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Speaker 1: Dress appropriately. It's appropriately you probably do if you're going

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Speaker 1: It's from Bart from Cherryville, North Carolina. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Bart says, as a songwriter myself, how do

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Speaker 1: you write? Do you write down a line and go

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Speaker 1: back to it later. Do you just start a song

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Speaker 1: and finish it? Do you write every day? Do you

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Speaker 1: have a certain amount of songs that you try to write.

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Speaker 1: I have listened to your music for years and love

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Speaker 1: it and purchased your projects, including Country Things. Yeee. Thank you, Bart,

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Speaker 1: thanks for writing. And I guess I guess I could

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Speaker 1: never answer the songwriting question enough because I will probably

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Speaker 1: answer it different every time, and I've almost answered it

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Speaker 1: pretty much in this podcast. But I'll say to you

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Speaker 1: to your specific question, how do you write? You write

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Speaker 1: a line, do you go back to it later? And

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Speaker 1: my answer to you, Bart is all of it. Everything

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Speaker 1: you said. I wish that it was the same pattern

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Speaker 1: every time would make it easier, but my songwriting is

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Speaker 1: different every time, depending on the inspiration behind it. I

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Speaker 1: can't control the inspiration. It just happens. Sometimes i'm Sometimes

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Speaker 1: there's an idea I really want to write, and so

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Speaker 1: I try to hash out that song. Sometimes there's an

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Speaker 1: idea that I didn't intend to write, It just came

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Speaker 1: to me and so I start. And most times I'm

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Speaker 1: writing two or three or four at once. So when

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Speaker 1: I'm writing for an album, like right now, I don't

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Speaker 1: have anything on my books, nothing, and I'm total clean

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Speaker 1: slate since Country Things came out the album. But during

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Speaker 1: the height of writing for an album, I could have

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Speaker 1: seven songs going at once. One of them has a verse,

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Speaker 1: one of them has everything but the bridge. One of

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Speaker 1: One of them has a title and nothing else. One

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Speaker 1: of them has just a melody that's complete but no

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Speaker 1: words at all. And that's typical. And sometimes one song

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Speaker 1: will jump up and finish before the rest of them

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Speaker 1: that I've already been working on way before that. So

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Speaker 1: there's just no rhyme or reason. Well, there is rhyme technically,

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Speaker 1: but I let me walk you through an intentional writing

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Speaker 1: day for me, meaning there's a clean slate throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: On my phone, I have an iPhone and I use notes,

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Speaker 1: I use Notes, and I have a page on those

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Speaker 1: notes that says song ideas, slash titles, and wherever I am,

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Speaker 1: whoever I'm talking to, or maybe I'm watching a movie

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Speaker 1: or a Netflix series or something, the wind blows a

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Speaker 1: certain way, and I'll go, huh, that's a cool idea

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Speaker 1: for a title. I mean literally, you could say the

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Speaker 1: wind blows a certain way whatever. It doesn't matter what

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Speaker 1: the title is. It could be if you take all

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Speaker 1: your favorite songs and just read the titles. Some of

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Speaker 1: them aren't special at all, they just become songs. Some

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00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: of them are very special. But I'll have this running

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Speaker 1: list the old there's probably three hundred lines on this notepad,

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Speaker 1: the oldest ones being from like two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five, So there's a fifteen year list going.

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Speaker 1: And some of those poor ideas will probably never get written.

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Speaker 1: Some of them. I came up with the idea last

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Speaker 1: week and now I'm already writing it. Some of them

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Speaker 1: are seven years old, and I'll look back and I go, wow,

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Speaker 1: I wrote that seven years ago. That's actually pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: What I do then is I also have voice memos

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone. Thank god for the iPhone these days.

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00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: Right this used to be a tape recorder and spiral notepads.

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00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: I'll use that voice recorder and I'll think of a

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Speaker 1: melody like do do do whatever, and I'll pick up

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Speaker 1: my iPhone and I'll go do whatever. And then sometimes

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00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: it could be a line that I that's tied to

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Speaker 1: a melody, and I'll record that on the voice memo.

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Speaker 1: So then the day that I'm writing, I usually do

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Speaker 1: my best writing in the mornings, I'll sit down, cup

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Speaker 1: of coffee, no distractions, airplane mode on the phone, and

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Speaker 1: I'll put a guitar in my lap, and I'll start

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Speaker 1: hunting down the voice memos versus the notes, and I'll

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Speaker 1: find which which voice memo matches which note meaning, which

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00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: melody matches which song title or line, and I'll look

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Speaker 1: through depending on the mood I'm in. Maybe i'll start

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Speaker 1: with melodies and I'll start listening and I'll get to

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Speaker 1: melody number six and I'll go, ah, man, that sounds

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00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: like today, and that's like rain. Maybe it's raining outside

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00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: or something. The day can match the song totally. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of raining outside. And by the way, sometimes the

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00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: day that the song can match the day in an

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Speaker 1: opposite way, like it's raining. But I'm gonna write a

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Speaker 1: sunshine song because I really miss the sun. All right.

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00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: It's wintertime and I really want to write a summertime song,

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00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: or it could just be summer, and I'm really inspired

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Speaker 1: by that, so I write that. But I take the

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Speaker 1: melody number seven and I go, I love this this,

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Speaker 1: I'm really feeling this today, and then I start I

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00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: keep that playing on loop and I'll start going through

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Speaker 1: down the list of my notes, and I'll go not

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Speaker 1: that one, not that one, not that one, could be

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Speaker 1: that one, not that one, could not that one, maybe

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Speaker 1: that one. Ooh, that's a good one. So then i'll

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Speaker 1: have three. Maybe I could be in a yes, And

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00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: I'll try to sing that line to that melody in

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Speaker 1: some way. And sometimes they they're perfect match, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: they're not. Sometimes I have to force it. Sometimes I

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00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: have to slow the melody down or raise the key

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Speaker 1: or lower the key. It's a big math problem. And

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Speaker 1: some days this process is like boom boom, boom, Wow,

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Speaker 1: there's a song. And some days I start that process

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Speaker 1: and years go by and there's nothing more than just

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Speaker 1: the original melody number seven and the line that I liked.

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Speaker 1: It's a long game. I think I said that earlier

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Speaker 1: to the guy trying to get the h the job

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00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: are long, long term commitments. It's it's never a quick thing.

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Speaker 1: You you put, you put the effort into this kind

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Speaker 1: of career, and you you set your goals for a

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Speaker 1: long long time and one day this is somebody told

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Speaker 1: me this. Even the blind hog will find an a

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Speaker 1: corn every once in a while. Take it like you will,

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00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: even the blind hog go find an acorn every once

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Speaker 1: in a while. Thank you, bart. Okay, let's go to

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Speaker 1: the next question here, say grandeer, my name is Jason.

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Speaker 1: I'm from Summit Hill, Pennsylvania. Shout out to Pennsylvania. If

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Speaker 1: for some crazy reason, the music industry was non existent

645
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: come tomorrow, what would you do as a backup plan

646
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: slash career moving forward in order to pay the bills

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Speaker 1: and support your family? Have you ever put any thought

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Speaker 1: into such a thing? Thanks for your time, See you

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Speaker 1: down the road. So, Jason, you mean like twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: because that didn't That pretty much happened. The music industry

651
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: pretty much became non existent in twenty twenty and it

652
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: still is in twenty twenty one. So yeah, buddy, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I think about it all the time, and I've always

654
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: thought about it, And it's one of the reasons I

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Speaker 1: that Ye Apparel is such a blessing because Ye Apparel

656
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: is completely independent of my music. Meaning if I stopped

657
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: putting out music today, I'm still in the apparel business.

658
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: I still have this miniature empire that me and my

659
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: brothers have built, so so proud of that, and that's

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00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: a great fallback plan. I have a I will say this, Jason,

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Speaker 1: I have a thousand jobs. I have not counted them,

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00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: but I have you know, my my job as an influencer,

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00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: which includes well it kind of includes this podcast, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I'll I read my my ads on this podcast

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00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: and that definitely helps pay the bills. I have cameo

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00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: which I'll go in there every day and do cameos

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00:42:51,800 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: for video messages for people. I have my YouTube hustle

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00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: that I have going on. I have e Life the

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Speaker 1: Grangdersmith channel, which is this podcast is on the Grander

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Speaker 1: Smith channel. Then I have the Smith My Family channel,

671
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: so we have advertising through that. We also get paid

672
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: through Google AdSense through those how many views we get.

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Speaker 1: So those are, to name a few, just my few

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Speaker 1: side hustles. I also have songwriting, which I just got

675
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: a Darryl Worley cut which is awesome. I don't know

676
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: if you guys remember Daryl, but I just got the

677
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: message today that song I wrote a long time ago

678
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: is going on his newest album. So I have a

679
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of irons in the fire. I

680
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: work with a lot of different people doing a lot

681
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: of different things, and if the music business crashed for

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00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: the rest of twenty twenty one, that's the backup plan.

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Speaker 1: If your question meant to be if you hadn't done

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Speaker 1: music to begin with, what would you be doing now?

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Speaker 1: That's another kind of common question, and maybe that's more

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Speaker 1: of what you meant, Jason, Then I would say, and

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Speaker 1: I have a degree in history, and that would probably

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00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: lead me to being a coach. I really like I

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Speaker 1: really like coaches and what they did for me in

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00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: my life and the ability to inspire young people through

691
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: athletics and life is definitely a passion of mine. And

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Speaker 1: I could see myself and Little Town High School being

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Speaker 1: the history teacher and the football coach. I could definitely

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Speaker 1: see that, and I would enjoy that a lot. I

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Speaker 1: would also enjoy being in agriculture, being in farming, being

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Speaker 1: in ranching. I'd love that to love that aspect. So

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Speaker 1: the problem with being an agriculture at a at a

698
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Speaker 1: manageable scale is that you these days you almost have

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Speaker 1: to inherit the big farm in Iowa or the big

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Speaker 1: ranch in Texas. You almost have to just inherit it

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Speaker 1: from your family line to get into it, because no

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Speaker 1: one wants to go and you know, drop millions of

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Speaker 1: bucks and a farm in Illinois and start from scratch,

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Speaker 1: you know, farm and corn. So yeah, I think I

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Speaker 1: think those are your answers. Jason, thank you for writing

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Speaker 1: in and shout out to Pennsylvania. Love you people in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Here is a question that that I saw come through

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00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: and this question is from Chad. He said, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to find my faith. How do I find my way?

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Speaker 1: I'm an ex Canadian military and how do I find

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Speaker 1: God after what I've seen and did in the line

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Speaker 1: of duty? I look forward to your podcast and YouTube channels.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Chad. Thanks for writing in. Don't know where

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Speaker 1: you're from. I'm assuming Canada. Thank you for your service,

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00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: and thank you for your question. Let me go back

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00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: to saying that guys, I don't have I don't have

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Speaker 1: all the answers. I would just treat this as me,

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Speaker 1: me and you, Chad, we're just buds. We're cruising down

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Speaker 1: the road in a truck, windows down and you asked

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Speaker 1: me this. Hey, Bud, I'm trying to find my faith.

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Speaker 1: How to find my way? How do I find God

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Speaker 1: after what I've seen and did in the line of duty?

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Speaker 1: And the reason I even give that. The reason I

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Speaker 1: have to say that is because I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you did and saw in the line of duty, and

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Speaker 1: I can't begin to act like I know about that.

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Speaker 1: And it's a terrible price that we have to pay

728
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Speaker 1: for the freedom that we enjoy. That the sacrifice is

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00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 1: made by men and women like you come with the

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00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: repercressions of the devastating mental health issue that follows the

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Speaker 1: fact that you're asking me and wondering is awesome and

732
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: so encouraging, because the other path is the total self indulgence.

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Speaker 1: Everything you buy chakes you faster and faster and faster

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Speaker 1: and gets you drunker and drunker and drunker, or you're

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Speaker 1: slipping into a terrible depression of some sort. And so

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Speaker 1: you're asking what I think, in my opinion, is the

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Speaker 1: right questions, how to find my faith, how to find

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Speaker 1: my way? If you're asking me, Granger Smith, I'm going

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00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 1: to say all of your answers are in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: And then you come back to me, as in our

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Speaker 1: conversation in the truck, and you say, the Bible's so

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00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: big and it's so boring and ominous, and what is it?

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Speaker 1: And where do I even start? Like there's all these

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Speaker 1: pages in there, and I don't know, don't understand it,

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00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: and don't like everyone just choose their own religion, and

746
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 1: isn't it all the same? Like, isn't God just there?

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00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: And you just it's all the same and it doesn't matter,

748
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 1: you just pick one. Why does it matter to find

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00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: the Bible? I'll tell you why it matters. The one

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Speaker 1: of the many reasons why it matters is you have

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00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: been called to search for it, which is why you

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00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: emailed me. Whether you like it or not, or whether

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00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: anyone listening to this podcast right now wherever you are,

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00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: disagrees with me, it's the truth. Chad was called to

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00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 1: write this email to fill a void that he feels

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Speaker 1: like he is missing that he can't fill with a girl,

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00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: or with a child, or with a pretty sunset or

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00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: a vacation a Disney World or a red camaro or

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00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:46,359
Speaker 1: a skydiving or the bottom of a whiskey bottle. There's

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00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: something more. And all of us are built with a

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00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: God shaped hole in our soul, and there's only one

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00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: thing that could fit a God sh aped hole, and

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Speaker 1: that's God. It's really hard to deny that that truth.

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Speaker 1: When you see a question like this from Chad, who's

765
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: obviously looking for that to fill that void in his soul.

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Speaker 1: So at this point, the windows are down, we're cruising.

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Speaker 1: You ask me where do I even start? And I say,

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Speaker 1: you start in the New Testament. Start in Matthew chapter one.

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Speaker 1: That's a good place to start. You could start at

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Speaker 1: the beginning. You could start at Genesis, the Old Testament.

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Speaker 1: But the Old Testament, there's a lot of things in

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Speaker 1: the in that Bible, in that big, confusing, multi paged

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Speaker 1: mass of a book, there's a lot of things in

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Speaker 1: there that are not they're not written excuse me for

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00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: a young seeker, if that makes sense. There's a lot

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00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: of things that are solid food when some people still

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00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: need breast milk. And that's not in any way demeaning

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00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: to you, Chad, but you need breast milk right now.

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00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: You need the basics, the most broken down version of

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Speaker 1: food to digest. And so I would start in Matthew.

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Speaker 1: There's a million devotionals you could read. There's a million

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Speaker 1: YouTube videos or pastors or churches you could go to.

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Speaker 1: But it's funny. My bust Dripper Bull brought this up

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00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: to me and he said, it's almost like if you don't.

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Speaker 1: If you don't start with the story of Christ, then

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00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 1: you're risking walking into a church as if you're walking

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00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: into a movie that's already played halfway through and you

788
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: have to try to catch up. So I would say,

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00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: open up that book to Matthew, and before you even

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00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: touch a word of it, you say, God, it's me Chad.

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00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: I know that I haven't really talked to you before,

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00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:36,320
Speaker 1: and I know that I'm searching for you, and I

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00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm worthy even to talk to an

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00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: almighty creator. But if you're up there, if you're listening,

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Speaker 1: I want to read this book and try to understand it.

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00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: Can you help me understand it? Can you if this

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00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: is real? Can you make these words real to me?

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Speaker 1: Can you make this fit that heart shaped void in

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00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: my soul? Can when you do that for me? And

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00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: then start and keep an open mind about it, keep

801
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: your ears open, keep your eyes open, and soak it

802
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: in because Chad, what you're going to find in there

803
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: is all the answers, a million times more than I

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00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: could ever begin to even start with. But you saying,

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00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: how do I find God after what I've seen and

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00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: did in the line of duty? Your answer is in

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00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: that book because in that New Testament, everything that you

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00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: did is forgiven. Everything is forgiven everything. And there's people

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00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,439
Speaker 1: in there that wrote those books that did a lot

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00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:48,720
Speaker 1: of bad things. They saw a lot of bad things,

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00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: and through that word they were saved. And I'm trying

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00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: to pick my word words here because there's some Like

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00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: I said, it's breast milk, right, And I want you.

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Speaker 1: I hope you wrote this to me on November the ninth.

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00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,919
Speaker 1: I hope that you write back in in a couple

816
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: months after this podcast airs and you say, hey, I

817
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: did it, and be honest with me. I did it,

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00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: and it wasn't for me. I didn't get anything out

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Speaker 1: of it or man read. I started reading it and

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00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: I realized, as I'm trying to understand it, I realized,

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Speaker 1: I think this book actually understands me, and the questions

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00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 1: I had, they're answered right here. And I know it

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00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: was written a long time ago, and I know that

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00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,959
Speaker 1: that these words have been historically proven to be true

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00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: and not changed because the Dead Sea scrolls that we

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Speaker 1: found recently, these words are real. They're not just some

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Speaker 1: medieval translation that some king decided to I realize that,

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Speaker 1: and I realize that although it was for a lot

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Speaker 1: of people. That kind of sounds like it's talking straight

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00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: to me, and that is that little peace that fits

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Speaker 1: straight into that God hole in your soul. And don't

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Speaker 1: let me be the testimony for you. You be your

833
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: own testimony. Because proof in this stuff, proof in this

834
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: faith doesn't just come because you just randomly believe it.

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Speaker 1: It comes because you feel the transformation inside you, like

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Speaker 1: I have gone through in the last two years. You

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00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: feel that change, you feel that restoration, and you go

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00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: I know it's real, not just because of some fairy

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00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: tale or because what people tell me, or because what

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00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 1: they say I'm supposed to believe what I don't see,

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00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: not because of that, because I feel it, because I

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00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: feel that void has gone and I feel peace when

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Speaker 1: I have seen things that I shouldn't. I'm speaking for

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00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: myself me, Granger Smith. I have seen things that my

845
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: eyes should not have seen that I can't erase. And

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00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: the only thing that will give me peace from those

847
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: visions that human eyes should not see is that word,

848
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:37,479
Speaker 1: that truth in that book. Thanks for writing in Chad.

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Speaker 1: I love you, bro. I hope this I hope this

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00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: podcast means something to you, and I hope It gives

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