Tough insult by a fan

It's one of my favorite things to do. I do a lot of different kinds of media in my life, everything from redneck comedy to trying to make you cry in a music video, and this is right in between. And it's not a family blog either. This is the podcast, and so many times I've opened this up to your questions, I do want to say that for me. The last episode I talked about a young man from Kentucky named Drew, and we have since talked back and forth. If you

want to listen to episode fifty nine. Drew wrote into the show and he said that he was in a pretty tough situation. Fourteen years old. He had been abused by his stepfather, apparently had been beaten with a baseball bat on several occasions, called the cops, wrote the podcast, it was a long story and that's not what this is about. I hope you hope you go listen to that on episode fifty nine, but I wanted to say that after that, and this podcast is always open to questions.

You email Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com if you want to, if you want to talk to me about anything, and I'll talk about it on this podcast. After I read that letter from Drew, I got a flood of questions and comments from you guys on this email in

similar situations, which is horrifying. And I just want to say that if you are in a bad situation, especially if you're under twenty one and you're living in You're not You're not the head of your household, I should say, you're living with other adults, and you are in any kind of abusive situation, Please call the cops. Please call

the cops and sit with them. Be brave and go to the Go to the cops if you don't feel like they're listening to you, or if whoever is abusing you is maybe they're in with the sheriff, or maybe they're taking plea bargains, like somebody said in one of the emails. Guys, First of all, I'm so sorry you're in the situation. Second of all, I would go sit in that sheriff's office and don't leave until they do something about it. And it's crazy that this world has

the problems that it does. We all recognize that it does. Thank you for email and me, I'm I am not I'm not the guy that's going to fix it for you. I'm just going to guy that's going to talk through some things. So I would go to the cops and I would I would make sure that they know about this, and uh, I would get CPS involved. Don't live in fear or terror of someone in your house, your mom's boyfriend or your dad, or maybe it is your mom. Is another email I got it was the mom, uh,

the biological mother that was causing problems. So man, I'm so sorry. Guys, make sure you you go to the cops and go to a friend and just get out of there. You could you could have an eye for good people out there. Find the good people, Find the good guys, go to their house, don't leave until it gets until it gets fixed. Man, I didn't think I was gonna have to start this podcast by saying that I do want to I do want to tell you something else. My buddy Johnny, Joey Jones and Georgia, who's

a a great friend. We've done We've done some hunting trips together. We've done a lot of videos together. We've walked one hundred miles together. He is a wounded warrior. Yeah, he's lost both of his legs in I rack. I believe Afghanistan. I think it was Afghanistan and just a tremendous dude. And I wanted to read what he just tweeted. Once again, this podcast is coming before Thanksgiving, so I want to read what he tweeted just now. He said, I didn't fight two wars and lose two legs to

be told I can't spend time with my family. As a matter of fact, I did it so you could choose how you spend your Thanksgiving, honor sacrifice and tell the Commies to shove it. So the reason I'm reading that is is because he says this on Twitter and it gets a lot of engagement, Like I'm looking at it right now and as twenty three thousand retweets, and if you want to look him up, his Twitter is

at Johnny Underscore. Joey has a ton of engagement but everything I see, and maybe this is the Twitter algorithm, maybe this is who's running Twitter. Everything I see right under that tweet is negative. It's all people bashing him and criticizing him and demoralizing him and really knocking him down. We're talking about a war hero who has lost so much, has sacrificed so much, and he just makes a comment on Twitter something that he feels very strongly about, and

he's absolutely ransacked on Twitter. I mean, these people are going after him. They are destroying or trying to keyboard destroy him. I texted him and I've been texting with him, and I don't think it doesn't It doesn't bother him. And he knew when you say something like that on Twitter, he knew that in the Twitter sphere it was going to get a lot of hate, which obviously you got a lot of love too, judging by the retweets. But I've this is great. I don't see a single good

comment on here. And so I was just talking with the guys at Ee Apparel. I feel like I feel like there's some something going on with Twitter where they are putting they're putting the bad comments on top, so that that's all you could see, so that you sit here and scroll like I'm doing, and you see nothing but hate and anger and disruption and rejection. That's what you see. I've told you guys before, be careful with social media. You don't know. You don't know what you're seeing.

I don't know what I'm seeing. You you think you're putting something out there and you get all this negativity back, or you get all this positivity back, and you don't know if that's accurate on what people are seeing. You know what I mean, So be careful. I'm gonna I'm gonna get my brother Parker in here, and I'm gonna borrow him and borrow his brain. Is a smart dude, and I'm gonna get to your questions. Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. I'm gonna answer some of these and

we're gonna dive in. Thank you for watching Episode sixty A little bit of a milestone. Welcome to the podcast, wrote the intro, did my time and long line foun im going back ration. I brought Parker in here because sometimes I feel like if I sit in a room and talk to a microphone boy myself for too long, I lose perspective on what I'm talking about and what I'm answering, and you could help me with that. The

episode is already you've already been talking. No, I'm just talking about like on the last episode and all the ones before that. I start getting I'll talk for like seven or eight minutes, and I'll realize I'm starting to lose perspective on the question, and bless someone's feeding off of that. Yeah that makes sense. Well, then you're just kind of in your own head and you don't know if what you're saying is making sense. Yeah. So where

we sit today, it is the day before Thanksgiving. This podcast will come out on Monday, a couple of days after Thanksgiving. And where are we withye Apparel? With the farm? This has typically been the craziest time of the year for us, and it might not be this year, right, might not be the craziest day of the year. I don't really know what to expect because we've been doing your I feel kind of bad because I always just talk about business when I come on here, and I

don't know if that's interesting or not. I guess that's that's just what I have. I'll just get that over with. We'll talk about business because you can bring a different perspective. Then we'll answer people's questions. Yeah, basically, we'll see what happens with Black Friday. Black Friday, We're going to do well. I guess this will release on Cyber Monday, so today will be the last day to get twenty percent off

the whole Ee Apparel store. And what we've been doing is every purchase on Ye Apparel is entering you into the giveaway for your truck, and so a lot of people have already been doing that, and so I think that it may slow down the usual Black Friday craze because a lot of people have already purchased. But we are prepared. Nonetheless, we used to just we used to just take off work on Thanksgiving and Friday all the

way up until Monday. And this was like three years ago, and then so we could just show up on Monday with like not as many orders as we have now, but we would just show up with all those like we just had no idea what we were doing. So it's it's funny to think about that now. But so now we have we have a bunch of people who are coming in to work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, So it should help us. I had a show scheduled for Friday in Odessa, Texas. It got canceled, so I'll be

here helping. And I love the atmosphere. I was doing a bunch of radio interviews today. I love the atmosphere Black Friday during at Ee Apparel. Just there's a vibe to it, you know. It's like that you feel the beginning of the holiday season. Christmas is coming, music's playing, maybe LF will be on the TV. Everyone's packing boxes and there's just motivation to get the boxes out before Christmas. I love that. Yeah, that's our that's our Vietnam, that's

our joke. Those are the three days that we look forward to all year to try to prepare for, and it tests us to see how fast we can get orders out. And it's fun. Yeah, it's like it's like, I don't know when you're like when you're working on a weekend, it's probably employees don't feel this way. But when you're the boss and you're able to like incentivize people to come in and work late, it's like, cool,

we're all in this together. It's like it's like when you're up at three am with your buddy studying in school for a test that you have the next day or something. It's like, yeah, it sucks, but it's like kind of it's just different. It's out of the ordinary, so it's kind of fun to kind of be in that grind. Yeah, I don't know the two Well, actually, the three things that make this Black Friday crazier or

crazier for us is one the RIB shirt. I guess you could add the Shirt of the Month to add to that too, because we didn't do the Shirt of the Month last year. This is the first year of it, right, So we have a Shirt of the Month subscription club, so that shirt. You sign up for that and it goes out the first of every month. Your size boom leaves the warehouse. It's going to get to your doorstep with a new shirt that's you can't find it anywhere else,

exclusive design that happens the first of every month. It just happens to be this is December first. It happens to be a crazy time of shipping. We also have the RIB shirt, River Kelly Fun shirt that's going out at the same time. We have the truck giveaway that you mentioned that you guys listening to this podcast probably know about. But we're giving away my personal truck, the truck I've had for the last ten years. Lots of

memory in that truck. We're gonna every time you spend a dollar at ee dot com, it enters you into a raffle, and then we raffle. We do a random drawing of that raffle, and the five top winners will fly here, will fly you to the farm, the EE farm. You put your hand on the truck, last hand to leave the truck will win it. So we've got that going on still. I mean, we just had like a long meeting on just how that we're gonna figure out those logistics on how that person, how we're gonna deal

with monitoring twenty four to seven. We're gonna have a ref out there that we're gonna have to rotate. The referee might be a band member. Then we're gonna have host because we're gonna be streaming live video of this. We're gonna be hosting with food, so we'll be kicking back, eating eating food and playing music and all around the truck while this is happening. And the biggest thing that

I haven't even talked about is the album release. So the album will be out, So on top of all those things we're shipping out albums, we're promoting the album, which for you guys listening, it's Monday, three days after release. So this is Country Things Volume two, which completes Country Things. So let me know if you're listening on a format where you can comment, comment your favorite song, because that's

important to me to get feedback. I've been sitting on these songs for so long that you start to lose perspective on what other people might like. I have my favorites. What's your favorite on the whole sixteen? Oh? On all sixteen? I hate you like I Love You for sure. That's my favorite song you've ever done? What's your favorite song on Volume two? Do you even know those? What? Those songs are? Man made by Boy Baseball anything like me? What Love looks Like? Where I Get It From? Six

String Stories, Work Diesel. I like those two earl songs, but where I Get it From is probably the one that add to my country playlist. And an earl if I'm in an earl mood, yeah, working out or something. By the time you guys are listening to this podcast on Monday, if you're listening real time. I will be

while you're listening right now. I will be in Indiana with Whistling Diesel, a YouTuber, very very popular YouTuber in Indiana with a bunch of Diesel trucks, and we're going to be shooting the music video with Earl Dibbles Junior and Whistling Diesel for the song Diesel. And supposedly it's gonna be the high of thirty two degrees, so I'll be a little bit chilly. Earl is going to be

a little bit chilly in his overalls. But that's what I'm doing right now as you're listening to this man, What else does that get us caught up to where we are? It's funny that when we were filming Country and you Know It visualizer with Earl, it was almost like pass out hot August in Texas, and then now it's gonna be just absolutely freezing for Earl's next video. Earl's just a world traveler, but you never know, he's always wearing the same thing. Doesn't prepare very well, I

guess yeah. Our director, videographer, producer, mister Everything video, Paul Dale Serta, was like, maybe maybe Earl could have some coveralls on because it's gonna be so cold, And I was like, you can't change Earl's clothes, but he just doesn't make any sense. Then it becomes another character if it's changed clothes, it's like you have to see the overalls and the white tank top and the green hat

and the muddy boots, no matter what the weather. And when we filmed Earl in the Holler music video is eighteen degrees here in Texas, So I don't think it's gonna beanny colder than that, hopefully in Indiana next week. Is that all the housekeeping we have. I'm fasting right now, so I'm like, I'm a little lightheaded in so it's only too in the afternoon and I'm fasting all the way to Thanksgiving dinner. How are you? How are you feeling? Does your stomach hurt or do you have a headache

or anything? No, I'm just a little lightheaded. And last time you ate was dinner last night. No, I wasn't that brave. I thought about doing that, but I've chickened out. Honestly, that's the only excuse I have. But so I ate. I got up this morning at six and had a shake and a little protein bar, but a protein shake and a protein bar. It sits. It's like my normal lunchtime anyway. Yeah, okay, that's not too bad. No, no,

it's not bad. It's mainly the thought that I've done a twenty four hour fast before this will be just over thirty hours. And it's mainly the thought that I'm going to sleep tonight hungry. And that is that's the reason I didn't finish dinner last night and decide, because I was like, man, I don't want to go to bed Wednesday night just so hung because I'm not used to it. Some of you listening might be thinking, oh,

that's weak. I do it all the time. You might well, Grangel will come in my office at like eleven fifteen and be asking about lunch, so this is a big deal for him, and that it's two forty and he hasn't eaten lunch yet. Like you eat, you eat pretty often. The last time I did this was I was on tour, and it's easy on tour because I'll eat dinner at five pm and then I'll just cut it off. That'll

be the last meal I have. The next day. I'll get on the airplane, fly back on a normal tour, fly home, and then wait all the way to dinner to eat. That's like twenty four hours. That's kind of fun. You've never done it. No, no, So now I'm going to be able to just crush Thanksgiving dinner? Are you doing it? Partly to do it and then partly just timing it so that you enjoy Thanksgiving that much more

and appreciate it. Yeah, there's pretty much three reasons. One, I just want to crush Thanksgiving dinner and just be like, hold nothing back. I can't wait, just destroy it. And then two, it's a mental challenge, kind of like you do seventy five hard. It's just a it's a true mental challenge to to every time like my literally right now,

my stomachs growling. Like I said, it's only two forty in the afternoon, but every time your stomach growls, it's it's a reminder that you're in a way tied to food. You're addicted to that supplement of food, and all day long, especially me, I'm just thinking about where's my next meal, When could I get my next meal? How long do I have for my next meal? And if you just eliminate that from your day, it freeze up so much time,

energy effort. I mean, like just the thought of me having no lunch and dinner tonight, I'm like, man, I got those free time. I don't have to because you know what, I it's always like what am I going to eat? Am I going to cook? It? Is Amber going to cook it? Are we going to go out to eat? Are we? Am I going to get to go? If you just go a whole workday without eating, it

just almost puts your mind at ease. It's like I got this water, I don't have to worry about food, so I can just get whatever done I need to get done. Yeah, and our minds are fully our bodies are fully capable of doing that without losing weight or anything. So then the third reason is today is the day I'll finish Malachi. So this i'll officially I have two more chapters when I get home, of officially finishing the entire Bible. So it's a little bit of a celebration

for that. I read the New Testament in its entirety, from cover to cover, basically Matthew to Revelation. And then this is all during the pandemic. And then I started at Genesis. I've read everything up to Malachi, so today I'll finish it. And throughout the Bible there's always fasting going on, and it's a people fasted in the Bible too, focus on what they're what, like to spiritually focused on

what they need to be thinking about. It takes away the distraction, the last almost of food, like takes it out of your mind and you redirect it to it physically. And it's like a way to show God that you're willing to put away your human needs for a little bit to focus on interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's

a good time of the year to do it. I think that's what I heard Cameron Haynes talking the other day about those elk hunts that where they'd go out into the mountains for you know, six or seven days or four or five days, whatever it is. And you know, getting the elk is is a big part of it.

But then just on a daily basis, figuring out what you're going to eat, you know, if they'll shoot shoot like grouse or squirrels, or sometimes they'll pack bags and He's like, and then it really just brings into perspective like, man, do you have food in your stomach and do you have a place to sleep tonight? Like those are the two most important things, and you have some water. It's like, those are the three things that matters, like food, water,

and shelter. He's like, and so for those you know, four or five days out in the mountains, it just simplifies life and it shows you how simple it is. I love that kind of stuff because it's got to hurt humanity knowing that we we live in a world where those three things are taken care of, at least in a first world country, like most of us listening to this podcast, or I'm assuming most of us are

from first world countries. I know that we have we have some South America, we have some Central America listening. But most of us don't really have to worry about where we're going to sleep tonight and if we're going to get some food in our belly and water today. But one hundred and fifty years ago, everybody on the earth had to think about that, and everything before one

hundred and fifty years ago, everything before. Your food's not your ail, aren't guaranteed, everything's perishable, there's no refrigerators in freezers, and you're not really sure about your shelter. So I love to be able to put that in perspective and get out in the wild a little bit and test your the old native spirit that's inside of you, yeah,

humbles you. And also air conditioning. That's the other thing we constantly live wherever we live, whatever season it is, it's always like seventy degrees fahrenheit, because that's where we're comfortable. But in the old days, they're just wearing wool, you know, and one hundred degrees. I live in a barn now, so I could tell you imagine Earl's house, the old rock house. It wasn't any better in Earl's house one hundred and fifty years ago than it is in my

barn now. And my barn now is insulated, and it gets to one hundred degrees. So those people are sitting in there, old people, babies, and one hundred degrees. And then in the winter, it's never going to get warmer than like fifty degrees and at night that's the warmest it's going to be in the winter. If you lived in those days and you didn't have ac or heat,

well do you think you'd live in Texas? Because man, it is nice to be in Texas when it's sixty five in December and not really cold, but I mean being with a newborn baby in that August heat, I think maybe i'd live a little further north. I'm reading this book with London right now, called Little Cabin, Big Woods or something like that. It's like an old it's

an old, one hundred year old book. It's about this family living in a little cabin in Wisconsin Woods one hundred and fifty years ago, and it's really interesting to see their life. And most of it is building up towards the winter time, preparing for the winter. And then once you're in there, you have a fire going, and the kids really don't leave the house because it's so brutal in Wisconsin in the wintertime, you know, negative twenty degrees. Can't go out there. The dad goes out there every

day and hunts and does his shores. So yes, so much of your life is just chopping firewood, getting ready for the winter. Yeah, yeah, that's a pan the butt. Do you want to answer a question on here? Sure, let's let's see what Let's take a quick break, get back and answer this question. Very grateful that today's podcast is brought to you in part by headspace, and this is just such a good sponsor to have in a time like this, when a time when you know normal

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at gmail dot com. If you have a question, go ahead and email me Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. Anything works, any subject works. I want to do just a couple shout outs here we have Well, here's a shout out to Maryland. There's no name on here, but it says, hey, al right, here we goes. Hey. My name is Sam and I live in Maryland. I was wondering if you do what it did any shows in southern Maryland. So shout out to Maryland shout out to Sam. Absolutely,

we'll be out there, We'll be in every place. This this is a shout out from but joorn Our b j O r n aar but our rimpstead. This is hey Granger. Is there a plan of a future world tour? I live in Norway and I would love to go to a concert. Thank you for awesome music and making this podcast. By the way. Another question, what's your Snapchat name?

Granger Smith? So yeah, shout out to Norway. I'm so sorry, but Jordan Our, I'm not really sure how to say your name, but thank you for listening to the podcast. Shout out to you. Yes, we'll be in Norway one of these days. I would absolutely love that. Have you ever been to Norway? No, I would love to. Here's a question or an email from Mateo Vesto. It says if you ever come to Finland, I will totally come to your concert. So shout out to Mateo in Finland.

Another podcast listener was that Scandinavia that in Norway? Yeah right yeah? Which is both our our relatives, our roots go back to the Scandinavian roots. Chris Lee, my torm manager, is in there shipping and he's like put it in perspective for me, and he goes, man, I just sometimes I log in to ship an order and I'll see some village in Asia, and so he said, sometimes I'll just stop what I'm doing, and I was like, who

is ordering from this little village in Asia? And I'll pull up Google Maps and he said, I'll pull it up and I'll do a satellite view and I'll zoom in on their like where they live, just to see where this yee hat's going. It was so cool to think about it, think about somebody sitting there watching Earl Dibble's videos. Well, we did free worldwide shipping for a whole weekend, like a week ago, so it was really

cool to see all the people. He was like, who were like, I'd buy a shirt, but man, it's like twenty five bucks to ships. We're like, let's just do free worldwide shipping just for one weekend so everybody can get something. So that's so cool. Hopefully there's a lot of people out there that finally were able to get something. MATEO would I would freak out if I was walking around in Finland and saw ye yee shirt, I'll freak out.

And then the last shout out I want to give to Sydney and Sydney for you the listeners that have listened lot. Sydney was a veteran with PTSD that lost her dog, who also had PTSD and had been with her through all this, and we talked through that on the podcast, and she lost her dog, and I at the end of what we kind of talked through, I recommended that she get a She got a puppy because it's always it's always fun to get a puppy for

that distraction. So if you're grieving over a lost dog, a puppy is a great way to distract you and then slowly, over time, you find yourself falling in love with a new puppy. So I asked her if she would do that. So Sidney just wrote back to the podcast with a picture. He said, Hey, I listened to you and I got a new puppy. It's honestly helped a lot. Thanks for the advice. His name is Bruce and we're watching your new podcast. So there's a picture

of a German Shepherd puppy watching the podcast. So awesome, Sydney. Let's get to a question. This question is from John in Woodinville, Washington. Says, my question is how did you come up with all your characters like Earl and what made you do them? Parker was there for the creation of Earl. You were actually the cameraman. There's a funny video on YouTube of behind the scenes of Country Boy the making of Earl Dubles Junior, and it really shows

the behind the scenes of us creating that. We didn't know what we were creating, but you could hear Tyler directing Parker and Parker's voice is real high because you were, like, what thirteen years old. But to answer your question, John, that those characters were just created on a whim. There wasn't any rhyme or reason. We just we were trying to do some to promote the music, and we're like, hey, let's do this the funny country guy. But it's very much like a bunch of family members of ours, so

it was super easy to jump into that character. But that's really all it was too. It's like, let's be that country guy. And Tyler said, I think his name should be Earl Dibbles Junior, and I said, I like it. Really, there wasn't much more than that. Well, one thing that would be cool that people can do is if you go to YouTube and you just type in gs Band one word. I think it's kind of hard to find

because it's like a it's a smaller channel. But you can find a lot of the videos that we used to make that you used to make, and it was just like Saturday Night Live type skits, just stupid stuff of characters that no one will ever hear of again. But there's there's some pretty funny ones that we see because people don't know that you just always we just always like to just mess around and just make stuff that we thought was funny, and that's what we thought

Earl was. We didn't think anything would happen with it. No, there's one called Where's the Radio st And that you're in that you're filming that. It was me and you on a radio tour and you're little. Yeah, I remember that like twelve or something. Maybe, I don't know. Let's see here this question that was back when it was a lot harder to just put together videos too. It was a big deal. You didn't have an iPhone. Yeah. Yeah.

This question from Corey Foster, who is as associate pastor at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, said, Hey, I know you're a man of faith and read the Bible daily, which translation do you read most often? And it's a good question and sometimes a contested question. It's crazy how some people will really contest for reading the King James version. They're like, you got to read if you ain't reading King James and you ain't reading the Bible. And then it goes all the way to what's the there's a

I think it's called the Message. Have you heard about the Message? It's like a new age translation that's supposed to be super hip and very easy to read. Caleb was telling me a little bit about it, and Caleb said he read it for a little bit until it got to the point where it said I think it said when Jesus was rebuking Satan and it said Satan, get the heck out of here. Or no, no, he wouldn't have said that. It said Satan, beat it beat

it Satan, Like, oh, man, it's Caleb said. He closed that Bible and was like, oh, I can't read this version, Corey. I read the I've for a long time. I've read the NIV. And then I just kind of I wouldn't say switched, but I'm kind of hybrid on the EAV and I've my mother always reads the NIV, so that's how I started that one. What is that new International? Yeah? And then the kids at school they started reading the ESV.

So when the kids started reading es V, and John Piper reads ESV, one of my favorite favorite guys to listen to, I figured I should probably get a hold of one of those two. What's the difference in any translation?

The difference is, you know, they it all comes from it all comes from scrolls or scribes that have that have written a long time ago, from the Greek or the Aramaic or Hebrew languages, and so over time, these length these different languages get translated to English, and there's always discrepancy from Greek to Latin to English on a certain word that could mean two or three different things. So it's really a preference of what style you like. And most of these have been most of these old

versions have been. It's not like and this is a misconception with the Bible. There's a couple misconceptions. One, people tend to think that there's mistakes in it because it's been written so many times and retranslated so many times by so many generations and so many people, and so you think about, oh, I mean it was written by the apostle whoever, at whatever time, which is all different

times and all different apostles and all different prophets. But then it got to this King of England and then he wanted to say something, so he added that, and then his scribe came and made his version of it. And then it got changed again when it came to the Americas. And that's just not true. And we made it say beat it. Yeah's Satan, it's not true because we have actually found not we archaeologist, they've actually found many of the old artifacts of the old ancient text,

namely the Dead Sea Scrolls. Have you heard about the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is probably one of the greatest archaeologist, archaeologial, archaeological discoveries of for sure for Christian Christians and Jews. But what it did was they've they found these scrolls in a cave that were from the first century and older.

And they opened up the scrolls and they pulled them out and there they were handwritten by somebody in the first century a d. And they get The first thing they did was they got these scrolls and they started matching them up to the current text that we have, and it was right on. It was exactly right, which is mind blowing that it could last that long through

these old ancient scribes. And when I think of scribes, I kind of think about Game of Thrones when there's like little monks scribes, like with a little candle and they're dipping their little feather and ink, and that's literally what their job was before the invention of the printing press.

The other misconception I was getting with with the Bible that I've heard people say to me is well, I mean, I understand that you believe the Bible, but it's all written by man, so you know, man makes mistakes and man can manipulate however he wants. Totally get it. That's valid argument. But the fact is this, Christians, we have to believe because the text says that. We have to believe.

The Scripture tells us that the Word is God. And because of that, in many different ways, it will say this, in many different forms or sentences, it will say that the Scripture is true, the Word is God. God made the word, God breathed out the word. It says it in many different ways, and so because of that, you have to believe. Okay, yes it was written by the hand of a man, but it was anointed by God. It has to be. If you don't believe that, you

shouldn't believe anything else in the Bible. If you don't at least believe that this was this was anointed by God, this was commissioned through man by the word of God. If you don't believe that, you might as well not believe anything else in there. Just throw it all out. It doesn't even matter. So you got to start with that before you start in it at all with any of the stuff we've been talking about. Uh. And that was a big tangent from what Corey asked, But there

you go. Here's a question from William says, Hey, Grandrid's William from Michigan. Our family are longtime fans, and we've made trips to round Rock and Butler, PA to see you this year, and as a few of our venues near us haven't opened yet, I cannot wait to see you at the intersection again. Then my question is Earl has been doing dip them and pick them for a

long time. How did that get started? And how do you see I hope to see you again soon, even if it means I have to put on a Yu chauffeur hat and cart our troop down there on the road again. I'm having trouble reading because I'm so so messed up with my fasting. How many cups of coffee have you had? That's actually probably it probably like six six cups of coffee and no food. Yeah, oh man, I would be feeling terrible. I can't drink very much coffee or I get I start to feel anxious. I

definitely feel that now. Dip and Pick Them William, first of all, shout out to you and your fam and Michigan lover fans. I feel for our fans in Michigan that were kind of trapped right now. Diplement and Pick Them started in twenty thirteen by Tyler and I were at a venue and we thought, hey, let's go pick some college football games as earl based on who's the

country your team. We put one episode out on YouTube and there was a producer at CBS Sports in New York City that somehow I guess he maybe was a fan or he saw that video and he immediately emailed Tyler and said, we want this for our show. It's called Inside College Football CBS Sports. We want this as part of our show. We've been needing some kind of creative break, comedic break, and we said yes, and it's now we're on year seven and now Parker writes all

the jokes. One more hat that you have to wear. We have a group little document with me Tyler, excuse me, Tyler not involved, don't Tyler, don't want to be involved anymore. As Parker and Hayden, we have a group document called Diploma and pick them and we have the each week's games and we'll get on and each of us will usually write a joke for at least one matchup. And we have to do this Friday, as we are this week. So we get out there and Parker films it and

you better be funny. That's pretty much the deal. I've separated these questions now into heavy and light. You want to go to a heavy, Sure, go to a heavy and you answer it. I'm randomly picking. That's a long one. Let me not do a long one. This is better, okay, it says ah ah, Farker, congratulations, you got a good one. I saw this as it came in. I saw this as it came in and as luck of the draw, I randomly picked it today. I've been wanting to address this.

You ready, Parker, It says, Hello Granger, Please go back to screening the fan questions. You are an entertainer and recently your podcast has taken a turn towards subjects that are way too deep. I understand folks want advice, but you shouldn't put yourself in a position to be giving advice to your followers who are experiencing mental health is shoes. I get that you want to connect with us, but this isn't a way to do it. I fast forwarded

through most of your last three sessions. I want you to know that you and your family and touring I want I want to know more about your family and touring, life in the country. It's very depressing to tune into a show to hear about personal problems of people I don't know, and really embarrassing to watch you stumble through a long and drawn out response. Please give us more of you, and not your fans and their personal needs

and problems. Sincerely, Cat, I can see I could see where she's coming from, because you know, if you sit for a second, you think it's the type of people who say you should know your place as an artist, or as an influencer or as a comedian. It's like, stick to jokes, to music, whatever. But then at a certain point, sure, it's like, at what, at what point can I it's I don't think it's a matter of

you wanting to hmmm. I think I think it's a matter of you just wanting to be real and authentic with people, and at a certain point, if there's an opportunity on your platform to be able to have a conversation with someone and to give your advice and say multiple times, first of all, I'm honored that you trust me to even ask me this question, and you're just talking to them as if they were your friend. Yeah. Yeah, I saw this come in and I kind of put

in the batch and it's from Cat and Oregon. Shout out to Oregon, by the way, And I'll tell it problems I have with this. Kat, you might be great, he says, you're a fan since twenty ten. You're probably great. I'll put it that way. You're probably great. And I'm assuming that if you weren't behind your keyboard, this would be this would look different like if me and you were actually in a meet and great talking over dinner.

I think this would look differently than you typing this out, because when you type it out, it looks very contrite, it looks very arrogant in a way, it looks very self serving, like I me, ME, there's a lot of eyes. I don't want this, I deserve this. I don't. I'm not going to sit through and listen to other people's problems. I fast forwarded because I want I You're basically saying you want to be entertained. Dance monkey, you know the dance and Chicken in Pure Country. You want to turn

on the stove and watch me dance for you. And if I do anything more than dance for you, you have a problem with that because I am your entertainment, right, That's kind of what I'm getting. I could be wrong. But here's what's crazy is that ten minutes ago on this podcast, I told a story of somebody that was suffering through PTSD and they had a dog that was suffering through PTSD. The dog died. The person writes the podcast. I'm struggling with loss. It's a different kind of loss.

It's a dog. I lost a dog and I have a connection with this dog because of my PTSD and the war that I was in, So I talked through it. I'm not a doctor, i don't have a PhD in psychology. I'm not Jordan Peterson. I'm not doctor phil. But I've always promised on this podcast that I could just do my best to talk to you as if we're driving

in a truck together. I'm driving, you're sitting shotgun and you're we're just shooting back ideas and you're saying, you know, what could I tell you about this whole problem I'm having, Because that's what friends do, right, That's what friends do, is we kick back, we talk, We hashed through some ideas, and it just so happens that this person that emailed me with their PTSD ends up taking my advice and

now they have a puppy. And I'm not definitely not trying to pat myself on the back because this is not my doing. But through a normal conversation on the podcast, she's at least done something now to move forward and

start a healing process. So she's gotten a dog. We're talking about a war hero here that has suffered defending our freedom here in this country, the freedom the very freedom that I get to use on this podcast to express my views and use my first minute rights, and the very freedom that Kat you get to type me on an email and say whatever you think, and you

have the right to do that. So there is there's a little bit of a push pool going on here whether I feel like there are some people that could benefit. And we talked about Drew. I talked about Drew in the intro of this podcast. Who was the young man fourteen years old that's been beaten by his by stepdad baseball bat and now he's called the cops and he's written me Now since then, seems to be in a

better place. So I understand where she's coming from. But when you say things like this has nothing to do with me. But when you say things like it's very depressing to tune into a show to hear about personal problems with people I don't know, Like, dang Cat, Cat must be living high. I mean, wow, must be good. Yeah, life is good for Cat in Oregon. Yeah. I don't really know what to say about that one. I tell you, you you got a good one, dude. It's funny that

said you're you got this next one? I mean that's what a podcast is, and that's what happens when you have Q and A is it's literally people asking you questions. It's like, what do you it's that's just what the podcast is. Don't go listen to music if that's what you want, Yeah, Kat, we have plenty of inter entertaining videos. Kat.

I'm assuming this has been This email came October the nineteenth, so I'm assuming you're not listening anymore because I've answered a lot of deeper questions since then, So I'm assuming

you probably gave up on me. Hopefully you're listening to just music and not listen to the podcast, but if you possibly, I'm I'm assuming you would expect me to go through these emails and every time, every time something it doesn't have to do with tour life or music, I would just delete it, just, Oh, somebody's got a problem, delite, somebody's got another problem the elite. I don't think that's the way this should go. I don't think that that's

the way this podcast would be fair. If I'm open it up, like you said, Parker to questions, I don't think I'm gonna do that. I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna dive in otherwise I won't have questions. It doesn't make any sense. You can't choose one or the other. Kat. I would say this to you too, Love your girl, thank you for being a fan since

twenty ten. Total respect that you've you've followed me for ten years and that you had the guts to email me something that's that is a huge criticism to what I'm doing, So respect for that. I would also say, the way you worded this, it might not be how you feel, but we're all we're all doomed for suffering of some kind. Sometimes we hit the sunshine for a little bit and we enjoy it and life is good,

but suffering is around the corner. And I would I would hope that when you do hit your time of suffering or time of need of some sort, that you have a lot of friends that do care about someone else's problems and do want to help you. And I understand, like when you turn on Netflix and you want to watch The Office, It's like, I'm not saying you're Michael Scott, but you know, at a certain point, I don't know

if what people I mean. We're here to cater to the audience to entertain people and to get their mind off of whatever they're going through, and then number two to help people. And then ideally you're doing both of those things at the same time. You don't want to go too much doctor Phil and too much just superficial. I mean, cause if you want just a superficial just

look at the rest of the music industry. If you want just if you just want to face surface level, not deep at all, don't know anything about the artist, let it be a complete mystery, no realism at all, then you can get that in plenty of places. But I think it's kind of cool when you come here and it's like, yeah, you'll get some hunting stories, you'll get a little bit I mean, you'll get a little

bit of everything. You'll get some family, you'll get some sports, you'll get some outdoors, you'll get some fishing, you'll get behind the scenes music, and then you'll also get some you know, just general life advice and passing a little bit on to help some other people. And I think that's I think it's a good balance anyway. Dance Monkey Dance, Yeah, if you guys are interested in the new album, please give it a listen. Sixteen songs if you put Volume

one and Volume two together and then comment below. If you're listening on a platform that allows you to comment, comment and let me know so I could know what songs are resonating with you, like, what stories are resonating with you. That's important for me as a songwriter to kind of get a pulse to check the temperature on you guys and how you're feeling about songs. If you could also go, of course, go to my social media and dump your favorite songs on there. Parker social media

is what Instagram is what? Just having Parker Smith and I'll show up. Oh Parkers Smith, He'll show up. Okay cool. Thank you guys for listening. See you next week. Ye yee, all that stuff. Thanks for joining me on the Granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could help me out by rating this podcast on iTunes. If you're on YouTube, subscribe to this channel, hit that little like button and notification spell so that you never miss

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