Speaker 1: What's up, guys. I wanted to talk about something I
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's interesting, and I think it's
Speaker 1: forever changing for the music business, and that is AI
Speaker 1: and the use of AI in recording and albums. This
Speaker 1: is something we're gonna see more and more. And I'm
Speaker 1: also going to answer your questions and you can email
Speaker 1: me podcast at grangersmith dot com. I'm gonna I'll probably
Speaker 1: get into this AI thing first and then I'll answer
Speaker 1: whatever questions you guys have for me. Once again, that
Speaker 1: is podcast at grangersmith dot com. You could ask me
Speaker 1: anything and just like we're sitting in the truck riding together,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna answer it hopefully, like like we're just
Speaker 1: old friends. Now. Randy Travis, which is an old of mine,
Speaker 1: Randy had a stroke in twoenty and thirteen, I believe,
Speaker 1: and he lost the ability to speak, which is significant
Speaker 1: because he has one of the most iconic voices in
Speaker 1: all of music, this rich, beautiful baritone. He could just
Speaker 1: carry a tune and everyone loved him and he has
Speaker 1: just a massive legacy in country music. Well, this article
Speaker 1: just came out that now he has a new song
Speaker 1: out and you might be wondering how if he can't speak.
Speaker 1: That is because it is AI and it is available
Speaker 1: now wherever you love to find music, you could find
Speaker 1: this song, the new Randy Travis song. And there's a
Speaker 1: video I saw of different country music artist getting interviewed
Speaker 1: as they're listening to it for the first time. I
Speaker 1: think col Swindell is crying. You know, it's a really
Speaker 1: big deal. And I've listened to it. It sounds exactly
Speaker 1: like Randy Travis. It's impossible to know otherwise. So here's
Speaker 1: how they did it. They used a surrogate vocalist, right,
Speaker 1: someone else saying the entire song. The guy's name is
Speaker 1: James Dupree. And this helped with phrasing, breath notation. And
Speaker 1: so Randy Travis's longtime producer used James Dupree, and Randy
Speaker 1: sitting there the whole time, sitting right next to this
Speaker 1: whole to the soundboard. He uses James Dupree and he
Speaker 1: gets in there behind the vocal and he does behind
Speaker 1: the microphone. And he doesn't sound like Randy, but I
Speaker 1: guess he breathes like him or something. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they picked him. There must be something like that.
Speaker 1: And Randy's producer is His name is Kyle Lenning, and
Speaker 1: he's sitting there with Randy at times Randy's wife. They
Speaker 1: record the song with a full band, just like they
Speaker 1: always would have, and they went back into Randy's old
Speaker 1: catalog and got forty two different dry vocals to create
Speaker 1: the model. And then once AI knew what this, you
Speaker 1: know how to sing like Randy, then they put they
Speaker 1: used James Dupree on this new song and changed James
Speaker 1: Dupree's voice to Randy's based on the modeling, the forty
Speaker 1: forty two different modelings. This is wild stuff. I think
Speaker 1: I've said this before. I don't know if we've fully
Speaker 1: thought about the implications for what this is going to mean.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we thought about what the future
Speaker 1: of music is going to be. Because people will say, oh,
Speaker 1: I like Randy, I'll know if it's Randy, and I'll know.
Speaker 1: First of all, you won't. And second of all, humans,
Speaker 1: I want you all to think about this. Humans have
Speaker 1: a a odd quirk that makes us want to like
Speaker 1: the artificial. You think about artificial, just think about sugar,
Speaker 1: a little pink packets. We will eat a pink packet
Speaker 1: all day long over an apple because it is. It
Speaker 1: mimics what we like and what we need and magnifies it.
Speaker 1: That's what those little sweetened load does. We're pretty much
Speaker 1: beyond the ability for a kid to say I want
Speaker 1: something sweet and go and get an apple. That's where
Speaker 1: we are as humans. But you go back in time
Speaker 1: and you look back on history, and that was an
Speaker 1: apple was like the dessert. So I think the same
Speaker 1: thing's gonna happen with music. I think I think like
Speaker 1: this Randy Travis song is the beginning, and there's a
Speaker 1: couple of ways to look at it. One we're gonna
Speaker 1: look at it like, hey, this is amazing. Randy gets
Speaker 1: to sing again. Granger. He didn't have a voice, he
Speaker 1: had a stroke, he lost his voice, and now how
Speaker 1: sweet is it that he gets to sing again and
Speaker 1: we all get to enjoy Randy Travis again? How amazing
Speaker 1: is that? Granger? What could possibly be wrong with this?
Speaker 1: This is a way of using AI for the good, right, Okay, yes, sure, sure,
Speaker 1: I'll agree with that. And by the way, before I
Speaker 1: get into this, you can get I'm looking at this.
Speaker 1: You can go and get a you could do this yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't know what website this is it's probably better
Speaker 1: if I don't advertise it anyway. But it's in beta testing,
Speaker 1: and you could get a nine to ninety nine a
Speaker 1: month subscription or a or a fourteen ninety nine a
Speaker 1: month pro subscription. And this is so that you could
Speaker 1: you could enter your data and so and any song
Speaker 1: could sound like you. So there's that. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing about this. The idea of Randy Travis gets to
Speaker 1: sing again. This is amazing. What we are moving slowly
Speaker 1: away from is the idea that we are mortals and
Speaker 1: we have a mortality, and we would rather not think
Speaker 1: about our mortality. This is why at funerals, so many
Speaker 1: times you see the funeral called instead a celebration of
Speaker 1: life instead of a funeral, because it's like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say that word funeral. I don't want to
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about death, especially with kids
Speaker 1: are teenagers. I don't want to think about that. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna think about a celebration of life and celebrate
Speaker 1: his life instead of have a funeral that it actually
Speaker 1: acknowledges that there's been a death, when in reality, death
Speaker 1: is a in fact, a great reminder that we are
Speaker 1: mortals and that we need things. When you know that
Speaker 1: you that we're mortal, and when you know that there
Speaker 1: is that death is emmittent for all of us, it
Speaker 1: pushes you towards the Gospel. If you do not think
Speaker 1: about that. For instance, if you're like I was on
Speaker 1: this Bobby Bones podcast last week, if you think, well,
Speaker 1: I'll just freeze myself and cryo freeze, and then one
Speaker 1: day in the future they'll be able to saw me
Speaker 1: and by then they will have been able to have
Speaker 1: a cure for whatever killed me, and they could bring
Speaker 1: me back. We're just slowly carving away the idea of mortality,
Speaker 1: when in fact we should embrace it. As awful and
Speaker 1: as horrible as death is, it's not supposed to be
Speaker 1: like this, and as awful as it is, we should
Speaker 1: embrace it knowing that eternal life is on the other
Speaker 1: side of it. And you're like Man Granger, this is
Speaker 1: a long way from AI vocals, But I think, and
Speaker 1: maybe this podcast will be played years from now. I
Speaker 1: think that we will look back on the pivot when
Speaker 1: real vocals turned to surrogate AI vocals when and then
Speaker 1: the next step will be video and you'll be able
Speaker 1: to watch We kind of already do old dead actors
Speaker 1: that are now alive get on the screen because of AI.
Speaker 1: And like I said, we saw this with Kerrie Fisher
Speaker 1: in Star Wars, right whatever Star Wars. That was when
Speaker 1: Princess Leah comes back. She died during the filming of it,
Speaker 1: and they bring her back and they use an AI
Speaker 1: version of her, and it looked a little bit phony.
Speaker 1: Not a lot, but a little bit phony. That's going away.
Speaker 1: It's gonna you won't be able to tell the difference
Speaker 1: in someone's look, their moves, their voice. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to have old dead singers come out with a new
Speaker 1: album because their their wife has approved it, or their
Speaker 1: their grandkids have approved it. Elvis will have a new record,
Speaker 1: an old producer will go get Elvis's old takes and
Speaker 1: they'll put it all together. So I think we're heading
Speaker 1: down a road that's just absolutely crazy. So here's my point.
Speaker 1: Let's embrace our own mortality. Let's embrace the fact that
Speaker 1: we are dying every day. As we listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: as I'm speaking it, we are all of us slowly
Speaker 1: dying in a way, and that's not depressing. Actually, that's
Speaker 1: part of the reality of death and the depressing thing
Speaker 1: is to push that away and say I'm not dying.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm gonna use fake hair color, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use fake skins cream, I'm gonna I'm gonna use botox
Speaker 1: or whatever to make me further away from looking like
Speaker 1: I'm getting old, because God forbid I should look old,
Speaker 1: because that would let people know that I'm actually dying. Instead,
Speaker 1: let's let's embrace this and along with AI, we need
Speaker 1: to know what to say about it and how to
Speaker 1: stand for it. And if you want to listen to
Speaker 1: Randy Travis's song and smile, great, that that's not what
Speaker 1: my point is. My point is we do need to
Speaker 1: be careful that slowly but surely, our mortality is being
Speaker 1: taken away from us. Hey, if you want to get
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Speaker 1: some questions from you guys. If you have a question
Speaker 1: from me, email podcast at grangersmith dot com. I'll answer
Speaker 1: anything you want. We can talk about life, love, the Bible,
Speaker 1: whatever that might be. Again, that's podcast at grangersmith dot com.
Speaker 1: The first question here says granger who is the coolest
Speaker 1: country artist you got to see? I'm assuming that comes
Speaker 1: from John and I'm assuming you mean like out on
Speaker 1: tour or not. Not as in my teenage years when
Speaker 1: I was following George straight everywhere, you know what, it'd
Speaker 1: probably be appropriate on this podcast, on this episode to
Speaker 1: say Randy Travis. I did get to see Randy a
Speaker 1: couple three four years ago something like that at one
Speaker 1: of the award shows, and I don't remember which one.
Speaker 1: They kind of all roll into each other in my mind,
Speaker 1: but there was a time I think I sang something
Speaker 1: from Randy, an old Randy song on Instagram or something
Speaker 1: like that, and somebody saw it on Randy's team and
Speaker 1: at the award show they came and got me out
Speaker 1: of my seat and they said, hey, Randy, wants to
Speaker 1: say hi to you. I was like, WHOA, yeah, that
Speaker 1: sounds amazing. So I went back stage and there he
Speaker 1: was in his wheelchair with his wife, and so we
Speaker 1: got to hang out. We didn't have we didn't have
Speaker 1: much of a conversation, as you can imagine. I did
Speaker 1: talk to his wife for quite a bit, and Randy
Speaker 1: is I don't know why this podcast ended up being
Speaker 1: about Randy Travis, but there he was foundational in so
Speaker 1: many ways for me and as I was getting started
Speaker 1: in country music. So yeah, just for the I think
Speaker 1: for cohesive podcast, let's let's go with that answer. Next
Speaker 1: question comes from Nick. This is hay Gunder. My name
Speaker 1: is Nick from Ohio. I've been a fan of your
Speaker 1: music and podcast. I would love your viewpoint on a
Speaker 1: difficult situation I find myself in. I was dating a
Speaker 1: woman and recently got broken up with the issue I
Speaker 1: cannot seem to grasp is the why there were no
Speaker 1: real red flags as people would say. She claims she
Speaker 1: just lost interest by being overwhelmed with the purchase of
Speaker 1: her new home. For a background, I haven't dated in
Speaker 1: over six years prior to her, I quit looking for someone.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to find the right one. It says
Speaker 1: I was raised and a raised a Christian, but along
Speaker 1: the way lost some faith. But out of the blue
Speaker 1: is natural and genuine of a connection as I've ever had.
Speaker 1: This woman walked into my life. She got me back
Speaker 1: into church believing again, helped me get back into the gym,
Speaker 1: eating right, and vice versa. I helped her with her struggles.
Speaker 1: I do believe that God sent me this woman. I
Speaker 1: am struggling to understand how a connection could be so
Speaker 1: pure and just vanish. I've been praying for God to
Speaker 1: give her the strength to overcome her battles of being overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Any advice or thoughts on this on why I believe
Speaker 1: God connected us and had such a powerful and well
Speaker 1: rounded relationship and now it's just gone. Thanks keep up
Speaker 1: all the inspiring and meaningful work that you do. Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1: All right, Nick, let's dive into this. There are there's
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about here, and you man, thank
Speaker 1: you for emailing shout out to Ohio, Love Ohio. But
Speaker 1: what we need to get into is that this whole
Speaker 1: you know, I love you man. You know this is
Speaker 1: tough love, right, We we got to get into this whole.
Speaker 1: Why you think you're convinced God gave you this woman,
Speaker 1: because that is scary and it's just creepy because when
Speaker 1: you go around thinking, hey, God sent me you, and
Speaker 1: you better fulfill this because you're if you go against this,
Speaker 1: you're going against God himself. And I know that he
Speaker 1: sent you to me. That's that's psychotic in the in
Speaker 1: the easiest lightest way that I could say psychotic. That's
Speaker 1: that's really scary. And I think, Nick, I don't think
Speaker 1: this is really you talking. I think this is the
Speaker 1: heartbroke version of you talking. I think this is this
Speaker 1: is the Nick that says I'm desperate, I'll do anything,
Speaker 1: and you're just love of drunk. Okay, when a girl
Speaker 1: breaks up with you like this, you have to let
Speaker 1: her go. That's the only way. Otherwise you can get
Speaker 1: arrested for doing things that you're saying right here? Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? The fact that here's where the contradiction happens.
Speaker 1: It says, I lost faith, right, and then out of
Speaker 1: the blue, she comes into my life. She brought all
Speaker 1: this faith back. She helped you get back into church,
Speaker 1: she helped you believing again, she helped you get back
Speaker 1: into the gym, eating right, and you helped her with
Speaker 1: the struggles on it, it doesn't sound like it. I don't
Speaker 1: believe you. I don't believe that you lost faith and
Speaker 1: now you're believing again, because if you were, you would
Speaker 1: say this, it would sound like this. Granger. I think
Speaker 1: she's a special girl. But I have learned to trust God,
Speaker 1: and I've learned that God is sovereign, that God is providential.
Speaker 1: And although this is not working out, I'm not struggling
Speaker 1: to understand why God sent me this. Instead, I know
Speaker 1: that God is preparing me for something greater. Here's your
Speaker 1: last sentence. I have been praying for God to give
Speaker 1: her the strength to overcome her battles of being overwhelmed,
Speaker 1: but you've got to reverse that. Instead, say God, give
Speaker 1: me give me the strength to see what you have
Speaker 1: for me. Let me love you in a way that
Speaker 1: just overshadows any girl, or any job, or being back
Speaker 1: in the gym, or even being in a church. Let
Speaker 1: me love you in a way that is so special
Speaker 1: that I start there. I start with you. And then,
Speaker 1: instead of saying give her the strength to overcome her battles,
Speaker 1: say Lord, you've brought struggles into my life. Give me
Speaker 1: the strength to embrace the struggles as something that's actually
Speaker 1: going to grow my care. That's something that's going to
Speaker 1: actually grow my heart for you, therefore making me better
Speaker 1: for the next person that comes into my life. Right,
Speaker 1: you will be better nick for this because of what
Speaker 1: you learn from it and how you suffer through this.
Speaker 1: This is just good old fashioned heartbreak. And you can't
Speaker 1: sound psycho by saying God sent me this woman, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to desperately pray that God changes
Speaker 1: her mind. Instead say God, she's gone, And so I
Speaker 1: pray that you gave me the strength to see what
Speaker 1: your plan is in this, and in the meantime growing
Speaker 1: my character through this suffering so that by the next
Speaker 1: time I meet a girl, I will be ready and
Speaker 1: I'll be better for her because of this. Next question
Speaker 1: comes from Justin says, Hey, Granger, what advice would you
Speaker 1: give parents dealing with the death of a teenager who
Speaker 1: died of suicide? Something that would help his older brother,
Speaker 1: mother and me his father. Justin, I'm sorry, buddy, I
Speaker 1: actually didn't expect that this is h That's that's how
Speaker 1: your question would turn out, that you would be in it.
Speaker 1: You would be the father. I'm I'm I'm imagining probably
Speaker 1: there is a there's a sense of grief mixed with
Speaker 1: guilt that you feel like you're a failed father because
Speaker 1: of the suicide and because you didn't provide this is
Speaker 1: I'm I'm imagining your thinking that because you didn't provide
Speaker 1: a home that made him, that nurtured him in a
Speaker 1: way to prevent something like this, then you're gonna blame
Speaker 1: yourself for it. So with me, it's it's not the same.
Speaker 1: But through my loss of a child and through my
Speaker 1: guilt of not being there for River, which is not
Speaker 1: too different. It's different, but it's the same. I want
Speaker 1: to tell you, justin to reject the world that constantly
Speaker 1: tells you it's not your fault. Justin, it's not your fault.
Speaker 1: You are a good father, You are sufficient in all
Speaker 1: that you do. You shouldn't blame yourself. Now, it gets
Speaker 1: tricky because it's not necessarily sin that whatever you did
Speaker 1: ended up the end of the story as your son
Speaker 1: committed suicide. And it's not necessarily a sin that whatever
Speaker 1: happened to me at the end of the story, River
Speaker 1: ended up drowning. But regardless of that, it's important for
Speaker 1: us to know in contrast to the Gospel of Jesus
Speaker 1: that the the world tells us You're not guilty, you
Speaker 1: are sufficient, you are a good father. The Gospel is
Speaker 1: the only story, the only situation, the only news where
Speaker 1: Jesus says, yes, you are, you are guilty, you are insufficient.
Speaker 1: Look to me. I make you sufficient, not because of
Speaker 1: what you do, but through my work on the Cross.
Speaker 1: For you trust in me, lean on me, have faith
Speaker 1: in me. I make you clean, I make you restored.
Speaker 1: I adopt you as a as a son. Ransomed I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this. I'm reading this book called Empire
Speaker 1: the Summer Moon, and it's an incredible story about the
Speaker 1: Comanche Indians in Texas, where I live, and some of
Speaker 1: those stories that happen right around where I live, which
Speaker 1: is why partly why it's so interesting. But there is
Speaker 1: a there are several times I've thought about this, and
Speaker 1: there's one specific time when the Indians came in to
Speaker 1: San Antonio and they it was a band of them,
Speaker 1: They had forty or fifty of them together, and they
Speaker 1: would kidnap the settler girls. Because they would kidnap they
Speaker 1: wouldn't kidnap the boys or the men. They would just
Speaker 1: kill them, but they would kidnap the women and the
Speaker 1: little girls, and they would do all kinds of horrible
Speaker 1: things to these girls. For instance, they would cut off
Speaker 1: their nose and then burn the end of it with fire,
Speaker 1: and what they would do, and then their whole body
Speaker 1: which is covered in marks and cuts. And they would
Speaker 1: march these girls into the settlement, the Texas settlement, and
Speaker 1: they would sell the girl. And although of course that
Speaker 1: had value to it to the settlers, there was this
Speaker 1: one instance in San Antonio where they were marching this
Speaker 1: girl in and she's missing a nose and her face
Speaker 1: is burned. The only her nostrils are just two holes
Speaker 1: in the front of her face, and she has cuts
Speaker 1: all over her and she's been sexually violated, and she's
Speaker 1: less than a human really to them, to to all
Speaker 1: all people, including the Indians, she's less than human in appearance.
Speaker 1: And they would come in and the Indians would sell
Speaker 1: these girls, and sometimes they would be they would be
Speaker 1: they would be purchased by the settlers, even by their
Speaker 1: own family, but there was never really a future in
Speaker 1: it for the girls because they were, you know, violated,
Speaker 1: and there they were ugly, and they were cut and
Speaker 1: marred and and they couldn't ever have children, they were
Speaker 1: just kind of worthless, and they would sell them, and
Speaker 1: that the Indians would leave. And I got I really
Speaker 1: got to thinking about this as I was reading that book.
Speaker 1: As awful as it sounds, I started thinking, Wow, that's us.
Speaker 1: We are the girl. We are the what appears to
Speaker 1: be a less than human girl, with our normal human
Speaker 1: functions taken away from us. We're marred so badly that
Speaker 1: we look like a monster. And we get marched in
Speaker 1: by the enemy to the village, and Jesus says, mine,
Speaker 1: I take this one. I purchased this one with my blood.
Speaker 1: This one's mine adopted. I take this one, and I
Speaker 1: share the heir to the kingdom with this one, co
Speaker 1: heirs to the kingdom by mine divine right. And in
Speaker 1: me adopting you, you become a co heir to the kingdom.
Speaker 1: That is us. We are the girl, We are the
Speaker 1: less than human sight. Jesus says, you're mine. So justin
Speaker 1: when you feel that guilt, and when the world says,
Speaker 1: don't feel guilty. You are a great. Dad. I want
Speaker 1: you and said to think of yourself as the girl
Speaker 1: being marched into San Antonio. And I want you to
Speaker 1: think of Jesus saying, justin you were mine. I make
Speaker 1: you clean, I restore you, I heal you, I give
Speaker 1: back everything you've lost. You were mine. I want you
Speaker 1: to think of it in that way, and that is
Speaker 1: the only story you will hear period that actually changes
Speaker 1: things for you. Next question comes from Jet and it says, hey,
Speaker 1: and your My name is Jet, I'm from Kansas. I'm
Speaker 1: nineteen years old, and I'm a career firefighter. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you your opinion on if I jumped into
Speaker 1: life too soon. I feel like I never got to
Speaker 1: experience life to the fullest when I got this job.
Speaker 1: Should I be more adventurous? I need suggestions, all right,
Speaker 1: nineteen years old jumping into a career is not something
Speaker 1: that is crazy. I mean, this is something that has
Speaker 1: happened since the beginning of time until now. It's the
Speaker 1: only time here in this latest generation where we actually think,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I got all this living life
Speaker 1: to the fullest stuff out of my system, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like forever, people just took a
Speaker 1: career and they worked it. They worked their butt off
Speaker 1: in that career, and they retired in that career and
Speaker 1: people said how long you've been a firefighter, and they
Speaker 1: would say thirty seven years, retiring next May or whatever.
Speaker 1: But we live in a world now, in Instagram world
Speaker 1: where you look at TikTok and you look at Instagram
Speaker 1: and you go, hmm, I think there might be more
Speaker 1: out there for me, because I'm looking. I'm scrolling through
Speaker 1: all these people and they look to be really happy,
Speaker 1: and they look like they're doing things that looks like
Speaker 1: they're living life to the fullest. And I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: maybe I jumped into a job too soon, And I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if that's gonna catch up with me one day
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get in trouble by this. I should
Speaker 1: be more adventurous, I should be a little more dangerous.
Speaker 1: I don't think I got that out of my system.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying that what you're feeling is wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm saying it's interesting that we live in a generation
Speaker 1: where you look on social media, you look on YouTube,
Speaker 1: you see Matt Character, you see Lungers TV. You see
Speaker 1: Western Champlain fishing, blowing up stuff and putting diesel engines
Speaker 1: in Ford Mustangs, and you go, man, that's the life.
Speaker 1: That's living adventurous, and here I go out here fighting fires,
Speaker 1: which most of the world thinks that is that's adventurous.
Speaker 1: So the first thing I want to say Jet is
Speaker 1: I just want to relax you a little bit and
Speaker 1: just go, hey, man, we need to learn how to
Speaker 1: be content in the situation we're in. Maybe you won't
Speaker 1: be a firefighter forever, but you did jump into this,
Speaker 1: and this is your career. And I don't think you
Speaker 1: would have gotten into this career because I get plenty
Speaker 1: of emails on this podcast about people wanting to be
Speaker 1: a fireman and something happened where they can't. So I
Speaker 1: do want to point out that a lot of people
Speaker 1: can't do what you're doing and you have it, and
Speaker 1: there's something you're missing. There's something else out there that's
Speaker 1: that feeling. It's like that you two song I still
Speaker 1: haven't found what I'm looking for. You should listen to
Speaker 1: that song. I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: There is something in this world that tells us, in
Speaker 1: our own conscience, that tells us there's more to this.
Speaker 1: What is it? This feels I don't know. It feels temporary.
Speaker 1: It feels like this home is just not my forever home.
Speaker 1: I can't seem to get happy with where I am.
Speaker 1: And I promise you, Yet you move into something else,
Speaker 1: or you take a year off and you go do
Speaker 1: adventurous things, You're still going to have the same problems.
Speaker 1: You're still going to have the same anxieties, and you're
Speaker 1: still gonna say, just like you two, I still haven't
Speaker 1: found what I'm looking for. And so I would suggest
Speaker 1: to you that maybe it has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: a career. Maybe it's this is far bigger than a career.
Speaker 1: Maybe you maybe you were created for a purpose that's
Speaker 1: bigger than any of this, Bigger than a firefighter, bigger,
Speaker 1: bigger than breaking away and just being adventurous. You're getting
Speaker 1: a new job, meeting a girl. Oh man, I think
Speaker 1: I think I'm not living life to the fullest because
Speaker 1: I haven't met the right girl yet. And then you do,
Speaker 1: and then you go, you know, I think it's because
Speaker 1: we don't have kids. We need we need kids to
Speaker 1: feel complete. And then and then you have kids, and
Speaker 1: you go, I think I think it was that we
Speaker 1: needed a house with some land. If we only had
Speaker 1: a little bit of land, things will be good. Throw
Speaker 1: the football in the backyard and you get the land
Speaker 1: and you go, yeah, I think we need like a
Speaker 1: boat or something, you know, to get out on the
Speaker 1: on the lake where it's always something else. If if
Speaker 1: you're looking to the temper jet, then you're you're you're
Speaker 1: never going to be satisfied because we are made for
Speaker 1: more than this world. I want to want to you
Speaker 1: to think about that. I'm gonna do a bad quote
Speaker 1: on this. C. S. Lewis famously said, ducklings swim, meaning
Speaker 1: there must be such thing as water. Babies suck, which
Speaker 1: means there must be such thing as milk. And man
Speaker 1: has something outside of this world that that it's it's
Speaker 1: yearning for, meaning there must be something outside of this world.
Speaker 1: That's a bad quote, but that's basically the idea. You
Speaker 1: are longing for something that this world cannot satisfy, meaning
Speaker 1: there must be something outside of this world. Be thinking
Speaker 1: about that jet and I could tell you that contentment
Speaker 1: will flow from that, not from your career or lack
Speaker 1: of a career as a fireman. I love you guys.
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Speaker 1: plans for some more guys coming soon, so we'll continue
Speaker 1: to wrestle through these certain topics and then answer your questions.
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