One time when I was much younger I decided to run away from my problems. I thought it would be smart to take a backpack with one of my best buddies and head down a train track to escape the craziness of the world.

At the time the craziness of the world was 9-11 and it seemed like after 9-11 that there was a lot of uncertainty that everything was going to crash around us and the very lives that we lived were going to be over.

So I decided, hey hey take my buddy and we're going to throw a backpack on put some energy bars in our bags and some water and

Walk down a train track and that's when we almost got hit by a train.

I brought my buddy, his name is Bernie and he's going to be on the podcast today.

Bernie and I have kept in touch since then for 21 years. He's one of my best friends in the world and the

dude is so smart. I could call this guy if I ever need advice or just need to talk or need to chat about something, he always gives me that sound advice that I need.

And it occurred to me recently when I was at his house, I was like, man, not everybody in the world has a burning like I do I

feel lucky that I could just call him and get some advice but not everybody has that

so I thought I'll bring him on the podcast and he could help me kind of dive into some of these questions from you guys, which I get from you if you email GrangerSmith podcast at gmail.com.

So Bernie and I are going to talk about some of our stories, our misadventures in life.

We're going to answer some of your questions and I think it's going to be a really good show.

I want to give some shoutouts like I always do.

This first one goes to Tyler Clackston in Ontario. Thank you buddy. Shout out to Tyler. This next one goes out to Dakota and he is turning 13 years old from Freedom, Wisconsin.

What's up Dakota?

Shout out to Lee Kaufman from Montresville, Pennsylvania.

What's up?

Shout out.

Johnny House.

This goes out to you, man.

He's also a fan of Butch and Bull

and all the other YouTube series and the song, Stutter.

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