WEBVTT - My Worst Night on Tour 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.840 How do everyone. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Thank 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.600 you for listening. I'm grateful for this platform. Thank you 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.840 for all you long term listeners that listen every Monday morning. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.080 If you're brand new to this channel, I appreciate you. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.920 Settle in. We have some fun stories to tell. I 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.520 want to tell you about the worst day I've ever 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.480 had on tour, and that story. That claim is very 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.240 debatable because I've had some I've had some crazy times. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.960 I've fallen off the stage, broken ribs, punctured lungs, dislocated shoulders. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.839 I've got eight stitches in the front of my forehead 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.720 from running into a speaker one night. 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I'm a little embarrassed to tell 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.920 you about the most embarrassing slash, the worst night of 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.440 my touring life. But like I said, it's worth telling. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.920 New album comes out September twenty fifth. Thank you guys 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.839 for pre ordering, pre saving, getting ready, I'm gonna start 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.479 teasing more and more of that music as we go. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:05:09.839 Welcome to the Grangersmith podcast. Rolled the intro did change 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:17.840 in D much times and long line by four of 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:36.560 uspan down going back, it's range cogation. So the worst 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.560 night in my career, the worst night on tour. I 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.960 had forgotten about this, and I guess it's hard to forget, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.680 but maybe I wanted to forget about it. But this 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.760 was Oklahoma City. I don't I don't remember exactly the year. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:54.840 I think it was around two thousand and nine, twenty ten, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.080 somewhere in that that era of me tour, and we 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.920 were in a van in trailer and we were playing 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:05.159 the Wormy Dog Saloon in Bricktown, Oklahoma City. I don't 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.600 even know if Warming Dog is still around, So you 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.800 guys comment below if you're if you know, if you're 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.479 from there, and you know if Worming Dog is still around. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.640 But man, what a place that was Warme Dog Saloon. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.719 You can imagine by that title what kind of place 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.200 this was. We were not very popular. We would usually 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:31.080 draw if we played Oklahoma City, we would draw one 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:35.200 hundred people. I'd say it probably held about eight hundred 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.200 and we were good for drawing a hundred. So then 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.520 you add in the people that would have been there 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.600 on a normal night anyway, on a Friday or Saturday, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.360 maybe that's fifty. So we would end up like one 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.159 hundred and fifty people. That's to put in perspective what 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.560 kind of band we were at the time. We did 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.600 have an opening act. I remember it was Kyle Park 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.080 and Kyle was opening for us, and I'll never forget 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.560 his face when he witnessed what happened. It all started 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.720 when we went to eat dinner before the show. We 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.600 went to a Mexican restaurant in Oklahoma City and I 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:16.680 got shrimp enchiladas. A lot of you might know where 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.480 this is going already, but shrimp inchiladas. And as soon 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.280 as I got back to the hotel. This is like 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.160 before we were on a tour bus. This is when 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.440 this is what our routine would be. We'd go in, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.360 we'd load in soundcheck, go eat some dinner, go back 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.480 to the hotel and rest for a little bit, and 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.040 then get up there about an hour before showtime. So 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.840 we go back to the hotel and my stomach just 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.120 started feeling it started feeling not right. You know that 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.760 feeling when you eat something bad, and it's different. It's 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.840 a different kind of something wrong with my stomach feeling 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:52.119 than any other normal time, and it comes on quick. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:57.840 So it's not like the flu or it's food poisoning, 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.440 as you all know what that feelings. It's like, it's 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.160 very different. So I'm thinking I'm in denial. I'm thinking, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.480 oh no, not tonight, not now, which is a funny 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.840 way to think, because we tour all the time. Besides 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.440 the shutdown we've had in twenty twenty, touring happens all 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.200 the time. So you just have to be good, you know, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.960 if you have if you have the flu or some 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.200 kind of sickness, you either have to play through it. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.080 Like I said, this is before pandemic days, but you 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.800 either have to play through it or god forbid, you 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.079 have to cancel for something like that, which I never have. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:43.120 I've never canceled, ever canceled a show because of a sickness. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.200 I've always played through it, and I've had I've had 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.560 some nightmare ish shows playing through a sickness. And the 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.800 worst of that is when you have some kind of 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:59.600 sinus infection or some kind of lung problem that really 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.280 bad out allergies where you actually can't sing. And so 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.960 I've been through shows where I have to sing everything. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.160 I have to sing a different melody to these songs, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.040 usually laying off the high parts of the show. So 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.120 if I have to sing high melodies, I would sing 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:22.360 the lower harmony of that particular chorus, and that sucks. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.480 And usually, luckily, people don't really know I'm doing that 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.520 on purpose. They just think maybe I'm kind of loose 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.679 with my melodies that day, or maybe they don't even 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.760 notice at all. Maybe they're just happy to be there, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:37.960 partying in a concert environment. And that hasn't happened very often. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.440 It's only happened a couple times. I can remember this night. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:47.720 This wasn't allergies, This wasn't I couldn't control my voice, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.800 I couldn't sing high notes. This wasn't any of that. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.560 This was a stomach bug. This was food poisoning. This 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:58.040 was bad shrimp enchiladas. And I felt that, and I 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.640 was in denial. I was just thinking, no, please, not that, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.079 not that something else, indigestion. We'll blame it on that something. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.520 Maybe I've got a cold coming on and tomorrow i'll 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.839 be I won't be that good, but I can get 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.600 through tonight. No, it just kept getting worse and worse. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.720 And I wasn't really telling the band about it because 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.320 I just I didn't want them to be thinking about 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.400 something that was going to be my problem, not theirs. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.680 So we get to the show, I'm just all kind 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.880 of grumbly, you know, my stomach's just kind of gurgling. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:38.199 You know that feeling I go on. What I remember 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:43.239 is the first song going out there, and the lights 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:49.280 from the stage were on me, and those lights felt 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.040 like they were a thousand degrees. It felt like I 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.520 was out in the hot sun. And so I started 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.240 sweating just from the slight temperature change of being in 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.280 the lights. I started sweating. My forehead has just started dripping. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.640 And I made it through probably about three songs, heating 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.360 up like that and starting to sweat. And then I 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:18.640 felt my stomach and I felt that feeling when there's 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.200 no turning back, you know what I mean? You know 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.559 that feeling when you think, am I going to throw up? 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.120 And there's a lot of am I am I, am I? 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.720 And then there's this there's this point of no return 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.559 when you think, okay, I am I'm definitely going to 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.120 throw up, and I need a place. It's like that, 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:37.840 you know when a dog goes off to die, they 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.199 need to go find a place to die. That's kind 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.880 of where I was. Where am I going to throw up? 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.280 I have a ninety minute show ahead of me, and 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.080 I'm three songs in, I'm gonna throw up. Well, once 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:52.559 that thought, I don't know about you, but once that 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.160 thought gets in my head, I'm going to It doesn't 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.439 take long after that. So I remember being play in 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:05.400 this song, and we have these microphones on the stage. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.320 We call them talkback mics, and these we wear an 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.160 ear monitors, so it's in our their earbuds, inside our ears. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.800 So I go to the talkback mic, which only talks 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.680 to the band, not the crowd, and I say, I say, 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:24.560 just vamp. Vamp means just play, just keep playing, just 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.640 keep making up stuff as you go, no singing, just instrumentation, 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.520 just play just vamp. And I leave the stage and 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:37.160 I go out back, and luckily, hindsight, this was a 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.400 little bit a little bit of a blessing. Luckily, there's 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.400 a back door to the stage with steps that go 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.120 down to the alley, and there's dumpsters out there, so 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.040 hopefully you guys are listening on Monday morning and not 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.800 eating right now. I don't want to gross anybody out, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.719 but I go back to the dumpster and I throw up, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.360 and it's, you know, like in my ears. I hear 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.800 the band. They're just playing and it seems like they're 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.120 playing for an hour. It was probably like an extra 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.760 thirty or forty five seconds. And I come back on 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.520 and you know that feeling right, like right when you 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.280 relieve yourself, you feel good. You're like, okay, whoa man, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.560 that was good. I feel better. I feel better. So 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.320 I got it back up and I finished that song, 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.600 started another song, started another song, and by by about 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.360 two and a half songs later, I felt it again, 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.480 and then it started. The whole process starts over mentally, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.559 it's like I think I'm gonna go again. No I am, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.920 I am gonna go again. So we get to the 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.600 guitar solo, go back to talk back, Hey guys, vamp. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.720 By the way, nobody knows what's happening, not the crowd 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.440 and not my band. No one knows that I'm going out. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.160 And so then after that one, it was just dry heaves, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.840 go out to the dumpster, just dry heave. They're they're 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.600 in there playing in my ears. I go back, all right, okay, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.960 I think I feel good. I feel good, go back in, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.600 start over. Two songs later, I go back. Guys, we 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.240 played twenty songs that night. That's about an average amount 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.560 of songs we play in ninety minutes, about twenty songs 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.960 every two songs. I was going out to the dumpster 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.640 and just dry heaving my brains out, just like so dried, 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.600 nothing's coming out, you know, just oh, terrible, terrible, terrible. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.280 And I was going back in and it probably every 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.680 time I came in. My face is more pale, I'm weaker, 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:30.400 I'm sweating profusely, and I think, you know, the crowd 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.240 started to know something's wrong with this guy. The band 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.040 definitely knew by then by the time I left the 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.720 second time, Like maybe the first time they thought I 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.680 just had to pee really really bad and misjudge my 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.040 time my bladder. But by the second time they knew 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.240 that's not in my personality. This is not something I 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.160 normally do. I look over and I see Kyle Park 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.960 the opening act, staring at me, just wide eyed, like 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.120 what is going on? Maybe people thought I was a 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.800 methoad like, I just really had to get my fixed. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.200 I was shooting up Heroin. I don't know. I don't 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.360 know what they thought. I didn't. I didn't talk to 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.960 many people that night, but every two songs I would 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.120 go and dry heave, So like ten times out of 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:20.600 twenty songs, I went out there and humiliated, embarrassed, and 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.880 the emotion that trump's all those is just sick. I 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.200 was just sick, and that is an emotion at some level. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.840 I was so sick, and we finished the shot. Never 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.240 been happier to finish the show, but we went all 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.360 the way through. We played all the way to the end, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.560 and by then the band knew, like, man, he's getting 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.120 this guy's he's sick. He must have got food poisoning. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:47.040 So we were in the van, and in the back 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:51.280 of our van we had the two bench seats. It's 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.400 a it was a Chevy thirty five hundred Express van, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.440 so it has four bench seats and we still have 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.240 that van away. I took the two bench seats out 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.480 in the back and made bunks, so we had four 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.400 bunks in the back. So I was laying back there 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.880 in a bunk and my head was in the back 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.200 of the bunk right where the van door's open, and 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.760 so I had to right off the show. I went 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.680 straight there, you know, boots on, everything on, all my 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.040 clothes on. I'd go get in the bunk and I 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.080 leave that back van door cracked and I would just 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.680 open it up, dry heave, close it, open it up, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.560 dry heave, close it. And the bands loading the trailer, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.680 and which is also another thing for me, I always 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:40.720 helped them load the trailer, so losing two more hands 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:45.320 from me was made the loading take even longer. And 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.040 by this time, a couple of hours have gone by 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:53.240 since I've been on stage, and I was just exhausted, 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.520 so tired, completely dehydrated. But every time someone would bring 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.640 me like a little sipagatorad, I would throw it up 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.120 dry heave or it would just come you know, the 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.520 gatorway would come right back. And then we drove home 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:12.679 from Oklahoma City to Central Texas Is. I believe we 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.000 were living in College Station. That's about six hours six 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:21.320 hour drive. So for six hours I had a little 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.600 bucket back there and nothing was coming out but air, 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.000 but I was dry heaving the whole way home. Finally 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.639 caught a little bit of sleep, made it home to 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.560 College Station, Texas, crawled out of the van. God blessed 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:38.120 the band for picking up where I left off and 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.040 picking up the slack and taking turns driving. I was 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.840 always a big part of taking turns driving and helping 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.320 load up and navigating home. And I wasn't a part 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.760 of anything. And when I went to bed that night, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.199 I slept like a baby and woke up the next 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.080 day and it was fine and lived through the worst 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.760 day on tour, and I pray to God. Like I 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:10.320 said in the intro, I have broken ribs, punctured lungs, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:17.280 dislocated shoulders, got stitches, numerous other injuries, and I would 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:22.000 take any of those over I've lost my voice. I 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:27.240 would take any of those over having the stomach bug, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.600 food poisoning and trying to play a ninety minute show 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:36.320 was absolutely terrifying. And I hope I didn't gross you 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:44.760 guys out. It's good to tell the story. I'm going 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.439 to answer some questions that you guys sent in and 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:53.880 I harvested these questions from Instagram, and I set something 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:58.080 up this is new for this podcast. Today. I set 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:02.439 up an email address and this is Granger Smith Podcast 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:07.240 at gmail dot com, Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.600 So if you have a question, email that and put 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.560 question in the subject line and ask your question. And 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.159 so then I could start going through Allstar instead of 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.760 going to Instagram all the time. I'll grab questions from 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.440 your email, and I think that'll be a better way 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.640 for me to And you could also write more because 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.960 I've noticed that people when they go on Instagram they 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.800 can't there's only a certain amount of characters. They can't 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.399 say their full questions sometimes, So you can write a 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.320 whole paragraph if you want, and I will read these personally. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.880 This is not going to be fielded by a producer 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.760 of any kind. I'll go on and check this email 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.160 personally and go through these questions and then I'll use 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:52.880 these for future podcast. This first question comes from Brandon 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.199 on Instagram. He says, what are your plans for the 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:01.080 truck after it's restored? And he's talking about our series 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:05.520 on this channel on YouTube called Restoring Earl Dibble's Old Truck, 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.840 and we are we see the finish line, we see 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:10.119 the light at the end of the tunnel. This is 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:15.160 Restoring Earl's Truck and after it's finished. First of all, 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:17.720 I'll answer that two ways. Brain. And first of all, 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.720 I'm gonna drive this truck. I'm gonna drive this truck 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.480 a lot. It's probably going to become my main vehicle. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.919 Doesn't have air conditioning, so I'll probably use it as 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.640 my main vehicle in the fall and winter, and when 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.240 it heats up again in twenty twenty one in the 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.040 early summer, I might go back to an air conditioning truck. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.200 But man, I'm gonna drive the heck of it. But 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:41.480 another way I'll answer this is what are we gonna 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.560 do with the channel after we finish with Butch and 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:45.680 Bull my two bus drivers. What are we going to 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.160 do when we finish the truck and we're gonna start 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.960 something else, We're gonna start restoring something else. So comment below, 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:57.520 shoot me an email Crangersmith Podcast at gmail, and let 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.199 me know what you'd like to see us restore. My 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.080 thought is that we moved to sticking with the theme 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.880 of mom and Dad's ranch where I got the old 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.840 truck from out of the barn. I'm thinking about bringing 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:12.199 that old Massy Ferguson. It's we have an old Massy 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:16.920 two four oh and it's a song that I it's 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.000 a tractor. I've used a lot in my life. It 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.080 was dad's and I've used it in a bunch of songs. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.960 There's a song I have called Tractor that talks about 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.000 this particular Massy two four oh. It's in several music 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:31.600 videos of mine, most known for the music video Tractor, 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.280 and it's also driven by Earl Dibbles a bunch and 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.160 this is just an old tractor that's kind of falling apart. 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:38.960 So I'm thinking about getting Butch and Bull and bringing 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.240 that me old Massy into the shop here at EEEE 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.600 Apparel and starting that. So let me know if that's 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.320 something you'd like to see or maybe we should do 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:55.080 something else. Here's a question that says, what's the story 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.520 with your food poisoning? Amber mentioned it on The Smiths. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.280 There you go. Woul answers that one for you. Tori. 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.000 By the way, if you're if you're listening to this 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.840 podcast and you haven't seen The Smiths, that's our family 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.640 vog channel and it has a separate YouTube channel called 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.359 The Smiths and love that channel. Very passionate about it. 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:19.560 It's much more it's much more personal usually uh, and 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.600 it involves my family and it's a very personal vlog style. 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:27.240 We're gonna start building a farmhouse and restore and building 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.080 that farmhouse. I'll do a series on this channel and 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:35.480 on the Smiths as well. Here's a question that's ironic 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.080 that I kind of answered earlier too, is what do 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:39.879 you do if you get a bad sore throat and 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:45.359 you're on tour? That is, uh, something I got to 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:47.840 work through. I gotta play. I don't cancel shows because 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.639 of sore throats, so we keep on playing. Sometimes I 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.800 have to change the melodies, but it sucks. I could 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:58.000 use different different things to spray in my throat. Sometimes 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:01.520 you could spray vodka, yeah, literally on the back of 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:03.199 your throat, and it gives it just a little bit 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:08.800 of energy to get you through several songs. How do 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:12.520 you feel when you see EEE stickers on cars when driving? 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.720 I feel great. I love seeing EEE stickers on cars. 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:23.120 And I screenshot of this to remind myself that one 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:26.439 of these days we've wanted to see one at the 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.800 right time, the right place where maybe we're in the 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:33.399 bus and we could actually stop the bus and it 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:37.280 would be amazing if we saw a EE truck, a 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:40.560 truck with the EE sticker parked at a house in 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.560 a driveway, and we could literally stop the bus and 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.199 all get out and go knock on the door of 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.240 that house and see who drives that truck. I think 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.640 that would be the coolest thing ever, and it would 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:53.479 have to be the right place, right time. But if 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.480 you have if you have a sticker on your truck 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:59.119 or on your car, park it in your driveway and 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:01.280 one of these days we'll the bus in and come 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:09.560 say hot to you. It's a good question from Bailey 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:13.160 on Instagram. It says, what can I do to teach 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:16.720 myself to think in the present and not overthink the future. 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.159