Speaker 1: Pat to everybody, Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: I messed up. I messed up last week, and it
Speaker 1: was bound to happen. You know, it's time to hate
Speaker 1: to say. It's not the first time that I've actually
Speaker 1: put the wrong title on a wrong video. And that's
Speaker 1: what I did on this podcast last week. I believe
Speaker 1: it was called Girls with Daddy Issues and what happened.
Speaker 1: Let me explain, me explain, because then I started reading
Speaker 1: these comments below the last podcast and they were like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't think you talked about girls with daddy issues.
Speaker 1: I liked the podcast, but I didn't hear you talk
Speaker 1: about girls with daddy issues at all. You're right, You're right.
Speaker 1: And then Amber came to me and she was like, hey, babe,
Speaker 1: I think you said the wrong title. I've done that
Speaker 1: on the Smiths and my other my family YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: I've put a one thumbnail on and then said the
Speaker 1: wrong title because I had two videos going on in
Speaker 1: my brain. So Bernie was my guest the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and I didn't do an intro like I'm doing right
Speaker 1: now for today's podcast in the same sitting as when
Speaker 1: I was with Bernie. So as I was thinking about Okay,
Speaker 1: I got to intro this podcast, I got to talk
Speaker 1: about it. So I pulled up my phone and I
Speaker 1: pulled up Dropbox that I had uploaded the content to,
Speaker 1: and I started scrolling through to remember what I talked about,
Speaker 1: and I heard me talking about daddy issues, and it
Speaker 1: just so happened to be the podcast before the last podcast,
Speaker 1: so I didn't realize that ran with it. Did the intro,
Speaker 1: talked about it, did the thumbnail, did the title. It
Speaker 1: was an honest mistake, So I hope you guys forgive me.
Speaker 1: I'm doing this intro right now in the same moment
Speaker 1: that I'm actually doing the actual podcast, so I'm not
Speaker 1: going to mess this up. And I've got really good questions.
Speaker 1: I got questions that I love answering because it feels
Speaker 1: like it feels like a good way to bounce off
Speaker 1: an idea, and it's just kind of go back and
Speaker 1: forth on a good, solid life issue. And I'm not
Speaker 1: going to tell you that I'm not always going to
Speaker 1: give you the right answer. I'm just going to give
Speaker 1: you my opinion, and I'm gonna reference stories from my
Speaker 1: life and apply that as if it was something happening
Speaker 1: to me. Or a friend. That's what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 1: And you can email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com
Speaker 1: and ask me anything. I've been organizing your questions and folders,
Speaker 1: and I've been as this podcast has gone on and
Speaker 1: on and on, I've started titling these different folders that's
Speaker 1: like this, music questions, light questions, heavy questions, Amber questions,
Speaker 1: God questions, other questions. So I've been kind of organizing
Speaker 1: as I see them come in all though, oh that's
Speaker 1: a God question, that's a music question. So it makes
Speaker 1: it easier for them for me to scroll and build
Speaker 1: the content for you guys, and as always, thank you
Speaker 1: for listening to this content. Thank you for engaging in
Speaker 1: something like a long form podcast, because that builds a
Speaker 1: relationship with me and you wherever you are, whether you're
Speaker 1: an over the road trucker right now, maybe you're cruising
Speaker 1: down the road in your big rig shout out to you.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're in your tractor in the Midwest. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: you're driving your Mercedes to your high rised office building
Speaker 1: in Detroit. I don't know where you are, but I
Speaker 1: just think it's really cool that there's all kinds of ages,
Speaker 1: all kinds of personalities, all kinds of countries that are listening,
Speaker 1: and I'm grateful for it all because that allows me
Speaker 1: to draw in closer with you, so you feel like
Speaker 1: you know me. And if you feel like you know me,
Speaker 1: that makes it it easier for me to make videos
Speaker 1: because then I could see your comments, and then we
Speaker 1: could all get along, and as soon as touring starts,
Speaker 1: I could see you back again in person at a
Speaker 1: meet and greet, which is what I really want. I
Speaker 1: really want this podcast to be able to move back
Speaker 1: and wildflower my bus and sit there and talk in
Speaker 1: the parking lot of a venue like I used to
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Speaker 1: could ask me anything you want, just email granger Smith
Speaker 1: Podcast at gmail dot com. I see all kinds of stuff,
Speaker 1: all kinds of questions, all different topics, and I know
Speaker 1: of the way that this podcast has evolved is been
Speaker 1: me answering them off the cuff without rehearsing or taking
Speaker 1: notes or having books to reference, because I kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to for a couple of reasons. When it's just
Speaker 1: remain where it's like me and you the truck driving along. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bounce something off you. Something's going on in
Speaker 1: my life or some good news. I have just a
Speaker 1: normal conversation with friends. It's kind of how I want
Speaker 1: this podcast to be. One of the reasons I like
Speaker 1: that is because it allows me to just flip this
Speaker 1: podcast out every Monday, every Monday morning, and I don't
Speaker 1: have to I don't have to get into a busy
Speaker 1: week of my work and think, oh no, I forgot
Speaker 1: to draw out an outline for a podcast topic. You
Speaker 1: guys give me the topic, and that allows me to
Speaker 1: continue to pump out the the podcast episodes and not
Speaker 1: fill the burden. And so that allows me sometimes to Hey,
Speaker 1: I got some extra time, I'm gonna write out this outline,
Speaker 1: or have some extra time. I'm gonna have this guest
Speaker 1: come in. It's got an amazing story, or I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell a story in the meantime, I'm gonna jump on
Speaker 1: some of these questions right here. This question comes from
Speaker 1: Travis from Tacoma, Washington. Shout out to Washington State. It's
Speaker 1: one of the many places that I've desperately missed from touring.
Speaker 1: Fans are revenous and amazing in Washington, so shout out
Speaker 1: to Washington State. It says, Hey, Grangeur, I met you
Speaker 1: in Seattle at your concert last December before COVID happened,
Speaker 1: and I had the time of my life. I did too, brother,
Speaker 1: it was so fun. Your music has changed my life
Speaker 1: in so many ways. Thank you for everything you do
Speaker 1: as a music artist and an entertainer. I appreciate you, Travis.
Speaker 1: And it says, my question is that if I have
Speaker 1: a monthly subscription to Apple Music, do you get anything
Speaker 1: if I add and listen to your music on Apple Music?
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Yeah, good question, Travis, and a couple answers
Speaker 1: quickly here. It is monetarily. I do not get any
Speaker 1: of your money from Apple Music subscription. There are ways
Speaker 1: that that royalty pays out and it's fractions of pennies.
Speaker 1: And so I'm part of a record label, and my
Speaker 1: record label the way that it works, we have a
Speaker 1: really good deal structure. I keep most of my content,
Speaker 1: the label keeps music streaming and purchases until my album
Speaker 1: and all my bills are paid for and then we
Speaker 1: split it after that, so it works out great because
Speaker 1: they can essentially work for it as like a bank
Speaker 1: to me, and I can get a big loan and
Speaker 1: go to all the studios and hire musicians and artwork
Speaker 1: and pictures and music videos like we're about to go
Speaker 1: tomorrow and shoot a really nice music video that costs
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and I don't have to pay
Speaker 1: for it at all because the record label will front that.
Speaker 1: So that is a huge blessing when it comes to that. Now,
Speaker 1: when it like touring, I get to keep all that
Speaker 1: and pay my guys. So that's where the majority of
Speaker 1: my income comes from. So I don't worry too much
Speaker 1: about things like Apple Music. It is fractions that do
Speaker 1: go to my record label. So that being said, that
Speaker 1: is more for you, Travis and and your entertainment. I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not a member of Apple Music. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much that cost, but to me, it is
Speaker 1: worth it for you to be able to have access
Speaker 1: to every song in the world, as opposed to needing
Speaker 1: to drive to Walmart because you love a song and
Speaker 1: then you're searching through I just think it's a better system. Yes,
Speaker 1: artists don't get paid as much. I don't care. I
Speaker 1: think it's a it's a better system to have music
Speaker 1: widely listen to and available to anyone. It's because that
Speaker 1: just helps everybody, right, you would think. What it does
Speaker 1: do to me, Travis, is when you do add and
Speaker 1: listen to my music on Apple Music, it increases the
Speaker 1: spins and the plays and the impressions on my profile
Speaker 1: and on that particular song that you're listening to or album.
Speaker 1: When that happens, the stock, my stock rises within Apple Music,
Speaker 1: it squeaks over into Spotify and Pandora and all the
Speaker 1: other streaming services. And they say, you know, they're trying
Speaker 1: to run a business. What they want is they want
Speaker 1: people going like you and subscribing to their services, and
Speaker 1: they want you listening a lot. So they want you.
Speaker 1: They want to find the music that you like. So
Speaker 1: if you like something that's similar to my song, they're
Speaker 1: gonna squeak my song in there so that you listen
Speaker 1: to it more so that you stay on their subscription longer.
Speaker 1: And that helps me because then they're pushing me up
Speaker 1: at the top of the list for other people to hear.
Speaker 1: So if you've ever seen like my face on the
Speaker 1: cover of a playlist on Apple Music or Spotify or Pandora.
Speaker 1: That's a really big deal for me because that means
Speaker 1: they feel confident that by putting my face on the
Speaker 1: cover of their playlist, more people will go to their
Speaker 1: playlist and stay on their subscription, and then that pushes
Speaker 1: me hire. It gets more people to hear it. The
Speaker 1: more people that hear it, the more people that want
Speaker 1: to look me up. The more people look me up,
Speaker 1: the more people will go to a concert and buy
Speaker 1: a ticket in a normal year. So yeah, So my answer,
Speaker 1: Travis says, yes, it helps me a lot. When you
Speaker 1: add my song and listen to my music, it helps
Speaker 1: me a lot, just not directly from that money, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. It's an investment. There's so many things
Speaker 1: in life are There's another question, Kayla. Kayla is from Eustace, Florida,
Speaker 1: and this email came in September, so I'm sorry I'm
Speaker 1: reading it a little bit late here, but it says, Hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: many people struggle with this just talking about Eustace. How
Speaker 1: to say, Eustace, thanks so much for reading my email.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you or Amber ever struggle living far
Speaker 1: from home, which side note, we don't live too far
Speaker 1: from I'm two and a half hours and Amber is
Speaker 1: two hours and forty five minutes, so we're not that
Speaker 1: far from home, she says. My husband and I are
Speaker 1: from Wisconsin and we moved to Florida six years ago
Speaker 1: and we have met some amazing people along the way.
Speaker 1: Our parents are getting older, they're in their fifties and sixties,
Speaker 1: and we feel a sense of need to move back
Speaker 1: to enjoy our time together with them, though we will
Speaker 1: never give up what we've established here in Florida, friends, jobs, etc.
Speaker 1: Is this the right move? I'm sorry, she said, though
Speaker 1: we will give half to give up what we've established
Speaker 1: here in Florida, friends, jobs, et cetera. Is this the
Speaker 1: right move? We love the southern culture and the Midwest
Speaker 1: is cold. What do you think we should do? Thank you, Caleb,
Speaker 1: great question, and here's my answer. As if we're sitting
Speaker 1: together in a pickup truck, the fact that you're asking
Speaker 1: me means it's on your heart. It means you've been
Speaker 1: thinking about it a lot, you and your husband. And
Speaker 1: the short answer for me is yes, you should move.
Speaker 1: Let me try to explain you will not look back
Speaker 1: thirty years from now and say, man looking back on
Speaker 1: my life parents are dead. I'm glad we stayed in
Speaker 1: Florida with our good jobs and friends and weren't there
Speaker 1: when our parents died. I don't think you're going to
Speaker 1: say that. I think it's more likely for you to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, looking back on our life, we made
Speaker 1: a decision to move back to Ohio, and I'm sorry, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: I get my Midwest mixed up. We decided to move
Speaker 1: back to Wisconsin to be with our parents, and then
Speaker 1: we were with them as they got older. We were
Speaker 1: able to help them out and transition into their older age.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was a nursing home or whatever, and then
Speaker 1: we were with them when they died. They passed away,
Speaker 1: we got their last wishes, We've got our children to
Speaker 1: be around them, to be around their grandparents. I think
Speaker 1: that's the more likely scenario, Kayla, that this is something
Speaker 1: that you would possibly have a deep regret about if
Speaker 1: you were in Florida and you lost your parents and
Speaker 1: you felt like you didn't give the rest of your
Speaker 1: time that you could to them, even if it's a
Speaker 1: little bit, even if it's once a week, heck, even
Speaker 1: if it's once every two weeks, you know, you go
Speaker 1: have dinner with your mom. There's just something to say
Speaker 1: for that time is the most valuable commodity on the planet.
Speaker 1: How are you spending that time? The most precious commodity
Speaker 1: on the planet, time, and how are you spending that
Speaker 1: Because you're not ever going to get that time back
Speaker 1: with your parents, maybe you have a rocky relationship with
Speaker 1: them that could be fixed up a little bit during
Speaker 1: that time. Listen, Wisconsin. You say it's cold. It is cold,
Speaker 1: and Florida is not. But Wisconsin is a beautiful place.
Speaker 1: It has great cheese and it's a beautiful place in
Speaker 1: the summer. You almost have to look at the positives
Speaker 1: instead of the negatives. Yeah, you're gonna deal with cold,
Speaker 1: but you're in a warm house and you got your
Speaker 1: family close to you. I think you kind of feel
Speaker 1: this way, and I think that's why you ask the question.
Speaker 1: I kind of think you're leaning that way anyway. And
Speaker 1: you know what, you could always later down the road,
Speaker 1: twenty years down the road, I don't know how old
Speaker 1: you are. You can always pack up and go retire
Speaker 1: back in Florida again, and you could reconnect with those friends.
Speaker 1: You could make new friends in Wisconsin. You could, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's a good scenario. Move to Wisconsin and then go
Speaker 1: stay with your friends that you've made in Florida. These relationships,
Speaker 1: go stay with them and enjoy the beautiful weather in
Speaker 1: the wintertime of Wisconsin. Go spend that in Florida. That's
Speaker 1: my answer right now. I don't know the rest of
Speaker 1: your story, but that's my quick answer for you. This
Speaker 1: question is from Justin, says Hey Granger. My name is Justin.
Speaker 1: I'm a combat wounded vet from Iowa and I've just
Speaker 1: began to love Jesus again because of you and Amber.
Speaker 1: Thank you for helping me find my way. My question
Speaker 1: to you is this, with you being the lead singer,
Speaker 1: face of the band, image of the company, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it, have you ever gotten lead singer syndrome?
Speaker 1: I know that singers get a big head and think
Speaker 1: they are everything about the band, which tends to cause
Speaker 1: big problems. Is it ever your way or the highway?
Speaker 1: Or do you always work together as a team. Thank
Speaker 1: you for your time, Justin, thank you for your service,
Speaker 1: and shout out to Iowa. A wounded combat bet from Iowa.
Speaker 1: You sound like a good dude and you love Jesus.
Speaker 1: You sound like a good dude, sound like my kind
Speaker 1: of guy. You're a true American hero in the American heartland.
Speaker 1: So shout out to you, buddy, Thank you for writing in.
Speaker 1: It's a great question. I do think about it a lot.
Speaker 1: There is such thing as lead singer syndrome. I've seen
Speaker 1: it many times with friends in the How do I
Speaker 1: say this starting from the bottom? I know it's cliche,
Speaker 1: and growing my band and crew from the very beginning,
Speaker 1: where we all at some point we're struggling in a
Speaker 1: in a van or pickup truck, changing flat tires and
Speaker 1: a trailer loading gear in the cold of Wisconsin and
Speaker 1: hauling it into venues and playing shows to nobody, and
Speaker 1: then getting cheated by the venue and not getting paid anything,
Speaker 1: and having a leave and trying to get the cheapest
Speaker 1: hotel room possible, and then flipping the mattresses over where
Speaker 1: some people slept on the mattress and some people slept
Speaker 1: on the box spring so we could fit eight people
Speaker 1: in one ninety nine dollars hotel room nineteen dollars and
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents. I think that that that really puts
Speaker 1: perspective as you start growing, and what we always try
Speaker 1: to do is just be so grateful for every day
Speaker 1: and every new accomplishment with the band. And it's hard,
Speaker 1: I think, to get a big head about that when
Speaker 1: you know where you came from. It's hard to I
Speaker 1: had to see some big success and think it's all
Speaker 1: about you when you and your boys made this happen
Speaker 1: in Amarillo, Texas, when it was snowing and you're spinning
Speaker 1: tires in the van backing up to a rusty venue
Speaker 1: door and no one's there but a bartender. You know,
Speaker 1: paying your dues, that's what they say. And I paid
Speaker 1: my dues with my boys, not by myself. What I
Speaker 1: do to put in place in our crew so that
Speaker 1: that we don't have a potential of that happening is
Speaker 1: I keep the same guys around, and I trust them,
Speaker 1: and they're also my friends, and they keep me accountable.
Speaker 1: And we've done this long enough now that I don't
Speaker 1: threaten anyone with firing them. I don't say I have
Speaker 1: a long time ago, but I don't anymore say you
Speaker 1: do that again, you're fired, because, as you said, it's
Speaker 1: my way or the highway. It's funny that as I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I look down to my monitor, engineer text me will
Speaker 1: But I don't threaten them with firing them. I try
Speaker 1: to always listen because if they if they're say they
Speaker 1: messed up, maybe they're just having a bad day. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe need work on it together, you know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: something you need to sit down. You're you messed up, man,
Speaker 1: you're having a bad day. I'm disappointed. Let's talk this
Speaker 1: out instead of using instead of using a threat like man,
Speaker 1: I'll fill your shoes and a heartbeat, fill your bunk.
Speaker 1: So I don't do that. And I also actively tell
Speaker 1: my guys, hey, if you see me doing something out
Speaker 1: of line or acting out of arrogance, call me out,
Speaker 1: call me out on it, and I'm gonna listen to you.
Speaker 1: And having this approach doesn't make things all warm and fuzzy.
Speaker 1: It does create problems when when guys will look at
Speaker 1: me and go, hey, Granger, screw you, man, you're wrong.
Speaker 1: And there is something inside of me that don't say
Speaker 1: those specific words, but in some form they say that
Speaker 1: to me. It hurts deep down and there's this little
Speaker 1: voice inside that goes, I'm the man, I'm gonna fire you,
Speaker 1: and I gotta go Nope, no, i'm not. We're a team.
Speaker 1: And if you've got a problem with me, then maybe
Speaker 1: there's something I need to look at in myself. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's something internally I need to look and dig deep
Speaker 1: and figure out what am I doing that is causing
Speaker 1: you to react that way? Because we got to all
Speaker 1: be responsible for ourselves. It all starts with us ourselves.
Speaker 1: If you're having a problem with somebody, have you looked
Speaker 1: at yourself first? That's where you got it. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna change that person. It's impossible. You're not gonna convince
Speaker 1: them of your way. You gotta look inside and go
Speaker 1: maybe I'm maybe I'm doing this, I'm going about this wrong,
Speaker 1: or I need to do it in a different way,
Speaker 1: maybe not even wrong. So does that make sense? I
Speaker 1: just I mean my brother is my manager, my best
Speaker 1: friend for twenty three years is my tour manager. Every
Speaker 1: other band member has been with me for ten years,
Speaker 1: so they know me, you know, like they know me.
Speaker 1: They know everything about me, and there's nothing I could
Speaker 1: hide from them, and there's nothing they can hide from me.
Speaker 1: So we're a band of brothers truly. Essentially, we're a
Speaker 1: brand of brothers because I have both my brothers work
Speaker 1: here Atyege Apparel with me. As you heard me say
Speaker 1: with me, not for me, not under me. With me,
Speaker 1: my band they work with me, not under me, not
Speaker 1: beneath me. My show doesn't sound right if there's not
Speaker 1: drums and I don't play those. My show doesn't sound
Speaker 1: right if there's not a or doesn't look right if
Speaker 1: there's not lights and I don't run those, Sean does.
Speaker 1: So as long as I keep those people around on
Speaker 1: me and don't get this Elvis syndrome where you feel
Speaker 1: like you got to fire everybody and then hire yes men,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest danger that you're talking about justin that
Speaker 1: you've seen, and Elvis is like the ultimate example of
Speaker 1: that because it actually ended up being the death of him.
Speaker 1: He died because of yes men surrounding him, and no
Speaker 1: one was brave enough to say, hey, King, you probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't be taking that pill. You probably shouldn't be eating
Speaker 1: that right now. No one was brave enough to say
Speaker 1: that because he surrounded himself with yes men that just
Speaker 1: said yeah, man, yeah, King, Yeah, you do what you
Speaker 1: want to do. So yeah, I think about it a lot, dude.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great question, and I appreciate you
Speaker 1: asking it. Once again. Thank you for your service. You're
Speaker 1: a wounded combat vet and all of us listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast are indebted to you in some way. Justin'll
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Speaker 1: D and five free travel packs today. I saw this
Speaker 1: question and it intrigued me, so I decided to read
Speaker 1: it on here. I don't totally know what it means,
Speaker 1: but I'll read it for you guys, says Hey Granger.
Speaker 1: I'm a musician like you. I recently played my first
Speaker 1: show in a long time, and instead of making money,
Speaker 1: they ended up suing me for thirty six thousand dollars
Speaker 1: because I didn't play a song from start to finish,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that I thought everyone was properly entertained.
Speaker 1: I'm in quite a pickle here, and I just want
Speaker 1: to know what you would do. I'm from Missouri, but
Speaker 1: I'll be in Austin, Texas the first two months of December,
Speaker 1: or excuse me, first two months of twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: to clear my head. I just need some help, man,
Speaker 1: ye ye your friend JR. Dude, I don't It's like
Speaker 1: hashtag not sure if serious here. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're serious. They're suing you for thirty six thousand dollars
Speaker 1: because you didn't play a song from start to finish.
Speaker 1: That is that, man. I think you're messing with me right, Like,
Speaker 1: you're either messing with me or you're either messing with
Speaker 1: me which I hope you're not, or dude, you gotta
Speaker 1: get your ducks in a row, because that is the
Speaker 1: weirdest thing. I've never heard anything like that. It's the
Speaker 1: weirdest thing. So I will I will address it like
Speaker 1: you're being serious, and I would say, I hope you
Speaker 1: have a good attorney. And that number that's way out
Speaker 1: of the out of the league of any number that
Speaker 1: it should be a lawsuit. I've never heard of a
Speaker 1: lawsuit for anyone that's not playing a complete song. I've
Speaker 1: never heard of that. Usually that kind of thing, it
Speaker 1: does happen like venues getting mad that you didn't finish
Speaker 1: a set or you didn't say you're supposed to go
Speaker 1: till you're supposed to play till midnight, and you stopped
Speaker 1: at eleven thirty, and so they want they want to
Speaker 1: be compensated for the thirty minutes because the reason they
Speaker 1: would do that is because people could start leaving and
Speaker 1: not consuming alcohol for that eleven thirty midnight. They needed
Speaker 1: you to play music because in their mind, now that
Speaker 1: the crowd's going to leave because the band's done, and
Speaker 1: they're out this money for not selling alcohol. And I'm
Speaker 1: assuming if you're serious this what the venue is saying.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't make sense because you're talking about one song.
Speaker 1: You're not saying you quit thirty minutes early. So what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is usually that could be resolved
Speaker 1: in the settle up at the end of the night
Speaker 1: when the venue's mad and they say, man, you quit
Speaker 1: thirty minutes early. And if you did, and you messed up,
Speaker 1: and it's in the contract, then you would take out
Speaker 1: a percentage of your pay. You know, you take that
Speaker 1: slice of the pie, that percentage of the time that
Speaker 1: you didn't play versus the time you were supposed to play,
Speaker 1: and you add up that money, and I can't imagine
Speaker 1: unless you unless you're I've never heard of you, but
Speaker 1: you're making millions of dollars per show, and each song
Speaker 1: for you is worth thirty six thousand dollars, then I
Speaker 1: can't see any other reason for that. I will say this,
Speaker 1: just make sure from now on, every musician listening, no
Speaker 1: matter how big or how small you are, get things
Speaker 1: in writing. And a lot of venues don't like to
Speaker 1: sign things. Just them, hound them about it, get them,
Speaker 1: get their name to you know, their signature on a
Speaker 1: document that just says my name is Granger, and I'm
Speaker 1: playing at your venue on this night, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to play from nine o'clock until eleven thirty, and you
Speaker 1: are going to pay me five hundred dollars flat versus
Speaker 1: eighty percent of a five dollars ticket after eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars expenses to you to pay for security and what
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, that's that's the kind of a
Speaker 1: typical contract. You it's a guarantee versus a door deal.
Speaker 1: You get a percentage of that door deal. You guys,
Speaker 1: right back in if you want to know more about
Speaker 1: this topic, Right back in if you want to, if
Speaker 1: you want me to go through an actual venue contract
Speaker 1: or something like that, if you're curious. But early musicians
Speaker 1: just get in writing, even if you don't even worry
Speaker 1: about the door deal. And a kind of deal is
Speaker 1: I get zero dollars guaranteed verse one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the door, So you're gonna get everything that comes in
Speaker 1: the door. But if no one comes, they don't know
Speaker 1: you anything. That is an option. I have done that
Speaker 1: many times in my in my previous music world. So
Speaker 1: get things in writing and get their signature on it.
Speaker 1: That way, you're fine. You could, you know, you take
Speaker 1: that to court and you go, there's assume me for
Speaker 1: thirty six thousand bucks. But look, it says right here
Speaker 1: that all I had to do was play from nine
Speaker 1: thirty to eleven thirty, which I did, and he was
Speaker 1: gonna pay me this amount of money. It says nothing
Speaker 1: about completing a specific song from start to finish. You said,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that I thought everyone was properly entertained,
Speaker 1: that's not that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you think.
Speaker 1: It only matters what's on paper, what's on contract. So
Speaker 1: if you're truly in this kind of pickle and it's
Speaker 1: really got you down because you truly are being sued
Speaker 1: for thirty six thousand dollars, go to court. I mean,
Speaker 1: what judge is going to grant them that? Just go
Speaker 1: to court. Just go to court and go listen, this
Speaker 1: is my story. I thought they were entertained, and here
Speaker 1: this is no judge is going to go thirty six
Speaker 1: thousand your boom. Here you go. Appreciate you writing, buddy.
Speaker 1: If any other musicians out there hear this and have
Speaker 1: questions about contracts, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Next question is from Ricky from Kansas. Shout out to Kansas.
Speaker 1: It says, hey, Granger, I lost my job of six
Speaker 1: years right after Christmas. This is one of the best
Speaker 1: jobs I've ever had to support my family, married and
Speaker 1: have two kids. My wife and I talked about me
Speaker 1: switching jobs since it was an hour drive to work
Speaker 1: with twelve hour shifts and then an hour drive home.
Speaker 1: I would like to know if you have any advice
Speaker 1: on how to get myself into the mindset of a
Speaker 1: new start. I watch you and Lunker's TV all the time,
Speaker 1: and I've watched you guys grow through adversity, and I
Speaker 1: just want you to know. I want to know how
Speaker 1: you dealt with it. I love the channels on the podcast.
Speaker 1: The content is great. Thank you for any words of
Speaker 1: encouragement that could help me. Thank you, Ricky, appreciate you man.
Speaker 1: Thank you for writing in. I got a couple observations here.
Speaker 1: You said you lost your job, it's one of the
Speaker 1: best jobs you've ever had. But you said my wife
Speaker 1: and I had talked about me switching jobs since it
Speaker 1: was an hour commute work, twelve hour shift, and an
Speaker 1: hour home. That's fourteen hours. I'm pretty good at math,
Speaker 1: and I just add that up right there, without even
Speaker 1: using the calculator. So hey, it's not all bad. Right.
Speaker 1: It sucks that you lost a good job, but you
Speaker 1: were thinking about changing anyway, so that's not all bad.
Speaker 1: We've got to these on these questions we got. We
Speaker 1: always gotta look at the blessings here. You know, let's
Speaker 1: always focus on the good. Let's always focus on the
Speaker 1: blessing and be grateful and thankful for the good in everything,
Speaker 1: because there's always good. There's not always not everything is good,
Speaker 1: but there is always good in everything. You could find it.
Speaker 1: You just have to open your eyes and see that.
Speaker 1: And that's a muscle memory challenge for all of us
Speaker 1: to go. I'm going to focus on what I can
Speaker 1: control right here now, in this moment, right So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look at this and go, well, dude, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a blessing because you we're kind of
Speaker 1: thinking about changing. Your question is how do I get
Speaker 1: myself into the mindset of a new start. First thing
Speaker 1: is and you sent this email January fourth, Okay, so
Speaker 1: we're still in the same month here. So you got
Speaker 1: to get You gotta get a money maker. You gotta
Speaker 1: get a job to make some money. Right now. When
Speaker 1: this happened to me One time, I lost a job
Speaker 1: and needed money to pay the rent that was due
Speaker 1: that month because I hadn't saved. You know, this was
Speaker 1: years ago. I hadn't saved, and I'm a single. I
Speaker 1: didn't have enough money to pay the rent at the
Speaker 1: end of that month. So I had to do something
Speaker 1: right now. So I had a lawnmower, and I had
Speaker 1: a weed eater, and it had a can of gasoline.
Speaker 1: And I started going door to door saying I'll moiw
Speaker 1: your grass for twenty bucks. And it was undercutting every
Speaker 1: lawn star servous by doing that. But a lot of
Speaker 1: people are like twenty bucks, seriously, that's it. It's like yep,
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking I could do it, and I could
Speaker 1: do it in thirty minutes, little lawns. I could do
Speaker 1: it in thirty minutes, and then I could do that way.
Speaker 1: I could do forty bucks an hour. And if I worked,
Speaker 1: you know, six yards in a day and worked four
Speaker 1: days a week, I'm gonna be doing okay. So that
Speaker 1: was the beginning of that mindset of how to start
Speaker 1: over right is you gotta pay bills right now. So
Speaker 1: it's amazing when I started mowing the lawn all these yards,
Speaker 1: the opportunities that brought the people I met during these
Speaker 1: mowing people's grass. I remember there was like Montgomery Gentry,
Speaker 1: remember the country duo Troy Gentry. We actually ended up
Speaker 1: passing away to a helicopter crash. I met him years ago.
Speaker 1: This was in Nashville. I met him because I went
Speaker 1: to his house. I didn't know he lived there, and
Speaker 1: I knocked on the door and his wife answered, and
Speaker 1: I asked her to if I could mow the grass,
Speaker 1: and she said yes. I ended up meeting him, and
Speaker 1: then I met Keith Urban's drummer. I was literally driving
Speaker 1: down neighborhoods and just putting flyers out, and people were
Speaker 1: calling me, and I ended up making all these connections
Speaker 1: just because I was mowing grass, connections that have lasted
Speaker 1: twenty years since then. So there's a great way to
Speaker 1: get into a mindset by just saying I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: out right now and make some money. The second thing
Speaker 1: I would do is make sure you're getting up early
Speaker 1: before that your new job, and spending a couple hours
Speaker 1: without distractions, without social media, without except for Mondays, when
Speaker 1: you need to listen to this podcast without family distractions
Speaker 1: and social distractions. Get up early and spend some time
Speaker 1: with yourself. Do some reading. There's a lot of great
Speaker 1: self help books, you know, find a good one, take
Speaker 1: some notes, write a journal. What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: Who do you want to be? Who? Who? How do
Speaker 1: you become the best version of yourself? You're not going
Speaker 1: to figure that out during a busy day boom boom boom,
Speaker 1: boom boom. You're going to figure that out before the
Speaker 1: sun comes up, with a cup of hot black coffee,
Speaker 1: sitting in your chair with your notebook and your book,
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm going to be the best version
Speaker 1: of myself starting today right here, when this alarm goes off,
Speaker 1: I don't have to go to work till seven thirty,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to get up at five thirty. And
Speaker 1: that's two hours of me time figuring out my next move.
Speaker 1: What am I passionate about? What I'm going to I'm
Speaker 1: going to make a top ten list on this notepad
Speaker 1: right here, top ten list of jobs I want right now,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna go through every day and that's
Speaker 1: your power list. And every morning when you get up
Speaker 1: and you get your coffee and you sit there at
Speaker 1: that table and you look at the list and you go,
Speaker 1: all right, I called number one and that lead is
Speaker 1: not happening. So I'm going to number two. This is
Speaker 1: a good one. And the way I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: number two is I'm gonna email this person or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go in person and talk to this guy. Or
Speaker 1: my buddy is in this, I'm gonna talk to him
Speaker 1: about how to get to his boss. And you're gonna
Speaker 1: attack this with aggression like I'm attacking this new life
Speaker 1: of mine. I'm going after this like it's like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to win the super Bowl, Like I'm Tom Brady
Speaker 1: trying to win the super Bowl. I'm going after this.
Speaker 1: And you do that every morning and the next morning,
Speaker 1: the next morning, and next morning, and six months go
Speaker 1: down right, and you're gonna email this podcast and go, dude,
Speaker 1: after six months of doing this, guess what my new
Speaker 1: story is? Text discipline. But Ricky, that's my suggestion. Man,
Speaker 1: make money first and start getting up early, plan this out.
Speaker 1: Attack this with aggression. It's a great question. Say I
Speaker 1: got time for an on? Was do another one? Here?
Speaker 1: This subject line on this one says, dilemma, help what
Speaker 1: would you do. I'm ready. I'm ready for you, it says,
Speaker 1: Hey Grange. My name is Kayla. I'm in my thirties,
Speaker 1: married with two kids. I've recently been hit with a dilemma.
Speaker 1: We as a family have been praying about it, but
Speaker 1: we just aren't sure what to do or what would
Speaker 1: be best. So I thought I would reach out and
Speaker 1: get your thoughts. Man, the pressure's on, she says. The
Speaker 1: place we're living now is in South Carolina. It's going
Speaker 1: up for sale. We currently rent it. We don't want
Speaker 1: to buy it because it isn't a house we want
Speaker 1: to put our money into. Basically, it just meets our
Speaker 1: needs for renting, but not something we would want to buy.
Speaker 1: Here's our dilemma. We're originally from Ohio. Funny that I
Speaker 1: misspoke Ohio earlier, and all of our family lives in
Speaker 1: Ohio still. We moved to South Carolina for a job
Speaker 1: opportunity for my husband almost five years ago now, but
Speaker 1: we miss our family, friends and just being around people
Speaker 1: we know and people that can help us with our
Speaker 1: children if the needs arise. Being said, we're in a
Speaker 1: transition stage. My parents have offered us land back in
Speaker 1: Ohio to come home. And build a house on which
Speaker 1: is amazing, But we would be leaving a very good
Speaker 1: job for my husband here in South Carolina, and I'd
Speaker 1: have to find a job for him and myself back
Speaker 1: in Ohio. Right now, I'm a stay at home mom.
Speaker 1: So my question is, what would you do given the
Speaker 1: state that our country's in with COVID and all and
Speaker 1: the hiring freezes and hard to find a job. Would
Speaker 1: you a stay in South Carolina with the establish well
Speaker 1: paid job away from family and look for a house
Speaker 1: to buy here or be move back to Ohio build
Speaker 1: a house on free and cleared land and be by
Speaker 1: our family, but have to essentially start over with a
Speaker 1: new job for my husband, and I would possibly have
Speaker 1: to get a job as well, which I'm not opposed
Speaker 1: to because one child is already in school age. I'm
Speaker 1: stuck because I know the times we're in and well
Speaker 1: paying job with security is hard to come by. But
Speaker 1: we miss our family so much and we would love
Speaker 1: to buy a house, and while our house was being built,
Speaker 1: we could just live with our parents in the extra space.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're just paying praying for the Lord's
Speaker 1: will for him to show us the path to take
Speaker 1: but I figured more options couldn't hurt. What would you do?
Speaker 1: It says, thank you for taking the time to read
Speaker 1: and respond. Have a blessed day, Kayla. That is crazy
Speaker 1: how similar that is to the earlier question. And it's
Speaker 1: crazy that this this is South Carolina going back to Ohio,
Speaker 1: and the first question was Florida going to Wisconsin, and
Speaker 1: it just so happens to be on the same podcast episode.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna approach this differently than I did with the
Speaker 1: Florida question, and I'm gonna kind of start from scratching
Speaker 1: my head, even though I think the end result is
Speaker 1: probably similar. In fact, Kayla, you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a better situation than the Florida question, because the
Speaker 1: Florida question didn't have land ready to be built on
Speaker 1: those free and clear of payments. But both of you
Speaker 1: have good jobs and this dilemma comes up. You are
Speaker 1: in a time constraint because the house you're living in
Speaker 1: you're having to leave because the landlord is selling. I
Speaker 1: would you're asking what I would do? I would rent
Speaker 1: again in South Carolina, short term lease. You could even
Speaker 1: do an extended stay hotel. The reason I say this
Speaker 1: because you're talking about your kids. You have two kids
Speaker 1: and you're stay at home mom, and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pluck them out of school and take them to
Speaker 1: Ohio with no job. Right now, I would get an
Speaker 1: extended stay or a like a six month lease in
Speaker 1: something and then be job hunting like crazy in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you and your husband are gonna have to
Speaker 1: spend a little time apart, like maybe maybe he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to go and and do some in person interviews
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to stay in your extended stay
Speaker 1: in uh, South Carolina. And it's it's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: This is gonna take a sacrifice. Any any kind of
Speaker 1: big move with a big payout like this pay off
Speaker 1: is going to require sacrifice. The life is about sacrifice.
Speaker 1: So this is not. There's no easy answer, which is
Speaker 1: why your your subject says, dilemma, help, what would you do?
Speaker 1: So there's no easy way out of this. But everything
Speaker 1: is sacrifice, Even love is a sacrifice, right Like everything
Speaker 1: requires a little out of the ordinary effort. Like in
Speaker 1: the last question, dude, you got to get up a
Speaker 1: little earlier. That's a sacrifice. So you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: it sounds like you're gonna have to spend some time apart.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's gonna have to go like a Monday through
Speaker 1: Friday and job hunt, interview, interview interview, fly back for
Speaker 1: the weekends to be with you and the kids, or
Speaker 1: vice versa, and then the whole house thing you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to figure out. Like me and Amber right now
Speaker 1: are living in a in an RV in our barn,
Speaker 1: and that's a sacrifice for it. We're building a house
Speaker 1: on this property, and that's a sacrifice we chose instead
Speaker 1: of either buying a house that's completely built or renting
Speaker 1: while we're building, we're renting another house. We decided to
Speaker 1: make the sacrifice to save money and stay in an
Speaker 1: RV on the property and look at it like it
Speaker 1: was an adventure. So you could do that. You could
Speaker 1: you say, your husband gets a job tomorrow that's really
Speaker 1: good in Ohio. That's an equal kind of job, which
Speaker 1: you could you could even get a lesser paying job
Speaker 1: because now you're going into a free and clear house.
Speaker 1: But you could get an RV and put this on
Speaker 1: the land and live in the RV while you're building,
Speaker 1: or like you said, you could live with your parents
Speaker 1: and they've even offered you to come and stay in
Speaker 1: their house while while you're building. That's a really good deal.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's my answer. The answer is not
Speaker 1: stay in South Carolina forever. That's not what my answer is.
Speaker 1: My answer is stay in South Carolina right now. I
Speaker 1: would say look at it as a sixth six month window.
Speaker 1: You're going to stay here for six months, and you
Speaker 1: might extend it to another six moth so this might
Speaker 1: take up all of twenty twenty one. But you're hardcore looking.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, your husband's still keeping his job in
Speaker 1: South Carolina, so he's making that paycheck. You got the benefits.
Speaker 1: Your lifestyle is not going to change, even though you're
Speaker 1: you should be throwing a little extra money in the
Speaker 1: savings account every month now for this house build, and
Speaker 1: other than that, your lifestyle is not changing that much.
Speaker 1: So you're just hounding the job market in Ohio, looking, looking,
Speaker 1: and then once you lock something down and it feels good,
Speaker 1: then you make the full commitment to move the whole family.
Speaker 1: That way, you're going to be safe. With everything you
Speaker 1: said about the state of the world and the job
Speaker 1: market and all that, you're still safe because the worst
Speaker 1: case scenario on this is you're living in a six
Speaker 1: month least that you extend to a year, and that
Speaker 1: extends to a year and a half. It's not a
Speaker 1: bad thing. A year and a half in the grand
Speaker 1: scheme of things is not that big a deal to
Speaker 1: this plan that you're eventually going to live on your
Speaker 1: on this land in beautiful Ohio. So yeah, a different
Speaker 1: answer than I gave the first time, but a similar result.
Speaker 1: The end result is you're gonna be in a place
Speaker 1: where your heart is happy. And that doesn't mean the
Speaker 1: good pay and secure job. That doesn't make your heart happy,
Speaker 1: that just makes you feel safe for now. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna have that longing and you're gonna have like I
Speaker 1: said in the first question, you're gonna have this regret
Speaker 1: if you don't do this, Like what if your parents
Speaker 1: you say no and they offer it to someone else
Speaker 1: and then someone builds a beautiful house there. How long
Speaker 1: would you live with that regret of gosh? I remember
Speaker 1: ten years ago my parents offered that land and we
Speaker 1: said no, and we stayed here, and now my husband's
Speaker 1: even switched job since then. South Carolina. Our kids are
Speaker 1: now graduated from high school, they're out of the house
Speaker 1: and here we are and we don't have Ohio. It's
Speaker 1: my thought. I gotta say, that's what I think. But
Speaker 1: great question. And thank all you guys for emailing and
Speaker 1: if you have anything. As you can see, these subject
Speaker 1: matters are kind of all over the place. Grangersmith Podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com and I'll get to it. Love y'all. Gege,
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