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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Welcome to the Grangersmith Podcast, Episode twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, Thanks for watching on YouTube special episode.

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Speaker 1: As you could see, I have a different background behind

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Speaker 1: me today if you're watching, I'm not on my bus

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Speaker 1: Wildflower that is right over here part next door. I'm

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Speaker 1: at what we're calling the EEE Shop where we are

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Speaker 1: restoring my old seventy four GMC. Then when I used

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Speaker 1: YouTube series on this truck. Ris recently because of this

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Speaker 1: whole shutdown thing, we need some stuff to do, and

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Speaker 1: we had a couple bus drivers, Butcher and Bull, that

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Speaker 1: are incredible mechanics, incredible guys, and they helped me decide

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Speaker 1: to start restoring this truck right and it's actually sitting

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Speaker 1: right behind the camera. And the YouTube series it really

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Speaker 1: just it got really good engagement. It took off, and

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Speaker 1: it became a new passion of mine. For one, came

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Speaker 1: something that I've absolutely loved to do, not only from

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Speaker 1: the mechanical standpoint of it, and not only from the

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Speaker 1: standpoint of taking something that was once dilapidated in mom's

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Speaker 1: barn and turning it into good again, you know, making

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Speaker 1: it new again, there's something special about that. But all

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Speaker 1: that being said, there's also the fact of just the

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Speaker 1: sentimental value. This is Dad's truck. This was my truck

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Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and it's been so fun

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Speaker 1: watching it come back together. So I decided to set

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Speaker 1: up the podcast today in the shop before we get

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Speaker 1: to work on it and bring in Butch and Bolly.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be my special guest today. And as always,

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Speaker 1: this episode is brought to you by Ye Yee Apparel,

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Speaker 1: our apparel company that me and my brother started back

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Speaker 1: in twenty eleven and we just celebrated this past Friday,

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Speaker 1: Yee Day, which we put out a new line of

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Speaker 1: Yee apparel between me and my wife Amber for the

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Speaker 1: women's line, and then we send a portion of our

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Speaker 1: profits to Meals on Wheels to support families in need

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Speaker 1: of meals during this crazy time in the world. How

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Speaker 1: are you guys doing? By the way, the comment below

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Speaker 1: let me know. Let's get the pulse of the podcast listeners,

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Speaker 1: how You're doing? This podcast comes out every Monday, every

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Speaker 1: Monday morning early supposed to be for drive time, Now

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Speaker 1: not really anybody's driving, not as many people are driving

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Speaker 1: to work, so it's more of a listening at home

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Speaker 1: type podcast, if you will. Even though you know I've

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Speaker 1: been driving a while lately. I've been driving between my

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Speaker 1: house and the Yegee Farm and going to see Mom.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not necessarily going out in public or going

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Speaker 1: to stores and whatnot, but I've just been I've been

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Speaker 1: it's good to get out in the sunshine. So all

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Speaker 1: that being said, thank you for the support, thank you

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Speaker 1: for following us at ee Apparel. You could find me

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Speaker 1: if you want a personal shout out for me, you

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Speaker 1: can go to cameo dot com and you can find

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Speaker 1: me on there and I can give you a personal

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Speaker 1: video shout out. Happy birthday, congratulations, hope you're doing well.

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Speaker 1: What's up to one of your friends or kids or spouses.

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Speaker 1: And so that's been a really cool way for me

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Speaker 1: to stay engaged until we start touring again, which I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to start touring again. And usually these podcasts,

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Speaker 1: I'm hammering the tour the cities we're going to, and

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Speaker 1: we're not doing any of that. We're sitting here. So

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Speaker 1: you could follow me Instagram, Granger Smith, YouTube, Granger Smith

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Speaker 1: and then the Smiths, which is our family vlog channel,

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Speaker 1: which we have so much passionate about. And then there's

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Speaker 1: this podcast. So comment below and let me know the

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Speaker 1: pulse of how you're feeling. Ask me questions. Sometimes I

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Speaker 1: go through these podcasts and actually answer questions as well.

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Speaker 1: Without further ado, let me get out here, Butcher bull

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. All right, I got

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Speaker 1: the boys, Bullshipley. Your Twitter is at bull Shipley and

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Speaker 1: yours is at Butch Steeler. Now, but you gotta change

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Speaker 1: your profile pick to something that's your face on it

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Speaker 1: so people will actually know it's you. Well, he got

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Speaker 1: a hold that mic. There you go. They pretty much, uh,

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Speaker 1: I'll change. So the reason I got I gotta tell it, y'all.

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Speaker 1: The reason I got these guys is because we started

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Speaker 1: it's gonna put you late to the show, right, And

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Speaker 1: that you'll ever been on podcasts before, no, all right,

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Speaker 1: So uh but but what happened was I got them

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Speaker 1: YouTube there are people asking butch uh a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: So I'll start with one. What's your stantime? Gun control?

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Speaker 1: What do you think about gun control? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: Well what other questions did have people asked for Butch

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Speaker 1: And people are worried to death about something that ninety

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