You're going to. Hey, it's Granger Smith. This is the Granger Smith podcast, episode 9. I had to learn a lot of things in the music business the hard way through a lot of miles a lot of years a lot of failure

And in this episode I want to talk about a fundamental time when everything changed for me.

I saw things differently for the first time.

2018's here. The tour is going awesome. We're in Ohio today.

Halfway through this day, so I'm probably not going to finish the podcast until tomorrow in

Pennsylvania.

It's so awesome to go out on stage and see Yee Yee Nation and that's what we call our fans,

our people.

They wear the YEE hats and shirts and hold flags and signs.

They're so passionate about the music.

And that is what keeps me going.

That's what fuels me. The fans. That's where it starts to me. That's where it's going to end one day.

When I don't have any fans left, that's when I'll have to quit. But I didn't always think that way. It wasn't always about the fans. It was about at one point climbing the ladder of music and making songs and hopefully getting a record deal, but amazingly enough,

you don't realize until later that it's the fans that provide all of that for you.

And I learned it the hard way, and I'll tell you all about that for you and I learned it the hard way and I'll tell you all about that.

So once again I'm in the back of my bus Wildflower and it is cold really cold in Ohio today.

I'm looking out the window and it's there's about six inches of snow covering the parking lot of this empty venue and that seems to be chasing us around the cold weather is. I mean we are playing the

northeast and the upper Midwest and so you would expect this time of year it's going to be

really really cold. You know I asked you guys on the last few

podcast if you needed a question answered then it would be easy. Ask the question

on social media and then hashtag Granger Smith podcast and we'll keep on doing

that and I'm pulling them up right now and I have a question from Matthew

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