Speaker 1: Hey, what's up? Grangersmith podcast coming from a new location today,
Speaker 1: the bus Montana. I've done the podcast many times on
Speaker 1: the bus next door with Wildflower, but today I'm in Montana.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit more space here and I have
Speaker 1: some more light, and so I'm going to bring in
Speaker 1: today my guest Amber and having two people in the
Speaker 1: same room and Wildflowers a little tight. So first podcast
Speaker 1: on Montana, and I guess I didn't even say the
Speaker 1: reason why I'm doing it on a bus at all.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm doing it on a bus at all
Speaker 1: is because we're parked at Ee Apparel, but they're doing
Speaker 1: some construction work. They're remodeling the kitchen, so it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, craziness. So I needed to find a quiet spot.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I could hear butch on the
Speaker 1: tractor right now, so it's like, I never really on
Speaker 1: this farm, can never really escape noise to make a podcast.
Speaker 1: And Amber and I are building a house and in
Speaker 1: the house there's going to be a special room just
Speaker 1: for the podcast, So I don't know if that's going
Speaker 1: to be quiet. I'll probably have dogs barking there, but regardless,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. I know
Speaker 1: you guys are coming from a lot of different places
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Speaker 1: of my day to be able to sit here and
Speaker 1: do this podcast. I do want to give a shout
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Speaker 1: what's up buddy? Thank you for liking songs like Never
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Speaker 1: video message. All that being said, I know that Butcher's
Speaker 1: working hard on the tractor. I could hear him, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna about to go work with them right after
Speaker 1: this podcast and do a little work on restoring Earl
Speaker 1: Dibble's truck and so much stuff that's going on here
Speaker 1: at the ee farm. I'm like, I have to keep
Speaker 1: notes just to keep up with what I'm doing. Today's podcast,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing an Amber and she's almost here, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work on the truck a little bit. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get Amber in here. I'm excited. I'm always excited to
Speaker 1: have her because she has such good insight on life,
Speaker 1: and I could learn from her. Every time I'm with her,
Speaker 1: I could learn but soaking in, uh some knowledge that
Speaker 1: I didn't hear her say before in the ten years
Speaker 1: that I've known her. So she's she's a special woman,
Speaker 1: and I think that she could help this podcast and
Speaker 1: a lot of y'all could enjoy listening to her. So
Speaker 1: that's what I got. Welcome to the podcast. Ye did
Speaker 1: he lo up and down? Going back rangeation? My brother
Speaker 1: Tyler just walked on here and we had started the
Speaker 1: podcast and then he Tyler walked on the bus because
Speaker 1: people aren't used to knowing that we're doing podcasts on
Speaker 1: the bus Montana. But he said that I got an
Speaker 1: offer to speak at a church in Granger, Indiana. Is
Speaker 1: that you too or just me? She contacted me, but
Speaker 1: it only had your name. Okay, So it's interesting that
Speaker 1: it's interesting that a church in Indiana would request me
Speaker 1: to come speak there. She said that they were the
Speaker 1: Smiths and have watched and oh, she said, you watched
Speaker 1: your podcast with Pastor Joe. So she was wondering with
Speaker 1: everything with you not touring, She thought you might be
Speaker 1: open to speaking engagements at more churches. Yeah, sometimes you're
Speaker 1: just like, okay, God, what do you want right now?
Speaker 1: What do you want from me? But then you know,
Speaker 1: my position is just always keep my eyes open, my
Speaker 1: ears open, my heart open, ready for ready to not
Speaker 1: miss an opportunity to make a difference that I should
Speaker 1: be doing, you know, instead of taking the first reaction
Speaker 1: of going no, I'm a singer. I am a country
Speaker 1: music singer. That's what I do. So yeah, God calls
Speaker 1: us to come out of our comfort zone. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: definitely out of my comfort zone to even think about
Speaker 1: something like that. But you have to have a piece
Speaker 1: about it too. So yeah, not every opportunity that comes
Speaker 1: your way you have to say yes to. You just
Speaker 1: have to pray about it. I might do it Indiana Granger, Indiana.
Speaker 1: I might be there. I don't know. Interesting name for
Speaker 1: a town. Now she says what she says it's like
Speaker 1: you're talking about God being specific. Yeah, I went at
Speaker 1: Granger Church. What I was saying before Tyler walked up
Speaker 1: here was we slept in the barn last night, as
Speaker 1: we have the last five months while our house is
Speaker 1: being built, and last night was the coldest so far.
Speaker 1: It got down to twenty seven and I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, there's always that argument of do you like
Speaker 1: are you like hot weather cold weather? And everyone that
Speaker 1: ever says cold weather says I like cold weather because
Speaker 1: you can only take so many layers off, but in
Speaker 1: the winter you could just keep putting layers on, like
Speaker 1: people say that. And I was thinking that this morning
Speaker 1: as I was like wanting to get out from under
Speaker 1: the covers, I was like, I hate that argument. I
Speaker 1: love the summer. Yeah, it's so the concrete. We have
Speaker 1: concrete in there, so it's so cold on your feet
Speaker 1: if you don't have anything in Our bathroom is in
Speaker 1: the bar, and so we have to walk from the
Speaker 1: RV to the barn if we need to go to
Speaker 1: the restroom, and it's freezing in the morning. And I
Speaker 1: just said on my rise this past Sunday that people
Speaker 1: think that, probably think I'm crazy because it's not even
Speaker 1: really that cold. Like some people are in like negative weather,
Speaker 1: like five degree weather, and I'm complaining. I was complaining
Speaker 1: outside because it was forty degrees and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm freezing. Yeah, I get it. I get it. And
Speaker 1: a lot of people are probably getting their comments ready
Speaker 1: or like you're getting their fingers ready right like right now,
Speaker 1: I'm being like, well, it's negative seventeen Fargo right now,
Speaker 1: or hey, this is me and Mike. Come in Alberta
Speaker 1: and it's negative thirty. So you don't know cold. I've been, Yes,
Speaker 1: I've traveled. You know. We did in Northern Canada tour
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen in the winter. So yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: just a Texan that doesn't know what cold feels like.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, I've seen many people that
Speaker 1: are like, come on, Texas, you think that's cold, and
Speaker 1: then they come here and if you're not prepared, twenty
Speaker 1: seven is cold because you're a human being, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what you're wearing. Yeah, and we have a torpedo heater,
Speaker 1: we have several propane heaters, and it's it's cozy. I mean,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. The summertime was really tough when
Speaker 1: It literally got to over one hundred inside that barn
Speaker 1: and it's just swinning. It's insulated barn too. It's funny
Speaker 1: because he when I wake the kids up in the morning,
Speaker 1: he turns on the torpedo heater so they can hear
Speaker 1: it outside of the RV, and they just bolt out
Speaker 1: of the RV. As soon as they hear that thing go.
Speaker 1: They run out to be the first one to sit
Speaker 1: in front of it. That's what it sounds like. I
Speaker 1: love it, though, because I love that our kids are
Speaker 1: going through this, and it's just such a it's such
Speaker 1: a good practice of adversity. It's a good way, like
Speaker 1: we talked about with the church, it's a good way
Speaker 1: to force yourself out of a comfort zone. And I
Speaker 1: always love to do that to myself. It's interesting that
Speaker 1: I'm doing it to my family now. I'm making you
Speaker 1: guys live in a world of a diversity. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're amazing that you could even be accepting. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of wives it would be like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna live in an RV while we build the house. Nope,
Speaker 1: we're leasing a house. We're gonna rent a house. We're
Speaker 1: gonna rent an apartment, We're gonna stay with in laws. Whatever.
Speaker 1: That's our daughter, you even think it would be me
Speaker 1: And it's London. She's like, why can't we just reunt
Speaker 1: a house? Like sweetheart, trying to teach her like that's
Speaker 1: a waste of money. We have this amazing RV from
Speaker 1: Explore USA and it's beautiful and it's cozy. All the
Speaker 1: more reason if she thinks that now, at nine years old,
Speaker 1: all the more reason why we need to be doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: take her out of her comfort zone. Yes, and one
Speaker 1: day in life. I don't know when that's gonna be,
Speaker 1: but there's gonna be a time when she feels some
Speaker 1: kind of adversity and she's gonna go, you know what,
Speaker 1: I lived in a barn for eight months, nine months whatever.
Speaker 1: I could do anything. And that might be a little
Speaker 1: extreme to claim something like that, but when you say
Speaker 1: you've actually sat in a barn and lived in a
Speaker 1: living room and watch TV on a couch where it
Speaker 1: was one hundred degrees and scorpions were biding you, that
Speaker 1: is coming out of your comfort zone. That's that's exactly
Speaker 1: what has happened to us. So yeah, that's great, it's
Speaker 1: great and no disrespect to anyone that lives full time
Speaker 1: in a barn at all, because we're doing it and
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome. Yeah, do you want to answer
Speaker 1: some questions with me? I would love to thank you
Speaker 1: for having me today. You're welcome, guest. I got a
Speaker 1: question there not a question. Sometimes sometimes your questions, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, is Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: If you need to know, if you want me to
Speaker 1: say anything, email that. But it's not even questions anymore.
Speaker 1: It's sometimes it becomes statements. And I got one this
Speaker 1: morning that was like, I wish you would start having
Speaker 1: more guests like veterans and people that have struggled because
Speaker 1: I don't quite get as much out of your questions.
Speaker 1: And hey, I'm disagreeing with you when you wrote that,
Speaker 1: but the fact is, it is exhausting to think about
Speaker 1: filling up a calendar with guests. I'm not Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1: Maybe my future could look more similar to Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: ten years from now, but right now I don't have
Speaker 1: a staff that's constantly booking up my podcast and I
Speaker 1: put these out every single Monday. That makes it exhausting
Speaker 1: to think about having a guest every week, preparing, getting
Speaker 1: things ready, figuring out their background. And it's easier for
Speaker 1: me to be consistent first by just answering your questions.
Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. So that's the reason.
Speaker 1: And I'm meeting in the middle by having Amber with
Speaker 1: me today. But I do want to dive in and
Speaker 1: I've created now I've done this long enough now with
Speaker 1: these questions that I've started dividing. As the questions come in,
Speaker 1: I started dividing them into categories. And Amber has her
Speaker 1: own folder now, oh thank you, and it's a lot.
Speaker 1: So it's quite a bit here that I've just thrown
Speaker 1: into the Amber folder. So are these questions to me, No,
Speaker 1: it's just it's when I read them when I came in,
Speaker 1: I read them and I thought that's something Amber could
Speaker 1: answer with me in some way, so I threw it
Speaker 1: into your folder. So this first question comes from Mackenzie
Speaker 1: and the subject line is fights. Okay. It says, hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: my name is Mackenzie. I'm a huge fan of yours.
Speaker 1: I was wondering, being a Christian, god fearing household, do
Speaker 1: you and Amber ever fight? I know my parents did
Speaker 1: all the time, and it led to my mom divorcing
Speaker 1: my dad because he's not the nicest man on the planet. PS.
Speaker 1: The first time for your album is great. I think
Speaker 1: it's the best one yet. That email came in November.
Speaker 1: Thank you Mackenzie. I think I know Mackenzie. I think
Speaker 1: I've chatted. If it's the same McKenzie on Instagram, I
Speaker 1: think before m A c K E n Z. I
Speaker 1: I think so okay, it doesn't say where she's from.
Speaker 1: You if you throw in where you're from, say and
Speaker 1: you could even do it in the subject line if
Speaker 1: you want, But I think it's neat to be able
Speaker 1: to say where you're from when I'm introducing you in
Speaker 1: your question. And this is a good question, Mackenzie. We've
Speaker 1: kind of touched. We kind of touched on this. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was on My Rise or on
Speaker 1: one of your podcasts about us and our fights and
Speaker 1: do we fight and we don't fight if we don't
Speaker 1: fight in a sense of yelling at each other, you know,
Speaker 1: like parents yell at each other in front of their children.
Speaker 1: We just don't. We never have and we we we
Speaker 1: always say that we maybe attribute that to meeting later
Speaker 1: in life, going through our bad I'm sure we both
Speaker 1: had some good relationships, but going through all of our
Speaker 1: relationships and realizing what we want, what we don't want,
Speaker 1: what we'll stand for, and so we just we just
Speaker 1: have never been that couple that fights. And I always say, like,
Speaker 1: I can tell when you're frustrated, and you can tell
Speaker 1: when I'm frustrated, and we just don't pick at each other.
Speaker 1: Why are you laughing? Because I definitely know when you're frustrated,
Speaker 1: and you definitely know who I am. He came, okay, wait,
Speaker 1: real quack. He came in the other night. What did
Speaker 1: you say to me? He walked in and he said,
Speaker 1: what do I do that annoys you? And I was like,
Speaker 1: what you? What have I done that annoys you? What
Speaker 1: did you say? I don't remember. Oh oh, he said,
Speaker 1: you just have stuff on every shelf. I don't have
Speaker 1: anywhere to put anything. He's like, there's stuff, there's Christmas
Speaker 1: decorations everywhere, there's no space. So I look at shelves
Speaker 1: like countertops and shelves. I look at them as to
Speaker 1: hold things that you need to be using. But you
Speaker 1: look at shelves and countertops as things to hold decorations
Speaker 1: or that you don't touch. That's Christmas, Christmas to Cora,
Speaker 1: you say it's Christmas, but you do you do that
Speaker 1: at Halloween, do in the fall, you do it in easter,
Speaker 1: you do it in summertime? Four Yeah, no, So that
Speaker 1: is like kind of the extent of our fights. We
Speaker 1: just I man, there's a caveat with what we're saying,
Speaker 1: because I love that we don't fight and we work
Speaker 1: hard at it. And part of it was we got
Speaker 1: married a little bit later. I was thirty years old
Speaker 1: when we got married, and that's part of it in
Speaker 1: my opin. And we learned a lot from past relationships
Speaker 1: that didn't work, and we couldn't have done that if
Speaker 1: we were twenty. But I don't think you have to
Speaker 1: look at us and go Granger and Amber don't fight,
Speaker 1: and we do, so we must not be good. So
Speaker 1: we should split up because I want a relationship like
Speaker 1: Amber and Granger. That's not true. No, it's not true.
Speaker 1: We're very blessed and very lucky that we have a
Speaker 1: relationship like that, but that's not what keeps us together.
Speaker 1: It's not if we did fight, we wouldn't split up
Speaker 1: because of that, right. I think I have a couple
Speaker 1: of friends who they fight in their marriages, but they
Speaker 1: fight knowing that they're on the same team and they're
Speaker 1: going down the same lane and they want the same result,
Speaker 1: So they work through any disagreements and mean, they're passionate
Speaker 1: in their fights as much as they are about their
Speaker 1: love for each other. So I don't think that, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no perfect relationship. I don't think that just because
Speaker 1: we don't fight, that our relationship is perfect. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: go after each other, but it never gets to the
Speaker 1: second level. It's always stays in the first level. So
Speaker 1: when you come in and you're like, babe, there's stuff everywhere.
Speaker 1: Can you please throw stuff away? Yeah, I don't take
Speaker 1: it to the next level and go I had a
Speaker 1: hard day, you know what I'm going through right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't do that. I keep it it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, I do have stuff everywhere. Sorry, babe. I'll
Speaker 1: get on that. And on that note, if there is
Speaker 1: stuff everywhere, instead of going and getting on to him,
Speaker 1: I just put it. I just throw it away. It's
Speaker 1: just much easier to pick your battles. And she says
Speaker 1: on here, my mom divorced my dad because he's not
Speaker 1: the nicest man on the planet, and I just have
Speaker 1: to say, we're all not the nicest people on the planet.
Speaker 1: We all are going to have bad days. We live
Speaker 1: in a fallen world. We are all sinners. Nobody is perfect.
Speaker 1: So I think just having grace for each other helps
Speaker 1: us to be on the same team. So Mackenzie, don't
Speaker 1: The moral of this conversation is don't look for a
Speaker 1: partner that you specifically do not fight with, because that's
Speaker 1: not really It's not really what this is about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one is from Nicole. It says hello to the
Speaker 1: Smith family, which is probably why I put in the
Speaker 1: Amber folder. Grangeer, what made you decide to give away
Speaker 1: your truck when you had it in your songs and videos?
Speaker 1: And Amber, your Sunday Morning with God videos are so
Speaker 1: good it helps me get through my days. Amber, How
Speaker 1: does your kids feel about God? There's specifically asking you.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of good questions. Yeah, so I'll start
Speaker 1: with the truck, the truck giveaway, which I got a
Speaker 1: feeling we'll do this next year too. In some way.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go buy a truck this spring that's maybe
Speaker 1: kind of crappy, and then me and Butch and Bull
Speaker 1: could get and start restoring it or upgrading it and
Speaker 1: just make it super nice and give it away. So
Speaker 1: what made me decide it's kind of multi layered. But
Speaker 1: I have driven that truck for a long time, and
Speaker 1: it was I have a lot of memories in that truck.
Speaker 1: You know, my dad was in that truck. River was
Speaker 1: in that truck. We moved houses in that truck. I
Speaker 1: got married in that truck. So there's brought London home.
Speaker 1: Maybe not in that car. It gives in your car,
Speaker 1: but I drove her as a newborn. So I just
Speaker 1: had this feeling. I try not to attach myself too
Speaker 1: much to unanimate what do you call it, what's inanimate objects?
Speaker 1: And I was very attached to that truck, and I
Speaker 1: just thought, you know what, it's time to let go
Speaker 1: of this truck. It's time to let go and stop
Speaker 1: trying to attach memories to it and see it do
Speaker 1: well in another house and see someone seeing it bring
Speaker 1: joy to someone else's household in a new way. And
Speaker 1: the idea originally came when I was restoring my old
Speaker 1: high school truck, the seventy four GMC with Butch and Bull,
Speaker 1: and as that started developing, I thought to myself, Man,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a good truck, I'll be
Speaker 1: able to drive it. But then I don't need two
Speaker 1: trucks at that point. So that's ultimately that what started
Speaker 1: the truck giveaway idea. So then we'll go to your Okay,
Speaker 1: so it says your Sunday Morning with God videos are
Speaker 1: so good that it helps me and people, that it
Speaker 1: helps people and it helps me get through my days.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for saying that. And let me
Speaker 1: say we're gonna I'm thinking about getting a Rise with
Speaker 1: Amber into a podcast form so that people that listen
Speaker 1: to or watch it on YouTube. It only exists on
Speaker 1: the Smith's YouTube channel every Sunday Morning, but I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about pushing her to I already bought her a microphone
Speaker 1: like this, and I bought her some recording gear, so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to push her to move it into podcast form. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're thinking about doing that when the house is built,
Speaker 1: so that's probably three three or four months maybe, so
Speaker 1: I'll have a place set up in the house, he said,
Speaker 1: pushing me to do that. And speaking of going out
Speaker 1: of your comfort zone, like we were talking about in
Speaker 1: the beginning, that is really out of my comfort zone
Speaker 1: the Erise videos because I always feel a small sense
Speaker 1: of unworthiness, Like you know, you've even said that on
Speaker 1: your podcast about answering these questions, that you just don't
Speaker 1: feel worthy to be telling this to people. But it's
Speaker 1: all about just stepping out in faith and just obeying
Speaker 1: and saying yes to what God is calling you to do.
Speaker 1: So thank you for saying that, because that makes me
Speaker 1: feel better about Sunday mornings. How do your kids feel
Speaker 1: about God? So our kids have grown up knowing God
Speaker 1: and knowing Jesus and they attend a Christian school now
Speaker 1: and they love God, they love Jesus. They but they
Speaker 1: you know, they have so many questions about about God
Speaker 1: and Heaven. And you know, Lincoln wanted to be Jesus
Speaker 1: for Halloween. And London writes her scriptures out, you know,
Speaker 1: She'll she came home and at school they had to
Speaker 1: memorize scriptures every week, and she came home and wrote,
Speaker 1: like all of them out. They they just have they
Speaker 1: have a good positive outlook on God and Jesus in heaven.
Speaker 1: And so I just hope that we can still plant
Speaker 1: the seeds and continue to grow them in that way
Speaker 1: we could learn from them. Yeah, for sure, they say
Speaker 1: things and I'm like, dang it, it's having faith like
Speaker 1: a child. So moving on to this next question from Simon,
Speaker 1: it's really ironic. I literally just hit the next one.
Speaker 1: It says, Hey, it's Simon. I was wondering if you
Speaker 1: can get a amber to put her arise at the
Speaker 1: Amber on podcast platforms. Okay, perfect, I mean that's the sun.
Speaker 1: Look at that boom. Simon says, oh gosh, oh urgent?
Speaker 1: Should we get it? Let's see, do we have time
Speaker 1: for an urgent one? Let me not do an urgent
Speaker 1: and the subject line literally says urgent please read. Let's
Speaker 1: do that, but let's go to my light folder. Okay,
Speaker 1: because we have to take a break in a minute. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have to take a break in a minute, so
Speaker 1: let's go to a light one. It says River and
Speaker 1: I don't know why I put it in my light folder.
Speaker 1: I'll find out. This question is from Sam from Chattanooga.
Speaker 1: What's up? Sam? Shout out to Tennessee in Chattanooga and
Speaker 1: Georgia wherever you are. Question for future podcast. It says,
Speaker 1: my longtime girlfriend introduced me to the Smith shortly after
Speaker 1: Rivers passing. Ever since, we have watched every single episode
Speaker 1: you have put up on the Smiths channel and now
Speaker 1: I've been following everything you and lunkers do on my
Speaker 1: on my question. In a previous podcast, you talked about
Speaker 1: how you're always concealing concealed carrying. I would like to
Speaker 1: know what your usual carry gun is. He's saying, holstrew knife,
Speaker 1: everything you have on you. Thanks for all you doing.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see Earl's truck finished. Me too, buddy.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question, Sam. I typically click carry glock
Speaker 1: forty three, also occasionally carry at glock forty two. And
Speaker 1: that's the difference between having that if I want that
Speaker 1: nine millimeter or the three eighty and I always have
Speaker 1: a glock seventeen around me, but not youually in my
Speaker 1: pockets because that's a little too big. Always carry a
Speaker 1: kersh All knife of some form. This one is great.
Speaker 1: Caleb got me this one because it also has this
Speaker 1: kersh All knife has some screwdriver attachments to it, which
Speaker 1: is great because you're you know, I never know what
Speaker 1: I wish I would have bought you that. It has
Speaker 1: a little deer sausage on it and I still need
Speaker 1: to clean sometimes I use it to eat with. Is
Speaker 1: that the one that we cut when we were your
Speaker 1: truck broke down. That sausage. Yeah, it's one of the
Speaker 1: times I've cut that sausage. So the holster it's right now.
Speaker 1: It's in my truck outside this bus. And I don't
Speaker 1: know I got it on Amazon, I believe, but it's
Speaker 1: leather and it's the kind with the clip that goes
Speaker 1: inside your pants with the clip, and I just really
Speaker 1: like that style. And I don't know the name. Sorry, Sam,
Speaker 1: I don't know the name of that polster. What else
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Speaker 1: you haven't shown much about your bees lately. Are they
Speaker 1: doing okay? And you get a second hive going again.
Speaker 1: So that question came in September as well. Sad day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we lost our hives. Yeah, we lost both of them.
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Speaker 1: what we're talking about, we started bee keeping about three
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Speaker 1: but I want to say three or four years ago
Speaker 1: we started beekeeping. It's a great hobby. We loved it.
Speaker 1: We had two really good honey harvest. The second one
Speaker 1: was outstanding. Yeah, we still have so much honey from that.
Speaker 1: And then after riv we moved from that house and
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Speaker 1: Back to the podcast. Do you want to get into
Speaker 1: this urgent? Please read Yes, this person would like to
Speaker 1: stay anonymous. It says, even though they say their name
Speaker 1: and they're from this town. Okay, but I just want
Speaker 1: in respect to them, I won't say anything. It says,
Speaker 1: I've been struggling with my life lately. So my fiance
Speaker 1: and I have been together about two years now. We
Speaker 1: have a beautiful baby boy together about ten and a
Speaker 1: half months old, and I recently made a mistake of
Speaker 1: reaching out to some high school female friends and gave
Speaker 1: them a life update, just to hi, how are you
Speaker 1: kind of thing. There was nothing meant it for me
Speaker 1: to be wanting to cheat him my fiance, which I
Speaker 1: would never do, and now we're in a hard spot
Speaker 1: in a relationship. She gets the feeling I'm not in
Speaker 1: love and that I don't want to be with her.
Speaker 1: She is my everything and I can't lose her. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know I screwed up. What do I do? This
Speaker 1: is killing me? She said that I've been a different
Speaker 1: person lately, which was an eye opener for me. I
Speaker 1: can say that this pandemic has made me a bit
Speaker 1: of a different person. I was raised as a Christian man,
Speaker 1: but I fell off the edge and I can't join
Speaker 1: a church due to my work schedule. Please help. I
Speaker 1: hope to hear from you and Amber on a podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Smith family. Yee freaking yee. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the email. Yes, thank you. Here you go. You
Speaker 1: got what you wanted. You got me and Amber both
Speaker 1: on your We are focused on your mission right now, buddy.
Speaker 1: So this is multi layer here. You guys have a
Speaker 1: beautiful baby boy together. I guess without knowing the extent
Speaker 1: of the reaching out and knowing what was said or
Speaker 1: how your I think you said fiance's fiance, and what
Speaker 1: your fans say saw or didn't see, or how she
Speaker 1: feels about what was said. That's hard for me to
Speaker 1: answer because I don't really know what the initial reaching
Speaker 1: out was. If it was just a hey, here's our baby,
Speaker 1: you know, I just want to see how you're doing.
Speaker 1: I would like to think that that would be something
Speaker 1: that you guys could work through, but I don't know
Speaker 1: the depth. Yeah, so just all we could go by
Speaker 1: is what you said. So if we go by exactly
Speaker 1: what you said, which is we're in a hard spot
Speaker 1: in a relationship, she gets the feeling I'm not in love,
Speaker 1: but she's my everything and I can't lose her. If
Speaker 1: we're going just by that, then I would say I'd
Speaker 1: come up and I'd say, Babe, are we going to talk?
Speaker 1: Sit her down? Delete Facebook if that's what you need
Speaker 1: to be doing, and convince her with all the truth
Speaker 1: and integrity in your heart that that you can't lose her,
Speaker 1: that you're there for her, and that you would like
Speaker 1: to marry her. I think that that needs to happen.
Speaker 1: You guys, got a little boy, your love And I
Speaker 1: think part of this could be stemming from the fact
Speaker 1: that you're you're not married, and she's she needs you
Speaker 1: to have that kind of commitment, to prove to not
Speaker 1: only just to her in a closed room, but to
Speaker 1: the world and to your family and to all your
Speaker 1: friends and your baby. And you're on your Facebook status
Speaker 1: that you are now married to her, a lifetime commitment
Speaker 1: to her. I think that that I think she needs that,
Speaker 1: and I think if I'm just going by what you say,
Speaker 1: then that's your next step. Is you sit down and
Speaker 1: you say, Babe, I want to I want to prove
Speaker 1: to do I know that I've I've been a different person.
Speaker 1: I've been stressed at work, I've been this pandemics has
Speaker 1: got me sideways. I'm sorry for what appeared to be
Speaker 1: me unhappy and reaching out to friends on Facebook. But
Speaker 1: I want to change everything. I want to convince you
Speaker 1: that I'm in love with you and I can't lose you.
Speaker 1: Say what I don't even know if you've said to
Speaker 1: her what you've said to me, which is which is weird, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe you have, but follow that up with I want
Speaker 1: to get married. Let's pick a date, not just you
Speaker 1: know you are fiance is right, So yes, that's so
Speaker 1: pick a date. Let's let's let's go. I want to
Speaker 1: go on next Saturday. I want to go to the courthouse.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to lock this down because maybe
Speaker 1: we've been waiting on the world to clear up or
Speaker 1: the perfect wedding, turn all that into a big reception.
Speaker 1: Just see what she says, it's just about you two. Really,
Speaker 1: it's about you two and your love for each other.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be some extravagant thing. And then
Speaker 1: it says here that this whole pandemic has kind of
Speaker 1: made you fall off the edge and you can't join
Speaker 1: a church do to your work schedule. I think this
Speaker 1: whole pandemic has kind of made everybody fall off the
Speaker 1: edge a little bit. And the fact that you realize
Speaker 1: that is the first step. So just try to refocus,
Speaker 1: refocus your energy on her and your baby. And lots
Speaker 1: of people can't go to church because of their schedule.
Speaker 1: But the good thing about this pandemic is there are
Speaker 1: churches online. You can log in on your phone, on
Speaker 1: your computer. You can log in anytime of day, twenty
Speaker 1: four hours a day. You can listen to sermons, you
Speaker 1: can listen to podcasts, and you can read books, you
Speaker 1: can listen to audible that can bring you closer to God.
Speaker 1: And you can do that from anywhere, anytime. Think about
Speaker 1: it this way. You know, we've all heard the term
Speaker 1: that to tithe our money, which is the definition of
Speaker 1: tithing is ten percent of your money. But that being said,
Speaker 1: have you ever thought about how you could tithe your time?
Speaker 1: And that's kind of a new thing to me. I
Speaker 1: heard that from Billy Graham, and I told you that
Speaker 1: the other day. So I would say to this anonymous rider,
Speaker 1: are you tithing your time? Are you giving ten percent
Speaker 1: of your time? Which is, you know, technically two hours
Speaker 1: and forty minutes? Are you giving two hours and forty
Speaker 1: minutes out of your day? That's correct math, isn't it?
Speaker 1: I think? So? Yeah, yeah, that's what you asked the
Speaker 1: other night. So I mean that if your work schedule
Speaker 1: doesn't allow you to give two hours and forty minutes
Speaker 1: every day, then then it might be time to rethink
Speaker 1: the job as well. And that's going that's going far,
Speaker 1: considering this world is extremely jobless right now. I heard
Speaker 1: a statistic is actually today that said that most on average,
Speaker 1: which is that that's you know, probably above a lot
Speaker 1: of other people. On average, people spend ten minutes a
Speaker 1: day with God, but they watch TV for four hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's your average. Sure, So if you you know,
Speaker 1: if it's five minutes here, five minutes there, just keep
Speaker 1: fitting in time for God and the Word in prayer
Speaker 1: and your relationship too, and keep tuning into this podcast.
Speaker 1: You need to listen to this podcast once a week.
Speaker 1: It's important you do. You stop this podcast and go pray. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Okay, all right, buddy, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'll keep you anonymous, but I hope that helps right
Speaker 1: back in to me if it does. Here's one I'm
Speaker 1: kind of going down the list here. It says, Hey,
Speaker 1: my name is Mikey. I'm eighteen years old and I
Speaker 1: plan on building a house for me and my girlfriend
Speaker 1: one day. I wanted to ask for tips on how
Speaker 1: to do that. Watching Building our Dream Farmhouse has really
Speaker 1: inspired me to do it. Thank you, Mikey, thanks for writing.
Speaker 1: We have been doing this series on YouTube to everyone
Speaker 1: that doesn't know what he's talking about, called Building our
Speaker 1: Dream Farmhouse, and it just kind of documenting the build,
Speaker 1: just like we're doing documenting the restoring Earl Bibbles Old
Speaker 1: Truck on YouTube as well. What do you say to
Speaker 1: Mikey's eighteen that's high aspirations to be eighteen? That is, Mikey,
Speaker 1: good for you. We are just building our first house
Speaker 1: at forty Yeah, so dream big. That's amazing. If you
Speaker 1: want to start doing that, just find a builder. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't even know it says it says your girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Is this a girlfriend? Are you guys gonna plan on
Speaker 1: getting married? Or where are y'all on that front? We
Speaker 1: don't know, so I can't answer that. But I also
Speaker 1: want to say, you're eighteen, Yeah, you know that's so
Speaker 1: young to be focusing on that right now. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: hard to not just shoot this down because when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen, I had, you know, big plans also, and
Speaker 1: it's amazing that you do, and it's really cool to
Speaker 1: you're thinking like that. So you're saying, I plan on
Speaker 1: building a house for me and my girlfriend one day,
Speaker 1: and I was wondering what kind of tips you have
Speaker 1: to do that? So, okay, I could help you with that.
Speaker 1: Put out of your mind that you're going to do it.
Speaker 1: This year or next year or the year after that.
Speaker 1: Put that out of your mind and do a couple
Speaker 1: of things. One, focus on your girlfriend, see if see
Speaker 1: if she's the one. I mean everyone listening is kind
Speaker 1: of holding the breath thinking, I mean, it would really
Speaker 1: suck to build a house for a girl that then
Speaker 1: you break up with in six months, and when you're
Speaker 1: eighteen that happens. You're you're like one argument away from
Speaker 1: a breakup, and you don't want to do that in
Speaker 1: the middle of a home build That's that is a mess.
Speaker 1: So uh, keep your keep keep your research going with her,
Speaker 1: see if she's going to be awesome. And then at
Speaker 1: the same time, look at real estate online, get some apps,
Speaker 1: look at some land, look at little lots, look at
Speaker 1: big lots, whatever, whatever. I don't know what you could afford,
Speaker 1: but look at different neighborhoods, kind of see styles of
Speaker 1: homes like I like brick, I like wood, I like sighting,
Speaker 1: I like rock, I like mobile home whatever. See what
Speaker 1: your style is and what you can afford and what
Speaker 1: you like and what kind of land do you like
Speaker 1: a neighborhood? Do you like a condo in downtown? Do
Speaker 1: you like a farmhouse? Way out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: These are things to go and research and talk about.
Speaker 1: Look at right, yeah, look at builders and see what
Speaker 1: kind of styles you like. You can start a Pinterest board.
Speaker 1: You and her could each start, like we have pictures
Speaker 1: that we share with each other for our styles that
Speaker 1: we like. And then somewhere down the road if it leads.
Speaker 1: If it leads that way and you guys end up
Speaker 1: getting married or something, then go build your dream house. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you're just super entrepreneur, then you could actually build
Speaker 1: houses to start putting renters in them if you if
Speaker 1: that's something you could, you could look at putting renters
Speaker 1: in and then flipping it or living in it later.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of options. It's cool that you're
Speaker 1: thinking big like that, and I think now's the time
Speaker 1: at eighteen to just soak it all in and kind
Speaker 1: of dial in what you want out of life. Thanks Mikey.
Speaker 1: Hope that helped Mikey. Question is from Lee from Ohio
Speaker 1: Shout out to Ohio. He says, I have a few questions. Really,
Speaker 1: when is it a good time to call it quits
Speaker 1: with the marriage? Uh? Oh, I have religious beliefs. She
Speaker 1: does not. She had an affair, and when she said
Speaker 1: she was done with that affair, I sometimes still see
Speaker 1: her with the person from the affair. You don't have
Speaker 1: to speak of this on the air or on your podcast,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of already doing it. I really need
Speaker 1: someone to talk about with this subject where when those
Speaker 1: type of questions. God bless you in advance, love your podcast,
Speaker 1: looking forward to hearing from you soon. Oh man, Lee, Lee, dude,
Speaker 1: sometimes you still on these questions and I'm not expecting
Speaker 1: to hear what my mouth is saying. Well, I think
Speaker 1: you answered something like this on one of your other
Speaker 1: podcasts and you answered it beautifully. I wish you could
Speaker 1: just replay exactly what she said. It was kind of
Speaker 1: thing twice, so it's kind of an ultimatum. It just said,
Speaker 1: you know, if you love her, if you love her,
Speaker 1: you sit down, you talk with her, you guys, but
Speaker 1: you have to she has to want it back, you know.
Speaker 1: It takes two and she has to want to try
Speaker 1: to change, maybe go to therapy, maybe stop seeing this
Speaker 1: other person that that she's still seeing, because obviously that's
Speaker 1: hurting you. So I wish I could play what you
Speaker 1: said because it was just perfect. That's might've been what
Speaker 1: I said that, then I would say this, now, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. It's time, buddy, it's time to leave. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me let me counteract. So go. When you don't
Speaker 1: have the same religious beliefs in a marriage, that's hard
Speaker 1: because you're never going to really be on the same page.
Speaker 1: And then if you have children, they're not going to
Speaker 1: be on the same page raising them in that way.
Speaker 1: But also, let me say I have had friends who
Speaker 1: have made mistakes and stepped out in their marriage and
Speaker 1: have come back together through God though with God, with
Speaker 1: Jesus and with forgiveness, and their marriage is strong, stronger now.
Speaker 1: So saying that though, if you don't have the same
Speaker 1: religious beliefs, I don't know that that could work in
Speaker 1: your case. It's so hard to just read a question
Speaker 1: static here on my phone and not know anything more
Speaker 1: than what this person has written on any of these questions.
Speaker 1: And so when it says I have religious beliefs, she
Speaker 1: does not. She had an affair, I didn't. She said
Speaker 1: she's done with it. Sometimes I see her still with
Speaker 1: that person from the affair. When I see that, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, well, that's pretty much strike three. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean what else you could go, well and have
Speaker 1: this ultimatum with her, but it sounds like you've already
Speaker 1: done that. It sounds like you guys have had multiple
Speaker 1: conversations because you said that, she said she's done with it.
Speaker 1: But I don't feel from your words any kind of
Speaker 1: remorse from her or or true repentance towards you, your
Speaker 1: relationship and you. You are not a perfect person. And
Speaker 1: the reason I say that is because I'm not an
Speaker 1: Amber's not and no one is so. But it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's time. It's time to have the hard conversation.
Speaker 1: And maybe you say, hey, and this this email came
Speaker 1: in November twenty fourth, so maybe you say, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to hear this in
Speaker 1: time leave, But maybe you say, hey, in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one Valentine's Day, I'm just throwing that out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna file for divorce. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I desperately don't want to. My heart
Speaker 1: doesn't want to, but my brain tells me this is
Speaker 1: a pattern and you don't really want to be here.
Speaker 1: The proof you're still hanging with the guy from the
Speaker 1: affair like, yeah, that's the biggest thing in this email
Speaker 1: for me is you're still she's still hanging out with
Speaker 1: the dude, and that that should be that should have
Speaker 1: been long been gone, that should have been. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I messed up. Everybody makes mistakes, but done done. I
Speaker 1: love you. I want to be with you. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I want to work on this. I would put it
Speaker 1: like either a January first or a February fourteenth, Like
Speaker 1: just trying to pick big days you know easily remember,
Speaker 1: rememberable days, memorable days, and just say, hey, I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm out at this date unless unless I feel a
Speaker 1: total turnaround from you, and she might, she might look
Speaker 1: at you and the look at you in the eye
Speaker 1: and just say okay, okay. Yeah. But if she does agree,
Speaker 1: you have to know going in that it's going to
Speaker 1: be work. It's going to be hard because you're you're
Speaker 1: you may be able to forgive, but you won't forget.
Speaker 1: So you have to know going in. Look, if she
Speaker 1: tells me she wants to be with me, she wants
Speaker 1: to work this out with me, we're going to be good.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to let it go. It's not something
Speaker 1: that you could bring up in a fight. You know,
Speaker 1: if you'll get in a fight and that's that's tough,
Speaker 1: that's hard. Yeah, for sure, I'm sorry, let us know, yeah,
Speaker 1: right back, right back. But I am a firm believer
Speaker 1: that things can be restored. But it takes two people
Speaker 1: that really want it. Yeah, is that a funny one
Speaker 1: I'm jumping into. I'm gonna jump into a light one.
Speaker 1: We need a light one. This one came today at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock this morning, switching it up. It says good
Speaker 1: morning and Merry Christmas. I recently came across your podcast
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Speaker 1: but that's just the bottom line. Doesn't matter if it's
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber or Luke Bryan or the local guitar player
Speaker 1: from your hometown, supporting them with live ticket sales is
Speaker 1: the number one thing you could do today in this
Speaker 1: day and age with the fall of album sales and
Speaker 1: the fractions of pennies you get from streaming. Everything we
Speaker 1: do now as musicians, song wise, streaming wise, YouTube wise,
Speaker 1: album release wise, everything is an advertisement to sell those
Speaker 1: tickets because that's where artists and bands and crews and
Speaker 1: their families, and the vendors and the and the bartenders
Speaker 1: and the waiters and the everyone, the drivers, that's where
Speaker 1: they all get their paycheck from is from live touring?
Speaker 1: Do you have anything out of that? Streaming too, Streaming?
Speaker 1: Streaming helps, right, Streaming yeah, and streaming doesn't. Streaming doesn't
Speaker 1: financially help, but it does help build the hype, and
Speaker 1: the hype then builds more media companies getting involved, and
Speaker 1: then more media companies get involved. The more the message
Speaker 1: spreads to other people. The more it spreads to other people,
Speaker 1: the more you sell tickets. It always goes back to tickets.
Speaker 1: It always goes back to concerts. In nineteen ninety six
Speaker 1: with Garth Brooks, it didn't matter when Shania Twain came out.
Speaker 1: She didn't tour the first whole year of her career.
Speaker 1: She just kicked back and let the momentum build through
Speaker 1: her album sales. And she didn't have to. Their money
Speaker 1: was so great with album sales that she could pay
Speaker 1: an entire staff and crew and band to do nothing
Speaker 1: but sit. That's how great that money was. But today
Speaker 1: you have no choice. You have to tour, which is
Speaker 1: why this pandemic has been crazy. And I mean, I
Speaker 1: will say this. I have gotten a couple of emails
Speaker 1: of people saying, what about independent artists? Do CD sales
Speaker 1: help independent artist sure, yeah, but it also helps sign artist.
Speaker 1: There's not really a difference between an indie artist and
Speaker 1: a sign artist when it comes to album sales. It
Speaker 1: depends on the deal you signed. But yeah, you buy
Speaker 1: my album, that's great, it's great. You buy two thousand
Speaker 1: of them, that's awesome. But it still cost a whole
Speaker 1: lot of money to make the album. So really it
Speaker 1: ends up just breaking even. And it's I can't say
Speaker 1: it enough if you think about it. And I was
Speaker 1: explaining this to Turkla Lunkers TV like a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. He was trying to think about we were
Speaker 1: looking at perspective of a big arena act and he
Speaker 1: was like, what do you get from album sales? We'll
Speaker 1: say you get at the best, say you get seven
Speaker 1: dollars an album seal that's really high considering packaging and everything. Well,
Speaker 1: and then you sell sell a thousand of them, you know,
Speaker 1: because so you got seven thousand bucks. But you sell
Speaker 1: out an arena for the Georgia line, because that's who
Speaker 1: he was specifically talking about. And you put thirty thousand
Speaker 1: people in an arena for a sixty dollars ticket and
Speaker 1: one night you can't compete. There's nothing that can compete
Speaker 1: with that amount of revenue from a big concert. No
Speaker 1: album sales matter at that point, They're just an advertisement.
Speaker 1: So did I answer that? Don't fully? Yeah to Shannon.
Speaker 1: Thank you Shannon. It's good down this one. This one
Speaker 1: subject is Earl Dibbles Junior. Earl Dabbles Junior, I'm a
Speaker 1: country boy, he says. Hey Granger, I've been following you
Speaker 1: for quite some time. Love your music, your faith, your
Speaker 1: positive energy, see positive energy that you put out. We
Speaker 1: have a question about Earl Dibbles Junior. When you do skits,
Speaker 1: commercials or videos involving like the Earl Dibbles for President
Speaker 1: or the EE commercial, who comes up with that? With
Speaker 1: what he says he parentheses or alter ego is so funny.
Speaker 1: One other question, do you ever take some of that
Speaker 1: humor from Earle home to the kids in amber? Side note,
Speaker 1: I'm a female and I don't work on cars, but
Speaker 1: I'm so fascinated with what y'all are doing with Earl's truck.
Speaker 1: Keep up all the great effort and work. Thanks Carrie
Speaker 1: from North Richland Hills, Texas. Hey Carrie, what's up? Carrie?
Speaker 1: Thank you? See, first of all, are you answered the
Speaker 1: second part, because you're here, and I'll answer the first.
Speaker 1: Park who comes up with what Earl says? So it
Speaker 1: was usually always me sprinkled in with Tyler. That was
Speaker 1: the beginning of what Earl's actually says. Then as years
Speaker 1: have gone by, Parker or my youngest brother who's on
Speaker 1: this podcast, a bunch has stepped in a lot to
Speaker 1: contribute to the content. Hayden at YEE Apparel works occasionally,
Speaker 1: like on specially on Diploman and pick Them. He works
Speaker 1: a lot on that. And then we'll talk about like
Speaker 1: Earl for President. I think Hayden had a lot to
Speaker 1: do with that, Yeah, if it wasn't his whole idea
Speaker 1: or especially EEE commercial. So there is a good collab
Speaker 1: going on right now. Chris Lee, my tour manager, has
Speaker 1: been known to jump in a few times, but I
Speaker 1: would say Hayden, Tyler, Parker, occasionally, Chris Lee and me.
Speaker 1: That circle of five is the content creators when it
Speaker 1: comes to Earl, like that Earl Divils Earl Dibbles for
Speaker 1: President commercial that she's talking about. I had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the creation of that commercial. I just I
Speaker 1: literally they said, hey, at four o'clock, we're shooting this
Speaker 1: Earl Divils for President thing. That's it and I just
Speaker 1: showed up. That's That's not how it used to be
Speaker 1: when I first started Earl and I love it this
Speaker 1: way because it allows me to do a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. It allows me to be sitting in here
Speaker 1: in this bus doing the podcast while they're in there
Speaker 1: coming up with the next Earl skit. Now that being said,
Speaker 1: whenever the camera comes on, whatever comes out of Earl's
Speaker 1: mouth is that's what. That's what Earl's idea was. So
Speaker 1: there's usually a idea like, Okay, Earl's going to stand
Speaker 1: up on this platform. He's going to talk about a
Speaker 1: couple of things, like what uh domestic policy, So you
Speaker 1: come up with an earlism that counteracts like Earl is
Speaker 1: constantly misunderstanding what the real world is saying. So Earl's
Speaker 1: going to talk about domestic policy. And then Earl steps
Speaker 1: to the podium unscripted, without anything, and he would say,
Speaker 1: domestic policy, here's my domestic policy. Stop all that impointed
Speaker 1: beer and just stick with bud light, you know, and
Speaker 1: he would go off on how he doesn't like you know,
Speaker 1: MODELO and Corona. So that's pretty much how it goes,
Speaker 1: So do I does the few? Does the humor come home?
Speaker 1: Does the humor come home with Earl? Not? Really? The
Speaker 1: kids are funnier, Yeah, the kids are. The kids are funny,
Speaker 1: But the kids are just like I don't know if
Speaker 1: I just say anything about the alter ego, but they're
Speaker 1: kind of over it, you know, like they love Earl,
Speaker 1: but when Daddy's home, it's Daddy. Like they don't want
Speaker 1: to they don't want to really have any part of Earl.
Speaker 1: He does other voices now, he doesn't come home with Earl.
Speaker 1: He does other voices with the kids that make them laugh.
Speaker 1: Put this in perspective, the kids have always only known Earl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Earl has been around. He was he was invented
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven five, four or five months before London
Speaker 1: was born. So as long as my kids have been around,
Speaker 1: Earl has been around too. Yeah, So just it's not
Speaker 1: any different. Now. We do have these funny conversations like, ah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to meet Earl today, and Lincoln's always like, Daddy,
Speaker 1: that's you, And I'm like, no, Earl's a different person. No, Daddy,
Speaker 1: that's you. I know that's you, Daddy, Daddy I see
Speaker 1: your tattoos, Daddy. I know, I know, Daddy, I see
Speaker 1: you look through tattoos. I'm like, I'm not Earl, and
Speaker 1: he's like daddy, and then we just it's just just
Speaker 1: funny back and forth and London's just like just rolls
Speaker 1: her eyes. Oh, here we go. Yeah. Is there any
Speaker 1: any other question on that side? Note I'm a female.
Speaker 1: I don't work on cars. That's awesome, Thank you, Carrie.
Speaker 1: Awesome question. Let me jump back. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do one more. Okay, I think we have time for
Speaker 1: one more. We're a little bit long on this segment,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go back to the amber box because
Speaker 1: we've kind of narrowed this down a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna hit next one. Yeah, next one, next podcast. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's it, Okay, all right. This one's called Bible and Tattoos,
Speaker 1: and it says, hey, Granger, my wife and I are
Speaker 1: huge fans of you and your family. You amaze me
Speaker 1: with all your knowledge of the Bible. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that much respect my friend. My wife and I
Speaker 1: are in a little debate. We're both raised in the
Speaker 1: church and attend church weekly. We have noticed that you
Speaker 1: and Amber both have tattoos. I wanted to get one
Speaker 1: for more than ten years, but my wife and mom
Speaker 1: passed away seven years ago to cancer. Says it's not biblical.
Speaker 1: There is a verse in Leviticus that says, in Leviticus
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty eight, you shall not make any cuttings in
Speaker 1: your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you.
Speaker 1: I am the Lord. Please share your thoughts on this
Speaker 1: subject and why you and Amber have biblical reasons for
Speaker 1: your tattoos. We live in Washington near Tacoma. Thanks God,
Speaker 1: bless Eric. Ye ye, thank you Eric. Awesome question. Good stuff?
Speaker 1: Good stuff? Yeah, yeah, good stuff. And I've actually thought
Speaker 1: about this too. Let me first start off by saying
Speaker 1: that do I have biblical reasons for my tattoos? Let
Speaker 1: me just say that the tattoos that I've gotten, except
Speaker 1: for one, were all before I came to know Christ,
Speaker 1: and they all don't mean anything. They are pointless. I
Speaker 1: wish I didn't get them, So just saying that now
Speaker 1: after River past, I got one on my set of
Speaker 1: faith with some birds. And it's hard to answer that
Speaker 1: because while the Bible does say certain things, you know,
Speaker 1: I was listening are you pulling up John Piper? So,
Speaker 1: John Piper was saying that if you get a tattoo,
Speaker 1: it should be for your love of God or Christ
Speaker 1: or faith. And so that is my really only one
Speaker 1: that actually means something. And so and then I do
Speaker 1: want to get another one because I just got baptized.
Speaker 1: I want to get a little cross right here. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: and that was for River too. I want to get
Speaker 1: another one across right there. So I think for me,
Speaker 1: if I ever did give another tattoo, it would be
Speaker 1: for Christ or my faith and just just professing that
Speaker 1: to men. But I don't know, how would you answer
Speaker 1: that about being biblicalor yeah, I can answer that, and
Speaker 1: I want to before I do, I want to say
Speaker 1: guys that there's a podcast called Desiring God. It's led
Speaker 1: by an amazing man named John Piper, and I follow
Speaker 1: the pipe for like, if I really want to get
Speaker 1: deep on something on a question that's anything theology, I
Speaker 1: could trust in some form Piper's way because he could
Speaker 1: really dig into the scripture itself. So there's a there's
Speaker 1: a podcast called Desiring God, and then there is an
Speaker 1: actual episode called Tattoos and Biblical Perspective. So listen to
Speaker 1: that after you finished with this. If you're interested in
Speaker 1: this question, please listen to Piper, because he's way better
Speaker 1: than me. But I'll say Eric through my thoughts, and
Speaker 1: I can kind of echo what Amber said about how
Speaker 1: a lot of the tattoos happened before we were serious.
Speaker 1: And I cannot speak for Earl Dibbles. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: cannot speak for that guy. So Eric, and specifically in Leviticus,
Speaker 1: that's the time it says it, and Leviticus is part
Speaker 1: of Moses's law, and this is a time when historically
Speaker 1: Christian history, the Israelites were constantly in rebellion to God
Speaker 1: and his commandments. And part of that rebellion was they
Speaker 1: were constantly mingling amongst the hedonists, the locals in every
Speaker 1: little area that they would settle in. So there was Canaanites,
Speaker 1: and there was the Philistines. There were always groups that
Speaker 1: worshiped other gods in the Old Old Testament, and part
Speaker 1: of that in Leviticus was that these other tribes, these
Speaker 1: other groups that were not Israelites, part of how you
Speaker 1: could tell them a part was they had tattoos and
Speaker 1: cuttings in their flesh for the dead. I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure exactly what that means, cuttings in the flesh for
Speaker 1: the dead, or tattoo marks. So this was a sign
Speaker 1: of these tribes that were not followers of the God
Speaker 1: of Israel, the God of Abraham. And part of that
Speaker 1: scripture is commanding the Israelites. This was you know, that
Speaker 1: scripture was written thousands of years ago, so it's commanding
Speaker 1: them to separate yourself, do not intermingle, do not marry,
Speaker 1: do not worship their gods, do not even look like them,
Speaker 1: don't even dress like them. That's part of that. So
Speaker 1: then you fast forward two thousand years and you get
Speaker 1: to the New Testament and Jesus comes to fulfill the
Speaker 1: Law and become the New Promise, to become the New Covenant,
Speaker 1: the New Commandment all combined into one, and his message
Speaker 1: was follow me, love God above all else, I am
Speaker 1: the way. And I don't want to say, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say on this podcast that when he did that,
Speaker 1: forget everything in the Old Testament. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say that. But you could see that through Christ in
Speaker 1: the New Testament, he made it a way for everyone
Speaker 1: to follow him and have eternal life, and no longer
Speaker 1: was there the laws that held you down, that you
Speaker 1: had to go get too dove and a male lamb
Speaker 1: and sacrifice the blood. And Jesus said, everyone's a sinner,
Speaker 1: everyone's equal. Moses says, do not murder, but if you've
Speaker 1: ever thought bad about your brother, you've committed murder. Moses said,
Speaker 1: do not commit adultery. But if you've ever had lust
Speaker 1: in your mind and a thought about another woman, you've
Speaker 1: committed adultery. We're all sinners, so I think that you
Speaker 1: could say the same thing. Do not Moses says, do
Speaker 1: not get tattoos. But if you've ever gotten a sharpie
Speaker 1: written as Earl Dubls Junior, and you have gotten tattoos,
Speaker 1: you are a sinner. You know you could throw all
Speaker 1: that in there and kind of lump that all in
Speaker 1: to we've all messed up, and it is not worth
Speaker 1: getting hung up on that in your life. It's not
Speaker 1: worth it. That you need to keep your eye on
Speaker 1: the prize and not not worry about something that Leviticus says.
Speaker 1: If that that all that being said, if it's a
Speaker 1: true debate with your wife then or your deceased mother,
Speaker 1: maybe you should follow their follow their wishes, but you
Speaker 1: could probably meet in the middle. Just like Amber said,
Speaker 1: where you get. Don't get a meaningless tattoo. Get something
Speaker 1: that that brings you closer to the Kingdom of God
Speaker 1: in some way, like maybe you need something. You can't
Speaker 1: look at somebody because they have a little Bible Verse
Speaker 1: on their left wrist. You can't look at that person
Speaker 1: and go center, going to hell. You know you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't because maybe they need that Bible Verse every day.
Speaker 1: When they look at it, it takes them, It's into
Speaker 1: a good place. So I think that that's my best
Speaker 1: way to answer it. But go to John Piper and
Speaker 1: listen to that. Yeah, who I get worked up on
Speaker 1: this microphone. Okay, thank you, Eric, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: close that out and then hopefully you'll be back Amber
Speaker 1: on more. I would, Yes, I will, I will, and
Speaker 1: email me Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. I
Speaker 1: want to give a shout out also to my Spotify listeners.
Speaker 1: I got on there last night and kind of scrolled through,
Speaker 1: and I know that a lot of people listening to
Speaker 1: this on Spotify, and I always feel like I pass
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Speaker 1: talk about the YouTube, the way we stream, but we're on.
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