1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Thank 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: you for listening, Thank you for watching. I'm grateful for 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: this platform. This is a good one. Today I got 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: one of my good buddies, Robert Turkula Fromlunkers TV. He's 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: back and I got him to finally be honest with me. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: This is this is gonna be This is gonna be fun. 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: And those are those of you that are fans of 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: Lunkers TV are gonna like it. Those of you that 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: don't know who he is. He's a very interesting guy, 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: so you'll like it as well. 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Buy Raycon dot Calm slash granger, and you 53 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: guys are not gonna be disappointed. They are. They are 54 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: so small and they fit. They fit so good in 55 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: my pocket. Like if you need earbuds, you want them. 56 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: They're like the size of a key of a car key, 57 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: you just slight in your pocket. I also mentioned this album, 58 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: and this album I've been working like crazy. It's gonna 59 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: have a lot of songs on it, and I honestly 60 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: feel like this is my best record I've ever done, 61 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: best album I've ever done, best collection of songs I've 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: ever put together. I'm so excited for you guys to 63 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: hear it. I believe it's gonna come out in September. 64 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: You know, it's always hard to guarantee a release date 65 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: because things happen. But I'm on schedule right now for September, 66 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: and I just approved a bunch of these mixes. A 67 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: lot of this stuff was recorded right here at the 68 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: Eyege Farm, right where I'm sitting, and I'm just so 69 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: proud of it. It's got a really diverse group of songs. 70 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: So we've got some Earth songs, We've got some good 71 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: old roller windows down country music. We have some songs 72 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: that are going to make you think, I hope, a 73 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: couple of songs that are gonna make you cry. At 74 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: least they make my wife Amber cry. So I'm just gosh, 75 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: I'm so excited. And I'll be telling you guys more 76 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: and more about this new album, and i'll be revealing 77 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: the title of it. I also already took the pictures 78 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: for the cover, so I'll be approving all that this week. 79 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: I have to have everything turned in so that it 80 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: gets to you guys on time. I have to have 81 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: it all turned in, like by the end of next week, 82 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: so the race is on. It's always a little bit 83 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: of a hustle at the end of an album, and 84 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: I'm always a little bit worn out because it takes 85 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: a lot of brain power and a lot of thinking 86 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: to kind of just weed my way through a lot 87 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: of the decisions that have to be made musically, and 88 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: I've just but I like that I've always produced my 89 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: records and I like to have that kind of controlled 90 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: creative control for better or for worse. If it comes 91 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: out and it's bad, I like to know that I'm 92 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: the one that made it bad, and that's my fault. 93 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: I hate the thought that, well, I had these songs 94 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: and someone else produced them and recorded them and I 95 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: have no control over that, And if you don't like them, 96 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: that's a terrible thought that I handed off what you're 97 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: going to be listening to to someone else. So all 98 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: that being said, I love it. I hope you do 99 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: to be watching my socials for as we start revealing 100 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: and releasing a few of these songs early, which we 101 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: will be doing, and it's going to be a fun 102 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: fall this podcast. Robert Turkla, the man behind Lunkers TV, 103 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: one of the most popular, most viewed, most subscribed to 104 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: phishing channels, freshwater fishing channels on all of YouTube. He's 105 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: built an empire with what he's done. He's also a 106 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: vet and he's also seen a lot. He has a 107 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: lot of stories, and I've never really asked him about it. 108 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: So I wanted to go a little bit deep and 109 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 1: wanted him to get honest with me on this podcast. 110 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: That's a good one. So here you go. Thank you 111 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: for watching episode forty. Welcome to the Grangersmith podcast. Did 112 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: chid and much times and so long line of my 113 00:06:53,440 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: fool of humping down the back rangy cool watch jeation. 114 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: So by now, by now you would have been to 115 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: how many of my concerts on a normal twenty twenty 116 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: if this has been a normal year, your yours, you 117 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: would have been to You have been on the bus 118 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: with us at least a handful, at least three. I'm 119 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: going like weekends up front at least at least a handful. Yeah, 120 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: for sure. That's kind of a kind of sucks. Actually, 121 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I think we're supposed to 122 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: be have north we I swear you're supposed to pick 123 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: me up on the way up north. We were Yeah, 124 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what it was though, 125 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: every reason June. It was in June. I'm sure everything, 126 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: everything is gone. So how has this you're by the way, 127 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: you're my only repeat guest on this podcast. That's good, 128 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: so far good. And so the first one we did 129 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: you know virtually? No, Yes, that was that was at 130 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: the very beginning of all this. Yeah, the very beginning. 131 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: So now since then, how has how has your work 132 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: been altered? Uh? Not much? Really, I guess I kind 133 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: of stayed home for like a week and a half 134 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: and then I was like, nah, we got I gotta work. 135 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: So I'm never really like in the only time I'm 136 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: actually with people is like maybe now. But I don't 137 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: go into the store very often. I get Chick fil 138 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: every morning, and I go to my land and then 139 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: I come back home. I'm not around anybody. How far 140 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 1: is your land from where you live? Not an hour? 141 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: Drop up there, do whatever I need to do, fish, 142 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: shoot some guns, do something stupid, and then come back home. 143 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: And so I was never really affected. Really, that's your work, 144 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: that's it. That is literally it. I've told you. I 145 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: tell you this all the time. But as a country 146 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: singer who has a job that I always hear people 147 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: that say, man, that must be awesome. One that tells 148 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: you that you go out and you fish and you 149 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 1: shoot some stuff. That's a natural job. Yeah, it's got 150 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: to be entertaining for fifteen minutes of someone's life a day. 151 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: But do you wake up every morning and go, man, 152 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: I love this job? Nah, you don't. I like it. 153 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:17,199 Speaker 1: Not that kind of guy. No, I like, I'm like, 154 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: I'm gotta get the work done, and then I come 155 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: home like all right, let's have a glass of whiskey. 156 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: Or now I'm mountain on the workout phase for like 157 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 1: the last six months, I'll literally work all day and 158 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: then I come home and I work out in my 159 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: garage because it's hot as hell. You got your bench 160 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: press back up to where it was I am sitting 161 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: at probably around two twenty five, And no, I'll probably 162 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: never get back over three hundred. Ever you were three? 163 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: Was that three fifteen? Tem Yeah? Three? Shoot, I'll probably 164 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: never get back up there. Maybe I will, I don't know, 165 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,959 Speaker 1: probably not, because I have no one to spot me. 166 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: So I'm literally just doing like a lot of reps. 167 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: I always do eight to ten. So what I'm interested like, 168 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: I want to get off anything we talked about last time. Yeah, 169 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: you have Lunkers TV, one of the most successful fishing 170 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: shows on YouTube, wildly successful with googin and all of 171 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: your branding, wildly successful. You're a one percenter. You say that, 172 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: but then I look at yours and this guy's this 173 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: guy's killing. It doesn't matter for the guy, for everyone 174 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: out there that says I want to fish on YouTube, 175 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 1: you are a not even a one percenter. You're You're 176 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: like a point zero zero zero one percenter. This is 177 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: luck of anyone. I don't it is. I don't believe 178 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: there's a lot of legos timing. It's the same thing huge, 179 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: which timing is huge, but there's there's a difference in 180 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: timing and luck. Yeah, I timed it well, you timed 181 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: it very well, worked hard for well a few years. 182 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: So I guess we talked about that a lot last podcast. 183 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: But what I want to talk about now is I 184 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: want to kind of get deeper. And you know me, 185 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: I don't prepare for these I don't take notes. That's 186 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: my entire life. I actually tried to come down to 187 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: your house on Tuesday while you're in Nashville. So that's 188 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: how prepared I was. That's true. Yeah, I was like, hey, 189 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,719 Speaker 1: you want to come do this podcast? And You're like, yeah, man, 190 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: I'm going down south anyway to be with Demo and 191 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: Matt Best. And I said, cool, I'm available any day 192 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: but Wednesday because the day I show Wednesday. See how 193 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: you have the days wrong here? I just don't. I 194 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: don't plan for anything either. So we're good. So what 195 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: I want to I want to talk about, though, is 196 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: like who who were you before the military, and then 197 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: who are you now? And what what has that done 198 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: to your personality? I was lost before the military, Okay, God, 199 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: I had no idea what I want to do with 200 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 1: my life. I mean I wasn't totally expecting that. Yeah, 201 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: I was super lost. I mean, hell, I was working 202 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,439 Speaker 1: at a What was I doing? I was pushing carts 203 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: at Walmart. That's literally what I did. I pushed cards 204 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: at Walmart. I had no not high school diplomat. I 205 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: was seventeen at the time, eighteen right there. I didn't 206 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: have anything. My dad had just died that same year prior, 207 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: and I didn't live with my mom, and I didn't 208 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: have really anywhere to go. So I was like, in 209 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: this weird transient phase. So I just worked at Walmart 210 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: push carts and I gambled every day on's a casino 211 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: every day play black jack, so I did, So what 212 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 1: what made you sign up? I saw guys walk out 213 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: of the when I was pushing carts, I mean a 214 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: gentleman and uh we saw army guys walk out. I 215 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: was like, that looks really cool. I want to go 216 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 1: do that, and that's literally I walked over to him 217 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: and they asked me what I want to do, So 218 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: I wanted the office. I took some tests and I 219 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,839 Speaker 1: wasn't really the brightest guy in the world. Clearly I 220 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: had a debatable well it depends on what you when 221 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 1: we're talking about like booksmarts, not a chance, and that's 222 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: what I took the test and they're like, so what 223 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: do you want to do and I was like, I 224 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: don't know. I want to go kick indoors. And that's 225 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: how I got my job. What you said I want 226 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: to kick I want to be the guy that kicking doors. 227 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: He's like, okay, so you want to be an infantryman. 228 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, sure do that. I don't know. Okay, 229 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: then then I watched videos on YouTube on what an 230 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: infantry guy was and what they did. I had no idea. 231 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: So then did you shoot before? No? No, really had 232 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: you had you shot before? Maybe a shotgun or a 233 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: pistol or something, but nothing like no, no, because I 234 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: want when I when I had, I actually hadn't even told. 235 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 1: I didn't tell my girlfriend at the time. I didn't 236 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: tell my mom, didn't tell my grandparents. I literally went joined. 237 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: I didn't even tell anybody until after I went to 238 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: MEPs and signed all my paperwork and have a physical. 239 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, yeah, I joined the army now, 240 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: like I think, I shipped out like July, I think, 241 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: and I joined in June, shipped out two weeks later, 242 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: and that's still your personality. Yeah, I do everything, by 243 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: the way, I joined the army. What I did? Oh yeah, 244 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: I bought I bought a sports car, I bought a ranch. 245 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: Yeah that's what happens. Okay, So you go in infantry 246 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 1: and they go here you go and you here's a rifle, 247 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: and you said, oh that's cool. Yeah, oh yeah, that's 248 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: pretty much it. I remember I was sitting at my grandparents' 249 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: house and they was looking at h the US Army's website, 250 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: Go army dot com, I think is what it was. 251 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: And they had a guy who was a infantry and 252 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: then you click on it and then it would show 253 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: you all the jobs you could do in the infantry 254 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: and then one of them was sniper and I was like, 255 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: I want to do that. I literally saw it on 256 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: the computer, was like, I want to do that. That 257 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: looks cool. The reason I even ask is because a 258 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: lot of snipers will say my first baby gun. I 259 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: was seven years old with my dad shoot squirrels. Yeah, 260 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: I shot up. I did shoot BB guns. I shot 261 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: birds all the time out of the barn. But I 262 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: do remember when I was a kid, I shot a bird, 263 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: a barn swallow out of the sky with a BB gun. 264 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: I was like, holy shit, that was you were good. 265 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: You knew that you had a good Yeah. I could shoot, yeah, 266 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: but I just didn't. I never was taught how to 267 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: shoot far. I mean I just shot baby guns or 268 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: little lover actions or something. Nothing but nothing that you 269 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: consider yourself different than any of your other friends at 270 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: your shooting. No scare it off, like different than like 271 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: Nick Irving, Who's like, yeah, I knew it seven years old. 272 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: I had a really good Yeah. I knew when I 273 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: got in the army that shooting was really easy. And 274 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: then once I came back from my rack, I was like, 275 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: I want to try. I want to I kept I 276 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: have that even to this day. I still had that 277 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: same issue where I always want to do something more 278 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: than what I probably should do. And when I came back, 279 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: I was like, well, I want to try out and 280 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: be a sniper. And then when I came back from 281 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: that and I got kind of plateaued where they're I 282 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: could go only as far as I could. I came 283 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: back from Afghanistan, I was like, well, now I want 284 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: to try for Special Forces, and now I want to 285 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: do this. And that's kind of what I kept even 286 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: in life. It's you came back from your first hour, Yeah, 287 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: it's like we're not you were just infantry. Then you 288 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: said I want to be a sniper. Yeah. Then went 289 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: the sniper trials and then I got selected for that, 290 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: and then they have a six month waiting period for 291 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: you to test and see if you're actually gonna be 292 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: good enough. Because it's so expensive to send one person 293 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: to school, like it's exceptionally expensive, like really expensive for 294 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: the to train one person to be a snipers so 295 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: expensive for the army. They literally send you when you 296 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: get selected for sniper section, you have like a six 297 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: month trial period where they test, they test you and 298 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: they literally put you through school multiple times just to 299 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: see if you can pass at this level, and then 300 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: they send you off to school. Yeah. So, but then 301 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: if you can't even pass it on on the first try, 302 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: then they kick you back down to the line unit 303 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: and they'd find somebody else. You're metal bracelets that are 304 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: clinking around. Yeah all this When did that start? Was 305 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: that both one's Iraq and one Afghanistan? Where was that 306 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: in relation to your story of when you came back? 307 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: These ones are both these both these guys are from Afghanistan. 308 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: This guy ended up dying in Iraq fighting Isis four 309 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: years later. This guy was killed when I was there. 310 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: So that's when you were a sniper Afghanistan. Yeah, So 311 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: did you see much action the first tour? Not really, 312 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: I mean we saw it was totally different kind of war. 313 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: It was so like they just fought differently. They didn't 314 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: fight the same Afghanistan they fought and they would stay 315 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: at the stand in the ground Iraq. They would like 316 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: come out of a side street or some shit and 317 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: throw something at you and shoot at you real quick 318 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: and then run away. It was too many different So 319 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: you came home and you're like, I want more action. Yes, 320 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: basically I want to what's the next level up? How 321 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: could I level up? Because I don't want to go 322 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: back and be bored? Essentially, why didn't even think that. 323 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: I wasn't even expecting to go to Afghanistan in the 324 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: first place. I was on my way out. I came 325 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: and I tried out for snipers. I was a sniper 326 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: for about a yearish and I was on my way out, 327 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: and I was actually going to go try out for 328 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs farm team because I had a connection 329 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: up there. I was going to go try out for 330 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: the Triple A team, and I had a week later, 331 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,479 Speaker 1: I had got orders too for Afghanistan, and I had 332 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: to make a choice. Do I want to go to 333 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: Afghanistan with the guys I've been training with over the 334 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,719 Speaker 1: last year as a sniper, or do I just want 335 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: to get out of the Army cause and be done. 336 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,719 Speaker 1: I literally would have just been done. I didn't wouldn't 337 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: have even won on the deployment. So I decided well, 338 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: screw it, I'll go ahead and sign up. And that's 339 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: what I did. I re upped to go to Afghanistan, 340 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: and all read yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, my life 341 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: would become way different if I didn't. But now I 342 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: literally signed up just for one tour. I signed up 343 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: for an additional eighteen months just to make the contracts. 344 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: So basically I would have got out in Afghanistan, so 345 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 1: I extended I think it was twelve months actually, so 346 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: I would have enough time when I got back to 347 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,679 Speaker 1: get out. But then when I was over there, I 348 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: loved it so much. I re upped again because I 349 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna make 350 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: Special Forces and then we're gonna make it a career. 351 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: Because you were borderline board again, I was bored again. Yeah, 352 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: because there's only so high you can get in the 353 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: regular army, Like you can only do so much stuff, 354 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: Like I had all the schooling I could possibly get. 355 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 1: I had airborne, air assault and sniper school and all 356 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 1: my infantry shit. There was literally nowhere else for me 357 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: to go. I'd already maxed out, so I had to 358 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: do something else. And so when's the first time you 359 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: killed somebody there's time which tour was that it was 360 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: afghan I said, I didn't kill anybody in Iraq? Did 361 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: that change you? Uh? Not really not? Then it was 362 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: kind of enjoyable. It might sound. You have videos on YouTube. 363 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: I used to have over that day. I had all 364 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: the videos because it was all filmed that that entire 365 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: day was actually filmed on a helmet camp. And I 366 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: got drunk one night and deleted all everything. I had 367 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: the video of me killing somebody. Well, actually, sometimes being 368 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: drunk brings out the truth. I didn't want those So 369 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 1: so something in your conscience knew that this is gonna 370 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: this is gonna hurt you. I could actually go back 371 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: and physically relive that day. You don't need a video, No, 372 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: I didn't. Don't mean like I literally could watch it. 373 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: I can see it to my head. But I'm saying 374 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: if I could go out there and watch it on 375 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: TV screen, then I can really literally I didn't want 376 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: to have to continue to relive that over and over. 377 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: So what did that do to the dude that was 378 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: pushing cards at Walmart? What did that kind of power change? 379 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: That's a good question to make you you are today? Damn, 380 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: that is a good question. What did it do to me? 381 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know. I can tell you this. I 382 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: don't know. That's a good question. You stopped, you stopped 383 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: doing those kind of videos on YouTube, which one reason 384 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: military ones talking about. Yeah, I don't talk about on 385 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: YouTube like that, but you used to. Yeah, and you 386 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: get a lot of views, so you would if it 387 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: was about the views, you would continue to There's only 388 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: and there's only so many things I would like to 389 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: tell as well, because there's there's also my audience. I understand, 390 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: there's a lot of kids, and there's like certain stories 391 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: that you just never want to say out loud because 392 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: some people they can't. There's some shit should probably never 393 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: be said. I guess I like that, like seeing like 394 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: women having to pull glass out of their face because 395 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: the bomb dropped too close on their stuff and blew 396 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: all the windows out and now their face is covered. 397 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: That wasn't our fault. Yeah, that kind of like I 398 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: don't tell those kind of stories. You're not haunted by it? No, Well, 399 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: sometimes and I have I think when you answer really fast, 400 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: I feel like you're like I might be, but I 401 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: just gotta let it. I just have no no, no, 402 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: no, no no no I'm fine. No, it's just I have 403 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: my time. You're right, I have to butt twice a year. 404 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: I go down. I'll go for about two weeks where 405 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: it's just fucking excuse my language, it's really rough, like 406 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: real rough, for about two weeks, and then I'll be fine. 407 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: What's the trigger? I don't know. That's what I'm trying 408 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: to actually take note of. Actually had I actually had 409 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 1: a little deal happened about a month ago where I 410 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: was for about two weeks straight. I was bad. I 411 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: would I was not a good spot, but it was 412 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: something had triggered it. And then it like snowballed, like 413 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: kept going and going and going and going. I don't know, 414 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: is it the is it stuff you did or stuff 415 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: you saw that's worse? And when it's the two weeks, 416 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: oh it it actually it's it's not something hey, you 417 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: could tell. I know. I'm thinking how to so when 418 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: I'm talking about a trigger, like it could be something 419 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 1: as stupid as a smell that will actually bring up 420 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: a scenario that would happen, because I remember this one 421 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: time I smelled chicken nuggets or chicken strips and it 422 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: like kicked ticked over to something and then that turned 423 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: into something else, and then that turned into something else 424 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: and then just went just fucking like domino effect the 425 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,479 Speaker 1: entire way you have you talked to people about it, 426 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, is the army pay for stuff for you 427 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: to go? And well they would, but I've already I 428 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: once saw a lady and flour and the whole thing 429 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: is so when you when you talk about people with 430 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: PTSD or PTS, whichever you would like to call it, 431 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: it's it has to deal with it's. It's because we 432 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: lived at such that was fine after Iraq, but I 433 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 1: lived in Afghanistan. It's such a high tempo like lifestyle 434 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,719 Speaker 1: for nine months straight. I am talking the highest tempoed lifestyle. 435 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: You could imagine writing a roller coaster for nine months straight, 436 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: twelve hours a day. Yeah, that was it because and 437 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: your your brain lives at that high tempo and you're 438 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: always trying to get back to that level, but you'll 439 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: never be able to get to that high or again. 440 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: So it leaves you. What the lady explained to me 441 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: is with a chemical imbalance inside of your head that 442 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: makes it to where certain scenarios and situations may end 443 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: up triggering like I want to, I don't want to 444 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: call an episode, but that's what it is. Yeah, that's 445 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: what it is. But just leaves you with a chemical 446 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: and balance where you're trying to actually get back to 447 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: that that level, Like I feel the most comfortable when 448 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,919 Speaker 1: I'm in the worst stressful situation in my life, like 449 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: if I'm about to kill an elk, I'm in like 450 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: the So that explains a lot of what you do 451 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: in YouTube. Yeah, you chase. You chase the bigger fish, 452 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: you chase the most exotic animals. Yeah. I would Actually 453 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: this may sound stupid, but I would like to jump 454 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: out of an airplane without a parachute and have somebody 455 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 1: grab me. Tell me more about this. You mean another 456 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 1: dude jumps out after the parachute after you and catches you. Yeah, 457 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: I would do that. That would get chasing that Yeah, 458 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 1: that adrenaline. Yeah, I probab wouldn't do it till after 459 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 1: every was eighteen, But yes, I do that in a heartbeat. 460 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people. Yeah, you can 461 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: do pay to do that. Could a civilian do that? Yeah, 462 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: I watched Logan Paul did it. You can do it 463 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: your life, and that would be a really high viewed episode. 464 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't even film it at that point. If 465 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: every's eighteen, if I'm still doing YouTube, I've made it 466 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 1: the longest I've ever seen on YouTube. I mean, it's 467 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: another if people died from that, I'm sure I don't know. Well, 468 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: what's your level? What's your level with PTSD to but nine? 469 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: I mean I'm ready at one hundred percent because of it. 470 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 1: But I had to literally go to Florida and have 471 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: a conversation with the lady for like three hours, and 472 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: she had to hear all the stories from starting to finish. 473 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: And then that's when she gave me this thing telling 474 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: me what is wrong with me? And then she's like, yeah, 475 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to maintain a relationship for 476 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: a very long time. You'll never be able to hold 477 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: a job, You'll never be able to work for somebody. 478 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: I was like, oh fuck, thank god for YouTube. Yeah, 479 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: so what's the guy with a ten? Have no idea? 480 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: I just said, you know, I know a lot of 481 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: guys that are probably worse off than me. I just 482 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: have my weeks in my months. I mean, you got 483 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,640 Speaker 1: people like it's all it's all person base. You got 484 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 1: to realize there's some people I knew a check that 485 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: claimed it because she had gotten an a vehicle wreck 486 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: in the military. Like people, I think it's all in 487 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: the person. Yeah, there's so many people that could like 488 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: some of the stuff we did. There's like people eating 489 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: like people kimitt suicide every day just because of the 490 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: shit that we did and they can't actually handle it mentally. Yeah, 491 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: like it happens every day, like today, someone's probably there's 492 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: already been thirty people that killed themselves because of it. 493 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: You ever talked to vets, Yeah, yeah, got so. Yeah, 494 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: it's got to be a hard fine line for a 495 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: couple of reasons. One because they bring up stuff you 496 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: don't really want to deal with. I've gotten pretty good 497 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: at it now, but three years ago, four years ago, 498 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 1: I couldn't talk to it about it as much. The 499 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: other level is with you. You have a celebrity status 500 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: about you. Yeah, so you're gonna get people that just 501 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: want to talk to you and you don't know the difference. Well, 502 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: I can, I can we do the bullshit when it 503 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: comes to military guys like instantly, like like instantly, it 504 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: takes like thirty seconds. And if I know you're real 505 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: or not, what's the test? They tell me what they 506 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: did in the military. They tell me what their job 507 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: was and when they were in and where they went. 508 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: That's it. That's all you need to know. And you 509 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: can know instantly that person is lying or not or 510 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: if they have some made up bullshit. That's it. Like 511 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: if you told me you were in Kandahar in eight 512 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: and you were a marine, okay, then I said, okay, 513 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: what'd you do and You're like, oh, well I was 514 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: a cook And I'm like, okay, you were in the 515 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: bad spot. You may have done something, but probably sat 516 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: on a base. Yeah, that's that was that easy. Have 517 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,479 Speaker 1: you ever had anybody come and say, man, I need 518 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: to talk. I'm not doing good. I need you to 519 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: help me. Uh no, not really, I get it. Yes, 520 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: not person like personal person. I've had people send me 521 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: emails and then I've had people multiple times come up 522 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: crying to me, like in public and saying that we 523 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: saved their life. They were on the last version want 524 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: to kill themselves, and they're like, oh, your videos saved me, 525 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: And I was like, fuck, I didn't mean to, but 526 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: I'm glad I could help. That's happened way more than 527 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: you probably realize it, but it probably makes it in 528 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: some way. It makes those videos worth it. Oh yeah, 529 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: the ones that I posted years ago were mainly just 530 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: for people can understand that. It's it's okay, like there's 531 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: a bunch of us out here that are all messed 532 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: up in the head. Like You're not the only guy 533 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: or gal, there's a whole bunch. Look, I got almost 534 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: one point seven million people follow me, and I'm jacked 535 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 1: up in the head. Matt Best has got what one 536 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 1: point three He's pretty jacked up. Du Koda Meyer jacked 537 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: up in the head, Krispy jacked up in the head. 538 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: We got lots of followers, the more people still, but 539 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: we are jacked up in the head at times. Yeah, 540 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: I can attest you are, but mostly in a good way. Yeah, 541 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: because you're just a fun guy to hang out with. 542 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: I'll take that. You're also you're a smiler, like you 543 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:03,199 Speaker 1: will smile through a tough situation. I appreciate that. I 544 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 1: have been known I can get pretty mad. I guess too, 545 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: but I like to smile. If you're not smiling, you 546 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: need to look at you, look at you're just holding 547 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: the smile too. I've seen what I'm sitting out there. 548 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: You guys don't see the behind the scenes of Granger. 549 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: I just listened to the thirty forty five minute conversation 550 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: about the most depressing shit in the world, and he's 551 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: just sitting over there, just kind of just staring off 552 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: in the ceiling, and fuck, at the very end, you 553 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,920 Speaker 1: finally said something. And then the other thing is people 554 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: don't realize when I'm watching you back over here and 555 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: you guys are making this music, I'm like, I don't 556 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: hear anything different. And then you guys are going back 557 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: and forth over this thirteen second piece. It's literally thirteen 558 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: seconds of a song. You ask you just so you're 559 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: gonna you kind of set it up where we have 560 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: to kind of say what we were talking about. That 561 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: was the most depressing thing ever. I'm sorry, say that's fine. 562 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: It's yeah. We were discussing we have three tour dates 563 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: coming up in July and so we have to leave, 564 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: and so we started talking about how we're gonna carry 565 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: ourselves in this new depressing COVID world. Yeah it is depressing, 566 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: and how we're gonna how we're gonna represent ourselves as 567 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: a crew, and how we're gonna treat mask and social 568 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: distancing and all that and then we had to get 569 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: into like, well what if somebody in the crew gets it? 570 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: So then we decided, well then we're gonna have to 571 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: do We're all gonna have to test before we leave 572 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: every time. And then you then you were talking about 573 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: because the thing is is like even I don't have 574 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: to worry about as much as you. You say, I'm 575 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: quote unquote famous, but I'm just a guy on YouTube. 576 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: You literally have to deal with like newspapers and ship 577 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: showing up to your place and be like, I knew 578 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: this is a bad idea, Like you know what I mean. 579 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: And that's why I don't have that problem. That's why 580 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: I have to look that person in the newspaper. I 581 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 1: have to look them in the eye tomorrow, uh, you know, 582 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: from when we're recording this podcast. We're playing fourth of 583 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: July tomorrow, and I have to look them in the 584 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: eye at Austin Statesman and say probably with my mask on, 585 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: and say that I feel like we're gonna follow the rules, 586 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: and everyone here is gonna follow the rules. And we're 587 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: doing this because we're all trying to get back a 588 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: sense of normalcy. And I feel like music. I feel 589 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: like music can save lives. Music is the best thing ever, 590 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: and you love music just like you said. People have 591 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: said your video saved my life. Well, in a lot 592 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: of ways, musicians have heard that when people say, you know, 593 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: I was at the end of my rope. I thought 594 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: this was the end for me. I went to this 595 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 1: concert and I thought I could I keep going. I 596 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: could see that one hundred percent. The music is one 597 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 1: of the most relatable things in like human history, other 598 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: than like race and whatever you want to go there, 599 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: but it's literally the most relatable thing ever because you 600 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: can listen to a song and you're like, shit, that's me, 601 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: like my like I always say this, My favorite song 602 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: is Granger's Good Guy when when the good Guys win, 603 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: And that is the best song ever. And I don't 604 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: even know if you still play in your shows, Yeah 605 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: you do that still in the whole rotation. You guys 606 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: should also see. I wish they would film more. I 607 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: was telling them in this and I wish you would 608 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: film more. The he films behind the scenes quote unquote, 609 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: but he doesn't film like the real behind the scenes, 610 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: like the real behind the scenes, because I just think 611 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: people would think it's bored. No, it's cool, it's amazing, 612 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: because the thing is, there's so many people in this 613 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: world with your talent and skill set. Just like you 614 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: say the same thing about me, it's the same exact 615 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: thing about you. Like I couldn't go in there, and 616 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: I don't even know what is that box right there? 617 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: What does that thing do? I have? No's the microphones 618 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 1: are plugged into that and it's recording, are okay? Well okay, okay, 619 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: Well I didn't Then that goes into the computer, which 620 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: is recording. Yeah, but then you got all these things 621 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: back there, Like, he's got a lot of stuff that 622 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: he doesn't show you guys, and I think he I'm 623 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: gonna try to harp on him this whole week. You 624 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: need to show more, stuffed more. Well, I started a 625 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: lot of my YouTube because you told me to do that, 626 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: So yes, I should. I should listen. It's it's new. 627 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: I I would watch it. I would have no idea 628 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: what it was, Just like, I think you need to 629 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: grow a mullet. Man, By the way, your hair looks awesome. 630 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: It's getting there. It looks like it's getting there. It 631 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: looks like a futuristic warrior. That's what I had. Some 632 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: face paint, you know how I kind of looked like, actually, 633 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: now that you say that, that guy off of Peter Pan, Yeah, Rufio, 634 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: Yeah off damn hook hook Peter, No, that was Peter Pan, 635 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: but hooked. Yeah damn. I do look like, yeah, you're 636 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: like a blade runner. I'll take a character. Yeah, I 637 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: know it's gonna get a little longer though I need. 638 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: It's gonna let it go. I keep just shaving this part. 639 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: We're actually gonna cut something in the side of my 640 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: head for tomorrow. So you shaved the whole thing I 641 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: did for YouTube, not what I didn't. Yeah, well I 642 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: needed a haircut and it was at the very beginning 643 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: COVID so firm shaved it all and then I wanted 644 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: to go. I was like, I went into the shop 645 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, I want a mullet. The 646 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: lady goes, you don't have enough hair, and I said, yeah, 647 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: I guess we'll just give it a shot. And so 648 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: it is kind of strange, honestly, Kevin. It doesn't feel 649 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: very long here, but it's like nasty right here, like 650 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: that's gross. It's pretty awesome, man, It's a futuristic ward. 651 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna join us on these live streams. 652 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: Yes today, Yes, which is so Yes, I actually enjoy those, okay, 653 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: And I think people that people people need to I 654 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: think the tipping things is the best thing. That's another 655 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: thing that those guys were talking about out there is 656 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: people don't realize that the guys are actually they really 657 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: aren't doing that great. And I think people need to 658 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: realize they they really aren't. I just talked to Justin 659 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 1: Moore when I did a podcast with him. He's a 660 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: really big country singer. We're on with his tour managers. 661 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: Tour manager is working at a lumber store in really Alabama. 662 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 1: Right now. That's just the life that we're living right now, 663 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: because you guys have no way to make money. You're 664 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: you literally pike money from touring, but you get tour 665 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: people think we sell songs and that's just not that's 666 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,959 Speaker 1: not a thing anymore. It used to be used to be. 667 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: But now back in Garth Brooks days, and everyone streams 668 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: it for pennies and doesn't just doesn't even matter. So well, 669 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: we're gonna go to these live streams. You're gonna join us, Yes, 670 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: and we'll be thanks for being first repeat guest. Yes, 671 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: I love doing these things. It's enjoyable. And then and 672 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: then we'll know what people actually want to hear me 673 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: ask you. We got kind of deep today, Well you 674 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 1: asked me. Yeah, it's good. I'll answer anything you want to, 675 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: smiled all the way through. I'm proud of you. A 676 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: good see brother, m h yeah