You're going to. What's up?

up it's Granger Smith. This is episode 12. I'm in Delaware and I'm about to play a show here in about 30 minutes, but I thought, hey, I'm going to go

ahead and start this episode 12 because I need to and I'm going to finish it up this week in Virginia

and South Carolina. So many things to say, where do I start? This has been a wild summer. I know I say that all the time, but we just finished doing the Bachelorette, Jimmy Kimmel, got back from Canada, heading to Australia. It's crazy. I just met

someone in a meet-and-greet line and maybe the reason I'm doing this

podcast now is because of this but I met this girl and she brought me a

amazing gift.

She made me a pickle jar, which symbolizes the old days of when I used to use pickle jars as tip jars on the stage.

So this unique pickle jar that she made me has a collage all over it with all the different stories

That I've said on these podcasts in the past which is amazing. I mean she included everything

Her name is Brittany Balzer and she put a note inside the

pickle jar and it says after listening to your podcast I felt a deeper connection

with your music because I understand the work that it took to get you to where you are today.

Thank you, Brittany. I hope that you know by your words that you wrote to me.

This is exactly why I started this podcast,

to get a better connection with the fans. That is awesome. People been asking me to

continue the story that I started a couple of episodes ago. It was the timeline of

my career when I was working on my Don't Listen to the radio album.

That was an important time for me.

Most importantly because that's when I met my wife Amber.

It was actually for the music video of that song, don't listen to the radio.

So yes, one of the things I want to talk about today is that story.

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