We're all gunna die. So why worry?

YouTube series on this truck. Ris recently because of this whole shutdown thing, we need some stuff to do, and we had a couple bus drivers, Butcher and Bull, that are incredible mechanics, incredible guys, and they helped me decide to start restoring this truck right and it's actually sitting right behind the camera. And the YouTube series it really just it got really good engagement. It took off, and

it became a new passion of mine. For one, came something that I've absolutely loved to do, not only from the mechanical standpoint of it, and not only from the standpoint of taking something that was once dilapidated in mom's barn and turning it into good again, you know, making it new again, there's something special about that. But all that being said, there's also the fact of just the sentimental value. This is Dad's truck. This was my truck when I was a kid, and it's been so fun

watching it come back together. So I decided to set up the podcast today in the shop before we get to work on it and bring in Butch and Bolly.

We're going to be my special guest today. And as always, this episode is brought to you by Ye Yee Apparel, our apparel company that me and my brother started back in twenty eleven and we just celebrated this past Friday, Yee Day, which we put out a new line of Yee apparel between me and my wife Amber for the women's line, and then we send a portion of our profits to Meals on Wheels to support families in need of meals during this crazy time in the world. How

are you guys doing? By the way, the comment below let me know. Let's get the pulse of the podcast listeners, how You're doing? This podcast comes out every Monday, every Monday morning early supposed to be for drive time, Now not really anybody's driving, not as many people are driving to work, so it's more of a listening at home type podcast, if you will. Even though you know I've been driving a while lately. I've been driving between my house and the Yegee Farm and going to see Mom.

So I'm not necessarily going out in public or going to stores and whatnot, but I've just been I've been driving a lot. Gas is cheap, it's good to be driving, it's good to get out in the sunshine. So all that being said, thank you for the support, thank you for following us at ee Apparel. You could find me if you want a personal shout out for me, you can go to cameo dot com and you can find me on there and I can give you a personal

video shout out. Happy birthday, congratulations, hope you're doing well. What's up to one of your friends or kids or spouses. And so that's been a really cool way for me to stay engaged until we start touring again, which I can't wait to start touring again. And usually these podcasts, I'm hammering the tour the cities we're going to, and

we're not doing any of that. We're sitting here. So you could follow me Instagram, Granger Smith, YouTube, Granger Smith and then the Smiths, which is our family vlog channel, which we have so much passionate about. And then there's this podcast. So comment below and let me know the pulse of how you're feeling. Ask me questions. Sometimes I go through these podcasts and actually answer questions as well. Without further ado, let me get out here, Butcher bull

Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. All right, I got the boys, Bullshipley. Your Twitter is at bull Shipley and yours is at Butch Steeler. Now, but you gotta change your profile pick to something that's your face on it so people will actually know it's you. Well, he got a hold that mic. There you go. They pretty much, uh, you know by reading my stuff that it's me. Okay, I'll change. So the reason I got I gotta tell it, y'all.

The reason I got these guys is because we started this little series restoring the Earl Truck, and I brought you guys in because your mechanical geniuses. I would now everyone, these guys are the first to say they are not mechanics. They are truck drivers, bus drivers that and when you're a bus driver on tour, the good ones at least have to learn how to be a mechanic because if it's three o'clock in the morning, then you're stuck in the middle of Iowa on the highway and you break down.

You don't want to. You gotta be able to have some kind of idea of how to fix a lot of problems. So you're not waiting on a trucker for I mean, a tow truck for three hours is gonna it's gonna put you late to the show, right, And we don't have the luxury of calling the company and saying, oh, just bring me a new bus, So I can't We can't just sit there and turn the steering wheel. We have to get the bus moving so that these guys that you'll ever been on podcasts before, no, all right,

step one. Those these mics are super directional, so you gotta you gottat you point your mouth right in the right in there, so right here, yeah, right there. Okay. So uh but but what happened was I got them on this restore Earl truck show and then people started loving you guys because of your stances on the world. And so that's why I wanted you to bring you on today. Because on the truck video, we get all these comments. That's asking you, guys, questions about the world

and your stance on life. And honestly, we're not going to sit here and just talk constantly about the world while we're restoring the truck. We got business to do. So I thought, let's go ahead and set the set the old microphones up in here right behind the truck. We're staring at it, and we could answer these questions now. So, boy, do you have some of those or at least off the top of your head. Uh? Yeah. So on on YouTube there are people asking butch uh a lot of things.

So I'll start with one. What's your stantime? Gun control? What do you think about gun control? Well, I think you ought to control your guns, and I think everybody ought to own one. If you don't want one, don't buy one. Simple as that. Never seeing one jump up, run killingybody without somebody holding on to it. All right, The number two first lesson was speak back to the mic. Second lesson is our friends or YouTube are going to

hit us if they catch a couple of keywords. So let's not say the name of the virus for one, and then we'll call them. What what are we going to call those we'll call them water guns. Other than that, you know, Okay, I forgot about the YouTube stuff. Yeah, that's not that big deal. All right, Okay, well but much what do you think about to stay of the world, let's say that, Well, there's a lot to say about that. I think that people have gone off the rails, worrying

about things they shouldn't be worrying about. People are so scared of their shadow. They let anybody tell them what to do or what they should think, and they do cheap you know people, I'm probably one of them in some level. We all are. I mean, the Bible talks about he calls us sheep. Jesus calls us sheep, something like, don't quote me on this. It's like a hundred times. It's over and over again, over and over. He he doesn't say we're lions or tigers or or even donkeys

or cows. He says we're sheep. There's quite a few donkeys in there. But yeah, we start we start with being sheep. Right, Yeah, so we said all those people that go, But but there's people dying up there. This is serious, that's true, and we're all going to die at some point. We're all going to die. I mean, you're not guaranteed anything. You're not guaranteed tomorrow. I'm not guaranteed I get up out of this chair. I could

kill over yep. So why should I spend what time that I have here worried about every little bitty thing? And that's that's a prison, is it not? I mean it is. They're telling you what you can and can't do. We live in a country where we're supposed to be free, and they've done gone off the rails, telling people that can't assemble, they can't Hell, you can't even protest. Now they're arresting people for protests. What I can't even say certain words on YouTube. Yeah, it's not, it's not essential.

They say, yeah, well, how much sense does that make in the United States of America? Zero? Yep, zero, absolutely, Yeah. Well what other questions did have people asked for Butch in particular here? Well, uh, they want a Arkansas childhood story, and I think you should. That's like less than number three podcasts I put mine. I do not disturb, Butch is new a childhood story from Arkansas? Yeah, and you told me a story once about your cousin and the house you lived in in Arkansas. I need you to

tell that story. Uh, well, it's really not. It's just the way we live. I lived in this little trailer park just outside of Bluff when we was were my mom and dad divorced, and my mom lived in this trailer park. My dad lived out so Springs and I would go stay. Well, when I was young, i'd stay all summer. My mom's almost and uh, you know, we'd I'd wake up in the morning on Saturday morning and

the little trailer I lived in I had. We slept on this little bed and one of my cousins lived up the road, and you know, he'd stick his head up through the hole in the floor and say, come on, let's go, and no telling them there's a hole in the floor of the trailer. Yeah, got you, Yeah, yeah, my bedroom like it's supposed to be there. No, it was just righting out. Got you know, got you, just

a big hole. And instead of coming through the front door, he'd slip up under there and come up through the hole. Get up, let's go do stuff. You know what about when it got cold, when we had minkets, okay, just cover up. See now that and that speaks directly to what you were just saying about people were too scared, worried too much. You got blankets, And what did you do all day? Instead of staring at a tablet, instead of playing video games watching TV? What'd you do all day?

Oh man, We'll just go get our bicycles and take off. We'd just be gone. If Mama wanted to holler for us, we'd go down the creek, go crawded, fishing, go get in fights. Whatever. I mean, it's just those things. Do lord, I can't remember all this stuff. It's just you'd just be a kid. You didn't stay in the house when it started getting dark. You could hear hear mama. It was just a sad thing. If you could see the street lights come on, it's time to be home. Yep.

And people are worried to death about something that ninety nine point whatever percent of them ain't going to get. Come on, man, do something, and other people that do get it, ninety nine percent of them aren't going to die right now, we have to say we all have to say that at some point, you know, there there have been a lot of people that have died from this. At some level. That's a tragedy and our heart goes out for those people. Everyone that has to admit that

one life lost is a tragedy. But that doesn't mean everyone should live in fear. That's what you're saying. Absolutely, it's terrible when people die of anything. Ye you know, yeah, people die of that's part of life. You die. Now, you don't want to rush it, but good grief. Live. The thing about all this being hemmed up and can't work and all that, it's not right now. That's the issue. It's later, what's this going to create? How much poverty is this going to create? Because people don't know what

it's like to be poor anymore. Some people do, of course, everybody. There's always gonna be poor people in this country. The majority of people don't. That's exactly right. Most well, maybe they do. It's just and we're not talking about poor as in you gotta eat McDonald's. We're talking about poor where you can't afford McDonald's. That's what we're trying to say.

I mean, we're trying to stay back in the depression when people stood in soup kitchen lines with their cup just to get a little cup of soup to go home in a little slice of moldy bread to divide it up for their family. That's what we're talking about. We're not saying I'm so poor I have to eat ramen noodles. That would have been great in nineteen thirty five. Absolutely, yeah, just things like sugar you'd wait a month for. Yeah, you know, yeah, wow I could. I don't know, Wow,

it wouldn't be so fat. Well, the people that are just listening to this podcast wouldn't have known unless you had said that. Well, but you know, speaking of living, and people were always asking are also asking the question. When you guys first really made an appearance on YouTube with me was on the Smiths episode where we got the buses in a really bad situation in California going to the Redwood Forest. What's that place called that park?

Redwood State Park or something like that, Big basin, big basin. Yes, And that was you know, when we looked at the map and we looked, we read every thing, and you talked, well, you called the superintendent of this place and they said, yeah, come on in, no problem. We've had many busses come before. So I wake up. You know, the sun's coming up, it's still dark outside, and we are in a huge predicament, and I put that whole story on the Smith's we'll

link that in the description here. But that's when people really got to know you too, because you each were in a bus, following each other through a terrible situation. To be in a bus three hours, it took us to go eight miles or eleven miles something like that. Yeah, that was that was fun. Right on the cliffs and trees touching the side of the bus. That was fun. And Butch had it tougher because he was pulling a trailer. But he also learned from my mistakes by following me.

He could say, okay, well I can't go that direction, I can't make that turn that sharp. So that was fun. It was, It was fun content. The car was making it. I was making YouTube videos. Coffee maker fells, Chris broke his coffee mugs. The refrigerators kept opening up because we were on such weird angles. And no major damage to either bus, No, no, none at all. Uh. Yeah. Then we ate hot dogs and grilled out. Yeah, drank some beer,

had some fun. That was a good day. You remember when we were driving back the next day, which wasn't didn't seem as bad going back because you guys were more prepared for it, I guess. But remember we saw that old truck down the down the cliff. Yep. Yeah, what in the world some old boy had it. Yeah, somebody just said, well that truck's gone. Yeah, and maybe someone was in it when it went down. I mean they think climbed back up and said hope they climbed

back up. I didn't want to go look, I didn't want to say it. Wait here I got uh got another question from YouTube? Yeah, I think so. And while you're looking that up, if you guys comment below if you want to if you want another one of these serieses and if you have more questions for Bull or Butch. Bull is from ann Arbor, Michigan, and uh, Butcher's from small town Arkansas. Pine saw both far from each other. But these these boys have a lot in common, which

is what I've learned being a Texan. I've learned I didn't really know until I started touring that there's common people everywhere. They just talk a little different. You know, even Australia and Canada and wherever. You know, there's a lot of country boys just talk a little different. Butch talks really different. These thinks the same thing about you, Michigan. So Rebecca Hall, she's got a whole list of questions out here for uh, tell us about a time you

were scared, look legitimately scared. Wow, no time to prepare or anything, just go for it. Any time I made worse than the sea on a on a what do you call those report card? Scared to death from your mom or dad? Yeah? Well both, yeah, they My pops didn't pull no punches. Is your pop still around? Yeah? Yeah? Was he thinking this whole virus thing. He's the same way I am. Of course, he takes more precautions because he's one hundred and fifty years old. No, I think

he's seventy one, seventy two. And speaking of tell us about your sister's father in law, who is a two time lung cancer survivor eighty five years old. Yeah, and they found out today. I just saw today. It's been fourteen days. Okay, So they cleared him. So he got the virus fourteen days ago isolation. He he'd been in isolation for a long time and he hadn't been in contact with other people, So how did he get it? They and they checked him with the swab, you know

how they do. The test found out that he was COVID positive. They kept him for a day or maybe two in the hospital, made sure he wasn't gonna go bad. They sent him home with some stuff and he just had low grade fever, you know. And then today I saw where they had It's been fourteen days, so the incubation period's over. So that there's two extremely interesting things about this. One. He was eighty years old at least

and a two time lung cancer survivor. That sounds like the two scariest things for this virus right now to be in that diament, and he did fine. Number two, he was in isolation because the family knew that he was in danger, so they put him in isolation before in no contact with anybody, to make sure that he was sheltered at home and and and locked down. And

he still got it. Yeah, So I think he's been around longer than we've We know there's something we don't know about here but that But that's what's so interesting, guys, for the listeners here, that there's there's way more to it than just sheltered home and we're all flattening the curve and we're fine, right, didn't in December you got really sick and you or January and you you had trouble breathing and everything, you had all the symptoms. You

probably you probably fought it off and had it. A couple of guys in the band said around January December, they got really sick, you know, lasted a couple of days like a flu, and get hardly. Ever, I don't get sick. It's just it's a fluke that I get sick. I don't just don't and to get that bad sick and that quick. But it was right about that time January. And now I'm saying where they think it was here

longer than we know. Well, I heard something interesting yesterday that the reason we're sheltering in place, the reason all the governments have said stay at home, is not to save lives. And that's the big misconception right now. Most people think shelter at home and you're saving lives. That's not the reason. The reason is they want to push it back farther so that they could hurry up and come up with some kind of vaccine, which could take up to eighteen months. So staying at home is not

don't let people tell you you're saving lives by staying home. No, you're just buying time, pushing your kicking the can down the road a little bit farther. But that's not it's not going to cure the disease, not gonna make it go away, it's not gonna it's not gonna help the economy. So that's what it leads back to. It's like, do we want to kick the can down the road so far that we were putting everybody in soup lines? Yeah, we can't recover you know if it just if it

goes eighteen months, everybody's going to be homeless. In what your goot is to kick the can down the road to protect people like the gentleman we're talking about, and he still gets it right, Oh my gosh. Then we have some serious problems we need to address right now. And the reason I tell you can talk about this stuff is because I think everyone that's a little bit confused or getting mixed information you need to realize. And I'm I'm no scientist, I'm no politician, but it's it's

important to just ask the questions. If you're using common sense, it's important to just go excuse me, I have a question about that. Some of these things don't add up, and enough of us need to ask some of these hard questions. It's really important for us all collectively to go I'm not just gonna hear something, go with it. I'm gonna wonder about a couple of things. I'm gonna use just some basic street knowledge on some of this and go hang on that that doesn't exactly make sense

to me. Yeah, yeah, I mean we discussed this daily while we're working on this truck, like, how can they tell us to stay home? How can they tell us to wear a mask? How can they you know, doesn't the First Amendment protect us from that? But then the staff Ord Act just kind of deletes that. It's such a strange time we're living in, but we're still living. So we're just going to continue to do what we need to do, and we're not living in fear. We're

just living. Yeah, we're not feeling sorry for ourselves. We're all eating their meals every day, and it's it's been The weather's been absolutely beautiful. It's my probably my favorite months, you know, in Texas. It's just incredible. And we've been restoring this old truck and Granger gets us Jimmy Johns

and Jersey Mikes. So we're not complaining, you know, but but we're just trying to raise a couple of questions here and as we're talking and restoring this truck, and then we've said a couple of things in passing and you guys have caught on to it. So I wanted to do like a good official sit down before we

do get started. And and so so let us know, you know, comment below, hit them up on their their twitters and and tell us if you want to hear more, or if this is beneficial, or if we need to just shut our mouths and work on the truck, or or continue to just do the off the cuff toolbox talks and just kind of surprise Butch with a question and see what comes out of his mouth. Or maybe one of y'all was thinking we should all be six feet apart wearing mask right now. So there's that too, right.

I hope you didn't throw any ronas on this thing. Yeah, there might be a couple of them rona's on that microphone. You know you can't you can't take any of that lightly per se. But if you if you can't laugh at a situation. You're in bad trouble, and like Granger said, ask the questions. If you have questions, make sure you ask somebody, you know, if something's not adding up, Let's ask the question. What he takes me about. All that is is what we call news media. They don't ask

any of the questions like that. They just try to set up whoever they don't like in some kind of gotcha situation. They don't give a rip about giving anybody any news. It's not Republican or Democrats, both of them. Yeah, I can't remember the last time it was. The news was just fact like here's the news. Helicopter flew over and you know, crashed. There is none of that anymore. It's just like, oh uh, you know, we think it's this way, and then the one side says, no, we

think it's this way. Well, what happened to the facts? To your local six o'clock news, right? And I watched them and they just report what the other what the what the two were reporting? It just depends on what side they're on. So it's been a long time since I've seen the actual news. It's just all fake news. It's newspapers too. You know newspapers, they're all the same way. Newspapers, the TV, the cable networks, they're all you just can't you don't know what to believes, bananas, So you guys,

thank you for watching them. Running out of time here and we got to get to go on this truck. The books. I'll link their contact info in the description here, let us know if you want to see more. And we're about to get to work. Thank you for watching and listening to the Grangersmith podcast