1 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: What's up, guys. I wanted to talk about something I 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: think it's I think it's interesting, and I think it's 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: forever changing for the music business, and that is AI 4 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: and the use of AI in recording and albums. This 5 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: is something we're gonna see more and more. And I'm 6 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: also going to answer your questions and you can email 7 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: me podcast at grangersmith dot com. I'm gonna I'll probably 8 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: get into this AI thing first and then I'll answer 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: whatever questions you guys have for me. Once again, that 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: is podcast at grangersmith dot com. You could ask me 11 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: anything and just like we're sitting in the truck riding together, 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna answer it hopefully, like like we're just 13 00:00:52,960 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: old friends. Now. Randy Travis, which is an old of mine, 14 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: Randy had a stroke in twoenty and thirteen, I believe, 15 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: and he lost the ability to speak, which is significant 16 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: because he has one of the most iconic voices in 17 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: all of music, this rich, beautiful baritone. He could just 18 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: carry a tune and everyone loved him and he has 19 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: just a massive legacy in country music. Well, this article 20 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: just came out that now he has a new song 21 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: out and you might be wondering how if he can't speak. 22 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: That is because it is AI and it is available 23 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: now wherever you love to find music, you could find 24 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: this song, the new Randy Travis song. And there's a 25 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: video I saw of different country music artist getting interviewed 26 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: as they're listening to it for the first time. I 27 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: think col Swindell is crying. You know, it's a really 28 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: big deal. And I've listened to it. It sounds exactly 29 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: like Randy Travis. It's impossible to know otherwise. So here's 30 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: how they did it. They used a surrogate vocalist, right, 31 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: someone else saying the entire song. The guy's name is 32 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: James Dupree. And this helped with phrasing, breath notation. And 33 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: so Randy Travis's longtime producer used James Dupree, and Randy 34 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: sitting there the whole time, sitting right next to this 35 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: whole to the soundboard. He uses James Dupree and he 36 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: gets in there behind the vocal and he does behind 37 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: the microphone. And he doesn't sound like Randy, but I 38 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: guess he breathes like him or something. I don't know 39 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: why they picked him. There must be something like that. 40 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: And Randy's producer is His name is Kyle Lenning, and 41 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: he's sitting there with Randy at times Randy's wife. They 42 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: record the song with a full band, just like they 43 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: always would have, and they went back into Randy's old 44 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: catalog and got forty two different dry vocals to create 45 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: the model. And then once AI knew what this, you 46 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: know how to sing like Randy, then they put they 47 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: used James Dupree on this new song and changed James 48 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: Dupree's voice to Randy's based on the modeling, the forty 49 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: forty two different modelings. This is wild stuff. I think 50 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: I've said this before. I don't know if we've fully 51 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: thought about the implications for what this is going to mean. 52 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if we thought about what the future 53 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: of music is going to be. Because people will say, oh, 54 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: I like Randy, I'll know if it's Randy, and I'll know. 55 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: First of all, you won't. And second of all, humans, 56 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: I want you all to think about this. Humans have 57 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: a a odd quirk that makes us want to like 58 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: the artificial. You think about artificial, just think about sugar, 59 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: a little pink packets. We will eat a pink packet 60 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: all day long over an apple because it is. It 61 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: mimics what we like and what we need and magnifies it. 62 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: That's what those little sweetened load does. We're pretty much 63 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: beyond the ability for a kid to say I want 64 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: something sweet and go and get an apple. That's where 65 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: we are as humans. But you go back in time 66 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: and you look back on history, and that was an 67 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: apple was like the dessert. So I think the same 68 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: thing's gonna happen with music. I think I think like 69 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: this Randy Travis song is the beginning, and there's a 70 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: couple of ways to look at it. One we're gonna 71 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: look at it like, hey, this is amazing. Randy gets 72 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: to sing again. Granger. He didn't have a voice, he 73 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: had a stroke, he lost his voice, and now how 74 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: sweet is it that he gets to sing again and 75 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,799 Speaker 1: we all get to enjoy Randy Travis again? How amazing 76 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: is that? Granger? What could possibly be wrong with this? 77 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: This is a way of using AI for the good, right, Okay, yes, sure, sure, 78 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: I'll agree with that. And by the way, before I 79 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: get into this, you can get I'm looking at this. 80 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: You can go and get a you could do this yourself. 81 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what website this is it's probably better 82 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: if I don't advertise it anyway. But it's in beta testing, 83 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: and you could get a nine to ninety nine a 84 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: month subscription or a or a fourteen ninety nine a 85 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: month pro subscription. And this is so that you could 86 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: you could enter your data and so and any song 87 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: could sound like you. So there's that. But here's the 88 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: thing about this. The idea of Randy Travis gets to 89 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: sing again. This is amazing. What we are moving slowly 90 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: away from is the idea that we are mortals and 91 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: we have a mortality, and we would rather not think 92 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: about our mortality. This is why at funerals, so many 93 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: times you see the funeral called instead a celebration of 94 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: life instead of a funeral, because it's like, I don't 95 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: want to say that word funeral. I don't want to 96 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: I don't want to think about death, especially with kids 97 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: are teenagers. I don't want to think about that. So 98 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 1: we're gonna think about a celebration of life and celebrate 99 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: his life instead of have a funeral that it actually 100 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: acknowledges that there's been a death, when in reality, death 101 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: is a in fact, a great reminder that we are 102 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: mortals and that we need things. When you know that 103 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: you that we're mortal, and when you know that there 104 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: is that death is emmittent for all of us, it 105 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: pushes you towards the Gospel. If you do not think 106 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: about that. For instance, if you're like I was on 107 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: this Bobby Bones podcast last week, if you think, well, 108 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: I'll just freeze myself and cryo freeze, and then one 109 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: day in the future they'll be able to saw me 110 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: and by then they will have been able to have 111 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: a cure for whatever killed me, and they could bring 112 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: me back. We're just slowly carving away the idea of mortality, 113 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: when in fact we should embrace it. As awful and 114 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: as horrible as death is, it's not supposed to be 115 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: like this, and as awful as it is, we should 116 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: embrace it knowing that eternal life is on the other 117 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: side of it. And you're like Man Granger, this is 118 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: a long way from AI vocals, But I think, and 119 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: maybe this podcast will be played years from now. I 120 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: think that we will look back on the pivot when 121 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: real vocals turned to surrogate AI vocals when and then 122 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: the next step will be video and you'll be able 123 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: to watch We kind of already do old dead actors 124 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: that are now alive get on the screen because of AI. 125 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: And like I said, we saw this with Kerrie Fisher 126 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: in Star Wars, right whatever Star Wars. That was when 127 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: Princess Leah comes back. She died during the filming of it, 128 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: and they bring her back and they use an AI 129 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: version of her, and it looked a little bit phony. 130 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: Not a lot, but a little bit phony. That's going away. 131 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: It's gonna you won't be able to tell the difference 132 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: in someone's look, their moves, their voice. You'll be able 133 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: to have old dead singers come out with a new 134 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: album because their their wife has approved it, or their 135 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: their grandkids have approved it. Elvis will have a new record, 136 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: an old producer will go get Elvis's old takes and 137 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: they'll put it all together. So I think we're heading 138 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 1: down a road that's just absolutely crazy. So here's my point. 139 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: Let's embrace our own mortality. Let's embrace the fact that 140 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: we are dying every day. As we listen to this podcast, 141 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: as I'm speaking it, we are all of us slowly 142 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: dying in a way, and that's not depressing. Actually, that's 143 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: part of the reality of death and the depressing thing 144 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: is to push that away and say I'm not dying. 145 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm gonna use fake hair color, I'm gonna 146 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: use fake skins cream, I'm gonna I'm gonna use botox 147 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: or whatever to make me further away from looking like 148 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: I'm getting old, because God forbid I should look old, 149 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: because that would let people know that I'm actually dying. Instead, 150 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: let's let's embrace this and along with AI, we need 151 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: to know what to say about it and how to 152 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: stand for it. And if you want to listen to 153 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: Randy Travis's song and smile, great, that that's not what 154 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: my point is. My point is we do need to 155 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: be careful that slowly but surely, our mortality is being 156 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: taken away from us. Hey, if you want to get 157 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: a hold of me, an easy way to do that 158 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: is cameo dot com slash Granger Smith. You could have 159 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: me make you a video message right here on my 160 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: phone to your phone. You could have me say happy 161 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: birthday or happy innerversary, or some kind of word of encouragement, 162 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: whatever that might be. I'm here for you. It's super easy. 163 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: Or you could download the Cameo app and search for me. 164 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: Granger Smith once again. That is Cameo C A M. 165 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: Eo dot com slash Grangersmith. All right, we're gonna answer 166 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: some questions from you guys. If you have a question 167 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:32,959 Speaker 1: from me, email podcast at grangersmith dot com. I'll answer 168 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: anything you want. We can talk about life, love, the Bible, 169 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: whatever that might be. Again, that's podcast at grangersmith dot com. 170 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: The first question here says granger who is the coolest 171 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: country artist you got to see? I'm assuming that comes 172 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: from John and I'm assuming you mean like out on 173 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 1: tour or not. Not as in my teenage years when 174 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: I was following George straight everywhere, you know what, it'd 175 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: probably be appropriate on this podcast, on this episode to 176 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: say Randy Travis. I did get to see Randy a 177 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 1: couple three four years ago something like that at one 178 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: of the award shows, and I don't remember which one. 179 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: They kind of all roll into each other in my mind, 180 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: but there was a time I think I sang something 181 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: from Randy, an old Randy song on Instagram or something 182 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: like that, and somebody saw it on Randy's team and 183 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: at the award show they came and got me out 184 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: of my seat and they said, hey, Randy, wants to 185 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: say hi to you. I was like, WHOA, yeah, that 186 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: sounds amazing. So I went back stage and there he 187 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: was in his wheelchair with his wife, and so we 188 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: got to hang out. We didn't have we didn't have 189 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: much of a conversation, as you can imagine. I did 190 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: talk to his wife for quite a bit, and Randy 191 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: is I don't know why this podcast ended up being 192 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: about Randy Travis, but there he was foundational in so 193 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: many ways for me and as I was getting started 194 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: in country music. So yeah, just for the I think 195 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: for cohesive podcast, let's let's go with that answer. Next 196 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: question comes from Nick. This is hay Gunder. My name 197 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: is Nick from Ohio. I've been a fan of your 198 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: music and podcast. I would love your viewpoint on a 199 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: difficult situation I find myself in. I was dating a 200 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: woman and recently got broken up with the issue I 201 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: cannot seem to grasp is the why there were no 202 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: real red flags as people would say. She claims she 203 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: just lost interest by being overwhelmed with the purchase of 204 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: her new home. For a background, I haven't dated in 205 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: over six years prior to her, I quit looking for someone. 206 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: I just wanted to find the right one. It says 207 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: I was raised and a raised a Christian, but along 208 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: the way lost some faith. But out of the blue 209 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: is natural and genuine of a connection as I've ever had. 210 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: This woman walked into my life. She got me back 211 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: into church believing again, helped me get back into the gym, 212 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: eating right, and vice versa. I helped her with her struggles. 213 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: I do believe that God sent me this woman. I 214 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: am struggling to understand how a connection could be so 215 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: pure and just vanish. I've been praying for God to 216 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: give her the strength to overcome her battles of being overwhelmed. 217 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: Any advice or thoughts on this on why I believe 218 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: God connected us and had such a powerful and well 219 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: rounded relationship and now it's just gone. Thanks keep up 220 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: all the inspiring and meaningful work that you do. Thanks Nick. 221 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: All right, Nick, let's dive into this. There are there's 222 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 1: a lot to talk about here, and you man, thank 223 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: you for emailing shout out to Ohio, Love Ohio. But 224 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: what we need to get into is that this whole 225 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: you know, I love you man. You know this is 226 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: tough love, right, We we got to get into this whole. 227 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: Why you think you're convinced God gave you this woman, 228 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: because that is scary and it's just creepy because when 229 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: you go around thinking, hey, God sent me you, and 230 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: you better fulfill this because you're if you go against this, 231 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: you're going against God himself. And I know that he 232 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: sent you to me. That's that's psychotic in the in 233 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: the easiest lightest way that I could say psychotic. That's 234 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: that's really scary. And I think, Nick, I don't think 235 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: this is really you talking. I think this is the 236 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: heartbroke version of you talking. I think this is this 237 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: is the Nick that says I'm desperate, I'll do anything, 238 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: and you're just love of drunk. Okay, when a girl 239 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: breaks up with you like this, you have to let 240 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: her go. That's the only way. Otherwise you can get 241 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: arrested for doing things that you're saying right here? Does 242 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: that make sense? The fact that here's where the contradiction happens. 243 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: It says, I lost faith, right, and then out of 244 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: the blue, she comes into my life. She brought all 245 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: this faith back. She helped you get back into church, 246 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: she helped you believing again, she helped you get back 247 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: into the gym, eating right, and you helped her with 248 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: the struggles on it, it doesn't sound like it. I don't 249 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: believe you. I don't believe that you lost faith and 250 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: now you're believing again, because if you were, you would 251 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: say this, it would sound like this. Granger. I think 252 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,479 Speaker 1: she's a special girl. But I have learned to trust God, 253 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: and I've learned that God is sovereign, that God is providential. 254 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: And although this is not working out, I'm not struggling 255 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: to understand why God sent me this. Instead, I know 256 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: that God is preparing me for something greater. Here's your 257 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: last sentence. I have been praying for God to give 258 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: her the strength to overcome her battles of being overwhelmed, 259 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: but you've got to reverse that. Instead, say God, give 260 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: me give me the strength to see what you have 261 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: for me. Let me love you in a way that 262 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: just overshadows any girl, or any job, or being back 263 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: in the gym, or even being in a church. Let 264 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: me love you in a way that is so special 265 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: that I start there. I start with you. And then, 266 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: instead of saying give her the strength to overcome her battles, 267 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: say Lord, you've brought struggles into my life. Give me 268 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: the strength to embrace the struggles as something that's actually 269 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: going to grow my care. That's something that's going to 270 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: actually grow my heart for you, therefore making me better 271 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: for the next person that comes into my life. Right, 272 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: you will be better nick for this because of what 273 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: you learn from it and how you suffer through this. 274 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: This is just good old fashioned heartbreak. And you can't 275 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: sound psycho by saying God sent me this woman, and 276 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to desperately pray that God changes 277 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 1: her mind. Instead say God, she's gone, And so I 278 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: pray that you gave me the strength to see what 279 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: your plan is in this, and in the meantime growing 280 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: my character through this suffering so that by the next 281 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: time I meet a girl, I will be ready and 282 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: I'll be better for her because of this. Next question 283 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: comes from Justin says, Hey, Granger, what advice would you 284 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: give parents dealing with the death of a teenager who 285 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: died of suicide? Something that would help his older brother, 286 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:08,239 Speaker 1: mother and me his father. Justin, I'm sorry, buddy, I 287 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: actually didn't expect that this is h That's that's how 288 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: your question would turn out, that you would be in it. 289 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: You would be the father. I'm I'm I'm imagining probably 290 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: there is a there's a sense of grief mixed with 291 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: guilt that you feel like you're a failed father because 292 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: of the suicide and because you didn't provide this is 293 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,199 Speaker 1: I'm I'm imagining your thinking that because you didn't provide 294 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: a home that made him, that nurtured him in a 295 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: way to prevent something like this, then you're gonna blame 296 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: yourself for it. So with me, it's it's not the same. 297 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: But through my loss of a child and through my 298 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: guilt of not being there for River, which is not 299 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: too different. It's different, but it's the same. I want 300 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: to tell you, justin to reject the world that constantly 301 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: tells you it's not your fault. Justin, it's not your fault. 302 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: You are a good father, You are sufficient in all 303 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: that you do. You shouldn't blame yourself. Now, it gets 304 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: tricky because it's not necessarily sin that whatever you did 305 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: ended up the end of the story as your son 306 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: committed suicide. And it's not necessarily a sin that whatever 307 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: happened to me at the end of the story, River 308 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:53,919 Speaker 1: ended up drowning. But regardless of that, it's important for 309 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: us to know in contrast to the Gospel of Jesus 310 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: that the the world tells us You're not guilty, you 311 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: are sufficient, you are a good father. The Gospel is 312 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: the only story, the only situation, the only news where 313 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: Jesus says, yes, you are, you are guilty, you are insufficient. 314 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: Look to me. I make you sufficient, not because of 315 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: what you do, but through my work on the Cross. 316 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: For you trust in me, lean on me, have faith 317 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: in me. I make you clean, I make you restored. 318 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: I adopt you as a as a son. Ransomed I 319 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: was thinking about this. I'm reading this book called Empire 320 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: the Summer Moon, and it's an incredible story about the 321 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: Comanche Indians in Texas, where I live, and some of 322 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: those stories that happen right around where I live, which 323 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: is why partly why it's so interesting. But there is 324 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: a there are several times I've thought about this, and 325 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: there's one specific time when the Indians came in to 326 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: San Antonio and they it was a band of them, 327 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 1: They had forty or fifty of them together, and they 328 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: would kidnap the settler girls. Because they would kidnap they 329 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: wouldn't kidnap the boys or the men. They would just 330 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: kill them, but they would kidnap the women and the 331 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: little girls, and they would do all kinds of horrible 332 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: things to these girls. For instance, they would cut off 333 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: their nose and then burn the end of it with fire, 334 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: and what they would do, and then their whole body 335 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: which is covered in marks and cuts. And they would 336 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:53,360 Speaker 1: march these girls into the settlement, the Texas settlement, and 337 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: they would sell the girl. And although of course that 338 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: had value to it to the settlers, there was this 339 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: one instance in San Antonio where they were marching this 340 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: girl in and she's missing a nose and her face 341 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: is burned. The only her nostrils are just two holes 342 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: in the front of her face, and she has cuts 343 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: all over her and she's been sexually violated, and she's 344 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: less than a human really to them, to to all 345 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: all people, including the Indians, she's less than human in appearance. 346 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: And they would come in and the Indians would sell 347 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: these girls, and sometimes they would be they would be 348 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: they would be purchased by the settlers, even by their 349 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: own family, but there was never really a future in 350 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: it for the girls because they were, you know, violated, 351 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: and there they were ugly, and they were cut and 352 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: marred and and they couldn't ever have children, they were 353 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: just kind of worthless, and they would sell them, and 354 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: that the Indians would leave. And I got I really 355 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: got to thinking about this as I was reading that book. 356 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: As awful as it sounds, I started thinking, Wow, that's us. 357 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: We are the girl. We are the what appears to 358 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 1: be a less than human girl, with our normal human 359 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: functions taken away from us. We're marred so badly that 360 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,479 Speaker 1: we look like a monster. And we get marched in 361 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: by the enemy to the village, and Jesus says, mine, 362 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: I take this one. I purchased this one with my blood. 363 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: This one's mine adopted. I take this one, and I 364 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: share the heir to the kingdom with this one, co 365 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: heirs to the kingdom by mine divine right. And in 366 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: me adopting you, you become a co heir to the kingdom. 367 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: That is us. We are the girl, We are the 368 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: less than human sight. Jesus says, you're mine. So justin 369 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: when you feel that guilt, and when the world says, 370 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: don't feel guilty. You are a great. Dad. I want 371 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: you and said to think of yourself as the girl 372 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: being marched into San Antonio. And I want you to 373 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: think of Jesus saying, justin you were mine. I make 374 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: you clean, I restore you, I heal you, I give 375 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: back everything you've lost. You were mine. I want you 376 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: to think of it in that way, and that is 377 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: the only story you will hear period that actually changes 378 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: things for you. Next question comes from Jet and it says, hey, 379 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: and your My name is Jet, I'm from Kansas. I'm 380 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: nineteen years old, and I'm a career firefighter. I wanted 381 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: to ask you your opinion on if I jumped into 382 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 1: life too soon. I feel like I never got to 383 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: experience life to the fullest when I got this job. 384 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: Should I be more adventurous? I need suggestions, all right, 385 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: nineteen years old jumping into a career is not something 386 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: that is crazy. I mean, this is something that has 387 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: happened since the beginning of time until now. It's the 388 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: only time here in this latest generation where we actually think, 389 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if I got all this living life 390 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: to the fullest stuff out of my system, you know 391 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like forever, people just took a 392 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: career and they worked it. They worked their butt off 393 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: in that career, and they retired in that career and 394 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: people said how long you've been a firefighter, and they 395 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: would say thirty seven years, retiring next May or whatever. 396 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: But we live in a world now, in Instagram world 397 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: where you look at TikTok and you look at Instagram 398 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: and you go, hmm, I think there might be more 399 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: out there for me, because I'm looking. I'm scrolling through 400 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: all these people and they look to be really happy, 401 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: and they look like they're doing things that looks like 402 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: they're living life to the fullest. And I'm wondering if 403 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: maybe I jumped into a job too soon, And I'm 404 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,439 Speaker 1: wondering if that's gonna catch up with me one day 405 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get in trouble by this. I should 406 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: be more adventurous, I should be a little more dangerous. 407 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: I don't think I got that out of my system. 408 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: So I'm not saying that what you're feeling is wrong. 409 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: I'm saying it's interesting that we live in a generation 410 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: where you look on social media, you look on YouTube, 411 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: you see Matt Character, you see Lungers TV. You see 412 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: Western Champlain fishing, blowing up stuff and putting diesel engines 413 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: in Ford Mustangs, and you go, man, that's the life. 414 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: That's living adventurous, and here I go out here fighting fires, 415 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 1: which most of the world thinks that is that's adventurous. 416 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: So the first thing I want to say Jet is 417 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 1: I just want to relax you a little bit and 418 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: just go, hey, man, we need to learn how to 419 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: be content in the situation we're in. Maybe you won't 420 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: be a firefighter forever, but you did jump into this, 421 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: and this is your career. And I don't think you 422 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: would have gotten into this career because I get plenty 423 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,199 Speaker 1: of emails on this podcast about people wanting to be 424 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: a fireman and something happened where they can't. So I 425 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: do want to point out that a lot of people 426 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: can't do what you're doing and you have it, and 427 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: there's something you're missing. There's something else out there that's 428 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: that feeling. It's like that you two song I still 429 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: haven't found what I'm looking for. You should listen to 430 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: that song. I still haven't found what I'm looking for. 431 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 1: There is something in this world that tells us, in 432 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: our own conscience, that tells us there's more to this. 433 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: What is it? This feels I don't know. It feels temporary. 434 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: It feels like this home is just not my forever home. 435 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: I can't seem to get happy with where I am. 436 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: And I promise you, Yet you move into something else, 437 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: or you take a year off and you go do 438 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: adventurous things, You're still going to have the same problems. 439 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: You're still going to have the same anxieties, and you're 440 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: still gonna say, just like you two, I still haven't 441 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: found what I'm looking for. And so I would suggest 442 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: to you that maybe it has nothing to do with 443 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: a career. Maybe it's this is far bigger than a career. 444 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: Maybe you maybe you were created for a purpose that's 445 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: bigger than any of this, Bigger than a firefighter, bigger, 446 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: bigger than breaking away and just being adventurous. You're getting 447 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,680 Speaker 1: a new job, meeting a girl. Oh man, I think 448 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: I think I'm not living life to the fullest because 449 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 1: I haven't met the right girl yet. And then you do, 450 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: and then you go, you know, I think it's because 451 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: we don't have kids. We need we need kids to 452 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: feel complete. And then and then you have kids, and 453 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: you go, I think I think it was that we 454 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: needed a house with some land. If we only had 455 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: a little bit of land, things will be good. Throw 456 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: the football in the backyard and you get the land 457 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: and you go, yeah, I think we need like a 458 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: boat or something, you know, to get out on the 459 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: on the lake where it's always something else. If if 460 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: you're looking to the temper jet, then you're you're you're 461 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: never going to be satisfied because we are made for 462 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: more than this world. I want to want to you 463 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: to think about that. I'm gonna do a bad quote 464 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: on this. C. S. Lewis famously said, ducklings swim, meaning 465 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: there must be such thing as water. Babies suck, which 466 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: means there must be such thing as milk. And man 467 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: has something outside of this world that that it's it's 468 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: yearning for, meaning there must be something outside of this world. 469 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: That's a bad quote, but that's basically the idea. You 470 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: are longing for something that this world cannot satisfy, meaning 471 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: there must be something outside of this world. Be thinking 472 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,719 Speaker 1: about that jet and I could tell you that contentment 473 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: will flow from that, not from your career or lack 474 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: of a career as a fireman. I love you guys. 475 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: If you want to ask me something, do it please. 476 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: Granger Excuse Me podcast at grangersmith dot com. That's my email, 477 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: Just me today, I plan on. I actually had some 478 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: plans for some more guys coming soon, so we'll continue 479 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: to wrestle through these certain topics and then answer your questions. 480 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: All coming up and I'm glad you're here. We'll see 481 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: you next Monday. 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