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Speaker 1 (00:12):
What's up everybody? Welcome to the podcast, thanks for being here.
Special edition as we've done the last two or three
four months. I've got a man with me by the way. Yeah,
what's up? A good This is a special edition because
it is live. We're recording this live, and as I'm
sitting here, it is June the twenty first, twenty twenty four.
(00:36):
This episode will release like normal on Monday. But the
reason we're doing it partly the reason we're doing it
is because it is a big Yege apparel summer launch.
And so thank you guys for joining me live, and
then thank you guys for joining me in the future.
As you listen to this like a as a normal podcast,
(00:57):
I'm going to answer your questions. I have a bunch
of them cuted up here that you've already sent me.
And to ask me a question, email me at podcast
at grangersmith dot com. Podcast at grangersmith dot com is
to email. You could do that now if you're listening,
even if you're listening live, you could do that now,
or you could just comment. If you're listening not live,
(01:19):
then just email me and I go through these like
we're just sitting in the cab of a truck and
you and I are just having a conversation or around
the campfire. I don't always have the right answers, but
I'm gonna try to talk about this like we're friends.
And so, Hey, Lourie, what's up from Ontario, Canada? Thanks
for listening. Donita says, good morning, Granger and aunt man
watching from western Arkansas. God bless you guys and your families,
(01:41):
and you'll have an amazing day. You two don't need it.
Wisconsin farmer says morning Granger. Ye yee, and I'm happy
to see all of y'all on here. Hey, I've got
my brothers, Tyler and Parker coming live from the EEE
farm right now. This is the Yee Apparel Summer launch day.
(02:01):
You guys just launched what twenty three minutes ago. How's
it going, guys, It's gone great.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We're busy here in the warehouse getting order shipped out.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We're excited.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I've been working on the stuff for a long time,
so it's fun to see people's reactions and it's fun
to put it in boxes and send it out.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, it really is, man. I mean, I'll be honest, Tyler,
I think you think the same thing, but I it's
want sounded a little cheesy, But I got in bed
last night and I was like, oh, got a little nervous.
I was like, I'm excited for tomorrow, and I don't
think I felt that little a little scared because I'm
just excited that people are going to see what I
(02:41):
think is one of the best apparel launches that we've
done in the last decade. Is that too much? Am
I overstating that? Tyler?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You're not overstating yet. We're more in the trenches over
here than you are. But you did text me and
Parker and said this is my favorite or the products
are amazing, like and you've never texted that's that before
the other day. So curious to hear your thoughts on why.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, First of all, I just I always want to
show my gratitude, you know, either online or offline. I
just want to show my gratitude to you guys, because
all three of us as brothers, work for and with
and we are eeee and at the same time, we
all are in very different lanes, and so my lane
is really the face, the outward facing image of the
(03:33):
company doing you know, after midnight and the podcast and
getting out and speaking, and of course the music and
the smiths, and you guys are you know, more so
in the designs, in the inner workings of how this
stuff gets out, and Tyler, you're you're the guy that's
looking to see what the world wants to wear. And
(03:54):
both of you guys and me combined are all always
aware of what this image is, which is faith freedom
in the outdoors, which is what Yegee stands for. And
so it's a it's a battle really to maintain faith
freedom in the outdoors in twenty twenty four, especially in
(04:14):
the month of June, when we're coming up against you know,
a lot of battles that the world wants to fight.
And Parker, you said something as we did a live
at ye Apparel a couple of days ago. You said
something that really affected me and I hope that you
could repeat it now. But you said at the remember
what you said when we ended the podcast was that yesterday?
(04:36):
Remember what you said, Say it again for my listeners.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I said, the summer launch is releasing. We're super
excited about it. But if money's tight right now, and
then we totally understand. Tyler and I keep in contact
with a lot of our customers and ye nation, we
have a pulse on things. I know people are out
there struggling right now. It's not easy. It's an election year,
there's a lot going on. So money is tight, then
(05:02):
don't even think twice about it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You just don't buy anything.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Take care of you and your family and just enjoy
EE through our other outlets that we have, enjoy the podcast,
Enjoys Socials.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And man, that's I looked at you when we cut
the camera at that at EE Apparels Podcast. I looked
at you and I was like, man, who says that
isn't as an apparel company CEO who leaves everybody with
the thought, Hey, we're so excited about this launch, but
if you don't have the money right now and money's tight,
take care of your family. We understand. It's like wow,
it's amazing, And there's so much freedom in us to
(05:37):
be able to say that out loud, because there's a
pressure where we need to like, oh, we need to
we have to do this. We got to pay the bills,
we got to make sure that this launch performs well.
Instead we just we let it go and we go, Hey,
we understand, if money's tight, don't buy a single thing.
Take care of your family. That's that's horrible advertising from
a marketing standpoint, but I think it's just really good honesty.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, and we do launches every month, and so like,
if you're buying from us every single month, like that's
a lot of money. And so I totally get And
you only need to shirt every so often, but hopefully
whenever you need a new shirt or a new hat,
you'll get one from us. And we try to make
it the best possible quality we can, with the coolest designs,
with the top designers, and hopefully it'll last year a
long time and then when it wears out, we'll be
(06:21):
around whenever you need another one.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, that's right. And yeah, the quality on a lot
of these T shirts and that Jersey Tyler's wearing these hats,
the qualities just step up from what we did were
doing last year and the year before. So yeah, super excited.
I know you guys are busy, So I'm gonna let
you go twenty eight minutes now into the EEE Apparel
(06:43):
summer launch. Go to yeye dot com for everything. If
you're listening live, I would go there quickly because a
lot of stuff, the popular things tend to sell out quickly,
and if you're listening later then there's probably there's probably
enough to get you by so yeye dot com is
where you need to go. Oh, Tyler's holding up. Eight.
(07:05):
This is a last minute edition, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We didn't think it was gonna come in time. But
we got our bandanas in literally the day before the launch.
So yeah, that's a fun little edition. We've never done
bandanas before.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, those are in. They're super soft. I felt them yesterday.
That's cool. All right, guys, I'll let you go. We're
gonna get to some questions here. Appreciate you, love you,
see you guys, Ye, say get some risk. All right,
We're gonna answer some questions. Aun't you with me? Still?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, sir? What's your time? We're sitting at sitting at
eleven fifty since we start? Okay, cool, all right, this
question is gonna come from Tyler and not my brother,
says hey Granger. My wife twenty six and I twenty
seven right now are considering IVF. We have been trying
for almost a year to conceive and have recently found
(07:55):
out that I, U, I or IVF. Maybe you're only
not option due to some medical issues. We attend an
SBC church and regularly serve in the worship ministry. I
am worried that we might be pushed out of our
church were we to where we have grown deep relationships
with the pastor and other partitioners. Given the Southern Baptist
(08:18):
Convention's recent vote to oppose IVF, I'm interested to hear
your thoughts on this, giving your experience with IVF and
your connection to the SBC. God bless Tyler, Arkansas. Hey Tyler,
thanks for the question, man. It's a great one, and
it's this is a fresh wound that the band aid
has just come off of with the SBC as they
have voted. It was just as I'm reading this, it's
(08:40):
only two weeks ago that the Southern Baptist Convention voted
against the approval or the endorsement of IVF and IVF
in mutual fertilization comes really with two camps, and this
is the argument at the SBC. There's two camps of
(09:00):
opposition of IVF. One is the people that say IVF
is okay, as long as you don't make as long
as you I'll put it this way, as long as
you don't leave embryos extra. That's the most non medical
way I could say it. And then the other way
(09:22):
is don't do it at all. It shouldn't be done.
It's immoral. So I am a Southern Baptist seminarian. So yes,
I am closely tied with the SBC. I go to
SBC's church. I'm an SBC seminarian. I'm friends. I'm actually
(09:42):
friends with the two leading advocates against IVF. I'm friends
with those guys. They're both professors at at Southern. So
on top of that, we have a beautiful baby boy
downstairs right now, he's almost three, who is an IVF baby.
Let me, I need to I need to walk through
(10:02):
some a couple of things. This will probably take a
whole podcast if I did. But I understand where you're
coming from, Tyler, very much. I walked in your shoes.
And to be honest, I also understand the sentiment of
the SPC. I think IVF can be it can't be
(10:23):
a dangerous thing. There are a lot of embryos that
are that are left over. I think there's hundreds of thousands,
maybe millions. Don't quote me on that, but there's hundreds
of thousands of believe embryos that have been left over
that were conceived but not implanted or transferred, I think
is the right word. And what do you what do
(10:44):
we do with this? This is a moral dilemma and
we can't be irresponsible with this. When we were going
through this ourselves. If I wrote the book Like a River,
I had a had a really emotional moment with if
in a discussion with Lincoln, my son. That's in the
book Like a River. It's the tree conversation. If you remember, Daddy,
(11:09):
does God make all the trees and man make some
of the trees. It was that conversation. So if you
haven't read Like a River, Tyler, check that out. And
then Amber and I decided we were convicted that we
felt like this may be wrong, and so we decided
that we would implant every single embryo we had, and
(11:31):
as it turned out, all of them died, including a miscarriage,
leaving us all the way just down to just one
last one and it ended up being Maverick. Now that's
my story, and that doesn't make IVF right just because
I did it. And it also, even if it is wrong,
it doesn't make Maverick wrong because God uses he always
(11:53):
has used sin and for his own glory, for his
own good, he's done. There's countless stories about that. So
it's never the baby's fault. Certainly not Maverick's fault, and
Mavericks certainly not an accident or but but just because
Mavericks exists, and he's beautiful, and he's loved, and he's purposed,
(12:15):
and he's he is in the image of God. Just
because of all all that. There also co exists another
idea that maybe Amber and I were wrong in considering IVF.
You could tell that I have have struggled over the
years with it, and if we were going to do
it all over again, I don't think we would do IVF.
(12:39):
And that's not because all can now because now the
SBC is voting against it, et cetera, et cetera. It's
not because of that. I just believe as we've been
sanctified as Christians more and more, I think it becomes
more problematic. Why because look at the fruit of IVF clinics. Hey,
(13:00):
we we've getten we get emails from the clinic that
Maverick was conceived in those aren't they aren't good emails
that we get? And what they're promoting. What are they
The emails we get from the clinic where MAV came
from aren't God honoring emails. They aren't God glorifying emails.
(13:25):
You give them my drift what they're promoting and what
they're using IVA for and what they're endorsing because they
they have IVA of what they're what they're saying that
they can do. It's not It's not a couple like
Tyler Sure from Arkansas saying we've struggled and we're we've
(13:46):
been we go to church and we've been praying and
we trying to conceive a baby. That's not what these
clinics are promoting.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So is the should the reform be on no pun intended?
I promise.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Is it throwing the baby out with the bathwater to
say no IVF at all?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Or is it saying the way IVF is done right
now is wrong. You said you used all three embryos.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well we did, and there was also there were seven
more that died before we even got a chance to
use them. I just think in hindsight we look back
on it and we go, hey, I don't think we
are quite as sanctified as we are now in this situation.
I don't think. I don't think we would have done
it the same. That doesn't make me regret doing it
or regret Maverick, of course not. But will I now
(14:38):
stand forward and endorse it and actually go against my
colleagues in the SBC. I don't think so. I think
the men and women that have prayed over this and
studied this for a long time, I don't think they're
wrong in thinking, Hey, we need to hit the brakes
on this, We need to think about this because the
implications of the future. Where's this going? What are the
(15:01):
fruits of this? And I'll tell you what the fruits are.
I see, I see the emails, I see their their
Instagram page and what they're promoting, and it's awful.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Stuff, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
That's why you know this this could be well, probably
should be a bunch of longer conversations. It's a longer
conversation with other people, people who have been effected on
both sides of it.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I hate to give you the answer, Tyler that you
don't want to hear, but adoption is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Adoption is a for sure, beautiful, beautiful thing. And there's
so many babies that need a home, and you're saying
how great or how could you say that when you
you did the opposite. Well, maybe Amber and I need
to adopt to We'll leave it there. Next question, do
we have another time for another one right now? Twenty? Yeah,
(15:55):
let's hit another one.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Try about this and hit some comments.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Cool, let's hit the comments and then we can get
another to break.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, we got break. I've got a couple here.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Like that, yege pearl mug right there? Look at that, friends,
new the coffee mug just came out today at the launch.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
This is the epitome of product placement today, both of
us wearing the city.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
A question from you guys doing a podcast tour. Yes,
we were just talking about. I just told ant Man
right before we started this, I said, Hey, once we
get enough reps doing this live podcast thing, then we
should we should have all the kinks worked out by
the time we actually take a tour and do this.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Hope.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So that's that's the hope.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
That's a good one too.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Chris says, Hey Granger, this is straight from the live
right here, I'm reading, Hey, hey Granger, getting ready to
close on a house soon I'll be it'll be my
wife and I was first home together. Any advice on
two newly married twenty four year olds in life and
being first time home buyers, congratulates, man, that's big, that's big,
(17:02):
that's huge. Twenty four is young and you've got a
lot of life ahead of you. I would say, I
would say, hold it with open hands, don't hold that
house too tightly, don't worry about that house, don't make
that house you're idole. Don't don't obsess over that house,
because bad things are gonna happen to it, like things
(17:24):
are gonna break, pipes are gonna burst, You're gonna get
you know, fence is gonna get knocked down on a
high wind. You're gonna you're gonna get stains on the carpet.
I would just say, live it, live in it, live
with it. And it's not a permanent house. It's not
a forever home, and so enjoy it, make the most
out of it, and one day, for willing, five, six,
(17:46):
ten years, you'll be moving in another house because you
can need some more bedrooms'd be cool.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Let's take a break. YEP.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
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I had no idea that I was actually gonna be apparel,
and then years later my brothers and I come.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
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Whoever you want me to say it to and I'll
shoot you a message. Next question comes from Glenn. It
says the Cowboy church I attend and support has for
a long time had five minute teachings every Sunday morning
on biblical giving. The teaching about giving is more than
just about money and includes Biblical teaching of giving one's
(20:27):
self first, and that the giving of tides and offerings
is a reflection of giving oneself first. The teaching is
then followed by those to come forward and place their
offering in a bucket and then prayed over. When I
started going to this church, it was already an established
part of the service. I am the person asked by
(20:48):
the pastor to do this teaching. Nearly everyone does it
without question or complaint. But there is one individual who
has personally disagreed with the public display of giving tithes
and offerings because it might offend or compel someone to
come forward in order to remain in conspicuous, and they
have made it known to the pastor, but not personally
to me. My question is, do you see anything wrong
(21:11):
with giving tides and offerings and a public display of
coming forward as opposed to passing the offering plate. I'd
love to hear your answer. Sincerely in Christ, Glenn Tate. Glenn,
thank you for the question. It's an interesting one. Do
I see anything wrong? Let me see? How about how
(21:35):
about Matthew six's three four? But when you give, do
not let your left hand know what your right hand
is doing, so that your giving may be in secret
and your father, who sees you in secret, will reward you.
There's that. Yeah, I'd be cautious about this. I'd be
(22:04):
cautious really in the tone of this, because because we're
kind of we're kind of thinking that this person, this
one person is crazy and they're actually this one person
is actually biblical?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Is the one biblical?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, it sounds like and we're kind of looking at
this one.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Look.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with people wanting
to get up and give in public. That people are
just gonna do that. But I think what's wrong is
saying that this is the way we do it, and
if you disagree with it, you're strange. That's kind of
what this email sounds like.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, is that what you feel?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah, it is is the hope that because I see
someone else, is this what they're thinking. If the rest
of the congregation sees this many people giving, they'll be
encouraged to.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Give to I think that's what they're thinking.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Marshall said something when he was on here earlier that
I loved a couple of weeks ago, said that him
and the elders of the church they don't even know
who gives. They don't look and they're not allowed to
see the names. Because you have the danger as a
pastor of it creating favoritism. It does, for sure, even
if you're as solid as a rock. It's really hard
(23:17):
not to think, but this person gives the most of
the congregation, it's really hard not to give them extra
favor or to do what they are suggesting. It's very difficult.
So to protect yourself against that you don't know. And
when you have a public display like that, everyone's getting up,
you know, you know the pastor sees it, everyone sees it.
(23:39):
So yeah, I would speak against this. I know cowboy
churches do stuff like this. I know that even passing
the offering plate is starting to become less and less
at a mais, we don't do it. We're not as
old school and so we don't do it at all.
It's only online.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
How about that see, we do both, but it's also
kind of become tailored, like they'll they'll come up to
the edge of your row and just kind of look
conceive if anybody because you know, people will hold it
up or whatever, and then they'll pass the plate down.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But it doesn't just automatically go by you.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, we're it used to and there's nothing wrong with that.
Every church I've ever known has done that. And and
may as we have a box in the back, so
if like here, you don't do online banking or whatever,
then you could put you could put it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
In you want to throw a twenty in.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
But I think for that person that throws a twenty
in the box without anyone seeing, it's blessed.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, agreed, I mean it's biblical agreed.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So yeah, back to.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Your point that you're saying that Marshall said is that
I've seen it in action before. Of they'll carefully consider
what someone who has who said something or asked to
do something, they'll think of them and consider it differently
because they know, man, if we don't do that and
they get mad, that's a big chunk of money that
leaves our church.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
That's their thought process. I've seen it happen inactionable.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, so dangerous man.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Good.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Next question comes from Jaden Hey Grangeer. First, I want
to thank you for the virtual meet and greet back
in April twenty twenty A while anyway, My question is
do I let my girlfriend know that I want to
propose without actually telling her? Or do I just not
tell her and just do it? That's a very simple question.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
How would you like to be proposed to? Sweetheart?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That Jay not two parts of that question one one
part says, hey, man, you know you got to make
sure that she actually is agreeing that she wants to
get married to.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know, that's a good conversation.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I mean, that's a conversation where you just say you
tell her in some kind of form. Surely you have, Hey,
I one of these days I want to get married
and I love you, and you're you're exactly the kind
of girl I want to marry. So you're kind of
building it up without saying will you marry me? And
(26:00):
you wait for her reaction because if she says, oh,
I didn't know where going this fast, then there's a problem.
And if she goes me too, you're the kind of
guy that I would love to marry and then and
then you kind of move on, but you just store
that away that Okay, this is good, this is good.
You're planning seeds, and you have the conversations about children
and about her faith and things like that, things that
(26:22):
are unreconcilable once you are married. If she's you get
married and you're you're expecting four kids and she wants none,
that's a question in a conversation you probably should have
had before you're even engaged. If you have a strong
faith and she doesn't at all, it's a conversation you
probably should have had or vice versa before you even
get engaged. If all that's taken care of, then you
(26:43):
go to the second part of my answer. The second
part of my answer is, Man, I just think surprises
are better.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, but I don't think that I've ever met a
girl that I had that, and not necessarily a girl
I was dating, but just a girl in general that
was dating someone that didn't make their intentions known before
the guy did, Hey we're getting married, right, you know
almost that absolutely, Here's what I would wear, Here's the
house that I would want, Here's how many kid I
mean that seems to always have been up front in
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most relationships. Yeah, and if you're not having that conversation,
that might be the first.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And once you're there, then I think a surprise is good.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Bingo, surprise her.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Absolutely, do something neat not something. Also, here's here's a tip.
I think, not something you think it's a great proposal.
That's something she would think. It's a great proposal. Like
if you love football and she doesn't, don't propose it
the halftime of your favorite football game on the jumbo tron.
You know, if she loves football, okay, cool. If she
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loves you know, the beach, take her to the beach
and do it there, even though you don't like it.
It's about her, you know, you know, do do what
you think would be great for her.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To be careful not to drop the ring in the sand.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Don't drop the ring in the sand.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Y'all got some questions here on comments you want to
do it?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, I say it.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Here's one.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Lindsay says, Hi, when is your new song coming out?
And are you going to release it? I love the
new intro. I don't know, Lindsay, thanks for asking.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Explain what she's talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So the smiths Our Family vlog I have a new
song that came out in the intro, the brand new
intro of the Smiths, and so, uh, just live with it, lindsay,
you might not even like it after you listen to
it enough times, you might not even want the full version.
But if you do, all think about how to release it.
Mason says, how are we going to buy yee Ye today?
(28:31):
I wasn't gonna buy ye ye today, but watching y'all
in the new gear is making me rethink that maybe
I'll just rewind and listen to the part about saving money. Yeah. Maybe, so, Mason,
I don't know this, do you see that? No? Stephanie said,
all the mugs are amazing. I definitely want the insulin munths.
They work so great.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, this one that said that mug is already sold out?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Is it really? Yeah? I haven't been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's a good one. Great one.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And thank you for always being real honest and my
brother in Christ, thank you, Emily.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
And then you talked about this one the last on
the last live that we did about a month ago.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, the live album and DVD be coming soon, so Adam,
it is officially finished. The live almost a few last
weeks copyright stuff. For instance, America started with a beat
from the movie Top Guns. Found out way to take
that out so that But yes, the live album is finished.
(29:30):
I'm very happy with it. It's going to release probably in
the fall. And the documentary to go with it is
not finished, but it's a work in progress and we
plan on packaging both of those together. Cool. I going
to go back to the question here, back to the
email podcast at grangersmith dot com if you want to
hit me up, and the question from Cody says, Hi,
(29:52):
granger recently met a guy who is so bright and
caring and giving. We met riding motorcycles and have rode
together other almost every day since. He caught feelings for me,
and it wasn't It was already breaking my heart to
tell him that I don't like him too, But now
everything is caving in on him, and I don't know
(30:14):
how to love him without hurting him more by giving
him hope of a relationship. His family is Messy's sister
in prison, to autistic brothers, threatening grandpa, irresponsible parents, an
uncle who died in a motorcycle crash right after we met,
an injured aunt from the same crash, and an uncle
who raped his knees. He's twenty five and taking custody
of his knees to protect her. And he has already
(30:35):
held custody of his nephew since he was eighteen. He
beat thyroid cancer two years ago, and he's coming back
right now, just as strong. He's in pain. He's depressed.
He's selling all of his bikes that we have been
and which have been his only outlet and escape from
everything he's got going on. He's acting like he's giving up.
He met me three weeks ago and he wants to
(30:56):
give his He wants to give me his favorite bike,
and I can't even like him back. Three of his
biker friends crashed this week alone, and he is there
for every single one of them. Though he is suffering,
he is trying to go to church and have faith,
even though he hasn't for a few years. I know
sin is why there is suffering, but God didn't cause it.
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But he can't stop it. God, Why are there people
like me who have such an easy life when he
is going through hell every day. I am undeserving and bitter,
but get to be healthy and okay when he is
loving and in so much pain? How is that fair. Okay,
what an email Cody? Okay, indeed, that's deep. There's two
(31:41):
different answers that come right to my mind right away. One,
you're not responsible for this guy. You've known him for
three weeks. You're not responsible for his happiness. There's nothing
you could do to make him happy, and there's no
decision you could make, there's no agreeent that you can
make to make him You're not responsible for his happiness.
(32:05):
I'm not responsible for Amber's happiness. You're not responsible for
Ashley's happiness. Ant man that this is a misconception that
we as humans are responsible for other people's happiness, and
you are saying that about this guy that you just
met three weeks ago, who's got his life is falling apart.
That doesn't mean you can't love him and encourage him
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and be there for him and be a friend and
listen to him and share time with him. It doesn't
mean all that. It just means that you can't be
responsible for his happiness, especially if you don't like him
in a romantic way, so that you might violate that
just to make him happy. That's wrong. That's the first
(32:47):
part of my answer. My second part says, I want
you know where I want to go. I want to
go to this part that says, I know that there
is I know that sin is why he's suffering, and
God didn't cause it, but can't he stop it? And
then my mind goes, Okay, Isaiah forty five might disagree
with you, Cody. It says Isaiah forty five six and
(33:07):
seven says, I am the Lord, and there is no other.
I form light and create darkness. I make well being
and create calamity. I am the Lord who does all
these things. That is much different than a God who
says I didn't cause it and I don't know if
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I could stop it. In fact, that's not a God at.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
All, not a very big one anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
That's just that's an idle god, lowercase gees that we
have created for our own comfort, so that so that
we could be comfortable in our little lives, knowing that
we are stuck in our lives. And it's definitely not fair.
It's not my fault and it's not fair. That's what
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we want to say all the time. Yeah, And to
that is always the Gospel is always the Cross of
Christ glaring back at this unfairness that says all of
us are sinned. None of us are good, No, not one.
All of us have rejected God and the world that
was made that was good. In our rebellion, in our sin,
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he made a way to reconcile us, to forgive us
of our sins. And it's not by anything we could do. Instead,
it's with his son that he sent to die for us,
to be the substitute to take, to be the replacement
for the punishment that we deserved. Christ takes that on himself,
in his body on the cross and says, whoever looks
(34:42):
at me and believes in this final sacrifice, this ultimate sacrifice,
you will be forgiven, not in anything you've done, but
what have I done. That's where fairness comes from. That's
where the judgment is satisfied. And then you go, how
is that fair? Is Christ dying on the cross? Is
the man, the God Man, the perfect one, scent, sinless,
(35:04):
without without flaw, without fault, that lives the perfect life,
and he goes and we murder him? Is that fair?
That's where That's where, That's where this all gets mixed
up here. So Cody, I think that's all I have
to say. Where do you got to end?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Got a few more comments from uh from the life.
Love doing this and love seeing your comments in the
moment too, and love those. So back to the last email,
you got to come in here so.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Jenna says, I so love your broadcast. As as my
guy introduced you to me. We are happy and I
could see him as my future as well. We listen
to you together. Blessings to you always and your family,
Peace of love. Thank you so much. Janis Rachel says,
are you still coming to Raleigh to preach next month? Yeah?
(35:52):
I haven't canceled it. Yeah I'm coming, and it says
good morning and happy Friday to everyone from Santa Domingo,
Dominican Republic. Thank you Anna so much. I know you
listen quite a bit, so it's always an honor to
have you.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Here's the here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And she says, I'm forty two and I want to
know your advice from about meeting godly men. Well, if
I was, Anna says, what's your advice about meeting godly men?
And let me reframe the question, grangeur, what's your advice
in catching large mouth bass? I'd say go to a
go to a good polly with some low hanging brush
(36:33):
that has plenty of bait. Fish go during spawning season.
That's where you're gonna find the biggest ones and know
what to throw. And so for you, you want to
know what kind of lure a godly man is going
to want a godly woman, So be a godly woman,
be the kind of woman that a godly man would
be attracted to. That's a great that's a great goal.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
And then you got to go to the pond. And
so I would go to a good, solid Bible teaching church.
That's where you're gonna find godly men. And that's when
you're gonna throw a godly lure. And that is with
a godly woman.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I was gonna say, the only thing only difference is
you're the lure. But you have to be real and
he can't be fake.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Oh yeah, you gotta be a live meno exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
So does that help you at all?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
If equated dating fishing, that's what you get on there.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's either dating to fishing, or it's either fishing or
football or the two analogies I go to all the time.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That time you want to do one more email.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yep, I only have two lefts. So yeah, one more
would be good. Kristin says, hello from Orlando. Women as pastors.
Wow here, man, we're just hitting them all, aren't we.
You did this to me, man, you did get over
there laughing. Women as pastors seem to be a controversy
with churches. I don't understand why. Is the Bible is
very clear. I do not attend I do not attend
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my church because of this comments. Thank you and blessings, Kristin. Hey, Kristin,
I agree with you. I believe the Bible is is
very clear that the the biblical eldership leadership in a
church is for men. I am a complementarian, meaning that
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when men and women have very both of us, very
important and very distinct roles that we need to carry
out in the church, and when when those distinct roles
are blurred, trouble begins in the church. I think we
see this. I think there's no doubt that we see
(38:35):
the the result of either way. I'm not an egalitarian,
meaning men and women are equal in every way and
and and that's not my opinion, Like we have to
get that clear too. That's that's not just what my
heart says or my gut says, or what you know
what I want to be. That's just what the Bible says,
(38:57):
and so believe it. And then I see the from
it acted out correctly, and I go, oh wow, that's
women are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
Men are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
Kids are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
And it's the marriages are so much better when they're
(39:17):
following the Biblical standard. Grief is so much more hopeful
when following the Biblical standard. I could just go on
and on and on, but all the attributes and characteristics
and identities of people and our feelings and our emotions
are just better when carried out according to the Biblical standard.
And so I don't want to break apart from that
(39:38):
because it hurts if we do it, it doesn't work right,
and it creates struggle and strife, and so yes, so Christen.
The one thing I want to say in your email
that I don't like about your email is that you
said I do not attend my church because of this.
I would say, then it's not your church, find you one.
There's so many in fact, in order, my buddy, Caleb
(40:01):
Brasher has a great church there called the Grove, and
please please, I'm gonna look it up right now. But
if I was in Orlando, I would definitely go to
the Grove. I'm looking them up right now. It is.
It is in Claremount, so I'll give you the address.
It's four to sixty West Montrose Street, Claremont, Florida three
(40:25):
four seven one five. The pastor has Caleb Brasher. It's
called the Grove, and it's just uh, it's it's a
great complementary in church.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
You have that question a lot about you know, where
do I find a great church? And you've talked about
it before of who they can email.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, yeah, we could still haven't done it in a
little bit, but it's it's Take and Read podcast at
gmail dot com. Take and Read podcast at gmail dot com. Yeah,
that's uh, that's pastor Chad hopefully can help you with that.
So what are we doing on time? We're good, We
like that's it. Okay, Hey guys, we love you and
(41:06):
I'm so glad you're you're tuning in now with me
live and I'm so glad you're you're listening later if
when you see this released on Monday. But I sure
appreciate y'all and you just make things your your questions
just make me so encouraged. So love you guys. See
you next Monday.
What's up everybody? Welcome to the podcast, thanks for being here.
Special edition as we've done the last two or three
four months. I've got a man with me by the way. Yeah,
what's up? A good This is a special edition because
it is live. We're recording this live, and as I'm
sitting here, it is June the twenty first, twenty twenty four.
(00:36):
This episode will release like normal on Monday. But the
reason we're doing it partly the reason we're doing it
is because it is a big Yege apparel summer launch.
And so thank you guys for joining me live, and
then thank you guys for joining me in the future.
As you listen to this like a as a normal podcast,
(00:57):
I'm going to answer your questions. I have a bunch
of them cuted up here that you've already sent me.
And to ask me a question, email me at podcast
at grangersmith dot com. Podcast at grangersmith dot com is
to email. You could do that now if you're listening,
even if you're listening live, you could do that now,
or you could just comment. If you're listening not live,
(01:19):
then just email me and I go through these like
we're just sitting in the cab of a truck and
you and I are just having a conversation or around
the campfire. I don't always have the right answers, but
I'm gonna try to talk about this like we're friends.
And so, Hey, Lourie, what's up from Ontario, Canada? Thanks
for listening. Donita says, good morning, Granger and aunt man
watching from western Arkansas. God bless you guys and your families,
(01:41):
and you'll have an amazing day. You two don't need it.
Wisconsin farmer says morning Granger. Ye yee, and I'm happy
to see all of y'all on here. Hey, I've got
my brothers, Tyler and Parker coming live from the EEE
farm right now. This is the Yee Apparel Summer launch day.
(02:01):
You guys just launched what twenty three minutes ago. How's
it going, guys, It's gone great.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We're busy here in the warehouse getting order shipped out.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We're excited.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I've been working on the stuff for a long time,
so it's fun to see people's reactions and it's fun
to put it in boxes and send it out.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, it really is, man. I mean, I'll be honest, Tyler,
I think you think the same thing, but I it's
want sounded a little cheesy, But I got in bed
last night and I was like, oh, got a little nervous.
I was like, I'm excited for tomorrow, and I don't
think I felt that little a little scared because I'm
just excited that people are going to see what I
(02:41):
think is one of the best apparel launches that we've
done in the last decade. Is that too much? Am
I overstating that? Tyler?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You're not overstating yet. We're more in the trenches over
here than you are. But you did text me and
Parker and said this is my favorite or the products
are amazing, like and you've never texted that's that before
the other day. So curious to hear your thoughts on why.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, First of all, I just I always want to
show my gratitude, you know, either online or offline. I
just want to show my gratitude to you guys, because
all three of us as brothers, work for and with
and we are eeee and at the same time, we
all are in very different lanes, and so my lane
is really the face, the outward facing image of the
(03:33):
company doing you know, after midnight and the podcast and
getting out and speaking, and of course the music and
the smiths, and you guys are you know, more so
in the designs, in the inner workings of how this
stuff gets out, and Tyler, you're you're the guy that's
looking to see what the world wants to wear. And
(03:54):
both of you guys and me combined are all always
aware of what this image is, which is faith freedom
in the outdoors, which is what Yegee stands for. And
so it's a it's a battle really to maintain faith
freedom in the outdoors in twenty twenty four, especially in
(04:14):
the month of June, when we're coming up against you know,
a lot of battles that the world wants to fight.
And Parker, you said something as we did a live
at ye Apparel a couple of days ago. You said
something that really affected me and I hope that you
could repeat it now. But you said at the remember
what you said when we ended the podcast was that yesterday?
(04:36):
Remember what you said, Say it again for my listeners.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I said, the summer launch is releasing. We're super
excited about it. But if money's tight right now, and
then we totally understand. Tyler and I keep in contact
with a lot of our customers and ye nation, we
have a pulse on things. I know people are out
there struggling right now. It's not easy. It's an election year,
there's a lot going on. So money is tight, then
(05:02):
don't even think twice about it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You just don't buy anything.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Take care of you and your family and just enjoy
EE through our other outlets that we have, enjoy the podcast,
Enjoys Socials.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And man, that's I looked at you when we cut
the camera at that at EE Apparels Podcast. I looked
at you and I was like, man, who says that
isn't as an apparel company CEO who leaves everybody with
the thought, Hey, we're so excited about this launch, but
if you don't have the money right now and money's tight,
take care of your family. We understand. It's like wow,
it's amazing, And there's so much freedom in us to
(05:37):
be able to say that out loud, because there's a
pressure where we need to like, oh, we need to
we have to do this. We got to pay the bills,
we got to make sure that this launch performs well.
Instead we just we let it go and we go, Hey,
we understand, if money's tight, don't buy a single thing.
Take care of your family. That's that's horrible advertising from
a marketing standpoint, but I think it's just really good honesty.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, and we do launches every month, and so like,
if you're buying from us every single month, like that's
a lot of money. And so I totally get And
you only need to shirt every so often, but hopefully
whenever you need a new shirt or a new hat,
you'll get one from us. And we try to make
it the best possible quality we can, with the coolest designs,
with the top designers, and hopefully it'll last year a
long time and then when it wears out, we'll be
(06:21):
around whenever you need another one.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, that's right. And yeah, the quality on a lot
of these T shirts and that Jersey Tyler's wearing these hats,
the qualities just step up from what we did were
doing last year and the year before. So yeah, super excited.
I know you guys are busy, So I'm gonna let
you go twenty eight minutes now into the EEE Apparel
(06:43):
summer launch. Go to yeye dot com for everything. If
you're listening live, I would go there quickly because a
lot of stuff, the popular things tend to sell out quickly,
and if you're listening later then there's probably there's probably
enough to get you by so yeye dot com is
where you need to go. Oh, Tyler's holding up. Eight.
(07:05):
This is a last minute edition, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We didn't think it was gonna come in time. But
we got our bandanas in literally the day before the launch.
So yeah, that's a fun little edition. We've never done
bandanas before.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, those are in. They're super soft. I felt them yesterday.
That's cool. All right, guys, I'll let you go. We're
gonna get to some questions here. Appreciate you, love you,
see you guys, Ye, say get some risk. All right,
We're gonna answer some questions. Aun't you with me? Still?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, sir? What's your time? We're sitting at sitting at
eleven fifty since we start? Okay, cool, all right, this
question is gonna come from Tyler and not my brother,
says hey Granger. My wife twenty six and I twenty
seven right now are considering IVF. We have been trying
for almost a year to conceive and have recently found
(07:55):
out that I, U, I or IVF. Maybe you're only
not option due to some medical issues. We attend an
SBC church and regularly serve in the worship ministry. I
am worried that we might be pushed out of our
church were we to where we have grown deep relationships
with the pastor and other partitioners. Given the Southern Baptist
(08:18):
Convention's recent vote to oppose IVF, I'm interested to hear
your thoughts on this, giving your experience with IVF and
your connection to the SBC. God bless Tyler, Arkansas. Hey Tyler,
thanks for the question, man. It's a great one, and
it's this is a fresh wound that the band aid
has just come off of with the SBC as they
have voted. It was just as I'm reading this, it's
(08:40):
only two weeks ago that the Southern Baptist Convention voted
against the approval or the endorsement of IVF and IVF
in mutual fertilization comes really with two camps, and this
is the argument at the SBC. There's two camps of
(09:00):
opposition of IVF. One is the people that say IVF
is okay, as long as you don't make as long
as you I'll put it this way, as long as
you don't leave embryos extra. That's the most non medical
way I could say it. And then the other way
(09:22):
is don't do it at all. It shouldn't be done.
It's immoral. So I am a Southern Baptist seminarian. So yes,
I am closely tied with the SBC. I go to
SBC's church. I'm an SBC seminarian. I'm friends. I'm actually
(09:42):
friends with the two leading advocates against IVF. I'm friends
with those guys. They're both professors at at Southern. So
on top of that, we have a beautiful baby boy
downstairs right now, he's almost three, who is an IVF baby.
Let me, I need to I need to walk through
(10:02):
some a couple of things. This will probably take a
whole podcast if I did. But I understand where you're
coming from, Tyler, very much. I walked in your shoes.
And to be honest, I also understand the sentiment of
the SPC. I think IVF can be it can't be
(10:23):
a dangerous thing. There are a lot of embryos that
are that are left over. I think there's hundreds of thousands,
maybe millions. Don't quote me on that, but there's hundreds
of thousands of believe embryos that have been left over
that were conceived but not implanted or transferred, I think
is the right word. And what do you what do
(10:44):
we do with this? This is a moral dilemma and
we can't be irresponsible with this. When we were going
through this ourselves. If I wrote the book Like a River,
I had a had a really emotional moment with if
in a discussion with Lincoln, my son. That's in the
book Like a River. It's the tree conversation. If you remember, Daddy,
(11:09):
does God make all the trees and man make some
of the trees. It was that conversation. So if you
haven't read Like a River, Tyler, check that out. And
then Amber and I decided we were convicted that we
felt like this may be wrong, and so we decided
that we would implant every single embryo we had, and
(11:31):
as it turned out, all of them died, including a miscarriage,
leaving us all the way just down to just one
last one and it ended up being Maverick. Now that's
my story, and that doesn't make IVF right just because
I did it. And it also, even if it is wrong,
it doesn't make Maverick wrong because God uses he always
(11:53):
has used sin and for his own glory, for his
own good, he's done. There's countless stories about that. So
it's never the baby's fault. Certainly not Maverick's fault, and
Mavericks certainly not an accident or but but just because
Mavericks exists, and he's beautiful, and he's loved, and he's purposed,
(12:15):
and he's he is in the image of God. Just
because of all all that. There also co exists another
idea that maybe Amber and I were wrong in considering IVF.
You could tell that I have have struggled over the
years with it, and if we were going to do
it all over again, I don't think we would do IVF.
(12:39):
And that's not because all can now because now the
SBC is voting against it, et cetera, et cetera. It's
not because of that. I just believe as we've been
sanctified as Christians more and more, I think it becomes
more problematic. Why because look at the fruit of IVF clinics. Hey,
(13:00):
we we've getten we get emails from the clinic that
Maverick was conceived in those aren't they aren't good emails
that we get? And what they're promoting. What are they
The emails we get from the clinic where MAV came
from aren't God honoring emails. They aren't God glorifying emails.
(13:25):
You give them my drift what they're promoting and what
they're using IVA for and what they're endorsing because they
they have IVA of what they're what they're saying that
they can do. It's not It's not a couple like
Tyler Sure from Arkansas saying we've struggled and we're we've
(13:46):
been we go to church and we've been praying and
we trying to conceive a baby. That's not what these
clinics are promoting.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So is the should the reform be on no pun intended?
I promise.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Is it throwing the baby out with the bathwater to
say no IVF at all?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Or is it saying the way IVF is done right
now is wrong. You said you used all three embryos.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well we did, and there was also there were seven
more that died before we even got a chance to
use them. I just think in hindsight we look back
on it and we go, hey, I don't think we
are quite as sanctified as we are now in this situation.
I don't think. I don't think we would have done
it the same. That doesn't make me regret doing it
or regret Maverick, of course not. But will I now
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stand forward and endorse it and actually go against my
colleagues in the SBC. I don't think so. I think
the men and women that have prayed over this and
studied this for a long time, I don't think they're
wrong in thinking, Hey, we need to hit the brakes
on this, We need to think about this because the
implications of the future. Where's this going? What are the
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fruits of this? And I'll tell you what the fruits are.
I see, I see the emails, I see their their
Instagram page and what they're promoting, and it's awful.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Stuff, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
That's why you know this this could be well, probably
should be a bunch of longer conversations. It's a longer
conversation with other people, people who have been effected on
both sides of it.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I hate to give you the answer, Tyler that you
don't want to hear, but adoption is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Adoption is a for sure, beautiful, beautiful thing. And there's
so many babies that need a home, and you're saying
how great or how could you say that when you
you did the opposite. Well, maybe Amber and I need
to adopt to We'll leave it there. Next question, do
we have another time for another one right now? Twenty? Yeah,
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let's hit another one.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Try about this and hit some comments.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Cool, let's hit the comments and then we can get
another to break.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, we got break. I've got a couple here.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Like that, yege pearl mug right there? Look at that, friends,
new the coffee mug just came out today at the launch.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
This is the epitome of product placement today, both of
us wearing the city.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
A question from you guys doing a podcast tour. Yes,
we were just talking about. I just told ant Man
right before we started this, I said, Hey, once we
get enough reps doing this live podcast thing, then we
should we should have all the kinks worked out by
the time we actually take a tour and do this.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Hope.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So that's that's the hope.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
That's a good one too.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Chris says, Hey Granger, this is straight from the live
right here, I'm reading, Hey, hey Granger, getting ready to
close on a house soon I'll be it'll be my
wife and I was first home together. Any advice on
two newly married twenty four year olds in life and
being first time home buyers, congratulates, man, that's big, that's big,
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that's huge. Twenty four is young and you've got a
lot of life ahead of you. I would say, I
would say, hold it with open hands, don't hold that
house too tightly, don't worry about that house, don't make
that house you're idole. Don't don't obsess over that house,
because bad things are gonna happen to it, like things
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are gonna break, pipes are gonna burst, You're gonna get
you know, fence is gonna get knocked down on a
high wind. You're gonna you're gonna get stains on the carpet.
I would just say, live it, live in it, live
with it. And it's not a permanent house. It's not
a forever home, and so enjoy it, make the most
out of it, and one day, for willing, five, six,
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ten years, you'll be moving in another house because you
can need some more bedrooms'd be cool.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Let's take a break. YEP.
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Whoever you want me to say it to and I'll
shoot you a message. Next question comes from Glenn. It
says the Cowboy church I attend and support has for
a long time had five minute teachings every Sunday morning
on biblical giving. The teaching about giving is more than
just about money and includes Biblical teaching of giving one's
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self first, and that the giving of tides and offerings
is a reflection of giving oneself first. The teaching is
then followed by those to come forward and place their
offering in a bucket and then prayed over. When I
started going to this church, it was already an established
part of the service. I am the person asked by
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the pastor to do this teaching. Nearly everyone does it
without question or complaint. But there is one individual who
has personally disagreed with the public display of giving tithes
and offerings because it might offend or compel someone to
come forward in order to remain in conspicuous, and they
have made it known to the pastor, but not personally
to me. My question is, do you see anything wrong
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with giving tides and offerings and a public display of
coming forward as opposed to passing the offering plate. I'd
love to hear your answer. Sincerely in Christ, Glenn Tate. Glenn,
thank you for the question. It's an interesting one. Do
I see anything wrong? Let me see? How about how
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about Matthew six's three four? But when you give, do
not let your left hand know what your right hand
is doing, so that your giving may be in secret
and your father, who sees you in secret, will reward you.
There's that. Yeah, I'd be cautious about this. I'd be
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cautious really in the tone of this, because because we're
kind of we're kind of thinking that this person, this
one person is crazy and they're actually this one person
is actually biblical?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Is the one biblical?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, it sounds like and we're kind of looking at
this one.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Look.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with people wanting
to get up and give in public. That people are
just gonna do that. But I think what's wrong is
saying that this is the way we do it, and
if you disagree with it, you're strange. That's kind of
what this email sounds like.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, is that what you feel?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah, it is is the hope that because I see
someone else, is this what they're thinking. If the rest
of the congregation sees this many people giving, they'll be
encouraged to.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Give to I think that's what they're thinking.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Marshall said something when he was on here earlier that
I loved a couple of weeks ago, said that him
and the elders of the church they don't even know
who gives. They don't look and they're not allowed to
see the names. Because you have the danger as a
pastor of it creating favoritism. It does, for sure, even
if you're as solid as a rock. It's really hard
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not to think, but this person gives the most of
the congregation, it's really hard not to give them extra
favor or to do what they are suggesting. It's very difficult.
So to protect yourself against that you don't know. And
when you have a public display like that, everyone's getting up,
you know, you know the pastor sees it, everyone sees it.
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So yeah, I would speak against this. I know cowboy
churches do stuff like this. I know that even passing
the offering plate is starting to become less and less
at a mais, we don't do it. We're not as
old school and so we don't do it at all.
It's only online.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
How about that see, we do both, but it's also
kind of become tailored, like they'll they'll come up to
the edge of your row and just kind of look
conceive if anybody because you know, people will hold it
up or whatever, and then they'll pass the plate down.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But it doesn't just automatically go by you.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, we're it used to and there's nothing wrong with that.
Every church I've ever known has done that. And and
may as we have a box in the back, so
if like here, you don't do online banking or whatever,
then you could put you could put it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
In you want to throw a twenty in.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
But I think for that person that throws a twenty
in the box without anyone seeing, it's blessed.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, agreed, I mean it's biblical agreed.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So yeah, back to.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Your point that you're saying that Marshall said is that
I've seen it in action before. Of they'll carefully consider
what someone who has who said something or asked to
do something, they'll think of them and consider it differently
because they know, man, if we don't do that and
they get mad, that's a big chunk of money that
leaves our church.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
That's their thought process. I've seen it happen inactionable.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, so dangerous man.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Good.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Next question comes from Jaden Hey Grangeer. First, I want
to thank you for the virtual meet and greet back
in April twenty twenty A while anyway, My question is
do I let my girlfriend know that I want to
propose without actually telling her? Or do I just not
tell her and just do it? That's a very simple question.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
How would you like to be proposed to? Sweetheart?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That Jay not two parts of that question one one
part says, hey, man, you know you got to make
sure that she actually is agreeing that she wants to
get married to.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know, that's a good conversation.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I mean, that's a conversation where you just say you
tell her in some kind of form. Surely you have, Hey,
I one of these days I want to get married
and I love you, and you're you're exactly the kind
of girl I want to marry. So you're kind of
building it up without saying will you marry me? And
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you wait for her reaction because if she says, oh,
I didn't know where going this fast, then there's a problem.
And if she goes me too, you're the kind of
guy that I would love to marry and then and
then you kind of move on, but you just store
that away that Okay, this is good, this is good.
You're planning seeds, and you have the conversations about children
and about her faith and things like that, things that
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are unreconcilable once you are married. If she's you get
married and you're you're expecting four kids and she wants none,
that's a question in a conversation you probably should have
had before you're even engaged. If you have a strong
faith and she doesn't at all, it's a conversation you
probably should have had or vice versa before you even
get engaged. If all that's taken care of, then you
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go to the second part of my answer. The second
part of my answer is, Man, I just think surprises
are better.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, but I don't think that I've ever met a
girl that I had that, and not necessarily a girl
I was dating, but just a girl in general that
was dating someone that didn't make their intentions known before
the guy did, Hey we're getting married, right, you know
almost that absolutely, Here's what I would wear, Here's the
house that I would want, Here's how many kid I
mean that seems to always have been up front in
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most relationships. Yeah, and if you're not having that conversation,
that might be the first.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And once you're there, then I think a surprise is good.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Bingo, surprise her.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Absolutely, do something neat not something. Also, here's here's a tip.
I think, not something you think it's a great proposal.
That's something she would think. It's a great proposal. Like
if you love football and she doesn't, don't propose it
the halftime of your favorite football game on the jumbo tron.
You know, if she loves football, okay, cool. If she
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loves you know, the beach, take her to the beach
and do it there, even though you don't like it.
It's about her, you know, you know, do do what
you think would be great for her.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To be careful not to drop the ring in the sand.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Don't drop the ring in the sand.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Y'all got some questions here on comments you want to
do it?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, I say it.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Here's one.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Lindsay says, Hi, when is your new song coming out?
And are you going to release it? I love the
new intro. I don't know, Lindsay, thanks for asking.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Explain what she's talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So the smiths Our Family vlog I have a new
song that came out in the intro, the brand new
intro of the Smiths, and so, uh, just live with it, lindsay,
you might not even like it after you listen to
it enough times, you might not even want the full version.
But if you do, all think about how to release it.
Mason says, how are we going to buy yee Ye today?
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I wasn't gonna buy ye ye today, but watching y'all
in the new gear is making me rethink that maybe
I'll just rewind and listen to the part about saving money. Yeah. Maybe, so, Mason,
I don't know this, do you see that? No? Stephanie said,
all the mugs are amazing. I definitely want the insulin munths.
They work so great.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, this one that said that mug is already sold out?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Is it really? Yeah? I haven't been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's a good one. Great one.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And thank you for always being real honest and my
brother in Christ, thank you, Emily.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
And then you talked about this one the last on
the last live that we did about a month ago.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, the live album and DVD be coming soon, so Adam,
it is officially finished. The live almost a few last
weeks copyright stuff. For instance, America started with a beat
from the movie Top Guns. Found out way to take
that out so that But yes, the live album is finished.
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I'm very happy with it. It's going to release probably in
the fall. And the documentary to go with it is
not finished, but it's a work in progress and we
plan on packaging both of those together. Cool. I going
to go back to the question here, back to the
email podcast at grangersmith dot com if you want to
hit me up, and the question from Cody says, Hi,
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granger recently met a guy who is so bright and
caring and giving. We met riding motorcycles and have rode
together other almost every day since. He caught feelings for me,
and it wasn't It was already breaking my heart to
tell him that I don't like him too, But now
everything is caving in on him, and I don't know
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how to love him without hurting him more by giving
him hope of a relationship. His family is Messy's sister
in prison, to autistic brothers, threatening grandpa, irresponsible parents, an
uncle who died in a motorcycle crash right after we met,
an injured aunt from the same crash, and an uncle
who raped his knees. He's twenty five and taking custody
of his knees to protect her. And he has already
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held custody of his nephew since he was eighteen. He
beat thyroid cancer two years ago, and he's coming back
right now, just as strong. He's in pain. He's depressed.
He's selling all of his bikes that we have been
and which have been his only outlet and escape from
everything he's got going on. He's acting like he's giving up.
He met me three weeks ago and he wants to
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give his He wants to give me his favorite bike,
and I can't even like him back. Three of his
biker friends crashed this week alone, and he is there
for every single one of them. Though he is suffering,
he is trying to go to church and have faith,
even though he hasn't for a few years. I know
sin is why there is suffering, but God didn't cause it.
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But he can't stop it. God, Why are there people
like me who have such an easy life when he
is going through hell every day. I am undeserving and bitter,
but get to be healthy and okay when he is
loving and in so much pain? How is that fair. Okay,
what an email Cody? Okay, indeed, that's deep. There's two
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different answers that come right to my mind right away. One,
you're not responsible for this guy. You've known him for
three weeks. You're not responsible for his happiness. There's nothing
you could do to make him happy, and there's no
decision you could make, there's no agreeent that you can
make to make him You're not responsible for his happiness.
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I'm not responsible for Amber's happiness. You're not responsible for
Ashley's happiness. Ant man that this is a misconception that
we as humans are responsible for other people's happiness, and
you are saying that about this guy that you just
met three weeks ago, who's got his life is falling apart.
That doesn't mean you can't love him and encourage him
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and be there for him and be a friend and
listen to him and share time with him. It doesn't
mean all that. It just means that you can't be
responsible for his happiness, especially if you don't like him
in a romantic way, so that you might violate that
just to make him happy. That's wrong. That's the first
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part of my answer. My second part says, I want
you know where I want to go. I want to
go to this part that says, I know that there
is I know that sin is why he's suffering, and
God didn't cause it, but can't he stop it? And
then my mind goes, Okay, Isaiah forty five might disagree
with you, Cody. It says Isaiah forty five six and
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seven says, I am the Lord, and there is no other.
I form light and create darkness. I make well being
and create calamity. I am the Lord who does all
these things. That is much different than a God who
says I didn't cause it and I don't know if
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I could stop it. In fact, that's not a God at.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
All, not a very big one anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
That's just that's an idle god, lowercase gees that we
have created for our own comfort, so that so that
we could be comfortable in our little lives, knowing that
we are stuck in our lives. And it's definitely not fair.
It's not my fault and it's not fair. That's what
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we want to say all the time. Yeah, And to
that is always the Gospel is always the Cross of
Christ glaring back at this unfairness that says all of
us are sinned. None of us are good, No, not one.
All of us have rejected God and the world that
was made that was good. In our rebellion, in our sin,
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he made a way to reconcile us, to forgive us
of our sins. And it's not by anything we could do. Instead,
it's with his son that he sent to die for us,
to be the substitute to take, to be the replacement
for the punishment that we deserved. Christ takes that on himself,
in his body on the cross and says, whoever looks
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at me and believes in this final sacrifice, this ultimate sacrifice,
you will be forgiven, not in anything you've done, but
what have I done. That's where fairness comes from. That's
where the judgment is satisfied. And then you go, how
is that fair? Is Christ dying on the cross? Is
the man, the God Man, the perfect one, scent, sinless,
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without without flaw, without fault, that lives the perfect life,
and he goes and we murder him? Is that fair?
That's where That's where, That's where this all gets mixed
up here. So Cody, I think that's all I have
to say. Where do you got to end?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Got a few more comments from uh from the life.
Love doing this and love seeing your comments in the
moment too, and love those. So back to the last email,
you got to come in here so.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Jenna says, I so love your broadcast. As as my
guy introduced you to me. We are happy and I
could see him as my future as well. We listen
to you together. Blessings to you always and your family,
Peace of love. Thank you so much. Janis Rachel says,
are you still coming to Raleigh to preach next month? Yeah?
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I haven't canceled it. Yeah I'm coming, and it says
good morning and happy Friday to everyone from Santa Domingo,
Dominican Republic. Thank you Anna so much. I know you
listen quite a bit, so it's always an honor to
have you.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Here's the here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And she says, I'm forty two and I want to
know your advice from about meeting godly men. Well, if
I was, Anna says, what's your advice about meeting godly men?
And let me reframe the question, grangeur, what's your advice
in catching large mouth bass? I'd say go to a
go to a good polly with some low hanging brush
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that has plenty of bait. Fish go during spawning season.
That's where you're gonna find the biggest ones and know
what to throw. And so for you, you want to
know what kind of lure a godly man is going
to want a godly woman, So be a godly woman,
be the kind of woman that a godly man would
be attracted to. That's a great that's a great goal.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
And then you got to go to the pond. And
so I would go to a good, solid Bible teaching church.
That's where you're gonna find godly men. And that's when
you're gonna throw a godly lure. And that is with
a godly woman.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I was gonna say, the only thing only difference is
you're the lure. But you have to be real and
he can't be fake.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Oh yeah, you gotta be a live meno exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
So does that help you at all?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
If equated dating fishing, that's what you get on there.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's either dating to fishing, or it's either fishing or
football or the two analogies I go to all the time.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That time you want to do one more email.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yep, I only have two lefts. So yeah, one more
would be good. Kristin says, hello from Orlando. Women as pastors.
Wow here, man, we're just hitting them all, aren't we.
You did this to me, man, you did get over
there laughing. Women as pastors seem to be a controversy
with churches. I don't understand why. Is the Bible is
very clear. I do not attend I do not attend
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my church because of this comments. Thank you and blessings, Kristin. Hey, Kristin,
I agree with you. I believe the Bible is is
very clear that the the biblical eldership leadership in a
church is for men. I am a complementarian, meaning that
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when men and women have very both of us, very
important and very distinct roles that we need to carry
out in the church, and when when those distinct roles
are blurred, trouble begins in the church. I think we
see this. I think there's no doubt that we see
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the the result of either way. I'm not an egalitarian,
meaning men and women are equal in every way and
and and that's not my opinion, Like we have to
get that clear too. That's that's not just what my
heart says or my gut says, or what you know
what I want to be. That's just what the Bible says,
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and so believe it. And then I see the from
it acted out correctly, and I go, oh wow, that's
women are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
Men are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
Kids are so much better when they're following the Biblical standard.
And it's the marriages are so much better when they're
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following the Biblical standard. Grief is so much more hopeful
when following the Biblical standard. I could just go on
and on and on, but all the attributes and characteristics
and identities of people and our feelings and our emotions
are just better when carried out according to the Biblical standard.
And so I don't want to break apart from that
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because it hurts if we do it, it doesn't work right,
and it creates struggle and strife, and so yes, so Christen.
The one thing I want to say in your email
that I don't like about your email is that you
said I do not attend my church because of this.
I would say, then it's not your church, find you one.
There's so many in fact, in order, my buddy, Caleb
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Brasher has a great church there called the Grove, and
please please, I'm gonna look it up right now. But
if I was in Orlando, I would definitely go to
the Grove. I'm looking them up right now. It is.
It is in Claremount, so I'll give you the address.
It's four to sixty West Montrose Street, Claremont, Florida three
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four seven one five. The pastor has Caleb Brasher. It's
called the Grove, and it's just uh, it's it's a
great complementary in church.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
You have that question a lot about you know, where
do I find a great church? And you've talked about
it before of who they can email.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, yeah, we could still haven't done it in a
little bit, but it's it's Take and Read podcast at
gmail dot com. Take and Read podcast at gmail dot com. Yeah,
that's uh, that's pastor Chad hopefully can help you with that.
So what are we doing on time? We're good, We
like that's it. Okay, Hey guys, we love you and
(41:06):
I'm so glad you're you're tuning in now with me
live and I'm so glad you're you're listening later if
when you see this released on Monday. But I sure
appreciate y'all and you just make things your your questions
just make me so encouraged. So love you guys. See
you next Monday.
Host
Granger Smith
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