Speaker 1: I'm trying to find my faith. How do I find
Speaker 1: my way? I am ex Canadian military and how do
Speaker 1: I find God after what I've seen and what I've
Speaker 1: done in the line of duty? This is podcast episode seventy.
Speaker 1: Awesome question. And I have a lot of awesome questions
Speaker 1: today that I'm going to dive into and this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. And as I'm going to say with this question, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what you've been through,
Speaker 1: and I can't pretend to know how I could possibly
Speaker 1: understand what you've seen. But I do have my own
Speaker 1: life experiences and I have my own story like we
Speaker 1: all do. And I want to try to take a
Speaker 1: question like this and all the other questions I have
Speaker 1: today on episode seventy and treat them like we were
Speaker 1: in the cab in my truck winds down, rolling down
Speaker 1: a back road together and we're just talking. Or maybe
Speaker 1: a better analogy is we're sitting around a campfire, you know,
Speaker 1: late night, nothing but the stars staring at our boots,
Speaker 1: sitting up there on the rock, you know, burning campfire,
Speaker 1: and hey, man, can I ask you a question? How
Speaker 1: do I find my faith? I'm ex Canadian military? How
Speaker 1: do I find God after what I've seen. You know,
Speaker 1: those are the kind of questions that you would ask
Speaker 1: in a late night campfire with your buddy. And that's
Speaker 1: how I want to answer it. Not that I would
Speaker 1: have the answer to this the right answer, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to have my way of helping navigate do that.
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do today. And if you have
Speaker 1: a question or on any topic, or a shout out
Speaker 1: or anything at all, email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. I would love to hear from you. I
Speaker 1: would love to dive into it. We do this every
Speaker 1: single Monday, wherever you are, whatever you're doing right now,
Speaker 1: whether you're community work or you're over the road trucker,
Speaker 1: or you get your headphones in and you're in the
Speaker 1: middle of a workout or a walk, or maybe you're
Speaker 1: just driving and you got it cranked up in your
Speaker 1: car or your truck. Thank you for letting me come
Speaker 1: through your speakers. Thank you for letting us have this
Speaker 1: conversation every single Monday. Whatever platform you're listening on, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Welcome to the podcast. This is episode seventy
Speaker 1: did Can't in Decent Times and long line of my
Speaker 1: fool of husping down on Back's rangy cool evage. Yeah
Speaker 1: you're that gation. First of all, can we talk about
Speaker 1: how this is episode seventy already? This is crazy to me.
Speaker 1: It seems like yesterday I was like, I wonder if
Speaker 1: I should start a podcast, and I believe it's it's
Speaker 1: been for those of you that have followed this journey.
Speaker 1: I think it's what two and a half years or
Speaker 1: so since episode one. I guess I could look, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna read some questions from you guys,
Speaker 1: and it's just me today, which is fun. We can
Speaker 1: get into the nitty gritty. If you have a question
Speaker 1: for me, email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: It could be about anything in life, anything at all.
Speaker 1: Could be about music or life or marriage or kids
Speaker 1: or problems, or could could just be a shout out hey.
Speaker 1: It could be like what kind of mud tiers do
Speaker 1: you use? It could be anything. This first question is
Speaker 1: from Peyton and it's a music question. It says, Hey, Grangeer,
Speaker 1: I I just wondering how could I get some advice
Speaker 1: to improve my voice in songwriting so I could make
Speaker 1: it when I get out of the army. By the way.
Speaker 1: I saw you at Billy Bob's this year and instantly,
Speaker 1: you instantly became my favorite artist, tend role model in
Speaker 1: my life. So I figured i'd ask. I know it's
Speaker 1: a long shot, and you took the hardest route as
Speaker 1: an independent artist, which is the route I want to take.
Speaker 1: PS as it is in Texas is the best song
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I was wondering if you could
Speaker 1: give First Calve a shout out on your channel. I
Speaker 1: got like thirty people hooked on it over here in
Speaker 1: Fort Hood. Shout out the First Calve, Peyton, thank you
Speaker 1: for writing buddy, Thank you for your service the First Calve.
Speaker 1: I have a good relationship with First Calf because my
Speaker 1: first entertainment toward Iraq in two thousand and seven, First
Speaker 1: Calve was the majority that we saw over there deployed
Speaker 1: in Iraq. I believe we went to The first fob
Speaker 1: we went to was Warhorse and it was just full
Speaker 1: of First Calf. So I met so many really good
Speaker 1: men and women from First Calf over there, and at
Speaker 1: the time they were coming from Fort Hood as well,
Speaker 1: which is why it was such a cool tie for me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, shout out to First Calve in my relationship
Speaker 1: with them. Peyton, thank you for your service. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can give you a few a few little tricks. You said,
Speaker 1: first of all, how to improve my voice and the
Speaker 1: voice your Your vocal cords are a muscle. So if
Speaker 1: you want to improve that muscle, you really look at
Speaker 1: it like you would any other muscle on your body.
Speaker 1: So if you want to have big biceps, you do
Speaker 1: curls right, And if you want to fine tune those biceps,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go lower on reps and higher and wait,
Speaker 1: if you want to super tone, then you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to go lower weight in a lot of reps. That's
Speaker 1: how you need to look at your voice. What do
Speaker 1: you want out of your voice? And work that like
Speaker 1: a muscle. I remember early in my songwriting days, I
Speaker 1: would go sit in my pickup truck outside of my
Speaker 1: neighborhood and I would do this every night after dinner,
Speaker 1: be about eight, I'd give my truck, I would drive
Speaker 1: a few blocks till there were no more houses, and
Speaker 1: I would crank up the radio whatever I was listening
Speaker 1: to at the time, and I would sing for about
Speaker 1: an hour and a half and time it for ninety minutes,
Speaker 1: because that's about the amount of set I wanted to
Speaker 1: sing ninety minutes. And I would do this and I
Speaker 1: would just sing at the top of my lungs for
Speaker 1: ninety minutes every single night to try to build something,
Speaker 1: some kind of stamina in my vocal cords. And I
Speaker 1: remember one night a police officer came and pulled up
Speaker 1: right behind me and turned on his lights, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking, oh, this is awkward. I knew I wasn't
Speaker 1: doing anything wrong, but I just thought this is weird.
Speaker 1: So the officer walks up. Go down your window, you know,
Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, hello, sir, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like the typical what seems to be the problem
Speaker 1: officer And he said what are you doing? And I
Speaker 1: had nothing besides the truth to tell him. I said, Man,
Speaker 1: I know it sounds weird, sir. I'm sitting here in
Speaker 1: my truck. I do this every night because I'm practicing
Speaker 1: singing and trying to build up the strength of my
Speaker 1: vocal cords. And he said, you're doing what I said, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it sounds crazy, but I cheer. I crank
Speaker 1: up the radio and then I sing along. I'm a
Speaker 1: singer and I sing along or I'm a wannabe singer,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to get stamina in my voice by
Speaker 1: singing a lot of songs for ninety minutes. And he
Speaker 1: was like, did you know that in this spot where
Speaker 1: you're sitting, we've been we've had a lot of calls
Speaker 1: about lumber theft because of the new houses that are
Speaker 1: being built around here. And you look like a pickup
Speaker 1: truck that fits a description of somebody that was out
Speaker 1: here stealing lumber. And I was like, no, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that, and I'm just sitting here singing. He said
Speaker 1: where do you live? And I said just just a
Speaker 1: couple of streets over and he said, let's go show
Speaker 1: me your house. So obviously he didn't believe me. So
Speaker 1: I was like okay, so fired up. My truck drove down,
Speaker 1: you know it. It was like a thirty second drive,
Speaker 1: and I hit the buzz the garage door, and as
Speaker 1: soon as my garage door started going up, he rolled
Speaker 1: down his window and goes, okay, cool, be safe out there.
Speaker 1: It's like that's all that's the proof he needed to
Speaker 1: show that I actually did live there and I wasn't lying.
Speaker 1: So long story short, I did that for a long
Speaker 1: time until I started getting gigs too. That whether the
Speaker 1: gigs took over that exercise, and then over a decade
Speaker 1: of singing in gigs, then from there I would go, Okay,
Speaker 1: why am I so sore today? The next morning I
Speaker 1: would get really sore, and so then I would that
Speaker 1: I would try to alter my singing and try to
Speaker 1: put the voice in a different part of my throat.
Speaker 1: I've told you, I think I've said on this podcast before.
Speaker 1: The lower I put my chin and the deeper I
Speaker 1: breathe in my adnomum instead of the top of my
Speaker 1: lungs and raising my throat up, the more depth I
Speaker 1: can get out of it, and the more strength I
Speaker 1: can get out of it, and more importantly, the more
Speaker 1: protection I have. It's like when you're running and you
Speaker 1: want to use the proper form when you're running, otherwise
Speaker 1: you're going to pull a hamstring or something. Everything that
Speaker 1: applies in the body is the same with your vocal cords.
Speaker 1: So it takes practice, it takes endurance, it takes literally
Speaker 1: strength training, and it takes a knowledge of feeling the
Speaker 1: way that it's supposed to go. And unfortunately for me,
Speaker 1: that took years and years and years. For you, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like some people are just natural singers and
Speaker 1: they just come out of the womb singing beautiful music.
Speaker 1: I'm not that way. It took a lot of years
Speaker 1: to kind of find where to put my voice on
Speaker 1: a song. As far as writing, I get this question
Speaker 1: a lot, how do you write songs? The brain is
Speaker 1: a muscle to me. It might technically not be a
Speaker 1: muscle for all you, for the cerebral surgeons out there,
Speaker 1: but it takes practice, and it takes discipline, and it
Speaker 1: takes a thousand bad songs to find maybe one half
Speaker 1: good song. And I always in the songwriting discussion, I
Speaker 1: always say start with an instrument. Start playing some kind
Speaker 1: of instrument, because that instrument will then create a spark
Speaker 1: that starts the fire of songwriting. And I love to
Speaker 1: start with guitar. That's me. I also like piano, but
Speaker 1: technically you could start anything with anything. I probably not violin.
Speaker 1: You probably can't write very many good songs to just
Speaker 1: a violin. Great instrument to play, but you need to
Speaker 1: start with some kind of the instrument that makes chords
Speaker 1: and let that inspire you. And after that, after you're
Speaker 1: playing chords, it's just poetry. You're just writing poets. Everyone
Speaker 1: could write a poem. It doesn't even have to rhyme technically,
Speaker 1: just words to chords, and there's no bad way to start,
Speaker 1: or you could start that way, but it takes discipline,
Speaker 1: and you're in the army, you're in first calf. Discipline
Speaker 1: is the name of the game. So thanks for writing, anybody,
Speaker 1: and we could elaborate on another question later at some point.
Speaker 1: Maybe next question comes from Justin. He says, Hey, Grangeer,
Speaker 1: this is Justin from Overton, Texas. I enjoy all of
Speaker 1: your content and I've been a fan of yours for
Speaker 1: many years. My question is a bit more broad and
Speaker 1: not so direct. Everyone seems to think that your job
Speaker 1: is all glitz and glam. I would be curious to
Speaker 1: know how you pay state taxes in the states that
Speaker 1: require it and all the states that you perform it.
Speaker 1: How does that work and how does it affect your
Speaker 1: overall income? Yeah, good question, Justin. And so basically, it
Speaker 1: happens a gig by gig basis, we will play something
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, and when we settle up, when Chris, my
Speaker 1: tour manager, gets the money and the contracts signed, there's
Speaker 1: a tax form signed with that as well. At the
Speaker 1: end of the year, we'll get forty seven tax forms
Speaker 1: from forty seven different states or whatever we played that year,
Speaker 1: and it says the state, the city, and how much
Speaker 1: income my touring company made in that state. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: very little if it's just one gig, and sometimes it's
Speaker 1: a lot if it's a state that we've returned to
Speaker 1: three or four or five times outside of our home
Speaker 1: state of Texas. So it's that simple, it really is.
Speaker 1: Typically we get paid by a check and you know,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of signatures involved, and tax forms come
Speaker 1: at the end of the touring season. We make allowances,
Speaker 1: you know, for what we need to withhold for each state,
Speaker 1: knowing that every state is different. Here's a question that
Speaker 1: says job denial advice, and that makes me curious. Say, hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: my name is Dylan. I'm from Laramie, Wyoming, and I
Speaker 1: was just recently denied a job in my dream career,
Speaker 1: law enforcement. I was wondering if you have any tips
Speaker 1: or advice on how to keep my head up. I've
Speaker 1: been trying to get in this field for three years
Speaker 1: and I've been faced with constant denial and this one,
Speaker 1: this most recent one, was the hardest because I don't
Speaker 1: know the exact reason why I was denied. Any advice
Speaker 1: would be greatly appreciated. I love listening to your music,
Speaker 1: watching all your videos, especially the Earl truck restoration, as
Speaker 1: I've been recently working on nineteen eighty eight Chevy truck.
Speaker 1: Being from Wyoming, That's why I love dirt Roads holds
Speaker 1: a whold special place in my heart. Keep up the
Speaker 1: good work eee. I appreciate it. Dylan, thanks for writing in.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you feel discouraged in your job. Hunt.
Speaker 1: I admire your willingness to get into law enforcement and
Speaker 1: during this crazy time. Hats off for that. A couple things,
Speaker 1: and for everybody listening all of these I don't have
Speaker 1: all the right answers. I'm not going to give you
Speaker 1: all the right answers. I don't study these questions and
Speaker 1: I don't take notes, So everything I say needs to
Speaker 1: be taken with a grain of salt. And just remember
Speaker 1: this is like me and a buddy sitting in the
Speaker 1: living room having a conversation. You take what you like
Speaker 1: and you reject what you don't. There's some things that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be very absolute in my opinion on
Speaker 1: there's others. I'm not going to know the right answer
Speaker 1: all of it combined, you take it or leave it.
Speaker 1: So me and you sitting in a room. My first
Speaker 1: thing for you, Dylan, is dialing in on when you
Speaker 1: said this most recent one was the hardest because I
Speaker 1: don't know the exact reason why I was denied. Find out.
Speaker 1: Find out tomorrow. Whenever they open up at seven am,
Speaker 1: or whenever they open up, I would either have them
Speaker 1: on the phone, I would get them to reply to
Speaker 1: an email, or I would be waiting in the office
Speaker 1: and say, hey, sorry to bother you guys. I'm Dylan.
Speaker 1: I recently applied for a job. I got denied. For
Speaker 1: my career sake and for my future, I could really
Speaker 1: benefit with knowing why I got denied. I'm assuming this
Speaker 1: isn't some kind of you know, secret information that they
Speaker 1: can't give you. I'm assuming that any decent person would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see it says right here X here this is why.
Speaker 1: So find out find out why. That is going to
Speaker 1: be the key for you moving forward in your what
Speaker 1: you call a dream career. After that, after you find
Speaker 1: out what it is, man would uh, I would keep
Speaker 1: knocking down doors till you find define the one that's
Speaker 1: easy to open. And if that means you need more training,
Speaker 1: if that means you need more schooling, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know the application for law enforcement. If you
Speaker 1: need a little extra padding for your resume, like you
Speaker 1: need to be a mall cop for six months, or
Speaker 1: if you need to work for Brinks security trucks for
Speaker 1: six months. These are all things. Everything I'm saying requires
Speaker 1: a sacrifice, and everything in life that you really want
Speaker 1: requires a sacrifice for every every every time you come
Speaker 1: to a crossroads in life, you have two ways to go.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you only have two ways. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: when you have two ways, the harder path, the harder direction,
Speaker 1: usually leads to the greater yield, the greater reward. And
Speaker 1: right now you're at this crossroads. You could quit your
Speaker 1: dream as law enforcement. That'd be the easy way. Or
Speaker 1: you could grind it out and keep going even though
Speaker 1: you've been denied. Hey being denied. Let's see, did you
Speaker 1: say how many times just deny it? You said you've
Speaker 1: been trying for three years, So dude, three years. If
Speaker 1: you look at it this way. In the music business,
Speaker 1: if you had been denied for three years in a row,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, that'd be like nothing. In the music business,
Speaker 1: it takes fifteen years to finally make some tractions. So
Speaker 1: you and me are not on different paths here. Three
Speaker 1: years is nothing. Look call me in ten years when
Speaker 1: you're still getting denied. And if you're getting denied every time,
Speaker 1: you're finding out the reason and then you correct that reason,
Speaker 1: Like find out why you got denied this last time,
Speaker 1: and work to correct that and then hey, go back
Speaker 1: to the same department. Say hey, I'm Dylan. Eight months ago,
Speaker 1: I came through here, I applied for this position, and
Speaker 1: I was denied because of this. And I want to
Speaker 1: show you now how I have corrected that problem and
Speaker 1: I've made myself better for you. Look them in the eye,
Speaker 1: and I dare someone to deny you that at that point, right,
Speaker 1: be diligent. Look them in the eye, speak clearly to them.
Speaker 1: Dress appropriately. It's appropriately you probably do if you're going
Speaker 1: to law enforcement, but dress dress sharp. Come in there,
Speaker 1: you mean business. This is my dream. Tell them that, Hey,
Speaker 1: mister so and so, I'm Dylan. I played eight months ago.
Speaker 1: I've been trying for three years. This is my dream job.
Speaker 1: Last time I was denied. I was told this. I
Speaker 1: have since corrected that over the last eight months. I
Speaker 1: want you to re look at my resume and here
Speaker 1: we go again. Let there be silence, let him look
Speaker 1: at you back in the eye, and let him tell
Speaker 1: you that it's not going to work at that point.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't keep going, that's my advice, or don't.
Speaker 1: If you don't care, then don't. But if you really
Speaker 1: do it's your dream, go get it. Man. Take the
Speaker 1: path of most resistance, not the one of least resistance.
Speaker 1: Thanks for typing in, buddy. Let me, let me, let
Speaker 1: me get around here, Here we go. I got time.
Speaker 1: We got time for another question. This question from Scott
Speaker 1: says girl dad advice in the subject line, Hey grandeer,
Speaker 1: my name is Scott. I'm from North Carolina. My wife
Speaker 1: is pregnant. We just found out today it's a girl.
Speaker 1: You're actually the first person I'm telling through this email
Speaker 1: this is our first baby. I'm so excited and so terrified.
Speaker 1: What advice do you have for first time dads, or
Speaker 1: specifically first time girl dads. I'm a longtime fan and
Speaker 1: I appreciate all you do. Can't wait to see you
Speaker 1: in North Carolina. Thank you, Scott. Shout out to North Carolina,
Speaker 1: shout out to girl dads and this message. By the way,
Speaker 1: this email came in October sixth, so you might have
Speaker 1: already had her, but we're a few months late reading this.
Speaker 1: And ironically, October sixth is my daughter's birthday, London's birthday,
Speaker 1: so it's ironic you wrote about girl dad's advice on
Speaker 1: London's birthday. I'm gonna I'm gonna recommend a book that
Speaker 1: I've said several times on here called Captivating, and the
Speaker 1: author is Eldridge. I've said this. There's a book for
Speaker 1: boys called Wild at Heart and a book for girls
Speaker 1: called Captivating. I would highly recommend Wild at Heart for boys.
Speaker 1: If you are a boy, or if you're having a boy,
Speaker 1: I would highly recommend Captivating if you're a dad raising
Speaker 1: a girl, if you're a woman raising a girl as well,
Speaker 1: or if you are a girl. I just really like
Speaker 1: those books and they're written by Eldridge, and Captivating talks
Speaker 1: about how little girls are built differently, they have different
Speaker 1: needs and sometimes a man doesn't quite understand that. What
Speaker 1: I mean is boys need boys need to be they
Speaker 1: need to have an adventure. They need to have a mission.
Speaker 1: They are. They a lot of times naturally want to
Speaker 1: have you know, they want to be a superhero. They
Speaker 1: want to be a protector and they need that. Wild
Speaker 1: adventure girls a lot of times. I'm not speaking for everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm just speaking what this book says, and good general
Speaker 1: advice here. Girls want to feel captivating. They want to
Speaker 1: feel like they're the only one in the room. When
Speaker 1: they talk, they want you to listen. They want to
Speaker 1: when they put on clothes, they want you to go,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you are so beautiful. They want you
Speaker 1: to be captivated by them, not distracted. I had to
Speaker 1: learn that, and I read the book and then I
Speaker 1: started raising London and then I saw this is so
Speaker 1: true as I watched her and there's moments in that
Speaker 1: book and I tried to emulate when she was little.
Speaker 1: And I remember her being three years old and putting
Speaker 1: on her little Cinderella dress and twirling and watching it.
Speaker 1: You know, she's looking down and she's seeing it twirl
Speaker 1: and she say, look, daddy, and it's like that's the
Speaker 1: moment when she's when she's twirling her dress and she says, look, daddy,
Speaker 1: you better not be looking at your phone. You better
Speaker 1: not be looking, you know, at the TV. It's important
Speaker 1: to stop right then and look at her and affirm
Speaker 1: to her she's captivating. It's important for her right then,
Speaker 1: at three years old, so young, to start developing that
Speaker 1: where you go, baby girl, you are something that is
Speaker 1: so neat, that is so pretty, or you're so beautiful
Speaker 1: or wow, that's amazing, any of those adjectives that makes
Speaker 1: her feel wanted and special and needed and important and
Speaker 1: strong and beautiful and courageous and smart, all of those
Speaker 1: things where she feels that from her father figure. Because
Speaker 1: if you don't give it to her at a young age.
Speaker 1: You all know that the way that this history ends,
Speaker 1: if the dads don't give it to him at a
Speaker 1: young age, they will find it from another man. Don't
Speaker 1: you want it to be you first? Don't you want
Speaker 1: to be the first person that tells her she's captivating
Speaker 1: instead of someone you don't get to choose. That is
Speaker 1: my advice. I grew up with two brothers. I didn't
Speaker 1: know the dynamic of girls, and I still don't totally.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of times I refer back to
Speaker 1: Amber and I just go, hey, this is a girl thing.
Speaker 1: I don't really know how to deal with this, can
Speaker 1: you please? She's so emotional, like London could just start
Speaker 1: crying because the wind's blowing a certain direction, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why she's crying, and then that crying turns
Speaker 1: into more crying, and I'm just like, maybe I don't
Speaker 1: know why you're crying, and but that's that she doesn't
Speaker 1: care if I know why. She just wants me to
Speaker 1: hold her and love her and tell her that she's important,
Speaker 1: that she matters. So there's that's the that's the young
Speaker 1: girl advice. I think as it gets older, as she
Speaker 1: gets older, that advice expands. There's there's a lot more
Speaker 1: there's a lot more depth to that conversation when she
Speaker 1: becomes a teenager, and there's plenty of time for that.
Speaker 1: The cool thing about having a baby is that there's
Speaker 1: there's nice there's nice timing that I believe God gave
Speaker 1: us nice timing in between each new life adventure, where
Speaker 1: there's nine months of pregnancy and it gives you plenty
Speaker 1: of time, and then there's the year of infancy and
Speaker 1: that gives you plenty of time to get ready for
Speaker 1: the year or two toddlers, which gives you the plenty
Speaker 1: of time into the young kids, so it's paced. Life
Speaker 1: is paced just perfectly. Humans are paced just perfectly. I
Speaker 1: would say, above all, love her and just enjoy being
Speaker 1: a girl dad. There's nothing quite like it. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's a privilege. Although there's so many babies born, every
Speaker 1: one of them is a miracle and every one of
Speaker 1: them is a blessing. And when you hold that little
Speaker 1: baby girl and you look into her eyes and you
Speaker 1: see her look back at you, there's something so spiritual
Speaker 1: and special about that that can't be emulated in anything
Speaker 1: else on the planet. So congratulations Scott, thanks for writing
Speaker 1: in such a cool question, and take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Have some sponsors for the podcast today.
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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Bart says, as a songwriter myself, how do
Speaker 1: you write? Do you write down a line and go
Speaker 1: back to it later. Do you just start a song
Speaker 1: and finish it? Do you write every day? Do you
Speaker 1: have a certain amount of songs that you try to write.
Speaker 1: I have listened to your music for years and love
Speaker 1: it and purchased your projects, including Country Things. Yeee. Thank you, Bart,
Speaker 1: thanks for writing. And I guess I guess I could
Speaker 1: never answer the songwriting question enough because I will probably
Speaker 1: answer it different every time, and I've almost answered it
Speaker 1: pretty much in this podcast. But I'll say to you
Speaker 1: to your specific question, how do you write? You write
Speaker 1: a line, do you go back to it later? And
Speaker 1: my answer to you, Bart is all of it. Everything
Speaker 1: you said. I wish that it was the same pattern
Speaker 1: every time would make it easier, but my songwriting is
Speaker 1: different every time, depending on the inspiration behind it. I
Speaker 1: can't control the inspiration. It just happens. Sometimes i'm Sometimes
Speaker 1: there's an idea I really want to write, and so
Speaker 1: I try to hash out that song. Sometimes there's an
Speaker 1: idea that I didn't intend to write, It just came
Speaker 1: to me and so I start. And most times I'm
Speaker 1: writing two or three or four at once. So when
Speaker 1: I'm writing for an album, like right now, I don't
Speaker 1: have anything on my books, nothing, and I'm total clean
Speaker 1: slate since Country Things came out the album. But during
Speaker 1: the height of writing for an album, I could have
Speaker 1: seven songs going at once. One of them has a verse,
Speaker 1: one of them has everything but the bridge. One of
Speaker 1: them just has a line and a bunch of melody.
Speaker 1: One of them has a title and nothing else. One
Speaker 1: of them has just a melody that's complete but no
Speaker 1: words at all. And that's typical. And sometimes one song
Speaker 1: will jump up and finish before the rest of them
Speaker 1: that I've already been working on way before that. So
Speaker 1: there's just no rhyme or reason. Well, there is rhyme technically,
Speaker 1: but I let me walk you through an intentional writing
Speaker 1: day for me, meaning there's a clean slate throughout the year.
Speaker 1: On my phone, I have an iPhone and I use notes,
Speaker 1: the little yellow app for those of you with iPhone.
Speaker 1: I use Notes, and I have a page on those
Speaker 1: notes that says song ideas, slash titles, and wherever I am,
Speaker 1: whoever I'm talking to, or maybe I'm watching a movie
Speaker 1: or a Netflix series or something, the wind blows a
Speaker 1: certain way, and I'll go, huh, that's a cool idea
Speaker 1: for a title. I mean literally, you could say the
Speaker 1: wind blows a certain way whatever. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: the title is. It could be if you take all
Speaker 1: your favorite songs and just read the titles. Some of
Speaker 1: them aren't special at all, they just become songs. Some
Speaker 1: of them are very special. But I'll have this running
Speaker 1: list the old there's probably three hundred lines on this notepad,
Speaker 1: the oldest ones being from like two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, So there's a fifteen year list going.
Speaker 1: And some of those poor ideas will probably never get written.
Speaker 1: Some of them. I came up with the idea last
Speaker 1: week and now I'm already writing it. Some of them
Speaker 1: are seven years old, and I'll look back and I go, wow,
Speaker 1: I wrote that seven years ago. That's actually pretty cool.
Speaker 1: What I do then is I also have voice memos
Speaker 1: on the iPhone. Thank god for the iPhone these days.
Speaker 1: Right this used to be a tape recorder and spiral notepads.
Speaker 1: I'll use that voice recorder and I'll think of a
Speaker 1: melody like do do do whatever, and I'll pick up
Speaker 1: my iPhone and I'll go do whatever. And then sometimes
Speaker 1: it could be a line that I that's tied to
Speaker 1: a melody, and I'll record that on the voice memo.
Speaker 1: So then the day that I'm writing, I usually do
Speaker 1: my best writing in the mornings, I'll sit down, cup
Speaker 1: of coffee, no distractions, airplane mode on the phone, and
Speaker 1: I'll put a guitar in my lap, and I'll start
Speaker 1: hunting down the voice memos versus the notes, and I'll
Speaker 1: find which which voice memo matches which note meaning, which
Speaker 1: melody matches which song title or line, and I'll look
Speaker 1: through depending on the mood I'm in. Maybe i'll start
Speaker 1: with melodies and I'll start listening and I'll get to
Speaker 1: melody number six and I'll go, ah, man, that sounds
Speaker 1: like today, and that's like rain. Maybe it's raining outside
Speaker 1: or something. The day can match the song totally. It's
Speaker 1: kind of raining outside. And by the way, sometimes the
Speaker 1: day that the song can match the day in an
Speaker 1: opposite way, like it's raining. But I'm gonna write a
Speaker 1: sunshine song because I really miss the sun. All right.
Speaker 1: It's wintertime and I really want to write a summertime song,
Speaker 1: or it could just be summer, and I'm really inspired
Speaker 1: by that, so I write that. But I take the
Speaker 1: melody number seven and I go, I love this this,
Speaker 1: I'm really feeling this today, and then I start I
Speaker 1: keep that playing on loop and I'll start going through
Speaker 1: down the list of my notes, and I'll go not
Speaker 1: that one, not that one, not that one, could be
Speaker 1: that one, not that one, could not that one, maybe
Speaker 1: that one. Ooh, that's a good one. So then i'll
Speaker 1: have three. Maybe I could be in a yes, And
Speaker 1: I'll try to sing that line to that melody in
Speaker 1: some way. And sometimes they they're perfect match, and sometimes
Speaker 1: they're not. Sometimes I have to force it. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: have to slow the melody down or raise the key
Speaker 1: or lower the key. It's a big math problem. And
Speaker 1: some days this process is like boom boom, boom, Wow,
Speaker 1: there's a song. And some days I start that process
Speaker 1: and years go by and there's nothing more than just
Speaker 1: the original melody number seven and the line that I liked.
Speaker 1: It's a long game. I think I said that earlier
Speaker 1: to the guy trying to get the h the job
Speaker 1: in the police academy or the police department. It's these
Speaker 1: are long, long term commitments. It's it's never a quick thing.
Speaker 1: You you put, you put the effort into this kind
Speaker 1: of career, and you you set your goals for a
Speaker 1: long long time and one day this is somebody told
Speaker 1: me this. Even the blind hog will find an a
Speaker 1: corn every once in a while. Take it like you will,
Speaker 1: even the blind hog go find an acorn every once
Speaker 1: in a while. Thank you, bart. Okay, let's go to
Speaker 1: the next question here, say grandeer, my name is Jason.
Speaker 1: I'm from Summit Hill, Pennsylvania. Shout out to Pennsylvania. If
Speaker 1: for some crazy reason, the music industry was non existent
Speaker 1: come tomorrow, what would you do as a backup plan
Speaker 1: slash career moving forward in order to pay the bills
Speaker 1: and support your family? Have you ever put any thought
Speaker 1: into such a thing? Thanks for your time, See you
Speaker 1: down the road. So, Jason, you mean like twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: because that didn't That pretty much happened. The music industry
Speaker 1: pretty much became non existent in twenty twenty and it
Speaker 1: still is in twenty twenty one. So yeah, buddy, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think about it all the time, and I've always
Speaker 1: thought about it, And it's one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: that Ye Apparel is such a blessing because Ye Apparel
Speaker 1: is completely independent of my music. Meaning if I stopped
Speaker 1: putting out music today, I'm still in the apparel business.
Speaker 1: I still have this miniature empire that me and my
Speaker 1: brothers have built, so so proud of that, and that's
Speaker 1: a great fallback plan. I have a I will say this, Jason,
Speaker 1: I have a thousand jobs. I have not counted them,
Speaker 1: but I have you know, my my job as an influencer,
Speaker 1: which includes well it kind of includes this podcast, you know,
Speaker 1: because I'll I read my my ads on this podcast
Speaker 1: and that definitely helps pay the bills. I have cameo
Speaker 1: which I'll go in there every day and do cameos
Speaker 1: for video messages for people. I have my YouTube hustle
Speaker 1: that I have going on. I have e Life the
Speaker 1: Grangdersmith channel, which is this podcast is on the Grander
Speaker 1: Smith channel. Then I have the Smith My Family channel,
Speaker 1: so we have advertising through that. We also get paid
Speaker 1: through Google AdSense through those how many views we get.
Speaker 1: So those are, to name a few, just my few
Speaker 1: side hustles. I also have songwriting, which I just got
Speaker 1: a Darryl Worley cut which is awesome. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys remember Daryl, but I just got the
Speaker 1: message today that song I wrote a long time ago
Speaker 1: is going on his newest album. So I have a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of irons in the fire. I
Speaker 1: work with a lot of different people doing a lot
Speaker 1: of different things, and if the music business crashed for
Speaker 1: the rest of twenty twenty one, that's the backup plan.
Speaker 1: If your question meant to be if you hadn't done
Speaker 1: music to begin with, what would you be doing now?
Speaker 1: That's another kind of common question, and maybe that's more
Speaker 1: of what you meant, Jason, Then I would say, and
Speaker 1: I have a degree in history, and that would probably
Speaker 1: lead me to being a coach. I really like I
Speaker 1: really like coaches and what they did for me in
Speaker 1: my life and the ability to inspire young people through
Speaker 1: athletics and life is definitely a passion of mine. And
Speaker 1: I could see myself and Little Town High School being
Speaker 1: the history teacher and the football coach. I could definitely
Speaker 1: see that, and I would enjoy that a lot. I
Speaker 1: would also enjoy being in agriculture, being in farming, being
Speaker 1: in ranching. I'd love that to love that aspect. So
Speaker 1: the problem with being an agriculture at a at a
Speaker 1: manageable scale is that you these days you almost have
Speaker 1: to inherit the big farm in Iowa or the big
Speaker 1: ranch in Texas. You almost have to just inherit it
Speaker 1: from your family line to get into it, because no
Speaker 1: one wants to go and you know, drop millions of
Speaker 1: bucks and a farm in Illinois and start from scratch,
Speaker 1: you know, farm and corn. So yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think those are your answers. Jason, thank you for writing
Speaker 1: in and shout out to Pennsylvania. Love you people in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Here is a question that that I saw come through
Speaker 1: and this question is from Chad. He said, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find my faith. How do I find my way?
Speaker 1: I'm an ex Canadian military and how do I find
Speaker 1: God after what I've seen and did in the line
Speaker 1: of duty? I look forward to your podcast and YouTube channels.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Chad. Thanks for writing in. Don't know where
Speaker 1: you're from. I'm assuming Canada. Thank you for your service,
Speaker 1: and thank you for your question. Let me go back
Speaker 1: to saying that guys, I don't have I don't have
Speaker 1: all the answers. I would just treat this as me,
Speaker 1: me and you, Chad, we're just buds. We're cruising down
Speaker 1: the road in a truck, windows down and you asked
Speaker 1: me this. Hey, Bud, I'm trying to find my faith.
Speaker 1: How to find my way? How do I find God
Speaker 1: after what I've seen and did in the line of duty?
Speaker 1: And the reason I even give that. The reason I
Speaker 1: have to say that is because I don't know what
Speaker 1: you did and saw in the line of duty, and
Speaker 1: I can't begin to act like I know about that.
Speaker 1: And it's a terrible price that we have to pay
Speaker 1: for the freedom that we enjoy. That the sacrifice is
Speaker 1: made by men and women like you come with the
Speaker 1: repercressions of the devastating mental health issue that follows the
Speaker 1: fact that you're asking me and wondering is awesome and
Speaker 1: so encouraging, because the other path is the total self indulgence.
Speaker 1: Everything you buy chakes you faster and faster and faster
Speaker 1: and gets you drunker and drunker and drunker, or you're
Speaker 1: slipping into a terrible depression of some sort. And so
Speaker 1: you're asking what I think, in my opinion, is the
Speaker 1: right questions, how to find my faith, how to find
Speaker 1: my way? If you're asking me, Granger Smith, I'm going
Speaker 1: to say all of your answers are in the Bible.
Speaker 1: And then you come back to me, as in our
Speaker 1: conversation in the truck, and you say, the Bible's so
Speaker 1: big and it's so boring and ominous, and what is it?
Speaker 1: And where do I even start? Like there's all these
Speaker 1: pages in there, and I don't know, don't understand it,
Speaker 1: and don't like everyone just choose their own religion, and
Speaker 1: isn't it all the same? Like, isn't God just there?
Speaker 1: And you just it's all the same and it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: you just pick one. Why does it matter to find
Speaker 1: the Bible? I'll tell you why it matters. The one
Speaker 1: of the many reasons why it matters is you have
Speaker 1: been called to search for it, which is why you
Speaker 1: emailed me. Whether you like it or not, or whether
Speaker 1: anyone listening to this podcast right now wherever you are,
Speaker 1: disagrees with me, it's the truth. Chad was called to
Speaker 1: write this email to fill a void that he feels
Speaker 1: like he is missing that he can't fill with a girl,
Speaker 1: or with a child, or with a pretty sunset or
Speaker 1: a vacation a Disney World or a red camaro or
Speaker 1: a skydiving or the bottom of a whiskey bottle. There's
Speaker 1: something more. And all of us are built with a
Speaker 1: God shaped hole in our soul, and there's only one
Speaker 1: thing that could fit a God sh aped hole, and
Speaker 1: that's God. It's really hard to deny that that truth.
Speaker 1: When you see a question like this from Chad, who's
Speaker 1: obviously looking for that to fill that void in his soul.
Speaker 1: So at this point, the windows are down, we're cruising.
Speaker 1: You ask me where do I even start? And I say,
Speaker 1: you start in the New Testament. Start in Matthew chapter one.
Speaker 1: That's a good place to start. You could start at
Speaker 1: the beginning. You could start at Genesis, the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: But the Old Testament, there's a lot of things in
Speaker 1: the in that Bible, in that big, confusing, multi paged
Speaker 1: mass of a book, there's a lot of things in
Speaker 1: there that are not they're not written excuse me for
Speaker 1: a young seeker, if that makes sense. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that are solid food when some people still
Speaker 1: need breast milk. And that's not in any way demeaning
Speaker 1: to you, Chad, but you need breast milk right now.
Speaker 1: You need the basics, the most broken down version of
Speaker 1: food to digest. And so I would start in Matthew.
Speaker 1: There's a million devotionals you could read. There's a million
Speaker 1: YouTube videos or pastors or churches you could go to.
Speaker 1: But it's funny. My bust Dripper Bull brought this up
Speaker 1: to me and he said, it's almost like if you don't.
Speaker 1: If you don't start with the story of Christ, then
Speaker 1: you're risking walking into a church as if you're walking
Speaker 1: into a movie that's already played halfway through and you
Speaker 1: have to try to catch up. So I would say,
Speaker 1: open up that book to Matthew, and before you even
Speaker 1: touch a word of it, you say, God, it's me Chad.
Speaker 1: I know that I haven't really talked to you before,
Speaker 1: and I know that I'm searching for you, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm worthy even to talk to an
Speaker 1: almighty creator. But if you're up there, if you're listening,
Speaker 1: I want to read this book and try to understand it.
Speaker 1: Can you help me understand it? Can you if this
Speaker 1: is real? Can you make these words real to me?
Speaker 1: Can you make this fit that heart shaped void in
Speaker 1: my soul? Can when you do that for me? And
Speaker 1: then start and keep an open mind about it, keep
Speaker 1: your ears open, keep your eyes open, and soak it
Speaker 1: in because Chad, what you're going to find in there
Speaker 1: is all the answers, a million times more than I
Speaker 1: could ever begin to even start with. But you saying,
Speaker 1: how do I find God after what I've seen and
Speaker 1: did in the line of duty? Your answer is in
Speaker 1: that book because in that New Testament, everything that you
Speaker 1: did is forgiven. Everything is forgiven everything. And there's people
Speaker 1: in there that wrote those books that did a lot
Speaker 1: of bad things. They saw a lot of bad things,
Speaker 1: and through that word they were saved. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to pick my word words here because there's some Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's breast milk, right, And I want you.
Speaker 1: I hope you wrote this to me on November the ninth.
Speaker 1: I hope that you write back in in a couple
Speaker 1: months after this podcast airs and you say, hey, I
Speaker 1: did it, and be honest with me. I did it,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't for me. I didn't get anything out
Speaker 1: of it or man read. I started reading it and
Speaker 1: I realized, as I'm trying to understand it, I realized,
Speaker 1: I think this book actually understands me, and the questions
Speaker 1: I had, they're answered right here. And I know it
Speaker 1: was written a long time ago, and I know that
Speaker 1: that these words have been historically proven to be true
Speaker 1: and not changed because the Dead Sea scrolls that we
Speaker 1: found recently, these words are real. They're not just some
Speaker 1: medieval translation that some king decided to I realize that,
Speaker 1: and I realize that although it was for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. That kind of sounds like it's talking straight
Speaker 1: to me, and that is that little peace that fits
Speaker 1: straight into that God hole in your soul. And don't
Speaker 1: let me be the testimony for you. You be your
Speaker 1: own testimony. Because proof in this stuff, proof in this
Speaker 1: faith doesn't just come because you just randomly believe it.
Speaker 1: It comes because you feel the transformation inside you, like
Speaker 1: I have gone through in the last two years. You
Speaker 1: feel that change, you feel that restoration, and you go
Speaker 1: I know it's real, not just because of some fairy
Speaker 1: tale or because what people tell me, or because what
Speaker 1: they say I'm supposed to believe what I don't see,
Speaker 1: not because of that, because I feel it, because I
Speaker 1: feel that void has gone and I feel peace when
Speaker 1: I have seen things that I shouldn't. I'm speaking for
Speaker 1: myself me, Granger Smith. I have seen things that my
Speaker 1: eyes should not have seen that I can't erase. And
Speaker 1: the only thing that will give me peace from those
Speaker 1: visions that human eyes should not see is that word,
Speaker 1: that truth in that book. Thanks for writing in Chad.
Speaker 1: I love you, bro. I hope this I hope this
Speaker 1: podcast means something to you, and I hope It gives
Speaker 1: you a little bit of a call to action, a
Speaker 1: little bit of urgency, and I hope you're right back
Speaker 1: in and I'll remember your name and I wish you
Speaker 1: the best. Thank you, guys. That's all I got. Seey'll next, Monk.
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