WEBVTT - The future will judge us 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:05.480 What's up, guys. Welcome to the Grangersmith Podcast, Episode thirty. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.640 Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching. I'm grateful 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:11.640 for you. I'm grateful to be here. I'm grateful to 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.880 have this platform. Every Monday, we're I get to sit 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.159 in here and talk about my thoughts and talk to 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.960 my good friends and last week talked to my wife. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.560 Answer some of your questions. You know, this whole podcast 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.760 started on the back of my bus Wildflower, when we 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.200 were heavily touring, and I would sit back on that 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.880 bus and be able to tell stories, tell you where 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.760 I came from, tell you what my thoughts were, tell 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.839 you what my fears were, tell you what about new 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.159 songs that were going to come out. And that was 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.000 a cool way to vent during those touring days. Those 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:50.479 touring days are temporary halted, right, temporarily halted, And so 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.440 this gives me a new platform to sit here and 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.040 talk during this crazy time, this historic time, and on 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.760 my history buff I love history. I studied history at 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.640 Texas A and m I'm a I'm a big nerd 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.400 when it comes to World War two and depression and 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.240 and of all the bad things that are happening right now. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.000 That one of the cool things is one of the 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.399 good things, is that we're living in a piece of history, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.840 of world history that will will be remembered forever. Maybe 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.920 not like World War Two was, but but the significance 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.560 of this will be impacted generation after generation. People will 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.840 look back on this, people will study this, People will 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.640 judge us. It will judge our decisions, They will judge 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:34.759 our strength, They will they will find quotes that that 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.759 politicians say, that leaders say, and those quotes will be 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.600 put on covers of books forever. And that that's a 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.560 really cool thing. That's a that's a that's an amazing 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.440 thing that we're living in such a such a time 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.240 that will be always remembered. Now, it doesn't seem like 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.760 it when you when you're in the middle of it. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.160 You know, it didn't seem like that in the middle 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.920 of World War two if you're living in London and 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.800 being bombed. But but but when something this significant happens, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.840 the world gets a little bit better because it learns 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.720 from that, and and it we will try our ancestors 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.240 will try to not make our same mistakes. George Washington said, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:20.120 what separates an American, what makes an American different? Is 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:25.639 that an American would rather die on his feet than 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.600 live on his knees. And man, what a quote. What 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.520 if someone said that, now, well anybody, so I know 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.080 a lot of countries, listen and watch this. What if 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.320 they said that about you? Would you rather die on 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:45.600 your feet than live on your knees? Doesn't that just 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.240 draw out some kind of passion with you in you? 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.520 Doesn't that just kind of light a fire inside your 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.640 heart and say, yes, yes, yes, I'd rather die on 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.480 my feet than live on my knees. So where do 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.040 you stand with that? Where when you when you hear 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.520 that quote, where do you stand? Does fear bring you 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.520 back in? Do you get? Do you feel? Oh? No, 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.239 I don't don't want. I don't want. I don't wanna. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.120 I don't want to do anything wrong. I don't wanna. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.080 I don't want. I don't want to harm anybody or me? 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.040 Or do you think, No, I'm gonna stand up for 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.160 what I believe and what I see whatever that might 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:28.440 be right? Maybe maybe me and you have completely different views, 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.720 And that's okay, that's healthy actually, because if we have 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.000 different views, then that that that means we could grow, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.360 because I could learn a little bit from you. Maybe 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.000 you could learn a little bit from me, and we 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.920 could take those little pieces and add it to our 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.240 own lives and make our own lives better. And it's 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.040 not about being right. Nobody wins. If you just want 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.840 to be right, there's nothing comes out of that. The 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.840 only thing you get out of being right is you're 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.600 right and someone else is wrong. That means nothing. But 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.880 what if when two people have really think sides and 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.240 you talk to each other and each person actually gets 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.360 a little bit from the other one and then you 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.400 move forward. That's how that's how the world changes. That's 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.480 how the world gets for the better. So the world 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.800 changes for the better. It's a it's an interesting thought 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.960 because when you're making an argument, and I know that 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.440 there's there's big sides in this whole mess right now. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.720 So when you're making an argument, you got to make 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.919 sure that that argument that you're making towards your friend 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.240 or colleague or whoever is disagreeing, you have to make 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.760 sure that that argument is coming from a place of 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.000 truth and a place of a firm belief inside you 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.360 from what you see how you see the world, as 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:46.440 opposed to stacking up on the side of your ideology. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.680 This is the way this group thinks, and so that 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.880 is how I think too, and that's how you should think. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.919 That doesn't do anything. What matters is how how do 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:01.240 you feel personally? Forget about your defending your ideaology. How 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.680 do you feel personally? What do you see in the 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.839 world right now? Not what? Not what do you see 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.960 on Twitter or what do you hear from a politician 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.440 or a news anchor. I'm talking about what what are 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:19.200 you seeing and what are you believing? And what can 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:25.920 you learn from that? What if everyone everyone thought that way, 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.680 you know, if everyone woke up in the morning and said, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.320 you know what I'm gonna face this morning. I'm gonna 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:36.640 face this day with a clean slate, right, I'm going 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.280 to take what I believe and what you believe and 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.279 what you see and what the truth inside you that 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.720 comes from how you were raised and and things that 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.080 happened in your childhood and things that you learned along 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.840 your path of life, and so that that builds up 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.360 this this foundation of belief and truth. And so you 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.800 use that as your platform and and you don't listen 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:05.880 to garbage you see on TV or social media or news. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.440 It's crazy right now, that people are using science, using 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:15.880 the word science to defend their beliefs, when in fact 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.800 science really has nothing to do with any of this 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.560 because this is all brand new. There's no proof in 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.120 any of this yet. Now there will be forty fifty years, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:32.080 maybe even sooner than that, we'll look back and we 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.960 will go, you know, what that worked or that didn't. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.679 But the reality is right now, we don't know because 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:44.560 we've never done a world shutdown, and so far during 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:52.720 the shutdown, nothing has changed with the disease. Nothing has 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:59.400 gotten worse or necessarily better, And no one can prove that. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.000 You could take all these cities and you could say 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.200 this city did this, and this city did this, and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.440 this city did this, but there's no evidence that any 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.680 of that stuff changed it. So then you have to 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.560 lead yourself to go, well, the one thing we do 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:21.440 know is a shutdown has destroyed many lives, livelihoods which 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:27.440 leads to lives. We know that that's not even science, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:33.360 that's just a fact. Look around at that. That's not 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.720 what today is about though, That's not what this podcast 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.680 is about. This podcast is answering your questions, and I 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.640 fielded them from Instagram. I just asked all my story, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.480 I said, ask me questions for the podcast Monday, and 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.800 so I have screenshoted some of them, and I haven't 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.880 taken any notes. I haven't looked at any of them 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.320 except for just oh that's interesting, boom screenshot. Didn't think 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.640 about it, know in depth notes. So I'm going to 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.240 go just spur the moment, read some of these, shoot 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.720 them back to you. Welcome to the podcast, episode thirty. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:23.080 Here we go. I have been writing a lot of 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:29.000 music during this time home, and the thing that I 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.520 found most successful so far in the writing technique is 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.960 and there's really something I haven't done, at least consistently 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.200 ever in my songwriting process. And over the last couple 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.440 of decades, my songwriting process has kind of gone and 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.600 ebbs and flows on the way that I do it. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.400 Sometimes I'll just do this, and I'll stick with this routine, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:50.960 and then I'll get into a new routine and stick 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.880 with that. So I'll tell you what my current one is, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.760 because that's kind of what I'm doing consistently now. So 0:08:55.920 --> 0:09:01.040 I've been collecting ideas or title or things that I 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.600 want to do, and then I've gone to some of 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.400 my three or four or five favorite co writers that 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.360 I've written a lot of songs that you guys know 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.480 from or with, and so I've been going to these 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.240 guys like, hey man, I've been writing a lot of songs. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.560 What are send me some ideas and they're like boom, yeah, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:23.240 you got it. So they'll send me three or four thoughts. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.280 Sometimes it's a title, or sometimes it's like here's the scenario, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.320 this happens, and this happens. What do you think? And 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:31.760 then I'll go through there three or four ideas and 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.920 I'll and then i'll take one and I'll drive around 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.120 in my truck and I'll be going after the farm, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.080 and i just go through these melodies in my head 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.560 and I'll go that melody matches this thought. And then 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.640 I'll put together like a verse and a course. And 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.000 sometimes it's a verse and a course, it's pretty complete. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.640 Sometimes it's a verse on the chorus that has a 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.400 couple throwaway words in it or throw away lines. And 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.920 then I'll print that and send it out eat text 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.599 it to my buddy that send me the idea, and 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.040 I'll say here, there you go, and then he'll go great, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.120 and then he'll say second verse, and he'll throw out 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.520 three or four lines for the second verse, I'll add that. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.320 Then we talk, we text about a bridge, I'll add that. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.240 So basically, I'm constantly recording a little version of the song, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.959 texting it to him. He texts back with some thoughts. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.560 I go back in with this mic in this chair 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.440 right here, exactly like this, and I'll sing a few 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.679 new lines, and I'll change another one that I just heard, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.240 and then five or six times back and forth. There's 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.320 a song. And I'm actually really happy with the direction 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:39.080 of these songs and where it's all leading. The main 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.400 question I keep reading from you guys is when's there 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.320 a new song? Whin's there a new album? So I 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.560 have probably three things, three songs out right now with 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.960 three of my different producers that I use, and they're 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.480 kind of working on drums, bass, stuff like that, and 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.440 then they will send me those and then I'll go 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.640 in here to this room and sing them. Long story short, 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.240 I think you you could assume to hear a new 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.760 song from me pretty soon. I would say maybe within 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.880 the next month and a half. By the time we 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.720 finished recording that, it's got to go. You turn it 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.840 into Spotify and Apple Music and all that. It takes 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.800 like three weeks to do that to get it all 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.319 turned in, so a month and a half, i'd so 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.120 you'd hear something from me, and then I already have 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.160 probably six or seven done and ready to ready for 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.640 an album. So I would say this next album will 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.000 have twelve to fifteen and it probably come out this year. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.560 The writing and making the songs is easy. It's like 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.560 it's all the logistics of getting it all, you know, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:48.560 turned in and sent off and to all the different platforms. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.680 That's that's the long process. So I'm I'm really excited 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.840 about that. I'm super excited about that. I've also been 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.480 making a lot of videos, as you know, a lot 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.160 of Earl have been restoring Earl's truck, which is it's 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.320 just been taken off. For me, it's been crazy to 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.920 see the engagement in remaking this old nineteen seventy four 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.480 GMC with my two bus drivers, Butch and Bull. And 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.480 the crazy thing is we got in there, we're just 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.640 going to get it started. Then we're just gonna change 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.320 out a head gasket, ended up taking the whole truck apart. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.599 It's all the way right now. I think we have 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.720 put out eight episodes we're all the way down to 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.840 the frame. I mean there's nothing, there's not even wheels 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.640 on it, nothing but a metal frame, and it has 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.280 a gas tank attached to it which might come off too, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.440 So we're literally scraping down the frame and we're about 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.320 to paint it. To paint the frame. So what started 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.000 with it, let's get it started and get the head 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:49.319 gasket changed out, has turned into a complete bolt by 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:55.120 bolt disassemble and reassemble paint of the entire truck. So 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.640 watch that if you haven't. That's on this channel, Granger 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:03.320 Smith channel. And I'm just excited as anybody could possibly 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.560 be to see this last episode on how it's going 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.560 to look, and I don't know how many more episodes 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.360 it's going to take to get there. The other thing 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.320 I have is ge Apparel, and I talk about that 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:18.600 on thirty different podcasts, including this one. Gee Apparel is 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.120 my main gig right now without touring, and it's been 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.120 incredible to see the support through that. We were able 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.120 to give five thousand dollars to Meals on Wheels on 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.040 this last launch last week, and it really feels good 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:33.960 to be able to to cut a check and get 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.280 it get a get a really good organization like Meals 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.360 on Wheels a little bit of cash, and we'll do 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.800 it again on our next launch, we'll pick another charity. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.880 So comment below if you have a good charity besides 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.680 the River Kelly Fund, which we'll we'll probably we'll probably 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.200 do something with that too. And then there's there's a 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.680 River's Law that we've been doing, and I want to 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.120 get to some of these questions. I don't I don't 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.160 want to to get too much into River's Law because 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.000 I'm about to do an instant post about it. But 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.320 River's Law it has been really something that that Amber 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.640 championed just a few days ago and a lot of 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.960 radio stations had picked it up. But it's a petition 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.280 that could go to Congress if we get one hundred 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.880 thousand signatures on this petition. But it is to protect 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:22.080 swimming pools all across the United States to have a 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.320 four foot four sided fence with a locking gate and 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.360 a pool alarm. Now we had in our last house, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.920 we did have a pool. We had a four sided, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.400 four foot gate with a lock, no alarm. So there's 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:41.600 many layers to this, but this could be and probably 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.360 will be its own podcast at some point. So I 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.760 don't want to get too deep into that, but that 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.240 is a multi layered problem, and it is a multi 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:55.520 layered conversation that I would love to have. But let 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:03.920 me get into some of these questions, all right. So 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:14.680 I have fielded these from Instagram and here's here's the 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.600 first question says what has been the hardest thing about quarantine? 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:21.840 And I don't know about you guys, but I've really 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:27.560 made an adjustment lately from going from oh no, this 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:32.440 is crazy. The world's caven in two Now you know 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:37.440 what we got this It's not that bad. I'm not touring. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.400 I don't have that touring income, but we're gonna be 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.040 all right. This is kind of where I am where 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.720 in my head is now. So the hardest thing about it, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:55.480 hands down, period, has been, uh, we're not touring, and 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:02.200 touring is not only uh my big financial piece of 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.640 my business, but it's you know, it supports that's what 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.360 supports all the families that work for me. And I 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:14.000 say families because all the guys support somebody or a group, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.680 I mean some of them. I'm up to five. Yeah, 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.240 my tour manager has six people in his family. So 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.440 that's been the most difficult thing is is is looking 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.280 at them and saying, guys, I gotcha. I'm gonna support you. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.440 You've been loyal to me for all these years. I'm 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.080 going to be loyal to you. I gotcha, and not 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.760 knowing how long I actually gotcha. It has been. It's 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.760 been tough. Another difficult thing is this goes for everybody, 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.240 is just looking around and seeing so many people hurting, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.880 and so many people fearful of an invisible enemy that 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.600 we don't even know. Is supposed to be taken serious 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.440 or not. Now there's a lot of people that say 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.760 taken You're supposed to take it serious. And and it 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.680 drives me crazy when people say, if you don't take 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.560 this serious, blood is on your hands. If you don't 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.480 think this is real, if you don't follow the orders, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:18.080 then blood is on your hands. Really is it? Is? 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.480 It is that cool to say? Because do you know that? 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.639 Because I don't, and a lot of scientists don't, a 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.200 lot of doctors don't. We're doing the best we can. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.760 Not we but collectively they're doing the best they can. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.160 It appears to come up with a vaccine, to come 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.600 up with new techniques, you know, this whole mask thing, 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.760 do you guys know that doesn't work. Like a lot 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:47.040 of people have said that, really smart people like it 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.359 doesn't work. Now, am I saying go out there without 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.520 a mask and freak everybody out and say Graander Smith 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:57.080 told me not. No, I'm not saying that, but it's 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:02.600 worth the question, like people were. I went. I went 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.760 to a restaurant today for the first time. Me and 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.440 my two bus shards. We went to a restaurant for 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.120 the first time. It was amazing. I was twenty five 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.000 percent open. I live in the State of Texas, and 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.000 in State of Texas, today was the first day they 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.480 opened back up restaurants to a twenty five percent capacity 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.840 and it was awesome. Sat down, had my tea, got 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.080 my meal. I love I love going to lunch with 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.520 my buddies. I love that. But the wake staff has 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.320 to wear masks. And it's funny like watching them in 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.120 the back and they wear these cotton masks and they're 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.320 like they go to the back and they take them 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.159 off and they you know, talk to each other and 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:41.920 they put them back on and they deal with their food. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.480 Well what they're doing with that is they're constantly touching 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.200 their face. Putting my mask on and off, and it's 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.960 like a cotton mask. Guys. Now, I don't I didn't 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.480 go to medical school, but come on, that's not stopping 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.919 very much. Maybe that stops like twenty percent. Maybe, so 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.119 this is not much. Eighty percent of your breathing is 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.880 still happening. That's probably a guess, and I'm guessing it's 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.640 actually way more than that. Look at me. I'm off 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.639 on a dad gum tangent. My planning for tonight is 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.240 to finish this. It's right now as I'm recording it, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.600 this Friday night at seven thirty. My internet is terrible 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.399 in this house, so I have to take this camera, 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.560 take the footage, and go to my brother's house, which 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.400 is like thirty minutes away. He's gone to see my mom, 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.560 so I go to his house and upload. So that's that's. Uh, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:35.040 that's my night. Next question, would you ever come back 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:40.399 to Spokane, Washington for a tour? Guys? Yes, yes, I 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.320 will be. I've been to all fifty states in many countries, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.920 and I will be back to all of them, especially Spokane, Washington. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.760 I love Spokane, I love the fans out there, So yes, 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.560 you bet, you bet you I'll be back in Spokane 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.520 I'll be back to everywhere. We'll be back to all 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:01.000 fifty states, hopefully very soon. I kind of see, do 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.480 you remember when there was a time during this craziness 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.239 when every day we woke up and it seemed like 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.160 something got a little bit worse, or many things got 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.960 a little bit worse. And right now I feel like 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:13.640 we're living in a time where we wake up every 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.400 morning and everything's getting a little bit better. If someone 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:22.720 tells you, it's not reject that things are getting better. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.399 Things are getting a little better every single day. And 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.200 so I mean, hey, I ate at a restaurant today, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.280 it's pretty amazing. But the way I see it getting 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.439 better for touring wise, as I see us having a 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.280 lot of conversations right now with my book an agent, 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.560 and my brother Tyler, my manager Chris Lee, different radio stations, 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.720 and we're talking about how to slowly start coming back 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:50.520 on to touring. We've been talking about doing an online 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.720 concert at a venue probably around here in Georgetown, Texas, 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.920 where we'll stream that concert, but inside the venue we'll 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.879 have like twenty or thirty people in the venue and 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.440 it'll be mostly family and friends. But that'll be awesome. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:06.520 I've been hearing a lot of talk. We're trying to 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:11.280 plan a parking lot concert where you actually drive in 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.000 in your car and you watch us play, and you 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.320 turn in, you turn your tune your your FM radio 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.680 to the station that's streaming our concert, so you listen 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:23.720 to it either through your car, you blow down your windows, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.920 sit on your tailgates, sit on your hood. I think 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.240 that'll be pretty cool, and I foresee that coming up 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:35.399 pretty soon, pretty soon. Here's a win win. Will the 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:41.320 new song be released? Yeah, yeah, I got you. When 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.560 when things start opening back up the concerts again, how 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.879 nervous will you be, that's a pretty good question. I 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.119 probably will be a little bit nervous. It's been I 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:52.879 feel rusty already. Guys. You know, there's times when I'm touring, 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.280 when we're playing to a lot of people every single night, 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.440 and you get really good at it. It's muscling, and 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.000 and sometimes I'm thinking, as I'm doing these like big 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:06.679 festivals in the summertime and it's back to back to 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.640 back to back nights in different states, and I'm thinking, man, 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:14.119 we're good right now. And it's a it's not an 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:17.159 arrogance thing, it's just a it's a repetition thing. You know. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:22.120 It's if you do anything you uh, you tape boxes, 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.840 you know, cardboard boxes, enough times, you're gonna get really 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:27.879 good at it. So that's the same thing with tourying. 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:32.000 Walk on the stage, I, you know, have the same 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.080 kind of walk, and I have the same kind of talk, 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:36.080 and I have the I know where to hit all 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.400 how to hit all the notes, you know on the songs, 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.520 and I love that feeling. And right now I am 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:43.639 the opposite. Man. I feel like if I walk on 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:45.120 the stage, I had, first thing I do is trip 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:46.960 and fall, and then I would start talking and I I 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:48.880 would I would mumble over myself, and then I would 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:50.439 start singing and I would miss all the notes. So 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.080 that's that's kind of where I am. Now. That's not good, 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:57.800 but yeah, I'll be a little nervous. I bet. What 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.639 do you recommend for people who are over thinkers to 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.080 ease and calm their mind? Man, that's a great question. 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.280 And I deal with this myself because I'm an overthinker. 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:14.080 So a couple of things. You have to incorporate meditation 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:20.000 into your life, into your every day, and I am 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:23.600 guilty of skipping days, but the days that I don't skip. 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:28.040