Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome to the podcast, thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: Special edition as we've done the last two or three
Speaker 1: four months. I've got a man with me by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up? A good This is a special edition because
Speaker 1: it is live. We're recording this live, and as I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here, it is June the twenty first, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: This episode will release like normal on Monday. But the
Speaker 1: reason we're doing it partly the reason we're doing it
Speaker 1: is because it is a big Yege apparel summer launch.
Speaker 1: And so thank you guys for joining me live, and
Speaker 1: then thank you guys for joining me in the future.
Speaker 1: As you listen to this like a as a normal podcast,
Speaker 1: I'm going to answer your questions. I have a bunch
Speaker 1: of them cuted up here that you've already sent me.
Speaker 1: And to ask me a question, email me at podcast
Speaker 1: at grangersmith dot com. Podcast at grangersmith dot com is
Speaker 1: to email. You could do that now if you're listening,
Speaker 1: even if you're listening live, you could do that now,
Speaker 1: or you could just comment. If you're listening not live,
Speaker 1: then just email me and I go through these like
Speaker 1: we're just sitting in the cab of a truck and
Speaker 1: you and I are just having a conversation or around
Speaker 1: the campfire. I don't always have the right answers, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to talk about this like we're friends.
Speaker 1: And so, Hey, Lourie, what's up from Ontario, Canada? Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. Donita says, good morning, Granger and aunt man
Speaker 1: watching from western Arkansas. God bless you guys and your families,
Speaker 1: and you'll have an amazing day. You two don't need it.
Speaker 1: Wisconsin farmer says morning Granger. Ye yee, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: to see all of y'all on here. Hey, I've got
Speaker 1: my brothers, Tyler and Parker coming live from the EEE
Speaker 1: farm right now. This is the Yee Apparel Summer launch day.
Speaker 1: You guys just launched what twenty three minutes ago. How's
Speaker 1: it going, guys, It's gone great.
Speaker 2: We're busy here in the warehouse getting order shipped out.
Speaker 3: We're excited.
Speaker 2: I've been working on the stuff for a long time,
Speaker 2: so it's fun to see people's reactions and it's fun
Speaker 2: to put it in boxes and send it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is, man. I mean, I'll be honest, Tyler,
Speaker 1: I think you think the same thing, but I it's
Speaker 1: want sounded a little cheesy, But I got in bed
Speaker 1: last night and I was like, oh, got a little nervous.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm excited for tomorrow, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I felt that little a little scared because I'm
Speaker 1: just excited that people are going to see what I
Speaker 1: think is one of the best apparel launches that we've
Speaker 1: done in the last decade. Is that too much? Am
Speaker 1: I overstating that? Tyler?
Speaker 4: You're not overstating yet. We're more in the trenches over
Speaker 4: here than you are. But you did text me and
Speaker 4: Parker and said this is my favorite or the products
Speaker 4: are amazing, like and you've never texted that's that before
Speaker 4: the other day. So curious to hear your thoughts on why.
Speaker 1: Well, First of all, I just I always want to
Speaker 1: show my gratitude, you know, either online or offline. I
Speaker 1: just want to show my gratitude to you guys, because
Speaker 1: all three of us as brothers, work for and with
Speaker 1: and we are eeee and at the same time, we
Speaker 1: all are in very different lanes, and so my lane
Speaker 1: is really the face, the outward facing image of the
Speaker 1: company doing you know, after midnight and the podcast and
Speaker 1: getting out and speaking, and of course the music and
Speaker 1: the smiths, and you guys are you know, more so
Speaker 1: in the designs, in the inner workings of how this
Speaker 1: stuff gets out, and Tyler, you're you're the guy that's
Speaker 1: looking to see what the world wants to wear. And
Speaker 1: both of you guys and me combined are all always
Speaker 1: aware of what this image is, which is faith freedom
Speaker 1: in the outdoors, which is what Yegee stands for. And
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a battle really to maintain faith
Speaker 1: freedom in the outdoors in twenty twenty four, especially in
Speaker 1: the month of June, when we're coming up against you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of battles that the world wants to fight.
Speaker 1: And Parker, you said something as we did a live
Speaker 1: at ye Apparel a couple of days ago. You said
Speaker 1: something that really affected me and I hope that you
Speaker 1: could repeat it now. But you said at the remember
Speaker 1: what you said when we ended the podcast was that yesterday?
Speaker 1: Remember what you said, Say it again for my listeners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, the summer launch is releasing. We're super
Speaker 2: excited about it. But if money's tight right now, and
Speaker 2: then we totally understand. Tyler and I keep in contact
Speaker 2: with a lot of our customers and ye nation, we
Speaker 2: have a pulse on things. I know people are out
Speaker 2: there struggling right now. It's not easy. It's an election year,
Speaker 2: there's a lot going on. So money is tight, then
Speaker 2: don't even think twice about it.
Speaker 3: You just don't buy anything.
Speaker 2: Take care of you and your family and just enjoy
Speaker 2: EE through our other outlets that we have, enjoy the podcast,
Speaker 2: Enjoys Socials.
Speaker 1: And man, that's I looked at you when we cut
Speaker 1: the camera at that at EE Apparels Podcast. I looked
Speaker 1: at you and I was like, man, who says that
Speaker 1: isn't as an apparel company CEO who leaves everybody with
Speaker 1: the thought, Hey, we're so excited about this launch, but
Speaker 1: if you don't have the money right now and money's tight,
Speaker 1: take care of your family. We understand. It's like wow,
Speaker 1: it's amazing, And there's so much freedom in us to
Speaker 1: be able to say that out loud, because there's a
Speaker 1: pressure where we need to like, oh, we need to
Speaker 1: we have to do this. We got to pay the bills,
Speaker 1: we got to make sure that this launch performs well.
Speaker 1: Instead we just we let it go and we go, Hey,
Speaker 1: we understand, if money's tight, don't buy a single thing.
Speaker 1: Take care of your family. That's that's horrible advertising from
Speaker 1: a marketing standpoint, but I think it's just really good honesty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we do launches every month, and so like,
Speaker 2: if you're buying from us every single month, like that's
Speaker 2: a lot of money. And so I totally get And
Speaker 2: you only need to shirt every so often, but hopefully
Speaker 2: whenever you need a new shirt or a new hat,
Speaker 2: you'll get one from us. And we try to make
Speaker 2: it the best possible quality we can, with the coolest designs,
Speaker 2: with the top designers, and hopefully it'll last year a
Speaker 2: long time and then when it wears out, we'll be
Speaker 2: around whenever you need another one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. And yeah, the quality on a lot
Speaker 1: of these T shirts and that Jersey Tyler's wearing these hats,
Speaker 1: the qualities just step up from what we did were
Speaker 1: doing last year and the year before. So yeah, super excited.
Speaker 1: I know you guys are busy, So I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you go twenty eight minutes now into the EEE Apparel
Speaker 1: summer launch. Go to yeye dot com for everything. If
Speaker 1: you're listening live, I would go there quickly because a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, the popular things tend to sell out quickly,
Speaker 1: and if you're listening later then there's probably there's probably
Speaker 1: enough to get you by so yeye dot com is
Speaker 1: where you need to go. Oh, Tyler's holding up. Eight.
Speaker 1: This is a last minute edition, didn't it.
Speaker 2: We didn't think it was gonna come in time. But
Speaker 2: we got our bandanas in literally the day before the launch.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a fun little edition. We've never done
Speaker 2: bandanas before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are in. They're super soft. I felt them yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's cool. All right, guys, I'll let you go. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to some questions here. Appreciate you, love you,
Speaker 1: see you guys, Ye, say get some risk. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna answer some questions. Aun't you with me? Still?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir? What's your time? We're sitting at sitting at
Speaker 1: eleven fifty since we start? Okay, cool, all right, this
Speaker 1: question is gonna come from Tyler and not my brother,
Speaker 1: says hey Granger. My wife twenty six and I twenty
Speaker 1: seven right now are considering IVF. We have been trying
Speaker 1: for almost a year to conceive and have recently found
Speaker 1: out that I, U, I or IVF. Maybe you're only
Speaker 1: not option due to some medical issues. We attend an
Speaker 1: SBC church and regularly serve in the worship ministry. I
Speaker 1: am worried that we might be pushed out of our
Speaker 1: church were we to where we have grown deep relationships
Speaker 1: with the pastor and other partitioners. Given the Southern Baptist
Speaker 1: Convention's recent vote to oppose IVF, I'm interested to hear
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this, giving your experience with IVF and
Speaker 1: your connection to the SBC. God bless Tyler, Arkansas. Hey Tyler,
Speaker 1: thanks for the question, man. It's a great one, and
Speaker 1: it's this is a fresh wound that the band aid
Speaker 1: has just come off of with the SBC as they
Speaker 1: have voted. It was just as I'm reading this, it's
Speaker 1: only two weeks ago that the Southern Baptist Convention voted
Speaker 1: against the approval or the endorsement of IVF and IVF
Speaker 1: in mutual fertilization comes really with two camps, and this
Speaker 1: is the argument at the SBC. There's two camps of
Speaker 1: opposition of IVF. One is the people that say IVF
Speaker 1: is okay, as long as you don't make as long
Speaker 1: as you I'll put it this way, as long as
Speaker 1: you don't leave embryos extra. That's the most non medical
Speaker 1: way I could say it. And then the other way
Speaker 1: is don't do it at all. It shouldn't be done.
Speaker 1: It's immoral. So I am a Southern Baptist seminarian. So yes,
Speaker 1: I am closely tied with the SBC. I go to
Speaker 1: SBC's church. I'm an SBC seminarian. I'm friends. I'm actually
Speaker 1: friends with the two leading advocates against IVF. I'm friends
Speaker 1: with those guys. They're both professors at at Southern. So
Speaker 1: on top of that, we have a beautiful baby boy
Speaker 1: downstairs right now, he's almost three, who is an IVF baby.
Speaker 1: Let me, I need to I need to walk through
Speaker 1: some a couple of things. This will probably take a
Speaker 1: whole podcast if I did. But I understand where you're
Speaker 1: coming from, Tyler, very much. I walked in your shoes.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I also understand the sentiment of
Speaker 1: the SPC. I think IVF can be it can't be
Speaker 1: a dangerous thing. There are a lot of embryos that
Speaker 1: are that are left over. I think there's hundreds of thousands,
Speaker 1: maybe millions. Don't quote me on that, but there's hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of believe embryos that have been left over
Speaker 1: that were conceived but not implanted or transferred, I think
Speaker 1: is the right word. And what do you what do
Speaker 1: we do with this? This is a moral dilemma and
Speaker 1: we can't be irresponsible with this. When we were going
Speaker 1: through this ourselves. If I wrote the book Like a River,
Speaker 1: I had a had a really emotional moment with if
Speaker 1: in a discussion with Lincoln, my son. That's in the
Speaker 1: book Like a River. It's the tree conversation. If you remember, Daddy,
Speaker 1: does God make all the trees and man make some
Speaker 1: of the trees. It was that conversation. So if you
Speaker 1: haven't read Like a River, Tyler, check that out. And
Speaker 1: then Amber and I decided we were convicted that we
Speaker 1: felt like this may be wrong, and so we decided
Speaker 1: that we would implant every single embryo we had, and
Speaker 1: as it turned out, all of them died, including a miscarriage,
Speaker 1: leaving us all the way just down to just one
Speaker 1: last one and it ended up being Maverick. Now that's
Speaker 1: my story, and that doesn't make IVF right just because
Speaker 1: I did it. And it also, even if it is wrong,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make Maverick wrong because God uses he always
Speaker 1: has used sin and for his own glory, for his
Speaker 1: own good, he's done. There's countless stories about that. So
Speaker 1: it's never the baby's fault. Certainly not Maverick's fault, and
Speaker 1: Mavericks certainly not an accident or but but just because
Speaker 1: Mavericks exists, and he's beautiful, and he's loved, and he's purposed,
Speaker 1: and he's he is in the image of God. Just
Speaker 1: because of all all that. There also co exists another
Speaker 1: idea that maybe Amber and I were wrong in considering IVF.
Speaker 1: You could tell that I have have struggled over the
Speaker 1: years with it, and if we were going to do
Speaker 1: it all over again, I don't think we would do IVF.
Speaker 1: And that's not because all can now because now the
Speaker 1: SBC is voting against it, et cetera, et cetera. It's
Speaker 1: not because of that. I just believe as we've been
Speaker 1: sanctified as Christians more and more, I think it becomes
Speaker 1: more problematic. Why because look at the fruit of IVF clinics. Hey,
Speaker 1: we we've getten we get emails from the clinic that
Speaker 1: Maverick was conceived in those aren't they aren't good emails
Speaker 1: that we get? And what they're promoting. What are they
Speaker 1: The emails we get from the clinic where MAV came
Speaker 1: from aren't God honoring emails. They aren't God glorifying emails.
Speaker 1: You give them my drift what they're promoting and what
Speaker 1: they're using IVA for and what they're endorsing because they
Speaker 1: they have IVA of what they're what they're saying that
Speaker 1: they can do. It's not It's not a couple like
Speaker 1: Tyler Sure from Arkansas saying we've struggled and we're we've
Speaker 1: been we go to church and we've been praying and
Speaker 1: we trying to conceive a baby. That's not what these
Speaker 1: clinics are promoting.
Speaker 3: So is the should the reform be on no pun intended?
Speaker 3: I promise.
Speaker 5: Is it throwing the baby out with the bathwater to
Speaker 5: say no IVF at all?
Speaker 3: Or is it saying the way IVF is done right
Speaker 3: now is wrong. You said you used all three embryos.
Speaker 1: Well we did, and there was also there were seven
Speaker 1: more that died before we even got a chance to
Speaker 1: use them. I just think in hindsight we look back
Speaker 1: on it and we go, hey, I don't think we
Speaker 1: are quite as sanctified as we are now in this situation.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think we would have done
Speaker 1: it the same. That doesn't make me regret doing it
Speaker 1: or regret Maverick, of course not. But will I now
Speaker 1: stand forward and endorse it and actually go against my
Speaker 1: colleagues in the SBC. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: the men and women that have prayed over this and
Speaker 1: studied this for a long time, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: wrong in thinking, Hey, we need to hit the brakes
Speaker 1: on this, We need to think about this because the
Speaker 1: implications of the future. Where's this going? What are the
Speaker 1: fruits of this? And I'll tell you what the fruits are.
Speaker 1: I see, I see the emails, I see their their
Speaker 1: Instagram page and what they're promoting, and it's awful.
Speaker 3: Stuff, unbelievable.
Speaker 5: That's why you know this this could be well, probably
Speaker 5: should be a bunch of longer conversations. It's a longer
Speaker 5: conversation with other people, people who have been effected on
Speaker 5: both sides of it.
Speaker 1: I hate to give you the answer, Tyler that you
Speaker 1: don't want to hear, but adoption is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Adoption is a for sure, beautiful, beautiful thing. And there's
Speaker 1: so many babies that need a home, and you're saying
Speaker 1: how great or how could you say that when you
Speaker 1: you did the opposite. Well, maybe Amber and I need
Speaker 1: to adopt to We'll leave it there. Next question, do
Speaker 1: we have another time for another one right now? Twenty? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's hit another one.
Speaker 3: Try about this and hit some comments.
Speaker 1: Cool, let's hit the comments and then we can get
Speaker 1: another to break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got break. I've got a couple here.
Speaker 1: Like that, yege pearl mug right there? Look at that, friends,
Speaker 1: new the coffee mug just came out today at the launch.
Speaker 5: This is the epitome of product placement today, both of
Speaker 5: us wearing the city.
Speaker 3: Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1: A question from you guys doing a podcast tour. Yes,
Speaker 1: we were just talking about. I just told ant Man
Speaker 1: right before we started this, I said, Hey, once we
Speaker 1: get enough reps doing this live podcast thing, then we
Speaker 1: should we should have all the kinks worked out by
Speaker 1: the time we actually take a tour and do this.
Speaker 3: Hope.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the hope.
Speaker 3: That's a good one too.
Speaker 1: Chris says, Hey Granger, this is straight from the live
Speaker 1: right here, I'm reading, Hey, hey Granger, getting ready to
Speaker 1: close on a house soon I'll be it'll be my
Speaker 1: wife and I was first home together. Any advice on
Speaker 1: two newly married twenty four year olds in life and
Speaker 1: being first time home buyers, congratulates, man, that's big, that's big,
Speaker 1: that's huge. Twenty four is young and you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of life ahead of you. I would say, I
Speaker 1: would say, hold it with open hands, don't hold that
Speaker 1: house too tightly, don't worry about that house, don't make
Speaker 1: that house you're idole. Don't don't obsess over that house,
Speaker 1: because bad things are gonna happen to it, like things
Speaker 1: are gonna break, pipes are gonna burst, You're gonna get
Speaker 1: you know, fence is gonna get knocked down on a
Speaker 1: high wind. You're gonna you're gonna get stains on the carpet.
Speaker 1: I would just say, live it, live in it, live
Speaker 1: with it. And it's not a permanent house. It's not
Speaker 1: a forever home, and so enjoy it, make the most
Speaker 1: out of it, and one day, for willing, five, six,
Speaker 1: ten years, you'll be moving in another house because you
Speaker 1: can need some more bedrooms'd be cool.
Speaker 3: Let's take a break. YEP.
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Speaker 1: shoot you a message. Next question comes from Glenn. It
Speaker 1: says the Cowboy church I attend and support has for
Speaker 1: a long time had five minute teachings every Sunday morning
Speaker 1: on biblical giving. The teaching about giving is more than
Speaker 1: just about money and includes Biblical teaching of giving one's
Speaker 1: self first, and that the giving of tides and offerings
Speaker 1: is a reflection of giving oneself first. The teaching is
Speaker 1: then followed by those to come forward and place their
Speaker 1: offering in a bucket and then prayed over. When I
Speaker 1: started going to this church, it was already an established
Speaker 1: part of the service. I am the person asked by
Speaker 1: the pastor to do this teaching. Nearly everyone does it
Speaker 1: without question or complaint. But there is one individual who
Speaker 1: has personally disagreed with the public display of giving tithes
Speaker 1: and offerings because it might offend or compel someone to
Speaker 1: come forward in order to remain in conspicuous, and they
Speaker 1: have made it known to the pastor, but not personally
Speaker 1: to me. My question is, do you see anything wrong
Speaker 1: with giving tides and offerings and a public display of
Speaker 1: coming forward as opposed to passing the offering plate. I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear your answer. Sincerely in Christ, Glenn Tate. Glenn,
Speaker 1: thank you for the question. It's an interesting one. Do
Speaker 1: I see anything wrong? Let me see? How about how
Speaker 1: about Matthew six's three four? But when you give, do
Speaker 1: not let your left hand know what your right hand
Speaker 1: is doing, so that your giving may be in secret
Speaker 1: and your father, who sees you in secret, will reward you.
Speaker 1: There's that. Yeah, I'd be cautious about this. I'd be
Speaker 1: cautious really in the tone of this, because because we're
Speaker 1: kind of we're kind of thinking that this person, this
Speaker 1: one person is crazy and they're actually this one person
Speaker 1: is actually biblical?
Speaker 3: Is the one biblical?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like and we're kind of looking at
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 3: Look.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with people wanting
Speaker 1: to get up and give in public. That people are
Speaker 1: just gonna do that. But I think what's wrong is
Speaker 1: saying that this is the way we do it, and
Speaker 1: if you disagree with it, you're strange. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what this email sounds like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that what you feel?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is is the hope that because I see
Speaker 5: someone else, is this what they're thinking. If the rest
Speaker 5: of the congregation sees this many people giving, they'll be
Speaker 5: encouraged to.
Speaker 1: Give to I think that's what they're thinking.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Marshall said something when he was on here earlier that
Speaker 1: I loved a couple of weeks ago, said that him
Speaker 1: and the elders of the church they don't even know
Speaker 1: who gives. They don't look and they're not allowed to
Speaker 1: see the names. Because you have the danger as a
Speaker 1: pastor of it creating favoritism. It does, for sure, even
Speaker 1: if you're as solid as a rock. It's really hard
Speaker 1: not to think, but this person gives the most of
Speaker 1: the congregation, it's really hard not to give them extra
Speaker 1: favor or to do what they are suggesting. It's very difficult.
Speaker 1: So to protect yourself against that you don't know. And
Speaker 1: when you have a public display like that, everyone's getting up,
Speaker 1: you know, you know the pastor sees it, everyone sees it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would speak against this. I know cowboy
Speaker 1: churches do stuff like this. I know that even passing
Speaker 1: the offering plate is starting to become less and less
Speaker 1: at a mais, we don't do it. We're not as
Speaker 1: old school and so we don't do it at all.
Speaker 1: It's only online.
Speaker 5: How about that see, we do both, but it's also
Speaker 5: kind of become tailored, like they'll they'll come up to
Speaker 5: the edge of your row and just kind of look
Speaker 5: conceive if anybody because you know, people will hold it
Speaker 5: up or whatever, and then they'll pass the plate down.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't just automatically go by you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're it used to and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: Every church I've ever known has done that. And and
Speaker 1: may as we have a box in the back, so
Speaker 1: if like here, you don't do online banking or whatever,
Speaker 1: then you could put you could put it.
Speaker 3: In you want to throw a twenty in.
Speaker 1: But I think for that person that throws a twenty
Speaker 1: in the box without anyone seeing, it's blessed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed, I mean it's biblical agreed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, back to.
Speaker 5: Your point that you're saying that Marshall said is that
Speaker 5: I've seen it in action before. Of they'll carefully consider
Speaker 5: what someone who has who said something or asked to
Speaker 5: do something, they'll think of them and consider it differently
Speaker 5: because they know, man, if we don't do that and
Speaker 5: they get mad, that's a big chunk of money that
Speaker 5: leaves our church.
Speaker 3: That's their thought process. I've seen it happen inactionable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so dangerous man.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: Next question comes from Jaden Hey Grangeer. First, I want
Speaker 1: to thank you for the virtual meet and greet back
Speaker 1: in April twenty twenty A while anyway, My question is
Speaker 1: do I let my girlfriend know that I want to
Speaker 1: propose without actually telling her? Or do I just not
Speaker 1: tell her and just do it? That's a very simple question.
Speaker 3: How would you like to be proposed to? Sweetheart?
Speaker 1: That Jay not two parts of that question one one
Speaker 1: part says, hey, man, you know you got to make
Speaker 1: sure that she actually is agreeing that she wants to
Speaker 1: get married to.
Speaker 3: You know, that's a good conversation.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a conversation where you just say you
Speaker 1: tell her in some kind of form. Surely you have, Hey,
Speaker 1: I one of these days I want to get married
Speaker 1: and I love you, and you're you're exactly the kind
Speaker 1: of girl I want to marry. So you're kind of
Speaker 1: building it up without saying will you marry me? And
Speaker 1: you wait for her reaction because if she says, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know where going this fast, then there's a problem.
Speaker 1: And if she goes me too, you're the kind of
Speaker 1: guy that I would love to marry and then and
Speaker 1: then you kind of move on, but you just store
Speaker 1: that away that Okay, this is good, this is good.
Speaker 1: You're planning seeds, and you have the conversations about children
Speaker 1: and about her faith and things like that, things that
Speaker 1: are unreconcilable once you are married. If she's you get
Speaker 1: married and you're you're expecting four kids and she wants none,
Speaker 1: that's a question in a conversation you probably should have
Speaker 1: had before you're even engaged. If you have a strong
Speaker 1: faith and she doesn't at all, it's a conversation you
Speaker 1: probably should have had or vice versa before you even
Speaker 1: get engaged. If all that's taken care of, then you
Speaker 1: go to the second part of my answer. The second
Speaker 1: part of my answer is, Man, I just think surprises
Speaker 1: are better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't think that I've ever met a
Speaker 5: girl that I had that, and not necessarily a girl
Speaker 5: I was dating, but just a girl in general that
Speaker 5: was dating someone that didn't make their intentions known before
Speaker 5: the guy did, Hey we're getting married, right, you know
Speaker 5: almost that absolutely, Here's what I would wear, Here's the
Speaker 5: house that I would want, Here's how many kid I
Speaker 5: mean that seems to always have been up front in
Speaker 5: most relationships. Yeah, and if you're not having that conversation,
Speaker 5: that might be the first.
Speaker 1: And once you're there, then I think a surprise is good.
Speaker 3: Bingo, surprise her.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, do something neat not something. Also, here's here's a tip.
Speaker 1: I think, not something you think it's a great proposal.
Speaker 1: That's something she would think. It's a great proposal. Like
Speaker 1: if you love football and she doesn't, don't propose it
Speaker 1: the halftime of your favorite football game on the jumbo tron.
Speaker 1: You know, if she loves football, okay, cool. If she
Speaker 1: loves you know, the beach, take her to the beach
Speaker 1: and do it there, even though you don't like it.
Speaker 1: It's about her, you know, you know, do do what
Speaker 1: you think would be great for her.
Speaker 3: To be careful not to drop the ring in the sand.
Speaker 1: Don't drop the ring in the sand.
Speaker 3: Y'all got some questions here on comments you want to
Speaker 3: do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I say it.
Speaker 3: Here's one.
Speaker 1: Lindsay says, Hi, when is your new song coming out?
Speaker 1: And are you going to release it? I love the
Speaker 1: new intro. I don't know, Lindsay, thanks for asking.
Speaker 3: Explain what she's talking about.
Speaker 1: So the smiths Our Family vlog I have a new
Speaker 1: song that came out in the intro, the brand new
Speaker 1: intro of the Smiths, and so, uh, just live with it, lindsay,
Speaker 1: you might not even like it after you listen to
Speaker 1: it enough times, you might not even want the full version.
Speaker 1: But if you do, all think about how to release it.
Speaker 1: Mason says, how are we going to buy yee Ye today?
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna buy ye ye today, but watching y'all
Speaker 1: in the new gear is making me rethink that maybe
Speaker 1: I'll just rewind and listen to the part about saving money. Yeah. Maybe, so, Mason,
Speaker 1: I don't know this, do you see that? No? Stephanie said,
Speaker 1: all the mugs are amazing. I definitely want the insulin munths.
Speaker 1: They work so great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one that said that mug is already sold out?
Speaker 1: Is it really? Yeah? I haven't been paying attention.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Great one.
Speaker 1: And thank you for always being real honest and my
Speaker 1: brother in Christ, thank you, Emily.
Speaker 5: And then you talked about this one the last on
Speaker 5: the last live that we did about a month ago.
Speaker 1: Well, the live album and DVD be coming soon, so Adam,
Speaker 1: it is officially finished. The live almost a few last
Speaker 1: weeks copyright stuff. For instance, America started with a beat
Speaker 1: from the movie Top Guns. Found out way to take
Speaker 1: that out so that But yes, the live album is finished.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy with it. It's going to release probably in
Speaker 1: the fall. And the documentary to go with it is
Speaker 1: not finished, but it's a work in progress and we
Speaker 1: plan on packaging both of those together. Cool. I going
Speaker 1: to go back to the question here, back to the
Speaker 1: email podcast at grangersmith dot com if you want to
Speaker 1: hit me up, and the question from Cody says, Hi,
Speaker 1: granger recently met a guy who is so bright and
Speaker 1: caring and giving. We met riding motorcycles and have rode
Speaker 1: together other almost every day since. He caught feelings for me,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't It was already breaking my heart to
Speaker 1: tell him that I don't like him too, But now
Speaker 1: everything is caving in on him, and I don't know
Speaker 1: how to love him without hurting him more by giving
Speaker 1: him hope of a relationship. His family is Messy's sister
Speaker 1: in prison, to autistic brothers, threatening grandpa, irresponsible parents, an
Speaker 1: uncle who died in a motorcycle crash right after we met,
Speaker 1: an injured aunt from the same crash, and an uncle
Speaker 1: who raped his knees. He's twenty five and taking custody
Speaker 1: of his knees to protect her. And he has already
Speaker 1: held custody of his nephew since he was eighteen. He
Speaker 1: beat thyroid cancer two years ago, and he's coming back
Speaker 1: right now, just as strong. He's in pain. He's depressed.
Speaker 1: He's selling all of his bikes that we have been
Speaker 1: and which have been his only outlet and escape from
Speaker 1: everything he's got going on. He's acting like he's giving up.
Speaker 1: He met me three weeks ago and he wants to
Speaker 1: give his He wants to give me his favorite bike,
Speaker 1: and I can't even like him back. Three of his
Speaker 1: biker friends crashed this week alone, and he is there
Speaker 1: for every single one of them. Though he is suffering,
Speaker 1: he is trying to go to church and have faith,
Speaker 1: even though he hasn't for a few years. I know
Speaker 1: sin is why there is suffering, but God didn't cause it.
Speaker 1: But he can't stop it. God, Why are there people
Speaker 1: like me who have such an easy life when he
Speaker 1: is going through hell every day. I am undeserving and bitter,
Speaker 1: but get to be healthy and okay when he is
Speaker 1: loving and in so much pain? How is that fair. Okay,
Speaker 1: what an email Cody? Okay, indeed, that's deep. There's two
Speaker 1: different answers that come right to my mind right away. One,
Speaker 1: you're not responsible for this guy. You've known him for
Speaker 1: three weeks. You're not responsible for his happiness. There's nothing
Speaker 1: you could do to make him happy, and there's no
Speaker 1: decision you could make, there's no agreeent that you can
Speaker 1: make to make him You're not responsible for his happiness.
Speaker 1: I'm not responsible for Amber's happiness. You're not responsible for
Speaker 1: Ashley's happiness. Ant man that this is a misconception that
Speaker 1: we as humans are responsible for other people's happiness, and
Speaker 1: you are saying that about this guy that you just
Speaker 1: met three weeks ago, who's got his life is falling apart.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you can't love him and encourage him
Speaker 1: and be there for him and be a friend and
Speaker 1: listen to him and share time with him. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean all that. It just means that you can't be
Speaker 1: responsible for his happiness, especially if you don't like him
Speaker 1: in a romantic way, so that you might violate that
Speaker 1: just to make him happy. That's wrong. That's the first
Speaker 1: part of my answer. My second part says, I want
Speaker 1: you know where I want to go. I want to
Speaker 1: go to this part that says, I know that there
Speaker 1: is I know that sin is why he's suffering, and
Speaker 1: God didn't cause it, but can't he stop it? And
Speaker 1: then my mind goes, Okay, Isaiah forty five might disagree
Speaker 1: with you, Cody. It says Isaiah forty five six and
Speaker 1: seven says, I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Speaker 1: I form light and create darkness. I make well being
Speaker 1: and create calamity. I am the Lord who does all
Speaker 1: these things. That is much different than a God who
Speaker 1: says I didn't cause it and I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could stop it. In fact, that's not a God at.
Speaker 3: All, not a very big one anyway.
Speaker 1: That's just that's an idle god, lowercase gees that we
Speaker 1: have created for our own comfort, so that so that
Speaker 1: we could be comfortable in our little lives, knowing that
Speaker 1: we are stuck in our lives. And it's definitely not fair.
Speaker 1: It's not my fault and it's not fair. That's what
Speaker 1: we want to say all the time. Yeah, And to
Speaker 1: that is always the Gospel is always the Cross of
Speaker 1: Christ glaring back at this unfairness that says all of
Speaker 1: us are sinned. None of us are good, No, not one.
Speaker 1: All of us have rejected God and the world that
Speaker 1: was made that was good. In our rebellion, in our sin,
Speaker 1: he made a way to reconcile us, to forgive us
Speaker 1: of our sins. And it's not by anything we could do. Instead,
Speaker 1: it's with his son that he sent to die for us,
Speaker 1: to be the substitute to take, to be the replacement
Speaker 1: for the punishment that we deserved. Christ takes that on himself,
Speaker 1: in his body on the cross and says, whoever looks
Speaker 1: at me and believes in this final sacrifice, this ultimate sacrifice,
Speaker 1: you will be forgiven, not in anything you've done, but
Speaker 1: what have I done. That's where fairness comes from. That's
Speaker 1: where the judgment is satisfied. And then you go, how
Speaker 1: is that fair? Is Christ dying on the cross? Is
Speaker 1: the man, the God Man, the perfect one, scent, sinless,
Speaker 1: without without flaw, without fault, that lives the perfect life,
Speaker 1: and he goes and we murder him? Is that fair?
Speaker 1: That's where That's where, That's where this all gets mixed
Speaker 1: up here. So Cody, I think that's all I have
Speaker 1: to say. Where do you got to end?
Speaker 5: Got a few more comments from uh from the life.
Speaker 5: Love doing this and love seeing your comments in the
Speaker 5: moment too, and love those. So back to the last email,
Speaker 5: you got to come in here so.
Speaker 1: Jenna says, I so love your broadcast. As as my
Speaker 1: guy introduced you to me. We are happy and I
Speaker 1: could see him as my future as well. We listen
Speaker 1: to you together. Blessings to you always and your family,
Speaker 1: Peace of love. Thank you so much. Janis Rachel says,
Speaker 1: are you still coming to Raleigh to preach next month? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I haven't canceled it. Yeah I'm coming, and it says
Speaker 1: good morning and happy Friday to everyone from Santa Domingo,
Speaker 1: Dominican Republic. Thank you Anna so much. I know you
Speaker 1: listen quite a bit, so it's always an honor to
Speaker 1: have you.
Speaker 3: Here's the here's a question for you.
Speaker 1: And she says, I'm forty two and I want to
Speaker 1: know your advice from about meeting godly men. Well, if
Speaker 1: I was, Anna says, what's your advice about meeting godly men?
Speaker 1: And let me reframe the question, grangeur, what's your advice
Speaker 1: in catching large mouth bass? I'd say go to a
Speaker 1: go to a good polly with some low hanging brush
Speaker 1: that has plenty of bait. Fish go during spawning season.
Speaker 1: That's where you're gonna find the biggest ones and know
Speaker 1: what to throw. And so for you, you want to
Speaker 1: know what kind of lure a godly man is going
Speaker 1: to want a godly woman, So be a godly woman,
Speaker 1: be the kind of woman that a godly man would
Speaker 1: be attracted to. That's a great that's a great goal.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then you got to go to the pond. And
Speaker 1: so I would go to a good, solid Bible teaching church.
Speaker 1: That's where you're gonna find godly men. And that's when
Speaker 1: you're gonna throw a godly lure. And that is with
Speaker 1: a godly woman.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, the only thing only difference is
Speaker 3: you're the lure. But you have to be real and
Speaker 3: he can't be fake.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta be a live meno exactly.
Speaker 3: So does that help you at all?
Speaker 5: If equated dating fishing, that's what you get on there.
Speaker 1: It's either dating to fishing, or it's either fishing or
Speaker 1: football or the two analogies I go to all the time.
Speaker 3: That time you want to do one more email.
Speaker 1: Yep, I only have two lefts. So yeah, one more
Speaker 1: would be good. Kristin says, hello from Orlando. Women as pastors.
Speaker 1: Wow here, man, we're just hitting them all, aren't we.
Speaker 1: You did this to me, man, you did get over
Speaker 1: there laughing. Women as pastors seem to be a controversy
Speaker 1: with churches. I don't understand why. Is the Bible is
Speaker 1: very clear. I do not attend I do not attend
Speaker 1: my church because of this comments. Thank you and blessings, Kristin. Hey, Kristin,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I believe the Bible is is
Speaker 1: very clear that the the biblical eldership leadership in a
Speaker 1: church is for men. I am a complementarian, meaning that
Speaker 1: when men and women have very both of us, very
Speaker 1: important and very distinct roles that we need to carry
Speaker 1: out in the church, and when when those distinct roles
Speaker 1: are blurred, trouble begins in the church. I think we
Speaker 1: see this. I think there's no doubt that we see
Speaker 1: the the result of either way. I'm not an egalitarian,
Speaker 1: meaning men and women are equal in every way and
Speaker 1: and and that's not my opinion, Like we have to
Speaker 1: get that clear too. That's that's not just what my
Speaker 1: heart says or my gut says, or what you know
Speaker 1: what I want to be. That's just what the Bible says,
Speaker 1: and so believe it. And then I see the from
Speaker 1: it acted out correctly, and I go, oh wow, that's
Speaker 1: women are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
Speaker 1: Men are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
Speaker 1: Kids are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
Speaker 1: And it's the marriages are so much better when they're
Speaker 1: following the Biblical standard. Grief is so much more hopeful
Speaker 1: when following the Biblical standard. I could just go on
Speaker 1: and on and on, but all the attributes and characteristics
Speaker 1: and identities of people and our feelings and our emotions
Speaker 1: are just better when carried out according to the Biblical standard.
Speaker 1: And so I don't want to break apart from that
Speaker 1: because it hurts if we do it, it doesn't work right,
Speaker 1: and it creates struggle and strife, and so yes, so Christen.
Speaker 1: The one thing I want to say in your email
Speaker 1: that I don't like about your email is that you
Speaker 1: said I do not attend my church because of this.
Speaker 1: I would say, then it's not your church, find you one.
Speaker 1: There's so many in fact, in order, my buddy, Caleb
Speaker 1: Brasher has a great church there called the Grove, and
Speaker 1: please please, I'm gonna look it up right now. But
Speaker 1: if I was in Orlando, I would definitely go to
Speaker 1: the Grove. I'm looking them up right now. It is.
Speaker 1: It is in Claremount, so I'll give you the address.
Speaker 1: It's four to sixty West Montrose Street, Claremont, Florida three
Speaker 1: four seven one five. The pastor has Caleb Brasher. It's
Speaker 1: called the Grove, and it's just uh, it's it's a
Speaker 1: great complementary in church.
Speaker 5: You have that question a lot about you know, where
Speaker 5: do I find a great church? And you've talked about
Speaker 5: it before of who they can email.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we could still haven't done it in a
Speaker 1: little bit, but it's it's Take and Read podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Take and Read podcast at gmail dot com. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's pastor Chad hopefully can help you with that.
Speaker 1: So what are we doing on time? We're good, We
Speaker 1: like that's it. Okay, Hey guys, we love you and
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're you're tuning in now with me
Speaker 1: live and I'm so glad you're you're listening later if
Speaker 1: when you see this released on Monday. But I sure
Speaker 1: appreciate y'all and you just make things your your questions
Speaker 1: just make me so encouraged. So love you guys. See
Speaker 1: you next Monday.