Speaker 1: Hey everybody, thanks for watching and listening. It's been a
Speaker 1: while since on this podcast I've had a bunch of guests,
Speaker 1: so it's been a while since I've answered questions, and
Speaker 1: I always enjoy those podcasts. In fact, there was a
Speaker 1: time when this podcast was really dedicated strictly to answering
Speaker 1: your questions, because it seems to be an endless amount
Speaker 1: of information I could throw out there to answer your questions,
Speaker 1: and some of them are really unique, and I enjoyed
Speaker 1: doing it, and it's really good to start a Monday
Speaker 1: with giving you some answered questions about me or what's
Speaker 1: going on. I want to talk about this new album
Speaker 1: we have coming out in September, and I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the Earl Dibbles truck restoration videos that have
Speaker 1: seemed to be on a long hiatus on this channel.
Speaker 1: And I want to cover a couple of a couple
Speaker 1: of really cool options. Here a couple of questions that
Speaker 1: I've I fielded them off of Instagram. I went just
Speaker 1: a couple of hours ago and put in my story
Speaker 1: asked me some questions for the podcast, and then I
Speaker 1: went through and and screenshoted one two about about fifteen
Speaker 1: of them. I don't know if I'll get to all
Speaker 1: of them, but those are ones that just caught my
Speaker 1: eye right off the bat, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun episode. So these are good ones. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Granger Smith Podcast. Did time and long line down on
Speaker 1: back Rangy Coation, Getting right into it right now. First
Speaker 1: question comes from Chris on Instagram and it says, is
Speaker 1: there any chance that You're going to go on tour
Speaker 1: in Europe at some point? And the reason I screenshot
Speaker 1: of that question is because I saw a lot of them,
Speaker 1: either they were specific to Italy or Germany, or England
Speaker 1: or Ireland. And my answer to that is a little
Speaker 1: bit sad because in twenty twenty we actually did have
Speaker 1: a European tour scheduled in September and October, and we
Speaker 1: had to cancel that probably in April. We held on
Speaker 1: for a while during the craziness of COVID, so we
Speaker 1: held on as long as we could. Then found out
Speaker 1: it was best for everybody promoters wanted to cancel. We
Speaker 1: thought it's probably best to push that to twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: So I would expect to go to Europe in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one for a tour Chris, I'm sorry it's not
Speaker 1: this year. I love Europe. I love traveling to Europe,
Speaker 1: I love playing Europe. We've done several tours over there.
Speaker 1: One in particular was a United States military base tour
Speaker 1: in Germany and Italy. That was just our riot. I
Speaker 1: guess I shouldn't use that word these days, but it
Speaker 1: was so much fun. We had a little bus that
Speaker 1: we traveled around and went to these military bases and
Speaker 1: saw some towns that we wouldn't have normally gone to
Speaker 1: on a tourist route, and gosh, I'd crave it. I
Speaker 1: crave I crave Europe for beer and coffee and food,
Speaker 1: unbelievable architecture, history and history buff all the wars. So anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Chris, that's the definitely in the plan. And here's
Speaker 1: here's missus Ashton on Instagram. She said update on the
Speaker 1: house build. So it's a good question. Amber and I
Speaker 1: are going to build a farmhouse out on the property
Speaker 1: where we have right now, where we're currently living in
Speaker 1: an RV, and it's been such an adventure I can
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sad to get away from the RV
Speaker 1: at some point because it's really been fun. To have
Speaker 1: this minimalist lifestyle with the kids and really focus on
Speaker 1: each other and our time together and the environment. I mean,
Speaker 1: when it's hot outside, it's hot in that barn that's
Speaker 1: where we're living. If it's cold outside, haven't been there yet,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure it's going to be cold, and we'll
Speaker 1: just be very in tune. Like today, it's actually sprinkled
Speaker 1: rained a little bit, and you know, you could you
Speaker 1: hear it in the whole barn. You hear the rain,
Speaker 1: and you hear the thunder, and you feel just very
Speaker 1: much a part of the land. So that being said,
Speaker 1: I am going to be a little bit sad and
Speaker 1: we have to leave that RV. But that being said,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to break ground on this farmhouse in about
Speaker 1: a month. So this particular builder who's a friend of ours,
Speaker 1: likes to have everything picked out, everything done before they
Speaker 1: break ground. So that means flooring and walls and fixtures
Speaker 1: and faucets and all that stuff. He likes to have
Speaker 1: it all done so that whenever we finish that and
Speaker 1: hit go, there's no turning back. About a month Ashton,
Speaker 1: this is a funny one. What made you make the eee'?
Speaker 1: That's the question. And there's always anytime I ask for questions,
Speaker 1: there's always questions about that, where does ee come from?
Speaker 1: Where did you get ee? Why do you say eee?
Speaker 1: I even tell people in the crowd sometimes I'll say
Speaker 1: somewhere in the show, I'll say, hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you came to this show and for some reason
Speaker 1: don't know what eee means, it means live life to
Speaker 1: the fullest. And in a nutshell, that's what it means,
Speaker 1: live life to the fullest. It means that because that's
Speaker 1: the meaning we gave it. And going back to the
Speaker 1: origins of it, it came from the very first Earl
Speaker 1: Dibbles video before it was a music video, before all that,
Speaker 1: it was called Earl Dibbles Junior. I think it was
Speaker 1: called the Country Boy Part one or Country Boy Part one.
Speaker 1: It was back in twenty eleven and July. And right
Speaker 1: in the middle of that video, if you go watch
Speaker 1: that video, right in the middle and I'll link at
Speaker 1: the top of description, Earle says, you know, holds up
Speaker 1: a shotgun and says ye yee, and that just wasn't
Speaker 1: that big a deal. It was like it's like an
Speaker 1: old Texas cattle call. And there was a couple of
Speaker 1: other takes where he said multiple ye's, but the one
Speaker 1: that actually made the video that I edited it was
Speaker 1: just two yee ye. And that was the luckiest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever said. It was Excuse me, it's the luckiest
Speaker 1: thing Earl Dibbles Junior ever said four me and I
Speaker 1: remember that I knew it was catching on. We didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't think that much of it, me and my brothers.
Speaker 1: But but people started coming to our shows holding up
Speaker 1: signs that said yee. They also held up signs and
Speaker 1: said crack a coal, one put a good dip in.
Speaker 1: I got a tough schedule that said things to other
Speaker 1: quotes from that video, but yee was the interesting one
Speaker 1: that they held up signs. And I remember, as that
Speaker 1: video started going viral, I'll never forget one day driving
Speaker 1: in lam Passas, Texas, and there was a truck dealership
Speaker 1: and in the in the front windshield of all the
Speaker 1: trucks in lamp passes, it said yee and every windshield
Speaker 1: a little sign, and I thought, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is terrible, this is bad. We need to trademark this
Speaker 1: right now, because I knew that if we didn't trademark it,
Speaker 1: somebody else would and then make us not be able
Speaker 1: to say it. And this was right during the time.
Speaker 1: The reason I knew that is because it was right
Speaker 1: during the time when that video came out. The very
Speaker 1: first Earl Dubbles T shirt, the very first one, I
Speaker 1: guess it was the I'm sitting here at the Eye Farm,
Speaker 1: the headquarters of EEE Apparel, the very first EEE Apparel
Speaker 1: shirt ever. On the front it said I'm a country boy,
Speaker 1: and on the back it said I got a tough schedule,
Speaker 1: I wake up, put a good dip in crack a coat.
Speaker 1: It was like a list and it had a little
Speaker 1: check down the list. Well, just a few weeks after
Speaker 1: we started selling that shirt, we got to see some
Speaker 1: distiss see some desist letter from a company I believe
Speaker 1: it was in Ohio, and the letter said you cannot
Speaker 1: use the word the phrase country boy. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was the oddest thing. I was like, we can't
Speaker 1: say country boy any on a koozie or on a
Speaker 1: T shirt or any any kind of merchandise. It was
Speaker 1: the weirdest thing to me. But evidently there is a
Speaker 1: company and they have trademarked country boy and country Girl,
Speaker 1: and they don't let anybody use it, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of part of their stick. You know, they're the only
Speaker 1: ones that could sell shirts like that. It's a terrible
Speaker 1: business to be in if that's your your business plan
Speaker 1: is to just shut down anyone else that says it
Speaker 1: so that you could be the only one. But then
Speaker 1: no one really buys your shirts. I even I even
Speaker 1: know for a fact that Luke Bryan when he came
Speaker 1: out with the country Girl Shake It from Me, they
Speaker 1: literally shut down the shirts that said country girls shake
Speaker 1: It from Me because they couldn't use country girl together
Speaker 1: on one shirt. So because of that, and it really
Speaker 1: motivated me to step up with EE and say, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: we got to trademark this, not so that not so
Speaker 1: that it's it's it's ours away from stealing it away
Speaker 1: from the world, but more so that the world couldn't
Speaker 1: take it and tell us never to say it again
Speaker 1: or never to put it on shirts. Can you guys
Speaker 1: imagine if I had let that slip away, where what
Speaker 1: would this what would this farm be called? What would
Speaker 1: this apparel company be called? What would what would Earl
Speaker 1: Dibbles say? After that? So it was a scary deal,
Speaker 1: and it was scary because it cost me five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to trademark that, and that was everything that we
Speaker 1: all had combined. We pulled every penny we had together
Speaker 1: and were able to salvage five thousand dollars for this trademark.
Speaker 1: And I mean that's digging into grocery money back in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, and so now it was scary and terrible
Speaker 1: and heartbreaking and gave me so much anxiety. But looking
Speaker 1: back on it, it's probably the best thing I ever
Speaker 1: did for my career was pay that five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's also been other podcast that
Speaker 1: go way more in depth about ye. That's kind of
Speaker 1: the short story. Next question from Bailey Marshall says, what
Speaker 1: would you recommend doing in the mornings to mentally prepare
Speaker 1: for the day. And I think that's an ow some question,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bailey. I screenshot at it and I can
Speaker 1: answer that in a couple of ways. One, I like
Speaker 1: to get up earlier than I need to as many
Speaker 1: times as I physically can. And why I say physically
Speaker 1: can is because I need to get seven hours And
Speaker 1: I've done so much research on this and I've I've
Speaker 1: read so many books about this, and I've studied history
Speaker 1: so much about it, and you can hear flip sides
Speaker 1: of the story, Like I remember Arnold Schwarzenegger one time saying,
Speaker 1: if you want to achieve more in life, you got
Speaker 1: to sleep less, and I know what he means. But
Speaker 1: it's also it's also proven over and over again that
Speaker 1: if you sleep less than your needed time, then you
Speaker 1: are going to function at half the capacity, the mental
Speaker 1: capacity of what you would on a normal sleep night.
Speaker 1: So if you think you're going to get ahead in
Speaker 1: life by sleeping four hours and getting up early every more,
Speaker 1: like maybe you go to bed at midnight and wake
Speaker 1: up at four, and then you think you have more
Speaker 1: of the day, it's not technically right because you run
Speaker 1: into this sleep deprivation problem where you're only functioning at
Speaker 1: fifty percent of your brain or less. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: proven that you're worse off than being drunk when you
Speaker 1: sleep deprive yourself. That being said, everyone kind of has
Speaker 1: their time that they need, and I have figured out
Speaker 1: that seven hours is my minimum time to sleep. I
Speaker 1: could sleep seven to eight. If I get anything over eight,
Speaker 1: that affects me negatively too. That kind of makes me groggy.
Speaker 1: I feel weird after eight hours, and I feel unproductive,
Speaker 1: So I try to get right at seven. And the
Speaker 1: reason I lead into that is to go to your
Speaker 1: morning question. Is I like to get up earlier. If
Speaker 1: I can an hour earlier that I need to is great.
Speaker 1: So if I have if I have a meeting at
Speaker 1: say eight o'clock, and I have a phone call at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock, and I need to do like the normal
Speaker 1: morning stuff like wake up, like the sleep out of
Speaker 1: my eyes, take it, you know, take a drink and
Speaker 1: brush my teeth and all that kind of stuff. Get dressed.
Speaker 1: Sound like Earl divils now. So if that takes thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: then that brings me back to seven thirty. That means
Speaker 1: I need to get up at six thirty to have
Speaker 1: an hour between six thirty and seven thirty to do
Speaker 1: my morning routine. That consists number one of being absent
Speaker 1: from my phone. So I learned a long time ago
Speaker 1: that I can't. I can't wake up and pull up
Speaker 1: my phone and start checking emails and checking text messages,
Speaker 1: going about oh good God, forget bids social media. I
Speaker 1: cannot do that first thing the morning. That just puts
Speaker 1: you on the wrong path. So I like to have
Speaker 1: that that hour to do some reading, to have a
Speaker 1: little little very primitive journal that I'll write in just
Speaker 1: for exercise sake, that I could I could write what's
Speaker 1: going on in my life. Not nothing detailed, nothing poetic,
Speaker 1: just heading heading on tour to the Northwest tomorrow, early
Speaker 1: morning flight. Lincoln played baseball with me last night. Just
Speaker 1: primitive stuff because that helps me a lot to be
Speaker 1: able to journal. And so reading, journaling and having some
Speaker 1: quiet time. You know, I love I love the mornings.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite time. So if I could have a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee and be outside with the birds and
Speaker 1: with the sunrise, watching the sun come up, that is
Speaker 1: such a such a key factor in getting my day
Speaker 1: going in the right direction. After that, I always work out,
Speaker 1: So if I'm going to have a long workout, I
Speaker 1: also have to fact that a factor that into my
Speaker 1: morning routine whenever my day's supposed to start. So that
Speaker 1: usually text me about an hour forty five minutes to
Speaker 1: an hour to get a good workout. I usually do
Speaker 1: strength training at the very least get a good sweat going.
Speaker 1: So if I could do all of those things I mentioned,
Speaker 1: before that phone call or meeting or whatever is, whatever
Speaker 1: it is to start my day, I am just a
Speaker 1: lot better off. I'm a lot better after in the day.
Speaker 1: And Bailey, I hope that kind of answers your questions.
Speaker 1: But I could say if you could do anything that
Speaker 1: I just said anything, get your required hours of sleep
Speaker 1: and don't get your phone first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1: Next question, what's the hardest thing you've ever gone through
Speaker 1: being a country singer? And that question, I'm going to
Speaker 1: stick with the business side. And I'm assuming that you
Speaker 1: were talking about because you put in country singer. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you're putting you're talking about the business side, not
Speaker 1: the personal side. Like you didn't say what's the hardest
Speaker 1: thing you've ever gone through as a human being? You
Speaker 1: said country singers, I'm assuming you mean business. So if
Speaker 1: it's business, There's two things that come to mind. One was, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's throw us. Let's throw us side COVID
Speaker 1: because COVID wins. That wins that battle every time. Because
Speaker 1: the hardest thing I ever did as a country singer
Speaker 1: was shut down my entire tour, tell my band they
Speaker 1: don't have a job, and scrap for the last six months,
Speaker 1: so that that throws everything out of the out of
Speaker 1: the wall, out of the window right now. So besides COVID,
Speaker 1: it would be one of two things. One and falling
Speaker 1: off the stage and breaking ribs and puncturing alung and
Speaker 1: then having that setback of recovery. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that was as much a big as much of an
Speaker 1: ordeal to me as when I lost my voice. And
Speaker 1: I lost my voice just screwed around with one of
Speaker 1: the guys on the crew. We were kind of horsing
Speaker 1: around wrestling on the bus in front of everybody, and
Speaker 1: he put me in a chokehold with his forearm and
Speaker 1: it caused swelling in my throat in my vocal cord.
Speaker 1: And then I sang that night at a show and
Speaker 1: burst that blood vessel that killed my voice. It completely
Speaker 1: went away. I had nothing but a whisper, And that
Speaker 1: was the hardest thing I've had to go through as
Speaker 1: a country singer, not being able to sing. I did
Speaker 1: a whole podcast about that crazy day and that crazy
Speaker 1: night and the recovery it took after that. It definitely
Speaker 1: put a lot of things in perspective for me and
Speaker 1: taught me a lot about myself. Taught me a lot
Speaker 1: about uh, the value of myself and how grateful I
Speaker 1: am for just a normal day of being able to
Speaker 1: use my voice. Judith Rose asked me, what do you
Speaker 1: think are the most important qualities of being a good husband.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that Judith, a female, is asking me what
Speaker 1: I think the most important qualities of being a good
Speaker 1: husband are. And I hope that I hope for a
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. Students, I hope you're not either judging
Speaker 1: your current spouse or I hope you're not going to
Speaker 1: use my advice to decide who who you like or
Speaker 1: not to marry one day. And as anything on this podcast,
Speaker 1: you cats can't take, can't take my word for gospel.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you what I think, and so what
Speaker 1: I think the good qualities are are what I've experienced
Speaker 1: with Amber, and that is honesty. It's got to be
Speaker 1: number one. And number two is forgiveness. And a lot
Speaker 1: of times with Amber and I that forgiveness starts before
Speaker 1: a fight or an argument even happens, meaning she could
Speaker 1: do something that might be annoying or something I don't
Speaker 1: believe in fundamentally, but I know quickly that it's not
Speaker 1: worth it. It's not worth what that could cause if
Speaker 1: we if I start a disagreement, especially if I know
Speaker 1: she's passionate, passionate about it. And the truth is we've
Speaker 1: both learned how to forgive each other before the problem
Speaker 1: even starts. So that's a different than getting in a
Speaker 1: huge brawl and then at the end of it then
Speaker 1: I forgive her right, So before that even happens, I
Speaker 1: look at her and I just go, you know what,
Speaker 1: She's a human being, like I am, very smart human being,
Speaker 1: probably smarter, not probably a lot smarter than I am.
Speaker 1: And she feels that way or she does that or
Speaker 1: she thinks that way, and she's entitled to that, and
Speaker 1: who am I to tell her otherwise. And if it's
Speaker 1: a fundamental disagreement, as in disciplining kids or something like that,
Speaker 1: then we both approach each other in a very civil way,
Speaker 1: like you know, but instead of saying, instead of putting
Speaker 1: it on her, like you know what you should do,
Speaker 1: instead of doing that to London, I'll approach it like,
Speaker 1: how either how could I help you with that problem
Speaker 1: you're having with London? Or can you let me deal
Speaker 1: with her? You let me deal with London? In this
Speaker 1: I have an idea on maybe how to how to
Speaker 1: make this outcome better. It might not work, but can
Speaker 1: I try that? Can I try that on London? Instead
Speaker 1: of saying, Babe, you're wrong? Why would you do that?
Speaker 1: You're wrong? That's that's not the right way. There's nothing
Speaker 1: that's going to come out of that, nothing besides me
Speaker 1: being right, and that's not fun. Me being right means nothing.
Speaker 1: That doesn't change anything. So, Judith, I hope that helps you.
Speaker 1: Next question, that's funny, that's funny. Literally the next question,
Speaker 1: how do you discipline your children? My son likes to
Speaker 1: say no a lot and he's almost four. Brandon hashtag
Speaker 1: ye yee Brandon. First of all, as you know, I
Speaker 1: don't have to tell you, buddy that if your if
Speaker 1: your son says no a lot and he's three years old,
Speaker 1: that's natural. That's totally normal. And we both we both understand.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the puppy theory. When you see
Speaker 1: a little lab puppy chewing on the corner of the table.
Speaker 1: You know it's cute, but you imagine him as a
Speaker 1: full grown dog doing that, and that's not cute anymore.
Speaker 1: You know, that's trouble. That's a bad dog. So it's
Speaker 1: the same thing when I when a little three year
Speaker 1: old is talking back and telling you know all the time.
Speaker 1: At some levels, it's cute and it's understandable, but in
Speaker 1: the back of your mind you're thinking, now, I don't
Speaker 1: want this to turn into a teenager that's doing this
Speaker 1: to me. My mother used to always tell me, you
Speaker 1: have to break their will, but not their spirit. And
Speaker 1: there's a big difference. There's a big difference, and you
Speaker 1: need to you need to curb, curb them and and
Speaker 1: break their will and show them the right way without
Speaker 1: tearing down their spirit. And in so many ways you
Speaker 1: could you could accomplish that. One. You gotta just really
Speaker 1: praise them for the things they're doing good, Like if
Speaker 1: they do something good, you got to praise them a lot,
Speaker 1: like good job, buddy, that's so good. Your that is
Speaker 1: so good, You're such a good boy. That was great.
Speaker 1: And then on the flip side, if they do something wrong,
Speaker 1: instead of instead of a personal attack, even with a
Speaker 1: three year old, it works with three year olds all
Speaker 1: the way up. It works with adults. If they do
Speaker 1: something wrong, you don't attack them personally, you don't attack
Speaker 1: their spirit. Instead, you just attack the action like, buddy,
Speaker 1: you are a good boy. You are a good boy,
Speaker 1: but that was not a good decision. That was wrong.
Speaker 1: You do not do that. You're a good boy. You
Speaker 1: know better, you know reinforce that. Hey, they're smart, they
Speaker 1: can make their own decisions. That can't because there're three,
Speaker 1: but you could reinforce that they can and it helps
Speaker 1: grow them up that way. To more specifically answer your
Speaker 1: discipline question, our kids, you know, all three of our
Speaker 1: kids are very different and they're in the way that
Speaker 1: they take discipline. Lincoln, he responds very well to a spanking,
Speaker 1: so I could I could spank him in the right
Speaker 1: way where I know that it's it's just enough to
Speaker 1: get his attention, not enough to hurt him, and and
Speaker 1: then he focuses on me, and then I could focus
Speaker 1: on fixing it by saying, buddy, you're a good boy.
Speaker 1: You are, you are a smart boy, but you know
Speaker 1: better than that, you know better than to do that.
Speaker 1: And with London, it's totally different because I have spanked
Speaker 1: her a few times and she she only responds with aggression,
Speaker 1: and so that doesn't that doesn't if she If your
Speaker 1: kid responds to to spanking with aggression, then The answer
Speaker 1: to that is not another spanking. That's harder, right, So
Speaker 1: with London, and you just got to learn what it
Speaker 1: is that hurts him, and it's not doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be physical. So with London, it's taken something away. So
Speaker 1: if she's responding with something, or if I'm responding with
Speaker 1: some with some kind of discipline due to her bad actions,
Speaker 1: it's easy for me to say, Okay, I'm taking away,
Speaker 1: making away your doll. No no, no, no, no, please one, nope, nope,
Speaker 1: taking it away. You'll see her in the morning. And
Speaker 1: I could take away that doll and I could hide
Speaker 1: her till the morning, and that hurts her so bad.
Speaker 1: That really helps drive home that she was in the wrong.
Speaker 1: And then once again I just reinforced that she's a
Speaker 1: good girl. Today. Just today, right before this podcast, we
Speaker 1: were playing baseball in the yard and we were doing
Speaker 1: this just fun game where the kids were throwing a
Speaker 1: baseball at the barn and then fielding their reflection of
Speaker 1: the baseball as if they were in a game, and
Speaker 1: they were kind of competing against each other, the two kids,
Speaker 1: and London was doing good, she was doing really good
Speaker 1: fielding the ball, and then she asked me to start
Speaker 1: filming her. So I started filming her so she could
Speaker 1: show her mama, and she missed a couple of the
Speaker 1: ball at the baseballs. While I was filming, she got
Speaker 1: so mad she threw her glove on the ground and
Speaker 1: started storming off. So I grabbed her and I I said, nope,
Speaker 1: we're not any like that. No, I'm not. I hate
Speaker 1: this game good. So I grabbed her. I said, no,
Speaker 1: do it again. No, I don't want to do it again.
Speaker 1: I said, do it again. We're not going to leave
Speaker 1: till you do it again. You're not, she said, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to. Why are you making me do this?
Speaker 1: And I said, because you're mad. It's not because you're
Speaker 1: bad at baseball. It's because you're mad, and you can't
Speaker 1: end a game mad. So do it again. So she
Speaker 1: did it a couple more times, finally got it in
Speaker 1: her glove. And then when she got it in her
Speaker 1: glove and then her face lit up, and then I ran.
Speaker 1: I grabbed her and said, perfect, you see how much
Speaker 1: better that feels. You see how much better that feels?
Speaker 1: And it was great. It was really really awesome because
Speaker 1: she had a huge smile on her face. And then
Speaker 1: she started leaving the field going back to the barn,
Speaker 1: and she said thank you, Daddy, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, just that thank you Daddy was this little,
Speaker 1: this little beautiful moment inside me. And I was like, man,
Speaker 1: that was great. Anytime you could actually do something in
Speaker 1: parenting and feel that reward, it's pretty awesome. So I
Speaker 1: got it. I got it this morning. I hope that
Speaker 1: helps you. Brandon. I'm gonna take a quick break, reset
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Speaker 1: throwing the Raycons and it's a really good way to
Speaker 1: get a proper interpretation of these new songs and a
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Speaker 1: But before you you can't go drop hundreds of dollars.
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Speaker 1: And I could tell you that going from mix in
Speaker 1: my truck and listening to these, it's it's really spot on.
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Speaker 1: think you can get that fifteen percent off. So many
Speaker 1: questions have been coming in about this new album, and
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to answer it right now because
Speaker 1: I know a lot about it, and I can tell
Speaker 1: you a lot about it, but I'm kind of have
Speaker 1: my hands tied a little bit because we're going to
Speaker 1: do some official announcements as they come. So I can
Speaker 1: tell you this it's coming at the end of September.
Speaker 1: I could also tell you and I'll drop this information
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and no one else knows this information. Okay,
Speaker 1: The only time I'll say it is right here on
Speaker 1: this podcast. You ready, There's gonna be more after the
Speaker 1: September release. Okay, So the music's gonna come out the
Speaker 1: end of September, but that won't be the end of it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be getting a lot of music from me
Speaker 1: this fall. We'll put it that way, okay, And I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about it. We'll say that too. Here's a
Speaker 1: question that says, what's your favorite muscle car? I like
Speaker 1: that question because I would say nineteen sixty nine Charger.
Speaker 1: I grew up watching dukes of Hazard. I've always loved
Speaker 1: that car. And guess what, I've never driven one, and
Speaker 1: I've never driven a sixty nine Charger. So he if
Speaker 1: any of you guys have one out there and you
Speaker 1: want to let it come to the EG Farm, drive
Speaker 1: it down the EE Farm, we'll do a video, we'll
Speaker 1: do a podcast, we'll talk about what it's like to
Speaker 1: drive a sixty nine Charger. I would love that. Another
Speaker 1: question about the new have you rehearsed any of the
Speaker 1: new songs for playing live yet? Yes, buddy, we have.
Speaker 1: We just started as I get together with the band,
Speaker 1: either one of these live at the EE Farm sessions
Speaker 1: or these little tours that we've been running on. We've
Speaker 1: been kind of getting together and a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys played on the album, so they already know them
Speaker 1: pretty well. In fact, Phish, my guitar player on my
Speaker 1: right side if you're looking at me your left side
Speaker 1: on the stage, he produced a lot of songs with me,
Speaker 1: so he knows them backwards and forwards, and we can't
Speaker 1: wait to God, we cannot wait to start digging in
Speaker 1: and playing these And I can tell you something else.
Speaker 1: Here's another nugge I'll drop on the podcast. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get your first taste of it this month. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a taste of it this month. It might
Speaker 1: be the end of the month, but just saying really
Speaker 1: really exciting, Dylan says, any advice for someone trying to
Speaker 1: follow in your footsteps. You're my idol and want to
Speaker 1: be in our art. Yeah, buddy, let me just let
Speaker 1: me say, first of all, to your question, I don't
Speaker 1: like that word idle. Man. I don't like that word idol.
Speaker 1: I know what you mean. I appreciate it. I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for you. At the same time, no humans or idols,
Speaker 1: because humans are just gonna fail you. So you put
Speaker 1: too much hope in one person and one human eventually
Speaker 1: they're gonna do something that you don't like and what
Speaker 1: that kind of that kind of hurts. So make God
Speaker 1: your idle, buddy, because I'm gonna mess it up for you. Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mess it up for you. My number one
Speaker 1: advice is wherever you are doing, whatever hometown you're in,
Speaker 1: stay in your hometown and play the music there. Play
Speaker 1: to your buddies, play to your friends, play as that
Speaker 1: group grows and builds out and builds out and out
Speaker 1: and out, and and write songs about your hometown, and
Speaker 1: write songs about your buddies, and write songs about right there,
Speaker 1: what you know. If you don't write songs, that's another
Speaker 1: piece of advice. Write songs. If you don't know an
Speaker 1: instrument like a guitar or a piano, learn an instrument.
Speaker 1: YouTube is full of great tutorials now, but learn an instrument,
Speaker 1: write some songs. But stay in your hometown. Don't go
Speaker 1: to Nashville or La or New York. You don't need
Speaker 1: to do that anymore. And it's just a seth pool
Speaker 1: of corruption music corruption. There's so many good people there,
Speaker 1: but the collection of the good people starts making bad
Speaker 1: things happen. And you don't want to You don't want
Speaker 1: to throw away all your time doing that. So stay
Speaker 1: in your hometown, crank it up. Play in your local bars.
Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't have a gig at
Speaker 1: the local bar, go to your local bar and asked
Speaker 1: if you could host an open mic night. Obviously it's
Speaker 1: a weird time right now with COVID, but eventually host
Speaker 1: an open mic night and just tell the guy I
Speaker 1: went to this place when I lived in College Station, Texas,
Speaker 1: and I just went in there. No one knew who
Speaker 1: I was. The owner didn't know who I was. I
Speaker 1: just say, Man, I'm Graing Smith. I'm a singer. I
Speaker 1: know you don't know me, but would you let me
Speaker 1: come in here on Thursday nights at seven pm and
Speaker 1: hosts and open mic night? And if you let me
Speaker 1: do that, could I play some of my original music
Speaker 1: in between guests? And he was like how much? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll do it for tips. You don't
Speaker 1: have to pay me a penny. I'll do it for tips.
Speaker 1: And he said yes. And that grew and grew and
Speaker 1: grew in pretty soon we had a pretty good crowd
Speaker 1: there every Thursday, and I built a band and then
Speaker 1: we started playing. The band started playing there. It's like
Speaker 1: I had a gig every single week right there. So
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be a big place either.
Speaker 1: Timothy says, what career achievement, What career achievement has meant
Speaker 1: most to you? And man, that's that's that's another tough
Speaker 1: question about music business that I would say. I would
Speaker 1: say getting a number one song on Billboard and media Base.
Speaker 1: Having that was the greatest achievement. It didn't last very long.
Speaker 1: It only lasted you know, that week what we were
Speaker 1: number one, and then it was all about the next
Speaker 1: single and the next album and the next tour. But
Speaker 1: during that moment, just relishing that moment was amazing. And
Speaker 1: being able to hang the plaque on the wall that
Speaker 1: said number one song in all the world, you know,
Speaker 1: that's my biggest career achievement. Another music question, I'm dying
Speaker 1: to know your writing process. Do you write all the
Speaker 1: music parts? So my music process, and I've talked a
Speaker 1: little bit on this podcast about it, but my writing
Speaker 1: process could come from different places. Sometimes it can come
Speaker 1: from a title or a first line or a line
Speaker 1: in the chorus. It could also come from just a
Speaker 1: melody that I'm humming in my head, and I have
Speaker 1: some kind of melody in my head, and I take
Speaker 1: notes on the lyric things on my little phone here,
Speaker 1: and then I'll sing the melodies on my voice memos
Speaker 1: on my phone and record those. Sometimes the whole song
Speaker 1: comes together as a package in my head. But most
Speaker 1: of the time they're separate melodies and lyrics, and so
Speaker 1: that I have to If I get a really cool
Speaker 1: melody in my head, I pull up my notes and
Speaker 1: I flip through the lyrics and I see if anything
Speaker 1: sounds like that, does anything match that musically, and vice versa.
Speaker 1: If I get a really cool lyric and I think
Speaker 1: I got to write this title, then I'll start flipping
Speaker 1: through my voice memos and listening to me ridiculously hum
Speaker 1: a melody or play something on the guitar, and I'll
Speaker 1: see if any melodies match that lyric. And you really
Speaker 1: know right away when a lyric matches a melody. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's it, or no, that's definitely not it. You just
Speaker 1: kind of know. And to your question, do you write
Speaker 1: all the music parts? I do, but I don't write
Speaker 1: them in a sense of musical graphs, Like I don't
Speaker 1: have to get a music graph and draw out the notes.
Speaker 1: I could just write a music chart, which is a
Speaker 1: number chart, which is just chords, and then I could
Speaker 1: record that, and then when I bring people into record
Speaker 1: an album, they could play off of what I did
Speaker 1: on my work tape. My original work tape, and luckily
Speaker 1: I do all my own recording, so I'm right there
Speaker 1: with everyone when a guitar player comes in or a
Speaker 1: keyboard player comes in. But I also trust heavily on
Speaker 1: the musicians. So I have a couple guys that I
Speaker 1: really trust. I could keyboard or guitar, and I could
Speaker 1: sit down and say, hey, here's my idea, but you
Speaker 1: do what you do, and they hear it and they go, oh,
Speaker 1: what if we tried this? And here comes this beautiful piano, keyboard,
Speaker 1: whatever part, fiddle, steel, and it just comes flowing out
Speaker 1: and a song is born that way. Here we go,
Speaker 1: switching gears a little bit. Mollie says, do you believe
Speaker 1: in baptism in addition to asking God into your heart
Speaker 1: to be saved? And then suddenly the podcast took a turn.
Speaker 1: Let me read that question again. Do you believe in
Speaker 1: baptism in addition to asking God into your heart to
Speaker 1: be saved? My answer is a definite no. I do
Speaker 1: not believe in baptism in addition to God to asking
Speaker 1: God into your heart to be saved. So she's referring
Speaker 1: to Molly as referring to Christianity and a major a
Speaker 1: major turning point in Christianity that happened about five hundred
Speaker 1: years ago after the Roman Catholic Church. So just a
Speaker 1: quick recap of the history of Christianity if anyone is
Speaker 1: wondering started. It started with the God of the Jews.
Speaker 1: So it was the Jewish faith and everyone that believed
Speaker 1: in Israel, that believed in the God of Israel, the
Speaker 1: God of Moses, and the God of Abraham. They were
Speaker 1: waiting for a messiah that was prophesied to them through
Speaker 1: the Old Testament scriptures. So they were waiting on this
Speaker 1: messiah in steps Jesus. Most of you know Jesus, or
Speaker 1: at least the story of him. Jesus came to the
Speaker 1: earth born of a virgin and came in a way
Speaker 1: that it was prophesied exactly. But most people were expecting
Speaker 1: a big, powerful king that would come in and free
Speaker 1: the Jewish people of all their bonds that they had
Speaker 1: to the Roman Empire at the time. And here comes Jesus,
Speaker 1: a son of a carpenter and a very modest preaching
Speaker 1: love and talking to children and mingling with the poor
Speaker 1: and prostitutes and thieves. And he was preaching to them,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people could not understand that that
Speaker 1: was the first division of Christ verse Judaism. So then
Speaker 1: the second division comes soon. To help your question, Molly,
Speaker 1: the second division comes literally five hundred years later, when
Speaker 1: after g Jesus is gone and he's not on earth anymore,
Speaker 1: the Roman Empire gets taken over by the Church. And
Speaker 1: that is a long process of how that happens, but
Speaker 1: it happened with the emperor at the time becomes converted
Speaker 1: to Christianity when they found out truly that Jesus's message
Speaker 1: was if you believe in Me, you will be saved
Speaker 1: through faith. Right, so faith in Me will grant you
Speaker 1: my grace and the keys to heaven. So it's faith
Speaker 1: by grace to eternity. And it's so simple, that's the
Speaker 1: easiest idea. But that's what he preached, and that's what
Speaker 1: all the apostle preached. All the apostles preached. But when
Speaker 1: it became a government soon after a few hundred years later,
Speaker 1: there was a huge worry that the people would start
Speaker 1: living in terrible lives if all they had to do
Speaker 1: was was believe, or as Molly says, ask God into
Speaker 1: your heart to be saved. If that's all it took
Speaker 1: to be saved. Then they worried that people would live
Speaker 1: crazy lives and it would be it would be chaos.
Speaker 1: So they wanted to add a bunch of things. The
Speaker 1: Catholic Church wanted to make sure that you needed to
Speaker 1: do this and this, and then pray to the Virgin Mary,
Speaker 1: and make sure you get baptized, and make sure you
Speaker 1: go to Mass, and make sure you're a good person,
Speaker 1: and put all these things on human virtue. When Christ
Speaker 1: preached that human virtue is never going to be enough.
Speaker 1: It's never enough no matter what you do, no matter
Speaker 1: what sin you have, no matter how good you are,
Speaker 1: that's never enough to get in heaven. Only truly faith
Speaker 1: in Him would save you. So about five hundred years
Speaker 1: after Christ, the Reformists come in, guys like Martin Luther,
Speaker 1: and they came in and they were looking at the
Speaker 1: Catholic Church, who was making you get baptized, Like if
Speaker 1: you don't get baptized, you're not going to heaven. Guys
Speaker 1: like Martin Luther said, Uh, guys, I don't think that's right.
Speaker 1: Like where in the Bible does it say you have
Speaker 1: to get baptized or you're not going to heaven. Where
Speaker 1: in the Bible. Does it say that we need to
Speaker 1: ask ask forgiveness from the pope and then or a priest,
Speaker 1: and then the priest would give us forgiveness. Where does
Speaker 1: that say that? I thought it was supposed to be
Speaker 1: all about Jesus. So that was a big, really big deal,
Speaker 1: and it was the official split of Protestants from the Catholics.
Speaker 1: Long story short, this has been a huge tangent. But Molly,
Speaker 1: I am a Protestant. I believe that through faith a lie,
Speaker 1: are you saved? And then we switched to will there
Speaker 1: be a pre order to the new album? Yes, we will.
Speaker 1: There will will be a pre order to the new album,
Speaker 1: and there will be a pre order. I'm almost sure
Speaker 1: breaking news on this podcast. I'm almost sure. At the
Speaker 1: end of August, Ben says, what drew you to music
Speaker 1: as a kid, especially George Strait and how did that
Speaker 1: shape you? Man? I think Ben, I think it was
Speaker 1: all about girls, honestly, because I saw there were some
Speaker 1: friends of mine that played guitar and they were you
Speaker 1: know a lot of girls like that, A lot of
Speaker 1: girls like the guys that played guitar and the guys
Speaker 1: that sang when they played guitar, and I just remember
Speaker 1: thinking like I want to be one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I want to have that edge. So I learned the
Speaker 1: guitar first, I learned to sing so second, and then
Speaker 1: I saw George straight third, and those sequences of those
Speaker 1: sequence of events heavily shaped me and drew me into music.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, Ben, here's a question, how's Earl's
Speaker 1: truck going? Man? I think that's the most popular question
Speaker 1: on my YouTube page right now. And we've been on
Speaker 1: this hiatus from fixing Earl's truck. We're doing the series
Speaker 1: called Restoring Earl Dibble's Old Truck, and we've been on
Speaker 1: a hiatus because we finished all of our parts. We
Speaker 1: took the truck all the way down to the frame
Speaker 1: and we finished that, and we took the body to
Speaker 1: the to the autobody shop to put a new roof on.
Speaker 1: That was ruined, so we had to put a new
Speaker 1: roof on the body. And as we took it there,
Speaker 1: a massive hailstorm hit the state of Texas about two
Speaker 1: months ago and swamped the autobody shop with work. So
Speaker 1: they had to stick with all that real money coming
Speaker 1: in before they could take on a fun project like ours,
Speaker 1: and it put us on the back burner. So it's
Speaker 1: hugely disappointing. I'm very frustrated about it. I understand where
Speaker 1: they're coming from. They got to they got to chase
Speaker 1: the money, they got to do that. But they keep
Speaker 1: telling me that they're going to get on it. So
Speaker 1: I'm expecting a new episode of Restoring the Truck very soon.
Speaker 1: I might go film one tomorrow and and then after
Speaker 1: that we should get this this uh, this cab going
Speaker 1: at the auto body shop. So I'm sorry to everyone
Speaker 1: that's that's waiting on it, and I just got to
Speaker 1: tell you that I'm just as frustrated as you guys are,
Speaker 1: for sure. Here's one from Dirk. It says, what do
Speaker 1: you do when all the band members do not agree
Speaker 1: on an issue? And I think it's a great question,
Speaker 1: and that's why I screenshotted it because it could kind
Speaker 1: of relate to so many things in life and anyone
Speaker 1: else that's that works with the group of people, or
Speaker 1: has a group of friends or a family, or we're
Speaker 1: just gonna have disagreements. We just are. In fact, this
Speaker 1: last tour, we had a pretty pretty deep disagreement and
Speaker 1: it was it was a crew two crew members verse
Speaker 1: pretty much everyone else, And my first and foremost I
Speaker 1: like to hear everybody out. I don't like them to
Speaker 1: I don't like them to be rude about it. I
Speaker 1: don't like, you know, I don't like anyone to be
Speaker 1: called out or or put down personally personal attacks. But
Speaker 1: I like to hear them out. So I want to
Speaker 1: hear them out personally. First, hear what they got to say,
Speaker 1: and hear their their are, their best argument for whatever
Speaker 1: they want, whatever their disagreement is, and then I like
Speaker 1: to get everybody together. And if it's not worked out
Speaker 1: by then, then when everyone comes together, I can kind
Speaker 1: of become the mediator and say, Okay, here's what this
Speaker 1: person thinks, and here's why they think it, and here's
Speaker 1: why I think that they have a good point, and
Speaker 1: here's why I think I could see why they're wrong.
Speaker 1: And then everyone else kind of chimes in and we
Speaker 1: essentially have a big vote. So we'll have half the
Speaker 1: crew saying, man, is this is crazy? I don't, and
Speaker 1: then these guys are saying, well, have you thought of
Speaker 1: it this way? And almost every time when we do that,
Speaker 1: people start putting themselves in the other person's shoes, and
Speaker 1: it really diffuses the situation. So if we get in
Speaker 1: front of each other instead of texting or the worst
Speaker 1: thing that could happen is two little groups start texting
Speaker 1: each other and then this group starts texting each other
Speaker 1: and then they come to me and they're like, do
Speaker 1: you hear what that groups saying? And they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't listen to that group. They're lying to you, they're
Speaker 1: kissing up to you. Whatever. That seems to be a
Speaker 1: popular thing to say. So, but once we get face
Speaker 1: to face and we get everybody on the bus or
Speaker 1: everyone you know that we did this in Wichita, Kansas
Speaker 1: literally last week, can we stop the bus? And I said,
Speaker 1: all right, I want to have a meeting. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of meetings. And we all get out, we
Speaker 1: get outside the bus, and I kind of lead it
Speaker 1: like a courtroom. It's like, Okay, here's this here's this case,
Speaker 1: and in respect to this person, we're going to modify
Speaker 1: what we're doing a little bit because they feel so
Speaker 1: passionately about it. But in respect to this person over here,
Speaker 1: you need to settle down a little bit. And then
Speaker 1: what I love to do is if anyone's called out
Speaker 1: or or or put down, or there's a personal attack
Speaker 1: going on. I always love to hear a public apology
Speaker 1: in front of everyone, and I require it so that
Speaker 1: person has to get up and just say from the heart, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for overreacting on the group text or the
Speaker 1: email or last night. Sorry for yelling I was out
Speaker 1: of line. Shouldn't have done it. I wish I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have sent that text. I now see things a little
Speaker 1: bit differently. I still feel passionately about this subject, and
Speaker 1: then every time that happens, everything's diffused, and then people
Speaker 1: just it becomes not that big a deal. It's that
Speaker 1: old saying, is this the hill you want to die on?
Speaker 1: And it usually becomes not that big a deal. Last
Speaker 1: question says when can we expect some previews from the
Speaker 1: new album? Man, I'm so excited to show you guys
Speaker 1: this new album. I'm so shy excited to show you
Speaker 1: some previews. We're kind of filming some music video stuff
Speaker 1: right now. So I would say the same answer I've
Speaker 1: said three times on this podcast so far, the month
Speaker 1: of August. Expect in this month might be the end
Speaker 1: of it, but expect this month you're going to start
Speaker 1: getting previews or samples or teases but you'll definitely get
Speaker 1: You'll definitely get some stuff this month. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: the full album in September, and then that's not the
Speaker 1: last thing you're going to expect from me this fault,
Speaker 1: So a lot of really cool stuff coming. If you
Speaker 1: have another question, comment below. If you're on YouTube, comment
Speaker 1: below and we'll try to get to that on the
Speaker 1: next time. But love you guys, thanks for listening, thanks
Speaker 1: for watching. I love this platform that I get to
Speaker 1: sit here on this podcast and talk to you guys,
Speaker 1: so appreciate you so much. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1: Ye