WEBVTT - EP240 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.800 Happy a Memorial Day, at least if you're watching real time. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:04.520 This is the. 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:09.639 Friday before Memorial Day, and this is our live podcast version. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.039 What we do here is we answer your questions. You 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.480 email me podcast at grangersmith dot com and I answer 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.960 whatever you want on these live formats, which we've been 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.000 doing about once a month. You could ask questions right 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.079 here in the chat, so I will read some that 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.920 you've emailed to me podcast at grangersmith dot com, and 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.920 I will also read some right off of this chat, 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.640 which works out great. Another cool thing that's going on 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:38.840 today is the EEE Apparel military launch, first ever time 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.200 we've ever done at gee we've done a military launch, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.400 and we thought it'd be appropriate right before Memorial Day 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.720 to put out this new military gear from ye And 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:49.879 in fact, we're gonna we're gonna go over there to 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.600 the Yege farm right now and talk to Tyler Parker 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:59.440 to brothers there they are. If you're watching what's up fellas'. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.640 So man, what's going on? 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.200 So tell us about this military launch for the first time. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:06.800 Yeah, like six months ago people were reaching out saying 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.560 they wish we had more military stuff and realized that 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.759 we'd never done a military launch before, and I figured 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.039 May the more all day weekend could be a good 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.280 time to do it. And so we were able to 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.119 partner with Folds of Honor and give a portrait proceeds 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.800 back to them. So we designed five new shirts through 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.680 new Hats, a bracelet three pack, and I'm excited. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.520 This is this is one of those those cool. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.920 Launches that supporting a good cause and like aligns with 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:33.959 with what our people wanted. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.040 Yeah, me and Tyler are wearing a shirt from it 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:39.880 right there. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:42.760 This is good. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.240 It's good stuff, man, it's cool stuff. Todd Parker, were 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.040 you the one that designed these shirts? Because I wasn't 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:48.440 part of it. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.680 Actually, Tyler and I both usually come up with a 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.040 bunch of different concepts and then Tyler's usually win, so 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.960 most of them were him. And then I think the 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.639 red shirt, the red sh sure it was me, Okay, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.720 design the hat I have on Todgers in the design 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:06.680 the hat he has on. 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:08.400 Stranger. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.200 Why don't you tell people a little bit about your military, 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.560 your love for the military, and what you've done in 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.200 the past. It's kind of a long time coming that 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.880 we finally did a launch. But as far as your 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.040 tours in Iraq when you did in music, they were 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.240 their documentary, The boot Walk, all that good stuff. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.720 It's a little strange that we haven't done a military 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.880 launch yet. I mean, we've given back Gee's given back 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.679 to a bunch of different organizations that support our military. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.600 But it is strange because really it is the first, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.320 I guess you could say, the first philanthropy that we 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.120 were involved with, not just at EEE, but before ee 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.919 AS when it was just Granger Smith music we were 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.360 going to we were taking tours in Iraq, and those 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.160 are when people ask me so many times they say 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.720 what is your either your favorite memory from being a 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.200 musician or the best concert you ever played. It's very difficult, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.200 and we've played concerts all over the world, all fifty states. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.760 We've seen so many beautiful things, so many beautiful people, 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.600 so many incredible venues. But it's really hard for me 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.880 not to say, well, probably one of the fobs in Iraq. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.239 And that really set a tone for me, seeing the 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.200 way that these men and women were serving. When the 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.519 first time I went in seven, and then in eight 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.720 I went for Christmas and New Year's and I went 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.800 twice in two thousand and eight and nine and seven. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.640 So to see these men and women working, especially during 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.680 Christmas when December to the twenty fifth was like a 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:44.360 normal day. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:44.800 It was. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.680 There was nothing different in Iraq and that fob, that 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.360 little fob we went to and it wasn't like a 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.880 Toby Keith tour where we had, you know, massive stages 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.160 and massive groups of people. It was very small fobs 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:05.600 with with the no bathrooms, no running water, and so yeah, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:05.920 it was. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:07.160 It was an. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.840 Incredible experience just to see men and women that have 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.720 served us so well. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.000 I wish you guys could have gone. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:23.440 Actually in Tynset, I remember that conversation we had at 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.840 your old house and college station. It's either a conversation 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.520 we had that you were going or it's the last 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.400 time we saw you before we went. Mom and Dad 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.320 were pretty worried because we were at war and you 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.080 were going to all those bases right on the front lines. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.839 So I saw I saw Chad who Chad played with 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.400 me in that first tour in Iraq in two thousand 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.800 and seven, and he now plays for Carrie Underwood. And 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.200 I went recently to that church in Franklin, Tennessee, Carrie 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:58.800 Underwood's church for Carrie's husband Mike, and Mike is known 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.880 for a bunch of things, not just being carrious husband. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.640 So I hate to say it that way, but I 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.839 saw Chad there and Chad, Chad was like, man, I'll 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.159 never forget that first tour and I rack with you. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.920 In two thousand and seven, and I. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.840 Suddenly remembered, I thought, because he said there are things 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.039 I still haven't told my mom about. And I was like, oh, Chad, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.080 I keep forgetting that. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:20.120 Me and you. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.200 There's not a lot of people I still hang out 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.200 with today that remember the stories of those. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.919 The Blackhawks were locked on like missiles locked on, and 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.120 y'all had to like divert and there. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.840 Were crazy times that there. There was one specific time, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.279 I mean we many times we had to hit a 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.920 bunker because we had to get into the bunker because 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.000 mortar rounds were hitting the base of the concert we 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.040 were playing. So we were playing a concert several times. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.320 I don't even know how many, but several times, and 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.119 mortar hit the building we were playing in the middle 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.320 of the concert where we had to stop playing the concert. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.520 The quick reaction force, uh jumped it all out of 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.280 the concert hall or you know, the basketball court or 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.159 wherever we were and went running out the door to 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.560 go respond. Everyone else went into the bunker with us, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.599 these big concrete bunkers, and we would stay there until 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.240 we get a call of all clear, and sometimes that 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:15.920 would take an hour to get the call of all 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.320 clear because they were you know, searching to see what 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.440 damage was done or if anyone was lost, and if 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.480 any more mortars were coming, if this was an attack 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.160 or not. So there was those several concerts, and then 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.280 one time in a black Hawk. The black Hawk flights 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.560 were always crazy because we're going fob to FOB and 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.279 that's the main form of transportation there. That's like the 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.200 Greyhound bus in Iraq at the time. And one particular time, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.520 we were flying right at sunset and we're going over 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.800 a pretty hostile area and an RPG locked onto our 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.720 black Hawk, the one we were in, and the guy 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.719 the pilot just did these maneuvers to get away from 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:03.480 the RPG let out the flares and I never knew 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.200 we probably you guys. We lived close to Fort Hood, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.440 the Fort Cavasos. The the black Hawks fly over quite 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:10.680 a bit. 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:11.200 We see them. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.800 They just look like these big black you know, transport helicopters, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:20.760 but those things can maneuver like never before. I mean 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.040 we were completely vertical, we were completely sideways, we were 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.400 completely in ninety degrees the other side, we were going 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.400 straight up again. I was holding all of us were 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.840 holding a backpack in our arms, and all the backpacks 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.760 went to the roof and just stayed on the roof 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.480 and we were just flying like upside down, sideways, back 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.920 just full. I mean, like a throttle that I have 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.880 never felt in any roller coaster or any race car, our, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.000 monster truck, mega truck I've ever sat in. I've never 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.760 felt anything like it. And then when we finally leveled, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.080 all our backpacks fell down into our laps at the 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.080 same time, and we were like what. And then all 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.880 of a sudden we were way out in the middle 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.720 of the desert. We were going over this little village 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.440 in Iraq, and then all of a sudden, we're in 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:06.840 the middle of the desert and it was all clear, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.280 and we're flying really close to the ground. These helicopters 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.559 have no doors or windows, so I was on the edge, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.560 just buckled in. And so the times we would go 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.520 sideways that it's just me and the desert and the 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.920 and the you know, some white Toyota truck below me, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.720 and it was like no six flag dride I have 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.880 ever been on. We get home or excuse me. We 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.280 land at the landing zone and the place we were going, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.920 and that those helicopters, it was always two, one that 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.520 the band rode in and then one that our our 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.200 music equipment rode in. They landed, we jumped out. It 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.360 was dark by now, and they just took off and 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.959 went right back where we came from, like back to work, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.560 and we didn't even know where and were We told 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.080 our the commanding officer with us, We said what happened? 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.920 And he said, RBG locked on happens all the time, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.440 like no big deal. And they were going those two 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.360 guys were flying right back into it again, just back 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:04.840 to work. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.840 So why didn't they Why didn't the RPG locked on? 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.959 Why didn't they shoot just because it got out of 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.960 you got out of range in time or something or what. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.040 No, they were shooting at us. They were shooting small 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.720 arms and sh they were shooting rockets at us. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.120 And the were you equipped with anything like any kind 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.120 of gun or anything, or. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.280 There's two gunners, fifty cow guns, machine guns on either 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.560 side like you see in that like a B twenty four. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.480 So there's two gunners with either a two forty Bravo 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.800 or a fifty Cow depending on the aircraft and those 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.360 So those guys were firing and on either side, and 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.600 they have to fire every time we fly, at least 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.600 in the desert, just to make sure they're not jammed. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.680 So there those two guys or girls are on either 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.840 side of the black Hawk in the open doors, and 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.520 but the flares drop out and intercept the heat seeking 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.240 missiles of any kind. I mean, I can't, I can't 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.880 even make these stories up. But I just I'll never 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.880 forget when we got out looking back me not even 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.200 knowing what just happened. I just rode the craziest ride 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.000 of my life. And to them, their faces were normal. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.800 They weren't like, oh oh that was crazy. They were 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.920 just like, flew back off, just back back the same 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:26.320 direction we just came. So yeah, wild stuff, man, And 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.080 that's just stories. We don't ever hear, No one talks 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:29.520 about it. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:31.000 It's crazy. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.120 And so usually what happens was some there was some 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.880 terrorist group. We won't say their name on live on YouTube, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:45.600 but they were most likely tracking the army would change 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.520 their flight plans constantly to try to always fool the enemy, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.520 but sometimes the enemy would get a correct intelligence from 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.280 some kind of inside source and they would know two 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.760 black Hawks are flying over here at fifty fifty feet. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.120 They'll be coming over the east side at so and 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.040 so coordinates, and they'd have a couple of guys. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.800 Up on a roof with RPG's ready to shoot. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.040 Did you ever see later some of those guys, like 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.120 some of those pilots on stories like that, in situations 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.120 like that, did you ever see them years later, like 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.679 back home in the US at a show. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.320 Yeah, yeah, a lot a lot of times they still do, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.360 Like sometimes they'll come to a sermon, but they used 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.760 to come to concerts all the time and say I 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.080 saw you at five war Horse in two thousand and eight, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.920 and I'm like, ah, man, those crazy times. But those 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.040 black Hawks would also get shot down a bunch. And 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.640 I used to think that if a Blackhawk got shot down, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.560 then we would hear about it on the news, and 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.280 the reality is we don't. They actually get shot down 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.080 quite a bit. I don't know about now. I'm so 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:45.720 out of the loop now, but that was back in 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.960 the Iraqi days. So anyway, that's so, it's nat full 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.120 circle military launch. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:58.720 Yet today you know, it just means more. It means more. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.120 Are we showing any at all? Or oh yeah, sure? 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:04.200 So what you got? 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.200 Have somebody in the back throw you some stuff? We 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:06.839 might as well. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.400 This is one of the hats, which is really cool. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.760 We've never actually done a hat like this. If you're listening, 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:15.080 just know it's cool. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:21.839 Susan from Alabama says, what's up? She's glad to be here. Yeah. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.000 Singer Pete says, hey, Smith Brothers from Japan. I just 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.880 ordered my military launch items. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:29.400 That's cool. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.200 And I says good morning from Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.040 Terry says, good morning from Myrtle Beach. Abigail Is. It's 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.760 a beautiful lunch. I bought some of the things. Can 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:42.840 you guys see what I'm seeing? 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:43.559 Yeah? 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.120 Yeah, Jacob said, Hey, Granger from Minnesota, and man's pulling 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.920 them from all over right now, timing the buck, guy, 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.120 I think that's how you say it. What's up, grangdeer, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:59.280 It's finally Friday. He's quoting after midnight and mackay, maybe 0:12:59.400 --> 0:12:59.760 what's up? 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:00.160 Great here? 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.240 Yeah, click over to ant man. Let's see it man. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.000 We gotta get it. We gotta get a shot in 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.559 all we got. We gotta can't forget. He is with 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.760 us producing this show right now. Sandy says, in memory 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.720 of the fallen soldiers, thank you for all of your service. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.959 God bless you. Yeah, God bless all of you service members. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.080 That's why we're doing this launch today. Lisa says, howdye 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:30.560 from from Donnie at Georgetown, Texas. Yeah, awesome, guys, have 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.840 somebody behind you throw us a shirt or something like, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:40.720 I got them. You got some let's see it freedom 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:41.880 in free right there. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.720 That's great. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.840 We've got a bunch of different teas to the hats 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.160 that we got are actually like you can bend the 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:50.760 brim a little bit more. A lot of people request 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.360 that us. I figured good time to have that would 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.959 be military launch. So that's when I have on multi 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.960 cam with the bendable bram and then removable patch. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.600 Where's that the flag? Do I? Is that removable? Is 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.360 that like vulcrow? No it's not. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:10.880 It looks like you yeah, you guys. For people just 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.480 listening there, we're actually in the waitouse right now. As 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.200 you can you can see everybody's like live correspondence from 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.600 Fox News right now as everyone's shuding out boxes, somebody's 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.080 just ordered something and it's actually you're watching them packet 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:23.520 right now. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.680 We got a lot of requests for this. I actually 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.600 didn't know about red, but there's like a huge turner 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.200 right now called Red Fridays, where people wear red on Fridays. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.160 And so it's a cool way for people to be 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:38.800 able to Rocky E and then also just in their 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.040 workplace to be able to wear red. Uh stands for 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.280 remember everyone deployed. Didn't start that or I couldn't tell 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:46.800 you the history. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:47.200 I don't know. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.720 Yeah, yeah, and then a few other shirts start. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.520 That's a good question. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.080 Yeah, So while while Parker's showing these shirts here on 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.600 if you're watching on Instagram or x or YouTube, I 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.240 will get to your questions here in a minute like 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.120 we normally do. You could email me podcast at Granger 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.160 Smith dot com or or just drop a question in 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.280 the chat here. But right now we're just checking out 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.360 this military launch. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.000 It's pretty much it. Man, It's a limited quantity. It's 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.400 probably gonna sell out quick, but uh yeah, we're excited. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.720 You guys have to answer this from not Phelps, will 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.200 ye yee appair ever have big and tall sizes. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.800 If we get enough requests for it. It's kind of 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.600 like people who ask for left handed golf clubs and 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.400 then you make them, and then one buys them, and 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.520 then you're left with a lot of left handed golf clubs. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.640 I'd love to keep asking and then if we see 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.960 it enough times, maybe we can do it. I don't 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.520 know any manufacturers who do it right now, do you No? 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.600 We can ask though, Yeah? 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.960 Yeah, but I mean so the answer is yeah, we're 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:57.600 we're working on it. Well, cool, guys, I know you're 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.240 probably busy. Thank you, guys for taking your seventeen minutes 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.960 of really really a busy time at EE apparel. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:04.960 An you tell me launch something. 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.680 You guys are all hands on deck, So thanks for 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.520 spending a few minutes with us. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.440 Yeah, man, thanks for having us. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.600 Cool cool shit it. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:18.600 See you guys eeee so y'all see you guys. You know, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.520 when I first started this crazy music thing, having an 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.040 online store was like the last thing on my mind. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.960 I just wanted to write songs and play concerts. The 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.640 irony in me now is that I no longer play concerts, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.320 but I still have an online shop. That's what pays 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.160 the bills, and thank goodness that so long ago it 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.920 was made so easy for us to have that online 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:44.040 shop at eee because of Shopify. Shopify is your global 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.680 commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.640 your business, from the very beginning to the hey, I 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.920 think we're doing pretty good stage. Shopify is there to 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.680 help you grow. Whether you're selling scented soap or eegee apparel, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.240 Shopify helps sell everywhere from they're all in one e 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.840 commerce platform to their in person POS system. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.840 Wherever or whatever. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.160 You're selling, Shopify has got you covered. 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Anna says, hey, and thank you for 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.840 sharing this last sermon that you shared. Yeah, thank you, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.600 And I always try to if if the if the 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.719 venue or the church records it, I'll put it up 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.480 for you guys. Really says you need to do another 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:48.920 boot walk. That was a fun week. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:50.000 You know what's crazy? 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.080 Yeah, well I won't go there, but I was gonna 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.320 say that the mission bug really scratches the boot. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.080 Yes, I'll actually. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.960 Be doing a walk coming up here in just a 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.440 few days in America in boots. Yeah, through the mountains. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:07.679 Stephanie says, love everything. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:07.800 You guys do. 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.560 Thank you, Stephanie, appreciate that. Susan says, is Earl coming 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.919 on the live. Hey, Earl, I'm too concious to be 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.040 on y'all's life. Okay, he said he's too country to 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.200 be on the line. Danny and Nadine SAIDs hey, Grangeer. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.359 She're enjoyed hearing you in Bismarck. That was a great time. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.280 Thank you for coming to that. Donita says, I'll give 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.000 some some gave all Happy Memorial Day and God bless 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.159 Thank you guys so much. And if you want to 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.000 see me, you could go to Grangersmith dot com. I 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.520 have appearances. What was that one from North Carolina? Yeah, Sherry, 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.280 I just got back from North Carolina, was it? Yes, 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:46.200 yesterday I got back from North Carolina, so yeah, you guys, 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.640 I'm actually going back in July. The end of July, 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.520 I'll be preaching in North Carolina in Raleigh, so maybe 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.640 I'll see you there, Sherry, But any of you guys, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.320 if you want to see me, go to Grangersmith dot 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.240 com and right on that first page it has appearances 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.680 and almost everything I do now almost everything I do 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.560 is free to come see me, which is really cool. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.240 There's no more days of expensive ticket concert price. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:11.400 Free ninety nine is good. 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:16.760 Yes, free ninety ninety. Andrew says, like in these lives 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.520 during the launches, Oh cool, Well, thank you. Andrea Tyler 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.800 called me right before we did this and he's like, 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:22.360 should we. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:27.120 Be doing this? Yeah? I think so. Yeah. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.159 Jimmy Krat said, I believe Red Fridays have been a 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:33.400 thing for some years now. Glad you has jumped on board. Yeah, 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:34.240 thank you, Jimmy. 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:35.359 Stuff. 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.080 You want to hit an email, We've got several, and 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:39.440 I've got a few for this show. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.240 Let's do it first one here, says Grainger. Podcast two 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:45.560 thirty nine was great and so. 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.320 Informative, which I don't know which one that was. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:50.960 He says, I think it would be great and helpful 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.520 to others to see a dedicated podcast on how to 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.240 serve others from a biblical perspective. I grew up on 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.440 a farm helping and serving my family, and I still 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.000 do to this day. But now being in my twenties 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.920 and having other opportunities to serve, it can be difficult 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.000 to decide where I am best needed. It's hard for 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.560 me to say no to turn things down, so that 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.440 often leads to relationships stressed with me and my girlfriend. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.840 I would like to thank you all for doing what 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.000 you do through the name of the Lord. From a 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:22.000 fellow brother in Christ. 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:27.080 Chase. Yeah, Chase, I appreciate you. Man. 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:30.080 I don't know exactly what your question is. Besides, you're 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.200 just kind of commenting on sometimes it's difficult to serve 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:39.040 from a biblical perspective because when you serve anything, I 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:40.640 guess we could say it this way, when you serve 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.960 anybody or anything, someone's getting left out, in this case 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:53.400 maybe the girlfriend. And that's a problem. I would say 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:59.159 if your girlfriend, if you are wholeheartedly serving someone or 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.480 some organize or some cause or church, and your girlfriend 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.959 is stressed or it's putting stress on your relationship because 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:15.480 you are serving. That's interesting, and maybe we should check 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:20.399 our hearts on that one and wonder if this is 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:25.679 the right relationship to be in. That's kind of what 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.159 that's kind of where I would start this. Maybe we 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.320 should out of everything you said, maybe we should be 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:32.439 thinking more. If you and I were riding in the 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.600 cab of a truck and having this conversation, I would say, 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:39.320 maybe we should be questioning this relationship a little bit more. 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:42.560 Although it doesn't necessarily have to be bad, and I 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:43.240 know that you could. 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:45.800 You could. You could serve too much. 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.480 And that's kind of the the airplane theory I have 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.680 when an oxygen masks drop out of the airplane, you 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.199 got to put the mask on yourself first before you 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:58.840 could then put the mask on the others. That's sometimes 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.520 in the same way of serving that sometimes if we 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:06.919 become over servers, then the things closest to us around 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.639 us get neglected, in this case, this relationship. So we'll 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:12.199 keep thinking through this, and I want you to think 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.080 about Romans twelve two whenever you're thinking through this, really 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:16.120 meditate on that verse. 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:17.880 We had another one. 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:22.000 Yeah, yes, okay, it says my wife and I We're 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.880 watching a sermon, and the pastor said, when we are 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.760 born again, we are given a new spirit, but have 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:33.719 the same mind. Interesting, I just said Romans twelve to two. 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:36.600 Let's read that with this too as well. Philippians four 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:40.280 to eight was his reference. We are to fix our minds. 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:44.560 God doesn't fix it for us. It is our opportunity 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:49.520 to take authority of captivity any thought that exalts itself. 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:54.440 God doesn't change the past. We move forward. Jesus said, 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:56.639 let the dead bury the dead and follow me. Past 0:23:56.720 --> 0:24:00.320 is unchanged, sees today our past thoughts and way can 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:04.120 hinder our walk. These are just observations here. And then 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:08.680 he says, is it possible to acknowledge Christ with your 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.359 mind but never receive them in your heart? It appears 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.320 to me they are separate. I love Jesus and I 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:17.000 know He's in my heart, and I'm being too relaxed? 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.080 Am I being too relaxed with my loved ones who 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:22.600 may acknowledge in their mind but looks to have not 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:23.640 surrendered their heart? 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:25.439 Okay? 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:27.800 I mean your first question is is it possible to 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:29.960 acknowledge Christ with your mind but never receive them in 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:35.280 your heart? Absolutely? Yeah, Jesus. Jesus talked about that all 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:41.520 the time. That was the Pharisees, and so outward understanding, 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:46.280 intellectual understanding of who God is and how we are 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:50.320 reconciled through His son is. You know, Satan knows that 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:56.639 Satan understands that right, and so you could absolutely acknowledge 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:59.320 him with your mind, but never receive him in your heart. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.000 You need to understand that the very first thing you 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:05.320 said talking about being born again, you'd have to you'd 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:08.680 have to go to John three and listen to Jesus's 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:13.320 conversation with Nicodemus, and Nicodemus is saying, what are you 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:14.800 talking about born again? 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:15.320 Could? 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:18.000 How could be born again? Well, I've already I've already 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:22.720 been born, And she just says that you're once from 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:25.840 water and another time from the spirit, and the time 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:28.600 you're born with the spirit, you don't know. You don't 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:31.679 have any control over that, and you could look at 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:33.280 this is way you're in control of your first birth 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:36.919 and you're not in control of your second. The spirit 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:39.520 comes like the wind. You don't know where it comes from, 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:40.120 and you don't. 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:40.640 Know where it's going. 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:43.880 And so we have to be careful not to say 0:25:43.920 --> 0:25:48.200 that not to say I know I could capture I 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.879 could take captive thoughts in my mind, but I also 0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:54.760 can captive emotions with my heart. We have to be 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:57.840 careful with that, because if you're talking about being given 0:25:57.880 --> 0:25:59.920 a new heart, you can't give yourself a new heart. 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:01.360 So these are things for. 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:01.879 You to meditate. 0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:04.560 The Bible is very clear about this, and so I would. 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:07.520 I would walk through stuff like Aphesians two. 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:12.920 Ephesians Fourians four talks about the spirit of your mind. 0:26:13.119 --> 0:26:16.800 Yeah, I'll pull it up here, assuming that you. 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:20.040 Have heard about him and we're taught, uh, we're taught 0:26:20.040 --> 0:26:21.920 in him as the truth in Jesus. To put off 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.399 your old self, which belongs to your former manner of 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.480 life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:30.600 renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:31.520 on the new self. 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:35.159 Yeah, so put on the new self when you've received 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:39.960 a new heart. And so John six, John ten, John seventeen. 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:45.560 Thepheesians two Ephesians four, Romans eight and nine, go there, 0:26:46.320 --> 0:26:48.400 go there and just lap it up. 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:50.160 Just lap it up. Man. 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:52.000 Thank you for the email. Actually we hit another one. 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:52.520 What do you want to do? 0:26:52.560 --> 0:26:54.000 I think we got time for one more and we 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:55.880 uh maybe take a break, a quick break. 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:59.480 Okay, hey Grangeer, I'm Wyatt, sixteen years old. I'm a Christian. 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:04.240 There there's this girl. You know so many years my 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.280 podcast has started with those those words. There's this girl 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:10.320 at church in my youth group, and I'm good friends 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:13.440 with her, and she loves the outdoors and I would 0:27:13.480 --> 0:27:15.639 love to get to know her more and maybe go 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:18.359 out on a date, but go about it in a 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:20.720 group setting, in a Christian way, He says, do you 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:24.120 have any advice or suggestions on how to go about this? Oh, 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:25.480 Wyatt to be sixteen. 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:28.480 I read so many of these that come into you. Yeah, 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:31.200 I know you, yeah, I mean, but it's. 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:34.160 And it's funny how this is obviously why we also 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:38.479 talked about going to doing the topics, because we can 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:40.960 address a lot of people at one time. But pulling 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:44.080 up Wyatt's was a thought incast. A lot of emails 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:46.639 that came in before and after Wyatts that talked about, 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:49.680 I mean, almost to the letter, the exact same thing. 0:27:49.920 --> 0:27:53.720 Yeah, these questions, this, this line of questioning is called 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:55.040 there's this girl. 0:27:56.000 --> 0:27:59.320 Yeah, that's so. 0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:03.280 Why you're sixteen and there's this girl in your youth 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:06.280 group and you're good friends with her. She loves the outdoors. 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:08.800 I get it, and you want to get to know 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:10.400 her more, and you maybe go out on a date 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:12.600 with her, and you want to do it in a 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:15.280 in a good, respectable way, which is in a group setting, 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:19.640 which I agree with. It's dangerous to be alone with 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:23.640 this with this girl. Why risk that kind of temptation? 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:26.200 So so, man, I think you're doing all the right things, 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:30.639 and I think I think so many times life just 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:36.639 plays out with just vulnerable conversation. And so you go 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:42.160 out in the group and there's no like right way 0:28:42.960 --> 0:28:48.640 to approach this, and there's no special pickup line. But 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:52.800 I'm always a fan of being vulnerable. And you know, 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:55.560 you go up to her and you're in this group setting, 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:57.920 which I think is courageous and. 0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:04.360 Right, it's good, and you just say I'm Wyatt. 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:07.520 I don't know if we've officially met or not, but 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:10.840 I just think you're a really neat person. And I 0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:14.720 love that you like the outdoors like I do. And 0:29:16.120 --> 0:29:19.600 this is kind of embarrassing for me, but I just 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:23.239 really like you, and I just really wanted to get 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:26.160 to know you a little bit more, And I just 0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:29.480 think I just think being vulnerable like that with her 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.320 is the best way to do it, because if you 0:29:33.360 --> 0:29:36.560 stumble and you go I just really wanted to get that. 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:41.080 I'm sorry, I'm stuttering right now. I just think when 0:29:41.120 --> 0:29:42.840 you stutter and when you mess up and when you 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.880 trip over your words, all of it's okay in that setting. 0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:47.640 But if you're trying to be cool, you're trying to 0:29:47.640 --> 0:29:49.960 say the right thing, and then you stutter, then it's 0:29:50.040 --> 0:29:55.120 really stupid. So Wyatt, You've got a lot of life 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:58.160 ahead of you, and this is the first, probably the 0:29:58.200 --> 0:30:01.200 first of many times you'll have this feeling until it's 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:03.840 the last time and you get married and Lord willing 0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:06.040 you spend the rest of your life with a woman, 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:10.640 and this is practice until that. But I say, be vulnerable, 0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:12.880 open up to her in a group setting. 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:13.800 That's great. 0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:21.240 You know, I heard about this company recently and I 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:23.360 was happy that they were going to sponsor the podcast. 0:30:23.400 --> 0:30:26.400 It's the Wellness Company. So here here's the deal. You 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:28.760 wake up. 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It's not going to be a heavy tour. 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:11.560 It's not going to be super busy, but we're gonna 0:32:11.600 --> 0:32:14.240 do like two dates a week, do it at a 0:32:14.280 --> 0:32:18.080 reasonable hour in a reasonable city where I can get there, 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.800 you know, like on Southwest Airlines or something, and a 0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:23.680 central location. So if you have an idea for me, 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:26.360 maybe we can comment now. You can comment here if 0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:28.880 you're listening to this right now. What's a good city. 0:32:28.920 --> 0:32:30.600 I'm thinking like Kansas City for one. 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:32.800 That's a good one. And just say everybody's going to 0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:33.440 say my city. 0:32:33.480 --> 0:32:35.160 I know, I know, so you know, we go to 0:32:35.240 --> 0:32:38.640 Kansas city that's kind of the bottom of the Midwest. 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:42.160 And then we go up to maybe like Minnesota, you know, 0:32:42.200 --> 0:32:46.120 the Tri Cities, or maybe the Chicago area that gives 0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:50.120 the upper Midwest, Michigan, Michigan. Yeah, it kind of covers that. 0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:52.360 And then we go out west and we do something 0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:53.960 like I don't know, you guys help me here. 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:56.080 We do either. 0:32:57.720 --> 0:33:01.920 Portland area somewhere, yeah, And then we go out east 0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:04.360 and we do or we would do too and each 0:33:04.440 --> 0:33:06.800 of these places. And so like one week we would 0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:13.040 do say Kansas City and Des Moines or our Lincoln 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:16.880 or Omaha or something like that, and then the next 0:33:16.920 --> 0:33:21.400 week we would do Portland and Seattle or Portland and Sacramento, 0:33:21.560 --> 0:33:27.560 and then we would go do Chicago and Minneapolis, and 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:32.240 then we would go do Boston and Charlotte you know, I. 0:33:32.240 --> 0:33:35.640 Don't know, yeh. And then then we hit southeast and. 0:33:35.560 --> 0:33:37.200 Then we need to cover we need to do like 0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:42.320 Tampa and Atlanta, and then then we'd have to hit 0:33:42.480 --> 0:33:45.320 Texas and he just keeps going right. But but see 0:33:45.320 --> 0:33:47.920 if anyone wants to comment on this, if they would 0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:49.240 show up, and what we would do is we would 0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:51.680 sit there, we'd have some we'd set up like either 0:33:51.680 --> 0:33:54.640 in a church or a theater, and we would set 0:33:54.680 --> 0:33:57.320 up some couches and mics just like this, and you 0:33:57.360 --> 0:33:59.800 and I would do just what we're doing a different 0:33:59.800 --> 0:34:00.800 city as we could bring. 0:34:00.640 --> 0:34:03.920 Like Marshall yeah, Bernie, yeah, Parker. 0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:07.960 The guys that have done the podcast for a long time. Amber, yeah, 0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:10.080 and then we would announce it and like Marshall's going 0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:12.480 to this group of cities. 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:14.600 And we can we just have mav in the background 0:34:14.680 --> 0:34:17.960 with the with the gator driving around on the stage. 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:21.320 Just make it all put some money in there. Yeah. 0:34:21.480 --> 0:34:23.080 In fact, maybe Amber could go to a lot of 0:34:23.080 --> 0:34:27.480 these cool So yeah, yeah, let's let's start brainstorming everybody 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:30.359 on what where we would go, you know, say two 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:34.560 cities a week for three or four weeks. I think 0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:36.600 that'd be cool. The other announcement I need to make 0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:39.319 is we're gonna do a live We're putting out a 0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:41.640 live album of the last tour. 0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:43.160 Oh yeah, very cool. 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:45.600 It's it's off at mastering now Grizz has been working 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:50.040 on and I mean it's it captures that last show 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:53.920 pretty well. You know it is what it is, you 0:34:53.960 --> 0:34:56.080 hear it all. It's it's the last show. You'll feel 0:34:56.080 --> 0:34:58.080 like you're there. Really, Grizz did just a great job 0:34:58.080 --> 0:34:58.799 of capturing that. 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:01.520 So we could pour some beer on the ground and 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:04.360 let it dry and then like so your feet to 0:35:04.440 --> 0:35:06.040 be sticky and just close your eyes. 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:11.200 Yeah, Billy Bob, Yeah, smell the stales exactly exactly. Yeah, 0:35:11.239 --> 0:35:13.160 that's it. Get a couple of comments here. 0:35:13.200 --> 0:35:17.759 Okay, let's let's see what we got here. Weird from 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:20.200 Raley be posted on YouTube. Rachel, I don't know, but 0:35:20.280 --> 0:35:22.880 you were there, but I'm not sure. I did a 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:25.040 Q and A in Raleigh a couple of days ago 0:35:25.360 --> 0:35:30.400 with a great friend of mine, Grant Castleberry's good. Jimmy 0:35:30.480 --> 0:35:33.480 Kroud says, fun question, what was your biggest takeaway highlight 0:35:33.480 --> 0:35:36.719 from ye e day twenty twenty four? I mean, my 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.799 biggest highlight was run into that mud bog in Old 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:44.839 Alice seventy seventy seven U D ten. 0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:47.239 That was That was a great, great time. I loved it. 0:35:48.320 --> 0:35:49.680 That's cool. Let's hit another email. 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:54.080 Okay, This next one says, Hey Grandeur, my name is Andrew, 0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:58.960 and lately I've been feeling called to ministry, but not 0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:01.200 sure if I really am. I'm not sure if God 0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:04.560 is really calling me or just my feelings. My question is, 0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:07.400 how do you know it's really God calling me? 0:36:07.520 --> 0:36:07.840 Thanks? 0:36:07.960 --> 0:36:11.239 I love your music in your podcast. Thanks Andrew. Hey, 0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:13.719 great question, buddy. I'm so glad you asked this, And 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:16.640 I'll answer this every week if I have to, because 0:36:17.280 --> 0:36:20.680 it's interesting I've been saying lately. You said, how do 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:22.560 I know if it's really God or just my feelings? 0:36:22.600 --> 0:36:28.640 I would add or my indigestion. You know, when people 0:36:28.680 --> 0:36:30.960 say God called me, I'm like, are you sure it 0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:34.560 wasn't the beans you ate last night? Right, that's funny 0:36:34.560 --> 0:36:35.879 but actually a legitimate question. 0:36:35.960 --> 0:36:38.200 If it is, you'll be tested very very quickly, and 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:40.920 you will know. Yeah. So well the. 0:36:40.920 --> 0:36:46.600 Answer, Andrew, I mean, it's really it's easy. The calling 0:36:46.640 --> 0:36:49.839 you feel in your feelings, that's important. That is a 0:36:50.000 --> 0:36:51.960 very important first step. 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:53.680 That's what opens the door. 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:56.640 That's like saying I want to be a country singer 0:36:57.040 --> 0:36:59.960 and I really like singing, and I really want to 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:03.799 be a country singer. Great, that's the first qualification really 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:06.759 for anything. You're in radio for many years at the 0:37:06.840 --> 0:37:09.960 first qualification to be in radio is to want to. 0:37:09.960 --> 0:37:10.640 Be in radio. 0:37:10.760 --> 0:37:13.440 Right, I think you can say that in every like 0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:17.160 in every hobby and every career, in every relationship, the 0:37:17.200 --> 0:37:19.399 first step in a relationship is you got a like her. 0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:22.680 Yeah, and two you, I don't think that. I don't 0:37:22.719 --> 0:37:24.880 think if you can't draw, you go I want to 0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:27.880 be an artist. It's something you kind of already have 0:37:28.440 --> 0:37:30.840 in innate ability to do. That's something that's borning you 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:32.719 that God's given you. You asked me when we were 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:35.080 in Israel. You know, we were there three days. I 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:37.520 think he's like, has the bug bit you? And I 0:37:37.520 --> 0:37:40.839 ask what the missionary bug? I was like, I don't know, 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:44.919 let's see maybe because I'm enjoying this. And then we're 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:48.239 another three days went by and I'm like, maybe support 0:37:48.280 --> 0:37:48.759 is my thing? 0:37:49.880 --> 0:37:52.000 You said, Hey man, I don't think the missionary bug 0:37:52.000 --> 0:37:52.440 has bit me. 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:56.239 Yeah, So let me ask you questions. What would you do? 0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:58.879 Well, what does the person do that is not called 0:37:58.880 --> 0:38:00.839 to be a missionary? How does he help missionaries? 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:02.760 Yeah? Like, because I do think that. 0:38:02.600 --> 0:38:06.040 That kind of well, kind of like doing this, doing 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:10.520 this as a podcast is not my strength, but supporting 0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:15.560 and producing you is okay, you know, and I love 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:18.200 I enjoy this. Came over and we rewired the room. 0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:21.840 Yeah, we did. No, who has that idea and thinks 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:22.560 that that's fun. 0:38:22.680 --> 0:38:25.960 We did so, Andrew, I want to get I want 0:38:25.960 --> 0:38:27.480 to get to what you're asking here because I think 0:38:27.480 --> 0:38:29.359 it's it's actually simpler than you think. 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:31.359 So I love that you're you feel called. 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:33.880 And I'm not going to tell you that you're not 0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:37.759 feeling because feelings are real. You're experiencing that. And so 0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:40.200 what I'm gonna tell you is the next step is 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:42.319 to get plugged in. If you're not already. If you're 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:44.239 not already, that's that's a huge problem. But you should 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:46.400 get plugged in with your local church, and you should 0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:50.239 tell you your leadership in the church this feeling. Say hey, 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:56.000 i'm guys, I'm feeling called to ministry, and then they say, fantastic. 0:38:56.560 --> 0:39:01.319 Let's begin a discipleship program of some kind. Education very 0:39:01.360 --> 0:39:05.400 important is important here. Some kind of Bible college is 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:08.520 a good beginning, or a seminary degree is a is 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.919 a good It is a good step here. A one 0:39:11.960 --> 0:39:16.160 on one discipleship program that's that's intentional from your pastor 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:21.760 is important here. Ways to get you to get some reps, 0:39:21.800 --> 0:39:25.600 and actually teaching is important here. And then what happens 0:39:25.719 --> 0:39:28.120 is you stop relying on your feelings. At that point 0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:30.839 you stop relying on is God calling or not? 0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:31.520 Is you or not? 0:39:31.880 --> 0:39:34.759 Then now you've handed it over to the leadership in 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:38.000 your local church where they can then collectively affirm you 0:39:38.120 --> 0:39:40.680 together and say, you remember when we had this conversation 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:43.560 several years ago about you feeling called. We all have 0:39:43.680 --> 0:39:47.520 been collectively talking and we want to affirm your calling. 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:52.920 And that is that that there's so much assurance in 0:39:52.960 --> 0:39:57.880 that knowing I've been affirmed through my wise counsel and 0:39:58.000 --> 0:40:01.480 leadership around me to my ca It's the same thing 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:05.440 in any other hobby, our sport, our radio, our country music, 0:40:05.840 --> 0:40:09.000 you know, essentially getting a record deal with a bunch 0:40:09.040 --> 0:40:13.240 of executives affirming you are now ready for major radio 0:40:13.800 --> 0:40:15.839 and we want to invest in you. 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:17.520 We see something, we see. 0:40:17.280 --> 0:40:19.800 Something, we want to put your song on major radio 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:22.480 that we are collectively affirming. You don't get to decide 0:40:22.520 --> 0:40:25.200 if you're on major radio by yourself. You get to 0:40:25.239 --> 0:40:27.279 decide if you want to be, but you don't get 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:30.319 to decide if you're going to be on there. And 0:40:31.600 --> 0:40:34.960 why would ministry be any different? Ministry is so much 0:40:34.960 --> 0:40:37.520 more important than a song on the radio, where there's 0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:39.360 so much more at stake, and we have to be 0:40:39.480 --> 0:40:43.560 as ministers. We have to be judged for what we say, 0:40:44.120 --> 0:40:46.200 and if our teaching is right or not, we will 0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:47.720 be strictly judged. 0:40:47.920 --> 0:40:48.520 Why would we. 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:53.240 Want to risk that? So, Andrew, I'd say, stay involved 0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:58.400 with this podcast, but most importantly, go and tell everyone 0:40:58.440 --> 0:41:00.880 at your local church this is where you want. This 0:41:00.960 --> 0:41:02.680 is the path you want to start on. It's like 0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:05.480 candy Land the game. This is your first square. Yeah, 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:06.719 here you are good. 0:41:06.840 --> 0:41:07.920 Let's see if you can get to the end. 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:11.680 Got a couple comments from what you proposed just moments ago. 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:12.279 If you'd like to hit some. 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:15.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's hit that. David says, the whole 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:18.160 idea of live in person Q and A sounds great cool. 0:41:20.320 --> 0:41:24.960 Andrew said that'd be fun. Lindsay says, come to Delaware. 0:41:25.000 --> 0:41:26.760 Please. When was the last time you were in Delaware? 0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:33.839 We played the Delaware State Fair a couple of years ago, 0:41:34.160 --> 0:41:36.840 three years ago. It's hard with COVID, I forget for years. 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:39.840 And then we played quite a bit. We played Dewey 0:41:39.840 --> 0:41:43.400 Beach several times. We played Dewey Beach, which is a 0:41:43.400 --> 0:41:48.120 beautiful place in the summertime in Delaware. Yeah, Terry says, 0:41:48.160 --> 0:41:50.560 anywhere within two hours of Myrtle Beach would be great. Okay, 0:41:50.600 --> 0:41:54.760 so I think that's Charlotte. I said, Charlotte, right, maybe 0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:59.520 maybe that maybe three or four hours. Tasha says, Kansas City, please, 0:41:59.560 --> 0:42:01.920 pretty please. He's I'll cook for you like I do 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:04.400 for butcher Bowl for great and God we nailed it 0:42:04.440 --> 0:42:05.440 with with Kansas City. 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:07.680 I'm gonna keep that one started. There's there's some cooking 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:09.560 in there. Yeah. 0:42:09.880 --> 0:42:11.720 And that says come to Atlanta. So that was another 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:14.799 city I thought it would be a good hub. I'm 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:28.480 thinking like Charlotte, Columbia, Tampa, Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, oh ye, 0:42:28.800 --> 0:42:34.560 Portland the winter in the winter, yeah, and Kansas City, 0:42:34.680 --> 0:42:42.319 Des Moines or Omaha, Chicago and Minnesota, Minneapolis. It's kind 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:43.319 of shooting from the hip here. 0:42:43.480 --> 0:42:45.080 You may have just routed everything. Yeah. 0:42:45.080 --> 0:42:48.120 Oh and I forgot to say probably Boston. That would 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:53.840 cover Dewey Beach, Delaware, and I don't know, maybe maybe 0:42:53.920 --> 0:42:56.240 d C or that might be too close to Charlotte. 0:42:56.239 --> 0:43:02.759 Maybe probably a Jersey area Boston. Yeah, we'll be thinking 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:04.480 about this. Everybody be thinking about this. What you gonna 0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:04.799 do now? 0:43:05.040 --> 0:43:07.359 What we've I mean, we've we've been in this for 0:43:07.360 --> 0:43:07.759 forty five. 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:12.000 We are just rocking. Let's do one more. Do we 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:13.400 have any questions on here or do you want to 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:14.200 go to the back to them? 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:18.600 Yeah, let's che We've got a few, but it is 0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:20.640 a good thing. There's a lot coming in. There's either 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:25.560 comments or and there's a couple of questions. Ah okay, 0:43:25.600 --> 0:43:27.640 well check this question out, see what you think. 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:30.480 About it, Big Bobby, says Granger. Do you ever consider 0:43:30.560 --> 0:43:33.040 hosting a car show with ye Yee name in the Northeast? 0:43:33.360 --> 0:43:35.080 It would be so great to put the word of 0:43:35.120 --> 0:43:38.640 God into my streets here at home or even at 0:43:38.640 --> 0:43:41.640 a car show. Yeah, man, that's definitely consideration. We've considered 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:44.080 doing a car show at the next Yee day actually, 0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:45.840 so that'd be good too. 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:47.520 Very nice. 0:43:48.719 --> 0:43:52.040 Yeah, more comments just just saying hi, and they want 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:53.760 you to come to their towns. 0:43:53.840 --> 0:43:55.359 So's there's a lot of those. 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.279 But we'll keep these and sort of them because one 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:00.360 might ring a bell that you haven't thought. 0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:01.399 You waning to grab one real quick? 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:01.640 Here? 0:44:01.719 --> 0:44:06.600 Yeah, hey friend Andy from Australia here, love listening to 0:44:06.960 --> 0:44:09.560 your words while I work away. I'm blessed to have 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:14.080 a father of beautiful seven year old boy girl twins, 0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:17.120 seven year old boy girl twins. Their mother left me 0:44:17.320 --> 0:44:20.600 for a woman six years ago. I have an amazing relationship, 0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:23.279 and I think and I thank her for giving me 0:44:23.280 --> 0:44:26.239 the most amazing, beautiful, healthy children. I go to church 0:44:26.280 --> 0:44:29.319 with my children on the weeks that they are with me, 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:32.319 But I'm scared about their mother's relationship and how that's 0:44:32.320 --> 0:44:35.200 going to impact their relationship with God and what the 0:44:35.200 --> 0:44:37.960 Bible speaks. Your opinion on how I could approach this 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:43.200 and protect them from from our very judgmental Christian brothers 0:44:43.200 --> 0:44:47.799 and sisters. Jesus is King thanks to Andy. Okay, so two, 0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:49.880 it sounds like two parts to your question here, Andy. 0:44:50.160 --> 0:45:00.520 One is how to raise them. I'm scared of how 0:45:00.520 --> 0:45:04.200 they're No, that's not your question. Your question really, the 0:45:04.239 --> 0:45:07.840 only one you've asked is how to approach this and 0:45:07.880 --> 0:45:11.400 protect them from a very judgmental Christian from very judgmental 0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:19.400 Christian brothers and sisters. Well, this is such a tough 0:45:20.200 --> 0:45:23.640 nuance here, Andy, but you're gonna this. You're just gonna 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:28.120 have to trust God in this because ultimately, back to 0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:30.959 that conversation we had earlier in the podcast about being 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:34.400 reborn and being born of the spirit. The same is 0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:35.600 going to go for your kids. 0:45:36.520 --> 0:45:36.920 And so. 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:42.760 Although the environment that they're around will will significantly impact 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:46.759 their understanding of who God is, their heart is in 0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:53.040 His hands. And this is going to require incredible amount 0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:55.919 of patience from you, incredible amount of prayer and some 0:45:56.239 --> 0:46:02.959 really really intimate converse stations that you have with them, 0:46:03.000 --> 0:46:07.240 specifically walking through Bible. And I would for anyone listening, 0:46:07.920 --> 0:46:12.200 I would highly recommend family worship time in your own families. 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:16.880 And what that might look like, Andy is especially with 0:46:16.880 --> 0:46:20.160 with seven year old boy girl twins. You're looking at 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:25.000 about ten minutes Max, and during this ten minutes and 0:46:25.000 --> 0:46:26.440 I want I want you to do this every day 0:46:26.440 --> 0:46:30.120 that they're with you, every single day. I want to 0:46:30.160 --> 0:46:34.120 see a portion of it reading through the Bible, not 0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:38.120 picking parts, but actually moving through. So my family and 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:40.480 I write currently we're in the Book of Mark, and 0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:43.040 so we just we every night we pick up where 0:46:43.040 --> 0:46:44.360 we left off the night before. 0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:45.640 In Mark. It could be. 0:46:45.600 --> 0:46:49.160 Sometimes I read to them one paragraph. Sometimes I read 0:46:49.239 --> 0:46:51.680 to the end of a thought or a to the 0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:54.960 end of a scene in the Book of Mark, and 0:46:55.000 --> 0:46:56.920 that might be three, four, five paragraphs. It might be 0:46:56.960 --> 0:46:59.120 a whole page, but it just depends on where's the 0:46:59.120 --> 0:47:01.960 scene start and where's the scene end. And I want 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:05.279 you to do that, estimating that this reading time is 0:47:05.320 --> 0:47:09.080 about three to four minutes long. And after you finish, 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:14.520 have a brief discussion on what we just read. And 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:16.759 then I would ask what I do is I ask 0:47:16.840 --> 0:47:21.279 my kids to pray specifically, not anything else, but just 0:47:21.360 --> 0:47:25.160 that passage. So let's pray based on what we just read. 0:47:25.600 --> 0:47:28.640 So Lincoln, what could you what could we pray for 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:32.160 what we just read? And he goes, I'll thank Jesus 0:47:32.280 --> 0:47:35.640 that he opened the eyes of the blind man with 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:40.279 the mud and that he works miracles. You know. He'll say, 0:47:40.320 --> 0:47:44.480 like the simplest idea from what we just read. And 0:47:44.520 --> 0:47:48.680 then London will usually go a little deeper and she'll say, Lord, 0:47:48.680 --> 0:47:51.640 will you give us the faith to be able to 0:47:52.080 --> 0:47:57.560 see even when when we're struggling and we and our 0:47:57.640 --> 0:47:59.879 minds don't have a sign in front of us, will 0:47:59.880 --> 0:48:05.080 you you make us believe? And then Amber will go 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:07.960 even deeper, and then I'll finish the prayer and then 0:48:08.239 --> 0:48:12.880 with our time left, we'll sing a song together and boom, 0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:16.120 there's ten minutes and that's the family worship that Andy, 0:48:16.200 --> 0:48:20.880 that will impact these kids more than your judgmental Christian 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:25.080 brothers and sisters, more than what they learn in school. 0:48:25.360 --> 0:48:28.120 They'll remember what they do with Dad and what you 0:48:28.200 --> 0:48:30.680 want to do. The goal is to reveal to them 0:48:30.719 --> 0:48:33.520 who God is through how He has revealed himself in 0:48:33.640 --> 0:48:36.560 the living, breathing Word of God. And you will if 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:39.040 you do this consistently, you'll find yourself walking. 0:48:38.760 --> 0:48:40.799 Through book after book after book. 0:48:40.520 --> 0:48:43.560 And the Bible, and after a few years you'll you'll 0:48:43.840 --> 0:48:46.120 you will have made it a significant way through the Bible. 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:49.480 That is, that is where I would lean Andy all 0:48:49.640 --> 0:48:52.040 day long, and for anyone else that's listening in a 0:48:52.040 --> 0:48:53.759 different kind of situation, that's where I would go. 0:48:54.440 --> 0:48:56.480 Man, you reminded me of something when you were just 0:48:56.520 --> 0:49:00.160 talking about that, and that is because he's asking one question, 0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:04.040 how do you a one on one battle with this? 0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:08.680 Instead of filling up your time with that. We talk 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:10.360 a lot about filling up our vessel. What will you 0:49:10.360 --> 0:49:11.799 fill up your time with? What do you fill up 0:49:11.800 --> 0:49:14.719 yourself with uh Word of God? Or is it you know, 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:18.440 the word of the world. If you if you filled 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:22.480 your your your kids up, there's no room for the 0:49:22.520 --> 0:49:25.440 battle between what you're concentrating on right now, if that 0:49:25.440 --> 0:49:28.319 makes sense. Yeah, there's not time or room for that, 0:49:28.800 --> 0:49:32.760 because you're already full of his word, of his worship, 0:49:33.080 --> 0:49:35.560 of the time together that you don't have to worry 0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:39.279 about actually facing those things that battles already won. 0:49:39.600 --> 0:49:41.439 And it's such good stuff. Amen. 0:49:42.080 --> 0:49:43.960 Well, we love you guys, and we will see you 0:49:44.080 --> 0:49:46.800 this this video. 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