What's up? Welcome to the podcast. This is episode 62,

Granger Smith podcast. Thank you for listening and watching and

and thank you especially to those that have come this long journey with me all the

way back to episode one and following the evolution and the

growth of what this channel has become and what this podcast has become. It

started with me in the back of my bus just telling stories and it has evolved into having very different

style guests everything from war veterans injured war veterans, injured war veterans, to preachers.

I mean, we, and we've had everything in between.

I had someone ask me one time,

I wish you could go back and do the podcast like you used to do it when I used to tell stories and partly why I've made a little bit of a transition is

because now we're filming for YouTube and we're adding

We're adding new listeners through people that are only on the YouTube format

So I know that a lot of you listen to like Apple Music or

Spotify or your podcast app. I know there's a lot of different apps for

podcast and a lot of different ways you're listening but YouTube is now one of them and when I switched over to

YouTube and started filming it I had to kind of get away from the editing that I was doing making the stories so I would sit in the back of my bus and I would

tell the story and then I would stop and I would take like a couple notes and then I

would add a little musical transition and then I would tell another little piece of a

story and I would stop and it would take me a long time it was it was grueling which is back back then I was releasing like one a month one episode a month and it was grueling I would start dreading it and I was like oh I gotta go I gotta

do this podcast it's gonna take me a couple of hours and and so now the way that it is now I

literally turn the camera on I hit my pro tools on my computer I hit record and

Whatever I say it goes on the podcast so

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