Speaker 1: How do you hotti? Welcome to the Grangersmith Podcast. This
Speaker 1: is episode sixty and I'm recording this before the time
Speaker 1: obviously that you're going to hear it, but right now
Speaker 1: it's before Thanksgiving, and I just want to say I'm
Speaker 1: so thankful for this podcast and this platform to be
Speaker 1: speaking with you guys, and fifty nine episodes before this one.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite things to do. I do
Speaker 1: a lot of different kinds of media in my life,
Speaker 1: everything from redneck comedy to trying to make you cry
Speaker 1: in a music video, and this is right in between.
Speaker 1: And it's not a family blog either. This is the podcast,
Speaker 1: and so many times I've opened this up to your questions,
Speaker 1: I do want to say that for me. The last
Speaker 1: episode I talked about a young man from Kentucky named Drew,
Speaker 1: and we have since talked back and forth. If you
Speaker 1: want to listen to episode fifty nine. Drew wrote into
Speaker 1: the show and he said that he was in a
Speaker 1: pretty tough situation. Fourteen years old. He had been abused
Speaker 1: by his stepfather, apparently had been beaten with a baseball
Speaker 1: bat on several occasions, called the cops, wrote the podcast,
Speaker 1: it was a long story and that's not what this
Speaker 1: is about. I hope you hope you go listen to
Speaker 1: that on episode fifty nine, but I wanted to say
Speaker 1: that after that, and this podcast is always open to questions.
Speaker 1: You email Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com if you
Speaker 1: want to, if you want to talk to me about anything,
Speaker 1: and I'll talk about it on this podcast. After I
Speaker 1: read that letter from Drew, I got a flood of
Speaker 1: questions and comments from you guys on this email in
Speaker 1: similar situations, which is horrifying. And I just want to
Speaker 1: say that if you are in a bad situation, especially
Speaker 1: if you're under twenty one and you're living in You're
Speaker 1: not You're not the head of your household, I should say,
Speaker 1: you're living with other adults, and you are in any
Speaker 1: kind of abusive situation, Please call the cops. Please call
Speaker 1: the cops and sit with them. Be brave and go
Speaker 1: to the Go to the cops if you don't feel
Speaker 1: like they're listening to you, or if whoever is abusing
Speaker 1: you is maybe they're in with the sheriff, or maybe
Speaker 1: they're taking plea bargains, like somebody said in one of
Speaker 1: the emails. Guys, First of all, I'm so sorry you're
Speaker 1: in the situation. Second of all, I would go sit
Speaker 1: in that sheriff's office and don't leave until they do
Speaker 1: something about it. And it's crazy that this world has
Speaker 1: the problems that it does. We all recognize that it does.
Speaker 1: Thank you for email and me, I'm I am not
Speaker 1: I'm not the guy that's going to fix it for you.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to guy that's going to talk through
Speaker 1: some things. So I would go to the cops and
Speaker 1: I would I would make sure that they know about this,
Speaker 1: and uh, I would get CPS involved. Don't live in
Speaker 1: fear or terror of someone in your house, your mom's
Speaker 1: boyfriend or your dad, or maybe it is your mom.
Speaker 1: Is another email I got it was the mom, uh,
Speaker 1: the biological mother that was causing problems. So man, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. Guys, make sure you you go to the
Speaker 1: cops and go to a friend and just get out
Speaker 1: of there. You could you could have an eye for
Speaker 1: good people out there. Find the good people, Find the
Speaker 1: good guys, go to their house, don't leave until it
Speaker 1: gets until it gets fixed. Man, I didn't think I
Speaker 1: was gonna have to start this podcast by saying that
Speaker 1: I do want to I do want to tell you
Speaker 1: something else. My buddy Johnny, Joey Jones and Georgia, who's
Speaker 1: a a great friend. We've done We've done some hunting
Speaker 1: trips together. We've done a lot of videos together. We've
Speaker 1: walked one hundred miles together. He is a wounded warrior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's lost both of his legs in I rack. I
Speaker 1: believe Afghanistan. I think it was Afghanistan and just a
Speaker 1: tremendous dude. And I wanted to read what he just tweeted.
Speaker 1: Once again, this podcast is coming before Thanksgiving, so I
Speaker 1: want to read what he tweeted just now. He said,
Speaker 1: I didn't fight two wars and lose two legs to
Speaker 1: be told I can't spend time with my family. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I did it so you could
Speaker 1: choose how you spend your Thanksgiving, honor sacrifice and tell
Speaker 1: the Commies to shove it. So the reason I'm reading
Speaker 1: that is is because he says this on Twitter and
Speaker 1: it gets a lot of engagement, Like I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it right now and as twenty three thousand retweets, and
Speaker 1: if you want to look him up, his Twitter is
Speaker 1: at Johnny Underscore. Joey has a ton of engagement but
Speaker 1: everything I see, and maybe this is the Twitter algorithm,
Speaker 1: maybe this is who's running Twitter. Everything I see right
Speaker 1: under that tweet is negative. It's all people bashing him
Speaker 1: and criticizing him and demoralizing him and really knocking him down.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a war hero who has lost so much,
Speaker 1: has sacrificed so much, and he just makes a comment
Speaker 1: on Twitter something that he feels very strongly about, and
Speaker 1: he's absolutely ransacked on Twitter. I mean, these people are
Speaker 1: going after him. They are destroying or trying to keyboard
Speaker 1: destroy him. I texted him and I've been texting with him,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it doesn't It doesn't bother him.
Speaker 1: And he knew when you say something like that on Twitter,
Speaker 1: he knew that in the Twitter sphere it was going
Speaker 1: to get a lot of hate, which obviously you got
Speaker 1: a lot of love too, judging by the retweets. But
Speaker 1: I've this is great. I don't see a single good
Speaker 1: comment on here. And so I was just talking with
Speaker 1: the guys at Ee Apparel. I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like there's some something going on with Twitter where they
Speaker 1: are putting they're putting the bad comments on top, so
Speaker 1: that that's all you could see, so that you sit
Speaker 1: here and scroll like I'm doing, and you see nothing
Speaker 1: but hate and anger and disruption and rejection. That's what
Speaker 1: you see. I've told you guys before, be careful with
Speaker 1: social media. You don't know. You don't know what you're seeing.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm seeing. You you think you're
Speaker 1: putting something out there and you get all this negativity back,
Speaker 1: or you get all this positivity back, and you don't
Speaker 1: know if that's accurate on what people are seeing. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, So be careful. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get my brother Parker in here, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: borrow him and borrow his brain. Is a smart dude,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get to your questions. Grangersmith Podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. I'm gonna answer some of these and
Speaker 1: we're gonna dive in. Thank you for watching Episode sixty
Speaker 1: A little bit of a milestone. Welcome to the podcast,
Speaker 1: wrote the intro, did my time and long line foun
Speaker 1: im going back ration. I brought Parker in here because
Speaker 1: sometimes I feel like if I sit in a room
Speaker 1: and talk to a microphone boy myself for too long,
Speaker 1: I lose perspective on what I'm talking about and what
Speaker 1: I'm answering, and you could help me with that. The
Speaker 1: episode is already you've already been talking. No, I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about like on the last episode and all the
Speaker 1: ones before that. I start getting I'll talk for like
Speaker 1: seven or eight minutes, and I'll realize I'm starting to
Speaker 1: lose perspective on the question, and bless someone's feeding off
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah that makes sense. Well, then you're just
Speaker 1: kind of in your own head and you don't know
Speaker 1: if what you're saying is making sense. Yeah. So where
Speaker 1: we sit today, it is the day before Thanksgiving. This
Speaker 1: podcast will come out on Monday, a couple of days
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving. And where are we withye Apparel? With the farm?
Speaker 1: This has typically been the craziest time of the year
Speaker 1: for us, and it might not be this year, right,
Speaker 1: might not be the craziest day of the year. I
Speaker 1: don't really know what to expect because we've been doing
Speaker 1: your I feel kind of bad because I always just
Speaker 1: talk about business when I come on here, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's interesting or not. I guess that's
Speaker 1: that's just what I have. I'll just get that over with.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about business because you can bring a different perspective.
Speaker 1: Then we'll answer people's questions. Yeah, basically, we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens with Black Friday. Black Friday, We're going to do well.
Speaker 1: I guess this will release on Cyber Monday, so today
Speaker 1: will be the last day to get twenty percent off
Speaker 1: the whole Ee Apparel store. And what we've been doing
Speaker 1: is every purchase on Ye Apparel is entering you into
Speaker 1: the giveaway for your truck, and so a lot of
Speaker 1: people have already been doing that, and so I think
Speaker 1: that it may slow down the usual Black Friday craze
Speaker 1: because a lot of people have already purchased. But we
Speaker 1: are prepared. Nonetheless, we used to just we used to
Speaker 1: just take off work on Thanksgiving and Friday all the
Speaker 1: way up until Monday. And this was like three years ago,
Speaker 1: and then so we could just show up on Monday
Speaker 1: with like not as many orders as we have now,
Speaker 1: but we would just show up with all those like
Speaker 1: we just had no idea what we were doing. So
Speaker 1: it's it's funny to think about that now. But so
Speaker 1: now we have we have a bunch of people who
Speaker 1: are coming in to work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, So
Speaker 1: it should help us. I had a show scheduled for
Speaker 1: Friday in Odessa, Texas. It got canceled, so I'll be
Speaker 1: here helping. And I love the atmosphere. I was doing
Speaker 1: a bunch of radio interviews today. I love the atmosphere
Speaker 1: Black Friday during at Ee Apparel. Just there's a vibe
Speaker 1: to it, you know. It's like that you feel the
Speaker 1: beginning of the holiday season. Christmas is coming, music's playing,
Speaker 1: maybe LF will be on the TV. Everyone's packing boxes
Speaker 1: and there's just motivation to get the boxes out before Christmas.
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, that's our that's our Vietnam, that's
Speaker 1: our joke. Those are the three days that we look
Speaker 1: forward to all year to try to prepare for, and
Speaker 1: it tests us to see how fast we can get
Speaker 1: orders out. And it's fun. Yeah, it's like it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know when you're like when you're working on
Speaker 1: a weekend, it's probably employees don't feel this way. But
Speaker 1: when you're the boss and you're able to like incentivize
Speaker 1: people to come in and work late, it's like, cool,
Speaker 1: we're all in this together. It's like it's like when
Speaker 1: you're up at three am with your buddy studying in
Speaker 1: school for a test that you have the next day
Speaker 1: or something. It's like, yeah, it sucks, but it's like
Speaker 1: kind of it's just different. It's out of the ordinary,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of fun to kind of be in
Speaker 1: that grind. Yeah, I don't know the two Well, actually,
Speaker 1: the three things that make this Black Friday crazier or
Speaker 1: crazier for us is one the RIB shirt. I guess
Speaker 1: you could add the Shirt of the Month to add
Speaker 1: to that too, because we didn't do the Shirt of
Speaker 1: the Month last year. This is the first year of it, right,
Speaker 1: So we have a Shirt of the Month subscription club,
Speaker 1: so that shirt. You sign up for that and it
Speaker 1: goes out the first of every month. Your size boom
Speaker 1: leaves the warehouse. It's going to get to your doorstep
Speaker 1: with a new shirt that's you can't find it anywhere else,
Speaker 1: exclusive design that happens the first of every month. It
Speaker 1: just happens to be this is December first. It happens
Speaker 1: to be a crazy time of shipping. We also have
Speaker 1: the RIB shirt, River Kelly Fun shirt that's going out
Speaker 1: at the same time. We have the truck giveaway that
Speaker 1: you mentioned that you guys listening to this podcast probably
Speaker 1: know about. But we're giving away my personal truck, the
Speaker 1: truck I've had for the last ten years. Lots of
Speaker 1: memory in that truck. We're gonna every time you spend
Speaker 1: a dollar at ee dot com, it enters you into
Speaker 1: a raffle, and then we raffle. We do a random
Speaker 1: drawing of that raffle, and the five top winners will
Speaker 1: fly here, will fly you to the farm, the EE farm.
Speaker 1: You put your hand on the truck, last hand to
Speaker 1: leave the truck will win it. So we've got that
Speaker 1: going on still. I mean, we just had like a
Speaker 1: long meeting on just how that we're gonna figure out
Speaker 1: those logistics on how that person, how we're gonna deal
Speaker 1: with monitoring twenty four to seven. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: ref out there that we're gonna have to rotate. The
Speaker 1: referee might be a band member. Then we're gonna have
Speaker 1: host because we're gonna be streaming live video of this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be hosting with food, so we'll be kicking back,
Speaker 1: eating eating food and playing music and all around the
Speaker 1: truck while this is happening. And the biggest thing that
Speaker 1: I haven't even talked about is the album release. So
Speaker 1: the album will be out, So on top of all
Speaker 1: those things we're shipping out albums, we're promoting the album,
Speaker 1: which for you guys listening, it's Monday, three days after release.
Speaker 1: So this is Country Things Volume two, which completes Country Things.
Speaker 1: So let me know if you're listening on a format
Speaker 1: where you can comment, comment your favorite song, because that's
Speaker 1: important to me to get feedback. I've been sitting on
Speaker 1: these songs for so long that you start to lose
Speaker 1: perspective on what other people might like. I have my favorites.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite on the whole sixteen? Oh? On all sixteen?
Speaker 1: I hate you like I Love You for sure. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite song you've ever done? What's your favorite song
Speaker 1: on Volume two? Do you even know those? What? Those
Speaker 1: songs are? Man made by Boy Baseball anything like me?
Speaker 1: What Love looks Like? Where I Get It From? Six
Speaker 1: String Stories, Work Diesel. I like those two earl songs,
Speaker 1: but where I Get it From is probably the one
Speaker 1: that add to my country playlist. And an earl if
Speaker 1: I'm in an earl mood, yeah, working out or something.
Speaker 1: By the time you guys are listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: on Monday, if you're listening real time. I will be
Speaker 1: while you're listening right now. I will be in Indiana
Speaker 1: with Whistling Diesel, a YouTuber, very very popular YouTuber in
Speaker 1: Indiana with a bunch of Diesel trucks, and we're going
Speaker 1: to be shooting the music video with Earl Dibbles Junior
Speaker 1: and Whistling Diesel for the song Diesel. And supposedly it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the high of thirty two degrees, so I'll
Speaker 1: be a little bit chilly. Earl is going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit chilly in his overalls. But that's what
Speaker 1: I'm doing right now as you're listening to this man,
Speaker 1: What else does that get us caught up to where
Speaker 1: we are? It's funny that when we were filming Country
Speaker 1: and you Know It visualizer with Earl, it was almost
Speaker 1: like pass out hot August in Texas, and then now
Speaker 1: it's gonna be just absolutely freezing for Earl's next video.
Speaker 1: Earl's just a world traveler, but you never know, he's
Speaker 1: always wearing the same thing. Doesn't prepare very well, I
Speaker 1: guess yeah. Our director, videographer, producer, mister Everything video, Paul
Speaker 1: Dale Serta, was like, maybe maybe Earl could have some
Speaker 1: coveralls on because it's gonna be so cold, And I
Speaker 1: was like, you can't change Earl's clothes, but he just
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. Then it becomes another character if
Speaker 1: it's changed clothes, it's like you have to see the
Speaker 1: overalls and the white tank top and the green hat
Speaker 1: and the muddy boots, no matter what the weather. And
Speaker 1: when we filmed Earl in the Holler music video is
Speaker 1: eighteen degrees here in Texas, So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna beanny colder than that, hopefully in Indiana next week.
Speaker 1: Is that all the housekeeping we have. I'm fasting right now,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, I'm a little lightheaded in so it's
Speaker 1: only too in the afternoon and I'm fasting all the
Speaker 1: way to Thanksgiving dinner. How are you? How are you feeling?
Speaker 1: Does your stomach hurt or do you have a headache
Speaker 1: or anything? No, I'm just a little lightheaded. And last
Speaker 1: time you ate was dinner last night. No, I wasn't
Speaker 1: that brave. I thought about doing that, but I've chickened out. Honestly,
Speaker 1: that's the only excuse I have. But so I ate.
Speaker 1: I got up this morning at six and had a
Speaker 1: shake and a little protein bar, but a protein shake
Speaker 1: and a protein bar. It sits. It's like my normal
Speaker 1: lunchtime anyway. Yeah, okay, that's not too bad. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's not bad. It's mainly the thought that I've done
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour fast before this will be just
Speaker 1: over thirty hours. And it's mainly the thought that I'm
Speaker 1: going to sleep tonight hungry. And that is that's the
Speaker 1: reason I didn't finish dinner last night and decide, because
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I don't want to go to
Speaker 1: bed Wednesday night just so hung because I'm not used
Speaker 1: to it. Some of you listening might be thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: that's weak. I do it all the time. You might well,
Speaker 1: Grangel will come in my office at like eleven fifteen
Speaker 1: and be asking about lunch, so this is a big
Speaker 1: deal for him, and that it's two forty and he
Speaker 1: hasn't eaten lunch yet. Like you eat, you eat pretty often.
Speaker 1: The last time I did this was I was on tour,
Speaker 1: and it's easy on tour because I'll eat dinner at
Speaker 1: five pm and then I'll just cut it off. That'll
Speaker 1: be the last meal I have. The next day. I'll
Speaker 1: get on the airplane, fly back on a normal tour,
Speaker 1: fly home, and then wait all the way to dinner
Speaker 1: to eat. That's like twenty four hours. That's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: You've never done it. No, no, So now I'm going
Speaker 1: to be able to just crush Thanksgiving dinner? Are you
Speaker 1: doing it? Partly to do it and then partly just
Speaker 1: timing it so that you enjoy Thanksgiving that much more
Speaker 1: and appreciate it. Yeah, there's pretty much three reasons. One,
Speaker 1: I just want to crush Thanksgiving dinner and just be like,
Speaker 1: hold nothing back. I can't wait, just destroy it. And
Speaker 1: then two, it's a mental challenge, kind of like you
Speaker 1: do seventy five hard. It's just a it's a true
Speaker 1: mental challenge to to every time like my literally right now,
Speaker 1: my stomachs growling. Like I said, it's only two forty
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, but every time your stomach growls, it's
Speaker 1: it's a reminder that you're in a way tied to food.
Speaker 1: You're addicted to that supplement of food, and all day long,
Speaker 1: especially me, I'm just thinking about where's my next meal,
Speaker 1: When could I get my next meal? How long do
Speaker 1: I have for my next meal? And if you just
Speaker 1: eliminate that from your day, it freeze up so much time,
Speaker 1: energy effort. I mean, like just the thought of me
Speaker 1: having no lunch and dinner tonight, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 1: got those free time. I don't have to because you
Speaker 1: know what, I it's always like what am I going
Speaker 1: to eat? Am I going to cook? It? Is Amber
Speaker 1: going to cook it? Are we going to go out
Speaker 1: to eat? Are we? Am I going to get to go?
Speaker 1: If you just go a whole workday without eating, it
Speaker 1: just almost puts your mind at ease. It's like I
Speaker 1: got this water, I don't have to worry about food,
Speaker 1: so I can just get whatever done I need to
Speaker 1: get done. Yeah, and our minds are fully our bodies
Speaker 1: are fully capable of doing that without losing weight or anything.
Speaker 1: So then the third reason is today is the day
Speaker 1: I'll finish Malachi. So this i'll officially I have two
Speaker 1: more chapters when I get home, of officially finishing the
Speaker 1: entire Bible. So it's a little bit of a celebration
Speaker 1: for that. I read the New Testament in its entirety,
Speaker 1: from cover to cover, basically Matthew to Revelation. And then
Speaker 1: this is all during the pandemic. And then I started
Speaker 1: at Genesis. I've read everything up to Malachi, so today
Speaker 1: I'll finish it. And throughout the Bible there's always fasting
Speaker 1: going on, and it's a people fasted in the Bible too,
Speaker 1: focus on what they're what, like to spiritually focused on
Speaker 1: what they need to be thinking about. It takes away
Speaker 1: the distraction, the last almost of food, like takes it
Speaker 1: out of your mind and you redirect it to it physically.
Speaker 1: And it's like a way to show God that you're
Speaker 1: willing to put away your human needs for a little
Speaker 1: bit to focus on interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's
Speaker 1: a good time of the year to do it. I
Speaker 1: think that's what I heard Cameron Haynes talking the other
Speaker 1: day about those elk hunts that where they'd go out
Speaker 1: into the mountains for you know, six or seven days
Speaker 1: or four or five days, whatever it is. And you know,
Speaker 1: getting the elk is is a big part of it.
Speaker 1: But then just on a daily basis, figuring out what
Speaker 1: you're going to eat, you know, if they'll shoot shoot
Speaker 1: like grouse or squirrels, or sometimes they'll pack bags and
Speaker 1: He's like, and then it really just brings into perspective like, man,
Speaker 1: do you have food in your stomach and do you
Speaker 1: have a place to sleep tonight? Like those are the
Speaker 1: two most important things, and you have some water. It's like,
Speaker 1: those are the three things that matters, like food, water,
Speaker 1: and shelter. He's like, and so for those you know,
Speaker 1: four or five days out in the mountains, it just
Speaker 1: simplifies life and it shows you how simple it is.
Speaker 1: I love that kind of stuff because it's got to
Speaker 1: hurt humanity knowing that we we live in a world
Speaker 1: where those three things are taken care of, at least
Speaker 1: in a first world country, like most of us listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast, or I'm assuming most of us are
Speaker 1: from first world countries. I know that we have we
Speaker 1: have some South America, we have some Central America listening.
Speaker 1: But most of us don't really have to worry about
Speaker 1: where we're going to sleep tonight and if we're going
Speaker 1: to get some food in our belly and water today.
Speaker 1: But one hundred and fifty years ago, everybody on the
Speaker 1: earth had to think about that, and everything before one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years ago, everything before. Your food's not
Speaker 1: your ail, aren't guaranteed, everything's perishable, there's no refrigerators in freezers,
Speaker 1: and you're not really sure about your shelter. So I
Speaker 1: love to be able to put that in perspective and
Speaker 1: get out in the wild a little bit and test
Speaker 1: your the old native spirit that's inside of you, yeah,
Speaker 1: humbles you. And also air conditioning. That's the other thing
Speaker 1: we constantly live wherever we live, whatever season it is,
Speaker 1: it's always like seventy degrees fahrenheit, because that's where we're comfortable.
Speaker 1: But in the old days, they're just wearing wool, you know,
Speaker 1: and one hundred degrees. I live in a barn now,
Speaker 1: so I could tell you imagine Earl's house, the old
Speaker 1: rock house. It wasn't any better in Earl's house one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years ago than it is in my
Speaker 1: barn now. And my barn now is insulated, and it
Speaker 1: gets to one hundred degrees. So those people are sitting
Speaker 1: in there, old people, babies, and one hundred degrees. And
Speaker 1: then in the winter, it's never going to get warmer
Speaker 1: than like fifty degrees and at night that's the warmest
Speaker 1: it's going to be in the winter. If you lived
Speaker 1: in those days and you didn't have ac or heat,
Speaker 1: well do you think you'd live in Texas? Because man,
Speaker 1: it is nice to be in Texas when it's sixty
Speaker 1: five in December and not really cold, but I mean
Speaker 1: being with a newborn baby in that August heat, I
Speaker 1: think maybe i'd live a little further north. I'm reading
Speaker 1: this book with London right now, called Little Cabin, Big
Speaker 1: Woods or something like that. It's like an old it's
Speaker 1: an old, one hundred year old book. It's about this
Speaker 1: family living in a little cabin in Wisconsin Woods one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years ago, and it's really interesting to
Speaker 1: see their life. And most of it is building up
Speaker 1: towards the winter time, preparing for the winter. And then
Speaker 1: once you're in there, you have a fire going, and
Speaker 1: the kids really don't leave the house because it's so
Speaker 1: brutal in Wisconsin in the wintertime, you know, negative twenty degrees.
Speaker 1: Can't go out there. The dad goes out there every
Speaker 1: day and hunts and does his shores. So yes, so
Speaker 1: much of your life is just chopping firewood, getting ready
Speaker 1: for the winter. Yeah, yeah, that's a pan the butt.
Speaker 1: Do you want to answer a question on here? Sure,
Speaker 1: let's let's see what Let's take a quick break, get
Speaker 1: back and answer this question. Very grateful that today's podcast
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Speaker 1: Anything works, any subject works. I want to do just
Speaker 1: a couple shout outs here we have Well, here's a
Speaker 1: shout out to Maryland. There's no name on here, but
Speaker 1: it says, hey, al right, here we goes. Hey. My
Speaker 1: name is Sam and I live in Maryland. I was
Speaker 1: wondering if you do what it did any shows in
Speaker 1: southern Maryland. So shout out to Maryland shout out to Sam. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: we'll be out there, We'll be in every place. This
Speaker 1: this is a shout out from but joorn Our b
Speaker 1: j O r n aar but our rimpstead. This is
Speaker 1: hey Granger. Is there a plan of a future world tour?
Speaker 1: I live in Norway and I would love to go
Speaker 1: to a concert. Thank you for awesome music and making
Speaker 1: this podcast. By the way. Another question, what's your Snapchat name?
Speaker 1: Granger Smith? So yeah, shout out to Norway. I'm so sorry,
Speaker 1: but Jordan Our, I'm not really sure how to say
Speaker 1: your name, but thank you for listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1: Shout out to you. Yes, we'll be in Norway one
Speaker 1: of these days. I would absolutely love that. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been to Norway? No, I would love to. Here's
Speaker 1: a question or an email from Mateo Vesto. It says
Speaker 1: if you ever come to Finland, I will totally come
Speaker 1: to your concert. So shout out to Mateo in Finland.
Speaker 1: Another podcast listener was that Scandinavia that in Norway? Yeah
Speaker 1: right yeah? Which is both our our relatives, our roots
Speaker 1: go back to the Scandinavian roots. Chris Lee, my torm manager,
Speaker 1: is in there shipping and he's like put it in
Speaker 1: perspective for me, and he goes, man, I just sometimes
Speaker 1: I log in to ship an order and I'll see
Speaker 1: some village in Asia, and so he said, sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: just stop what I'm doing, and I was like, who
Speaker 1: is ordering from this little village in Asia? And I'll
Speaker 1: pull up Google Maps and he said, I'll pull it
Speaker 1: up and I'll do a satellite view and I'll zoom
Speaker 1: in on their like where they live, just to see
Speaker 1: where this yee hat's going. It was so cool to
Speaker 1: think about it, think about somebody sitting there watching Earl
Speaker 1: Dibble's videos. Well, we did free worldwide shipping for a
Speaker 1: whole weekend, like a week ago, so it was really
Speaker 1: cool to see all the people. He was like, who
Speaker 1: were like, I'd buy a shirt, but man, it's like
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks to ships. We're like, let's just do
Speaker 1: free worldwide shipping just for one weekend so everybody can
Speaker 1: get something. So that's so cool. Hopefully there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there that finally were able to get something.
Speaker 1: MATEO would I would freak out if I was walking
Speaker 1: around in Finland and saw ye yee shirt, I'll freak out.
Speaker 1: And then the last shout out I want to give
Speaker 1: to Sydney and Sydney for you the listeners that have
Speaker 1: listened lot. Sydney was a veteran with PTSD that lost
Speaker 1: her dog, who also had PTSD and had been with
Speaker 1: her through all this, and we talked through that on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and she lost her dog, and I at
Speaker 1: the end of what we kind of talked through, I
Speaker 1: recommended that she get a She got a puppy because
Speaker 1: it's always it's always fun to get a puppy for
Speaker 1: that distraction. So if you're grieving over a lost dog,
Speaker 1: a puppy is a great way to distract you and
Speaker 1: then slowly, over time, you find yourself falling in love
Speaker 1: with a new puppy. So I asked her if she
Speaker 1: would do that. So Sidney just wrote back to the
Speaker 1: podcast with a picture. He said, Hey, I listened to
Speaker 1: you and I got a new puppy. It's honestly helped
Speaker 1: a lot. Thanks for the advice. His name is Bruce
Speaker 1: and we're watching your new podcast. So there's a picture
Speaker 1: of a German Shepherd puppy watching the podcast. So awesome, Sydney.
Speaker 1: Let's get to a question. This question is from John
Speaker 1: in Woodinville, Washington. Says, my question is how did you
Speaker 1: come up with all your characters like Earl and what
Speaker 1: made you do them? Parker was there for the creation
Speaker 1: of Earl. You were actually the cameraman. There's a funny
Speaker 1: video on YouTube of behind the scenes of Country Boy
Speaker 1: the making of Earl Dubles Junior, and it really shows
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes of us creating that. We didn't
Speaker 1: know what we were creating, but you could hear Tyler
Speaker 1: directing Parker and Parker's voice is real high because you were, like,
Speaker 1: what thirteen years old. But to answer your question, John,
Speaker 1: that those characters were just created on a whim. There
Speaker 1: wasn't any rhyme or reason. We just we were trying
Speaker 1: to do some to promote the music, and we're like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's do this the funny country guy. But it's very
Speaker 1: much like a bunch of family members of ours, so
Speaker 1: it was super easy to jump into that character. But
Speaker 1: that's really all it was too. It's like, let's be
Speaker 1: that country guy. And Tyler said, I think his name
Speaker 1: should be Earl Dibbles Junior, and I said, I like it. Really,
Speaker 1: there wasn't much more than that. Well, one thing that
Speaker 1: would be cool that people can do is if you
Speaker 1: go to YouTube and you just type in gs Band
Speaker 1: one word. I think it's kind of hard to find
Speaker 1: because it's like a it's a smaller channel. But you
Speaker 1: can find a lot of the videos that we used
Speaker 1: to make that you used to make, and it was
Speaker 1: just like Saturday Night Live type skits, just stupid stuff
Speaker 1: of characters that no one will ever hear of again.
Speaker 1: But there's there's some pretty funny ones that we see
Speaker 1: because people don't know that you just always we just
Speaker 1: always like to just mess around and just make stuff
Speaker 1: that we thought was funny, and that's what we thought
Speaker 1: Earl was. We didn't think anything would happen with it. No,
Speaker 1: there's one called Where's the Radio st And that you're
Speaker 1: in that you're filming that. It was me and you
Speaker 1: on a radio tour and you're little. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: that like twelve or something. Maybe, I don't know. Let's
Speaker 1: see here this question that was back when it was
Speaker 1: a lot harder to just put together videos too. It
Speaker 1: was a big deal. You didn't have an iPhone. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This question from Corey Foster, who is as associate pastor
Speaker 1: at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, said, Hey, I know you're
Speaker 1: a man of faith and read the Bible daily, which
Speaker 1: translation do you read most often? And it's a good
Speaker 1: question and sometimes a contested question. It's crazy how some
Speaker 1: people will really contest for reading the King James version.
Speaker 1: They're like, you got to read if you ain't reading
Speaker 1: King James and you ain't reading the Bible. And then
Speaker 1: it goes all the way to what's the there's a
Speaker 1: I think it's called the Message. Have you heard about
Speaker 1: the Message? It's like a new age translation that's supposed
Speaker 1: to be super hip and very easy to read. Caleb
Speaker 1: was telling me a little bit about it, and Caleb
Speaker 1: said he read it for a little bit until it
Speaker 1: got to the point where it said I think it
Speaker 1: said when Jesus was rebuking Satan and it said Satan,
Speaker 1: get the heck out of here. Or no, no, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't have said that. It said Satan, beat it beat
Speaker 1: it Satan, Like, oh, man, it's Caleb said. He closed
Speaker 1: that Bible and was like, oh, I can't read this version, Corey.
Speaker 1: I read the I've for a long time. I've read
Speaker 1: the NIV. And then I just kind of I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say switched, but I'm kind of hybrid on the EAV
Speaker 1: and I've my mother always reads the NIV, so that's
Speaker 1: how I started that one. What is that new International? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then the kids at school they started reading the ESV.
Speaker 1: So when the kids started reading es V, and John
Speaker 1: Piper reads ESV, one of my favorite favorite guys to
Speaker 1: listen to, I figured I should probably get a hold
Speaker 1: of one of those two. What's the difference in any translation?
Speaker 1: The difference is, you know, they it all comes from
Speaker 1: it all comes from scrolls or scribes that have that
Speaker 1: have written a long time ago, from the Greek or
Speaker 1: the Aramaic or Hebrew languages, and so over time, these
Speaker 1: length these different languages get translated to English, and there's
Speaker 1: always discrepancy from Greek to Latin to English on a
Speaker 1: certain word that could mean two or three different things.
Speaker 1: So it's really a preference of what style you like.
Speaker 1: And most of these have been most of these old
Speaker 1: versions have been. It's not like and this is a
Speaker 1: misconception with the Bible. There's a couple misconceptions. One, people
Speaker 1: tend to think that there's mistakes in it because it's
Speaker 1: been written so many times and retranslated so many times
Speaker 1: by so many generations and so many people, and so
Speaker 1: you think about, oh, I mean it was written by
Speaker 1: the apostle whoever, at whatever time, which is all different
Speaker 1: times and all different apostles and all different prophets. But
Speaker 1: then it got to this King of England and then
Speaker 1: he wanted to say something, so he added that, and
Speaker 1: then his scribe came and made his version of it.
Speaker 1: And then it got changed again when it came to
Speaker 1: the Americas. And that's just not true. And we made
Speaker 1: it say beat it. Yeah's Satan, it's not true because
Speaker 1: we have actually found not we archaeologist, they've actually found
Speaker 1: many of the old artifacts of the old ancient text,
Speaker 1: namely the Dead Sea Scrolls. Have you heard about the
Speaker 1: Dead Sea Scrolls. It is probably one of the greatest archaeologist, archaeologial,
Speaker 1: archaeological discoveries of for sure for Christian Christians and Jews.
Speaker 1: But what it did was they've they found these scrolls
Speaker 1: in a cave that were from the first century and older.
Speaker 1: And they opened up the scrolls and they pulled them
Speaker 1: out and there they were handwritten by somebody in the
Speaker 1: first century a d. And they get The first thing
Speaker 1: they did was they got these scrolls and they started
Speaker 1: matching them up to the current text that we have,
Speaker 1: and it was right on. It was exactly right, which
Speaker 1: is mind blowing that it could last that long through
Speaker 1: these old ancient scribes. And when I think of scribes,
Speaker 1: I kind of think about Game of Thrones when there's
Speaker 1: like little monks scribes, like with a little candle and
Speaker 1: they're dipping their little feather and ink, and that's literally
Speaker 1: what their job was before the invention of the printing press.
Speaker 1: The other misconception I was getting with with the Bible
Speaker 1: that I've heard people say to me is well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I understand that you believe the Bible, but it's all
Speaker 1: written by man, so you know, man makes mistakes and
Speaker 1: man can manipulate however he wants. Totally get it. That's
Speaker 1: valid argument. But the fact is this, Christians, we have
Speaker 1: to believe because the text says that. We have to believe.
Speaker 1: The Scripture tells us that the Word is God. And
Speaker 1: because of that, in many different ways, it will say this,
Speaker 1: in many different forms or sentences, it will say that
Speaker 1: the Scripture is true, the Word is God. God made
Speaker 1: the word, God breathed out the word. It says it
Speaker 1: in many different ways, and so because of that, you
Speaker 1: have to believe. Okay, yes it was written by the
Speaker 1: hand of a man, but it was anointed by God.
Speaker 1: It has to be. If you don't believe that, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't believe anything else in the Bible. If you don't
Speaker 1: at least believe that this was this was anointed by God,
Speaker 1: this was commissioned through man by the word of God.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe that, you might as well not
Speaker 1: believe anything else in there. Just throw it all out.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter. So you got to start with
Speaker 1: that before you start in it at all with any
Speaker 1: of the stuff we've been talking about. Uh. And that
Speaker 1: was a big tangent from what Corey asked, But there
Speaker 1: you go. Here's a question from William says, Hey, Grandrid's
Speaker 1: William from Michigan. Our family are longtime fans, and we've
Speaker 1: made trips to round Rock and Butler, PA to see
Speaker 1: you this year, and as a few of our venues
Speaker 1: near us haven't opened yet, I cannot wait to see
Speaker 1: you at the intersection again. Then my question is Earl
Speaker 1: has been doing dip them and pick them for a
Speaker 1: long time. How did that get started? And how do
Speaker 1: you see I hope to see you again soon, even
Speaker 1: if it means I have to put on a Yu
Speaker 1: chauffeur hat and cart our troop down there on the
Speaker 1: road again. I'm having trouble reading because I'm so so
Speaker 1: messed up with my fasting. How many cups of coffee
Speaker 1: have you had? That's actually probably it probably like six
Speaker 1: six cups of coffee and no food. Yeah, oh man,
Speaker 1: I would be feeling terrible. I can't drink very much
Speaker 1: coffee or I get I start to feel anxious. I
Speaker 1: definitely feel that now. Dip and Pick Them William, first
Speaker 1: of all, shout out to you and your fam and
Speaker 1: Michigan lover fans. I feel for our fans in Michigan
Speaker 1: that were kind of trapped right now. Diplement and Pick
Speaker 1: Them started in twenty thirteen by Tyler and I were
Speaker 1: at a venue and we thought, hey, let's go pick
Speaker 1: some college football games as earl based on who's the
Speaker 1: country your team. We put one episode out on YouTube
Speaker 1: and there was a producer at CBS Sports in New
Speaker 1: York City that somehow I guess he maybe was a
Speaker 1: fan or he saw that video and he immediately emailed
Speaker 1: Tyler and said, we want this for our show. It's
Speaker 1: called Inside College Football CBS Sports. We want this as
Speaker 1: part of our show. We've been needing some kind of
Speaker 1: creative break, comedic break, and we said yes, and it's
Speaker 1: now we're on year seven and now Parker writes all
Speaker 1: the jokes. One more hat that you have to wear.
Speaker 1: We have a group little document with me Tyler, excuse me,
Speaker 1: Tyler not involved, don't Tyler, don't want to be involved anymore.
Speaker 1: As Parker and Hayden, we have a group document called
Speaker 1: Diploma and pick them and we have the each week's
Speaker 1: games and we'll get on and each of us will
Speaker 1: usually write a joke for at least one matchup. And
Speaker 1: we have to do this Friday, as we are this week.
Speaker 1: So we get out there and Parker films it and
Speaker 1: you better be funny. That's pretty much the deal. I've
Speaker 1: separated these questions now into heavy and light. You want
Speaker 1: to go to a heavy, Sure, go to a heavy
Speaker 1: and you answer it. I'm randomly picking. That's a long one.
Speaker 1: Let me not do a long one. This is better, okay,
Speaker 1: it says ah ah, Farker, congratulations, you got a good one.
Speaker 1: I saw this as it came in. I saw this
Speaker 1: as it came in and as luck of the draw,
Speaker 1: I randomly picked it today. I've been wanting to address this.
Speaker 1: You ready, Parker, It says, Hello Granger, Please go back
Speaker 1: to screening the fan questions. You are an entertainer and
Speaker 1: recently your podcast has taken a turn towards subjects that
Speaker 1: are way too deep. I understand folks want advice, but
Speaker 1: you shouldn't put yourself in a position to be giving
Speaker 1: advice to your followers who are experiencing mental health is shoes.
Speaker 1: I get that you want to connect with us, but
Speaker 1: this isn't a way to do it. I fast forwarded
Speaker 1: through most of your last three sessions. I want you
Speaker 1: to know that you and your family and touring I
Speaker 1: want I want to know more about your family and touring,
Speaker 1: life in the country. It's very depressing to tune into
Speaker 1: a show to hear about personal problems of people I
Speaker 1: don't know, and really embarrassing to watch you stumble through
Speaker 1: a long and drawn out response. Please give us more
Speaker 1: of you, and not your fans and their personal needs
Speaker 1: and problems. Sincerely, Cat, I can see I could see
Speaker 1: where she's coming from, because you know, if you sit
Speaker 1: for a second, you think it's the type of people
Speaker 1: who say you should know your place as an artist,
Speaker 1: or as an influencer or as a comedian. It's like,
Speaker 1: stick to jokes, to music, whatever. But then at a
Speaker 1: certain point, sure, it's like, at what, at what point
Speaker 1: can I it's I don't think it's a matter of
Speaker 1: you wanting to hmmm. I think I think it's a
Speaker 1: matter of you just wanting to be real and authentic
Speaker 1: with people, and at a certain point, if there's an
Speaker 1: opportunity on your platform to be able to have a
Speaker 1: conversation with someone and to give your advice and say
Speaker 1: multiple times, first of all, I'm honored that you trust
Speaker 1: me to even ask me this question, and you're just
Speaker 1: talking to them as if they were your friend. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw this come in and I kind of put
Speaker 1: in the batch and it's from Cat and Oregon. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Oregon, by the way, And I'll tell it
Speaker 1: problems I have with this. Kat, you might be great,
Speaker 1: he says, you're a fan since twenty ten. You're probably great.
Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. You're probably great. And I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that if you weren't behind your keyboard, this would
Speaker 1: be this would look different like if me and you
Speaker 1: were actually in a meet and great talking over dinner.
Speaker 1: I think this would look differently than you typing this out,
Speaker 1: because when you type it out, it looks very contrite,
Speaker 1: it looks very arrogant in a way, it looks very
Speaker 1: self serving, like I me, ME, there's a lot of eyes.
Speaker 1: I don't want this, I deserve this. I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to sit through and listen to other people's problems.
Speaker 1: I fast forwarded because I want I You're basically saying
Speaker 1: you want to be entertained. Dance monkey, you know the
Speaker 1: dance and Chicken in Pure Country. You want to turn
Speaker 1: on the stove and watch me dance for you. And
Speaker 1: if I do anything more than dance for you, you
Speaker 1: have a problem with that because I am your entertainment, right,
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I'm getting. I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: But here's what's crazy is that ten minutes ago on
Speaker 1: this podcast, I told a story of somebody that was
Speaker 1: suffering through PTSD and they had a dog that was
Speaker 1: suffering through PTSD. The dog died. The person writes the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling with loss. It's a different kind of loss.
Speaker 1: It's a dog. I lost a dog and I have
Speaker 1: a connection with this dog because of my PTSD and
Speaker 1: the war that I was in, So I talked through it.
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, i don't have a PhD in psychology.
Speaker 1: I'm not Jordan Peterson. I'm not doctor phil. But I've
Speaker 1: always promised on this podcast that I could just do
Speaker 1: my best to talk to you as if we're driving
Speaker 1: in a truck together. I'm driving, you're sitting shotgun and
Speaker 1: you're we're just shooting back ideas and you're saying, you know,
Speaker 1: what could I tell you about this whole problem I'm having,
Speaker 1: Because that's what friends do, right, That's what friends do,
Speaker 1: is we kick back, we talk, We hashed through some ideas,
Speaker 1: and it just so happens that this person that emailed
Speaker 1: me with their PTSD ends up taking my advice and
Speaker 1: now they have a puppy. And I'm not definitely not
Speaker 1: trying to pat myself on the back because this is
Speaker 1: not my doing. But through a normal conversation on the podcast,
Speaker 1: she's at least done something now to move forward and
Speaker 1: start a healing process. So she's gotten a dog. We're
Speaker 1: talking about a war hero here that has suffered defending
Speaker 1: our freedom here in this country, the freedom the very
Speaker 1: freedom that I get to use on this podcast to
Speaker 1: express my views and use my first minute rights, and
Speaker 1: the very freedom that Kat you get to type me
Speaker 1: on an email and say whatever you think, and you
Speaker 1: have the right to do that. So there is there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a push pool going on here
Speaker 1: whether I feel like there are some people that could benefit.
Speaker 1: And we talked about Drew. I talked about Drew in
Speaker 1: the intro of this podcast. Who was the young man
Speaker 1: fourteen years old that's been beaten by his by stepdad
Speaker 1: baseball bat and now he's called the cops and he's
Speaker 1: written me Now since then, seems to be in a
Speaker 1: better place. So I understand where she's coming from. But
Speaker 1: when you say things like this has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with me. But when you say things like it's very
Speaker 1: depressing to tune into a show to hear about personal
Speaker 1: problems with people I don't know, Like, dang Cat, Cat
Speaker 1: must be living high. I mean, wow, must be good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: life is good for Cat in Oregon. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: really know what to say about that one. I tell
Speaker 1: you, you you got a good one, dude. It's funny that
Speaker 1: said you're you got this next one? I mean that's
Speaker 1: what a podcast is, and that's what happens when you
Speaker 1: have Q and A is it's literally people asking you questions.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you it's that's just what the
Speaker 1: podcast is. Don't go listen to music if that's what
Speaker 1: you want, Yeah, Kat, we have plenty of inter entertaining videos. Kat.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming this has been This email came October the nineteenth,
Speaker 1: so I'm assuming you're not listening anymore because I've answered
Speaker 1: a lot of deeper questions since then, So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: you probably gave up on me. Hopefully you're listening to
Speaker 1: just music and not listen to the podcast, but if
Speaker 1: you possibly, I'm I'm assuming you would expect me to
Speaker 1: go through these emails and every time, every time something
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to do with tour life or music,
Speaker 1: I would just delete it, just, Oh, somebody's got a problem, delite,
Speaker 1: somebody's got another problem the elite. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the way this should go. I don't think that that's
Speaker 1: the way this podcast would be fair. If I'm open
Speaker 1: it up, like you said, Parker to questions, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna do that. I think I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna dive in otherwise I won't have questions.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. You can't choose one or
Speaker 1: the other. Kat. I would say this to you too,
Speaker 1: Love your girl, thank you for being a fan since
Speaker 1: twenty ten. Total respect that you've you've followed me for
Speaker 1: ten years and that you had the guts to email
Speaker 1: me something that's that is a huge criticism to what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, So respect for that. I would also say,
Speaker 1: the way you worded this, it might not be how
Speaker 1: you feel, but we're all we're all doomed for suffering
Speaker 1: of some kind. Sometimes we hit the sunshine for a
Speaker 1: little bit and we enjoy it and life is good,
Speaker 1: but suffering is around the corner. And I would I
Speaker 1: would hope that when you do hit your time of
Speaker 1: suffering or time of need of some sort, that you
Speaker 1: have a lot of friends that do care about someone
Speaker 1: else's problems and do want to help you. And I understand,
Speaker 1: like when you turn on Netflix and you want to
Speaker 1: watch The Office, It's like, I'm not saying you're Michael Scott,
Speaker 1: but you know, at a certain point, I don't know
Speaker 1: if what people I mean. We're here to cater to
Speaker 1: the audience to entertain people and to get their mind
Speaker 1: off of whatever they're going through, and then number two
Speaker 1: to help people. And then ideally you're doing both of
Speaker 1: those things at the same time. You don't want to
Speaker 1: go too much doctor Phil and too much just superficial.
Speaker 1: I mean, cause if you want just a superficial just
Speaker 1: look at the rest of the music industry. If you
Speaker 1: want just if you just want to face surface level,
Speaker 1: not deep at all, don't know anything about the artist,
Speaker 1: let it be a complete mystery, no realism at all,
Speaker 1: then you can get that in plenty of places. But
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of cool when you come here
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, you'll get some hunting stories, you'll
Speaker 1: get a little bit I mean, you'll get a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything. You'll get some family, you'll get some sports,
Speaker 1: you'll get some outdoors, you'll get some fishing, you'll get
Speaker 1: behind the scenes music, and then you'll also get some
Speaker 1: you know, just general life advice and passing a little
Speaker 1: bit on to help some other people. And I think
Speaker 1: that's I think it's a good balance anyway. Dance Monkey Dance, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you guys are interested in the new album, please
Speaker 1: give it a listen. Sixteen songs if you put Volume
Speaker 1: one and Volume two together and then comment below. If
Speaker 1: you're listening on a platform that allows you to comment,
Speaker 1: comment and let me know so I could know what
Speaker 1: songs are resonating with you, like, what stories are resonating
Speaker 1: with you. That's important for me as a songwriter to
Speaker 1: kind of get a pulse to check the temperature on
Speaker 1: you guys and how you're feeling about songs. If you
Speaker 1: could also go, of course, go to my social media
Speaker 1: and dump your favorite songs on there. Parker social media
Speaker 1: is what Instagram is what? Just having Parker Smith and
Speaker 1: I'll show up. Oh Parkers Smith, He'll show up. Okay cool.
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