This is a very dangerous question

know you understand you're speaking wisdom. That's what they know. You're speaking wisdom. If you have a question for us, email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. Could be about any kind of subject. If you've heard this podcast before, this is up ninety four. We've done this many times, We've answered many questions, and it's still fresh. It's still fun every time we do it. Yeah, it really is. Yeah. It's all leading up to number one hundred man number one.

What are we going to do after that? One on one? So we birdays on the podcast last week and we had a bunch of questions that we didn't answer. So we're going to continue some of these subjects that we didn't answer, starting with left arm just comes from Jen. This question says, what does the blue represent on your bicep tattoo left? And why aren't the birthdays in ch chronicological order? But she kind of answered a quite the first question with the second question what is the blue?

Or maybe she's answering actually the specifically the color blue. It doesn't really, it's just artwork. Really, it doesn't have a special I remember the guy was like, you want to something behind it, kind of flowy, and I said yeah, he said, want me to put blue? And I said sure. That's about all it was. Why are the birthdays not in chronological order? Of the kid's birthdays started with London in the middle. I just got it, and then I got Lincoln on top of hers, and then River. There

was space under London. So that's the logic behind it. So now I gotta get another one for Maverick. So I think I'm gonna go on top of Lincoln, so it'll be Maverick, Lincoln, London, Riv and that order, nothing nothing else to it. Bertie, you want to you want to help me with some of these we have? What's next? Not clickbait? Q and A life advice regarding lack of relationships, podcast question how to get over Death Grief Help. I'm the baby in the office, so people don't take me seriously.

These are all suc close. Let's let's go getting over death. But then we'll go baby in office after that, just to okay, we can we can go down a little bit. Then we're gonna come back up. We're gonna lift you back. Guys, we got time. We're gonna rock this thing. We're gonna answer so many questions today. I feel it. It's like, yeah, okay, all right, I got it. Hey Granger, Me and my brother been listening to the Smiths and your podcast and

your music for a very long time. We live in Plymouth, Indiana. Our dog was sadly hit on the highway on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty one. He was our best friend, our brother, and certainly the best dog in the world. And when I saw him laying there, my heart was broken. I felt like I lost my brother, and I did. I was wondering what things you did to get your mind off river? We pray every day, we look to the Lord and pray. What else should we do? This

is from oh Man, O'Malley home. That is an awesome name. O'Malley home. Shout out to Indiana, thank you for writing this podcast. Buddy. The death of a dog is not the first time I've had to answer that on this on this podcast. It's tough. You've lost a dog, right, I have. I've lost I've lost three Sadie Abbey Rio, Okay, Sadi Abby Rio. Rio was the toughest. I had him for sixteen years. You lived for sixteen years, and we went through He moved with me from Tennessee to back

to Texas. I remember when you got Rio. Yeah, you're with me when we got him, so that was I remember going to the pet store with you to to not get him. Well, you went to we were looking for a dog, okay, and you were. You were my escort. But we didn't get a dog at the pets. We I ended up going by myself down to par Tennessee and buying him on this place right by the river. That's why I named him Rio. Losing the dog is tough.

I have not I have not walked up on a dog that I loved laying in the street, killed by a car on the highway that's gotta be that's gotta be a new level of losing a dog. Yeah, oh for sure. He He doesn't say how old he is, O'Malley, No, no, not that it matters. But I know when you're younger too, those relationships and just understanding death and the world and

everything is a little bit heavier. So O'Malley. I say this every time when I get a question like this about a dog, and people don't always agree with me, but I promise you're asking my advice. This works for me and guys, I've been really close to dogs, like I love my dogs. I have three of them right now. You have one. Now I get close to him. I understand the bond between man and dog. The answer to your question comes in the form of a puppy. And

at first you might not like the puppy. You might just to have a little have a little envy for the puppy a little, you know, you might you might not appreciate this puppy because it's never going to live up to your dog. You don't say your dog's name, And of course you got a little little bit of time go by. But we can because now that I'm reading this podcast, This happened in January twenty ninth, So if you haven't already, O'Malley, it's time for a pupp and I would go the same breed as the dog

that you lost, the same gender. It doesn't say if it's a boy or girl. I don't think probably a boy. I'd get a boy, and I would just come in with the expectations that this dog ain't gonna be close to the one that died, and just look at it every day and go, you ain't nothing like your older brother was. And watch that dog change your world. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. And it starts getting older, you start going, huh, it's actually really smart. Yeah, it's actually

better than I expected. Oh yeah, he used to do that same thing and that. So this dog will win you over. And a lot of people struggle with like I can't get another one, Now you can. Yeah, just go do it. It's going to satisfy all those all that stuff. So I appreciate you writing Buddy Barnes that you have a Yeah what do we you said? You said the baby, Yeah, I'm the baby in the office. It says, hey, Granger, I've been I've been binging this podcast and dang, you have some wisdom. I want your

input on my current work situation. Thank you. It says I've always been terribly mature for my age, which is probably why I graduated college in two and a half years. Wow, and I went on to get my masters. I finished this week in less time than most kids spend an undergrad congratulations. Wow, it's amazing, way smarter than me. I started a quote unquote adult job in January with a company that I really like. The weird thing is that I'm the youngest at my work by a good decade.

I'm twenty one years old. I report directly to the senior VP. In my role, I serve as the liaison between the communications director and the division directors, all of whom are fifty years old fifty year old men. I also keep tabs on other employees around the company, some of whom have been with the company for forty plus years. Some of my colleagues don't take me seriously since I'm so young and lack the years of experience that they have.

Others don't like me because I do keep tabs on their marketing efforts and provide suggestions based on data and research that require current plans to change and for them to work with me. How do I overcome the perception

of being the baby of the office. Will this idea change as I spend more and more time with the company and actually grow up and not be college aged in the meantime, how would you suggest I balance my role of being higher on the organization chart and sitting in meetings with people who have been in the industry longer than I've been alive. I appreciate your insight to this, Mikayla. Mickayla. So, Mickayla, first thing that jumps out is you need to understand

there is a difference between wisdom and intelligence. So you may have the intellect and the understanding at twenty one that some of these people that are fifty may not have and know how to do a job a certain way, and you've learned more and very short amount of time, and that may be just a fact, but that's not the people that are fifty plus or plus or older been in the company thirty years looking at you. There's a certain wisdom that comes with experience, and there is

no changing that without gaining the experience over time. I think the only thing when you hold that level of intellect and lack of experience. The way that you can show them wisdom is through humility. So carrying the sharpness that you have in a way that is disarming to them and inviting to them and showing them that you're there to support them and for them to be successful is going to show a certain level of humility that will,

I think, communicate to them. Man, she's wise beyond her years, because most young kids will come in here and be like, man, I'm smarter and all of y'all, I know how to do this. Yeah, And meanwhile the old timers are like, dude, you don't know what you're talking about. So, Mikayla, that's great. Burns, Mickayla, I want to say, I want to first compliment you and just say congratulations on accomplishing what most people can't.

You do. You graduated college in two and a half years and then get your masters in less time than most kids spend in undergrad You started it sounds like a twenty roun that and a really good job, and

you have a great responsibility. I want to compliment you, and then I want to throw you an egg and say I feel like part of your education needs to continue to grow through humility, and they're in your email just judging from your email, I try to say judging, I did say that there is nothing that's kind of tossing the credit back to anything else other than your yourself, including your job, including your position, including the benefit of

having these older people around you, which is incredible for you for your growth. And so I don't want to I want to. I don't want to come across as as being too judgmental on you at all, but I do want to just suggest to you that that humility, like Bernie said, could be your friend. And it takes a long time to cultivate that, just as it does to cultivate the intellect that you've grown with all your education, you got to cultivate your humility. And how does that

work in the workplace? What works like this? It works when you have you're you're the supervisor of someone that has been at the company forty plus years. So you have to come at them with ultimate humility. You have to come at them and say, Bob, whatever his name is, can I ask you something? Because I just feel like

I could really soak in a lot from you. You've been here for forty years and I've only been here since January, and this job can be overwhelming, and I just want to make sure that I have an open door of communication with you because I've just really I know I'm gonna have some questions for you, and I

know that they've put me as your supervisor. So we both met you, and I both know that I'm going to be the one asking the questions here and it might not be the truth totally, but that kind of humility coming at Bob, he's gonna put his guard down because right now he's thinking, Man, I've been here forty years. Who is this young college kid gonna tell me how to turn in my work. Mikayla, this is gonna be a huge roadblock for you. If you don't correct this immediately,

you're gonna have hell for the next several years. And here's the thing, Mikayla, me, Bernie and everyone else listening to this podcast, at one point we were the youngest of something that we did. I remember the longest time being the youngest guy in the band by a lot, and every every musician has been the youngest guy in the band. And then I'm as far as the players on me and Todd are the same age. But now

Fish either guitar players twenty seven. So now he's the young guy and we just make fun of him and we know this banter, and I tell him, I'm like Fish one day, one day, you're gonna be the old guy in the band, because I will too. One day I'm gonna be the old guy. And Mikayla, you're gonna

be the old girl in the office. One day. You're gonna be the forty plus year in employee one day somewhere might not be this job, but somewhere, just remember that, but someone else is gonna it's's going to always going to be. It's gonna be a rotating door with these college kids coming in. Keep that in mind. That's going to help fuel your humility. But walk with a sense of reverence, a sense of respect to your elders, and

that doesn't that's not reflected in your paycheck. It's not reflected in who they answer to or who you answer to. Respect is different than all those m Yeah, for sure, Yeah, I could I could have I could have respect for the guy that's taken out the garbage behind the restaurant that I'm meeting at because he's older than me. Of respect for that guy, even though I was just a

patron in the restaurant that's paying his bill. Technically, that's nothing to do with respect, right, or our generosity or gratefulness or patience or love or any any of those kind of traits have nothing to do with education or staf our age. So Bernie said it, and I'm just reinforcing, you're gonna being being humbled towards these people is going to be your friend. Yeah, I think too understanding Caleb that humility and confidence are not opposites. It's not like

you have to choose one or the others. So you good points say that again, humility and curate humility and confidence are not opposites. So you you've been educated, you you do have some experience, you have some skill, or else they would have hired you. And so there there is a perception and regardless of how your coworkers respond to you, you should have the mindset of man, I am here to learn and serve other people. But I'm gonna run circles around everybody here because I'm gonna hustle.

I'm gonna work as hard as I can, and I'm going to be confident in the abilities that I have. I'm not going to like lure those abilities over other people, but I'm going to use those in a way that shows confidence. And I think that people will start to respect your talents and your skills when you carry in balance humility, in confidence. And also I think with that confidence, you don't worry so much about what Bob says. It's like, ah,

Bob's just being old. Whatever. Man, he thinks you're young, he thinks that one you have terrible work ethic, because that is kind of a consensus of millennials and below, like they don't have the right work ethic. Proven wrong. Yeah, they don't have the experience, they don't have humility. Hey, take all of that as feedback and be like, thanks Bob, MICHAELA, show up earlier than everyone, right, be there when Bob gets there. Every time. Clean Bob's coffee pot yep, who

cleaned this? Who cleaned the coffee? Oh? Sorry, Bob, I did that. I just saw it was dirty. MICHAELA. Well, thank you. Iniative every time. And then and then the last thing I'll say is speak less, listen more, speak less. You could accomplish this the same you could you could excel in your job. You could, you could crush it, but you could still speak less and listen more. Listen to Bob more, and you speak less when you go to a meeting. Don't be the first one to talk,

don't be the last one to talk. Just listen. Listen. That's your that's that's what the person that just started in January does. They listen and once again, has nothing to do with seniority. Right, that's good. Cool. Thank you for writing, MICHAELA. I kind of I kind of would love to hear like a year a year update on her situation. Yeah, but yeah, that's fun. Congratulations on all your success, Mikaila. Did you have another one? Burns Bob?

A question? Relationship advice, handling being told? No, I like that title. Let's do that? Do that, says hegre and your. My name is Brooke. I'm a country girl from Chattanooga, but I live in East Tennessee, almost at the very pointy end of the state. Lol. I graduated last May with a bachelor's degree. Bad year to do this then, But since then, I've applied for so many jobs I would say around thirty plus. I've only had two companies

call me for an interview. I have little experience in my degree management and accounting minor, but I'm looking for that one company to give me a start. It's been hard, to say the least. It's been hard and mentally being told no so often. I do my best to give it all to God, but after a while, I feel like I don't have anything left to give. Companies don't want to train an employee with little to no experience, which I get because it takes time and money. At

the same time, everyone had to start from scratch. It's hard to gain experience when no company is willing to give you a chance to gain experience. Yep, I'm sure you've had You've heard a bunch of no in the music business. My question is how do you keep going? How do you handle the nose? Thank you? Brooke? So crazy going back to back mm hmm with these two with MICHAELA and Brooke back to back, but they sound

like about the same age. I wonder if she's if Brook's open to move because I'm in Austin, Texas, and everybody I know is hiring and we can't find people fast enough. So and I know there's a few other places in the country that are that are just like going bonkers, and so maybe this is opportunity to go go experience another sounds like she's been in Tennessee. Her whole life right went down, maybe ut or universal. So let's throw out that because you're right, Bernie, I think

there's the job opportunities are crazy right now. So let's let's focus on how do you handle no? How do you handle someone saying no to you? Hm hmm. I mean we've both been told no many times a lot. No is no is a very valuable yeah lesson to be to learn. It's it's essentially saying losing. It's essentially saying yeahs If you go to one of these interviews and they say we're going to go a different direction, as much feedback as you can get from them, because

no is an opportunity to to grow. No say that again. No is the opportunity to grow of you. Today you spew these one liners out and I just want to stop you and make you repeat it. But no is an opportunity to grow and even rhymes yeah yeah, brook take that man, take that and run with that one line and every time you hear it, when a company calls you and it says no, just go knows an opportunity to grow. So then what do you do You first,

like Bernie said, you ask them thank you, Bob. We'll act like it's bob, Hey, Bob, I appreciate your time so much. In order for me to grow from your no, can I please get a little bit of feedback on maybe what I need to improve on or what you saw that you didn't like. And just if you did that three or four times, you can go to a

superstar list of your resume. Yeah. Absolutely, and it could even help you grow in the things that you're good at, because, let's say, because I am a boss that hires people, interviews people, and if they email me, Let's say Brooke email me, and she did these things great. Even though I said no, I'd be like, Hey, your experience on your resume is impressive. The way that you like kept eye contact and were really focused in the meeting, the

way that you were just very came across is very sincere. Man. Those things are all great. The reason that we had to say no is we just lost a project and we can't. You know, we would love to take you on maybe in a few months, but we can't right now, because that has nothing to do with Brooke, but that no can all of a sudden turn into like these things that they really did, Like it can build confidence of like, oh, yeah, these things are good. I love. Yeah,

that's great. And you have to do that, Brooke. And you also have to kind of lower your expectations. I think if you if anyone's out there that's struggling with finding a job, which is crazy in this market, but if you're struggling to find it a job or a career and you've been through several paths that have dead ended for you, lower your you have to lower your expectations a bit, not necessarily in the in a company, but in the position of the company. If you want

to work in some company. Really in the music business, if you want to work at a record label, you literally start in the mail room every time, or you start as the janitor. That's how they do it. The music business sucks in a lot of ways, but it's it's very unique and it's it's very powerful in the way that it that it runs people up the ladder. Then you can't do that, like at a bank or at an accounting firm, you can't start in the mail room and then you're an a lead accountant. It doesn't work.

But in the music business, start in the mail room and one day you own the label. It's really cool how Nashville and New York and LA can do that. And you could take that same approach with you and Chattanooga and and just go listen what she she does management and accounting account So if you find there's an accounting firm that you just this is like the Pinnacle.

This is it's in downtown Chattanooga. It's got it, it's great, and you want to come in there, lower your expectations and just say, can I start at the reception desk? That's how bad I want to My degree is going to merit this kind of job. But I love this company and what you guys do and what you stand for and where you're going so much. Is there an entry level position, an assistant position answering the phones? I want that because I love this company. And then see

he says, yeah, I think you're absolutely right. I think what you're saying, in a roundabout way is that it's really about relationships, and relationships form the trust that opens opportunity. Right. Yeah, So once that person once Bob sees, man, we have her as a receptionist, and we asked her to do do these things, and I completely trust she got it done. Maybe trust has grown. Maybe we now Julie left and

that there's an opportunity here man, we give it to her. Yeah. Yeah, So it's really about forming, like taking it, like you're saying, taking advantage of any window of opportunity and saying, hey, I'm going to get in here. I'm going to learn and serve as much as I can, knowing that that that could open up more opportunities to get where I want to get. I think a lot of companies these days too, are wanting to hire within and kind of

cultivate their their culture inside the company. It's it's a lot easier to get someone with a lesser experience, yep, and just train them up in the culture that you want. Yeah, that's that's how we operate. That's awesome. Absolutely, all right, we'll take a quick break. We'll be back right. Podcast today is brought to you guys by Athletic Greens. Such an amazing product that I've been using far beyond the free demo pack that they sent me when I first

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Shout out to Spotify listeners. We are This podcast is available on any place that you can find a podcast. I checked yesterday Burns it was. This is crazy. This is It's number twenty six on the chart of all music podcasts. Wow. And we don't even talk about musically. That's incredible. I know, man, it blows me away. And we're just sitting here answering, answering people's questions, like we're

sitting around and camp fire. Yeah. And there's so many people that are so talented at podcasts and are so well produced, and they're so stories, are so in depth and to be like consistently top thirty of all music podcasts in the world. And me and your answering questions. Relationship career advice is blows me away. Yeah, and maybe it speaks to the culture too that people just genuinely like to listen in on a long form discussion over life problems, real life stuff, real life for sure. Yeah,

now there's nothing another bake in this podcast. Yeah for sure. I listen when I'm not on it, So I mean I resonate. That resonates with me too, Man, I want to I want to listen to you know who else listens all the time? My mom? Oh, really shout out

to my mom. Yeah, she's was so good. Yesday I got to give a shout out to my sister Wendy because I gave a shout out to my brother in law Josh, And the first text I got was like, what the heck do you want to give a shout out to him and not your own sister that has supported you your whole life and listen to everything? So love you, siss, appreciate. So did do you remember any

of these questions? We have what's next? Not clickbait? We have Q and A, we have grief help, no subject, relationship advice, let's go, let's go, no subject, just to keep keep roll the dice, keep me good. Okay, this is a one sentence question with no subject from Brayden. It says, what do I do if I like a girl and I'm afraid to tell her? Obviously young? Yeah, Braiden, I feel you, dude. I've asked that question to myself. It's a few moments of fear or a lifetime or regret? Boom,

what are you doing today? Man? What's to push into a few moments of fear or a lifetime? I regret? Wow, she could be your wife, Braiden. Yeah, you'll know. I feel like Braiden's like twelve. Yeah, I feel like he is. So it's funny because when I when I was twelve or I wouldn't. I wouldn't deal with that. When I was twelve, let's say fourteen, I was writing notes on college dull paper and folding them up, passing them around class. Did you guys? Oh yeah, absolutely? That was like what

you did? That was that was before text messages. Yeah. I did one time in middle school, except I wrote something really bad about the teacher and she came and took it up, and I was like, oh, my parents got called. I was in in school suspension. It was terrible. I bet you got in trouble a lot. I bet you're like the giggler. The thing is is I was the baby of the family and I always found it.

I would get into trouble, but I was I would always find a way to be like, ah, come on, guys, just playing around right, Like, okay, just let him go. I see that in my my my youngest son. I see it in him. He's the same way. It's like he's so mischievous, but he's just like and so I looked at him like, all right, get out of here. I did get into some trouble, but most of it was innocent. Most of it was innocent. I see that.

But yeah, passing notes, so I would say, I would say, Branden if it was me, and this might not be you, this is a personality thing. I would write her a note. I would write, or not if you're because this one thing, like Bartie said, just to you know, have some confidence and walk home and just say Mikayla, maybe it's michaela. I'm like interchanging names if we're using people to podcast. So, but what I would do, I don't think i'd be

that brave at a young age. Yeah, I would write her I was better always better in my life writing things than I was saying them. So I would write, I would get a little card or a piece of paper and just say four or five lines a little paragraph. Hey, I'm terrified even put that be vulnerable. I'm terrified to tell you this in person because you're so beautiful, but I really like you, and I have to tell you or something. And then and then put in her put

it in her locker. We're literally assuming he's in junior high right now. It would be funny he's like fifty and but even if he's in junior high, I think that this goes like, don't send a text. Text are the worst guys. Text are the worst. Text and social media the worst way you can communicate. Communicate with people, Like I think a note like this it can go

sometimes even further than doing it in person. It's like, oh man, that was very thoughtful, and like you have to say what you want to say and George Straight check yes or no? That's the song, yep, do you love me? Do you want to be my friend? Check yes or no? Yeah, you can even say, hey, I'm a big George Straight fan? Are you he has this song? And then like you have a box at the bottom, and you know that could be the stard yaws boom,

easy question, easy answer. All right, See we have I love that we answer these questions and we feel like, dude, we are nailing this. I wonder if people actually like, Hey, Greager Bernie, I did what you said and she likes me. It was a terrible in my life, this podcast ruined by I think what you said? You idiots. Yeah, that's why we we only take questions. We don't take like the outcome of what you do. All right, let's see we have we have Granger Smith podcast. Oh yeah, I

gotta I gotta do Burnie, I gotta read this. This is a dangerous, dangerous question. Okay, I'm gonna ask it to you. Do we got? We got? We good? Yeah, we're good. I saw this very short but very dangerous. Okay. It says it's from Mark. It says, what are your thoughts on the Great Reset? Is it possible? Do you think it will happen? Or is it just a conspiracy theory? What's this guy's name? Mark? All right, you're gonna have to enlighten me on Mark's question the Great Reset. I

think what he's talking about. I'm pretty sure what he's talking about, especially since you get to the conspiracies, like the Great Reset. Is this underground deep state, small group of people that are resetting the world economy through and he sent this question in last year, so the end of Okay, So they they're like resetting the world stage for their interest, their purpose, setting it up towards either one world currency or something. Okay, to believe that that's possible,

I think that's what he's asking. Okay, So this is the idea that like, hey, there's like twenty people that control everything and they're getting together saying, hey, well let's do this and this and this and then this is the quote unquote deep state idea that's more powerful than DC that actually runs DC. And yeah, Russia, And I let you go first, Well, how I would how I would approach it for me personally? Well, he says, is it possible? Yeah, yeah, sure, I'd agree, it's sure. For sure.

I don't think anything's possible. Aliens could land tomorrow, Come on, it's possible. I mean what But but as a as a Bible reading man, I will say this, it doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter. So because it doesn't matter much, it matters a little bit because it doesn't matter like life, It doesn't affect me so deeply that I'm gonna be worried about it and stuck on the news or stuck on these weird conspiracy YouTube pages. I'm not. I'm not

worried about my kids. I'm not one of the people that's like, I mean, I'm worried about the next year. I'm worried about my grandkids. They're going to inherit a terrible world. Well, the Bible says that they were born for a time as this, such as this, so that we're all brought into the Kingdom for a time such as this for a special reason for this time. So if there is some crazy world conspiracy, deep state, great reset.

So bring it on, come on, come on. Yeah, I think that's a great response, And like part of me doesn't even want to. I'll entertain it because they they put the question out there, and it's like, Okay, I want to, you know, answer what they're asking. But I think, really what my mind goes to is like I can't really give my short time here on earth give my energy to something like this when it's like it doesn't matter, man, God's will in front of me, and that's what I

got to focus on. And if for some reason this great reset intersects with God's will for my life, then I'm gonna have to address it, and He'll give me the tools to address it and how how to approach it and whatever. But at this time, I believe that he's sovereign and he's in control of this deep state. People, you're on fire. Whatever, you're on fire. You're on fire. God,

You're always on fire. Yeah, that's that's that's awesome. Our short time here on this earth is just we can't focus on things that we can't control, and we can't control that we can't control. That's something outside of our government. We could We could vote, We could protest if you want. If if you're the kind of person that likes to protest, you could do that. You could march in the streets if that's the kind of thing you like to do.

But that's about it. It's about it. The most important thing you could do is raise your kids with a loving family, with a mother and father. Yeah, and be present, be present, know the difference between the things you can control and the things you can't. Yeah, and the things you can't you gotta let them go. There are so many things mark in our lives that are in need of repair in some way that we can fix today, absolutely, that we shouldn't waste a second on the things that

we can't. We don't have time, brother, There's too many problems today. There's too many things in disarray and things that need to be reordered and fixed and rebuilt and restored and mended. There's too many things today to worry about anything that we can't touch, that we can't that we can't affect in any way, So why worry about it? That's so good man. I will say this one quote from Piper, and I'm gonna try my best not to

butcher this even though I know I'm going to. But he says, in the end days social media will prove as evidence that our lack of prayer was not due to lack of time. Man, that's crushing, you know. So, Yeah, we got a short amount of time to be about what you need to be about. Don't get caught up in this nonsense. Yeah, I don't care. I don't mean to mean this in any kind of bad way, but great, reset don't care. I love when you have your dumper don't care. Let's go we have life advice regarding lack

of relationship. Do we have the one still that says not clickbait? Because I mean, I've heard it a few times and he's kind of got me. Okay, He says, Hey, Granger, have been a long time fan of your music. I listen to all your podcasts. I want to keep this short and sweet, since I assume you get hundreds of emails. It says you've had a long career in country music, playing hockey talks and charting on radio and albums. What

are your goals moving forward? If you could see Granger Smith five to ten years from now, where do you see yourself? Also, I want to great question, he said, I want to update on Earl's truck that by the time this podcast is out, there'll be an update on the truck. That's Cody. Cody asked that question, Well, what are you so excited about? I want to hear what the answer to the question? Man? Yeah, what's next? Well, it's crazy because I have on my phone this voice

memos of my band from twenty sixteen. I went around, I passed my phone around to everybody in the band and crew, and I said. I asked him a series about five questions, and one of the questions was, where do you see yourself in five years? Well at twenty sixteen. Now it's been five years. So I'm going to play it for him this weekend. It was June actually of twenty sixteen. That's such a great idea. And I listened to a couple of them and I was like, well, you didn't do that, and a couple of them I

was like, bro, congrats, you did that. I don't know this show. I'm going to play it from this weekend. That's so cool. And and to you, Cody, what man, what's crazy is what I have learned in the last decade is unbelievable. This is ten years of my life. If I would look back at at twenty eleven and then I could say this, I could say, London was born, my daughter I was just freshly married. Earl Dibbles was invented. I actually got significant touring going for the first time

in my life. My dad died, I got a record deal, my son died. I moved probably four times. You lived in a barn, lived in a bar in irb It got under zero degrees in Texas, there's a lot of things that happened to me, significant things that happened to me in the last ten years, all to say that I've learned more than any other time between age thirty and age forty. I've learned that those ten year plans can change, and the one thing that cannot change is God.

It does not change His word and his plan does not change. So I read that, and I hang on for dear life, because the tossing and turning of the seas of life will take you overboard every time. And if I had, if I had realistically given you in twenty eleven a ten year plan, I would have given you a beautifully written, you know, little parable of what

a life could be. But if I had followed it word for word, letter for letter, note for note in twenty eleven, I would have missed out on so much if I just held fast to the to the winds and my sales that God gave me. And that's something I couldn't told you. I couldn't have told you that at age twenty or age thirty, But I'm telling you now at age forty, that I've learned much more just to hang on to God, hang on to his plan and make the best opportunity that I can with the

events that arise around me. And so part of that is keeping my eyes open to the events that are rising around me, like, well, this is a great opportunity and I'm gonna go for this, and I feel really good about it. And it could be EEE radio or it could be preaching a sermon on Sunday morning at a church. It could be that big of a range. It could be a new coat we're coming out with

a ee or something. But I just, man, I'm just I'm kind of against five and ten year plans now, yeah, because I think I think it could get you either highly disappointed or you could miss your you could fail in expectation in some way, or maybe worse, you could follow a path too long that you never were supposed to be on. Yep, So what about you? A lot has changed for you in the same amount of time. Yeah, Like I have tattooed on my arm some words from

my mom. It's an adventure. And I think, really, when you're on an adventure in the most fun ones, like you don't really know what's coming. Like I've been on the back of a motorcycle writing through the remote villages of Honduras, don't speak a lot of Spanish, and this guy's taken me to meet his family. It's like, well, this will be fun. You know what, It's an adventure. It's like, oh, man, I I could have never planned that.

I could have never written that. But when it was happening, and you're kind of like you said, you're you're staying close to the will of God, and you know that, like he's before the foundation of the world, he wrote this, these good works he prepared for us to walk in the feeling of knowing that, like, man, I'm in that good work. I know that I'm in it. I would have never planned this rather than oh yeah, here's my

plan and checked it off. There's there's some sense of accomplishment, but there's some sense of like, I think that can develop a sense of control that we don't really need to have. One we're going to miss out, we're going to suffocate life. Yeah, but two we're going to be we're going to tend to be outside of the will of God because it's like, and let me just say, I don't think planning is a bad thing. I think

planning and preparation is a good thing. I think Grizz and I both feel that, but there's a difference between you know, man will make his plans, but God will determine the steps. Yeah, so much has changed, and it's almost like I would rather be in the will of God unprepared, then know exactly where I'm going and have to deal with that, the failure of the expectation, the responsibility, the you know, the mind games that go along with that. Yeah,

I don't think that I can operate in that. Let me tell Cody, let me tell you in my life what I've planned. I planned on playing music. I still do that, That's about it. I planned on having a family. I didn't plan on this podcast. I didn't plan on Earl or ye ye are restoring Earl's truck or living in Central Texas or building a farmhouse or anything else besides playing music and having a family. There's only two things I planned on doing for a long time, and

everything else has just happened. So but even with planning on having a family, even in that dynamic, you didn't plan on losing riv exactly. But how life changing and impactful has that been in your story? Yeah? You know, and I think that one thing I've taken from you and Amber over the years, the many years is just a sense of being present, being content, and always leading with gratitude. So I think if you do those things,

the plan's already written for you. You don't have to write it, like, just let me throw let me throw another one out. We didn't plan on having a fourth biological baby, that's right. Yeah, and we're due next month, so yeah, there's you know that that this list is deep. I just I just think the joy of life is in the adventure. I really believe that, And it's in

letting go of control. I think you said it right, Like you have to be present and see like the opportunities or the things are, be aware of the things around you. But know that man, if you are abiding in him, he's gonna say, hey, I know, no, go this way, go this way. Okay, Yeah, I don't care. I'll go wherever you want me to go because I know that's where life is, that's where joys. That's what we're all pursuing, right. People that plan their five year

plans are like, how can I be happy? What can I plan to be happy? We're all trying to be happy and what we're saying, is abide in Him, and that's where your joy is going to be. It doesn't matter if the road is rocky, or if it's smooth, or if it's uphill downhill. It doesn't matter if it takes you here or there. I was a musician and now I'm not. And I was at the point where I had no job, and I took an ad on

Craigslist to take a construction job. Who would have thought that God was saying, hey man, actually this is the way we're gonna go. Okay, Yeah, it's fine. I think when we are satisfied most in Him, the road doesn't matter. Yep, the plan doesn't matter. He's got the plan when we trust him. Boom dropped the mic. You want to hit one more? Yep? Should we go deep or should we stay shallow? How much time we got got we could knock it out in ten eight minutes, eight minutes, go

for it. Okay. I'm gonna trying to find a short one. Guys, they'll say this Bible question. Okay, says he Graander. I'm a huge country music fan, and I was thrilled to find a mainstream artist that reads the Bible every morning. I'm a Christian, so of course I won't hate you for your Calvinistic views, even though I don't agree with every point. We live in a society that we were

told that marriage is unnecessary, et cetera. So what are your thoughts in the importance of marriage, sex before marriage, divorce, remarriage. My name is Dave, I'm sixteen. I'm from Pennsylvania. Have a great day, future Calvinist, David. Just kid me, Hey, buddy, as soon as you start reading the Bible a little bit more, you'll be a calvinistent me. What what What a world that we live in where Dave at sixteen

one that he's thinking about these kind of things. I was not just that progressed as a human, and that he has the ability to email his favorite country music singer and then have him answer it and listen to What a world? Yeah? Okay, yeah, that's a good question, though, David, sixteen and you are. I'm unpacking this slowly. Thank you for thank you for emailing your way ahead of me. And when I was sixteen in any of this thoughts to even understand Calvinism at sixteen way way beyond me.

That's way beyond And I'm not. I'm completely unashamed to say that. I'm a Calvinist and comp completely unashamed, and i will scream it from the rooftops and I'll say it every day if I have to. So that being said, you are you are a you said, yeah, I'm a Christian. That's what he says. So you're a Christian and you're asking me my thoughts on the importance of marriage, sex before marriage, divorce and remarriage. Yeah, so I'm gonna go this is a super easy one. I'm gonna go just

what the word says. And it's the same thing you're thinking, David. I don't I don't disagree with you or with what it says. So there is a high, high level of importance on marriage, even though it's not a requirement by any means in the Bible, but high there's a high level of importance. There's a high discouragement of sex before marriage, a high discouragement of divorce, and the remarriage part, there's not a that's kind of a that's kind of null

because you are encouraged. You're encouraged to remarry as a as a woman, especially if you're under sixty. You know you're supposed to you're supposed to remarry, and men, of course you're you're encouraged to remarry, So remarrige. I'm gonna throw that one out. I'll throw that out of the discussion. But just three questions then our marriage, sex before marriage, and divorce. It's pretty cut and dry. Yeah, I think so sixteen, he's asking some questions that he's thinking about

his future here. Yeah. I think the biggest misconception of marriage these days is that it's about the two people involved. That's good, it's only about the two people involved. When assuming that what was this guy's name again, David Dave, if he's a Bible believing Christian, that the Word tells us that this thing of marriage is a reflection. That's

what it's meant to be. It is the number one ministry that you have, is the way that you love and serve your wife and give yourself up in all things, the way that Jesus did for the church. Yeah, guys, it's a reflection, it's a tool. It's a ministry that we have to show everyone around us and the world the way that Jesus loved and gave himself up for

the church. It's important too, to realize, David, that these things aren't set up in the Bible so that it hurts us or inhibits us, or restricts us, or puts laws or chains us. It's set up because we were created that way. We were created in such a way that God knows divorce crushes families. He knows that. Ye, And so that's why it's high discouraged. It's not forbidden,

it's highly discouraged. Why because he knows the repercussions. So then you back up, so what causes divorce, Well, sex before marriage doesn't help, so that let's start talking about that. And there's these little things. It's not restrictions, it's not laws. It's just like, hey, you were built this way, and this is your best roadmap for you. Dave, it's age sixteen to have a successful marriage. Yeah. I think the one of the things you sent me from vote or

maybe I sent it to you, I can't remember. But he talks about marriage being an illustration, right, and how some things can defile that illustration. I think that divorce can do that. I think that sex before marriage can do that. I feel like David's question really for us being sixteen is about the one in the middle, and I think I think he put the two on the ends just to make it seem like he's asking about

all of them. Think you're right, But if he's sixteen year old dude, he's asking about the one in the metal. Think you're right. So I think you're right. If you're asking me, Dave, obviously look at the Word of God. See what it says is very clear. That's my final word. Yep, thank you for emailing. Dude. You're way ahead of me when I was sixteen. You're on a great path. And find a community of dudes too that believe the same thing, and older guys that can kind of help coach you

along the way because it is a tough road. Brother. Yeah, thanks for emailing. Brother. I'm going to give a couple of shout outs here, Daisy Ward, Trevor Suer, thank you guys so much for being listeners of this podcast and everybody else. Thank you for your questions and if you're not even I know there's most people don't ask questions, they just listen, So thank you for all the bystanding listeners, Passer buyers. Love you guys so much, and we'll see

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