WEBVTT - Dylan Marlowe: Keeping The Glory Tank Full 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.480 What's up, y'all. This is Dylan Marlowe. Yeah, it's definitely 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.720 tough because you see, like a lot of other things 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:06.960 get glorified in this industry where you're like, what the heck, 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:08.680 Like that would be super easy for me to go 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.680 do that. I want to headline arenas and stadiums, you know, 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:13.800 that's like the goal. But I want to do it 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.159 the way God wants me to do it and not 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.040 the way I want to do it, like you know, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.840 the fruits that I carried by by when you look 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:22.040 at it or when you meet me or when you 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:23.840 talk to me, like, that's my goal. I want people 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.760 to know like, Okay, this is what Dylan's about, and 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:33.160 this is the upload. Man. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:34.800 How are you? How's everything? 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.160 Yeah, it's been great, probably slowing down for the year. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.000 Slowing down, Bro, you're expecting twins? 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.880 Yeah, I know, well, the music slowing down. The parenting's 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:44.720 about to pick up. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.319 Man, I'm so excited for you. That was one thing 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:48.800 that I was so excited to talk to you about 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.280 today because I just feel like the mindset of becoming 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:56.000 a parent, Man, what a weight that just carries crazy. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.520 So excited. I'm ready, though I'm excited. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.280 Well, if you don't know, Dylan is on the upload 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.319 today and I'm so excited to chat with you and 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.840 dive into you about just lots of things. But I 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.199 want to first start off our conversation with just talking 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.240 about the word faith. It means such different things to 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.640 so many different people, and I'm just curious what that 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.320 word means to you specifically. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.200 I think it's like faith to me, is just like 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.880 believing what you can't physically see with your eyes, but 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.039 just like knowing in your heart, like believing what you 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:26.840 believe in your heart. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.000 Yeah. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.520 One of the things that I love about faith is 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.520 just like you said, you can't see it, but you 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.720 believe it. And my little brother actually was recently talking 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.640 about just like Jesus and faith and that kind of stuff, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.759 and he's like, you do realize you guys sound crazy, right, 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.240 And I was just like, yeah, we do. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:50.040 But yeah, No, it's either yeah I saw something yesterday butcher. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.880 But it's just like we either believe in something some 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.120 lunatic dude who this whole thing's crazy, or we believe 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.960 in like just the most perfect person that's ever walked 0:01:59.000 --> 0:01:59.440 on the earth. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.720 And I like to believe that one, Yeah, the one 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.480 that's kind, the one I don't want to be wrong. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:05.640 Okay for sure. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:12.000 When it comes to faith specifically, we all have different 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.320 walks as Christians and what we you know, how we 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.000 go about things. When when did faith become like real 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.800 for you where you got to choose faith, where it 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:21.600 was your decision. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.280 Yeah? Probably, Uh maybe when I moved out of my parents' house, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.440 not that they like help me back or anything. I 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.400 think you just get so many decisions you get to 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:30.400 make on your own, you know. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:30.920 Uh. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.760 I was literally thinking about the story last night for 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.399 some reason. I was trying to fall asleep the day 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.040 that I like got saved because I had been like 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.120 baptized as a kid, but didn't really think it was 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.960 my decision, you know. And uh, I'll never forget. Her 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.840 name's miss Kim. She was my roommate's mom, and she 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.200 was always like kind of taking me to church and 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.640 like always hinting like when are you going to give 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.520 your life? You know? And then uh, one day I 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.400 was like, all right, today I'm gonna do it, you know. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.440 As soon as at the end the preacher's like all right, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.640 whoever wants to put their hand up, I'm gonna do it, 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.239 and then he didn't say it that day. So we're 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.400 walking in the car in the parking lot and she 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.120 was like, have you put any more thought into it? 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.560 And I was like, well, I was going to today, 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.200 but like, you know, he didn't ask, and she was 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.000 like she grabbed my shirt and just ripped me right 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.079 back into the church and ripped all the way back 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.240 to the pastor's like office, you know where he's after serving. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.760 She was like, we got to do this right now, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:21.320 you know. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:22.560 What a sweet friend. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.760 Yeah, that is so special to have those kind of 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.600 people in your life because I feel like so many 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.120 people are are scared to ask those questions, and especially 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.680 surrounding yourself with community of you know, a friend's mom 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:34.400 that'll be like. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.280 Hey, no, it was really funny. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.120 Yeah, when you think back just kind of growing up, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.880 is there someone in your life that just kind of 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.680 models like what Jesus looks like for you growing up? 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.360 I would say probably my pop, but like my dad's dad. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.360 Yeah, do you guys have a good relationship? 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.920 It was yeah, I think so. We weren't too like 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.440 ty as we lived always like an hour away, but 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.280 that was always who I kind of like in my 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.840 head imagery, like that's who represented Jesus the most of me. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.480 Do you ever think about that like going towards like, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.840 you know, the I guess the incline in your life 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.200 and growing in Christ that you're going to be that 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.040 for someone else? 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.280 I hope. So, I hope I am. I feel like 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.200 he was very patient and very uh just kind of 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.320 like the role model for that. Yeah for me. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.400 Yeah, I was just thinking about your instagram bio and 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.480 how I love when you you see people just declare 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.520 it boldly and don't have any you know, second guess 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.200 things about it. And I love that you have Proverbs 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.200 sixteen three in your instagram bio commit your work to 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.120 the Lord and your plans will be established. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:40.479 Yeah, why did you choose that one? 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.400 Because I feel like, especially in this like industry, it's 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.320 easy to like commit your work to yourself, you know, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.440 or to try to, And I still like struggle with 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.720 that just given the given the work, like all this 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.040 all the labor and stuff to God, you know, and 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.240 I don't know, it's it's like with what we do. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.760 It's just there's two different ends of the spectrum, you know. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.640 So I feel like for me, whenever I can just 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.920 commit my plans to him. He shows and it might 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.680 not be like the answer you're looking for, you know, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.839 but he shows his presence everywhere, everywhere, every time for sure. Yeah. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.160 And being a musician, like you said, it's it's all 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.640 about you, right, You're on stage, people are watching you, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.400 and you know, when you think about your purpose as 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.800 a musician and trying to put yourself kind of to 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.800 the side, what vision do you see for yourself? What 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.120 purpose do you see for yourself? 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.400 I think just like being a light maybe in such 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.720 like a dark industry, and uh, yeah, it's definitely tough 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.920 because you see, like a lot of other things get 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:39.960 glorified in this industry where you're like, what the heck, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.680 like that would be super easy for me to go 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.640 do that, and you know it probably get super megaviral 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.440 this this, you know. But I just, yeah, I feel like, 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:50.960 at the end of the day, I want to make 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.159 sure that with what I'm doing, it's just putting off 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.839 what you like, you know, the fruits that I carry 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.040 by by when you look at it or when you 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.520 meet me or when you talk to me, Like, that's 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.480 my goal. I want people to know like, Okay, this 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.120 is what Dylan's about and if it takes me a 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.680 little longer to get to where I want to be 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.599 because of that, you know, same like committ your plains 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.240 to the Lord, like he'll take care of it, you know. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.240 If if this isn't what I'm supposed to be doing 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:15.800 one day, you'll tell me. Or if it is, I 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.039 feel like it is. I feel like I have a 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.200 calling in my life to do music, but I want 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.240 to be like, uh, I've had kids ask me before, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.000 like I think I was doing like a photo shoot 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.800 somewhere at my buddy's farm, and this little kid was like, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.400 mister Dylan, I have a question when when you wrote 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.800 hung Over to deer Stand, were you drunk to night before? 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.760 And I was like, well, those are questions I like 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.400 don't think about, you know, and like I don't know 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.960 if that's what I want to be known for, you know, yeah, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.320 I want to be known for other stuff that. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.039 But what a sweet realization too, where it's like, you know, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.359 you do get caught up in things and you're gonna 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.960 say things, and we all say things that are sure 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.080 and you look back like you said and you're like, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.640 wait a second, Yeah, I have a. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.520 Lot of hot takes. Yeah, yeah, it's it's I could 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.200 get into it for sure, but yeah. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.320 Well I want to go into those hot tapes and 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.000 things about those like what are some of those other 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.000 things in your career where you're like, man, I really 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.239 shouldn't have. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.280 Yeah, like I just I don't know, like we had 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.920 we in between our last podcast and now, like there 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.120 was a time when we got kicked out of this 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.360 like festival. For while I was it was completely like 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.840 on whatever, like we were watching from the uh oh the. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:24.720 Security change out. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.840 I remember that doing absolutely like nothing wrong, you know. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.120 But when I posted that video, I was so angry 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.240 because I mean it was a pride. It was probably 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.120 a lot of pride, like getting kicked out for all 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.280 these people. You're like, what like I just played this, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.960 You're like, I'm doing Marlowe. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.000 I posted it and everybody thought it was hilarious and 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.520 funny and cool and uh like gained so many followers 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.920 from this one video of controversy, you know, And then 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.360 I went to bed on it and I was just 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.040 I had this uneasy feeling, like, man, I just that's 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:54.400 like I don't know if I want to be known 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.080 for that like, I don't know, I just in the 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.280 back of my mind, it just didn't feel right, you know, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:01.680 even though I probably could have left it up and 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.600 got like ten twenty thousand more followers from that that 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.640 one video. And I hate that I even posted at first. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.760 It was in a moment of like probably anger and 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.840 pride that kind of took over, you know, and most 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.720 people will watch this, but I could stop that big 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.680 of a deal, dude, But to me, I would rather 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.480 be known for a song that comes out that just 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.400 does great as a song than a dude who got 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.360 controversy for getting kicked out of festival. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:24.760 Yeah, viral video. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.920 For so like, those are the things that are tough 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.160 that you kind of look and you see it all 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.040 over the place and you're like, I could easily just 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.400 dive into that, and but I don't know if there's 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.000 as much fulfillment from that, you know. I told Nat 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.520 the other day, I've had more fulfillment for leading worship 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.720 to like thirty people in a rehab center than I 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.160 have any show or played. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:45.000 I believe it. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.199 You know. I'm still like navigating, I mean honestly, and 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.640 it's been in a spot of weird, like just like 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.240 how things kind of been shapen, like what do I want? Like, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.640 what do I want to do? Seriously, what do I 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.840 what are my goals? Have they change? I think my 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.440 goals are still the same to like I want to 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.920 headline arenas and stadiums. You know, that's like the goal, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.840 but I want to do it the way God wants 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.920 me to do it and not the way I want 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:10.319 to do it. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.040 And I think there's something so special about something you 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.520 said earlier where you said I don't care if it 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.280 takes me longer than everybody else, yeah, and that that 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.520 conviction of the Holy Spirit to just be like let 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.559 me lead, yeah, and just follow me, and to completely 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.040 put yourself back. I mean, it's it's such a hard 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.719 thing to do. And I think that's one thing too 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.720 that people don't realize, Like if you're not a Christian 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.120 or you don't have any specific beliefs, it's hard to 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.040 think about, like, well, why don't you want to get 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.480 what you want? Or why don't you want to do 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.400 what you want? And it's hard to explain. But when 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.080 you have those convictions from the Holy Spirit, you're like, okay. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.040 Yeah, and I'm not it's not about us or our 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.360 time and for sure, and I feel like the world 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.120 has just created this insanely just like it's all about you, like, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.680 go do it makes you happy? Go do this? Like, yeah, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.040 God wants us to be happy, you know, he wants 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.000 us to do things that we joy. But yeah, I 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.200 don't know. The older I get becoming a dad now, 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.200 like I think, what do I want my kids to see? 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.640 You know? And this isn't like a judgmental thing to 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.640 anybody totally, you know, it's just like for me personally, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.160 what I've seen and grown in my faith in the 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.160 last couple of months is just there's just more to it. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.280 You know, there's more to all this than just being 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.280 an artist or you know, it gets to be a 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.360 cool thing I get to do. I think it's my call. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:25.840 I feel like that's what I've been called to do. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.199 There's just more to it, though, And I think you're right. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.319 I think you do have this special calling on your 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.920 life because specifically, just in the middle of a show, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.360 you're like, you know what, I feel like playing a 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.080 worship song in a bar, or you know, people are drinking, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:38.559 people are having a good time, and you're like, you 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.160 know what, let's spend a little bit of time with Jesus. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.040 And I think it's such a special thing because people 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.559 are like, well, why would you do that? And it's 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.400 like Jesus hung out with the sinners. Yeah, he wants 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.400 to reach everybody. So I think that's such a cool 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.640 thing for you to do. And I mean it really 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.040 takes a lot of guts to do something like that. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.560 Yeah, I think one part of the calling is like 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.000 going into those places. But and there also comes like 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.120 you have to just be so like because it's so 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.280 easy to go into these environments and then lose side 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.040 of that. You just have to be so strongly like disciplined, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.880 and like I fall short of that sometimes, you know. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.640 Sometimes like me and Connor talked like, you know, it's 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.520 not like we don't always do like a worship thing 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.520 and they're just if the word throws it on our heart, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.079 you know, like the thing in Athens was a tragedy 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.120 that week. It just felt heavy, but like it's it's 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:27.200 a dark the road's a dark place. Yeah, So sometimes 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.839 I'm like, God, why are you like thing me in 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.720 these places? Like maybe you know, I feel like he 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.880 wants me to be a light. But then it's it's 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.679 tough to be a light sometimes because you're like, man, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.040 the last thing I want to do is play a 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.240 worship song right now when everybody's getting hammered and drinking, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.319 and like, you know, you're like, is it going to 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.120 ruin the thing? Like is it gonna be weird? You know? 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:50.320 And then yeah, that's spiritual. It's it's it's warfaring. You're like, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.880 you're singing the three songs up to it, and you're 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.679 like not even thinking about those, You're just thinking about that, 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:56.040 you know. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.480 So Yeah, such a cool perspective to think about, because 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.160 it's just like even daily stuff, right You're like, you 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.520 have things to do, but there's that one thing that 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.360 God keeps telling you to do, and you're not even 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.360 thinking about those three things. You're just thinking about that 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:09.920 one thing. Like what are people going to think of me? 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:11.600 Is you're gonna think I'm weird? 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.760 Yeah? I think that the one verse that has just 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.480 got me through. And I can't I don't know exactly 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.960 where what verse it is. I just know the scripture itself. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.040 It's it's I think it's in Matthew. Actually, I could 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.040 probably open my Bible and point it's underlying highlight and everything. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.720 But it's just it's when Jesus just said, Hey, if 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.240 the world hates you, I hated me first. You know. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.320 So people might get weird by things you do as 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.640 a Christian, or they might look down on it or 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.400 look different, but like they hated Jesus first, who literally 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.600 threw his life on the line for us so or 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.640 gave his life for us, you know. And there's just 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.720 nothing that I think we're I think we're all going 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.960 to get to heaven one day and not worry once 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.800 about what somebody thought about us. We're probably gonna wish 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:52.760 we would have done more. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.040 Isn't it so funny how this? I feel like it's 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.760 called like the Instagram culture, right we all are looking 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.160 to just all of these aph MEAs sense from other people, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:02.439 and how exhausting. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.920 It's exhausting. Yeah, yeah, we Uh I'm in this, like, uh, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.040 I do some counseling and uh it's actually a place 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.520 in Nashville called Rock House. If anybody needs that, they're great. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.080 But we were talking about like what why as an 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.080 artist or or really like a lot of influencers nowadays, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.040 there's a lot of people, a lot of people in 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.920 jobs that you receive a lot of glory from and 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.800 so we were just kind of talking like how do 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.719 you not receive that glory? And it's like, well, I 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.520 think the only way to not receive glory from people 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.360 and because what happens is you get glory from people 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.560 and then that's all you look for, you know, you 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.880 don't look for it. And uh, I saw like this, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.640 just like cup, this like tank, and I called it 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.360 the glory tank, and I just wrote a note of it. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:47.960 And it's like if I go out there on stage, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.959 which I'm not saying I'm perfect by this by any means, 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.240 like I'm guilty of it being half for or not 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.120 even ful, But before I go out on stage or 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.640 before you do anything where you're gonna receive glory, like 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.240 if your glory tank isn't a hundred percent full from God, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.920 then people are gonna fiell whatever is left in that gap, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.760 even if it's ten percent, you know. So I just 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.000 think before I go on stage, before I go do things, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.040 like I gotta spend time with the Lord, and I 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.719 gotta feel like glory tank is evident and obvious. When 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.840 I don't, you know, because then I start looking for 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.600 like is this guy this guy looks like he's bored 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.520 during the show. What the heck thing? It's a good show? 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.320 Or like this guy's got his arms croused? Is he 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.160 worried about me? And then you know the shows where 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.000 the glory tank is full, I'm not looking for if 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.120 Johnny down there doesn't think I'm country enough, or if 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.000 Billy over there ain't ain't happy. But you know, it's 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.560 like like we'd that's this is where I'm This is 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.880 the connection here, not not here, and I get to 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.080 entertain and like go out here and do this. So 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.400 like I think part of that pressure is like making 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.200 sure we do that for the fans, putting on a 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.440 good show. But then you could I think you could 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.120 tell when the glory is coming from the right place, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.600 from God, because then you're unable to accept that from 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:53.280 anybody else. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.960 Right then it just doesn't matter. Yeah, I think that's 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.680 so good. What an illustration the glory tank. Keep your 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.480 glory tank full, keep all the other you know stuff out, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.200 the fake fuel. We don't get any of the fake 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.480 fuel in there. I want to go back to what 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.680 you were talking about a second ago about how you know, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.880 being on the road and how there's temptations on the road. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.000 There's it's easy to fall, you know, fall short and 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.640 to give into those temptations. But keeping yourself grounded in 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.520 your relationship with God, in your marriage, all of those things, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.280 when you're out on the road, when you're dealing with 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.800 all of those things, how do you keep yourself anchored 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:29.960 while you're going through all of that. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.920 Yeah, Nat is a huge part of it. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:34.000 That's his wife. 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.000 By the way, my life, Nat, we started praying out 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.680 loud before we go to bed. Yeah, I started praying 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.720 out loud over us. There's like occasional nights where I'm 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.840 just exhausted and can't even hold my eyes open. Then 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.040 she'll pray for us. But I pray nine I am 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.000 percent of the time out loud for us every night. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.480 Because we also read the stat that couples that pray 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.840 out loud for each other have like a one person divorce. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.280 Right, come on, somebody, we only need to start praying. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.120 Yeah, no, so I mean we pray. I pray out 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.320 loud over us every night, which also praying out loud. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.000 Somebody also told me one time, like the devil hears 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.960 that the enemy here is that you know that not 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:09.960 that praying inside of your head is bad. But when 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.600 you pray out loud and make it known like there's nothing, 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.640 they hear it, you know, right, So, uh, probably praying 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.240 out loud over our marriage, trying to surround ourselves with 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.640 other like minded married couples, because it's very easy to 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.440 not to just to let your kind of circle get broken. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.080 And uh, the fact, when you really feel with people 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.840 who will hold you accountable, they don't care that you're 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.080 out here doing this or doing this like and they say, hey, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.440 this is where I see you falling short. So I 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.600 have a tight group of people who will call me 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.440 out on my bs. That's what I call it. They 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.120 got me, you know, they got me tight and covered, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.400 which has been helpful. And then uh, I've just the 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.040 band that we have, like the road family we have 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.320 has been just very carefully hand picked because it's a 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.920 dark place and and I don't want to be out 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.720