WEBVTT - When you hear this (it might be too late) 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.040 What's Up. Welcome to the podcast. This is episode sixty 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.880 two Grangersmith Podcast. Thank you for listening and watching, and 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.879 thank you especially to those that have come this long 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:11.879 journey with me all the way back to episode one 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.920 and following the evolution and the growth of what this 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.119 channel has become and what this podcast has become. It 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.439 started with me in the back of my bus just 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:27.160 telling stories, and it has evolved into having very different 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:36.680 style guests, everything from war veterans, injured war veterans to preachers, 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.120 I mean, and we've had everything in between. I had 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.159 someone ask me one time, I wish you could go 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.080 back and do the podcast like you used to do 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.040 it when I used to tell stories. And partly why 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.760 I've made a little bit of a transition is because 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.520 now we're filming for YouTube and we're adding we're adding 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.520 new listeners through people that are only on the YouTube format. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.280 So I know that a lot of you listen to 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.360 the like Apple Music or Spotify or your podcast app. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.120 I know there's a lot of different apps for podcasts 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.960 and a lot of different ways you're listening, but YouTube 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:14.640 is now one of them. And when I switched over 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.399 to YouTube and started filming it. I had to kind 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.679 of get away from the the editing that I was 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.360 doing making the stories. So I would sit in the 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.560 back of my bus and I would tell the story 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.399 and then I would stop and I would take like 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.040 a couple of notes, and then I would add a 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.800 little musical transition, and then I would tell another little 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.920 piece of a story and it would stop, and it 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.840 would take me a long time. It was. It was grueling, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.600 which is back back then, I was releasing like one 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.240 a month, one episode a month, and it was grueling. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:44.800 I would start dreading it and I was like, oh, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.319 I gotta go, I gotta do this podcast. It's going 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.880 to take me a couple of hours. And so now 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.400 the way that it is now, I literally turned the 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.520 camera on, I hit my pro tools on my computer, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.280 I hit record, and whatever I say, it goes on 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.920 the podcast. So there's good and bad. The good news 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.920 is it makes it way easier for me to put 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.680 these out every single Monday. The bad news is I 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.079 can't really dig in and stop and start and edit 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.760 and add music transitions and stop and start and create. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.359 You know. So good and bad that I think that 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.200 the better side of that story is I get to 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.840 put out a bunch. I get to put out a 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.600 bunch of these, and so thank you guys everyone for listening. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.280 But I have to say, if you're watching this now, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.160 it's already too late. It's already too late if you're 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.679 watching this now. And what I mean is we're doing 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.440 this truck giveaway, and as I'm filming this, I just 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.639 literally just went and put the truck in the field 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.320 right outside this window at the Eyegee Farm outside of 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.359 my podcast studio, and I just parked it where it's 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.840 going to be for this contest. We have five finalists 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:10.440 that we're flying in tonight to to Texas. They're from Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.360 and Utah. They're all coming here. And these are finalists 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.680 from anyone that has purchased something from Yegi dot com 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.639 over the last month. That's how we started the contest. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.320 And then we took all of those people and gave 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.280 them to a third party company that picks random drawing 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.440 contest for a liven So we paid them. They picked 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.280 five finalists. I called them last week and told each 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.920 finalist that they were the one picked. So then they 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.400 made arrangements. They have a teammate and they're all flying 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.040 here tonight, So as we speak, they are going to 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.600 fly in and in the morning, at nine am, they 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.680 put their hands on the truck and the last person 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.440 at that point to take their hand off the truck 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.040 will win it. And so that'll start Saturday morning when 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.119 you hear this podcast. This Poske podcast comes out on Monday, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.040 So by the time this comes out, by the time 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.600 you hear this, it's already too late. We probably have 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.520 already decided a winner. If we have not decided a 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.440 winner by the time this podcast airs on Monday morning, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.960 wherever you are in the world, commuting to work, whatever 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.440 you're doing this morning, listening to this podcast, if we 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:25.560 haven't decided a winner, then then we're running ragged here 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.359 at the EE Farm. That means that means we're going 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.800 all day Saturday, all day Sunday, all Sunday night in 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.480 the Monday morning. And it might, it might we might 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.080 have two more finalists out there as we speak. But 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.800 you probably know as a listener, So follow me on 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.560 my socials. Every one in my social media platforms, it's 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.800 Granger Smith at Granger Smith or at Earl Dibbles Junior. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.640 So go to any one of those, and you'll see 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.320 I'm going to try to keep up with the real 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.000 time news on what's happening out there in the field 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.080 with their hands on the truck. And I'm so I'm 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.080 so excited about this. I'm so pumped. This might be 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.560 one of the coolest things we've ever done. And literally, 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.760 if you're watching this podcast right now, it might be 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.320 too late to even know what the final result is, 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.560 so I can't say how excited I am pumped about it. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:31.680 We're always into something crazy, and you know the thing is, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.320 if this works out well, which I hope it does, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.400 mean we're gonna be grilling out, We're gonna be having 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.640 some fun. We're gonna have the band out playing songs. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.479 If this works out well, we'll do it every year. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.440 This is the one I'm giving away right now. This 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.599 is my truck I've driven over the last ten years. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.679 It's a lot of memories in that truck. But maybe 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.320 maybe we'll get another truck and do it again in 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.800 twenty twenty one. Let me know comment below if this 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.320 is something you would like to be a part of 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.719 and have a chance at get your hands on this truck. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.600 I think one of the cool things things about it 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.840 is just coming here to the farm and being with 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.279 us and hanging out with us, and we get to 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.200 meet you and get to know you a little bit 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:08.960 and get to know you really well. And you're standing 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:14.760 out with your hand on the hood anyway, So many 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.080 things happen, and you can keep up with all this 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.839 at at ee dot com, Grandersmith dot com all of 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.320 our social EEU Peril has the social media, so there's 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.560 a ton of ways to keep up with this, including 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.040 this podcast. I will always keep you guys up to 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.520 date on this podcast. And if you need to ask 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.720 me anything, if you want to know anything, if you 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.520 want to know my views on something, I'm always going 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.080 to shoot you straight, and I'm going to tell you 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.600 the good, the good or the bad. I'm going to 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.880 tell it to you straight. I'm gonna tell you the 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.040 way I feel. I'm not afraid to tell you exactly 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.760 how I stand. And for those of you that have 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.880 listened to me or watched me long enough, you know 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.040 that I'm not I'm not ashamed to come on here 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.039 and just tell you straight up. It might it might 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.560 hurt my career, it might help my career, but I 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.080 don't care I'm just gonna tell you the way it is, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.000 so ask me anything, and you could do that by 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:11.200 emailing Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. Grangersmith Podcast 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.240 at gmail dot com. In fact, wherever you are, pull 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.160 over your truck right now, pull over the side of 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.960 the road, whip out your little email and hit me 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.920 up right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna get into these questions. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.920 I'm gonna start answering them right now. I'm gonna bring 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:57.960 my brother Parker in here. Welcome to the podcast. Ye 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:10.080 did chant in d times and long line, fool up 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:28.600 and down, going back range evagation. I'm gonna get into 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.520 some of these emails. If you want to hear anything 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:36.760 from me, email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.840 And a lot of times, that's what this podcast will 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.360 be about. Not every time, but a lot of times. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.319 I'm gonna get in here and go through these emails 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.200 and I'll read them. I'll try my best to answer. Today. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.080 I have my brother Parker, he's back, been on several episodes. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:56.880 He's he's a great, great mediator to my answering. First, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.480 I want to start out with a couple of shout outs. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.920 Shout out to Scott Hines. He says, Hey, I'm a 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.520 big fan of your music. I always have been. It's 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.280 my sixteenth birthday on the twenty third, and I'm not 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.520 getting anything, so if you can wish me happy birthday, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.680 Happy birthday, Scott, Thank you for listening. Bro. Another shout 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.720 out says, Hey, my name is Tucker Bowman. I'm twelve 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.920 years old. I had a question for you. My birthday's 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.920 October sixteenth. I love your music and your podcast, and 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.840 I would love a shout out. One of my favorite 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.440 songs is holler Back Road Song and Tailgatetown. What's up, Tucker, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:37.320 Happy birthday? Thank you for listening, Bro. And this last 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.679 one says Hey Granger Smith. I want to thank you 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.520 so much for your songs. Sometimes in bad moods and 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.720 when I listen to your songs, my mood just changes. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:51.360 Sent from Corny Webe from Chihuahua, Mexico. Thank you man. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.560 Appreciate you all you guys. And I'll get to I 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.080 got a lot of those shout outs I gotta get to, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.240 but I want to get to some questions. Sixteenth birthday. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.240 You remember what you were doing on your sixteenth birthday? 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.559 I feel like that's one that everybody remembers. I actually do. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.920 I was in Earl's truck, the one that we're restoring, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.160 and I drove to San Antonio, Texas to watch George 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:17.280 straight play. Uh. Was that your first time driving on 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:22.240 your own? You mean like a road trip? Yeah? Was 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.760 that your first truck? Truck? Yeah, my first I thought 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.480 it was. I thought it was at White Chevy. That 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.360 was later Chevy. I didn't know that was your first 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.360 truck was Earl's. Yeah. I think mom has pictures somewhere 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:40.080 of me going to that concert. Did you drive by yourself? Yeah, 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.400 the first time I did, and then I went another 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.120 time with Dad and two buddies. You drove to a 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.280 George Strait concert by yourself at sixteen? Yeah, on your birthday? Yeah? 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.360 And I also saw him at Texas Stadium that same 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:57.400 year on sixteen, and I drove to Texas Stadium in Irving, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.960 Texas and camped out. I say camp out. I didn't 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.600 really care, but I just got there before the sun 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.200 came up to get tickets a month ahead, and I 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.920 was in his fan club, So I was like seventh 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.200 in line at Texas Stadium because the fan club got 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.800 an early entry early ticket purchase, so I was like 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.480 seventh in line, and so my ticket was second row, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.440 almost right in the middle. And that's why I wanted 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.280 these concerts by myself, because I I was the only 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.679 one getting those tickets. So I would go buy one ticket. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.800 It was like sixty five dollars or something crazy like that. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.680 One ticket, just me and I would show the door. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.959 The gates would open at noon, and I'll be there 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:45.000 at the gates. George wouldn't go into like nine pm. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.600 Do you still how often do you think about that 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.199 at your concerts or do you just think about it? 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.480 Do you think about that every time? That still has 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.400 to stay with you? Think about all the think about 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.800 it all the time. Because those days, I was standing 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.920 in front of the stage looking up at all the lights, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.160 and I was basically the only one in that Like 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.640 everyone that's in the middle of this up close is 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.839 usually a rich person or like a celebrity, and they 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.920 don't show up till it's dark. So here I am, 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:19.280 this kid, I'm the only one in fifty feet there's 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.959 just empty chairs, those empty fold up chairs everywhere. I'm 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.920 the only one. So when the first band goes on, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.280 I'm just like right, they could just clearly see me 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.960 standing this kid in a cowboy hat, standing all by himself. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.920 And I remember all the bands that went on. I've 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.920 never actually told them this, and I know them personally 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.240 most of them now, and I haven't. I always forget 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:47.240 to say, hey man. In nineteen ninety six, I was 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:52.520 at Texas Stadium in the second row center and then 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.080 at night when George was about to come on, like 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.600 Troy Yateman would walk out and sit in this front 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.920 row seat, jaredry Jones will walk out sit down in 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:07.719 the front row. All kinds of important people would be 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.960 on the front row. And then one more story. Then 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.320 I got I went to so many of these concerts 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.600 and did this that I would talk to the camera guys. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.800 There was guys on the ends of the aisles that 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:26.520 were shooting the camera for the JumboTron, and I said, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.320 when when could I rush the stage? Because I knew 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.280 that at the end of every George concert, during the 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.880 last song, they would rush the stage, so I would, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.800 but I wouldn't know when that song was coming. So 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.920 the camera guys they would be the ones. Because I 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.000 could talk to them, I say when could I rush? 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.960 And they say when we start packing our cameras, putting 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.400 our cameras down. That's when you know it's the second 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.520 to the last song. So I would see the camera 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.640 guy because they have to move their cameras for the crowd. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.640 They'd start wrapping their cables and they'd look over at 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.080 me and kind of give me like a little wink 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.240 like this is the second to last song. So then 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.800 I could get ready and get those two seats in 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.920 front of me, like my two hands on them, getting 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.960 ready to push them. And as soon as that song 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.000 was over, I would push the chairs and run to 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:15.880 the front and be right at George's feet, and then 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.880 everyone else would rush in. And that always that feeling 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.720 that it girls. It was always girls behind me that 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.520 would just crush me into the stage. So I'd be 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.760 like to the stage and I would like have to 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.200 fight to get my back pushed back a little bit 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.080 to have a little room so I could do this. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.200 That was my life. Man, That's amazing. Gosh, that is 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.000 I've never heard that story. That is some commitment. Man. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.960 I don't think I know anybody man to be front 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.480 row in nineteen ninety six at a George Straight concert. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:53.400 That's a story. Several of them. Just buy yourself there, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:59.160 just saving it aplene, Texas, San Antonio twice, Dallas twice, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:06.600 all in during that same little time period. So yeah, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:11.880 I think about my fans. I've been there. That's a 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.720 huge I consider that very valuable to me to have 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:21.360 that experience. Man, I was a sidetrack. Let's get to 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.440 I got a little less of these questions. I don't 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.000 know what we can get to, but we're gonna try 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.480 to get through them once again. This Grangersmith podcast at 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.680 gmail dot com if you want to give me a 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:40.480 shout out. This question is from Jacob and Jacob's from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.120 It says, grad, You're not sure if you'll see this, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.240 but I just wanted to reach out and let you 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.160 know how much I appreciate all you do. You have 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.960 no idea how much your entertainment enjoy you bring to 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.360 my life. I'm a second year medical student at the 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.040 University of Kentucky. Go CAATs every Monday morning on my 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.520 drive to the hospital, I listen to your podcast, and 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.560 after every exam, I always unwind and relax by catching 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.120 up on the Smiths. I love your music and you're 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.240 an incredible role model for me. Thank you, buddy, uh 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.320 he says. I love when you talk about faith, and 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.200 I love it if you would share a little bit 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.720 more about your journey as a Christian. Did you grow 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.040 up in the church where you saved, et cetera, When 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.520 were you saved, et cetera. I lead worship at my 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.400 church in my hometown, so faith and music are two 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.760 of the most important things in my life. Thanks again, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.520 and God blessed. Jacob from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Thanks for writing 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.800 in man, I'm glad that you read. I read that 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.040 question when Parker's sitting next to me on my brother 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.920 and it always is cool to me to hear somebody 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.600 listens to the podcast every morning on a commute. That's 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.200 like becomes a routine. And I wonder, like, as soon 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.320 as I start reading it, if you're driving in and 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.720 you're like, oh my god, that's my question, Like what 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.640 does that feel like? That's my question, Like you will 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.720 swear off the road. You listen over and over and 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.800 then it's your question. And I have gotten this several times, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.360 so I think it's a good question. It's a good 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:13.760 one to talk about. I grew up Methodist. The majority 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:20.000 of my life was Methodist. We were heavy churchgoers pretty 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:25.040 much my my most of my life. And then we 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:32.040 moved to a little town outside of Waco, and that's 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:36.399 when you were in your prime. And y'all you didn't 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:41.560 go right when we were in Clifton. Yeah, we went 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.120 a lot more in Clifton than we ever did in Doubt. Okay, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.680 so you slowed down, like when I left house, you probably. Yeah, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.000 we almost never went in Dallas, but I'd love that. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.439 That's Dad loved small town churches and it was a 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.680 little Baptist church and like the pastor, so we went. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.440 We went a lot there. Yeah, the nut pastor ended 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:06.760 up burying dead and riv So to dig into that question, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:20.280 my mom and dad are were pretty religious. But when 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.399 I say that term religious, that doesn't I don't necessarily 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:31.879 always mean specific traditions that you like. When I think 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.399 of religion, I think you got to do this at 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.439 three o'clock, and then you got to face this direction 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.800 at four o'clock. Like, It's not that they were. They 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.200 were very, very deep in the Christian faith, and they 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:47.520 taught us from a young age how to follow Christ, 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:54.640 to give your life to Christ. And my mom, she says, 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.000 this all the time. She listens to this podcast. So, hey, Mom, 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.280 you listen to this podcast. I know you do. She 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.439 always says that she read the entire New Testament to 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.639 me while I was nursing and when I was a baby. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.600 So anytime I'm on a podcast and I start talking 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.360 about Jesus, She's like, see, I knew because I read you. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.800 I read you the New Testament when you were a baby, 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.080 and I knew that that was going to do something 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:22.320 to your little brain, and maybe it did. What's your 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.960 story growing up, Parker. We're thirteen years apart, so we 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.919 sometimes have a different story growing up. Yeah, I was 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.400 basically like an only child as a kid because Grande 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.399 and I were so far apart. So a lot of you, 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.880 if any of y'all have much older siblings, you kind 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.000 of know what I'm talking about. See, you almost have 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.200 a different childhood a because you were you're the oldest 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.640 and you were their first child, so they're a little 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.080 more strict with you. Then it kind of loosens up 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.159 as as you go. But yeah, I was just going 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.080 to say, we weren't. We were never the like like 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.760 memorize these note cards of Bible verses every Sunday and 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:58.960 then like you have to have your Bible verses down 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.879 and then we're gonna quiz you. And we're very informal, 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.520 and it was more just Dad was always very open 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.239 with us. It was like, you just accept Christ as 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.840 your savior, admit you're a sinner, and that's what's most important. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.480 And then beyond that, it's just be a man of 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.679 integrity and have your values in order and know it's 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:19.160 important in life. Just kind of that was the foundation. Yeah, 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:23.040 but it wasn't. There was no uh like formal like 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.480 some some families that I knew growing up. Yeah, we 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.879 got I got confirmed when I was in sixth grade, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.880 and confirmation, I believe several churches do that I don't. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:33.919 I don't exactly know which ones. I know Methodist did 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.400 obviously that's where I was. And so I went through 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.760 Confirmation in sixth grade and was baptized then and Dad 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:46.679 gave me a necklace that it was a replica of 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.240 what he wore, which was a replica of what his 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.399 dad wore, and he gave it to the US three boys. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:55.360 And my uncle has one that he gave to his son. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.320 You have one, right, m Yeah, So we all got 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.080 it's a little cross necklace. So that was kind of 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.240 part of the Smith family tradition that I'm assuming I'll 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.480 go ahead and pass that on to Lincoln when he's 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:12.439 in sixth grade. And my memories of church growing up 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:18.320 was squirming in the pew and being so bored out 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:22.680 of my mind and Dad squeezing my knee with his 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.960 thumb and his middle finger, just digging his hands into 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.919 my kneecap and just look just looking at me, like 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:35.639 be quiet. And my dad had these massive hands. They 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.760 are so strong. He could just crush my knee. And 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:40.640 so I tell Amber like when I when I try 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:43.240 to discipline Lincoln, I'm like, I just want Lincoln to 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.240 look at me with the fear that I looked at 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.680 my dad sometimes like because it got to the point 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.000 where all you have to do is just look at 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.160 me and go. And I'd be like, yes, sir, yes, sir. 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.200 He had, and he Aggie ring he had like that 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.800 me and you, Parker are both wearing I'm actually not 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:02.320 my oh you're not, but this is Zaggie ring from 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.479 Texas A and m Dad had one too, and sometimes 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:06.920 he could pop me in the back of the head 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.920 with this ring. Did he do that to you? No, 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:11.760 he could pop me in the back of the head 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:14.560 with that ring, and Amber is always like, I can 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.520 I picture him doing that? But he knew exactly how 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.240 hard to hit me in the back of the head, 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.000 that enough where it didn't crack the skull or make 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:28.080 a bump, but it was just enough to never want 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.640 to do what I was doing ever again. It hurt 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.399 so bad I could like taste metal in my teeth. 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.480 Oh yeah, he never did that to me. They were 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.040 way more strict with you. Why were they so strict 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.679 with me and not with you? They were way older 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:42.480 with you, I guess because I was I was playing 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:49.760 more behaved, I guess, so I would love. What about spankings, Parker, 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.440 did you get spanked? No? I don't think I got 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:54.920 spanked once because Tom actually was a good kid. Tyler 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.040 and I got whooped so bad. It was all the time. 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.520 We'd come in and Dad would come them from work 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.440 and be like, hey, guys, how's it going hi, And 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:08.520 we'd all just be like holding our toes and our 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.720 shoes real tight, and Mom would say, Chris, well have 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:16.679 something to say. The boys talking about me and Tyler 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.920