January 5, 2026 • 21 mins
This episode marks the end of a chapter. After more than eight years, Granger and AntMan sit down to look back on the journey of the Granger Smith Podcast, from recording early episodes on a tour bus to conversations that grew deeper through grief, faith, and personal change. They reflect on the wide range of guests, stories, and seasons that shaped the show along the way.
Granger shares honestly about how his life and faith have changed over the years, and how that transformation slowly reshaped the heart of the podcast. What began as stories from the road and music conversations eventually became something more personal, more serious, and more centered on pointing people to Christ. That shift brought clarity, but also an identity question about what the podcast had become.
By the end of the conversation, Granger explains why this episode is the final one under the Granger Smith Podcast name. But it is not an ending without hope. Instead, it is a transition into something new. The episode introduces the next chapter, a new podcast called The 9941 Podcast, built around the same heart, familiar voices, and a clear purpose to reach those who are searching. It’s a reflective, honest sendoff and an invitation to continue the journey.
That new podcast can be found right here in this feed. Although the name will change, your weekly podcasts will show up in the same place you've been getting the Granger Smith Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Eight, seventeen seventeen. Does that never mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
August seventeenth, twenty seventeen, Does that number mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Who? August seventeenth, it's a long time ago now.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
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
(01:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Off the ground. That's a Parker idea.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was a Parker idea.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't know. It might not be, but it sounds
like how.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Long is that? How long has it been? Because now
we're in twenty can be.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Believed twenty six nine years, I'd do my fingers.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean eight eight and some change.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
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
(02:01):
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
(02:22):
to a Crispy was on here, Rob turkla like a
really wide range, very wide guests.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do you can you name a favorite out of all those?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
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
(03:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
To me, They're talking to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I can't explain how strange that is. Well, my YouTube
eureaus are talking to me for me?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
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.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
John Chris had us laughing.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So good, Yeah, so good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That was just to be one day that ended up
being three.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, trying to get to my grandmother's a mineral.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's right just before holiday too, wasn't that just before holiday? Probably?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
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,
(05:22):
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
(05:42):
going crazy viral on TikTok. You know this is four
or five years ago, when that was happening three years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So Grainger, why are you pulling the plug?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
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,
(06:17):
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
(06:40):
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?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
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
(07:19):
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,
(07:41):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
What do I do?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
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
(08:24):
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
(08:45):
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
(09:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Then, but he has.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
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
(10:30):
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
(10:51):
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.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We still got to be put on the same clothes.
We still put on the same hat, did the same profession.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
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
(11:40):
I'm speaking to a guy about your loneliness, I'm not
giving you self help. I'm giving you the Lord.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm giving you the Gospel.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
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
(12:14):
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
(12:39):
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
(13:02):
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,
(13:22):
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.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's hard to see a little camouflaged.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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
(15:02):
in when one of the four is not here.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
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.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, I'm like, should we say the name of the
new podcast or should we hold this?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
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
(15:58):
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
(16:19):
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
(16:41):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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
(17:23):
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
(17:45):
ninety nine four one podcast channel.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
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.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It gives you the entire week six am on.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
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
(18:40):
on here, but they aren't unfamiliar faces, the same same
old familiar faces.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Now, will will Parker be shooting anything on this channel?
Parker will not hopefully be any dating advice from Tyler
on this channel.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
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.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Us, you Tyler Parker.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
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.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, because he's not a guest anymore, he's part of
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
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,
(19:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, he's got two. He just can't decide which one
he's gonna talking to. Ye, that's true.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
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.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Ninety nine to one of the podcast on YouTube, yep,
and I'll say, like I always do, see you next morning.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
There, ye ye. Thank you so much for hanging out
with me on this episode of the Grangersmith Podcast. I
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(20:43):
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I'd love to hear from you. Thanks again for being here.
We'll see you next time. Yee
Eight, seventeen seventeen. Does that never mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
August seventeenth, twenty seventeen, Does that number mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Who? August seventeenth, it's a long time ago now.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
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
(01:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Off the ground. That's a Parker idea.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was a Parker idea.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't know. It might not be, but it sounds
like how.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Long is that? How long has it been? Because now
we're in twenty can be.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Believed twenty six nine years, I'd do my fingers.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean eight eight and some change.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
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
(02:01):
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
(02:22):
to a Crispy was on here, Rob turkla like a
really wide range, very wide guests.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do you can you name a favorite out of all those?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
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
(03:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
To me, They're talking to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I can't explain how strange that is. Well, my YouTube
eureaus are talking to me for me?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
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.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
John Chris had us laughing.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So good, Yeah, so good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That was just to be one day that ended up
being three.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, trying to get to my grandmother's a mineral.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's right just before holiday too, wasn't that just before holiday? Probably?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
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,
(05:22):
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
(05:42):
going crazy viral on TikTok. You know this is four
or five years ago, when that was happening three years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So Grainger, why are you pulling the plug?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
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,
(06:17):
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
(06:40):
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?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
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
(07:19):
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,
(07:41):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
What do I do?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
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
(08:24):
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
(08:45):
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
(09:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Then, but he has.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
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
(10:30):
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
(10:51):
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.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We still got to be put on the same clothes.
We still put on the same hat, did the same profession.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
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
(11:40):
I'm speaking to a guy about your loneliness, I'm not
giving you self help. I'm giving you the Lord.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm giving you the Gospel.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
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
(12:14):
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
(12:39):
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
(13:02):
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,
(13:22):
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.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's hard to see a little camouflaged.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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
(15:02):
in when one of the four is not here.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
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.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, I'm like, should we say the name of the
new podcast or should we hold this?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
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
(15:58):
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
(16:19):
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
(16:41):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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
(17:23):
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
(17:45):
ninety nine four one podcast channel.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
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.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It gives you the entire week six am on.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
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
(18:40):
on here, but they aren't unfamiliar faces, the same same
old familiar faces.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Now, will will Parker be shooting anything on this channel?
Parker will not hopefully be any dating advice from Tyler
on this channel.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
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.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Us, you Tyler Parker.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
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.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, because he's not a guest anymore, he's part of
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
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,
(19:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, he's got two. He just can't decide which one
he's gonna talking to. Ye, that's true.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
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.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Ninety nine to one of the podcast on YouTube, yep,
and I'll say, like I always do, see you next morning.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
There, ye ye. Thank you so much for hanging out
with me on this episode of the Grangersmith Podcast. I
appreciate you being here. If you're listening right now, go
ahead and rate today's podcast. It helps more folks find
the show. And if you're tuning in on the iHeartRadio app,
you could actually set this podcast as one of your presets,
which is cool that way. I'm just one tap away.
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and subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes. And
if you've got a question you want answered right here
on the show, just email me podcast at grangersmith dot com.
I'd love to hear from you. Thanks again for being here.
We'll see you next time. Yee
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