Eight, seventeen seventeen.

Does that never mean anything to you?

Your powerball numbers?

It was only three though I think you have five in a powerball.

Don't you let me say it another way?

August seventeenth, twenty seventeen, Does that number mean anything to you?

Who?

August seventeenth, it's a long time ago now.

Like that is the date of the very first Granger Smith podcast episode, Oh Where'd you do it?

In the back of Wildflower my bus on tour.

I think I was in Indiana.

I didn't do research.

I should have listened to it.

And there's I also don't know if that was the day that it launched or if that was the day, because I think there's two or three of them on that same day.

Yeah, I think I launched about five the same day.

Like you put up five episodes, I think I did.

I think interesting, somebody talked me into launching five episodes at one time.

That's just hit it.

Off the ground.

That's a Parker idea.

It was a Parker idea.

I don't know.

It might not be, but it sounds like how.

Long is that?

How long has it been?

Because now we're in twenty can be.

Believed twenty six nine years, I'd do my fingers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean eight eight and some change.

Yeah.

So this is the last episode that was that was not clickbait.

If you clicked on this and you're like, this is crazy, he's probably lying to us.

I'm not lying.

No, this is the last episode after eight and a half years.

We'll call it From the tour Bus to UH Theology the podcast through COVID, through answering questions, through many really cool interviews, a lot of really cool people, I mean all over the map, people from like Nick Irvin and and John Christ to Ray Comfort and and Frank Turk to a Crispy was on here, Rob turkla like a really wide range, very wide guests.

Do you can you name a favorite out of all those?

Probably Ray Comfort was the one I was more most nervous for.

I think when he came on and you know, just like seeing his face and we did it virtually and hearing his voice too, voice we did it virtually.

So some of the a lot of these guests I did virtually and was watching them on the TV, which we see right here, and it was really weird because I'm watching them on TV and it's That's what I've always done.

I've watched them on TV.

But they're talking back.

To me, They're talking to you.

Yeah.

I can't explain how strange that is.

Well, my YouTube eureaus are talking to me for me?

Was because of your excitement?

Was was the Ray Comfort one?

Yeah?

And then also John Chris because it was supposed to be virtual and John said, no, I want to go there?

Yeah Jones and he was driving through so he's like, let's just plan it for this day.

John Chris had us laughing.

So good, Yeah, so good.

Yeah.

I have guests.

I mean we did three hundred and twenty two episodes, right, today's three twenty two.

I have guests that I've forgotten about.

Yeah, and I would probably look back now and go, oh, I should have mentioned that that guy was on here.

Look that was that was great.

But what's cool is they're all going to stay up all Yeah, all those are going to stay up.

I mean they're not yeah, yeah, they're not going anywhere.

Ending doesn't mean that it's that they're coming down.

You still go back and listen watch them.

Favorite episode probably the London conversation about the the crazy airplane, the return home.

Yeah, that was that was I don't know what episode.

That was just to be one day that ended up being three.

Yeah, trying to get to my grandmother's a mineral.

That's right just before holiday too, wasn't that just before holiday?

Probably?

And and and there have been I remember we hit uh, I remember when we hit one hundred.

Episode one that was with I think Bernie was with us, pastor Chad was with us.

Then Marshall started making his appearance here.

Those are great, man.

Some of the questions, yeah, the best questions too.

Yeah, yeah, and yes, some of them started repeating.

But the very first time you answered a guy going, so there's this girl?

I like yeah, And what followed was just great.

We started getting million views on social media from I remember launching those videos on TikTok and I was on tour and I would get you know, a clip from the podcast me answering some poor chum's question about him and you know, his girlfriend left him and he doesn't know what to do, and I'm telling him the block her on Facebook, you know, and it's okay.

You know, your heartbreak is just as common as the sun rising in the east, you know.

And I've said that story a thousand times, and I started putting them on TikTok and just watching them go twenty five thousand views, refresh, thirty eight thousand views refresh, seventy one thousand views refreshed, just going, man, this is crazy world.

These videos are going crazy viral on TikTok.

You know this is four or five years ago, when that was happening three years ago.

So Grainger, why are you pulling the plug?

So?

I think part of the argument I'm trying to make here is that this podcast has been all over the map.

We've had had war veterans, We've had UH tournament fishing guys, We've had comedians, country music musicians, pastors, apologists, gang members, gang members, rappers, and the the diversity of guests is not was not the issue, but the diversity of topics.

As the evolution of me and my walk with the Lord has changed drastically, the evolution of topics has narrowed, and so we've we've entered a identity crisis.

Who who is Granger Smith?

And on top of that, what is the Granger Smith podcast?

Now?

For a long time people have asked me that question, and I've been able to answer it.

Early on it's me telling stories about my life on tour, very easy, and then that started evolving into it's me telling stories about country songs and the history of them and my relation to I remember being on tour with like Josh Turner and talking about Josh songs and together, and then Justin Moore and Garth Brooks like telling all the stories and as I'm interacting in country music, and then that evolved.

I remember when COVID hit, That's when I started answering questions.

We were off tour, and the podcast suddenly changed from not in the back of Wildflower anymore.

Now I'm home, I'm going to answer some questions, and that started off.

It started off, how did you write this song?

Tell me the story of Earl Dibbles Junior?

What was the story of you and your brothers deciding that, you know, to come up with ee?

And then and then it was like hanging out a broke a with this girl.

What do I do?

That started a new a new thing.

And then there were people that were saying I lost my dad and I'm hurting.

What do I do?

That changed, and so it started getting deeper and it's suddenly this me singing Garth Brooks songs.

You know, all of a sudden became me talking to people about the loss of their dad or their loved one.

And then we lost riv right around this same time.

So so now I'm speaking into people's lives in a new way with a new authority.

Not that not that I earned that authority, but that I was living it was I was living an ability that I didn't sign up for or necessarily want.

But I was living in an ability to speak speak to people in a way that other people can't speak to that person because they haven't experienced it.

So, for instance, I could tell somebody that was struggling, I could say, it's time to get up and get dressed and get your day going.

It's time to live a life again.

You can't.

You can't say that to someone if you haven't lived yet, if you haven't done that yourself, who are you.

To tell me that?

And now when people ask that question, you go, well, let me tell you what God did in my life.

Yeah.

So then, so as as as this is evolving, right around that same time, when I was answering the questions, the Lord woke me up, opened my eyes and went from dark to light.

Even though I thought it was always a Christian.

The Lord saved me in a profound way.

You know.

Paul Washer, the pastor, or that the preacher, Paul Washer, has often told this story.

And it's in a little bit narrow book called It's Funny.

I said that.

It's called narrow Gate narrow Way.

Oh, and it's also a narrow book.

It's really small, appropriately named.

Then, but he has.

Said this many times from a pulpit.

And then he says it in that little book.

He says, if I came in late to the speaking event, I said, sorry, I'm late.

I was out here crossing this road and a mack truck hit me, and I got up and I you know, I collected myself and I came in here.

But I'm sorry, I'm late.

You wouldn't believe me, because if you're impacted by something as big as a mack truck, you are going to be visibly changed.

And then he says, how much more, when someone has been impacted by the living God, wouldn't they be changed?

Wouldn't you think they'd be changed?

That's what happened to me.

I then struggled with my own identity crisis.

Maybe struggle is not the right word.

I didn't struggle with it.

I just kind of battled with I'm this, I'm changed, I'm different.

Everything about me is changed, and I'm still kind of living the same brand and promotion and job.

We still got to be put on the same clothes.

We still put on the same hat, did the same profession.

Which you call you granger, which I think for most people, when they're saved by the Lord, that's that that's kind of a normal thing.

You're still doing what you're doing.

But when you're in the public eye, or when your your job is self promoting yourself, or when you're speaking truth into people, those things drastically change.

Because now when I'm speaking to a guy about your loneliness, I'm not giving you self help.

I'm giving you the Lord.

I'm giving you the Gospel.

So how could I not have just always told people just the answer really became for all the thousands of questions that came to the podcast, the answer just started to becoming, you need the Lord.

You need to repent and believe in the Lord, and believe the Gospel.

Believe Christ died for you.

You need to believe that and everything that all your problems will start to change.

They won't go away, but your perspective will change.

And so as that's evolving, you come in.

You come in to produce the podcast, because we're already working together on the radio show, and we put together that's when we started putting together the guests that you know, the apologists, the different pastors are coming on.

We're talking about more structured topics instead of just random questions, and all the while we're still suffering somewhat from an identity crisis of what is this podcast?

And how many more times will we change?

And I think we've finally hit a point where we go, Okay, this is what this is.

This is the result of the man hit by the truck.

Now what you're seeing is the final the final result, like everything now from now on that you see from me will just be further sanctified in the Lord.

But my advice is not going to change.

You know, I might be able to fine tune some things, and I'll certainly, I certainly, you know, would pray that the Lord will give me more wisdom for the rest of my life, but it's going to be pointing to the same Christ on the same cross and the same empty tomb.

You know, so so because of that the podcast, this is the last episode, but we're launching a new one, yes, and that's the exciting part.

And it comes with I mean so many great things, want a new name, one more people involved.

Yeah, I mean still right now, we're still gonna do it right here.

So we got instead of just me, where we've got four guys now that have been hit by the truck.

And the way we're playing on doing this is me.

Maybe we should rethink the name of the podcast before guys truck four or that could be the title of our first episode on this one.

Me you yeah, Tyler Barker.

Yeah, So the three brothers and the fourth brother in Christ.

Let's leave space for Aaron Dunham, who's sitting here right now on the couch for sitting in with us.

It's hard to see a little camouflaged.

Pastor Marshall Canalis sitting in with us, my wife Amber sitting in with us, and Bernie there.

You know, there's four or five six guys and some gals you know, Ashley, your wife, Amy, there's some my mom London.

There's there's a handful people that would be great kind of sitting in when one of the four is not here.

And also room for guests, like guests.

What we did and enjoyed about the Grangersmith podcast that we morphed into a little bit there towards the end was yet like we talked about some of the guests that had been on, everything from Ray Comfort to John christ is that that can also be a part and there's room for that in this one.

Yeah, I'm like, should we say the name of the new podcast or should we hold this?

I don't know, It's up to you.

Well, they're not here, so I mean, it's really up to me and you right now.

So we as we as we looked at these four guys hit by a truck, you know, as we looked at this what we wanted to call it, Instead of getting too QTT and too creative, we looked at what we were already doing, and we looked at what has become the most popular piece of merchandise at EEE has been our sub brand of ninety nine four to one, which comes from Luke fifteen, when Jesus is giving this parable of how many of you if you had one hundred sheep and one was lost, how many of you would not leave the ninety nine for the one and bring them back and then rejoice when the one comes back.

And so if we look at this podcast being the ninety nine for one podcast, we could look at that in terms of the purpose, the goal, the refined vision of it as it's narrowed down.

Well, we'll still have topics, we'll have guests, we will have will answer questions, we'll do all these things with the four of us.

But the purpose in it at the end of the day would be to reach the one or to engage the listeners to be the ones that reach the one.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Yeah, So the ninety nine for one podcast is what the new the new version will be.

This is the last episode here.

It's the last episode even on this particular channel.

If you're listening on the podcast on a podcast app, it's likely this might likely be the last thing to ever posts here.

Ever, if you're listening on YouTube on the Granger Smith page, you will still see sermons and other things from me, so that's not going away.

Perhaps even songs or things like that will be on this channel, so that this channel is not dying if you're watching on the Granger Smith YouTube channel.

But we needed to have a clean start, So we're going to start completely fresh, and and that will be on the ninety nine four one podcast channel.

The podcast, so that the podcast if you're looking, if you're looking to search that in to find this podcast, it'll be nine to nine to one.

The podcast is what the handle is.

So yeah, and and that'll refine as the search engine catches us.

You should be able to just with the first week, we'll be there.

Yeah, yeah, but that'll start next week.

It'll start next Monday.

Are we gonna do the same time as we've always I think so yeah, until further notice, we're gonna do six am.

It gives you the entire week six am on.

Monday, six am Central on Mondays Central Standard time.

Now on Monday mornings, we'll, until further notice, will still do the exact same release schedule.

So if you started this video thinking, oh no, I've been listening for so long and it's over, well not really.

It's just changed names and changed locations, and you're gonna see some new faces on here, but they aren't unfamiliar faces, the same same old familiar faces.

Now, will will Parker be shooting anything on this channel?

Parker will not hopefully be any dating advice from Tyler on this channel.

I think you're gonna get all the above, which is it?

So we haven't talked about that aspect.

Yet another aspect that needs to be said besides all my reasons, was that, in order to involve all of.

Us, you Tyler Parker.

It's weird for Parker to say, hey, come listen to an episode I was on on the Granger Smith podcast instead of saying, go listen to my podcast.

Yeah, because he's not a guest anymore, he's part of the podcast.

You could say, go listen to my podcast.

Tyler could say listen to my podcast.

And from all those different angles we could post on our own individual socials respectively.

We're gonna have four cameras, so everyone will have their own, you know, thoughts and isolated videos that they could use.

So this is no longer my podcast.

It's it is, but it's more than my podcast.

It's also yours, and his and his, and maybe even Aaron's who's sitting here without a microphone right now in the room of us.

Well, he's got two.

He just can't decide which one he's gonna talking to.

Ye, that's true.

Yeah, And so also the EEE Pop podcast is also ending.

It is also no more that's right, so the Grangersmith podcast and the Yee podcast are both dissolving.

In the new result, hopefully is going to be better than all of that.

Ninety nine to one of the podcast on YouTube, yep, and I'll say, like I always do, see you next morning.

There, ye ye.

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