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Speaker 1: What's up. It's Granger Smith. This is the Granger Smith Podcast,

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Speaker 1: Episode sixteen. A lot to cover today. This is a

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Speaker 1: good one. This is a story I've been wanting to

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Speaker 1: tell for a while. Now here we go. So if

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Speaker 1: you are new to this podcast, this might not be

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Speaker 1: the best one to start with. You might want to

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Speaker 1: go backwards a little bit, because I've been telling a

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Speaker 1: story that's progressively going throughout these podcasts, and so a

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Speaker 1: lot of this stuff might not make sense. Now. This

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Speaker 1: podcast is not always going to be this kind of format.

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Speaker 1: I'm not always going to just tell stories about how

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Speaker 1: I got from where I was to how you know

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Speaker 1: me now in the music business and personally, I'm eventually

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Speaker 1: going to get to doing interviews. There's all kinds of

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Speaker 1: different components I'm going to cover. But before I do

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Speaker 1: any of that, I feel like I need to tell

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Speaker 1: you where I came from, how I got to be

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Speaker 1: the person you found on the radio or YouTube or

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Speaker 1: social media, whatever it was. You need to know where

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Speaker 1: I came from. And it's important for me to tell

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Speaker 1: it because telling it reminds me of you know, the

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Speaker 1: path that I'm on is forged. It's forged in failure,

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Speaker 1: and fired. It was worth the ride. I'm on the bus,

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Speaker 1: the back of my bus, Wildflower. I'm in South Dakota.

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Speaker 1: It's February. I'm on the Cane Brown Tour. It is

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Speaker 1: really really cold, pulling up my phone right now, Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not that bad. It's fifteen degrees. The forecast has

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Speaker 1: been at like zero, and I've seen it at negative

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Speaker 1: forty five when I was looking at this date. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: Let let me look that up. I got to eight

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Speaker 1: right now. Tomorrow is going to be negative nine cold.

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Speaker 1: People always say why do you tour and when it's cold,

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Speaker 1: tour in the Southern States. That you've got to understand

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Speaker 1: that when it's cold like this, especially in a place

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Speaker 1: a concert. So that's why we do it on purpose.

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Speaker 1: We come to places where you can't go to a

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Speaker 1: to the concert. So, yeah, that's why we're here. I've

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Speaker 1: been doing something new lately this year. I've been running

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Speaker 1: hate running. I do. I hate running. It's it's not

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Speaker 1: something I feel like I'm very gifted at. I always

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm one of those people that say that,

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Speaker 1: like to say I'm a sprinter, but I'm just not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a long distant try runner. And that's why

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Speaker 1: I'm doing it. That's exactly why I'm doing it. Because

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Speaker 1: I've decided that it's important for me to do at

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Speaker 1: least one thing a day that i'm uncomfortable with, something

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? You're crazy? Why are you doing this?

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Speaker 1: got to be frigid temperatures. Now you're probably thinking, why

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Speaker 1: defeats the purpose. You know, a treadmill is in a nice,

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Speaker 1: that'll be a good mental test for me. Hey, if

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Speaker 1: to every podcast. Now I want to hear a podcast

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Speaker 1: all about the bee keeping. All right, Trenton, I am

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Speaker 1: I'll go into it on one of these future episodes.

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Speaker 1: to paint the scene for you. It's twenty eleven, July,

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Speaker 1: hot as hell in Central Texas. Me and my brothers,

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Speaker 1: both of them, Tyler and Parker, have decided to make

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Speaker 1: The goal is to get one viral, one million views.

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Speaker 1: So we had a pretty good idea that what Tyler

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Speaker 1: So we're out at my mom and dad's place. We

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Speaker 1: for Earl. We went out and we got in my

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Speaker 1: old pickup truck. Now, this truck, which now has has

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Speaker 1: I took that puppy to my first job, to school,

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Speaker 1: my brother, just kind of threw on some tattoos, a

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Speaker 1: up with this idea that this character is going to

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00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: be called Earl Nibbles Junior. And there were three of

430
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: us in the cab, and now there's three of us

431
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: sitting in the back of Wildflower, and no better than

432
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: to hear it from the guys themselves. I got my

433
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: two brothers, Parker and Tyler. So did you guys when

434
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: we came up with this idea. I've been saying that

435
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 1: it was just another It was just another idea on

436
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: top of many ideas to try to get a viral

437
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: video to ultimately promote an album that was going to

438
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 1: come out called Dirt Road Driveway. But did you guys

439
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: have any idea this was going to become what our

440
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: lifestyle now? Well, the majority of my childhood was spent

441
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: with a camcorder in my hand, filming you doing something,

442
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 1: something dumb, something that we thought was funny from I

443
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: remember being in middle school out at some radio station

444
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: the very first time that you were out doing a

445
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 1: radio tour for your very first single, Colorblind, way back

446
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 1: in the day, and you being like, wouldn't it be

447
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: funny if we couldn't find the radio station and just

448
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: uploading videos like that, and then going in the radio

449
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: stations like, wouldn't be funny if they didn't even recognize me? Yeah?

450
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: That was you. How old were you, Parker when you

451
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 1: were filming where it's the radio station in two thousand

452
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: and six. Yeah, I was probably twelve or thirteen years old.

453
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: You've shown me how to use a camcorder and get

454
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: into angles and stuff. So so then you fast forward

455
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: from two thousand and six to twenty eleven, and so

456
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: you're teenager now and you're with Tyler and we're filming

457
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: what is to become Earl Dibbles. And this is not

458
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: only the story of the creation of Earl Dibbles, but

459
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,239
Speaker 1: almost more importantly, it's the creation of EEE, which has

460
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: now become snomous synonymous with livet and and everything that

461
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: we do in EUE apparel and YEEE Energy and what's

462
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: what you do full time at our warehouse, Parker. You know,

463
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: that's all you do is ee apparel. It's just it

464
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: blows my mind that that what was about to happen

465
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 1: as we drove this truck down to the old house

466
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: was going to become a path for our life. So

467
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: the plan was, roughly, and I think we talked about

468
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: it in this truck. The plan was, I'm gonna sit

469
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: on the porch and I'm going to go down the

470
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: list of my day, what I'm going to do during

471
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: the day, my schedule, my tough schedule, and then we

472
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: would go and act out all the things that I said. So, Tyler,

473
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: you you had the camera, I mean, you tell it. Well.

474
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,959
Speaker 1: I have a question for you, Okay, was this the

475
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: first time that we ever did Earl? I know when

476
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 1: telling this story, we tell people that you kind of

477
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: did some this character in the van, But did you

478
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: say those things in the van or like I explained

479
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: earlier in this podcast that you called it the country guy,

480
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: And it was more like driving around in the van

481
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: and we would be at a gas station and we

482
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: would be really low on gas, and we'd pull up

483
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: to the station on empty and I'd say we got

484
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: to get up and come out there and get that gas.

485
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: You put that gas in there and get going on

486
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,160
Speaker 1: the road. So you did that, Yeah, but it was

487
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: it was kind of just to make people laugh. But

488
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: he didn't have any specific sayings at the time. Interesting,

489
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 1: I don't remember any specific instances before we filmed that,

490
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean as far as the day that

491
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: we filmed it, I just remember laughing a whole lot

492
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: and knowing that it was probably you know, like you

493
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: said earlier, there's absolutely no way anybody would ever predict

494
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: or like sit here and say, yeah, we planned for

495
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: this EE to happen and for us to you know,

496
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: have this empire of EE. There's no way. But I

497
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: knew that we had something special because we were laughing

498
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: and I was just laughing hysterically throughout the video when

499
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: I was filming it, so much that I, you know,

500
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: I had to give Parker the camera for different scenes

501
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: so I could, you know, get out of range of

502
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: the microphone to laugh. You were laughing so hard it

503
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: was making me laugh. So you could see a little

504
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: bit on the outtakes that are still on YouTube. But

505
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: I would literally do five seconds of a line and

506
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: then start laughing. But it was usually because I was

507
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: looking at you and you were laughing, so you had

508
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: to go around the building and then Parker took over. Yeah,

509
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: I remember specifically the fixed the tree scene. I was

510
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: laughing so much that that, you know, that whole scene

511
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: was cut up so much because I was laughing. Yeah,

512
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: come on, yeah, it was all so funny to me

513
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: the first time seeing that. So what happened with Yee though,

514
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean, because I don't really remember that, but you know,

515
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: I was in the field and by the way, it was,

516
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: it was what like over one hundred degrees in July

517
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: and Texas it was probably one hundred and two degrees nothing,

518
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: no clouds in the sky, and I was out there

519
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: in these overalls, in a white tank top and almost

520
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: damn near having heat stroke running around. And I remember,

521
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: especially during the gun scene, I almost had a heat

522
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: stroke because first of all, just wasn't in great shape

523
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: at that time, and I was running through the field

524
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: with boots, with my overalls tucked in the tops of

525
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: my boots, with the shotgun over my head, and you

526
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: were calling out instructions like shoot from the hip, hold

527
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: it above your head. And then as you're yelling, got

528
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: out and I was about to die with the heat stroke.

529
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: That's when you said hold over your head and yell

530
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: ye yee or whatever you said. So at the time

531
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: there was a crazy fan, which we didn't have many of. Yeah, yeah,

532
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: we didn't have many. And she I think she was

533
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: from Colorado or something. But the reason I knew who

534
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,719
Speaker 1: she was is because she used to tweet you all

535
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: the time and she used to say she would just

536
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: say yee, why I, And so it was kind of

537
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: at the time it was kind of like an inside

538
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: joke because she was you know, we saw her tweets

539
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: every day, so we talked about her a lot, and

540
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: we kind of we were aware of yee or whatever

541
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: that meant. And so I think at the time when

542
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: you were doing all that stuff, for whatever reason, it

543
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,479
Speaker 1: popped in my head and I said, you'd say ee

544
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: and then it turned into y e y e, not

545
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: why why I? Yeah, it was, uh, that's all it was.

546
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,479
Speaker 1: And throughout the video we did we do that before

547
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: the video? Though? Is that the first time you that

548
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: was the first time. That's the first time in video?

549
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: But did you do that before? No, Earl never did it.

550
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: I think it was so I just said sayee, and

551
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: you said it, and how it became yeah, I said,

552
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: and when you called it out, like I could have

553
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: said ye or you know, but it was born that

554
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: day and when we did it, you know, I'm about

555
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: to have heatstroke and uh, you're you're about done, you know.

556
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: And we were never thinking that that was going to

557
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: carry on and that was going to be what I'm

558
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: looking at you right now, but what's on your hat

559
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: and your and your sweatshirt? And you know, it's just

560
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: become a thing. And I think the coolest part ABOUTE

561
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: is that inn Earl itself is that we never pushed

562
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: any of it like it was a marketing plan. It

563
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: never was. Everything that came from that was brought by

564
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: the fans. You know. The fans then started going to shows,

565
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: and that's another story for another time. But the reason

566
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: it took off was because fans adopted it and they

567
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: started saying it, and they started having signs that said EEE.

568
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: And that's ultimately what we had to latch onto what

569
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: the fans already grabbed, and so we got to give

570
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: credit where it's due. For sure. I remember specifically when

571
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: I created the socials for Earl. You know, I can't

572
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: remember I guess I could go back and see when

573
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: when his account was created. Does it say that on

574
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: the Twitter like created? I think it does. So I

575
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: think it was a little bit after the video came

576
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: out and we realized that we had something with this video,

577
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, I wanted to create socials and

578
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: create this, you know, try to catch this character we made.

579
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: And so anyway, I remember knowing, like you said, did

580
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: we have any idea? Well, I knew, like somewhere deep

581
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: down that we had something really special. So for whatever reason,

582
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: I was walking I was in Austin at the time,

583
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: and I think I was at south By Southwest, and

584
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: actually it was right when I saw jay Z get

585
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: out of a black, blacked out suburban. I was screenshotting

586
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: the Earl Devils Junior account because it had zero followers,

587
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: and I was like, one day this is going to

588
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: have a lot more followers than zero. So I still

589
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: got that screenshot somewhere. Yeah, it's been crazy because I've

590
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: had that feeling a couple of times. I thought Donnie

591
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 1: was going to take off when we first came out

592
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: with Donnie the other character, which by the way, Donnie

593
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: has something I'm very excited about coming soon. So Donnie's

594
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: not done yet. I'm not going to give up on

595
00:33:55,040 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: him yet. But we finished shooting that and we went

596
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: back to the house and I edited it that night,

597
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: threw it together, you know, showed it to mom and dad.

598
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: Dad was just laughing his ass off at this thing.

599
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: And we put it up on YouTube and it instantly

600
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: got more views than we had ever seen. And this

601
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: was this was when YouTube was really living on its

602
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: own more than now. Instagram drives so much stuff and

603
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: Twitter drives so much stuff. But back then you could

604
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: just you know, YouTube was getting emailed around. I don't

605
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: think Instagram was around yet, probably not. And we we

606
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: saw that video after we woke up the next morning.

607
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: It had like twenty five thousand views, right something like that,

608
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: and that's about ten times more than we had ever

609
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: seen in day one. And it continued to gain momentum

610
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: and we boom. We had we had our goal, We

611
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: had our million views by what Tyler by August. I

612
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: don't know if it was that quick when we release

613
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: it July July. I don't think it was that quick, right,

614
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: Maybe like a couple of months, maybe six months, maybe September.

615
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: I think I can go back on that insights and

616
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: analytics and check maybe on YouTube. Regardless, it by far

617
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: was the fastest growing, most viral video that we'd ever done,

618
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 1: and that was the goal for that. That's that's what

619
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: we always wanted. And from that point on we went

620
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: on a little bit of a chase. You know, me

621
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: and you always talk about farming and hunting, and when

622
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: we made Early we were hunting big time. We were

623
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: out in the woods hunting. And then when you finally

624
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: get something, you got to pull back and you got

625
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: to farm a little bit. You get a farm what

626
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: you killed. And that's what we did. We farmed Earl

627
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: and to some extent we still farm Earl. And what

628
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: that is? Did you plan it? Yeah? What happened after

629
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: that was a big learning experience because we got a

630
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: viral video and nothing changed for me though as far

631
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: as anything. I like, you created that Earl account and

632
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: it got a few followers, but we didn't really know

633
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: how to grow it yet. Wasn't the first ever Earl post, Like,

634
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: we didn't know what to do with him. We were like,

635
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: so is it just gonna be like earls on these socials?

636
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: And so I remember when whenever we first created his Instagram.

637
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: It was like just a picture of a feedback and

638
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: it was like my pillow for the night. Really. Yeah,

639
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: it was like like morning y'all from his bed and

640
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: it was just like a picture of his little blanket

641
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: on that dirty floor. Dude. It's all his socials and himself. Like,

642
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: there's different seasons in evolution, like when you came on board,

643
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: like when I was running. I don't know if I'm

644
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: supposed to say that when I was like doing a

645
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: lot of his tweets and socials. Yeah, everybody knows that

646
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: if you see an Earl Divil's tweet or Instagram post,

647
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: it's one of three brothers. You know what's funny about that.

648
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 1: Back in the beginning of Earl, when you I was

649
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: so like OCD, when you were playing your show, your

650
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: ninety minute set, I wouldn't ever tweet from Earl because

651
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: I just had a feeling. I was like, Man, if

652
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: somebody sees you tweet, they're gonna know it's not you.

653
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: So I never would. I think it's fair to say that.

654
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, I do not post everything from Earle,

655
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: but it comes from one of the three brothers. Yeah, yeah,

656
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: every one hundred percent, every tweet. But what I was

657
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: saying was the different seasons of Earl, Like when I

658
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: was running the socials, I had, you know, my own

659
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 1: twist on what I would do, and I was doing

660
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: so many different things, and so I felt like at

661
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: some point I was getting a little careless and I

662
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: would just like repost a meme. And when we brought

663
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: you on, Parker, you just totally every thing exploded because

664
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: you were able to really focus and do more creative

665
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: content and you know, real like use Earl for things

666
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,479
Speaker 1: as opposed to like doing meme stuff like I was doing,

667
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: like which was great at the time, but yeah, it's

668
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: just fun to see it continue to grow. So that

669
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: that that first few months after Earl, we saw the

670
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,919
Speaker 1: video go viral, but nothing changed in my live show,

671
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: like I'm still going out there and playing you know,

672
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: colorblind and living like a lone star, and and nothing,

673
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: nothing was growing that way, and there was a huge disconnect.

674
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: And so I think the first was the first thing

675
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: we did with Earl make a T shirt? Is that

676
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: the first thing we did? Not sure because we made

677
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 1: the T shirt country boy? Is that what it said,

678
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: you know, the country Boy t shirt? Tough schedule? Yeah,

679
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: that was the first one. It said I'm a country

680
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: boy on the front and on the back it said

681
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: I got a tough schedule and listed I Wake up.

682
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: Put a good dip there. We still sell it. Yeah,

683
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: well that's one of lightly. We don't. So what happened

684
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: was you'll you'll remember, but we got a cease and

685
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: assist letter. Oh yeah, we changed it. Yet within a

686
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: few weeks of releasing this country Boy, we actually sold

687
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: a lot of them. For for who we were at

688
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: the time, we sold a lot of this I'm a

689
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: country Boy, I Got a tough schedule, And then we

690
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: made a pink one that said I'm a country Girl.

691
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: I Got a tough schedule. So we made two, and

692
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: we got a cease and assist letter from this company

693
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: that had trademarked country Boy and country Girl. Yeah I

694
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: reached dude. I saw a tweet a couple of days

695
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: ago from somebody that said, I couldn't do this because

696
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: this company sent me a season to cists from that

697
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: same company, Like apparently that's all they do. Yeah, really shitty,

698
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 1: But they don't. They don't have any shirts of their own, really,

699
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: they just they just prevent everyone else from doing it.

700
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: That's how they That's how they survived. They have a girl. Okay,

701
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: well it's but crappy probably, but I mean they went

702
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: after I know they went after Luke Bryan when he

703
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: did country Girl Shake It from Me or something like that.

704
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: He had a shirt and they stopped him from We

705
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: have a shout out to our Instagram account called at

706
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: yee Girls just hit ten thousand followers. But one of

707
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 1: our yee girls, she has a very successful country girl

708
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: page and it was called country Girl Paradise, and they

709
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: sent her a season desist for her Instagram account, so

710
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: she had to change it to like country girl. Sorry

711
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 1: country gal. Anyway, Well, what's really important about that, though,

712
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: is that we that if that hadn't have happened, if

713
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: that strange company that trademarked country boy and country Girl,

714
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: if they had never reached out to us, then we

715
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: never would have grown into what has become Yeee Apparel.

716
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 1: Because what that did is it opened our eyes. We

717
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: realized that, you know, you can't just make a T

718
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 1: shirt and sell it. You have to do your research,

719
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: you have to trademark things. And the first thing we

720
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: did is we changed that shirt to I got a

721
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: tough schedule, which is now still we still sell it

722
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: right and it's still our we call it our OG.

723
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: And from then on we had to if we're gonna

724
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: make a T shirt, we needed to research if it

725
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 1: was trademarked or not. And once again it's just us,

726
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: this little mom and pop company. But the biggest deal

727
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: that happened was I was driving through Lamb Passes, Texas,

728
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget it. There was a truck dealership

729
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 1: and I've said this story on the radio a lot

730
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: because it impacted me. But in the windshield on every

731
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: truck in the front that's parked along the road that

732
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: said ye ye, And it hit me like, oh my god,

733
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: we've we've got to get control of ee or somebody

734
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: is going to trademark it and use it against us

735
00:41:58,080 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: and then we'll never be able to say it or

736
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: put it on anything. And so we we instantly went

737
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: to an attorney. What did we even have one? Is

738
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: that where we found Jonathan? Now Dad told us he said, hey,

739
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: you need to trademark this. Yeah, So we went and

740
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: we reached out to an attorney, which we didn't have.

741
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: We we found one. They were a friend of a

742
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: friend who ended up being awesome. I think I did

743
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: it through like the US dot go okay, okay for

744
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: that then whatever, And it was like five thousand dollars

745
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: you remember that. Yeah, it was something, and it was

746
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: an idea. We had more money than we possibly had

747
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: an in a bank account, and we we freaked out

748
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: because we realized we we either had to do that

749
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: and drain everything we had to put it into a

750
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: stupid trademark, but knowing that if we didn't do it,

751
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: somebody else was going to do it and hold it

752
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: against us, So we pulled everything we had together and

753
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: Dagam trademarked yee yee, and then we trademarked Earl Dibbles

754
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: Junior and put a good dip in and crack a

755
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: cold one so we could still say all of those things.

756
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: And at the time it seemed like this is one

757
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: of the stupidest business moves we've ever made. I mean,

758
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: all this money costs more than my whole van and

759
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: trailer that we're traveling with. But now looking back, you

760
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 1: know that it saved our ass for sure. And then

761
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: the last piece of that puzzle was the live show,

762
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: because it's still twenty eleven and there was there was

763
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: a moment that I'll never forget a moment when some

764
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: guy came up to me and meet and greet, and

765
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: he told me something that that would forever change how

766
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: I operated. May have in the city trying to take

767
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: my rifle. There's something that he needs to understand. Second Amendments,

768
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: only second to the Bible. He'll have to pull it

769
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: out of my dead hands. Yeah, he have opinions. I

770
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 1: don't have to agree with him. I ain't nothing wrong

771
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: with me and he'll ben every Oh no, no, but

772
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: I think that he she no, no, no, how I roll.

773
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: I'm a survivor. You damn right. I'm a fighter. I'm

774
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: a big box kidd and try out breaking junior disciple.

775
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: So don't you be offended when granddad needs defended. It's

776
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: fact I'm waiting, says, I'm staying break. Don't tread on me. No,

777
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: don't tread on me. No. So I'm sitting here with

778
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: my two brothers, Tyler and Parker, and uh, where could

779
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: I find you guys or where could everyone find you

780
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: guys on social media? Because both of y'all are still

781
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: single and I do need a yee sister and some

782
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: yege nieces and nephews. So where could we find you, guys, Parker,

783
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: you can just pass it. Mine is mine Instagram is

784
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: just at Tyler Smith eleven at Tyler Smith won one.

785
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: Mine's Parker double underscore. Smith Fancy on Instagram, formerly known

786
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:24,399
Speaker 1: as sugar Smith. Why were you Sugar Smith? Because I'm

787
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 1: sweet you all right? That's still my Twitter sugar Smith eleven.

788
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: That's like a heavyweight boxing camp. So I've told I

789
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: just got through saying that. That guy came up to

790
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: me in a meet and greet and it changed the

791
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: way I looked at everything. Do you know what I'm

792
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: about to say, Parker, No, I've never heard this. Okay,

793
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: So guy came up to me and he goes, keep

794
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: in mind Earl's out. He's mildly viral. I think he

795
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: might have even had a million views. But my show

796
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: is still is exactly the same as it was before Earl.

797
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: So this guy goes, man, you're a funny guy, and

798
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: I was like, oh thanks, man, he goes, but I

799
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: don't see that in your show. And I was like,

800
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: oh shit, Earl has to be in the show. That's

801
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: the only answer. We can't have a viral video that's

802
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: going crazy and I go out here and play, you know,

803
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: sleeping on the interstate. We needed something more than that,

804
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: and that's when I knew I need to write Earl

805
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: a song. Was it immediately, he's going to write a song,

806
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: or he's gonna sing? Or was it maybe I'll bring

807
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: him up for a comedy bit in the middle of

808
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: the show. People always said that, and it was always

809
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: going to be a song, because I've never looked at

810
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: myself as a comedian, and people in the early days

811
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 1: thought that they would go to my show and see

812
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: a comedy bit and then a concert, And to this day,

813
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: it's never been that, and I don't think it ever

814
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: could be. It was always going to be Earl talks

815
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: to people through his music in public, which, ironically, weren't

816
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: you Variety's top ten comedians to watch in like twenty

817
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: fifteen it was, which I think is I think it's

818
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: a kind of a big deal. And then all nine

819
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: of them went on tour together and you're the only

820
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: one he had. Variety named the top ten comics to watch,

821
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: and I was one of them. And whenever that happens,

822
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: evidently in the comedy world, they go on tour together.

823
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: It wasn't a. They didn't all go on tour together.

824
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: They just took the top ten comics for that year.

825
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty sixteen. I was looking it up,

826
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: but they invited you. It's basically like an award show.

827
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: First award show we would ever win anything, and we

828
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: couldn't go. So nine of them went except for me

829
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: because I was playing a concert. And I think to

830
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: this day that probably there was whoever that guy the

831
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: runner up like number eleven on that variety list probably

832
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: hates me forever because he would have been in the

833
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: top ten and would have gone to this award show

834
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: and just started his career. We started getting offers from

835
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: our agency that people were submitting offers to William Morris

836
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: for you to go do stand up for pretty substantial

837
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: amount of money. But you know, we didn't ever obviously

838
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, So that was another another turning point

839
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: in my career because as that's taking off, I have

840
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: a decision to make. I could I could write Earl

841
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: a song, or I could pursue comedy. I knew, I

842
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: knew that the answer to that it was and there's

843
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: no way it was going to do that. There's no

844
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: way I was going to try to chase some some

845
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: comedy gigs. But but what happened was I decided to

846
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: go back and chase the Granger music along with it

847
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: with an Earl song and uh, and so I dove

848
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: in and I started writing, and I started trying to

849
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 1: complete the projects that that motivated the entire Earl thing

850
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: to start from the from the very beginning, and that

851
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: was what was going to become Dirt Road Driveway. And

852
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: that is kind of the beginning of my story. I mean,

853
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: Dirt Road Driveway for a lot of people is the

854
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: first album that they ever heard from me. Earl was

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Speaker 1: is a story for another podcast. But I could mark

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Speaker 1: this is almost the beginning this story. This time period

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Speaker 1: at the end of twenty eleven was the beginning. It

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Speaker 1: was the beginning of a new era. It was the

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Speaker 1: beginning of a popular band that I was about to

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Speaker 1: be part of, a band that actually put people in

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Speaker 1: venues and was kind of in demand in the small

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Speaker 1: club areas. What's really fun is we still consider it

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Speaker 1: the beginning. Yeah, what it could grow into. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what keeps me going is waking up knowing that this

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Speaker 1: is just the beginning we have. We have so much

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Speaker 1: more to do. We have the very first ever You've

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Speaker 1: already said this, right, Granger Earl song and Granger song

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Speaker 1: like them together. People have seen them kind of like.

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Speaker 1: We've done a few videos for fun together, but like

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Speaker 1: never a music video where they're together in a song

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Speaker 1: that they're actually singing together. Yeah. Marks of twenty and nineteen,

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Speaker 1: the first ever Granger and Earl song together, both on

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Speaker 1: the same track and the music video we have it

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Speaker 1: planned for. We're shooting in a couple of weeks and

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Speaker 1: it should just be insane. It's gonna be the most

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Speaker 1: epic video of all time, it says Tyler Smith at

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Speaker 1: Tyler Smith left. All right, that's all I got. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for having us. Thank you guys, thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to the Granger Smith Podcast. We'll see you next time.

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Speaker 1: It happens like that out of the Blue scat Listner

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Speaker 1: Blue last year. When it happens like that, nothing to

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Speaker 1: Louis turns right into you, Julie, Well you can do

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Speaker 1: just to keep her around here. The moon goes down

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Speaker 1: in your back, into your house. One thing is doing another,

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Speaker 1: you loving each other, and when looking you never lived

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Speaker 1: back it happens like like that. Thanks for listening. If

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Speaker 1: you wanna support me or any other artist, the best

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Speaker 1: way is to see us on tour. Go to grangersmith

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Speaker 1: dot com backslash tour, See you down the road.