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

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching. I'm grateful

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Speaker 1: for you. I'm grateful to be here. I'm grateful to

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Speaker 1: have this platform. Every Monday, we're I get to sit

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Speaker 1: in here and talk about my thoughts and talk to

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Speaker 1: my good friends and last week talked to my wife.

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Speaker 1: Answer some of your questions. You know, this whole podcast

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Speaker 1: started on the back of my bus Wildflower, when we

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Speaker 1: were heavily touring, and I would sit back on that

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Speaker 1: I came from, tell you what my thoughts were, tell

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Speaker 1: you what my fears were, tell you what about new

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Speaker 1: songs that were going to come out. And that was

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Speaker 1: a cool way to vent during those touring days. Those

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Speaker 1: touring days are temporary halted, right, temporarily halted, And so

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Speaker 1: this gives me a new platform to sit here and

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Speaker 1: talk during this crazy time, this historic time, and on

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Speaker 1: my history buff I love history. I studied history at

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Speaker 1: Texas A and m I'm a I'm a big nerd

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Speaker 1: when it comes to World War two and depression and

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Speaker 1: and of all the bad things that are happening right now.

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Speaker 1: That one of the cool things is one of the

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Speaker 1: good things, is that we're living in a piece of history,

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Speaker 1: of world history that will will be remembered forever. Maybe

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Speaker 1: not like World War Two was, but but the significance

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Speaker 1: of this will be impacted generation after generation. People will

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Speaker 1: look back on this, people will study this, People will

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Speaker 1: judge us. It will judge our decisions, They will judge

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Speaker 1: our strength, They will they will find quotes that that

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Speaker 1: politicians say, that leaders say, and those quotes will be

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Speaker 1: put on covers of books forever. And that that's a

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Speaker 1: really cool thing. That's a that's a that's an amazing

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Speaker 1: thing that we're living in such a such a time

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Speaker 1: that will be always remembered. Now, it doesn't seem like

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Speaker 1: it when you when you're in the middle of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it didn't seem like that in the middle

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Speaker 1: of World War two if you're living in London and

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Speaker 1: being bombed. But but but when something this significant happens,

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Speaker 1: from that, and and it we will try our ancestors

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Speaker 1: will try to not make our same mistakes. George Washington said,

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Speaker 1: what separates an American, what makes an American different? Is

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Speaker 1: that an American would rather die on his feet than

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Speaker 1: live on his knees. And man, what a quote. What

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Speaker 1: if someone said that, now, well anybody, so I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of countries, listen and watch this. What if

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Speaker 1: they said that about you? Would you rather die on

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Speaker 1: Doesn't that just kind of light a fire inside your

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Speaker 1: you stand with that? Where when you when you hear

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Speaker 1: I don't don't want. I don't want. I don't wanna.

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Speaker 1: And that's okay, that's healthy actually, because if we have

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Speaker 1: Here we go. I have been writing a lot of

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Speaker 1: What are send me some ideas and they're like boom, yeah,

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Speaker 1: use Joseph Goldstein on that app. So if you go

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Speaker 1: to that app and you find Joseph Goldstein, you'll know

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Speaker 1: exactly what I personally do every morning. He has many meditations.

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Speaker 1: They are not religious or spiritual, or they don't They

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Speaker 1: actually don't lead you any emotional direction at all. It's

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Speaker 1: just guiding you in a way that's like sit. No,

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Speaker 1: you're sitting in an erect but not stiff posture. Close

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Speaker 1: your eyes, observe the breath in and out. If any

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Speaker 1: bodily sensations come up, like a tingling or an aching,

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Speaker 1: or a burning or a itch, then that becomes the

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Speaker 1: focus of your meditation, and it focuses your all of

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Speaker 1: your attention on the present moment. If you start daydreaming,

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00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: as soon as you realize you become aware that you're daydreaming,

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00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:26,479
Speaker 1: you mentally note thinking, remembering, planning, daydreaming and then you

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Speaker 1: return your focus to the breath in and out. And

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Speaker 1: it's definitely something that the more you practice, the better

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Speaker 1: you get. You can't mess it up from day one.

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Speaker 1: You can't mess it up. You can't be bad at it.

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Speaker 1: You know it's but I promise you, if you go

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Speaker 1: through five there's one minute sessions, so it doesn't take

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Speaker 1: any time. There's one minute, there's five minute, there's ten minutes.

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00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: And if I do a ten minute session with Joseph

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Speaker 1: Goldstein on ten Percent Happier, by the end of it,

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Speaker 1: I opened my eyes and I'm like, oh, I feel good.

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00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: I felt like I just slept eight hours. That's how clearing.

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00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: It just clears out all the dead wood that's rolling

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Speaker 1: around in your brain and it feels good. Calm is

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00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: another app. There's many, many apps, and I don't really

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Speaker 1: think there's a bad one. So all these I mentioned above,

455
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: usually they're like a subscription that you have to pay

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00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: per month or per year. It's like, I think Calm

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00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: is like twenty bucks a year, and I think ten

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Speaker 1: percent Happier is similar. But they all have free sessions

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00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: for a long you could do like so many of

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Speaker 1: them for free, so it doesn't cost anything to get started.

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Speaker 1: That is the answer to that question. Buddy. Let's see

462
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: what else we got. What was your favorite most touching

463
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: song to write and perform? That would be Tractor for me.

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Speaker 1: Tractor was when that song started coming out of my brain.

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Speaker 1: And I wrote that song in Lawrence, Kansas, walking from

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Speaker 1: the venue We're playing the Granada, and I was walking

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Speaker 1: from the venue to the University of Kansas and walking

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Speaker 1: through the green grass out there. It's a beautiful campus,

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Speaker 1: and these lyrics started coming. I was recording them on

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Speaker 1: my voice memos on my phone and as the words

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00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: started coming, man, the tears just started rolling. It's about

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00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: my dad. It's about losing my dad. And that song

473
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: was difficult to write but so freeing at the same time.

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Speaker 1: It felt so good coming out. It hurts so good

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00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: coming out, really, and then when I sang it in

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Speaker 1: the studio, I was crying while I was singing it.

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Speaker 1: And so if you ever listened to the song Tractor,

478
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Speaker 1: just know that with those words you're hearing, the vocal

479
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: performance you're hearing was usually coming right after I would

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Speaker 1: cry and stop the tape and straighten myself up to

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Speaker 1: enough to sing another line. So that was that was tough,

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Speaker 1: and I've sang it several times. It shows, and it's

483
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: always been difficult. It shows, and it's a very special

484
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: song to me, so I can't always sing it. Just

485
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm just on the mood to sing it, or

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00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: I'm not up to being that brave to sing it.

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Speaker 1: How long do you know about a tour before it's

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Speaker 1: announced to the public, And I like some of these

489
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: questions like that, I think that's probably a good question

490
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: because I realized that maybe you guys don't know how

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Speaker 1: that works. But there's several different kinds of tours. There

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Speaker 1: is like I'm on a Luke Bryan tour that's called

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Speaker 1: a support tour for me, so I'll find out three four,

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Speaker 1: five months before that happens, and then before you guys know.

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Speaker 1: And then there is a a tour that I put together,

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Speaker 1: like that's called a headlining tour, and I'll know that

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00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: as that starts coming together six months ahead probably, and

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Speaker 1: and we'll know who we're gonna take with us, and

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00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: then then there's everything in between. And those are the

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Speaker 1: the mini tours that we do all year. So those

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Speaker 1: are like what that means is say we get we'll

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Speaker 1: use Spokane. We talked about Spokane. So say we get

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Speaker 1: a festival that's called Country Jam and Spokane and that

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Speaker 1: that comes in nine months before we go there, and

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Speaker 1: it's good money. Sometimes the really big festivals are good money.

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Speaker 1: So we'll look at that date and we'll go, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's good money. So we're gonna we're gonna book Country

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Speaker 1: Jam and Spokane, and then we have to figure out

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Speaker 1: a way to get out there and a way to

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Speaker 1: get back, and so we'll book our way out and

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Speaker 1: then we'll book that's that Spokane date will be the

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Speaker 1: anchor date. So then we'll use that as the anchor

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Speaker 1: and we'll book out there, and then we'll book around

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Speaker 1: it and we might stay a week, we might stay

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Speaker 1: two weeks. Depending on the dates that come in and

516
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Speaker 1: the dates that we get in around it will be

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Speaker 1: worth money wise, they'll be worth sometimes a third or

518
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: a fourth of the money that we get at Country Dams,

519
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: Jam and Spokan. I'm making this that date up and

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00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: so those are all the little dates that connect to

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Speaker 1: the anchor. So sometimes those are clubs. Sometimes they are

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00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: like small town county fairs, but those happen, and those

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00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: are always being built like they're always currently in the works,

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Speaker 1: So I'll find out about those. Sometimes I'll see the

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Speaker 1: anchor date nine months out. I won't even know the

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Speaker 1: support dates that are going around it until sometimes thirty

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Speaker 1: days out. How do you maintain a good diet that

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00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: is hunter, that is that's disciplined, my man, Easier said

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00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: than done. But I try to look at maintaining a

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Speaker 1: good diet. I eat. I try to eat good six

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Speaker 1: days a week, and then one day a week I

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00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: just don't even care. I'll eat whatever, and and so

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00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: during those six days, get them remy. During those six days,

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00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: I try to look at the how am I gonna

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00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: say this? I try to base my eating on how

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00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to feel after I eat it instead of

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00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: how do I feel while I'm eating it? So you

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00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: guys know that if you're eating a cupcake, you feel

539
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: amazing while you're eating it, it's amazing, but you feel

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00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: terrible an hour after, whether mentally like why did I

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00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: eat that daggum cupcake? Or because you got a stomach

542
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: ache because it's so much to get a sugar rush.

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00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: Then maybe cupcakes a bad example. Maybe it's like one

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00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: of those big cheesecakes a cheesecake factor. You know, while

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00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: you're eating it, you're like, this is heaven. This is

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00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: the greatest thing I've ever done. To eat. This cheesecake

547
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,479
Speaker 1: is incredible. All your endorphins are going on. But then

548
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 1: an hour later you definitely feel like crap, and the

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00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: guilt and the stomach ache and the grogginess that that

550
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: come from that cheesecake are terrible. So I try to

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00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: base the meals on the six days on how I'm

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00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: gonna feel after, because if I as opposed to the cheesecake,

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00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna eat grilled chicken and some green beans

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00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: and some rice and you know, the sweet potato, it's

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00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: it's kind of boring, you know, while it's going down.

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00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: But a couple hours later, I feel good. I don't

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00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: I don't feel guilty, I feel I have energy, I'm

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00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: a sleep better, my body just feels better, just operates better.

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00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: So that so I try to base it around that. Okay,

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00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: And that's discipline and it's just repetition, and it's it's

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00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: sticking to that routine. And the hardest part about it,

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00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: the hardest part ever, is when you're around the food

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00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: that you don't want to that you can't be eating,

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00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: and so you have to try to get away from it,

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00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: Like you can't put it in your cabinet, you can't

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00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: your your girlfriend can't bring it home, you know, she

567
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: can't stop with the you know, get a burger and

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00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: bring it home right in front of you. And when

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Speaker 1: I'm on when I'm touring, and the guys will get

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00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: pizza almost every night they'll get a giant pizza and

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00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: it smells incredible. I mean, it smells like heaven. And

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00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: it gets so bad that I will literally try to

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Speaker 1: go to bed before I know that pizza is coming,

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00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: because if I start smelling it, it's really really hard

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00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: not to go get a a slice of it. If

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Speaker 1: you could live in only one place, would it be woods,

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00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: mountains or meadow? And I have got I got like

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00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: three of these questions on the same same Instagram posts,

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00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: so I should probably answer it. But my thing, man,

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00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: my thing is mountains. I'm a mountain guy. I love

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00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 1: I love the beach, I love the lakes, I love meadows,

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00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, open wide open fields. I love the woods.

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00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: I love all things outdoors, but the mountains is the

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00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: one where I feel close to God and I look

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00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: up and I just go, oh, my God, I can't

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00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: believe what my eyes are seeing. Like I don't say

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00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: that when I'm in the woods, and maybe California Redwoods

588
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: I've said that, but it's it's always all inspiring to

589
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: be in the presence of God outdoors like that in nature,

590
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: but I feel it me personally. I feel it most

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00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: in amazing mountains. Man. There's so many questions, so a

592
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: little time, I don't have to go back to some

593
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: of these. What's your biggest fear as an artist? That's

594
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: probably a good one. What's my biggest fears an artist? Man?

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00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: I think my biggest fear is an artists, especially over

596
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: the years, has been lately it's been don't lose sight

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00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: of where you came from, Like, don't lose sight of

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00:35:54,760 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: what really matters. And what matters to me is family

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00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: and God and and knowing knowing my true self and

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00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: feeling content and feeling satisfied and grateful and maintaining integrity

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00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: and not sacrificing my soul for the dream because the

602
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: music chasing dream is dangerous and I've lived it for

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00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: a long time and I've seen that it could lead

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00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: you right off a cliff. And I've almost chased it

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00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: off that cliff. Maybe I have a couple of times,

606
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: but it becomes it becomes a passion, and it becomes

607
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: an obsession, and it becomes a little dangerous. It could

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00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: head you down a path that that you look back

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00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: and you go, how did I get far this far

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00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: down this path chasing this white rabbit and the rabbit

611
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter. So that's that's that's my fear going

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00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: going too far, losing myself, And so I'm constantly trying

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00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: to set up people around me to to keep me

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00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: grounded and to keep me remembering who I am and

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00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: what's important. And maybe that's maybe that's just what this

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00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: whole quarantine has done. It's really helped a lot of

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00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: us with that, it's kind of slowed us all down

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Speaker 1: on purpose. So yeah, all right, I'm gonna get to

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Speaker 1: some of these later. But but thank you guys so much.

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00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: Cannot be more grateful for uh, for this platform and

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Speaker 1: you guys even listening. So be safe out there, smart safe,

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00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: smart safe, love you guys. See. Yeah,