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Speaker 1: much old stuff, like old memories and work type Like

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Speaker 1: if you've heard a song of mine, there is a

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Speaker 1: I've documented everything pretty well. I still have all these

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Speaker 1: of these last podcast episodes. It's like these little voice

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Speaker 1: Here it is all right, it's October the fourteenth, right,

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. What's going on? Wait on, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff

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Speaker 1: is uh inside McDonald's. He likes to wait for everybody

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Speaker 1: else to get their food. Let the plays clear out

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Speaker 1: real well, and then before he gets his food, before

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Speaker 1: in the van. Yeah, it's the final excursion. I'm pissed

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Speaker 1: for forever. Yeah. God doesn't mind because he doesn't jive.

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Speaker 1: So I've got those little memory gems for days on

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Speaker 1: I'll eventually play them all in here. So I'm about

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Speaker 1: to run in here soundcheck and Spokane. And I'm proud

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Speaker 1: of myself that I'm back to the podcast. All those

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Speaker 1: dudes that were yelling bring back the podcast, Hey here

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Speaker 1: I am bro I'm back, and I want you guys,

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Speaker 1: please to go to social media and tell me what

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Speaker 1: you would like to hear more of hashtag Grangersmith podcast,

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Speaker 1: Insta or Facebook or Twitter, whatever your favorite is. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you could also watch a Smith's episode if you haven't already,

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Speaker 1: go comment below one of those videos and tell me

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Speaker 1: about what you want to hear on the podcast there

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Speaker 1: because I also check those comments. That's another way. Or

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Speaker 1: you can come to meet and greet, which is how

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Speaker 1: I've been hearing about this recently from people that want

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Speaker 1: meet and greet you could get. You can get a

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Speaker 1: meet and greet for any of my shows on grangersmith

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Speaker 1: dot com. Go to the tour schedule or dates or

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Speaker 1: whatever it's called tab and each tour d eight how

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Speaker 1: a little little square that says meet granger and hit

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Speaker 1: that and then gives you an opportunity to meet me

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Speaker 1: at each and every show and then we could talk

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Speaker 1: about this and if I keep them all like this,

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Speaker 1: this is actually manageable for me because I've sat down,

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Speaker 1: I've only been here like what forty five minutes, and

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Speaker 1: the sucker's done, I get to go do sound check.

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Speaker 1: I want to continue the story from that Frank Rogers

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Speaker 1: story of background song. We released it independently and then

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Speaker 1: that was still before I got a record deal. Now,

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Speaker 1: getting a record deal was a life dream of mine.

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Speaker 1: And that's a whole different story. And I'll tell you soon.

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Speaker 1: See you guys. Happens out of the blue scados Iner

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Speaker 1: Blue last year. When it happenside nothing, the MoES turns

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Speaker 1: right into you. Do it or you can do just

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Speaker 1: to keep her around you. The moon goes down in

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Speaker 1: your back, into your house. One thing was doing another.

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Speaker 1: You love in each other when you can, you never

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Speaker 1: look back. It happens like that. Spanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: the granger Smith podcast. I hope to see you on tour.

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Speaker 1: Go to grangersmith dot com Forward slash tour. See you soon,