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Speaker 1: What's up y'all? Grangersmith Podcast, Episode twenty two. Thanks for watching,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, Thanks for being involved. This is episode

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Speaker 1: number three since we started putting it on YouTube. There

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Speaker 1: are nineteen before that on your favorite podcast app, and

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Speaker 1: if you want to go back, the purpose of the

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Speaker 1: previous nineteen kind of tells you the story of who

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Speaker 1: I am. So if you've ever wondered like, well, where

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Speaker 1: did you learn to play guitar? Or what got you

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Speaker 1: big break? Or two or three or four, because it

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Speaker 1: takes multiple layers, where do you come from? Tell me

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Speaker 1: about your face? Those are kind of the stories that

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Speaker 1: I told the story of who I was, the Diary

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Speaker 1: of who I am, And it took about nineteen episodes

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Speaker 1: plus a little, you know, little shaking bake here and

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Speaker 1: there throughout those episodes, different things. Right now, where I

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Speaker 1: am with this podcast is giving you, hopefully some quality content,

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Speaker 1: to know about me. And ultimately my goal is give

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Speaker 1: you some things to make your life a little bit better,

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Speaker 1: Things that I've maybe learned along the way that are

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Speaker 1: not secrets of me, that are moreover things that I

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Speaker 1: witnessed myself, or applied to something that's going on in

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Speaker 1: if I could, if I could see something, and there's

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Speaker 1: not many philosophical original ideas, right, I mean, everything has

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Speaker 1: been thought out over thousands of years of human learning.

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Speaker 1: someone else, I mean, that's the way we evolve mentally

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Speaker 1: helps me to know that I'm doing something good. I'm

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Speaker 1: found it, knowing that some life has breathed easier because

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Speaker 1: you lived. Ralph Waldo Emerson and I read that point

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite poems. We found it in my

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Speaker 1: dad's belongings. He had handwritten it from wherever he originally

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to talk about answering your

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Speaker 1: I'm going I go into this stuff completely unprepared, like

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Speaker 1: I think this is a way for me to not

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Speaker 1: Far better is it, the dare mighty things to win

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Speaker 1: you're willing to take that chance, then it's okay to

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Speaker 1: lose because you will. Inevitably you will lose in life.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens. But eventually you'll win too, right, It's

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Speaker 1: a black Ee Apparel cap. This is what we call

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Speaker 1: American buck and it's an American flag with a black

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Speaker 1: you're not going to see some brand recognize from Walmart.

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Speaker 1: These are EEE Apparel, official merchandise. It says ye yee

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Speaker 1: sure you mention episode twenty two. So when I go back,

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Speaker 1: sourcing these questions from social media, and I asked one time,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I like the shallow ones because I could

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Speaker 1: Question is how do you keep yourself so well grounded,

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