Answering Your Questions!

the fans. So you, guys, if you do love it, hey, even if you just like it, if you think it's mediocre and you just want to support the best thing you could do to support that song and me and my music and my band is to stream it, to play it, to request it from your local radio station, to tweet, our Instagram, our Facebook, sirius XM. When you hear them play it, say man, I like that song. If you could watch it on YouTube, I'm not asking for any kind of money investment. All you gotta do

is stream it on YouTube. If you like it, just play it. The music video will be coming soon. Right now, you could just watch the audio. We have a lyric video coming soon, so all that stuff is coming twenty twenty. I'm excited about this. It's all fun to me. It's like putting together a puzzle, you know, and you know how you want the final puzzle to look. But you have all these pieces and you're like, man, how could

I put these pieces together? And how could? And that also makes me think that, you know, you got to have someone helping you put it together with you, many people in my case, helping me put together the puzzle of what could be a hit song. It's a fun challenge. I'm at home today off tour. In fact that this is the month of January. I don't know when you're listening to this, but this is the month of January when I'm recording it twenty twenty. That's such a crazy

thing to say, isn't it twenty twenty? It sounds like at the future. I can't believe I've made it to twenty twenty. I was talking to my son Lincoln, and I said that if he lives long enough, God willing, we don't know what tomorrow brings, but if he lives long enough, he will see the turn of the century twenty one hundred. I believe he'll be eighty six. London would be eighty eight, and that crazy to think. Twenty

one hundred, I will be long gone. I won't be around for that unless I'm like one hundred and seven. I don't know, but that's a lot. I'm home. The January is typically a slow touring month on purpose. I've been going to the gym and people are like, you're coming to the gym again. Usually you're gone. I'm like, no. January is typically pretty slow on purpose. There's not that many festivals. The rodeos haven't started, fairs haven't started, and it's a good time for all of us, me and

the band to kind of regroup. We are heading to la next week. We're going to play the Staples Center with Caine Brown and I don't know who else is on that show, but that's going to be a lot of fun. We've been looking forward to that when that was rescheduled from I believe last October when Cain, his drummer, tragically died in a car accident, so they had to reschedule. Terrible news for that. We were all good friends. We

toured a Lot with Caine in twenty nineteen. After that we'll be heading to Mexico with Luke Bryan for Crash My Plaia, and that is it pretty much for touring. We don't really start the tour until January thirty, first we get back out there. I know Kansas City is on that list, Saint Louis, Oklahoma City. That's about as far as I can remember. I have some fun hunting trips coming up this month. I have a trip I'm going to take with the family to Idaho here in

a week or so, which I'm really excited about. I haven't taken the family to Idaho with me to see the Sawtooth Mountains. It's just unbelievable nature, unbelievable country, and I'm really excited to get them out there. We're going to stay at a friend's cabin and we are going to film an episode of The Smiths or two while we're there, just because I think it's going to be a really fun adventure. My friend sent me a picture from his living room of this cabin we're going to

be in. You could see elk walking through the woods right outside the window. So I showed Lincoln in London. They're really excited. So that's me. That's my life right now, and I like it. It's really slow, and I'm in I'm sitting in my closet in my little studio, my studio, I say studio. It's actually a bedroom that I converted into a studio. And I've been doing this bedroom conversion thing in many houses, in rent houses and apartments that

I've lived in over the last couple of decades. And this is this is always where the magic happens, I guess. And I am in the We've lived in this house now since July, so not that long, and and I have everything set up ready to go. I've sang a couple of songs. This is where I've seen all my records in a closet just like this, and so all the new album, the new stuff will be recorded right here, which you will hear new music from me this year

in twenty twenty. I'm excited about, very excited about, and it will be recorded in this little closet. This is the first podcast I've recorded in this little closet. Now.

The cool thing about this episode nineteen is I'm not going to continue on the story that I was on in episode eighteen, I told you leading up to a record deal and Backroad song, and I played you an old recording when I first wrote Backroad Song with different lyrics, which is kind of vulnerable but fun to play for the very first time to hear new lyrics, you know, actually old lyrics that are new to you. And I

have that with every song. But what's gonna make this podcast different is I'm going to go to the Smiths, which is our YouTube channel. It's a family vlog channel. We've been recording most of twenty nineteen, will continue through twenty twenty. We put out episodes on YouTube on our channel every Tuesday and Thursday. And this is a family blog channel. It's either me with the kids in Amber at home, or it's Amber and the kids at home versus me on the road, and we kind of have

that dynamic back and forth. So I'm going to go to one of these episodes. It's called Answering Your Questions, and I thought, hey, this could be a cool podcast. Everyone's always asking Amber and I have some questions, and so I thought, you know, I'll take the audio from that video and throw it on this podcast so that those of you, those that are podcasters and not YouTubers.

I know some of you are going to overlap, but the ones that are just solely podcasters, you like to, you know, get in your car, your truck, drive down the road, maybe you're on a road trip, maybe you're going to work, maybe you're commuting, whatever you're doing, taking the kids to school, whatever. You listen to podcasts and you don't YouTube. So I'm gonna throw the audio on this so that you could listen to these answers and

if you like it, maybe we could do more. We could do more, and go ahead and go and go to social media. Let me know what you think, hashtag Granger Smith podcast. What do we need to do? Moving on? And I'll follow your lead. So I'm going to go now to this audio. This is from me and Amber. We're sitting on our porch answering questions that she asked on her Instagram, which is Amber Emily Smith. She said, ask me some questions, and this is us answering them.

Love you guys. Here we go. All right, Hi, guys, we're going to spend today answering questions. So we have your questions. I asked you guys on Instagram a few questions so let's just start with something Christmas Eve. It's your favorite Christmas movie. Favorite Christmas movie is probably oh same, watch that again last night last night. Yeah, fell asleep to it last night. Actually, sorry about the airplane. Every time I start filming the Smith's an airplane pause over,

and I think that's river thinking about us. I had somebody ask who is your target audience because they said that. They said them, their husband and their child all love the Smiths, So who's our target demo? So looking at the analytics behind the scenes of the YouTube app, looking at the Smiths, it's like sixty five percent women, majority are five, which is crazy because then my Granger Smith

YouTube has always been like eighty percent male. So I think we're kind of I think that's probably how we're working. I'm probably working towards the male crowd, and she's probably working towards the female crowd. And then for the kids. They obviously they won't see that in the analytics because usually the parents put their ages in, but we hear a lot of you kids like the Smiths too, so kind of everybody, we're kind of go yeah ages. Something

actually I can announce now? Is it on tour in twenty twenty, we're going to open meet and greets because we do a paid meet and greet so that you could be guaranteed to come backstage. So we're gonna in twenty twenty. I don't even I told you, but we're gonna make kids free, so kids could go to meet and greet with an adult, but as many as many kids as you want. So we're doing them all free in twenty twenty. Okay, So that was another question, can we meet you and Amber together at a meet and greet?

So Grangeer and I were just talking about this yesterday. It's hard for me to travel during the school year with him a lot because I've got the kids and we've got school during the summer, I try to get out, but we talked yesterday about maybe doing a meet and greet, me having a separate meet and greet, and we like announced dates that I'll be on tour with him. And then I was thinking we could just take donations for the River Kelly Fund for that, because like Granger's meet

and greets are usually paid, but I don't. I would rather just donate the money to the fund, I think, So that might be something that we're gonna do in twenty twenty, we'll make say, we'll say, Okay, I'm going to be at these five dates, get your tickets to and then come see me, come see both of us. Yeah. This last West Coast tour we just did. Sorry about the birds, Yeah, birds in their sorry, but this last

West Coast tour we just did. During the meet and greets, I swear it was like every third person was like, is Amber here on meet Amber? And I'm like, yeah, she's with the kids. It's difficult, but yeah, So what we're gonna do is twenty twenty, she'll go on tour with me some of the time, but whenever she does, we'll announce Amber's with me, Amber's gonna do a meet

and greet. And I gotta tell y'all the the reason they're paid there's you know, I think the probably the main reason is just to try to control it because they can't just open it up to anyone. Well, and

he's still he's still having to meet. He's getting to meet I should say, he's getting to meet all you guys before the show, but sometimes that could be upwards of two hundred people, and if it was all free, he would never get on stage, So usually about fifty to seventy five of those are already free because they're coming through winners at the radio station, or friends of friends, or somebody that some kind of disability or underprivileged situation

that we just meet them anyway. But yeah, so Amber's gonna come in twenty twenty, well, and we'll announce when she's coming. I need to come back out more too. Okay, how do we keep the romance going? Since we've been married for ten years, we probably have different answers. But one of the ways for me, for sure is my work schedule. I know through friends that sometimes there's a tendency for one spouse to wish the other would slow down and work and just stay there all the time.

And from my experience, not our experience, but me seeing other people, that seems to be kind of a drag on a relationship is when you're just always together. So because of her schedule and my work schedule, when we are together, we make the most of it. And sometimes when I'm gone, like I was just gone for ten days, which is kind of a lot these days. Usually it's like four or five. It was gone for ten days, and when I got home it was like a brand

new relationship. You know, it keeps it, It keeps it fresh, It keeps it, it keeps us missing each other. You need to miss each other, you need to like long for each other. You can't. There's no way in my mind to keep a relationship hot and heavy if you're just with each other twenty four to seven or I

just that's in my opinion. Yeah, yep, I agree. Plus he sends me you know here, or we leave each other notes like if he goes on the road, I'll stick something in his bag or I'll find one under my pillow, or you know, sweet texts and things like that. But plus, like for me anyway, I just love him. So that's how that's how I keep it special since we've been married. Okay, will we ever film a house tour? I thought about that today because I see that a lot,

and it's okay. One reason is we still haven't totally moved in. There's still I was just upstairs and there's still like pictures that are leaning on the wall and not. But two, you know, when we bought this house, it wasn't it wasn't a super proud moment. It wasn't like you know a lot of YouTubers that are like, just bought our dream house full tour. You know, it wasn't a YouTube move for us, it you know, it was it was at a necessity and needed. It was a

safe spot, it was a safe place to land. So I don't think I ever looked at it as an YouTube video opportunity to show off this house. In fact, I'm still trying to make it our home because when we're in therapy a few weeks ago on a retreat, and one kind of one of the things we walked away with after therapy was coming home and making this house a home because you know, to be totally honest, I find myself late at night on my phone and looking at real estate apps. Seemed if I could find

something that's better suits me and her. But and that's just the honest truth. Yeah, I mean, we could take a camera through here and show you guys everything, but it you know, and and we're proud and grateful to be in this home. It's it's beautiful, and it's a it's an amazing place to land. It is. It's not it's not like our old home, which we made into our home, and you know, we had all the kids' memories there, and I don't know, Yeah, yeah, it was.

We came from a ten acre farmhouse that I worked to clear that land and cleared every cedar tree on it with either my hands or a chainsaw or a skid steer that I leased, and and then the boys helped me and I planted the grass with you know, seeds from my own hands. And then we came here and it's three acres and there's really not much work to even be done done here. So besides, I built the fire pit. I just need to. I don't know's it's a hard it's a hard situation. Yeah, I'm sure

you guys understand maybe something. Yep, our Granger and Lincoln excited for Mandalorian and Star Wars movie. Yeah, So we came home from tour. I landed at eight thirty am on Sunday this past Sunday from Denver, Colorado. They picked me up and we literally went straight to the movie theater and saw Rise of Skywalker. Because Lincoln and I have really bonded over the Star Wars series over the

last several months. Baseball and Star Wars have been like our two major bonding things, and so we all went as a family, and yeah, it was got little Star Wars cups and yeah it was good. It was really fun, really fun. Love. Is there going to be new River merch? Yes, I'm working on the new River shirt. I was hoping to have it out beginning of January. I still am probably going to be pretty close to that. We just had a lot of designs and I think I was

being really picky because I wanted to be perfect. But I asked you guys on Instagram some of your favorites. So I think what we're gonna do is just every few months we'll come out with a new one and then that money will be donated to the River Kelly Fund. So yes, I'll have stickers and a new River shirt soon. How do we stay so fit? Do we diet? Okay? I mean when it comes to being fit, this is this is a something that I've had to learn over a lot, you know, a lot of years. It's eighty

percent diet. You can go to the gym every day, you could run, you could do pilates or yoga or whatever you're into, but it's eighty percent when you eat. And so are we perfect at that? And no, no, I just had lucky charms. No, we're not perfect at that, but that's just if you want results, it's it's not finding some crazy fashion trend diet, you know, it's you know, whatever the latest diet is. There's I've read so many studies on diets, dieting and fad dieting, and they all

have pretty much the exact same result. Whether you're talking about keto or Paleo or Atkins ort, whatever's it all has the same average result and it just depends on if you stay with it. So it's more of trying to find what fits your lifestyle, like what do you enjoy eating that's also healthy that you could maintain for decades. Really, I mean it's a balance. I mean we've been going to the gym, trying to go every day, but some

days obviously I don't. I've got kids and sometimes they're sick, and sometimes I can't, and I try to eat healthy, but I also enjoy cookies and wine, and we pick Sundays. We eat whatever we want on Sundays, So we typically will do our dinner will be like a grilled chicken and vegetables and you know, not a lot of bread and not a dessert. And stuff like that, and nothing fried.

And then on Sundays we'll get pizza and we'll go get big, huge cheeseburgers and fries and and milkshakes and so kind of opening that up on the seventh day of the week allows me to be better on six to six days before. Can we tell them about our wedding day? Will we ever share a photo? That's interesting question. That means somebody's been searching. So when we got married, it was February eleventh, twenty ten, and I wasn't a

very well known singer. You're more well known than I was as an actor, I'm sure, but we just kind of decided early on that that's going to be our day. Yeah, And who knows if we had this smiss going that back then, if that would have if we would have put that on there, I don't know, but but we always decided that that was gonna be our special day. And listen, we didn't even have friends. It was really

very small. We got married at Horshoe Bay Resort. It was we narrowed it down to fifty people, which was just family. I mean even cousins couldn't come and got upset and we just decided. It was just a very intimate day for us. We were supposed to get married outside, but it ended up being freezing cold, so we got moved in in the Texas hill country, central Texas. It was raining, it was freezing rain, and we got moved

up up inside the building. So that was you know, just lots of things went that technically could be called went wrong happened, but it was all perfect. It was incredible. It was incredible. It rained, The door got stuck when I was walking out. I walked out with my dad and my stepdad both on either side, and the door got stuck. I forgot. Lots of other things happened, but it was a perfect day and we just haven't We

haven't posted any photos or shared any photos. We also tried to save a lot of money because we kind of paid for it ourselves, and obviously our parents helped, but we were trying to cut cut money out anyway we could. I remember our cakes. Our cakes were like this big. We skimmed on the cakes and I skimmed on a videographer. We didn't have a videographer, so I think it was filmed on somebody's cell phone, which I

don't even know if I have that anymore. Yeah, so we talked about maybe doing a ten year reading our bowels and maybe filming that and making that a big deal. But yeah, yeah, it was a small wedding and we saved money and then we had a reception for all of our friends like a week later. Yeah, you know, in Fort Worth, Texas, which is really fun. By the way.

On a side note, I'm looking out right now into the woods and our cedar trees are pollinating right now, and those of y'all that live around Juniper Mountain cedar, it is crazy. They literally a tree will just go and just explode pallen that looks like white smoke and then it just dissipates into the woods. It's the weirdest. It's like the trees are alive and they just go and explode. If you haven't seen it, there's videos of

that on YouTube. It's crazy. Sorry, go ahead, Okay. Do we ever feel guilty for having fun now and feel like River should be here or do we ever? There are times when if I'm laughing really hard with the kids or we're all having fun, I do in my mind, I'm like, oh my gosh, like I shouldn't be shouldn't be laughing, you know, but you have to. You have to enjoy life and you have to you have to enjoy your kids, and you have to have fun. And River would want that. And River is not thinking about

us right now. He's in the most amazing place. He's not sitting there looking at us saying, oh, gosh, you know, they're having fun without me. So I think it's natural to do that. And it's it's natural. And all the things that we do now that are fun, and I think, gosh, you know, he would love that, he would love this or wish, wish you know, he was with us. Yeah, I think that's natural. It's interesting because that thought of guilt comes with the loss of any body that you love.

And we learned so much in therapy and just experience. But they taught us in therapy that the price of grief is love. Like that, it's not the other way around, because you don't You could love someone and not always grieve them, But when you grieve someone, it's because you love someone, and how hard you grieving is how hard

you love them. And the interesting thing about that is about the guilt, is that anyone that you love, think of anyone, whether it's a grandparent or a friend or a neighbor or anybody that you grieve, if you're having fun after they're gone, that's what that person would want. They want to look down from heaven. And if you can look down from heaven, they want to see you smiling. They don't want to see you sad. So it's interesting

that internally we think we should be sad. It's really range, but it's it's it is a battle, and it's a legit question. Yeah, do you guys still have River's room together and all of his stuff? Well? Interesting question, Interesting questions. So in our old house, River and Lincoln shared a room their roommate, So there was a bunk bed in his crib. So really the only thing in that room that was Rivers was his crib, which, on a side note, he never got out of his crib in three years.

The other the other kids left, you know early they got they climbed out of the crib. River just liked his crib. You just chilled in there, and so all you ever had was that crib. And we had a playroom, so all the kids toys and stuff were in the playroom. They were only really ever in their room if they were sleeping. So whereas some people that it was really hard to take down their room. If you if you lose somebody, you know, you want to see all their stuff.

And for some reason, it just wasn't as hard for me. I think for one, because he shared it with Lincoln too, because they were never in there, so it was hard to take the crib down. That was a really hard day when we moved. You know, I cried and the kids cried, and so that was really hard. But and it's now in our bus driver's house, my bus driver Bull,

who you guys have seen on the Smiths. Him and his wife are having a baby in March, and so Bull has that crib and they've set it up in their baby boy's room and so he always talks about it as River's crib and it's really special and it means a lot to me. Yeah, he showed me a picture on the bus the other day of the room set up in the cribs and you know, along the wall, and so all three babies had that crib too. There's like little teeth marks from them biting it and stuff.

But to answer your question about stuff, when we when we moved. Granger's been really good about helping me that things are just things and that if they're if they're very important, take a photo of them or you know, but you can't take them with you when when we're gone. So we're very into donating things that we don't need anymore. We're trying to get rid of clutter. We're trying to purge. So I have a lot of his special his special things that he always had, and so I have those.

We have those in this house, and his blanket, you know, little things that were super special. We made a nice quilt, a beautiful quilt with all of his favorite T shirts and all his T shirts that he wore all the time. So we have that. But we don't have like a whole room or a shrine or anything set up to him. We have his little tractors in this little tire that he used to play in over on the side of the house. But yeah, that's pretty good. Yet he's in

our heart and in our memories, in our brains. Will we ever do more reaction music videos? Like don't listen to the radio like we did when we do? You guys want to see more reaction videos? Comet Blow I guess because we have. We've done almost fifteen together. He's been in a lot of music videos and the ones that we've done just us alone have I almost Am And we could put that link in just in the description below. I almost Am never gets talked about And

that was such a big deal for me. That was like, it was such a beautiful song, and I cried and I was just I loved that he asked me to be in it with him, and it was right around the time we had got engaged and we were talking about marriage, and so it's really special if you go back and watch it. Yeah, yeah, Bare Mean Blue Jeans is another special one, Yeah, that we were in together. But I also have a lot of other family in there.

My grandmother who is ninety four, are about to be ninety four, and she's actually kind of sick, pretty sick right now. She just got a pacemaker put in. But she's my only grandmother I have left and out of both of us, and the kid's only great grandmother and parent grandparent at all. So she's sick and she's in very mean blue jeans, and so that video is special

for that reason. But it's also really special. I had just lost my dad when we filmed that, and it was kind of part of the inspiration for the video itself. And so I mean, it's crazy looking back that that video is has me driving in my truck, which I still have now, and I'm going to the church and the cemetery where Rivers buried now And we shot that five years ago. So it was a lot of foreshadowing

in that music video. And that's really special and that would probably be a kind of a neat reaction video that we should do one day and Tyler and everybody all thea. Can the kids sing like a granger? Do

the kids have good voices? I hope not. I think think being in music business is kind of a curse, and it's like a blessing, a huge blessing and a huge curse, and I don't want I honestly, I worry about my children being in it because of as hard as it is on your heart and on your spirit and on your soul, and it's so fulfilling and all of those three things also, but it takes a long time to realize that fulfillment. It takes a lot of

years to realize that kind of fulfillment. And in the meantime, there's a lot of heartbreak that I just can't imagine my kids going through. That doesn't have anything to do with them being able to sing. And I think sing sings a lot, love and sings a lot. And didn't you just say it took her eight years to get pitched. She just got her pitch. Yeah, And Lincoln doesn't sing that much. He kind of dances more. Do we ever go out in public or are they're too many fans? Yeah?

Hecky go on, Punkywhere well do you think I am? Luck? Bryan? We don't get I got stopped a target the other day and some lady said I know you, and I said you do and we just stopped and talked and she we gave each other hugs. And it happens. He gets recognized a lot more than I do. But I love when people come and say, hi, Hi, your popularity is skyrocketing. It's crazy, like you're people think people just love you. And I mean a lot of times people

are like, is your wife around? But that's great? No, And occasionally, like if we got to dinner or something, people are very kind and they'll wait till after we're done eating and then they'll they'll come say hih as we're leaving or something. But we don't ever get like bombarded or anything. It's no, it's very sweet, very sweet, and people are very respectful of the kids and and don't really want to bother us if we're busy eating or something like that. Will we keep the Smith's intro

or will we eventually change it? Yeah, eventually it's gonna it's just going to change. It's gonna be really hard. I don't know. And actually that video we we that intro we threw together and you can still tell London's next really hurt. Like the one of the very first videos we did was when she got hurt skiing or she got that virus in her little neck. She's walking up to the camera and I always was gonna have us redo it, and we just never got around to

redoing it. So and now it's like we can't redo it because River's in it, and maybe we'll always have to keep it at the end or something. It's like we got to keep it. Yeah. We mentioned Brian kimball editing. He's the one that built that intro back in like April or May. The kids didn't want to do it. They didn't want to get dressed. They were like fighting. Typical day, typical typical kid day. What was your first

job you or me? Both? Mine was I worked for a paint contractor that was also my English teacher in junior high and so I would go paint houses. But when I first started, I was just the taper. I would just tape. He'd put me in a room and say, all right, take these windows so we could paint, and it is ten minutes. So he would give me a time, so I just because I was getting paid by the hour, so he would just call out a time. So I'd watch my watch and tape for a long time. I taped.

That's what I did. I taped. But we would start about seven am, and about ten am we'd go to Taco Cabana or somebody would go to Taco Cabana for us and get tortillas and salsa, and it was amazing. We'd sit out because it was usually the summer when we were working and when I wasn't playing football and he wasn't teaching English, and we'd get it, go out and sit in the in the underneath the shade of a tree and roll those tortillas and dip them in salsa,

and that was our ten o'clock snack. It was amazing that. That was amazing, and sorry I learned. I learned Keith Whitley during those those years, and to this day, Keith Whitley is one of my all time favorite country singers and the Keith Whitley greatest hits it's the black and white album cover. We would just listen to that on repeat. Every song is good and it really changed my life. While I was taping, it's not as exciting as that. I just wanted a car. So I walked in Fort Worth,

in White Settlement, where I grew up. I walked to this little grill, which was pretty far now that I think about it. I walked all the way there to fill out an application and I worked at this little grill and they had the best food. I was fifteen years old, and then I remember, I think they didn't know I was fifteen, and it was like child labor laws.

I was supposed to be sixteen. I didn't lie or anything on my application, but they had to cut my hours back because they couldn't work me so many hours. But I worked in the drive through line of that place, and I worked waiting tables, and I think every person should wait tables at some point in their lives because you have to know what it's like to be a server and a waiter and be kind to your servers. You know, some days they're having hard days and bad days,

or things are getting mixed up in the kitchen. But you can always tell a lot by somebody about how they treat their server. Yeah, treat a waiter, how they treat servers, and how they treat dogs. I could learn a lot about it. If you don't know somebody really well, just take them to lunch and see how they truth the waiter and then introduce them to your dog. That's good advice. My dad used to tell me that have you ever considered doing an all acoustic album of all

like like your most popular songs. No, I have not. I think they probably mean re record it just me and my guitar, because I could easily I do all my editing on my albums myself. I've been doing that for years, and so I could easily go and edit acoustic versions when I just get to just isolate the vocals and acoustics. But you probably mean re recorded like when you hear the different versions on the Smith's, when you hear like that's why I love Dirt Roads and

it's just keyboards and vocals like stripped down. That's just me building that so I could do any version of any song you've ever heard me do. Ever, are like, man, I would like to hear a stripped down version of happens like that? Whatever? I have everything, So every time you hear a version on the Smith's, that's just something

I've built. Is there more women's stuff coming to yee Apparel? Yes, we have some stuff coming out in the spring, and then I'm gonna keep kind of designing things every now and then for women and kids, maybe every season or every few months or something. So yes, there will be more coming out soon. Yeah, it's actually awesome, awesome stuff you showed me. I'm excited. Yeah, it's this is somethingye

Apparel has missed for years now? Is her touch? Because it's just been me and my two brothers, Tyler and Parker, we've never really had a you know, obviously we haven't had a good insight on women's apparel, but she showed me the other day what you're gonna when is it springing? Spring twenty twenty. But I'm not allowed to come up with like a whole bunch, so we only get to get to pick like two or three, maybe four items

per season. But it's still still have a bunch of ideas, and I'm bring back some regular women's baseball cats, not like the trucker hats and tank tops and leggings and jean jackets and all kinds of fun stuff. So that brings another point up, because I need to say about EE Apparel, think of thank you to everyone who has ever bought something from EE Apparel and supported that. It's

really difficult. And those of you that own small businesses, family runs small businesses will understand that it's taken us a long time to kind of realize financially how to do it. Because we've tried to kind of make everybody happy and keep a bunch of sizes in stock so that you can go and order a certain shirt and get a large and there it is and shipwret to you. But it's so expensive to keep that stuff, to keep

the inventory on the shelves of the EE Farm. Recently, we've kind of had to let that go and just say, hey, we're gonna stick with with a few core you know, the the fundamental items of EE apparel, will keep that in stock. But the anytime we do like a spring launch or a fall lunch or a Black Friday launch, we're gonna just we're gonna sell out of that stuff. So you got to get it. And I don't want you guys to feel upset that you waited and then went to go order something and it's out of stock.

It it just we could make a certain amount of money on eu peril and then when it's time to get new hoodies or new t shirts, guess what we spend the exact amount, and guess we have left nothing. So we're trying to we're trying to learn that and kind of navigate that part of this business. And part of that is going to be when we do a spring launch or a fall lunch or whatever, it's gonna sell out in a couple of weeks, and we're just

gonna be okay with that. And so that's gonna that's why she's saying we couldn't do everything when she had all these ideas like those are amazing. Now let's pick this many so that doesn't cost a guazilian amount of money to make all these and small, medium, large, ex large, double X, triple X and keep them in stock. Let's just do that. Yeah, that'd be good. It'll keep it fresh for you guys to and you guys can grab new stuff all the time. Yeah. How did you guys

come up with your affirmations for the kids? So if you guys have seen us do that in the car, that kind of just started. I remember, I'm sure you've seen it on YouTube. There's that little girl and she's standing on the on the bathroom counter and she's like, I am smart, I am awesome, I am all this and I just thought it was adorable. So we don't say the same thing every day. We change it up depending on their mood or whatever they have going on that day, and we just you just make it up

as you go. Yeah, and it just gives the kids a little boost before they go to school. This came from did you say? These came from her Instagram? How did Granger propose? Did you help him pick out the ring? How did I propose? Well, there's an episode of The Smiths and I don't remember the title or thumbnail, but we were in Did we talk about it in Europe? Yeah, we're in York, England and we just went recently back to the same spot. And that video is a link

it in the description. If I can remember all these links. It has a picture of him and I and it's like backwharre it all started, backward, all started, I think, or back where I proposed or where we got engaged, something like that. But we only dated for seven months, not even dated. We knew each other for seven months before I bought the ring. No she didn't. No, I didn't. She didn't improve it, she didn't even know it exists. I didn't help it. I didn't even give him any

ideas or anything. It was a total secret and I had to hide it on this little trip we flew to England. Sorry, we flew to England, and I was so scared because I had to go through security with it and I had it. I didn't want it to show up in the screen. I had this thought that she was going to walk through before me and then look on the screen at my stuff and for some reason have these eagle eyes that saw a ring in

my bag. So I kept it in my pocket. But he was like fumbling and bumping into me, and I didn't realize it then, but now I think back, and I could tell he was a little distracted, I guess, yep, yep, and he like slept, we slept on this train and he had the bag like he wouldn't let me hold his backpack or carry his backpack or anything for him. But yeah, and so you can go back and watch that video. I think we talked about it. We went

to the spot. We went to the spot, to the church, the Westminster, and he proposed right in front of that church and it was raining. And no, I didn't have any idea Yorkminster, york Minster, Yeah, I said, Westminster, didn't Yorkminster. Sorry. Yeah, And then we called our parents in the middle of the night. Yep, yep, all right, did it? One more? One more? Last one? Lincoln's at the door. What are your goals for twenty twenty? I want That's why I love dirt roads, to do good. It's like a short

term career goal. Yeah. And so, by the way, I mentioned on the Smith to message your local radio station or sirius XM the highway and you did, you guys did it was awesome, Gus. You guys messaged and emailed and instagram. Serious XM. It was kind of an experiment by me. And then I heard from Buzz Brainer, one of the personalities on air personalities, and he was like, man, your fans have been have been blowing us up about this song. And I was like, yeah, smiss my secret weapon.

These guys are amazing. Thank you for that. Yeah, keep doing it. It's funny. How about you goals for me for twenty twenty goodness, I think continuing to live in the present moment and find joy. Yes, a River Kelly fund we want to grow. We just announced it, but this year we'll start like fundraising efforts for all kinds of different charities and organizations that are close to our hearts. So I'm excited to get that going and get that started and give the money there. Growing the E Apparel

women's line I think will be super exciting. And yeah, I'm just excited for twenty twenty in general, because twenty nineteen is a year that I'm gonna want to forget. But I know that we learned so much from twenty nineteen and I think one day we'll look back and it was like a pivot moment in my life, pivot for the good. But right now I'm just ready for a fresh start and a new date on the calendar and new year. Thank you guys. There's gonna be one

more episode of this year Tuesday. There's gonna be one more video, and we're gonna do like a you don't

maybe you don't know. Me and Paul have already discussed it, but we're gonna do a all of this Me, you and Lincoln in London will find our favorite moments from the Smiths and we're just gonna kind of do a reaction video to some of our favorite moments and what the Smiths have meant to us since March and the almost the first full year of you Okay, me and you and in London and want to but yeah, we'll just we'll kind of do a recap of what this year and what the Smiths have meant to us and

the magic and having the Smiths and through the life that has happened to us. And it was all recorded. So it's just a massive blessing that we have so many videos and high death you know, right there at our disposal of our lives, and so it's meant a whole lot to us to have in this channel, y'all. That like you too. Please go to our channel that's the Smiths. Hit that little subscribe button and we'll do more videos if you want to watch that kind of thing.

If you want more podcasts. I got a lot of those two. I got more stories. I know a lot of you have been asking me to continue these and I will, I promise. Thank you for all the support. I love seeing everyone wearing this Yegie apparel and supporting the brand that we are. More stories coming soon, thank y'all. And it happens like that, nothing to lose. He turns right into you. Due or you can do just to keep her around till the moon goes down in her

back into your house. One thing will do another. You love each other when looking you never live back. It happens like that. Thanks for listening to the Grangersmith podcast. I want to see you on tour in twenty twenty. Go to grangersmith dot com forward slash tour. See you