WEBVTT - Tough insult by a fan 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.760 How do you hotti? Welcome to the Grangersmith Podcast. This 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.240 is episode sixty and I'm recording this before the time 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.080 obviously that you're going to hear it, but right now 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.680 it's before Thanksgiving, and I just want to say I'm 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.400 so thankful for this podcast and this platform to be 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.079 speaking with you guys, and fifty nine episodes before this one. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:22.919 It's one of my favorite things to do. I do 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.479 a lot of different kinds of media in my life, 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.600 everything from redneck comedy to trying to make you cry 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.479 in a music video, and this is right in between. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.160 And it's not a family blog either. This is the podcast, 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.760 and so many times I've opened this up to your questions, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.960 I do want to say that for me. The last 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.840 episode I talked about a young man from Kentucky named Drew, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:50.760 and we have since talked back and forth. If you 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.320 want to listen to episode fifty nine. Drew wrote into 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.520 the show and he said that he was in a 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:02.400 pretty tough situation. Fourteen years old. He had been abused 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:09.240 by his stepfather, apparently had been beaten with a baseball 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.760 bat on several occasions, called the cops, wrote the podcast, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.960 it was a long story and that's not what this 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.880 is about. I hope you hope you go listen to 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.960 that on episode fifty nine, but I wanted to say 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.320 that after that, and this podcast is always open to questions. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.800 You email Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com if you 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.759 want to, if you want to talk to me about anything, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.039 and I'll talk about it on this podcast. After I 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:39.959 read that letter from Drew, I got a flood of 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.560 questions and comments from you guys on this email in 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:52.400 similar situations, which is horrifying. And I just want to 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.320 say that if you are in a bad situation, especially 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.480 if you're under twenty one and you're living in You're 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.320 not You're not the head of your household, I should say, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.160 you're living with other adults, and you are in any 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:11.079 kind of abusive situation, Please call the cops. Please call 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.760 the cops and sit with them. Be brave and go 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.919 to the Go to the cops if you don't feel 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.320 like they're listening to you, or if whoever is abusing 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:25.120 you is maybe they're in with the sheriff, or maybe 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.799 they're taking plea bargains, like somebody said in one of 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:34.120 the emails. Guys, First of all, I'm so sorry you're 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.760 in the situation. Second of all, I would go sit 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.280 in that sheriff's office and don't leave until they do 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:45.840 something about it. And it's crazy that this world has 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.560 the problems that it does. We all recognize that it does. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.560 Thank you for email and me, I'm I am not 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.840 I'm not the guy that's going to fix it for you. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.399 I'm just going to guy that's going to talk through 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.160 some things. So I would go to the cops and 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.400 I would I would make sure that they know about this, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.320 and uh, I would get CPS involved. Don't live in 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.920 fear or terror of someone in your house, your mom's 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.239 boyfriend or your dad, or maybe it is your mom. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.680 Is another email I got it was the mom, uh, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.200 the biological mother that was causing problems. So man, I'm 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.040 so sorry. Guys, make sure you you go to the 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.520 cops and go to a friend and just get out 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.120 of there. You could you could have an eye for 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.239 good people out there. Find the good people, Find the 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.240 good guys, go to their house, don't leave until it 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:41.120 gets until it gets fixed. Man, I didn't think I 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.240 was gonna have to start this podcast by saying that 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:45.680 I do want to I do want to tell you 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:50.080 something else. My buddy Johnny, Joey Jones and Georgia, who's 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.400 a a great friend. We've done We've done some hunting 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.760 trips together. We've done a lot of videos together. We've 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.880 walked one hundred miles together. He is a wounded warrior. Yeah, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.840 he's lost both of his legs in I rack. I 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:08.160 believe Afghanistan. I think it was Afghanistan and just a 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.600 tremendous dude. And I wanted to read what he just tweeted. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.360 Once again, this podcast is coming before Thanksgiving, so I 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.479 want to read what he tweeted just now. He said, 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.240 I didn't fight two wars and lose two legs to 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.520 be told I can't spend time with my family. As 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.240 a matter of fact, I did it so you could 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.960 choose how you spend your Thanksgiving, honor sacrifice and tell 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.760 the Commies to shove it. So the reason I'm reading 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:39.359 that is is because he says this on Twitter and 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.159 it gets a lot of engagement, Like I'm looking at 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.159 it right now and as twenty three thousand retweets, and 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.200 if you want to look him up, his Twitter is 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:53.159 at Johnny Underscore. Joey has a ton of engagement but 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.640 everything I see, and maybe this is the Twitter algorithm, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.480 maybe this is who's running Twitter. Everything I see right 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:07.080 under that tweet is negative. It's all people bashing him 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:17.200 and criticizing him and demoralizing him and really knocking him down. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:22.480 We're talking about a war hero who has lost so much, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.599 has sacrificed so much, and he just makes a comment 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.440 on Twitter something that he feels very strongly about, and 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:37.800 he's absolutely ransacked on Twitter. I mean, these people are 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:43.520 going after him. They are destroying or trying to keyboard 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.840 destroy him. I texted him and I've been texting with him, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.240 and I don't think it doesn't It doesn't bother him. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.640 And he knew when you say something like that on Twitter, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.000 he knew that in the Twitter sphere it was going 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.560 to get a lot of hate, which obviously you got 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.919 a lot of love too, judging by the retweets. But 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.599 I've this is great. I don't see a single good 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.120 comment on here. And so I was just talking with 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.600 the guys at Ee Apparel. I feel like I feel 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.360 like there's some something going on with Twitter where they 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.720 are putting they're putting the bad comments on top, so 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.160 that that's all you could see, so that you sit 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.920 here and scroll like I'm doing, and you see nothing 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:30.440 but hate and anger and disruption and rejection. That's what 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:35.000 you see. I've told you guys before, be careful with 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.200 social media. You don't know. You don't know what you're seeing. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.400 I don't know what I'm seeing. You you think you're 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.320 putting something out there and you get all this negativity back, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.559 or you get all this positivity back, and you don't 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.320 know if that's accurate on what people are seeing. You 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.360 know what I mean, So be careful. I'm gonna I'm 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.440 gonna get my brother Parker in here, and I'm gonna 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.119 borrow him and borrow his brain. Is a smart dude, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.520 and I'm gonna get to your questions. Grangersmith Podcast at 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.240 gmail dot com. I'm gonna answer some of these and 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.520 we're gonna dive in. Thank you for watching Episode sixty 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.440 A little bit of a milestone. Welcome to the podcast, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:08:00.560 wrote the intro, did my time and long line foun 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:19.400 im going back ration. I brought Parker in here because 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.600 sometimes I feel like if I sit in a room 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.440 and talk to a microphone boy myself for too long, 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.360 I lose perspective on what I'm talking about and what 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.200 I'm answering, and you could help me with that. The 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.800 episode is already you've already been talking. No, I'm just 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.040 talking about like on the last episode and all the 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.440 ones before that. I start getting I'll talk for like 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.520 seven or eight minutes, and I'll realize I'm starting to 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.800 lose perspective on the question, and bless someone's feeding off 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.200 of that. Yeah that makes sense. Well, then you're just 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.679 kind of in your own head and you don't know 0:08:54.840 --> 0:09:00.360 if what you're saying is making sense. Yeah. So where 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.880 we sit today, it is the day before Thanksgiving. This 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.600 podcast will come out on Monday, a couple of days 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:14.680 after Thanksgiving. And where are we withye Apparel? With the farm? 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.360 This has typically been the craziest time of the year 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:23.959 for us, and it might not be this year, right, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.680 might not be the craziest day of the year. I 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.680 don't really know what to expect because we've been doing 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.679 your I feel kind of bad because I always just 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.240 talk about business when I come on here, and I 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:33.880 don't know if that's interesting or not. I guess that's 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.240 that's just what I have. I'll just get that over with. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.640 We'll talk about business because you can bring a different perspective. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:45.600 Then we'll answer people's questions. Yeah, basically, we'll see what 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.360 happens with Black Friday. Black Friday, We're going to do well. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.120 I guess this will release on Cyber Monday, so today 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.800 will be the last day to get twenty percent off 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.520 the whole Ee Apparel store. And what we've been doing 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:02.160 is every purchase on Ye Apparel is entering you into 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.640 the giveaway for your truck, and so a lot of 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.200 people have already been doing that, and so I think 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.280 that it may slow down the usual Black Friday craze 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.679 because a lot of people have already purchased. But we 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.800 are prepared. Nonetheless, we used to just we used to 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:25.920 just take off work on Thanksgiving and Friday all the 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.480 way up until Monday. And this was like three years ago, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.760 and then so we could just show up on Monday 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.160 with like not as many orders as we have now, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.040 but we would just show up with all those like 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.560 we just had no idea what we were doing. So 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.600 it's it's funny to think about that now. But so 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.240 now we have we have a bunch of people who 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.920 are coming in to work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, So 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.800 it should help us. I had a show scheduled for 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.880 Friday in Odessa, Texas. It got canceled, so I'll be 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.800 here helping. And I love the atmosphere. I was doing 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.960 a bunch of radio interviews today. I love the atmosphere 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:06.440 Black Friday during at Ee Apparel. Just there's a vibe 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.040 to it, you know. It's like that you feel the 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.960 beginning of the holiday season. Christmas is coming, music's playing, 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.640 maybe LF will be on the TV. Everyone's packing boxes 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.200 and there's just motivation to get the boxes out before Christmas. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.600 I love that. Yeah, that's our that's our Vietnam, that's 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.360 our joke. Those are the three days that we look 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.120 forward to all year to try to prepare for, and 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.160 it tests us to see how fast we can get 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.080 orders out. And it's fun. Yeah, it's like it's like, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.160 I don't know when you're like when you're working on 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.320 a weekend, it's probably employees don't feel this way. But 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.840 when you're the boss and you're able to like incentivize 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.960 people to come in and work late, it's like, cool, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.160 we're all in this together. It's like it's like when 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.320 you're up at three am with your buddy studying in 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.080 school for a test that you have the next day 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.800 or something. It's like, yeah, it sucks, but it's like 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.640 kind of it's just different. It's out of the ordinary, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.000 so it's kind of fun to kind of be in 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.640 that grind. Yeah, I don't know the two Well, actually, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.520 the three things that make this Black Friday crazier or 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.920 crazier for us is one the RIB shirt. I guess 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.120 you could add the Shirt of the Month to add 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.280 to that too, because we didn't do the Shirt of 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.680 the Month last year. This is the first year of it, right, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.080 So we have a Shirt of the Month subscription club, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.480 so that shirt. You sign up for that and it 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.800 goes out the first of every month. Your size boom 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.040 leaves the warehouse. It's going to get to your doorstep 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.920 with a new shirt that's you can't find it anywhere else, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.800 exclusive design that happens the first of every month. It 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.320 just happens to be this is December first. It happens 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.920 to be a crazy time of shipping. We also have 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.720 the RIB shirt, River Kelly Fun shirt that's going out 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:51.040 at the same time. We have the truck giveaway that 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.160 you mentioned that you guys listening to this podcast probably 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.280 know about. But we're giving away my personal truck, the 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.719 truck I've had for the last ten years. Lots of 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.079 memory in that truck. We're gonna every time you spend 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.320 a dollar at ee dot com, it enters you into 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.880 a raffle, and then we raffle. We do a random 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.960 drawing of that raffle, and the five top winners will 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.880 fly here, will fly you to the farm, the EE farm. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.760 You put your hand on the truck, last hand to 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.320 leave the truck will win it. So we've got that 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.520 going on still. I mean, we just had like a 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.199 long meeting on just how that we're gonna figure out 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.120 those logistics on how that person, how we're gonna deal 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.360 with monitoring twenty four to seven. We're gonna have a 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.080 ref out there that we're gonna have to rotate. The 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.679 referee might be a band member. Then we're gonna have 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.680 host because we're gonna be streaming live video of this. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.240 We're gonna be hosting with food, so we'll be kicking back, 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.880 eating eating food and playing music and all around the 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.079 truck while this is happening. And the biggest thing that 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.760 I haven't even talked about is the album release. So 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.319 the album will be out, So on top of all 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.760 those things we're shipping out albums, we're promoting the album, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.040 which for you guys listening, it's Monday, three days after release. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.680 So this is Country Things Volume two, which completes Country Things. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.240 So let me know if you're listening on a format 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:23.880 where you can comment, comment your favorite song, because that's 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.600 important to me to get feedback. I've been sitting on 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.080 these songs for so long that you start to lose 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.240 perspective on what other people might like. I have my favorites. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:39.400 What's your favorite on the whole sixteen? Oh? On all sixteen? 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.800 I hate you like I Love You for sure. That's 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.960 my favorite song you've ever done? What's your favorite song 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.080 on Volume two? Do you even know those? What? Those 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.600 songs are? Man made by Boy Baseball anything like me? 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.800 What Love looks Like? Where I Get It From? Six 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:03.160 String Stories, Work Diesel. I like those two earl songs, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.920 but where I Get it From is probably the one 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.880 that add to my country playlist. And an earl if 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.080 I'm in an earl mood, yeah, working out or something. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.600 By the time you guys are listening to this podcast 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.480 on Monday, if you're listening real time. I will be 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.640 while you're listening right now. I will be in Indiana 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:28.040 with Whistling Diesel, a YouTuber, very very popular YouTuber in 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.880 Indiana with a bunch of Diesel trucks, and we're going 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.600 to be shooting the music video with Earl Dibbles Junior 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:38.120 and Whistling Diesel for the song Diesel. And supposedly it's 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.360 gonna be the high of thirty two degrees, so I'll 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.200 be a little bit chilly. Earl is going to be 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.720 a little bit chilly in his overalls. But that's what 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.480 I'm doing right now as you're listening to this man, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.320 What else does that get us caught up to where 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.400 we are? It's funny that when we were filming Country 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.480 and you Know It visualizer with Earl, it was almost 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.080 like pass out hot August in Texas, and then now 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.640 it's gonna be just absolutely freezing for Earl's next video. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.520 Earl's just a world traveler, but you never know, he's 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.440 always wearing the same thing. Doesn't prepare very well, I 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:18.080 guess yeah. Our director, videographer, producer, mister Everything video, Paul 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:23.120 Dale Serta, was like, maybe maybe Earl could have some 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.120 coveralls on because it's gonna be so cold, And I 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.280 was like, you can't change Earl's clothes, but he just 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.760 doesn't make any sense. Then it becomes another character if 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.560 it's changed clothes, it's like you have to see the 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.720 overalls and the white tank top and the green hat 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.480 and the muddy boots, no matter what the weather. And 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.160 when we filmed Earl in the Holler music video is 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.200 eighteen degrees here in Texas, So I don't think it's 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.320 gonna beanny colder than that, hopefully in Indiana next week. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.880 Is that all the housekeeping we have. I'm fasting right now, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.400 so I'm like, I'm a little lightheaded in so it's 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:03.160 only too in the afternoon and I'm fasting all the 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:07.399 way to Thanksgiving dinner. How are you? How are you feeling? 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.040 Does your stomach hurt or do you have a headache 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.920 or anything? No, I'm just a little lightheaded. And last 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.840 time you ate was dinner last night. No, I wasn't 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:21.480 that brave. I thought about doing that, but I've chickened out. Honestly, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.600 that's the only excuse I have. But so I ate. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.879 I got up this morning at six and had a 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:32.920 shake and a little protein bar, but a protein shake 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.960 and a protein bar. It sits. It's like my normal 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.720 lunchtime anyway. Yeah, okay, that's not too bad. No, no, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.120 it's not bad. It's mainly the thought that I've done 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.320 a twenty four hour fast before this will be just 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.160 over thirty hours. And it's mainly the thought that I'm 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.000 going to sleep tonight hungry. And that is that's the 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.160 reason I didn't finish dinner last night and decide, because 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:57.320 I was like, man, I don't want to go to 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.920 bed Wednesday night just so hung because I'm not used 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.600 to it. Some of you listening might be thinking, oh, 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.160 that's weak. I do it all the time. You might well, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.640 Grangel will come in my office at like eleven fifteen 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.360 and be asking about lunch, so this is a big 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.000 deal for him, and that it's two forty and he 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.679 hasn't eaten lunch yet. Like you eat, you eat pretty often. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.520 The last time I did this was I was on tour, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.240 and it's easy on tour because I'll eat dinner at 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.920 five pm and then I'll just cut it off. That'll 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.359 be the last meal I have. The next day. I'll 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.640 get on the airplane, fly back on a normal tour, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.480 fly home, and then wait all the way to dinner 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.000 to eat. That's like twenty four hours. That's kind of fun. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.639 You've never done it. No, no, So now I'm going 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.320 to be able to just crush Thanksgiving dinner? Are you 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.399 doing it? Partly to do it and then partly just 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.280 timing it so that you enjoy Thanksgiving that much more 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.520 and appreciate it. Yeah, there's pretty much three reasons. One, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.560 I just want to crush Thanksgiving dinner and just be like, 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:05.000 hold nothing back. I can't wait, just destroy it. And 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:09.320 then two, it's a mental challenge, kind of like you 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.240 do seventy five hard. It's just a it's a true 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:18.560 mental challenge to to every time like my literally right now, 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.080 my stomachs growling. Like I said, it's only two forty 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.440 in the afternoon, but every time your stomach growls, it's 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.040 it's a reminder that you're in a way tied to food. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.520 You're addicted to that supplement of food, and all day long, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.920 especially me, I'm just thinking about where's my next meal, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.040 When could I get my next meal? How long do 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.720 I have for my next meal? And if you just 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.679 eliminate that from your day, it freeze up so much time, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:52.879 energy effort. I mean, like just the thought of me 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.919 having no lunch and dinner tonight, I'm like, man, I 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.560 got those free time. I don't have to because you 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.040 know what, I it's always like what am I going 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.560 to eat? Am I going to cook? It? Is Amber 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:04.880 going to cook it? Are we going to go out 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.400 to eat? Are we? Am I going to get to go? 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.639 If you just go a whole workday without eating, it 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.679 just almost puts your mind at ease. It's like I 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.399 got this water, I don't have to worry about food, 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.240 so I can just get whatever done I need to 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.199 get done. Yeah, and our minds are fully our bodies 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.200 are fully capable of doing that without losing weight or anything. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.080 So then the third reason is today is the day 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:30.239 I'll finish Malachi. So this i'll officially I have two 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.679 more chapters when I get home, of officially finishing the 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:38.119 entire Bible. So it's a little bit of a celebration 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.160 for that. I read the New Testament in its entirety, 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:47.640 from cover to cover, basically Matthew to Revelation. And then 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.320 this is all during the pandemic. And then I started 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.200 at Genesis. I've read everything up to Malachi, so today 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:58.040 I'll finish it. And throughout the Bible there's always fasting 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:03.960 going on, and it's a people fasted in the Bible too, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:10.560 focus on what they're what, like to spiritually focused on 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.840 what they need to be thinking about. It takes away 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:17.240 the distraction, the last almost of food, like takes it 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.320 out of your mind and you redirect it to it physically. 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.680 And it's like a way to show God that you're 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.040 willing to put away your human needs for a little 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.920 bit to focus on interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.040 a good time of the year to do it. I 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.479 think that's what I heard Cameron Haynes talking the other 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:34.520 day about those elk hunts that where they'd go out 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.520 into the mountains for you know, six or seven days 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.879 or four or five days, whatever it is. And you know, 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.640 getting the elk is is a big part of it. 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.320 But then just on a daily basis, figuring out what 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.800 you're going to eat, you know, if they'll shoot shoot 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.480 like grouse or squirrels, or sometimes they'll pack bags and 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:56.000 He's like, and then it really just brings into perspective like, man, 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:57.840 do you have food in your stomach and do you 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:59.760 have a place to sleep tonight? Like those are the 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.440 two most important things, and you have some water. It's like, 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.159 those are the three things that matters, like food, water, 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.960 and shelter. He's like, and so for those you know, 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.080 four or five days out in the mountains, it just 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:13.280 simplifies life and it shows you how simple it is. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.240 I love that kind of stuff because it's got to 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:21.440 hurt humanity knowing that we we live in a world 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.840 where those three things are taken care of, at least 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.879 in a first world country, like most of us listening 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.120 to this podcast, or I'm assuming most of us are 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.920 from first world countries. I know that we have we 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:36.760 have some South America, we have some Central America listening. 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:41.880 But most of us don't really have to worry about 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:43.639 where we're going to sleep tonight and if we're going 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:45.840 to get some food in our belly and water today. 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:52.080 But one hundred and fifty years ago, everybody on the 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:56.040 earth had to think about that, and everything before one 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.679 hundred and fifty years ago, everything before. Your food's not 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:04.639 your ail, aren't guaranteed, everything's perishable, there's no refrigerators in freezers, 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:10.840 and you're not really sure about your shelter. So I 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:12.760 love to be able to put that in perspective and 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.160 get out in the wild a little bit and test 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:20.480 your the old native spirit that's inside of you, yeah, 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:24.000 humbles you. And also air conditioning. That's the other thing 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.520 we constantly live wherever we live, whatever season it is, 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:33.240 it's always like seventy degrees fahrenheit, because that's where we're comfortable. 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.399 But in the old days, they're just wearing wool, you know, 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.600 and one hundred degrees. I live in a barn now, 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.120 so I could tell you imagine Earl's house, the old 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:46.639 rock house. It wasn't any better in Earl's house one 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:48.199 hundred and fifty years ago than it is in my 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:50.280 barn now. And my barn now is insulated, and it 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.480 gets to one hundred degrees. So those people are sitting 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:58.600 in there, old people, babies, and one hundred degrees. And 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:01.600