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Lucas Miner on Music, Personal Growth, and the Journey of Creativity · The Scene Projects

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  Well, welcome in to another exciting episode of The Scene.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and with me today is singer, songwriter and mobile barber, Lucas
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  Minor.
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  Lucas, welcome to the show, brother.
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  What's up, brother?
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  How's it going?
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  It's going great, man.
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  It's going great.
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  Pleasure to connect with you here and, kinda hear a little bit of your story off camera, and
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  and we did get to speak a little bit last week.
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  But, glad to have you here on the show.
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  I I'd like to give you a chance to just kinda tell everybody who you are and a little bit
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  about what you do, and then we're gonna talk about that new song and album you got coming
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  out.
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  Yes, sir.
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  I'm Lucas Minor, mobile barber, songwriter, singer, all the things, producer.
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  I got my own independent record label I'm working on getting going.
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  I got a five song EP that just released yesterday called Shape of a Rose.
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  It's, it's really awesome.
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  I got a bunch more songs, but, I just wanted to get something out from my fans, and I connect
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  with you, Bubba.
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  I don't know.
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  Probably a year or so ago, I've been kinda following you and watching, and, I was eager to
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  to reach out, man.
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  You got you got a lot of cool stuff going on.
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  Super grateful.
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  We got the mobile barbershop, though.
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  It's really cool.
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  People can go on to clip caddy.net, and there'll be pictures on there.
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  It's really cool.
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  It's in a ProMaster van, and we got a barbershop on wheels, man.
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  We're the, the Uber Eats of barbering, bro.
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  Oh, that's awesome.
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  And you're serving around the Nashville area.
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  Correct?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  We're servicing, Columbia, Tennessee and Spring Hill, Tennessee Wednesday through Saturday.
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  But on Tuesday, we're trying to grow right now.
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  So we're servicing Franklin and Brentwood on Tuesdays, and we're just closed on Sunday,
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  Monday like normal barbershops.
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  That's awesome.
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  I I love that you have such a unique, you know, kinda day job, I guess you would call it.
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  A lot more than that.
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  Like, how invested are you when you speak of it, you say very ours, but are you a, are you a
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  barber that's working for a company, or do you kinda have a stake in the ownership of the
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  vehicle and everything too?
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  So I, I'm not an owner.
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  I'm just owner of the skills, but I am the the glue that holds it together.
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  Like, without me, there wouldn't be a clip caddy.
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  So I'm not, I'm not, like, downing like I just work with a concrete company, and they really
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  believe in me, and they kinda just set me up to do what I wanted to, man.
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  They really, it's crazy.
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  They say that they say that, a stranger will make you rich.
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  I don't know.
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  That makes sense.
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  It makes sense.
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  Well and it's nice to have people out there that believe in you.
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  Were the people who own the concrete company, are they also fans of your music?
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  They're fans of whatever I got going.
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  They love me, man.
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  That's, it's pretty cool.
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  They're fans of my music.
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  They're super supportive, and they've really helped me in this journey, man, of, like,
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  trying to change my life, you know, being a being a a nine time loser, being in the pen,
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  addicted to drugs, homelessness, like, like, traumatized little brokenhearted Midwestern
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  boy.
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  You know?
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  And coming down here to the South in Tennessee, it's kinda helped me grow to become a better
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  version of myself.
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  And, on this journey, I've encountered some really cool people that really, really wanna
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  help.
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  Yeah.
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  Incredible parallels between our two lives.
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  And even now, where we're both kind of on this, you know, on a straighter, narrower path than
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  we ever have been and seeing the successes of all of those things.
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  I'm I'm a songwriter myself, Lucas, and, you know, now my my day job, I guess, is is doing
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  this.
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  Right?
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  Is running this podcast network and continuing to find other avenues inside of the media space
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  not just help artists, but you know, and not just make a name for myself, but to help
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  artists like you that are out there grinding.
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  And it's just such a tough gig if you don't have other people believing in you.
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  You know?
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  So shout out to your to your backers and to these, people that have been supporting you,
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  and you can feel free to shout them out too.
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  You never know who's listening.
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  I need some concrete work done in Tennessee.
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  Yeah.
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  H and J Concrete, man.
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  They're the best in the business.
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  H H and J Concrete.
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  Yep.
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  Really great people.
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  Awesome, Lucas.
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  Well, you said you just released this EP, The Shape of a Rose.
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  Tell us about the what kind of music that you're writing and what this EP kinda sounds
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  like.
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  So it's pretty cool.
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  So I kinda have, like, the, like, the blues deep in my soul, like, you know, soul music,
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  and I love country music.
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  So it's kind of it's country, vibe, but, you know, I like the I like the you're gonna hear a
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  lot of you're gonna hear some hip hop influence in there.
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  You're gonna hear a little bit of, everything in my music.
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  So my favorite song on there is actually the song the name of the the EP, Shape of a Rose.
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  But there's a wide variety of stuff, and there's one song in there about drinking beer
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  and kicking ass, bro.
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  You know?
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  And, there's a little bit of everything on there.
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  So just the five songs, I got another song called Excellent Choice.
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  It's about how, like, you know, you could be on your journey and and, like, can't find anybody
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  who, like, believes in you or nor supports you, but there's that one person, man, and he
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  believes in everything you do.
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  And, he tells you everything's an excellent choice.
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  You know?
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  Sometimes he's just a drunk guy.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I wrote about this dude, and, yes, sometimes they have a brown bag in their hand.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  Alright.
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  The the saints come in all shapes and forms, along this path that we've walked.
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  And, no doubt, just because someone in the throes of addiction doesn't mean they're gonna
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  tell you something that doesn't change your life.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  You're right.
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  You're right.
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  And it's just so easy just to discredit what they're saying.
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  But truth be told, like, I found that a lot of times, those people will be the most honest.
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  They got nothing to hide.
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  They got nothing to hide.
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  Man, Lucas, that reminds me of a story.
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  So along my journey, I ended up as a very young man, 21, 22 years old down on Venice Beach in
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  California right there on the California Coast and, busking every day.
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  And, occasionally, you know, I I'd have a beer when I when I was playing or whatever.
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  Somebody I kinda played in front of the little restaurant there.
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  Shout out to the Venice Bistro.
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  I don't know if it's still called that or if it's even there.
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  But there was a older older gentleman named Abraham, or at least that's what everybody
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  called him.
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  And Abraham come up to me one day totally out of the, like, just out of the blue, And we'd
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  had conversations and things, but just came up to me and was like, god told me he doesn't want
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  you to drink when you sing.
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  And it was just like, okay.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like, alright, Abraham.
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  See, you know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  It it led me to, you know, twenty years later finally kinda waking up to that and being like,
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  you know, I'm not the same person when I'm drinking alcohol.
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  I'm definitely not the same performer as I am.
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  And for whether whether God told him or not, I have to believe that he did because he was
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  right.
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  You know?
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  It's incredible, man.
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  I I love these stories that come from, come from the streets, man.
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  And
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  that's definitely where where you came from.
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  I know you kinda glossed over a little bit of your past.
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  But kinda take us back.
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  How do you feel like your your past and those hard times, how do you feel like that shaped
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  you as a man that you're sitting here with me today?
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  Oh, that's a good that's a that's a good question.
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  So you've been to prison before, and you know how, like, you can't move wrong in there.
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  Like, there's people that will hold you accountable, and a lot of times, they don't
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  have keys in the badge.
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  You know?
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  So, I'll say that in this journey, some of the best people I met were locked up.
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  And, there's some really the really big helpers in my journey.
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  I got one mentor I kinda use now, and he, he had committed murder.
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  And, he's not sorry.
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  He would do it again, but he's a changed man.
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  Like, he it was a justifiable murder, I believe.
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  And I kinda use him as my mentor now.
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  And, he's out and he's done his time.
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  He's he, he wouldn't take anything back neither.
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  He would he would he's he told me, he's like, I I would do it again, you know, the same thing
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  in the same situation.
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  I would do it again.
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  And, you know, I'm not gonna go too deep on the story, but I I believe he's justifiable.
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  And I'm not I'm not a judge or a juror, but, I do know the difference between right and wrong.
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  But he, and he has a different spiritual beliefs that I do, but similar, which is
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  awesome because a lot of those things, they, they kinda come together.
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  And, like, a a lot of times, instead of, you know, just I would let me slow down.
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  I would process things a lot differently if I never went through those things.
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  I would just rush through everything, and I would I wouldn't take the time to actually feel
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  or listen to other people.
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  I never had the opportunity to, find out who I was until I was in a situation where all I had
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  was myself and God.
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  And, it has a way of, you know, the and I'm not saying everybody's journey needs to have
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  prison, but I never had any idea on, like, who I was or how talented I was or creative until
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  all I had was that.
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  And, I'm gonna say it's not easier, to to should go through those changes.
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  It is better, but it is definitely a lot harder, and you could probably relate to that.
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  It's not easy to man, I used to be, like, the worst liar, bro.
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  I would be like, I won't lie about anything, dude.
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  And now I have this hunger for just, like, truth and honesty that I can almost feel when
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  someone's lying to me.
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  You know what I mean?
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  It's tough.
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  It's tough, to not speak out in those moments too because then I might just be called crazy.
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  You know?
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  But, I've never had any type of
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  Yeah.
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  Lucas, you you shared about your time, and I think it's important for people to know that,
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  you know, it ain't just the chains in a penitentiary that keep us shackled.
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  Right?
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  I mean, it can be any kind of addiction that doesn't send you to prison, especially now a
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  lot of our young men addicted to pornography, you know, addicted to substances.
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  A lot of people never make it to prison, but, you know, especially alcoholism is just so
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  rampant in our society.
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  I feel like there's definitely been a shift probably since, you know, 2020, 2021, right,
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  where people are starting to get healthier and and willing to take an honest look at
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  themselves inside of all of those things.
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  But it's it's important to know that, you know, lot of people are are still in chains whether
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  they're in a penitentiary or, you know, locked in a bad relationship.
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  I know we can you you mentioned some some relationship issues of your own, which who
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  hasn't had those.
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  Lucas, what, so how as a songwriter, you know, are your songs I feel like you you really speak
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  from the heart when you talk.
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  Is your songwriting process the same way?
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  Are are you trying to come at the songwriting the same way you come at Life Now with a brutal
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  honesty?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  And I'm glad you brought that up.
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  Absolutely, man.
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  And, this song my favorite song on the EP is called Excellent Choice.
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  Wait.
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  I mean, second favorite.
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  Whatever.
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  But, this song is vulnerable, man.
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  It's it is vulnerable, and it's the most it might be the most vulnerable I've ever been
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  publicly.
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  And I did it in a song form.
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  But, yeah, it's how I write, man.
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  I like to take those raw emotions and put them on paper, bro.
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  I got I got some good songwriting content now with this breakup I'm going through, man.
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  Man.
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  And I think that's where the best music comes from is those raw emotions.
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  I mean, I'm I don't write much of the I'm not much of the, like, party songwriter.
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  I mean, I got one song about kicking ass and drinking beer, but, I'm not I don't I don't
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  really party, so I don't really catch myself writing too much about that.
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  You know?
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  My songs are more like healing journey ish songs, man.
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  And you'll hear a little bit about Jesus in my music too, but I I'm not religious, if that
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  makes sense.
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  It makes perfect sense to a guy like me.
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  Yeah.
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  So you got a five song EP, Shape of a Rose.
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  You say your favorite is the title track off the EP.
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  I'm so excited for you, man.
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  This is the first music you've released in a while or at all?
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  This is my first release at all.
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  I'm gonna do some a bigger release later on, but this was just to to suffice my fans because
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  a lot of people are gonna like, bro, when you gonna drop some songs, Doug?
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  Because, especially being out here in Nashville, There is such a deep talent pool,
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  man.
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  It's so it's so beautiful seeing all these talented people, man.
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  And, like, there's some singers, some guitar picking peep dude.
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  Like, I'm like, golly.
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  And I'm supposed to go after him?
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  It's awesome, man.
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  It really challenges me to be better.
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  I think that my songs would be, you could hear it in my voice, man.
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  It's all my soul.
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  I'm pouring it out in this music.
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  Yeah.
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  You'll you you listeners, listen to them.
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  You'll you'll hear what I'm saying.
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  I can't wait to do just that, Lucas.
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  I I appreciate your time with me today.
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  I appreciate you coming on here, sharing a little bit about your personal story.
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  I already know we're gonna have to have you back on our sister show, the Get Better
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  Together project, and let you share a little bit deeper, you know, in-depth on your story
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  and your journey.
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  But, thank you for coming on the show, and and thank you for being part of the scene.
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  It's it's an honor, man.
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  Thank you.