Grayson Russell

Yeah, I went to bed about 6.30 this morning.

So, we're probably, we're lunch.

So, I mean, it's fine.

We'll have a big night tonight.

but thank you for having me.

I really appreciate it, my friend.

I have.

Dude, it's crazy.

I know we're kind of talking a little faith-ish earlier, and we don't have to totally go into it, but I was raised predominantly by a bunch of old women, so my granddad was the youngest of six, and whenever, I have a great relationship with my folks, but whenever my parents would go to work, like Bertha and Inez and Ethel and all these old women kept me, and

Like I said, I grew up touring, doing gospel with my folks when I was five.

Most of y'all know me as an actor, which is great.

My granddad, when he was three, his mom died.

She got melanoma from picking cotton and fell dead.

She was in her 30s.

And when his dad became a belligerent alcoholic after that, and when my granddad was five, he got rheumatic fever, which is like...

happens after you have like strep throat and don't treat it because penicillin wasn't a thing in 1945, 1950.

Before antibiotics.

Yeah.

And it paralyzed him.

So he would just scoot around on his butt as a five-year-old child.