Speaker 1: The craziest, most absolutely unheard of thing happened to me
Speaker 1: on tour, and it happened last night. Yes, someone broke
Speaker 1: onto my bus while I was sleeping and made it
Speaker 1: all the way back to my room and that's how
Speaker 1: I woke up. I want to tell you about this,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to do a special edition of this
Speaker 1: podcast where I literally this happened last night. I'm still
Speaker 1: on tour, in the back half of this little tour,
Speaker 1: and I set up my podcast gear because this is
Speaker 1: a story I have to tell you. And of all
Speaker 1: the times that people have said, what's the weirdest thing
Speaker 1: that's ever happened, this is going to be one of
Speaker 1: the top of the list. Between breaking my ribs, falling
Speaker 1: off the stage and busting open my all the injuries
Speaker 1: that I've had, this this is takes everything to a
Speaker 1: whole new level. I wanted to tell you about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of creeped out about it as well. But
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Speaker 1: to the podcast today, I am on Wildflower back of
Speaker 1: my bus, so I always feel like I need to
Speaker 1: apologize if you hear a like low rumble, if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast in your car and you hear
Speaker 1: like a rumble, that's the generator from either this bus
Speaker 1: or the one next door of here. Montana and I
Speaker 1: wanted to do this podcast today because I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about what is quite possibly top five strangest things
Speaker 1: to happen to me on tour. And it happened last night.
Speaker 1: And I've a lot of times talked about I've told
Speaker 1: so many stories through the different episodes of this podcast.
Speaker 1: This is episode fifty eight. I've talked about so many
Speaker 1: strange stories and embarrassing stories. And scary stories and exciting
Speaker 1: stories that's happened on the road, and then something happened
Speaker 1: last night that it's pretty much topped at all. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to try my best to explain it, and
Speaker 1: I will do as good as I can explaining something
Speaker 1: that happened while I was awakened in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. So, and what I mean by that is
Speaker 1: if it's it's like if I were to say, Hey,
Speaker 1: you got up last night to go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: you got you got up last night to go pee,
Speaker 1: Tell me everything that happened when yere walking to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: because that's that's kind of the equivalent of what happened
Speaker 1: to me. Let me paint the scenario twenty twenty, when
Speaker 1: this craziness hit and the tours shut down. As things
Speaker 1: started opening back up around August and September, we started
Speaker 1: taking shows in places that we wouldn't have normally gone,
Speaker 1: places that we would have played in, say twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. And that's kind of the joke amongst the
Speaker 1: guys is we've we've literally gone backwards when it comes
Speaker 1: to touring. Just to go out and be able literally
Speaker 1: just to pay health insurance and show pay for my
Speaker 1: band and crew. It really financially does nothing for me.
Speaker 1: It maybe even takes me backwards a little bit. But
Speaker 1: we're going out and we're playing shows just to keep
Speaker 1: food on the band's table, and we're taking shows that
Speaker 1: we would have ninety nine out of one hundred times
Speaker 1: said no to in the last five years. And we
Speaker 1: joke about it with the band. It's like we're living
Speaker 1: twenty twelve and thirteen again. For instance, last night, we're
Speaker 1: in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and we were playing in a
Speaker 1: stage that was so small that we had to play acoustic.
Speaker 1: We couldn't bring the drum set. Dusty's drums wouldn't even
Speaker 1: fit on this stage we went to last night, and
Speaker 1: we've come to expect that, and I could tell you
Speaker 1: right now from this story. I'm about to tell you
Speaker 1: those days are stopping. We're not going to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and make it official. We're not
Speaker 1: going to be playing places that a we can't afford
Speaker 1: to get into and b that are much too small
Speaker 1: for us to be putting two buses and all this
Speaker 1: crew and trying to get our gear out of these
Speaker 1: trailers and through the gravel. So and that's a different
Speaker 1: story for a different time, and what that is going
Speaker 1: to mean to my future leading up to when things
Speaker 1: finally open up again in the world from the shutdowns,
Speaker 1: and we'll still be playing you know, outdoor, big events,
Speaker 1: socially distanced. You know, when that stuff comes around, will
Speaker 1: take it because usually those places are more secure, they
Speaker 1: have tighter security, law enforcement on site. Last night, I
Speaker 1: had none of that. This was straight out of the
Speaker 1: book of twenty twelve for me, and I had been
Speaker 1: playing places like this since probably two thousand, so it's
Speaker 1: nothing new to me. But we were parked in the
Speaker 1: parking lot and after the show, here comes the story.
Speaker 1: I go to sleep about twelve thirty, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you my perspective of what happened. I go to sleep
Speaker 1: at twelve thirty. There's nothing strange about that. The show
Speaker 1: was like a very average dive bar. You know, people
Speaker 1: were rowdy in Southeast Oklahoma. That is completely expected, no
Speaker 1: big deal. It's on par right, the show is on
Speaker 1: par for what we would expect. I go to bet
Speaker 1: and I have this little routine and I'll just share
Speaker 1: with you guys. It's kind of embarrassing, but My routine
Speaker 1: is I sleep on this bus. I sleep with a
Speaker 1: weighted blanket because it when we're bouncing up and down,
Speaker 1: driving down the road, it holds me, you know, tight.
Speaker 1: So I've a weighted blanket all the way around my neck.
Speaker 1: I have a mouthguarden because i have a tendency to
Speaker 1: grind my teeth, especially when I'm on the road and
Speaker 1: I've got a lot going on in my mind. I'll
Speaker 1: grind the crap out of my teeth, and so much
Speaker 1: so that the dentist is like, hey, you need to
Speaker 1: do something about this. You're gonna file your teeth down.
Speaker 1: So I've got a mouthguard in and then I wear
Speaker 1: ear plugs, foam earplugs because of the bouncing and the
Speaker 1: I sleep right by the engine, which is right behind
Speaker 1: the camera if you're watching this. And then on top
Speaker 1: of that, my phone is on my little night stand
Speaker 1: on my bed. It's a twin size bed back here
Speaker 1: in the back of this bus, and I have a
Speaker 1: phone on the nightstand that's cranked up with a sleep machine.
Speaker 1: It's like a running water noise, you know, but it's
Speaker 1: just mask any more sounds of parking lot, you know,
Speaker 1: things go on, people yelling, gear getting smashed into the
Speaker 1: back of the trailer or us driving down the road.
Speaker 1: So I've got that plus the earphone, so I'm I'm
Speaker 1: kind of setting the scene. That's black, pitch black. Back here.
Speaker 1: There's two doors between here and the front door of
Speaker 1: the bus, so my door is closed and then the
Speaker 1: bunk door is closed. Lights are off. We have a
Speaker 1: very strict rule, and we've had this, this rule ever
Speaker 1: since we started consistently touring in a bus to lock
Speaker 1: the doors. We always lock the doors. It's a big deal.
Speaker 1: We religiously locked the doors even in places. We almost
Speaker 1: have to say, in places where it's totally secure, we
Speaker 1: have to remind each other, Hey, you don't have to
Speaker 1: lock it, you know. We got we're gated in here,
Speaker 1: you know, but we do anyway. I remember being on
Speaker 1: like the Luke Brian tore and we were parking underneath
Speaker 1: the amphitheaters and we were still locking the bus doors
Speaker 1: because that's how religious we are about that. Last night
Speaker 1: it wasn't locked for whatever reason, I don't know, And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to throw any blame around. I'm not
Speaker 1: even going to come close to blaming anybody for this.
Speaker 1: Chris Lee, my tour manager is not with us this weekend.
Speaker 1: He has a couple games for his son playing football,
Speaker 1: and they're getting trophies this weekend, so he asked if
Speaker 1: he could stay home and via that trophy ceremony. He's
Speaker 1: not here, so basically, I'm building up like the perfect storm.
Speaker 1: Another thing, we're parked here till six am where we
Speaker 1: were last night, because it was only a ninety minute
Speaker 1: drive to where we are in Texarkana. We never park
Speaker 1: that long in a parking lot because we hardly ever
Speaker 1: play a show that's only ninety miles. I said, minutes
Speaker 1: ninety miles to the next show. Okay, that's enough of
Speaker 1: I'm trying to paint the picture of what's happening Herelve thirty.
Speaker 1: I go to sleep at one thirty. I wake up
Speaker 1: in a complete days to a girl sitting over me
Speaker 1: in my bed and she's saying, do you need anything?
Speaker 1: Do I need anything? And in my mind, first of all,
Speaker 1: how long was she there? I don't know. Is that
Speaker 1: not the creepiest thing you can imagine? How long was
Speaker 1: she sitting there staring at me? I hope not long.
Speaker 1: I hope it wasn't very long. Trained in the background sorry.
Speaker 1: She says, do you need anything? She says it at
Speaker 1: least three times before I coherently say no. And I
Speaker 1: still haven't put this situation together. I don't really know
Speaker 1: where I am. I don't really know why. I haven't
Speaker 1: toured in a long time, so I'm here in this bus.
Speaker 1: I don't it doesn't Nothing is making sense to me.
Speaker 1: I don't know how better to put that. Nothing is
Speaker 1: making sense to me. Why am I here? Why is
Speaker 1: someone talking to me? Why is she asking me if
Speaker 1: I need anything? Does that have anything to do with
Speaker 1: the venue? Because the side note she used a bartender
Speaker 1: at the venue we just played, So I'm thinking, is
Speaker 1: something something wrong? Are we inter wreck? Did we wreck?
Speaker 1: Or is there was there a fire in the venue?
Speaker 1: And she's seeing if I am I okay? Like it
Speaker 1: is so far fetched from anything that's ever happened that
Speaker 1: I cannot put together why this is. And she says,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. What's your name? And for some reason, I
Speaker 1: said Sean. That's her lighting guy. I said Sean, and
Speaker 1: she goes, oh, you're married, aren't you? And I said yeah,
Speaker 1: and she goes, I'm so sorry. I didn't realize you're married,
Speaker 1: And she leaves and suddenly it's coming together. What just happened?
Speaker 1: I grabbed my phone on the nightstand, and we have
Speaker 1: an app that we all talk together. It's called grout me.
Speaker 1: So I put on our tour app. I say, and
Speaker 1: all caps SOS fan on WF, which is Wildflower SOS
Speaker 1: fan on Wildflower help all caps because I'm in here
Speaker 1: in my shorts, you know, nothing else but my shorts.
Speaker 1: So I didn't. It didn't occur to me to like
Speaker 1: jump out and chase her off. And I know every
Speaker 1: all my guys are still loading, they're right around here.
Speaker 1: So she's up in the front lounge. I see her
Speaker 1: lean around the corner and I see her up here,
Speaker 1: and she's writing on a napkin, on a paper towel
Speaker 1: that she got off of our counter, and she's writing
Speaker 1: her name and number on the napkin. And the door
Speaker 1: bust open and Blake my sound guy and Sean and
Speaker 1: Johnny my baby where they all come busting in. Todd's there.
Speaker 1: Everyone's there because they saw the SOS and they grab
Speaker 1: her and take her out into the parking lot and
Speaker 1: slam the door. And I'm just so finally in my
Speaker 1: mind over this is all This happened in twenty seconds
Speaker 1: from when I first realized when I first answered no,
Speaker 1: I don't need anything to the door opening, It's probably
Speaker 1: twenty seconds. It seems like it was five minutes in
Speaker 1: my mind. But I'm finally now awake to the situation,
Speaker 1: and the severity of what of what this was starts
Speaker 1: sinking into me. So I get up, put on a shirt,
Speaker 1: put on shoes, and all this stuff's running through my
Speaker 1: head like this is of one in a million scenario.
Speaker 1: In fact, I told my mom this morning. She's like,
Speaker 1: don't say that in your podcast. It'll give people an
Speaker 1: idea that they could do that. I'm like, Mom, you
Speaker 1: don't understand. This is one in a million. This she
Speaker 1: beat all the odds to even make it. Imagine, guys,
Speaker 1: she came in. She tried a locked bus door and
Speaker 1: it was unlocked. So she is brave enough to go on.
Speaker 1: She sees no one in that front lounge, so she
Speaker 1: moves into the bunk room, opens the door, walks into
Speaker 1: a dark bunk room, moves through that, sees no one's there.
Speaker 1: Opens my room door. It's dark, there's a sleep noise
Speaker 1: going on, and I'm in here asleep, and she is
Speaker 1: brave enough to sit down on the bed and start
Speaker 1: talking to me, and you must assume that this has happen.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's tried this before with another band. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but she's super brave and super on drugs and super
Speaker 1: on alcohol, no doubt. At least that's what the guys
Speaker 1: told me after when they got her out in the
Speaker 1: parking lot. So I have multiple measures of defense in here.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could say the words firearms,
Speaker 1: I have multiple I don't want I don't want YouTube
Speaker 1: to uh to grab these words, but you guys know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I have multiple in this room.
Speaker 1: And it didn't maybe because it was a female and
Speaker 1: the what in the question she was asking do you
Speaker 1: need anything? Maybe that didn't send off the alarm in
Speaker 1: my head, grab grab your firearm. But that's scary to
Speaker 1: me too, because what if what if I was so
Speaker 1: delirious that what if instead of being polite like I
Speaker 1: was like. I don't know why I was polite, I
Speaker 1: don't know why I didn't start yelling, But what if
Speaker 1: I had been the other side of delusion where I
Speaker 1: pulled out a firearm and put it in her forehead?
Speaker 1: Either way, Hey, it's all bad. I mean that could
Speaker 1: have been terrible and so on so many levels. And
Speaker 1: there's no way that this girl would listen to this podcast.
Speaker 1: She seems far from a Granger Smith podcast listener, but
Speaker 1: if she was, I would say, don't ever ever enter
Speaker 1: a dark bedroom when someone's sleeping, especially if you know
Speaker 1: they're from Texas, because they're they're gonna be armed. And
Speaker 1: I would consider this a very lucky situation for her
Speaker 1: that it didn't escalate. And I'm thinking, was she filming
Speaker 1: me sleeping? Was she watching me? There's so many things
Speaker 1: going on in my head when I got up this
Speaker 1: morning and I finally kind of put more of that together.
Speaker 1: I really got creeped out and to Blake my sound
Speaker 1: guy this morning, and I just said, tell me everything
Speaker 1: you know, and he said that when they got her
Speaker 1: out in the parking lot, kicked her out, she got
Speaker 1: in her car and left, but then they told the
Speaker 1: venue and because she was an employee there, they called
Speaker 1: her and quote, they said, what are you doing? And
Speaker 1: she said, quote, I'm driving to Arkansas to pick up
Speaker 1: my kid. I hope that that would give you an
Speaker 1: idea of the kind of girl that this is guys
Speaker 1: driving to Arkansas to pick up my kid. So they said, well,
Speaker 1: we turn around, come back here because we need to talk.
Speaker 1: So she came back. They fired her and started to
Speaker 1: press charges for breaking and entering on their property. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they are going to press charges, if
Speaker 1: they're pushing that through or not. I would prefer to
Speaker 1: be not involved and just get out of this situation completely.
Speaker 1: Chris was on the phone. They woke him up. He
Speaker 1: was home in Texas and they woke him up, and
Speaker 1: so he was involved last night. What a what a deal?
Speaker 1: What a deal? And I wanted to get I wanted
Speaker 1: to get on this podcast and throw it out in
Speaker 1: the universe, like my mom was like, don't they went
Speaker 1: on the podcast, But I wanted to put it out
Speaker 1: in the universe because I wish I could live every
Speaker 1: day in my life knowing that the world is shutting
Speaker 1: down on March fifteenth and martial laws coming. You guys
Speaker 1: remember what that felt like in twenty twenty. And then
Speaker 1: I want to live every night like someone might be
Speaker 1: looking at my face at any point of my sleep
Speaker 1: and I want to be ready for that. So my
Speaker 1: closest means of defate is about five feet away from
Speaker 1: my bed, and I'm going to start changing that to
Speaker 1: six inches from my bed for obvious reasons. And that's
Speaker 1: my story. That is my very very strange story. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a break and be right back,
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Speaker 1: lot of interesting things happen, and I guess what's happened
Speaker 1: to us on tour is just when you do something
Speaker 1: anything enough times, it's enough scenarios play out that they're
Speaker 1: worth telling stories about. So it's not I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: think it's just me. If you talk to anyone that's
Speaker 1: done one thing for a long time, if you talk to,
Speaker 1: you know, a firefighter that's been doing firefighting for twenty years,
Speaker 1: he's going to have collected enough stories out of the
Speaker 1: routine to have some crazy ones like we have. And
Speaker 1: I seriously think, like I said at the beginning, I
Speaker 1: think this is a little bit of a catalyst for
Speaker 1: me to need to back down off of uh trying
Speaker 1: to constantly play any place that will book us to
Speaker 1: pay the bills for my guys. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna back off of that. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: explain the story on this podcast so that you could
Speaker 1: you could kind of see part of that decision making
Speaker 1: for me one of these days. Comment below if you
Speaker 1: want to hear more of these crazy stories. We have
Speaker 1: so many, and I could. I could literally bring in
Speaker 1: like Blake or Chris or will or Johnny Todd, I
Speaker 1: could Dusty. I could bring in these guys and we
Speaker 1: could sit down and go through some of these really
Speaker 1: funny stories and tell more of them as a group.
Speaker 1: In fact, this story I just told might might have
Speaker 1: been funnier if Blake was involved, because Blake's very animated
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: What are you doing that you want his bus? So, I,
Speaker 1: as promised, will always read your questions to me on
Speaker 1: this podcast. You guys, if you haven't already, email anything
Speaker 1: you want conversation wise question comment anything to Grangersmith podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I will read it on this
Speaker 1: podcast straight back at you. And so I want to
Speaker 1: dig in here. This question is from Ryan in Sawmills,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, says, Hey Granger, My name is Ryan Dula
Speaker 1: from Sawmills, North Carolina. Both my family and I love
Speaker 1: your clothing line and your music. Shout out to North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy, Thank you for being you. My full
Speaker 1: time job, I'm a dispatcher for Caldwell County Emergency Services
Speaker 1: E nine to one one center, where I'm a shift supervisor.
Speaker 1: I also work part time for Sawmills Fire Department. Emergency
Speaker 1: services is pretty much my life. My question is have
Speaker 1: you ever had any aspirations of a job in emergency services, fire, EMS,
Speaker 1: law enforcement or military? And if you're ever in the
Speaker 1: Charlotte or Hickory area, come by the firehouse and hang
Speaker 1: for a while. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that, Ryan,
Speaker 1: and thank you for your service. It's funny I just
Speaker 1: mentioned referenced firefighting. Thank you for serviceman, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that I have thought about that a lot, and
Speaker 1: during nine to eleven in two thousand and one, I
Speaker 1: was ready to go at that point and sign up.
Speaker 1: And it was that moment because I had several buddies
Speaker 1: that were in the military and that were going overseas,
Speaker 1: and I would have personally gone Marines because that's what
Speaker 1: they were all doing. I had seven buddies from college
Speaker 1: that went into the Marine Corps, so I would have
Speaker 1: gone on that path. But I felt I felt a
Speaker 1: calling through music that I felt like I could make
Speaker 1: more of a difference in music through giving back to
Speaker 1: the military, and that would be a bigger impact from
Speaker 1: me in serving my country, if that makes sense. And
Speaker 1: so because of that, and because of that sentiment of
Speaker 1: a feeling, instead of using that as a cop out,
Speaker 1: like and I'm not going to it's nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go join the military because I'm
Speaker 1: going to play music and that'll be my way of serving,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make that concrete and said, okay, if
Speaker 1: you make this decision, because I felt a longing to serve.
Speaker 1: If I'm going to make this decision, I got to
Speaker 1: put pen and paper to this, and so I started
Speaker 1: right then working on what then became my first entertainment
Speaker 1: tour to Iraq in two thousand and seven, and then
Speaker 1: we went twice in two thousand and eight, including Christmas
Speaker 1: and New Year's. We played Christmas shows and New Year's
Speaker 1: shows in Iraq, and then after that I started one
Speaker 1: hundred Mile Walk, which I did for six years, walking
Speaker 1: one hundred miles over the course of five days from
Speaker 1: South Austin to Fort Hood, raising money and awareness for
Speaker 1: those men and women that have served. Then that culminated
Speaker 1: in the they were their documentary of mine. So to
Speaker 1: answer your question, Ryan, I yes, I definitely that there's
Speaker 1: a good argument that between high school football coaching and
Speaker 1: Marine Corps that would have been my two things if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for music. And but I didn't want to
Speaker 1: use music. It's just a cop out. So I constantly
Speaker 1: want to be able to give back through my services
Speaker 1: with music to help with that effort. So thanks for
Speaker 1: your question and thank you for your service. This question
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Speaker 1: subscription service where that's like ten bucks the first month
Speaker 1: and then it's like twenty something, maybe twenty fifteen or
Speaker 1: twenty after that, and you'll get a shirt at the
Speaker 1: first of every month, which we love. That's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things we do at ee Apparel is you
Speaker 1: sign up for our T shirt of the month. We
Speaker 1: design the fact I'm wearing one of them from a
Speaker 1: few months ago now, but we personally designed these shirts.
Speaker 1: We get them already, we get your size, and you
Speaker 1: do nothing. You just one day, you open your door
Speaker 1: at the first of every month and right there on
Speaker 1: your front porch is a box from us with your
Speaker 1: T shirt of the month. We don't sell those anywhere else.
Speaker 1: They're totally exclusive, so I love that. The other subscription
Speaker 1: I have that is fairly new is ye nation dot com,
Speaker 1: and I've I wouldn't encourage you guys just to check
Speaker 1: that out. It's free to start. But ye nation dot
Speaker 1: Com is essentially a fan club, glorified fan club that
Speaker 1: I take very close effort and attention to, and we
Speaker 1: built that from scratch, and so it's a really cool
Speaker 1: way to interact and get exclusive information. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: teasing the new album Country Things, Volume Two, which comes
Speaker 1: out on Black Friday, and be teasing those songs first
Speaker 1: on ye nation dot com. So check that out too.
Speaker 1: We'll see you can me do another one here. This
Speaker 1: question is from Daniel says, Hey, Buddy, I got a
Speaker 1: question for one of your next podcasts or whenever you're
Speaker 1: going to answer fan questions again. What happened to the
Speaker 1: band and part of the crew back at the beginning?
Speaker 1: Watching all the old videos starting at two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight on YouTube, seems like you had a bunch of fun.
Speaker 1: You have come a long way proud of your journey.
Speaker 1: Yegee from Germany, Danny, so hey, Danny, shout out to Germany.
Speaker 1: I love me some Snitzel. I love traveling Germany, loved
Speaker 1: the culture there. So yeah, you have been observant in
Speaker 1: watching my old videos dating back to when we started
Speaker 1: YouTube really in two thousand and eight, and I've been
Speaker 1: through a lot of band members since then. They have
Speaker 1: all turned over at least once. Every position has turned
Speaker 1: over or drums, bass, guitars. So those guys, I still
Speaker 1: keep in touch with them. Everybody that's ever been in
Speaker 1: my band that's an alumni of my band, we all
Speaker 1: keep in touch. We all are on group text together.
Speaker 1: We all meet up and they go to shows. I
Speaker 1: had Mitch and Manny, my keyboard player and bass player
Speaker 1: from back in that day. They were at my show
Speaker 1: with me last week and they were on the bus
Speaker 1: and they hang out. So it's a tight knit group.
Speaker 1: And everyone that's ever left my band, it was usually
Speaker 1: for a musual reason that it needed to be, It
Speaker 1: needed the change to happen. So I still love those guys.
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough that in the early days they
Speaker 1: were a lot older than me. Those guys were a
Speaker 1: lot older. So I learned so much from them about
Speaker 1: the road and about about performing and adapting to different situations.
Speaker 1: And I wish they had told me to always keep
Speaker 1: your bus door locked. Just kidding, but I do keep
Speaker 1: in touch with him. And then thank you Danny for
Speaker 1: your question and shout out to Germany. Let's do one
Speaker 1: more question here, well, maybe two more, because here's one
Speaker 1: from Mateo that says, will you ever come to Finland?
Speaker 1: Shout out to Finland. I've never been to Finland, and
Speaker 1: I would absolutely love to. I would love to. That
Speaker 1: sounds like a place I would probably tour as a
Speaker 1: tourist before I tour as a musician. But if you
Speaker 1: want to come, hear me, I would love to play
Speaker 1: a show there. Absolutely. Here's another random I'm just scrolling
Speaker 1: through these the email grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: I'm just scrolling through it and I'll find a couple here.
Speaker 1: This question says, Hey granger my name is a Medio Plett.
Speaker 1: I'm a beginner songwriter from Chihuahua, Mexico. So what is
Speaker 1: your advice for early songwriters and how do I can
Speaker 1: with more professional songwriters virtually? Is there even a chance
Speaker 1: for a songwriter from Mexico to take a stand in
Speaker 1: country music. Love your music. I'm Adeo, So I'm Adeo.
Speaker 1: That is first of all, absolutely a songwriter from Mexico
Speaker 1: could make a stand in country music. And it's great
Speaker 1: that you're listening to this podcast and you're reaching out
Speaker 1: to guys like me. I would use I would use
Speaker 1: YouTube and Instagram and Facebook to your favor and continue
Speaker 1: to write songs and perform them. You didn't say anything
Speaker 1: about you being a singer, but I would perform them
Speaker 1: in any way possible on YouTube and Facebook and get
Speaker 1: them out the space, get them out into the universe,
Speaker 1: and people will start gravitating towards good music. I would
Speaker 1: start friending some of these songwriters you're talking about, the
Speaker 1: professional songwriters. As you said, I would start f these
Speaker 1: guys on Instagram or Twitter, whatever and just saying, hey,
Speaker 1: my name is Amedeo and I have some songs and
Speaker 1: I love your stuff. You just start the conversation like that,
Speaker 1: and I say, absolutely, a songwriter from Mexico could take
Speaker 1: a stand in country music. I've never been to Chihuahua,
Speaker 1: but I do know my grandmother has been, and I've
Speaker 1: had some friends that have been and it sounds like
Speaker 1: a really cool place and I love your culture. So
Speaker 1: from that perspective, you're gonna be able to bring a
Speaker 1: fresh light to country music songwriting. I think it's important
Speaker 1: that we are well versed in what you have to bring.
Speaker 1: So thanks for your question, man, keep at it, and
Speaker 1: I hope to hear from you again. On one of
Speaker 1: these questions. I probably shouldn't get into another one. I've
Speaker 1: talked a lot. I feel like today you guys out
Speaker 1: here on the bus and I'm about to go do soundcheck.
Speaker 1: We are in Texar, Canada today, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: do soundcheck, And as always, I appreciate you guys listening.
Speaker 1: And today today was a special addition to this podcast.
Speaker 1: And what a weird story. This is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those stories that I tell when people ask me,
Speaker 1: like on the radio, and they say, what's one of
Speaker 1: the craziest nights you've ever had on tour? I'll say
Speaker 1: this night. I'll say this night, It'll be the first
Speaker 1: I'll never forget the night I woke up to a
Speaker 1: fan in my bed looking at me saying if asking
Speaker 1: if I need anything creepy. I did take a shower
Speaker 1: right after that just in case. You know, you never
Speaker 1: know these days, So love you guys. We'll see you, yegee.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate
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