Shane Profitt

Josh Mattei, chats with Shane Profitt!

Episode Transcript

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This week on Country on Deck. I had a song a few years ago
getting the top, top 15 at country radio, and it changed my
life. And I met Chloe, my fiance.
I bought us a house. I closed on the House, and three
days after I closed on the House, the record label I was
working with dropped me. I had no idea how I was going to

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make my mortgages and stuff likethat.
And so shortly after that, I wrote Penny to my name.
It's that song that just kind of, for me, it reminded me of
money and everything. As long as you surround yourself
with good people. Hey y'all, I'm Shane Prophet.
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Day. Hello and welcome to another
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rising country stars and help you discover the stories behind
their music. I'm your host, Josh Maddie, and
I'm back at my desk in Connecticut with another rising
country star on the show this week.

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But first, if you missed our conversation from last week, we
sat down to talk to Preston Duffy, all about his time on
American Idol. During the audition, you
adjusted the lyrics to add Luke Bryan's name to the song.
Did you plan that out or was it right in the moment?
When did you decide to do that? Oh yeah, man, like 2 seconds

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before I said I just was like, huh, I think that'll fit there
and I'll spit it out. Well, 'cause like I said
earlier, I even, you know, kind of kind of funny you bring that
up when you were asking me aboutLuke earlier, I was telling you
that in high school, we, he was one of the main people we would
listen to having fires in the inthe field out of my buddy's
place. And I was thinking back to one

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of those moments and then I was just like, we did listen to a
lot of Luke Bryan songs and I spit it out.
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love and enjoyed some amazing, amazing food.
I'm feeling extra thankful this this year.
I was going to take this week off with the with the holiday,

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but then I had the opportunity to talk to one of my favorite
artists, an artist that I've wanted to have on the show for
for quite a while. So when I found out that he was
available, I was like, hey, I'm not taking the week off.
I'm going to make this work and I'm going to put this put this
episode out and bring you this conversation and help you learn

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more about his story. I was able to catch up with him
last week during a very excitingtime in anyone's career in
country music. We talked to him last week
during the CMA Awards. He was out doing all the other
media and walking the red carpetand of course, getting ready for
the holidays, getting ready for for Thanksgiving.

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I haven't talked to too many people who are originally from
Tennessee from right outside of Nashville.
It's not. It's interesting how so many
people flock to Nashville, but very little people are actually
from right outside of Nashville or are from Tennessee.
But he is. He's from a little town called
Columbia, TN. One of his first performances in

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front of a crowd was at a place called the Elks Lodge.
After a bunch of gigging and cutting grass for a living, he
got his big break after getting discovered by Chris Jansen on a
sushi date. Chris Jansen brought him out on
tour and he rose to mainstream stardom in 2023 with his song
How It Ought to Be in 2025. He now has a brand new EP out

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called Population Me, which has five awesome songs.
I'm really excited to bring you this week's conversation with
Shane Prophet. We talked about that EP
Population Me and also what it'slike to go from playing in your
hometown at the Elks Lodge in Columbia, TN to walk in the red
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Shane Profit. Thanks so much for making some

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time for me. Man, you must be crazy busy.
CMA week, Thanksgiving coming off the holidays on the horizon.
So thanks so much for for comingon.
Thanks so much for making time for for Country on Deck.
I'm excited to chat with you. Yes, Sir, I'm I'm running all
over the place, but I'm excited to to get to chat with you this
morning. Thanks so much man.

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What are you most excited about with this CMA experience this
year? This CMA week is definitely
crazy. I've been doing, I bet yesterday
I probably did around, I don't know, probably 20 to 30
interviews. And then I've got the same thing
today and then actually later, later this afternoon, I'm
playing a charity thing that I'mhelping raise money for like the

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local schools close to where I live.
I'm, I'm getting to help out with that.
So I'm looking forward to this week in general is just really
exciting for everybody in country music.
So I'm excited to be a small part of it.
Yeah, it's like the Super Bowl of of country music.
Yeah, that's a really good way to put it actually.
By the by the time you get to the the show, you'll be trying

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not to fall asleep in your seat doing.
Some. Yeah, man, for sure, for sure.
Man, you've come a long way fromplaying the Elks Lodge in
Columbia, TN to now hanging out at the CMA Awards.
Do you ever have an opportunity to pause and reflect on how far
you've come in your journey? Man, So yeah, I actually think
about it quite a bit, especiallymy kind of journey has just been

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a roller coaster to say the least.
You know, this this business in itself has highs and lows.
They seem like they never end. But yeah, man, it's just, it's
kind of crazy to sit back and think about it.
I mean, like, I played the Elks Lodge.
I played a little restaurant called Puckett's.
And actually my first ever paid gig was at a Cajun restaurant in

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Columbia, TN. They gave me $100 and all I
could eat crawfish to to play music for a couple hours.
And at the time I actually only knew like four or five songs
because I just picked up a guitar man.
Like looking back, I literally sat on a Yeti cooler and I

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played the same like four or five songs over and over and
over again to meet my 2 hour time mark.
How far is Columbia from Nashville?
Today it took me about an hour and a half, but normally it's
supposed to take about 40 minutes.
Yeah, I've heard about the infamous traffic out there it
can get. Crazy.
Oh my gosh, yeah. It's it's getting out of hand,

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man. Somebody asked me yesterday if
there's one thing that you couldchange about Nashville, what
would it be? And I said the traffic.
Growing up so, so close to Nashville, did you always kind
of have your eye on on the city?Like kind of looking at it like
I want to be there one day or was that something that came

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later on in life or? Yeah, You know, I, I never
really had a desire to live in Nashville, and I still really
don't. I think once I started writing
songs and wanted to pursue it full time, that's kind of when I
was like started looking at apartments and I was like, all
right, well, maybe I don't have to be there full time, but I'm a

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firm believer, like especially to all the songwriters that, you
know, are thinking about wantingto do this full time.
I tell everybody and my buddies included, I just tell everybody
it's hard to step in cow crap ifyou're not in the cow pasture,
if that makes any kind of sense.And what I mean by that is, is,
you know, chances are if you, ifyou want to pursue country music

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as your full time job, it just it makes it a lot easier if
you're around and available. Because there's been so many
times where a songwriter has hadsomebody cancel last minute and
they're like, hey man, can you or do you want to write today?
And because I'm just, you know, 40 minutes down the road, I'll

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just, I answer them and be like,yeah, yeah, yeah, let's let's
write today. I can be there in 3045 minutes.
And you know, it just makes it alot more easy if you want to go
about this as your as your full time job, just being remotely
close, especially. Sounds like if you have the work
ethic it's a big advantage. Absolutely.
I, I think everything starts there and really it all starts

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on how you're raised to. I feel like for me, I was raised
on working hard and going after what it is that I want.
Just like whenever it comes to writing songs, I just, I want to
be, I want to be the first in the in the room and I want to be
the last to leave most of the time.
And before I even had a record deal.

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You know, a lot of people, a lotof these songwriters, they don't
start writing till 11:00 AM. And I would always just ask
people, hey, can we start at 9? It may take an hour to write a
song or it may take 6 hours to write a song, but I would set it
up to where I could start writing a song at 9:00 AM and
then I would also have somebody else scheduled to start at 3:00.

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I could write a song that morning, write a song that
afternoon. And I always found that that
worked worked for me pretty well.
Just trying to get trying to getgood quality songs with, with
good songwriters and especially,I mean, you talk to he talked to
Ben, the Ben Hay Slip or the OR the Craig Wiseman or the Ashley

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Gourley, Man, they have that same work ethic, even with
however many hits it is that they have.
I mean, over 100 combined between all those guys.
I'm good buddies with Ben Hay Slip and even to this day, I
mean, man, he doesn't have to come into Nashville and write
every day, but he does. And I think that's that's just,

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that's really cool in itself. Yeah, that that's a really smart
way to do it. You were like almost doubling
your day. Yeah, exactly.
I mean, here's here's the thing,man.
So kind of the way I thought about it was, all right, well,
there's five days and, you know,5 work days in a week.
If I can write 10 songs in thosefive days, everybody else is

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getting 5. You know, most people only write
1A day, if that. And my mentality was it kind of
doubled my chances of, of being successful.
So that's just kind of the way Ilooked at it.
Writing songs is probably a lot easier than cutting grass as
well. Man, you know, it, it depends on

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the day, I think. But yeah, I, you know, even to
this day, I still, I enjoy cutting my own grass.
People are like, man, you know, because especially in the
summertime, not not so much right now, but in the
summertime, I'll, that's my, that's when I'm most busy on the
road touring. And as soon as I get home, the
first thing I do, you know, I, I'll pet my dog and I'll kiss my

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woman and I'll go out and I'll cut the grass as soon as I get
back. That's, that's just what I do.
And I actually thinking of that.I bought a zero turn with lights
on it so that I can cut my grass.
A lot of times that, you know, I'll play a show and I'll get in
at 11:00 or 12:00 at night and I'll just go out there and cut

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my grass. Oh jeez, your neighbors must
love you. Well luckily luckily I don't
have anybody super close to me so.
But. The cars driving down the road,
they're definitely like, what the hell is going on?
If I did that in my neighborhood, I'd piss off a lot
of people. Yeah, man, I just, I that's,
that's one of the bonuses to nothaving an HOAI guess.

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When you were working cutting grass back in the day, were you
listening to a lot of music doing that?
Oh, all the time I would, I would put it on shuffle all the
time. And honestly, I, I didn't, I
didn't really ever listen to to like the the newer, newer stuff.

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Whenever I was cutting grass, itseems like I would always find
myself listening to people like Dwight Yoakam and Travis Tritt
and man, I mean, sometimes I would even get on Vince Gill
kicks. You can't go wrong with Vince
Gill. And it just depended on my mood
really. And even even like on the new,
like if I did listen to newer stuff, it would be something

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more up tempo, kind of more rock.
And not even necessarily country, but stuff like
Nickelback and Shinedown too. I saw the video of you singing a
Keith Whitley song with your mom.
She's she's really good as well.Is that where you got some of
your your musical talent and your love for music is your mom?
Yeah, so I always say my mom is like a walking jukebox.

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My mom listens to anything and everything.
Once she hears a song one time, she knows it.
And it's just absolutely mind blowing to me, especially, you
know, once I started picking up a guitar, trying to learn songs,
I was like, man, I wish I had that mentality.
It just like it sticks in her brain or something.
I I, I've never understood it. But yeah, my mom growing up, you

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know, we would always listen to the radio.
And when I was born in 2000, so being born in 2000, I grew up
on, she would turn the radio on.It would be people like Gretchen
Wilson, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban.
And so that's what we listened to in the car and on the radio
and stuff. There wasn't Bluetooth or

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anything like that. But once we got home and she had
her DVD's, she had a DVD player or not a DVD like a CD player
there in the kitchen. You could click the FM radio or
you could click it over to ACD and she would always have this
little. It was like a, I guess it was

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like a binder with these, I'm sure you know exactly what I'm
talking about, had the clear sheets in it and you would have
just pages and pages of CDs. Oh, OK, I do remember that
actually. Yeah, she'd tell me, Shane, go,
go find what CD you want to listen to.
So I'd flip through. I would pick out whatever CD it
was I wanted to listen to and. And she would pop it in.

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And I remember one of my favorite things in the
summertime was we would always make salsa together.
And just, we would just sit there and we would listen to
country music and, and make makesalsa and, and she would, she
can it up and we would eat it throughout the whole year
because she'd put her salsa in her, in her meatloaf and

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everything like that. So my mom, she she always canned
food. So yeah, I just, those are some
of the some of the big memories that kind of stick with me when
it comes to country music with my mom.
If anybody's looking for a good salsa recipe, Shane Profits got
your. I've got it.
I've got it down pat. Yes I do.

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If you haven't already, have youever thought about getting her
up on stage with you for a for asong?
Yeah, I actually have thought about it when it comes to that.
My mom is actually a really, really shy person when it comes
to my family. I'm kind of the weird one, I
guess. I've never, I've never had a shy
bone in my body that I know of. I've always kind of enjoyed

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being the, I guess, sore thumb in the family, just a little bit
different. Like my mom's shy, my my
sister's shy. And yeah, I've just, I've never
really been shy at all. Yeah.
So when it comes to get her up on stage, I think that would be
really cool. She would never do it.
Whenever she gets real nervous, she starts like twiddling her

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thumbs and picking out her fingernails and stuff like that.
I can just imagine the nervous wreck she would be.
But in the same sense, my granddad that taught me how to
play the guitar. Last year I invited him.
I was playing the Grand Ole Opryone night and he lives in
Eastern Kentucky and I asked himif he wanted to do to come down

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and and hang out backstage at the Opry.
He's a huge. Huge country music fan and
bluegrass fan, too. And I asked him if he wanted to
come down and he said yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll come down.
So he came down and right beforeI went on, I brought in another
guitar in the dressing room. And I said or I had a few

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different guitars. And I told him, I said pick out
which guitar you want to play. And he was like, what are you
talking about? And I told him, I said pick out
what guitar you want to play. And he picked one up and he was
like, yeah, I like this one. And I was like, good, you're
going to play it on the Opry tonight.
My granddad, he got to, he got to play on the Grand Ole Opry
with me. So that was that was awesome.

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Speaking of guitars, you and Bruce Springsteen are the only
ones with like the same guitar. It was like 2 guitars, you and
him. Yeah, Julian Raymond, he used to
be a, he used to be my ANR and producer whenever I had my first
first record deal and he gifted me the it's a, it's AJ 200 and

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a, it's a, it's a certain color.They call it like wine red or
something like that. And this guitar has gold tuners.
It has Pearl on the fret board. It's beautiful.
And I'll only bring it out on very, very, very special
occasions. Like I played it.
I played it on my Opry debut andI maybe played it.

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I think I played it at my first ever, man.
What was that? I think it was the first show
that I played in front of like 12,000 people.
I played it and I think it was North Carolina, I believe.
And other than that it stays in the case and gets played a
little bit at home. But that guitar is just so, so
unique and special. I just, I don't, I'm not, I'm

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not crazy about letting anythinghappen to it.
So I just kind of keep it protected.
You'll have to protect it for one of these years coming up
when you headline the Cmas. That's right.
That's right. I'll probably bring it out then.
This this crazy journey of yoursstarted over a date getting

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sushi. Yeah, So I was on a on a first
date with a girl I've never beenout with before.
So we went to Guitar Center, actually to get myself guitar
strings. And I told her I'd take her out
to eat. And I asked her what she wanted
to eat. And she said, man, I really like
sushi. And so I'd never tried sushi
before, and I'm just absolutely dreading it.

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And anyway, I punched in sushi near me on my iPhone.
There was a place right down theroad, we went there and we went
to walk in and Chris Janson heldthe door for me when we went to
walk in and I knew who he was immediately.
I've been a Chris Janson fan foryears and I didn't say anything

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to him at 1st and we ordered ourfood and everything and I took a
bite of AI. Think it was a spicy tuna roll
that I got. Bold first choice.
Well, I took a bite of it and I spit it out.
It grossed me out so bad. And anyway, I I spit it out,
wadded up the napkin and everything.
And the girl that I was with ended up eating and she kept

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eating and I saw Chris stand up and I was like, oh man.
And so I started walking over there and I thought he was
leaving. But by the time I got there, I
realized he was just standing upto let his little boy out to go
to the bathroom. And so I'm standing there all
awkward in the middle of this restaurant.
People are looking at me like, what in the hell is this guy

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doing? And so I ended up, I was already
committed at that point. So I ended up just going going
up to Chris and, and introducingmyself.
And I just told him what a fan Iwas.
And then I wrote songs and that it would mean the world to me if
he would listen to some of the songs I've been writing.
And his wife was sitting right beside him and she spoke up.
She said, hey, I'm Kelly. I'm Chris's wife and I'm his

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manager and I'm also a music publisher.
We ended up talking and everything and told him about
myself a little bit. And she ended up asking me.
She said, is that a receipt? You're holding your hand?
I'm sitting there holding a sushi receipt.
And I was like, yes, ma'am, yes,ma'am, that's the receipt.
And she said, well, I'll tell you what, if he'd be OK, I'll,

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I'll write my e-mail down on that receipt and you could send
us some songs and you have our word.
We'll listen to him. We'll actually listen to him.
And I was like, oh man, thank you so much.
That'd be great. And so I, I got her e-mail and
we sent our goodbyes and everything.
And anyway, I ended up leaving and we got out me and, and the

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girl that I was with, we got outto the truck and I pulled that,
that receipt out that she wrote her e-mail down on.
And I sent three or four of the best songs that I thought I'd
written at the time to that e-mail, just like she said.
And at the bottom of the e-mail I put if y'all ever need
anything, here's my number. Say it was probably about two
weeks later I was weed eating a ditch in Columbia, TN.

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That's what I did for work. I was weed eating a ditch and I
felt my phone ringing in my pocket and I pulled it out and
the caller ID just said Jansen. And I'm like oh man, here we go.
This is awesome. So I cut my weed eater off and
there's traffic going by on bothsides of the median.
I answered it and I said hello. And he said hey, this is Chris
Janson. And I was like what's up man?

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Dude, I was so excited and and he said, what are you up to
today? And I told him, I said, well,
I'm actually weed eating a ditchright now.
And he said, oh man, that sucks.And you know, we talked for a
minute. He ended up telling me.
He said, well, I want you to do me a favor.
And I was like, OK, what's that?And he said, I want you to, I
want you to go put in your two week notice and come out on tour

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with me. And like, it was just dead
silent. I knew right then this was Chris
Jansen and I'm getting to quit my job and I guarantee you I, I
don't remember for sure, but I guarantee you I probably started
crying and I put my weight eaterin my work truck.
I called my boss on the way backto the shop and I told him I

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needed to talk to him. I put in my 2 week notice that
day and went on the road with Chris a couple of days later and
on that first first tour that I got to do with Chris, I got my I
got my first ever record deal and the roller Cookster ride
started right then. It's a Cinderella story when it

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comes to country music. It's a good reminder to always
be trying new foods. That's yeah, that's right.
That's right. The the irony that you were like
sushi. What's crazy is like nowadays I
actually kind of like sushi a little bit.
I think my fiance and me, we, weended up, we found a pretty good

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little spot close to where we live.
She went with where we went for a date night one time and she
ended up ordering a few sushi rolls and I found one that I
like. So who knows, it may be it may
not be half bad after all. Did you guys get a new dog
recently? Yeah, we did.
We got a golden retriever puppy.His name is Leonard.

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Any any plans to take him out hunting like some of your other
dogs that you've taken out? You know, probably not Leonard.
He's he's like our our first child.
He's just a cool, cool, sweet dog.
But we enjoy playing in the league.
He enjoys playing in the leaves I'll I'll throw him up for him

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and he'll he'll chase him aroundand when he'll take him he'll
chase him around. He he definitely does enjoy
playing a good game of fetch andtug of war though.
When's the last time that you didn't have a beard?
Oh man, let me think about that.Golly, I would say, you know,
Chloe actually asked me about that the other day.

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I would say I was probably, I was probably in the ninth grade,
probably. I would say yeah, probably 9th
grade, probably, probably 14. I could barely grow a beard so I
can't imagine growing in 10th grade.
Yeah, I mean it it it started, it started growing probably in

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like the 7th. Oh, wow.
Yeah. Well, I don't know if it's lucky
or cursed, but my granddad, he would always tell me he'd be
like, boy, the more you shave, the more full it'll be.
So whenever I was in like 7th grade, I started shaving.
Maybe that's maybe that's where I went wrong.

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Maybe if I'd have just left it alone, I still wouldn't have
one. I don't know.
I've heard that same theory as well, but it's it's never worked
for me so. Yeah, I, I, you know, it's crazy
because at this point I don't even know what I would look like
without one. Yeah, I don't know.
I just, my goodness, I can't imagine.
I can't imagine what I would look like without one.

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Who knows with all this AI stuff, somebody could like AI
your face or take your beard off.
I'm surprised if I haven't yet, actually.
Your your new EP, it came out back in October, Population me
I. I think it's a a great EP with
an awesome 5 songs. It seems like you're almost kind
of kicking it back to your rootswith that one.

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Is that what you were looking for it?
Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking for.
I wrote that song with I wrote population me with Dan Taminsky
and and Matt McKinney and Dan what a guy he is and himself.
So I grew up and still to this day, my all time favorite movie
is O Brother or Art Thou with George Clooney.
And for the for the longest time, I never knew that that

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wasn't actually George Clooney singing.
That's that's Dan Taminsky singing.
And he also wrote those songs from that movie.
And I think he won. I know it's double digits.
I think it's 14 Grammys that he's won.
An unbelievable guy, unbelievable talent.
And I grew up loving that movie.And I would always steal my

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grandma's walking cane because it would be microphone Hive to
me and I would be singing the songs from that movie.
Man of Constant Sorrow and stufflike that.
So I got the chance to write with Dan.
I had the idea of population me,Matt McKinney, that I that was
the the third rider on it. He was going through a divorce

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at the time. And the idea I had was welcome
to a place called Heartbreak where the population's me,
something along those lines. And so I told them about this
idea and Matt, Matt I think started tearing up a little bit.
And Dan said, man, I really, really like that.
And so we sat down and sure enough, we, we wrote it.
And man, I think we wrote that song in a couple hours, if that,

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when we walked away that day, weknew that we had something
special or we thought we did. And whenever I, I, I came home,
I, I played that song for Chloe,my fiance.
And she was sitting here shakingher head and she was like, Oh my
goodness, that's a, that's a hell of a song.
And I was like, well, I appreciate it.
Thank you. I'm, I'm proud of it.

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It's I feel good about it. And she's like, are we good
though? I was like, yeah, no, we're
good. We're great, babe.
So I felt like then that that was that was a song that made
people feel something for sure. The the cover art for your song
Penny to My name, Is that one ofyour dogs?
Yeah, that that wasn't my dog. That was one of my buddies dogs.

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And I just thought, man, I I have AI have a habit.
Whenever I get something in my mind, I just can't let it go.
And for some reason I kept wanting to I kept wanting to
have a a cone dog in in that in that cover art.
So we did. Is that song exactly what I

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think it's about like Penny to my name, like you getting
started and not having a lot of money and.
Yeah, So the hook is I made $1,000,000 memories when I
didn't have a penny to my name. And so it's just man, it's it's,
it's one of those songs. So I lost my, well, I'll say
this. I had a song a few years ago

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getting the top, top 15 at country radio and it changed my
life. And I met Chloe, my fiance and I
bought, I bought us a house and I closed on the House.
And three days after I closed onthe House, the record label I
was working with dropped me. I had no idea how I was going to
make my mortgages and stuff likethat.

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And so shortly after that, I wrote Penny to my name.
It's that song that just kind of, for me, it reminded me of
money and everything. As long as you surround yourself
with good people. That's a deep song, man.
Now that you explain it a littlefurther, like you made some of
the best memories of your life back when you had kind of.
Nothing exactly. It's a good reminder, yeah.

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Exactly. That must have been a tough
transition in a scary transition.
It was, I lost a lot of sleep inmy brand new house.
I lost a lot of sleep. But yeah, it was scary, very
scary. Looking back, you know,
obviously I signed a new record deal and we have a new song
radio and everything works out exactly how it's supposed to.

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But and it's in it's very, very easy to forget in that moment of
being scared that that God's gotyou.
But if you just sit back and take a breath, say a prayer, you
you realize he he comes to the rescue every time.
Yeah, you definitely, definitelybounce back for sure.
You got a song with Randy Hauseron this on this EP.

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Yes, Sir. That's, that's awesome.
I'm a big Randy Hauser fan. That's pretty cool.
Man, me too, Randy. Randy is Randy is a main
character, to say the least. I started working with, with
Trent Wellman and he started producing my stuff.
And, and Trent, he asked me, he said, man, is there any chance

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you would ever want to do a, a cover?
And I said, yeah, absolutely. I, I love, I love throwback
songs and stuff like that. So me being born in in 2000, a
lot of people will say that they're, I guess Mount Rushmore
for country music, people like Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley
and those guys, and don't get mewrong, they are top of the top.

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But for me growing up in 2000, Igrew up on guys like Randy, I
grew up on Jamie Johnson, I grewup on Joe Diffie, guys like
that. And so when it came down to it
for me, I wanted to do a song that I felt like didn't really
get enough attention or didn't get the attention that I thought

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it should. And so we we sat down and I can
remember in my first ever truck,my square Body Chevrolet,
listening to Whistling Dixie by Randy Hauser, cruising through
Sonic and cruising through the Big Lots parking lot just
thinking I was absolutely the man.
I just got to thinking about that and how much I enjoyed that

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song and the joy that that song brought me.
And so I decided that that's thesong I wanted to do.
And I got to know Randy over theyears.
And I told Randy that I was thinking about thinking about,
you know, redoing it and wanted to get his thoughts on it
because I never want to be disrespectful.
And so I asked him if he would want to be in the studio to make

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sure that I don't just completely trample on his song.
He said, I'll tell you what he said you do whistling Dixie and
I'll, I'll hop on it with you ifyou want me to.
And man, I was just, that was a dream and it still is.
And so we we hopped in the studio.
And so those of y'all that don'tknow how this works, you do your

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tracking and then you come back and then you do your vocals.
So Randy was there for the tracking and then he also came
back for the vocals. And so we did the track and we
were all fired up about it. We knew it was going to sound
good. And then we come back probably a
few weeks later and we were supposed to start vocals in the

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studio at 11. Well, as Nashville Traffic has
it, I was 5 minutes late. I was literally like 5 or 6
minutes late and I pull into thestudio, it's like 11.
I sat there for a minute. I think I was on the phone.
I think, I think I ended up walking in the studio at like 11

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O 8 and Randy was walking out asI was walking in and I'm like,
hey, it's like where you headed?He was like, I did one pass,
man, I'm good. I was like, Oh my gosh.
So what you hear is is literally1 pass from Randy.
Hauser. Oh wow, he was.
He was in and out in less than 10 minutes.

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That's what it's like working with a legend.
And he is. He is for sure a legend.
Any big Thanksgiving plans for you?
Man, Thanksgiving is deer seasonhere in Tennessee.
So I'm, I'm going to be in a deer stand Thanksgiving morning
with, with everything that's kind of, kind of been happening,

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I haven't really had much time to deer hunt.
So I'm looking forward to havingThanksgiving week off and
getting to get a breather and spend time with the family and,
and spend time on a deer stand. Thanksgiving tradition around my
houses. The guys go hunting Thanksgiving
morning and we come back, you know, about 10:00 in the morning

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and the kitchen is already starting to smell like
Thanksgiving food. You sit around mouth watering
for a few hours and it's finallyready about we, we normally eat
our Thanksgiving dinner about two or three o'clock because
it's in between lunchtime and dinner.
And so, so we, we eat about two or 3:00 and we'll eat and we'll

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sit around and take a nap for anhour or two after we just
completely stuff our faces and we'll do it all again about 9:00
that night. Have you started to think about
Christmas at all yet? Yeah, I have actually.
So Chloe, my fiance, we're living together and everything,
and I think about two weeks ago she started wanting to put up

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decorations. Oh geez.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, believe me.
From my. House, it was like already a
month. Ago Oh my gosh don't get me
wrong dude I'm not trying to sound like the Grinch I love
this I've. Been told I'm the Grinch.
I have to, it is what it is, butI just I feel like Christmas
decorations should go up the weekend after Thanksgiving.

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Me too me. Too.
There, I said it. I don't want to stare at it
forever and then it loses its touch, you know?
When, when Christmas lights and Christmas trees and everything
get put up, it's kind of magical, right?
It's that feeling in the air. And I feel like if it's up for
1/6 of the year, which is what our significant others want to

(39:34):
do, it loses that magical touch and it's not as significant
anymore. I feel like they should be up
around a month. I think you should put them up
the week after or the week, the weekend, the Saturday after
Thanksgiving you should put themup and the literally the day

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after Christmas take them down. Well, she's a big fan of your
music, so I'll have to tell her you said this.
And maybe don't. Changes her mind.
Yeah. Don't.
Don't tell her that then. OK, I won't.
I won't. Yeah.
I don't want her to turn on you and stop.
Listening. I don't want that either.
I don't want that either. They should.
Matter of fact, she should just leave them up all year.

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Happy wife, happy life. Right.
That's right. Well.
Shane, it was a blast having youon, especially during a week
like the CMA Awards. Hopefully people go check out
your new EP Population Me and I'm just rooting for nothing but
success for you man. I really appreciate you making
the time for us. Thank you so much man.
I appreciate that. Thank you for taking the time to

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talk with me. Have a great holiday season.
Man, thanks man. You too.
That's going to do it for this week's episode.
Thank you so much to Shane Prophet for coming on the show
and making some time for us. You can learn more about Shane
Prophet on his official website,shaneprophet.com.
Go look him up, Check out his EPPopulation Me.

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