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Speaker 1: Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome to the Grangersmith Podcast. I am

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Speaker 1: excited about this episode because I have Amber with me,

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Speaker 1: and she is definitely the most requested guest I've ever had.

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Speaker 1: She's been on here once. I'm going to bring her

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Speaker 1: on today, and she is so insightful and so eloquent

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Speaker 1: at helping me answer some of your questions that you've

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Speaker 1: sent to me through Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: I have all those emails, I have the questions ready.

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Speaker 1: Amber's on her way. I'm also very blessed that this

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Speaker 1: ship happen, and we're gonna make this podcast happen with

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Speaker 1: Amber right here, roll the intro, did chant in d

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Speaker 1: times and long line, fool up and down on back

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Speaker 1: crazy co Yeah, gation, you young lady have been highly

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Speaker 1: sought after for this podcast. Oh. I have been talking

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Speaker 1: to your agent trying to you know, a book of

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Speaker 1: time for you to come to EU Farm and be

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Speaker 1: on the podcast. And I finally got you today. How

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Speaker 1: much am I getting paid? We'll talk about that. Your

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Speaker 1: payment comes later. Different forms. Oh, take kisses and hugs

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Speaker 1: and acts of service. Yeah, that's Amber's love language is

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Speaker 1: acts of service. It didn't used to be. Yeah, it's changed.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what mine is currently? Yeah, because it's

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Speaker 1: changed too. Yes, quality time. Yeah, what did it used

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Speaker 1: to be physical touch. Yeah, and words of affirmation affirmation

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Speaker 1: you're so handsome. That's not you're so handsome. It's not

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Speaker 1: just that's just flattery. Words of affirmation is like, man,

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Speaker 1: it's not as much as much anymore quality times. What

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Speaker 1: it is that now and yours is acts of service. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so funny. I think everyone's love language changes. So Amber Smith, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So let's talk real quick about Arise with Amber. That's

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Speaker 1: your segment of our show. The Smiths Our Family blog

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Speaker 1: comes out Tuesdays and Thursdays, but you're Arise with Amber

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Speaker 1: and you do your Arise with Amber, and I have

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Speaker 1: encouraged you now to start a Facebook page. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: Facebook page, and so you're gonna start uploading your Arise

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Speaker 1: I'm also coming out with my Arise with Amber website,

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Speaker 1: perfect if anyone. I don't think anyone listened to this podcast.

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Speaker 1: Everyone that knows me knows Amber. I think so. There's

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Speaker 1: not very many people that don't know. But you're an

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Speaker 1: amazing personality, speaker, motivational woman, teacher, servant, study your thank

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Speaker 1: you so thank you, babe. That's why I got you

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Speaker 1: let's get to so. I have set up an email

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Speaker 1: for this podcast, Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Email

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Speaker 1: me your questions and I'm going I always answered these questions.

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Speaker 1: into a folder called podcast Amber. I have not seen

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Speaker 1: or heard any of these nuestions. I haven't really either.

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Speaker 1: you for your music and all your content. You'r Podta

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Speaker 1: much love so our anonymous writer. First of all, thank

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Speaker 1: anything before I had a record deal, because that started

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00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 1: hitting my band and crew hard, you know. But go ahead.

429
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, the way she words it,

430
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: how did you andighbor stay faithful during the rough patches?

431
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means staying faithful to God

432
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: or keeping our faith or staying faithful to each other.

433
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: I think she means each other because she's talking about

434
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: financial struggle, and she's probably insinuating that when when times

435
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: are tough and you can't pay the bills, couples usually fight, yeah,

436
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: and argue with each other, and we just never did.

437
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: I think we just read each other. And I mean,

438
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: obviously we get frustrated, and I you know, I can

439
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,439
Speaker 1: tell when you get a little heated, and you can

440
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: tell when I get a little frustrated or heated, and

441
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: we just kind of back off. But it's it's our

442
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: commitment that we made to each other to stay faithful.

443
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: We made a promise to each other just through thicker, thin,

444
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 1: better or worse, and that we just work through that. Yeah,

445
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: and talk. We talk financial struggles. We've almost had fun

446
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,239
Speaker 1: with it. And it sounds crazy, but like when COVID hit,

447
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 1: we sold our house, we sold a ton, We paged Craigslist, Facebook, marketplace,

448
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: we purged so much. We sold everything that we didn't

449
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: need we sold, and I picked up in my crafting

450
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: in my Etsy shop and started selling more stuff, more

451
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: little hobbies type stuff just to bring in a little

452
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: extra income to it. So we've always kind of compensated

453
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: and just never worried about where the next meal is

454
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: going to come from, knowing that we'll be provided for

455
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: even if we got to eat ketchup packets for dinner. Yeah,

456
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, and you know we've had times and when

457
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: when we were first married, when we had nothing, we

458
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: had way more death than we had in the bank,

459
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: and we just we knew we were going to be okay. Yeah,

460
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: we're both on the same path. Yeah, So thank you

461
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: Amber for the question. I hope we answered it. Yeah, Yeah,

462
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: this question comes from Kenneth. He says, Hey, mister Smith,

463
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 1: I watched a video of you making chicken noodle soup

464
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: at your old house with the kiddos. My wife was sick,

465
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: so I decided i'd make it for her to help

466
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: her feel better. And I cannot find that video. Please help.

467
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: PS If you film another music video in Smithville, can

468
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: you request to have the fire department. We're much better

469
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 1: than the police department. Hey, Kenneth, what's up? Shout out

470
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: to Smithville, Texas. That's where we filmed. You're in it

471
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: music video. I filmed Beneath the Darkness there, and you

472
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: filmed a movie there called Beneath the Darkness with Dennis Quaid. Yes,

473
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: so we know that town. So and you're talking about

474
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: you said chicken noodle soup, but I think you're talking

475
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: about chicken and dumblings. Yeah. Yeah, that's probably why you

476
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: can't find it. Yeah, maybe so. So I could tell you, though, Kenneth,

477
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: you could use this video as your reference. It's so

478
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: easy my recipe, so yours is much more complicated. Mine

479
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: is so easy. I know. I like my little creamier. Okay,

480
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: so you get you go, get you some go to

481
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: the grocery store. And grab What I usually do is

482
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: the chicken breast or bone in chicken. It doesn't really matter.

483
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: You get any kind of chicken you want when you

484
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: go in the backyard and get your chicken. So boil

485
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: that water and put your chicken breast straight in there

486
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: and boil it for it's like twenty minutes. Pull it out.

487
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: It's super hot. But then you just kind of shred

488
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: it right there and get it into the chunks that

489
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: you like, the size chunks that you like. Then you

490
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: get you some biscuits, good old fashioned whatever you want,

491
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: butter biscuits, the kind that you roll up and you

492
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: hit it on the table and you wow, scaresy it

493
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: pops out, and then you pull those chunks and get

494
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: about the size that these are going to be your dumplings.

495
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: Get chunks about the size that you want, and start

496
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: you put that in the back into the boiling water,

497
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: the broth, and you fill that with biscuits and they're

498
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: all floating, and then you put your chicken back in there,

499
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: or vice versa, however you want to do it. You

500
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: put a little salt and pepper seasoning, and then as

501
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: the dumplings sink, that means it's ready. It's literally it.

502
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: You need you put veggies in there, like carrots and celery,

503
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: only because you like to do it. But you do

504
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: not have to put any veggies in there. You could

505
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: just haveastr chicken and biscuits and water. Yeah, you could

506
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: have chicken, biscuits and water. And it's amazing. Chicken and dumplings.

507
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: It is. It's good. But you need a little bit

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00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: more than that. And for me, I forgot to say

509
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: that at the beginning, when you put the water in it,

510
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: you it takes a little bit to figure out how

511
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: much water so that you don't have too much, because

512
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: the less water, the thicker the brew is going to be.

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00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: So is that what you call it? What you call

514
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: it rude broth? No, there's something that's not right anyway.

515
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: Do not come to us for cooking advice. Oh but

516
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: these chicken dumblings are good. There you go, Kenneth. That's

517
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: for your wife if she gets sick again. This one

518
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: says high Grangeer. I have been listening to your music

519
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: since you released color Blind and then got into your

520
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: previous albums. They're on repeat. Your songs from the start

521
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: are considered hits to me. And I was wondering if

522
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: you ever considered putting on the greatest hits album including

523
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: those Those are greatest hits to me too. Thanks deb

524
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: Thank you. Deb You still wake up to color Blind,

525
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: don't you. I used to put our kids to sleep

526
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: to color Blind. I love his old albums, Guys, if

527
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: you haven't heard them, go search his old albums. They

528
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: are so good and you could tell it's crazy. You

529
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: can listen to how his voice has changed so much

530
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: over the years. But I still go back to some

531
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: of those really old good songs. So, Debra, there's something

532
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: you know. There's a lot of problems that technology has

533
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: brought to the music business, but there's way more good

534
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: that it's brought. And what's amazing. I'm a Spotify user

535
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: hashtag not sponsored. But it's the same with Apple Music

536
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: or Pandora. There's a million different music hosts. I'm a

537
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: Spotify user personally in my personal life. I have to

538
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: facilitate all of them for my job and have to

539
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: talk to all of them, make all of them happy,

540
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: make sure my songs are all on all of them.

541
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: But in Spotify in particular, you could carry any song

542
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: by any artist and go all the way back and

543
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: that's why I love it. And the Greatest Hits albums

544
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: are more way more of a novelty now than they

545
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: are a music discovery. Like back in the day, I'd

546
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: go get George Straight Greatest Hits Volume two, and that

547
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: would be a way to collect all my favorite songs

548
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: from George or I remember the Eagles Greatest Hits Volume

549
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: two is amazing album, and that's a great way to

550
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: put in your vehicle on a CD, your favorite songs

551
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: from that artists all collected in one. But these days

552
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,239
Speaker 1: you don't. Everything's on your phone anyways. Spotify could get

553
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: you any one of my songs. So the only reason

554
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: for me to put out a Greatest Hits album would

555
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: be a novelty reason to make a physical copy so

556
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: that I could sign it. And it's part of a

557
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: promotion deal for you guys, But it really has nothing

558
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: to do with the actual songs themselves, can you because

559
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: you can get those anywhere for free right now. You

560
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: can go on YouTube right now and listen to most

561
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: all of my songs and definitely on Apple Music or

562
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: Spotify or all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but thank

563
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: you for thinking about Deborah. If you see me, do

564
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: it it's not because I want you to listen to

565
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: the songs for the time. I'm just trying to get

566
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: something to autograph and get to you, all right. This

567
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: question comes from Dylan from California. He said, I'm seventeen

568
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: years old. I love the Channel and I just listened

569
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: to my first podcast today because I've never been a

570
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: podcast person, but it really had me thinking about myself.

571
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: Life right now really sucks for me. So much death

572
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: and suffering for me within all the quarantine, as so

573
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: many family members and close friends have died within all

574
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: this and it's been brutal. A close friend and teammate

575
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: of mine died in a car accident about a month ago,

576
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: and I still haven't taken it all in. I've also

577
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: lost a great great uncle that was very close to

578
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: me due to cancer, and I couldn't even see him

579
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: due to the regulations in California and all our hospitals.

580
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: I haven't been outside to hang out with friends and

581
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: my family, and I can't do anything. I feel so

582
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: alone inside of this quarantine. My grandmother has also said

583
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: she doesn't know if she even wants to live anymore

584
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: because she's so lonely. And I tried my best to

585
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: go see her as much as possible, but she lives

586
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: three hours away, and it sucks because she lives how

587
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: she lives. Anyway, my question is what is the best

588
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: way to grieve with all that's been that I've been through,

589
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: especially during these terrible times. Thanks Granger, Dylan. I just

590
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 1: sat there kind of shaking my head out of my

591
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: heart just hurts for you. And I know California is

592
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: much different than Texas, but you even said, we even

593
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: said at the beginning of this pandemic or a couple

594
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: months in that the effect that it is having on

595
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: people mentally is so much worse than and not to

596
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: discount anyone who's been sick or who's passed away from COVID,

597
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: I understand, but there is the mental aspect that we

598
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: have to look at that it's making people not want

599
00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: to live anymore. Yeah, with respect to going to see

600
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: your grandma or getting outside, Dylan, strap on some gloves

601
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: and put on a mask and get yourself outside, buddy,

602
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: go I would be traveling to see my grandmother, I would.

603
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: You know, you need that relationship, you need you need

604
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: to see people, You need to see your friends and

605
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: talk and and I know that might be going against

606
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: the rules and the law, but I think for your

607
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: mental health, you gotta talk. You gotta be talking to somebody.

608
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: You gotta see the sunshine. You gotta fill your grandmother's hug.

609
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: For me, I just my heart hurts for people who

610
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: are suffering that way alone locked in a house. Yeah.

611
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: So the first thing that I see from you, Dylan,

612
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: is that you're seventeen. And when I was seventeen, all

613
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: my emotions were heightened, whether that was happiness or sadness,

614
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: excitement or worry, stress or joy, all they're all super

615
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: sensitive when you're seventeen years old. And that's not a

616
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: knock on you at all. That's just, you know, that's

617
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: how the human body is kind of built, is that

618
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: there's a time in your teens when I always look

619
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: at it, when I look back in my teen years,

620
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: when I look back at seventeen, it sounds like a song.

621
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: I feel like I was a horse with blinders on,

622
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: and I can only see straight ahead of me and

623
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: right down the path that I was on, and so

624
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: much so I wish I could have knocked those blinders

625
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: off and taken a look at the world around me

626
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: with a new perspective, and I feel like, in a

627
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: lot of ways, this is what's happening to you, because

628
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: I understand you've lost a close friend and a teammate

629
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: in a car accident a month ago, and you've lost

630
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: a great great uncle that you're very close to. I'm

631
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: assuming that those are the only two people that you've lost,

632
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: because you said you've I'm assuming that's that's what you're

633
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 1: going through. And that's terrible in itself. Lost is terrible

634
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: and all relative to the person. But I will say

635
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: that I would not I would hesitate with letting the

636
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 1: world tell you that life sucks right now, because that's

637
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: what the world's trying to tell us right now. The media,

638
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: social media, the politicians, they're trying to tell us that

639
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: life sucks right now because the more they tell us that,

640
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: the more we rely on them. And this is not

641
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory, this is not this is not like

642
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: a weird, quirky point of view. This is just this

643
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: is reality. The more you tell someone that they should

644
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: be scared, the more they will rely on you because

645
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: you're the You're the person that obviously is bringing the

646
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: the information to them. Don't let that happen don't let

647
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 1: the people feed you. And I'm not I'm not even

648
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 1: saying they're lies. I'm not saying they're feeding you fake news.

649
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm not going there. I'm just saying, don't let doom

650
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: and gloom come into your life because someone's telling you

651
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: you should doom and gloom because you lost a close

652
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: friend to a car accident and you lost your great

653
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: great uncle. That just happens. I'm so sorry, man, Dylan.

654
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: I hope that I'm not the first person that told you,

655
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: that has told you this. But life in humanity is

656
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 1: so much about suffering. We will suffer, we do suffer,

657
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: We continually suffer, and we will always suffer. But that's

658
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: not the point of life. The point is what will

659
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: you do with it? What will you learn from it?

660
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: How will you overcome it? And will you realize and

661
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: this is the truth, will you realize that through this

662
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: suffering you will be better because of it. That's a fact.

663
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: You will if you choose to accept that challenge. You

664
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: will take this suffering. You will take the loss of

665
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: your close friend, and you'll be better because you knew him,

666
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: and because you went through this and because you were

667
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: fundamentally broken and rebuilt. You will take the loss of

668
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: your great great uncle to cancer and you will learn

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00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: from that. You'll be better because you were close to

670
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: him and you knew him. You'll take all the best

671
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: things that he was and you'll drive forward with armor.

672
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: Now it's all about, like you said, it's making a choice.

673
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: And I'm so sorry for what you've gone through in

674
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: your pain, and it makes it so much worse when

675
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: you're stuck inside somewhere and you couldn't be there to

676
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: be with your uncle. Was it your uncle or his

677
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: friend he couldn't be there with But if you switch

678
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: the channel in your mind, maybe I'm not sure if

679
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: you're a believer, but maybe God was protecting you in

680
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: some way that you weren't supposed to be there with

681
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: them at that moment. But allow yourself to grieve, allow

682
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: yourself to feel every emotion, and then pick yourself up

683
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: and make the choice and honor their lives moving forward.

684
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how long ago this was that you

685
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: lost them, But when you feel the time is right,

686
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: allow yourself to grieve, pick yourself up, and then choose

687
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: to do something to honor them in some way. I

688
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: think that has helped in finding meaning in our situation, Yeah,

689
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: joy comes from suffering. There is no joy, There is

690
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: no happiness without suffering. Because if you don't have suffering,

691
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: if you don't have adversity, if you don't have hard times,

692
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: you have no perspective on what's good or bad. It

693
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter. You're just in a living void of whiteness.

694
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: You're just in a pale, gray nothingness, and you don't

695
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: know what's up or down, or what's good or bad

696
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: until you have the bad, until you know the darkness,

697
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: until you know the pain. Then there's your level. There's

698
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: how you build from that, from the ashes, as like

699
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: we said in that last comment, and build from the ashes,

700
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: and then you experience the fullness of joy. How do

701
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: you know when you eat? When you eat cake, a

702
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: really sweet, delicious cake, how do you know that cake

703
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: is good until you've had something super bland and gross.

704
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: If all you have is cake, that's just food, it's

705
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 1: nothing until you eat something that's blanded, like dried, stale bread,

706
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: eat that enough, and then you have that cake and

707
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: you go, oh, life is truly rich and beautiful and good,

708
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: just like the cake is truly rich and beautiful and

709
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: good and I know that because I've had so much

710
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: of the stale stuff and you, but my friend, Dylan,

711
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: you're going to be stronger, You're going to be better.

712
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: There is hope, there is joy in your future. There

713
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: is also suffering. But embrace the suffering is something that's

714
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: going to make you better. Challenge yourself to say more suffering.

715
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: Why are we suffering? Why is the world broken? Because

716
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. That's the world doing what the

717
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:08,160
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Speaker 1: waiting for? This question comes from Mallory, says how Granger.

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Speaker 1: My name is Mallory. I'm eighteen years old from Pennsylvania.

746
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Speaker 1: Shout out to Pennsylvania, and I'm a strong Christian and

747
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for you and Amber and all that

748
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: you've taught me through your joy pay and everything in between.

749
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: My question today is what do you do if you're

750
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: scared of losing someone that you love. I recently lost

751
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: my grandmother that I was very close with, and it's

752
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: hard these last few months. She was older and suffering,

753
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,399
Speaker 1: and it's no surprise. What advice do you have, if any,

754
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: about not fearing the sudden loss of a loved one.

755
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: And there's a theme to these questions, you know, like

756
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: there's a theme to this podcast, and there's a theme

757
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: to so many questions like this, And I hope if

758
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: you get anything from this, I hope that you realize

759
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: that we're all going through something. You're not alone. Like

760
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: if you're thinking, like Dylan, wasn't the last question, dude,

761
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: no one else is having these problems. And then you

762
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: pull up the next question from Mallory all the way

763
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: across the country from California all the way to Pennsylvania,

764
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: and she just lost her grandmother And that's the same

765
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: with everyone between. So we're all grieving something, whether it's

766
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: a person or a job or a dog, we're all

767
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: grieving something. We are all suffering in some way. And guys,

768
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm not screening these questions. This is what you guys

769
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: are sending me. So okay, let's see. So this is

770
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: a legit question. This is a good when you're scared

771
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: of losing someone you love. So it's just Garth Brooks

772
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: the dance. Here's yeah, here's my thing. And I'm sorry

773
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: if it sounds blunt. It's like you said, we're promised

774
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: suffering in this life. Thanks, thanks Adam, But I was.

775
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: I was scared before we lost riv. I was scared

776
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: something was going to happen to one of my children.

777
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: I was kind of living in fear, always behind them,

778
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: always picking them up. And guess what, we don't have

779
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: that much control. We don't have as much control as

780
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: we think we do. So you're just doing yourself a

781
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: disservice living in fear because you're stealing your joy from today.

782
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: And it's cliche as that sounds mallory. Whatever is going

783
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: to happen in your life is going to happen, and

784
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: we just don't have control over that. So if you

785
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: can find the good in the day and try your

786
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: hardest not to live in fear, you can have so

787
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: much more joy, so much more fullness. If you're not

788
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: constantly worried about worried about losing somebody close to you,

789
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: because we're promised that we are gonna we are going

790
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,959
Speaker 1: to so lose people that are close to us every

791
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: single day. But that's why we're so big on being

792
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: in the present moment now and enjoying that time together

793
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: and being being together in that moment and living for today. Yeah,

794
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: so you have a choice in life to not love

795
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: that closely, to not attach yourself. And then you go

796
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: back to Garth Brooks the dance and say, I could

797
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: have missed the pain, but I had had to miss

798
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: the dance. And you don't want to miss the dance.

799
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: You could miss the pain. You could live in that

800
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: great twilight, like we talked about before, You could eat

801
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: stale bread every day and never never get a chance

802
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: to eat that cake. But you're going to miss it.

803
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: You're gonna miss You're gonna If you don't love fully,

804
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: wholeheartedly with everything you've got and risk that heartache, then

805
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,439
Speaker 1: you're missing life. You're missing the joy that this life

806
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: really is, and you don't want to live in that

807
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: gray twilight. And they say that the price of grief

808
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: is the love that you put into it. So you're

809
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: grieving for your grandmother because the love you paid into

810
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: that relationship. If you didn't love your grandmother that much,

811
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: you wouldn't grieve her that much. It wouldn't be that

812
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: big deal, and you could live your life where you

813
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: don't really love people and you don't really agree. But

814
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: what kind of life is that? Imagine right now, how

815
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: lucky you are that you had your grandmother that long,

816
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: that long. Imagine you're eighteen years old. You had your

817
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: grandmother eighteen years of your life. You loved her. Imagine

818
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: taking all that away. You never knew her, she was

819
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: not a part of your life. She died before you

820
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: were born. It didn't even matter, and you wouldn't be

821
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: grieving right now. But is that what you want? Do

822
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 1: you want to not grieve just because you loved her

823
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: so much? No one wants that. So eventually you'll replace

824
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: those feelings with her. The sadness will be replaced by

825
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: the good memories, the gratefulness, and the joy that you

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00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: know from having her for eighteen years, something that was

827
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: so special to you. And if you ever question that,

828
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: just imagine in your life one of your friends that

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00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: doesn't have a grandmother at all, and you'll feel lucky

830
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: that you had yours. Yeah, with great love comes great

831
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: grief for sure, and just trying to remember the memories,

832
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: the good memories that you guys had together, all that

833
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: time you had together. Just changing the channel in your

834
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: mind to what you think you're missing, to focus on

835
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: what you had and what that meant to you, and

836
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: those memories and the hope and the promise of you

837
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: seeing her again. So to answer your question, what advice

838
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: do you have, if any, on not fearing the sudden

839
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: loss of a loved one. It's natural to fear it,

840
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: but live it fully, put it out of your mind.

841
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: Because there's one there's one statistic that's one hundred percent

842
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: with humans death, ten out of every ten humans die.

843
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: So it's going to happen. It's going to happen to

844
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 1: you and me and Hamburg and everyone listening to this

845
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: podcast right now. One hundred percent positive we're all going

846
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: to die. So that's gonna That's the same with your

847
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: loved ones. It's going to happen. So all we have

848
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: is today, in this moment, love as much as we

849
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: can today. That's all we have. Can do. Another one, sure, okay,

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Speaker 1: you want to go heavier, light, whatever you want to do, baby,

851
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: or she'd go light. Oh you have heavy, you have

852
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: them separated. Yeah, just start throwing them in heavy and light.

853
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: So I'll just randomly hit this. You and a girl

854
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: or a boy can pick. We just did a girl,

855
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: so we'll do a boy. Okay, Okay, this is Hey Granger.

856
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: I got to meet you in Dallas, Bool and Tampa

857
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: back in February. During the meet and greet, I told

858
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: you how much our six year old son loves your

859
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: music and your YouTube videos. You made an awesome shout

860
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: out video for him when we were done with the

861
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: meet and greet. So my question is related to this.

862
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: What do you think makes you appeal to children as

863
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,800
Speaker 1: much as you do compared to other country artists. I

864
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: noticed a lot of parents posting their kids excited about Earl, you,

865
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: and Yee in general to yee Facebook group and Twitter.

866
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: I assume the Smith's videos helped, but I was just

867
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: curious what your thoughts are. I know, for us, our

868
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: son loves your music separate from the Smiths. While he

869
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: likes watching your kids and the adventures on the Smiths,

870
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: his first exposure was your music. Holler is by far

871
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: his favorite, and we've caught him trying to lip sync

872
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: with Earl's part he loves all your other songs, but

873
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: has built a big eee in Minecraft in his Minecraft game,

874
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: which he's very proud of. Thank you James in Longwood, Florida.

875
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 1: We'll shout out to Florida and Dallas, Bull and Tampa.

876
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: That was one of the last shows we played before COVID.

877
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: And I've thought about this a lot, James. I've thought

878
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: about the appeal we have with little kids, probably specifically

879
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: little boys in Earl Dipples Junior. And this email was

880
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: sent all the way back in February. I'm excuse me,

881
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 1: This email sent in September of this year, September twenty first,

882
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 1: James sent this email. So that was before like Halloween,

883
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: and we saw a lot of kids and Halloween wear

884
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: an Earl. And I've seen that for the last nine years.

885
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't know the appeal that Earle and my music

886
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: and city Boy Stuck seems to be another one. If

887
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: they don't say holler, they say city boy stuck or

888
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: don't tread on me the country boy song. About to

889
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: put out two new ones for Earl on this new

890
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: album coming in a few weeks. That will probably I

891
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,320
Speaker 1: assume little boys will like that too. I don't know

892
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: the answer, but I do know this, that James that

893
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: puts a great responsibility on me representing Earl and representing

894
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: Yee Yee and maintaining the integrity of the brand and

895
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: everything that Earle says, everything that Earle does and says.

896
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: I always think to myself or tell my brothers, is

897
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: this okay for a six year old boy? And I'm

898
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: thinking about your son, and I'm thinking about my son

899
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: who's six years old, and I'm thinking about all the

900
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: kids out there that look up to Earl. And I

901
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: cannot break that trust or I can't break that you know,

902
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: if they think Earl is there here, I can't mess

903
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: that up. That's a massive responsibility. That's not worth messing

904
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: it up. So I'm looking after you, man, I'm not

905
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: gonna let you down. I appreciate the trust that you've

906
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: given me with your son. It means a whole lot,

907
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:17,839
Speaker 1: I think. I think just looking at you, I think

908
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: Earl is such a It's your time to come out

909
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: of your shell. It's your time to unwind at the

910
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: end of the night and just be a little wild.

911
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: And I think every little boy, even little girls, have

912
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: that little bit of wild in them. And I think

913
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: maybe maybe maybe partly they just like to get their

914
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: little wild country boy out. I don't know. All right,

915
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: I'll buy that. It's just good music too. Thank you

916
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 1: for the email, James. That's awesome. You're gonna go heavy. Yeah,

917
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: do one heavy and then we'll get out of here. Okay,

918
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: looking see you could see I'm just do this random? Boom?

919
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: Is that the same? How do we do that? I

920
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: landed on that? Okay, let me go again. Maybe you

921
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: just need that. We have to get in the habit

922
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: of deleting every time I read it so it doesn't

923
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: pop back up. Okay, boom h. Everyone put on your

924
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 1: seat belt if you're driving, or you should do that anyway,

925
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: head Granger. I've been a Christian my entire life. I

926
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: was raised in the church. Most families go through a

927
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: few churches in their lifetime, but unfortunately, the time spent

928
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: at churches my family went to always ended in tragedy.

929
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: Our first church was when I was young. It was

930
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: rather cult like with radical end times ideals, and leaving

931
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: that church was a terrible experience. The next church turned

932
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: out to be actually a cult again, it ended in

933
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: a sad way. Fast forward to when I was a

934
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: teenager and I and my now wife led the worship team.

935
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: Untrue rumors spread by someone with a grudge got the

936
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: both of us kicked out of the band, and we

937
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: left the church, bonded and ended up getting married. The

938
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: next church was much larger and hard to find community,

939
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: and again it ended poorly. I won't get into the details,

940
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: but to sum it all up, I've never had a

941
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: positive experience in a church, and I grew frustrated with

942
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: the whole thing. I gave up on church, I gave

943
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: up on my relationship with God. But then I started

944
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: listening to your podcast because I love your music, and

945
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: it tugged at my heart. I felt like the Holy

946
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: Spirit was tugging me that I needed to come back

947
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: to God and where I belong. My question is, is

948
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 1: church itself really the important part? How do I maintain

949
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: a relationship with God on my own? I don't feel

950
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: ready to try church again yet, But when I do,

951
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: how should I approach it? Mentally? The lasting scars of

952
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 1: previous church experiences don't fade quickly. Thanks, that's a lot

953
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: packed in there. Yeah, okay, you and started me you start? Okay, First,

954
00:55:56,320 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: let me just say sorry for your experiences in the church.

955
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: I know a lot of Christians, a lot of people

956
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: go through hard times in their church. And you're not alone.

957
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,399
Speaker 1: And one reason is because we live in this fallen world.

958
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: We are all sinners. We doesn't matter if you're the

959
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: pastor of a church, We're all sinners. And also, let

960
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: me say that Satan is alive and well, and Satan

961
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: is trying to get in between your relationship with with

962
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: Jesus and so, and that of course means he's going

963
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: to go straight for the church. I mean, why why

964
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: you would go for your best He would go against

965
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: you the other person's best army. So Satan is going

966
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: to try to tack you and pull you away from

967
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: God and your church. False prophets, I mean, there are

968
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: false prophets and they can be leading churches. And so

969
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: all that being said, do okay, let's see at the end,

970
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: do you feel like church is an important part? I

971
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: feel like that for me, I feel like the most

972
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: important part is your personal relationship with Jesus. And but

973
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: do I feel church is important? I used to say,

974
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: before I had Christ in my heart, I would say

975
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: I don't need to go to church. I can have

976
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: my own relationship. But God created us for community. He

977
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: created us to not walk through this life alone, to

978
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 1: walk through this life together. So I think moving forward,

979
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: I would go to I would visit a couple different

980
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: churches and just see if you feel the Holy Spirit

981
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: moving in you. Like you said you felt the Holy Spirit.

982
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: I feel like if you have, if you seek God,

983
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: and if you develop a relationship with God daily, you

984
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: will feel that Holy Spirit taking you and pulling you

985
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: to where your perfect church home would be. Just like

986
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: you said, you felt like the Holy Spirit led you

987
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: when you listen to this podcast. Yeah, so it's the

988
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: same voice. And you've already admitted that the Holy Spirit

989
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: speaks to you. So that's Amber's exactly right. Yeah. I

990
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: think I was going to say that pretty much what

991
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: you said. If you if you start with your acceptance

992
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ as your savior, and you submit your

993
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: life to him and pent to him and want to

994
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: change and start on a new path, which is the

995
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: essence of Christianity, that's it. Then at that point start

996
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: with that boom. That's done. Then go Okay, now that

997
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: I've done this, I want to try to find a church.

998
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: And it's the same little prayer. I said at the

999
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: beginning of the podcast, like, Hey, God, it's me. I'm

1000
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: gonna try a couple of churches. I would really like

1001
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: to know. I would really like the Holy Spirit to

1002
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: compel me when I'm in that church, if it feels

1003
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: right and you could feel it. I mean, you know,

1004
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: non Christians call it a conscience, yeah, but Christians believe

1005
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: that the conscience it was placed into you by the

1006
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. And I believe that you could sit in

1007
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: a church and go this sels creepy, like this guy's

1008
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: not saying he's asking for the offering plate like fifteen

1009
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: times and I just feel like this is all wrong.

1010
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: Or you could sit there and you go, man, this

1011
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: actually feels at home. You'll feel it. You will definitely

1012
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: feel it. It might take you twenty churches, you know,

1013
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: you just keep on going down the street to find it.

1014
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: Find one so you're on the right path. You're not alone.

1015
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: But I want to say this, what's crazy about your story?

1016
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: And you just skimmed over it like it was no

1017
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: big deal. But right in the middle of your story,

1018
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: as you're going through these bad experiences, you met your

1019
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: wife in church and and a bad experience you got

1020
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: your wife out of it. So it's almost like bonus, bonus,

1021
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: you've met your wife. And now if you hadn't have

1022
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: gone through those bad experiences, you wouldn't have met her.

1023
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 1: So if you had been in a nice, little, perfect

1024
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: little pew where you felt all warm and cozy all along,

1025
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: if you know, you were led through suffering, through this

1026
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: bad experience to the joy that you have now. So

1027
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: God bless the broken road. Yeah, I don't think. I

1028
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: don't think your story is bad learning And we've all

1029
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,959
Speaker 1: been there and we continue to be there. And even

1030
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: if you feel comfortable in a church ten years from now,

1031
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: it could change and you could not feel comfortable anymore. So, dude,

1032
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: great question, You're not alone. All these were great questions

1033
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: and none of them were abnormal or weird or they

1034
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: were all reflections of where we are in our life

1035
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: and crazy twenty twenty and it's like you said that.

1036
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: The theme was you are not alone. We are all suffering.

1037
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 1: We are all a different way, let down by people,

1038
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: have been let down by church, have been let down

1039
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: by our government, have been let you know, we're all

1040
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: suffering in some way. Yeah, if you put your faith

1041
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: in man, you're going to be let down every time,

1042
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: every single time. Doesn't matter if you think they're a

1043
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: good man or not. We just can't live up to

1044
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: that comment, Belove, you won't think Amber should be back?

1045
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 1: Do you want to come to your second time? Comment Beloved,

1046
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: you think Amber should should be back? And spread the message.

1047
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: Spread the message about a rise with Amber and yeah,

1048
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: I see you guys on Sunday. Yeah awesome, Thank you,

1049
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: thank you, lunch, love you, Okay, bye bye. Thanks for

1050
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:07,080
Speaker 1: joining me on the granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate all

1051
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: of you guys. You could help me out by rating

1052
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,880
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1053
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:16,640
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1054
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,160
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1055
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:22,120
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1056
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 1: like me to answer, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.

1057
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Speaker 1: Yie