Speaker 1: You know, Amber and I have had a had a
Speaker 1: crazy year, you know, and through grief and loss and
Speaker 1: and rebuilding, we've learned a lot. And part of that
Speaker 1: is that, you know, a crazy economic crisis doesn't compare
Speaker 1: to losing a loved one, and so it's really not
Speaker 1: that big a deal to me. It's a big deal
Speaker 1: in terms of we're gonna have to drastically change our lifestyle.
Speaker 1: But that's just that's that's it. It's lifestyle. It's not life. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: what's up. It's Granger Smith. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast,
Speaker 1: Episode twenty four. What a time to be alive? Man,
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Just think about how much has changed
Speaker 1: since the last time I actually sat down and recorded
Speaker 1: a podcast, which was one week ago, And imagine how
Speaker 1: much has changed since the time before that two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: We are living in history, y'all. We are living in
Speaker 1: unprecedented times. I'm a history buff. I love history. I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily love living in something like this, but it
Speaker 1: does definitely puts perspective on so many of the past
Speaker 1: events we've read about, like the World Wars or the
Speaker 1: Great Depression, and we are not at the level of
Speaker 1: any of those right now, but the way things are progressing,
Speaker 1: you just never know. Thank you guys for listening, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining, thanks for watching on YouTube. I'm going to
Speaker 1: use this podcast. We put these out every Monday morning,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to use these to answer questions that
Speaker 1: you guys are asking. I'm fielding those questions from social
Speaker 1: media hashtag Grangersmith podcast. I'm also fielding them from questions
Speaker 1: in the YouTube comments. And I'm going to use these
Speaker 1: also to just kind of tell you guys how we're
Speaker 1: doing here in the Smith family and how we're handling
Speaker 1: this craziness and kind of get the pulse on what
Speaker 1: you guys are doing it. And this will be, you know,
Speaker 1: as we're all drawing more and more to our homes,
Speaker 1: this will be my way to really communicate with you guys.
Speaker 1: Let me dive into some of these questions here. I
Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to talk about this and this
Speaker 1: is a this is a podcast episode. I did several
Speaker 1: several episodes ago about hackers. A lot of these hackers
Speaker 1: are from Lagos, Nigeria, and there has never been a
Speaker 1: time more important than now to be very aware on
Speaker 1: social media of who you're talking to and who you're
Speaker 1: getting messages from. It could be celebrities that are reaching
Speaker 1: out to you, are friending you, and they are not
Speaker 1: the actual person you think they are. Now. The reason
Speaker 1: I say it's so important now is because there's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot of these celebrity impersonators that are
Speaker 1: coming in and asking for money for some kind of
Speaker 1: charity because of the world is in a crazy place,
Speaker 1: and so you're going to be getting all kinds of
Speaker 1: messages like this. The most important thing is look for
Speaker 1: that blue chain. So if Tim mcgrawl, you know, friends,
Speaker 1: you make sure you look at it and see if
Speaker 1: it's got the blue check on top of that, I
Speaker 1: promise you timocral is not going to friend you, and
Speaker 1: timcral is definitely not going to send you a personal message.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to send you a personal message either,
Speaker 1: So just throwing that out there, I'm probably not going
Speaker 1: to friend random people right now, and I'm probably not
Speaker 1: gonna send random messages that say things like things are
Speaker 1: tough right now? Can you donate some money on an
Speaker 1: iTunes gift card? Keep that in mind so and so
Speaker 1: so so important, and tell your friends that the celebrities
Speaker 1: are not messaging. If they if it doesn't have a
Speaker 1: blue check, it doesn't necessarily mean it's not that person
Speaker 1: if they haven't gotten verified yet, but it is. That
Speaker 1: is the first line of defense to see who you're
Speaker 1: talking to. Probably the most, the most important or not important.
Speaker 1: The most common question I should say that I got
Speaker 1: on all these was are you going to do a
Speaker 1: live stream concert of some sort? And I have been
Speaker 1: getting that question, and of course it crossed my mind
Speaker 1: starting day one, and I've noticed that social media, how
Speaker 1: it's just everyone's kind of going live, live, live, live, live, live,
Speaker 1: and it seems to be a little boring for me
Speaker 1: and or a little boring for you to watch me
Speaker 1: doing that. And I'm not sure how that works yet.
Speaker 1: It's definitely not a viable source of income for a
Speaker 1: musician because of the massive amount of income we're all
Speaker 1: going to be losing. There's no way a live stream
Speaker 1: concert could even start to make up for what we're doing.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of putting more of my eggs in
Speaker 1: the basket of keeping you guys as close to me
Speaker 1: as you can as fans, so that when things do
Speaker 1: re energize, we could have a closer relationship than we
Speaker 1: do before I guess. I guess that's my best way
Speaker 1: to answer. I probably will go live. I'll probably play
Speaker 1: you guys some songs, but it's not a number one
Speaker 1: priority for me right now. Here's another question. What's going
Speaker 1: to happen with the shows that are canceled? Refund question
Speaker 1: mark or reschedule question mark? Well, they're all going to
Speaker 1: be rescheduled when I don't know. I know some of
Speaker 1: the shows that I that we've canceled already have been rescheduled,
Speaker 1: and sometimes that's in May or June, sometimes of July.
Speaker 1: I've seen a few come in in August. So everything, yes,
Speaker 1: will be rescheduled, But a question of when who knows?
Speaker 1: You know, we we can't even say June right now.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm involved in any of those decisions,
Speaker 1: that's not me at all. That is people that are
Speaker 1: more high up in the booking than I am. Refunds, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you certainly could be able to get a refund, but
Speaker 1: this will be done through through the local venues that
Speaker 1: put on the concert. So they're the ones that control tickets.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that take all the money from tickets.
Speaker 1: Bands get paid when we show up and play, and
Speaker 1: so all the money. None of that has ever gone
Speaker 1: to me. The money if you ever buy a ticket,
Speaker 1: that's going to the venue itself, so you'll have to
Speaker 1: handle refunds through them. Actually has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: me or the bands. Let's move on here. Stage gear.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, stage gear, what's the most important piece of
Speaker 1: your of all your stage gear, and they said, besides microphone,
Speaker 1: And the answer is crew. The crew is that the people.
Speaker 1: They're the most important part of the crew. I mean
Speaker 1: their most important part of the stage gear, because we
Speaker 1: could have them the worst gear you've ever seen in
Speaker 1: your life, but a really good crew could make it
Speaker 1: sound pretty good or make it work at least same
Speaker 1: with a bad guitar. A really good guitar player could
Speaker 1: make a bad guitar sound good. So the people are
Speaker 1: the most important thing, and the people is they're they're
Speaker 1: also the most valuable things are the most they were
Speaker 1: the most expensive thing. So through through all of this
Speaker 1: we've had to take out a massive line of credit loan.
Speaker 1: I could only go maybe two months max without getting
Speaker 1: into debt having to pay everybody because everybody's on salary.
Speaker 1: So took out a massive loan. And that's how the
Speaker 1: guys are going to stay getting paid. So for those
Speaker 1: of you concerned about that, thank you very much. I
Speaker 1: know there are some questions on how could we support
Speaker 1: your band and crew. They're going to be supported through
Speaker 1: a loan, and then over the next several years, all
Speaker 1: you know, my concerts will be as much as I
Speaker 1: can paying back that loan. So thank you for the
Speaker 1: the concern. But the reality is things are just gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot different from from here on out. When
Speaker 1: it comes to the live show, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: the the cool video wall and lights and things like
Speaker 1: that that we had semi truck, you know, all the
Speaker 1: neat toys, They're all gonna be gone. And I think
Speaker 1: you guys could could be okay with that. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna come in bare bones and we're gonna play some
Speaker 1: concerts and it's gonna be all about the music and
Speaker 1: all about the fans. And I don't think you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna have a problem with it. I'm certainly not.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna miss all that all
Speaker 1: that cool jazz. We're gonna be We're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be paying back this loan, and uh, In
Speaker 1: the meantime, we've got a lot of band and crew
Speaker 1: that's gonna be able to live live their normal life
Speaker 1: and support their family through a very normal time, have
Speaker 1: normal time. Next question, what can what can we do
Speaker 1: to stay engaged as fans? And that kind of goes
Speaker 1: back to the question on how how can you support us? Well, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: it's amazing that y'all even think about these kind of questions.
Speaker 1: But but the fact is, you guys have supported us
Speaker 1: for so long through going to concerts and doing what
Speaker 1: you could do as fans that it's okay, We're going
Speaker 1: to be okay. You don't have to think financially how
Speaker 1: to take care of us. That's more of my job
Speaker 1: to think financially, how can I take care of y'all,
Speaker 1: or at least how can I provide you with valuable
Speaker 1: information on how to how to stay calm, how to relax,
Speaker 1: how to how to get rid of some of the
Speaker 1: stress that you might be carrying. And you know, Amber
Speaker 1: and I have had a had a crazy year, you know,
Speaker 1: and through grief and loss and and rebuilding, we've learned
Speaker 1: a lot. And part of that is that, you know,
Speaker 1: a crazy economic crisis doesn't compare to losing a loved one,
Speaker 1: and so it's really not that big a deal to me.
Speaker 1: It's a big deal in terms of we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to drastically change our lifestyle. But that's just that's that's it.
Speaker 1: It's lifestyle. It's not life. So hey, if I quite honestly,
Speaker 1: if I get this virus and I die, that's the quicker.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to heaven and see my see my
Speaker 1: little boy, see my dad. Don't take that the wrong way,
Speaker 1: you know, don't don't take that as there's no will
Speaker 1: to live. But my soul is prepared. I'm not worried.
Speaker 1: What can what can you guys do to stay engage
Speaker 1: as fans? We did drop our uh this that's why
Speaker 1: the Dirt Road single, we dropped it to sixty nine cents,
Speaker 1: So we're trying to do that. You could you can
Speaker 1: get a hold of me on cameo dot com and
Speaker 1: cameo dot com is is going to allow me to
Speaker 1: give you personal shout outs. That's kind of one of
Speaker 1: my only forms of income right now is to be
Speaker 1: able to give you guys personal shout outs and say
Speaker 1: hey via video and then other than that that the
Speaker 1: most important thing is watch these videos, share these videos,
Speaker 1: comment on these videos. Like these videos, whether it's the
Speaker 1: Smiths or my Granger personal page or these podcasts. Amber
Speaker 1: has a show coming out on YouTube called A Rise
Speaker 1: with Amber that the first one comes out just came
Speaker 1: out yesterday for you watching this and so yeah, just
Speaker 1: be engaged in those and that is That's enough, y'all.
Speaker 1: That's enough to to feel the love and to feel supported,
Speaker 1: spread the spread the message. Sorry, if you hear background noises,
Speaker 1: that's the kids run around like crazy out of school.
Speaker 1: As you know. Here's an interesting question, has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with anything we've talked about. How do you know
Speaker 1: when it's the right time to say I love you?
Speaker 1: And I think that that question stood out to me
Speaker 1: because when we're in a world like this right now,
Speaker 1: when we're in this this craziness, don't you think that
Speaker 1: now is the time if you feel like you need
Speaker 1: to ask that question, or if you feel strongly enough
Speaker 1: about someone, don't you think that now is the time
Speaker 1: to tell them how you feel? Because haven't we learned
Speaker 1: enough in this last amount of time, this craziness that
Speaker 1: tomorrow is not guaranteed. We have no idea what tomorrow
Speaker 1: is going to bring and what do you have to lose?
Speaker 1: If you feel that way about someone, what do you
Speaker 1: have to lose? Tell them today? Tell them now. Here's
Speaker 1: another one stood out to me. Another question says, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you concerning this dangerous virus? Why are you
Speaker 1: so selfish? I wrote that down because that's first of all,
Speaker 1: I'd like to note that came from Country Blue sixty
Speaker 1: three on Instagram. So my question to you is, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? What's some more information on behind
Speaker 1: this question? What's wrong with you concerning this dangerous virus?
Speaker 1: Why are you so selfish? I'm assuming you're talking about
Speaker 1: either Amber and I talking on the Smiths or me
Speaker 1: when I made a video called What's going On on YouTube?
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're talking about that. And what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do with this is not diminish the severity of
Speaker 1: our current situation. It's it's an attempt to try to
Speaker 1: spread a message of hope and resilience and faith and
Speaker 1: try to quell some anxiety and try to get people
Speaker 1: to stop posting rumors on social media that in turn
Speaker 1: starts scaring everybody and making people impulse by the grocery stores,
Speaker 1: and that has nothing to do with being prepared, being ready,
Speaker 1: being being being prepared for the worst and and hopefully
Speaker 1: being wrong. If you if, if, if, all this doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: But but don't don't misunderstand my wanting to spread a
Speaker 1: message of hope and faith and trust. Don't don't misunderstand
Speaker 1: that is a be and so fish and be discounting
Speaker 1: a dangerous situation. So please don't don't get those lines crossed.
Speaker 1: I'm not a scientist, I'm not a doctor. I'm not
Speaker 1: a politician. So as a musician, I feel like part
Speaker 1: of my duty is to spread calm and to to
Speaker 1: kind of help people through a very anxious time, because
Speaker 1: anxiety is deadly in itself. We know this for a fact.
Speaker 1: Another question I see all the time is regrets. Do
Speaker 1: you have any regrets? I see that all the time,
Speaker 1: And honestly, the answer is no, I don't have any regrets.
Speaker 1: And that's that's kind of a learned a learned thing
Speaker 1: for me. I like to look at any mistake it's
Speaker 1: ultimately a lesson. So instead of looking back and saying
Speaker 1: here's my regrets, I look back and say, here were
Speaker 1: the stumbling blocks, here were obstacles and I learned from them,
Speaker 1: and I'm grateful in those situations. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be grateful for every situation, but you can be grateful
Speaker 1: in every situation. And one of the ways you could
Speaker 1: be grateful in a situation is realizing that in some
Speaker 1: way you are better for an obstacle, or for a setback,
Speaker 1: or from a mistake because you learned something from that
Speaker 1: that made you a little bit better in this world.
Speaker 1: You learned something that you could share with someone else.
Speaker 1: You learn something that helps you better protect you or
Speaker 1: your family, or your finances, or whatever that might be.
Speaker 1: So I don't have any regrets, only lessons, and that
Speaker 1: is a glass half full versus glass half empty mentality.
Speaker 1: You can call it what you want. You can call
Speaker 1: it regrets. I'm gonna call it lessons. Another question I
Speaker 1: get all the time is what does ye ye mean?
Speaker 1: And I've made a lot of YouTube videos about what
Speaker 1: does ye mean? I've talked about it many times on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and I don't mind going down that road again.
Speaker 1: But quite simply, we have defined it as living life
Speaker 1: to the fullest, living your best life. Ye yee is
Speaker 1: synonymous with live it and when we made ye yee.
Speaker 1: My brothers and I when we created that with Earl
Speaker 1: Dipples Junior through YouTube and fans kind of started latching
Speaker 1: onto it. We trademarked it, and we quickly needed to
Speaker 1: make it mean something, and to us, that's what it meant.
Speaker 1: It's an old Texas cattle call. You know, people used
Speaker 1: to call their cows in ye. But we had to
Speaker 1: kind of hone in and say, you know what, this
Speaker 1: represents a lifestyle. This represents a feeling and a mentality,
Speaker 1: a state of mind, and that state of mind needs
Speaker 1: to be live life to the fullest. That's ye yee.
Speaker 1: Next question, what are your goals for twenty twenty? I
Speaker 1: would like to I like that question because I like
Speaker 1: to talk about goals, and this is the perfect example
Speaker 1: of what I'm about to say. Twenty twenty. What are
Speaker 1: your goals for twenty twenty? I think we could all
Speaker 1: agree that if we did have any kind of goals
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty, there are most of them. As far
Speaker 1: as business is concerned, are shot right. It's changed, It's
Speaker 1: completely different. And so what I like to say about
Speaker 1: that is instead of setting goals, I like to set intentions.
Speaker 1: And what I mean is you could set. You could
Speaker 1: set an intention to do your best to be the
Speaker 1: best version of yourself, to give your best effort, to
Speaker 1: do everything you can in your life to line up
Speaker 1: the dominoes correctly so that you have the best chance
Speaker 1: that being the best version of yourself, being the best
Speaker 1: version of your career self, or family self, for godly self,
Speaker 1: for whatever that might be. You set an intention instead
Speaker 1: of a goal, because if you set a goal, either
Speaker 1: two scenarios could happen. One, you don't come anywhere close
Speaker 1: to that goal that you created out of nowhere. The
Speaker 1: goal that you created came from a perception of what
Speaker 1: you think the future might look like. The reality is
Speaker 1: we never know what the future is going to look like.
Speaker 1: It's only ever a guess, that's all it is. So
Speaker 1: if you set a goal, you could fall way below
Speaker 1: that goal, and then what you're a failure. No matter
Speaker 1: how you look at it your mind, you are a
Speaker 1: failure if you didn't reach that number goal. Another scenario
Speaker 1: is you shoot way past the goal. You go way
Speaker 1: past it, and you realize the goal wasn't set high enough,
Speaker 1: the bar wasn't high enough. So then you try to
Speaker 1: recreate a new bar and you try to put it
Speaker 1: out there even farther and that stuff as well. And
Speaker 1: once again, goals are just to guess. That's all you
Speaker 1: can do is guess that we're going to be doing
Speaker 1: this or I want this to happen by this date.
Speaker 1: You're completely guessing, and you don't know that life and
Speaker 1: everything that happens around it is set on a different
Speaker 1: path than you might think it is. And this whole
Speaker 1: virus right now is a perfect example of how if
Speaker 1: we set intentions to be our best version of ourselves,
Speaker 1: then no matter what happens upon us during that time,
Speaker 1: we're going to power through it as the best versions
Speaker 1: of ourselfs and we're still completing that mission instead of
Speaker 1: that numeric goal. If that makes sense, And I'm glad
Speaker 1: you asked that question. Another question I get a lot
Speaker 1: is do you have any devotionals. I'm a Christian, so
Speaker 1: Christian devotionals are a big deal. I like to start
Speaker 1: my day with it. It's actually the first thing I
Speaker 1: like to do in the morning, especially staying away from
Speaker 1: social media or emails or anything business related. I really
Speaker 1: can throw you in a funk if you see a
Speaker 1: text or an email, or a social media post or
Speaker 1: a news headline that really sets the tone of your day,
Speaker 1: and it could be in a negative way. It's a
Speaker 1: good chance, especially these days, that it could set your
Speaker 1: day off in a negative way. So I like to
Speaker 1: start my day with a devotional I have several that
Speaker 1: I like to read. My two number one go tos is.
Speaker 1: One of them is called Jesus Calling, and I like
Speaker 1: to always start the day with Jesus Calling. It's very
Speaker 1: simple read. It's always about you know that much, you
Speaker 1: know hands length of text, and it's always seems to
Speaker 1: be very relevant to what I'm going through. So it
Speaker 1: gives a little little verse, it gives a little description,
Speaker 1: and then it kind of wraps it up and you
Speaker 1: always fill a little bit like it was speaking to
Speaker 1: you for a reason. And they're such a cool feeling.
Speaker 1: And I've gone through this book through several years, but
Speaker 1: it has a day by day. So when I'm recording
Speaker 1: this podcast right now, it's March twenty first, So this
Speaker 1: morning I read March twenty first. The second one is
Speaker 1: called Hearing His Voice, and this is a one. This
Speaker 1: is one that I was recommended by a good friend,
Speaker 1: and so this is also my second year on this one.
Speaker 1: It's a little deeper, a little you have to think
Speaker 1: a little bit more on hearing his voice, But it's
Speaker 1: about the whole devotional. All three hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: days is about hearing what God is trying to tell you,
Speaker 1: having the ears to hear it, having the heart that's
Speaker 1: open to take in that information, with the understanding that
Speaker 1: God is God speaks to us when we're ready to listen,
Speaker 1: and if we're ready and we're prepared to listen, then
Speaker 1: that's when we could hear him the best. And so
Speaker 1: it's kind of training your mind and your ears to
Speaker 1: silence a little bit all the earthly thoughts that you
Speaker 1: have and listen to what He's trying to tell you,
Speaker 1: which could come through other people, which is interesting. So
Speaker 1: some he could work through. He could do anything, but
Speaker 1: he could work through another person that then in turn
Speaker 1: comes and speaks to you, and you have to be
Speaker 1: in tune that this could be something you need to
Speaker 1: be hearing right now. So it's a great way to
Speaker 1: start my day. And that's another great question. What else
Speaker 1: we have? You know? Another very common question during this
Speaker 1: time is how do you deal with stress and fear?
Speaker 1: And correct me if I'm wrong? But I think this
Speaker 1: is a really important subject right now. And this kind
Speaker 1: of goes back to the girl that said, what did
Speaker 1: she say? What's wrong with you? Why are you so selfish?
Speaker 1: I think that kind of goes back to that question,
Speaker 1: because because I'm going to focus a lot on these
Speaker 1: podcasts and on my own YouTube and on my Instagram
Speaker 1: post and stuff like that, I'm going to focus a
Speaker 1: lot on trying to quell fear and trying to diminish stress,
Speaker 1: trying to diminish anxiety, trying to put some calm back
Speaker 1: into anyone that wants to listen. And by doing that,
Speaker 1: by me saying it, it also helps me and it
Speaker 1: reminds me of the core fundamental facts of meaning and
Speaker 1: purpose in God and faith. And how many times you
Speaker 1: guys that know the Word, that know the Bible, know
Speaker 1: how many times did Jesus speak about don't be anxious,
Speaker 1: don't stress, give everything to him. He mentions it all
Speaker 1: the time, almost as much as he mentions love each other,
Speaker 1: you know. And so it's so important to realize that
Speaker 1: we're not in control and that's okay. We don't have
Speaker 1: to be all the time, and that fear, in its essence,
Speaker 1: fear is an anxiety about the unknown, and so it's
Speaker 1: a natural form if you don't know what's going on,
Speaker 1: if you're uncertain about the future or what you're involved with,
Speaker 1: then fear is the natural reaction to that. So it's okay.
Speaker 1: So being in that fear and realizing I'm a little
Speaker 1: scared right now, Realizing that is okay in itself. Being
Speaker 1: with that understanding and instead of saying, don't be scared,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, don't be scared, it's okay to just
Speaker 1: go you know what, God, I'm a little scared right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give this to you and be with that
Speaker 1: because it's being scared is just anxiety about the unknown,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of unknown right now. Stress is
Speaker 1: the build up of that fear. It's the build up
Speaker 1: of your anxiety of trying to be trying to predict
Speaker 1: the future which is unpredictable, trying to plan and trying
Speaker 1: to set goals and all this stuff. It results in stress.
Speaker 1: And one of the best ways to deal with stress,
Speaker 1: and this is not just me talking, it's just a
Speaker 1: lot of things that I've read. The best way to
Speaker 1: deal with it is mindfulness, having some sort of quiet
Speaker 1: in your mind instead of constantly online or constantly talking
Speaker 1: or chatting with others about how bad things are or
Speaker 1: what are we going to do, or worrying, instead clearing
Speaker 1: your mind with mindfulness. And there's the quickest best way
Speaker 1: to do that is through there's different apps on your
Speaker 1: phone and so to in today's age, that's really easy
Speaker 1: to get an app like there's one called Calm, there's
Speaker 1: one called ten percent Happier. There's endless apps that can
Speaker 1: deal with stress through mindfulness. And if you could be
Speaker 1: mindful five or ten minutes a day. Meditation and once again,
Speaker 1: I want to say meditation not in a spiritual way,
Speaker 1: like when you think of meditation, don't think of like
Speaker 1: you know, am sitting around some Buddha doll. It's not that.
Speaker 1: Mindfulness and meditation is more of clearing your brain, focusing
Speaker 1: on the present, focusing on you here in this moment,
Speaker 1: right now, is all that matters. Your breath in and out,
Speaker 1: your heartbeat, focusing on the now. If you're driving the
Speaker 1: steering wheel, if you're sitting in a chair, it's your
Speaker 1: butt right there on the chair, it's your feet on
Speaker 1: the floor, it's the oxygen you're breathing in It's everything
Speaker 1: right now, in this moment. And if the more you
Speaker 1: could focus on that, the more you could feel that
Speaker 1: anxiety start to leave, feel that stress start to leave,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter what's going to happen tomorrow or tonight,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what happened yesterday. The only thing that
Speaker 1: really exists is right now, this moment. And you guys
Speaker 1: have heard me say that so many times, but it
Speaker 1: is a fact. This can help you. If you're overwhelmed
Speaker 1: with anxiety right now, go to your phone and get
Speaker 1: and stop all the social media junk and get an
Speaker 1: app like Calm, which is free. I believe it's free
Speaker 1: at least ten percent happier. A lot of these have
Speaker 1: like free until you get to a certain point. But
Speaker 1: go get it and just put on your headphones, close
Speaker 1: your eyes, and follow a guided meditation of some sort
Speaker 1: that just clears your brain. I'm gonna leave you guys
Speaker 1: with that. I'm gonna get back to the kids in there.
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Speaker 1: on that toilet paper. See you, guys, ye