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Speaker 1: So interesting topic we're gonna discuss today, and that is

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Speaker 1: what would I tell my eighteen year old self? A

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Speaker 1: I didn't get like a you know, five bulletins on

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Speaker 1: you know how to answer this correctly. I'm making you

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Speaker 1: also making you sit here because we're also close friends.

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Speaker 1: We've traveled the world together literally, and I think I

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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. What would I tell my eighteen

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Speaker 1: Before we get into that, I do want to address

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Speaker 1: a couple of things about this podcast. You and I

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Speaker 1: have changed. This is episode four, fourth episode of two

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Speaker 1: it a little bit of a change, pivoted a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And what we do on this podcast and technically still

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Speaker 1: what we still do, is we answer your emails and

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Speaker 1: you email podcast at grangersmith dot com ask anything you want.

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Speaker 1: We've especially since you came on and started producing the show,

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Speaker 1: we've noticed that as many times as if I I've

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Speaker 1: asked that question over two hundred times and we've gotten

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you really can. In fact, I made categories of

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Speaker 2: It was marital questions, job questions, yea, spiritual questions, the

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Speaker 2: you know, listening to what was last week's masculinity? I mean,

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Speaker 2: is And it's funny you get emails from thirteen fourteen

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Speaker 1: Week before that, should Christians cuss?

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Speaker 1: now today. Obviously it's the Holy Spirit today, but never

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00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 1: would have said that back then. Know what that even meant?

434
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: So it was maybe stubbornness is kind of maybe a

435
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: way to define it. I was. I was dead set

436
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: on proving people wrong. I never had a lot of

437
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: talent in music. When I was doing the Opry's this

438
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,719
Speaker 1: is what these singing things, and you know, North Texas

439
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: had a bunch of these operys on Saturday night and

440
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 1: I would go and I played a lot of them,

441
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 1: and people always liked me. I was always a likable artist,

442
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 1: especially with the old people, because I'd wear my Starch's

443
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: jeans and my belt buckle and they I was always

444
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: very likable, and I sang likable songs by Haggard and

445
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: George Strait, Alan Jackson. But I never was the guy

446
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: that people cried or were wowed by with that they

447
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: could hold the note for thirty seconds and just make

448
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: people standing ovation, you're comfortable. Yeah, I never got a

449
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: standing ovation. So I would enter contest all the time,

450
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: and I was always like the third place guy that

451
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: everyone was very happy with me getting third place, Like

452
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: ah that I like Granger, the young Granger is he

453
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: gets third place and what a great talent. But then,

454
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: but then I was never the first or the first

455
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: guy would be like, Wow, this guy is going to

456
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: get a record deal. He's incredible. In fact, a lot

457
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: of those guys did what's that one. Steve Hawley was

458
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: one of those guys. Really, Steve Hawley, Holy Steve, Holy,

459
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: good morning beautiful. Yes, he was the guy. LeAnn Rimes

460
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: was another one the same era. That's cool, Leanne and

461
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: Steve could just blow away an audience and they would

462
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: just I mean hair blow back. Their voices were so strong,

463
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: they had such incredible stage presence and standing ovations win

464
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: every contest. I was never that guy, never did I

465
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: ever was I ever first place in those type of deals.

466
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: And as I as I started going through that the

467
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: ten years after eighteen eighteen to twenty, everyone that I

468
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: used to do those operas with started stopping singing. They

469
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: would get married, they would get a job, they would

470
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: have babies, and they started falling off. This guy's not

471
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: doing it anymore, this girl's not doing anywhere. And I

472
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: was the only one that just kept going, even past

473
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: Steve Holey technically past Lee and Rhymes to some extent.

474
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: I just kept going out of stubbornness. And as I

475
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: kept going, and all these people that used to be

476
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: around me were falling off, I was the only one standing.

477
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,959
Speaker 1: And so I was able to get success really just

478
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: by a process of elimination. And I was just stubborn.

479
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: I'd done it for a long time, and I was

480
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: the guy that didn't have all the talent, but just

481
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 1: kept going. And that is what built up the idea

482
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: of my own personal sovereignty. The old you know I'm

483
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: doing this. I'm stubborn, I'm still here. I will keep going.

484
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: I will prove them wrong. And eventually that led to

485
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: me being on top of things for the first time ever.

486
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: It took ten fifteen years before I was number one

487
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: in things and first and touring and first, and you

488
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 1: know that took a long time. All of that is

489
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: just to say I was building a personal sovereignty, is

490
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: personal power over myself. So as I'm talking to my

491
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: eighteen year old self, I'm like, hey, you're about to

492
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 1: get into some dangerous stuff. Drugs, okay, that's dangerous, total

493
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: promiscuous sex type stuff that could be dangerous. Getting into

494
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: organized crime that could be dangerous. Creating your own personal sovereignty,

495
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: your own god of yourself. That is death. That is

496
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 1: death that is hard to recover from. Do How do

497
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: I explain that to my eighteen year old self. I

498
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: don't know. Part of the discussion, this is what I'll

499
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: ask you to is part of this is it's the

500
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: big conundrum of I can't tell my eighteen year old

501
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: self that because if I don't go through what I did,

502
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm not here today looking in hindsight about it. Say

503
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: I go to high school, go to college, go to seminary,

504
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: like a lot of guys do. Right out of college,

505
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: go to seminary, go into some pastoral assistant role in

506
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: some local church, marry a little girl, you know, have

507
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: some babies, live a live an a pastor life. That's

508
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: great and there's nothing against that, and a lot of guys,

509
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: a lot of my friends have done that. But I'm

510
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: not who I am today. I don't have the zeal,

511
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: I don't have the fire that I have that the

512
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: Lord has given me through me being an idiot. So

513
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: I'm not advocating for anyone. Don't do that. Do the

514
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: seminary right out of high school, out of college. That's

515
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: way better. But I look at it like a game

516
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: of Djingam and my life is all those blocks, all

517
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: the mistakes, everything I did, all that stubbornness, those are blocks,

518
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: and you take those out and my tower crashes. I'm

519
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: not radically reborn. I'm not the guy that leaves country

520
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: music for ministry all of those and I'm not the

521
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: guy that loses river because of my own stubbornness. That's

522
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: all of that falls, and I'm not who I am today.

523
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: Is that how you feel at all? Is that? Yeah?

524
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: What a little bit, But mine's almost the opposite. Yours

525
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,239
Speaker 2: was stubbornness through the failures, and it's man, you were

526
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 2: bringing back some And we've never talked about this part.

527
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: I think I've sent you one time a picture of

528
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 2: promo picture me.

529
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: I remember that.

530
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and everything you just talked about about going to

531
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: all the operays, oh flash, I did all the same things.

532
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: But you know what I wasn't good at is I

533
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: wasn't good at pushing through failures because there were a

534
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 2: lot of things that came really easy for me. I

535
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 2: say a lot of things drumming plant. My dad was

536
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 2: a singer, so I played for him, and I was

537
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: around a lot of other really good drummers. So I

538
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 2: learned over that period of time where you're very impressionable.

539
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: I'm talking like five, six years old, seven years old

540
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 2: sitting behind my dad's drummer, but then filling in and

541
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: playing at eight years old and nine years old because

542
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 2: I could hold a steady beat and I wasn't thrown

543
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 2: off by other people. It just came naturally. And we're

544
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 2: not talking about big stage, You're not talking about the

545
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 2: grand Olafer. You're not talking about a stadium or anything

546
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: like that. But I was for that.

547
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: I was great.

548
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 2: I was really good at a young age. Yeah, And

549
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 2: it came easy. So I continued doing stuff that was easy.

550
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: When I got into radio, I moved quickly in radio,

551
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 2: I didn't move quickly. It's I could say this now,

552
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 2: couldn't say it then. I'm not a good singer.

553
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: The voice of an angel.

554
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 2: But that's the people will go, well, you have you

555
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 2: have a good voice. Imagine you sing well like no,

556
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 2: I mean yes, I know when I'm flat or sharp,

557
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 2: and I know if I'm not singing, you know, if

558
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 2: it's too high for me, if I cry, you all

559
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: that stuff. But I would do all the opryes and

560
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: stuff like that, and I when I would fail, I'll

561
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: be like not doing that again, I'm out. And you

562
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: know if I'm not saying that. If I'd pushed through that,

563
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 2: I would have you know, done that or been you

564
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 2: know somebody in the in the as a singer. But

565
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: it was the other stuff that came easy, easier or

566
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 2: much easier that you know I was. I got a

567
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 2: scholarship to a liberal arts college, a great one in Oklahoma,

568
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 2: and I'm not good at symphonic drumming. I'm not good

569
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: at reading sheet music and playing MOREMBA or xylophone. I

570
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 2: was like, eh, other stuff, I don't have to try

571
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 2: as hard. Radio, I don't have to try as hard.

572
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 2: I was, you know, at seventeen, I was, you know,

573
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 2: rewracking carts and CDs and stuff like that.

574
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: For other jocks.

575
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: And by the time I was twenty, I had an

576
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 2: afternoon show in Oklahoma City on a on the one

577
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 2: hundred thousand what country station, like voice of an Angel?

578
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: It stop that.

579
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 2: And that's what's funny is that I don't think that

580
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: I have a good voice, like I think that like, okay,

581
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 2: if I do this, I can be better if I

582
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: And so I think on the opposite side though, of that,

583
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 2: of being eighteen and going through things, I didn't persevere

584
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 2: through some of the hard stuff, which caught up with

585
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: me later in life.

586
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: I see what you mean. Opposite, Yeah, is the opposite? Yeah.

587
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: I remember one time playing an opry in Mesquite, Texas

588
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: and trying a couple of new songs new old songs

589
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: from George Drake. Probably I don't remember which ones they were,

590
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: meaning I didn't really prepare that much and went and

591
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: I remember I went out there and on the second verse,

592
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: I just blinked forgot it all, no no idea what

593
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: it was. And the band is just kind of looping

594
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: and they're back there like it's okay, Granger, you'll think

595
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: of it. And I just the longer time went by,

596
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: the more I could not remember it, and everyone's just

597
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: staring at me, like they look at this idiot. So

598
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: ended up just going right to the last chorus and

599
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: just finishing the song, went out the side door. It

600
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: was a field out there, and I just went out

601
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: there and yelled at the moon, just screamed at the

602
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: moon and got on my knees and put my face

603
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: in the dirt, just ashamed, like if it was an

604
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: old Testament, I would have been putting ashes on the Yes,

605
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: of course, I mean, yeah, it was awful, and I yes,

606
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: I remember sitting out there in the dirt, you know,

607
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: in my starts genes, just going I will never be

608
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: unprepared again, never. And and I remember someone they used

609
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: to give me the vhs of it at the end

610
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: of the night. Give me the vhs go home and

611
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: watch it. They gave me the vhs. I destroyed it.

612
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: You didn't want to just crushed it with a hammer,

613
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: ripped all the I wish I had it, that'd be

614
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: amazing to have it now. But that's how it was.

615
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 2: I had the crushed up vhs or had the actual

616
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: actual ghs.

617
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I built over a decade

618
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: of I'll never mess up again. I will push through,

619
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: I will go back, I will redeem this night. I'll

620
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: do it again. And I don't want to feel this

621
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: feeling of defeat again.

622
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: And I don't want to feel this and I will

623
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 2: change it.

624
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I will change it. Yeah. I did this

625
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 1: to myself. This happened because of me, and I'll fix

626
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: it because of me. So if you're eighteen right now

627
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: and you're listening to this, it's like, what's the takeaway, Granger,

628
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: I'll tell you exactly what the takeaway is. Actually, I

629
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: told you I was going to bring this iPad here

630
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: just in case, just in case I thought of something

631
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: in the Bible, and I know exactly where to go.

632
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: If I was going to say, hey, Granger, what should

633
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: you understand? I would say, you need to understand above

634
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: all else, young eighteen year old Granger, before you get

635
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: into this world where you think you're fighting for your

636
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: own sovereignty. You think you're developing your own talent. You

637
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: think the crowds are coming because of you. You think

638
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: you're sustaining crowds because of you. You think crowds are

639
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: leaving because of a mistake you made. Do you think

640
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: you have all this under control? You need to understand

641
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: Psalm one that says blessed in the man as blessed

642
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: is the man who walks not in the council of

643
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor

644
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: sits in the seat of scoffers. But his delight is

645
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 1: in the law of the Lord. And on his law

646
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: he meditates day and night. He is like a tree

647
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit and

648
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: its season, and it's leaf does not wither. In all

649
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: that he does, he prospers the wicked or not so,

650
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: for they are like shaft but the wind drives away. Therefore,

651
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: the wicked will not stand in the judgment nor sinners

652
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: and the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows

653
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: the way of the righteous, but the way the wicked

654
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: will perish. So I say to this to myself I

655
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: don't care what you do. I don't care what you

656
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: succeed in. I don't care what you fail in. I

657
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: don't care what George Strait second verse songs you forget.

658
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: If you stay close to the Lord, like a tree

659
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: planted by streams of water, you will prosper. Yeah, that's

660
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: the message to eighteen year olds now. That's the message

661
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: to my kids now. And that's the message I would

662
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: tell my old self. I don't care what you do, buddy,

663
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: I don't care what talent you have. The Lord gave

664
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: you all of it. If you stay close to him,

665
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: you will prosper. Does that mean with money and wealth

666
00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: and fame. No? Maybe, but that's not when I mean

667
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: at all. And that's not what this verse means at all.

668
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 2: And what's a practical, every day something I can apply

669
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: today as an eighteen year old or you you're talking

670
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: to yourself, right, your eighteen year old self. What's a

671
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: practical thing you can do to stay close to the Lord?

672
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you two or three. One. You need

673
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: to be around other people that are the Lord. Yep,

674
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: like you can't. You love wrestling. In fact, you have

675
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: a podcast called wrestle Chat If anyone loves wrestling like

676
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: ant Man, go look up wrestle Chat. It's a great podcast.

677
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: When you love wrestling, you want you crave to be

678
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: around other people people that love wrestling. It's just obvious.

679
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: It's this obvious in anything in life. You love the Lord,

680
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: you need to crave to be around other people that

681
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: love the Lord. Can I add something to that.

682
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, other people older and same sex. So if you're

683
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 2: an eighteen year old guy, find older guys that are

684
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 2: close to the Lord, because they'll they can spot stuff

685
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 2: much quicker in you than you can and yourself.

686
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: That's good.

687
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: That's leading you away from God. And that's something you know,

688
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 2: looking back on mine raised by single mom for sisters

689
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 2: and I, so there wasn't a lot of male influences.

690
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 2: What we talked about the masculinity thing on the on

691
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 2: the podcast last week, and when it kind of resonated

692
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 2: with me and I, you know, probably some of those

693
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 2: emails stood out a little bit more to me and

694
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 2: it became that podcast was that man, if you would

695
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: have if you'll surround yourself earlier with men that get

696
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: go to the church, and wherever you go to church,

697
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 2: go seek them out, be be be diligent in looking

698
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 2: for those opportunities. Ask you know you're gonna you're gonna

699
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 2: be embarrassed by something that might be something that you

700
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: should be embarrassed about. You know that you said, asked

701
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 2: older gentleman to help mentor you, and they said, no,

702
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 2: they're too busy. If that embarrasses you, but you're going

703
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: to be embarrassed by a lot of other things that

704
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 2: are much more embarrassing. Not that, but find those guys.

705
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys out, which is they're going to help

706
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: you find to be around people like minded, people that

707
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: love the Lord. Number two, if you want to hear

708
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: the Lord, if you want to be close to the Lord,

709
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: you need to go where he speaks, and he speaks

710
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: through the Bible Yep, the living, breathing word of God.

711
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 1: This will take someone. Will just only use someone for example,

712
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: the law. David is writing here, but his delight is

713
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: in the law of the Lord, and on this law

714
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: he meditates day and night. That word law could be

715
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: synonymous with word the word. So in the New Testament

716
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: we see the word Jesus uses that a lot. He

717
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 1: who keeps my word, if anyone loves me, he will

718
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: keep my w synonymous with law, specifically talking about the

719
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: Law of Moses, but it's really synonymous with the Word

720
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: of God, the Law of God, the precepts of God,

721
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: the testimonies of God. Being close to that which is

722
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 1: the Bible. That is what we have. We have the Law,

723
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: we have the Word, we have the precepts. We have that.

724
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: So if you want to be close to the Lord,

725
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: if you want to be like a tree planted by

726
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: streams of water that yields its fruit and its season

727
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does,

728
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: he prospers. If you want to be that guy, then

729
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: you go close to him as he has revealed himself

730
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: in the Bible. So you run as people and you

731
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: go to where he speaks his Bible. In fact, you

732
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 1: take care of those two things. I believe your prayer

733
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: life is going to increase, no doubt. I believe you're

734
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: going to join a local church, because that's the inevitable

735
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: place where you will go to be around God's people,

736
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: is the church, which is the bride of Christ. So

737
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: I believe you'll join a local church to be around

738
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: the people and to read the Word. It all comes

739
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: together in those three aspects. You know.

740
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 2: I think that's a great challenge to if you are

741
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 2: not an eighteen year old and you're somebody who is,

742
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 2: you know, very involved in their church and is seeking

743
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: for ways to be to give back. Seek those kids

744
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: that are getting ready to graduate because may and stay

745
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 2: plugged in with them as they leave, because this is

746
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 2: the time they fall away. This is the time that

747
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 2: they leave and go start exploring. They're adults now. I

748
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 2: have a twenty one year old daughter, and this is

749
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 2: the time that they you know, that they make a

750
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 2: decision about things that do affect in real world the rest.

751
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: Of their life. Yeah, you know. And so I mean

752
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: that's it. Granger, the eighteen year old Anthony, the eighteen

753
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: year old that that was your name back then, not

754
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: Am Anthony has the full name. Yeah, very quickly it

755
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: became a man. Be the guy of Psalm one. Now

756
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: how you do that. There's a lot of ways to

757
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: do that. We've named a few, But be that guy Granger.

758
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: Then go off and do your music, do you thing,

759
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: make your mistakes, make your whatever, but don't ever get

760
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: away from being that guy. Now I have to say

761
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: it's a caveat again. I'll say it again. That's impossible

762
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: to tell myself that, because if I tell myself that,

763
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: then I'm not who I am today. Yeah. So it's

764
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: but hypothetically, mainly just speaking to people listening, I think

765
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: we have a few minutes left. We should we should

766
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: tell the story of what happened the progress a day

767
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. So the day that I the day I

768
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: meet aunt man, we're going coming in to do a

769
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: festival that you put on a radio show.

770
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 2: A barbecue festival. What was that called Great American Barbecue

771
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 2: and Beer Fest. It's no longer going on, okay, so

772
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 2: and this wasn't the last show.

773
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: So just what happens in radio, this is the game

774
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: that's played, is that we get asked to do shows.

775
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get paid, sometimes we don't, but we do

776
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: it because it's usually a favor for the station, hoping

777
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: that in return they'll either get to know you and

778
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: like you more and then ultimately that they play your song. So,

779
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 1: as a new artist, you're doing all these barbecue festivals

780
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: all across the country. So did you quick quickly I guess,

781
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 1: did you find me specifically or did you did the

782
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 1: label pitch me? Or how did there.

783
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 2: I specifically for you?

784
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: Oh?

785
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was we were doing. It was on the Verge,

786
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 2: was clicking on the Verge. I don't want to get

787
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 2: into all the details. On the Verge was the it's

788
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 2: kind of like the the overarching we're all going to

789
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: get behind this one song and make it a hit.

790
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 2: If you play a song, it doesn't look at the

791
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: song makarena. Yeah, the song is not a hit, but

792
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 2: it was played so much it became a hit. Okay, okay,

793
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 2: well thank you for that, but so is everybody get

794
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: We're going to get behind this song. We got behind

795
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 2: Granger's back road song. It was your first release.

796
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: On a Mister Lay and that's important. It was our

797
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: first release. This is the first round of these type

798
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: of events. Yeah, we had been playing. We had been

799
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: in this for ten years before that at a minor

800
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: league level. But it was very evident.

801
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 2: It was very evident. A lot of things were clicking

802
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: for you at that time. The song was great. It

803
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 2: was an on the Verge for our company. Earl Dibbles

804
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 2: Junior was on clicking on.

805
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: All company that I now work for as a radio host,

806
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: which is so sacronic it is.

807
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 2: And yeah, have we played it on the Verge yet?

808
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 2: I don't know if we've talked about that on the show,

809
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 2: but yeah, that's I mean, it was world's collided at

810
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: a great time.

811
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: So that's the scene set. What had happened years before this,

812
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 1: we were kind of conditioned to playing these just hole

813
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: in the wall clubs, horrible places, and festivals that were

814
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: also hole in the wall festivals. You know, Mom and

815
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: pop won off, put on, put on some one time

816
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: festival that went out of business the next year, and

817
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: it was horrible. And what would happened was, time after time,

818
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: we've are these these places, these barbecue festivals and ames

819
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: Iowa or whatever, and they would get either the local

820
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: DJ from the internet radio station or the one of

821
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: the sponsors or the owner of the festival or club

822
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: who was drunk to introduce us. And so they'd get

823
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,720
Speaker 1: out there and they go, hell, ladies and gentlemen, here's

824
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: here's Earl Dribbles Granger. Welcome to the stage. And we

825
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: would be horrified. We'd be like, oh, and we we

826
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: wanted to be as professional as possible, we wanted to

827
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: have a good intro, and and this these guys would

828
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,399
Speaker 1: ruin it every night. So over the course of time,

829
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: we made this rule like they can never introduce us,

830
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: don't We'll just do our own introduction. So Chris and

831
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: Blake were doing it, right, Chris, Lee and Blakes. It

832
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: was just Chris think. So Chris, we said, hey, Chris,

833
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: you get up and just you introduce us, so you

834
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: know what to say, and then tell the radio station

835
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: they can't do it, which changed later, but that's who

836
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: we were going into this.

837
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,399
Speaker 2: You've been doing that for a year, two years, three years, right, yes,

838
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:14,439
Speaker 2: with Chris doing the intro.

839
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, more than that. Yeah. And so going into a

840
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: big radio station in a big city, this is new

841
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: for us. And so me and Tyler out of the loop.

842
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: Our machine is working like it always does, just a

843
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: well oiled machine just does what it does. It says

844
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: what it says to the people. And one of the

845
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: reactions is we do our own intro. And somehow that

846
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: was translated to your team and you guys, I don't

847
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: know how that went down, but we do our own intro.

848
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 2: Well on our side, what we get is we get

849
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 2: either a hard intro or soft.

850
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: Intro, yes, which is what we did later in life

851
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: as we learned that lingo.

852
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,959
Speaker 2: So what the record label guy told me was that Hey,

853
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 2: this is a soft intro, which typically for us means

854
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 2: it's a video intro, like you have this big production

855
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 2: that happens and it leads into the production the first song.

856
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: And stuff like. That's what typical. Let me just tell

857
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: people what that means. A hard intro means the guy says,

858
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: welcome to stage, Granger Smith. The band plays, the soft

859
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: intro is welcome in just a few more minutes, Granger Smith,

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00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: and then the lights go down, maybe a video intro plays,

861
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: or maybe a one more DJ song. But most of

862
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: y'all have that have seen me in concert are used

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00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: to the soft intro.

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00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead, right, yeah, but that's what that was

865
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: the word we got, so I related to our Morning

866
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 2: show that it's soft intro. So when you go back

867
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 2: up X y Z, you know, thank all the sponsors again,

868
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 2: and don't you know, basically, the last thing you need

869
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 2: to say is guys, get ready, Granger Smith's coming up next.

870
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 2: That's the basic and that's what they were told, and

871
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 2: that's what they did. And then in their eyes, the

872
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 2: Morning Show's eyes, somebody else got up and said, hey,

873
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 2: you all ready to go?

874
00:47:58,600 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, give me a eee.

875
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 2: The crowd knows like, and so while that's happening, my

876
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: Morning show looks at me and looks at the stage

877
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 2: and goes, I thought this was a soft intro. That

878
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 2: guy's doing a hard intro. And they left.

879
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: So we took the glory away from the Morning show. Yeah, yeah,

880
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: I don't totally blame them, because this was something that

881
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: just that's just bad ethics. That's bad concert ethics that

882
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: we didn't know. And in the Morning Show, I now,

883
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: he's a great guy, and we've now, you know, years,

884
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: this has been over a decade ago almost, but in

885
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: his eyes, we are directly we know what we're doing,

886
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: and we're doing it on purpose in his face.

887
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 2: Tell him a soft intro so we can do what.

888
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: We so we could do because he's not good enough.

889
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: What we didn't know that that was even a thing,

890
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: and so we didn't even see that going down. So

891
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: he goes to Twitter and he blasts me on Twitter.

892
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: It's like three in a row and everyone joined in,

893
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: and what he's saying is things like this new guy,

894
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: this new artist here, he is brand new. He thinks

895
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: he's hot stuff. All these new artists of these ego problems,

896
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: you know, and people all in the radiosphere that see

897
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: it on Twitter are like, oh wow, I don't know

898
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 1: this Grangersmith guy, but he sounds like a punk.

899
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 2: He's a jerk, he's The best line though, was from

900
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 2: him from Matt was, who's the morning show guy? He

901
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 2: was that it seems that you don't know. I'm still paraphrasing,

902
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 2: but the line is you don't know where your bread

903
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 2: is buttered. It's the best line. Was like, that's what

904
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 2: I remember from it was buttering of the bread. That

905
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 2: that really set it over the edge.

906
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: So all this is going down while I'm playing the show.

907
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 1: I don't even know. This is no clue, no clue.

908
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: Tyler sees it. I guess on Twitter and it goes

909
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: to you.

910
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 2: No, I actually I had I started kind of it was.

911
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking three quarters of the way through

912
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 2: the show where I really know anything. So and I'm

913
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 2: kind of going to beat the crowd. I'm gonna roll out.

914
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 2: And so I go, and I'm in my car and

915
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 2: I see stuff on my phone. So I open it

916
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 2: up and I'm like, and I go, and I opened

917
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 2: my door back up and get out of my car

918
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 2: and shut it and text the record rep and go Okay,

919
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 2: let's go, let's talk, and and uh, hey can you

920
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 2: meet me here? And so the record rep who's my relationship?

921
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 1: Uh?

922
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 2: And Tyler?

923
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: Yeah?

924
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 2: Who that that's my first time meeting Tyler. Ever is

925
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 2: this is this this whole ordeal? And like I said,

926
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 2: I remember saying something smarter like just because I'm tired,

927
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 2: and it's it's Arizona and it's you know, even in March,

928
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 2: we're talking like ninety eight degrees, you know, one hundred

929
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 2: degrees you know, close to that anyway, and it's hot,

930
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 2: it's barbecue, been out there all day long, and I

931
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 2: got to deal with this mess from a guy who's

932
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 2: in bed sleeping already, you know, because he's gonna get

933
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 2: up the next day.

934
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: Whatever it was.

935
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was our I'm sorry, first time.

936
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: That's how we met. Obviously we ever, everything is good,

937
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: all already is involved, except for the record rep. Who's

938
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: you know? That was a different story. That's that's another podcast. Yeah,

939
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: but all of that all that to say, most most

940
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: of y'all know, you know a man and how close

941
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: we work together worldwide and different shows we do together,

942
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: and so that was our beginning. So buddy, thank you

943
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: for being on this podcast. Thanks for helping us wrestling

944
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: with a really interesting question, what I tell my eighteen

945
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: yar him self? Yeah, see y'all next week. Thanks for

946
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: joining me on the Granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate all

947
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,160
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952
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