Speaker 1: What's Up. Welcome to the podcast. This is episode sixty
Speaker 1: two Grangersmith Podcast. Thank you for listening and watching, and
Speaker 1: thank you especially to those that have come this long
Speaker 1: journey with me all the way back to episode one
Speaker 1: and following the evolution and the growth of what this
Speaker 1: channel has become and what this podcast has become. It
Speaker 1: started with me in the back of my bus just
Speaker 1: telling stories, and it has evolved into having very different
Speaker 1: style guests, everything from war veterans, injured war veterans to preachers,
Speaker 1: I mean, and we've had everything in between. I had
Speaker 1: someone ask me one time, I wish you could go
Speaker 1: back and do the podcast like you used to do
Speaker 1: it when I used to tell stories. And partly why
Speaker 1: I've made a little bit of a transition is because
Speaker 1: now we're filming for YouTube and we're adding we're adding
Speaker 1: new listeners through people that are only on the YouTube format.
Speaker 1: So I know that a lot of you listen to
Speaker 1: the like Apple Music or Spotify or your podcast app.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of different apps for podcasts
Speaker 1: and a lot of different ways you're listening, but YouTube
Speaker 1: is now one of them. And when I switched over
Speaker 1: to YouTube and started filming it. I had to kind
Speaker 1: of get away from the the editing that I was
Speaker 1: doing making the stories. So I would sit in the
Speaker 1: back of my bus and I would tell the story
Speaker 1: and then I would stop and I would take like
Speaker 1: a couple of notes, and then I would add a
Speaker 1: little musical transition, and then I would tell another little
Speaker 1: piece of a story and it would stop, and it
Speaker 1: would take me a long time. It was. It was grueling,
Speaker 1: which is back back then, I was releasing like one
Speaker 1: a month, one episode a month, and it was grueling.
Speaker 1: I would start dreading it and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta go, I gotta do this podcast. It's going
Speaker 1: to take me a couple of hours. And so now
Speaker 1: the way that it is now, I literally turned the
Speaker 1: camera on, I hit my pro tools on my computer,
Speaker 1: I hit record, and whatever I say, it goes on
Speaker 1: the podcast. So there's good and bad. The good news
Speaker 1: is it makes it way easier for me to put
Speaker 1: these out every single Monday. The bad news is I
Speaker 1: can't really dig in and stop and start and edit
Speaker 1: and add music transitions and stop and start and create.
Speaker 1: You know. So good and bad that I think that
Speaker 1: the better side of that story is I get to
Speaker 1: put out a bunch. I get to put out a
Speaker 1: bunch of these, and so thank you guys everyone for listening.
Speaker 1: But I have to say, if you're watching this now,
Speaker 1: it's already too late. It's already too late if you're
Speaker 1: watching this now. And what I mean is we're doing
Speaker 1: this truck giveaway, and as I'm filming this, I just
Speaker 1: literally just went and put the truck in the field
Speaker 1: right outside this window at the Eyegee Farm outside of
Speaker 1: my podcast studio, and I just parked it where it's
Speaker 1: going to be for this contest. We have five finalists
Speaker 1: that we're flying in tonight to to Texas. They're from Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: and Utah. They're all coming here. And these are finalists
Speaker 1: from anyone that has purchased something from Yegi dot com
Speaker 1: over the last month. That's how we started the contest.
Speaker 1: And then we took all of those people and gave
Speaker 1: them to a third party company that picks random drawing
Speaker 1: contest for a liven So we paid them. They picked
Speaker 1: five finalists. I called them last week and told each
Speaker 1: finalist that they were the one picked. So then they
Speaker 1: made arrangements. They have a teammate and they're all flying
Speaker 1: here tonight, So as we speak, they are going to
Speaker 1: fly in and in the morning, at nine am, they
Speaker 1: put their hands on the truck and the last person
Speaker 1: at that point to take their hand off the truck
Speaker 1: will win it. And so that'll start Saturday morning when
Speaker 1: you hear this podcast. This Poske podcast comes out on Monday,
Speaker 1: So by the time this comes out, by the time
Speaker 1: you hear this, it's already too late. We probably have
Speaker 1: already decided a winner. If we have not decided a
Speaker 1: winner by the time this podcast airs on Monday morning,
Speaker 1: wherever you are in the world, commuting to work, whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing this morning, listening to this podcast, if we
Speaker 1: haven't decided a winner, then then we're running ragged here
Speaker 1: at the EE Farm. That means that means we're going
Speaker 1: all day Saturday, all day Sunday, all Sunday night in
Speaker 1: the Monday morning. And it might, it might we might
Speaker 1: have two more finalists out there as we speak. But
Speaker 1: you probably know as a listener, So follow me on
Speaker 1: my socials. Every one in my social media platforms, it's
Speaker 1: Granger Smith at Granger Smith or at Earl Dibbles Junior.
Speaker 1: So go to any one of those, and you'll see
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to keep up with the real
Speaker 1: time news on what's happening out there in the field
Speaker 1: with their hands on the truck. And I'm so I'm
Speaker 1: so excited about this. I'm so pumped. This might be
Speaker 1: one of the coolest things we've ever done. And literally,
Speaker 1: if you're watching this podcast right now, it might be
Speaker 1: too late to even know what the final result is,
Speaker 1: so I can't say how excited I am pumped about it.
Speaker 1: We're always into something crazy, and you know the thing is,
Speaker 1: if this works out well, which I hope it does,
Speaker 1: mean we're gonna be grilling out, We're gonna be having
Speaker 1: some fun. We're gonna have the band out playing songs.
Speaker 1: If this works out well, we'll do it every year.
Speaker 1: This is the one I'm giving away right now. This
Speaker 1: is my truck I've driven over the last ten years.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of memories in that truck. But maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we'll get another truck and do it again in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Let me know comment below if this
Speaker 1: is something you would like to be a part of
Speaker 1: and have a chance at get your hands on this truck.
Speaker 1: I think one of the cool things things about it
Speaker 1: is just coming here to the farm and being with
Speaker 1: us and hanging out with us, and we get to
Speaker 1: meet you and get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: and get to know you really well. And you're standing
Speaker 1: out with your hand on the hood anyway, So many
Speaker 1: things happen, and you can keep up with all this
Speaker 1: at at ee dot com, Grandersmith dot com all of
Speaker 1: our social EEU Peril has the social media, so there's
Speaker 1: a ton of ways to keep up with this, including
Speaker 1: this podcast. I will always keep you guys up to
Speaker 1: date on this podcast. And if you need to ask
Speaker 1: me anything, if you want to know anything, if you
Speaker 1: want to know my views on something, I'm always going
Speaker 1: to shoot you straight, and I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: the good, the good or the bad. I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell it to you straight. I'm gonna tell you the
Speaker 1: way I feel. I'm not afraid to tell you exactly
Speaker 1: how I stand. And for those of you that have
Speaker 1: listened to me or watched me long enough, you know
Speaker 1: that I'm not I'm not ashamed to come on here
Speaker 1: and just tell you straight up. It might it might
Speaker 1: hurt my career, it might help my career, but I
Speaker 1: don't care I'm just gonna tell you the way it is,
Speaker 1: so ask me anything, and you could do that by
Speaker 1: emailing Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. Grangersmith Podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. In fact, wherever you are, pull
Speaker 1: over your truck right now, pull over the side of
Speaker 1: the road, whip out your little email and hit me
Speaker 1: up right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna get into these questions.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start answering them right now. I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: my brother Parker in here. Welcome to the podcast. Ye
Speaker 1: did chant in d times and long line, fool up
Speaker 1: and down, going back range evagation. I'm gonna get into
Speaker 1: some of these emails. If you want to hear anything
Speaker 1: from me, email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times, that's what this podcast will
Speaker 1: be about. Not every time, but a lot of times.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in here and go through these emails
Speaker 1: and I'll read them. I'll try my best to answer. Today.
Speaker 1: I have my brother Parker, he's back, been on several episodes.
Speaker 1: He's he's a great, great mediator to my answering. First,
Speaker 1: I want to start out with a couple of shout outs.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Scott Hines. He says, Hey, I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of your music. I always have been. It's
Speaker 1: my sixteenth birthday on the twenty third, and I'm not
Speaker 1: getting anything, so if you can wish me happy birthday,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Scott, Thank you for listening. Bro. Another shout
Speaker 1: out says, Hey, my name is Tucker Bowman. I'm twelve
Speaker 1: years old. I had a question for you. My birthday's
Speaker 1: October sixteenth. I love your music and your podcast, and
Speaker 1: I would love a shout out. One of my favorite
Speaker 1: songs is holler Back Road Song and Tailgatetown. What's up, Tucker,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday? Thank you for listening, Bro. And this last
Speaker 1: one says Hey Granger Smith. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your songs. Sometimes in bad moods and
Speaker 1: when I listen to your songs, my mood just changes.
Speaker 1: Sent from Corny Webe from Chihuahua, Mexico. Thank you man.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you all you guys. And I'll get to I
Speaker 1: got a lot of those shout outs I gotta get to,
Speaker 1: but I want to get to some questions. Sixteenth birthday.
Speaker 1: You remember what you were doing on your sixteenth birthday?
Speaker 1: I feel like that's one that everybody remembers. I actually do.
Speaker 1: I was in Earl's truck, the one that we're restoring,
Speaker 1: and I drove to San Antonio, Texas to watch George
Speaker 1: straight play. Uh. Was that your first time driving on
Speaker 1: your own? You mean like a road trip? Yeah? Was
Speaker 1: that your first truck? Truck? Yeah, my first I thought
Speaker 1: it was. I thought it was at White Chevy. That
Speaker 1: was later Chevy. I didn't know that was your first
Speaker 1: truck was Earl's. Yeah. I think mom has pictures somewhere
Speaker 1: of me going to that concert. Did you drive by yourself? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first time I did, and then I went another
Speaker 1: time with Dad and two buddies. You drove to a
Speaker 1: George Strait concert by yourself at sixteen? Yeah, on your birthday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I also saw him at Texas Stadium that same
Speaker 1: year on sixteen, and I drove to Texas Stadium in Irving,
Speaker 1: Texas and camped out. I say camp out. I didn't
Speaker 1: really care, but I just got there before the sun
Speaker 1: came up to get tickets a month ahead, and I
Speaker 1: was in his fan club, So I was like seventh
Speaker 1: in line at Texas Stadium because the fan club got
Speaker 1: an early entry early ticket purchase, so I was like
Speaker 1: seventh in line, and so my ticket was second row,
Speaker 1: almost right in the middle. And that's why I wanted
Speaker 1: these concerts by myself, because I I was the only
Speaker 1: one getting those tickets. So I would go buy one ticket.
Speaker 1: It was like sixty five dollars or something crazy like that.
Speaker 1: One ticket, just me and I would show the door.
Speaker 1: The gates would open at noon, and I'll be there
Speaker 1: at the gates. George wouldn't go into like nine pm.
Speaker 1: Do you still how often do you think about that
Speaker 1: at your concerts or do you just think about it?
Speaker 1: Do you think about that every time? That still has
Speaker 1: to stay with you? Think about all the think about
Speaker 1: it all the time. Because those days, I was standing
Speaker 1: in front of the stage looking up at all the lights,
Speaker 1: and I was basically the only one in that Like
Speaker 1: everyone that's in the middle of this up close is
Speaker 1: usually a rich person or like a celebrity, and they
Speaker 1: don't show up till it's dark. So here I am,
Speaker 1: this kid, I'm the only one in fifty feet there's
Speaker 1: just empty chairs, those empty fold up chairs everywhere. I'm
Speaker 1: the only one. So when the first band goes on,
Speaker 1: I'm just like right, they could just clearly see me
Speaker 1: standing this kid in a cowboy hat, standing all by himself.
Speaker 1: And I remember all the bands that went on. I've
Speaker 1: never actually told them this, and I know them personally
Speaker 1: most of them now, and I haven't. I always forget
Speaker 1: to say, hey man. In nineteen ninety six, I was
Speaker 1: at Texas Stadium in the second row center and then
Speaker 1: at night when George was about to come on, like
Speaker 1: Troy Yateman would walk out and sit in this front
Speaker 1: row seat, jaredry Jones will walk out sit down in
Speaker 1: the front row. All kinds of important people would be
Speaker 1: on the front row. And then one more story. Then
Speaker 1: I got I went to so many of these concerts
Speaker 1: and did this that I would talk to the camera guys.
Speaker 1: There was guys on the ends of the aisles that
Speaker 1: were shooting the camera for the JumboTron, and I said,
Speaker 1: when when could I rush the stage? Because I knew
Speaker 1: that at the end of every George concert, during the
Speaker 1: last song, they would rush the stage, so I would,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't know when that song was coming. So
Speaker 1: the camera guys they would be the ones. Because I
Speaker 1: could talk to them, I say when could I rush?
Speaker 1: And they say when we start packing our cameras, putting
Speaker 1: our cameras down. That's when you know it's the second
Speaker 1: to the last song. So I would see the camera
Speaker 1: guy because they have to move their cameras for the crowd.
Speaker 1: They'd start wrapping their cables and they'd look over at
Speaker 1: me and kind of give me like a little wink
Speaker 1: like this is the second to last song. So then
Speaker 1: I could get ready and get those two seats in
Speaker 1: front of me, like my two hands on them, getting
Speaker 1: ready to push them. And as soon as that song
Speaker 1: was over, I would push the chairs and run to
Speaker 1: the front and be right at George's feet, and then
Speaker 1: everyone else would rush in. And that always that feeling
Speaker 1: that it girls. It was always girls behind me that
Speaker 1: would just crush me into the stage. So I'd be
Speaker 1: like to the stage and I would like have to
Speaker 1: fight to get my back pushed back a little bit
Speaker 1: to have a little room so I could do this.
Speaker 1: That was my life. Man, That's amazing. Gosh, that is
Speaker 1: I've never heard that story. That is some commitment. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't think I know anybody man to be front
Speaker 1: row in nineteen ninety six at a George Straight concert.
Speaker 1: That's a story. Several of them. Just buy yourself there,
Speaker 1: just saving it aplene, Texas, San Antonio twice, Dallas twice,
Speaker 1: all in during that same little time period. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think about my fans. I've been there. That's a
Speaker 1: huge I consider that very valuable to me to have
Speaker 1: that experience. Man, I was a sidetrack. Let's get to
Speaker 1: I got a little less of these questions. I don't
Speaker 1: know what we can get to, but we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to get through them once again. This Grangersmith podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com if you want to give me a
Speaker 1: shout out. This question is from Jacob and Jacob's from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It says, grad, You're not sure if you'll see this,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to reach out and let you
Speaker 1: know how much I appreciate all you do. You have
Speaker 1: no idea how much your entertainment enjoy you bring to
Speaker 1: my life. I'm a second year medical student at the
Speaker 1: University of Kentucky. Go CAATs every Monday morning on my
Speaker 1: drive to the hospital, I listen to your podcast, and
Speaker 1: after every exam, I always unwind and relax by catching
Speaker 1: up on the Smiths. I love your music and you're
Speaker 1: an incredible role model for me. Thank you, buddy, uh
Speaker 1: he says. I love when you talk about faith, and
Speaker 1: I love it if you would share a little bit
Speaker 1: more about your journey as a Christian. Did you grow
Speaker 1: up in the church where you saved, et cetera, When
Speaker 1: were you saved, et cetera. I lead worship at my
Speaker 1: church in my hometown, so faith and music are two
Speaker 1: of the most important things in my life. Thanks again,
Speaker 1: and God blessed. Jacob from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Thanks for writing
Speaker 1: in man, I'm glad that you read. I read that
Speaker 1: question when Parker's sitting next to me on my brother
Speaker 1: and it always is cool to me to hear somebody
Speaker 1: listens to the podcast every morning on a commute. That's
Speaker 1: like becomes a routine. And I wonder, like, as soon
Speaker 1: as I start reading it, if you're driving in and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, that's my question, Like what
Speaker 1: does that feel like? That's my question, Like you will
Speaker 1: swear off the road. You listen over and over and
Speaker 1: then it's your question. And I have gotten this several times,
Speaker 1: so I think it's a good question. It's a good
Speaker 1: one to talk about. I grew up Methodist. The majority
Speaker 1: of my life was Methodist. We were heavy churchgoers pretty
Speaker 1: much my my most of my life. And then we
Speaker 1: moved to a little town outside of Waco, and that's
Speaker 1: when you were in your prime. And y'all you didn't
Speaker 1: go right when we were in Clifton. Yeah, we went
Speaker 1: a lot more in Clifton than we ever did in Doubt. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you slowed down, like when I left house, you probably. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we almost never went in Dallas, but I'd love that.
Speaker 1: That's Dad loved small town churches and it was a
Speaker 1: little Baptist church and like the pastor, so we went.
Speaker 1: We went a lot there. Yeah, the nut pastor ended
Speaker 1: up burying dead and riv So to dig into that question,
Speaker 1: my mom and dad are were pretty religious. But when
Speaker 1: I say that term religious, that doesn't I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: always mean specific traditions that you like. When I think
Speaker 1: of religion, I think you got to do this at
Speaker 1: three o'clock, and then you got to face this direction
Speaker 1: at four o'clock. Like, It's not that they were. They
Speaker 1: were very, very deep in the Christian faith, and they
Speaker 1: taught us from a young age how to follow Christ,
Speaker 1: to give your life to Christ. And my mom, she says,
Speaker 1: this all the time. She listens to this podcast. So, hey, Mom,
Speaker 1: you listen to this podcast. I know you do. She
Speaker 1: always says that she read the entire New Testament to
Speaker 1: me while I was nursing and when I was a baby.
Speaker 1: So anytime I'm on a podcast and I start talking
Speaker 1: about Jesus, She's like, see, I knew because I read you.
Speaker 1: I read you the New Testament when you were a baby,
Speaker 1: and I knew that that was going to do something
Speaker 1: to your little brain, and maybe it did. What's your
Speaker 1: story growing up, Parker. We're thirteen years apart, so we
Speaker 1: sometimes have a different story growing up. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: basically like an only child as a kid because Grande
Speaker 1: and I were so far apart. So a lot of you,
Speaker 1: if any of y'all have much older siblings, you kind
Speaker 1: of know what I'm talking about. See, you almost have
Speaker 1: a different childhood a because you were you're the oldest
Speaker 1: and you were their first child, so they're a little
Speaker 1: more strict with you. Then it kind of loosens up
Speaker 1: as as you go. But yeah, I was just going
Speaker 1: to say, we weren't. We were never the like like
Speaker 1: memorize these note cards of Bible verses every Sunday and
Speaker 1: then like you have to have your Bible verses down
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna quiz you. And we're very informal,
Speaker 1: and it was more just Dad was always very open
Speaker 1: with us. It was like, you just accept Christ as
Speaker 1: your savior, admit you're a sinner, and that's what's most important.
Speaker 1: And then beyond that, it's just be a man of
Speaker 1: integrity and have your values in order and know it's
Speaker 1: important in life. Just kind of that was the foundation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. There was no uh like formal like
Speaker 1: some some families that I knew growing up. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got I got confirmed when I was in sixth grade,
Speaker 1: and confirmation, I believe several churches do that I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know which ones. I know Methodist did
Speaker 1: obviously that's where I was. And so I went through
Speaker 1: Confirmation in sixth grade and was baptized then and Dad
Speaker 1: gave me a necklace that it was a replica of
Speaker 1: what he wore, which was a replica of what his
Speaker 1: dad wore, and he gave it to the US three boys.
Speaker 1: And my uncle has one that he gave to his son.
Speaker 1: You have one, right, m Yeah, So we all got
Speaker 1: it's a little cross necklace. So that was kind of
Speaker 1: part of the Smith family tradition that I'm assuming I'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and pass that on to Lincoln when he's
Speaker 1: in sixth grade. And my memories of church growing up
Speaker 1: was squirming in the pew and being so bored out
Speaker 1: of my mind and Dad squeezing my knee with his
Speaker 1: thumb and his middle finger, just digging his hands into
Speaker 1: my kneecap and just look just looking at me, like
Speaker 1: be quiet. And my dad had these massive hands. They
Speaker 1: are so strong. He could just crush my knee. And
Speaker 1: so I tell Amber like when I when I try
Speaker 1: to discipline Lincoln, I'm like, I just want Lincoln to
Speaker 1: look at me with the fear that I looked at
Speaker 1: my dad sometimes like because it got to the point
Speaker 1: where all you have to do is just look at
Speaker 1: me and go. And I'd be like, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: He had, and he Aggie ring he had like that
Speaker 1: me and you, Parker are both wearing I'm actually not
Speaker 1: my oh you're not, but this is Zaggie ring from
Speaker 1: Texas A and m Dad had one too, and sometimes
Speaker 1: he could pop me in the back of the head
Speaker 1: with this ring. Did he do that to you? No,
Speaker 1: he could pop me in the back of the head
Speaker 1: with that ring, and Amber is always like, I can
Speaker 1: I picture him doing that? But he knew exactly how
Speaker 1: hard to hit me in the back of the head,
Speaker 1: that enough where it didn't crack the skull or make
Speaker 1: a bump, but it was just enough to never want
Speaker 1: to do what I was doing ever again. It hurt
Speaker 1: so bad I could like taste metal in my teeth.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he never did that to me. They were
Speaker 1: way more strict with you. Why were they so strict
Speaker 1: with me and not with you? They were way older
Speaker 1: with you, I guess because I was I was playing
Speaker 1: more behaved, I guess, so I would love. What about spankings, Parker,
Speaker 1: did you get spanked? No? I don't think I got
Speaker 1: spanked once because Tom actually was a good kid. Tyler
Speaker 1: and I got whooped so bad. It was all the time.
Speaker 1: We'd come in and Dad would come them from work
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, guys, how's it going hi, And
Speaker 1: we'd all just be like holding our toes and our
Speaker 1: shoes real tight, and Mom would say, Chris, well have
Speaker 1: something to say. The boys talking about me and Tyler
Speaker 1: did this and I need you to spank them. And
Speaker 1: Dad would be like, oh man, that's too bad, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: and he'd start taking his belt off. He'd make us
Speaker 1: put our elbows and lean lean like on the couch
Speaker 1: or the bed, and you take his belt off, and
Speaker 1: he said you want you want one really hard one
Speaker 1: or three medium ones? And we would usually say one
Speaker 1: really hard one. He'd say all right, and Tyler would
Speaker 1: always watch first, and Dad would just whoop me with
Speaker 1: that belt, and then Tyler would get real scared because
Speaker 1: then he saw he saw what it looked like from
Speaker 1: the outside, so Tyler would get all squirmy. I don't
Speaker 1: even remember the stuff we did, so comment below if this,
Speaker 1: if you had a if you grew up the same,
Speaker 1: if your dad whooped you at all, or if you
Speaker 1: whoop your current kids. I don't know that. Thank you
Speaker 1: Jacob for the question. This one this was from Savannah
Speaker 1: that says, Hey, Gradred, love your podcast on YouTube channels
Speaker 1: and of course your music. My daughter's five, she's a
Speaker 1: huge fan of London. She noticed London is quite their
Speaker 1: performer with dancing in gymnastics. My daughter asked me if
Speaker 1: London was going to follow your footsteps in some way,
Speaker 1: and it made me start thinking and I got curious.
Speaker 1: Have the kids expressed any interest in being musicians or performers?
Speaker 1: How would you feel about that, knowing how hard you
Speaker 1: have to work in the industry, and would you encourage
Speaker 1: them to follow their dream? Thanks so much for all
Speaker 1: you do. My family just loves you. Thank you, Savannah.
Speaker 1: That's a great question, and it kind of ties into
Speaker 1: what we've been talking about with my parents, because first
Speaker 1: of all, I feel like my parents giving me the
Speaker 1: blessing to follow music was one of the greatest gifts
Speaker 1: they could have given me. It's funny because my name,
Speaker 1: which I'm happy that they gave me a name that
Speaker 1: was different enough to stand out in music instead of
Speaker 1: like Bob Smith, that would have got lost, especially in
Speaker 1: the web world, social media world. So I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for that they gave me braces on my teeth,
Speaker 1: and I'm thankful that they gave me the blessing to
Speaker 1: chase music. Obviously, there's a lot more more to it
Speaker 1: than that, but I want to address one thing you said,
Speaker 1: how would you feel about it knowing how hard you
Speaker 1: have to work? That's not the problem. How hard you
Speaker 1: have to work. I want my kids to work hard.
Speaker 1: I want them to do something that challenges them that
Speaker 1: they have to work hard at. I always want that,
Speaker 1: but I do You're right in thinking that I do
Speaker 1: worry about my kids becoming musicians, not because of the work,
Speaker 1: but because of the heartbreak involved. Heartbreak coming from things
Speaker 1: you can't control. So it's a business that you could
Speaker 1: work really hard to be very passionate, very diligent, very smart,
Speaker 1: very talented. You could have all those things lined up.
Speaker 1: But if you're not lucky, then your chart, your song
Speaker 1: doesn't end up on the charts for some reason. Are
Speaker 1: you there's a million reasons. If you're not lucky, you
Speaker 1: fail and you get your heart broken. And I just
Speaker 1: can't imagine my kids being judged the way that I've
Speaker 1: been judged. It's fine for me, and maybe even fine
Speaker 1: for Lincoln, but when you start talking about London, I
Speaker 1: worry about that girl getting judged for appearances or for
Speaker 1: whatever that she has no control over, and then her
Speaker 1: having to deal with that. So that's the fine line
Speaker 1: of me. Yes, I want them to follow their dreams.
Speaker 1: Yes I want to give them a blessing, but I
Speaker 1: would sit them down and have a long talk if
Speaker 1: they wanted to go in to music business, just so
Speaker 1: they know how terrible it can be. And there's probably
Speaker 1: a lot of jobs like this. And for instance, we
Speaker 1: have cousins that are farmers in the Panhandle of Texas,
Speaker 1: and I remember each little son that decides to be
Speaker 1: a farmer and follow his dad, there's always a talk
Speaker 1: that the dad, Like I remember when Uncle Doug gave
Speaker 1: this talk to Brad when Brad decided he was going
Speaker 1: to go be a farmer, and Doug had to have
Speaker 1: this long talk with him, like you understand what this means.
Speaker 1: You understand the heartache in farming. You understand you're trying
Speaker 1: to raise a family and depending on whether or depending
Speaker 1: on the market, things you can't control. You could work
Speaker 1: all you want, you work hard as you want, and
Speaker 1: then you're all of a sudden you're at the mercy
Speaker 1: of the price of seed or the price of whatever
Speaker 1: your harvest is. So I don't know, I would love
Speaker 1: to see London just do something and like become a
Speaker 1: veterinarian or a teacher or something like that. Just what
Speaker 1: do you think, Yeah, it's hard. I was thinking while
Speaker 1: you were talking, I was thinking about you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get judged and whatever you do, and it takes
Speaker 1: a lot of hard work and whatever you do in life,
Speaker 1: but music in particular, and we talk about this with
Speaker 1: you all the time. It's it's not just it's not
Speaker 1: just your product or your service that's being judged. It's
Speaker 1: your art form. It's it's uh, it's very much a
Speaker 1: part of who you are, and so people people you know,
Speaker 1: you're on the charts with your identity, and so that
Speaker 1: can be kind of taxing on your mental health. So
Speaker 1: I was like, well, yeah, that's a good point. It's
Speaker 1: it's more taxing because it's your it's your identity that's
Speaker 1: being judged as a product rather than rather than being
Speaker 1: a vet or being a teacher. And not to downplay those,
Speaker 1: but music is can be hard on your mental health
Speaker 1: because that's your name up there on the chart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: good question, Savannah, And I'll probably get that one again
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Speaker 1: we have time for one more before we have a break. No,
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Speaker 1: to the podcast, all right. This question is from Adam.
Speaker 1: It says, Hey, Granger, I'm a big fan of your music,
Speaker 1: your family, and your podcast. Thank you, buddy. I am
Speaker 1: soon to become a father to our boy, Jackson, who
Speaker 1: is due on October ninth, so this sorry, this email
Speaker 1: is a couple months old, so he's already been born.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could provide any advice or
Speaker 1: tips on become being a father for the first time.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you learned picked up when you became
Speaker 1: a father for the first time that you think would
Speaker 1: help a new father. I'm not worried about becoming a father,
Speaker 1: but I would love to hear your thoughts on this matter.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. This is Adam from Pool, England.
Speaker 1: Yee appreciate you, buddy. Congratulations on the birth of your son.
Speaker 1: I'm reading this email late. It's from the archives here,
Speaker 1: but it's a great question. I want to say. I wonder,
Speaker 1: first of all, I wonder what London was born on
Speaker 1: October sixth, so I wonder if he was actually born
Speaker 1: on the ninth or not. It's a great question. First
Speaker 1: of all, I feel like the way humans are built,
Speaker 1: the way humans are created, they whenever we pro create,
Speaker 1: there's perfect amounts of time in between each for you
Speaker 1: to learn. For example, the pregnancy is a nine month deal.
Speaker 1: That's that's the time. Nine months is like the perfect
Speaker 1: time to get over the fact at the beginning that
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we're gonna have a baby. And then
Speaker 1: you go into okay, we need to like build a
Speaker 1: nursery and get a crib. And then you get into okay,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do about feeding? Who's gonna feed?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna breastfeed or we gonna do formula? And
Speaker 1: then you get into okay, now we're gonna we've got
Speaker 1: to start thinking about clothes and how we're gonna change
Speaker 1: a diaper like a little learn how so anyway, then
Speaker 1: you have the baby, and then you have this another
Speaker 1: six month period of an infant, before they're eating solid foods,
Speaker 1: before they're crawling or scooting, so then you can kind
Speaker 1: of start your preparation on childproofing the house. And then
Speaker 1: when they start crawling, and then you got a little
Speaker 1: bit of time before you have to start worrying about
Speaker 1: door knobs and things on shelves when they start pulling
Speaker 1: up and stand so and then then you can keep going.
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on, you can go into
Speaker 1: Then you got time to think about when they're in
Speaker 1: elementary school, you don't you don't have to worry about dating,
Speaker 1: and they're not until they're a teenager. Then when they're
Speaker 1: a teenager, you could start worrying about Each step is
Speaker 1: perfectly timed in my opinion, and and so my first
Speaker 1: piece of advice is be in the moment, be right here,
Speaker 1: don't be caught up in thinking. So right now, I'm
Speaker 1: assuming Adam that your baby boy, I'm assuming October November SI,
Speaker 1: you're three months old, so you're still kind of in
Speaker 1: the infancy stage. So be here, be right here, Enjoy
Speaker 1: every moment. Enjoy those little smiles when you get them,
Speaker 1: Enjoy that eye contact when you get it, Enjoy those
Speaker 1: times when he finally falls asleep after a fussy night,
Speaker 1: and be in that moment. Don't ever think, oh, I
Speaker 1: can't wait till he starts crawling her. I can't wait
Speaker 1: till he watch his football games with me. You know
Speaker 1: you might not do that in England, but we would
Speaker 1: do that. But if you just hang on and stay
Speaker 1: in that moment, you're not rushing him through this process,
Speaker 1: because I promise it flies by. I mean it flies.
Speaker 1: It seems like when you're in the trenches, it seems
Speaker 1: like it's so long, but in reality you look back
Speaker 1: on it and in time just flies. You're like, where
Speaker 1: did it go? He's already walking. You know, he's already.
Speaker 1: He's already out of diapers. So hang on, be in there.
Speaker 1: And then I want to recommend a book for everyone
Speaker 1: that has a little boy called Wild at Heart. Have
Speaker 1: you read this? Yeah? Right, I want to reread it.
Speaker 1: I would always recommend this book twice. First, if you're
Speaker 1: it's like some of the shout outs I gave these
Speaker 1: guys that were sixteen teenagers, read it as a teenager
Speaker 1: or a young twenty something, and then reread it as
Speaker 1: a father of a baby boy. And it's a great
Speaker 1: book for learning how to raise a boy. It's called
Speaker 1: it's called Wild at Heart. I'm pretty sure that it's
Speaker 1: easy to find and you put you can find a book.
Speaker 1: But there's this moment so good, but you remember the
Speaker 1: climb in the cliff moment that's like such a such
Speaker 1: an awesome moment in the book. But he has these
Speaker 1: two boys and they're out hiking in the woods and
Speaker 1: one of them is like ten and one of them
Speaker 1: is like six, right seven, and the ten year old
Speaker 1: they go up to this little cliff and they climb it,
Speaker 1: and it's an easy little cliff, and the ten year
Speaker 1: old climbs to the top, and the seven year old
Speaker 1: starts climbing and gets stuck halfway up. It's a small,
Speaker 1: a small little cliff. He gets stuck like halfway up,
Speaker 1: and he freezes and he gets really scared and he
Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do, and so he's struggling. He's struggling,
Speaker 1: and then they're all encouraging him. Come on, buddy, you
Speaker 1: got this, you got this, you got it. And so
Speaker 1: he climbs and he starts climbing. They're like, good job,
Speaker 1: you're doing it. You're doing it, puts his hand on
Speaker 1: the top and he pulls himself up the cliff and
Speaker 1: he gets to the top of this little, you know,
Speaker 1: six foot cliff. He gets to the top and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: you did it, buddy, you did it. And the dad goes,
Speaker 1: you are a wild man. You're a wild man. You
Speaker 1: did it, and so, you know, the moment passes, and
Speaker 1: then later on that night they're all sitting around the
Speaker 1: campfire and the little son says, Daddy, was I really
Speaker 1: a wild man out there? And the funny thing in
Speaker 1: the book he says, and here it is. This is
Speaker 1: the moment, like, this is it. This is the moment
Speaker 1: that could change his life as a boy forever, forever.
Speaker 1: This is the moment when he's asking for affirmation of
Speaker 1: him being a man, or at least being on the
Speaker 1: path of what a man is. So he realizes that
Speaker 1: in his head, he goes, this is the moment. How
Speaker 1: do I answer it? Do I say I mean you're
Speaker 1: kind of a sissy? Or do it you say I
Speaker 1: don't know you're getting there, or you got a little scared,
Speaker 1: but you know you did all right, buddy? Or do
Speaker 1: you say, yes, son, you're a wild man. And then
Speaker 1: he goes boom, that's it. That's the affirmation he needs
Speaker 1: to justify his place in this little world of his.
Speaker 1: Just so good man, such a good book. I love
Speaker 1: that thing. Yeah, and you'll meet people. I don't have
Speaker 1: any advice. I don't have any experience in that in
Speaker 1: that realm, but man, you'll meet people to this day
Speaker 1: and we'll talk. Man, that guy didn't get enough validation
Speaker 1: from his dad, probably because you'll see when people are
Speaker 1: overcompensating for that, that father that wasn't there, that didn't
Speaker 1: tell them that they or a man, and so they
Speaker 1: spend their whole life trying to prove it. Yep. And
Speaker 1: it's just it, and it's just builds up into resentment,
Speaker 1: trying to prove that they're a man, trying to finally
Speaker 1: get the world to tell him they're a man, because
Speaker 1: they never got it in that cliff at seven years old. Yeah, yeah, Adam,
Speaker 1: thank you for writing buddy. It's a great question, and
Speaker 1: congratulations on your baby boy. This question is from Salisbury,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. From Joshua says, Hey, Grangeer, love your podcast.
Speaker 1: It's a part of my every Monday morning work listenings.
Speaker 1: Here's my question. It's about Christian theology. H oh. What
Speaker 1: Christian theology do you believe? In example, some believe Christ
Speaker 1: is coming with judgment on the world, rapture, tribulations, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Other other half, like myself, I believe that Christ's judgment
Speaker 1: was conventional and or excuse me, covenantal and happened during
Speaker 1: eighty seventy during with the destruction of Jerusalem. I'm thirty
Speaker 1: one and have struggled a lot with the end of
Speaker 1: times that was preached at my old church, and I
Speaker 1: wanted answers. So I hit the scriptures and with prayer
Speaker 1: and a lot of reading, I came to believe and
Speaker 1: trust the Reformed doctrine. With this new understanding, I feel
Speaker 1: I'm able to live my life to the fullest and
Speaker 1: be a light in this fallen world compared to being
Speaker 1: on the edge and not knowing what to do and
Speaker 1: what the trust. Now, I take it day by day
Speaker 1: and thank the Lord for another day. So curious where
Speaker 1: you stand, I think it's important for all of us
Speaker 1: Christians to be open minded about this and willing to
Speaker 1: test our traditions and be willing to give a biblical
Speaker 1: answer on why we believe what we believe through God's word.
Speaker 1: No judgment here, I will not change the way I
Speaker 1: think about you. We need to respect others' faith decisions
Speaker 1: and continue to love and trust in Jesus no matter
Speaker 1: what theology we believe in. Thanks Grangeur yee yee man.
Speaker 1: That's a deep one, Joshua, thank you for writing in
Speaker 1: shout out to North Carolina. I want to get I
Speaker 1: want to jump right into this because I have some
Speaker 1: stuff to say. First of all, let me say this
Speaker 1: first and foremost before I say a word about theology
Speaker 1: or my belief in theology. As a Christian, don't let
Speaker 1: deep theological doctrine affect the end result of your belief.
Speaker 1: If you do, bail out on that, on that deep
Speaker 1: thinking and go back to the understood truth. Christ came,
Speaker 1: died for you, forgave you of your sins, was resurrected,
Speaker 1: And if you believe that and you repent and follow him,
Speaker 1: then it doesn't matter what you've done in your life.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how bad a sinner you are, we
Speaker 1: all are. If you repent and follow him and trust him,
Speaker 1: then then you'll have eternal life. So don't let that
Speaker 1: ever become hazy, because that is that is the truth.
Speaker 1: As Christians that's our truth. So don't don't ever let
Speaker 1: any kind of weird doctrine get in the way. Now,
Speaker 1: let me dive in. I do not believe in your theology,
Speaker 1: and I believe I'm gonna I'm gonna say a couple
Speaker 1: of things that might offend you, but I really I
Speaker 1: don't want to offend you. I want to I just
Speaker 1: want to kind of put my thoughts together. And this
Speaker 1: is why it's hard on a podcast, because I don't
Speaker 1: get to see your face and we don't get to
Speaker 1: kind of go back and forth. But I'm gonna assume
Speaker 1: a couple of things that might be wrong. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: you've been to some bad churches and heard some bad
Speaker 1: preachers and have been around some bad circles as far
Speaker 1: as theology goes. Because most Christians, most do not believe that.
Speaker 1: Most Christians believe the end of times have not arrived yet.
Speaker 1: And the number one reason is we still have trouble.
Speaker 1: We're still in trouble. When Christ comes, the promised second
Speaker 1: coming of Christ, when he comes is redemption to the world.
Speaker 1: It's bringing Heaven, the new Heaven, to the to earth,
Speaker 1: to make a new Earth for all of us to
Speaker 1: live in peace. And it will be perfect, and it
Speaker 1: will be harmonious, and there will not be tears and
Speaker 1: crying and trouble, and there will not be death and
Speaker 1: coronavirus and wars. There will not When he comes back,
Speaker 1: he will end all that. And John is very clear
Speaker 1: in the Book of Revelation about that, and Jesus is
Speaker 1: very clear that the the idea that that that second
Speaker 1: coming has already happened, and you're referring to Caesar and
Speaker 1: the destruction of the Jews and the Temple in eight
Speaker 1: seventy is not enough because you can't say that that happened.
Speaker 1: And then there was this thing called the Holocaust that
Speaker 1: happened in World War two. You can't imagine the Holocaust
Speaker 1: is something that happened after the second Coming of Christ.
Speaker 1: There's that. That's just a small, a small explanation to why.
Speaker 1: And I would encourage you to to find a new
Speaker 1: find a new group. If if you truly are around
Speaker 1: people that are leading you uh down a down a
Speaker 1: road of despair, that's that is that is a false doctrine.
Speaker 1: And let me go back to your words. You said,
Speaker 1: h I have struggled a lot with the end of times.
Speaker 1: That was preached to my old church, and I wanted
Speaker 1: answers compared to not being on the edge and not
Speaker 1: knowing what to do and what to trust. That's what
Speaker 1: you said, these are your words. I wanted to live
Speaker 1: my life to the fullest compared to being on edge
Speaker 1: and not knowing what to do and what to trust. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we all want that, absolutely, You're right. We all want
Speaker 1: to live our life to the fullest and not worry.
Speaker 1: And Christ asks us to follow him so that we
Speaker 1: may have peace in Him, so that we will not worry,
Speaker 1: and we don't worry about tomorrow because today has enough
Speaker 1: trouble of its own, and we're not to worry about
Speaker 1: the end of times. We're not even supposed to worry
Speaker 1: or not know what to do. We know what to do.
Speaker 1: It's very simple. We follow him, we repent, we try
Speaker 1: to live a life and reflection of Him, and through
Speaker 1: our renewed spirit, we have new guidance. We have new
Speaker 1: ears to hear, new eyes to see. We're led by
Speaker 1: a stronger conscience, we have a stronger discernment over good
Speaker 1: and bad. We're still going to sin, We're still going
Speaker 1: to mess up. That's because we're humans. We're still going
Speaker 1: to and every sin is the same. There's no good
Speaker 1: or bad way. It's it's all bad. And so we
Speaker 1: do our best to be reborn every day, every morning,
Speaker 1: and and through that we become a lied in the world.
Speaker 1: We try to live a world of communion where we
Speaker 1: treat our neighbor as we would ourselves, and we do
Speaker 1: that every day, and then we don't worry. We don't
Speaker 1: we don't not know what to do. We know exactly
Speaker 1: what to do because it's right there. So I would
Speaker 1: tell you to go and instead of reading doctrine from
Speaker 1: other people are hearing things, including this podcast. Don't even
Speaker 1: take my word for it. Just go straight to Matthew
Speaker 1: chapter one. Start there. It's the beginning of the New Testament.
Speaker 1: Start right there and read it. And it's a pick
Speaker 1: a translation that's easy, like the NIV or the ESV.
Speaker 1: It's very simple English translations. And hit the ground run
Speaker 1: and don't worry about other outside sources. Ask God to
Speaker 1: make that clear to you. And I believe that you'll
Speaker 1: see that we're still waiting for the second coming of Christ,
Speaker 1: because if he had already come, we would know it.
Speaker 1: There wouldn't be this suffering. Parker you got anything nine
Speaker 1: I've been yipping. I agree with you. Right back in, Joshua,
Speaker 1: right back into this podcast once you hear this. First
Speaker 1: of all, I want to make sure you hear it,
Speaker 1: but right back in, because I think it's very important.
Speaker 1: You said, you said we need to at the end,
Speaker 1: you said we need to respect other faith decisions. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree, we need to continue to love and trust
Speaker 1: in Jesus no matter what theology. Yes, I agree. But
Speaker 1: here's where I disagree. It's important for us Christians to
Speaker 1: be open minded about this. Well, that's where I'm going
Speaker 1: to disagree, because I believe the New Testament and the
Speaker 1: Old Testament. The Old Testament's part of this whole story too,
Speaker 1: is very very one minded. It's not very open. It's
Speaker 1: very there's one thing happening here. There's one story. And
Speaker 1: for those of you that don't know anything about what
Speaker 1: I'm saying the Old Testament, I could sum it up
Speaker 1: in this We're not good enough. That's from Genesis all
Speaker 1: the way to Malachi. We're not good enough. I heard
Speaker 1: the Duck dynasty guys talking about this. The New Testament.
Speaker 1: You can sum it up like this. Matthew through John
Speaker 1: Jesus is here and then acts through revelation Jesus is
Speaker 1: coming back. That sums it up and I would encourage you,
Speaker 1: got you to jump in your Joshua and then write
Speaker 1: me back, writ me back. Let's keep this discussion going.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna pass this one to you. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what it says. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: talking too much. It is your podcast. I think this
Speaker 1: is my podcast or something. This is from Mary joe
Speaker 1: Hey Granger. I'm new to the EE Nation and in
Speaker 1: the last few months due to my son. I'm new
Speaker 1: to the EE Nation in just the last few months
Speaker 1: due to my son Jason and his family. I love
Speaker 1: the podcast, the YouTube, and was even lucky enough to
Speaker 1: score some items in your fall lunch. My question is
Speaker 1: where did ye come from? Love everything that you and
Speaker 1: Amber do and love that it is family based. Good
Speaker 1: luck on your new home, and can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: your new songs. I'm currently catching up on the older
Speaker 1: songs but love them so far. Live in Hager City, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Can't wait for you to tour closer to hear maybe Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: Please marry joe Ah you could answer that one. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Mary joe Yee came from a man named Earl Divilis
Speaker 1: Junior back in what twenty eleven, twenty eleven, Granger was
Speaker 1: growing his brand and we were getting creative. I should
Speaker 1: say you were getting creative, and I was looking at
Speaker 1: your hat, says Established twenty eleven. Oh yeah, check my hat.
Speaker 1: I guess I could have made the hat. I should
Speaker 1: know that. Yeah. So, you know, the music industry is
Speaker 1: very difficult to get into, and we I'd like to
Speaker 1: think we were pretty creative, and so we came up
Speaker 1: with a lot of skit and like so I like
Speaker 1: to call it like Saturday Night Live type videos where
Speaker 1: we would just have We came up with this idea
Speaker 1: to just do a video of the week, just because
Speaker 1: we always were just goofy brothers and we liked comedy
Speaker 1: and just being dumb, and we made some videos that
Speaker 1: we thought were funny. We didn't know if anybody else
Speaker 1: was gonna think it was funny, and Earl was just
Speaker 1: one of our many characters that have been lost in
Speaker 1: translation over the years. We had an old house in
Speaker 1: our family's ranch in Texas, and we came up with
Speaker 1: the idea. We said, you know, wouldn't it be funny
Speaker 1: if someone lived in that house, in this old abandoned farmhouse.
Speaker 1: And you know, if somebody did, what would they talk like,
Speaker 1: what would their name be, what would they be dressed like?
Speaker 1: And Tyler had a Tyler played football at at Rice
Speaker 1: University in Texas. He said, I used to have an
Speaker 1: old teammate with the last name Dibbles. That'd be pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Earl's pretty redneck. And then if he's a redneck name
Speaker 1: Earl Dibbles, you mean you got to add junior. And
Speaker 1: and Earl was just we created the monologue for Earl's day.
Speaker 1: Earl said what he did all day and then he
Speaker 1: had the shotgun over his head and Tyler told you
Speaker 1: to yell eeee and you were there too, Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was meet you and Tyler on an unbelievably hot
Speaker 1: day in Texas. Was in I believe it was in June,
Speaker 1: because we put that video out in July. No, it's
Speaker 1: probably July. We probably just I probably put it out
Speaker 1: like the next day, knowing me back then, I probably
Speaker 1: shot it edited it for yeah, if not that night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it was we didn't think that Eeee saying it
Speaker 1: in that video was going to matter at all, and
Speaker 1: it did and the chain of events, you know it.
Speaker 1: Let I think I did a podcast said that said
Speaker 1: how five thousand dollars saved my career, And that's what
Speaker 1: this is. That's what this story is, because we paid
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars to get EU trademarked, and that was
Speaker 1: every penny we had, and it was could have been
Speaker 1: the stupidest thing I ever did, was pay five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for these two words to make sure no one
Speaker 1: else trademarked them. But we did, and I've said this before,
Speaker 1: but we didn't do it to just monopolize that phrase.
Speaker 1: We did it so that no one else would monopolize
Speaker 1: it and not allow us to say it or put
Speaker 1: it on the shirts anymore. So what's crazy because we
Speaker 1: were right there in that same time. Do you remember
Speaker 1: the country boy controversy? So this was crazy now that
Speaker 1: you're like CEO of YE Apparel. Early on our very
Speaker 1: first EE Apparel shirt, really that wasn't Granger Smith was
Speaker 1: it said I'm a country boy and on the back
Speaker 1: it said I got a tough schedule and it said
Speaker 1: one I wake up, two put a good did bend
Speaker 1: three cracker. It was like a long list, fix a tree,
Speaker 1: whittle a good stick, and we put it out and
Speaker 1: we had a black one for the guys and a
Speaker 1: pink one for the girls. And we got to see
Speaker 1: cease and desist letter from this company that said we
Speaker 1: own the phrase country boy and you can no longer
Speaker 1: put that on your shirt. And we were like what
Speaker 1: it was crazy, no way, Like I thought it was
Speaker 1: a joke, like you own country boy. And so I
Speaker 1: was like, well, what does Luke Bryan do you know?
Speaker 1: Because they they owned country Boy and Country Girls. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, what does Luke Brian do country girl?
Speaker 1: Shake it from me? And I looked up on his website.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, he doesn't have anything it says country girls.
Speaker 1: Shake it from me. Because sure enough, this was a
Speaker 1: legit company that don't even sell apparel. They just own that,
Speaker 1: so you have to buy it from them the rights
Speaker 1: to it. So we changed it. So now that shirt
Speaker 1: that used to say I'm a country boy, we changed
Speaker 1: it too. I got a tough schedule and on the
Speaker 1: back it says I wake up. We had to literally
Speaker 1: take it off. So that was right around the time
Speaker 1: we were like, man, we got we got to trademark
Speaker 1: this name because some guy across country is gonna trademark
Speaker 1: it and then tell us we can't never use we
Speaker 1: can never use it in a shirt. And that would
Speaker 1: have That's why five thousand dollars changed my whole career.
Speaker 1: Would have would have been what would we be wearing
Speaker 1: right now? I wouldn't be here? Yeah, what would we do?
Speaker 1: Thank you Mary Joe. Does it say where she's from? Yes, Wisconsin?
Speaker 1: Yeah she's from Hagar City or Hager City. However you
Speaker 1: say that Wisconsin. And I can't wait for you to
Speaker 1: tour in Minneapolis Saint Paul again. Yeah, we can't wait
Speaker 1: to come back. You are crazy out there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make that the last question. I know that
Speaker 1: some people and you could comment below how long are
Speaker 1: these getting? Like? Sometimes I could just talk and talk
Speaker 1: and then I realized there's There have been some people
Speaker 1: that have emailed and said I could only listen. I can,
Speaker 1: my brain can only take twenty minutes, and then I daydream.
Speaker 1: Now turn it off? So what ended here? Thank you
Speaker 1: guys as always, and thank you part for helping me
Speaker 1: be a sidekick. I'm still thinking about that Joshua question too, man,
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking like that really threw me off. If
Speaker 1: you think Christ has already came, what's the point. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is a that is our hope. Like that's what
Speaker 1: I mean. I wake up in the morning and I'm like,
Speaker 1: the mission is still on, Like it is still a go.
Speaker 1: There's still time on the clock. Do you know, Like
Speaker 1: we haven't the game's not over. We still have the
Speaker 1: ball and we still have time on the clock. We
Speaker 1: got a good quarterback, Like, let's go game on, you know,
Speaker 1: wake up and I'm like, we got this. But if
Speaker 1: you already think he came two thousand years ago and
Speaker 1: we're still in suffering, that that is depressing and that's
Speaker 1: not what the Bible says. It does not say that.
Speaker 1: So Joshua email back, let's hear what you got to say.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys, Thanks Barton, thanks for joining me on
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