Speaker 1: There is a feeling unique to itself. One of the
Speaker 1: only feelings like this in the world is where you're
Speaker 1: just you're going about your day. Everything is normal. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're you're in a hurry, you're trying to get somewhere,
Speaker 1: You're on whatever you're doing, You're on your own schedule,
Speaker 1: and somehow you look up in your rearview mirror and
Speaker 1: you see those red and blue lights and there's that
Speaker 1: feeling right there. It's like, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: care who you are. You see those red and blue lights,
Speaker 1: your heart skips a beat and you go ah, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason you you have that feeling, you pull over.
Speaker 1: I know you guys know what I'm talking about, and
Speaker 1: I know I have a lot of law enforcement officers
Speaker 1: that listen to this podcast. But I want to talk
Speaker 1: about that, and I want to talk about That's one
Speaker 1: of the many questions we're going to discuss today. So
Speaker 1: I have the secret. Evidently I have the secret on
Speaker 1: how to get out of a speeding ticket every single time,
Speaker 1: and I learned that today. There is one way, there's
Speaker 1: several ways you could try to do it, and you
Speaker 1: might get lucky with it. Like my concealed carry license
Speaker 1: has worked a lot, but there is one way that
Speaker 1: you can get out of it every time. Apparently this
Speaker 1: is foolproof. So we'll listen to this and see if
Speaker 1: you agree or if you disagree. I got my good buddy, Bernie.
Speaker 1: We're gonna answer your questions Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: If you have anything in the world you want to ask,
Speaker 1: email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Could be about
Speaker 1: any subject and we're gonna hash it out and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have different guests on here helping me answer these questions.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorites, one of my good buddies, Bernie.
Speaker 1: He is so knowledgeable on so many different subjects and
Speaker 1: he's just a good twenty year friend of mine, so
Speaker 1: one of my best friends. This is episode seventy five.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the granger Smith Podcast. Did try to deesel
Speaker 1: my tired at schools? Long line of from my fool
Speaker 1: of a hospital down on back's Rangy covind evageon Yeah
Speaker 1: You're that s always a pleasure to have that back
Speaker 1: on the podcast, Bernie Calcot, I'm gonna keep coming back
Speaker 1: And so you guys just vote off how arger drive
Speaker 1: to get to come here to e form about thirty
Speaker 1: five minutes. All right, so that's still wild, but it's
Speaker 1: still a commitment. This is second week in a row.
Speaker 1: You're going to be on here. Yeah, people, you're backed
Speaker 1: by popular demand of the people. Are you man? You're
Speaker 1: making you changing people's lives answering their questions. By the way,
Speaker 1: anything you guys want to ask me or Bernie Granger
Speaker 1: Smith podcast at gmail dot com could be any kind
Speaker 1: of question, could be career related, music related, tour related,
Speaker 1: work related. Those are like all the same things I
Speaker 1: just said in a row, relationship related, the spiritual related,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. Ask anything and we'll dig into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if y'all could give us some challenging questions because
Speaker 1: these things about like divorce and you know, struggling with
Speaker 1: big life thing death and you know it's it's not
Speaker 1: heavy enough so you just yeah. But my one request
Speaker 1: that I will say on these questions is about a
Speaker 1: page about a page like this one I have here
Speaker 1: about a page of a phone is a good link
Speaker 1: if it gets over that linth Like, if you if
Speaker 1: you're asking a question that's like four or five iPhone
Speaker 1: lengths of material, it's kind of hard. So that's my
Speaker 1: only request. I've never said that before, but if you
Speaker 1: can just keep it a little bit more brief, it's
Speaker 1: easier for me to scan through it and then read
Speaker 1: it on the podcast. Yeah, short and sweet, guys, Short
Speaker 1: and sweet. But as a guest, I would like to
Speaker 1: take advantage because I have a couple of questions for
Speaker 1: really Granger yep, And these are, you know, things I
Speaker 1: know that y'all are thinking. I'm just gonna ask him. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: so I know that you are a pretty tame tongue
Speaker 1: kind of guy, right, But if there's anything in life,
Speaker 1: and I'll give you an example of this, just so
Speaker 1: to help you out, give you a second to think
Speaker 1: there's anything in life that will make you curse, what
Speaker 1: will that be? It's gonna be a snake. A snake, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you come up on a rattlesnake. Okay, And what what
Speaker 1: is the one that's coming out of your mouth that's like?
Speaker 1: Is it start with an F? Is it a B?
Speaker 1: What do we do? And is it every time or
Speaker 1: is sometimes it's something different. It's probably gonna start with
Speaker 1: an F, and it's probably gonna be like if I
Speaker 1: am whole, If Sam We'll just use a scenario of like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get firewood right bringing it to the house,
Speaker 1: and I pick up that stick, country boy, and there's
Speaker 1: a big scorpion on the back side of that stick.
Speaker 1: I'm dropping that stick and there's some stuff coming out
Speaker 1: in my mouth. Okay, that's good, So just poisonous reptiles.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay, what made me think of that is
Speaker 1: on my drive actually just asked how long it took
Speaker 1: to drive up here. I was trying to get here
Speaker 1: quick and sometimes my foot pushes down a little too
Speaker 1: far and I somehow like I just can't see the
Speaker 1: cops until they're like just right there. If you like
Speaker 1: scare me or sneak leslie, my wife will tell you,
Speaker 1: like what's coming out of my mouth is oh gosh,
Speaker 1: that's my go to. I'm like, oh gosh, but I'm
Speaker 1: cruising at like eighty five and I'm not paying attention
Speaker 1: and I see a cop and every time it's oh, oh,
Speaker 1: please don't stop me, Please don't stop me, please'll stop me,
Speaker 1: and the time it works, and then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that, yes, And then it's
Speaker 1: like once you don't see anymore. You think you're out
Speaker 1: of the woods. But it's like he can catch up
Speaker 1: to us like this, you know, so I think once
Speaker 1: I can't see him'm like, okay, I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 1: This guy, if you were posted on side of Highway
Speaker 1: forty five around nine thirty this morning, thank you for
Speaker 1: not pulling me over. I was definitely speeding, definitely deserved it,
Speaker 1: but I thank you for your grace. So there's a
Speaker 1: police officers listening right now. They're probably I wonder if
Speaker 1: they feel the same way. Like if they go on
Speaker 1: vacation with their family, so they're driving to Florida, they're
Speaker 1: gonna go to Disney World or whatever, and they're from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Do they think that when they when they go over
Speaker 1: a hill on the highway and there's a highway patrol
Speaker 1: at Florida Patrol? Are you sure? My dad was a
Speaker 1: police officer for thirty five years, that's right. Even after that,
Speaker 1: he still carried his badge. So as soon as they
Speaker 1: come up, right next to his driver's license is his badge.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, yeah, I was on the fourth thirty
Speaker 1: five years. Oh well, I'm just gonna give you a warning.
Speaker 1: Miss Calco you just need to slow down. That's just
Speaker 1: understood language, right, yes, written unwritten law. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're like giving away a secret that
Speaker 1: we're not supposed to talk about it. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that my dad was too worried about it, and
Speaker 1: my mom would even use that like, oh, my dad
Speaker 1: or my husband's going to be so upset. He's a
Speaker 1: police officer. He know it's not not any speed and
Speaker 1: they would just let her go. So they have like
Speaker 1: back the blue sticker on their back of the car
Speaker 1: or anythink I have two of them right now? You do?
Speaker 1: Hundred club member? Yeah? What's the hundred club member Hunter
Speaker 1: Club in the state of Texas. It's uh, it's an
Speaker 1: organization that supports first responders, so police fire department ems.
Speaker 1: So we give them money, they give us a sticker
Speaker 1: and maybe it gets us out of a ticket. Maybe
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I don't know, but we're supporting all. That's
Speaker 1: not why you do it. Support supporting you know that
Speaker 1: support us. My my golden ticket is my concealed carry license, Okay,
Speaker 1: And I did. I did get a ticket recently that
Speaker 1: there was a different story, and it was it had
Speaker 1: to do with green Hall a venue and the Sheriff's
Speaker 1: department attached to Green Hall you know who you are,
Speaker 1: but that that was a different reason. But every other
Speaker 1: time since I've had my concealed carry license that has
Speaker 1: led to a warning. Okay, what about your face? Like
Speaker 1: it has any I know it sounds weird, but like,
Speaker 1: have you ever gotten pulled over and somebody comes up
Speaker 1: there like oh, or they see your license, They're like,
Speaker 1: this is Granger Smith, what's weird? Not ever, never has
Speaker 1: that happened, but I have had them. Well I'll just
Speaker 1: say they just keep a poker face because then they
Speaker 1: come back, after they go to the car, they come
Speaker 1: back and they go, miss Smith, just do me a favorite.
Speaker 1: Just be safe out there. I'm gon give you warning.
Speaker 1: Drive slow, love your music, keep going, keep doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing. But it's like a poker face all the
Speaker 1: way to the end. And you're like, maybe it's because
Speaker 1: they're everybody's on camera now, so they can't they can't
Speaker 1: walk up to the car and go oh dude, did
Speaker 1: you Yeah so comment below, so much interesting conversations here
Speaker 1: about law enforcement. Yep, I forgot that about your dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah you want to answer a question, yep, go for it.
Speaker 1: This question is from Simon says, hey, grad your My
Speaker 1: name is Simon. I'm thirteen years old. I come from Everson, Pennsylvania. Elverson,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Pennsylvania. I love your music. I've been working
Speaker 1: with my uncle on his dairy farm. I enjoy working
Speaker 1: with the animals. I also started to work in the
Speaker 1: shop a little bit more. The days I work. In
Speaker 1: the mornings, I get up at five point thirty. I
Speaker 1: read the Bible and pray. Then I normally go down
Speaker 1: to work for an hour and a half and come back,
Speaker 1: eat breakfast, then do school until two in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Then I go down and milk till six and go
Speaker 1: home eat dinner, finishing his school work I have left.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, I love the job. I've always had
Speaker 1: a dream of having my own dairy farm. I don't
Speaker 1: do this every day, but I'm doing school till about
Speaker 1: four on those days when I don't milk. Weekends, I
Speaker 1: don't work often, but sometimes it ends up help. I
Speaker 1: end up helping. I can't really find the time to
Speaker 1: go out and be doing what I want because it
Speaker 1: feels like I'm either doing school or I'm not on
Speaker 1: the schedule right. I like to ride around. I'm a
Speaker 1: four wheeler, which some days is part of my job.
Speaker 1: I also like working at the house. For instance, me
Speaker 1: and my older brother and younger brother we've been working
Speaker 1: on a cabin out on thirty acres in the woods.
Speaker 1: I also love archery, hunting. How do I manage all
Speaker 1: of these things? With first third? Yeah? Yeah, it says,
Speaker 1: how do I manage all these things versus my other
Speaker 1: siblings and family time? What's this kid's name? Simon? Thirteen? Simon?
Speaker 1: He's a mythical character. I'm convinced. But if he's not,
Speaker 1: I'm sending my kids up to stay with you for
Speaker 1: like two weeks. That's unbelievable. What thirteen year old? Like?
Speaker 1: I don't even work that hard? Like, that's incredible. I've
Speaker 1: got how speechless. I pulled this question because it was
Speaker 1: so interesting, and I hope that he's not just like
Speaker 1: just trying to get attention from us. But I don't
Speaker 1: think he is. Well he is. It worked, So let's
Speaker 1: start with the morning. Get up at five point thirty,
Speaker 1: read Bible and pray. Who does that at thirteen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did not. I did not, confession, I did not know.
Speaker 1: So to get to your question, how do I manage
Speaker 1: all these things? I think the question is good because
Speaker 1: as this, you know, Super teen has shown us everybody
Speaker 1: has like a lot going on, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think the question can be universal to everybody. How do
Speaker 1: you balance you know, all of the stuff. Is that
Speaker 1: kind of the question that he's getting to. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say this, Simon. First of all, you say, keep
Speaker 1: in mind, I love this job. I've always had the
Speaker 1: dream of having my own dairy farm. Let me say this,
Speaker 1: You having your own dairy farm one day is not
Speaker 1: contingent upon how many hours you put in when you're
Speaker 1: thirteen years old. That's completely irrelevant. You're learning work ethic,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. But I think you could I think
Speaker 1: you could knock out a day or two from the
Speaker 1: farm and say knock out Mondays, or you don't go
Speaker 1: to the farm on Mondays. Those days you just you
Speaker 1: concentrate on school and you be a kid. Just have fun, man, yep,
Speaker 1: go out with your buddies exploring in the woods, get
Speaker 1: on your four wheeler, like you said, do a little
Speaker 1: bit of nothing in the woods on Mondays, or you
Speaker 1: pick the day. The danger in what you're doing at
Speaker 1: the age of thirteen is you could have a burnout coming,
Speaker 1: and you could be you could be fifteen and go, Man,
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for two years and I ain't
Speaker 1: getting up at five thirty anymore. I'm done. I'm done
Speaker 1: with this. And that is a little bit of a
Speaker 1: danger because you're at an age where you're you haven't
Speaker 1: developed that kind of discipline yet to stick with that
Speaker 1: kind of longevity. If you're thirty, this whole email would
Speaker 1: be different. If you're thirty years old, you got three
Speaker 1: kids and a stay at home mother, that's a totally
Speaker 1: different conversation. But at thirteen, I would say, man, back
Speaker 1: off the schedule. Back off the farm schedule. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't get rid of the school and the school work.
Speaker 1: You got to do that, But back off of the
Speaker 1: farm work, because surely you're you're not bringing home, you're
Speaker 1: not paying the rent, you know, for your family. You're thirteen,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be, and that's another problem. We should time out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and are you being held on this farm against your
Speaker 1: will to make sure you're safe? Simon, Okay, you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be. No one should depend on you. This
Speaker 1: is the year twenty twenty one, now, not eighteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: No one should be depending on you as a thirteen
Speaker 1: year old to bring home money to pay for anything
Speaker 1: other than things that you like. Like your money at
Speaker 1: thirteen that you earn should be a learning the value
Speaker 1: of a dollar and be using that money you earn
Speaker 1: for extra things that you don't need that you just want,
Speaker 1: right like a new pair of boots that you really like,
Speaker 1: or a nice twenty two whatever, that's what you But so,
Speaker 1: I just don't want you to get burned out, and
Speaker 1: I don't want you to you don't You certainly don't
Speaker 1: have to impress me and Bernie by saying all this stuff.
Speaker 1: You don't have to impress us. That's that's way more
Speaker 1: than my schedule. I got a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Bernie has a lot of stuff going on that's more
Speaker 1: than both of us do. Yeah, so, yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1: I also think there's a lot as far as owning
Speaker 1: your own dairy farm in the future that's probably gonna
Speaker 1: happen if you have experience in a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: I never, especially at thirteen, not even like you know
Speaker 1: twenty three, wanted to be a business owner. But I
Speaker 1: feel like I moved into that role, and it kind
Speaker 1: of like started to go that way. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: I did a lot of different things that I was
Speaker 1: able to draw experience from to then help me with
Speaker 1: what was in front of me. Great point, man, such
Speaker 1: a great point. What you could learn from being a
Speaker 1: dairy farmer. You could do that at eighteen or nineteen
Speaker 1: and be done twenty five, twenty six. You could be
Speaker 1: done right now. It's not pivotal on now. You need
Speaker 1: these experiences. You need these life experiences. Diversify your life,
Speaker 1: if at all other than just you're thirteen. Just have fun.
Speaker 1: You're at the end of adolescence. I know what you
Speaker 1: feel like an adult, which is awesome, But you're still
Speaker 1: at the end of being a kid. So don't leave
Speaker 1: being a kid so early. Stay there a little bit longer,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. No, absolutely, yeah, definitely stay there.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's all gonna happen really fast, So stay
Speaker 1: there as long as you can. And for everybody else
Speaker 1: out there who feels like they're kind of just burning
Speaker 1: the candle at both ends and they're working for this
Speaker 1: or for that, I think that there's some truth and
Speaker 1: everything that Griz is saying about diversifying and having new
Speaker 1: experiences and just enjoying life. I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of times we get so caught up and working so
Speaker 1: hard and burning ourselves out to buy things that we
Speaker 1: don't need, but then we end up just kind of
Speaker 1: getting into the cycle. And I think once you can
Speaker 1: kind of just gain some perspective and try to find
Speaker 1: some balance in life. Simon, this is for use for
Speaker 1: anybody else, Like I think that we both have talked
Speaker 1: a lot about trying to find that balance, you know,
Speaker 1: in our life of not just work and family, but it's,
Speaker 1: you know, it's everything. It's it's you know, having diversity
Speaker 1: in your life and being kind of present in this
Speaker 1: moment and gaining from all of those different experiences to
Speaker 1: just make yourself a more well rounded person to be
Speaker 1: able to enjoy some things. I love my kids to death,
Speaker 1: but if I had to spend twenty four to seven
Speaker 1: with them waking up at five point thirty, and it's
Speaker 1: like sometimes them getting to experience different things make them
Speaker 1: miss me and like buy me the same, and so
Speaker 1: then we get to enjoy that time back together. I
Speaker 1: think you'll start to enjoy the dairy farm more if
Speaker 1: you spend some time riding four wheelers and whatever else
Speaker 1: you guys do up there. Something you haven't mentioned yet,
Speaker 1: that you haven't gotten it yet, that's going to throw
Speaker 1: a monkey wrench in this whole schedule. And that's girls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as soon as that comes in, then you're in trouble
Speaker 1: because then your schedule is really going to get messed up.
Speaker 1: And last thing I want to say is when we
Speaker 1: come close to Elverson, Pennsylvania, I want to swing by,
Speaker 1: take the tour bus there and get us some milk
Speaker 1: from you. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, all right, question, good story.
Speaker 1: Brianna says, how do you write a song? And what's
Speaker 1: the process of writing a song? And I answer that
Speaker 1: question so many times and I feel like I probably
Speaker 1: can never answered enough because people still want to know
Speaker 1: how do you write a song? It's good because you're
Speaker 1: a songwriter and you're on here too, so you're going
Speaker 1: to give a different perspective. I've said my typical process
Speaker 1: is I collect my ideas during the normal, normal day,
Speaker 1: and then when I'm ready to write, I then harvest
Speaker 1: those ideas. So like I'll if I hear a title
Speaker 1: or think of a title, I'll write it in my
Speaker 1: notes on my phone. If I think, think of a melody,
Speaker 1: or if I mess around with the guitar, I'll hum
Speaker 1: it into my phone and then when I'm ready to write,
Speaker 1: which I do in the mornings, I'll get a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee and I'll try to find the marriage between
Speaker 1: the right line and the right melody and see if
Speaker 1: that kick starts. Something doesn't always start that way. But
Speaker 1: that's like an average songwriting day. And I haven't written
Speaker 1: since the new album, but that's an average day when
Speaker 1: I plan on it. How about you, Well, first, I
Speaker 1: love that you write in the mornings. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I listened to the podcast from last week with Tyler,
Speaker 1: which I absolutely loved. Tyler is a machine. But you
Speaker 1: had said something in that podcast about kind of making
Speaker 1: decisions and you know, kind of heavy bandwidth stuff, being like,
Speaker 1: you know, waking up early. That's why these people do
Speaker 1: it early, so you're kind of at your most restored
Speaker 1: state mentally and physically. And so I love that, And
Speaker 1: go back and watch that podcast with Tyle or if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen he already, I think that Griz can
Speaker 1: give a more professional approach because he's a professional and
Speaker 1: I would be uh kind of amateur. Maybe there's some
Speaker 1: like kind of weekend warrior singer songwriters out there, and
Speaker 1: that's me and you, okay, where we're having a conversation now.
Speaker 1: For me, I think that it a lot of times
Speaker 1: it does start with just sitting down and playing instruments.
Speaker 1: So there's there hasn't been a ton of times where
Speaker 1: the lyrics have just kind of jumped out. It's more
Speaker 1: of I sit down and piano. Like recently, I just
Speaker 1: started kind of playing this progression and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I like that, and then I kind of
Speaker 1: just start to feel more of the mood of it
Speaker 1: and let it, let it kind of like speak to
Speaker 1: like an experience, like what is this, what are these tones?
Speaker 1: What are these vibrations? Kind of like telling me and
Speaker 1: then trying to like pull an experience that matches, like, oh,
Speaker 1: that is going to be really well experienced in these
Speaker 1: minor to the major. You know this is going to be.
Speaker 1: This is more upbeat, and like this is going to
Speaker 1: fit there, and from there the lyrics I don't have.
Speaker 1: I don't give it. I can't say I don't have
Speaker 1: I don't give it the amount of time that you
Speaker 1: probably do. Let me just say because I agree, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, the difference is I just have
Speaker 1: to There's times when I have to write a batch
Speaker 1: of songs and you don't, and that's awesome that you don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just have a song that has to come
Speaker 1: out of you. Yeah. Yeah. I think that I've moved
Speaker 1: into a place where that's more of the case, and
Speaker 1: so I have the ability to just kind of let
Speaker 1: them slowly progress and come out and like, not force it.
Speaker 1: I'll just but I will say songwriting is a craft
Speaker 1: and it is a discipline, and the more, just like
Speaker 1: anything else, the more that you do it, the better
Speaker 1: that you were going to be at it. I participated
Speaker 1: this was a couple of years ago, maybe a few
Speaker 1: years ago. I participated in a songwriting experiment called seven
Speaker 1: and seven. And I know that sounds like a drink,
Speaker 1: don't it. So yeah, I think it was called seven
Speaker 1: and seven and basically you had to write seven songs
Speaker 1: in seven days, and they could be complete garbage, but
Speaker 1: you had to start and you had to finish seven
Speaker 1: songs in seven days. And out of that seven day
Speaker 1: I stuck to it. And there's kind of a community
Speaker 1: of people that were like, hey, let's do this, and
Speaker 1: you know, you can post it a SoundCloud legal ink
Speaker 1: here and people can listen. And five of those songs
Speaker 1: were absolute garbage. One of the songs was decent. It
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, one of the songs I still
Speaker 1: like play whenever I'm sitting and I'm like, man, this
Speaker 1: kind of like it wouldn't have come out if I
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten to that place. And it actually just flowed.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like one of those things where oh, I'll
Speaker 1: come back to this another time. It was like, no,
Speaker 1: force yourself, push into these lyrics, like draw it out,
Speaker 1: and it felt like the lyrics just started coming. So
Speaker 1: I think there's something too, And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you kind of do that same thing where no, it's
Speaker 1: a discipline and I have to force myself to write
Speaker 1: and continue to write, because for every five bad ones
Speaker 1: and one mediocre one, there's a great one. And that's
Speaker 1: what we were reseearching for. That's so good. And Fish
Speaker 1: my guitar player John Marlin, he he's part of the
Speaker 1: group and I don't know if he's still doing it,
Speaker 1: but for a long time he was part of this
Speaker 1: group too. They turned in songs like every Monday, they
Speaker 1: would turn in a song, so one a week, which
Speaker 1: is not nearly seven on seven, seven and seven, but
Speaker 1: they would on Sunday an email would go out for
Speaker 1: that week and it would have the subjects matter like
Speaker 1: this song needs to be this, and sometimes it would
Speaker 1: say it needs to include the word this and the
Speaker 1: word this. And then seven days later everyone would turn
Speaker 1: in their rough demo and then they would all listen
Speaker 1: to each other's. It's like accountability and like you said,
Speaker 1: some of them are just total crap. But that wasn't
Speaker 1: the point. The quality was not the point. It was
Speaker 1: training that muscle, because it is a muscle. And if I,
Speaker 1: like I haven't written in several months now, if I
Speaker 1: have a writing trip coming up or I need to write,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do exercises leading up to it that
Speaker 1: week to get my brain into rhyming mode and the
Speaker 1: thinking mode. And a lot of that has to do
Speaker 1: with cutting out devices a certain amount, because devices will
Speaker 1: kill my creativity. I could do like, for instance, if
Speaker 1: I'm mowing, mowing is a great lyric creation moment for
Speaker 1: me because I can do nothing when I'm mowing but think.
Speaker 1: So a lot of like Earl Dibbles songs were written
Speaker 1: while I'm mowing, because I could just think of rhymes
Speaker 1: and funny things and the way it flows. So I
Speaker 1: have to You're so right, you have to get that
Speaker 1: that part of your brain has to exercise. And I
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Speaker 1: very very very short, says hey Granger. I love your
Speaker 1: content and your music and listen to your podcast all
Speaker 1: the time, but there's always a butt this guy, Bernie's
Speaker 1: come on and no just kidding, Sorry, go ahead. But
Speaker 1: when you said God has complete control, does that mean
Speaker 1: that you yourself make no choices or God makes all
Speaker 1: your decisions? So yeah, we just went to the deep end. Guys,
Speaker 1: let me read that again. When you said God has
Speaker 1: complete control, does that mean that you yourself make no
Speaker 1: choices and God makes all your decisions? That's from Sawyer.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sawyer. Yeah, thanks for listening and drawing those
Speaker 1: kind of questions out of like listening you know, as
Speaker 1: intently to draw those kind of questions out and wanting
Speaker 1: to go deeper. So this is a question of a
Speaker 1: word called sovereignty, which means sovereignty basically means all controlling,
Speaker 1: all knowing, all being. And I want to say before
Speaker 1: we even start this question, because this is a very
Speaker 1: debated topic. If you're wavering in your faith at all,
Speaker 1: don't let this topic be a breaking point for you
Speaker 1: because it's not as important as other questions. Sure in
Speaker 1: the Bible, it's more of a theological conversation. It's don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, it's important as a fundamental backbone of
Speaker 1: knowing that God is in control. But it's if it
Speaker 1: becomes a breaking point in your mind, I just cannot
Speaker 1: understand that therefore I no longer believe then stop, just
Speaker 1: fast forward through this this part. But I didn't. I
Speaker 1: usually I was in the mood this morning when I
Speaker 1: knew you're coming. I was in the mood to answer this,
Speaker 1: and this question came in November last November twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I'm just not in the mood to answer
Speaker 1: this question. Sure, yeah, because it's so simple yet so
Speaker 1: complicated for humans. And the reason I say that is
Speaker 1: because like we can't comprehend the methods of God, we
Speaker 1: can't begin to understand that. And the Bible says thousands
Speaker 1: of times that God's in control. He's sovereign, he is,
Speaker 1: he is the creator, he is in control. So then
Speaker 1: your first question is, well, then what's the point If
Speaker 1: God's in control, And part of that control means he
Speaker 1: has a plan and he is executing that plan through
Speaker 1: human beings, and there is a beginning and there is
Speaker 1: an end on Earth of that plan. So everything in
Speaker 1: between leads to that. So then you think, well, what's
Speaker 1: the point. Who cares? I'm in the matrix, This doesn't
Speaker 1: matter anymore. I'm a puppet. I might as well do nothing.
Speaker 1: Those are like natural reactions to a lot of people
Speaker 1: unless you've actually dug in studied this type of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I like to think of it this way. To
Speaker 1: answer your question. You said God has complete control. Does
Speaker 1: that mean you yourself make no choices. I like to
Speaker 1: think of it this way. No, absolutely not. We make choices.
Speaker 1: I make choices every day, going to pick up this cup,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drink it. If God didn't want me to.
Speaker 1: Does he have the power to stop me from doing it? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: But I have the choice to do it. I'm doing
Speaker 1: it right now. I'm picking up this cup. Here's the
Speaker 1: crazy thing is God already knew I was gonna do that.
Speaker 1: He already knew I was gonna pick it up, and
Speaker 1: then nothing surprises him. If you think of it this way,
Speaker 1: if you believe in God, and you believe in the
Speaker 1: power of almighty creator of the universe, you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna surprise him. You think you're going to do something
Speaker 1: tonight that catches him off guard and he has to
Speaker 1: scramble to change a plan in his giant web of
Speaker 1: a plan that he has to go and scramble to
Speaker 1: redirect something because if an accident caught him off guard,
Speaker 1: or it's something you did or said changed now. We
Speaker 1: said this on the last last podcast. And a great
Speaker 1: reference is Joseph and Neil Testament when he's talking to
Speaker 1: his brothers and this is coming years and years after
Speaker 1: his brothers sold him off, abandoned him, got rid of him.
Speaker 1: He goes and Ray comes up to power in Egypt,
Speaker 1: becomes the prime minister of Egypt, best friends with the pharaoh,
Speaker 1: gets all this power, and he comes back and those
Speaker 1: brothers see him and they're like, oh, no, we screwed up.
Speaker 1: We thought we got rid of him. He actually came
Speaker 1: into power. Now he's in charge of us. And he said, say, birds,
Speaker 1: well you said in the last podcast you meant this?
Speaker 1: Oh what you Oh yeah, okay, you what you meant
Speaker 1: for evil? Yes? God intended for good. Yeah. So they
Speaker 1: made a choice. They made a choice to exile their brother.
Speaker 1: And these kind of stories, there's a lot of them,
Speaker 1: there's hundreds of They made a choice, that was their decision.
Speaker 1: They exiled their brother, they kicked him out of the family.
Speaker 1: They meant it for evil. So many times our heart,
Speaker 1: our intentions are evil based. So it doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: bad or twisted or weird, it is everything God ends
Speaker 1: up framing for good, and it might take, it might
Speaker 1: take in many cases generations past you. We don't even
Speaker 1: see it. But you can either look at it for
Speaker 1: you listeners look at it in one or two ways.
Speaker 1: Either there is a God that created this universe and
Speaker 1: he's in control of everything. Are there just not? I
Speaker 1: prefer to think there's just not if there's Instead of
Speaker 1: thinking that there's a weak God up there that's just
Speaker 1: just not in control, not knowing, not understanding, not in communication,
Speaker 1: I prefer to think there's just not one. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a lot to unpack, and my mind's kind
Speaker 1: of going a lot of different places. But let's you
Speaker 1: could always bring something like this. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: verse you just quoted about God works all things together
Speaker 1: for good, for the good of those who love Him
Speaker 1: and are called according to his purpose. Okay, we could
Speaker 1: spend like all day there, which we won't, but you
Speaker 1: know that that verse who love Him and are called
Speaker 1: according to His purpose. We could divert there, but we're
Speaker 1: not going to. I think the point I wanted to
Speaker 1: make is if you're out there and you're listening to
Speaker 1: this and you're maybe like, faith is not my thing,
Speaker 1: I just I'm going to fast forward past this. I
Speaker 1: don't really I'm not really interested. Let me just tell
Speaker 1: you have faith. You have faith in something, so stay
Speaker 1: with us. It takes a leap of faith to not
Speaker 1: believe what we're saying. That's that's right, and so I
Speaker 1: would I would push you to dive deeper into what
Speaker 1: your faith is in. It could be just in I
Speaker 1: have faith in myself and that I'm the captain of
Speaker 1: my universe and this is the way my world and
Speaker 1: understanding of life and power and love works. And that
Speaker 1: is where you are right now, and that is That's okay.
Speaker 1: But don't dismiss the conversation. Don't disengage from the conversation.
Speaker 1: Because the faith may look a little different and ask
Speaker 1: different questions and have a different package or context than
Speaker 1: what you're comfortable with or what you're used to. It's
Speaker 1: because there's something here for you if you're willing, So
Speaker 1: please just join us. The next part of this is
Speaker 1: to understand and that my brother used to always remind
Speaker 1: me that God is you know, you think of sovereign,
Speaker 1: it's like his sovereignty, his power. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: we think of his He's powerful, He's all powerful, like
Speaker 1: you said, and he's all knowing, but he is also
Speaker 1: all loving. And so think about, like, you know, the
Speaker 1: question that you're asking about, like is there a choice?
Speaker 1: Do we have a choice in a loving relationship? There's
Speaker 1: it really is. God is inviting. He's pursuing us, even
Speaker 1: when we're not pursuing him, He's pursuing us. And so
Speaker 1: through these the through his plan, through this like you know,
Speaker 1: canvas that he's drawing this. He's an artist. He's creating
Speaker 1: this thing of the world and life and your life
Speaker 1: and our lives, and it's saying something and a lot
Speaker 1: of that is not just formed in his all powerfulness,
Speaker 1: his all knowingness, but also his all lovingness, Like he
Speaker 1: is love. It's the essence. So we cannot lose that
Speaker 1: in these discussions of sovereignty and control and calling, because
Speaker 1: it's very much you know, tied into that. You can
Speaker 1: you know, think similarly to just any relationship you know,
Speaker 1: with your son or with you know somebody, like how
Speaker 1: what are the dynamics of those you know relationships. It's
Speaker 1: not you know, like I'm gonna dictate what you do now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, there's that's a different kind of
Speaker 1: control yeah, he he knows that all joy, all satisfaction,
Speaker 1: all pleasure is found in him, in him a loan,
Speaker 1: and so what he's inviting us into is like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I am sovereign over all of this stuff. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have this plan. I wrote the works that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to walk into before the foundation of the world, and
Speaker 1: I just want to walk with you in them because
Speaker 1: I want to be near you. I want to love
Speaker 1: you and be loved by you, and for you to
Speaker 1: experience joy the best that you possibly can. And the
Speaker 1: way that you do that is walking with me and
Speaker 1: trusting in my sovereignty. So we were plagued with this
Speaker 1: this thing of sin, and sin can look a few
Speaker 1: different ways. There's habitual sin, but then there's like this
Speaker 1: intrinsic natural sin that we're born with. That is people
Speaker 1: say like, oh, the devil, you know, is like tempting me,
Speaker 1: and it's like, the devil's not tempting you. Like our
Speaker 1: sinful nature that's in us is constantly going to try
Speaker 1: to get us to question the sovereignty of God, which
Speaker 1: is back to the garden. What did they do? They
Speaker 1: questioned the sovereignty of God? Does he really love us?
Speaker 1: Is he really giving everything to us, should we really
Speaker 1: trust him? Those are thoughts that we all still have now,
Speaker 1: even in light of his sovereignty. It's nothing new for him.
Speaker 1: But he wants to walk with us. He wants he
Speaker 1: sent the sacrifice for that so that we could be
Speaker 1: restored to that relationship. And I know that there's, like
Speaker 1: I said, there's a lot to unpack with a question
Speaker 1: like this, So I want to make sure that we're
Speaker 1: staying close to the question of sovereignty and control and choices.
Speaker 1: But what was this person's name, Sawyer? If you are
Speaker 1: listening to Granger's podcast and you're listening so intently to
Speaker 1: draw questions out like this, I think that you probably
Speaker 1: could be someone that would want to continue to just
Speaker 1: dig into that word and research that word and hear
Speaker 1: commentary on that word. I think that there's a lot
Speaker 1: that is to be learned. Like Chris said, I think
Speaker 1: that we always have to approach these things with there
Speaker 1: is a sense of mystery to God and to life,
Speaker 1: and we can't We're just not going to know everything.
Speaker 1: And so like take with what's in front of you
Speaker 1: in this moment, and don't you know, throw the baby
Speaker 1: out with the bathwater, as they say, just like start
Speaker 1: to like dig into these questions. He says, does God
Speaker 1: make all your decisions? No, he doesn't, but he knows
Speaker 1: what you're gonna choose. I can't explain it says in
Speaker 1: the Bible. How could the Clay question the Potter? We're
Speaker 1: just the Clay. I don't know why that is it is,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure glad it is. You know, I'm really
Speaker 1: glad it is now. I wanted to say. I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to say this. I've been wanting to use this
Speaker 1: little line for a long time on this podcast, and
Speaker 1: I finally get to say it. But if there's any
Speaker 1: of you that are going but why why even believe
Speaker 1: that stuff? Like, why even believe the Bible? I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell you because I just believe I have faith
Speaker 1: or host brought up this way, or because I have
Speaker 1: an interchange with him. I'm not gonna tell you that
Speaker 1: this is what this is my answer to that skeptic.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say because the Bible is a collection of
Speaker 1: reliable historical documents written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of
Speaker 1: other eyewitnesses that claim supernatural events that fulfilled thick prophecies
Speaker 1: that were claimed to be divine in nature and not
Speaker 1: by human origin. Written by over forty authors over the
Speaker 1: span of seventeen hundred years into sixty six different volumes,
Speaker 1: it is the most reliable collection of ancient documents in
Speaker 1: human history, way above Aristotle or Homer's Iliad or any
Speaker 1: of This is history. So if you want to ask
Speaker 1: me first why I believe, I'm going to go there
Speaker 1: because I'm a history major. So I'm just talking. I'm
Speaker 1: talking straight facts if you want to. If you're a skeptic,
Speaker 1: and I love this. If you're a skeptic, don't take
Speaker 1: anybody's word for it just because they say they believe
Speaker 1: in their heart, don't accept that. You do research on
Speaker 1: the historical aspects, especially of Jesus and the Crucifixion and
Speaker 1: the resurrection, and then come back and tell me what
Speaker 1: you find. Try your hardest to prove historically that the
Speaker 1: Crucifixion and the resurrection did not happen, and then come back.
Speaker 1: Because here's a side note, it's never no one has
Speaker 1: ever been able to historically prove that it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: And most of the people that have tried what's happened,
Speaker 1: they started believing that's right because they're like, man, I
Speaker 1: can't it's never been proven. And this goes back to
Speaker 1: what Bernie said. So if so, if you don't believe,
Speaker 1: that is a massive leap of faith to not believe,
Speaker 1: because the evidence and over five hundred eyewitnesses are there
Speaker 1: and written for us to read from two thousand year
Speaker 1: old documents and Roman government records. So take that word
Speaker 1: for it, not mine or not Bernie. It's just because
Speaker 1: we say I'm so. Then once you believe at that point,
Speaker 1: then you go into the word and you go it
Speaker 1: says God is sovereign, God is in control. So then
Speaker 1: you you keep going backwards until you go, Okay, here
Speaker 1: we are. This is why I believe. I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great, man. I think you need to add that
Speaker 1: paragraph that you just quoted like you had it like
Speaker 1: right ready, go man, you need to put that in
Speaker 1: the comment section of this or texted to him or
Speaker 1: something that was amazing it came from voting, Okay, voting boom, amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1: I need to read that a few times. Send you
Speaker 1: the video. There's a video by vote bacam and it's
Speaker 1: a v O D D I E B a C. H. A. M.
Speaker 1: I think. So he's an amazing evangelist from south central
Speaker 1: l A. And he is. He's got this video on
Speaker 1: YouTube and it's called I think it's called why I
Speaker 1: Believe the Bible. And the first thing he does is
Speaker 1: throw out the myths that when you say I just
Speaker 1: I believe because that's how I was raised, or I
Speaker 1: believe because there's been an interchange in me, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything to anyone else. Congratulations, you have an interchange,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean anything to the person you're talking to,
Speaker 1: and it's not going to convince them anymore that you've
Speaker 1: had a change a spiritual you know. But in contrast
Speaker 1: to other religions, the other religions of a dude, I
Speaker 1: fell asleep by a tree and had a dream and
Speaker 1: then wrote, you know, or it's like, this is very different.
Speaker 1: We're talking about forty different authors over seventeen hundred years,
Speaker 1: and historical reliable documents collected together, unchanged because you hear
Speaker 1: King James and you hear these translations. That's not because
Speaker 1: the King James was translated, and then the ESV was
Speaker 1: taken from the King James, and then the NIV came
Speaker 1: from that and one dude decided to write this. No, guys,
Speaker 1: we're talking about people, massive groups of one hundred scholars
Speaker 1: getting together and going back to the original Greek, which
Speaker 1: the oldest Greek New Testament we have. We have six
Speaker 1: thousand of them, the originals from within only a few
Speaker 1: decades of when John and these guys wrote them with
Speaker 1: their own hands. Six thousand documents of these. So when
Speaker 1: you hear of a translation, they're going back to the
Speaker 1: Greek and they're taking that with one hundred different scholars,
Speaker 1: and they're taking word for word and translating it to
Speaker 1: whatever language. So anyway, there's this misconception of wasn't that
Speaker 1: just like some old monks, that they got the word
Speaker 1: and they just made it the way they wanted it
Speaker 1: to sound because they wanted coroll of the government or whatever.
Speaker 1: So continue to uh, to challenge yourself, to try to
Speaker 1: debudt these yourself. Yeah, it's a crazy rabbit hole. So
Speaker 1: I just thought of something. Those you were talking to.
Speaker 1: Ask me that question one more time, and then we'll
Speaker 1: move on to the next question. Ask me Sawyer's question
Speaker 1: one more time. I just darchieved it. Let me go
Speaker 1: back to that. I think his question was it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be her her. It says, do you when
Speaker 1: you said God has complete control? Does that mean that
Speaker 1: you yourself make no choices and God makes all of
Speaker 1: your decisions? Okay? So here here's what I start to
Speaker 1: think of whenever you have a choice to make that's
Speaker 1: really important or how your day's going to go. I know,
Speaker 1: for both of us, there, with the majority of our lives,
Speaker 1: we have found a place that we find the most.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just talked about the word right, about
Speaker 1: the Bible, the reliability, the faithfulness of it, the God's
Speaker 1: spoken nature of it. When I have to make a choice,
Speaker 1: that's where I'm going to help me make the choice. Yep.
Speaker 1: So I think the answer, Sawyer is actually both. I
Speaker 1: think that I am making the decision, but I want
Speaker 1: God to make the decision through his word through me,
Speaker 1: because that's where I find the most joy and the
Speaker 1: most contentment and most happiness. Is this is not my life.
Speaker 1: If I was making the choice, I would have probably
Speaker 1: sold this business and taken all this money and like
Speaker 1: done this and this. It's like, this is not my life,
Speaker 1: And there's so much freedom and joy in Him making
Speaker 1: the decisions for me through his words. So it's like,
Speaker 1: that's where we go. Is he making the choices? Is
Speaker 1: he making the decisions? I damn sure, hope, so thank god?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, because I don't want to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know, just a final word on that.
Speaker 1: That's a great man. I think that it's it's it's both.
Speaker 1: It's a great point. His yoke is light. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's easy. So that's yeah, that's great way to look
Speaker 1: at it. I cannot believe we literally burned up this
Speaker 1: whole section on this question, and understandably, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a deal. There's a lot to unpack. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm interested in Sawyer's response, and I'm probably a
Speaker 1: little bit more interested in the in the people that
Speaker 1: are like, I don't believe any of this, because I
Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of people they're gonna be
Speaker 1: like amen, brother, Amen, yes, yes, yes, And maybe we
Speaker 1: didn't even say it right, and maybe there's some screaming
Speaker 1: you know that we should have given that. We'll think
Speaker 1: of later as soon as we turn off the podcast.
Speaker 1: But I'm more interested in the people that are like,
Speaker 1: I don't believe any of that. I'm in control of
Speaker 1: my life. I'm running the ship whatever I do. My
Speaker 1: fate lives with me and me alone. And it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting thought, and there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that have always believed that and still believe it today.
Speaker 1: And I love how you said it takes faith. It
Speaker 1: takes faith either way. Yeah. Absolutely, it takes a massive
Speaker 1: leaf of faith to think you're in control. It takes
Speaker 1: a massive leaf of faith to think God's in control. Yep.
Speaker 1: I'd love for you guys to engage and send comments
Speaker 1: on this topic, especially the folks that Granger's talking about
Speaker 1: that may not believe the same because believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I feel like we have things to learn about our
Speaker 1: faith by your experience and your response and the way
Speaker 1: that you're seeing things as as well as the others.
Speaker 1: I think that this stuff can be real heavy, and
Speaker 1: it's like hard mentally we just want to say, oh,
Speaker 1: I just believe, but not actually take the time to
Speaker 1: be able to quote out of memory out the holster
Speaker 1: what Granger just quoted and like no and actually no,
Speaker 1: things like I don't think the faith that God is
Speaker 1: calling us to is not founded in information and in
Speaker 1: historical events. And you know, I think that there's a
Speaker 1: lot there, and I try, and I follow. I probably
Speaker 1: need to push myself more to like, Okay, you believe that,
Speaker 1: but why do you believe that? And where did you
Speaker 1: where'd you hear that? And where'd you find that? And
Speaker 1: so now you could say because I believe the Bible,
Speaker 1: because it's a reliable source of historical documents written by
Speaker 1: eyewitnesses during the course of other eyewitnesses that claim supernatural
Speaker 1: events that fulfilled specific thick prophecies that claim to be
Speaker 1: divine in nature and not by human origin. What's hand
Speaker 1: with that? Yep? See you guys, Love you, yege. Thanks
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