WEBVTT - AI vs RELIGION: Here's The Problem... 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.560 What's up, guys. I wanted to talk about something I 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.000 think it's I think it's interesting, and I think it's 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.720 forever changing for the music business, and that is AI 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.720 and the use of AI in recording and albums. This 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.880 is something we're gonna see more and more. And I'm 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.400 also going to answer your questions and you can email 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.880 me podcast at grangersmith dot com. I'm gonna I'll probably 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.920 get into this AI thing first and then I'll answer 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.080 whatever questions you guys have for me. Once again, that 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.479 is podcast at grangersmith dot com. You could ask me 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.280 anything and just like we're sitting in the truck riding together, 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.920 and I'm gonna answer it hopefully, like like we're just 0:00:52.960 --> 0:01:01.320 old friends. Now. Randy Travis, which is an old of mine, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.959 Randy had a stroke in twoenty and thirteen, I believe, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.400 and he lost the ability to speak, which is significant 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.520 because he has one of the most iconic voices in 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:18.959 all of music, this rich, beautiful baritone. He could just 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.080 carry a tune and everyone loved him and he has 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.880 just a massive legacy in country music. Well, this article 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.399 just came out that now he has a new song 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.920 out and you might be wondering how if he can't speak. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.120 That is because it is AI and it is available 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.000 now wherever you love to find music, you could find 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:45.640 this song, the new Randy Travis song. And there's a 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.240 video I saw of different country music artist getting interviewed 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.880 as they're listening to it for the first time. I 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.760 think col Swindell is crying. You know, it's a really 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:01.320 big deal. And I've listened to it. It sounds exactly 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:06.080 like Randy Travis. It's impossible to know otherwise. So here's 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.799 how they did it. They used a surrogate vocalist, right, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.480 someone else saying the entire song. The guy's name is 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:21.600 James Dupree. And this helped with phrasing, breath notation. And 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:28.800 so Randy Travis's longtime producer used James Dupree, and Randy 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.640 sitting there the whole time, sitting right next to this 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.480 whole to the soundboard. He uses James Dupree and he 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.480 gets in there behind the vocal and he does behind 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.640 the microphone. And he doesn't sound like Randy, but I 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.200 guess he breathes like him or something. I don't know 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.359 why they picked him. There must be something like that. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.720 And Randy's producer is His name is Kyle Lenning, and 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.239 he's sitting there with Randy at times Randy's wife. They 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.360 record the song with a full band, just like they 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:02.040 always would have, and they went back into Randy's old 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:07.000 catalog and got forty two different dry vocals to create 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.160 the model. And then once AI knew what this, you 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.680 know how to sing like Randy, then they put they 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.639 used James Dupree on this new song and changed James 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.280 Dupree's voice to Randy's based on the modeling, the forty 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.519 forty two different modelings. This is wild stuff. I think 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.200 I've said this before. I don't know if we've fully 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.760 thought about the implications for what this is going to mean. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.760 I don't know if we thought about what the future 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.000 of music is going to be. Because people will say, oh, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.720 I like Randy, I'll know if it's Randy, and I'll know. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.080 First of all, you won't. And second of all, humans, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.680 I want you all to think about this. Humans have 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:57.000 a a odd quirk that makes us want to like 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:02.680 the artificial. You think about artificial, just think about sugar, 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.040 a little pink packets. We will eat a pink packet 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.680 all day long over an apple because it is. It 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:16.280 mimics what we like and what we need and magnifies it. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.920 That's what those little sweetened load does. We're pretty much 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.400 beyond the ability for a kid to say I want 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.480 something sweet and go and get an apple. That's where 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.000 we are as humans. But you go back in time 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.640 and you look back on history, and that was an 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:40.240 apple was like the dessert. So I think the same 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.880 thing's gonna happen with music. I think I think like 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.160 this Randy Travis song is the beginning, and there's a 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:46.960 couple of ways to look at it. One we're gonna 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.039 look at it like, hey, this is amazing. Randy gets 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.080 to sing again. Granger. He didn't have a voice, he 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.440 had a stroke, he lost his voice, and now how 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.320 sweet is it that he gets to sing again and 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.799 we all get to enjoy Randy Travis again? How amazing 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.839 is that? Granger? What could possibly be wrong with this? 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:12.039 This is a way of using AI for the good, right, Okay, yes, sure, sure, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.719 I'll agree with that. And by the way, before I 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.599 get into this, you can get I'm looking at this. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.880 You can go and get a you could do this yourself. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.400 I don't know what website this is it's probably better 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.120 if I don't advertise it anyway. But it's in beta testing, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.400 and you could get a nine to ninety nine a 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.440 month subscription or a or a fourteen ninety nine a 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.279 month pro subscription. And this is so that you could 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.560 you could enter your data and so and any song 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:44.279 could sound like you. So there's that. But here's the 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.880 thing about this. The idea of Randy Travis gets to 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:53.680 sing again. This is amazing. What we are moving slowly 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.200 away from is the idea that we are mortals and 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.040 we have a mortality, and we would rather not think 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.120 about our mortality. This is why at funerals, so many 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.840 times you see the funeral called instead a celebration of 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.200 life instead of a funeral, because it's like, I don't 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.400 want to say that word funeral. I don't want to 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:19.000 I don't want to think about death, especially with kids 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.839 are teenagers. I don't want to think about that. So 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.359 we're gonna think about a celebration of life and celebrate 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.480 his life instead of have a funeral that it actually 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:32.839 acknowledges that there's been a death, when in reality, death 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.040 is a in fact, a great reminder that we are 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.120 mortals and that we need things. When you know that 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.280 you that we're mortal, and when you know that there 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.200 is that death is emmittent for all of us, it 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.960 pushes you towards the Gospel. If you do not think 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:54.960 about that. For instance, if you're like I was on 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.400 this Bobby Bones podcast last week, if you think, well, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.240 I'll just freeze myself and cryo freeze, and then one 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:03.960 day in the future they'll be able to saw me 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.400 and by then they will have been able to have 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.720 a cure for whatever killed me, and they could bring 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:14.160 me back. We're just slowly carving away the idea of mortality, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.960 when in fact we should embrace it. As awful and 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.480 as horrible as death is, it's not supposed to be 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.560 like this, and as awful as it is, we should 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:29.960 embrace it knowing that eternal life is on the other 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.720 side of it. And you're like Man Granger, this is 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.320 a long way from AI vocals, But I think, and 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.320 maybe this podcast will be played years from now. I 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.560 think that we will look back on the pivot when 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:50.400 real vocals turned to surrogate AI vocals when and then 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.080 the next step will be video and you'll be able 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:58.120 to watch We kind of already do old dead actors 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.680 that are now alive get on the screen because of AI. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.120 And like I said, we saw this with Kerrie Fisher 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.560 in Star Wars, right whatever Star Wars. That was when 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.920 Princess Leah comes back. She died during the filming of it, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.760 and they bring her back and they use an AI 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.520 version of her, and it looked a little bit phony. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.360 Not a lot, but a little bit phony. That's going away. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.880 It's gonna you won't be able to tell the difference 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:29.360 in someone's look, their moves, their voice. You'll be able 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.920 to have old dead singers come out with a new 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.200 album because their their wife has approved it, or their 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.640 their grandkids have approved it. Elvis will have a new record, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.520 an old producer will go get Elvis's old takes and 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.200 they'll put it all together. So I think we're heading 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.200 down a road that's just absolutely crazy. So here's my point. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.440 Let's embrace our own mortality. Let's embrace the fact that 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.040 we are dying every day. As we listen to this podcast, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.040 as I'm speaking it, we are all of us slowly 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.720 dying in a way, and that's not depressing. Actually, that's 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:09.360 part of the reality of death and the depressing thing 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.480 is to push that away and say I'm not dying. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.600 I'm I'm I'm gonna use fake hair color, I'm gonna 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.679 use fake skins cream, I'm gonna I'm gonna use botox 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.080 or whatever to make me further away from looking like 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.520 I'm getting old, because God forbid I should look old, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.880 because that would let people know that I'm actually dying. Instead, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:38.160 let's let's embrace this and along with AI, we need 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:39.640 to know what to say about it and how to 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.280 stand for it. And if you want to listen to 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.719 Randy Travis's song and smile, great, that that's not what 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.800 my point is. My point is we do need to 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.200 be careful that slowly but surely, our mortality is being 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:55.960 taken away from us. Hey, if you want to get 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.200 a hold of me, an easy way to do that 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.280 is cameo dot com slash Granger Smith. You could have 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.200 me make you a video message right here on my 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.760 phone to your phone. You could have me say happy 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.640 birthday or happy innerversary, or some kind of word of encouragement, 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.520 whatever that might be. I'm here for you. It's super easy. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.480 Or you could download the Cameo app and search for me. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.079 Granger Smith once again. That is Cameo C A M. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:25.559 Eo dot com slash Grangersmith. All right, we're gonna answer 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.240 some questions from you guys. If you have a question 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:32.959 from me, email podcast at grangersmith dot com. I'll answer 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.559 anything you want. We can talk about life, love, the Bible, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.120 whatever that might be. Again, that's podcast at grangersmith dot com. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.720 The first question here says granger who is the coolest 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:50.400 country artist you got to see? I'm assuming that comes 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.000 from John and I'm assuming you mean like out on 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.719 tour or not. Not as in my teenage years when 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.680 I was following George straight everywhere, you know what, it'd 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.000 probably be appropriate on this podcast, on this episode to 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:08.400 say Randy Travis. I did get to see Randy a 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.959 couple three four years ago something like that at one 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.320 of the award shows, and I don't remember which one. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.120 They kind of all roll into each other in my mind, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.280 but there was a time I think I sang something 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:29.800 from Randy, an old Randy song on Instagram or something 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:34.560 like that, and somebody saw it on Randy's team and 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.120 at the award show they came and got me out 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:37.480 of my seat and they said, hey, Randy, wants to 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.079 say hi to you. I was like, WHOA, yeah, that 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:46.000 sounds amazing. So I went back stage and there he 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.560 was in his wheelchair with his wife, and so we 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.560 got to hang out. We didn't have we didn't have 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.920 much of a conversation, as you can imagine. I did 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:58.320 talk to his wife for quite a bit, and Randy 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.920 is I don't know why this podcast ended up being 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:05.120 about Randy Travis, but there he was foundational in so 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.000 many ways for me and as I was getting started 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:15.320 in country music. So yeah, just for the I think 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.319 for cohesive podcast, let's let's go with that answer. Next 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.760 question comes from Nick. This is hay Gunder. My name 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.720 is Nick from Ohio. I've been a fan of your 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.080 music and podcast. I would love your viewpoint on a 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.240 difficult situation I find myself in. I was dating a 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.400 woman and recently got broken up with the issue I 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.200 cannot seem to grasp is the why there were no 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.560 real red flags as people would say. She claims she 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.680 just lost interest by being overwhelmed with the purchase of 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.440 her new home. For a background, I haven't dated in 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.720 over six years prior to her, I quit looking for someone. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.600 I just wanted to find the right one. It says 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.640 I was raised and a raised a Christian, but along 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.640 the way lost some faith. But out of the blue 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.120 is natural and genuine of a connection as I've ever had. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.480 This woman walked into my life. She got me back 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.560 into church believing again, helped me get back into the gym, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.959 eating right, and vice versa. I helped her with her struggles. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.840 I do believe that God sent me this woman. I 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:30.280 am struggling to understand how a connection could be so 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.760 pure and just vanish. I've been praying for God to 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.720 give her the strength to overcome her battles of being overwhelmed. 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.920 Any advice or thoughts on this on why I believe 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.760 God connected us and had such a powerful and well 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.360 rounded relationship and now it's just gone. Thanks keep up 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.480 all the inspiring and meaningful work that you do. Thanks Nick. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.960 All right, Nick, let's dive into this. There are there's 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:00.719 a lot to talk about here, and you man, thank 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.800 you for emailing shout out to Ohio, Love Ohio. But 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.319 what we need to get into is that this whole 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.880 you know, I love you man. You know this is 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.160 tough love, right, We we got to get into this whole. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.320 Why you think you're convinced God gave you this woman, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.800 because that is scary and it's just creepy because when 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:30.120 you go around thinking, hey, God sent me you, and 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.520 you better fulfill this because you're if you go against this, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.440 you're going against God himself. And I know that he 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:43.240 sent you to me. That's that's psychotic in the in 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.280 the easiest lightest way that I could say psychotic. That's 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.360 that's really scary. And I think, Nick, I don't think 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.560 this is really you talking. I think this is the 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.200 heartbroke version of you talking. I think this is this 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.080 is the Nick that says I'm desperate, I'll do anything, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:04.520 and you're just love of drunk. Okay, when a girl 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.880 breaks up with you like this, you have to let 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.880 her go. That's the only way. Otherwise you can get 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:16.880 arrested for doing things that you're saying right here? Does 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.040 that make sense? The fact that here's where the contradiction happens. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:26.360 It says, I lost faith, right, and then out of 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.720 the blue, she comes into my life. She brought all 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.480 this faith back. She helped you get back into church, 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.320 she helped you believing again, she helped you get back 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.280 into the gym, eating right, and you helped her with 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.480 the struggles on it, it doesn't sound like it. I don't 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.800 believe you. I don't believe that you lost faith and 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.480 now you're believing again, because if you were, you would 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:52.400 say this, it would sound like this. Granger. I think 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.479 she's a special girl. But I have learned to trust God, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:01.400 and I've learned that God is sovereign, that God is providential. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.360 And although this is not working out, I'm not struggling 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.840 to understand why God sent me this. Instead, I know 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:15.600 that God is preparing me for something greater. Here's your 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.080 last sentence. I have been praying for God to give 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.200 her the strength to overcome her battles of being overwhelmed, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.440 but you've got to reverse that. Instead, say God, give 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.600 me give me the strength to see what you have 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.400 for me. Let me love you in a way that 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.680 just overshadows any girl, or any job, or being back 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.640 in the gym, or even being in a church. Let 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:42.320 me love you in a way that is so special 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:47.120 that I start there. I start with you. And then, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.960 instead of saying give her the strength to overcome her battles, 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.960 say Lord, you've brought struggles into my life. Give me 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:59.200 the strength to embrace the struggles as something that's actually 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.560 going to grow my care. That's something that's going to 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.960 actually grow my heart for you, therefore making me better 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.000 for the next person that comes into my life. Right, 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.280 you will be better nick for this because of what 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.920 you learn from it and how you suffer through this. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.080 This is just good old fashioned heartbreak. And you can't 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.399 sound psycho by saying God sent me this woman, and 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.720 I'm trying to trying to desperately pray that God changes 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:30.439 her mind. Instead say God, she's gone, And so I 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.720 pray that you gave me the strength to see what 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.000 your plan is in this, and in the meantime growing 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.359 my character through this suffering so that by the next 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.600 time I meet a girl, I will be ready and 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.679 I'll be better for her because of this. Next question 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:52.280 comes from Justin says, Hey, Granger, what advice would you 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.200 give parents dealing with the death of a teenager who 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.960 died of suicide? Something that would help his older brother, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:08.239 mother and me his father. Justin, I'm sorry, buddy, I 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.680 actually didn't expect that this is h That's that's how 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.320 your question would turn out, that you would be in it. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:18.560 You would be the father. I'm I'm I'm imagining probably 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:24.720 there is a there's a sense of grief mixed with 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:31.000 guilt that you feel like you're a failed father because 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:37.879 of the suicide and because you didn't provide this is 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.199 I'm I'm imagining your thinking that because you didn't provide 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:47.359 a home that made him, that nurtured him in a 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.200 way to prevent something like this, then you're gonna blame 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.840 yourself for it. So with me, it's it's not the same. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:00.240 But through my loss of a child and through my 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:05.480 guilt of not being there for River, which is not 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:11.560 too different. It's different, but it's the same. I want 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.119 to tell you, justin to reject the world that constantly 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.280 tells you it's not your fault. Justin, it's not your fault. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.919 You are a good father, You are sufficient in all 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:31.720 that you do. You shouldn't blame yourself. Now, it gets 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:36.520 tricky because it's not necessarily sin that whatever you did 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.360 ended up the end of the story as your son 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.200 committed suicide. And it's not necessarily a sin that whatever 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.720 happened to me at the end of the story, River 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:53.919 ended up drowning. But regardless of that, it's important for 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:58.680 us to know in contrast to the Gospel of Jesus 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.560 that the the world tells us You're not guilty, you 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:07.320 are sufficient, you are a good father. The Gospel is 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:14.320 the only story, the only situation, the only news where 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:21.600 Jesus says, yes, you are, you are guilty, you are insufficient. 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.040 Look to me. I make you sufficient, not because of 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.280 what you do, but through my work on the Cross. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.160 For you trust in me, lean on me, have faith 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.320 in me. I make you clean, I make you restored. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.560 I adopt you as a as a son. Ransomed I 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.159 was thinking about this. I'm reading this book called Empire 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:46.359 the Summer Moon, and it's an incredible story about the 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.200 Comanche Indians in Texas, where I live, and some of 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.080 those stories that happen right around where I live, which 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:57.639 is why partly why it's so interesting. But there is 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.720 a there are several times I've thought about this, and 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.600 there's one specific time when the Indians came in to 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:08.760 San Antonio and they it was a band of them, 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:13.199 They had forty or fifty of them together, and they 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:18.600 would kidnap the settler girls. Because they would kidnap they 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:20.440 wouldn't kidnap the boys or the men. They would just 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.600 kill them, but they would kidnap the women and the 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:29.760 little girls, and they would do all kinds of horrible 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:34.399 things to these girls. For instance, they would cut off 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.320 their nose and then burn the end of it with fire, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.960 and what they would do, and then their whole body 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:46.320 which is covered in marks and cuts. And they would 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:53.360 march these girls into the settlement, the Texas settlement, and 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:59.280 they would sell the girl. And although of course that 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.560 had value to it to the settlers, there was this 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:04.800 one instance in San Antonio where they were marching this 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:08.200 girl in and she's missing a nose and her face 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.280 is burned. The only her nostrils are just two holes 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.000 in the front of her face, and she has cuts 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:17.440 all over her and she's been sexually violated, and she's 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.280 less than a human really to them, to to all 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.720 all people, including the Indians, she's less than human in appearance. 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.879 And they would come in and the Indians would sell 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:34.520 these girls, and sometimes they would be they would be 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:39.000 they would be purchased by the settlers, even by their 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.119 own family, but there was never really a future in 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:46.000 it for the girls because they were, you know, violated, 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.320 and there they were ugly, and they were cut and 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.320 marred and and they couldn't ever have children, they were 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.760 just kind of worthless, and they would sell them, and 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:56.440 that the Indians would leave. And I got I really 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.080 got to thinking about this as I was reading that book. 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:04.280 As awful as it sounds, I started thinking, Wow, that's us. 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:09.359 We are the girl. We are the what appears to 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.919 be a less than human girl, with our normal human 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:17.760 functions taken away from us. We're marred so badly that 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:21.479 we look like a monster. And we get marched in 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:27.600 by the enemy to the village, and Jesus says, mine, 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:32.840 I take this one. I purchased this one with my blood. 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:39.320 This one's mine adopted. I take this one, and I 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.960 share the heir to the kingdom with this one, co 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:48.560 heirs to the kingdom by mine divine right. And in 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:52.680 me adopting you, you become a co heir to the kingdom. 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:57.240 That is us. We are the girl, We are the 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:06.040 less than human sight. Jesus says, you're mine. So justin 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.520 when you feel that guilt, and when the world says, 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:13.680 don't feel guilty. You are a great. Dad. I want 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:15.879 you and said to think of yourself as the girl 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.240 being marched into San Antonio. And I want you to 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:23.160 think of Jesus saying, justin you were mine. I make 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:26.320 you clean, I restore you, I heal you, I give 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:30.119 back everything you've lost. You were mine. I want you 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:32.960 to think of it in that way, and that is 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:37.080 the only story you will hear period that actually changes 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:43.159 things for you. Next question comes from Jet and it says, hey, 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:44.800 and your My name is Jet, I'm from Kansas. I'm 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:47.879 nineteen years old, and I'm a career firefighter. I wanted 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:51.080 to ask you your opinion on if I jumped into 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:53.399 life too soon. I feel like I never got to 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:56.399 experience life to the fullest when I got this job. 0:24:56.840 --> 0:25:01.720 Should I be more adventurous? I need suggestions, all right, 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:07.960 nineteen years old jumping into a career is not something 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:12.240 that is crazy. I mean, this is something that has 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:18.159 happened since the beginning of time until now. It's the 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:22.480 only time here in this latest generation where we actually think, 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:25.880 I don't know if I got all this living life 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.480 to the fullest stuff out of my system, you know 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.760 what I mean. It's like forever, people just took a 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.359 career and they worked it. They worked their butt off 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:38.119 in that career, and they retired in that career and 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:39.840 people said how long you've been a firefighter, and they 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:43.560 would say thirty seven years, retiring next May or whatever. 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:46.960 But we live in a world now, in Instagram world 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:49.960 where you look at TikTok and you look at Instagram 0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:53.280 and you go, hmm, I think there might be more 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.080 out there for me, because I'm looking. I'm scrolling through 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:58.680 all these people and they look to be really happy, 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:01.879