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And if you have a 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.000 question that I don't answer on this episode, just ask again. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.600 Or if you have a new question, or if you're 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.840 a new and you want to ask me anything that 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.800 you want me to answer longer than like a radio 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.320 blip or an Instagram blip. You know you want me 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.600 to long form answer and give you my best explanation 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.000 that I can, whether that's about my life or love 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.760 or country music or religion or sports or whatever you 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.840 want to talk about. I'm here. I'm here for you, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.760 So email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. I'll 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.840 get to yours and right now I'm so happy to 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.120 see some really good questions and I'm excited. Welcome to 0:02:36.120 --> 0:03:17.000 the Granger Smith Podcast. Gegee did char Mounchi and longline 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:37.200 fo up and down on back, rangycover Evage. If you 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.280 want to find a personal way to get a hold 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.560 of me, go to cameo dot com and you could 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.120 search Granger Smith. You could find me on there, and 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.080 that is a it's a fun thing I've do been 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.440 doing for about a year. I've been going on and 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.640 I could I could send you a personal video message, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.800 whether that's a congratulations or happy birthday, or maybe you 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.480 want me to speak to some kind of piece of 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.560 advice or even give a shout out to maybe a 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.520 new business that you're starting. Cameo dot com allows you 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.360 to do that. You can go on and book me 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.200 to send you a personal video message. I love that, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.760 especially during the crazy time of twenty twenty that's I 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.440 don't get to do meet and greets, and so this 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.360 is a great way for me to keep in contact 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:23.719 with you, as is this podcast. What a fun week 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:29.800 this is This is album release week for me. So 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.320 the biggest week for an artist is right now for me, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:39.200 because this Friday, if you're listening real time, this coming Friday, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:44.320 we are releasing our album September twenty fifth, called Country Things, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:49.320 Volume one. Eight songs on there, including three that you 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.280 already know That's Why I Love Dirt Roads, Country Things, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.919 the title track, and Hate You Like I Love You, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.200 which we released those last two a few weeks ago. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.520 So you're gonna get the rest of that Volume one, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.279 and then you're going to get Volume two coming around 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.760 Thanksgiving for you non Americans, that's the end of November. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.160 I'm excited about all sixteen songs that complete this whole project. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.560 So let me know what you think. I'm pumped to 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.320 hear what you guys think on something that I've been 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:25.800 working on for two years, my tenth studio album. A 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.279 lot of thought, a lot of blood, sweat tears, literally, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.000 a lot of editing, a lot of songwriting, a lot 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.640 of recording, a lot of picking art, a lot of 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.599 planning for this release has gone into this, and so 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.960 a little bit nervous, I'm a little bit excited, but 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.560 most of all, I just want to see if it 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.200 connects with you. Guys. I want to see if these 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.640 stories connect, because that's what I look for as a 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.280 country music artist is telling a story through my eyes 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.320 through music and then having someone out there go, man, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.960 those lyrics sound like me. That sounds like what I'm 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.240 going through, or that sounds like my life, or that 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:05.960 sounds like where I used to be, or that sounds 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.520 like where I want to be. Any of those kind 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.159 of connections is how me as an artist really get 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.200 that relationship with a fan so that when we go 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.359 play live shows, it's like you're the only one in 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.680 the room. It's me and the band playing to one 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.640 person that's connecting with those lyrics at a very deep level. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.520 And I can never ask anything more than that as 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.000 a singer. So, really, big week, if you can help 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.479 me out and check out this album. It's coming out Friday. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.960 It maybe pre save it, maybe pre order it. Those 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.560 things really help the numbers of this album so that 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.080 it puts it in a higher algorithm and that all 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.719 the music platforms wherever you like to listen to music, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.800 they get together and they go, oh wow, that Granger 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.039 album is getting a lot of looks, a lot of 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.040 pre safe so let's bump it up so maybe more 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.719 people will see it. So that's ultimately what helps me. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.359 But I just hope you like it answering, I'm going 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.920 to go through some of these emails and react to them. 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:09.200 I've only read through them briefly one time, so as 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.600 I usually do on this podcast, there is no preparation. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.800 There is no notes that I've taken, and I think 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.160 that some of the questions could be answered better if 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:22.280 I had notes or if I had references. But I 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.080 think at the same time, it helps keep this program 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.200 pretty raw and off the cuff, as if, like I 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.400 said in the intro, we're sitting in the same room 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.520 or sitting in the same truck, riding together and having 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:41.720 a conversation. The first email comes from Jordan. Oh, that 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.520 brings up a point. I could say your name on here. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.880 I could say your first name. So if you send 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.040 me an email and you don't want me to say 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:55.000 your name, say you want to remain anonymous, but I 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:59.640 would like to also know your hometown, so, for instance, 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.160 or I don't know where you are, but it would 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.160 be cool if you would put your hometown in your 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.920 first name or anonymous. But I would love to be 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.640 able to read that. As part of the question, Jordan says, 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.080 I want to ask you. I wanted to ask you 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.400 this question a week ago, but I didn't get to 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.280 in time. What do you remember about nine to eleven 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.880 and did that make any kind of impact on your life? 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.640 I thought that was interesting because I remember exactly where 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:31.840 I was during that morning nine to eleven. I was 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.440 living in Nashville, Tennessee. I was writing songs, and I 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.679 was on my way to a writing appointment, or I 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:40.520 hadn't left the house yet, but I was going to 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:45.760 a writing appointment with two legendary songwriters, Aaron Barker and 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.240 Roy Burke, and they had never met each other. And 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.439 I had written individually with those two guys a lot, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.679 and I was bringing them together, and it just felt like, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.680 what a really cool moment to bring these two epic 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.440 legendary songwriters together, had all these hits collectively, and I 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.320 would be, you know, like a fly on the wall, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.320 just connecting them and hopefully we could write a song. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.360 That was the morning of September eleventh, two thousand and one. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.360 For me, I was just a kid, and I walked 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.800 into the living room and my roommate was watching TV 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:25.400 and the first plane had hit the tower, and he 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.680 was like, you see this, And that was back before 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.160 we just knew what was happening on social media. You 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.360 actually learned things from TV. And I was like, oh 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.040 my gosh, what's you know. My first thought was, what 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:44.560 a terrible accident. This plane got off course somehow something 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.400 malfunctioned in the navigation system and they hit a skyscraper. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.200 That's what I thought. And then as we were watching 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.960 and people were commentating and speculating on what this might be, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.480 that's when the second plane hit. And the second plane, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.400 everyone had a lot of lead time on it, so 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.320 you could actually see it from a distance. You could 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.480 see that it was on a collision course, and it 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.400 was like slow motion. Really, I mean, here comes this 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:21.080 this big jetliner heading for a massive skyscraper right next 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:27.800 to another skyscraper that's burning. So as it impacted, that's like, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:34.040 right when it impacted, the world knew that it wasn't 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.160 an accident. This was on purpose. Whatever the motive, it 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.480 was on purpose. And then there was a whole different 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:48.120 reaction when the first tower fell, because I just thought 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.280 maybe a lot of people thought, oh man, that really sucks. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.240 For that top of that building, like they're going to 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.920 have to remodel the whole top of that building. And 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.520 I still hadn't put together that this could possibly fall 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.400 down all the way, I could completely crumble. So when 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.680 the first one fell and then everyone started thinking the 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:13.320 second was gonna fall, it was just very surreal. I 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.840 wasn't alive obviously during JFK or any of the any 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:23.280 of the other past monumental American moments like that, and 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.880 so that is my that's my JFK moment. If you 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.160 a lot of y'all's parents and grandparents probably could remember 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.640 where they were when JFK was assassinated, And that was 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.040 me for nine to eleven, watching that in just complete disbelief, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.320 very surreal. I remember thinking at that moment, so to 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.560 help answer the Jordan's question, I remember thinking, man, I 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.920 gotta go and list like I gotta go fight, like 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.640 this is this is a calling now, I'm I'm called 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:55.800 to go and join and and help in some way. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:02.319 And I really had to kind of overcome that urge 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.680 and redirect that feeling of let's leave everything right now, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.839 let's leave music, and let's go fight. I had to 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.920 kind of redirect that and say, hang on, I also 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:20.960 have an opportunity to use what I'm called to do. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.320 I felt a calling to play music, and I could 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:28.560 use that calling to help towards this cause. And so 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.760 I made it a mission from that day, September eleventh, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.160 two thousand and one, to use my music to help 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.200 with the cause. And it led me to my first 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.800 entertainment tour in Iraq in two thousand and seven. So 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.160 six years later, there I was on the stage in 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:52.920 Iraq with my band playing a concert that really started 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.880 from the motivation of what I saw on TV. At 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:10.480 nine to eleven. Question from Ian says, Hey, Graindeer, I'm 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.520 a fan from Canada. You're absolutely my favorite artist. Listen 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.440 to Silverada bench Seat and I've been hooked ever since. Anyway, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.800 my question is how do you stay so faithful and 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.840 how you have such a great attitude even in the 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.960 worst of times. Is there something specific you do or 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:29.120 is it a mindset you need to get into. Ian 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.200 speaking to how do you stay so faithful and have 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.760 such great attitude even in the worst of times, The 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:45.680 short answer is I don't. I don't stay faithful and 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.199 have a great attitude in the worst of times. And 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:56.680 let me be clear that if I appear to then 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.320 that is either me being in shock or that is 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:07.040 me having thought through the situation enough to then go 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.080 onto social media or onto camera of some sort and 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:16.920 deliver a message of hope in the hindsight of what 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.360 was behind me the worst of times, as your email says, 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.920 but in the peak of a worst time, man, I 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:28.480 don't have a good attitude, and it's a battle of faith, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.320 you know. It's a battle of getting everything I believe, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.600 the rock solid beliefs I have together and organize them 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.480 so that I could overcome the urge to have a 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:46.880 bad attitude and a lack of faith. I cannot answer 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:55.120 that question without mentioning that my rock solid faith comes 0:14:55.160 --> 0:15:03.320 through my relationship with Jesus Christ, in my Christian faith, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.080 and that in a nutshell Ian answered, I could answer 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:12.320 your question right there. I could just say Jesus that 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.200 I could answer in one word, because in the worst 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:21.200 of times, I am not as a man capable of 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:27.160 relinquishing that feeling or extinguishing that flame. I'm not capable 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:32.440 of that, and it has taken me a long time 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:37.480 to realize, to understand that there's certain things I can't 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:43.440 fix I can't fix the worst of time situation within 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.720 me in real time as it's going down. I'm not 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.640 a superhero and the reality of that is no one 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.840 can No one can fix that or extinguish that fire 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.960 alone as a human, because we are inherently flawed as humans. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:04.560 And that has taken me a lot of years, like 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:11.000 I said, to unpack that mindset. But when I'm completely broken, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.320 I have to go There is God and I'm not him, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.360 and I can't fix this without his help. I can't. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.360 I can't find the next breath or the next moment 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.560 without his help. I can't. I can't move on or 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:35.520 I can't find a new course without him. And then 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.160 the next step for me is if I am so 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:47.480 broken and humble in that situation to God, then I 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.320 need to also be that way during the good times. 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.480 I need to take that and not just be a 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:59.440 servant of Him when I'm broken, but also be so 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.000 grateful in the good times, which a good time could 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.200 just be a normal day, you know, like a normal 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.480 day when things is not the things aren't going wrong. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:14.160 Your mom isn't calling you saying Dad died. You know, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.320 you're not getting in a car accident on the way 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.479 to work and taking your truck to get fixed and 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.399 get a bill that you literally is that bill is 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.679 more than you have in your bank account. Those days 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:32.199 are are extraordinary and it takes God to pull you 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:37.080 out of them. But I'm trying my hardest to seek 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.840 him during the normal days, during the good days, not 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:50.080 just in the bad ones. Nicholas, he says, I'm trying 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.719 to make a name for myself in country music, And 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.679 he says, Hi, my name is Nicholas Taylor. How are 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.359 you doing. I'm working on becoming a country artist by 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:05.239 twenty twenty to twenty twenty one. I'm nineteen from Chicago, Illinois. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.680 I'm a very creative person and I play music. Music 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.000 is a very important thing to me, especially when it 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.360 comes to my mental health. I was born on the 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:21.359 autism spectrum with hearing loss and add music has helped 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.399 me wind down and stimulated me whenever I became to 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:29.040 hyper or had sensory overload. Also, I have anxiety and 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.080 it shows up whenever I'm writing a song. Where do 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.560 you stand with mental health and especially as a musician, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.840 and what advice would you offer to an upcoming inspiring 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.880 artist like myself and others and what worries me. There's 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.800 a couple of things that worry me about this question, Nicholas. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:52.200 One is how you say, I also have an anxiety 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:57.600 and it shows up whenever I am writing a song. Hmm. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.720 And let me say the second thing that bothers me. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.680 The second thing that bothers me is says you said, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.160 I am working on becoming a country artist by twenty 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:14.320 twenty to twenty twenty one. Well, where do I begin 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.120 you You, first of all, you are a country artist. 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.479 You don't have to become one. You are one because 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:28.680 you obviously play music and you write songs. So that's done. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:35.000 You are, Nicholas, a country artist. Officially, I'm moorbeaning you 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.600 a country artist so that you don't have to put 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.480 a deadline on when you're going to become it, because 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.880 you what you are saying is you want to have 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.359 some kind of notoriety, or you want to be heard 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.120 by a massive people by that time, or you want 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:53.879 to have some tangible form of success in the business 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.560 to hang on your wall. And that is not a 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:03.320 good reason to go through the anxiety of writing a song. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.320 I understand having anxiety in writing a song. But that 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:14.600 anxiety for me comes with or comes from, the pressure 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:19.960 of trying to write a good song for success of 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:26.800 some kind. And at the beginning of a career, it 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.679 needs to be much more organic. It needs to be 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.399 much more of a vent for you. It needs to 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.639 be much more of a more of a way of 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.560 venting life, a way of writing in a diary in 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.520 the form of a song to get some creative ideas 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:44.240 out of you, or to tell a story you wanted 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:49.000 to release. But you have to take the pressure away 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.959 from trying to write a good song for commercial uses 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:57.400 at the beginning stages. It's impossible for me to do that. Now. 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.439 I love writing songs, and I'll write nine out of 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.239 ten songs. I love one out of ten songs. I 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.600 feel the pressure like oh, but the pressure comes when 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.919 I think this is good, Oh, this is good. All 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.440 screw this up, Granger, don't mess You had a good 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.840 idea and you're blowing it. You know, That's what goes 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.080 on in my head. So buddy, don't put a time 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.440 on this. Take away the twenty twenty to twenty twenty 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.680 take that away, because if you're a country artist, which 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.680 you are, you will be till you die. You'll be 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.560 a country artist forever. So use it as a way 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.320 to vent a way to express yourself, your express your creativity, 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:39.080 and realize that if one person likes it, awesome. If 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:46.680 nobody likes it, fine, that's not a necessity. You were 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:51.080 doing this because you're getting art out of you into 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.760 the world regardless of the reaction. Look at it from 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.200 that mindset. Start again and look at it in that mindset, 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.520 knowing that it might take you thirty years for anyone 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.960 to finally hear your music, and when they do finally 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.040 hear your music, it won't matter because you've already built 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.560 up that confidence inside you and you've built a mindset 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:22.400 of writing songs for you is a release, not anxiety. 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:29.800 Here's a question from Abby Martin and she says, I 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.040 listened to your podcast on Monday Mornings talking about your 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:36.159 relationship with Amber, and I'm curious what the inspiration behind 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.199 the journal you wrote for her before you knew her. 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.320 Was such an awesome idea. Love all your channels, such 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:46.280 an incredible family to watch. Thank you, Abby. So, Abby's 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:49.240 talking about a little piece of obscure information that she 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.600 heard at one point in me talk about I gave 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:58.760 Amber a gift the night before our wedding, and that 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:02.320 gift was a journal that I had written to her 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:11.800 about her without knowing her. And that came about after 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:17.240 many failed relationships with me and I would get you know, 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:19.119 I would have a girlfriend, and you know, you would 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:21.760 think you love her, and a couple of years would 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:25.840 go by or whatever, and then it would fail. Either 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:28.600 we would just get in too many fights and I'd 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:31.719 have to call it off, or we would fall out 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:37.520 a love for whatever reason, a million reasons. And at 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:41.720 the last time before Amber, I decided to pull back 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.240 on like the dating game, and pull back on getting 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:49.240 infatuated by a girl. It didn't matter anymore. I was 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.080 done with that. And so I thought, you know what, 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:57.440 whoever my future wife is, she's out there somewhere right now. 0:23:57.560 --> 0:23:59.760 She's living her life. What is she doing, What does 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:03.720 she like? She's out there somewhere doing something, living her life. 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:06.960 Maybe she's in a relationship now, maybe she's working a job, 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:10.560 maybe she's maybe she's sitting at home thinking about me, 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:14.639 you know, the future version of me. Whatever. That mentality 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:19.280 took me to the idea that, well, I should start 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:23.119 writing her letter because she's out there. I knew she 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:25.399 was out there, I just didn't know who she was 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.919 or where she was. So I just started writing a 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:32.520 letter to a girl that I didn't know yet and 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:36.879 told her all about myself and what I had gone 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:41.040 through and how excited I was to finally meet her 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:46.800 and what a what a feeling that would be when 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:48.520 I knew and she knew, and we were going to 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.880 get married. So I wrote, you know, several pages of this, 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:56.240 and that was a great way to kind of calm 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.359 myself a little bit in the craziness of single life, 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:02.800 you know, when you just kind of feel like, man, 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:05.640 I'm never gonna meet anybody, that there's no more good 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:08.920 girls out there, or maybe I'll just be single. I 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:11.120 just be single, you know, like to calm all those 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:14.159 weird feelings. I just I would go home on a 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.080 weird night and I would pull out that spiral notebook 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:21.880 and we'll start writing to this anonymous girl. And then 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.560 I met Amber and I gave her that that journal. 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:28.720 So that's where that came from. By the way, that's 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:33.880 I would recommend that for single dudes out there. Single girls, Hey, 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:38.040 single girls, do it. Write a journal. It's a there's 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:44.080 a lot of healing in that. I will say too 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:48.040 that that than Amber and I continue that together. Then 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:51.400 we started writing our separate journals to our unborn children, 0:25:52.119 --> 0:26:01.560 which we did. Question comes from Tyler says, what size lift, wheels, 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:04.320 tires and offset do you have on your truck? I 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:07.680 love the truck and I'm looking for a similar setup. Yeah, man, 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:14.880 I have a two thousand and eight silverado Z seventy 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:19.239 one half ton. It has a over the course of 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.359 many years, I did this stuff to it, but it 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:28.680 has a I believe it's a four inch body lift 0:26:29.520 --> 0:26:33.360 and a three inch pro Comp suspension lift. It might 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:35.440 be I can't remember if it's vice versa. If it's 0:26:35.480 --> 0:26:38.640 a four inch pro Comp suspension and a three inch body, 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:41.679 I think that's what it is, totally, totally seven inches. 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:47.680 I have thirty five inch tires that are BF Goodrench 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.199 mud Terrain, which I love of a great relationship with 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:56.320 BF Goodrench. And I have pro Comp wheels as well, 0:26:56.359 --> 0:26:58.760 and those have lasted me forever, so I really like them. 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:00.680 I've had them forever. They don't go out of style, 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:04.160