WEBVTT - 100% How to get out of a speeding ticket! 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.920 There is a feeling unique to itself. One of the 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.440 only feelings like this in the world is where you're 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.759 just you're going about your day. Everything is normal. Maybe 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.080 you're you're in a hurry, you're trying to get somewhere, 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.120 You're on whatever you're doing, You're on your own schedule, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.280 and somehow you look up in your rearview mirror and 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.319 you see those red and blue lights and there's that 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.600 feeling right there. It's like, I don't know, I don't 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.240 care who you are. You see those red and blue lights, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.280 your heart skips a beat and you go ah, for 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.280 whatever reason you you have that feeling, you pull over. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:50.960 I know you guys know what I'm talking about, and 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.280 I know I have a lot of law enforcement officers 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.080 that listen to this podcast. But I want to talk 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.200 about that, and I want to talk about That's one 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.040 of the many questions we're going to discuss today. So 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.480 I have the secret. Evidently I have the secret on 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.240 how to get out of a speeding ticket every single time, 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.440 and I learned that today. There is one way, there's 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.120 several ways you could try to do it, and you 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.000 might get lucky with it. Like my concealed carry license 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.000 has worked a lot, but there is one way that 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.399 you can get out of it every time. Apparently this 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.440 is foolproof. So we'll listen to this and see if 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.360 you agree or if you disagree. I got my good buddy, Bernie. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.520 We're gonna answer your questions Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.479 If you have anything in the world you want to ask, 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.280 email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Could be about 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.160 any subject and we're gonna hash it out and I'm 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.080 gonna have different guests on here helping me answer these questions. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.760 This is one of my favorites, one of my good buddies, Bernie. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.040 He is so knowledgeable on so many different subjects and 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.360 he's just a good twenty year friend of mine, so 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.520 one of my best friends. This is episode seventy five. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:35.040 Welcome to the granger Smith Podcast. Did try to deesel 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:42.000 my tired at schools? Long line of from my fool 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:53.080 of a hospital down on back's Rangy covind evageon Yeah 0:02:53.560 --> 0:03:02.360 You're that s always a pleasure to have that back 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.080 on the podcast, Bernie Calcot, I'm gonna keep coming back 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.200 And so you guys just vote off how arger drive 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.080 to get to come here to e form about thirty 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.079 five minutes. All right, so that's still wild, but it's 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.440 still a commitment. This is second week in a row. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.040 You're going to be on here. Yeah, people, you're backed 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:28.639 by popular demand of the people. Are you man? You're 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:34.040 making you changing people's lives answering their questions. By the way, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.360 anything you guys want to ask me or Bernie Granger 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.480 Smith podcast at gmail dot com could be any kind 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.880 of question, could be career related, music related, tour related, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.040 work related. Those are like all the same things I 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:55.720 just said in a row, relationship related, the spiritual related, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:04:00.120 whatever it might be. Ask anything and we'll dig into it. Yeah, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.400 and if y'all could give us some challenging questions because 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.440 these things about like divorce and you know, struggling with 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.800 big life thing death and you know it's it's not 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.720 heavy enough so you just yeah. But my one request 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.440 that I will say on these questions is about a 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.440 page about a page like this one I have here 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.320 about a page of a phone is a good link 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.840 if it gets over that linth Like, if you if 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.000 you're asking a question that's like four or five iPhone 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.880 lengths of material, it's kind of hard. So that's my 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.120 only request. I've never said that before, but if you 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.120 can just keep it a little bit more brief, it's 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.600 easier for me to scan through it and then read 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.880 it on the podcast. Yeah, short and sweet, guys, Short 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:49.480 and sweet. But as a guest, I would like to 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.960 take advantage because I have a couple of questions for 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.200 really Granger yep, And these are, you know, things I 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.840 know that y'all are thinking. I'm just gonna ask him. Okay, So, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.760 so I know that you are a pretty tame tongue 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.520 kind of guy, right, But if there's anything in life, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.320 and I'll give you an example of this, just so 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.440 to help you out, give you a second to think 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.680 there's anything in life that will make you curse, what 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:22.320 will that be? It's gonna be a snake. A snake, Yeah, 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.320 you come up on a rattlesnake. Okay, And what what 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.640 is the one that's coming out of your mouth that's like? 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.839 Is it start with an F? Is it a B? 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.320 What do we do? And is it every time or 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.200 is sometimes it's something different. It's probably gonna start with 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:43.200 an F, and it's probably gonna be like if I 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.240 am whole, If Sam We'll just use a scenario of like, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.760 I'm going to get firewood right bringing it to the house, 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.800 and I pick up that stick, country boy, and there's 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.320 a big scorpion on the back side of that stick. 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.040 I'm dropping that stick and there's some stuff coming out 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:05.839 in my mouth. Okay, that's good, So just poisonous reptiles. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:13.159 I'm sorry, Okay, what made me think of that is 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.159 on my drive actually just asked how long it took 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.040 to drive up here. I was trying to get here 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.240 quick and sometimes my foot pushes down a little too 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:25.640 far and I somehow like I just can't see the 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.560 cops until they're like just right there. If you like 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.320 scare me or sneak leslie, my wife will tell you, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.960 like what's coming out of my mouth is oh gosh, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.640 that's my go to. I'm like, oh gosh, but I'm 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.359 cruising at like eighty five and I'm not paying attention 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.240 and I see a cop and every time it's oh, oh, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.360 please don't stop me, Please don't stop me, please'll stop me, 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.040 and the time it works, and then I'm like, okay, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.560 I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that, yes, And then it's 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.000 like once you don't see anymore. You think you're out 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.240 of the woods. But it's like he can catch up 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.960 to us like this, you know, so I think once 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.760 I can't see him'm like, okay, I'm good. I'm good. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.040 This guy, if you were posted on side of Highway 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.560 forty five around nine thirty this morning, thank you for 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.960 not pulling me over. I was definitely speeding, definitely deserved it, 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.800 but I thank you for your grace. So there's a 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.840 police officers listening right now. They're probably I wonder if 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.040 they feel the same way. Like if they go on 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.720 vacation with their family, so they're driving to Florida, they're 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.200 gonna go to Disney World or whatever, and they're from Oklahoma. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.160 Do they think that when they when they go over 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.119 a hill on the highway and there's a highway patrol 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.000 at Florida Patrol? Are you sure? My dad was a 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.960 police officer for thirty five years, that's right. Even after that, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.960 he still carried his badge. So as soon as they 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.160 come up, right next to his driver's license is his badge. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:53.640 He's like, oh, yeah, I was on the fourth thirty 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.600 five years. Oh well, I'm just gonna give you a warning. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.040 Miss Calco you just need to slow down. That's just 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.840 understood language, right, yes, written unwritten law. Yeah. And I 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.720 don't know if we're like giving away a secret that 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.720 we're not supposed to talk about it. But I don't 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.720 think that my dad was too worried about it, and 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.640 my mom would even use that like, oh, my dad 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.320 or my husband's going to be so upset. He's a 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.520 police officer. He know it's not not any speed and 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.400 they would just let her go. So they have like 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.400 back the blue sticker on their back of the car 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.480 or anythink I have two of them right now? You do? 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:32.480 Hundred club member? Yeah? What's the hundred club member Hunter 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.960 Club in the state of Texas. It's uh, it's an 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.600 organization that supports first responders, so police fire department ems. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.840 So we give them money, they give us a sticker 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.600 and maybe it gets us out of a ticket. Maybe 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.439 it doesn't. I don't know, but we're supporting all. That's 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.440 not why you do it. Support supporting you know that 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:59.840 support us. My my golden ticket is my concealed carry license, Okay, 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.199 And I did. I did get a ticket recently that 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.800 there was a different story, and it was it had 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.440 to do with green Hall a venue and the Sheriff's 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.160 department attached to Green Hall you know who you are, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.680 but that that was a different reason. But every other 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:20.080 time since I've had my concealed carry license that has 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.439 led to a warning. Okay, what about your face? Like 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.080 it has any I know it sounds weird, but like, 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.240 have you ever gotten pulled over and somebody comes up 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.760 there like oh, or they see your license, They're like, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.600 this is Granger Smith, what's weird? Not ever, never has 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.439 that happened, but I have had them. Well I'll just 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.439 say they just keep a poker face because then they 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.200 come back, after they go to the car, they come 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:48.600 back and they go, miss Smith, just do me a favorite. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:49.960 Just be safe out there. I'm gon give you warning. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.599 Drive slow, love your music, keep going, keep doing what 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.600 you're doing. But it's like a poker face all the 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.280 way to the end. And you're like, maybe it's because 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.800 they're everybody's on camera now, so they can't they can't 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.440 walk up to the car and go oh dude, did 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:08.800 you Yeah so comment below, so much interesting conversations here 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:13.600 about law enforcement. Yep, I forgot that about your dad. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.240 Yeah you want to answer a question, yep, go for it. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.280 This question is from Simon says, hey, grad your My 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:28.520 name is Simon. I'm thirteen years old. I come from Everson, Pennsylvania. Elverson, 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.160 excuse me, Pennsylvania. I love your music. I've been working 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.200 with my uncle on his dairy farm. I enjoy working 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.320 with the animals. I also started to work in the 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.360 shop a little bit more. The days I work. In 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.400 the mornings, I get up at five point thirty. I 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.079 read the Bible and pray. Then I normally go down 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.760 to work for an hour and a half and come back, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.240 eat breakfast, then do school until two in the afternoon. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.880 Then I go down and milk till six and go 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.520 home eat dinner, finishing his school work I have left. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.520 Keep in mind, I love the job. I've always had 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.280 a dream of having my own dairy farm. I don't 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.080 do this every day, but I'm doing school till about 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.320 four on those days when I don't milk. Weekends, I 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.880 don't work often, but sometimes it ends up help. I 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.080 end up helping. I can't really find the time to 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.000 go out and be doing what I want because it 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.840 feels like I'm either doing school or I'm not on 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.880 the schedule right. I like to ride around. I'm a 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.120 four wheeler, which some days is part of my job. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.880 I also like working at the house. For instance, me 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.000 and my older brother and younger brother we've been working 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.000 on a cabin out on thirty acres in the woods. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.320 I also love archery, hunting. How do I manage all 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.480 of these things? With first third? Yeah? Yeah, it says, 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.520 how do I manage all these things versus my other 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:54.160 siblings and family time? What's this kid's name? Simon? Thirteen? Simon? 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.920 He's a mythical character. I'm convinced. But if he's not, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.000 I'm sending my kids up to stay with you for 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:07.080 like two weeks. That's unbelievable. What thirteen year old? Like? 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:13.439 I don't even work that hard? Like, that's incredible. I've 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:18.240 got how speechless. I pulled this question because it was 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:22.600 so interesting, and I hope that he's not just like 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.200 just trying to get attention from us. But I don't 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.760 think he is. Well he is. It worked, So let's 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.480 start with the morning. Get up at five point thirty, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.120 read Bible and pray. Who does that at thirteen? Yeah? 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.200 I did not. I did not, confession, I did not know. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.600 So to get to your question, how do I manage 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.640 all these things? I think the question is good because 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:49.840 as this, you know, Super teen has shown us everybody 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.719 has like a lot going on, and you know, I 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.000 think the question can be universal to everybody. How do 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.400 you balance you know, all of the stuff. Is that 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.480 kind of the question that he's getting to. Yeah, I 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.680 would say this, Simon. First of all, you say, keep 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.719 in mind, I love this job. I've always had the 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.839 dream of having my own dairy farm. Let me say this, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.280 You having your own dairy farm one day is not 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.839 contingent upon how many hours you put in when you're 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:24.680 thirteen years old. That's completely irrelevant. You're learning work ethic, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.160 which is awesome. But I think you could I think 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.360 you could knock out a day or two from the 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.719 farm and say knock out Mondays, or you don't go 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.800 to the farm on Mondays. Those days you just you 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.080 concentrate on school and you be a kid. Just have fun, man, yep, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.160 go out with your buddies exploring in the woods, get 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.480 on your four wheeler, like you said, do a little 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.240 bit of nothing in the woods on Mondays, or you 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:58.320 pick the day. The danger in what you're doing at 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.240 the age of thirteen is you could have a burnout coming, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.320 and you could be you could be fifteen and go, Man, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.240 I've been doing this for two years and I ain't 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.640 getting up at five thirty anymore. I'm done. I'm done 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.719 with this. And that is a little bit of a 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.320 danger because you're at an age where you're you haven't 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.040 developed that kind of discipline yet to stick with that 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.080 kind of longevity. If you're thirty, this whole email would 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.520 be different. If you're thirty years old, you got three 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.640 kids and a stay at home mother, that's a totally 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.560 different conversation. But at thirteen, I would say, man, back 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.840 off the schedule. Back off the farm schedule. You can't. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.240 You can't get rid of the school and the school work. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.560 You got to do that, But back off of the 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:46.160 farm work, because surely you're you're not bringing home, you're 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.000 not paying the rent, you know, for your family. You're thirteen, 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.880 you shouldn't be, and that's another problem. We should time out. Yeah, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.280 and are you being held on this farm against your 0:14:55.320 --> 0:15:01.480 will to make sure you're safe? Simon, Okay, you shouldn't. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.080 You shouldn't be. No one should depend on you. This 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.200 is the year twenty twenty one, now, not eighteen eighty one. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.360 No one should be depending on you as a thirteen 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.240 year old to bring home money to pay for anything 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.680 other than things that you like. Like your money at 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.480 thirteen that you earn should be a learning the value 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.200 of a dollar and be using that money you earn 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.080 for extra things that you don't need that you just want, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.200 right like a new pair of boots that you really like, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:37.400 or a nice twenty two whatever, that's what you But so, 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.000 I just don't want you to get burned out, and 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.000 I don't want you to you don't You certainly don't 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.600 have to impress me and Bernie by saying all this stuff. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.800 You don't have to impress us. That's that's way more 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.880 than my schedule. I got a lot of stuff going on. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.120 Bernie has a lot of stuff going on that's more 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:57.400 than both of us do. Yeah, so, yeah, I think that. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.360 I also think there's a lot as far as owning 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:08.400 your own dairy farm in the future that's probably gonna 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.520 happen if you have experience in a lot of different things. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.200 I never, especially at thirteen, not even like you know 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.480 twenty three, wanted to be a business owner. But I 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.920 feel like I moved into that role, and it kind 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.040 of like started to go that way. I'm glad that 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.080 I did a lot of different things that I was 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:37.080 able to draw experience from to then help me with 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.000 what was in front of me. Great point, man, such 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.800 a great point. What you could learn from being a 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.240 dairy farmer. You could do that at eighteen or nineteen 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.240 and be done twenty five, twenty six. You could be 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:54.240 done right now. It's not pivotal on now. You need 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:59.320 these experiences. You need these life experiences. Diversify your life, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.520 if at all other than just you're thirteen. Just have fun. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.159 You're at the end of adolescence. I know what you 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.040 feel like an adult, which is awesome, But you're still 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.080 at the end of being a kid. So don't leave 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.320 being a kid so early. Stay there a little bit longer, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.600 you know what I mean. No, absolutely, yeah, definitely stay there. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.920 It's gonna it's all gonna happen really fast, So stay 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.360 there as long as you can. And for everybody else 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.719 out there who feels like they're kind of just burning 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.199 the candle at both ends and they're working for this 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.199 or for that, I think that there's some truth and 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:40.000 everything that Griz is saying about diversifying and having new 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:44.880 experiences and just enjoying life. I think that a lot 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.480 of times we get so caught up and working so 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.199 hard and burning ourselves out to buy things that we 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.159 don't need, but then we end up just kind of 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.119 getting into the cycle. And I think once you can 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.160 kind of just gain some perspective and try to find 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.200 some balance in life. Simon, this is for use for 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.560 anybody else, Like I think that we both have talked 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.800 a lot about trying to find that balance, you know, 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:14.560 in our life of not just work and family, but it's, 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:19.760 you know, it's everything. It's it's you know, having diversity 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.879 in your life and being kind of present in this 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.439 moment and gaining from all of those different experiences to 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.240 just make yourself a more well rounded person to be 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:35.000 able to enjoy some things. I love my kids to death, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.840 but if I had to spend twenty four to seven 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.680 with them waking up at five point thirty, and it's 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.840 like sometimes them getting to experience different things make them 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.480 miss me and like buy me the same, and so 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.000 then we get to enjoy that time back together. I 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.560 think you'll start to enjoy the dairy farm more if 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.720 you spend some time riding four wheelers and whatever else 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.200 you guys do up there. Something you haven't mentioned yet, 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.320 that you haven't gotten it yet, that's going to throw 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.680 a monkey wrench in this whole schedule. And that's girls. Yeah, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.080 as soon as that comes in, then you're in trouble 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.560 because then your schedule is really going to get messed up. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.560 And last thing I want to say is when we 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.640 come close to Elverson, Pennsylvania, I want to swing by, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.639 take the tour bus there and get us some milk 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:24.520 from you. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, all right, question, good story. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.120 Brianna says, how do you write a song? And what's 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.080 the process of writing a song? And I answer that 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.479 question so many times and I feel like I probably 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.639 can never answered enough because people still want to know 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.080 how do you write a song? It's good because you're 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.280 a songwriter and you're on here too, so you're going 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.560 to give a different perspective. I've said my typical process 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:50.239 is I collect my ideas during the normal, normal day, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.760 and then when I'm ready to write, I then harvest 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.560 those ideas. So like I'll if I hear a title 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.280 or think of a title, I'll write it in my 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.840 notes on my phone. If I think, think of a melody, 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.840 or if I mess around with the guitar, I'll hum 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.560 it into my phone and then when I'm ready to write, 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.120 which I do in the mornings, I'll get a cup 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.240 of coffee and I'll try to find the marriage between 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.160 the right line and the right melody and see if 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.000 that kick starts. Something doesn't always start that way. But 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.879 that's like an average songwriting day. And I haven't written 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.080 since the new album, but that's an average day when 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.240 I plan on it. How about you, Well, first, I 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.239 love that you write in the mornings. I didn't know that. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.240 I listened to the podcast from last week with Tyler, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:39.800 which I absolutely loved. Tyler is a machine. But you 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:44.600 had said something in that podcast about kind of making 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:49.320 decisions and you know, kind of heavy bandwidth stuff, being like, 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.720 you know, waking up early. That's why these people do 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.119 it early, so you're kind of at your most restored 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.520 state mentally and physically. And so I love that, And 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.159 go back and watch that podcast with Tyle or if 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.800 you haven't seen he already, I think that Griz can 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:10.760 give a more professional approach because he's a professional and 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:15.600 I would be uh kind of amateur. Maybe there's some 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.760 like kind of weekend warrior singer songwriters out there, and 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.480 that's me and you, okay, where we're having a conversation now. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:28.040 For me, I think that it a lot of times 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:34.439 it does start with just sitting down and playing instruments. 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.240 So there's there hasn't been a ton of times where 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.400 the lyrics have just kind of jumped out. It's more 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:45.879 of I sit down and piano. Like recently, I just 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.399 started kind of playing this progression and I was like, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.439 oh man, I like that, and then I kind of 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.600 just start to feel more of the mood of it 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.119 and let it, let it kind of like speak to 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.760 like an experience, like what is this, what are these tones? 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.520 What are these vibrations? Kind of like telling me and 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:11.160 then trying to like pull an experience that matches, like, oh, 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:15.240 that is going to be really well experienced in these 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.320 minor to the major. You know this is going to be. 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.200 This is more upbeat, and like this is going to 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:28.040 fit there, and from there the lyrics I don't have. 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:30.679 I don't give it. I can't say I don't have 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:32.800 I don't give it the amount of time that you 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:37.840 probably do. Let me just say because I agree, but 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.120 at the same time, the difference is I just have 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.640 to There's times when I have to write a batch 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:48.920 of songs and you don't, and that's awesome that you don't. Yeah, 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:51.280 sometimes you just have a song that has to come 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:53.920 out of you. Yeah. Yeah. I think that I've moved 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:56.960 into a place where that's more of the case, and 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.840 so I have the ability to just kind of let 0:22:59.880 --> 0:23:03.639 them slowly progress and come out and like, not force it. 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:07.360 I'll just but I will say songwriting is a craft 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.359 and it is a discipline, and the more, just like 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.240 anything else, the more that you do it, the better 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:16.800 that you were going to be at it. I participated 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.640 this was a couple of years ago, maybe a few 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:25.600 years ago. I participated in a songwriting experiment called seven 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.600 and seven. And I know that sounds like a drink, 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.720 don't it. So yeah, I think it was called seven 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.159 and seven and basically you had to write seven songs 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:37.000 in seven days, and they could be complete garbage, but 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.280 you had to start and you had to finish seven 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:43.360 songs in seven days. And out of that seven day 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:45.320 I stuck to it. And there's kind of a community 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.720 of people that were like, hey, let's do this, and 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:50.080 you know, you can post it a SoundCloud legal ink 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:54.320 here and people can listen. And five of those songs 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:59.439 were absolute garbage. One of the songs was decent. It 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:02.480