WEBVTT - Someone broke into my tour bus while I was sleeping 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:08.240 The craziest, most absolutely unheard of thing happened to me 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:14.440 on tour, and it happened last night. Yes, someone broke 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.360 onto my bus while I was sleeping and made it 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.680 all the way back to my room and that's how 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.000 I woke up. I want to tell you about this, 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.319 and I wanted to do a special edition of this 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.040 podcast where I literally this happened last night. I'm still 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.000 on tour, in the back half of this little tour, 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.479 and I set up my podcast gear because this is 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.400 a story I have to tell you. 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Roll the intro did cat and d 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:30.440 sels and so long line of bifle of up and 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:49.640 down the back Rangey col Wage, Yeah bation special addition 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.360 to the podcast today, I am on Wildflower back of 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.800 my bus, so I always feel like I need to 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.840 apologize if you hear a like low rumble, if you're 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.640 listening to this podcast in your car and you hear 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.640 like a rumble, that's the generator from either this bus 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:10.000 or the one next door of here. Montana and I 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.680 wanted to do this podcast today because I wanted to 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:21.279 talk about what is quite possibly top five strangest things 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.920 to happen to me on tour. And it happened last night. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.640 And I've a lot of times talked about I've told 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.840 so many stories through the different episodes of this podcast. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.440 This is episode fifty eight. I've talked about so many 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.560 strange stories and embarrassing stories. And scary stories and exciting 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.640 stories that's happened on the road, and then something happened 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:52.760 last night that it's pretty much topped at all. And 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.920 I'm going to try my best to explain it, and 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.760 I will do as good as I can explaining something 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:04.800 that happened while I was awakened in the middle of 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.760 the night. So, and what I mean by that is 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:11.000 if it's it's like if I were to say, Hey, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.440 you got up last night to go to the bathroom, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.119 you got you got up last night to go pee, 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.320 Tell me everything that happened when yere walking to the bathroom, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.360 because that's that's kind of the equivalent of what happened 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:29.000 to me. Let me paint the scenario twenty twenty, when 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:34.119 this craziness hit and the tours shut down. As things 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:39.440 started opening back up around August and September, we started 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:46.560 taking shows in places that we wouldn't have normally gone, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.839 places that we would have played in, say twenty twelve, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.159 twenty thirteen. And that's kind of the joke amongst the 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:58.400 guys is we've we've literally gone backwards when it comes 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.960 to touring. Just to go out and be able literally 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.640 just to pay health insurance and show pay for my 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.479 band and crew. It really financially does nothing for me. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.800 It maybe even takes me backwards a little bit. But 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.839 we're going out and we're playing shows just to keep 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.520 food on the band's table, and we're taking shows that 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.000 we would have ninety nine out of one hundred times 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:28.200 said no to in the last five years. And we 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.680 joke about it with the band. It's like we're living 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.039 twenty twelve and thirteen again. For instance, last night, we're 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.279 in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and we were playing in a 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.720 stage that was so small that we had to play acoustic. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.640 We couldn't bring the drum set. Dusty's drums wouldn't even 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.320 fit on this stage we went to last night, and 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.080 we've come to expect that, and I could tell you 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.680 right now from this story. I'm about to tell you 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.760 those days are stopping. We're not going to do this anymore. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.839 I'm gonna go ahead and make it official. We're not 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.960 going to be playing places that a we can't afford 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.440 to get into and b that are much too small 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.400 for us to be putting two buses and all this 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.760 crew and trying to get our gear out of these 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.440 trailers and through the gravel. So and that's a different 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.240 story for a different time, and what that is going 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.720 to mean to my future leading up to when things 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.240 finally open up again in the world from the shutdowns, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:38.920 and we'll still be playing you know, outdoor, big events, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.280 socially distanced. You know, when that stuff comes around, will 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:48.320 take it because usually those places are more secure, they 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.920 have tighter security, law enforcement on site. Last night, I 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.760 had none of that. This was straight out of the 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.720 book of twenty twelve for me, and I had been 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.280 playing places like this since probably two thousand, so it's 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.560 nothing new to me. But we were parked in the 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:09.480 parking lot and after the show, here comes the story. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.760 I go to sleep about twelve thirty, and I'll tell 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:18.120 you my perspective of what happened. I go to sleep 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.480 at twelve thirty. There's nothing strange about that. The show 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:29.280 was like a very average dive bar. You know, people 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.320 were rowdy in Southeast Oklahoma. That is completely expected, no 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.160 big deal. It's on par right, the show is on 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.680 par for what we would expect. I go to bet 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.640 and I have this little routine and I'll just share 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.720 with you guys. It's kind of embarrassing, but My routine 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.640 is I sleep on this bus. I sleep with a 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:57.560 weighted blanket because it when we're bouncing up and down, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.560 driving down the road, it holds me, you know, tight. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.560 So I've a weighted blanket all the way around my neck. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.000 I have a mouthguarden because i have a tendency to 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.360 grind my teeth, especially when I'm on the road and 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.560 I've got a lot going on in my mind. I'll 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.120 grind the crap out of my teeth, and so much 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.640 so that the dentist is like, hey, you need to 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.559 do something about this. You're gonna file your teeth down. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.560 So I've got a mouthguard in and then I wear 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:27.920 ear plugs, foam earplugs because of the bouncing and the 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.520 I sleep right by the engine, which is right behind 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.400 the camera if you're watching this. And then on top 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.480 of that, my phone is on my little night stand 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.120 on my bed. It's a twin size bed back here 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.120 in the back of this bus, and I have a 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:51.000 phone on the nightstand that's cranked up with a sleep machine. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.440 It's like a running water noise, you know, but it's 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:59.520 just mask any more sounds of parking lot, you know, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.079 things go on, people yelling, gear getting smashed into the 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.840 back of the trailer or us driving down the road. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.160 So I've got that plus the earphone, so I'm I'm 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.280 kind of setting the scene. That's black, pitch black. Back here. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.760 There's two doors between here and the front door of 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.840 the bus, so my door is closed and then the 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:25.719 bunk door is closed. Lights are off. We have a 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.480 very strict rule, and we've had this, this rule ever 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.360 since we started consistently touring in a bus to lock 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.199 the doors. We always lock the doors. It's a big deal. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:41.560 We religiously locked the doors even in places. We almost 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.640 have to say, in places where it's totally secure, we 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.800 have to remind each other, Hey, you don't have to 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.080 lock it, you know. We got we're gated in here, 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.040 you know, but we do anyway. I remember being on 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.559 like the Luke Brian tore and we were parking underneath 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.839 the amphitheaters and we were still locking the bus doors 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:03.520 because that's how religious we are about that. Last night 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.840 it wasn't locked for whatever reason, I don't know, And 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.599 I'm not going to throw any blame around. I'm not 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.719 even going to come close to blaming anybody for this. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:16.120 Chris Lee, my tour manager is not with us this weekend. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.560 He has a couple games for his son playing football, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.600 and they're getting trophies this weekend, so he asked if 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.880 he could stay home and via that trophy ceremony. He's 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.080 not here, so basically, I'm building up like the perfect storm. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.199 Another thing, we're parked here till six am where we 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.720 were last night, because it was only a ninety minute 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.760 drive to where we are in Texarkana. We never park 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.280 that long in a parking lot because we hardly ever 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.560 play a show that's only ninety miles. I said, minutes 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.960 ninety miles to the next show. Okay, that's enough of 0:11:54.440 --> 0:12:00.320 I'm trying to paint the picture of what's happening Herelve thirty. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.560 I go to sleep at one thirty. I wake up 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:11.560 in a complete days to a girl sitting over me 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:18.040 in my bed and she's saying, do you need anything? 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.800 Do I need anything? And in my mind, first of all, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.000 how long was she there? I don't know. Is that 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.400 not the creepiest thing you can imagine? How long was 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.280 she sitting there staring at me? I hope not long. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:39.680 I hope it wasn't very long. Trained in the background sorry. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.560 She says, do you need anything? She says it at 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:53.200 least three times before I coherently say no. And I 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.160 still haven't put this situation together. I don't really know 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.160 where I am. I don't really know why. I haven't 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.120 toured in a long time, so I'm here in this bus. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.680 I don't it doesn't Nothing is making sense to me. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.640 I don't know how better to put that. Nothing is 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.000 making sense to me. Why am I here? Why is 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.520 someone talking to me? Why is she asking me if 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.839 I need anything? Does that have anything to do with 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.720 the venue? Because the side note she used a bartender 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.360 at the venue we just played, So I'm thinking, is 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.959 something something wrong? Are we inter wreck? Did we wreck? 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.400 Or is there was there a fire in the venue? 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.400 And she's seeing if I am I okay? Like it 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.560 is so far fetched from anything that's ever happened that 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.800 I cannot put together why this is. And she says, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.040 I'm sorry. What's your name? And for some reason, I 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.880 said Sean. That's her lighting guy. I said Sean, and 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.000 she goes, oh, you're married, aren't you? And I said yeah, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.760 and she goes, I'm so sorry. I didn't realize you're married, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:02.320 And she leaves and suddenly it's coming together. What just happened? 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.600 I grabbed my phone on the nightstand, and we have 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.680 an app that we all talk together. It's called grout me. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.880 So I put on our tour app. I say, and 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:21.560 all caps SOS fan on WF, which is Wildflower SOS 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.200 fan on Wildflower help all caps because I'm in here 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.680 in my shorts, you know, nothing else but my shorts. 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.600 So I didn't. It didn't occur to me to like 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.840 jump out and chase her off. And I know every 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.720 all my guys are still loading, they're right around here. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.880 So she's up in the front lounge. I see her 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.200 lean around the corner and I see her up here, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.240 and she's writing on a napkin, on a paper towel 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.200 that she got off of our counter, and she's writing 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.400 her name and number on the napkin. And the door 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.160 bust open and Blake my sound guy and Sean and 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.240 Johnny my baby where they all come busting in. Todd's there. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:07.200 Everyone's there because they saw the SOS and they grab 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.120 her and take her out into the parking lot and 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.320 slam the door. And I'm just so finally in my 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:18.560 mind over this is all This happened in twenty seconds 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.400 from when I first realized when I first answered no, 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.600 I don't need anything to the door opening, It's probably 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.880 twenty seconds. It seems like it was five minutes in 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:34.320 my mind. But I'm finally now awake to the situation, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:41.400 and the severity of what of what this was starts 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.680 sinking into me. So I get up, put on a shirt, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:49.720 put on shoes, and all this stuff's running through my 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.560 head like this is of one in a million scenario. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.040 In fact, I told my mom this morning. She's like, 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.480 don't say that in your podcast. It'll give people an 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.400 idea that they could do that. I'm like, Mom, you 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.440 don't understand. This is one in a million. This she 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.800 beat all the odds to even make it. Imagine, guys, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.480 she came in. She tried a locked bus door and 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.360 it was unlocked. So she is brave enough to go on. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.800 She sees no one in that front lounge, so she 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.880 moves into the bunk room, opens the door, walks into 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.760 a dark bunk room, moves through that, sees no one's there. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:32.840 Opens my room door. It's dark, there's a sleep noise 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:37.120 going on, and I'm in here asleep, and she is 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.840 brave enough to sit down on the bed and start 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:45.040 talking to me, and you must assume that this has happen. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.680 Maybe she's tried this before with another band. I don't know, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.320 but she's super brave and super on drugs and super 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.200 on alcohol, no doubt. At least that's what the guys 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:57.480 told me after when they got her out in the 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:03.760 parking lot. So I have multiple measures of defense in here. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.200 I don't know if I could say the words firearms, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:11.160 I have multiple I don't want I don't want YouTube 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.199 to uh to grab these words, but you guys know 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.720 what I'm talking about. I have multiple in this room. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:21.399 And it didn't maybe because it was a female and 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.159 the what in the question she was asking do you 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:27.399 need anything? Maybe that didn't send off the alarm in 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:34.639 my head, grab grab your firearm. But that's scary to 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.400 me too, because what if what if I was so 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.919 delirious that what if instead of being polite like I 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:43.920 was like. I don't know why I was polite, I 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.360 don't know why I didn't start yelling, But what if 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.000 I had been the other side of delusion where I 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.440 pulled out a firearm and put it in her forehead? 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.200 Either way, Hey, it's all bad. I mean that could 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.880 have been terrible and so on so many levels. And 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.080 there's no way that this girl would listen to this podcast. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.480 She seems far from a Granger Smith podcast listener, but 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:23.360 if she was, I would say, don't ever ever enter 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:28.000 a dark bedroom when someone's sleeping, especially if you know 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:33.800 they're from Texas, because they're they're gonna be armed. And 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:42.240 I would consider this a very lucky situation for her 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:49.960 that it didn't escalate. And I'm thinking, was she filming 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.760 me sleeping? Was she watching me? There's so many things 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.119 going on in my head when I got up this 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.240 morning and I finally kind of put more of that together. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.040 I really got creeped out and to Blake my sound 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.119 guy this morning, and I just said, tell me everything 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:08.119 you know, and he said that when they got her 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.600 out in the parking lot, kicked her out, she got 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.679 in her car and left, but then they told the 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.639 venue and because she was an employee there, they called 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.040 her and quote, they said, what are you doing? And 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:21.879 she said, quote, I'm driving to Arkansas to pick up 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:27.080 my kid. I hope that that would give you an 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.399 idea of the kind of girl that this is guys 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.239 driving to Arkansas to pick up my kid. So they said, well, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.000 we turn around, come back here because we need to talk. 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:43.040 So she came back. They fired her and started to 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.960 press charges for breaking and entering on their property. I 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:53.239 don't know if they are going to press charges, if 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.840 they're pushing that through or not. I would prefer to 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:01.280 be not involved and just get out of this situation completely. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.359 Chris was on the phone. They woke him up. He 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.960 was home in Texas and they woke him up, and 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:14.280 so he was involved last night. What a what a deal? 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.800 What a deal? And I wanted to get I wanted 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.520 to get on this podcast and throw it out in 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.400 the universe, like my mom was like, don't they went 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.639 on the podcast, But I wanted to put it out 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:31.320 in the universe because I wish I could live every 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:37.439 day in my life knowing that the world is shutting 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:42.200 down on March fifteenth and martial laws coming. You guys 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.080 remember what that felt like in twenty twenty. And then 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.960 I want to live every night like someone might be 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:52.760 looking at my face at any point of my sleep 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:58.119 and I want to be ready for that. 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Buy raycon dot com slash Granger. 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.520 It helps me if you get your racons with that 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:13.879 promo code. Back to the podcast. So we've had a 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:17.480 lot of interesting things happen, and I guess what's happened 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:19.720 to us on tour is just when you do something 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:27.320 anything enough times, it's enough scenarios play out that they're 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:31.080 worth telling stories about. So it's not I don't necessarily 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.360 think it's just me. If you talk to anyone that's 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:35.399 done one thing for a long time, if you talk to, 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:39.960 you know, a firefighter that's been doing firefighting for twenty years, 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:44.000 he's going to have collected enough stories out of the 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:50.760 routine to have some crazy ones like we have. And 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.000 I seriously think, like I said at the beginning, I 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:56.199 think this is a little bit of a catalyst for 0:23:56.280 --> 0:24:01.480 me to need to back down off of uh trying 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.720 to constantly play any place that will book us to 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:10.600 pay the bills for my guys. I think I'm gonna 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:13.800 I'm gonna back off of that. And I wanted to 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:15.800 explain the story on this podcast so that you could 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:19.960 you could kind of see part of that decision making 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:26.760 for me one of these days. Comment below if you 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:29.000 want to hear more of these crazy stories. We have 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:31.119 so many, and I could. I could literally bring in 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:36.520 like Blake or Chris or will or Johnny Todd, I 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.080 could Dusty. I could bring in these guys and we 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:41.080 could sit down and go through some of these really 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:45.040 funny stories and tell more of them as a group. 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:47.480 In fact, this story I just told might might have 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.359 been funnier if Blake was involved, because Blake's very animated 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:52.640 and he was like, oh, I gotta get out of here. 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:56.840 What are you doing that you want his bus? So, I, 0:24:56.880 --> 0:25:02.400 as promised, will always read your questions to me on 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:06.760 this podcast. You guys, if you haven't already, email anything 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:13.480 you want conversation wise question comment anything to Grangersmith podcast 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:18.520 at gmail dot com. I will read it on this 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.960 podcast straight back at you. And so I want to 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:27.640 dig in here. This question is from Ryan in Sawmills, 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:29.960 North Carolina, says, Hey Granger, My name is Ryan Dula 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:33.159 from Sawmills, North Carolina. Both my family and I love 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.240 your clothing line and your music. Shout out to North Carolina. 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.240 Thank you, buddy, Thank you for being you. My full 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:43.119 time job, I'm a dispatcher for Caldwell County Emergency Services 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.320 E nine to one one center, where I'm a shift supervisor. 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:50.320 I also work part time for Sawmills Fire Department. Emergency 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:54.159 services is pretty much my life. My question is have 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:57.720 you ever had any aspirations of a job in emergency services, fire, EMS, 0:25:57.800 --> 0:26:01.480 law enforcement or military? And if you're ever in the 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:05.480 Charlotte or Hickory area, come by the firehouse and hang 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:09.320 for a while. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that, Ryan, 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:13.000 and thank you for your service. It's funny I just 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:17.640 mentioned referenced firefighting. Thank you for serviceman, and I'll tell 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:22.200 you that I have thought about that a lot, and 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:27.520 during nine to eleven in two thousand and one, I 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:31.000 was ready to go at that point and sign up. 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:34.840 And it was that moment because I had several buddies 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.600 that were in the military and that were going overseas, 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:41.720 and I would have personally gone Marines because that's what 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:45.560 they were all doing. I had seven buddies from college 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.840