Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening, Thank you for watching. I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: this platform. This is a good one. Today I got
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Speaker 1: I have to have everything turned in so that it
Speaker 1: gets to you guys on time. I have to have
Speaker 1: it all turned in, like by the end of next week,
Speaker 1: so the race is on. It's always a little bit
Speaker 1: of a hustle at the end of an album, and
Speaker 1: I'm always a little bit worn out because it takes
Speaker 1: a lot of brain power and a lot of thinking
Speaker 1: to kind of just weed my way through a lot
Speaker 1: of the decisions that have to be made musically, and
Speaker 1: I've just but I like that I've always produced my
Speaker 1: records and I like to have that kind of controlled
Speaker 1: creative control for better or for worse. If it comes
Speaker 1: out and it's bad, I like to know that I'm
Speaker 1: the one that made it bad, and that's my fault.
Speaker 1: I hate the thought that, well, I had these songs
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Speaker 1: have no control over that, And if you don't like them,
Speaker 1: that's a terrible thought that I handed off what you're
Speaker 1: going to be listening to to someone else. So all
Speaker 1: that being said, I love it. I hope you do
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Speaker 1: fall this podcast. Robert Turkla, the man behind Lunkers TV,
Speaker 1: one of the most popular, most viewed, most subscribed to
Speaker 1: phishing channels, freshwater fishing channels on all of YouTube. He's
Speaker 1: built an empire with what he's done. He's also a
Speaker 1: vet and he's also seen a lot. He has a
Speaker 1: lot of stories, and I've never really asked him about it.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to go a little bit deep and
Speaker 1: wanted him to get honest with me on this podcast.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. So here you go. Thank you
Speaker 1: for watching episode forty. Welcome to the Grangersmith podcast. Did
Speaker 1: chid and much times and so long line of my
Speaker 1: fool of humping down the back rangy cool watch jeation.
Speaker 1: So by now, by now you would have been to
Speaker 1: how many of my concerts on a normal twenty twenty
Speaker 1: if this has been a normal year, your yours, you
Speaker 1: would have been to You have been on the bus
Speaker 1: with us at least a handful, at least three. I'm
Speaker 1: going like weekends up front at least at least a handful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. That's kind of a kind of sucks. Actually,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I think we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be have north we I swear you're supposed to pick
Speaker 1: me up on the way up north. We were Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what it was though,
Speaker 1: every reason June. It was in June. I'm sure everything,
Speaker 1: everything is gone. So how has this you're by the way,
Speaker 1: you're my only repeat guest on this podcast. That's good,
Speaker 1: so far good. And so the first one we did
Speaker 1: you know virtually? No, Yes, that was that was at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of all this. Yeah, the very beginning.
Speaker 1: So now since then, how has how has your work
Speaker 1: been altered? Uh? Not much? Really, I guess I kind
Speaker 1: of stayed home for like a week and a half
Speaker 1: and then I was like, nah, we got I gotta work.
Speaker 1: So I'm never really like in the only time I'm
Speaker 1: actually with people is like maybe now. But I don't
Speaker 1: go into the store very often. I get Chick fil
Speaker 1: every morning, and I go to my land and then
Speaker 1: I come back home. I'm not around anybody. How far
Speaker 1: is your land from where you live? Not an hour?
Speaker 1: Drop up there, do whatever I need to do, fish,
Speaker 1: shoot some guns, do something stupid, and then come back home.
Speaker 1: And so I was never really affected. Really, that's your work,
Speaker 1: that's it. That is literally it. I've told you. I
Speaker 1: tell you this all the time. But as a country
Speaker 1: singer who has a job that I always hear people
Speaker 1: that say, man, that must be awesome. One that tells
Speaker 1: you that you go out and you fish and you
Speaker 1: shoot some stuff. That's a natural job. Yeah, it's got
Speaker 1: to be entertaining for fifteen minutes of someone's life a day.
Speaker 1: But do you wake up every morning and go, man,
Speaker 1: I love this job? Nah, you don't. I like it.
Speaker 1: Not that kind of guy. No, I like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gotta get the work done, and then I come
Speaker 1: home like all right, let's have a glass of whiskey.
Speaker 1: Or now I'm mountain on the workout phase for like
Speaker 1: the last six months, I'll literally work all day and
Speaker 1: then I come home and I work out in my
Speaker 1: garage because it's hot as hell. You got your bench
Speaker 1: press back up to where it was I am sitting
Speaker 1: at probably around two twenty five, And no, I'll probably
Speaker 1: never get back over three hundred. Ever you were three?
Speaker 1: Was that three fifteen? Tem Yeah? Three? Shoot, I'll probably
Speaker 1: never get back up there. Maybe I will, I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably not, because I have no one to spot me.
Speaker 1: So I'm literally just doing like a lot of reps.
Speaker 1: I always do eight to ten. So what I'm interested like,
Speaker 1: I want to get off anything we talked about last time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have Lunkers TV, one of the most successful fishing
Speaker 1: shows on YouTube, wildly successful with googin and all of
Speaker 1: your branding, wildly successful. You're a one percenter. You say that,
Speaker 1: but then I look at yours and this guy's this
Speaker 1: guy's killing. It doesn't matter for the guy, for everyone
Speaker 1: out there that says I want to fish on YouTube,
Speaker 1: you are a not even a one percenter. You're You're
Speaker 1: like a point zero zero zero one percenter. This is
Speaker 1: luck of anyone. I don't it is. I don't believe
Speaker 1: there's a lot of legos timing. It's the same thing huge,
Speaker 1: which timing is huge, but there's there's a difference in
Speaker 1: timing and luck. Yeah, I timed it well, you timed
Speaker 1: it very well, worked hard for well a few years.
Speaker 1: So I guess we talked about that a lot last podcast.
Speaker 1: But what I want to talk about now is I
Speaker 1: want to kind of get deeper. And you know me,
Speaker 1: I don't prepare for these I don't take notes. That's
Speaker 1: my entire life. I actually tried to come down to
Speaker 1: your house on Tuesday while you're in Nashville. So that's
Speaker 1: how prepared I was. That's true. Yeah, I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to come do this podcast? And You're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm going down south anyway to be with Demo and
Speaker 1: Matt Best. And I said, cool, I'm available any day
Speaker 1: but Wednesday because the day I show Wednesday. See how
Speaker 1: you have the days wrong here? I just don't. I
Speaker 1: don't plan for anything either. So we're good. So what
Speaker 1: I want to I want to talk about, though, is
Speaker 1: like who who were you before the military, and then
Speaker 1: who are you now? And what what has that done
Speaker 1: to your personality? I was lost before the military, Okay, God,
Speaker 1: I had no idea what I want to do with
Speaker 1: my life. I mean I wasn't totally expecting that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was super lost. I mean, hell, I was working
Speaker 1: at a What was I doing? I was pushing carts
Speaker 1: at Walmart. That's literally what I did. I pushed cards
Speaker 1: at Walmart. I had no not high school diplomat. I
Speaker 1: was seventeen at the time, eighteen right there. I didn't
Speaker 1: have anything. My dad had just died that same year prior,
Speaker 1: and I didn't live with my mom, and I didn't
Speaker 1: have really anywhere to go. So I was like, in
Speaker 1: this weird transient phase. So I just worked at Walmart
Speaker 1: push carts and I gambled every day on's a casino
Speaker 1: every day play black jack, so I did, So what
Speaker 1: what made you sign up? I saw guys walk out
Speaker 1: of the when I was pushing carts, I mean a
Speaker 1: gentleman and uh we saw army guys walk out. I
Speaker 1: was like, that looks really cool. I want to go
Speaker 1: do that, and that's literally I walked over to him
Speaker 1: and they asked me what I want to do, So
Speaker 1: I wanted the office. I took some tests and I
Speaker 1: wasn't really the brightest guy in the world. Clearly I
Speaker 1: had a debatable well it depends on what you when
Speaker 1: we're talking about like booksmarts, not a chance, and that's
Speaker 1: what I took the test and they're like, so what
Speaker 1: do you want to do and I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I want to go kick indoors. And that's
Speaker 1: how I got my job. What you said I want
Speaker 1: to kick I want to be the guy that kicking doors.
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, so you want to be an infantryman.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, sure do that. I don't know. Okay,
Speaker 1: then then I watched videos on YouTube on what an
Speaker 1: infantry guy was and what they did. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: So then did you shoot before? No? No, really had
Speaker 1: you had you shot before? Maybe a shotgun or a
Speaker 1: pistol or something, but nothing like no, no, because I
Speaker 1: want when I when I had, I actually hadn't even told.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell my girlfriend at the time. I didn't
Speaker 1: tell my mom, didn't tell my grandparents. I literally went joined.
Speaker 1: I didn't even tell anybody until after I went to
Speaker 1: MEPs and signed all my paperwork and have a physical.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, yeah, I joined the army now,
Speaker 1: like I think, I shipped out like July, I think,
Speaker 1: and I joined in June, shipped out two weeks later,
Speaker 1: and that's still your personality. Yeah, I do everything, by
Speaker 1: the way, I joined the army. What I did? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I bought I bought a sports car, I bought a ranch.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what happens. Okay, So you go in infantry
Speaker 1: and they go here you go and you here's a rifle,
Speaker 1: and you said, oh that's cool. Yeah, oh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much it. I remember I was sitting at my grandparents'
Speaker 1: house and they was looking at h the US Army's website,
Speaker 1: Go army dot com, I think is what it was.
Speaker 1: And they had a guy who was a infantry and
Speaker 1: then you click on it and then it would show
Speaker 1: you all the jobs you could do in the infantry
Speaker 1: and then one of them was sniper and I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to do that. I literally saw it on
Speaker 1: the computer, was like, I want to do that. That
Speaker 1: looks cool. The reason I even ask is because a
Speaker 1: lot of snipers will say my first baby gun. I
Speaker 1: was seven years old with my dad shoot squirrels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I shot up. I did shoot BB guns. I shot
Speaker 1: birds all the time out of the barn. But I
Speaker 1: do remember when I was a kid, I shot a bird,
Speaker 1: a barn swallow out of the sky with a BB gun.
Speaker 1: I was like, holy shit, that was you were good.
Speaker 1: You knew that you had a good Yeah. I could shoot, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I just didn't. I never was taught how to
Speaker 1: shoot far. I mean I just shot baby guns or
Speaker 1: little lover actions or something. Nothing but nothing that you
Speaker 1: consider yourself different than any of your other friends at
Speaker 1: your shooting. No scare it off, like different than like
Speaker 1: Nick Irving, Who's like, yeah, I knew it seven years old.
Speaker 1: I had a really good Yeah. I knew when I
Speaker 1: got in the army that shooting was really easy. And
Speaker 1: then once I came back from my rack, I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to try. I want to I kept I
Speaker 1: have that even to this day. I still had that
Speaker 1: same issue where I always want to do something more
Speaker 1: than what I probably should do. And when I came back,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I want to try out and
Speaker 1: be a sniper. And then when I came back from
Speaker 1: that and I got kind of plateaued where they're I
Speaker 1: could go only as far as I could. I came
Speaker 1: back from Afghanistan, I was like, well, now I want
Speaker 1: to try for Special Forces, and now I want to
Speaker 1: do this. And that's kind of what I kept even
Speaker 1: in life. It's you came back from your first hour, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like we're not you were just infantry. Then you
Speaker 1: said I want to be a sniper. Yeah. Then went
Speaker 1: the sniper trials and then I got selected for that,
Speaker 1: and then they have a six month waiting period for
Speaker 1: you to test and see if you're actually gonna be
Speaker 1: good enough. Because it's so expensive to send one person
Speaker 1: to school, like it's exceptionally expensive, like really expensive for
Speaker 1: the to train one person to be a snipers so
Speaker 1: expensive for the army. They literally send you when you
Speaker 1: get selected for sniper section, you have like a six
Speaker 1: month trial period where they test, they test you and
Speaker 1: they literally put you through school multiple times just to
Speaker 1: see if you can pass at this level, and then
Speaker 1: they send you off to school. Yeah. So, but then
Speaker 1: if you can't even pass it on on the first try,
Speaker 1: then they kick you back down to the line unit
Speaker 1: and they'd find somebody else. You're metal bracelets that are
Speaker 1: clinking around. Yeah all this When did that start? Was
Speaker 1: that both one's Iraq and one Afghanistan? Where was that
Speaker 1: in relation to your story of when you came back?
Speaker 1: These ones are both these both these guys are from Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: This guy ended up dying in Iraq fighting Isis four
Speaker 1: years later. This guy was killed when I was there.
Speaker 1: So that's when you were a sniper Afghanistan. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: did you see much action the first tour? Not really,
Speaker 1: I mean we saw it was totally different kind of war.
Speaker 1: It was so like they just fought differently. They didn't
Speaker 1: fight the same Afghanistan they fought and they would stay
Speaker 1: at the stand in the ground Iraq. They would like
Speaker 1: come out of a side street or some shit and
Speaker 1: throw something at you and shoot at you real quick
Speaker 1: and then run away. It was too many different So
Speaker 1: you came home and you're like, I want more action. Yes,
Speaker 1: basically I want to what's the next level up? How
Speaker 1: could I level up? Because I don't want to go
Speaker 1: back and be bored? Essentially, why didn't even think that.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even expecting to go to Afghanistan in the
Speaker 1: first place. I was on my way out. I came
Speaker 1: and I tried out for snipers. I was a sniper
Speaker 1: for about a yearish and I was on my way out,
Speaker 1: and I was actually going to go try out for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs farm team because I had a connection
Speaker 1: up there. I was going to go try out for
Speaker 1: the Triple A team, and I had a week later,
Speaker 1: I had got orders too for Afghanistan, and I had
Speaker 1: to make a choice. Do I want to go to
Speaker 1: Afghanistan with the guys I've been training with over the
Speaker 1: last year as a sniper, or do I just want
Speaker 1: to get out of the Army cause and be done.
Speaker 1: I literally would have just been done. I didn't wouldn't
Speaker 1: have even won on the deployment. So I decided well,
Speaker 1: screw it, I'll go ahead and sign up. And that's
Speaker 1: what I did. I re upped to go to Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: and all read yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, my life
Speaker 1: would become way different if I didn't. But now I
Speaker 1: literally signed up just for one tour. I signed up
Speaker 1: for an additional eighteen months just to make the contracts.
Speaker 1: So basically I would have got out in Afghanistan, so
Speaker 1: I extended I think it was twelve months actually, so
Speaker 1: I would have enough time when I got back to
Speaker 1: get out. But then when I was over there, I
Speaker 1: loved it so much. I re upped again because I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: Special Forces and then we're gonna make it a career.
Speaker 1: Because you were borderline board again, I was bored again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because there's only so high you can get in the
Speaker 1: regular army, Like you can only do so much stuff,
Speaker 1: Like I had all the schooling I could possibly get.
Speaker 1: I had airborne, air assault and sniper school and all
Speaker 1: my infantry shit. There was literally nowhere else for me
Speaker 1: to go. I'd already maxed out, so I had to
Speaker 1: do something else. And so when's the first time you
Speaker 1: killed somebody there's time which tour was that it was
Speaker 1: afghan I said, I didn't kill anybody in Iraq? Did
Speaker 1: that change you? Uh? Not really not? Then it was
Speaker 1: kind of enjoyable. It might sound. You have videos on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I used to have over that day. I had all
Speaker 1: the videos because it was all filmed that that entire
Speaker 1: day was actually filmed on a helmet camp. And I
Speaker 1: got drunk one night and deleted all everything. I had
Speaker 1: the video of me killing somebody. Well, actually, sometimes being
Speaker 1: drunk brings out the truth. I didn't want those So
Speaker 1: so something in your conscience knew that this is gonna
Speaker 1: this is gonna hurt you. I could actually go back
Speaker 1: and physically relive that day. You don't need a video, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't. Don't mean like I literally could watch it.
Speaker 1: I can see it to my head. But I'm saying
Speaker 1: if I could go out there and watch it on
Speaker 1: TV screen, then I can really literally I didn't want
Speaker 1: to have to continue to relive that over and over.
Speaker 1: So what did that do to the dude that was
Speaker 1: pushing cards at Walmart? What did that kind of power change?
Speaker 1: That's a good question to make you you are today? Damn,
Speaker 1: that is a good question. What did it do to me?
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I can tell you this. I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a good question. You stopped, you stopped
Speaker 1: doing those kind of videos on YouTube, which one reason
Speaker 1: military ones talking about. Yeah, I don't talk about on
Speaker 1: YouTube like that, but you used to. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: get a lot of views, so you would if it
Speaker 1: was about the views, you would continue to There's only
Speaker 1: and there's only so many things I would like to
Speaker 1: tell as well, because there's there's also my audience. I understand,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of kids, and there's like certain stories
Speaker 1: that you just never want to say out loud because
Speaker 1: some people they can't. There's some shit should probably never
Speaker 1: be said. I guess I like that, like seeing like
Speaker 1: women having to pull glass out of their face because
Speaker 1: the bomb dropped too close on their stuff and blew
Speaker 1: all the windows out and now their face is covered.
Speaker 1: That wasn't our fault. Yeah, that kind of like I
Speaker 1: don't tell those kind of stories. You're not haunted by it? No, Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes and I have I think when you answer really fast,
Speaker 1: I feel like you're like I might be, but I
Speaker 1: just gotta let it. I just have no no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no no I'm fine. No, it's just I have
Speaker 1: my time. You're right, I have to butt twice a year.
Speaker 1: I go down. I'll go for about two weeks where
Speaker 1: it's just fucking excuse my language, it's really rough, like
Speaker 1: real rough, for about two weeks, and then I'll be fine.
Speaker 1: What's the trigger? I don't know. That's what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to actually take note of. Actually had I actually had
Speaker 1: a little deal happened about a month ago where I
Speaker 1: was for about two weeks straight. I was bad. I
Speaker 1: would I was not a good spot, but it was
Speaker 1: something had triggered it. And then it like snowballed, like
Speaker 1: kept going and going and going and going. I don't know,
Speaker 1: is it the is it stuff you did or stuff
Speaker 1: you saw that's worse? And when it's the two weeks,
Speaker 1: oh it it actually it's it's not something hey, you
Speaker 1: could tell. I know. I'm thinking how to so when
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a trigger, like it could be something
Speaker 1: as stupid as a smell that will actually bring up
Speaker 1: a scenario that would happen, because I remember this one
Speaker 1: time I smelled chicken nuggets or chicken strips and it
Speaker 1: like kicked ticked over to something and then that turned
Speaker 1: into something else, and then that turned into something else
Speaker 1: and then just went just fucking like domino effect the
Speaker 1: entire way you have you talked to people about it,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, is the army pay for stuff for you
Speaker 1: to go? And well they would, but I've already I
Speaker 1: once saw a lady and flour and the whole thing
Speaker 1: is so when you when you talk about people with
Speaker 1: PTSD or PTS, whichever you would like to call it,
Speaker 1: it's it has to deal with it's. It's because we
Speaker 1: lived at such that was fine after Iraq, but I
Speaker 1: lived in Afghanistan. It's such a high tempo like lifestyle
Speaker 1: for nine months straight. I am talking the highest tempoed lifestyle.
Speaker 1: You could imagine writing a roller coaster for nine months straight,
Speaker 1: twelve hours a day. Yeah, that was it because and
Speaker 1: your your brain lives at that high tempo and you're
Speaker 1: always trying to get back to that level, but you'll
Speaker 1: never be able to get to that high or again.
Speaker 1: So it leaves you. What the lady explained to me
Speaker 1: is with a chemical imbalance inside of your head that
Speaker 1: makes it to where certain scenarios and situations may end
Speaker 1: up triggering like I want to, I don't want to
Speaker 1: call an episode, but that's what it is. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. But just leaves you with a chemical
Speaker 1: and balance where you're trying to actually get back to
Speaker 1: that that level, Like I feel the most comfortable when
Speaker 1: I'm in the worst stressful situation in my life, like
Speaker 1: if I'm about to kill an elk, I'm in like
Speaker 1: the So that explains a lot of what you do
Speaker 1: in YouTube. Yeah, you chase. You chase the bigger fish,
Speaker 1: you chase the most exotic animals. Yeah. I would Actually
Speaker 1: this may sound stupid, but I would like to jump
Speaker 1: out of an airplane without a parachute and have somebody
Speaker 1: grab me. Tell me more about this. You mean another
Speaker 1: dude jumps out after the parachute after you and catches you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would do that. That would get chasing that Yeah,
Speaker 1: that adrenaline. Yeah, I probab wouldn't do it till after
Speaker 1: every was eighteen, But yes, I do that in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: do pay to do that. Could a civilian do that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched Logan Paul did it. You can do it
Speaker 1: your life, and that would be a really high viewed episode.
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't even film it at that point. If
Speaker 1: every's eighteen, if I'm still doing YouTube, I've made it
Speaker 1: the longest I've ever seen on YouTube. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: another if people died from that, I'm sure I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: what's your level? What's your level with PTSD to but nine?
Speaker 1: I mean I'm ready at one hundred percent because of it.
Speaker 1: But I had to literally go to Florida and have
Speaker 1: a conversation with the lady for like three hours, and
Speaker 1: she had to hear all the stories from starting to finish.
Speaker 1: And then that's when she gave me this thing telling
Speaker 1: me what is wrong with me? And then she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to maintain a relationship for
Speaker 1: a very long time. You'll never be able to hold
Speaker 1: a job, You'll never be able to work for somebody.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh fuck, thank god for YouTube. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what's the guy with a ten? Have no idea?
Speaker 1: I just said, you know, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that are probably worse off than me. I just
Speaker 1: have my weeks in my months. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: people like it's all it's all person base. You got
Speaker 1: to realize there's some people I knew a check that
Speaker 1: claimed it because she had gotten an a vehicle wreck
Speaker 1: in the military. Like people, I think it's all in
Speaker 1: the person. Yeah, there's so many people that could like
Speaker 1: some of the stuff we did. There's like people eating
Speaker 1: like people kimitt suicide every day just because of the
Speaker 1: shit that we did and they can't actually handle it mentally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it happens every day, like today, someone's probably there's
Speaker 1: already been thirty people that killed themselves because of it.
Speaker 1: You ever talked to vets, Yeah, yeah, got so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got to be a hard fine line for a
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. One because they bring up stuff you
Speaker 1: don't really want to deal with. I've gotten pretty good
Speaker 1: at it now, but three years ago, four years ago,
Speaker 1: I couldn't talk to it about it as much. The
Speaker 1: other level is with you. You have a celebrity status
Speaker 1: about you. Yeah, so you're gonna get people that just
Speaker 1: want to talk to you and you don't know the difference. Well,
Speaker 1: I can, I can we do the bullshit when it
Speaker 1: comes to military guys like instantly, like like instantly, it
Speaker 1: takes like thirty seconds. And if I know you're real
Speaker 1: or not, what's the test? They tell me what they
Speaker 1: did in the military. They tell me what their job
Speaker 1: was and when they were in and where they went.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's all you need to know. And you
Speaker 1: can know instantly that person is lying or not or
Speaker 1: if they have some made up bullshit. That's it. Like
Speaker 1: if you told me you were in Kandahar in eight
Speaker 1: and you were a marine, okay, then I said, okay,
Speaker 1: what'd you do and You're like, oh, well I was
Speaker 1: a cook And I'm like, okay, you were in the
Speaker 1: bad spot. You may have done something, but probably sat
Speaker 1: on a base. Yeah, that's that was that easy. Have
Speaker 1: you ever had anybody come and say, man, I need
Speaker 1: to talk. I'm not doing good. I need you to
Speaker 1: help me. Uh no, not really, I get it. Yes,
Speaker 1: not person like personal person. I've had people send me
Speaker 1: emails and then I've had people multiple times come up
Speaker 1: crying to me, like in public and saying that we
Speaker 1: saved their life. They were on the last version want
Speaker 1: to kill themselves, and they're like, oh, your videos saved me,
Speaker 1: And I was like, fuck, I didn't mean to, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad I could help. That's happened way more than
Speaker 1: you probably realize it, but it probably makes it in
Speaker 1: some way. It makes those videos worth it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the ones that I posted years ago were mainly just
Speaker 1: for people can understand that. It's it's okay, like there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of us out here that are all messed
Speaker 1: up in the head. Like You're not the only guy
Speaker 1: or gal, there's a whole bunch. Look, I got almost
Speaker 1: one point seven million people follow me, and I'm jacked
Speaker 1: up in the head. Matt Best has got what one
Speaker 1: point three He's pretty jacked up. Du Koda Meyer jacked
Speaker 1: up in the head, Krispy jacked up in the head.
Speaker 1: We got lots of followers, the more people still, but
Speaker 1: we are jacked up in the head at times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can attest you are, but mostly in a good way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're just a fun guy to hang out with.
Speaker 1: I'll take that. You're also you're a smiler, like you
Speaker 1: will smile through a tough situation. I appreciate that. I
Speaker 1: have been known I can get pretty mad. I guess too,
Speaker 1: but I like to smile. If you're not smiling, you
Speaker 1: need to look at you, look at you're just holding
Speaker 1: the smile too. I've seen what I'm sitting out there.
Speaker 1: You guys don't see the behind the scenes of Granger.
Speaker 1: I just listened to the thirty forty five minute conversation
Speaker 1: about the most depressing shit in the world, and he's
Speaker 1: just sitting over there, just kind of just staring off
Speaker 1: in the ceiling, and fuck, at the very end, you
Speaker 1: finally said something. And then the other thing is people
Speaker 1: don't realize when I'm watching you back over here and
Speaker 1: you guys are making this music, I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: hear anything different. And then you guys are going back
Speaker 1: and forth over this thirteen second piece. It's literally thirteen
Speaker 1: seconds of a song. You ask you just so you're
Speaker 1: gonna you kind of set it up where we have
Speaker 1: to kind of say what we were talking about. That
Speaker 1: was the most depressing thing ever. I'm sorry, say that's fine.
Speaker 1: It's yeah. We were discussing we have three tour dates
Speaker 1: coming up in July and so we have to leave,
Speaker 1: and so we started talking about how we're gonna carry
Speaker 1: ourselves in this new depressing COVID world. Yeah it is depressing,
Speaker 1: and how we're gonna how we're gonna represent ourselves as
Speaker 1: a crew, and how we're gonna treat mask and social
Speaker 1: distancing and all that and then we had to get
Speaker 1: into like, well what if somebody in the crew gets it?
Speaker 1: So then we decided, well then we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do We're all gonna have to test before we leave
Speaker 1: every time. And then you then you were talking about
Speaker 1: because the thing is is like even I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about as much as you. You say, I'm
Speaker 1: quote unquote famous, but I'm just a guy on YouTube.
Speaker 1: You literally have to deal with like newspapers and ship
Speaker 1: showing up to your place and be like, I knew
Speaker 1: this is a bad idea, Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And that's why I don't have that problem. That's why
Speaker 1: I have to look that person in the newspaper. I
Speaker 1: have to look them in the eye tomorrow, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: from when we're recording this podcast. We're playing fourth of
Speaker 1: July tomorrow, and I have to look them in the
Speaker 1: eye at Austin Statesman and say probably with my mask on,
Speaker 1: and say that I feel like we're gonna follow the rules,
Speaker 1: and everyone here is gonna follow the rules. And we're
Speaker 1: doing this because we're all trying to get back a
Speaker 1: sense of normalcy. And I feel like music. I feel
Speaker 1: like music can save lives. Music is the best thing ever,
Speaker 1: and you love music just like you said. People have
Speaker 1: said your video saved my life. Well, in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, musicians have heard that when people say, you know,
Speaker 1: I was at the end of my rope. I thought
Speaker 1: this was the end for me. I went to this
Speaker 1: concert and I thought I could I keep going. I
Speaker 1: could see that one hundred percent. The music is one
Speaker 1: of the most relatable things in like human history, other
Speaker 1: than like race and whatever you want to go there,
Speaker 1: but it's literally the most relatable thing ever because you
Speaker 1: can listen to a song and you're like, shit, that's me,
Speaker 1: like my like I always say this, My favorite song
Speaker 1: is Granger's Good Guy when when the good Guys win,
Speaker 1: And that is the best song ever. And I don't
Speaker 1: even know if you still play in your shows, Yeah
Speaker 1: you do that still in the whole rotation. You guys
Speaker 1: should also see. I wish they would film more. I
Speaker 1: was telling them in this and I wish you would
Speaker 1: film more. The he films behind the scenes quote unquote,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't film like the real behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: like the real behind the scenes, because I just think
Speaker 1: people would think it's bored. No, it's cool, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: because the thing is, there's so many people in this
Speaker 1: world with your talent and skill set. Just like you
Speaker 1: say the same thing about me, it's the same exact
Speaker 1: thing about you. Like I couldn't go in there, and
Speaker 1: I don't even know what is that box right there?
Speaker 1: What does that thing do? I have? No's the microphones
Speaker 1: are plugged into that and it's recording, are okay? Well okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Well I didn't Then that goes into the computer, which
Speaker 1: is recording. Yeah, but then you got all these things
Speaker 1: back there, Like, he's got a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: he doesn't show you guys, and I think he I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to harp on him this whole week. You
Speaker 1: need to show more, stuffed more. Well, I started a
Speaker 1: lot of my YouTube because you told me to do that,
Speaker 1: So yes, I should. I should listen. It's it's new.
Speaker 1: I I would watch it. I would have no idea
Speaker 1: what it was, Just like, I think you need to
Speaker 1: grow a mullet. Man, By the way, your hair looks awesome.
Speaker 1: It's getting there. It looks like it's getting there. It
Speaker 1: looks like a futuristic warrior. That's what I had. Some
Speaker 1: face paint, you know how I kind of looked like, actually,
Speaker 1: now that you say that, that guy off of Peter Pan, Yeah, Rufio,
Speaker 1: Yeah off damn hook hook Peter, No, that was Peter Pan,
Speaker 1: but hooked. Yeah damn. I do look like, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: like a blade runner. I'll take a character. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know it's gonna get a little longer though I need.
Speaker 1: It's gonna let it go. I keep just shaving this part.
Speaker 1: We're actually gonna cut something in the side of my
Speaker 1: head for tomorrow. So you shaved the whole thing I
Speaker 1: did for YouTube, not what I didn't. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: needed a haircut and it was at the very beginning
Speaker 1: COVID so firm shaved it all and then I wanted
Speaker 1: to go. I was like, I went into the shop
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, I want a mullet. The
Speaker 1: lady goes, you don't have enough hair, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll just give it a shot. And so
Speaker 1: it is kind of strange, honestly, Kevin. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: very long here, but it's like nasty right here, like
Speaker 1: that's gross. It's pretty awesome, man, It's a futuristic ward.
Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna join us on these live streams.
Speaker 1: Yes today, Yes, which is so Yes, I actually enjoy those, okay,
Speaker 1: And I think people that people people need to I
Speaker 1: think the tipping things is the best thing. That's another
Speaker 1: thing that those guys were talking about out there is
Speaker 1: people don't realize that the guys are actually they really
Speaker 1: aren't doing that great. And I think people need to
Speaker 1: realize they they really aren't. I just talked to Justin
Speaker 1: Moore when I did a podcast with him. He's a
Speaker 1: really big country singer. We're on with his tour managers.
Speaker 1: Tour manager is working at a lumber store in really Alabama.
Speaker 1: Right now. That's just the life that we're living right now,
Speaker 1: because you guys have no way to make money. You're
Speaker 1: you literally pike money from touring, but you get tour
Speaker 1: people think we sell songs and that's just not that's
Speaker 1: not a thing anymore. It used to be used to be.
Speaker 1: But now back in Garth Brooks days, and everyone streams
Speaker 1: it for pennies and doesn't just doesn't even matter. So well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to these live streams. You're gonna join us, Yes,
Speaker 1: and we'll be thanks for being first repeat guest. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love doing these things. It's enjoyable. And then and
Speaker 1: then we'll know what people actually want to hear me
Speaker 1: ask you. We got kind of deep today, Well you
Speaker 1: asked me. Yeah, it's good. I'll answer anything you want to,
Speaker 1: smiled all the way through. I'm proud of you. A
Speaker 1: good see brother, m h yeah