WEBVTT - How Earl Dibbles Jr Was Created 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.680 What's up. It's Granger Smith. This is the Granger Smith Podcast, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:20.119 Episode sixteen. A lot to cover today. This is a 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.000 good one. This is a story I've been wanting to 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.640 tell for a while. Now here we go. So if 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.840 you are new to this podcast, this might not be 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.520 the best one to start with. You might want to 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.159 go backwards a little bit, because I've been telling a 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.640 story that's progressively going throughout these podcasts, and so a 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.400 lot of this stuff might not make sense. Now. This 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.200 podcast is not always going to be this kind of format. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.680 I'm not always going to just tell stories about how 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.479 I got from where I was to how you know 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.839 me now in the music business and personally, I'm eventually 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.760 going to get to doing interviews. There's all kinds of 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.000 different components I'm going to cover. But before I do 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:00.600 any of that, I feel like I need to tell 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.840 you where I came from, how I got to be 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.480 the person you found on the radio or YouTube or 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.920 social media, whatever it was. You need to know where 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.080 I came from. And it's important for me to tell 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.160 it because telling it reminds me of you know, the 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:23.480 path that I'm on is forged. It's forged in failure, 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.120 and fired. It was worth the ride. I'm on the bus, 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.040 the back of my bus, Wildflower. I'm in South Dakota. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.280 It's February. I'm on the Cane Brown Tour. It is 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.960 really really cold, pulling up my phone right now, Well, okay, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.240 it's not that bad. It's fifteen degrees. The forecast has 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.720 been at like zero, and I've seen it at negative 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.000 forty five when I was looking at this date. Tomorrow 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.880 is North Dakota and it's going to be really cold there. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.240 Let let me look that up. I got to eight 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:02.400 right now. Tomorrow is going to be negative nine cold. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.440 People always say why do you tour and when it's cold, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.360 why don't you just tour in the summer or just 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:12.160 tour in the Southern States. That you've got to understand 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.680 that when it's cold like this, especially in a place 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.360 like the Dakotas, there's nothing to do but go to 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.520 a concert. So that's why we do it on purpose. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.480 We come to places where you can't go to a 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.480 barbecue or or hang out at the lake with your 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.200 buddies or play some backyard ball. You know, the only 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.160 thing to do is put on a coat and go 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.440 to the concert. So, yeah, that's why we're here. I've 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.640 been doing something new lately this year. I've been running 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:44.359 every day, jogging in the mornings. And I'm not a runner. Actually, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.160 I should wear one of those shirts that says I 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.720 hate running. I do. I hate running. It's it's not 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:54.160 something I feel like I'm very gifted at. I always 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:55.680 you know, I'm one of those people that say that, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.840 like to say I'm a sprinter, but I'm just not. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.200 I'm not a long distant try runner. And that's why 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.240 I'm doing it. That's exactly why I'm doing it. Because 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.680 I've decided that it's important for me to do at 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.200 least one thing a day that i'm uncomfortable with, something 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.000 that challenges me, something that I don't like doing. So 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.440 when I put on those running shoes and I go 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.280 stare at the pavement and it's still dark outside, you know, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.040 it's way before dawn, and I take that first step 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.160 and then another and then another, and I hear that 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.720 little voice in my head that says, stop, this sucks. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.960 What are you doing? You're crazy? Why are you doing this? 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.960 And I kind of thrive on that because then when 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.600 I finish and I had that feeling of accomplishment. Then 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.760 throughout the day, the entire day, I feel like I 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.840 could take on a mountain. You know, if you got 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.320 a problem, bring it to me. I could definitely solve 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.400 it because I just ran this morning and I freaking 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.200 hate running at least that's my mentality. My wife thinks 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.760 I'm crazy with this, but I'm on a streak. I've 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.920 been running every single day and so I didn't want 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.440 to end that streak here in South Dakota when it 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.960 got to be frigid temperatures. Now you're probably thinking, why 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.320 don't you just go to a treadmill? That kind of 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.720 defeats the purpose. You know, a treadmill is in a nice, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.760 air conditioned or heated place. And remember, part of this 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.120 for me is doing something that makes me uncomfortable. And 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.279 there's nothing more uncomfortable than going out in single digit 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:29.279 weather and putting on a couple layers of sweats and jogging. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.120 So tomorrow will be my big test North Dakota. That's 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.599 going to be the coldest for a Texas boy, the 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.080 coldest I've ever run in in my whole life. And 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.520 that'll be a good mental test for me. Hey, if 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.120 you ever want me to answer a question on one 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.760 of these podcasts. Go to social media hashtag Grangersmith podcast, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.640 ask your question. I'll search for it and I see 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.839 what I could do. I'm looking right now and I 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.840 found Trenton shoe Maker and he says found out about 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.800 the Grangersmith podcast two days ago. And I've officially listened 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.560 to every podcast. Now I want to hear a podcast 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.640 all about the bee keeping. All right, Trenton, I am 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.680 a hobbyist beekeeper, and I will talk about that. Hey, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.080 I'll go into it on one of these future episodes. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.720 I will say that. Meanwhile, I'm up here and it's 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.040 in the teens in South Dakota right now. In Texas, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.920 it's in the eighties. And a couple of days ago 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.000 I went and actually checked. I have two hives, and 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.200 I checked one of them. You know what, I think 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.279 I lost one of them. I think one of them left. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.680 I'm serious. You more experienced beekeepers out there, I might 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:40.000 need some advice. I'm only three years in and this 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.240 would be the first time in a spring now. Granted 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.560 I haven't kept up with them. I haven't fed them 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.080 all winter like I did the last two years. But 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.479 I think one of them left me I might have 0:05:51.520 --> 0:06:05.720 to do something about that. All right, let me try 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.320 to paint the scene for you. It's twenty eleven, July, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:16.240 hot as hell in Central Texas. Me and my brothers, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.400 both of them, Tyler and Parker, have decided to make 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.679 a video, and we've been making a bunch of videos lately. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.520 The goal is to get one viral, one million views. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.000 That was the goal. That seems so far out because 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.599 all of my videos before that they just had maybe 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.799 tens of thousands maybe, but more like tens of hundreds. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.599 So we had a pretty good idea that what Tyler 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.440 called this the country guy, and it was a voice 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.200 I had. I had listened to family members, I had 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.840 listened to bar owners, patrons of old bars that I'd 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.640 been going to for years and years, and so I 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.040 had this little boys and every once in a while 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.200 I would talk like it, and I would just doing 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.480 it so that people would laugh at me, probably the 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.000 guys in the band, because I'd talk like this and 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.640 the band would start laughing. So Tyler called it the 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.520 country Guy, so we thought that he needed a video. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.400 So we're out at my mom and dad's place. We 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.160 meet there and we start going through the closet and 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.600 I pull out all these these different things that I 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.520 think this country guy would wear. So I had some 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.720 old denim overalls. Now, I had these overalls from high 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.800 school football. We wore them as seniors on game day, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.560 we wore them the class. So, yeah, okay, he's gonna 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.600 wear some overalls. And I found one of my old 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.080 white tank tops. Now that seems like a good combination. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.240 Found my old red wing boots that I wore in 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.680 high school. They were perfect. I probably got those when 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.200 I was thirteen years old. So then when I needed 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.360 a hat, so I went into my dad's closet. He 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.320 has tons of trucker hats, old feed store caps, all 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.000 kinds of caps. And I found one and it said 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.640 Terrell Sand and Gravel Valley Mills, Texas. It seems perfect 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.400 for Earl. We went out and we got in my 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.440 old pickup truck. Now, this truck, which now has has 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.720 seen a lot of YouTube, has a pretty good history 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.360 with me. It was my very first truck I drove. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.000 I took that puppy to my first job, to school, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.360 back and forth to the ranch for years and years. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.920 It's a nineteen seventy four GMC three on the tree. Now, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:19.840 as you know, I've written a lot of songs about 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.520 that kind of truck, and that's the reason why, because 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.480 of this one. It was an old just almost a 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.680 gross faded green color with patches from different dents I 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:35.640 had made on it. The roof is completely wrinkled up 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.600 and dented because when I was seventeen years old, I 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.440 had the truck in neutral and I was working on 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.920 a fence with my brother Tyler, and it was on 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.839 level ground in my defense, but a wind picked up 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:56.640 and blew this truck down the little dirt road and 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.920 it went up on an eight foot fence and turned 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.440 all the way over and flipped it. So can you imagine. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.560 I had to call my dad and tell him, hey, Dad, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:12.040 I flipped the truck. Luckily before Dad got home. Had 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.280 we found some old boys that were working on a 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.960 pipeline down the road and they brought their truck in, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.480 hooked a winch up to it, flipped it back over 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.360 without doing any damage to the engine. It just had 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.600 a bunch of wrinkles on the hood. Now it's missing 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.080 a door, that is what that's really what made this 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.520 truck famous is it's missing a door. That was when 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.280 I was about I was probably about twenty years old then, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.520 and I was backing out of the barn. I had 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.360 the door open, but I had a brand new puppy 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.000 in the back. My dog, Rio was a puppy and 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.560 he was in the back, and I was worried about 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.560 him because he was jumping around, and I was thinking, 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.000 Oh God, he's going to jump out the back of 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.760 the truck and I'm going to hit him when I'm 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.240 backing out. So I had my eyes on him focused 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.560 on that. That's my excuse at least, because when I 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.240 backed out of the barn, I left the door open, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.920 and the door tweaked on the side of the bar 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.880 and bent far enough where it never shut right. So 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.800 my dad and I just took it off and decided 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.199 to drive it without a door. So you can imagine 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.360 us going into town in this truck, especially my dad, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.760 which is still a funny sight to me, seeing him 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.120 go into town with this truck with no door. That's 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:45.800 country cracking cold. This country boy, love is what you need. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.360 And in the rud baby you'll might know. And he 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.160 let's make a bed with all these meds feed in 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.319 the back of my truck. What we put in the 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.920 back of the truck was probably just important is how 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.400 it looked on the outside. We had an old bag, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:05.600 a deer feed, We had an old blanket, a box fan, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.880 some Levi garrett dip, some old corps light from the barn, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.959 a couple shotguns, single barrel that we always kept behind 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.920 the seat. What else. We had dough urine, we had 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:22.280 deer antlers, we had knives, we had all these country things. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.720 It ended up being all the perfect utilities for this video. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.679 We were going to make. It's like it just fell 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.839 into our laps pretty easy. You know. One of the 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.440 last things we did is we were walking out of 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.400 the house was we brought some sharpies with us, and Tyler, 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.080 my brother, just kind of threw on some tattoos, a 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.040 tribal tattoo on the left arm and on the right arm, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.520 barbed wire tattoo with a deer skull with a Texas 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.160 flag in the middle. Now, we just literally threw these 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.320 tattoos on, not much thought behind it. And to this day, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.040 if you were going to say we had any regrets 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.679 about that video, it was those damn tattoos because we 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.559 put way too much ink on it, and we did 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.120 way too they were way too elaborate, and we didn't 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.599 know that we would be repeating these one hundred thousand 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.640 times after this video. So we get the camera, three 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.400 brothers in the front seat of this pickup truck. We 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.560 start driving down to this old house that's on mom 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.319 and Dad's place and it says his old eighteen fifties 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.240 house built by an old Norwegian farmer. It's pretty much abandoned. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.600 But we thought that this is going to be this 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.760 guy's house. This is gonna be where we shoot the video. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.280 And Tyler looks at me about that time and he says, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.280 you know, I want this guy's name to be Earl 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.480 Dibbles Junior. You know, I kind of pause for a 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.319 minute and I said, I like it. Why And he said, well, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.320 I played football with this guy named Dibbles. It seems 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.200 like a good last name. And he said, and I 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.720 love Earl. That's a really strong country first name. I said, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.040 I agree, and he goes and of course it has 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.360 to be junior. Earl Dibbles Junior, I said, cool, and 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:05.200 he was born. 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I'm in the back of my bus Wildflower. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.880 It's freezing cold outside and we have a show tonight. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.800 I did my run this morning in subdegree temperatures, just 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.400 like I always wanted. That's a first for this Texas boy, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.439 and that's what I wanted. I wanted the mental challenge 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.720 to callous the mind. It helps me if I could, 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.840 if I could overcome something like that, get out and 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.840 run and subdegree temperatures, then I feel like I goccomplish anything. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.439 And you know, I probably needed that kind of advice 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.080 back in the day, back about twenty eleven, because although 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.840 in my story, we're just about to come up with 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.520 Earl Dibbles Junior, a video that would soon be the 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.760 beginning of a chain reaction that led me to where 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.520 I am today. But I didn't know that at the time. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.720 In fact, would you believe me that that twenty eleven 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.720 was a really tough time. I was losing a bunch 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.440 of band members, whether or not they were going to 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.960 another band or they just needed some time off from 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.000 the road, because my road at the time in this 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.120 van and trailer was tough. We were traveling a lot, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.760 we were playing a lot of shows for not a 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.240 lot of money to not a lot of people. But 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.000 I believe so passionately that what we were doing was right, 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.560 that we were on the right path. And it's hard 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.000 to get an entire crew to believe in that with 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:58.200 you and I would come off so strong, you know, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.680 on the outside, and I would I would be a 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.080 tough guy, and I would I would say, follow your dreams, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.040 and we're doing the right thing, and yay, we're leading 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:11.040 the charge and being creative. But I didn't always feel 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.320 like that. On the inside, I was very vulnerable. I 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.160 felt insecure about what we were doing. And that's what 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.600 happens when you're every single day you're playing shows and 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.560 you're getting a lukewarm mild reaction or no one is 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.280 showing up. And parking lots are such a big deal 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.560 because we would go when we take the van and 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.040 we would sound check and then go to a restaurant 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.800 and then go to the hotel and get cleaned up 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.440 and get dressed and come back. And as soon as 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.880 you're pulling back into that venue, man, that first look 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.000 of that parking lot, that's a big deal. You pull 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.960 around that corner and you kind of hold your breath 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.600 because you're gonna see that parking lot. You're gonna see 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.920 either a bunch of trucks and a bunch of cars 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.040 and it's full and people are walking from across the 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.400 street because they can't find a spot. And that was rarely, ever, 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.520 ever the case. Usually you pull in and you see 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:09.400 about fifteen or sixteen cars right pickup trucks, cars, and 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:14.320 you think, well, crap, there's either fifteen people in this 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.440 club that holds a thousand, or hey, maybe everybody took 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.000 a taxi and the rest of the people just piled 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.600 in and caravan with each other inside the same vehicles, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.160 And so you take sixteen cars and then multiplied times 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.600 they piled six people in each car. Nah, that never 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.400 was the case. And so then we would get set 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.040 up and we'd get you know, parked behind the venue, 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.920 and I would the band would go in first and 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.120 they would get the first sight of what the dance 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.080 looked like. And they would come back out and I 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:44.400 would say, how does it look? How does it look? 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.920 How does it look? And they would say, oh, you know, 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.560 about maybe seventy five, maybe eighty people, but it's not 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.000 that bad because they're not at the tables. They're kind 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.360 of up around the dance floor area, so it looks 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.120 it looks pretty good. And the people that are there 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.800 are having a good time. They're kind of rowdy. And 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.040 they would do this to make me feel better because 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.080 they knew that it's really hard for me to go 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.679 out there and face nobody and give them everything I 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:18.040 have to give them all my passion. That's something you know, 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.040 like I was talking about with waking up early and 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:25.840 going out into subdegree temperatures and jogging, that's mental callousing, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.920 and that's what I was doing every night during these times. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.679 One time we were playing a club in Oklahoma. It 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.119 was called the Squander bar. It was just a crappy place. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.000 It's since burned down, which tells you what kind of 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.679 place it was. It burned down, and there was twelve 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.440 people there that night, And in this placehold's probably six 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.320 or seven hundred, and there was twelve people on a 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.439 Saturday night when we played. You know, that wasn't the 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.600 first time, it wasn't the last time. But for for 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:58.520 whatever reason, that number twelve stuck with us, and we 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:03.240 would judge crowds by that number twelve from then on. So, 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.160 for instance, I would go in and I would say, 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.560 how does it look, guys, and they would say, it's 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.240 about a three or four squander. Okay, so that's you know, 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.359 twelve times three or four. But then we got to 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.160 a point where we could call it a super squander. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.440 A super squander was one hundred and twenty, so we 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:26.000 would say it's about it's about a super squander and 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.160 a half. Wow, Okay, there's like one hundred and eighty 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.320 people in there. And that was when we were getting 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.880 really good. I want to tell you one more story, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.280 and I know I'm getting kind of sidetracked here, but 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:43.160 the reason I'm leading you from these days of squander 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.840 numbers when we had twenty four thirty six fifty people 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.960 on a Saturday night. The reason I'm telling you these 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:54.200 stories is because what was happening at the time of 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.719 the creation of all these videos was that we were 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.840 we were about to break through, and we were about 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.760 to change to a nobody band that was trying really 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.640 hard to a band that actually had some following growing. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.200 And Tyler and Parker were with me from the very 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:16.640 beginning of these days, and they're my brothers. And maybe 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.679 I'm also telling you this because I feel like this 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.160 podcast is probably going to get some more listens because 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.639 it's about the creation of Earld Dibbles. And people have 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.800 been asking me for this story for a long time 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.520 and I've never been this in depth and telling it. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.080 But there's one night. There's one more story. There's one 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.760 night that stands out in my mind. And we were 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:41.200 in Tyler, Texas with a band with my brother and 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.479 it was one of these times when we pulled up 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:48.240 and the parking lot was kind of crappy and it 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.560 looked pretty thin from the outside, and the band went 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.520 in and I knew that they were going to probably 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.240 come back and tell me a lie and tell me 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.160 that it was okay, just to get my confidence up. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.040 But Tyler goes in and he comes back out and 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.880 he says, I said, how's it look? And he said, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:09.119 it's shit, man, there's nobody in there. I was like, oh, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.399 come on, man, there's there's got to be somebody, and 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.720 he said, yeah, I mean there's there's probably eleven or 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:19.639 twelve people in there, maybe a one squander. I'm talking 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.760 to show night about ten o'clock. You're telling me there's 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:25.840 ten people in there. And I don't know what it 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.440 was inside me, but I had been I had been 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.479 building this up over ten years, you know, and we 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.919 had some songs on regional radio, you know, there was 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.720 no reason. And I had these guys. I was paying 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.800 my band members, you know, and they were supporting friends 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:47.040 and families and girlfriends and they were depending on this stuff. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.000 And we had played this place many times before, and 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.480 how could we be slipping, how could we be going backwards? 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:59.560 And that's what that's what young musicians and baby bands 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.720 go through. And it snapped inside me. I was sitting 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:07.560 on the edge of my trailer side door open, half 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.040 dressed for the show. I should be walking inside within 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:16.200 about five minutes and I snapped. I started grabbing suitcases, 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.600 you know, our bags that were packed inside the trailer, 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:20.680 and I just started throwing them as far as I could, 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.959 and tears just started pouring out of my eyes, and 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.480 I was just so pissed off, and I was yelling, 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.399 and I just couldn't. I couldn't take it anymore. I 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.440 couldn't take that. Nobody's coming to watch you. You made 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:37.320 an art for him, and no one gives a shit. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:40.159 I couldn't. I couldn't take it anymore. And I'm just 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.159 tears flowing down my face, and I just headed off 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.399 across the street, and the first place I saw was 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:53.359 this storage unit facility, you know, And I wanted to 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.520 disappear into that storage unit facility because I wanted to 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.919 just break down and start crying. I didn't want Tyler 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:03.600 to see me, and so I just disappeared behind some 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.119 of these buildings and find it, found a you know, 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:08.679 wove my way in there and found a spot and 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:12.520 sat down and just put my head between my knees 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.080 and just started bawling. I just couldn't take it. It 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:19.439 finally stacked up enough and I sat there and it 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.040 felt like forever and I knew that showtime had come 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:24.200 and gone. And to me, it didn't matter because there 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.120