because it's raining. So we've had we've had 0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:11.560 countless hundreds hundreds of stories of iffy weather conditions. Do 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:14.000 you remember any of them in the van days? I 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:16.720 remember stuff got blown down. We were like a festival 0:44:16.760 --> 0:44:20.480 and it was a tent but around the Houston area. Yeah, yeah, 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:23.000 blew down on us when we were inside of it. 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:26.800 But a massive tit. I mean that sucker was massive. 0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:29.000 But that was that was the only one that I remember, 0:44:29.280 --> 0:44:32.160 And that and the entire tit went down. We didn't 0:44:32.160 --> 0:44:34.400 have weather man Frank at that or he wasn't weatherman 0:44:34.440 --> 0:44:37.160 at that point, which I still trying to envision him. Yeah, 0:44:37.440 --> 0:44:41.880 giving the forecast so awesome question, Tim forecast. Thank you 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:44.359 for asking a question that no one would have thought 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:48.279 to ask. But besides the weather man, and it is 0:44:48.800 --> 0:44:51.560 just like you suspected, Tim, it's a big deal for driving, 0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:53.640 it's a big deal for show playing the show, and 0:44:53.680 --> 0:44:56.480 it's a big deal for carrying gear through the show, 0:44:56.560 --> 0:44:59.200 and it just it's all over the map on how 0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:04.920 that changes. I'm gonna do one more cool, all right? 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:09.960 This question is from John without an h says, Hey, Grangeer, 0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:12.200 my name is John. I've been a fan of yours 0:45:12.360 --> 0:45:14.240 for years, and I love the music and the content 0:45:14.320 --> 0:45:16.000 you put out and find myself relating to you in 0:45:16.080 --> 0:45:19.719 many ways. This has been a crazy year and one 0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:23.960 many people have struggled to agree on. I agree with 0:45:24.120 --> 0:45:27.800 taking precautions or relation to COVID nineteen, but not shutting 0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:30.440 down your whole life to avoid the chance of getting 0:45:30.480 --> 0:45:34.240 it Right here we go, enjoy life to the fullest 0:45:34.239 --> 0:45:37.719 while you can, on the chance the virus or the 0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:43.080 multitude of other things might happen tomorrow, it says, might 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:46.520 be happened. I do my best to read these emails 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:51.640 words verbatim, but sometimes it's it's hard. Yeah, sometimes they 0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:57.360 trip me up. I've heard you speak about child safety, 0:45:57.719 --> 0:45:59.840 and this is an issue you feel strongly about that 0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:02.680 others may not. My question is how do you factor 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:08.400 that into considering other strong feelings towards precautions quarantine because 0:46:08.440 --> 0:46:12.360 of the loss of their family due to COVID nineteen. John, 0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:14.719 I think I kind of understand what he's saying. Yeah, 0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:20.560 and let me go back. He says, I agree with 0:46:20.760 --> 0:46:24.400 taking precautions in relation to COVID nineteen, but not with 0:46:24.600 --> 0:46:26.680 shutting down your whole life to avoid the chance of 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:32.400 getting it. And so maybe he's struggling with some friends 0:46:33.480 --> 0:46:40.080 who are thinking against that, which is why he's saying, 0:46:40.320 --> 0:46:43.560 how do you deal with an issue that you feel 0:46:43.560 --> 0:46:49.120 strongly towards it? Others may not? It's crazy. I don't 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:51.880 really get that question too often, but it's surprising that 0:46:52.000 --> 0:46:54.359 it don't get it every question these days. Yeah, it's 0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:58.759 interesting that more people don't ask you that, especially as 0:46:58.800 --> 0:47:06.000 a touring musician and travel such a party to life. Yeah, 0:47:07.040 --> 0:47:12.560 I don't. I don't deal with this too much, John, 0:47:12.719 --> 0:47:20.719 because the this whole stuff, this whole virus thing, I'm 0:47:20.800 --> 0:47:25.359 just over it. I'm completely over it. And I don't 0:47:25.400 --> 0:47:29.200 put hope in twenty twenty one. I don't put hope 0:47:29.280 --> 0:47:34.400 in the vaccine. I don't put hope in a new president. 0:47:34.880 --> 0:47:40.440 I don't put hope in a find a medical advisor. 0:47:42.680 --> 0:47:50.120 I put hope in God. And there's so much there's 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:53.040 so much grace given when you just finally give up 0:47:54.000 --> 0:47:59.919 trying to put hope in man, and don't hear me wrong, 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:02.960 and saying that just means it means I don't care 0:48:03.040 --> 0:48:06.480 and I'm just gonna live my life the way I 0:48:06.560 --> 0:48:09.040 want to live it. That's not exactly what I'm saying. 0:48:09.040 --> 0:48:13.400 I'm just saying I'm not going to I'm not going 0:48:13.440 --> 0:48:22.799 to stress and destroy myself because I'm worried about other 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:25.840 people in humanity holding up to something I believe in. 0:48:27.480 --> 0:48:34.040 So this question is not And your subject line is relatability, 0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:39.360 and I just I'm over it. And you see me, 0:48:39.560 --> 0:48:41.200 you see me. Deal with this year, you see me? 0:48:41.560 --> 0:48:44.400 You know, start with where everyone was scared at the beginning, 0:48:44.480 --> 0:48:46.960 and I say this year. I'm talking about twenty twenty 0:48:47.000 --> 0:48:53.640 one now, but the beginning of the shutdown, YEA, everybody 0:48:53.680 --> 0:48:55.920 believed it in them. Not that you don't believe it. 0:48:56.560 --> 0:48:59.040 It's believable. It's a virus. People are catching it, people 0:48:59.040 --> 0:49:00.920 are dying from it. Yeah, it was. It was initially 0:49:00.920 --> 0:49:07.200 a whole lot. I mean I'll no, no, go ahead, 0:49:07.440 --> 0:49:11.400 go ahead. I mean I've really And that's kind of 0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:14.879 my answer. I'm early over it. I We're all gonna 0:49:14.920 --> 0:49:20.320 die at some point, and as adults, that's our responsibility 0:49:20.520 --> 0:49:23.439 as children. We want to talk about children here, that's 0:49:23.560 --> 0:49:26.040 not their responsibility, that's ours. So that's why we do 0:49:26.160 --> 0:49:29.600 everything we can and precautions and we we make sure 0:49:29.640 --> 0:49:34.000 everything is it's right when it comes to child safety. 0:49:34.800 --> 0:49:37.040 But when it comes to adults and we're in trying 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:41.000 to work for a living and someone wants to take 0:49:41.120 --> 0:49:44.360 the most extreme measures for a virus, that's totally up 0:49:44.400 --> 0:49:48.279 to them, and I'm not ever going to argue. We 0:49:48.400 --> 0:49:51.160 went to an ice cream place the other day with 0:49:51.320 --> 0:49:54.719 me and Hamber and the kids, and the lady said, 0:49:56.320 --> 0:49:58.719 and I'm not really, I'm not really anti mask and 0:49:58.800 --> 0:50:02.560 I'm not really and I'm kind of right in between. Yeah, 0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:05.880 and so I literally just forgot to put it on. 0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:08.040 But we went into this ice cream place and she said, 0:50:08.080 --> 0:50:10.279 do you mind, do you just mind putting on your 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:15.440 mask because we're really struggling, This company's really struggling, and 0:50:16.880 --> 0:50:21.480 and the city will find us fifteen hundred dollars if 0:50:21.520 --> 0:50:24.440 they catch someone in here without a mask. That's ridiculous. 0:50:25.480 --> 0:50:28.400 And do you know I'm not gonna look her in 0:50:28.480 --> 0:50:30.600 the eye and say, well, then I'll be taking my 0:50:30.800 --> 0:50:34.360 business elsewhere. You know, Yeah, you just you want to 0:50:34.440 --> 0:50:36.319 that place and doing a favor, you know, just trying 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:40.080 to find said yeah, I said Tom, I said, that's 0:50:40.120 --> 0:50:42.120 my fault, and I forgot about it and I just 0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:46.360 pulled up my little gator above my face and I 0:50:46.440 --> 0:50:49.480 didn't I didn't think I was anti patriotic for that 0:50:49.719 --> 0:50:56.000 or you know, I'm just, uh, I'm just kind of 0:50:56.080 --> 0:50:59.880 numb on the whole thing. I think everybody's getting more numbs, 0:51:00.040 --> 0:51:03.480 especially with all the the I mean, you just looked 0:51:03.480 --> 0:51:06.920 at the leadership of the all the all the all 0:51:07.000 --> 0:51:09.279 the politicians who are telling you to do one thing 0:51:09.520 --> 0:51:12.000 and they're doing another. I mean, as soon as they 0:51:12.040 --> 0:51:16.480 start doing another that I'm nobody's going to follow. I mean, 0:51:16.520 --> 0:51:20.520 that's how serious. That's how serious the whole situation is. 0:51:20.760 --> 0:51:23.279 Is the people telling you that it's this serious and 0:51:23.360 --> 0:51:25.239 we need to do all these different things are doing 0:51:25.680 --> 0:51:28.440 different things than that. And we got it. What is 0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:33.440 a certain politician for for the city of Austin issued 0:51:33.440 --> 0:51:37.040 a you should stay at home order from Mexico. That's 0:51:37.080 --> 0:51:41.840 how should not go anywhere where are you I'm in Mexico. 0:51:41.960 --> 0:51:45.320 It was absolutely ridiculous from our mayor in Austin, Texas, 0:51:45.440 --> 0:51:48.920 not our he's the city over. We're in Georgetown, and 0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:53.160 the mayor of Austin telling everybody to stay home from 0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:57.080 a video that he recorded in Mexico on vacation at 0:51:57.160 --> 0:52:01.160 his daughter's large the attend wedding. What do you what 0:52:01.200 --> 0:52:03.360 do you want? Yeah, well it was it was a wedding, 0:52:03.440 --> 0:52:05.880 it was already planned. Well, everybody else has other stuff planned. 0:52:06.040 --> 0:52:08.239 If you're not going to take it that serious, you know, 0:52:08.320 --> 0:52:10.799 we don't need to take it that serious. Kevin Neson said, 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:13.400 you guys should know no dying. You guys just need 0:52:13.480 --> 0:52:15.880 to cancel this, cancel that. Well, then he goes to 0:52:16.000 --> 0:52:18.560 Napa vel and has dinner. We will take it as 0:52:18.600 --> 0:52:21.560 serious as you do. Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm 0:52:21.600 --> 0:52:24.600 not gonna take it more serious than you do. And 0:52:24.719 --> 0:52:25.880 I'm not going to I'm not going to take a 0:52:25.920 --> 0:52:29.200 stance on this podcast that's too far from what people 0:52:29.280 --> 0:52:31.320 have already said a million times. It's like, if you 0:52:31.440 --> 0:52:34.520 feel like you have some kind of pre existing conditions, 0:52:35.360 --> 0:52:38.960 stay home, absolutely, stay home. Yeah, and if you know 0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:40.880 that you might have it, I don't think you need 0:52:40.960 --> 0:52:43.319 to be like you said. It's not like this draw 0:52:43.600 --> 0:52:46.120 line in the sand. I will not wear a mask 0:52:46.160 --> 0:52:49.600 at any point. Well, that's just yeah, that's I mean, 0:52:49.600 --> 0:52:52.080 if you have someone that you love who is you know, 0:52:52.200 --> 0:52:57.160 compromise compromised, then don't go around them. And then it's 0:52:57.239 --> 0:53:01.280 just if if people applied to compassion to this situation 0:53:01.400 --> 0:53:04.000 a little more, then that would work kind of work 0:53:04.040 --> 0:53:06.480 itself out. If you're if you're at risk, don't go 0:53:06.560 --> 0:53:09.880 out and do stuff. And if you you know, if 0:53:09.960 --> 0:53:12.719 you're not at risk, you know, just go about your life. 0:53:13.160 --> 0:53:17.240 What happened to free choice? There's another story and Chipotle 0:53:17.400 --> 0:53:20.360 down the road. I was getting a burrito and Chipotle 0:53:20.560 --> 0:53:22.880 is pretty pretty mask heavy. You know, they want they 0:53:22.920 --> 0:53:24.239 want you to wear a mask. And it's the same 0:53:24.320 --> 0:53:26.719 thing like the city is going to find you. And 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:34.080 so you can't totally blame the individual's business that that's 0:53:34.160 --> 0:53:37.160 under threat of getting the fine. You blame the city, 0:53:37.239 --> 0:53:39.600 but not the business. So I went to go get 0:53:39.640 --> 0:53:42.440 a burrito and they asked me to please put my 0:53:42.480 --> 0:53:44.240 mask on. So I put it on, got my burrito, 0:53:44.400 --> 0:53:46.319 left and Bull was like, where'd you go for lunch? 0:53:46.800 --> 0:53:49.839 That's my bus driver, Bull love him. He said, where'd 0:53:49.840 --> 0:53:51.520 you go for lunch? I said, chipotlet and go they 0:53:51.600 --> 0:53:53.360 make you wear a mask. I said yeah, and he 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:55.040 said did you put it on? I said yeah, and 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:59.399 he goes, huh, you just did what they said. Yeah, 0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:01.400 I wanted to breed. Oh he said, So if they 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:03.000 came to your house tomorrow and said I want all 0:54:03.040 --> 0:54:05.680 your guns, you just say okay, because that's that's what 0:54:05.760 --> 0:54:10.840 they tell you. Like, well, I don't. That's the problem 0:54:10.840 --> 0:54:13.319 with ideology is you go, you go all the way 0:54:13.400 --> 0:54:16.919 down one road, and you can't turn back on one road. 0:54:17.120 --> 0:54:20.920 One solid ideology. It gets very dangerous when you try 0:54:20.960 --> 0:54:23.480 to apply it to everything else in your life. I 0:54:23.560 --> 0:54:26.000 think that's the I think the it's natural. I think 0:54:26.040 --> 0:54:31.520 it's extremely uh embedded in the American that if someone goes, 0:54:31.920 --> 0:54:36.720 you know, this thing's dangerous, masks are probably a good idea, 0:54:37.080 --> 0:54:40.440 Like sounds pretty reasonable. But when someone goes you have 0:54:40.560 --> 0:54:43.480 to wear a mask or else, we're like, yeah, I 0:54:43.520 --> 0:54:45.960 don't think I'm gonna wear a mask. Yeah, it's just 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:48.520 an American you know. Yeah, we've been doing that since 0:54:48.520 --> 0:54:50.320 we were throwing tea in the harbor. It's just you know, 0:54:50.400 --> 0:54:53.360 if you ask us, it's very yeah, but if you 0:54:53.520 --> 0:54:55.719 just tell me to or else, then I'm like, not 0:54:55.960 --> 0:54:58.680 all of a sudden, don't feel like wearing this just yeah. 0:54:59.239 --> 0:55:00.759 And I'm also an at the point where I'm going 0:55:00.800 --> 0:55:04.200 to look an old, older lady in the eye that 0:55:04.520 --> 0:55:07.520 owns a little small mom and pop ice cream shop, 0:55:08.320 --> 0:55:10.440 and she says, can you can you please put that on? 0:55:10.680 --> 0:55:12.960 Just because if someone sees me, I could I can 0:55:13.040 --> 0:55:15.279 get fine, And I'm already hanging on just as it is. 0:55:15.640 --> 0:55:18.200 I'm not gonna look at her and go no, yeah, no, 0:55:18.600 --> 0:55:22.520 give you my ice cream, keep your you keep your 0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:26.279 two dollars and thirty cent ice cream woman, Yeah, not me. 0:55:26.800 --> 0:55:30.480 Instead I just go, yeah, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, And 0:55:30.600 --> 0:55:32.880 I give her the money for the ice cream, and 0:55:32.960 --> 0:55:36.160 me and the kids leave. That doesn't seem that that 0:55:36.320 --> 0:55:38.839 big a deal to me. No, you know, like if 0:55:38.960 --> 0:55:41.040 if you were to go visit somebody who has a 0:55:41.120 --> 0:55:44.640 family member who's you know who who could get sick 0:55:44.840 --> 0:55:50.960 very quickly and not survive code you know, for whatever reason, 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:54.399 you know, just just do it. It's it's the when 0:55:54.480 --> 0:55:56.720 that oh we went we went to eat to dinner. 0:55:56.960 --> 0:55:59.719 This is the one that's ridiculous. We went to eat me, 0:56:00.080 --> 0:56:03.160 how do you want to eat? And uh, we're walking outdoor. 0:56:03.320 --> 0:56:06.239 You walk up to where they sign you in and uh, 0:56:06.440 --> 0:56:09.239 and then you go there's a door into the restaurant. Well, 0:56:09.400 --> 0:56:13.200 only from standing outside the door to inside the restaurant, 0:56:13.239 --> 0:56:15.960 did I have to wear my mask? Hmm? All of 0:56:16.800 --> 0:56:20.000 five feet one door? And then I could take my 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:22.600 mask off. And it's at that point where I'm like, 0:56:22.680 --> 0:56:26.919 I did nothing to protect myself from So there's there's 0:56:26.960 --> 0:56:29.560 things where there's reasonable to do it around people who 0:56:29.600 --> 0:56:32.239 were That's just where. And it goes back to if 0:56:32.280 --> 0:56:35.000 you if you want to go eat, go eat and 0:56:35.080 --> 0:56:38.560 don't wear a mask. No I'm not. I'm not into 0:56:38.640 --> 0:56:40.320 going to get into the science. And I hate that 0:56:40.440 --> 0:56:42.719 word now, like I hate the word science and I 0:56:42.800 --> 0:56:45.880 hate the word virologist. I hate those words because some 0:56:46.040 --> 0:56:48.279 everyone goes, oh, you know science, now you know you 0:56:48.360 --> 0:56:51.680 know virology? No I don't. I don't. Well have a friend. 0:56:52.719 --> 0:56:56.880 Everybody knows a friend, and so as a virologist, it 0:56:56.920 --> 0:57:01.759 doesn't make sense to my small brain that a little 0:57:01.880 --> 0:57:05.320 piece of cloth around my face and those would stop 0:57:05.760 --> 0:57:09.279 the virus. It doesn't totally make sense to me. So 0:57:10.000 --> 0:57:13.040 in my opinion, if I was worried about it, or 0:57:13.120 --> 0:57:16.400 I knew someone that was susceptible to it. I would 0:57:16.520 --> 0:57:19.080 not be around them, or I would stay home. That's 0:57:19.120 --> 0:57:21.960 the best way. That's the best way to not get it, 0:57:22.400 --> 0:57:24.240 if you don't leave the house or don't go to 0:57:24.360 --> 0:57:29.080 someone else's house that is sensitive to it. But going 0:57:29.120 --> 0:57:31.480 to the restaurant and wearing a tiny piece of cloth 0:57:31.640 --> 0:57:34.840 on your face when you walk in the door and 0:57:34.920 --> 0:57:36.760 then taking that tiny piece of cloth off when you 0:57:36.760 --> 0:57:38.920 sit down. And I'm just preaching to the choir here, 0:57:39.480 --> 0:57:42.560 and there's people I'm suspecting that people listening to this 0:57:42.680 --> 0:57:44.840 are split about fifty to fifty. Some people are like 0:57:44.960 --> 0:57:47.560 one hundred percent mask, and then there's probably people that 0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:50.680 are like one hundred percent no mask, and then both 0:57:50.720 --> 0:57:53.280 of those probably overlap to guys like me. That's like, 0:57:53.400 --> 0:57:59.680 you know what, that's uh, I'm over it, I'm over it, off, 0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:03.920 I'm over I've seen that. Was it the football games 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.960 where like the band has masks that split in the 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:11.360 middle so they can play the trumpet. Mm hmm, yeah, 0:58:11.400 --> 0:58:13.720 that's that was Texas A and M. My album Alma 0:58:13.840 --> 0:58:18.160 Mater is absolutely ridiculous. And this just in case you're 0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:20.720 getting your keyboards ready to start putting hate on me, 0:58:21.120 --> 0:58:23.200 because when you take a neutral position, like a little 0:58:23.240 --> 0:58:25.760 bit like I am. That's all people are going to 0:58:25.800 --> 0:58:27.000 want to do is hate because there's going to be 0:58:27.040 --> 0:58:30.200 people that say I need to advocate for only one 0:58:30.280 --> 0:58:32.880 side or the other, or I'm wrong because it's that 0:58:33.000 --> 0:58:35.760 old Aaron Tippins song you got the stand for something 0:58:35.880 --> 0:58:38.640 or you'll fall for anything. And once again, that's an 0:58:38.680 --> 0:58:41.720 ideology that can get dangerous. That kind of mentality can 0:58:41.800 --> 0:58:43.720 get dangerous. And here's what I'm saying on me sum 0:58:43.800 --> 0:58:46.680 everything up. I'm not worried about it because I don't 0:58:46.720 --> 0:58:51.480 trust man kind. I put my faith in God. I 0:58:51.600 --> 0:58:55.880 put my faith in the Almighty, the Creator, who I 0:58:56.040 --> 0:59:01.080 find peace from who I get grace, and I am 0:59:01.520 --> 0:59:05.560 better mentally, maybe better physically, I don't know. I'm definitely 0:59:05.640 --> 0:59:11.160 better mentally, uh for putting my faith there. And I 0:59:11.320 --> 0:59:13.520 don't have to When I have my faith there, I 0:59:13.600 --> 0:59:15.720 don't have to go all out and say this is 0:59:15.720 --> 0:59:19.080 where I draw the line in the sand. That's what 0:59:19.160 --> 0:59:22.200 I'll say, although I will say God said you have to, 0:59:23.360 --> 0:59:30.280 I would rather you lukewarm or cold? Yeah? Him to him, 0:59:31.440 --> 0:59:33.360 I else spit you outline. Now he did say that 0:59:34.200 --> 0:59:40.400 about him, and I am definitely hot for him land there. 0:59:40.440 --> 0:59:42.680 We'll see you guys. Thanks for joining me on the 0:59:42.720 --> 0:59:46.120 Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could 0:59:46.160 --> 0:59:49.200 help me out by rating this podcast on iTunes. If 0:59:49.240 --> 0:59:52.400 you're on YouTube, subscribe to this channel, hit that little 0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:55.959 like button and notification spell so that you never miss 0:59:56.120 --> 0:59:59.400 anytime I upload a video. If you have a question 0:59:59.520 --> 1:00:02.920 for me that would like me to answer, email Grangersmith 1:00:03.040 --> 1:00:06.240 Podcast at gmail dot com. Ye