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Maybe in a way on 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.160 some of these questions, they could be better. I could 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.000 answer them more concisely and give you specific answers. But 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.440 I think it's cool if I just wing it and 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.040 I read a question. I screenshoted to several of them. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.640 If I just kind of wing it, read the question 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.799 and answer off the top of my head, as if 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.120 we're sitting in a living room together. That's the goal, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.680 me and you sitting together. Maybe I'm driving, you're sitting 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.400 shotgun and we're just having a conversation. That's how I 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:12.120 want this to feel. Welcome to episode forty five the 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:49.960 Granger Smith Podcast, did Chide and d My Time and 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:58.760 so long line, fool of umping down on back, Crazy 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:14.240 cover Nation. I think it's fair to say before I start, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.839 a lot of these questions are based on a new album. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.400 There's a lot of questions about a new album, so 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.560 I'll try to answer those quickly. But there is a 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.760 new album from me coming out, and you guys are 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.200 gonna hear songs at the end of this month. August 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.800 the twenty eighth, You're gonna expect a couple of new 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.000 songs and then the rest of the album in September. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.400 Also on that day, August twenty eighth, I will be 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.560 announcing the exact date in September that the album's gonna 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.160 come out, plus more. I can't tell you everything yet. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.839 There's a lot I can't tell you yet, but there's 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.680 gonna be more after September, more songs, and I'll tell 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.120 you how. And so with that being said, I'll dive 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.240 into some of these questions. Is yee Fest still on 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.600 the radar after this new album? Ye Fest is a 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.599 concept that my brothers and I I have been wanting 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.479 to do for a long time where we could we 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:15.839 could brand a festival with music and theme it to 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.919 Yee Nation, where we have some of my maybe some 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.760 of my influencer buddies like Matt Character at Demo Ranch 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:28.520 and Lucker's TV and lake Fork Guy and Outlaw and 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.560 a bunch of these Matt Best like you know, like 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.919 some of these these crazy influencers that I'm in music 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.000 videos with and that some of them are on this 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.400 podcast with and we could all just have a big 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:50.440 Yege party, play music, have other bands, maybe like Mudding, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.040 you know, bring your ATV and have like a Mudding 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:58.320 trail and it would be so fun. And we have 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.400 been putting this off for different reasons. Twenty nineteen had 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.920 a big turn for me in my personal life. Twenty twenty, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.440 of course, concerts just are not happening that as far 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:13.359 as festivals are concerned because of COVID. So I would 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.200 really hope and expect you're gonna see a EEE fest 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.440 in twenty twenty one, I really hope. So there's a 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.800 couple of ways we could do it. We could do 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.479 multiple EEE fest where we do like an East Coast version, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.280 a West Coast version, and something right in the middle 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.880 in the Midwest. Or we could just stick with something 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.839 in the Midwest and expect people to come around to 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.760 that and do it for multiple days. Comment below let 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:43.520 me know which one you would prefer. Will you consider 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.520 making a Christmas CD pretty please? Hashtag ee Yeah. I 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.720 screenshoted this one because I personally won't be making a 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.800 Christmas CD, at least not this year. But we have 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.279 been toying with the idea of Earl Divils Junior doing 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.520 a Christmas song or two or three four and we have. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.280 I have a lot of Earl Christmas song ideas and 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.680 I think it would be so fun. So the reason 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.880 I screenshoted this and wanted to answer it is because 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.600 I would love for Earl to have a Christmas song. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.080 I hope that you would too, So let me know 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.400 about that too. Ooh, this is a good one. This 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.880 is a good one. What is the most dangerous thing 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:30.640 you've done? I like that question? Strange, strange, but I 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.040 like it. I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm gonna go in 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:40.080 modern history of myself and not go into the teenage 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.320 version of me that we all have. You know, a 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.679 long list of things we could We could say about 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:50.640 our teenage years, of dangerous things that we've done, but 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:56.480 then modern history for me, I would love to think. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.080 I would love to think that the most dangerous thing 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.560 I've done has to involve me going to Iraq and 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.720 playing music. And we did this three times, and each 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:12.680 time we went, we would travel in helicopters, black Hawk helicopters. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.760 We would take two black Hawk helicopters. One would have 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.320 me and the band and the other one would have 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.080 our cases and our guitars and gear and drums and 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.280 stuff like that, and we would be there for about 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.680 two weeks each trip, each of the tours, and we 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.200 would play about two shows a day for two weeks. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:36.200 So do the math. Sometimes three shows, sometimes one show, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.160 sometimes three, most of the time two. That's a lot 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.880 of shows. I don't even know exactly how many we played, 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.080 but every day we traveled, so that could be. It 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.360 could be. An average day would be like we're in 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.200 a FOB, a small fob forward operating base where people 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.040 haven't seen music in a while, and maybe they don't 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.480 even have a proper dining facility there, maybe they don't 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.640 even have a proper latrine. We saw some places that 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.080 just had tubes that literally PVC pipe tubes that went 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.600 into the ground and that's where you peede, and that's like, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.640 that's what they had on base as far as latrine 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.560 was concerned. So we loved going to those kind of places. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.560 So we would play a concert there right there in 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.960 the dirt, and then the helicopters would come in to 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.880 the LZ. They would pick us up and we would 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.440 go to another gig, and we would go to a 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.720 similar place and we would play the gig and then 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.400 we would stay there in tents. So we'd stay in 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.439 the tents. And then that's when it got weird because 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.480 sometimes depending on the flight schedule, because we were like 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.400 the obviously the last on the list of the logistics 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.800 of moving people around for these Blackhawks. So depending on 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.080 the flight schedule, sometimes our flight would leave at two am. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.960 Sometimes it would leave at like seven am. That was 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.640 mostly early morning, like six, seven, eight am, but sometimes 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.160 we didn't know. Sometimes it was a window, say of 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.040 midnight to three am. Be ready, So we would sleep 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.320 in our clothes with our bags and just lay on 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:19.160 our bags. And we learned, just like the Army did 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:24.880 there in the Marines, to fall asleep and lay on 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.880 the bag as a pillow and be ready. If you 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.680 hear the helicopter, they would wake us up say hey, birds, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.120 you're rolling in. So with that, to get back to 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.800 the question, there's always a danger when you're flying that 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.840 much twice a day in helicopters in a war zone, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.160 there's always just a certain amount of danger that goes 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.160 to that. Because we would ask them like how many 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:53.040 black Hawks go down ever in Iraq? I'm thinking maybe 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.520 one or two, and you'd hear about it on Fox news. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.440 Now I was wrong. They go down a lot, and 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.360 our news media outlet's just don't report it. You just 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.720 don't because it's it's like it doesn't matter anymore to 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.280 the average civilian as far as a news cycle. So, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.000 but they do go down a lot. And those those 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.680 men and women that fly those oh gosh, that is 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.679 a there's a lot of tough gigs out there, and 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.600 that's one of them that you don't think about us often. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.560 Those pilots and those crew chiefs and everybody that flies 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.560 in those black Hawks. It's tough, man. They're like, they're 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.160 like the workhorses of the Middle East for American forces. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.840 They're just going, going, going, and there's a lot of 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.880 danger to it. There was several times when we had 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:43.440 really close calls with with shoulder mounted rocket launcher, grenade launchers. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.200 I can't even think of everything that there's a lot 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.280 of small armed guns that were shot at us. I 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.600 can't even think of everything that was that was fired 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.680 at us. But we got a little taste of a 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.880 lot of it, and we would have to shoot flares 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.920 out to distract. We would make all kinds of evase 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.199 of maneuvers. I learned really, really fast that those black 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.880 Hawks could maneuver like crazy. They just go up, you know, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.280 and I mean it's no roller coaster can compare to 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.360 a black Hawk helicopter. It's like you're sitting there and 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.440 then in a fraction of a second, you're completely vertical 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.080 going straight up, and then it turns like this with 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.840 zero reaction time, and then you could be and there's 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.800 no doors, so you're just you know, you're completely sideways. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.840 There's the desert right there. You're thank god you're strapped 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.640 in with these five point harness and then you're back 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.920 the other way and you don't even know that you're 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:43.520 being pursued by some enemy fighter that's trying to kill you. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.960 So we had several of those experiences. And we also 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.840 had experiences where we actually played concerts and a mortar 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.720 we'd had incoming mortaround into the base and hit close 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.240 to where we were playing, because probably because they could 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.600 hear the music and the enemy could hear the music, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.480 and we would have to go into a bunker and 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.160 then we'd have to wait for a long time in 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.040 these concrete bunkers for the all clear. All that being said, 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.000 I have to when I tell stories like this, I 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.560 have to say that I don't want to at all 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.920 tell a story like this and try to diminish or 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.520 raise myself on a pedestal of look how scary this was, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.720 because there's men and women that do this daily. Is 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.640 part of their job, that's just what they do. And 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.199 so for me to come in and say I did 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.240 two weeks as nothing, So let me just throw this 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.520 out there that that was probably the most dangerous thing 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.200 I've done, is those series of shows, those series of travels, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.800 But it does not compare to the people that actually 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.400 do it for a living, and that's part of their lives. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.200 Because I remember when those when those black Hawks would 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.240 land and we would jump off, and we had to 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.960 jump off fast because their schedule was so tight there 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.439 to another mission. And I remember a couple of times 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:09.239 after these crazy maneuvers, after the crazy incoming and RPGs 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.120 are coming in and we're dropping flares, crazy maneuvers, they 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.440 drop us off. We get off on the LZ and 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.880 we're moving and I look back. Those birds are already gone. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.960 They're going right back into Baghdad, right back into the 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:26.880 hell zone. And I'm just thinking, God bless them, man, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.520 God bless them. They're just going right back where they 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:36.200 came from because that's their job. So yeah, I love 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:42.720 talking about that subject. And to Colin from Instagram, it's 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.840 probably the most dangerous thing I've done. I'm gonna take 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:55.440 quick break. 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You 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.520 guys got to help me with this. But regardless, Jeff, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:42.399 we love playing Canada. Some of my favorite fans. I 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.040 feel like we've played coast to coast in Canada. Not 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.359 nearly enough, but we have played coast to coast on 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.040 several tours, and so, yes, Buddy, count me in for 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:56.320 Canada's Prairies. Here's a question that says, is there gonna 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:03.000 be Earl Dibbles junior songs on this new album? Yes, Buddy, Yes, Yes. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.840 The So the album as a whole, there's a lot 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.080 of songs on it. There's going to be three Earl 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.159 Devils junior features. I'll go ahead and tell you now 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.119 two of them. This is exclusive podcast information two of 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.639 them are just Earl, so it's like your typical earl 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.800 like you did City Boy, Stuck and Comfortable Song and 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:31.040 Countryble We Love and America Don't Tread on Me Is. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.560 There's two of those, and then there's one where he's 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.639 with Granger with me. It's always weird speaking third person, 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.359 but when he's with me, like in Holler when he 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.440 comes in at the bridge. You're gonna learn a lot 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:51.720 more about this in the next month, but dude, I'm excited. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.840 Earl songs are always so fun immediately to add them 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.400 to a show, a live concert, it's because we could. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.040 They're There's so many other songs that really depend on 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:03.639 if the crowd knows them and if the crowd is 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.600 going to sing along, if they're familiar with the new 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.760 song yet. But Earl doesn't matter. Like we could play 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.440 an Earl song tomorrow. You've never heard it, we've never 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.680 played it, and it's just going to work. So I'm 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.720 really excited about that. And as far as a live 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:21.920 show is concerned, here's a question from Holden Anderson. It says, 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:27.800 what is the most you've missed out from being Let 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.960 me read this again, what is the most you have 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:35.800 missed from being out on tour, And I'm assuming what 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.560 is the most you've missed from being out on tour. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.000 I'm assuming you're talking about the stuff at home, Like 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.639 what have I had to skip because I'm on the 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.359 road touring and that is that has always been a 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.120 struggle with not only me but my band and crew. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:58.240 It's a sacrifice we make. And there is a Garth 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:03.640 Brooks song called not Lament. It's an unknown album cut 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.880 song night Writer's Lament and a man I've always loved 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.720 that song because it just talks about this cowboy that's 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:16.040 that's out on on on a drive with his few 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.040 cowboy loner buddies, and he gets a letter from home 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:25.800 and he reads it and the letter talks about his 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:30.640 old girl is now married and she's doing great, and man, 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:32.800 you really you really missed the boat when you didn't 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:37.639 come back, and and you get all you get this 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.880 sad feeling like, man, he sacrificed a really cool life 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.879 and a really cool girl all for this life is 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.160 being a cowboy. But then when he gets to the bridge, 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.000 it says, ah, but they've never seen the northern lights, 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.480 They've never seen a hawk on the wind. They've never 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.200 spent spring in the Great Divide, and they've never heard 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:01.960 Old camp Cookie sing. And it gives me chills just 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.320 thinking about it. It's like you sacrifice such a normal 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.960 life to be on the road, but there's certain things 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.600 you get out of it that are worth it. And 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:12.560 that's the way I feel about touring. I've missed a 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.000 lot in my life. I've had to sacrifice a lot, 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.840 but it's not all in vain. Like if it was 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.280 in vain, I wouldn't do it anymore. I would quit. 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.080 But there's there's things that we get. There's smiles that 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.600 we see, There's there's hugs that we're able to give. 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:37.560 There's lives that we can foreseeably change with music and 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:42.240 with touring, and we're making memories. All those helicopter stories. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.399 I just told you that that doesn't happen without touring. 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.800 If I'm if I'm safe and i'm home and I'm 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:54.119 living my safe, little predictable life, I don't have those stories. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.040 I don't have a potential to make someone smile on 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.919 a bad day, bring someone out of a place that 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:03.840 they didn't want to be, in a dark place that 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:08.400 been only a music concert on the Saturday Night could 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.199 have brought. And this is not at all bragging on me. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.320 It's a testament to what music and live music and 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.800 touring does. All that being said, buddy, holding your question, 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:23.720 what is the most you have missed from being out 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:28.840 on tour? Man, I've missed. I've missed countless birthdays for 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:33.399 my kids, my wife, I've missed anniversaries. I've missed every 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.200 single wedding from everybody you could possibly imagine that I've 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:41.199 had from high school and college, and we all have 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:46.280 and that has just been part of that's been part 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.800 of the sacrifice. We just don't go to weddings because 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.280 weddings are on Saturday nights and we're playing. That's when 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.720 we're making money, that's when we work. That in comparison, 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:01.440 Saturday night to me is your Monday afternoon. Like that's 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.760 your work day, that's the day you gotta go. You 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:06.200 gotta go to work, you got to clock in on Monday. 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.000 That's just when you go. I gotta clock in on 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:16.359 Saturday night. And with that, my choice is I'd say, hey, 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:21.240 sorry tour, sorry band, sorry crew. I got a buddy 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:23.879 from college and he's getting married, and I'm going to 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:28.840 go be at that wedding, and some of you listening 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:31.399 might think, well, that would be the noble thing to do. 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:34.320 That's your buddy, But where do you draw the line 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:38.359 and where do I say I have an obligation with 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:40.640 my band and crew to play this show or with 0:23:40.680 --> 0:23:45.360 my fans to play this show. At what point do 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.080 I start saying no to a buddy or at what 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:50.760 level of friendship does he need to be if I'm 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:54.160 going to say yes to his wedding man Johnny Wazenski, 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:57.159 my bass player, I missed his wedding because we had 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:58.480 a show that night and we had to get a 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:02.200 fill in bass player. I'm not trying to be mean, 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:08.639 are are cynical or crude by any means. That's just 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:12.760 what we signed up for. And we don't skip. We 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:15.959 don't skip touring to stay home and go to birthday 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.320 parties and weddings. Now, all that being said, we try 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:22.639 our hardest to be as present as possible when we 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:25.399 are home and when we are with our friends and 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:27.639 make up for it. And when my kid has a 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:31.240 birthday on a Thursday night and I'm gone, when I'm 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:33.879 come home Sunday, we're doing a birthday party and we're 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:35.920 gonna make it big and we're gonna make it special. 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:39.640 And I'm gonna FaceTime on that Thursday, and I'm gonna 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:42.040 send them secret notes that they're hidden in the room 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.720 that they're gonna find under their pillow. I'm going to 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:47.639 I'm going to go try to go an extra mile 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:52.040 on those days to make up for it. But unfortunately 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:57.880 that's part of the sacrifice. That's a good question. Here, 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:04.240 here's one speaking of cowboys. When are you coming to Wyoming? Buddy? 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:08.000 If you're listening to this in real time on Monday, 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:10.720