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I asked you to reach out to me 28 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: with anything you want, anything you want me to talk about, 29 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: and so they fled it in. So, first of all, 30 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending those emails. I went 31 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: through all of them. I obviously can't answer all of them, 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: but I went through and grabbed the ones that I 33 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: need to answer right now. And if you have a 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: question that I don't answer on this episode, just ask again. 35 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: Or if you have a new question, or if you're 36 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: a new and you want to ask me anything that 37 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: you want me to answer longer than like a radio 38 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: blip or an Instagram blip. You know you want me 39 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: to long form answer and give you my best explanation 40 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: that I can, whether that's about my life or love 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: or country music or religion or sports or whatever you 42 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: want to talk about. I'm here. I'm here for you, 43 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: So email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. I'll 44 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: get to yours and right now I'm so happy to 45 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: see some really good questions and I'm excited. Welcome to 46 00:02:36,120 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: the Granger Smith Podcast. Gegee did char Mounchi and longline 47 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: fo up and down on back, rangycover Evage. If you 48 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: want to find a personal way to get a hold 49 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: of me, go to cameo dot com and you could 50 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: search Granger Smith. You could find me on there, and 51 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: that is a it's a fun thing I've do been 52 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: doing for about a year. I've been going on and 53 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: I could I could send you a personal video message, 54 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: whether that's a congratulations or happy birthday, or maybe you 55 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: want me to speak to some kind of piece of 56 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: advice or even give a shout out to maybe a 57 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: new business that you're starting. Cameo dot com allows you 58 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: to do that. You can go on and book me 59 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: to send you a personal video message. I love that, 60 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: especially during the crazy time of twenty twenty that's I 61 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: don't get to do meet and greets, and so this 62 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: is a great way for me to keep in contact 63 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: with you, as is this podcast. What a fun week 64 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: this is This is album release week for me. So 65 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: the biggest week for an artist is right now for me, 66 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: because this Friday, if you're listening real time, this coming Friday, 67 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: we are releasing our album September twenty fifth, called Country Things, 68 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: Volume one. Eight songs on there, including three that you 69 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: already know That's Why I Love Dirt Roads, Country Things, 70 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 1: the title track, and Hate You Like I Love You, 71 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: which we released those last two a few weeks ago. 72 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: So you're gonna get the rest of that Volume one, 73 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: and then you're going to get Volume two coming around 74 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving for you non Americans, that's the end of November. 75 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: I'm excited about all sixteen songs that complete this whole project. 76 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: So let me know what you think. I'm pumped to 77 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: hear what you guys think on something that I've been 78 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: working on for two years, my tenth studio album. A 79 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: lot of thought, a lot of blood, sweat tears, literally, 80 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: a lot of editing, a lot of songwriting, a lot 81 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: of recording, a lot of picking art, a lot of 82 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: planning for this release has gone into this, and so 83 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: a little bit nervous, I'm a little bit excited, but 84 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: most of all, I just want to see if it 85 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: connects with you. Guys. I want to see if these 86 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: stories connect, because that's what I look for as a 87 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: country music artist is telling a story through my eyes 88 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: through music and then having someone out there go, man, 89 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: those lyrics sound like me. That sounds like what I'm 90 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: going through, or that sounds like my life, or that 91 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: sounds like where I used to be, or that sounds 92 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: like where I want to be. Any of those kind 93 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 1: of connections is how me as an artist really get 94 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: that relationship with a fan so that when we go 95 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 1: play live shows, it's like you're the only one in 96 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: the room. It's me and the band playing to one 97 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: person that's connecting with those lyrics at a very deep level. 98 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: And I can never ask anything more than that as 99 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: a singer. So, really, big week, if you can help 100 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: me out and check out this album. It's coming out Friday. 101 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: It maybe pre save it, maybe pre order it. Those 102 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: things really help the numbers of this album so that 103 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: it puts it in a higher algorithm and that all 104 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: the music platforms wherever you like to listen to music, 105 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: they get together and they go, oh wow, that Granger 106 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: album is getting a lot of looks, a lot of 107 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: pre safe so let's bump it up so maybe more 108 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: people will see it. So that's ultimately what helps me. 109 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: But I just hope you like it answering, I'm going 110 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: to go through some of these emails and react to them. 111 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: I've only read through them briefly one time, so as 112 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: I usually do on this podcast, there is no preparation. 113 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: There is no notes that I've taken, and I think 114 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: that some of the questions could be answered better if 115 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: I had notes or if I had references. But I 116 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: think at the same time, it helps keep this program 117 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: pretty raw and off the cuff, as if, like I 118 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: said in the intro, we're sitting in the same room 119 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: or sitting in the same truck, riding together and having 120 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: a conversation. The first email comes from Jordan. Oh, that 121 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: brings up a point. I could say your name on here. 122 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: I could say your first name. So if you send 123 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: me an email and you don't want me to say 124 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: your name, say you want to remain anonymous, but I 125 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: would like to also know your hometown, so, for instance, 126 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: or I don't know where you are, but it would 127 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: be cool if you would put your hometown in your 128 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: first name or anonymous. But I would love to be 129 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: able to read that. As part of the question, Jordan says, 130 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: I want to ask you. I wanted to ask you 131 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: this question a week ago, but I didn't get to 132 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: in time. What do you remember about nine to eleven 133 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: and did that make any kind of impact on your life? 134 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting because I remember exactly where 135 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: I was during that morning nine to eleven. I was 136 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: living in Nashville, Tennessee. I was writing songs, and I 137 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: was on my way to a writing appointment, or I 138 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: hadn't left the house yet, but I was going to 139 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: a writing appointment with two legendary songwriters, Aaron Barker and 140 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Roy Burke, and they had never met each other. And 141 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 1: I had written individually with those two guys a lot, 142 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: and I was bringing them together, and it just felt like, 143 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 1: what a really cool moment to bring these two epic 144 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: legendary songwriters together, had all these hits collectively, and I 145 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: would be, you know, like a fly on the wall, 146 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: just connecting them and hopefully we could write a song. 147 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: That was the morning of September eleventh, two thousand and one. 148 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: For me, I was just a kid, and I walked 149 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: into the living room and my roommate was watching TV 150 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: and the first plane had hit the tower, and he 151 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: was like, you see this, And that was back before 152 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: we just knew what was happening on social media. You 153 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: actually learned things from TV. And I was like, oh 154 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: my gosh, what's you know. My first thought was, what 155 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: a terrible accident. This plane got off course somehow something 156 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: malfunctioned in the navigation system and they hit a skyscraper. 157 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: That's what I thought. And then as we were watching 158 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: and people were commentating and speculating on what this might be, 159 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: that's when the second plane hit. And the second plane, 160 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: everyone had a lot of lead time on it, so 161 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: you could actually see it from a distance. You could 162 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: see that it was on a collision course, and it 163 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: was like slow motion. Really, I mean, here comes this 164 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: this big jetliner heading for a massive skyscraper right next 165 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: to another skyscraper that's burning. So as it impacted, that's like, 166 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: right when it impacted, the world knew that it wasn't 167 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: an accident. This was on purpose. Whatever the motive, it 168 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: was on purpose. And then there was a whole different 169 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: reaction when the first tower fell, because I just thought 170 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: maybe a lot of people thought, oh man, that really sucks. 171 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: For that top of that building, like they're going to 172 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: have to remodel the whole top of that building. And 173 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: I still hadn't put together that this could possibly fall 174 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: down all the way, I could completely crumble. So when 175 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: the first one fell and then everyone started thinking the 176 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: second was gonna fall, it was just very surreal. I 177 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: wasn't alive obviously during JFK or any of the any 178 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: of the other past monumental American moments like that, and 179 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: so that is my that's my JFK moment. If you 180 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: a lot of y'all's parents and grandparents probably could remember 181 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: where they were when JFK was assassinated, And that was 182 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: me for nine to eleven, watching that in just complete disbelief, 183 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: very surreal. I remember thinking at that moment, so to 184 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: help answer the Jordan's question, I remember thinking, man, I 185 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: gotta go and list like I gotta go fight, like 186 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: this is this is a calling now, I'm I'm called 187 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: to go and join and and help in some way. 188 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 1: And I really had to kind of overcome that urge 189 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: and redirect that feeling of let's leave everything right now, 190 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: let's leave music, and let's go fight. I had to 191 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: kind of redirect that and say, hang on, I also 192 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: have an opportunity to use what I'm called to do. 193 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: I felt a calling to play music, and I could 194 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: use that calling to help towards this cause. And so 195 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: I made it a mission from that day, September eleventh, 196 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, to use my music to help 197 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: with the cause. And it led me to my first 198 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: entertainment tour in Iraq in two thousand and seven. So 199 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: six years later, there I was on the stage in 200 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: Iraq with my band playing a concert that really started 201 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: from the motivation of what I saw on TV. At 202 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: nine to eleven. Question from Ian says, Hey, Graindeer, I'm 203 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: a fan from Canada. You're absolutely my favorite artist. Listen 204 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: to Silverada bench Seat and I've been hooked ever since. Anyway, 205 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: my question is how do you stay so faithful and 206 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: how you have such a great attitude even in the 207 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: worst of times. Is there something specific you do or 208 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: is it a mindset you need to get into. Ian 209 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 1: speaking to how do you stay so faithful and have 210 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: such great attitude even in the worst of times, The 211 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: short answer is I don't. I don't stay faithful and 212 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: have a great attitude in the worst of times. And 213 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: let me be clear that if I appear to then 214 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: that is either me being in shock or that is 215 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: me having thought through the situation enough to then go 216 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: onto social media or onto camera of some sort and 217 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: deliver a message of hope in the hindsight of what 218 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: was behind me the worst of times, as your email says, 219 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: but in the peak of a worst time, man, I 220 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: don't have a good attitude, and it's a battle of faith, 221 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: you know. It's a battle of getting everything I believe, 222 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: the rock solid beliefs I have together and organize them 223 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: so that I could overcome the urge to have a 224 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: bad attitude and a lack of faith. I cannot answer 225 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: that question without mentioning that my rock solid faith comes 226 00:14:55,160 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: through my relationship with Jesus Christ, in my Christian faith, 227 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: and that in a nutshell Ian answered, I could answer 228 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: your question right there. I could just say Jesus that 229 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: I could answer in one word, because in the worst 230 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: of times, I am not as a man capable of 231 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: relinquishing that feeling or extinguishing that flame. I'm not capable 232 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: of that, and it has taken me a long time 233 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: to realize, to understand that there's certain things I can't 234 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: fix I can't fix the worst of time situation within 235 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: me in real time as it's going down. I'm not 236 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: a superhero and the reality of that is no one 237 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: can No one can fix that or extinguish that fire 238 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: alone as a human, because we are inherently flawed as humans. 239 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: And that has taken me a lot of years, like 240 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: I said, to unpack that mindset. But when I'm completely broken, 241 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: I have to go There is God and I'm not him, 242 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: and I can't fix this without his help. I can't. 243 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: I can't find the next breath or the next moment 244 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: without his help. I can't. I can't move on or 245 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: I can't find a new course without him. And then 246 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: the next step for me is if I am so 247 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: broken and humble in that situation to God, then I 248 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: need to also be that way during the good times. 249 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: I need to take that and not just be a 250 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: servant of Him when I'm broken, but also be so 251 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: grateful in the good times, which a good time could 252 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: just be a normal day, you know, like a normal 253 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: day when things is not the things aren't going wrong. 254 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: Your mom isn't calling you saying Dad died. You know, 255 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: you're not getting in a car accident on the way 256 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,479 Speaker 1: to work and taking your truck to get fixed and 257 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: get a bill that you literally is that bill is 258 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: more than you have in your bank account. Those days 259 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: are are extraordinary and it takes God to pull you 260 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: out of them. But I'm trying my hardest to seek 261 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: him during the normal days, during the good days, not 262 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: just in the bad ones. Nicholas, he says, I'm trying 263 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:54,719 Speaker 1: to make a name for myself in country music, And 264 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,679 Speaker 1: he says, Hi, my name is Nicholas Taylor. How are 265 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: you doing. I'm working on becoming a country artist by 266 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:05,239 Speaker 1: twenty twenty to twenty twenty one. I'm nineteen from Chicago, Illinois. 267 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: I'm a very creative person and I play music. Music 268 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: is a very important thing to me, especially when it 269 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 1: comes to my mental health. I was born on the 270 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: autism spectrum with hearing loss and add music has helped 271 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: me wind down and stimulated me whenever I became to 272 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: hyper or had sensory overload. Also, I have anxiety and 273 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: it shows up whenever I'm writing a song. Where do 274 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: you stand with mental health and especially as a musician, 275 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: and what advice would you offer to an upcoming inspiring 276 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 1: artist like myself and others and what worries me. There's 277 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: a couple of things that worry me about this question, Nicholas. 278 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: One is how you say, I also have an anxiety 279 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: and it shows up whenever I am writing a song. Hmm. 280 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: And let me say the second thing that bothers me. 281 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: The second thing that bothers me is says you said, 282 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: I am working on becoming a country artist by twenty 283 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: twenty to twenty twenty one. Well, where do I begin 284 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: you You, first of all, you are a country artist. 285 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,479 Speaker 1: You don't have to become one. You are one because 286 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 1: you obviously play music and you write songs. So that's done. 287 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: You are, Nicholas, a country artist. Officially, I'm moorbeaning you 288 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: a country artist so that you don't have to put 289 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: a deadline on when you're going to become it, because 290 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: you what you are saying is you want to have 291 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: some kind of notoriety, or you want to be heard 292 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: by a massive people by that time, or you want 293 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: to have some tangible form of success in the business 294 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: to hang on your wall. And that is not a 295 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: good reason to go through the anxiety of writing a song. 296 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: I understand having anxiety in writing a song. But that 297 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: anxiety for me comes with or comes from, the pressure 298 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: of trying to write a good song for success of 299 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: some kind. And at the beginning of a career, it 300 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 1: needs to be much more organic. It needs to be 301 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: much more of a vent for you. It needs to 302 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: be much more of a more of a way of 303 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: venting life, a way of writing in a diary in 304 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: the form of a song to get some creative ideas 305 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: out of you, or to tell a story you wanted 306 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: to release. But you have to take the pressure away 307 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,959 Speaker 1: from trying to write a good song for commercial uses 308 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 1: at the beginning stages. It's impossible for me to do that. Now. 309 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: I love writing songs, and I'll write nine out of 310 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,239 Speaker 1: ten songs. I love one out of ten songs. I 311 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: feel the pressure like oh, but the pressure comes when 312 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: I think this is good, Oh, this is good. All 313 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: screw this up, Granger, don't mess You had a good 314 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: idea and you're blowing it. You know, That's what goes 315 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: on in my head. So buddy, don't put a time 316 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: on this. Take away the twenty twenty to twenty twenty 317 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: take that away, because if you're a country artist, which 318 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: you are, you will be till you die. You'll be 319 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: a country artist forever. So use it as a way 320 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: to vent a way to express yourself, your express your creativity, 321 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: and realize that if one person likes it, awesome. If 322 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: nobody likes it, fine, that's not a necessity. You were 323 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: doing this because you're getting art out of you into 324 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: the world regardless of the reaction. Look at it from 325 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: that mindset. Start again and look at it in that mindset, 326 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: knowing that it might take you thirty years for anyone 327 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: to finally hear your music, and when they do finally 328 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: hear your music, it won't matter because you've already built 329 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: up that confidence inside you and you've built a mindset 330 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: of writing songs for you is a release, not anxiety. 331 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: Here's a question from Abby Martin and she says, I 332 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: listened to your podcast on Monday Mornings talking about your 333 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 1: relationship with Amber, and I'm curious what the inspiration behind 334 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: the journal you wrote for her before you knew her. 335 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: Was such an awesome idea. Love all your channels, such 336 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: an incredible family to watch. Thank you, Abby. So, Abby's 337 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: talking about a little piece of obscure information that she 338 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: heard at one point in me talk about I gave 339 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: Amber a gift the night before our wedding, and that 340 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: gift was a journal that I had written to her 341 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: about her without knowing her. And that came about after 342 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: many failed relationships with me and I would get you know, 343 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: I would have a girlfriend, and you know, you would 344 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: think you love her, and a couple of years would 345 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: go by or whatever, and then it would fail. Either 346 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: we would just get in too many fights and I'd 347 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,719 Speaker 1: have to call it off, or we would fall out 348 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: a love for whatever reason, a million reasons. And at 349 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: the last time before Amber, I decided to pull back 350 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: on like the dating game, and pull back on getting 351 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: infatuated by a girl. It didn't matter anymore. I was 352 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: done with that. And so I thought, you know what, 353 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: whoever my future wife is, she's out there somewhere right now. 354 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: She's living her life. What is she doing, What does 355 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: she like? She's out there somewhere doing something, living her life. 356 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: Maybe she's in a relationship now, maybe she's working a job, 357 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: maybe she's maybe she's sitting at home thinking about me, 358 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: you know, the future version of me. Whatever. That mentality 359 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: took me to the idea that, well, I should start 360 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 1: writing her letter because she's out there. I knew she 361 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,399 Speaker 1: was out there, I just didn't know who she was 362 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 1: or where she was. So I just started writing a 363 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: letter to a girl that I didn't know yet and 364 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: told her all about myself and what I had gone 365 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: through and how excited I was to finally meet her 366 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: and what a what a feeling that would be when 367 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: I knew and she knew, and we were going to 368 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 1: get married. So I wrote, you know, several pages of this, 369 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: and that was a great way to kind of calm 370 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: myself a little bit in the craziness of single life, 371 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: you know, when you just kind of feel like, man, 372 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 1: I'm never gonna meet anybody, that there's no more good 373 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: girls out there, or maybe I'll just be single. I 374 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 1: just be single, you know, like to calm all those 375 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: weird feelings. I just I would go home on a 376 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: weird night and I would pull out that spiral notebook 377 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: and we'll start writing to this anonymous girl. And then 378 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: I met Amber and I gave her that that journal. 379 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: So that's where that came from. By the way, that's 380 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 1: I would recommend that for single dudes out there. Single girls, Hey, 381 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: single girls, do it. Write a journal. It's a there's 382 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: a lot of healing in that. I will say too 383 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: that that than Amber and I continue that together. Then 384 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: we started writing our separate journals to our unborn children, 385 00:25:52,119 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: which we did. Question comes from Tyler says, what size lift, wheels, 386 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: tires and offset do you have on your truck? I 387 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 1: love the truck and I'm looking for a similar setup. Yeah, man, 388 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: I have a two thousand and eight silverado Z seventy 389 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,239 Speaker 1: one half ton. It has a over the course of 390 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: many years, I did this stuff to it, but it 391 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: has a I believe it's a four inch body lift 392 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: and a three inch pro Comp suspension lift. It might 393 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: be I can't remember if it's vice versa. If it's 394 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: a four inch pro Comp suspension and a three inch body, 395 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: I think that's what it is, totally, totally seven inches. 396 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: I have thirty five inch tires that are BF Goodrench 397 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: mud Terrain, which I love of a great relationship with 398 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: BF Goodrench. And I have pro Comp wheels as well, 399 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: and those have lasted me forever, so I really like them. 400 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: I've had them forever. They don't go out of style, 401 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: they're all blacked out. I've had them forever. 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I guess what 443 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is how do you find the 444 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: balance between surrounding yourself with loved ones and trying to 445 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: keep busy enough to get your mind off of it. 446 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: This is something I struggled with and when I lost 447 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: my father at a young age, in a sense, I 448 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: felt lost. Charles first, first thing I'll say is everyone 449 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: deals with grief different. Not only does everybody deal with 450 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: grief differently, but everybody deals with different loss differently. When 451 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: I lost my dad, that was I dealt without a 452 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: certain way. When I lost my son, I dealt without 453 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: a certain way. That was different than when I lost 454 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: my dad. I don't know why. I don't know why 455 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: people were different. I don't know why loss feels different. 456 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: It just does. And knowing that everyone's different, that every 457 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: loss is different, that you can't compare losses, you can't 458 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: compare hurt with one another. Knowing that helps helps the 459 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: understanding a little bit. And people have come up to 460 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: me many times and said things like, I know it's 461 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: nothing compared to your loss, but I lost my grandmother 462 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: and I'm really hurting. And I like to always stop 463 00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: them right there and say, hey, you got to stop. 464 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: You can't compare yourself to me. Stop, Like, take that 465 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: sentence away. I know it doesn't compare to you. Take 466 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: the sentence away because I don't know about your relationship 467 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: with your grandma. I don't know about that. Only you do. 468 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: Only that is that, that is your loss. And they 469 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: say that you could you could judge a loss by 470 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: how much love was there, so you're the love equals 471 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: the loss. Unfortunately, the more you love, the more the 472 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: loss hurts, right, the more the grief and that that's uh, 473 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: that is the terrible thing about being human. You love 474 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: too much, you're gonna grieve a lot. You don't love anybody. Hey, 475 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna grieve, but guess what, you also 476 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: didn't love anybody, And that's where the joy comes from. 477 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: That's where that's what makes life worth living, is having 478 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: full love for other humans. Like that's that's what makes 479 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: that's what makes it worth living. So if you try 480 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: to minimize that love to try to offset the grief, 481 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: I don't work that way, y'all heard Garth Brooks the 482 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: dance like it, you could miss the pain, but you'd 483 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: had to have missed the dance, like No one wants 484 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: to miss the dance, right, So I could tell you 485 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: how I tried to balance, but that would just be 486 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: me and you. Inevitably, Charles are different than me with Dad. 487 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: When I lost my dad, I re engaging into life 488 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: is hard, no matter what, no matter what kind of grief. 489 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: It's hard to get back to a job. It's really 490 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: hard to get back into a hobby because you feel 491 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: a guilt that if you are going back to work, 492 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: or going back and going back and fishing in the 493 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: lake or playing golf, whatever hobby you throw in there, 494 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: there's a mindset that, man, I'm going to work. I guess. 495 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: I guess I'm just moving on from Dad. I guess 496 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: I'm just I guess it's not a big deal anymore. 497 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: Because now I've been off work for two weeks because 498 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: of the funeral and being trying to give time to 499 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: mom and try and dealing with my own misunderstanding of 500 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: losing Dad. I've been off for two weeks. Now I'm 501 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: going back to work, So I guess that's like the 502 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: start of forgetting dad, And that's a lie. That's a lie. 503 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: That guilt is a lie because first of all, you 504 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 1: got to go back to work sometime. And it's funny 505 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: that if you think of it in perspective of what 506 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: your dad would think. Of course, your dad wants you 507 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: to go back to whork. Course your dad wants you 508 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: to go and do the things that he loved to 509 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: do together with you, Like maybe it's fishing or hunting 510 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: or whatever. Maybe he loved to do those things with you, 511 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: So he only would want you to go and do 512 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: those things again and think about him. Right, So you 513 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: got to re engage. And you're right in thinking that 514 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: there's a balance of keeping yourself busy enough to get 515 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: it off your mind. And a lot of people might 516 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: tell you that you don't want to. You don't want 517 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 1: to kick the can down the road, kick your grief 518 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: down the road and deal with it later by distracting 519 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: yourself so much that you're just completely forgetting the real 520 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,840 Speaker 1: world that you're living in. So, yes, you gotta go 521 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: to work. Yeah, you got to re engage in life, 522 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:43,479 Speaker 1: but you carry it with you. And when you first 523 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: carry that loss, with you. It's really heavy, it's super 524 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,280 Speaker 1: heavy baggage, and it feels like you're just you're barely moving, 525 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,359 Speaker 1: like you just cannot function in life. But then that 526 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: weight gets lighter and lighter and lighter. That guilt gets 527 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: lighter and lighter, but your memory and your love for 528 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 1: your dad doesn't get lighter. So here I am. I'm 529 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: seven years down the road from losing my dad, and 530 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: I don't love him any less, and most maybe even 531 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 1: more important than that, to my own sanity, I haven't 532 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: forgotten him any more than I did when he was alive. 533 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 1: And that was my fear. I remember it like day one. 534 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: I remember driving down the road and seeing cars and 535 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: everyone's scurrying about living their lives, and I thought, man, 536 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: none of these people know my dad even died. They're 537 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 1: just living their life. And there's a strange feeling to that. 538 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 1: And then I thought, man, by tomorrow, I'm gonna have 539 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,799 Speaker 1: forgotten him one percent, and by Friday I will I 540 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: will have forgotten him three more percent, and then by 541 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 1: ten years he'll just I won't even remember him. And 542 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: that's a lie. That's a lie. You'll carry it with 543 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: I had people tell me for a long time that 544 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: that is a lie. My grandmother who's ninety four, who 545 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: has outlived all of her siblings obviously, her parents, two husbands, 546 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:17,200 Speaker 1: and a son, and every friend she's ever had growing up, 547 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,319 Speaker 1: every one of them, she's outlived them all. And to 548 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: this day, when I ask her about her mother or 549 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: her father, I think her dad died in like seventy three, 550 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,400 Speaker 1: and she still gets choked up talking about her dad, 551 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: who died in nineteen seventy three. That woman has not 552 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: forgotten anything about her dad, or the love she had, 553 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: or what a wonderful man he was. And that is 554 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,320 Speaker 1: true hope to see a ninety four year old woman 555 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:50,280 Speaker 1: so in love with being a daughter of her father 556 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,359 Speaker 1: that it has not left her at all. So there's 557 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,720 Speaker 1: so much hope that you'll go all the way, Charles, 558 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: to your deathbed with your dad so close to you 559 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,359 Speaker 1: in your heart. And what I find with me is 560 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: it's crazy that sometimes now I'll say a joke or 561 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,640 Speaker 1: i'll laugh a certain way, and I'll just thought comes 562 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,839 Speaker 1: in my mind and says that was Dad. Like Dad 563 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: would have said that joke, those are his words, or 564 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,200 Speaker 1: that laugh sounded just like Dad, And then I remember 565 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: that he's a part of me, like not only through DNA, 566 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,920 Speaker 1: but through just the imprinted memory. Dad's a part of 567 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 1: me and I'll carry him with me to the day 568 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:41,839 Speaker 1: I die. Jessica, and your question is what is your 569 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: favorite song saying I'm dying to know what song gets 570 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 1: you the most pumped? Jessica, that's usually that means the 571 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,200 Speaker 1: song that people go crazy with, because that gets me 572 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: the most pumped. And it's a lot of times the 573 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: first song of the night is really high energy walking 574 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 1: on that stage for the first time, and whatever that 575 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,719 Speaker 1: song might be. Currently it's the song Holler, whatever that 576 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,720 Speaker 1: song might be, I just get I get really jazzed 577 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,600 Speaker 1: up for that song. And then the country boy song, 578 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,640 Speaker 1: which we still play the very end of our show, 579 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: Earl Diubbles Junior the country boy song and I you know, 580 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 1: come out on the stage, Earl comes out, and it's 581 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 1: always the end of the night. The crowd is really 582 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: crazy and fun and like the job's over, you know, 583 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,480 Speaker 1: Like we did maybe we added some new songs in 584 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,839 Speaker 1: the middle of the set, and that took a little 585 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 1: bit of work, took a little bit of brain power, 586 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,800 Speaker 1: and by the end, it's like we're in cruise control. 587 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: We're just having fun and performing and I love that 588 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,399 Speaker 1: about our last song of the night. So to answer 589 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,919 Speaker 1: your question, Jessica, I would say the country boy song 590 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: question from Chris, who puts the title Boomer Sooner to 591 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: the end of his note here it says I've been 592 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: a fan since I first saw you at Jake jam 593 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,760 Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen and Shawnee, Oklahoma. My daughter and I 594 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,120 Speaker 1: showed up early and we're front row and I'll never 595 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: forget it. I was instantly hooked on your music and podcasts. 596 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 1: Since then, we enjoy getting the meet and greets and 597 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 1: every time we get to see you. I'll be forty 598 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 1: six in October and my daughter is eighteen. Thank you 599 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: for being so genuine every time I see you. I 600 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,160 Speaker 1: remember seeing you at Frontier City in June twenty nineteen, 601 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: less than a week before River's accident, and that brings 602 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: me to my question. Do you ever think you'll go 603 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 1: back to one on one meet and greets again? Yeah? Buddy. 604 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:43,320 Speaker 1: First of all, thank you, thank you for those kind words, 605 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: and thank you for being a fan of the music 606 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 1: and the podcast. Truly, I'm grateful for guys like you, 607 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 1: and I hope that you know that it's people like 608 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: you that make me want to keep doing it, to 609 00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,959 Speaker 1: see that passion that now you've passed on to your daughter. 610 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:05,960 Speaker 1: I absolutely love that you guys get to share that together. Man. 611 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,440 Speaker 1: The short answer to this question is yes, we'll absolutely 612 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 1: get back to one on one meet and greets. That 613 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,680 Speaker 1: was a big, really big part of my life and 614 00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: my show and my tour for many many years. And 615 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: it was after RIV I did stop meet and greets. 616 00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: But that's not why I'm not doing them now now 617 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: is because of COVID. So I did start meet and 618 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,400 Speaker 1: greets again at some point. I think it was December 619 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: of last year, and then you know the whole COVID thing. 620 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,799 Speaker 1: These venues are not allowing anyone backstage, and they're not 621 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: allowing fans to meet artists for obvious reasons, like it's 622 00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 1: not there's that's no that's a no brainer, and I 623 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:52,279 Speaker 1: know you understand that. But I did play We played 624 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,400 Speaker 1: Billy Bobs in Fort Worth, Texas last weekend, and the 625 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: club owner was saying, you know, I don't I just 626 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,960 Speaker 1: don't see artists ever going back to meet and greets, 627 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,239 Speaker 1: especially after they get used to not having a meet 628 00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,879 Speaker 1: and greet. I don't see artists ever going back with 629 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: you know, all the diseases that people carry on their hands. Man, 630 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,000 Speaker 1: get I get it. But there's no way I'm ever 631 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,719 Speaker 1: going to give up on meet and greets. That's just 632 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 1: that's a big part of what I do is getting 633 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,319 Speaker 1: the pulse of the fans on the ground at the 634 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:28,279 Speaker 1: show an hour before I go out and perform to them. 635 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,840 Speaker 1: So I'll meet guys like you, Chris and your daughter, 636 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,120 Speaker 1: and you might tell me of a song that you love, 637 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:36,840 Speaker 1: or a song that means a lot to you and 638 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 1: your daughter, or it might tell me a story of 639 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,480 Speaker 1: some kind, and then I can go out and perform 640 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,360 Speaker 1: that song, or I could, at the very least, I 641 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,920 Speaker 1: could think about it. And I really do think about 642 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,680 Speaker 1: those meet and greets during the show. There's been so 643 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,480 Speaker 1: many times, unfortunately, that people have come to meet and 644 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,200 Speaker 1: greets to tell me of someone a level and that 645 00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,480 Speaker 1: they lost that was a fan that now the family 646 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:05,160 Speaker 1: is coming to celebrate that lost person's life at his 647 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: favorite band's concert. And when they tell me that, when 648 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,480 Speaker 1: a mother comes and tells me that they lost their 649 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: son to say a car accident and he was a 650 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,520 Speaker 1: big fan of Yee and they're coming because it's his 651 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,880 Speaker 1: birthday or because it's a year since the anniversary of 652 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:26,399 Speaker 1: his death. And then I will always ask that mother 653 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,920 Speaker 1: what's his name or what's her name? And then I 654 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,040 Speaker 1: will think about that name during the deeper moments of 655 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:39,239 Speaker 1: my show, because that makes my songs real, it makes 656 00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,560 Speaker 1: them come to life. And it's not just three minutes 657 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,319 Speaker 1: in a melody. It's it's a story that's connecting with 658 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,840 Speaker 1: someone that's out there. And sometimes I'll make eye contact 659 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,320 Speaker 1: with that family and it is a deep, deep moment 660 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 1: when I make eye contact with that mother as an example, 661 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,440 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about her son, and she knows I'm 662 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,839 Speaker 1: thinking about her son, and I kind of give her 663 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 1: the thumbs up. And that's man, That's that's a moment. 664 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,719 Speaker 1: I will never get away from that. Chris, We'll go 665 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:17,120 Speaker 1: back as soon as we can. This question comes from 666 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:22,640 Speaker 1: Mike and he says, as a by vocational pastor, I'm 667 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,800 Speaker 1: always struck with balancing how I behave, talk, and think 668 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 1: in my secular leadership role. Sometimes the tension is difficult. 669 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,120 Speaker 1: How do you deal with that same tension between your 670 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,280 Speaker 1: faith and your alter ego? Earl Dibbles Junior, love your music, 671 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,680 Speaker 1: love your music, love your faith, and love your family's transparency. 672 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:47,200 Speaker 1: God bless Mike. Mike. It's funny you specifically call out 673 00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:53,520 Speaker 1: Earl Dibbles, and as a as an associate pastor, you're 674 00:43:53,560 --> 00:44:00,840 Speaker 1: probably thinking, how does Earl, how does Granger come across 675 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:07,120 Speaker 1: as try to be this transparent human being that maintains 676 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,400 Speaker 1: a Christian faith, and yet he has this alter ego 677 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:18,560 Speaker 1: that raises hell pretty much, you know. And it's a 678 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,720 Speaker 1: good question. It's the reason I'm reading it because maybe 679 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: by trying to answer your question, I could talk myself 680 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:32,360 Speaker 1: through the exact tension that you're correct and assuming that 681 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:40,360 Speaker 1: I have. And I'll start with this, I've learned Earl 682 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 1: is nine years old, and I have learned that although 683 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:52,160 Speaker 1: Earl at the very beginning of his creation, he started 684 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:58,840 Speaker 1: as a basically a wing in a prayer, a hoped 685 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,120 Speaker 1: viral video that would help promote an album. That's what 686 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,400 Speaker 1: my brothers and I were doing, were making funny videos. 687 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:10,720 Speaker 1: Earle was just an idea that it was a voice 688 00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,600 Speaker 1: that I had a funny country boy boys, and my 689 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,759 Speaker 1: brother Tyler was like, Hey, we got to film that 690 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:22,000 Speaker 1: country guy and put him on YouTube, And so put 691 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,719 Speaker 1: on the overalls from high school, these old overalls and 692 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,200 Speaker 1: white tank top and my old boots and my dad's 693 00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,600 Speaker 1: trucker cap, and we drew on some tattoos, which if 694 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,319 Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, I still have a little bit 695 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,600 Speaker 1: of a tattoo from Earl that we filmed earlier today 696 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:41,600 Speaker 1: with college football Picks for CBS. But I always have 697 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:46,280 Speaker 1: remnants of Earl tattoos on me. From the very beginning, 698 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,480 Speaker 1: even though we didn't know that it would go viral. 699 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:59,400 Speaker 1: We wanted to maintain a certain level of integrity with Earl. 700 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,320 Speaker 1: And some of you might be thinking, what Earl has integrity? Yes, 701 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:09,359 Speaker 1: so Earle, first of all, he has one enemy and 702 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,680 Speaker 1: that's the city boy. But he in a very loving way, 703 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 1: he just kind of blankets his own misunderstanding of what 704 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,880 Speaker 1: the city is and people that live in the city, 705 00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:21,680 Speaker 1: and he kind of just throws it all into this 706 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:29,600 Speaker 1: blanket misunderstanding. And Earle's vulnerability of that misunderstanding, I think, 707 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,279 Speaker 1: in my opinion, is what made him so popular. Was 708 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:39,759 Speaker 1: him being able to misunderstand the world so much that 709 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,640 Speaker 1: it was okay to laugh at himself, it was okay 710 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,880 Speaker 1: to be vulnerable, It was okay for him to be 711 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:49,520 Speaker 1: confused at not understanding why he was so angry at 712 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,600 Speaker 1: something that was just a little bit different lifestyle than 713 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:58,080 Speaker 1: what he lived. And I learned this kind of mentality 714 00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,799 Speaker 1: from different people in my life. You know, there's a 715 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,960 Speaker 1: lot of real life Earls all around me, and there's 716 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,680 Speaker 1: a lot of me and Earl too, And I always 717 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:14,360 Speaker 1: felt that that vulnerability and that foundational level of integrity 718 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:19,440 Speaker 1: with Earl is important to never break, to never personally 719 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,840 Speaker 1: call out a specific group of people. And if you 720 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,080 Speaker 1: notice from the very beginning of Earl, like for instance, 721 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:30,480 Speaker 1: Earl never even says that he's from the South. Earl 722 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 1: is a country boy, and he embraces worldwide country boys, 723 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,920 Speaker 1: even the ones that live in the city. So Earl 724 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,399 Speaker 1: is the first to say that country is in your heart, 725 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:50,600 Speaker 1: not in your closet. So he never categorizes people or 726 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:57,480 Speaker 1: puts people in a box, or puts our stereotypes geography. 727 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:02,279 Speaker 1: In any way, Earl is just a little bit confused 728 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,879 Speaker 1: on city versus country. And it's as simple as that. 729 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,920 Speaker 1: So when we move forward and Earl has evolved over 730 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:16,000 Speaker 1: the last nine years, I have learned that Earle is 731 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:21,360 Speaker 1: an icebreaker for many conversations. In fact, there's an argument 732 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,719 Speaker 1: Mike that if it wasn't for Earl. Now this is 733 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,440 Speaker 1: gonna blow your mind. If it wasn't for Earl, good argument, 734 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,840 Speaker 1: you would not even know who I was. If it 735 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,920 Speaker 1: wasn't for Earl, you wouldn't have found my music, you 736 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't have found this podcast, and you wouldn't have had 737 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,719 Speaker 1: it put on your heart to ask me if I 738 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:51,160 Speaker 1: feel tension between my spiritual relationship with Christ and exploiting 739 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:56,799 Speaker 1: Earl Dibbles as a party icon, right, And I'm kind 740 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,800 Speaker 1: of putting words in your mouth, But isn't that interesting? 741 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,200 Speaker 1: And I've learned this through many different ways that Earl 742 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,920 Speaker 1: is an icebreaker that will lead you to me. So 743 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:17,919 Speaker 1: I make Earl vulnerable and viral and very very over 744 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:23,000 Speaker 1: the top to open people's eyes to go, what is that? 745 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,080 Speaker 1: Is that guy real? Like? Is he really? Is that 746 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,799 Speaker 1: guy really talk like that? Who is that? Or if 747 00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,440 Speaker 1: you're in concert and you see him running out, like 748 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,439 Speaker 1: what is this guy? Is this guy real? So then 749 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,280 Speaker 1: if you really are interested, you go a step further 750 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,600 Speaker 1: and you find me. And then I've put myself out 751 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:46,280 Speaker 1: there as honest as I possibly can and as vulnerable 752 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,240 Speaker 1: as I possibly can. So that's That's the first really 753 00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,080 Speaker 1: interesting thing about Earl. I've also learned over the years 754 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,520 Speaker 1: with Earl is it not only is he an icebreaker, 755 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:05,040 Speaker 1: but Earl is quicker to make someone smile than I 756 00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:12,240 Speaker 1: am personally, and the smile leads someone to open theirselves 757 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:16,840 Speaker 1: up to a deeper song by me. So I have 758 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:21,279 Speaker 1: a song called Heavenbound Balloons. It's a deeper song I 759 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,400 Speaker 1: have many of them. Have a song called five More Minutes. 760 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:24,960 Speaker 1: I have a song called Bear Me and Blue Jeans. 761 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,560 Speaker 1: I have a song called Tractor. These are songs that 762 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:34,560 Speaker 1: are very close to me and my family and Earl. 763 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:41,480 Speaker 1: The contrast, the dynamic, contrast of Earl's extremism, I believe 764 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,400 Speaker 1: opens people up to listening to the other side of 765 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,239 Speaker 1: the dynamic, because you can't have all Earl, like a 766 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,080 Speaker 1: concert of all Earl or a YouTube page with all Earl, 767 00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,359 Speaker 1: nothing but Earl all the time. Earl, I think, would 768 00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,080 Speaker 1: get old and people would eventually tune out and they 769 00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,839 Speaker 1: would get numb to it. So this all happened by by. 770 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,520 Speaker 1: I don't believe in coincidences, but this is the way 771 00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,560 Speaker 1: it was supposed to happen for me, I believe. And 772 00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,200 Speaker 1: what I'm going to do with it that's left to 773 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:18,040 Speaker 1: be seen. But to break the ice with Earl and 774 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,920 Speaker 1: make people smile helps them listen to those deeper songs 775 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,520 Speaker 1: or listen to this podcast. I mean, I can't see it, 776 00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,479 Speaker 1: but raise your hand if you found this podcast, because 777 00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,520 Speaker 1: originally you found Earl a long time ago, and there's 778 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,239 Speaker 1: a handful of people that didn't. But a lot of 779 00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,920 Speaker 1: times that's the case. So I have learned that not 780 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,600 Speaker 1: only is it important to have a song that really 781 00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,879 Speaker 1: moves somebody with some lyrics that really really dig deep 782 00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:50,480 Speaker 1: and pull at their heartstrings, that's important, but it's just 783 00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:56,920 Speaker 1: equally as important for someone to laugh, to smile, to 784 00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:02,920 Speaker 1: forget for a moment the pain of humanity that they 785 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,640 Speaker 1: might be living in in that moment that they hear 786 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,719 Speaker 1: the song or see the video or at the concert 787 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,240 Speaker 1: standing there with their friends. And I'm an entertainer first, 788 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,120 Speaker 1: so that's that's an important thing for me to remember 789 00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:18,200 Speaker 1: that as an entertainer, my job is to make people smile. 790 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,160 Speaker 1: My job is to make people feel something, and a 791 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,360 Speaker 1: smile is a great way to get there, and Earl 792 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:28,480 Speaker 1: helps me get there. All that being said, all that 793 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:32,960 Speaker 1: being said, Mike is do. At some level, I feel 794 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:39,399 Speaker 1: like I need to be careful with Earle exploiting drinking beer, 795 00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:46,640 Speaker 1: for instance, on stage, even though without without getting drunk, 796 00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,799 Speaker 1: there's technically nothing wrong with having a few beers with 797 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:54,360 Speaker 1: your buddies. So I do. I do does cross my mind, 798 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:58,680 Speaker 1: and maybe even more so because I've got kids and 799 00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:02,279 Speaker 1: they're watching me. So it does cross my mind that 800 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,480 Speaker 1: there is a there is a boundary with him that 801 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,080 Speaker 1: he can't cross, like you're never ever going to see 802 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:15,760 Speaker 1: Earl drunk, and that that boundary is important. I also 803 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,719 Speaker 1: think it's important to continue putting Earl out there and 804 00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:25,680 Speaker 1: making him fun and making him create smiles and breaking 805 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:30,120 Speaker 1: the ice to a deeper conversation. I don't know if 806 00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:36,880 Speaker 1: you could relate that story to yours, because it's very different, 807 00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,640 Speaker 1: but that's my story and I really appreciate your question, Mike, 808 00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:49,760 Speaker 1: and thank you for listening. Here's a question from Will 809 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:54,719 Speaker 1: that says, hey, big fan here as most of us are. 810 00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,200 Speaker 1: I had a question about the Silverada you drive. Hope 811 00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,120 Speaker 1: you get it running again, that get it broke down, 812 00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,240 Speaker 1: But I love your track. I currently drive one myself. 813 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,200 Speaker 1: Side note, I threw thirty three's on it. In honor 814 00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,279 Speaker 1: of back Road song. My question is do you have 815 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,479 Speaker 1: a lift on yours or just a level kit? Which brand? 816 00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:12,000 Speaker 1: Which wheels perfect? Because I answered that earlier and I'm 817 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,839 Speaker 1: glad I got the knockout out for you too. Will 818 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,480 Speaker 1: Here's the question that the only person I have, the 819 00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,400 Speaker 1: only way to know who this is is the email 820 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,600 Speaker 1: and it's from love Cows. So love Cows says, how 821 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:31,640 Speaker 1: do you stay strong in the darkest time of your life? 822 00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,319 Speaker 1: And I feel like I've I kind of went down 823 00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:40,640 Speaker 1: that road as well. And love Cows email me back 824 00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,880 Speaker 1: and go deeper on this question. Instead of saying, how 825 00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:45,680 Speaker 1: do you stay strong in the darkest time of your life? 826 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,240 Speaker 1: Give me a little more, like why are you hinting 827 00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,200 Speaker 1: that you're going through a dark time? Maybe I could 828 00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:55,480 Speaker 1: help answer that question more directly. Yeah, help me out, 829 00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,319 Speaker 1: give me a little bit more. And love Cows also says, well, 830 00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:02,080 Speaker 1: the shirt of the Month club have long sleeves. Great question. 831 00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:06,280 Speaker 1: I think we should. I think we should comment below 832 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,719 Speaker 1: if you think the shirt of the Monster should come 833 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,200 Speaker 1: in long sleeves at some point. I think that would 834 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:16,120 Speaker 1: be cool. Amanda. She has a question that says one 835 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,200 Speaker 1: of your songs has the lyric quarter Cherokee Blood from 836 00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,560 Speaker 1: my Mom's half. That's country boys song with Earld Dibbles. 837 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:27,359 Speaker 1: I've always wondered, are you describing her? What? Who are 838 00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,680 Speaker 1: you describing here? Or is it just lyrics? Are you 839 00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:35,719 Speaker 1: a quarter Cherokee? Says also is your Henderson, Nevada October 840 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:37,920 Speaker 1: show still on? I'd love to come. I hope it 841 00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,719 Speaker 1: won't be canceled. I guess we never really know. Love you, 842 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,080 Speaker 1: Love you too, Amanda. Thank you for listening and writing 843 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:50,319 Speaker 1: in to address the concerts. Gosh, I don't know. I 844 00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,440 Speaker 1: wish I could have the calendar in front of me. 845 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,359 Speaker 1: I do know that a lot of shows are coming 846 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,120 Speaker 1: in in October, and it's a great sign. We're seeing 847 00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:01,840 Speaker 1: a lot of venues opening back up limited capacity. Some 848 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:03,600 Speaker 1: of them are like fifty percent, some of them are 849 00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,160 Speaker 1: quarter and some of them are even up to seventy 850 00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,799 Speaker 1: five percent. So I'm seeing a lot of more a 851 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,239 Speaker 1: lot of shows come in. So cross your fingers. If 852 00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:14,600 Speaker 1: it doesn't happen, we'll be back to Nevada really soon. 853 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:19,480 Speaker 1: I promise we never skip Nevada. So yeah, I would, 854 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,920 Speaker 1: I would hope so. And that goes for everyone listening 855 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,800 Speaker 1: wherever you are, we will be back to your town. 856 00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,760 Speaker 1: I promise you it's not a matter if it's only 857 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,160 Speaker 1: a matter of when I managed to go back to 858 00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:39,000 Speaker 1: your question about the Cherokee, Yes, Earl Doubles says, quarter 859 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,520 Speaker 1: Cherokee blood from a mom's half, which is a very 860 00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:46,160 Speaker 1: strange math problem for a country boor Earl to even comprehend. 861 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,760 Speaker 1: I don't even think I can comprehend that math problem. 862 00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:54,120 Speaker 1: But the true story is similar to that, which is 863 00:56:54,160 --> 00:57:01,480 Speaker 1: why I have Cherokee in here. My grandmother's father, who 864 00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:05,680 Speaker 1: would be my great grandfather, was half Cherokee because his 865 00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:11,440 Speaker 1: mother was full blooded Cherokee. So my great grandfather was 866 00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:16,080 Speaker 1: half my So that makes this is easy. My great 867 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:21,560 Speaker 1: great grandmother was full blood Cherokee. Where does that leave 868 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,440 Speaker 1: Earrol in this whole thing? I don't know that you 869 00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,280 Speaker 1: guys could figure out the genealogy between me and Earld Dibbles, 870 00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,280 Speaker 1: but I do not know. I'll read one more here 871 00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,320 Speaker 1: from Barbara says, what is the criteria for choosing band 872 00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,320 Speaker 1: members and touring members of your team? Do you pick 873 00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:43,280 Speaker 1: character qualities along with talent, ethical, immoral qualities? From Barbara 874 00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:47,000 Speaker 1: and Illinois, she says, longtime listener first time caller. Love that. 875 00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,880 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, Barbara, thank you for asking the question, 876 00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:55,560 Speaker 1: and it's a good one. I most everyone has been 877 00:57:55,560 --> 00:58:00,720 Speaker 1: with me for many years. My bass player this week 878 00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:04,400 Speaker 1: marks our ten year anniversary together playing together, and everyone 879 00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,040 Speaker 1: else is around like nine ten seven. I think my 880 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:14,040 Speaker 1: newest guy is three years with the band, so he's 881 00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,000 Speaker 1: my front of house guy. That's the guy that mixes 882 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,200 Speaker 1: the front of the audio engineer that mixes what you 883 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,120 Speaker 1: hear in the crowd. He's been with me three years. 884 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:30,240 Speaker 1: So there's an extensive background check that we do, talking 885 00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:37,520 Speaker 1: to past employers, past band members, past friends that especially 886 00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:39,400 Speaker 1: if we can trust that friend, if we trust that 887 00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,400 Speaker 1: band member that's connected with them, we find those people, 888 00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:45,520 Speaker 1: we reach out to him. But ultimately it comes down 889 00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,520 Speaker 1: to taking them out for like thirty days or a 890 00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:52,720 Speaker 1: weekend or two weeks. And we'll take them out for 891 00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,360 Speaker 1: one weekend and you put them in the bus and 892 00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,680 Speaker 1: you live with them for three days and you play 893 00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:01,600 Speaker 1: a couple of shows, and you learn pretty quick what 894 00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,480 Speaker 1: kind of person they are. You learn their work ethic, 895 00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:08,800 Speaker 1: you learn how they are technically at the job. And 896 00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,320 Speaker 1: then if we hire you, we're going to ask you 897 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,280 Speaker 1: to be on a thirty day or sixty. I know 898 00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:18,240 Speaker 1: we've done sixty also, so say sixty day trial run, 899 00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,480 Speaker 1: and that trial run is for that exact question that 900 00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:27,000 Speaker 1: you're asking, because I feel like technically and talent wise, 901 00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,560 Speaker 1: anyone could go out for a weekend and shine and 902 00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,439 Speaker 1: they could work really hard. So once do you pass 903 00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,320 Speaker 1: that test, that okay, they can do the job, and 904 00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,800 Speaker 1: they can do it really well. The sixty day trial 905 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,200 Speaker 1: run is all about who are you? Who are you like? 906 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,640 Speaker 1: What kind of bad habits do you have? What kind 907 00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,240 Speaker 1: of how late do you stay up on the bus 908 00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:47,760 Speaker 1: and keep everyone else up? What happens if you have 909 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,920 Speaker 1: a glass of wine? What happens if you're on an 910 00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:53,760 Speaker 1: early morning flight and we have to deal with you 911 00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:55,920 Speaker 1: all day, if you've got four hours of sleep? What 912 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,080 Speaker 1: kind of person are you? Then? Not just on your 913 00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,520 Speaker 1: best day, but how are you on your worst day? 914 01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:05,960 Speaker 1: How are you on a show that's difficult meaning weather 915 01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,400 Speaker 1: is terrible, so maybe it's really hot weather and we're 916 01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,680 Speaker 1: working long hours, or maybe it's a long push from 917 01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,640 Speaker 1: the trailer to the stage. How are you? Then? We 918 01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:18,240 Speaker 1: could see that in sixty days, and there have been 919 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:19,800 Speaker 1: several times when we had to get rid of a 920 01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:21,800 Speaker 1: guy that we hired. We got rid of him on 921 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:26,320 Speaker 1: his trial period because we realized, either man, we can't 922 01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:29,200 Speaker 1: get along with this guy. He doesn't mesh very well 923 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:33,880 Speaker 1: with the group. He has some demons that we now 924 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:37,720 Speaker 1: see coming out. But yeah, you're right to think that 925 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,280 Speaker 1: there is a moral and ethical criteria that you have 926 01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,919 Speaker 1: to meet to be in our band, because you represent us, 927 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:50,240 Speaker 1: you represent the brand. And when when the drummer, for instance, 928 01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:56,120 Speaker 1: goes out and gets in a bar fight, it's not 929 01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:00,840 Speaker 1: the drummer's name, it's gonna come out Grangers Smith's drummer 930 01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:04,000 Speaker 1: gets in bar fight and tears down building, you know, 931 01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,560 Speaker 1: So that's my name I have to look after. So 932 01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,160 Speaker 1: I have to think about that kind of stuff. It's 933 01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,200 Speaker 1: really important and we usually can tell and we usually 934 01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:14,040 Speaker 1: we squashed that pretty quick. So I'm happy with the 935 01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:17,560 Speaker 1: group that we have. I trust them all. No one's perfect. 936 01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:22,000 Speaker 1: Everyone has flaws, including me, But it's a really good 937 01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:27,120 Speaker 1: group that I trust and I enjoy sharing the stage 938 01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:31,760 Speaker 1: and the bus with and I don't mind them spreading 939 01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:35,440 Speaker 1: my brand far and wide. Thank you for all these questions, 940 01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,440 Speaker 1: if you have more, or if you have one, and 941 01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:41,840 Speaker 1: you're just listening. Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Shoot 942 01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:44,200 Speaker 1: over that email. I will put it in the archive. 943 01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,960 Speaker 1: If I don't get to it, ask it again and 944 01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,920 Speaker 1: I will eventually. So thank you guys so much. We'll 945 01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:51,960 Speaker 1: see you next week. E