WEBVTT - Our 1st Amendment Under Threat! 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.920 And I was just like blown away by using that 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.320 as an opening line to your resume, and I just thought, 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.720 what if, what if we could strive? What if success 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:17.720 was striving for the ability to put on your resume, 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:24.080 to start your resume with I am a man of integrity, 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.680 knowing that that is the most important value you could 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.640 offer to an employer or to the world, and also 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:59.000 believing those words. Hey, guys, it's Granger Smith. Welcome to 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.480 the Granger Smith podcat asked episode twenty five, a quarter 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.560 to one hundred podcasts. Thank you guys for listening, especially 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.039 the ones that have started with Day one, which is 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.840 I believe a couple of years ago now. And then 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.440 welcome the new watchers and listeners. We're on YouTube now. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.759 We've been doing this for about five episodes, and that, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.399 you know, YouTube is what I've been doing a lot 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.959 of lately, and those of you that follow the multiple 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.880 channels that I have and the multiple pieces of social media, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.399 you'll see that we've been doing about one video a 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.520 day between the Smiths, which is our family blog. We've 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.440 been doing those on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then Amber 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.360 has a new show called A Rise with Amber on 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.840 the Smiths channel every Sunday morning. This podcast comes out 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.240 every Monday morning, and then I've been doing a Granger 0:01:52.280 --> 0:02:00.240 blog on Wednesdays and an Earl Dibvils thing probably on Friday. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.680 So we just put out for when I'm recording this video. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.080 We just put out Don't Cough on Me music video 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.400 on YouTube. And there are so many more things I 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.000 have planned. I'm actually going to go this weekend head 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.560 back to Mom's and we're going to get back on 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.320 another Earl Dibbles. So there's Earl. It's like had a 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:30.000 resurgence during this crazy world world thing. Guys, I have 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.600 to like censor everything that I say because YouTube. I'm 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.440 relying so much on YouTube right now because it's kind 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.560 of on my only way to pay the bills, and 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.960 they are still censoring everything and demonetizing everything. If you 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.000 say certain words about the world and what the world 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.600 is doing right now, there's like these keywords that they're 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.160 picking up on their algorithm and then like slashing videos 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.280 and demonetizing them. So it feels like about half the 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.880 videos I've done, I'm still learning the new lingo that 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.079 YouTube is allowing, which, by the way, isn't that kind 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.680 of crazy. I mean, we talk all the time about 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.880 the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment, freedom of speech, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.560 which is the amendment that allows me to sit here 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.200 on this podcast and talk to you guys and do 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.160 all these YouTube videos and everyone won't give you my 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:26.000 opinion about life and love and happiness and lack thereof. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:31.840 And can you believe that that amendment is under threat 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.800 every day? You know, we talk about the Second Amendment 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.400 being under threat, but so is the first. I mean, look, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.560 look what's happening around the world and people, you know, 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.880 videos getting taken down and Twitter posts getting taken down 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.960 or even worse, some people's Twitter posts staying up, which 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.800 is a whole different conspiracy theory. And I am just 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.720 a for those of you don't know me, I am 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.680 a Measley country music singer, and I shouldn't get involved 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:06.840 too much in crazy conspiracies or world events. I'm just 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.920 going to call it like I see it. And I 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.080 feel like our first Amendment right is under threat a 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.240 little bit. It's under fire as well as the second. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.760 So all that being said, I have to watch what 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.480 I say constantly now so that I don't get slashed 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.920 up or demonetized, because if I get demonetized. That's really 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:32.080 the only income I have paying the bills during these times. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.880 Let me get to some questions. This has been the 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.039 kind of the theme to the last several podcasts since 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.360 I can't have a guest because we're practicing this stay 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.080 away from each other thing, you know what it's called. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.880 And I've been answering your questions on social media hashtag 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:54.400 Granger Smith podcast. Right. I've also been reading the comments 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.280 from below these YouTube videos. And you could be listening 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.559 to this on Spotify or on a podcast asked app, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.320 or you could be watching it on YouTube. I think 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.600 there's a couple other ways too, but if you're watching 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.839 on YouTube, I'm also kind of taking comments or questions 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:15.600 from the comments and answering some of these. And if 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.360 you have something you want to ask me, go ahead 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.040 and comment below this video, or go to social media 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.440 and hashtag Granger Smith podcast and then ask your question. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.839 And this is the first one I want to read. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.240 And I kind of I got some questions, but I 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.960 have not prepared anything. I haven't prepared so my mind 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.360 is completely cleared. I don't know what's about to come out. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.520 I hope I say the right things. That's the story 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.919 of my life all the time. Anyway. First question is, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.359 I've listened to all of your podcasts and this morning 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.280 I'm finishing up. So he listens, says, I've listened to 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.960 all of them backwards, so this morning I'm finishing up 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.440 episode one. Have you ever met and told Guard Brokes 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:05.560 about his impression on you as a kid, And the 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.880 answer is yes, I have. We've played a couple of 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:12.560 shows with Garth and exactly how you think he might 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.159 be he is in real life. He's, you know, the 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.239 what we'd say in the band. He's the country music Oprah. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.160 You know, he's like he's a man to the people. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.479 He's a man and he never turns it off, like 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.600 his eyes locked on Garth eyes, you know where everything 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.240 sounds like he's reading a speech, but it's actually just 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.760 coming out of his brain. That's the real Garth. And 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.400 we've played a couple of shows with him and I've 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.560 gotten to spend some good time with him. And what 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.520 this question is asking is earlier on a I think 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.520 I believe it was episode one on the podcast I 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.880 talked about Garth was such a big inspiration to me 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:56.119 into what country music is because my grandpa passed away 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.360 in the late eighties, and I was it's just a 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.520 little bitty. And my first impression of country music was 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:09.600 when my grandmother put on his tombstone, if Tomorrow Never comes, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.360 will you know how much I loved you? And that's 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.880 a lyric from a Garth Brooks song. And that song 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.040 had just come out as brand new on country radio 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.560 at the time, I believe it was eighty nine. And 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.920 I saw that and I still remember that to this day. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:30.200 And I remember just seeing what a crazy impression that 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:35.280 a song lyric from a songwriter, from a country music 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.920 artist on country music radio, What that could do to 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.200 a life, what that could do do a family. And 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.520 I was witnessing at a funeral. You know these words 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.680 that Garth wrote on a tombstone that will live forever 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:54.360 in this family's memory to commemorate their love for each other. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.920 And that is crazy. And that was my first big, 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.360 real impression of country music. And I didn't tell Garth that, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.400 you know what I did. I did tell Garth that, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.960 but I didn't. I just said, you know, really quick, 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.120 I just said, I need to tell you that your 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.640 song if Tomorrow Never Comes is on my granddad's Gravestone. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.280 I didn't go into detail like I'm doing right now, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:24.400 and I wouldn't say that I'm friends with him, but 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:31.720 but we are real good acquaintances. Like we've had great conversations, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.559 and he's taught me a lot backstage, and he's taught 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.680 me a lot by his words and things that he 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.800 doesn't say, just the way that he carries himself, the 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.200 way he takes care of his band and crew, and 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.880 the way that he takes care of his fans. I've 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.280 learned a lot from that guy. And he reached out 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.440 when we lost River. He made a big effort to 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.960 reach out and give me a hug during that time. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.080 And we did a show right around then in Boise 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.400 on the Smurf turf at the Boise Football Stadium, and 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.079 we did a show there together. Does the last time 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.000 I saw him, and it was really special, special event 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.880 across a good man man. I'm also very blessed to 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:26.200 have met a hero like that, very lucky. Some of 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.679 these questions I would kind of screenshot on my phone 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.599 if I saw it several times, if I saw the 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.440 same question. Here's one that I saw several times. How 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.920 are you staying in shape any recommendations for home workouts, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.200 and I kind of talked about this on episode twenty 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.120 four and I left it open to you guys to 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.120 kind of comment if you know any home workouts, and 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.079 I talked about this on a vlog on my Granger 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.280 channel as well. But what I've kind of always done 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.800 in trueth that to me, is starts in the kitchen. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.960 For sure. It starts with what you eat. At least 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.160 that's for me. It's eighty percent what I eat, twenty 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.800 percent of what I do. And I like to break 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.720 a sweat once a day. It's just like a little 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.680 rule I have. If I could get out and do 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.640 whatever that takes to break a sweat once a day, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.840 that does really well for me. I don't know the 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.920 science behind it. I just know it works really well 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.280 for me. The second thing I do is I do 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.920 strength training. And that doesn't necessarily mean weights. It just 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.320 means I focus on muscle groups. And I've done this 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:42.679 for probably twenty years maybe more. And what that means 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.120 for me is I usually start on I usually take 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.400 Sundays off, depending on the if it's a normal schedule, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.440 I take Sundays off. I start on Monday, and I 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.600 do chest and I could add like triceeps to that. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.560 I could add shoulders to that, but it's mainly chest. Tuesday, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:04.480 I do legs and that includes you know, quads and 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:13.080 hamstrings and calves. It could include some core, it can 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:19.840 include anything lower body. Really. On Wednesday, I'll do back, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.520 which could be the back of the shoulders, could be 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.960 lower back. Mid back pull ups is like the quintessential 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:33.880 back exercise. On Thursday, I'll go do shoulders, which is 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.440 exclusively shoulders, and I could put a little chest in 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.120 that day too, just like it did on chest deck 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.760 and put a little shoulders, but I'd do majority of 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.400 the muscle group shoulders on shoulder Day, which is a 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:50.320 lot of a lot of military press straight up. And 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.079 on Fridays the do arms, which is biceps and triceps. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.679 On Saturdays, I will do the exercise that I had 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.560 to skip for whatever reason. If I to skip one 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.920 of those, and if I get to do all six days, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.880 then I'll add a core kind of abs and a 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.720 little bit more cardio. Since we have all been staying home, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.280 none of that's really changed. I just I either we 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.280 put together a little gym in the Geee farm, and 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.400 so I'm either there or I could. You could do 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.480 all of those things I just said at home, But 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.200 to me, it helps to split those muscles up so 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.920 I could hit chests like a ton of push ups 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.400 and I can get as sore as I want and 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.480 then it rest literally for six days until I hit 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.000 it again. And for me, once again, I'm not a scientist, 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.760 not a nutritionist, but that has been I've seen great 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.920 results by splitting it up like that, and on top 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:50.640 of all that sweating once a day. What's gotten there? 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:59.520 What we got next? What is the best way to 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:05.040 support a musician? And it's a great question. I see 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:09.480 it many times and I'll answer it a million times 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:14.760 because I feel like it's important for musicians to for 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.240 this fact to get out to anyone else, because a 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.400 lot of people I talk to don't know this because 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.280 it's changed over the years. For instance, we talked about Garth. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.160 I use him as an example because he's sold so 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.560 many millions of records that Garth really didn't need to 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.559 do anything else besides make music and put out records. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:41.440 And that has changed dramatically now, as you know, the 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:46.240 record business, selling records, selling songs is pretty much non 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.360 existent now streaming songs has taken the place of that, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.839 and the money associated with streaming is tiny. It's fractions 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.560 of pennies. So if you stream one of my songs today, 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.960 which I hope you do, it's it's fractions of pennies. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:09.040 Back to the artist, what matters number one, by far 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.240 above everything else, hands down, doesn't matter if you're playing 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.280 an open mic night or if you're in stadiums is 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:22.080 going to see this artist at a live concert, Which 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.040 is why the state of events in the world right 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.400 now is so crippling to musicians because that has become 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:33.520 our number one way to pay all the bills. Number one, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.680 nothing even comes close. You cannot even compare anything close. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.960 And that especially applies to me because I've considered myself 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.720 a mid level artist. I'm not a big headliner in 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.800 an arena, but I'm not in the tiny bars anymore 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.400 like I used to be for decades, and so that 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.640 put me right in the middle where we have. We 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.760 still have a considerable amount of overhead and amount of 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.520 crew and band to pay, but we're still not getting 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.480 the the six figure digits or whatever that you get 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.760 when you play, when you headline arenas, and so so 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.600 if you want to support an artist is you've got 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.880 to do the one thing that you can't do right now, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.640 and that's go see a live concert. Now, if we 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.360 did a streaming concert, which would be fun, and we 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.160 should do that just because it's fun, but there's no 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.320 way that could actually help pay bills. So and that 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.200 goes with any other artists. You might be able to 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.560 tip them. They might be able to make a couple 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.920 hundred bucks. You know, that's awesome and every penny matters, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.640 but it's not going to pay for fourteen guys salaries 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.840 and all the other expenses that go on with putting 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.440 on a live concert. That's okay, Well, you know we're 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.640 going we're going to we're gonna make it. All of 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.000 us are going to make it through this. You listening, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.800 We're all going to make it through this. We just 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.360 have to look at it like we're hanging on monkey 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.200 bars right now, and our knuckles are getting white and 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.520 all the blood is rushing out of our arms, and 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.800 you just got to hang on. You want to drop, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.760 you want to just let go and hit the ground, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.480 but you just got to hang on. If you hang 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.240 on just a little bit longer, we're gonna be okay, 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.800 and that's how I feel. So the number one way 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.200 you could support an artist is to go see a 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.320 live concert, which is the one thing you can't do 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.280 right now. Second best thing for me, literally is to 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.000 watch these videos. Watch these videos, subscribe to the channel. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.120 If you haven't done that already, hit the subscribe on 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.120 the Granger channel, which is what this is on. Hit 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.760 the subscribe on the Smiths and we'll just keep making videos. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.240 And that's very encouraging as we see that now we 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.600 don't make we make pennies on YouTube as well, But 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:49.040 like I said earlier, every penny counts right now. When 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.200 will canceled shows have a rescheduled date? Another very common question, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.400 and I don't know. I don't know. It's fun to 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.080 ask people, what's your take on this whole thing right now, 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:02.960 this whole state of the world. When do you think 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:04.920 we're going to be back to normal? And no one 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.680 really knows. I have rescheduled dates in I believe there's 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.560 some at the end of May and some in the 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.840 beginning of June. You know, I hope to God that 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.679 those stay there, But I don't know. We could this 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.400 whole thing could be the end of June or could 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.200 be July, or god forbid, August or even later. My 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.160 kids are out of school for the rest of the semester, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.880 so there's that. But I don't know. No one does. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.320 And I've talked to people in the highest people in 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.800 every book an agency. No one knows. Everyone's just asking. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:44.640 We just don't know. Next question, this is interesting after 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.479 talking about money. Are you thinking about getting a new 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:55.200 truck anytime soon? Well, regardless of if I'm playing concerts 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.159 or not, I drive a two thousand and eight Chevy 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:03.280 Silverado seven one pick up. I love that truck. It's 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:08.240 what is it twelve years old now, and it drives great. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.320 It's not a lemon, you know what I mean. When 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.199 you can get a car or a truck and you 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.119 just know a couple of months after you drive it 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.080 around at home, you know it's a limon, Like this 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.399 thing's going to mess up all the time. This truck's 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.119 not a limit. It does great knock on woods. It 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.040 just rarely lets me down in any way. I'm very 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:32.639 comfortable with it. My dad drove in that truck with me, 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.159 My son River was in that truck with me. I 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.199 have a lot of memories in that truck. I have 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.240 absolutely no reason to ever let that truck go unless 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:47.080 it just falls off its axles and totals itself. And 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.000 God forbid I reckon in it some way like that. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.160 But no, I don't. I'm not the kind of guy 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:55.560 that drives a new truck. Who and what was your 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:00.560 first concert when you were younger? Sixteen years old? I 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:05.040 went to see George Strait in Texas Stadium and Irving, Texas, 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.199 and I was a member of his fan club, so 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:13.399 I stood in line. I spent the night at Texas 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.920 Stadium months before with the rest of the fan club 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.520 members and got up and I just literally slept on 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.919 the concrete in a parking lot and got up that 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.640 morning when they opened the ticket office and I got 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.840 second row center in the stadium. It was incredible. It 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.280 changed my life. Seeing the crowd and seeing the lights, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.480 and seeing the production and seeing all the bands that 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.320 started at noon that day. It changed my life forever. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:41.720 And I did it. I think I did an entire 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.960 podcast about this, but it was a really big deal. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.520 It made me sitting there my little cowboy hat on, 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.080 you know, a little skinny me. I was by myself, 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.159 by the way, I remember thinking, I want to be 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.359 a part of this circus, no matter what, no matter 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.479 what position. If I'm those guys up on the ladder 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.440 hanging the lights, if I'm the sound guys, if I'm 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.199 in the band, or you know, God willing, I'm the 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.640 guy behind the microphone, I just want to do whatever 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.800 it takes to be part of It just was so 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.240 appealing to me. And I'm kind of a free spirit. 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.720 I've always loved the idea of riding off into the 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:28.800 sunset and roaming. That's always been me and that's that's 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.600 that's really how I felt that day, So it was 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:38.720 It's a good question because that changed my life forever. Okay, well, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.440 it wouldn't be a true podcast if I didn't get 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.439 kind of deep. And I'm gonna do that on this 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:55.440 next one. All right, reposition for this one. I've read 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.480 similar questions to this, and I need to keep reading 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.200 them because I keep getting the question and they repeat 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.159 over and over and over, and it means people are 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.320 still asking the same question and I need to keep 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.920 answering it. But it says this is a hard question 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.560 to answer. How do you move on from the death 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:20.800 of a loved one and two things right off the bat. 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.760 Two things come to my mind. One, you can't move on, 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:29.040 and you know this. The person that asks this question 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:32.560 you know this, and so I'm not blaming you. It's 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.080 just we always like to correct each other on terminology here. 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.200 But you don't move on, you move forward. You move 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:43.080 forward with that memory of that person. Second thing that 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:48.280 comes to my mind is there's no really right answer. Unfortunately. 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:50.879 The reason I know there's not a right answer is 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:54.119 because I had two major losses in my life. There 0:21:54.160 --> 0:22:02.680 were see five years apart, passed away suddenly in twenty fourteen, 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:10.560 and my son passed away in twenty nineteen. And I 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:15.680 handled both of those very very different, both of them. 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:23.160 You know, Dad was my hero, learned everything from him. 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.639 We talked every day. We were so close. He was 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:30.760 such a supporter of everything that I did. He was 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:39.480 a man that I wanted to be. And quick story 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.040 about him, there's a million, but quick story about him 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.280 is when we were going through his things after he passed. 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:51.680 I've mentioned that we found the Ralph Waldo Emerson's success poem. 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:56.760 I mentioned the the Teddy Roosevelt quote that I have 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.720 on my arm. Dear mighty things, But One thing I 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:06.040 have mentioned is my parents. They lived on a ranch, 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:12.480 cattle ranch in central Texas, and Dad held on to 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.879 that place knowing that whenever he was going to retire, 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:24.480 he could sell that ranch and use that money to 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.240 support himself if he's in a nursing home, or if 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.240 he died early, to take care of my mother. And 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:32.880 that was always hard. That was a hard concept for us, 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.280 the three boys, because we were like, oh, I ever 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:37.159 want you to sell the ranch. You know, that's a 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.640 terrible retirement planned Dad. But that's the way he looked 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:44.080 at it. He was just very He could just see 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:47.320 things systematically like that, like I'll die here and then 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:50.160 you'll take that you'll sell the ranch, and that'll provide 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:52.919 money for the funeral. And well, he died a lot 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.960 sooner than any of us had planned. But what we 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:59.639 didn't know was he was so worried about that retirement 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.439 plan he had that he was starting to apply for 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:05.280 new jobs. So he was trying to build a little 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:10.320 job application. And here's the point of the story. The 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:16.959 first sentence of that job application said I am a 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.960 man of integrity, and then it went on to say 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:25.040 things that he could do, the skills that he could do. 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:29.879 And I was just like blown away by using that 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:33.359 as an opening line to your resume, and I just thought, 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:37.680 what if, what if we could strive? What if success 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:43.680 was striving for the ability to put on your resume, 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:52.880 to start your resume with I am a man of integrity, 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:56.680 knowing that that is the most important value you could 0:24:56.720 --> 0:25:01.199 offer to an employer or to the world world, and 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:06.760 also believing those words. And I believed it when I 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:09.399 read it because everyone that knew my dad felt that 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:14.520 way about him. And it changed. It changed the way 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:18.199 I looked at life a little bit. And you know, 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:21.679 when someone dies, you don't get to discuss something with him. 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:23.840 So I never got to discuss hey, Dad, I never 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.679 got to tell him that I saw your resume and 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.240 I saw what you put and he would He is 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:31.240 the kind of guy that probably would have shaken it 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:33.239 off like it wasn't that big a deal, you know, 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.400 But but the truth is that it is a big deal, 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.440