The Terror I Found in This Barn

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Your winning season begins today only in my Bookie. This is such a fun time for me because we have an album coming out September twenty fifth. I've talked about it a lot, whether it's on the Smith that comes out on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Trek Restoration which you're getting close to finishing, Earl Devil's Truck. Guys, that's really fun, and I've talked a lot about on all these channels this album. But man, we're just so pumped about it.

And you could help me make that album have a big release by pre saving it or pre buying it, or pre ordering it, or pre adding it to your playlist, anything that basically as ever says pre before it on the place that you listen to music, that helps us. If you use Spotify or Apple Music, or maybe you

just listen on YouTube. I just appreciate you, guys, and if anything, like I say, if anything just I hope you listen to these two new songs, country Things and hate You like I love you, and let me know what you think. Comment below. If you're watching this podcast on YouTube, comment below, and if you've if you're a longtime listener to this podcast, thank you for that. I

appreciate you guys so much. I hope that you go back and you catch up and listen to some old episodes they started long ago, just kind of telling the story of who I am and where I came from. And I love the platform and I love where it is right now. This is episode forty eight. Welcome to the Grangersmith Podcast. Ye Ye did Kids and dun tires and school, long line of five, four of husband downed on the back range and cold. Yeah you'retion you are ready for this? You want to tell me? I want

to tell you something that is man. This gives me that he with gs gives me the goosebumps. We're living amber and I and the kids are living in a barn right now. We're living in an RV, an awesome RV from Explore USA, and we're building, or we're about to start building a farmhouse that we've designed out in

the pasture in front of the barn. So I thought it'd be a great adventure to live in this barn as opposed to you know, some people when they build a house, they live with friends, or they lease or rent a house, they get a little condo. And I just didn't want to do any of that. I wanted an adventure, and I wanted something my kids could remember for a long time. So I told Amber, I said, what if we actually got an RV pulled it into one of the barns, which is a great perk of

the property to have these two barns. It didn't have a house on it, but it was beautiful piece of land and it had two barns and a windmill and a well. So I was like, well, we got you know, half the battle right there. All I ever want on property is barns. Anyway, So this one's aready got it? Why don't we live in it? And then we could have this adventure and we could watch the house come up,

the kids could have great memories. And what has happened though, And it's been awesome, but it has a few setbacks. And one of the setbacks is we are at the mercy of the elements at all times. Like if it's hot outside and it's been one hundred and five in Texas these last few weeks, it is hot in that barn. I mean it gets up to over one hundred inside the barn and it's insulated, and then the RV, of course it has acs on it, but it has trouble

keeping up with that kind of temperature. So we're really looking forward to September when things are cooling down and we could relax a little bit and actually hang out in the barn itself instead of being cooped up in the RV and sweating. But that being said, I got to tell you something terrifying last night. And before I start that, let me just say we've seen we have been at the mercy of the elements. We've seen a

lot of stuff, and we the last several years. Amber and I have lived in Central Texas for a long time, and so we're used to scorpions and spiders and snakes and mice and lizards and skunks and possums, raccoons, bats, We've had bats in the barn, so you name it. We've been exposed. I just killed a rattlesnake day before yesterday, Luckily, I was dove hunting with Lincoln, so I'd walked up on a rattlesnake in the pasture with a loaded shotgun

on my shoulder, so that was convenient. But we have seen all these creatures and they have all made their appearances in the barn. Had a baby snake in the bathroom in the barn. Like I said, We've had a bat. We've had countless scorpions that I find in my boots that I dump out, which is always shake your boots before you put them on, great piece of advice there

the scorpion might fall out. But we see spiders, a lot of spiders, and we're used to trantulas, we're used to spiders, but in this particular barn, we have a lot of wolf spiders. Do you guys know what wolf spiders are? They get really big. I mean those suckers will get as big as they'll get as big as my palm without the fingers, and we see we see them everywhere, and we're just kind of used to them.

It's not that big a deal. We you know, we go into the bathroom to brush our teeth in the morning and there's a there's a big wolf spider like right there on the ground, and we usually kill them. You know, I don't really mind them that much. Besides, they're just hideous to look at. So usually just get a paper towel and you know, drop it on top of them, and it's kind of squish them with your fingers and throw them in the trash. That's kind of

the routine except for last night. And here's my story. Last night, I'm getting out of the bathroom out of taking a shower, and I'm just coming in there with my shorts on, nothing else, just shorts on. And I walk through barefoot all the time. I walk outside barefoot, I walk in the past your barefoot. I walk on the gravel road barefoot. I walk all in the barn barefoot, and probably shouldn't do that. Like I said, I killed a snake the day before yesterday, and scorpions are everywhere,

but I'm just I just don't care anymore. So I just I'm barefoot, and I'm walking through the barn and I look over and Gypsy and Remy are two dogs are laying in their beds, and right next to them there's this big wolf spider big. It's bigger than anything i've described. I mean, it's all the way as big as my hand, including my fingers spread out. And I was like, ah, I mean it looked when I saw it because it was kind of dark in the barn at night. When I saw it, it looked like a crab.

Like you're out on the beach. Have you ever been to the beach and at night and all the crabs come out. It looked like a big crab. And I was like, God, I got a little shiver. It's just like, God, Lee, that's a big old mama wolf spider right by the dogs. And I was like, got a little closer to it. I kind of crept in and got a little closer, and I noticed that it was not only was it big, it's a big wolf spider, but it was super hairy, like a lot of hair, and not not tarantula hair.

I don't mind tarantulas at all. I could live with trantlas. They they're slow, they don't bother humans. But this one was a really hairy mama wolf spider. The reason I say mama is because they're massive. And then I got closer and I was like, I mean not only hairy, but like naughty hairy, like bumpy, hairy, all on her abdomen and all you know, it's like really hairy, and I was like, this is gross. So I got my boot, my boots sitting on the ground, I pick up my boot.

I'm just like, I'm just gonna knock her out, smash her real quick. Get a paper towel. I'll be done with this. And I'm not even thinking this is a routine thing for us guys. Get that boot, I get it right over. I go whack, and dude, as soon as I whacked her right unto squished her. I kid you not. Ten thousand baby spiders explode everywhere, all over me, all over the dogs. They spread out all the and then like thousands of them are running in every direction.

It's like a straight up horror movie. They're running in every direction. And they're tiny. I mean they're like the tip of a pin. They're just tiny. Thousands of them, just every direction. So that's what that's what the hair was like. That's what the naughty, ugly hair. That's what I thought looked like naughty hair. She was covered in ten thousand baby wolf spiders and they went everywhere, and oh my god, I just sat there. I realized what

had happened. And I realized they were all on me and all on the dogs, and all on the floor, and I'm barefoot and they're just running on my feet and running everywhere. A big squished mama spider right in the middle of all of them. When I realized what had happened, I just got goosebumps from the head to my toes, and I just the only thing I could do is I went and got a big shot back

and just literally went. They were still just scurrying everywhere as I got the shot back and just vacuumed all of the babies on me, on my chest, on my legs, all in the dog's beds, and just vacuumed them up. And I was like, Oh, another day in the barn. What's funny is then this morning, this morning, when I was coming and getting ready to come here to the Ee farm, Amber had the same thing happened to her.

She went around the corner and there was one. And I had already told her the story, so she knew when she saw that hairy mama, she knew that it ain't no hair. That's babies hanging on for dear life. On the mama back. So just so you know I'm not lying. Okay, everyone get your phone and google mother Wolf Spider with babies. Google that, okay, and you could see exactly what I'm talking about and see mother Wolf Spider with babies and then hit images. Y'all for real?

Yah yah, y'all are ready for this. Some of you have probably seen it before. I don't know. Some of you may have it if you're watching on YouTube. I'm not showing the camera right now. It's the most Oh my god, look at this. I don't know if you could see that or not in a camera. Oh my god. Oh I got goosebumps just talking about it. Terrifying, Absolutely terrifying. Is it okay? If I read you got some questions?

I got a bunch of questions on Instagram. This one's from Big Tony and he says, with all the different instrumentations in Country Things, will you be playing it live? And he's talking about the song Country Things has a lot of it's got banjo, steel fiddle, mandolin, acoustic, it's got basically has way more instruments than we have band members.

So yeah, we've been working on that song and the way we have it right now, Todd is going to be playing mandolin, fish, my other guitar player is going to be playing dobro, and then I'll be playing acoustic. So we're just going to do the best we can and that song will, probably, like any other song we

play live, will evolve as we go forward. So yeah, it's a good question, and I'm not exactly sure, but we're going to definitely play country things in our live show starting this weekend at Billy Bob's and Fort Worth and see how that goes. Shane on Instagram says, what made you make Hate You Like I Love You? And that is funny because back to back questions about the two songs that are out right now. Hate You Like I Love You is an idea that I wanted to write for a long time. And I was with two

of my buddies on Wildflower, my bus. We're out on tour early twenty nineteen, and we had written a little bit already, and I got together with these guys and I was thinking about this idea of how hate and love take the same amount of passion to have those either one of those two emotions, and so I told the guys, I said, hey, guys, question, what is the opposite of love, And everyone says hate, You're right, I unanimously hate. It's like, no, it's not. The opposite of

love is indifference. The opposite of love is I don't I could care less, I don't care either way. That's the opposite of love. But a close brother, a close cousin to love is hate because it takes a lot of emotional passion to love. Takes a lot of emotional passion to hate. So it's a close cousin, it's not opposite.

So I said, what if we wrote this song about this this guy that's just kind of desperately misses this girl and he loves her and he wishes that he could change that love to hate, and he wishes he could transfer that energy from all love to hate, which is how we get to the line I just want to hate you like I love you. So that's where that song came from. And we had a blast writing it, blast recording it. And if you guys haven't heard it, I hope you. I hope you get to listen to it.

Eric on Instagram says, whose idea was it to make the original country boy video? So I believe you're talking about the first Earl Dibbles video ever when Earl Dibbles debuted on YouTube and we all believe it's called Earl Dibbles Junior Country Boy Part one, and that is a very important video to me in my life because it started ye yee. That was the first time I said yee yee was in that video. It started Earl Dibbles Junior, which led to a lot of things in my career.

It led to making the album Dirt Road Driveway a lot more popular because there was two Earl Dibbles songs on there. It led to our first national tour. It led to my first sold out show out side of the state of Texas, which was in Iowa, by the way, and it changed, it changed the trajectory of my life. That one video is the first million view video on YouTube I ever had. So that was my first viral video and that was my goal. To get a million views on YouTube was my goal, and that happened in

twenty eleven. Eric's question is whose idea was it? It was probably I would probably give the credit to my brother Tyler to actually shoot the video. But the character Earle, I'd had that voice in that character for a long time. A couple of years before the video, and I kind of knew that we were gonna we were going to shoot a video eventually, and it was Tyler that nailed it down and said, hey man, let's go shoot the country guy, let's go shoot that video. And we're at

mom and Dad's place. And I grabbed some overalls. I grabbed a white tank top, grabbed some boots, an old truck or cap, got some sharpies, drew on some tattoos. These are just all things that are just laying around in the closet and mom and Dad's gotten and what was my old truck when I was a teenager that then became Earl's old truck that we are now restoring on YouTube on this same channel. And that video was

born and it changed my life. Jordan says, how do you stay so strong in the Lord but constantly stay busy with songs, videos, et cetera. Another great question, And it's not easy, and it's it's like anything with life. It's a matter of priorities. You could tell any husband and wife, like how do you stay committed to your wife when you're so busy with work and everything? Like, well, having my wife as a priority so I put her

before my job. So that's the same thing with God, like this question, and I've had I've had to make the Lord my top priority. I've had to place him there and that importance there. And in doing that, when you do that, it's not something you just say. You actually have to act on that. And so part of my daily prayer is so that God strengthens my desire to seek him and long for him and wonder about him and love him and search for him and ask for him and think of him and have him and

filtrate everything into my life. And that's my prayer because that's what I need to constantly cultivate so that I don't start going through the day and go, you know what, I haven't even thought about God. I just thought I was doing good, Like I'm good. Man. I bet things are going pretty good. This new album is going to come out of things are going pretty good. Hey, the podcast is getting some good hits on it. You know,

I must be doing good. Then I have to stop myself and take I out of all that and go, Man, thank you God for the opportunity for this podcast and from the opportunity to have this platform. And that's a complete mental exercise that I put myself through. And every morning I'll read. I'll go and read the Word. I'll read the Bible usually about an hour every morning, and that's the first thing I do. And this is a

newer routine for me. And I've always read in the mornings, but I changed my reading like self help and philosophy, you know, all that kind of stuff. I have a lot of that, but I changed it to just reading the Bible. So now I'll get up up and make a cup of coffee and go out before the sun comes up. And I usually go out to my fire pit outside the barn and barefoot, and I sit out there and make a fire. And if it's cold right now, it's not, so I don't make fires and read. And

that's one of my favorite parts of the whole day. Really, it's one of my favorite parts. I'll sit there and open up the book and the first thing I do. And I learned this from this preacher named John Piper, who's an amazing, amazing man of faith, if you want to look him up. I has a YouTube page called

Desiring God, and I listened to him daily. But John Piper says it's important to before you start reading the Bible, to say a prayer that says, hey, God, about to start reading your word, meet me in the middle of my understanding to what you need me to know from this word. And if you don't say that prayer, then you can get lost, you could daydream, you could lose what you're trying to get out of it. So that's another that's another daily routine, daily habit that it put

myself through. And if I could do that, Jordan on your question, if I could do that hour, that really sets me on a good path. And that's that leads me to the prayer of let me seek you, let me long for you, and that helps that set the pace so that while I'm making songs and videos and busy with work and busy with the family, that the foundation is set. And I hope that answers your question. And I can get deeper into that if you guys want me to at some point, But that answers that.

Keegan on Instagram says, what is the hardest thing you had to overcome throughout your music career? And the I'm gonna take this two different ways. One the hardest thing I had to overcome through my music career was the two major losses I've had, losing my dad and losing my son, and re engaging in tour life and music life and entertainment. Imagine entertaining like smiling and making people

smile and entertaining while dealing with extreme loss. That's the hardest thing is to re engage and to find a new normal again of working and selling, trying to sell tickets and sell songs and trying to make people smile while while you're dealing with that. So that's the hardest thing. But that might not be the question you're asking, Keegan.

Maybe you're asking what's the hardest thing you had to overcome inside your music career, Like was it getting a record deal or was it working a single at radio? Was it going out and meeting all the radio programmers? Was it building one fan at a time through touring? That might be what you're asking, And if you're asking that, I would say the hardest thing I had to overcome, believe it or not, was the the period in my life when I lost my voice. And that was there's

been a podcast about that. I believe, but I lost my voice on tour September fifth, twenty thirteen. It was a just a terrible time. I was just rough housing with some of the guys in the crew, and we were wrestling and my sound guy, Blake, has forearm hit my Adam's apple and it bruised it. And I didn't really know. I just it's swelled up on me, and I didn't really know that that what that was doing.

But when I sang that night in Illinois, it ruptured a blood vessel on the vocal cord and it went out like the voice went out like a light gone, absolutely gone. And that was It was a terrifying thing because then we had to cancel a bunch of shows. It was unknown. I didn't know if my voice would come back the same or different, or if it would

come back at all. And I had to keep going to these doctors and they would stick a camera down my nose and run it down in the back of my throat and to give me a progress report, and then I had to slowly work the voice back up.

And so the unknown of that circumstance was difficult. It was probably the hardest thing that I had to overcome because I didn't know if I was gonna make it, and all I could do was do what the doctors are telling me and have faith, and I would just had all these thoughts of like, well maybe I'll never sing again, like I'll I got to get a new career. That was that was tough, really tough. Aiden on Instagram says,

are you the founder of EEE Apparel? Yes? I am kind of because I share that with my brother Tyler. We're both co founders and co owners of EEE Apparel. And then my brother Parker, the youngest brother, is like the CEO of this company. And I'm sitting in the in the offices of ee Apparel at the Eue Farm right now, and so we we share that title. And we were all three there the first day when Earl Dibbles said yee on camera, which goes back to that

first question about the country Boy video. So that's where you came from and that's where a lot of this started. And now we're all owners of this company and a lifestyle brand really really, which is something just to blows my mind that we we have a lifestyle brand that is bigger than the music, and it's bigger than me as an artist or me as an individual. And I absolutely love that. I love every bit of it. Tiffany says,

will you be releasing a vinyl option for the new album? Tiffany, the answer is yes, we will be Well, we definitely will release vinyl for this album, and I already have the artwork all approved and it's ready to go, but it's not gonna The vinyl won't come out until the full project comes out. So Volume one comes out September twenty fifth, and Volume two is going to come out

around Thanksgiving. So when they both when the Thanksgiving Volume two comes out, then they'll be combined and digitally they'll be combined, and then you'll get we'll have at that point with CDs, remember that it's called compact disc. CDs will be for sale and it'll have all the songs on it, and then the vinyl will come out. Vinyl will not have all of the songs because there's sixteen songs and a vinyl album, you could only have twenty minutes of music per side on the vinyl. That's the

space that it allows you to have. So there I left some of the songs off, and I tried to pick songs that it sounded more vinyly so that if you're the true listener of vinyl. I picked the songs that would sound better on that. But I figure most people probably want vinyl to hang on the wall or to display in some way. That's what I would want. I actually don't have a record player, so I would want one to frame it and put on the wall. But yes, the answer is yes. Yee e O six ' six.

On Instagram, ask what's your favorite car. I've never owned a car in my life, so I will have to answer what my dream car would be, and that is a sixty nine Charger. The reason for that is because I as a little boy. It's early as young as I could possibly remember. I mean I'm talking three or

four years old. My very first memories. I remember watching Dukes of Hazard and not being my favorite show, and being addicted to that show, and watching Dukes of Hazard every single episode and loving that car, that sixty nine Charger. And I've never driven one, and so I would first love to drive one. I would love to test drive one, and then maybe one day way down the road, I'll own one. But that car is absolutely ridiculously expensive. I guess it's because of Dukes of Hazzard. I guess because

they trashed and wrecked so many of them. Maybe there's other reasons I'm not thinking of, but that those cars. If you want a really nice, like really nice sixty nine charger, we're talking one hundred thousand dollars, guys like you can get one for maybe forty or fifty thousand, and it's junked out. That's how popular that car is. So more than likely it won't own one. But I just want to test drive one. Test driving would be really cool. I'm gonna take a quick break. We'll be

right back. You know something I love these days, especially during the craziness of the world, is Cameo. Cameo allows me to be in close contact with fans. It's almost like I get to have meet and greets every day. And what it is, it's an app website where you go to cameo dot com and you could find me on there and then you could request me. You could DM me. We could chat through a DM or you could request a video of anything you want me to say. It could be a congratulations or happy birthday or a

happy anniversary. It could be something like, Hey, everybody go check out Joe's barbershop. You know this is Granger Smith tell them I sent you. I do stuff like that too, but it's a really neat It's a neat way to stay in close contact with fans that I don't get to see every day on meat and greets anymore. And I can't forget to tell you guys that coming up on September eighteenth is Ye Apparel's Fall Lunch and this

is our best launch we've ever done. A portion of these proceeds are gonna be going to Veteran Outdoors, great friends of ours and just a great charity organization that helps veterans in need, and it involves outdoors, getting them hunting, getting them fishing. Very proud of these guys and what

they have done. This launch has some awesome merchandise and if you want to be a part of it, we're gonna launch it at ten am on Friday, September eighteenth, and you're gonna need to be there in the store or right around that time because things will start selling quickly. And I don't want you to see something in a promo and man, I love that hat or I love that shirt, or I love that women's line that Amber has.

I don't want you to see that and then turn around and you go to the store and the mediums or the larges or the exls are sold out and you don't get it. So go as early as you can to ye ye dot com. On Friday, September eighteenth, here's the question on the Instagram says, is your real first name Granger? It is? It is? My name is Granger. That's my first name. And I've had to show my driver's license many times because people for some reason think I've maybe made that up or let's say, maybe like

a stage name or something. But yeah, Granger Smith is my name. Paddock on Instagram says, do you have a tattoo that is for London and Lincoln? Yeah? I have right here under my left arm. I have London, Lincoln and Rivers birthdays and Roman numerals and it started obviously with London right here in the middle. So this was my first tattoo. The ten six eleven was my very first tattoo, and then I added the boys around that, so yes, I do. Maybe there'll be more. I don't

know that. Ford Kid on Instagram says, your music and YouTube helped me get through nine months in Iraq, so thank you and Yigi, thank you, buddy. Thank you for your service, and thank you for telling me that because it makes me. It makes me feel like it's worth it. You know, when the harder days when we were making music or on tour away from our families are like staying up all night trying to record something and it's not right and we're doing it over and over and over.

It's good to know it during those times that, man, is it's worth it. Somebody out there is listening. It's worth it. So thank you, buddy. Nate on Instagram says, how often do you carry your handgun while traveling? Nate, I'm sitting here at this table in this podcast carrying right now. I always carry. So I'm here at Yegee Apparel, I'm in my office doing a podcast alone in this room, and I'm carrying. They always carry, and partly while I do that is why I do that, is because I'm

used to it. It's like my phone and my wallet. It's just it's like a part of my body. So I feel weird if I'm in jim shorts. I carry, so, especially with the craziness of the world these days, you just never know. And I hope to God, I pray to God it never comes out for any kind of bad reason, right, That's what we all hope. I hope it just it just stays and is hidden forever, forever, thousand years. But unfortunately you have to prepare that insurance

policy for the one crazy, one out of a million chance. Yeah, Nick Shelton, what's your workout routine? Nick? I, I do strength training, and I've been doing it for a long long time, where I do isolate muscle groups. So usually on Mondays I'll do chest, upper body. Usually on Tuesdays I'll do lower body, legs. Usually on Wednesdays I'll do back. Thursdays I'll do shoulders, and Fridays will do arms, triceps and biceps. Usually do a little bit of cardio each

of those days. And I've done that, give or take switching the days around. I've done that for manrobably since two thousand and eight consistently, and that's that's just what I do. I've I've changed the routine. Sometimes I go super heavy, sometimes I go super light and a lot of reps. Sometimes I alternate. Sometimes I'll combine chest and shoulders, sometimes I'll combine back and buys, but regardless I'll do I keep with the muscle groups, and I keep them separated,

so I'm having rest days in between. Sometimes I'll add an extra chest day, like on Saturday, but I always like to have at least forty eight hours between muscle groups. Kay Ambry on Instagram says, win are Earl Dibbles Junior new songs coming out? Because I can't wait to hear them. That's a great question, and I'm glad you asked it because on Volume one is you, You've probably got you.

You'll probably know I've been teasing. There's a song called country and you Know It that features Earl Dibbles, and that is similar to Holler, where I'll sing most of the song and then Earl come in and sing like a bridge. But Earl has his own songs coming out, two of them where it's only Earl is more like you're used to, like city Boy, Stuck in America and Country Boy Love. He has two of those coming out

on volume two, so hang on, it's coming. Here's a question that says, how do you feel about fans recording a concert and taking pictures instead of soaking it in? And I get what you're saying. I get that we live in a world where people are kind of stuck to struck to their screens, and they're not taking life in.

They're not soaking life in with their own eyeballs. But from a marketing promotion standpoint, I don't mind if people are filming so then they can go promote it to their friends, because it helps me or any other singer if you take a quick recording of me and then blast it out to all your friends and say, look where I am. I'm having so much fun, So that really helps. So I think the answer ultimately is a healthy balance, like, don't film the whole show for your

own sake. I hope you get to enjoy the sights and sounds and feels of this concert without being distracted by your device. But I think you could throw in a little healthy pull out your phone every once in a while and capture a few things just to have

the memories of that. That being said, all that being said, now, today, the craziness of the world, the tour dates that we do go out on, we are asking that people keep their phones in their pocket because if you film something now at a concert and then promote it to everyone, there's no way that you're not going to offend that's like, Oh, we should all be staying at home. You're spreading the

virus everywhere. Oh my god, everyone's gonna die. So it's just better in all of our interest if you just during this time of the virus, just don't don't propagate the fact that you're at a concert, because you might, even if it's socially distanced or whatever, you might not the shot that you're taking and with it could be shooting over people's heads and it just might not look good.

So all that being said, here's Carter Hathaway says, any advice for seniors having trouble deciding what to do with their life after high school, that is a deep question that could probably be an entire podcast answering. I'll say this, Carter, if you if you're in high school and you're getting close to graduating, I would, And you do you don't know what to do, right, you don't have a plan. I would. I would try to coast for a little bit. Probably not what you were expecting, right, It's not the

advice you were expecting, but I would coast. And it depends on your financial situation, like maybe maybe you have to make money just to keep bread on the table, or maybe you can go live with mom and dad and eat out of mom's pantry. Maybe you could live with brother or a cousin or a best friend. You

could stay on the couch. But I would try to coast for a little bit, not in a way to just pass time and be lost in the world, but to exhale and evaluate your next move, because if you go straight into something quickly, like you go into a trade school, you want to going to welding school, Well, that costs a lot of money, and you like, you don't even know if you want to go in to welding school, or if you just go into a job, some kind of career. It's easy to get trapped in

that career, especially if you're good at it. You could get stuck and climbing a ladder somewhere and look back in ten years and go, well, now I'm thirty years old and I've wasted the opportunity to go to a trade school or go to a college and get an undergrad, or go change. You can get stuck. So I would say, for any advice for seniors having trouble deciding what they're going to do after high school, decide take your time.

Don't make your decision now. If you don't know what that decision is yet, then then take the pressure off the timeline and coast. Hey, go be a bomb in Florida and live on the beach. If you could do that and watch the sun come up and sit up there and watch the sun come up in Florida on the beach after you just slept there all night, and

you'll be able to do some thinking. You'll be able to decide what you're gonna do in your life during those quiet times like that in some kind of travel situation. But it's harder if you have to jump straight into another job and straight into your career. So take your time. You have time now, but you won't in ten years, So take your time. Ricky says, who is your biggest idol and or the country singer you look up to most?

And why? And those of y'all that have heard this podcast before are heard at other episodes of this podcast, you know that I don't like that word idle. I always renounce that word and say, let's choose a different word than idle, because if you put the word idol on another human, that human is going to fail you. Because that's what humans do best. We fail each other because we're human. We're not perfect, We're not God. So let's leave the idle stuff to God. And when it

comes to humans, we can call them heroes or role models. Right. Heroes can fail, role models can break. I get it. All that being said George Strait. I've looked up to George Strait for a long time. He's been a big role model for me, and I started listening to his music early on and kind of emulating that when I was a kid. And there's a good argument that it was George Strait that got me into this entire mess

to begin with. Mason asked me on Instagram, will you ever make it back to North Carolina after this is all over with? And ironically I got a couple of North Carolinas and a couple of South Carolina's all in the same big batch of questions, but read regardless of where you are, wherever you are listening, you know what I don't know if I have her here? Oh yeah, here it is too. Ever been to Germany? Will you

come to Germany? I got two Germany's in this, so let me say this from North Carolina and Germany wherever you are. When this is over with, We're going everywhere. We definitely will be back to North Carolina. We definitely will be back to South Carolina, no doubt, many times we will be back. We'll never go a calendar year and skip a state like yours. In fact, I don't think we'll really skip any of the lower forty eight ever in a calendar year. Germany. I love Germany, Absolutely

love Germany. I love the heritage, I love the food, and I love the country. And we have toured there a bunch, but that's been been ten years since I've toured Germany. We will definitely be back as soon as this crazy mess is over. I got to go get me a Snitzel and some beer. Yes, okay, here's a question, a new album related question. Why did you change the name ye Nation to the song Chevy's, Himmy's, Yoda's and Fords.

And to answer that question that the Yee Nation was really just an intro track that I made for the beginning of the song Holler at our live show. So it's the song and there's like a Doughbro part that goes doom dann oh no no, no, no, no no no, that do don no, no, no no. That's a song that was just a track intro for us to walk on to before we played Holler. And in the background there's these voices that are like yee ye Nation, yeee Nation. And I used that track because it became popular among

the fans. I used that track and wrote actual words to it instead of just yee Ye Nation. I wrote a song Chevy's and Jimmy's and Yodas and Fords and wrote words to it about how it's always a big discussion between country boys and country girls of where to put your money. Chevy'shimmys, Yoda's are Fords. Not to be confused. All this can't be confused with the other intro song that we used to use that now is in the

intro of this podcast. So you heard that at the beginning of this podcast, and that's a completely different version of Ye Nation. There's my Germany question, and then I'm going to do one more here. How about this one? What happened to your dad? And maybe I maybe I never said this, but dad died from a heart attack in twenty fourteen, and I could probably do a tire episode on that because that was a crazy time in my life. But yeah, it was sudden. There was no

there was no medical problems leading up to it. There was no he had no issues, no symptoms, no anything. It's just one day Mom was with us and we had just had baby Lincoln at home, and Mom was visiting with us and baby Lincoln, and when she went home she found Dad and he was sitting in his chair and he was gone. It was just a crazy,

crazy thing. And maybe one doctor's appointment they could have found that he had some kind of huge, massive blockage and they could have done emergency surgery or given him some kind of statin medical something maybe maybe could have fixed it. I know now. So those of you out there that are over fifty years old, or you're you've got parents, make sure you go to the doctor, make sure you're checking out that old ticker of yours, check out the heart. You just don't know. And man, it

took dad quick. It took him. It took him without you, like a thief in the night, without any warning. So just be careful. It is the number one killer heart disease, the number one killer. So it will happen to someone around you if it hasn't already, or if it's not you, So that's something we should probably talk about it on

another podcast. But thank you guys for listening, thank you for watching, Thank you for this platform, thank you for allowing me to express myself and my feelings and all my maybe strange to you views, but it means a lot that you're listening. And if you haven't subscribed to

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