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Speaker 1: How do everyone. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. I'm grateful for this platform. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Grangersmith podcast. Rolled the intro did change

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Speaker 1: in D much times and long line by four of

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Speaker 1: the Wormy Dog Saloon in Bricktown, Oklahoma City. I don't

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Speaker 1: you're focusing on, your scrolling or on your mindless tiktoking,

427
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: whatever your vice is. So limit your time on there

428
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: and start with the mornings. In the evenings, those are

429
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: precious times. You can't spend your first waking hours scrolling

430
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: social media because it's going to take you way off

431
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: your path. And then the same thing, you can't do

432
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 1: it at night right before you go to bed. You

433
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 1: need to give yourself about an hour, so for me,

434
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: an hour before you go to sleep. So for me,

435
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: I don't sleep with my phone in the same room.

436
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: I have a charger plugged into the wall outside of

437
00:26:54,840 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: my bedroom that forces me to leave the phone side

438
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: at night and in the morning, so when I wake up,

439
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 1: I can't just reach forard on my bedside and start scrolling.

440
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: There is an addiction to that. I feel it. Everyone

441
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: feels it. And then at night you don't have a

442
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: tendency to sit there and stare at that screen right

443
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: before you're so tired. You got to close your eyes

444
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: and then you put it on your nightstand. So I

445
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: get it out of my room. I get it completely

446
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: away from me, to get away from that kind of temptation.

447
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: Part of that problem is just that blue light. Looking

448
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: at that light. And we've all heard about this blue

449
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: light problem of staring at screens and what that does

450
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: to your brain as far as keeping you awake. But

451
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: it's such a huge problem in distracting you from being

452
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: having a conscious living. Another thing you could do is

453
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 1: whenever you lay your head down on the pillow, which

454
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: is such a huge tendency at that time to start

455
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 1: worrying or planning for tomorrow. Like you hit your head

456
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 1: on the pillow and the lights are out and you

457
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: close your eyes and you think, Okay, what do I

458
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: need to do in the morning again? I need to Okay,

459
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: I need to make that I need to return this

460
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: phone call, I need to pay this bill. Oh and

461
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: on my way to work, I've got to remember to

462
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: put air in my right front tire that's low. And

463
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: then oh and I forgot I'm gonna have a I

464
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,239
Speaker 1: need to go to the dentist at three o'clock, so

465
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: that means I need to take a short lunch break.

466
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: I'm you know, these are things that are not necessary

467
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: when you get in bed, when you close your eyes.

468
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: So I have a strict rule in my brain, like

469
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about tomorrow once I lay my head down.

470
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: So how do you get away from that? Sometimes it

471
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: comes all the way down to focusing on your breathing,

472
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: focusing on instead of thinking about tomorrow, thinking about the

473
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: breaths coming in, the breath's going out, the chest rises,

474
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: the chest falls, the belly rises, the belly falls, the

475
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: air conditioner whirling out of event. You think about things

476
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: that are present for you right now. It's also a

477
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: really good way to fall asleep, and then during the

478
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: day you could do the same thing during the day.

479
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: Driving is a good example. So many times when we're driving,

480
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: were so distracted by daydreaming about the future or reminiscing

481
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: about the past. It's easy to let miles go by

482
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: in the car and you go, man, I forgot where

483
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: I was the last five minutes. I've been unconscious. And

484
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: I've heard people say to grab that present moment back

485
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: when you're driving. Sometimes you got to put both hands

486
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: on the steering wheel and grip that steering wheel and

487
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: feel your hands and feel that vibration of the seat

488
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: you're sitting in, feel the moment you're in, and feel

489
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: your hands on that steerwell, feel what that vinyl feels

490
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: like in your grip, and that present thought of being

491
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: right here, right now. Not where I'm going, not that

492
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: I'm running late, not that I'm in traffic. This ruins

493
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: my day, but I'm right here. I'm right here in

494
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: the seat driving my car. Those are ways to hack

495
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,239
Speaker 1: your brain into not overthinking the future. I'm gonna take

496
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: a quick break. This is an interesting question that says,

497
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: did you ever break up with your wife before you

498
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: married her? Amber and I have an interesting story, and

499
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: I guess we have an interesting relationship. But I met

500
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: Amber on the music video shoot, my very first music

501
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: video shoot. She was the love interest in that music

502
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: video called Don't Listen to the Radio. So you can

503
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: you can go back and look at the two thousand

504
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: and nine music video of mine and see us on

505
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: our first day, the first day we met, the first

506
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: day we knew each other, and we fell in love.

507
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: I fell in love with that girl. And we thought

508
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: that maybe, or at least we worried that that love

509
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: or that infatuation we felt for each other was because

510
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: of the environment we were in and because the fairy

511
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: tale set up that we were living in for that

512
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: music video, and so we wanted to at least I

513
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: wanted to be cautious moving forward into a real relationship.

514
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: And she had a boyfriend at the time, So the

515
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: first thing that needed to happen was she needed to

516
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: break up with it with her boyfriend, because regardless of

517
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: me or how she felt for me, she had a

518
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: wondering eye, meaning she wasn't totally satisfied or happy, I

519
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: should say, with the guy she was with. So she

520
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: did she broke up with that guy, and or three

521
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: weeks later or so, we met up for coffee at

522
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: Starbucks after a show of mine, and we shut that

523
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: place down. They closed down and put put chairs on

524
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: top of the tables while we were still there with

525
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: they kicked us out, and we had a really good connection.

526
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: And it was just a few months later after that

527
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: I bought her a ring for her, a wedding ring,

528
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: and then a few months later after that I proposed,

529
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: and then a few months later after that we got married.

530
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: So all within a year of meeting, we were already married.

531
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: The funny thing is in that video don't listen to

532
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: the radio. The song is about trying to forget a girl.

533
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: So I'm remembering in the video scenes of us in

534
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: our good times and scenes of us in our bad

535
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: times in a fictitious relationship. And we had a fake

536
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: fight on set on in the video, So if you

537
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: watch the video, you'll see like a fake fight where

538
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: she's mad and she's thrown clothes into a suitcase and

539
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: she leaves in a hurry and flies off in her car,

540
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: and that is the only time that that's ever really

541
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: happened to us. We've never gotten into a big, drag

542
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: out fight. We've never had a big heated argument, and

543
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why. I know

544
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: why from my perspective, because she's an amazing girl that

545
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: is very patient with me and takes my side a

546
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: lot when maybe she shouldn't take my side, but I

547
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: do that in return to her. So what comes first

548
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: her her being so patient with me and me repaying

549
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: that back to her or vice versa. I don't know,

550
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: and it's irrelevant. The fact is we just have a

551
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: really good relationship and we have for ten years now,

552
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: eleven years now, ten years married, and I'm very grateful

553
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: for that. I feel like she's the biggest blessing of

554
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: my life because relationships I had before her weren't like it.

555
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: We fought all the time, and she talks about her

556
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: past relationships they fought all the time. So it's not

557
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: something in my personality that is just non confrontational to

558
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: a girl, and same with her. It's just something that

559
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: when we come together, our personalities work. It's a match

560
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: that's not to say that we don't disagree, but we

561
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: never let an argument because we want to be right

562
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: get in the way of our affection for each other

563
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: and our passion for keeping each other happy and content,

564
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: and our fear of ever damaging with words the other

565
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: person damaging Amber with words is a much greater fear

566
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: of mine than me just being wrong in any in

567
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: any given situation. And so when we we don't see

568
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: something eye to eye, we talk it out lovingly. And

569
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: that's just how it's been. Some people might think, well,

570
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: how could you have a relationship if you don't have passion.

571
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: I love passionate fighting, because then we make up and

572
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 1: it's amazing, and then we're better than we were before

573
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: because we had we let it all out and we

574
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: had a big, drag out fight, and then we had

575
00:35:53,360 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: this this beautiful makeup with each other and then we're better. Hey, man,

576
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: that's amazing. If that works for you, my hat's off

577
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: to you. And if you're truly getting better each time

578
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: that happens, that's great. But at the same time, I

579
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 1: don't have something lacking in my relationship because we don't

580
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: have passionate fighting. So that's the way it is, and

581
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: to answer your question specifically here do you did you

582
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: ever break up with your wife before you married her?

583
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: So that brings up an interesting point here because you

584
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: could be listening and in a relationship without being married

585
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: and you fight all the time, and to that, I

586
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: would say, maybe you should break up for good. And

587
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: sometimes that's that's a hard reality to think about. But

588
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: that's what I would have done, and that's what I

589
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: would do now before I was married. Now when you're married,

590
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: it's different. You got to work through things. That's your

591
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: obligation is too, for better or for worse. You got

592
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: to you got to find a way, even if it's

593
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: through passionate fighting. You've got to find a way to

594
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: make it work because you have committed yourself to this

595
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: other person in front of your family and before God.

596
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: So marriage is very sacred to me. I believe marriage

597
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 1: is a sacred thing. So you don't have that luxury

598
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: just to back out as you would. But if you're

599
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: dating and you're just fight all the time, and you

600
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: might you might be in love, because I believe you

601
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: can be in love with many people in your life,

602
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: and then sometimes the love is small and then it

603
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: could grow to a massive spousal love, or sometimes it

604
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: could just fizzle away. I think love my belief can

605
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: you could have a strong infatuation that feels like love

606
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: and might even be love that doesn't turn into a

607
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: lifetime of love. It could go away. So if you're

608
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: in a situation where you fight all the time, I

609
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: think you could break up, and you're good unless you're married.

610
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: Don't do that if you're married, But if you're if

611
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: you're just dating, I think you'd be good with that.

612
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: You might be better off. You got to be kind

613
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: of selfish when you're dating. You can't be selfish when

614
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: you're married. It's all about the other person when you're married.

615
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: But when you're dating and you're single, Hey, you could

616
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: be selfish. That's okay, you need it's actually more fair

617
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: to that your partner if you are selfish at the beginning,

618
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: it's only fair to him or her that you're making

619
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: the right decisions for yourself so that you could give

620
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: your full self to them later. Does that make sense?

621
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: This question says, why didn't you build your new house

622
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: on your farm you already had? Just curious and I

623
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: think you're talking about the eee farm where I am

624
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: right now, why didn't I build a house right here

625
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: on the eeee farm, right next Toyeee Apparel and a

626
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: couple answers it's probably a good question. This farm is

627
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: not all mine. I own this with my brothers, So

628
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: it would be a serious decision to make a three

629
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: way decision if I'm just going to build my house

630
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: right out here in the front of the property, because

631
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: I would be carving out a homestead in the middle

632
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: of a commercial property that I don't fully own, and

633
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: what happens if they don't totally agree with that. That

634
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: creates problems big time. So another reason is there's people

635
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: that work here. There's delivery services, there's a you know,

636
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,479
Speaker 1: it's very busy here at the Eee Farm. There's people

637
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: coming in and out all the time. And when I

638
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: go home, I always want a home that is not

639
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: business related all the time. So I wouldn't want to

640
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: live in a spot with my family where it's like, well,

641
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: Granger's not here, but he's home, and it's just a

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Speaker 1: couple hundred yards right that way you can just walk

643
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Speaker 1: down to his house. I would rather keep that separate.

644
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Speaker 1: So although it would make financial sense to build a

645
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Speaker 1: house right here, it doesn't make a total sense for

646
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Speaker 1: me as a human being. Owen Dixon on Instagram says,

647
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: how do you stay motivated? What helps you push through

648
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:36,879
Speaker 1: and do your best? It's a great question, and it's

649
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: a tricky one. How do you stay motivated? What helps

650
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: you push through and do your best? Discipline is the

651
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: first thing that comes to mind. Discipline in my daily habits.

652
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: It's easy to get off the track of motivation if

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00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: you don't have a squared away schedule. When you don't

654
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: have to have a squared away schedule, meaning if you've

655
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: got to be at work at eight o'clock and you

656
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: got and you get off at five whatever, that's your schedule.

657
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: That's what your boss makes for you. But when you

658
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: could choose on a Saturday or Sunday, whatever your schedule

659
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: might be, you have to kind of be careful with

660
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: that because I choose me personally to set my alarm

661
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: the same time every day, and then if something happens,

662
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: like like we work till on a music video till

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00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: two or three o'clock in the morning, I'm gonna look

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Speaker 1: at my alarm and go, uh, probably not gonna get

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00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: up at that time. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to

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Speaker 1: get my seven hours in here. But I like to

667
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,479
Speaker 1: set my schedule and get up at the same time,

668
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: eat the same kind of breakfast, and that keeps me

669
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: motivated to stay on task to eventually do my best.

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Speaker 1: And I want to set instead of setting specific goals,

671
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: I like to set intentions so that I'm gonna wake

672
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: up and my intention is to do this and this

673
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: and this and this ultimately to have the best day

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Speaker 1: that I can, instead of worrying about next week or

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Speaker 1: next month or this entire year. It's hard to have

676
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Speaker 1: a new Year's resolution and say, in twenty twenty one,

677
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this. It's way easier to go day

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Speaker 1: by day. I have three hundred and sixty five days

679
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and each of those days, I'm

680
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 1: gonna set an intention to be my best, to hold

681
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: my tongue when I want to say something sharp to

682
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: someone else, to listen more, to learn more. Maybe that's

683
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: with reading or listening to people that know more about

684
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: life than I do. I'm going to be more involved

685
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: with my family. You could set intentions like that, I'm

686
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: gonna be the best I can for Ye Apparel and

687
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: for my tour and for the new album, and so

688
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: to me, that starts with some kind of regimented schedule.

689
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: It's the first thing I want to do to stay motivated.

690
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: Otherwise I'm gonna go probably just stay in bed for

691
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: a while. Let me parlay that right into the next question.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever struggle with anxiety? And how do you

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00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: overcome it? That question really parlays into what I've said

694
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: a couple times on this podcast already. Anxiety is a

695
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: tough thing, it's a dangerous thing, and it could be

696
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: triggered by many things. The many things includes things that

697
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: you can't control, and you really have to open yourself

698
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: up to life, the struggle of life, and know that

699
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: it's real, know that it exists, and be open to

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00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: accepting that struggle as part of the plan. What do

701
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean by that? I mean today I could come

702
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: in here thinking, Kevin, I got to knock out this podcast.

703
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: I gotta do a bunch of cameos. I gotta do,

704
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: I gotta do a promo for the new album. I

705
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: gotta go in there and I got to do we

706
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: have to do a photo shoot for the new apparel line.

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00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: I have to meet with my brothers and we have

708
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Speaker 1: a conference call with the new product we're gonna put out,

709
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: and on my way to the farm, a terrible storm

710
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: comes in and blows out the road ahead of me

711
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: and my truck gets flooded. Whatever. That is something that

712
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: is inevitable. The struggle, the roadblock is inevitable, and I

713
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 1: can't control it. But what I can control is how

714
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: I react to it. Now, I could I could look

715
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: at that as like my day's ruined, everything's ruined, or

716
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: I could say, well, this sucks, but I expect a

717
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,760
Speaker 1: certain amount of suck with life because I'm a human.

718
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 1: I expect a certain amount of struggle because I'm a human.

719
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: And if you could open yourself up to that, that's amazing. Now,

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00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: at the same time, there are certain anxieties that you

721
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: can control, right, So you've got a bunch of things

722
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: coming in that you can't, and you've got a bunch

723
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: of things coming in that you can. So let's focus

724
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: on the ones that you can. So let's go back

725
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: to what I said about the cell phone. The cell

726
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: phone you can control being addicted to social media and

727
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 1: scrolling and scrolling and scrolling mindlessly, becoming unconscious at times

728
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: that you don't need them morning, night, your lunch break,

729
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: whatever that might be. You can control that. You can

730
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: control when that phone rings and it's that someone that

731
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: you didn't they there's someone in your life that drives

732
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 1: you crazy. Every time they call, they always have a problem,

733
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: they want you to fix it, or they just want

734
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: to complain about something and expect you to soak it

735
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: in and listen. So you can control that too. You

736
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: could either an you don't have to answer that call anymore.

737
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: Be you straight up tell them listen, we'll throw mom

738
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: and their moms are notorious for this from people I

739
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: talk to. Mine is not. I love my mom, But

740
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: you can get a call from your mom and go,

741
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: you know what, Mom, I don't have space right now

742
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: for this problem. I love you, I want to be

743
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: here for you, but I have heard you complain about

744
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 1: this situation, and I don't have space with everything going

745
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: on with me right now to help you walk you

746
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: through this problem. It's only going to make me worse.

747
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: And I need to be my best for you so

748
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: that when you you really need me. I need to

749
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: be recharged and ready for your problem so I can

750
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: handle it. And right now I'm not. I'm dealing with

751
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: some anxiety. I got some stuff going on work, I

752
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 1: got stuff at home, and I can't be my best

753
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: if I absorb your problem. So you gotta with that

754
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: right now. Everyone's got that person in your life. You

755
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: got to deal with that person right now. It could

756
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: be you don't have to text them back right now.

757
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: Right they text you and there's this long text and

758
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: it's this big problem and you're part of it. You

759
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: don't got to reply right now. You could wait till

760
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: tomorrow to reply. You could train them to know that

761
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: you're not going to come at them and help them

762
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: fix their own problem right now, or their perception of

763
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: how they think you messed up and you did them wrong.

764
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 1: You don't have to fix that right now. Right that's

765
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: a big deal. Let's deal with that together. Okay. This

766
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: question says, will there be an actual CD talking about

767
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,959
Speaker 1: the new album or is that too old school these days? Yes,

768
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: there will be an actual CD. So this new album

769
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: is divided up into two volumes, Volume one in volume two.

770
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 1: Volume one is gonna come out September twenty fifth. Volume

771
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: two is gonna come out around Thanksgiving. Now, when volume

772
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: two comes out, all of the songs from volume one

773
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: will join it, and they will combine into one big

774
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: digital piece and one CD and one vinyl, so around

775
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving it'll all suit. It's called Country Things Volume one

776
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: and Country Things Volume two, but by Thanksgiving it'll just

777
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: be Country Things and it'll be all of them together vinyl, CD, digital.

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00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: This question says, will you be releasing new music with

779
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: Earl Diuvilis Junior anytime soon? Yes? Yes, yes, So this

780
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: new Volume one will have a song featuring Earl with

781
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: me singing with Earl, and Volume two will have two

782
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: Earl songs by himself, so yes, I will hang in there.

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00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: We'll be doing music videos with those. Also, here's one

784
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: and it says, what's your greatest advice for someone who

785
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: wants to do country music. It's a hard one to

786
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: even find a place to start with that question, but

787
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: I would I would highly suggest staying in your hometown.

788
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: Staying in your hometown. Don't move to LA or New

789
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: York or Nashville. Stay where you are, build your following

790
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: where you are. I can't I can't stress that enough.

791
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: Build your story. This industry needs a story nowadays. It

792
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: can't just it's not like the old days where you

793
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: move to Nashville, and you you get discovered and then

794
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: you blow up. There's way more to it. You got

795
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: to have a past, you got to have a struggle,

796
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: a story of a way, a path of building a

797
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: following in your hometown. And then what I always like

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00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: to say too, and I answered this same question a

799
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: lot of times, and I'll keep doing it. But learn

800
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,280
Speaker 1: an instrument. If you know an instrument, learn another instrument,

801
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: write songs like create, learn a recording software. I use

802
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: pro Tools. I'm recording pro Tools as we speak for

803
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 1: this podcast. There is not another producer in this room

804
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,439
Speaker 1: right now with this podcast. It's me a camera and

805
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: pro Tools recording audio through this microphone. And I can

806
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: do that because I've spent many, many years recording audio.

807
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: So I think it's important. It's important to learn a

808
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: recording software and then play your songs into the recordings

809
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: and listen to them over and over and over and

810
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 1: critique yourself that way. This question says, do you remember

811
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: your first show and how'd you feel about it? I

812
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: first remember playing Amarillo by Morning at a little camp

813
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: retreat with a bunch of my high school friends junior

814
00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: middle school friends, and getting up there because I played

815
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: the guitar a little bit and sang a little bit,

816
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: but not in front of people besides people in my

817
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: own house. So people were nudging me like, hey, you

818
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: should get up there, you should sing, And I remember

819
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: getting up there and singing, and I sang George Strait

820
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: Emerald by morning, and people started singing it back to

821
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:24,720
Speaker 1: me because it's a very popular song, and that feeling

822
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: was very addicting. It's like, wait a minute, I could

823
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: play these chords and sing and then you guys will

824
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: sing it back to me in a big party atmosphere.

825
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: This is something I like. And I got very addicted

826
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 1: to that, and then it became more and more and

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00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: more the second part of that question, and how do

828
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: you feel about it? It wasn't too long after that

829
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: that I started messing up and having mistakes, bad mistakes,

830
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: or maybe I was more conscious and aware that I

831
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: wasn't good and I was messing up a melody or

832
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: a word or a lyric or forgetting a verse. And

833
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: then it got almost more addicting because I would get

834
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: so mad at myself for messing up that I want

835
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 1: I needed to redeem myself and come back and sing

836
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: another show and try to be better than I was

837
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 1: on this terrible mistake. I remember having a few video

838
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: recordings of those early days and destroying those recordings. I

839
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: wish I had them now, but I remember destroying them

840
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: so that they would be gone forever because I messed up.

841
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: I really wish I could play that for you right now,

842
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,879
Speaker 1: but I don't have them. Here's a question that says,

843
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: what's the hardest thing about being on the road. That's

844
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 1: got to be a being away from family and friends,

845
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 1: being sacrificing that country music dream for being there for

846
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: funerals and weddings. And there was a lot of a

847
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: lot of my buddies from college. There's a lot of

848
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: ways things that I missed of theirs that on some

849
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: levels I regret not being there for those guys. At

850
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: the same time, that was part of the sacrifice to

851
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: build a career, meaning that if I had made a

852
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: decision to be at a one wedding, then why wouldn't

853
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: I make the decision to be at another, or a

854
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: birthday party or a bachelor party? Or where does it end?

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Speaker 1: Before you know it, you've lost the foundation of your

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Speaker 1: commitment to that dream. And unfortunately, the music business and

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Speaker 1: want to tell you guys about Cameo. The best way

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00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: to get a hold of me to find me right

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00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: now without meeting greets. You go to cameo dot com,

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00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: or you could download the app right there on your

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Speaker 1: phone Cameo See am e oh, and you can find me.

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Speaker 1: Type in Granger Smith and you could go on there.

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Speaker 1: You could send me direct messages. I check those personally.

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00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 1: No one else checks them but me. You could direct

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Speaker 1: message me and we could have a conversation that way.

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Speaker 1: You could also consign me to deliver a video for you.

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Speaker 1: So I'll get on my phone and I'll record a

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00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: video message to you or your friends. Congratulations, happy anniversary,

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00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: happy birthday, motivation, answer a question, whatever that might be.

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Speaker 1: I could do that for you at cameo dot com.

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00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: Really exciting times with this new album coming out, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be really excited when I could finally have

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00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: these songs out for you guys to listen to and

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00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: I could ask you what your favorite one. That's one

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00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: of my favorite things is to say, hey, what song

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00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: are you guys digging right now? Hate you like I

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Speaker 1: love you? And country things out there in the world.

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Speaker 1: And I can't wait for the other six to come out,

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Speaker 1: and then for volume two to come out and you

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Speaker 1: get another eight songs, so sixteen songs total. Yege Nation.

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Speaker 1: I'm super excited to finally get those to you. One

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00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: of these questions on the Instagram says, Yegee storefront question mark,

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Speaker 1: And that's tough, especially these days, thinking about all the

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Speaker 1: stores being shut down earlier in twenty twenty and thinking

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00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: about I'm sure glad we didn't have Ayee appearl storefront.

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Speaker 1: But I will say that one of my dreams is

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Speaker 1: to be able to have a ee Seed and Feed

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Speaker 1: like a general store slash feed store slash apparel slash

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00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: good old boys drink coffee and hang out on the

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Speaker 1: front porch and talk about the weather. That's something I

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00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: think would be so cool. Ee Seed and Feed that

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00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,959
Speaker 1: was Tyler's title. I think it has such a good,

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Speaker 1: a nice ring to it, and it might be something

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Speaker 1: we actually start up. So stay tuned for that. It's

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00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: a good question. Will we get to watch your new

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Speaker 1: house being built on the Smiths Yes, you're gonna watch.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a version of it on the smith

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00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: I'm also gonna do a version right here on the

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Speaker 1: Granger Smith YouTube channel. It'll be something like building my

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00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: dream farmhouse, and we'll go in different parts so that

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Speaker 1: I could show the extreme details of the build through

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00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: this channel and then the family aspect of it through

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Speaker 1: the Smiths channel. And you could also be able to

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Speaker 1: so like you know, part It'll say part putting on

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Speaker 1: the roof, whatever you know, and everything we're doing is customs,

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00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: so it should be really fun. But then you can

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Speaker 1: go back and watch part one, part two, part three

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00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: leading up to it, just like we're doing with a

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Speaker 1: truck restore. Here's a question. Can you tell me more

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Speaker 1: about Cameo please? I'd love to keep in contact with you. Yeah. So,

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Speaker 1: like I just mentioned Cameo, you just download the app

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Speaker 1: on your phone or go to on your computer cameo

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Speaker 1: dot com and search Granger. You'll find my profile, click

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Speaker 1: on it and then you could see the options send

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00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: me direct messages or make video request and I'll do

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00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Super easy. Are you currently selling merch

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Speaker 1: at your shows? I'll be in Cincinnati on the second. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're still selling merch. I know it's a crazy time.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a very unknown time, but we are

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Speaker 1: carrying merch and we are selling it. It depends on

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Speaker 1: the venue, on how you line up and social distance

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Speaker 1: or wear your mask or whatever whatever rules of the venue.

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Speaker 1: We follow those. But you could still get ee apparel

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Speaker 1: at all the shows. Just no meet and greets. Yet

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Speaker 1: that sucks. Hate that. Here's a question that Molly Tisdale

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Speaker 1: asked me every single time. Every time I say ask

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Speaker 1: me questions for the podcast, Mallly Tisdale comes on here

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01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: and says this, do you believe you need to be

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Speaker 1: baptized to get into heaven? Molly? It's such a deep

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Speaker 1: question and it would take me an hour to go

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Speaker 1: through everything. And there is a great divide amongst Christians.

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Speaker 1: Some believe you do need to get baptized to get

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Speaker 1: into heaven. Some believe you don't, that it is instead

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Speaker 1: an outward expression of an inward change, which I think

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01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: is such a that's a cool sentence. Let me say

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Speaker 1: it again. Baptism is an outward expression of an inward change.

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Speaker 1: That's what I believe. So my answer, my quick answer

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01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: is do I believe I need to get baptized to

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Speaker 1: get into heaven? My quick answer is no, I do not.

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Speaker 1: I do believe it's important, and I do believe that

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Speaker 1: if you dig enough into the scripture, there is enough

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Speaker 1: evidence for me, not listening to anyone's advice, not listening

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Speaker 1: to preachers, not listening to evangelist, there's enough evidence right

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01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: there in the Word of God, in the scripture, that

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Speaker 1: you do not need to get baptized. There is a

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Speaker 1: there is the reason you're asking. I don't know which

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01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: way you feel, Molly, but there is there is some

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01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: scripture that can seem vague that well maybe maybe that's

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Speaker 1: what Peter was talking about, that you you actually physically

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01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:06,479
Speaker 1: need to get baptized to experience heaven. Well, I want

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01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: to before I get, you know, instead of getting super

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01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: deep into those particular scriptures. I don't have that in

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01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: front of me. I do this podcast completely off the cuff.

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01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 1: I don't have notes in front of me. I'm not

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Speaker 1: prepared to give you those specific things I'm talking about,

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01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: but I will refer you to a really good podcast

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01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:30,479
Speaker 1: called Desiring God. It's led by an amazing preacher named

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Speaker 1: John Piper. J O H N p I p E R.

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01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 1: John Piper is fantastic human being, older gentleman, very knowledgeable.

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01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 1: He could you could type in how about this? You

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01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 1: could type in and on YouTube John Piper baptism and

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01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: he will lead you on a really good path that

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Speaker 1: I fully endorse. The short answer just from the just

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01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: from surface level, I can answer that without scripture, just

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01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: surface level. And why I disagree with thinking that you

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01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: have to physically get baptized is because look at are

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01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: you telling me that what if you're in prison? What

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01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: if you're in prison and you you become a Christian,

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01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: meaning you accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior,

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01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: except the fact that he came and and died on

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01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: the cross as a as a forgiveness of the sins

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01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 1: of humanity, and that by believing in him is the way,

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01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: the truth, and the light that that you will be

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01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: a follower and have eternal life in heaven with him.

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01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: What if you do that in prison and then you

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01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: die and you were never baptized, are you saying that

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01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: you are damned eternally? What if how about this, Molly,

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01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 1: what if you're in your car, or you're at home

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01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: and you become a Christian, fully, wholeheartedly become a Christian.

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01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: And you get in your car and you say, that's it.

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01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: I'm reborn, I'm a Christian. I am now a follower

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Speaker 1: of Christ. And you get in your car to head

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01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: to church to get baptized. You get in a car

1029
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 1: accident and die. You think God's going to go ooh, technicality, gotcha.

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01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: If you had just not gone through that intersection, you

1031
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 1: could have gotten eternal life. Sorry, I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: the case. I believe wholeheartedly that's not the case. And

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Speaker 1: there is one very distinct time in the Bible when

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Speaker 1: Jesus is on the cross and the thief next to him,

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01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: which we are led to believe lived a life without Christ,

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01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: and the thief looks at Jesus and says, well, you

1037
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: remember me when you go into your kingdom, and Jesus

1038
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: looks back at him without hesitation and says, yes, today,

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01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: you will be with me in heaven. Well, Jesus didn't say,

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01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: I think you need to step off the cross real quick,

1041
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: get baptized to come back to me and then we'll talk.

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01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to make a joke out of it.

1043
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: But that's just the way I feel, and I would

1044
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 1: encourage you guys not to take my word for it,

1045
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:38,920
Speaker 1: but go to scripture yourself, and then even further, maybe

1046
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: if you can't interpret it as well, go to John Piper.

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Speaker 1: Type in John Piper Baptism and I think you'll get

1048
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: You'll get the answer that I believe in. I'll say

1049
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: that you'll get my full endorsement behind John Piper. He's

1050
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 1: a magnificent human being. And it's probably my favorite podcast

1051
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 1: other than this one. Thank you guys for listening. Love

1052
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:06,400
Speaker 1: y'all so much, and I seriously appreciate the fact that

1053
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: you guys could come in here and listen to this podcast,

1054
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:10,280
Speaker 1: and especially the ones that can make it to the end.

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01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: That's like a new You guys are a new level

1056
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: for me. We have been sitting here at the EU

1057
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: Farm together having a conversation. If you're on a road trip,

1058
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: if you're driving your truck right now, if you're on

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01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:24,640
Speaker 1: a big rig, love you guys, man y'all, stay safe,

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Speaker 1: ye ye will see you soon.