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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all. It's The Granger Smith Podcast, Episode twenty.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, Thanks for being with me on the

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Speaker 1: back of the bus. This is gonna be a good episode,

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Speaker 1: and I want to kind of connect you guys with

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Speaker 1: some of the older episodes here. Maybe this is your

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Speaker 1: first time. Maybe you came to this podcast through YouTube,

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Speaker 1: which we're doing now, or some other platform. The previous

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Speaker 1: nineteen episodes I can catch you up on. I went

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Speaker 1: through one by one and told the stories about my life.

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Speaker 1: Where I came from, how I started playing music, how

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Speaker 1: I started getting little breaks along the way, Where Earl

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Speaker 1: Dibbles Junior came from, where Yee came from, How my

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Speaker 1: brothers and I started ye apparel, How I got the

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Speaker 1: and that just kind of chronologically went through my life.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like now I need to start kind

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Speaker 1: I want to answer some questions because of everything I

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Speaker 1: do in my career, like including the Smiths, I can

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Speaker 1: never answer questions fast enough or enough times because I

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Speaker 1: get a lot of questions and Amber gets a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions, and I don't have enough platforms to answer

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Speaker 1: form answer, not like I'm on a radio interview and

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Speaker 1: talking about go in depth and actually answer some of

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Speaker 1: your questions. And oh my gosh. I asked on social

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Speaker 1: media today this afternoon if you had any questions, and

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Speaker 1: I got some good ones. Some of them are fun,

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Speaker 1: deeper ones. And I'm really nervous, and I was actually

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Speaker 1: going through some of these questions and my heart started

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Speaker 1: being faster, my my pull started rising because I just thought,

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Speaker 1: I have some answers in my own opinion, and so

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Speaker 1: I took some notes on my phone, I took some

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Speaker 1: little bit anxious. I want to do this right and

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Speaker 1: I also want to encourage you. If you asked a question,

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Speaker 1: please know that I got a lot of them, and

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Speaker 1: I scrolled through so many good ones and I kind

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Speaker 1: you're really interested in getting an answer from me, please

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Speaker 1: ask it again. And here's the goal with this new

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Speaker 1: form of the of this podcast episode twenty. Starting with

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Speaker 1: episode twenty, my goal is to put one out every week,

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Speaker 1: once a week. I'm not sure exactly the pattern. I

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Speaker 1: because I put out the Smiths on my family vlog

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Speaker 1: on Tuesdays and Thursdays on YouTube. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: and check that out and subscribe and you'll get those

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Speaker 1: videos Tuesdays and Thursdays. And maybe I'll put up the

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Speaker 1: I'm currently in Davenport, Iowa on the bus, and every

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Speaker 1: time I do a podcast, I talk about where I am,

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Speaker 1: you could see this is my setup. It is snowing outside.

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Speaker 1: It's really cold, twenty nine degrees, which is typical Iowa

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Speaker 1: this time of year. And we were in Saint Louis yesterday.

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Speaker 1: And if you want to catch up on me and

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Speaker 1: my tour, you go to grangersmith dot com Forward slash

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Speaker 1: Tour and you could see where we're going to be

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Speaker 1: and most likely we are coming close to you. That's

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Speaker 1: probably including Europe and Canada and Australia. We will be

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Speaker 1: gratersmith dot com Forward slash Tour, you could also see

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Speaker 1: that every tour dight has right underneath it you could

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Speaker 1: This one I'm wearing now is the original from the

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Speaker 1: That's Why I Love Dirt Roads music video that I'm

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Speaker 1: the one I'm wearing now. I'm gonna sign it. I'll

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Speaker 1: Pick something different that's hanging in my little room here

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Speaker 1: right now. You could pick it up in a year

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Speaker 1: or two years or six months or whatever. Just don't

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00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: drop the glass ones. That's your family and that's yourself, Like,

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00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: don't forget about yourself. Don't forget about your family. Don't

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00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: don't drop those. That's important. And that Once again, I

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00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: could probably say there's there's a lot more to be

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00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: said about this subject, but I I feel like I

434
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: kind of have to move on to with some of

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00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: these other questions. But let me say one more thing.

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00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: I wrote this down to Marcus Aurelius, just a great

437
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: ancient philosopher. He said, ambition means trying tying your well

438
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: being to what other people say and do. Ambition means

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00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: tying your well being to what other people say and do.

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00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: Sanity means tying it to your own actions, and that awesome.

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00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:03,239
Speaker 1: So basically, don't don't compare yourself don't compare yourself. It

442
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work right Facebook, here's another question. I'm trying

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00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: to give all the social media equal love. Then I'll

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00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: go to Instagram. I screenshoted this one because it's interesting

445
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: to me. I don't totally understand this question, but I'm

446
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: willing to try to interpret it. And by the way,

447
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: I noticed the camera went off, So I'm sorry. If

448
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: you're watching this, please bear with me because I still

449
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: have some things to say and I don't want to

450
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: break this rhythm. And I know now that my camera's

451
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: gonna shoot for thirty minutes only, so in the future

452
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: I'll try to keep these under thirty minutes. But I'm

453
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: getting to some really, really deep stuff, so hang with

454
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: me and keep listening. Here's the next question. It says

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00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: I've noticed a significant change in your stage performance. Not

456
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: in a bad way, but I definitely see you being

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00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: more conscious of what you allow yourself to do on

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00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: stage and in the smiths. As a music fan, I

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00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: was hoping to see more interaction on the crash my

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00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: ply of vlogs, but have been following you long enough

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00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: to know why you chose to stay low key. Did

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00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: you get to hang with the other artist, did you

463
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: kind of keep to yourself? Do you feel those social

464
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: things could make or break you in the business? And

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00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: then it ends with saying, do you think that you

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Speaker 1: and Amber will ever do a national interview promoting the

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00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: River Kelly Fund and share your story and will Earle

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00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: change because your life has changed? Interesting question that once again,

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00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: I don't. I would have to sit down with you.

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00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: This is Carissa. I'd have to sit down with you,

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00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: Chrissa and kind of kind of pick your brain on

472
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: what you think has significantly changed in my stage performance.

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00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: But yes, since River, I instantly became a little bit

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00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: more self conscious about how I represented myself. Earl is, naturally,

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00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of a polarizing redneck character that is,

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00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 1: you know, like crashing beers together, stone cold, Steve Austin

477
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: style in the stage, and I had to I had

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00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: to start thinking about is this well, if there's people

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00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: coming to the shows and they're wanting to see from me,

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00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: how I'm handling the situation. That thought occurred to me

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00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: that do I continue to portray this party animal Earl

482
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: Devils Junior? And I still don't know the answer to that.

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00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: I do know part of it is I shouldn't worry

484
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: about what anybody thinks, because I've definitely learned through this

485
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: process that everyone handles it differently, that everyone grieves differently,

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00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: that you could smile and be joyful at the same

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00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: time they could coexist the same emotion. You could laugh,

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00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: you could really laugh, like feel joy and be sad

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00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: at the exact same time. And so I have learned

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Speaker 1: through me knowing I can't judge people on how they

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00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: really feel. That's reflected in me saying, well, people, if

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00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: I can't judge people, then people can't judge me. You

493
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: never know what's going on with someone in their life,

494
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: don't And isn't that a testament to why we should

495
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: have just be kind all the time, because you don't know.

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00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: You don't know if the gas station attendant just lost

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00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: his dad that morning and he had to go to

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00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: work to pay for the casket. Seriously, and then they

499
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: might have been a jerk to you, But would you

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00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: blame him if you knew that was their story. It's

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00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: interesting right diving into this crash my play. If you

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00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: catch you guys didn't know I was on a Luke

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00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: Bryan thing in Mexico, and I think you know as

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00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: far as the music business is concerned. And me, you said,

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00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: do you feel like these social things could make or

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00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: break you. I'm just kind of a shy person by nature,

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00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: and I've never been I have never all the way

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00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: back to high I've never been the one that's like,

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00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: come on, man, let's stay a little bit later, let's

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00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: do this. I'm always like the one that's like, man,

511
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: where's the door. I would love to go to bed.

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00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: That's just I can't help it. That's my personality. And

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00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: so I've kind of taken that into the music business.

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00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna be the guy that's like staying late

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00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: just so that hopefully somebody sees me or so that

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00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: I could have a conversation with somebody that's important and

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00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: they'll like me even more. And I've struggled with that.

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00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: I've struggled with that, like in the in the country

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00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: radio game, because a lot of times you got to

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00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: go and you got to be so nice to these

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00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: people in radio so that they like you enough. I say,

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00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: they're deciding to play your song and someone else's song,

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00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: and they're kind of on the fence on which one

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Speaker 1: to play. So you hope that if you're nice enough

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00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: to them, they'll play yours, which is fine, that's great,

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00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: that's that's American business. I get it. But there's a

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00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: fine line between being nice as someone so they play

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00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: your song and kissing. But you know, I don't know

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00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 1: if I could say cuss words on here, but just

530
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 1: totally kissing their butt because you don't really care about them,

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00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: You just care that they play your song. There's a

532
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: big difference in actually just being nice because you're respecting

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00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: another human being, right. So that's me. And so when

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00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: I went to crash my play, I didn't go to

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00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: all the after parties. I didn't hang out with all

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00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: the other artists all the time. And I legitimately like

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00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,800
Speaker 1: those artists. I really do like their buddies of mine.

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00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: We've been we've been at it for years together, a

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00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: lot of these guys and girls, and and so I

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00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: feel like they know me well enough and I know

541
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: them well enough, or we're I'm I'm confident in myself

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00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: enough to know that I don't have to hang out

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00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: with my camera and take a picture with someone, you know,

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00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: selfie backstage and then put it on Instagram so that

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00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: I could hopefully get some likes. And be like, Oh,

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00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: I love that you're hanging out with famous people. It's

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00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: just not me. I'm sorry. The second part of this question,

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00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 1: do you think you and Amber will ever do a

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00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: national interview promoting the River Kelly Fund and share your story?

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00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:24,479
Speaker 1: The answers, Yes, I have yet to talk about River

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00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: outside of my own sources. So Amber and I have

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00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: talked about it on our YouTube page, and I've talked

553
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: about it on probably like Instagram posts the way I feel,

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00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: but we have not let an outside source take control

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00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: of the interview yet. So if you've seen our story

556
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: on National News, that wasn't because it was pitched that way.

557
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: It's because they literally needed clickbait and went to our

558
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: YouTube and cut out sections of things that we say,

559
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,479
Speaker 1: or went to my social media. And that's just that's

560
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: the nature of news. That's just that's the way it's

561
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: always been. And they're just running a business. Remember that

562
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: news is entertainment, right, so they're just trying to fill

563
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: space so they can get advertising, not in a negative way,

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00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: that's just their job. So we have not done that yet,

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00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: but we will and the reason we will, and we're

566
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: working it out right now. We're trying to find the

567
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: best host. We think Amber and I think that the

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00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: Today Show is are like, maybe Fox and Friends is

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00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 1: probably a pretty good way to go first because they

570
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: will be respectful to our story. I'm talking about it

571
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: as opposed to like TMZ, who we've had all you know,

572
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: that's that's crazy. No, I'm not going to TMZ. But

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00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: but the reason we do want to do it and

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00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: want to let someone else drive the story for the

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00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: first time is because we're really interested and I should

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00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: say I should say we're really motivated and spreading awareness

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00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: about water safety with children. It's the number one killer

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00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: of children under the age of four, and it's there's

579
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: not a lot known about it. And this is, you know,

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00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: the first time I've really even start talking about it,

581
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: because when it first happened, I know some people were like,

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00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: we need to hear about water safety, and me and

583
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: Amber are like, we need to tell you. We need

584
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: to preach about loving your child and being in the

585
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: present moment and tomorrow is not guaranteed. That was the

586
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 1: first message we wanted to get out there. But yes,

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00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: we do need to talk about water safety because of

588
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: all the things we did not know, and this is

589
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: there could be many episodes of the podcast about this.

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00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: But you know, you think about water safety and think, oh,

591
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: every human knows, I got it. If I go underwater

592
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: for long enough, I'm going to stop breathing. Got it right? Done?

593
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: Story over wrong. There's a lot of things that children

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00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: do very differently from adults. One, it's silent. So many

595
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: stories we've heard it's absolutely silent. We've heard of this happening.

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00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: Children dying in the water with adults standing right next

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00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: to them. I'm talking. I'm not talking about someone's drinking

598
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: or smoking weed. I'm talking about good attentive parents standing

599
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: right next to them. But you don't realize what's happening.

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00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: And there's been so many birthday parties where like the child,

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00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: it was his or her birthday party, usually three. That's

602
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: like the age and I die at their own birthday

603
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: party with adults and grandparents and aunts and uncles and

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00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: other friends and other parents all there is. And it

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00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: takes less than thirty seconds. It could take it could

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00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: take ten to fifteen seconds for cardiac arrest. That means

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00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: ten seconds, ten seconds. You notice your child's underwater, you

608
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: pull them out, and their heart stopped. Now, if you

609
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: don't know proper CPR, and you can't get their heart

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00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: back within four minutes. They're brain dead, so silent fifteen

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00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: seconds underwater. Because another key thing is a child inhales water.

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00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: They you know, an adult knows if you go underwater,

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00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: you're just you don't You just kind of hold your

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00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: breath and you got sixty to one hundred and twenty seconds. Right. Well, no,

615
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: a child, they gasp it in, they fill their lungs

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00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: with it. That's why it takes fifteen seconds. This is

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00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of a massive story

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00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: that I need to tell that I from a lot

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00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: of research. We're on the Board of Pediatrics right now

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00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: for the Pediatrics of America. We've been on conference calls

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Speaker 1: with them. There's so much misunderstanding about it. The first

622
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: thought is you just think to yourself, well, I got it,

623
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: watch your kid. No. No, I've heard too many stories

624
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: for that to be the answer. It's a multi layered problem,

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00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: and so that in a long way is answering the

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00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: question on Yes, we're going to get on some kind

627
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: of national syndicate, but that's what we're going to talk about.

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00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about water safety, and we're going

629
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: to have some pediatric doctors with us and probably some

630
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: other families that have been through similar events. And that

631
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: is the goal behind all that is to raise awareness

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00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: for someone that has a pool, or maybe their neighbors

633
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 1: have a pool, or maybe they just don't they don't

634
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,919
Speaker 1: know enough about how dangerous it really really is. And

635
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: if it saves I told Ambery yesterday, if it saves

636
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 1: one child, then twenty twenty, If one child is saved

637
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: because they learned something from this news, then that's a start.

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00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: That is meaning. That is purpose, and meaning and purpose

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Speaker 1: are what offset suffering. Because life is suffering. We all suffer.

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Speaker 1: We're all going to suffer. That's human nature. The only

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Speaker 1: way you could offset that suffering and alleviate the dreaded

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Speaker 1: life right has by finding meaning and purpose. And once

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Speaker 1: we do that, it makes it worth living. I told

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Speaker 1: you all this is going to get deep. Let me

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Speaker 1: hit in a couple more here. Let's check my time, Okay.

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Speaker 1: I told you at the beginning that I kind of

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Speaker 1: got anxiety when I was just reading some of these.

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Speaker 1: My heart started beating. So this is why. Because I

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Speaker 1: read one like this, what would be your advice for

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Speaker 1: someone battling cancer at the age of thirty one by herself.

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Speaker 1: And that's just heartbreaking reading that. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if the person that typed that, if that's them, or

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Speaker 1: if it's a friend. And the reason I get a

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Speaker 1: little nervous is because I think, you know that old mister,

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Speaker 1: vulnerability comes out of me, and I think, who am

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Speaker 1: I to speak to someone battling cancer at age of

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Speaker 1: thirty one by herself? The heck am I country singer?

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Speaker 1: What would I know about this? But I feel obligated

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Speaker 1: to try, and I'll try to give you something my

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Speaker 1: advice if you're battling cancer at the age of thirty

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Speaker 1: one by yourself, Off the top of my head with

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Speaker 1: no notes. There's a book I read one time by

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Speaker 1: Ryan Holiday called The Obstacle is the Way. And I

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Speaker 1: believe that everything has everything happens for a reason. And

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to stand by that thought when terrible

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Speaker 1: things happen. But I believe that all of our lives

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Speaker 1: and all of this world and everything that happens in

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Speaker 1: it is written by the same hand. And that's from

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Speaker 1: another book called The Alchemist. But Ryan Holiday writes a

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Speaker 1: book called The Obstacles the Way, And sometimes we we're

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Speaker 1: forced into an obstacle, and we have to make the

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Speaker 1: decision that this obstacle is going to be our demise,

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Speaker 1: or this obstacle is the reason we're going to get better.

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Speaker 1: It's the reason that we are going to become the

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Speaker 1: best version of ourselves. And so many times, you guys

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Speaker 1: know this. So many times, it's the fight. It's the battle,

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Speaker 1: it's the failure. It's falling down and getting back up.

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Speaker 1: It's those moments when we rise and we push forward

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Speaker 1: and we fight back. It's those moments that we grow.

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Speaker 1: It's those moments we look back in our lives and

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Speaker 1: we go It was this obstacle. It was this obstacle.

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Speaker 1: It was losing my granddad. It was getting diagnosed with cancer,

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Speaker 1: it was getting laid off from my job. It was

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Speaker 1: those moments that either broke me or It was those

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Speaker 1: moments when I fought back and I stopped fighting the

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Speaker 1: current and it said I went with the current, and

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Speaker 1: I realized this was happening for a reason, to teach

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Speaker 1: me something so that I could be better. We all

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Speaker 1: love each other because of our vulnerabilities. That's why humans

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Speaker 1: love each other. It's not we don't love each other

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Speaker 1: because we're perfect, and we don't grow. If life is perfect,

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Speaker 1: if life is easy, if life is smooth, we don't.

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Speaker 1: We just exist. There's nothing to that. And I love,

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Speaker 1: I love thinking about the analogy of Superman. Right, the

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Speaker 1: Superman comic comes out, and here's this guy who could

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Speaker 1: go faster than a speeding bullet, He's stronger than a locomotive.

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Speaker 1: He flies like whatever they say canaries. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but no one cared when that came out. No one

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Speaker 1: cared about Superman. Who cares about a man that's perfect

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Speaker 1: and it just doesn't You could do anything he wants.

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Speaker 1: He could shoot lasers out of his eyes and fly

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Speaker 1: with his cape. What fun is that? Like? What's worse

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Speaker 1: following that story? So, what the genius thing that those

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Speaker 1: comic writers did was they gave him kryptonite. And it

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Speaker 1: was kryptonite to change the story. It was kryptonite Superman's weakness.

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Speaker 1: When he found his weakness, Superman found his cancer, when

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Speaker 1: something could take him down, something could really hurt him,

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Speaker 1: something could kill him. And when he decided to fight

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Speaker 1: back and win against something, this mortal fear, then he

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Speaker 1: became the person everyone wanted to read about, everyone wanted

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Speaker 1: to look up to Superman. Everyone wanted to read the

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Speaker 1: comics and watch the movies because although he's strong and powerful,

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Speaker 1: there is obstacles they can take him down, and we

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Speaker 1: all want as humans, we want to see how do

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Speaker 1: you get past the obstacle, how do you fight through it?

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Speaker 1: That's what defines you. The other side of that too.

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Speaker 1: If I was thirty one and I had cancer. But man,

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Speaker 1: this is it's hard. It's hard to deal with the

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Speaker 1: subject and not and not sound like I'm mister know

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Speaker 1: it all over here. But please don't take this the

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Speaker 1: wrong way. But I do believe with all my heart

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Speaker 1: that you could if I was thirty one and I

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Speaker 1: was battling cancer, I could very well look at that

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Speaker 1: as a gift, a gift. And you're like, what a gift?

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Speaker 1: You could look at that as a gift, like this

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Speaker 1: is your chance to give you the ultimate perspective of life,

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Speaker 1: to make you cherish every meal, to make you cherish

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Speaker 1: every actual good night's sleep. You have to make you

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Speaker 1: cherish the next sunrise, because for the first time ever,

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Speaker 1: maybe you don't know how many more sunrises you might

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Speaker 1: have if you don't win, if you don't beat this,

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Speaker 1: so you could be given a gift. If you look

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Speaker 1: at it that way, you could you could look at

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Speaker 1: cancer as a gift that provides you a divine insight

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Speaker 1: above all other humans, that allows you to appreciate the

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Speaker 1: present moment, to live in that moment, because life is

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Speaker 1: about moments, not minutes. You know, there's plenty of people

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Speaker 1: that stay healthy and live ninety years, But out of

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Speaker 1: those ninety years, did they ever really have the gift

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Speaker 1: of appreciating the very moment, the little things, the smiles,

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Speaker 1: the hugs, the sunrises, the sunsets, a good slice of

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Speaker 1: Filet mignon. You know, I would think that this could

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Speaker 1: be a gift for you, that you could you could

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Speaker 1: enjoy every moment more than any other human on the

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Speaker 1: planet with that kind of diagnosis. I hope that I

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Speaker 1: hope that is appropriate. I hope that's not overstepping any bounds.

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Speaker 1: And I should probably uh, I should probably end with

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Speaker 1: that one. There's so many, so many more questions that

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Speaker 1: you guys had, and I was seriously scrolling through, and

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Speaker 1: I want to answer them all, but I also want

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Speaker 1: to make this podcast a normal length, and I want

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Speaker 1: you guys to keep asking them. And if I didn't

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Speaker 1: answer your question on this one, please ask it again,

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Speaker 1: And like I said, you don't have to I will ask,

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00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 1: but you don't have to wait. On social media, you

756
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: could just go and hashtag Grangersmith podcast and ask her question.

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Speaker 1: And I do want to take this time to tell you,

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Speaker 1: guys that I feel like this podcast is legitimately brought

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Speaker 1: to you by all the men and women in our

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Speaker 1: armed forces that volunteer, that sacrifice everything for the freedom

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Speaker 1: of speech. That I could sit here behind this microphone

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Speaker 1: on a tour bus in Iowa and talk about whatever

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Speaker 1: I want and that's that's a right granted to me

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Speaker 1: by the men and women that allow me to do that.

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Speaker 1: I also feel like the men and women in law enforcement,

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Speaker 1: fire departments, e mts, all all the first responders for

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Speaker 1: keeping us safe in this beautiful place and this earth

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Speaker 1: that we only get so many times around. So thank you,

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Speaker 1: guys for blessing me with this dream that I truly

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Speaker 1: love to live. And I hope you know that by

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Speaker 1: me through the the experiences that Amber and I have had,

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Speaker 1: we feel more blessed than ever to be able to

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Speaker 1: talk and maybe help a little bit for anyone that

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Speaker 1: might be looking for some help, because that like I

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00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: said earlier, gives us meaning, that gives us purpose that

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00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: offset suffering. So I have an option to sit in

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Speaker 1: a dark corner and close my eyes and live out

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Speaker 1: my days like that. But I don't think that's what

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Speaker 1: life's about. I don't think that's utilizing the hand that

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Speaker 1: we're dealt things that we can't control, and it'll be

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Speaker 1: an endless search for meaning, But this is part of it.

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Speaker 1: For those of you that hung with this, that we're

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Speaker 1: watching the video and you just hung with the audio,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, thank you so much, but I figured you

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Speaker 1: probably didn't want to keep seeing my face anyway that long.

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Speaker 1: But I know now to time myself and keep these

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Speaker 1: under thirty minutes so this doesn't happen. But you guys rock.

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Speaker 1: Love you guys, Thanks for listening. The new version of

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Speaker 1: the Granger Smith podcast. Ye Ye