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Speaker 1: want to tell you about the worst day I've ever
Speaker 1: had on tour, and that story. That claim is very
Speaker 1: debatable because I've had some I've had some crazy times.
Speaker 1: I've fallen off the stage, broken ribs, punctured lungs, dislocated shoulders.
Speaker 1: I've got eight stitches in the front of my forehead
Speaker 1: from running into a speaker one night. If you tour
Speaker 1: as long as we have, you're bound to have crazy stories.
Speaker 1: This one is none of those that I mentioned. This
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Speaker 1: uspan down going back, it's range cogation. So the worst
Speaker 1: night in my career, the worst night on tour. I
Speaker 1: had forgotten about this, and I guess it's hard to forget,
Speaker 1: but maybe I wanted to forget about it. But this
Speaker 1: was Oklahoma City. I don't I don't remember exactly the year.
Speaker 1: I think it was around two thousand and nine, twenty ten,
Speaker 1: somewhere in that that era of me tour, and we
Speaker 1: were in a van in trailer and we were playing
Speaker 1: the Wormy Dog Saloon in Bricktown, Oklahoma City. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if Warming Dog is still around, So you
Speaker 1: guys comment below if you're if you know, if you're
Speaker 1: from there, and you know if Worming Dog is still around.
Speaker 1: But man, what a place that was Warme Dog Saloon.
Speaker 1: You can imagine by that title what kind of place
Speaker 1: this was. We were not very popular. We would usually
Speaker 1: draw if we played Oklahoma City, we would draw one
Speaker 1: hundred people. I'd say it probably held about eight hundred
Speaker 1: and we were good for drawing a hundred. So then
Speaker 1: you add in the people that would have been there
Speaker 1: on a normal night anyway, on a Friday or Saturday,
Speaker 1: maybe that's fifty. So we would end up like one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty people. That's to put in perspective what
Speaker 1: kind of band we were at the time. We did
Speaker 1: have an opening act. I remember it was Kyle Park
Speaker 1: and Kyle was opening for us, and I'll never forget
Speaker 1: his face when he witnessed what happened. It all started
Speaker 1: when we went to eat dinner before the show. We
Speaker 1: went to a Mexican restaurant in Oklahoma City and I
Speaker 1: got shrimp enchiladas. A lot of you might know where
Speaker 1: this is going already, but shrimp inchiladas. And as soon
Speaker 1: as I got back to the hotel. This is like
Speaker 1: before we were on a tour bus. This is when
Speaker 1: this is what our routine would be. We'd go in,
Speaker 1: we'd load in soundcheck, go eat some dinner, go back
Speaker 1: to the hotel and rest for a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then get up there about an hour before showtime. So
Speaker 1: we go back to the hotel and my stomach just
Speaker 1: started feeling it started feeling not right. You know that
Speaker 1: feeling when you eat something bad, and it's different. It's
Speaker 1: a different kind of something wrong with my stomach feeling
Speaker 1: than any other normal time, and it comes on quick.
Speaker 1: So it's not like the flu or it's food poisoning,
Speaker 1: as you all know what that feelings. It's like, it's
Speaker 1: very different. So I'm thinking I'm in denial. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: oh no, not tonight, not now, which is a funny
Speaker 1: way to think, because we tour all the time. Besides
Speaker 1: the shutdown we've had in twenty twenty, touring happens all
Speaker 1: the time. So you just have to be good, you know,
Speaker 1: if you have if you have the flu or some
Speaker 1: kind of sickness, you either have to play through it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, this is before pandemic days, but you
Speaker 1: either have to play through it or god forbid, you
Speaker 1: have to cancel for something like that, which I never have.
Speaker 1: I've never canceled, ever canceled a show because of a sickness.
Speaker 1: I've always played through it, and I've had I've had
Speaker 1: some nightmare ish shows playing through a sickness. And the
Speaker 1: worst of that is when you have some kind of
Speaker 1: sinus infection or some kind of lung problem that really
Speaker 1: bad out allergies where you actually can't sing. And so
Speaker 1: I've been through shows where I have to sing everything.
Speaker 1: I have to sing a different melody to these songs,
Speaker 1: usually laying off the high parts of the show. So
Speaker 1: if I have to sing high melodies, I would sing
Speaker 1: the lower harmony of that particular chorus, and that sucks.
Speaker 1: And usually, luckily, people don't really know I'm doing that
Speaker 1: on purpose. They just think maybe I'm kind of loose
Speaker 1: with my melodies that day, or maybe they don't even
Speaker 1: notice at all. Maybe they're just happy to be there,
Speaker 1: partying in a concert environment. And that hasn't happened very often.
Speaker 1: It's only happened a couple times. I can remember this night.
Speaker 1: This wasn't allergies, This wasn't I couldn't control my voice,
Speaker 1: I couldn't sing high notes. This wasn't any of that.
Speaker 1: This was a stomach bug. This was food poisoning. This
Speaker 1: was bad shrimp enchiladas. And I felt that, and I
Speaker 1: was in denial. I was just thinking, no, please, not that,
Speaker 1: not that something else, indigestion. We'll blame it on that something.
Speaker 1: Maybe I've got a cold coming on and tomorrow i'll
Speaker 1: be I won't be that good, but I can get
Speaker 1: through tonight. No, it just kept getting worse and worse.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't really telling the band about it because
Speaker 1: I just I didn't want them to be thinking about
Speaker 1: something that was going to be my problem, not theirs.
Speaker 1: So we get to the show, I'm just all kind
Speaker 1: of grumbly, you know, my stomach's just kind of gurgling.
Speaker 1: You know that feeling I go on. What I remember
Speaker 1: is the first song going out there, and the lights
Speaker 1: from the stage were on me, and those lights felt
Speaker 1: like they were a thousand degrees. It felt like I
Speaker 1: was out in the hot sun. And so I started
Speaker 1: sweating just from the slight temperature change of being in
Speaker 1: the lights. I started sweating. My forehead has just started dripping.
Speaker 1: And I made it through probably about three songs, heating
Speaker 1: up like that and starting to sweat. And then I
Speaker 1: felt my stomach and I felt that feeling when there's
Speaker 1: no turning back, you know what I mean? You know
Speaker 1: that feeling when you think, am I going to throw up?
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of am I am I, am I?
Speaker 1: And then there's this there's this point of no return
Speaker 1: when you think, okay, I am I'm definitely going to
Speaker 1: throw up, and I need a place. It's like that,
Speaker 1: you know when a dog goes off to die, they
Speaker 1: need to go find a place to die. That's kind
Speaker 1: of where I was. Where am I going to throw up?
Speaker 1: I have a ninety minute show ahead of me, and
Speaker 1: I'm three songs in, I'm gonna throw up. Well, once
Speaker 1: that thought, I don't know about you, but once that
Speaker 1: thought gets in my head, I'm going to It doesn't
Speaker 1: take long after that. So I remember being play in
Speaker 1: this song, and we have these microphones on the stage.
Speaker 1: We call them talkback mics, and these we wear an
Speaker 1: ear monitors, so it's in our their earbuds, inside our ears.
Speaker 1: So I go to the talkback mic, which only talks
Speaker 1: to the band, not the crowd, and I say, I say,
Speaker 1: just vamp. Vamp means just play, just keep playing, just
Speaker 1: keep making up stuff as you go, no singing, just instrumentation,
Speaker 1: just play just vamp. And I leave the stage and
Speaker 1: I go out back, and luckily, hindsight, this was a
Speaker 1: little bit a little bit of a blessing. Luckily, there's
Speaker 1: a back door to the stage with steps that go
Speaker 1: down to the alley, and there's dumpsters out there, so
Speaker 1: hopefully you guys are listening on Monday morning and not
Speaker 1: eating right now. I don't want to gross anybody out,
Speaker 1: but I go back to the dumpster and I throw up,
Speaker 1: and it's, you know, like in my ears. I hear
Speaker 1: the band. They're just playing and it seems like they're
Speaker 1: playing for an hour. It was probably like an extra
Speaker 1: thirty or forty five seconds. And I come back on
Speaker 1: and you know that feeling right, like right when you
Speaker 1: relieve yourself, you feel good. You're like, okay, whoa man,
Speaker 1: that was good. I feel better. I feel better. So
Speaker 1: I got it back up and I finished that song,
Speaker 1: started another song, started another song, and by by about
Speaker 1: two and a half songs later, I felt it again,
Speaker 1: and then it started. The whole process starts over mentally,
Speaker 1: it's like I think I'm gonna go again. No I am,
Speaker 1: I am gonna go again. So we get to the
Speaker 1: guitar solo, go back to talk back, Hey guys, vamp.
Speaker 1: By the way, nobody knows what's happening, not the crowd
Speaker 1: and not my band. No one knows that I'm going out.
Speaker 1: And so then after that one, it was just dry heaves,
Speaker 1: go out to the dumpster, just dry heave. They're they're
Speaker 1: in there playing in my ears. I go back, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: I think I feel good. I feel good, go back in,
Speaker 1: start over. Two songs later, I go back. Guys, we
Speaker 1: played twenty songs that night. That's about an average amount
Speaker 1: of songs we play in ninety minutes, about twenty songs
Speaker 1: every two songs. I was going out to the dumpster
Speaker 1: and just dry heaving my brains out, just like so dried,
Speaker 1: nothing's coming out, you know, just oh, terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 1: And I was going back in and it probably every
Speaker 1: time I came in. My face is more pale, I'm weaker,
Speaker 1: I'm sweating profusely, and I think, you know, the crowd
Speaker 1: started to know something's wrong with this guy. The band
Speaker 1: definitely knew by then by the time I left the
Speaker 1: second time, Like maybe the first time they thought I
Speaker 1: just had to pee really really bad and misjudge my
Speaker 1: time my bladder. But by the second time they knew
Speaker 1: that's not in my personality. This is not something I
Speaker 1: normally do. I look over and I see Kyle Park
Speaker 1: the opening act, staring at me, just wide eyed, like
Speaker 1: what is going on? Maybe people thought I was a
Speaker 1: methoad like, I just really had to get my fixed.
Speaker 1: I was shooting up Heroin. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they thought. I didn't. I didn't talk to
Speaker 1: many people that night, but every two songs I would
Speaker 1: go and dry heave, So like ten times out of
Speaker 1: twenty songs, I went out there and humiliated, embarrassed, and
Speaker 1: the emotion that trump's all those is just sick. I
Speaker 1: was just sick, and that is an emotion at some level.
Speaker 1: I was so sick, and we finished the shot. Never
Speaker 1: been happier to finish the show, but we went all
Speaker 1: the way through. We played all the way to the end,
Speaker 1: and by then the band knew, like, man, he's getting
Speaker 1: this guy's he's sick. He must have got food poisoning.
Speaker 1: So we were in the van, and in the back
Speaker 1: of our van we had the two bench seats. It's
Speaker 1: a it was a Chevy thirty five hundred Express van,
Speaker 1: so it has four bench seats and we still have
Speaker 1: that van away. I took the two bench seats out
Speaker 1: in the back and made bunks, so we had four
Speaker 1: bunks in the back. So I was laying back there
Speaker 1: in a bunk and my head was in the back
Speaker 1: of the bunk right where the van door's open, and
Speaker 1: so I had to right off the show. I went
Speaker 1: straight there, you know, boots on, everything on, all my
Speaker 1: clothes on. I'd go get in the bunk and I
Speaker 1: leave that back van door cracked and I would just
Speaker 1: open it up, dry heave, close it, open it up,
Speaker 1: dry heave, close it. And the bands loading the trailer,
Speaker 1: and which is also another thing for me, I always
Speaker 1: helped them load the trailer, so losing two more hands
Speaker 1: from me was made the loading take even longer. And
Speaker 1: by this time, a couple of hours have gone by
Speaker 1: since I've been on stage, and I was just exhausted,
Speaker 1: so tired, completely dehydrated. But every time someone would bring
Speaker 1: me like a little sipagatorad, I would throw it up
Speaker 1: dry heave or it would just come you know, the
Speaker 1: gatorway would come right back. And then we drove home
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma City to Central Texas Is. I believe we
Speaker 1: were living in College Station. That's about six hours six
Speaker 1: hour drive. So for six hours I had a little
Speaker 1: bucket back there and nothing was coming out but air,
Speaker 1: but I was dry heaving the whole way home. Finally
Speaker 1: caught a little bit of sleep, made it home to
Speaker 1: College Station, Texas, crawled out of the van. God blessed
Speaker 1: the band for picking up where I left off and
Speaker 1: picking up the slack and taking turns driving. I was
Speaker 1: always a big part of taking turns driving and helping
Speaker 1: load up and navigating home. And I wasn't a part
Speaker 1: of anything. And when I went to bed that night,
Speaker 1: I slept like a baby and woke up the next
Speaker 1: day and it was fine and lived through the worst
Speaker 1: day on tour, and I pray to God. Like I
Speaker 1: said in the intro, I have broken ribs, punctured lungs,
Speaker 1: dislocated shoulders, got stitches, numerous other injuries, and I would
Speaker 1: take any of those over I've lost my voice. I
Speaker 1: would take any of those over having the stomach bug,
Speaker 1: food poisoning and trying to play a ninety minute show
Speaker 1: was absolutely terrifying. And I hope I didn't gross you
Speaker 1: guys out. It's good to tell the story. I'm going
Speaker 1: to answer some questions that you guys sent in and
Speaker 1: I harvested these questions from Instagram, and I set something
Speaker 1: up this is new for this podcast. Today. I set
Speaker 1: up an email address and this is Granger Smith Podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com, Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: So if you have a question, email that and put
Speaker 1: question in the subject line and ask your question. And
Speaker 1: so then I could start going through Allstar instead of
Speaker 1: going to Instagram all the time. I'll grab questions from
Speaker 1: your email, and I think that'll be a better way
Speaker 1: for me to And you could also write more because
Speaker 1: I've noticed that people when they go on Instagram they
Speaker 1: can't there's only a certain amount of characters. They can't
Speaker 1: say their full questions sometimes, So you can write a
Speaker 1: whole paragraph if you want, and I will read these personally.
Speaker 1: This is not going to be fielded by a producer
Speaker 1: of any kind. I'll go on and check this email
Speaker 1: personally and go through these questions and then I'll use
Speaker 1: these for future podcast. This first question comes from Brandon
Speaker 1: on Instagram. He says, what are your plans for the
Speaker 1: truck after it's restored? And he's talking about our series
Speaker 1: on this channel on YouTube called Restoring Earl Dibble's Old Truck,
Speaker 1: and we are we see the finish line, we see
Speaker 1: the light at the end of the tunnel. This is
Speaker 1: Restoring Earl's Truck and after it's finished. First of all,
Speaker 1: I'll answer that two ways. Brain. And first of all,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drive this truck. I'm gonna drive this truck
Speaker 1: a lot. It's probably going to become my main vehicle.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have air conditioning, so I'll probably use it as
Speaker 1: my main vehicle in the fall and winter, and when
Speaker 1: it heats up again in twenty twenty one in the
Speaker 1: early summer, I might go back to an air conditioning truck.
Speaker 1: But man, I'm gonna drive the heck of it. But
Speaker 1: another way I'll answer this is what are we gonna
Speaker 1: do with the channel after we finish with Butch and
Speaker 1: Bull my two bus drivers. What are we going to
Speaker 1: do when we finish the truck and we're gonna start
Speaker 1: something else, We're gonna start restoring something else. So comment below,
Speaker 1: shoot me an email Crangersmith Podcast at gmail, and let
Speaker 1: me know what you'd like to see us restore. My
Speaker 1: thought is that we moved to sticking with the theme
Speaker 1: of mom and Dad's ranch where I got the old
Speaker 1: truck from out of the barn. I'm thinking about bringing
Speaker 1: that old Massy Ferguson. It's we have an old Massy
Speaker 1: two four oh and it's a song that I it's
Speaker 1: a tractor. I've used a lot in my life. It
Speaker 1: was dad's and I've used it in a bunch of songs.
Speaker 1: There's a song I have called Tractor that talks about
Speaker 1: this particular Massy two four oh. It's in several music
Speaker 1: videos of mine, most known for the music video Tractor,
Speaker 1: and it's also driven by Earl Dibbles a bunch and
Speaker 1: this is just an old tractor that's kind of falling apart.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about getting Butch and Bull and bringing
Speaker 1: that me old Massy into the shop here at EEEE
Speaker 1: Apparel and starting that. So let me know if that's
Speaker 1: something you'd like to see or maybe we should do
Speaker 1: something else. Here's a question that says, what's the story
Speaker 1: with your food poisoning? Amber mentioned it on The Smiths.
Speaker 1: There you go. Woul answers that one for you. Tori.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're if you're listening to this
Speaker 1: podcast and you haven't seen The Smiths, that's our family
Speaker 1: vog channel and it has a separate YouTube channel called
Speaker 1: The Smiths and love that channel. Very passionate about it.
Speaker 1: It's much more it's much more personal usually uh, and
Speaker 1: it involves my family and it's a very personal vlog style.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start building a farmhouse and restore and building
Speaker 1: that farmhouse. I'll do a series on this channel and
Speaker 1: on the Smiths as well. Here's a question that's ironic
Speaker 1: that I kind of answered earlier too, is what do
Speaker 1: you do if you get a bad sore throat and
Speaker 1: you're on tour? That is, uh, something I got to
Speaker 1: work through. I gotta play. I don't cancel shows because
Speaker 1: of sore throats, so we keep on playing. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: have to change the melodies, but it sucks. I could
Speaker 1: use different different things to spray in my throat. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you could spray vodka, yeah, literally on the back of
Speaker 1: your throat, and it gives it just a little bit
Speaker 1: of energy to get you through several songs. How do
Speaker 1: you feel when you see EEE stickers on cars when driving?
Speaker 1: I feel great. I love seeing EEE stickers on cars.
Speaker 1: And I screenshot of this to remind myself that one
Speaker 1: of these days we've wanted to see one at the
Speaker 1: right time, the right place where maybe we're in the
Speaker 1: bus and we could actually stop the bus and it
Speaker 1: would be amazing if we saw a EE truck, a
Speaker 1: truck with the EE sticker parked at a house in
Speaker 1: a driveway, and we could literally stop the bus and
Speaker 1: all get out and go knock on the door of
Speaker 1: that house and see who drives that truck. I think
Speaker 1: that would be the coolest thing ever, and it would
Speaker 1: have to be the right place, right time. But if
Speaker 1: you have if you have a sticker on your truck
Speaker 1: or on your car, park it in your driveway and
Speaker 1: one of these days we'll the bus in and come
Speaker 1: say hot to you. It's a good question from Bailey
Speaker 1: on Instagram. It says, what can I do to teach
Speaker 1: myself to think in the present and not overthink the future.
Speaker 1: It's a great question, and it's a great it's a
Speaker 1: great strategy. And living in the present is such a
Speaker 1: such an important aspect to sanity, and it's it's important
Speaker 1: when I mention the concept of living in the present,
Speaker 1: because there's a difference between frivolous expedient living, like don't
Speaker 1: worry about anything, just live in the present, do it,
Speaker 1: do whatever comes to your mind. There's a there's carelessness
Speaker 1: to that thought. And so I'm pretty sure what Bailey
Speaker 1: means is the more conscious present living, where you plan
Speaker 1: for the few, but you are aware that it can change,
Speaker 1: and you're not devastated if it does. You're not completely
Speaker 1: thrown off the rails if the future you plan for
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, because the fact is it might not. It's
Speaker 1: not guaranteed. You can't change the past, you can't guarantee
Speaker 1: the future. So the only thing you can control is
Speaker 1: right now, in the present. So how do you teach yourself?
Speaker 1: The question is what can I do to teach myself
Speaker 1: to think in the present and not overthink the future.
Speaker 1: The first thing that comes to my mind is devices phones,
Speaker 1: and you have to limit your phone time because it
Speaker 1: creates an unconsciousness in the present for your brain. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of things in life that become such a
Speaker 1: distraction that it creates a literal unconsciousness of where you
Speaker 1: are and what you're doing. It creates an unintentional daydream
Speaker 1: where you are transported from the present moment to whatever
Speaker 1: you're focusing on, your scrolling or on your mindless tiktoking,
Speaker 1: whatever your vice is. So limit your time on there
Speaker 1: and start with the mornings. In the evenings, those are
Speaker 1: precious times. You can't spend your first waking hours scrolling
Speaker 1: social media because it's going to take you way off
Speaker 1: your path. And then the same thing, you can't do
Speaker 1: it at night right before you go to bed. You
Speaker 1: need to give yourself about an hour, so for me,
Speaker 1: an hour before you go to sleep. So for me,
Speaker 1: I don't sleep with my phone in the same room.
Speaker 1: I have a charger plugged into the wall outside of
Speaker 1: my bedroom that forces me to leave the phone side
Speaker 1: at night and in the morning, so when I wake up,
Speaker 1: I can't just reach forard on my bedside and start scrolling.
Speaker 1: There is an addiction to that. I feel it. Everyone
Speaker 1: feels it. And then at night you don't have a
Speaker 1: tendency to sit there and stare at that screen right
Speaker 1: before you're so tired. You got to close your eyes
Speaker 1: and then you put it on your nightstand. So I
Speaker 1: get it out of my room. I get it completely
Speaker 1: away from me, to get away from that kind of temptation.
Speaker 1: Part of that problem is just that blue light. Looking
Speaker 1: at that light. And we've all heard about this blue
Speaker 1: light problem of staring at screens and what that does
Speaker 1: to your brain as far as keeping you awake. But
Speaker 1: it's such a huge problem in distracting you from being
Speaker 1: having a conscious living. Another thing you could do is
Speaker 1: whenever you lay your head down on the pillow, which
Speaker 1: is such a huge tendency at that time to start
Speaker 1: worrying or planning for tomorrow. Like you hit your head
Speaker 1: on the pillow and the lights are out and you
Speaker 1: close your eyes and you think, Okay, what do I
Speaker 1: need to do in the morning again? I need to Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to make that I need to return this
Speaker 1: phone call, I need to pay this bill. Oh and
Speaker 1: on my way to work, I've got to remember to
Speaker 1: put air in my right front tire that's low. And
Speaker 1: then oh and I forgot I'm gonna have a I
Speaker 1: need to go to the dentist at three o'clock, so
Speaker 1: that means I need to take a short lunch break.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, these are things that are not necessary
Speaker 1: when you get in bed, when you close your eyes.
Speaker 1: So I have a strict rule in my brain, like
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about tomorrow once I lay my head down.
Speaker 1: So how do you get away from that? Sometimes it
Speaker 1: comes all the way down to focusing on your breathing,
Speaker 1: focusing on instead of thinking about tomorrow, thinking about the
Speaker 1: breaths coming in, the breath's going out, the chest rises,
Speaker 1: the chest falls, the belly rises, the belly falls, the
Speaker 1: air conditioner whirling out of event. You think about things
Speaker 1: that are present for you right now. It's also a
Speaker 1: really good way to fall asleep, and then during the
Speaker 1: day you could do the same thing during the day.
Speaker 1: Driving is a good example. So many times when we're driving,
Speaker 1: were so distracted by daydreaming about the future or reminiscing
Speaker 1: about the past. It's easy to let miles go by
Speaker 1: in the car and you go, man, I forgot where
Speaker 1: I was the last five minutes. I've been unconscious. And
Speaker 1: I've heard people say to grab that present moment back
Speaker 1: when you're driving. Sometimes you got to put both hands
Speaker 1: on the steering wheel and grip that steering wheel and
Speaker 1: feel your hands and feel that vibration of the seat
Speaker 1: you're sitting in, feel the moment you're in, and feel
Speaker 1: your hands on that steerwell, feel what that vinyl feels
Speaker 1: like in your grip, and that present thought of being
Speaker 1: right here, right now. Not where I'm going, not that
Speaker 1: I'm running late, not that I'm in traffic. This ruins
Speaker 1: my day, but I'm right here. I'm right here in
Speaker 1: the seat driving my car. Those are ways to hack
Speaker 1: your brain into not overthinking the future. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick break. This is an interesting question that says,
Speaker 1: did you ever break up with your wife before you
Speaker 1: married her? Amber and I have an interesting story, and
Speaker 1: I guess we have an interesting relationship. But I met
Speaker 1: Amber on the music video shoot, my very first music
Speaker 1: video shoot. She was the love interest in that music
Speaker 1: video called Don't Listen to the Radio. So you can
Speaker 1: you can go back and look at the two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine music video of mine and see us on
Speaker 1: our first day, the first day we met, the first
Speaker 1: day we knew each other, and we fell in love.
Speaker 1: I fell in love with that girl. And we thought
Speaker 1: that maybe, or at least we worried that that love
Speaker 1: or that infatuation we felt for each other was because
Speaker 1: of the environment we were in and because the fairy
Speaker 1: tale set up that we were living in for that
Speaker 1: music video, and so we wanted to at least I
Speaker 1: wanted to be cautious moving forward into a real relationship.
Speaker 1: And she had a boyfriend at the time, So the
Speaker 1: first thing that needed to happen was she needed to
Speaker 1: break up with it with her boyfriend, because regardless of
Speaker 1: me or how she felt for me, she had a
Speaker 1: wondering eye, meaning she wasn't totally satisfied or happy, I
Speaker 1: should say, with the guy she was with. So she
Speaker 1: did she broke up with that guy, and or three
Speaker 1: weeks later or so, we met up for coffee at
Speaker 1: Starbucks after a show of mine, and we shut that
Speaker 1: place down. They closed down and put put chairs on
Speaker 1: top of the tables while we were still there with
Speaker 1: they kicked us out, and we had a really good connection.
Speaker 1: And it was just a few months later after that
Speaker 1: I bought her a ring for her, a wedding ring,
Speaker 1: and then a few months later after that I proposed,
Speaker 1: and then a few months later after that we got married.
Speaker 1: So all within a year of meeting, we were already married.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is in that video don't listen to
Speaker 1: the radio. The song is about trying to forget a girl.
Speaker 1: So I'm remembering in the video scenes of us in
Speaker 1: our good times and scenes of us in our bad
Speaker 1: times in a fictitious relationship. And we had a fake
Speaker 1: fight on set on in the video, So if you
Speaker 1: watch the video, you'll see like a fake fight where
Speaker 1: she's mad and she's thrown clothes into a suitcase and
Speaker 1: she leaves in a hurry and flies off in her car,
Speaker 1: and that is the only time that that's ever really
Speaker 1: happened to us. We've never gotten into a big, drag
Speaker 1: out fight. We've never had a big heated argument, and
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why. I know
Speaker 1: why from my perspective, because she's an amazing girl that
Speaker 1: is very patient with me and takes my side a
Speaker 1: lot when maybe she shouldn't take my side, but I
Speaker 1: do that in return to her. So what comes first
Speaker 1: her her being so patient with me and me repaying
Speaker 1: that back to her or vice versa. I don't know,
Speaker 1: and it's irrelevant. The fact is we just have a
Speaker 1: really good relationship and we have for ten years now,
Speaker 1: eleven years now, ten years married, and I'm very grateful
Speaker 1: for that. I feel like she's the biggest blessing of
Speaker 1: my life because relationships I had before her weren't like it.
Speaker 1: We fought all the time, and she talks about her
Speaker 1: past relationships they fought all the time. So it's not
Speaker 1: something in my personality that is just non confrontational to
Speaker 1: a girl, and same with her. It's just something that
Speaker 1: when we come together, our personalities work. It's a match
Speaker 1: that's not to say that we don't disagree, but we
Speaker 1: never let an argument because we want to be right
Speaker 1: get in the way of our affection for each other
Speaker 1: and our passion for keeping each other happy and content,
Speaker 1: and our fear of ever damaging with words the other
Speaker 1: person damaging Amber with words is a much greater fear
Speaker 1: of mine than me just being wrong in any in
Speaker 1: any given situation. And so when we we don't see
Speaker 1: something eye to eye, we talk it out lovingly. And
Speaker 1: that's just how it's been. Some people might think, well,
Speaker 1: how could you have a relationship if you don't have passion.
Speaker 1: I love passionate fighting, because then we make up and
Speaker 1: it's amazing, and then we're better than we were before
Speaker 1: because we had we let it all out and we
Speaker 1: had a big, drag out fight, and then we had
Speaker 1: this this beautiful makeup with each other and then we're better. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. If that works for you, my hat's off
Speaker 1: to you. And if you're truly getting better each time
Speaker 1: that happens, that's great. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: don't have something lacking in my relationship because we don't
Speaker 1: have passionate fighting. So that's the way it is, and
Speaker 1: to answer your question specifically here do you did you
Speaker 1: ever break up with your wife before you married her?
Speaker 1: So that brings up an interesting point here because you
Speaker 1: could be listening and in a relationship without being married
Speaker 1: and you fight all the time, and to that, I
Speaker 1: would say, maybe you should break up for good. And
Speaker 1: sometimes that's that's a hard reality to think about. But
Speaker 1: that's what I would have done, and that's what I
Speaker 1: would do now before I was married. Now when you're married,
Speaker 1: it's different. You got to work through things. That's your
Speaker 1: obligation is too, for better or for worse. You got
Speaker 1: to you got to find a way, even if it's
Speaker 1: through passionate fighting. You've got to find a way to
Speaker 1: make it work because you have committed yourself to this
Speaker 1: other person in front of your family and before God.
Speaker 1: So marriage is very sacred to me. I believe marriage
Speaker 1: is a sacred thing. So you don't have that luxury
Speaker 1: just to back out as you would. But if you're
Speaker 1: dating and you're just fight all the time, and you
Speaker 1: might you might be in love, because I believe you
Speaker 1: can be in love with many people in your life,
Speaker 1: and then sometimes the love is small and then it
Speaker 1: could grow to a massive spousal love, or sometimes it
Speaker 1: could just fizzle away. I think love my belief can
Speaker 1: you could have a strong infatuation that feels like love
Speaker 1: and might even be love that doesn't turn into a
Speaker 1: lifetime of love. It could go away. So if you're
Speaker 1: in a situation where you fight all the time, I
Speaker 1: think you could break up, and you're good unless you're married.
Speaker 1: Don't do that if you're married, But if you're if
Speaker 1: you're just dating, I think you'd be good with that.
Speaker 1: You might be better off. You got to be kind
Speaker 1: of selfish when you're dating. You can't be selfish when
Speaker 1: you're married. It's all about the other person when you're married.
Speaker 1: But when you're dating and you're single, Hey, you could
Speaker 1: be selfish. That's okay, you need it's actually more fair
Speaker 1: to that your partner if you are selfish at the beginning,
Speaker 1: it's only fair to him or her that you're making
Speaker 1: the right decisions for yourself so that you could give
Speaker 1: your full self to them later. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: This question says, why didn't you build your new house
Speaker 1: on your farm you already had? Just curious and I
Speaker 1: think you're talking about the eee farm where I am
Speaker 1: right now, why didn't I build a house right here
Speaker 1: on the eeee farm, right next Toyeee Apparel and a
Speaker 1: couple answers it's probably a good question. This farm is
Speaker 1: not all mine. I own this with my brothers, So
Speaker 1: it would be a serious decision to make a three
Speaker 1: way decision if I'm just going to build my house
Speaker 1: right out here in the front of the property, because
Speaker 1: I would be carving out a homestead in the middle
Speaker 1: of a commercial property that I don't fully own, and
Speaker 1: what happens if they don't totally agree with that. That
Speaker 1: creates problems big time. So another reason is there's people
Speaker 1: that work here. There's delivery services, there's a you know,
Speaker 1: it's very busy here at the Eee Farm. There's people
Speaker 1: coming in and out all the time. And when I
Speaker 1: go home, I always want a home that is not
Speaker 1: business related all the time. So I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: live in a spot with my family where it's like, well,
Speaker 1: Granger's not here, but he's home, and it's just a
Speaker 1: couple hundred yards right that way you can just walk
Speaker 1: down to his house. I would rather keep that separate.
Speaker 1: So although it would make financial sense to build a
Speaker 1: house right here, it doesn't make a total sense for
Speaker 1: me as a human being. Owen Dixon on Instagram says,
Speaker 1: how do you stay motivated? What helps you push through
Speaker 1: and do your best? It's a great question, and it's
Speaker 1: a tricky one. How do you stay motivated? What helps
Speaker 1: you push through and do your best? Discipline is the
Speaker 1: first thing that comes to mind. Discipline in my daily habits.
Speaker 1: It's easy to get off the track of motivation if
Speaker 1: you don't have a squared away schedule. When you don't
Speaker 1: have to have a squared away schedule, meaning if you've
Speaker 1: got to be at work at eight o'clock and you
Speaker 1: got and you get off at five whatever, that's your schedule.
Speaker 1: That's what your boss makes for you. But when you
Speaker 1: could choose on a Saturday or Sunday, whatever your schedule
Speaker 1: might be, you have to kind of be careful with
Speaker 1: that because I choose me personally to set my alarm
Speaker 1: the same time every day, and then if something happens,
Speaker 1: like like we work till on a music video till
Speaker 1: two or three o'clock in the morning, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: at my alarm and go, uh, probably not gonna get
Speaker 1: up at that time. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: get my seven hours in here. But I like to
Speaker 1: set my schedule and get up at the same time,
Speaker 1: eat the same kind of breakfast, and that keeps me
Speaker 1: motivated to stay on task to eventually do my best.
Speaker 1: And I want to set instead of setting specific goals,
Speaker 1: I like to set intentions so that I'm gonna wake
Speaker 1: up and my intention is to do this and this
Speaker 1: and this and this ultimately to have the best day
Speaker 1: that I can, instead of worrying about next week or
Speaker 1: next month or this entire year. It's hard to have
Speaker 1: a new Year's resolution and say, in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this. It's way easier to go day
Speaker 1: by day. I have three hundred and sixty five days
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and each of those days, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna set an intention to be my best, to hold
Speaker 1: my tongue when I want to say something sharp to
Speaker 1: someone else, to listen more, to learn more. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: with reading or listening to people that know more about
Speaker 1: life than I do. I'm going to be more involved
Speaker 1: with my family. You could set intentions like that, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be the best I can for Ye Apparel and
Speaker 1: for my tour and for the new album, and so
Speaker 1: to me, that starts with some kind of regimented schedule.
Speaker 1: It's the first thing I want to do to stay motivated.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I'm gonna go probably just stay in bed for
Speaker 1: a while. Let me parlay that right into the next question.
Speaker 1: Do you ever struggle with anxiety? And how do you
Speaker 1: overcome it? That question really parlays into what I've said
Speaker 1: a couple times on this podcast already. Anxiety is a
Speaker 1: tough thing, it's a dangerous thing, and it could be
Speaker 1: triggered by many things. The many things includes things that
Speaker 1: you can't control, and you really have to open yourself
Speaker 1: up to life, the struggle of life, and know that
Speaker 1: it's real, know that it exists, and be open to
Speaker 1: accepting that struggle as part of the plan. What do
Speaker 1: I mean by that? I mean today I could come
Speaker 1: in here thinking, Kevin, I got to knock out this podcast.
Speaker 1: I gotta do a bunch of cameos. I gotta do,
Speaker 1: I gotta do a promo for the new album. I
Speaker 1: gotta go in there and I got to do we
Speaker 1: have to do a photo shoot for the new apparel line.
Speaker 1: I have to meet with my brothers and we have
Speaker 1: a conference call with the new product we're gonna put out,
Speaker 1: and on my way to the farm, a terrible storm
Speaker 1: comes in and blows out the road ahead of me
Speaker 1: and my truck gets flooded. Whatever. That is something that
Speaker 1: is inevitable. The struggle, the roadblock is inevitable, and I
Speaker 1: can't control it. But what I can control is how
Speaker 1: I react to it. Now, I could I could look
Speaker 1: at that as like my day's ruined, everything's ruined, or
Speaker 1: I could say, well, this sucks, but I expect a
Speaker 1: certain amount of suck with life because I'm a human.
Speaker 1: I expect a certain amount of struggle because I'm a human.
Speaker 1: And if you could open yourself up to that, that's amazing. Now,
Speaker 1: at the same time, there are certain anxieties that you
Speaker 1: can control, right, So you've got a bunch of things
Speaker 1: coming in that you can't, and you've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of things coming in that you can. So let's focus
Speaker 1: on the ones that you can. So let's go back
Speaker 1: to what I said about the cell phone. The cell
Speaker 1: phone you can control being addicted to social media and
Speaker 1: scrolling and scrolling and scrolling mindlessly, becoming unconscious at times
Speaker 1: that you don't need them morning, night, your lunch break,
Speaker 1: whatever that might be. You can control that. You can
Speaker 1: control when that phone rings and it's that someone that
Speaker 1: you didn't they there's someone in your life that drives
Speaker 1: you crazy. Every time they call, they always have a problem,
Speaker 1: they want you to fix it, or they just want
Speaker 1: to complain about something and expect you to soak it
Speaker 1: in and listen. So you can control that too. You
Speaker 1: could either an you don't have to answer that call anymore.
Speaker 1: Be you straight up tell them listen, we'll throw mom
Speaker 1: and their moms are notorious for this from people I
Speaker 1: talk to. Mine is not. I love my mom, But
Speaker 1: you can get a call from your mom and go,
Speaker 1: you know what, Mom, I don't have space right now
Speaker 1: for this problem. I love you, I want to be
Speaker 1: here for you, but I have heard you complain about
Speaker 1: this situation, and I don't have space with everything going
Speaker 1: on with me right now to help you walk you
Speaker 1: through this problem. It's only going to make me worse.
Speaker 1: And I need to be my best for you so
Speaker 1: that when you you really need me. I need to
Speaker 1: be recharged and ready for your problem so I can
Speaker 1: handle it. And right now I'm not. I'm dealing with
Speaker 1: some anxiety. I got some stuff going on work, I
Speaker 1: got stuff at home, and I can't be my best
Speaker 1: if I absorb your problem. So you gotta with that
Speaker 1: right now. Everyone's got that person in your life. You
Speaker 1: got to deal with that person right now. It could
Speaker 1: be you don't have to text them back right now.
Speaker 1: Right they text you and there's this long text and
Speaker 1: it's this big problem and you're part of it. You
Speaker 1: don't got to reply right now. You could wait till
Speaker 1: tomorrow to reply. You could train them to know that
Speaker 1: you're not going to come at them and help them
Speaker 1: fix their own problem right now, or their perception of
Speaker 1: how they think you messed up and you did them wrong.
Speaker 1: You don't have to fix that right now. Right that's
Speaker 1: a big deal. Let's deal with that together. Okay. This
Speaker 1: question says, will there be an actual CD talking about
Speaker 1: the new album or is that too old school these days? Yes,
Speaker 1: there will be an actual CD. So this new album
Speaker 1: is divided up into two volumes, Volume one in volume two.
Speaker 1: Volume one is gonna come out September twenty fifth. Volume
Speaker 1: two is gonna come out around Thanksgiving. Now, when volume
Speaker 1: two comes out, all of the songs from volume one
Speaker 1: will join it, and they will combine into one big
Speaker 1: digital piece and one CD and one vinyl, so around
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving it'll all suit. It's called Country Things Volume one
Speaker 1: and Country Things Volume two, but by Thanksgiving it'll just
Speaker 1: be Country Things and it'll be all of them together vinyl, CD, digital.
Speaker 1: This question says, will you be releasing new music with
Speaker 1: Earl Diuvilis Junior anytime soon? Yes? Yes, yes, So this
Speaker 1: new Volume one will have a song featuring Earl with
Speaker 1: me singing with Earl, and Volume two will have two
Speaker 1: Earl songs by himself, so yes, I will hang in there.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing music videos with those. Also, here's one
Speaker 1: and it says, what's your greatest advice for someone who
Speaker 1: wants to do country music. It's a hard one to
Speaker 1: even find a place to start with that question, but
Speaker 1: I would I would highly suggest staying in your hometown.
Speaker 1: Staying in your hometown. Don't move to LA or New
Speaker 1: York or Nashville. Stay where you are, build your following
Speaker 1: where you are. I can't I can't stress that enough.
Speaker 1: Build your story. This industry needs a story nowadays. It
Speaker 1: can't just it's not like the old days where you
Speaker 1: move to Nashville, and you you get discovered and then
Speaker 1: you blow up. There's way more to it. You got
Speaker 1: to have a past, you got to have a struggle,
Speaker 1: a story of a way, a path of building a
Speaker 1: following in your hometown. And then what I always like
Speaker 1: to say too, and I answered this same question a
Speaker 1: lot of times, and I'll keep doing it. But learn
Speaker 1: an instrument. If you know an instrument, learn another instrument,
Speaker 1: write songs like create, learn a recording software. I use
Speaker 1: pro Tools. I'm recording pro Tools as we speak for
Speaker 1: this podcast. There is not another producer in this room
Speaker 1: right now with this podcast. It's me a camera and
Speaker 1: pro Tools recording audio through this microphone. And I can
Speaker 1: do that because I've spent many, many years recording audio.
Speaker 1: So I think it's important. It's important to learn a
Speaker 1: recording software and then play your songs into the recordings
Speaker 1: and listen to them over and over and over and
Speaker 1: critique yourself that way. This question says, do you remember
Speaker 1: your first show and how'd you feel about it? I
Speaker 1: first remember playing Amarillo by Morning at a little camp
Speaker 1: retreat with a bunch of my high school friends junior
Speaker 1: middle school friends, and getting up there because I played
Speaker 1: the guitar a little bit and sang a little bit,
Speaker 1: but not in front of people besides people in my
Speaker 1: own house. So people were nudging me like, hey, you
Speaker 1: should get up there, you should sing, And I remember
Speaker 1: getting up there and singing, and I sang George Strait
Speaker 1: Emerald by morning, and people started singing it back to
Speaker 1: me because it's a very popular song, and that feeling
Speaker 1: was very addicting. It's like, wait a minute, I could
Speaker 1: play these chords and sing and then you guys will
Speaker 1: sing it back to me in a big party atmosphere.
Speaker 1: This is something I like. And I got very addicted
Speaker 1: to that, and then it became more and more and
Speaker 1: more the second part of that question, and how do
Speaker 1: you feel about it? It wasn't too long after that
Speaker 1: that I started messing up and having mistakes, bad mistakes,
Speaker 1: or maybe I was more conscious and aware that I
Speaker 1: wasn't good and I was messing up a melody or
Speaker 1: a word or a lyric or forgetting a verse. And
Speaker 1: then it got almost more addicting because I would get
Speaker 1: so mad at myself for messing up that I want
Speaker 1: I needed to redeem myself and come back and sing
Speaker 1: another show and try to be better than I was
Speaker 1: on this terrible mistake. I remember having a few video
Speaker 1: recordings of those early days and destroying those recordings. I
Speaker 1: wish I had them now, but I remember destroying them
Speaker 1: so that they would be gone forever because I messed up.
Speaker 1: I really wish I could play that for you right now,
Speaker 1: but I don't have them. Here's a question that says,
Speaker 1: what's the hardest thing about being on the road. That's
Speaker 1: got to be a being away from family and friends,
Speaker 1: being sacrificing that country music dream for being there for
Speaker 1: funerals and weddings. And there was a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of my buddies from college. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: ways things that I missed of theirs that on some
Speaker 1: levels I regret not being there for those guys. At
Speaker 1: the same time, that was part of the sacrifice to
Speaker 1: build a career, meaning that if I had made a
Speaker 1: decision to be at a one wedding, then why wouldn't
Speaker 1: I make the decision to be at another, or a
Speaker 1: birthday party or a bachelor party? Or where does it end?
Speaker 1: Before you know it, you've lost the foundation of your
Speaker 1: commitment to that dream. And unfortunately, the music business and
Speaker 1: dream and being on the road revolves around weekends, and
Speaker 1: that's when everyone else does their parties. That's when all
Speaker 1: the weddings and birthday parties and bachelor parties and even
Speaker 1: funerals are on the weekends, usually because no one else
Speaker 1: is working. So I would joke with my buddies and say, man,
Speaker 1: I can't be at your wedding, but could you make
Speaker 1: it on a Monday. No, because everyone works on Monday exactly.
Speaker 1: I would say, Monday is my Saturday. To you, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what a lot more questions. I want to
Speaker 1: take a quick break, reset the camera, you right back.
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Speaker 1: want to tell you guys about Cameo. The best way
Speaker 1: to get a hold of me to find me right
Speaker 1: now without meeting greets. You go to cameo dot com,
Speaker 1: or you could download the app right there on your
Speaker 1: phone Cameo See am e oh, and you can find me.
Speaker 1: Type in Granger Smith and you could go on there.
Speaker 1: You could send me direct messages. I check those personally.
Speaker 1: No one else checks them but me. You could direct
Speaker 1: message me and we could have a conversation that way.
Speaker 1: You could also consign me to deliver a video for you.
Speaker 1: So I'll get on my phone and I'll record a
Speaker 1: video message to you or your friends. Congratulations, happy anniversary,
Speaker 1: happy birthday, motivation, answer a question, whatever that might be.
Speaker 1: I could do that for you at cameo dot com.
Speaker 1: Really exciting times with this new album coming out, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be really excited when I could finally have
Speaker 1: these songs out for you guys to listen to and
Speaker 1: I could ask you what your favorite one. That's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things is to say, hey, what song
Speaker 1: are you guys digging right now? Hate you like I
Speaker 1: love you? And country things out there in the world.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait for the other six to come out,
Speaker 1: and then for volume two to come out and you
Speaker 1: get another eight songs, so sixteen songs total. Yege Nation.
Speaker 1: I'm super excited to finally get those to you. One
Speaker 1: of these questions on the Instagram says, Yegee storefront question mark,
Speaker 1: And that's tough, especially these days, thinking about all the
Speaker 1: stores being shut down earlier in twenty twenty and thinking
Speaker 1: about I'm sure glad we didn't have Ayee appearl storefront.
Speaker 1: But I will say that one of my dreams is
Speaker 1: to be able to have a ee Seed and Feed
Speaker 1: like a general store slash feed store slash apparel slash
Speaker 1: good old boys drink coffee and hang out on the
Speaker 1: front porch and talk about the weather. That's something I
Speaker 1: think would be so cool. Ee Seed and Feed that
Speaker 1: was Tyler's title. I think it has such a good,
Speaker 1: a nice ring to it, and it might be something
Speaker 1: we actually start up. So stay tuned for that. It's
Speaker 1: a good question. Will we get to watch your new
Speaker 1: house being built on the Smiths Yes, you're gonna watch.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a version of it on the smith
Speaker 1: I'm also gonna do a version right here on the
Speaker 1: Granger Smith YouTube channel. It'll be something like building my
Speaker 1: dream farmhouse, and we'll go in different parts so that
Speaker 1: I could show the extreme details of the build through
Speaker 1: this channel and then the family aspect of it through
Speaker 1: the Smiths channel. And you could also be able to
Speaker 1: so like you know, part It'll say part putting on
Speaker 1: the roof, whatever you know, and everything we're doing is customs,
Speaker 1: so it should be really fun. But then you can
Speaker 1: go back and watch part one, part two, part three
Speaker 1: leading up to it, just like we're doing with a
Speaker 1: truck restore. Here's a question. Can you tell me more
Speaker 1: about Cameo please? I'd love to keep in contact with you. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: like I just mentioned Cameo, you just download the app
Speaker 1: on your phone or go to on your computer cameo
Speaker 1: dot com and search Granger. You'll find my profile, click
Speaker 1: on it and then you could see the options send
Speaker 1: me direct messages or make video request and I'll do
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Super easy. Are you currently selling merch
Speaker 1: at your shows? I'll be in Cincinnati on the second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're still selling merch. I know it's a crazy time.
Speaker 1: I know it's a very unknown time, but we are
Speaker 1: carrying merch and we are selling it. It depends on
Speaker 1: the venue, on how you line up and social distance
Speaker 1: or wear your mask or whatever whatever rules of the venue.
Speaker 1: We follow those. But you could still get ee apparel
Speaker 1: at all the shows. Just no meet and greets. Yet
Speaker 1: that sucks. Hate that. Here's a question that Molly Tisdale
Speaker 1: asked me every single time. Every time I say ask
Speaker 1: me questions for the podcast, Mallly Tisdale comes on here
Speaker 1: and says this, do you believe you need to be
Speaker 1: baptized to get into heaven? Molly? It's such a deep
Speaker 1: question and it would take me an hour to go
Speaker 1: through everything. And there is a great divide amongst Christians.
Speaker 1: Some believe you do need to get baptized to get
Speaker 1: into heaven. Some believe you don't, that it is instead
Speaker 1: an outward expression of an inward change, which I think
Speaker 1: is such a that's a cool sentence. Let me say
Speaker 1: it again. Baptism is an outward expression of an inward change.
Speaker 1: That's what I believe. So my answer, my quick answer
Speaker 1: is do I believe I need to get baptized to
Speaker 1: get into heaven? My quick answer is no, I do not.
Speaker 1: I do believe it's important, and I do believe that
Speaker 1: if you dig enough into the scripture, there is enough
Speaker 1: evidence for me, not listening to anyone's advice, not listening
Speaker 1: to preachers, not listening to evangelist, there's enough evidence right
Speaker 1: there in the Word of God, in the scripture, that
Speaker 1: you do not need to get baptized. There is a
Speaker 1: there is the reason you're asking. I don't know which
Speaker 1: way you feel, Molly, but there is there is some
Speaker 1: scripture that can seem vague that well maybe maybe that's
Speaker 1: what Peter was talking about, that you you actually physically
Speaker 1: need to get baptized to experience heaven. Well, I want
Speaker 1: to before I get, you know, instead of getting super
Speaker 1: deep into those particular scriptures. I don't have that in
Speaker 1: front of me. I do this podcast completely off the cuff.
Speaker 1: I don't have notes in front of me. I'm not
Speaker 1: prepared to give you those specific things I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: but I will refer you to a really good podcast
Speaker 1: called Desiring God. It's led by an amazing preacher named
Speaker 1: John Piper. J O H N p I p E R.
Speaker 1: John Piper is fantastic human being, older gentleman, very knowledgeable.
Speaker 1: He could you could type in how about this? You
Speaker 1: could type in and on YouTube John Piper baptism and
Speaker 1: he will lead you on a really good path that
Speaker 1: I fully endorse. The short answer just from the just
Speaker 1: from surface level, I can answer that without scripture, just
Speaker 1: surface level. And why I disagree with thinking that you
Speaker 1: have to physically get baptized is because look at are
Speaker 1: you telling me that what if you're in prison? What
Speaker 1: if you're in prison and you you become a Christian,
Speaker 1: meaning you accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior,
Speaker 1: except the fact that he came and and died on
Speaker 1: the cross as a as a forgiveness of the sins
Speaker 1: of humanity, and that by believing in him is the way,
Speaker 1: the truth, and the light that that you will be
Speaker 1: a follower and have eternal life in heaven with him.
Speaker 1: What if you do that in prison and then you
Speaker 1: die and you were never baptized, are you saying that
Speaker 1: you are damned eternally? What if how about this, Molly,
Speaker 1: what if you're in your car, or you're at home
Speaker 1: and you become a Christian, fully, wholeheartedly become a Christian.
Speaker 1: And you get in your car and you say, that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm reborn, I'm a Christian. I am now a follower
Speaker 1: of Christ. And you get in your car to head
Speaker 1: to church to get baptized. You get in a car
Speaker 1: accident and die. You think God's going to go ooh, technicality, gotcha.
Speaker 1: If you had just not gone through that intersection, you
Speaker 1: could have gotten eternal life. Sorry, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the case. I believe wholeheartedly that's not the case. And
Speaker 1: there is one very distinct time in the Bible when
Speaker 1: Jesus is on the cross and the thief next to him,
Speaker 1: which we are led to believe lived a life without Christ,
Speaker 1: and the thief looks at Jesus and says, well, you
Speaker 1: remember me when you go into your kingdom, and Jesus
Speaker 1: looks back at him without hesitation and says, yes, today,
Speaker 1: you will be with me in heaven. Well, Jesus didn't say,
Speaker 1: I think you need to step off the cross real quick,
Speaker 1: get baptized to come back to me and then we'll talk.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to make a joke out of it.
Speaker 1: But that's just the way I feel, and I would
Speaker 1: encourage you guys not to take my word for it,
Speaker 1: but go to scripture yourself, and then even further, maybe
Speaker 1: if you can't interpret it as well, go to John Piper.
Speaker 1: Type in John Piper Baptism and I think you'll get
Speaker 1: You'll get the answer that I believe in. I'll say
Speaker 1: that you'll get my full endorsement behind John Piper. He's
Speaker 1: a magnificent human being. And it's probably my favorite podcast
Speaker 1: other than this one. Thank you guys for listening. Love
Speaker 1: y'all so much, and I seriously appreciate the fact that
Speaker 1: you guys could come in here and listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: and especially the ones that can make it to the end.
Speaker 1: That's like a new You guys are a new level
Speaker 1: for me. We have been sitting here at the EU
Speaker 1: Farm together having a conversation. If you're on a road trip,
Speaker 1: if you're driving your truck right now, if you're on
Speaker 1: a big rig, love you guys, man y'all, stay safe,
Speaker 1: ye ye will see you soon.