1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: It says, I was wondering if you believe in what 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: psychic mediums do? They supposedly, this is parentheses. They supposedly 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: connect with people who have passed on and create can 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: relate messages from deceased loved ones. Do I believe? Yes, 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: I do. I do believe. And when you say you believe, 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: you're not saying you endorse. No, you're saying and you 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: think that there is something happening yeah, yes, and it 8 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: is not good. Yes, okay, Yes, I believe that there 9 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: is something supernatural about some of them. I know that 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: there's a million fakes. Well, there's a million frauds. They're 11 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: just an artists, they're just tricking. I do believe that 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: there's a handful that are actually harnessing a supernatural power. So, yes, 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: there is a there's a belief, a non endorsed belief, 14 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: that they are harnessing a supernatural power, and I highly 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: discourage it. It is highly discouraged in my faith in 16 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Chad Warren guests on the podcast Today Reoccurring guests. 17 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: One of my faves, one of the crowds faves. People 18 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: request you now, man, I'm super excited to be here. 19 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: Here's what I'll say. It is a lot of fun. 20 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: It is just a lot of fun to come in 21 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 1: here and I get excited. Well, you have been here. 22 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: We've been chatting for about an hour before we turn 23 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: on the mics, and I always do this, man, you 24 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: come in here, we talk for like a solid hour 25 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: and we say some really deep stuff. And I think 26 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: this could have been a podcast. This could have been 27 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: a good podcast episode. So we're answering questions today. This 28 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: is what we do a lot of times on this podcast. 29 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: If you have anything for me, email Granger Smith Podcast 30 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Could be any kind of question, 31 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: could be a shout out, could be a hey, you 32 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: could just say it's my birthday and I want you 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: guys to say birthday. We could do that. These questions 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: have been rolling in for about a year now, and 35 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: they are all over the place. We're talking relationship questions, 36 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: life questions, deep questions about God, or questions about football 37 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: or music or I mean, it's all over the place, 38 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: and I'm going to dive in, you know me. I 39 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: like to start off with a couple of soft pitches here. 40 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: So this first one says, hey you and your my 41 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 1: name is James, I met you the other night in Lafayette, Louisiana. 42 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: It was great to meet you before the show was 43 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: it was an awesome night. I got to stand in 44 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: front on the front row and fish bump you and 45 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: get a guitar pick it said. It was great. But 46 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: I'm fourteen years old. I want to learn how to 47 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: play guitar. I've wanted to ask you if you have 48 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: any tips for learning how to play I already have 49 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: a guitar. I just want to learn to play it. 50 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: I love your podcast and music. Thanks well, James shout 51 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: out to Louisiana. Thanks for writing in Buddy fourteen. Do 52 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: you play any instruments? I played guitar mandolin, and I 53 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: was forced to take piano lessons back in the day. 54 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: But I'm grateful for it because I learned the scales 55 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: and kind of note placement and things like that. Do 56 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: you remember how you first started playing for James's sake, 57 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: I yes, So we had a classical guitar, Old Gibson, 58 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: and so you learn a lot about kind of yeah 59 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: dexterity and fingerpicking and things like that. But I couldn't 60 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: wait to get to a steel string and then eventually 61 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: an electric guitar. Do you remember how the first how 62 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: it first started for you, it was it a book. 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: For me, it was a book for me, it was lessons. 64 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: It was a guy named Larry. It's out there Larry 65 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: and Montana, Larry and Montana, and he talked about himself 66 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: and the third person, Like I remember, we were sitting 67 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: in this room, just me and Larry, and we're sitting 68 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: there and I've got my guitar and he's facing me 69 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: and he says, Okay, now Larry's gonna play a g ooh. 70 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: And I was like, it's creepy. Oh you're Larry, got it? Okay. 71 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: It's then he's like, okay, now Larry's gonna do It. 72 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: Was the strangest, but I learned a g chord and 73 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: it was a lot of scales, okay, a lot of 74 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: finger scales. But for me it was I learned. Actually, 75 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: you said you're fourteen. I learned at fourteen, and I 76 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,559 Speaker 1: pulled the It was because some friends of mine were 77 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: playing guitar in middle school and I just thought it 78 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: was the coolest thing. So I thought I want to 79 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: do that, and the girls liked it when the guys 80 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: could play guitar, so I thought, that's cool. No girl 81 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: looked at me, so I thought, maybe one will look 82 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: at me if I play guitar. So there was one 83 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: in my closet for my grandmother. Was actually classical, which 84 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: is great and I and it's kind of the point 85 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: I want to make here in a second. They have 86 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:57,119 Speaker 1: nylon strings and they don't hurt your fingers as bad 87 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: as the steel strings do. They're a lot softer, right 88 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: getting those calluses. Yeah, And it feels like the strings 89 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: are further from the neck. Yeah, like they're higher up. 90 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: So you've got to be very intentional about fret placement. 91 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: So I learned there was a book inside the guitar case. 92 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: And this was a guitar inside because my grandmother tried 93 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: to play it and didn't put it in our house. 94 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: So there was a book in there and it said 95 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: where to put it had to fretboard and little dots, 96 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: and so I just looked at the page and lined 97 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: up my fingers to where the where the dots were 98 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: lined up. And if you do that, all you have 99 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: to do is learn three chords and you could play 100 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 1: a song essentially just two chords you could play if 101 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 1: you learn e and a very simple positions E and 102 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: A are the first things I learned, and you could 103 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: play a full song just E and A back and forth. 104 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: But when you learn three chords and you learn a D, 105 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: then you could play a full any song you hear 106 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: on the radio pretty much. But that being said, today 107 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: YouTube is around. YouTube is such a great source for 108 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: learning instruments, so you could do it free. You don't 109 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: have to go see Larry and listen to him talking 110 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: with Larry. You could watch YouTube. And I remember a 111 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: big step was I was good at playing as long 112 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: as there was no other things happening, like keeping rhythm 113 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: and stand on track, and then learning to play and 114 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: sing at the same time. That was a major hurdle 115 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, and you don't have to do that 116 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: right away. Learn your guitar first, decently, and then you'll 117 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: just want to sing along with the guitar. So you're 118 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: on the right path, James. The first thing that you 119 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: need is you need to want to do it, and 120 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: then you need a guitar, and then and you have 121 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: both of that, you're ready. But this is what I 122 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: was gonna say earlier though. What you can do though 123 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: with your guitar is you could take it to a 124 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: local shop and have them put nylon strings on your 125 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: acoustic guitar. And they're gonna think you're crazy. And you say, 126 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: Granger Smith told me to do it on a podcast, 127 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: but I've done it many times. You could take the 128 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: steel strings off your guitar, replace it with eye on strings, 129 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: and it allows you to play longer periods of time 130 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: without it hurting. Because your your fingers tips right now 131 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: are just soft. They don't have any callouses. So you 132 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: don't want that to be to inhibit your learning because 133 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: it hurts that. You don't want that. But right back 134 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: in James to try this out, and and right back in, 135 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: let's get an update from you. Let's go to another question. 136 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get another. Okay, here we go. Here's 137 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: another softball. Hey Grande, this isn't necessarily a podcast question. 138 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: I'm reading it on the podcast. But said, I'm in 139 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: the market for a new smart watch. I saw yours 140 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: on an episode of The Smith of just wondering what 141 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: model it is. I get this question all the time, 142 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: and that people don't realize it's just an Apple watch. 143 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: But this is just a wat. You're a commando, right. 144 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: It has a case that I got for fourteen dollars 145 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: on Amazon, this little strap, this band, and it's just 146 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: it's strong. It doesn't it protects it more even though 147 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: it's cheap. But I love the Apple Watch. It took 148 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: me a while to get in the rhythm of it, 149 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: but once I got in the rhythm of it. The 150 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: alarm is probably my favorite thing. It vibrates so I 151 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: can get up before my wife and she doesn't hear 152 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: me get up. She doesn't hear the alarm go off. 153 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: So then I have I have the temperature outside always 154 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: on my face, my watch face, which is great because 155 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: I wake up in a new city and before I 156 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: get dressed, I can be like, oh, it's forty two 157 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: degrees south side. Yeah yeah. And then I also this 158 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: face has this and all the Apple Watch faces are free, 159 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: but this one has the ability to see where the 160 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 1: sun is in the sky, and I could I could 161 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: track it like this and go, well, the sun broke. 162 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: It broke the horizon at six twenty six this morning, 163 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: and it's going to be it's going to hit the 164 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: horizon again at a twelve PM, which that's probably helpful 165 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: for hunting when you know thirty minutes prior to first 166 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: light and after. And so the night before you go 167 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: on a hunt, you go, what times should I set 168 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: my alarm? We want to be in the blind or 169 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: out in the field wherever you're going, thirty minutes before 170 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: the sun boom the sun comes up. That's nice. Whatever. So, yeah, 171 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: you have smart watch, I don't have it on today. 172 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: You usually have the garment, right, I do have the garment. 173 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: And for me it was a I don't need a 174 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: smart watch as much as I needed a fitness tracker, 175 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: which it's different. I would say absolutely the Apple is 176 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: probably the best smart watch out there, but in terms 177 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: of tracking fitness, it has some Like my wife has 178 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: an Apple Watch, and so we'll both do a workout 179 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: and I'm tracking heart rate, intermittent heart rate, respiratory. I 180 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: can track all kinds of things and see stats for 181 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: days on Like I remember going for a run and 182 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: it told me that I spent more time on my 183 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: left foot than on my right foot, So all kinds 184 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: of cool things. My wife and I do the same workout. 185 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: We finish and maybe it's a fifteen minute workout, it 186 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: says that she's only been active for like a minute 187 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: and a half. Interesting, and she does the whole Apple 188 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: fit the little circles. So I think Apple's an incredible 189 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: smart watch, but I think there are better fitness trackers. 190 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: So it depends on what your goal is. And I've 191 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: had a garment before. Parker actually wears it now, but 192 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: it's also it just it's the best in the field 193 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: for GPS. So if you're hiking, altitude, perimetric pressure, snow skiing, 194 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: anything in the mountains, garmin corners of the market, they 195 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: are the best. Apple is going to depend on your 196 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: cell service, and the garment depends on the satellite. It 197 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: picks up the satellites, so doesn't need to sell tower 198 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: at all. Are you ready to get into this? Those 199 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: are nice just one of soft on ramps into are 200 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: we Getting Crazy? Series? I'm not going, well, you're gonna 201 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: pick oh, this is what we do. This is kind 202 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: of a newer development when I first started, not that 203 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: I'm like a seasoned vet. So let me say a 204 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,079 Speaker 1: couple of things. One, when you email Grangersmith Podcast at 205 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Try you don't have to, but please 206 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: try to make it readable and shorter. If it's a novel, 207 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: it's really hard to put on the podcast. And the 208 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: second thing is. Please don't send them twice. I know 209 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: that a lot of you guys I could recognize some 210 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: mover names, are sending it multiple times in hopes that 211 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: you know you're going to just put another ball in 212 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 1: the in the bingo and the hopper hopper. So please 213 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: don't do that because it messes me up a little bit. 214 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: I put everybody's email in the queue, so don't worry 215 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: if you haven't heard it yet, it's just in the queue. 216 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: So here's a couple for you. Chad, Hey, Granger needs 217 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: some advice. Two light questions of faith and music. No 218 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: real friends, psychic mediums, going against the grain, any of 219 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: those pop out? Didn't Garth Brooks have a song going 220 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 1: against the Grain? Yeah, folks call me the Maverick. It was. 221 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: It was the name of the album against the Grain. Okay, 222 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: let's see here. Well we've talked a lot about that. 223 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was not that wasp win and out. 224 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 1: The song was called against Have you ever had Garth 225 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: on this I no, I have not know we should 226 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: have him on here, Yeah I don't. I don't think 227 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: Garth would do good on this podcast. He'd be too 228 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: nice to everybody. Yeah, he's he's agree You've never met everybody. 229 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: He seems like he's very agreeable. Really, yeah, that's fun anything. 230 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: So in order to be good on this podcast, you 231 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: kind of have to You gotta be a little You 232 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: gotta ruffle some feathers. Not necessarily, but you know me 233 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: and you you're you're straight up. You have to be honest. 234 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: You want to be honest here, Yeah around a campfire. 235 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: You can't always you can't always be butterflies and bunnies. 236 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: We have to read against the grain now, Okay, because 237 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: we brought it up, says Hey Granger, just recently started 238 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: to find out about you and your company and your music, 239 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: and I cannot be happier to have found you. Thank you. 240 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: So my name is Sam. I'm nineteen years old. I'm 241 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: from a small city in Massachusetts. My question to you 242 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: is going against the grain or finding your own path? 243 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: Is it worth it? Because everyone I know from my 244 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: school went to college and wants to be a plumber, 245 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: and I want to be a plumber. Do you have 246 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: any advice? So everyone in your school is going to college, 247 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: but you want to go against the grain and not 248 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: go to college and be a plumber. I mean that 249 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: I don't see anything wrong with being a plumber. That 250 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: the plumbers make really good money and are in high demand. Yes, 251 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: especially today. You're always glad when you need a plumber 252 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: and there's a plumber available, and you're always liked, especially 253 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: doing that ice storm. Yeah yeah, dude, Yeah, Sam. What's 254 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: awesome about this email is that you already know what 255 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: you want to do, and probably most of your friends 256 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: that are going to college don't know yet, and so 257 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: that that's the default is going to college, which is 258 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: a good thing. If you don't know what to do, 259 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: get some more education and you'll figure it out in 260 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: the way. You want to be a plumber, dude, I 261 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: think I think that's awesome. You could also go to 262 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: some kind of tech school for plumbing, right, Yeah, And 263 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: it's probably like a journeyman or some sort of kind 264 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: of process where you study and train, and I mean, 265 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, but it seems like if you think 266 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: about why most of the people are wanting to go 267 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: to college, it's so that they can figure out what 268 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: they want to be when they grow up. Right, If 269 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: you already know that, you save a ton of time 270 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: and money. My nephew has decided he's in his senior year. 271 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: I think he's going into a year of high school. 272 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: He's already decided he wants to be an electrician. His 273 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: sisters both went to college, but he's just like, you 274 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: know what, I just I want to be an electrician 275 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: and he loves it. So he's already started right now 276 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: in high school working with a local electrician and getting experience, 277 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: and he just loves it. And he's going to save 278 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: a ton of time and money and just get going 279 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: making a difference in the world through being an electrician. 280 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: I think you can do the same thing, absolutely said. 281 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: My question is my question to you, is going against 282 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: the grain or finding your own path worth it? Yes? 283 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: For you? Yes, not always. If you're talking about painting 284 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: your fingernails black, i'd probably said hump the brakes a 285 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, it's like, what's your what's your 286 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: end game? Yeah? You do? You want to go a gett? 287 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: Your end game is right? Yeah? How about I just 288 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: pulled this one up lost at seventeen. Yeah, Hey, Grangeer, 289 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: I'm a seventeen year old from New Hampshire's currently taking 290 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: my ged I have very big goals for my life, 291 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: but I don't know how to get to where I 292 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: want to be. Do you have any advice on how 293 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: to chase your dream? Is there any advice on how 294 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: to just feel like I'm doing right by myself and 295 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: by my family. I want to feel like I'm making 296 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: myself and my family proud. I love the podcast and 297 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: the music. Sincerely a Lost Teenager. There's definitely like three 298 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: questions in there. There's you know, how do you achieve 299 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: a goal? And then doing right by your family or 300 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: honoring your family and their reputation. It's great that he 301 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: cares about that. Yeah, you're not so lost, buddy. You 302 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: might feel lost, but you're writing emails like you're on 303 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: a really good track here. You're asking the right questions, 304 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: which is a great starting place. I want to start 305 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: this by just saying it's seventeen. There's just a lost 306 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: feeling that just goes with that being seventeen, because you're 307 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: coming out of adolescence and into manhood. So anytime you're 308 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: making that transition out of adolescence and in the manhood, 309 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: you're going to feel like you're in uncharted waters. You're 310 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: in a new territory here. And when you're in uncharted waters, 311 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: what do you feel a little bit lost. So there 312 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: is a natural feeling like if you were saying this 313 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: and you were forty or thirty five, we've got a 314 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: deeper issue of being lost at thirty five, but lost 315 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: at seventeen is kind of normal. So if anyone's let 316 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: me say this too. A lot of people write similar questions, 317 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: and so if you don't hear your specific question answered, 318 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: you're gonna find yourself in some of these. And there's 319 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: a lot of lost teenagers that email this podcast, and 320 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: I could kind of speak to all that by saying, 321 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: if you're fifteen through nineteen and you're feeling lost, don't 322 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:53,239 Speaker 1: worry right now, don't worry. That's pretty natural. Yeah, And 323 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: I would say that, you know, for for guys especially, 324 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: we put a lot of phasis on what we do 325 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: and how that relates to our value. Right if my occupation, 326 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: my career, if I've made a name for myself, how 327 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: I know what I'm able to contribute to society, And 328 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of value placed 329 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: on that, and we got to be careful that we 330 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: don't find our identity in that or our actual value 331 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 1: as a human being in what we do. Then where 332 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: do you see that social media, you see that that 333 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: value placement happened through social media where you see that 334 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: guy is doing this and he is successful. I'm doing 335 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: this and I'm not. I'm lesser value right, And even 336 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: like when you meet somebody new, you're like, hey, my 337 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: name is so and so what do you do? The 338 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: question is what is your occupation? There's an association when 339 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: you first meet somebody that I can fill in the 340 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: blanks about who they are based on what they do, 341 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: and I think that's a danger. So at the age 342 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: of seventeen, the questions I think you're asking good questions 343 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: to kind of dial in on your goals, whether they're 344 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: appropriate goals, honoring family, those kind of things come out 345 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 1: of figuring out kind of what you're wired to do. 346 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: So you're going to assess passion, skills, opportunities, maybe what 347 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 1: you've been equipped with or trained with, or what you 348 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 1: find yourself doing anyway, what people around you affirm that 349 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: you're good at, and what resources you have. Those all 350 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: are going to play a role in setting trajectory, identifying goal, 351 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: and you'll also identify are their other things you know, 352 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: as you look towards that end goal that you need 353 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: to make sure are in the picture, and you're asking 354 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 1: any advice on how to do right by myself and 355 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: by my family. I just want to feel like I'm 356 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: making myself and my family proud. So that's going to 357 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: relate always back to work, ethic, integrity, honesty. These are 358 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: core moral values that Christians find in the Bible. And 359 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: where are you? Where's your moral compass? Where are you 360 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: basing your being right? Doing right? What does that word 361 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: mean to you? Is something you're going to think about 362 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: at seventeen. That's it's a great thing to think about. 363 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:27,159 Speaker 1: What is right? What is right? Now? I'm going to 364 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: tell you that that right is being honest, making an 365 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: honest living, working hard, treating others right, good, treating others well, 366 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 1: you know, treating others as you would want yourself treated. 367 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: You do that, it doesn't matter how much money you make, 368 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter your career status, doesn't matter how many 369 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: followers you have on Facebook. If you're doing that, then 370 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: that's how you answer your question making yourself and your 371 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: family proud. Your family is proud of you because you're 372 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: a good kid. You're honest, you work hard, you're passionate, 373 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: you are a man of integrity, those are things that 374 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: your family goes Yeah, very proud of my son, right Yeah. 375 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: And what's cool about what you're saying is it doesn't 376 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 1: matter what your occupation or what you're actually doing. It's 377 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 1: how you're doing it that represents and reflects on your family. 378 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: And it's honesty, integrity, you know, doing what you're saying 379 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,640 Speaker 1: you're going to do, showing up on time, like completing 380 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: the task, maybe going above and beyond, Like these are 381 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 1: things that regardless of what you put your hand to, 382 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,959 Speaker 1: it's the how you do it that's going to make 383 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: it matter what you do, it's how you do it. 384 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 1: I love that chat. I think of myself sometimes every 385 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: once in a while drive by like burger King, and 386 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: the stop pops in my head, like kind I kind 387 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: of want to work there. I kind of want to 388 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: work there in the kitchen, just to see how I 389 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: could move up in the chain of burger king. And 390 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: that means just what Chad said, showing up on time 391 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: to burger king, make an impression with the manager, making 392 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: every burger perfect, you know, doing the job that you're 393 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: supposed to do really well, taking pride and making that 394 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: burger and and cleaning up your area and being nice 395 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: to customers, being in a good mood. And it's so 396 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: interesting to think that if you did all of those 397 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: things day by day by day, how long it would 398 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: take you to become manager, and then how long it 399 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: would take you to be a regional manager and maybe 400 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: own a franchise or two. It's an interesting thought. You're 401 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: asking all the right questions. You're not a lost teenager. 402 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: You're right on track, buddy. All right, let's do we 403 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: got We got time on this segment for another. I 404 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: have what should I do? I have dating as an adult? 405 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: I have personal problem, dude, dating as an adult. Let 406 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: it out there. We've dealt with a lot of teenage questions. 407 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: Listen how he starts this? Hey Granger and hopefully Chad 408 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: really right on? Who is this? Greg? Greg shout out says, 409 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: I'm thirty two. I've been single for roughly seven years. 410 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 1: Because of your podcast, I've been on a journey recently 411 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: to better myself. I found a group of peers in 412 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: my area that go country dancing a few times a week. 413 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: I've grown into friends. They have grown into friends over 414 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: the last few weeks that have been that have been 415 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: a really good group of friends. We went to one 416 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: of the country dance clubs here in Phoenix. Recently, I 417 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: was able to get the attention of one of the 418 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: shot girls. We've been texting, but it's sporadic and short lived. 419 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: I found out she was talking to another guy, but 420 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 1: she wants to see where this goes with me. I know, 421 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: and I know from you and Amber that Amber was 422 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: sort of seeing someone. When you met, I realized that 423 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: we just met and there's no way for me to 424 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: have any sort of feelings about this because we just met. 425 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,719 Speaker 1: But is there any advice that says Greg Patterson saw 426 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: him twenty three, so he needs you on here for 427 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: a reason. Chad, So this is awesome. You're sitting here 428 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: so yet to answer the Amber thing. When I met Amber, 429 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: she was kind of dating a guy. They weren't She'll 430 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: tell you they weren't serious, but they were kind of dating. 431 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: And I've looked at that often and thought, well, usually 432 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: the girls that are worth it are at least seeing 433 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: somebody or or you know, they're on the market. You know. 434 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: So what I told Amber what happened when I knew 435 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: that she had been talking to a guy, And this 436 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: was a round Palatine's Day when we met, I told her, 437 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,479 Speaker 1: I just because she said, I have feelings for you? 438 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 1: Is this real? These feelings real? And I said, they 439 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: are for me too. But you have been talking to 440 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: this guy, so in respect for him, you need to 441 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: just call him and say, I need to completely cut 442 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 1: it off, because regardless of if anything happens with me 443 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: and you, this is a sign that you have a 444 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: wondering eye from this guy. And so Amber's like, yeah, 445 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: I agree. So I said, regardless of if we ever 446 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: see each other again, you should break it off with 447 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: this guy and just be single. So she did, and 448 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: about four weeks after she did that, because she texted 449 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: me that she did the next day. About four weeks 450 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: after that was when we had our first coffee at 451 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: Starbucks and and I felt I felt good about it. 452 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: Wasn't like it wasn't like she was dating somebody and 453 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: then wanted to try me and see if that worked. 454 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: You know, it was. I let a month go by. 455 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: So anyway, that's that's our story, and that's probably what 456 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: you heard before. And I don't know necessarily this this 457 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: shot the story of the shotgirl in Phoenix Dance Club. 458 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: What would what would you say to him? I mean 459 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: I have my wife and I before we got married 460 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: and met or and were dating, we were both dating 461 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: other people when we first met, So that's another example 462 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, and we were hanging out in a 463 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: large group of friends and we happened to meet each other. 464 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: We had some great conversation and I thought, man, she 465 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: is really something else, and then I felt bad, like, 466 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: wait a minute, Yeah, I'm in a relationship, so it 467 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: wasn't for and so my relationship took its course, hers 468 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: took its course, and then it was a year later 469 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: that we then kind of rekindled and got together. And man, 470 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: once we started hanging out, it was any and every 471 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: excuse to see each other again, Like in my book, 472 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: But I think that the key here if as you 473 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: hang out in groups and you identify, because by the 474 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: time you're thirty, you're kind of done with the game exactly. 475 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: You're not trying to figure out who you are and 476 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: who you like and who you're compatible with. Usually you've 477 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: you've had enough friendships and you've done enough life that 478 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: you kind of have figured out your likes and dislikes. 479 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: And so if there's enough compatibility with you and this girl, 480 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: and if you if you can't figure that out unless 481 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: you have a few more times of hanging out and 482 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: going on dates. Then I would say, yeah, pursue, But 483 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: I think it's on you to pursue, not for you 484 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: to wait for a sign that you might have a shot. 485 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,719 Speaker 1: I think you you pursue, You go and say, hey, 486 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: I like you, this is a I just want to 487 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: see if yeah, if we enjoy time together. Yeah, you're right, 488 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: and so Greg, I would say the same thing for you. 489 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: I would say that I said to Amber. I would 490 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: go to this girl and say, listen, I like you. 491 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: I think there's something, there's something really special between us. 492 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: The fact that you're talking to a guy and you 493 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: say you want to see where this goes between us, 494 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: the fact if you're even saying that you should cut 495 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: it off with this guy. It's the same thing un 496 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: told Damber, because it's not fair to that guy, and 497 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: it's saying something about how you really feel about him. 498 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: You're obviously obviously she obviously doesn't real Yeah, there's a 499 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: level of discontent or not quite enough that she's even 500 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: willing to consider other options. Yeah, and if she doesn't 501 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: agree to that, move on pursuit over. If she says 502 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: I kind of want to just see if you're better 503 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: than this guy, and if you're not, I'll go back 504 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 1: to him. It's a bad sign. Yeah, you don't want 505 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: to be in a You're not in an audition. 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Before I stop 614 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: these ads, before I before I go back to the podcast, 615 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: I gotta tell y'all too ee g Apperil Summer launch 616 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 1: coming up this week on Friday. Ye Apperil Summer Launch. 617 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I'm gonna make sure I'm saying that 618 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 1: on the on the right day once today. Yep, that's 619 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: coming Friday, June eighteenth, eug Parol Summer Launch ten A. 620 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: Back to the podcast. You all right, let's dig into this. 621 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: We have this one says, ever thought about making gospel music? 622 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: Question mark, Oh what should I do? Personal problem? No 623 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: real friends, psychic mediums. I definitely want to get that 624 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: to that at some point today. Question for the podcast. 625 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: Any of those pop up? I want to hear your 626 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: take on gospel music and then get another stuff. This 627 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: comes up a lot, says hey Grader. My name is David. 628 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: I'm nineteen years old from North Carolina. Shout out to 629 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: North Carolina. As a kid, I grew up in church 630 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: and listening to Southern gospel. So happens. I'm going to 631 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: school to be a youth pastor and Bible teacher in Florida. 632 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,240 Speaker 1: I was wondering if you thought about making a gospel 633 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 1: album or something along those lines. I've been showing you 634 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: to a lot of my ministry buddies in your podcast, 635 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 1: and I may have got a couple of city slickers 636 00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: addicted along with me. Would love to hear back from you. 637 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: Thanks for what you do. You're changing lives. Ye you well, 638 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 1: Thank you, David. I appreciate that, buddy very much. Here's 639 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 1: a nineteen year old that doesn't seem lost at all. 640 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: He's dialed in. He's dialed in speaking like a much 641 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: older man here. Yeah, this question comes up a lot, 642 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 1: and I'm never really sure how to answer it, but 643 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,760 Speaker 1: I do get this question. Will you sing gospel music 644 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 1: or worship music or make a worship or gospel album? 645 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 1: And I don't know because this is and I think 646 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,479 Speaker 1: I've said this maybe before. It starts with a song. 647 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,320 Speaker 1: Any album in my life always starts with a song, 648 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: and a song will usually dictate the mood of the 649 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: forthcoming album. So and so for you, is that a 650 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:56,399 Speaker 1: there is a story that shapes into a lyric that 651 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,800 Speaker 1: you then put music to. A cow does when you 652 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 1: say it starts with a song, there's something that you 653 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: need to express, and so there is a song that 654 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,839 Speaker 1: comes out of that, and then it more songs come 655 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,440 Speaker 1: like what do you mean by that? So in a 656 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,319 Speaker 1: season like I'm exactly like I'm in right now, that's 657 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: a season after an album release. We're about six months 658 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,520 Speaker 1: fast forward from the last release. So this is about 659 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: the season when I'll start thinking, somebody will say something, 660 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: I'll read a title or something in a book, and 661 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,239 Speaker 1: I'll think that would be a great song, and then 662 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 1: eventually I will write. I'll start writing, and then as 663 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: I get one that I really like, I'll think, Wow, 664 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 1: this is this is this is cool, this is a 665 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,319 Speaker 1: new version of me, this is the newest version of me, 666 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,359 Speaker 1: and then from that can spawn an entire album of 667 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: songs in that same vein that same thread. So when 668 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: I think of a gospel album or gospel song or 669 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 1: worship song, when I think of that, a lot of 670 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: my songs talk about God through the lens of a life. 671 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,720 Speaker 1: But a worship or gospel song is the opposite. It's 672 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,879 Speaker 1: it is God in the song. The lyrics are are 673 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: textual to the scripture. A lot of times they're they're 674 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:27,719 Speaker 1: inspired from God or from the actual Bible. So there's 675 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,239 Speaker 1: a difference. What I'm trying to say is there's a 676 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,720 Speaker 1: difference between God being in a song and God being 677 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: the song. And for you, gospel music, it's already been written, Like, 678 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: so are you? Is there a sense in which if 679 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,279 Speaker 1: you did a gospel album, you're covering No, that's a 680 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: good question. Songs that are already written, that's a good question. 681 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 1: And maybe that's what he means. Maybe he's not talking 682 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 1: about writing. Maybe he's talking about me covering and actually performing, 683 00:38:53,680 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: Like amazing, Still don't even know how to answer that 684 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,799 Speaker 1: besides the fact that it's still even if I didn't 685 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,920 Speaker 1: write it would start with a song. If I recorded 686 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 1: Amazing Grace and just thought this is cool. This is 687 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:14,480 Speaker 1: banjo and acoustic and piano. Never heard Amazing Grace like this, 688 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 1: maybe I should make a whole album like this. That 689 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 1: would be still starting from a song. But I'm not 690 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:28,239 Speaker 1: opposed to actually writing a worship song either. It just 691 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,800 Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet. And that would happen knowing my brain 692 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,280 Speaker 1: from a title, probably reading a title, seeing something in scripture, 693 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: hearing something from this podcast and a question, and going, oh, 694 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 1: it would be a really good worship song. And then 695 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: if I wrote it and recorded it and put it 696 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 1: out and felt something from that, then then I would 697 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,080 Speaker 1: consider maybe I should write four or five more of these. 698 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,640 Speaker 1: So anyway, that's a long way of saying I don't know. 699 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,680 Speaker 1: I should get by a campfire, your guitar, your family, 700 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,719 Speaker 1: and you guys, just rock just a favorite hymn, just 701 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 1: acoustic style. Throw that on YouTube because see what happens. 702 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: I bet you and if you comment below, put in 703 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 1: your like your picks, like what would be the gospel 704 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 1: song preference, so you would love for this voice to vocalize, 705 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 1: that would for this voice to mess that song up. 706 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,319 Speaker 1: I want My pick is nothing but the blood. Oh yeah, 707 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: that's good. All right, we gotta go them. Just the 708 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,799 Speaker 1: psychic medium thing, man, I love. I love these kind 709 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,319 Speaker 1: of questions. So I'm gonna have trouble with this name. 710 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 1: Oh actually, he says right here, said hello, mister Smith. 711 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's respectable to call someone who 712 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,919 Speaker 1: is old enough to be my father by the first name. 713 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,680 Speaker 1: You can, buddy, you can thank you for that, says 714 00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:05,880 Speaker 1: my name is it says pronounced with a short eye. Yeah, yeah, Hudah, 715 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,359 Speaker 1: Yeah Hudah, yea Huda Manovic. I'm fifteen years old and 716 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,360 Speaker 1: I'm Jewish and I love everything that you do. You 717 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: and your family are great inspiration to me. Thank you. 718 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 1: Yehudah says I was wondering if you believe in what 719 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:25,279 Speaker 1: psychic mediums do. They supposedly this is parentheses. They supposedly 720 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,440 Speaker 1: connect with people who have passed on and create can 721 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,839 Speaker 1: relate messages from deceased loved ones. A great example is 722 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,319 Speaker 1: Matt Fraser. You could check out his YouTube channel called 723 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,960 Speaker 1: Matt Fraser or Frazer Fraser Fraser. He's the five time 724 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,759 Speaker 1: world fittest man according to CrossFit. Okay, and if you 725 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 1: do believe in them, would you consider meeting one or 726 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:54,239 Speaker 1: having messages relayed over to you? Thanks Yshuda. Ps I 727 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,360 Speaker 1: love building things automotive. I'm also a mechanic and I 728 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:02,239 Speaker 1: love watching Earld's truck come together. So dude, thanks man, 729 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: thanks for the question. I don't know if you did 730 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:09,240 Speaker 1: you say where he's from? Didn't say where he's from. 731 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:15,759 Speaker 1: But fifteen Jewish asking about psychic mediums. So let me 732 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,680 Speaker 1: dig in kind of one at a time here with 733 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: Chad on your questions. If one question is do you 734 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,399 Speaker 1: believe in them? One question is would you consider meeting 735 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:31,160 Speaker 1: with one? And yes, do I believe? Yes, I do, 736 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,239 Speaker 1: I do believe what I consider meeting. No, absolutely not 737 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:41,880 Speaker 1: is forbidden. It's actually forbidden in your beliefs as well. 738 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,400 Speaker 1: And when you say you believe, you're not saying you endorse. No, 739 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,400 Speaker 1: you're saying you think that there is something happening. Yeah, yes, 740 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,360 Speaker 1: and it is not good. Yes, okay, Yes, I believe 741 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,040 Speaker 1: that there is something supernatural about some of them. I 742 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,680 Speaker 1: know that there's a million fakes. Yeah, there's a million frauds. 743 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,560 Speaker 1: They're just an artist, they're just tricking. But I do 744 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,799 Speaker 1: believe there's a handful. I don't know Matt Fraser. I 745 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: do believe that there's a handful that are actually harnessing 746 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,120 Speaker 1: a supernatural power. And that Fraser may be a different 747 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 1: Matt Fraser, but Matt Fraser I know is an athlete. 748 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,479 Speaker 1: So yes, there is a there's a belief, a non 749 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:28,279 Speaker 1: endorsed belief, that they are harnessing a supernatural power, and 750 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:34,040 Speaker 1: I I highly discourage it. It is highly discouraged in 751 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:39,799 Speaker 1: my faith in Jesus Christ. Notice how avoided religion that 752 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:45,640 Speaker 1: in that phrase. Here's here's something I want to say 753 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,520 Speaker 1: to this and then I'll let Chad. I'll just unleash Chad. 754 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,480 Speaker 1: You say, supposedly they connect people with people, they connect 755 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,919 Speaker 1: you with people who have passed on. So that's that's 756 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 1: what I do not believe that, that's the part I 757 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,400 Speaker 1: do not believe. I do believe there is a supernatural power. 758 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,480 Speaker 1: But I believe who you're talking to is not who 759 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,600 Speaker 1: you think you're talking to. That's just my personal belief. 760 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,960 Speaker 1: But we do know from the Bible that the dead 761 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: have no business on earth once they pass on. There 762 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,520 Speaker 1: are a few Old Testament examples of them of someone 763 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,719 Speaker 1: that has passed on coming back, and there are parables 764 00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 1: in the New Testament that reference that as examples, right, 765 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,640 Speaker 1: And they're kind of scenarios trying to guess at what 766 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:39,560 Speaker 1: Jesus might do or what might happen. But yeah, so 767 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,000 Speaker 1: I think you're spot on. There is something going on 768 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,000 Speaker 1: in some cases. So sometimes it is just pure manipulation, 769 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,360 Speaker 1: human manipulation. I think there are ways in which there 770 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,799 Speaker 1: are supernatural forces that are not for your good. They 771 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:59,600 Speaker 1: are for their good and your destruction, and they will 772 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:06,799 Speaker 1: and they don't represent truth, but they do have a 773 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,920 Speaker 1: way to make you experience or feel like you're talking 774 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,480 Speaker 1: to dead people. But I would say just we would 775 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: call that demonic activity versus godly activity. So when we 776 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 1: talk supernatural, we're talking about things beyond the natural realm, 777 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,520 Speaker 1: things beyond what we can experience with our five senses. 778 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,359 Speaker 1: That there is a belief within the Christian world view 779 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:33,440 Speaker 1: that there is a supernatural element to our reality. And 780 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,840 Speaker 1: in that world, there are those that are for God 781 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,319 Speaker 1: and there are those that are against God, and those 782 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,239 Speaker 1: that are pitted against God by their own choice, are 783 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: any interaction they have with the physical realm is in 784 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,440 Speaker 1: an effort to draw people away from God and so, 785 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:58,240 Speaker 1: and there's no demonstration in the scriptures of God working 786 00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:05,399 Speaker 1: or operating in that way in order to reveal himself. Yeah, yeah, 787 00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:13,360 Speaker 1: is it is very specifically forbidden to visit for a 788 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:18,160 Speaker 1: for a believer in Christ, to visit a psychic medium. 789 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,040 Speaker 1: Those words are specific, they are undisputed. There's there is 790 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,919 Speaker 1: no there's no bad translation from the Greek or any 791 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,759 Speaker 1: misconception and what that might mean. So there is And 792 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,720 Speaker 1: I you said, I'm fifteen years old and I'm Jewish. 793 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,480 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that Jewish, because sometimes Jewish means 794 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,320 Speaker 1: heritage only and not practicing religion. Sometimes it's a difference 795 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,360 Speaker 1: when when you're talking about Jewish. But but I will 796 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,960 Speaker 1: bring up that it is forbidden for Jews as well. 797 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,040 Speaker 1: And I think there is another component to consider, and 798 00:46:53,640 --> 00:47:01,480 Speaker 1: I I have witnessed this is that by engaging in medium, 799 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,600 Speaker 1: fortune tellers, palm readers, whatever you want to call that, 800 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,480 Speaker 1: you are opening yourself and granting access to very dark 801 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,600 Speaker 1: influences that you've given your You've given access to them, 802 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:20,480 Speaker 1: and now they they have a opportunity and even the 803 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,279 Speaker 1: right to be there in your life influencing you, and 804 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:31,080 Speaker 1: so it is absolutely absolutely dangerous. Do not open yourself 805 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:35,240 Speaker 1: up and grant access to any kind of dark influence 806 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,480 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I want to add just one more 807 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,280 Speaker 1: little thing, and this is this might offend some people, 808 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:46,520 Speaker 1: but I also completely disagree with any of our dead 809 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:51,760 Speaker 1: friends or relatives ever coming back and speaking to us 810 00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,600 Speaker 1: in any way. Not that it's not possible, but I 811 00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,799 Speaker 1: just I highly discourage thinking that way, or looking looking 812 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,600 Speaker 1: at at a bird that is our dead grandma that's 813 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,960 Speaker 1: coming to tweet at our window and say that everything's okay. 814 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,880 Speaker 1: I just guys, Grandma is fine, she's fine. She's not 815 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,920 Speaker 1: thinking about coming and tweeting in your window as a 816 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,680 Speaker 1: as a blue jay or something. So that's a whole 817 00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:24,279 Speaker 1: other kind of Twitter. Yeah, that's totally different. Sorry, I 818 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,960 Speaker 1: mean to laugh something so serious, but because I know 819 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,360 Speaker 1: a lot of people really crave that crave the signs 820 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,600 Speaker 1: of nature to speak to them as if a dead 821 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:37,640 Speaker 1: relative is speaking through an animal or a cloud or guys, 822 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:43,200 Speaker 1: are just that's all human conception, it's all in our 823 00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:48,800 Speaker 1: minds that we build these things out of our semi delusion. 824 00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,120 Speaker 1: But but that's just not what. It's not what the 825 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,800 Speaker 1: Bible says. In fact, it's not what any of the 826 00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,480 Speaker 1: Abrahamic religions say. If we want to even go there, 827 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,600 Speaker 1: The dead no place on earth, and they're too busy 828 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:09,160 Speaker 1: being full of joy and to come and deal with 829 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,920 Speaker 1: the sadness and the anxiety and the affliction that we 830 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,560 Speaker 1: have here. So there's probably way more than you you're 831 00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,360 Speaker 1: asking for. But but I do like it because my 832 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,439 Speaker 1: my short answer is I want no part of that. 833 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:33,239 Speaker 1: We should lighten the load, Chad heavy. How about how 834 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,719 Speaker 1: about two light questions? Faith and music? Hey Grainger, my 835 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,560 Speaker 1: name is Jeff. I'm from Modesto, California, center of Almond Country. 836 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,719 Speaker 1: Love It. My fiancee and I are re acquainting ourselves 837 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,239 Speaker 1: with faith. This year. We're going to try to read 838 00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,160 Speaker 1: the Bible in a year with an app and this 839 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,799 Speaker 1: will help both of us connect with faith and a 840 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,680 Speaker 1: different topic to talk about. So the light part of 841 00:49:55,719 --> 00:50:01,439 Speaker 1: my question is one in IV or American standard. Two 842 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,400 Speaker 1: other than old Country, what newer artists do you like 843 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,399 Speaker 1: to play on your way to the Yugi Farm? Let 844 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,960 Speaker 1: me start with two. I'll just be as boring as 845 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,200 Speaker 1: possible and say that I don't I just don't listen 846 00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,960 Speaker 1: to the radio on the way to ee Farm. I'm 847 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:23,640 Speaker 1: usually catching up on a podcast or studying something and 848 00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,719 Speaker 1: or listening to an audiobook super boring, but I don't. 849 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,840 Speaker 1: I just don't listen to I don't listen to newer 850 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:35,080 Speaker 1: country when I'm driving. Newer country reminds me of work, 851 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,120 Speaker 1: and I hate that. I hate that that's what's happened 852 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,160 Speaker 1: to me. But like, if I'm in an uber and 853 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:41,440 Speaker 1: they're like, what do you want to listen to? And 854 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,439 Speaker 1: they turn on country, I think that we're who we're 855 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,760 Speaker 1: touring with, or when I'm going to see that guy next, 856 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,399 Speaker 1: or the song the co writer that wrote that song, 857 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,719 Speaker 1: and there's friends of mine, and I just think, I 858 00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,879 Speaker 1: think business, or even worse, I think about the chart positioning. Yeah, 859 00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,239 Speaker 1: do you get competitive? You're like, that's a good song. 860 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:03,120 Speaker 1: I wish I would have thought of that. Absolutely, Yeah. 861 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,320 Speaker 1: So then we'll kick it over to chatterre N I 862 00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:11,360 Speaker 1: V or the American standard version I actually read. I 863 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:16,680 Speaker 1: don't read either consistently, but I do. I do really 864 00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,000 Speaker 1: like the N I V. I don't think I'm too 865 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,920 Speaker 1: familiar with the American the standard American version, but I 866 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:24,839 Speaker 1: have read a lot of the n IV, and I like, 867 00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,839 Speaker 1: I really like that translation, but I'm I'm an ESV 868 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:33,359 Speaker 1: guy personally. Yeah, the American Standard Bible not as familiar with. 869 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:38,600 Speaker 1: I very familiar with the New American Standard and the 870 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,640 Speaker 1: n i V. Those were both translations that were familiar 871 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,080 Speaker 1: to me when I first came to follow Christ. And 872 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:50,640 Speaker 1: I would say that n I V is a it's 873 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,680 Speaker 1: a it's a translation that I will frequent when I'm 874 00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:58,640 Speaker 1: hanging out in the Old Testament because the translation philosophy 875 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,480 Speaker 1: behind the n I V is more thought for thought 876 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,080 Speaker 1: rather than a word for word translation. And Hebrew, the 877 00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,919 Speaker 1: way that the Hebrew authors and poetry and the way 878 00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,560 Speaker 1: that they told stories and described things is very different 879 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,800 Speaker 1: than Greek, which is what the New Testament is originally 880 00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,839 Speaker 1: written in, and so you've got Hebrew versus Greek, and 881 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,960 Speaker 1: Greek is a much more linear and technical kind of 882 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,480 Speaker 1: way of doing things, and so more word for word 883 00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,960 Speaker 1: translations are going to help you there, but understanding thought 884 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,200 Speaker 1: for thought translations and IV is really good at thattment. 885 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,640 Speaker 1: The version that I've frequent the most would be English 886 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,760 Speaker 1: Standard version, the ESV. That's me too. There's a couple 887 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:50,200 Speaker 1: of exceptions. I'm all ESV. It's like I actually, like 888 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,880 Speaker 1: Chad said, the most frequented version, but I do like 889 00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:58,120 Speaker 1: some things that the NIV says. For instance, I like, 890 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,800 Speaker 1: come to me, all you who are weary and burdened. 891 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,360 Speaker 1: I just like weary and burdened. But sometimes it says 892 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,279 Speaker 1: things that I feel as opposed to heavy ladened. ESV 893 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,960 Speaker 1: says heavy laden, but I hear weary and burdened. It's 894 00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,919 Speaker 1: just kind of poetic. And that's the thought by thought 895 00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:19,799 Speaker 1: that you're talking about. This is a good a good 896 00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,080 Speaker 1: place for me and you to just quickly talk to 897 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,759 Speaker 1: talk to a translation conversation about where these come from 898 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,880 Speaker 1: and why they exist and are they is it the 899 00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:33,000 Speaker 1: game of telephone? We could never say that enough speak 900 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,360 Speaker 1: to where translations come from and why they exist. And 901 00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,399 Speaker 1: there's a common thought that how could you even believe 902 00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,799 Speaker 1: the Bible? Isn't it just like it's been translated so 903 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,880 Speaker 1: many times it's just completely forgotten out of its original. 904 00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:49,040 Speaker 1: But it's just not the case. It's all these translations 905 00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:54,760 Speaker 1: come from the original sources, which are Greek and Hebrew 906 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:59,600 Speaker 1: and Aramaic, and people like the ESV. I know more 907 00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,480 Speaker 1: about at because I read it. But we're talking about 908 00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:09,680 Speaker 1: a committee of scholars that come together and build from 909 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:13,080 Speaker 1: the actual Greek and go back and forth, and there's 910 00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,239 Speaker 1: a lot of contextual evidence on why they're picking the 911 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:20,560 Speaker 1: words that closely in our common language, closely match up 912 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,000 Speaker 1: to what the Greek was or what the Hebrew was. 913 00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,040 Speaker 1: So it's just so important to remember that when you 914 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:32,360 Speaker 1: read these versions and n IV and American Standard included, 915 00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,960 Speaker 1: when you're reading these, they're really getting a snapshot, a 916 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:40,040 Speaker 1: modern day snapshot of what those those scriptures actually meant 917 00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,920 Speaker 1: and what they meant to say. Yeah, and you have 918 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,680 Speaker 1: these translation committees that don't take lightly the task ahead 919 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,680 Speaker 1: of them, and they labor over word like a word, 920 00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,840 Speaker 1: and they'll they'll rattle sabers over the word usage and 921 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,239 Speaker 1: how to and so there is a translation philosophy that 922 00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,600 Speaker 1: is going to drive their final decision. There was one 923 00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,839 Speaker 1: project that I don't even know how many years it took, 924 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,239 Speaker 1: but it's called the Neet Bible, the New English Translation, 925 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,840 Speaker 1: and it was the I think it's the only open 926 00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:16,279 Speaker 1: source translation that we have. It was I think originally 927 00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:21,200 Speaker 1: created for missionaries in the field that were translating into 928 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,600 Speaker 1: local dialects and languages, and what this was is it 929 00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:29,640 Speaker 1: was hundreds and hundreds of biblical scholars that they basically 930 00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,320 Speaker 1: shared all their notes and they had kind of open 931 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,120 Speaker 1: conversation and dialogue about word usage and different things. And 932 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,080 Speaker 1: so you can now go to I think they have 933 00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,719 Speaker 1: a website where you can see all of the footnotes 934 00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,400 Speaker 1: and all of their discussions over word choice available to 935 00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,000 Speaker 1: see kind of how they arrived at a certain word 936 00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,920 Speaker 1: or a phrase and how they decided to go about it. 937 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,360 Speaker 1: And you can even get it in a physical copy. 938 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,080 Speaker 1: You can get a copy of it with all of 939 00:55:56,120 --> 00:56:00,120 Speaker 1: the notes included, where it just pages and pages of 940 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,120 Speaker 1: footnotes if you really want to kind of dig into that. 941 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,600 Speaker 1: But for those that are listening, no way have many 942 00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:09,879 Speaker 1: listeners that don't believe in anything the Bible says, and 943 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:14,000 Speaker 1: we love that you guys are listening. This is a 944 00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,239 Speaker 1: non exclusive podcast for sure. But for those that are 945 00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,759 Speaker 1: that are listening and this is this, this is very 946 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,880 Speaker 1: interesting even to you. It's just a piece of human history. 947 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,480 Speaker 1: The fact that the Bible exists, and the fact that 948 00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,160 Speaker 1: the margin for error and what you read in the 949 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:34,000 Speaker 1: Bible is so tiny. I mean, it's like, maybe you 950 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:38,080 Speaker 1: know Chad there's only like two scriptures that have one 951 00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:45,040 Speaker 1: word that's that's disputed. But each of those few times 952 00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:50,640 Speaker 1: those scriptures are not part of major doctrines. They don't 953 00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,400 Speaker 1: change any of the major ideas. There's it's the margin 954 00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,279 Speaker 1: for error is so tiny. And so here's the deal. 955 00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,239 Speaker 1: When I say the original, we don't have the original 956 00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:05,040 Speaker 1: from the hand of John or Mark or Luke. We 957 00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:09,239 Speaker 1: don't have those originals. But we have just a few 958 00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:14,799 Speaker 1: decades after those originals. And when we'll find we I 959 00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,360 Speaker 1: say we as if I was part of the archaeological dig. 960 00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:21,680 Speaker 1: But when when historians have found a piece of say, 961 00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:25,920 Speaker 1: the Gospel of John, originally called the Gospel of Jesus 962 00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:30,400 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ according to John, we will find a piece 963 00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,919 Speaker 1: in one region, and then a thousand miles we'll find 964 00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:39,560 Speaker 1: another piece written by another scribe who was that's at 965 00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:41,800 Speaker 1: the time. Those are the guys that were recreating these 966 00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:47,200 Speaker 1: and it's the same, no margin of error, and it 967 00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,280 Speaker 1: we have like six thousand of those from thousands of manuscripts, 968 00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,640 Speaker 1: lazy from different time periods, locations, regions. The Dead Sea 969 00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,200 Speaker 1: Scrolls played a big role in that where they uncovered 970 00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,360 Speaker 1: this basically a library that corroborated so much of what 971 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:07,520 Speaker 1: we understood and it confirmed. And when we compare the 972 00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:12,360 Speaker 1: historicity of the Bible to other ancient texts that we 973 00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,200 Speaker 1: put a lot of stock in, like anything from Homer 974 00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:21,080 Speaker 1: or Herodotus or others, where we don't have the original 975 00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:24,439 Speaker 1: copies of those either. However, we have hundreds of years 976 00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,080 Speaker 1: or thousands of years removed from when those were written, 977 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:32,400 Speaker 1: and yet we just we give them, we just assume 978 00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,840 Speaker 1: that they're valid and true and they were copied correctly. 979 00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,400 Speaker 1: And yet when you compare that to the amount of 980 00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,520 Speaker 1: copies of manuscripts we have of the New Testament alone, 981 00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:45,760 Speaker 1: and the proximity right within ten years or you know, 982 00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:49,600 Speaker 1: twenty years or thirty years or whatever, and within a 983 00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,120 Speaker 1: lifetime of when it was actually written. So there are 984 00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:55,560 Speaker 1: people there that can attest to when they receive one 985 00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,800 Speaker 1: of these copies, they can there are people alive that 986 00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,840 Speaker 1: we're able to go, no, I remember when that was 987 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:04,440 Speaker 1: first read exactly, and so that they could affirm and 988 00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:09,040 Speaker 1: attest whether something was accurate and corroborated. It's basically that 989 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,400 Speaker 1: we have so many of these these old copies, more 990 00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:18,120 Speaker 1: thousands more than any other ancient document, and his inhuman history. 991 00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,960 Speaker 1: We have more copies, and these are in museums. It's 992 00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,200 Speaker 1: not like it they're hidden somewhere where. I mean, these 993 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:29,040 Speaker 1: are on display in museums. And it is fascinating even 994 00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:34,360 Speaker 1: for the non believers to think how these ideas and 995 00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:38,720 Speaker 1: these scriptures and these words were preserved not by a 996 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,480 Speaker 1: small group and a little castle of little monks, you know, 997 00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:46,840 Speaker 1: but I'm talking thousands of square miles apart from each 998 00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,920 Speaker 1: other as it as it expanded outward, and every time 999 00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:54,840 Speaker 1: it was without error or a tiny, tiny margin of 1000 00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:58,280 Speaker 1: error all the way to to this podcast question the 1001 00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,640 Speaker 1: NIV or the American Standard or the ES for those 1002 01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:06,520 Speaker 1: of the old school kings. King James's out there. Yeah, 1003 01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,960 Speaker 1: it's just fascinating. I was a history major in college, 1004 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:14,680 Speaker 1: and regardless of my faith, that is just fascinating that 1005 01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:18,400 Speaker 1: we even that's even existence. It has to be a 1006 01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:22,680 Speaker 1: God thing that it's in here. Let's grab one more. 1007 01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,320 Speaker 1: What should I do? Personal problem? No real friends please 1008 01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:31,840 Speaker 1: read me? Need some advice? Any of those pop out 1009 01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:35,680 Speaker 1: to you? No real friends, no real friends graduate. My 1010 01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:38,440 Speaker 1: husband and I have moved several times in different states. 1011 01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,160 Speaker 1: Long story, not military. We're currently living in Indiana. And 1012 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,400 Speaker 1: we don't see ever moving again. The problem is we 1013 01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,680 Speaker 1: don't have that many real friends. We're in our fifties 1014 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,640 Speaker 1: and it feels like everyone we meet has an established 1015 01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:52,000 Speaker 1: friends circle and there's just not room for us. We 1016 01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,640 Speaker 1: feel it's important to have a couple friends to be 1017 01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,600 Speaker 1: able to do things with. We've joined a couple of 1018 01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,560 Speaker 1: small group classes at church and everyone is interested in 1019 01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,320 Speaker 1: our story, but then it stops. We have a strong 1020 01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:05,080 Speaker 1: marriage and we enjoy each other's company. It's just frustrating 1021 01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,680 Speaker 1: for us to always be alone. What do you think 1022 01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:13,440 Speaker 1: we should do? This is Rhonda from Columbus, Indiana. I 1023 01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:16,120 Speaker 1: can relate to that. We've moved around a few times 1024 01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:20,040 Speaker 1: and have experienced life in different stages, being the new 1025 01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:24,560 Speaker 1: family or the new couple and trying to figure out 1026 01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:30,240 Speaker 1: a way into pre existing friendships. And it takes intentionality. 1027 01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:36,959 Speaker 1: It really takes pursuing people that you enjoy and recognizing 1028 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,440 Speaker 1: that man, they're really dialed in and they have a 1029 01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,640 Speaker 1: sense of normalcy, and so new people that can kind 1030 01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,680 Speaker 1: of rock the boat a little bit, But being intentional 1031 01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:49,640 Speaker 1: pursuing friendship is a big deal. And rather than kind 1032 01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:54,560 Speaker 1: of sitting and waiting for it to happen. Yeah, it 1033 01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:58,400 Speaker 1: takes pursuit, and so finding those couples or those families 1034 01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,240 Speaker 1: that you really really enjoy and want to get to 1035 01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:05,439 Speaker 1: know better and taking the initiative to invite them, ask 1036 01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,840 Speaker 1: them out for lunch after church or on a Friday night, 1037 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,800 Speaker 1: invite them over, and continue to just pursue them, and 1038 01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:16,560 Speaker 1: it will. I think it'll be reciprocated. All. Yeah, that's great, 1039 01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,560 Speaker 1: that's great, Ronda. It sounds like a little more time 1040 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:22,400 Speaker 1: needs to go by. There's not you haven't given us 1041 01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,480 Speaker 1: a timeframe, but it sounds like a little more time 1042 01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:28,080 Speaker 1: needs to go by. And once you kind of establish 1043 01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,680 Speaker 1: not being the new couple in town anymore, a lot 1044 01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,000 Speaker 1: of these relationships will come from your neighbors on the 1045 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:37,320 Speaker 1: same street. I think small group classes is a great 1046 01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,600 Speaker 1: opportunity for this. That you don't say anything about kids, 1047 01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,520 Speaker 1: but a lot of times kids will bring their parents in, 1048 01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,280 Speaker 1: and that the kids' friends will bring their parents in 1049 01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:50,360 Speaker 1: and that that becomes a relationship. But I think Chad's 1050 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,320 Speaker 1: right if you guys hosted a barbecue at your house, 1051 01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:57,200 Speaker 1: even for just your street, or say you're your small 1052 01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,440 Speaker 1: group and just say hey, we'd like to host a 1053 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,280 Speaker 1: small group at our house. We're new here and we 1054 01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,440 Speaker 1: want to cook and bring everybody over. And I'd say 1055 01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,200 Speaker 1: one more thing would be it sounds like you are 1056 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,760 Speaker 1: a churchgoer. You guys are involved in a local church, serve, 1057 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,680 Speaker 1: volunteer to serve in different capacities at your church, and 1058 01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,240 Speaker 1: you're going to get to serve alongside of other people 1059 01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,640 Speaker 1: that also enjoy doing that. And you get to know 1060 01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,520 Speaker 1: people when you labor next to them. If there are 1061 01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:34,400 Speaker 1: any mission trips or outreach opportunities, do that, and you're 1062 01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:36,520 Speaker 1: going to meet other people that are doing that. And 1063 01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:40,120 Speaker 1: there's just something about getting to labor with somebody where 1064 01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,760 Speaker 1: you get to know them as you have activity with them. Rohnda, 1065 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,840 Speaker 1: thank you so much. Good luck to you. I want 1066 01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:48,560 Speaker 1: to give a couple of shout outs before we end this. 1067 01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:57,440 Speaker 1: Steve o'garnum, Tommy Barr, Kaylea Moore, Kyla Alcorn, Jody Bowser, 1068 01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,360 Speaker 1: Hailey Robinson. Is there just some of the shout outs 1069 01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:03,920 Speaker 1: that you guys have sent in. We we love hearing 1070 01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:07,680 Speaker 1: from you, love having you. Chad, It's good. I want 1071 01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:09,360 Speaker 1: to be friends with Granger. So I'm gonna take my 1072 01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,720 Speaker 1: own device. We're gonna invite him over to supper. See 1073 01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:14,640 Speaker 1: how that out all right, dude. Good to see you, brother, 1074 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,320 Speaker 1: See you guys. Thanks for joining me on the Granger 1075 01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:20,400 Speaker 1: Smith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could 1076 01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,520 Speaker 1: help me out by rating this podcast on iTunes. If 1077 01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:26,760 Speaker 1: you're on YouTube, subscribe to this channel. 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