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Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Granger Smith. This is the Granger Smith Podcast,

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Speaker 1: Episode four. I wanted to change pace a little bit today.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a different perspective, something that

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Speaker 1: I'm deathly afraid of on the road. What could that be? Here?

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Speaker 1: It is on episode four. Today brings me to the

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Speaker 1: Missouri State Fair. We're in Sedalia, Missouri. Beautiful, warm blue

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Speaker 1: sky day here in Missouri. This fair has been around

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Speaker 1: since nineteen oh one, and so it's got a lot

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Speaker 1: of traditions. It's got a huge grandstand, Old school Fair.

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Speaker 1: Should be a really good day and a really good concert.

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Speaker 1: Chris Lane is playing the show with us tonight. Love

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Speaker 1: Chris Lane and his band and crewer. We get along

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Speaker 1: really well, and so that just about sets the scene. Here.

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Speaker 1: I am the back of my bus Wildflower, looking out

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Speaker 1: the window doing another podcast, and this one is going

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Speaker 1: to be interesting, a fun one. This is my greatest

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Speaker 1: fear on the road. It's something I'll do whatever I

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Speaker 1: can to avoid it. It is the one thing that

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Speaker 1: could completely shut me down. It's the one thing that

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Speaker 1: stops me from playing a show. It's happened to me

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Speaker 1: a few times. I'll tell those stories. It's getting injured

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Speaker 1: on episode four. I want to give a shout out

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Speaker 1: to State Fair Community College Roadrunners. It's a baseball team,

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Speaker 1: really good guys. I met them this morning at the gym.

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Speaker 1: We got to work out together. There's about four or

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Speaker 1: five six of us that work out every single day religiously.

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Speaker 1: It's very important to me. Eating right on the road,

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Speaker 1: staying in shape. These are all things that are very

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Speaker 1: important to me because they affect my ability to be

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Speaker 1: on my a game, to work my best on stage,

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Speaker 1: to have the best brain power, to write songs during

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Speaker 1: the day. I write songs only on tour on the road,

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Speaker 1: and I can't waste any of those days because I'm

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Speaker 1: throat or allergies. I need to do everything I can

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Speaker 1: to avoid all those problems. I can't afford to not

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Speaker 1: be at my best every day. Right, I only have

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Speaker 1: a decade left MAX of touring, I hope if I'm

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Speaker 1: lucky and I need to, I need to use those

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Speaker 1: ten years to the very best of my ability. Not

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Speaker 1: I was sick most of my music career, or I'd

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Speaker 1: struggled with allergies every day, or I was constantly sore,

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Speaker 1: So how could I prevent those things from happening? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's having some kind of regiment, kind of routine on

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Speaker 1: the road, and it's definitely not sleeping. I don't get

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Speaker 1: much of that. I get five or six hours, and

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Speaker 1: out of those five or six hours, I'm tossing and turning,

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Speaker 1: bouncing down the interstate going eighty miles an hour. So

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Speaker 1: why am I so fearful of these things? Why am

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Speaker 1: I so mindful of these things? Because I've been on

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Speaker 1: the downside of it, yes, many times, or at least

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Speaker 1: a handful of times. So let me talk about that.

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Speaker 1: We'll just finished soundcheck here at the Missouri State Fair,

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Speaker 1: and the stage is positioned facing the grand stand, and

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Speaker 1: the grandstand is for a dirt track, so the stage

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Speaker 1: is right behind the track and that's where the people

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Speaker 1: stand on the track. We play a lot of dirt

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Speaker 1: track shows that are dog racing, horse racing, car racing

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Speaker 1: as today, but it's fun. Can you imagine a better

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Speaker 1: place for country music than a hundred year old fair

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Speaker 1: That's country and country music has definitely gotten the best

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Speaker 1: of me. A few times, and that's when I've gotten

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Speaker 1: hurt on the stage. And it sounds crazy, but it's

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Speaker 1: starting to add up for me, and these stories are

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Speaker 1: worth telling. They were horrible, all of them at the time,

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Speaker 1: this happened was in twenty thirteen College Station Texas a

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Speaker 1: Anytime we go back to play College Station Texas, it's

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Speaker 1: like a hometown show for me. So I feel like

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Speaker 1: I got to be at my best, better than my best.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I have to convince all these people,

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Speaker 1: look how far I've come, You're not going to believe

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Speaker 1: the kind of show I could do now. So I'm

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Speaker 1: reasons I remember that night is because that was the

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Speaker 1: first time I met Johnny Manziel remember him for the

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Speaker 1: traffic there nearly caught from behind, makes the bow a

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Speaker 1: I come out as Earl Dibbles Junior. If you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen that or don't know about that, that's another episode,

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Speaker 1: ultra redneck Earl Dibbles Junior. He plays the song at

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Speaker 1: the very end, I feel like I need to get

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Speaker 1: dead center my forehead and it felt like I got

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Speaker 1: I look over to the right and there's Johnny Manzel

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Speaker 1: But everyone said, man, you gotta go get stitches. So

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Speaker 1: You know, I do this podcast whether I had a

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Speaker 1: Me and my brothers, Parker and Tyler created this drink

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Speaker 1: which really helped support our American made mentality, which you

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Speaker 1: Back here at the Missouri State Fair, I just talked

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Speaker 1: to Chris Lane, who's playing the show with us tonight,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bring him on stage later. And guess

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Speaker 1: what song we just talked about singing together? Oh, an

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Speaker 1: old nineties classic, my good old Sammy Kershaw Sheeto, No,

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Speaker 1: She's beautiful, Sun No, She's beautiful, sheet No, She's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Little time and time after So after these stitches in

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Speaker 1: Here's what happened September fifth, twenty thirteen. I remember the

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Speaker 1: day partly because it was the day after my birthday,

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Speaker 1: and partly because it was one of the stupidest things

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Speaker 1: He was shuffling around, he was mumbling to himself, and

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Speaker 1: band is with me and we're running out of whiskey. Now,

428
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: I just went and referenced this because we have a

429
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Speaker 1: little show that we've made, we make on the road

430
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: called EEE TV, and this is one of the episodes.

431
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: We got all this on tape. This is all films,

432
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: So I just I just went and watched it and

433
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: it's gross seeing that lumpy shoulder. So what happened was

434
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: my drummer's mother's boyfriend. You following me. He's a fireman

435
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: and he comes on the bus and he goes, man,

436
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: I know exactly how to do this. So he kind

437
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 1: of positions himself, puts his arm under mine and starts

438
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: putting pressure upward. It doesn't work. It doesn't work, he says, man,

439
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: I know this is this is how to do it.

440
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: I've done it before. Meanwhile, I take another shot of whiskey,

441
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: does it one more time and then pop there it

442
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: goes back into the socket. It's funny now, but you know,

443
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: maybe the whiskey is what loosened up the liquaments and

444
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: finally made it happen. But that was a crazy day.

445
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: No ambulance ride, no hospital, and guess what I played

446
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: the next day? So I did not have to cancel

447
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: a single show. But that was coming. That's actually this

448
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: next story. This next story is the worst injury I've

449
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: ever had on stage. I did have to cancel shows.

450
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: It's also super embarrassing. But here we go. Well, the

451
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: sun has gone down in Missouri on kind of a

452
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: strange day. It's not awkward with Frank if I've talked

453
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: to him many times. This is the kind of guy

454
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: that he is. He's going to work with us until

455
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: we find a new guy. He's even going to train

456
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 1: the new guy. So he's a good dude. Frank was

457
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: not at the show where this next injury happened, and

458
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: if he was, he probably would have stopped it. Actually,

459
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: I guarantee you he would have prevented it. The reason

460
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 1: he wasn't there was because it was an acoustic show

461
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. So it was me, Dusty, Todd, Chris,

462
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: and a couple people from the record label, Brittany and

463
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: John Loba. So I'd like to defend us a little

464
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: bit by saying that we don't set the stage on

465
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: these kind of shows. We leave it to the local crew.

466
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: So they put out the mic stands, the microphones, cables, monitors,

467
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So on this particular show,

468
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: the monitors, the wedges, we're up at the very front

469
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: of the stage, right on the edge. Now, we normally

470
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: like to have those back a couple of feet to

471
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: get some cushion, just so you know. That's how the

472
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: stage is set. So here we are playing the show,

473
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: sold out crowd, amazing crowd in New Jersey. On my

474
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: left is Dusty playing a small drum kit on my right,

475
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: Todd playing acoustic guitar. Here I am in the middle

476
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: and guess what I'm singing? An earl dibbles song, which

477
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: seems to be the curse of these kind of injuries. Now,

478
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: what happens next is something I'll remember for a long

479
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: long time. Country music singer Grangers Smith powered through a

480
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: performance after falling from stage in New Jersey Friday, but

481
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: was later hospitalized. A spokeswoman for Smith declared in a statement.

482
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: Smith shared on Twitter that he had fallen while performing

483
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: at the Starlin Ballroom in Saraville on Friday night. The

484
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: country star said he took a pretty hard spill but

485
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: hopes to be out of the hospital soon to head

486
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: home to his family in Texas. Shows this weekend in

487
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: North Carolina and Texas were canceled. There's a lot of

488
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: videos on YouTube because a lot of people had their

489
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: phones up. So I found one of the fall and

490
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: it is painful to watch. I watched it one time

491
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: when it happened. I watched it in the hospital on

492
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: my phone, but I have not seen a video until now.

493
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: When I had to download it for this podcast. I

494
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: put my foot up on a monitor that was on

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00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: the edge of the stage, and as I shifted my

496
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,719
Speaker 1: weight forward a little bit, the monitor flipped off. I

497
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: went with it fell on top of the barricade. The

498
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Speaker 1: metal barricade completely separated two ribs in my back and

499
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: punctured a lung. Here's the video. So I'm down now,

500
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: but I'm about to get back up, and you'll hear

501
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: the cheers for that. The security guy comes running at

502
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: me to help, and I remember thinking, well, the show

503
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: can't end like this. I gotta get up. I gotta

504
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: finish the show. So I stand up. I could tell

505
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: something's really wrong. I could feel the crunching in my chest.

506
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: The only thing I could say was it must have

507
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: been a city boy that put that up there, make

508
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: a joke out of an awkward situation. I think I

509
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: got that from my dad. And notice the band never

510
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: stops playing. I always told the guys if something bad happens,

511
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: never ever stopped playing. But at this point, I'm just

512
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: trying to get my breath. That's why I'm not singing

513
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: or singing anything. Enough of that video, so I finished

514
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: that song and then I sing Back Road song. I

515
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: say sing, but I mainly had the crowd sing it

516
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: for me because I could not catch my breath. I

517
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: never punctured along before until then, but I definitely knew

518
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: that's what happened, because I could feel the crunching of

519
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: the broken ribs, and I could feel that I just

520
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: had I had no lung capacity. Once again, Chris, my

521
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: tour manager, is there and he's on the side of

522
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 1: the stage and he looks at me and he mouths,

523
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: are you okay? And I'm mouthed back no, But I

524
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: gotta keep playing. I gotta finish back Road song. Sold

525
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: out crowd, they got to hear it. So I finished

526
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: the song. I go straight for Chris, straight down the stairs,

527
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: and I said, dude, I broke ribs and something is

528
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: wrong with my lungs. He says, okay, let's go to

529
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: the hospital. So luckily, I wanted to stop by the

530
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: bush real quick and change clothes, put on some sweatpants,

531
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: some tennis shoes, something comfortable, get off my jeans, my boots.

532
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: That was a really good decision that would pay off later.

533
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: But we get in the get of the car. We

534
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: had to the emergency room. Some fans, some sweetheart fans

535
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: from New Jersey follow us there to theurgency room. And

536
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: so when I get out and I'm kind of walking

537
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: and waddling, They're like, get well, Granger. So those fans

538
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: in New Jersey are amazing. Get into the emergency room.

539
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: By this by this time, I wasn't taking whiskey shots

540
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: like I did with the shoulder, So by this time,

541
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: the pain is crazy. It's the worst pain I've ever

542
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: had breaking these ribs. So I'm about to throw up,

543
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: like I'm getting nauseated. So they gave me some medicine.

544
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: That's the first thing I had, and then they gave

545
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: me some morphine, which is which was a lifesaver at

546
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: the time. I could feel that morphine starting in my

547
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: toes and moving up to my face and instantly felt

548
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: numb and better. So they go they do the x rays.

549
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: Hours are going by. You know how emergency rooms are.

550
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: Hours are going by is we're waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. Finally,

551
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: I think about three hours have gone by. It's about

552
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning. The doctor comes back and says,

553
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: we got the x rays back. You did break two

554
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 1: ribs in your back, but you have a new moo thorax,

555
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: a hole in your lungs and there's air escaping into

556
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: your chest cavity. So we have to call the ambulance

557
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: and we have to transport you to the trauma hospital

558
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: because if it's if it's too bad, you know, they

559
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: have to put the tube in to relieve the pressure

560
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: so that your chest cavity doesn't get too much air.

561
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, well, the knight's not over yet,

562
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: so we go get in the ambulance. They come right away.

563
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: They throw this you know, neck brace on me because

564
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: they got to take all the precautions about just in

565
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: case there's any kind of spinal injury. Chris is with me,

566
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: you know, that's he's a good tour manager. He stuck

567
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: with me to the end. We head to the trauma

568
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: hospital and this is when it gets a little weird.

569
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: Follow me on this the most embarrassing moment of my life.

570
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: And the ambailance the guy says, okay, just to kind

571
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: of walk you through what's gonna happen. We're gonna take

572
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: you out. We're going to will you into the trauma hospital.

573
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a team of doctors. They're already prepped,

574
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 1: they already know exactly what's happening. They're gonna ask a

575
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: bunch of questions, they're gonna put you on a table,

576
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna do a couple of tests. Blah blah blah.

577
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: Got it. Keep in mind, morphine is still saving my

578
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 1: life right now. If I was completely sober, this would

579
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: be really bad. But they wheel me out just like

580
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 1: you said. There's the doctors. They're firing off these questions.

581
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: You know, what's your name, what were you doing? How

582
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: did this happen? What today's date? They're testing for any

583
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: kind of brain injury or spinal injury. And then they

584
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: start cutting my clothes off, boxers and everything, completely naked,

585
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: which thank god I didn't have boots and jeans on right,

586
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: So there I am naked, is the day I was

587
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: born into this world with about twenty doctors, male and female.

588
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: They're flipping me over, They're sticking things in places and

589
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: trying to figure out if I have more injuries, and

590
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how much air has escaped into

591
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: my chest cavity. To finally they get me stable and

592
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: they put a sheet over me and they wheel me

593
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: out into the hall. And as they wheel me out

594
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: to the hall, I hear a group of doctors in

595
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: the other room listening to if the boot fits on

596
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: the computer. So there's these people that just saw me

597
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: completely naked. Now they're listening to my current single. That's

598
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: something huh. So by now it's morning. Chris is still

599
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: with me. Brittany, my amazing East Coast radio rep, is

600
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: with me. They stayed with me all night to make

601
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: sure I was okay. Amber of course, at home, my

602
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: wife is kind of freaking out because we've given her

603
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of information here and there, and she's

604
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: wishing she could be there. She's actually scrambling maybe she's

605
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: going to get on a flight and come see me

606
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. About noon the next day, five doctors

607
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: come into my room and they said, we've got you

608
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: completely stable, and we think it's okay to send you home.

609
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: And I was like, well home is Texas and they said, oh, well, no,

610
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: you can't fly, and I said, you're damn right, I'm

611
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna fly. So they checked me out. They weren't happy

612
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: about it, but they checked me out and I went

613
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: straight to the airport and bought a flight to Austin, Texas.

614
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: Worst flight of my life, no doubt. Paying medicine was

615
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: the only thing that really got me through it. But

616
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: I made it home reluctantly. I canceled ten shows. It

617
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 1: was the month of December, so it was our slowest

618
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: month of the year already. Luckily we're going into the holidays.

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Speaker 1: But what happened during this recovery was amazing to me.

620
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: I learned so much during the six weeks I was

621
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: on that couch about diet, about cold water therapy, so

622
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: many things that I could talk about in a whole

623
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: other podcast. And I healed stronger than I will as before.

624
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: I believe that, and now I'll do anything to prevent

625
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: me from ever missing a show again. Thank y'all for

626
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: listening to episode four. It happensack that out of the

627
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: blue scating the few lash. Yeah. When it happens like that,

628
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: nothing to moons turns right into you, Julie. So you

629
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: can do just to keep her around till the moon

630
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: goes down in her back at your house. One thing

631
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: is to another, you loving each other when looking you

632
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: never lived back. It happens like that. This podcast is

633
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: brought to you by EEEE Energy. Come find us on

634
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: tour Grangersmith dot com, Forward Slash Tour. See you down

635
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: the road,