It would be hating you if I knew something and I believed something,

whether you believed it or not, regardless of if you believed me or not or

anyone believed me, it would be hating you if I believed something and didn't tell you.

Welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to the first podcast of 2023.

Happy new year. Happy new year. It's crazy that people will be listening to this.

Hopefully years from now, they'll be like, wow, 2023, this is so old.

But it's the first one that we're doing in the new year.

Well, I mean, this is episode number 100 and 69.

69, dude, you've done 169 of these things. Yeah.

You are getting old. So that's a long time of doing these things, man.

It's great for real. And you, this is Bernie Calcote. He's been a guest on this podcast.

Probably 50 of those, 40 of those. I have no idea. We'd have to count it up.

But one of my favorite guests, I always hesitate to say my favorite guest because

you know, I got brothers and Patrick Chad. I could have loved those guys too. Yeah, for sure.

Well, it's an honor to be here, guys. Love you. Love your fans and love the opportunity just to

sit and chat like we're driving down the road and pick up talking about life.

It's exactly what we do. We answer your questions. If you have a question, email

GrangerSmithFodcast at gmail.com. And we'll just get to it. We'll talk about it long form,

not always right about everything, but we'll talk about it like we're just buddies.

We'll talk about it like we're right, but it doesn't necessarily mean we are.

All right, first question here. I'm going to hit this one right here. I just randomly hit this

in the inbox. It says, is it worth it? email says, hey, Granger, my name is Brady. I'm from a small town

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