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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody and welcome back.
It's another edition of SkipHappens and on the show tonight
I'm joined by rising countryartist.
He's an accomplished actor.
Jet Juergensmeyer is with us.
You may know him from his rolesLast man Standing.
He was the voice of Pip thePenguin on Disney's Tots.
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But tonight we're diving intohis latest music.
You're going to love this,including his powerful new
single.
It's called Red, and his genreblending album.
It's called the Ride, Phase Two, and I want to hear all about
that as well.
We're going to hear about thistogether.
From Nashville studios to theHollywood sets.
Jet's storytelling is heartfelt, honest and impossible to
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ignore.
So let's get in it, let's getright into it, let's do it.
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
man, you know nothing too much.
I am in a car, traveling, so Iguess that's kind of I guess
different than what you're usedto having on the show.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You know I've had it both ways, because there's a lot
you know, you being an artistand an actor and all that.
Of course you're making yourrounds and others do the same
thing, and whether they're on abus or in their own car or
whatever, it's like dude.
I had to pull over so we coulddo this interview.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It happens.
That's exactly what it's liketonight.
I'm glad that I could talk toyou.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Skip happens, but it's been so long that I knew I
had to make this work because wewere talking before we went on
air.
We ran into each other at CRS,but how long has it been since
the first time that we talked?
You know I should have lookedthat up and I did not, but I
know we've done this before.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's been a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, it's been a couple of years.
Time flies so it might even bethree years ago, I don't know.
But it is crazy, no-transcriptStressful.
(02:04):
So it never seems to get easierthe more times that you why?
Why is it stressful, not justright off the top?
Why why is it stressful?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
you know, it probably has something to do with the
fact that pretty much every songthat I put out is one that I
can relate to, so it's personalto me I'm watching this guy walk
around you, by the way thereyou go.
I told you before I was likeyou're gonna see people.
I am at a truck stop in northtennessee, so okay, if anybody
if anybody happens to see this,if you're here within like the
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next 30 minutes, you might getto say hi yeah so it's stressful
when you're putting a song outthere that's personal to you, um
, that's your creativity themelody, the lyrics, and then
it's it's your voice singing it.
People can not like your voice,uh, I don't think that I, you
know, sound like Trisha Yearwood, so I imagine.
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But so it's always going to be,I think, a little bit stressful
, but I think that that's a goodthing, because it drives me to
keep, uh, it drives me to not becomplacent and, uh, too overly
confident.
It means that I want to keepworking and I think it drives my
work ethic, which I think isprobably my most beneficial
thing about me, is the fact thatI'm just constantly working.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, you have a good work ethic, obviously, but
let's I mean let's go back alittle bit that we're talking
about red, but still, I meanwith the voiceover work and of
course you know Last manStanding and the movies you've
been in and all that that you'vedone.
How old were you when you firststepped into that world?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So I did my first ever acting job in Nashville
when I was four.
So that was kind of the firsttime I got on stage though I was
three.
So that was the first time Igot on stage though I was three.
So I kind of just performing isall I've ever known, it's all
I've ever done, whether that beon stage behind a microphone or
in front of a camera on a set.
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It's all I've known, but I enjoyit.
I love it a lot and I'm I'mreally blessed.
There's a lot of worse jobs outthere.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh, 100%, no doubt about that.
But is there something that youreally enjoy more?
I mean, you've done the acting,the voiceover, now doing the
country music, and you've beendoing this for a little bit, but
still is there something thatyou prefer to do overall?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I mean I have hobbies .
I have hobbies.
I have a lot of friends.
You know I see my family.
My family and I are reallyclose.
I have a very large family,even though I'm an only child.
Very large family.
So I mean I'm friends with alot of my family.
They're kind of the mostimportant thing to me,
especially being an only child.
I have a loving girlfriend andso I mean I definitely have
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things that keep me busy andthat I enjoy doing.
But as far as a job goes, I doenjoy working on our family farm
in Missouri, you know, raisingcattle.
I was Ted and Hay and Mo andHay last week, but other than
that, right now, 20 years old, Ifeel like God's really put this
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entertainment industry just inmy path for the foreseeable
future.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
At 20,.
You've been doing this for 16years already, Dude, and you're
only 20.
I get it Now.
Where do you call home Missouri?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Nashville's my home, because it's where I was born
and raised.
But I mean, at least that'swhat my id says, but uh, raised
is kind of where I was raised.
I mean, I've been going tocalifornia since I was five, so
are you considering being raised?
you know the first four years ofyour life between tennessee and
missouri, always going back andforth, because we've always had
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a place in both.
My grandparents are in Missouriand, like I said, I'm really
close to my family, so all myfamily is pretty much in
Missouri.
So I was raised kind of in thesouth and the Midwest.
I'm a southern Midwest boy atheart and you can kind of hear
it in the way I talk a littlebit, but I've spent my fair
share of time in California.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But I've spent my fair share of time in California
.
But you spent a lot of time inthose other places.
But your actual home, becauseyou were born and raised, would
be Tennessee Nashville.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yes, sir, the home of country music, which I'm all
too happy about.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, what do you do in Nashville?
Do you get out, do you ever godown on Broadway or anything
like that, or do you just avoidthe area, if you know what I
mean.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I think that if you asked any true Nashville native
if they go to Broadway, theywill tell you no, no, uh, I
personally I say this kind of asa joke, but it's also pretty
true, unless it's a rareoccasion where I have a friend
or family member visiting thatwants to go see it.
I mainly go to Broadway If I'mgetting paid.
If I'm performing on Broadwayor working, then it's worthwhile
.
But I grew up going down toBroadway back when you could
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still go to Broadway on aweekend with your seven-year-old
kid and it not feel like springbreak, exactly, Exactly.
But now it's a little bitcrazier, which you know.
What I'm happy about we'rebringing business to my hometown
, support local businesses.
But, uh, I definitely enjoywhen I travel for a living.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I enjoy staying at home and where are you heading
back home now?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I am, I was, uh, I was in Texas this weekend, uh,
for a George Strait event, uh,raising money for the, uh, the,
the flood victims down in Texas.
Very so we were there.
We were there last night.
It was amazing.
I think they raised $6.25million.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Dude you being a part of that.
That's huge.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That was super cool.
Everybody was Riley Green.
Garth stood up and performed.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I mean, was straight there, he was there he performed
, he was there his ace in.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
the whole band was there and it was phenomenal.
So we flew back from Texas thismorning to Missouri because we
were flying with some family.
And now we're driving fromMissouri to our place in
Nashville.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I got you.
Now you say mom and dad wentinto the truck stop to get you
something to eat.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes, sir, I hope that they're getting me something.
You didn't place your orderbefore they left the car.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I didn't think about it.
It was like I got to go on.
Skip happens here in a littlebit.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Mom and dad go right there, skip happens, man, you
got to work around life.
Life happens around you.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It does.
I want to get back to talkingabout red a little bit.
It's a song that apparentlybrings people together.
Can you walk us through themoment that the concept hit you
while you know driving to thatwriting session?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So you said it right.
It's not a very flatteringstory of when the the idea hit
me, because I was literallydriving to the right.
You'll hear this say this a lot.
When I talk about my rights, Igo into them just trying to go
off the feel and stuff, so Idon't always have the most ideas
going in.
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So as I was driving, though, Iknew Erica and Kaylee we'd all
written together and we all werereally close friends, and I'm a
huge Cody Johnson fan.
I love what he stands for, Ilove hearing him perform live
and he has close friends, andI'm a huge Cody Johnson fan.
I love what he stands for, Ilove hearing him perform live
and he has his song Human.
I'm still learning to be human.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yes, I was going to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yes, yes, yes he always talks in his shows about
how he doesn't care what youbelieve.
If you're a good person, you'rea good person and we're all
human.
And I was like that's exactlyhow I feel.
I would love to have my ownversion of that.
And I was thinking about youknow, there's we all bleed red.
We're all like, yeah, thatmight that might have certain
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implications to it, but we allbleed red.
Jesus bled red and that's.
That's good enough for me tofeel like I'm pretty close to
him and I feel like we're allChildren of God.
So I I brought the idea to Ericaand Kaylin.
I kind of had a melody, but Ididn't really know where to run
with it and Before we knew it itwas on the paper and I I had
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the idea for me, but it wasn'tgonna be a song, I was gonna
record, we wanted to pitch it,see what happens.
And I kind of sat with it for abit and played a couple of
writers rounds and I was like,man, I really like this song.
It's my, it's me.
I mean, if you listen to thelyrics, you will literally know
everything about me.
And I I was like, all right, Ithink I'm going to be a greedy
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songwriter and cut this one, andI'm very happy I did because so
far to date it has been myfastest growing single ever.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Rightfully so, I know I will attach it to this after
we get done tonight.
Thank you.
At least a clip of it, untilFacebook yells at me and says
you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I know that happens it does.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So you might get a little note asking for your
permission.
But you know how that goes.
But yeah, I mean that's cool,that's cool and these rights
that you talk about now.
I've seen them, I've sat in afew of those, but how old were
you when you went to your firstright?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I think.
Well, I tried to write a song,apparently with my mom, when I
was like five.
I don't really remember that,but my first true right, I think
I was about 11 or 12.
One of my close friends, oliviafrom Nashville.
She and I grew up together.
She's like a sister to me.
I was in California, she washere and we both kind of started
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writing at the same time she'ssix months older than me she
always makes me remind people ofthat and so she was 12, I was
11, and we both started writing,and so she was my first ever
co-write and we wrote forprobably six months over
FaceTime.
We were doing the whole Zoomwrites before you had to write
over Zoom, and that was kind ofthe first time that I really
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started writing and startedtrying to put my thoughts and my
feelings kind of on a pageInteresting.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And now I do of on a page.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Interesting, and now I do it for a job.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, you do.
Now you have a.
What am I trying to say here?
You're writing for a company,now, right?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So my parents have a publishing company.
That's what I was trying to say.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I was having a skip happens moment.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It does too much, especially as you get older and
you will find out.
But no, seriously, those youknow publishing deals can be
very beneficial to you as well.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Absolutely.
You know, I was fortunate thatmy parents have been in this
industry for a long time and.
I was raised in it, and it's agreat thing, because their
connections have become myconnections.
My connections are theirs.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And I mean, mean?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
my songs wouldn't be where they are if I didn't have
strong, strong team behind me.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, and your mom and dad are pretty much the team
that's behind you they are.
There's a few other people thatare that are in that short list
, but yes, they are they'redefinitely the the driving force
of it it all and that's veryimportant for anybody that's
watching this or listening.
That's that's how important tohave somebody behind you.
If you got your parents orsomebody like that, you get the
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support.
I mean you can't beat that.
You can't beat that.
They're not going to hold youback.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No, and I'm also fortunate that all of the people
that are in my close friendgroup that I really are like
siblings to me.
Uh, they all are friends withme because they know me.
It's just jet and they.
I know that if anythinghappened, push came to shove, I
could call them in the middle ofthe night and they'd be there
for me, and so even if you can'thave your parents be there for
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you or something like havinghaving a couple of those people
in your life, that's you.
you can't break those bonds,people that aren't in the same
industry as you, because thenthey gain nothing from being
friends with you.
That's the key.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Is that a Bucky's that you're at?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It's not.
It's not a Bucky's, it's justall right, I wish.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
All right, I know, because I love Buc-ee's.
That's why I'm just kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I love Buc-ee's so much Every time we are on the
road with the band.
If there's a Buc-ee's betweenpoint A and point B, we are
stopping at Buc-ee's.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You are stopping Exactly.
Of course, you know I want totalk about your next no, no, the
previous single.
What was that?
It was Going Next.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Right, that was the previous single and you tapped
into the vulnerability ofrelationships and shared history
.
How do you decide when a songshould come from a place of
emotional depth versus havingfun with the writing?
That's a heavy question.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That is, you know.
I think it comes down to youraudience, and what I mean by
that is people can smellbullcrap from a mile away.
So if you're writing aboutsomething and singing about
something and trying to preachthis story that you very clearly
can't relate to, your audienceis going to get bored with it,
In my opinion.
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
No, and I think you're right yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And I think the worst thing that an artist, or really
anybody, can say is well, thisis how I've always done it.
Your audience is continuing togrow and continue to experience
life.
They want to know that you areas well.
You know, I'm not, I'm notstuck at 17 or something, and so
writing about what you're goingthrough, I think, is the most
beneficial thing.
If you're going through a hardtime in your life, freaking, put
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ink on paper.
You know it might not even be asong I have plenty of songs
that I will never share withpeople but damn if it didn't
help get it out and so I thinkthat that that's what happened
with red, that's what happenedwith going next, and I think
it's what will continue tohappen through like, uh, you'll
see it on on the ep that I'mworking on, you'll see a wide
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range of, uh, the phase and thepoint in life that I'm at right
now well, you know the musicthat you, you write in a lot of
other country artists.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's you know.
They say it's the story of ourlives.
It's, it's you.
I could be driving down theroad to hear a song.
Come on and go.
Holy crap, I just went throughthat, or or what it's.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's like so-and-so's singing about me right now I
always say I want to write themost relatable music and I do
that by acknowledging the factI'm a regular guy that is
fortunate that he gets to writesongs for a living.
So if I'm a regular guyexperiencing is fortunate that
he gets to write songs for aliving, so if I'm a regular guy
experiencing regular guy stuff,then I can make all the other
regular guys and girls that aregoing through life and feel
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alone know that they're notalone by simply listening to
however many songs I put out onan album or an EP, and if you
can relate to one of them, thenyou know that you can relate to
me and that you're not the onlyone that's going through this
thing.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's cool and obviously you're in a
relationship.
You're really young.
You see, you got a verybeautiful, loving girlfriend.
Yes sir.
Does she know everything thatyou've done?
And I mean, let's just face it.
I mean, dude, you're a star.
Everything you've done up tothis point is is she in the
business at all or is she just?
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I mean, we don't have to goreal deep with this, I'm just
saying, you know, it's kind ofcool.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's like, dude, you're dating jeff well, saying
I'm a star feels weird because Idon't.
I don't acknowledge that you'll.
You'll kind of hear that frommy close friends.
I don't acknowledge enough.
I don't mean to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But I'm just going to say, for you to say that means
a lot because you're real andthere's a lot of people you know
it's.
I look at it as everythingyou've done, from the acting to
the voiceover, just all that,and it's all gone.
It's big, it's huge.
So in a sense, you are a star.
But for you to think thatyou're not a star, you're real
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and don't ever don't let thatyou know.
Like take over your life,because then you're going to
lose.
Just be yourself.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And continue doing what you're doing, dude, thank
you To answer your questionabout her.
Okay, sorry.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
She's not in the industry, she's not, she's just.
I don't know if saying aregular girl is like weird, but
that is.
It is that's cool, that's who I, that's who I, who I'm dating.
And uh, a great example of thisis literally this morning.
When I was telling her aboutthe schedule for the day, I
texted her and I was like, yeah,and then we're gonna stop along
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the way because I have aninterview and she said for what?
and I was like, uh, for for me.
I was like we're going to stopalong the way because I have an
interview.
And she said for what?
And I was like for me.
I was like we're talking aboutlike Red and the upcoming EP and
this kind of stuff.
And her text was literally oh,I forgot, lol.
Like she forgot that like Iwould have an interview.
She thought that it was forlike a job or something.
I was like it's not for like ajob and it took her a second and
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I was like that's when you knowyou're with somebody that you
want to keep around for a whileBecause she's just, she's the
biggest supporter of me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
She'll come to every show she possibly can.
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But she is, she doesn't.
She doesn't gain anything frombeing with me because she's not
in this industry and she has nointerest in being in the
industry.
That's so good in being in theindustry, because she's with me
and she knows the industry andshe's like I want to be in that.
So, uh, so it's it's been great, she's awesome, her family's
great, and uh, I'm veryfortunate to have uh a lady like
her.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
She's not going like man.
I'm dating Pip the penguin, soI don't think so.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
She might maybe to her little cousins that watch
bubble guppies or something.
Yeah, I know, I know, but she'snot going around spreading it
in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
No, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Let's talk about the ride.
I'm thinking about what youmight be having for dinner when
your mom and dad show up at thecar door there.
But the album the Ride, phase 2, it kind of builds on themes
from your earlier work, if I'mnot mistaken.
And what was your vision forthat album and how did you want
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it to evolve from Phase 1?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You know it goes with what I was saying earlier about
writing what I know and whatI'm experiencing I wanted people
to be able to hear.
I mean, if you listen to thesongs, every song on the ride is
one of my stories.
My previous album, phase One,it was stories that either
myself or my co-writers had beenthrough.
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The ride was completely me,100% me.
Everything that I'd beenthrough the ride was completely
me, 100% me, everything that I'dbeen through.
So you can kind of listen tothe songs and figure out what I
had gone through or was goingthrough when we wrote each one
of the songs.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's not hard to put two and two together, we know
what was going on in Jet's life.
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, it's not hard to put two and two together, and
so I wanted to I guess you kindof said it.
I wanted to be vulnerable withmy audience, because that's how
you guys are going to get toknow me.
You know, I'm 20.
I'm not selling at arenas, sothe best way for me to connect
with the people that want tolisten to my music, in my
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opinion, is by being the realestversion of myself possible, and
so that's what we did with theride, and it's crazy to think
that that was 2023 when I putthat album out.
Uh, it's kind of it's, it'swild ago.
Wow, so that was two years agoalready yeah, which is bizarre,
uh, but that's just, that's justhow how it goes.
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So that's why we're working onan ep now and I'm really excited
for people to hear some of thesongs that are on that, because
you'll get to hear this point inmy life that I'm at.
You know we called it the ridebecause it's kind of a roller
coaster of events throughout thewhole.
Every song, everything fromroots down to bones to six
strings.
You know, the first timehearing one of my songs on the
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radio was surreal, and so Iwrote a song about that and then
I played that song on the radio, the song about hearing my song
on the radio.
I got to perform down in Alabamafor the first time on the radio
before that was ever released,so nobody had heard that, and I
got to write about the fact thatpeople didn't.
I came from a family where Iwas really the only munitions,
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so nobody knew that I was.
Nobody knew that you could doit as a career.
Everybody was like, well, maybeyou should stick around and
work on the farm a little bitmore, and I was like we're gonna
see what this app, what workingthis hard for something like
this can do, and so getting tolike play that song about those
people that didn't believe in meon the radio was pretty neat,
and so that's what we did withthe ride and I was super proud
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of it, and I'm at a really goodplace now and I'm really happy
with where I'm at with my career, and so I'm really excited for
people to hear these songs thatare going to be on this EP.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, you've been doing it, like I say, 16 years
already, when you first starteddoing all that, as we mentioned
minutes ago, to where you aretoday, at the age of 20.
And you're still most peopleare just getting started.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes sir, I'm very blessed.
I'm very, very blessed.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And very talented.
You know they say good days incoffee bar have become fan
favorites.
Which track on the ride, phasetwo, feels the most personal to
you and why I?
Know I got crazy questions,don't I no?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
that's a great one.
Definitely.
Bones and Six Strings are someof my favorites.
Bones is very personal.
I wrote it by myself, which youwill not see on any of my other
tracks.
Every other track has beenco-written.
Every other track, uh, hastaken a lot longer to come up
with.
And bones I I record all of myrights of a little voice memo,
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just in case somebody throws outa melody or something, we
forget it.
Well, we've got it on recordingfor later.
Uh, there's a recording that's13 minutes of me writing bones.
It fell out on the pageliterally, and that was super
cool.
Uh, that song's probably themost personal on the on the
album, so you can listen to thatsong and really, really get to
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know Jet, which is really neat.
Some of my favorites, though,are definitely Roots and Ruin.
This Town, production-wise,lyric-wise, the songs quite
literally spell out the storiesof how they kind of came about.
But those are some of my mostproud production and overall
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sounding-wise.
State is also one of ourfavorites.
To perform live.
It's what we open our showswith.
It's super fun and is a goodway to start a country show.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I love that You're a co-writer on all those songs
correct yes sir?
And how do you keep yourwriting fresh and authentic
across an 11-track project likethis?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You write a lot of songs that don't make it on the
project.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You write 50 songs to find those 11.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yes, I mean I think it was Ed Sheeran that said once
you've written your first 200songs, then you'll have songs
that maybe you can startrecording.
So you maybe write 30 terriblesongs for every one good one.
I definitely still always havemy fair share of those 30.
(24:32):
It feels more like an endlessamount of crappy songs.
So it's a lot, I think, whenthey stretch out, you work on a
project, especially a full album.
You work on that project for solong I mean it's been since
2023 since I put out a fullproject.
So, you work on a project for solong that eventually you're
going to just have songs thatare different, sound different.
(24:54):
You do catch yourself every nowand again.
I can't say that, or we can'tdo that, walk up because we did
that and it's the same key.
So every now and again I can'tsay that or we can't do that,
walk up because we did that andit's kind of it's the same key,
so it could sound kind ofsimilar.
So you kind of catch yourselfwith that every now and again.
But when you're a writer for aliving, it's kind of your job to
make sure that the songs aredifferent.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know I want to say it was probably 23 when you
and I talked last because theywere dropping that yeah, yeah.
And they reached out and saidhey, we want to hook you up with
jet, we want to, you know, getthem on the podcast, so that
that's now, here we are now,here we are again, again, again,
and mom and dad are in gettingyour hot dogs, so I don't know,
(25:34):
I hope they're getting me a hotdog we'll see, what do you do?
they have good food there.
I have no idea where you are.
I mean, does?
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I think it's more of a vending machine kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh, is it so we?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
might have to drive down the road a little bit
before we find a substantialmeal.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's like one of those rest areas where you go in
and take care of business andthen they have all the vending
machines.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
There's a bathroom that nine times out of 10, you
won't stop at but that one timeyou will stop that.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You have to.
I totally get that.
So when you co-produced Red,you were at Farmland in
Nashville.
I took this off your notes whatwas that studio experience like
?
And how hands-on are you whenit comes to actually shaping the
sound?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So, first of all, recording at Farmland is awesome
.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's a great studio.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
It's big enough to be very comfortable, but it's also
small enough that it's intimate, which I enjoy, and I I know
pretty much all the musiciansthat ended up playing on my
songs.
They've, most of them, haveplayed on my songs since I was
12, 13.
So it's been a while now.
So we've kind of built thatrapport and it's almost like
you're speaking a differentlanguage when you're in the
(26:45):
studio.
It's a series of numbers thatsomeone's calling out and
references to other songs thatare well known.
Can you do something like thaton this?
Can that fiddle sound like this?
I'm not a micromanager, but Ijust kind of.
(27:06):
I mean, you're working with themost talented musicians in the
world, so it's almost silly howsimple you can give an idea and
they can turn it into what itlater becomes.
So you don't have to be crazyhands on like with everything.
But I'm there for the fullprocess and definitely voice my
opinion and am very vocal abouthow I would like for it to sound
.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
No, no, it's your thing, man.
This is you, so you want it tosound a certain way, but you
also have a really good producerbehind that board as well.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I do Dan Frizzell's mixed and worked on every song
I've ever put out.
So now that I'm older, to beable to actually produce and mix
the songs with Dan is reallyimportant to me and that's
definitely what we did for theride and it's what we're
continuing to do now and I loveit and Dan and I.
(27:54):
Dan has now become, like youknow, one of my good friends and
that's pretty cool.
You know, go over to his houseand mix your songs.
That's pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Stop by Dan's on the way home today.
Yes, you know.
What do you enjoy most aboutthe process, though?
Is it the writing, therecording, the performing live?
What is it that you enjoy most?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I mean, there's nothing like performing live and
getting to see people react toeither your song or a song that
they know that you're covering.
That's always going to be fun.
You know, we played up in Idahoa little over a week ago and we
were playing a bunch of coversand everybody was two step into
it and dancing and swing dancingand it was so super fun.
You know, and they didn't knowmy songs, but they knew the
(28:38):
songs that we were playing andso it has that same effect
because it's us performing themand so that's always going to be
fun.
But I love being in the studio.
I really love the writingprocess.
I think that that's the coolestpart, because you're writing
about something that youexperience.
So it might even be outside ofthe writing process experiencing
(28:58):
the things that you later writeabout is also pretty neat,
because that means that you'reexperiencing life.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Absolutely, absolutely.
And you got a lot to go yet too.
I'm just saying We'll see.
No, I know that and uh, youknow.
So Reddit, reddit is out there.
I saw the video.
I liked the video man.
Tell us about the making of thevideo a little bit.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So we film at this uh farm called farmland uh down,
uhland down, near Franklin,tennessee, yep, and it's super
cool.
We saw online that they hadthis American flag on the side
of their barn.
We were like, oh well, that'sperfect.
And so the Riker brothers,derek and Drew, have filmed
(29:39):
every one of my music videos andthey flew from California to
Nashville and we filmed it justin a day there and we're just,
we were there for the whole day.
So we were just randomly belike, oh, that might look cool,
let's go over there and film mesinging the song once or twice.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And then oh, that looks neat.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Let's go film me doing that, and uh, it was just
kind of a we like to keep it fun.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I was going to say is it fun?
Is it fun or is it work?
You say it's fun.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So it's a little bit of both, but it's mostly fun Uh,
and we enjoy.
You get sick of your own songby the end of the day cause you
have to sing it about 200 times,but other than that, uh it's,
it's a good time and we enjoyedit a lot.
It was the perfect uh setting.
It turned out great.
I'm really happy with how itturned out.
(30:24):
One of my co-writers, davidSeeger.
Him and his wife don't live farand so he was working and his
wife showed up in his truck andwe went.
That would look really cool inthe video.
Here's the keys.
And I got to drive his truck inthe music video.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So it's good to know people.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's not about what you know it's about who you know
, right Isn't?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
that how it's done.
No, no, yeah, it's who you know.
There you go and that's a goodexample of it.
But that's all with the music,and I tell you you're just
kicking some tail with that andmoving on with Red and
everything that's gotten you tothis point.
But I want to talk a little bitabout voice acting.
It's a very unique craft.
Um does working in animation,like you did for pip the penguin
(31:09):
, um, or bubble guppies, uh,give you a different outlet than
music, does that, do you?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
they're.
They're different, yes, but Ithink that they're also more
similar than people realize.
One of the things that mostpeople don't realize is, if
you're in the studio doingvoiceover work, they have a
camera filming you, because alot of the time the animators
don't know what to do with thecharacter, because they're
creating it from scratch.
What kind of face should thecharacter make?
(31:39):
What kind of information theirface show?
So they'll go to the actualvideo of the actor saying the
line to see what we do.
So it's not all that differentfrom being on stage and
performing.
It might not matter as muchabout what you're wearing, but
it definitely matters about thefeeling.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
The feeling, the expressions.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Exactly.
If I'm not smiling when I say aline, you can definitely tell
uh, and so it's little thingslike that that I, I think,
translate very clearly over tomusic and and vice versa.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I don't think I yeah, yeah, I'm at either one if I
didn't have each.
Are you do?
Yeah, are you doing any of thatnow, or are you sticking with?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I still do.
I still do auditions and stuff.
Actually, tomorrow morning,once we get home tonight
tomorrow morning, I will recorda voiceover audition from home.
That's cool, but I am sofocused on music right now that
that's kind of the main focus,especially since it's summer and
there's fairs and festivalshappening everywhere across the
(32:44):
country and we're kind oftraveling about every week for a
different show.
We'll be traveling what's today, we traveling on Friday for a
show this coming weekend.
So that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That's kind of where my head space has been for the
past while I got you You're, ifyou don't mind me asking because
I'm a geek what do?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
you use at home to record your auditions.
What is it just so I?
I have a little kind ofvariation.
It depends on the on the show.
I love a shirt, SM seven B as amicrophone, but I also use the,
the blue bluebird.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Oh yeah, okay, I did that a lot for season two of
Tots.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I pretty much did 98% of that show from home because
of COVID and it was recorded onthe Blue Bluebird.
So that's what I use Simplerecording software.
If I'm on my Mac, I'll be usingjust Logic and I've got an
interface.
I've got a couple differentinterfaces.
I at a clear it.
I like that interface.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So nice, yeah, yeah, nice.
See just the point.
If somebody wanted to do whatyou're doing or give it a shot,
I mean you don't need anythingover the top now I have a full
studio here, of course sure,sm7bs and all that, and I love
it, but I do this almost atleast twice a week, so just
keeps me going you also don'thave to have, like a lot of
(34:10):
people think, that you have tohave a nice recording software.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
If you can save a file as an mp3 or a wave, that's
all you need.
Go online and use audacity,it's free.
Literally the first, like 12years of my voiceover, all of my
auditions were recorded on ablue snowball microphone and
audacity.
So you can definitely get intothe industry for little to no
money.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Exactly.
That was kind of where I wasgoing with that.
So, and look where it got you.
So anybody could do that.
What about your acting?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I saw gray's anatomy on this I did gray's anatomy
when I was five, I think reallysix.
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
My wife has watched every freaking episode of gray's
anatomy, and then over again.
So it's and I saw that on onthe notes that they sent me and
I went really wow, do you recallwhat did you do in gray's
Anatomy?
Were you just a patient?
I?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
was just in one episode.
Uh, my dad was like my fake dadwas a patient on the show.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I gotcha there.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Uh, I, I vaguely remember it.
It's crazy to think that Iexperienced so many, yes,
interesting cool things young,because some of them I don't
even really remember and I wishthere's a part of me that wishes
I would have you knowexperienced that when I was like
13, because then I'd have afull memory of it.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Right, no, exactly what keeps you grounded, though,
because you've got all thesedifferent things going on in
your life or you had them.
What keeps you grounded whenlife gets really hectic?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Definitely my friends and family, my faith, but being
able to, you know, go to churchon Sundays and spend time with
my family when I am home, go tothe farm and you know things.
Like I said earlier last week,tedding hay, mowing hay 321
bales of hay is what we got onthe 75 acres that we mowed last
week.
So being able to do things likethat, that I think not many
people imagine somebody in myindustry would be doing during
(36:14):
the week when they're not on theroad with their band, was
literally driving back from ourshow in Idaho, stopped in
Missouri to do hay and now we'retraveling back to Tennessee.
So I mean, it's stuff like thatthat uh definitely reminds you
where you came from and is uhkind of brings it all back rock.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, exactly, tell me a little bit about your band.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
the same guys all the time pretty much the same guys
all the time.
Every now and again somebodywill have a different show.
You know, we're not headliningarenas yet, so it's not quite
the Ace in the Hole band, wherethey've been playing for 30
years together.
All the same people, but it'smainly the same guys.
We kind of float around acouple people every now and
(36:56):
again, but all of them arewithin two years of my age, so
we're all pretty young and we'reall you know.
Just I guess the word is likestarving musicians we just want
to play, we want to play shows,and so we're always down to do a
show and have fun.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Are you, let me ask, are you looking forward to
selling out stadiums, or wouldyou prefer to perform in a venue
?
Maybe?
That's limited to maybe 1500,2000 people.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
You know, I mean there's always the point in your
career where you'd be like, oh,that that'd be cool to be
George straight or Garth Brooksand sell out Nissan stadium in
Nashville, especially the newindoor one, because then you
won't have to deal with as muchhumidity in july or something
down by the river.
Yes, but the the, the box thatI want to check more so than any
(37:54):
place really in the world isthe ryman auditorium.
I mean the original grand oleopry.
That's the place that, if Icould perform anywhere.
It's intimate.
You can essentially see thefaces of everybody that paid
money to come and see you andit's which is important for me
especially.
You know I've played plenty ofdive bars where there's been six
(38:16):
people and two of them are myparents.
So being able to play someplacethat's intimate, but also that
that would feel like pretty muchthe biggest milestone for me.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
See, I asked you that because, you know, I've talked
to a lot of other artists, bothindependent and also major,
major artists, and the answer Iusually get is you know, I don't
care too much about thestadiums, I want to be able to
connect with the fans, sotherefore I prefer a smaller
venue where I.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
You have to remember those people that got you there.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yes, exactly.
And Jed, I can't believe youhave not performed the Mother
Church yet.
At the Mother Church I Dude,we'll see.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
We'll see.
I would love to.
We've got to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
You haven't been on in the Grand Ole Opry either.
I've not.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I performed outside last year with my band in the
fall.
I got to perform on their stageoutside the Opry, which was
really really cool.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Especially getting to work with the Opry sound guys
that are running the soundoutside.
That was cool to me Becausewithout those guys I wouldn't be
performing, because I don'tknow how to run that sound
system.
Um, but there's, there'sdefinitely a few places that I
want to check off.
Uh, the Opry, you know, stepinto the circle and you know the
(39:36):
original Opry the Ryman.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yes, it'd be pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh my God, I know, you know we do the CRS thing and
we do the lunch thing at the,you know at the Ryman, and it's
just like you get in there andit's just like wow.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
It's surreal.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
You know, I've done that for so many years and it is
surreal.
And to think about somebodylike yourself as an artist, and
those artists that areperforming for that lunch, that
they're walking out on thatstage and doing their thing, and
you know, it's just the firsttime experience had to be so
like surreal, I mean just.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I don't even know if I can describe it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, so we'll get you there.
You got to get there.
You're going to get there.
We'll see.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely,we'll definitely get you there
tell me about the ryan seacrestfoundation.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I've I've worked with that foundation for a really
long time.
I was probably 10 or 11 thefirst time I went into for the
people that don't know.
They raise money to build,essentially, studios like the
one that you have or radiostations have, uh, inside
children's hospitals around thecountry and they'll have anybody
from Taylor Swift to localsports stars to me.
(40:48):
Come in and we'll perform andwe'll play games with the kids
and try to help take their mindoff of whatever it is that
they're going through that hasthem there in the first place.
So I've worked with them for along, long time.
Meredith Seacrest Ryan's sister, is an amazing person Actually
wrote me a letter ofrecommendation for college,
(41:09):
which was super special, niceand it's just.
It's been awesome to be able towork with them.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Have you been to St Jude?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
You're talking about those hospitals, have you?
Speaker 1 (41:22):
had that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
St Jude, you're talking about those hospitals.
Have you had that opportunity?
I don't believe I have workedwith St Jude in the past.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
If you did, you would remember there's so many
artists and everybody.
Eventually you will be thereand you will see what's going on
and you know.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Just work with the kids and be in who you are and
getting pictures taken and stuffthe best thing honestly is
being able to see the faces ofthe family members, because they
are, in some cases, having aharder time than the actual
patient, because, I mean, Ican't imagine being a parent
having to watch your kid gothrough that, or even a sibling,
you know, seeing how close theyare.
So to be there and be able tohelp them because we're playing,
(42:02):
playing games right there withtheir siblings and that makes
the parents happy that's reallyspecial.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I've seen it, I've been there, I've done that a few
times and it's an experience.
You're absolutely right.
And the parents.
They'll be smiling, but what'sbehind that smile?
You know what I mean.
There's a lot going on and it'sjust I mean I'll be honest with
you.
I cried, I cried, oh yeah, it'shard not to, it was so hard?
Yeah, exactly.
So if somebody wanted to get ahold of your music, where can we
(42:30):
find you?
Your name is hard to spell, butI got it right, I think.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
But tell us where can we go.
So anywhere that you buy orlisten to music.
It's just my name, jetjurgensmeyer.
Jet with one t like a plane, asuper fun way to remember it.
Jurgensmeyer, I'm typically theonly one that's on the internet
, so if you type jet and then jI'll, I should be the only one
that comes up probably will yeahon social media.
(42:57):
It's all the same.
It's not official or music orany of those.
It's just jet jurgensmeyer, mywebsite's, jetjurgensmeyercom,
and that's kind of the simplestway to find me, get ahold of me,
see where I'll be performingsocial media and my website.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Is there somewhere where we're going to see you,
either on TV or hear your voice,besides the music, real soon.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
There's always a possibility.
I know that Disney Junior andNickelodeon Nick Jr is always
playing old episodes, so thereis a chance that you will hear
what my friends and family callBaby Jet on TV.
There's a possibility you'llhear that.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
When you hear it, what do you think?
Do you sit there and go?
Oh my God, I can't believe Idid that.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Sometimes I'm like oh , I should have said that line
differently.
Why'd they use that?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Sometimes it's like why?
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yeah, it's like man.
Why did I sound like that I was14.
I sound like I'm about six.
Oh, why did I do that?
Why?
Speaker 1 (43:54):
did I sound like that .
Speaker 2 (43:56):
This is true, uh, so there's always that, but also
it's.
I mean, it's kind of neat.
You know, being being on TV iskind of cool when you find, when
you step back and get to thinkabout it and not not just, you
know, act like it didn't happen,it is pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So I have to ask if you look out your window,
there's mom and dad likestanding over there looking at
their watch going come on, dude,dude, dude.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
they were they got hot because of how the humidity
is outside, so they actually aresitting in the front seat now.
So, it is 93 outside, withabout a hundred percent humidity
, so it's warm.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Well, tell them we said hello and appreciate all
they do for you as well.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
I will do it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
That's.
That's pretty cool.
It's so good to see you.
I know you got to get on theroad and get back home.
You got a lot going on tomorrow.
You on the road and get backhome.
You got a lot going on tomorrow.
You got stuff going on, so thesooner you get home the better.
You must be pretty close,though, right.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
We are pretty close.
We're only you know hour, hourand a half maybe.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, Something like that, Something like that oh
we're only an hour away, therewe go.
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
All right, Do you have?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
are there pets waiting for you at home at all,
or anything like that?
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No pets.
I think I travel too much thatI couldn't keep a goldfish alive
.
So it's too difficult.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I got you, jet Juergensmeyer.
You're awesome, my friend.
There's a lot going on with youand everything that we can look
forward to.
I love the new song and I knowthere's going to be a lot more
and I love everything behind it.
Thank you, so it.
It's just, it's your feelingsyou're doing it and everything
you've done.
Your mom and dad must be soproud and of course you said
they're kind of in the businessas well.
(45:28):
So you know what God bless youall.
Thank you for coming on, skipHappens tonight.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Thank you for having me.
God bless, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
All right, it's Jet Juergensmeyer.
Everybody, do you have aYouTube page?
Can they go and subscribe, oranything like that.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I do Quite literally every social media page is just.
Jet Juergensmeyer, it's prettyeasy to find me.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Yep and Skip Happens the same way, or Skip Clark.
There you go, it all works out.
All right, jet, have a greatnight and safe travels for the
remainder of the ride home forthe next hour or so, and thanks.
Hello everybody and welcome back.
It's another edition of SkipHappens and on the show tonight
I'm joined by rising countryartist.
He's an accomplished actor.
Jet Juergensmeyer is with us.
You may know him from his rolesLast man Standing.
He was the voice of Pip thePenguin on Disney's Tots.
(00:21):
But tonight we're diving intohis latest music.
You're going to love this,including his powerful new
single.
It's called Red, and his genreblending album.
It's called the Ride, Phase Two, and I want to hear all about
that as well.
We're going to hear about thistogether.
From Nashville studios to theHollywood sets.
Jet's storytelling is heartfelt, honest and impossible to
(00:44):
ignore.
So let's get in it, let's getright into it, let's do it.
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
man, you know nothing too much.
I am in a car, traveling, so Iguess that's kind of I guess
different than what you're usedto having on the show.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You know I've had it both ways, because there's a lot
you know, you being an artistand an actor and all that.
Of course you're making yourrounds and others do the same
thing, and whether they're on abus or in their own car or
whatever, it's like dude.
I had to pull over so we coulddo this interview.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It happens.
That's exactly what it's liketonight.
I'm glad that I could talk toyou.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Skip happens, but it's been so long that I knew I
had to make this work because wewere talking before we went on
air.
We ran into each other at CRS,but how long has it been since
the first time that we talked?
You know I should have lookedthat up and I did not, but I
know we've done this before.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's been a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, it's been a couple of years.
Time flies so it might even bethree years ago, I don't know.
But it is crazy, no-transcriptStressful.
(02:04):
So it never seems to get easierthe more times that you why?
Why is it stressful, not justright off the top?
Why why is it stressful?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
you know, it probably has something to do with the
fact that pretty much every songthat I put out is one that I
can relate to, so it's personalto me I'm watching this guy walk
around you, by the way thereyou go.
I told you before I was likeyou're gonna see people.
I am at a truck stop in northtennessee, so okay, if anybody
if anybody happens to see this,if you're here within like the
(02:29):
next 30 minutes, you might getto say hi yeah so it's stressful
when you're putting a song outthere that's personal to you, um
, that's your creativity themelody, the lyrics, and then
it's it's your voice singing it.
People can not like your voice,uh, I don't think that I, you
know, sound like Trisha Yearwood, so I imagine.
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But so it's always going to be,I think, a little bit stressful
, but I think that that's a goodthing, because it drives me to
keep, uh, it drives me to not becomplacent and, uh, too overly
confident.
It means that I want to keepworking and I think it drives my
work ethic, which I think isprobably my most beneficial
thing about me, is the fact thatI'm just constantly working.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, you have a good work ethic, obviously, but
let's I mean let's go back alittle bit that we're talking
about red, but still, I meanwith the voiceover work and of
course you know Last manStanding and the movies you've
been in and all that that you'vedone.
How old were you when you firststepped into that world?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So I did my first ever acting job in Nashville
when I was four.
So that was kind of the firsttime I got on stage though I was
three.
So that was the first time Igot on stage though I was three.
So I kind of just performing isall I've ever known, it's all
I've ever done, whether that beon stage behind a microphone or
in front of a camera on a set.
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It's all I've known, but I enjoyit.
I love it a lot and I'm I'mreally blessed.
There's a lot of worse jobs outthere.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh, 100%, no doubt about that.
But is there something that youreally enjoy more?
I mean, you've done the acting,the voiceover, now doing the
country music, and you've beendoing this for a little bit, but
still is there something thatyou prefer to do overall?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I mean I have hobbies .
I have hobbies.
I have a lot of friends.
You know I see my family.
My family and I are reallyclose.
I have a very large family,even though I'm an only child.
Very large family.
So I mean I'm friends with alot of my family.
They're kind of the mostimportant thing to me,
especially being an only child.
I have a loving girlfriend andso I mean I definitely have
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things that keep me busy andthat I enjoy doing.
But as far as a job goes, I doenjoy working on our family farm
in Missouri, you know, raisingcattle.
I was Ted and Hay and Mo andHay last week, but other than
that, right now, 20 years old, Ifeel like God's really put this
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entertainment industry just inmy path for the foreseeable
future.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
At 20,.
You've been doing this for 16years already, Dude, and you're
only 20.
I get it Now.
Where do you call home Missouri?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Nashville's my home, because it's where I was born
and raised.
But I mean, at least that'swhat my id says, but uh, raised
is kind of where I was raised.
I mean, I've been going tocalifornia since I was five, so
are you considering being raised?
you know the first four years ofyour life between tennessee and
missouri, always going back andforth, because we've always had
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a place in both.
My grandparents are in Missouriand, like I said, I'm really
close to my family, so all myfamily is pretty much in
Missouri.
So I was raised kind of in thesouth and the Midwest.
I'm a southern Midwest boy atheart and you can kind of hear
it in the way I talk a littlebit, but I've spent my fair
share of time in California.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But I've spent my fair share of time in California
.
But you spent a lot of time inthose other places.
But your actual home, becauseyou were born and raised, would
be Tennessee Nashville.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yes, sir, the home of country music, which I'm all
too happy about.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, what do you do in Nashville?
Do you get out, do you ever godown on Broadway or anything
like that, or do you just avoidthe area, if you know what I
mean.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I think that if you asked any true Nashville native
if they go to Broadway, theywill tell you no, no, uh, I
personally I say this kind of asa joke, but it's also pretty
true, unless it's a rareoccasion where I have a friend
or family member visiting thatwants to go see it.
I mainly go to Broadway If I'mgetting paid.
If I'm performing on Broadwayor working, then it's worthwhile
.
But I grew up going down toBroadway back when you could
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still go to Broadway on aweekend with your seven-year-old
kid and it not feel like springbreak, exactly, Exactly.
But now it's a little bitcrazier, which you know.
What I'm happy about we'rebringing business to my hometown
, support local businesses.
But, uh, I definitely enjoywhen I travel for a living.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I enjoy staying at home and where are you heading
back home now?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I am, I was, uh, I was in Texas this weekend, uh,
for a George Strait event, uh,raising money for the, uh, the,
the flood victims down in Texas.
Very so we were there.
We were there last night.
It was amazing.
I think they raised $6.25million.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Dude you being a part of that.
That's huge.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That was super cool.
Everybody was Riley Green.
Garth stood up and performed.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I mean, was straight there, he was there he performed
, he was there his ace in.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
the whole band was there and it was phenomenal.
So we flew back from Texas thismorning to Missouri because we
were flying with some family.
And now we're driving fromMissouri to our place in
Nashville.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I got you.
Now you say mom and dad wentinto the truck stop to get you
something to eat.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes, sir, I hope that they're getting me something.
You didn't place your orderbefore they left the car.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I didn't think about it.
It was like I got to go on.
Skip happens here in a littlebit.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Mom and dad go right there, skip happens, man, you
got to work around life.
Life happens around you.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It does.
I want to get back to talkingabout red a little bit.
It's a song that apparentlybrings people together.
Can you walk us through themoment that the concept hit you
while you know driving to thatwriting session?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So you said it right.
It's not a very flatteringstory of when the the idea hit
me, because I was literallydriving to the right.
You'll hear this say this a lot.
When I talk about my rights, Igo into them just trying to go
off the feel and stuff, so Idon't always have the most ideas
going in.
(08:54):
So as I was driving, though, Iknew Erica and Kaylee we'd all
written together and we all werereally close friends, and I'm a
huge Cody Johnson fan.
I love what he stands for, Ilove hearing him perform live
and he has close friends, andI'm a huge Cody Johnson fan.
I love what he stands for, Ilove hearing him perform live
and he has his song Human.
I'm still learning to be human.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yes, I was going to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yes, yes, yes he always talks in his shows about
how he doesn't care what youbelieve.
If you're a good person, you'rea good person and we're all
human.
And I was like that's exactlyhow I feel.
I would love to have my ownversion of that.
And I was thinking about youknow, there's we all bleed red.
We're all like, yeah, thatmight that might have certain
(09:36):
implications to it, but we allbleed red.
Jesus bled red and that's.
That's good enough for me tofeel like I'm pretty close to
him and I feel like we're allChildren of God.
So I I brought the idea to Ericaand Kaylin.
I kind of had a melody, but Ididn't really know where to run
with it and Before we knew it itwas on the paper and I I had
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the idea for me, but it wasn'tgonna be a song, I was gonna
record, we wanted to pitch it,see what happens.
And I kind of sat with it for abit and played a couple of
writers rounds and I was like,man, I really like this song.
It's my, it's me.
I mean, if you listen to thelyrics, you will literally know
everything about me.
And I I was like, all right, Ithink I'm going to be a greedy
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songwriter and cut this one, andI'm very happy I did because so
far to date it has been myfastest growing single ever.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Rightfully so, I know I will attach it to this after
we get done tonight.
Thank you.
At least a clip of it, untilFacebook yells at me and says
you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I know that happens it does.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So you might get a little note asking for your
permission.
But you know how that goes.
But yeah, I mean that's cool,that's cool and these rights
that you talk about now.
I've seen them, I've sat in afew of those, but how old were
you when you went to your firstright?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I think.
Well, I tried to write a song,apparently with my mom, when I
was like five.
I don't really remember that,but my first true right, I think
I was about 11 or 12.
One of my close friends, oliviafrom Nashville.
She and I grew up together.
She's like a sister to me.
I was in California, she washere and we both kind of started
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writing at the same time she'ssix months older than me she
always makes me remind people ofthat and so she was 12, I was
11, and we both started writing,and so she was my first ever
co-write and we wrote forprobably six months over
FaceTime.
We were doing the whole Zoomwrites before you had to write
over Zoom, and that was kind ofthe first time that I really
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started writing and startedtrying to put my thoughts and my
feelings kind of on a pageInteresting.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And now I do of on a page.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Interesting, and now I do it for a job.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, you do.
Now you have a.
What am I trying to say here?
You're writing for a company,now, right?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So my parents have a publishing company.
That's what I was trying to say.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I was having a skip happens moment.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It does too much, especially as you get older and
you will find out.
But no, seriously, those youknow publishing deals can be
very beneficial to you as well.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Absolutely.
You know, I was fortunate thatmy parents have been in this
industry for a long time and.
I was raised in it, and it's agreat thing, because their
connections have become myconnections.
My connections are theirs.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And I mean, mean?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
my songs wouldn't be where they are if I didn't have
strong, strong team behind me.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, and your mom and dad are pretty much the team
that's behind you they are.
There's a few other people thatare that are in that short list
, but yes, they are they'redefinitely the the driving force
of it it all and that's veryimportant for anybody that's
watching this or listening.
That's that's how important tohave somebody behind you.
If you got your parents orsomebody like that, you get the
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support.
I mean you can't beat that.
You can't beat that.
They're not going to hold youback.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No, and I'm also fortunate that all of the people
that are in my close friendgroup that I really are like
siblings to me.
Uh, they all are friends withme because they know me.
It's just jet and they.
I know that if anythinghappened, push came to shove, I
could call them in the middle ofthe night and they'd be there
for me, and so even if you can'thave your parents be there for
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you or something like havinghaving a couple of those people
in your life, that's you.
you can't break those bonds,people that aren't in the same
industry as you, because thenthey gain nothing from being
friends with you.
That's the key.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Is that a Bucky's that you're at?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It's not.
It's not a Bucky's, it's justall right, I wish.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
All right, I know, because I love Buc-ee's.
That's why I'm just kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I love Buc-ee's so much Every time we are on the
road with the band.
If there's a Buc-ee's betweenpoint A and point B, we are
stopping at Buc-ee's.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You are stopping Exactly.
Of course, you know I want totalk about your next no, no, the
previous single.
What was that?
It was Going Next.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Right, that was the previous single and you tapped
into the vulnerability ofrelationships and shared history
.
How do you decide when a songshould come from a place of
emotional depth versus havingfun with the writing?
That's a heavy question.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That is, you know.
I think it comes down to youraudience, and what I mean by
that is people can smellbullcrap from a mile away.
So if you're writing aboutsomething and singing about
something and trying to preachthis story that you very clearly
can't relate to, your audienceis going to get bored with it,
In my opinion.
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
No, and I think you're right yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And I think the worst thing that an artist, or really
anybody, can say is well, thisis how I've always done it.
Your audience is continuing togrow and continue to experience
life.
They want to know that you areas well.
You know, I'm not, I'm notstuck at 17 or something, and so
writing about what you're goingthrough, I think, is the most
beneficial thing.
If you're going through a hardtime in your life, freaking, put
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ink on paper.
You know it might not even be asong I have plenty of songs
that I will never share withpeople but damn if it didn't
help get it out and so I thinkthat that that's what happened
with red, that's what happenedwith going next, and I think
it's what will continue tohappen through like, uh, you'll
see it on on the ep that I'mworking on, you'll see a wide
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range of, uh, the phase and thepoint in life that I'm at right
now well, you know the musicthat you, you write in a lot of
other country artists.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's you know.
They say it's the story of ourlives.
It's, it's you.
I could be driving down theroad to hear a song.
Come on and go.
Holy crap, I just went throughthat, or or what it's.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's like so-and-so's singing about me right now I
always say I want to write themost relatable music and I do
that by acknowledging the factI'm a regular guy that is
fortunate that he gets to writesongs for a living.
So if I'm a regular guyexperiencing is fortunate that
he gets to write songs for aliving, so if I'm a regular guy
experiencing regular guy stuff,then I can make all the other
regular guys and girls that aregoing through life and feel
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alone know that they're notalone by simply listening to
however many songs I put out onan album or an EP, and if you
can relate to one of them, thenyou know that you can relate to
me and that you're not the onlyone that's going through this
thing.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's cool and obviously you're in a
relationship.
You're really young.
You see, you got a verybeautiful, loving girlfriend.
Yes sir.
Does she know everything thatyou've done?
And I mean, let's just face it.
I mean, dude, you're a star.
Everything you've done up tothis point is is she in the
business at all or is she just?
(16:45):
I mean, we don't have to goreal deep with this, I'm just
saying, you know, it's kind ofcool.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's like, dude, you're dating jeff well, saying
I'm a star feels weird because Idon't.
I don't acknowledge that you'll.
You'll kind of hear that frommy close friends.
I don't acknowledge enough.
I don't mean to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But I'm just going to say, for you to say that means
a lot because you're real andthere's a lot of people you know
it's.
I look at it as everythingyou've done, from the acting to
the voiceover, just all that,and it's all gone.
It's big, it's huge.
So in a sense, you are a star.
But for you to think thatyou're not a star, you're real
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and don't ever don't let thatyou know.
Like take over your life,because then you're going to
lose.
Just be yourself.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And continue doing what you're doing, dude, thank
you To answer your questionabout her.
Okay, sorry.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
She's not in the industry, she's not, she's just.
I don't know if saying aregular girl is like weird, but
that is.
It is that's cool, that's who I, that's who I, who I'm dating.
And uh, a great example of thisis literally this morning.
When I was telling her aboutthe schedule for the day, I
texted her and I was like, yeah,and then we're gonna stop along
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the way because I have aninterview and she said for what?
and I was like, uh, for for me.
I was like we're going to stopalong the way because I have an
interview.
And she said for what?
And I was like for me.
I was like we're talking aboutlike Red and the upcoming EP and
this kind of stuff.
And her text was literally oh,I forgot, lol.
Like she forgot that like Iwould have an interview.
She thought that it was forlike a job or something.
I was like it's not for like ajob and it took her a second and
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I was like that's when you knowyou're with somebody that you
want to keep around for a whileBecause she's just, she's the
biggest supporter of me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
She'll come to every show she possibly can.
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But she is, she doesn't.
She doesn't gain anything frombeing with me because she's not
in this industry and she has nointerest in being in the
industry.
That's so good in being in theindustry, because she's with me
and she knows the industry andshe's like I want to be in that.
So, uh, so it's it's been great, she's awesome, her family's
great, and uh, I'm veryfortunate to have uh a lady like
her.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
She's not going like man.
I'm dating Pip the penguin, soI don't think so.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
She might maybe to her little cousins that watch
bubble guppies or something.
Yeah, I know, I know, but she'snot going around spreading it
in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
No, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Let's talk about the ride.
I'm thinking about what youmight be having for dinner when
your mom and dad show up at thecar door there.
But the album the Ride, phase 2, it kind of builds on themes
from your earlier work, if I'mnot mistaken.
And what was your vision forthat album and how did you want
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it to evolve from Phase 1?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You know it goes with what I was saying earlier about
writing what I know and whatI'm experiencing I wanted people
to be able to hear.
I mean, if you listen to thesongs, every song on the ride is
one of my stories.
My previous album, phase One,it was stories that either
myself or my co-writers had beenthrough.
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The ride was completely me,100% me.
Everything that I'd beenthrough the ride was completely
me, 100% me, everything that I'dbeen through.
So you can kind of listen tothe songs and figure out what I
had gone through or was goingthrough when we wrote each one
of the songs.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's not hard to put two and two together, we know
what was going on in Jet's life.
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, it's not hard to put two and two together, and
so I wanted to I guess you kindof said it.
I wanted to be vulnerable withmy audience, because that's how
you guys are going to get toknow me.
You know, I'm 20.
I'm not selling at arenas, sothe best way for me to connect
with the people that want tolisten to my music, in my
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opinion, is by being the realestversion of myself possible, and
so that's what we did with theride, and it's crazy to think
that that was 2023 when I putthat album out.
Uh, it's kind of it's, it'swild ago.
Wow, so that was two years agoalready yeah, which is bizarre,
uh, but that's just, that's justhow how it goes.
(20:53):
So that's why we're working onan ep now and I'm really excited
for people to hear some of thesongs that are on that, because
you'll get to hear this point inmy life that I'm at.
You know we called it the ridebecause it's kind of a roller
coaster of events throughout thewhole.
Every song, everything fromroots down to bones to six
strings.
You know, the first timehearing one of my songs on the
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radio was surreal, and so Iwrote a song about that and then
I played that song on the radio, the song about hearing my song
on the radio.
I got to perform down in Alabamafor the first time on the radio
before that was ever released,so nobody had heard that, and I
got to write about the fact thatpeople didn't.
I came from a family where Iwas really the only munitions,
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so nobody knew that I was.
Nobody knew that you could doit as a career.
Everybody was like, well, maybeyou should stick around and
work on the farm a little bitmore, and I was like we're gonna
see what this app, what workingthis hard for something like
this can do, and so getting tolike play that song about those
people that didn't believe in meon the radio was pretty neat,
and so that's what we did withthe ride and I was super proud
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of it, and I'm at a really goodplace now and I'm really happy
with where I'm at with my career, and so I'm really excited for
people to hear these songs thatare going to be on this EP.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, you've been doing it, like I say, 16 years
already, when you first starteddoing all that, as we mentioned
minutes ago, to where you aretoday, at the age of 20.
And you're still most peopleare just getting started.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes sir, I'm very blessed.
I'm very, very blessed.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And very talented.
You know they say good days incoffee bar have become fan
favorites.
Which track on the ride, phasetwo, feels the most personal to
you and why I?
Know I got crazy questions,don't I no?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
that's a great one.
Definitely.
Bones and Six Strings are someof my favorites.
Bones is very personal.
I wrote it by myself, which youwill not see on any of my other
tracks.
Every other track has beenco-written.
Every other track, uh, hastaken a lot longer to come up
with.
And bones I I record all of myrights of a little voice memo,
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just in case somebody throws outa melody or something, we
forget it.
Well, we've got it on recordingfor later.
Uh, there's a recording that's13 minutes of me writing bones.
It fell out on the pageliterally, and that was super
cool.
Uh, that song's probably themost personal on the on the
album, so you can listen to thatsong and really, really get to
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know Jet, which is really neat.
Some of my favorites, though,are definitely Roots and Ruin.
This Town, production-wise,lyric-wise, the songs quite
literally spell out the storiesof how they kind of came about.
But those are some of my mostproud production and overall
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sounding-wise.
State is also one of ourfavorites.
To perform live.
It's what we open our showswith.
It's super fun and is a goodway to start a country show.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I love that You're a co-writer on all those songs
correct yes sir?
And how do you keep yourwriting fresh and authentic
across an 11-track project likethis?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You write a lot of songs that don't make it on the
project.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You write 50 songs to find those 11.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yes, I mean I think it was Ed Sheeran that said once
you've written your first 200songs, then you'll have songs
that maybe you can startrecording.
So you maybe write 30 terriblesongs for every one good one.
I definitely still always havemy fair share of those 30.
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It feels more like an endlessamount of crappy songs.
So it's a lot, I think, whenthey stretch out, you work on a
project, especially a full album.
You work on that project for solong I mean it's been since
2023 since I put out a fullproject.
So, you work on a project for solong that eventually you're
going to just have songs thatare different, sound different.
(24:54):
You do catch yourself every nowand again.
I can't say that, or we can'tdo that, walk up because we did
that and it's the same key.
So every now and again I can'tsay that or we can't do that,
walk up because we did that andit's kind of it's the same key,
so it could sound kind ofsimilar.
So you kind of catch yourselfwith that every now and again.
But when you're a writer for aliving, it's kind of your job to
make sure that the songs aredifferent.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know I want to say it was probably 23 when you
and I talked last because theywere dropping that yeah, yeah.
And they reached out and saidhey, we want to hook you up with
jet, we want to, you know, getthem on the podcast, so that
that's now, here we are now,here we are again, again, again,
and mom and dad are in gettingyour hot dogs, so I don't know,
(25:34):
I hope they're getting me a hotdog we'll see, what do you do?
they have good food there.
I have no idea where you are.
I mean, does?
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I think it's more of a vending machine kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh, is it so we?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
might have to drive down the road a little bit
before we find a substantialmeal.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's like one of those rest areas where you go in
and take care of business andthen they have all the vending
machines.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
There's a bathroom that nine times out of 10, you
won't stop at but that one timeyou will stop that.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You have to.
I totally get that.
So when you co-produced Red,you were at Farmland in
Nashville.
I took this off your notes whatwas that studio experience like
?
And how hands-on are you whenit comes to actually shaping the
sound?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So, first of all, recording at Farmland is awesome
.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's a great studio.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
It's big enough to be very comfortable, but it's also
small enough that it's intimate, which I enjoy, and I I know
pretty much all the musiciansthat ended up playing on my
songs.
They've, most of them, haveplayed on my songs since I was
12, 13.
So it's been a while now.
So we've kind of built thatrapport and it's almost like
you're speaking a differentlanguage when you're in the
(26:45):
studio.
It's a series of numbers thatsomeone's calling out and
references to other songs thatare well known.
Can you do something like thaton this?
Can that fiddle sound like this?
I'm not a micromanager, but Ijust kind of.
(27:06):
I mean, you're working with themost talented musicians in the
world, so it's almost silly howsimple you can give an idea and
they can turn it into what itlater becomes.
So you don't have to be crazyhands on like with everything.
But I'm there for the fullprocess and definitely voice my
opinion and am very vocal abouthow I would like for it to sound
.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
No, no, it's your thing, man.
This is you, so you want it tosound a certain way, but you
also have a really good producerbehind that board as well.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I do Dan Frizzell's mixed and worked on every song
I've ever put out.
So now that I'm older, to beable to actually produce and mix
the songs with Dan is reallyimportant to me and that's
definitely what we did for theride and it's what we're
continuing to do now and I loveit and Dan and I.
(27:54):
Dan has now become, like youknow, one of my good friends and
that's pretty cool.
You know, go over to his houseand mix your songs.
That's pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Stop by Dan's on the way home today.
Yes, you know.
What do you enjoy most aboutthe process, though?
Is it the writing, therecording, the performing live?
What is it that you enjoy most?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I mean, there's nothing like performing live and
getting to see people react toeither your song or a song that
they know that you're covering.
That's always going to be fun.
You know, we played up in Idahoa little over a week ago and we
were playing a bunch of coversand everybody was two step into
it and dancing and swing dancingand it was so super fun.
You know, and they didn't knowmy songs, but they knew the
(28:38):
songs that we were playing andso it has that same effect
because it's us performing themand so that's always going to be
fun.
But I love being in the studio.
I really love the writingprocess.
I think that that's the coolestpart, because you're writing
about something that youexperience.
So it might even be outside ofthe writing process experiencing
(28:58):
the things that you later writeabout is also pretty neat,
because that means that you'reexperiencing life.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Absolutely, absolutely.
And you got a lot to go yet too.
I'm just saying We'll see.
No, I know that and uh, youknow.
So Reddit, reddit is out there.
I saw the video.
I liked the video man.
Tell us about the making of thevideo a little bit.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So we film at this uh farm called farmland uh down,
uhland down, near Franklin,tennessee, yep, and it's super
cool.
We saw online that they hadthis American flag on the side
of their barn.
We were like, oh well, that'sperfect.
And so the Riker brothers,derek and Drew, have filmed
(29:39):
every one of my music videos andthey flew from California to
Nashville and we filmed it justin a day there and we're just,
we were there for the whole day.
So we were just randomly belike, oh, that might look cool,
let's go over there and film mesinging the song once or twice.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And then oh, that looks neat.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Let's go film me doing that, and uh, it was just
kind of a we like to keep it fun.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I was going to say is it fun?
Is it fun or is it work?
You say it's fun.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So it's a little bit of both, but it's mostly fun Uh,
and we enjoy.
You get sick of your own songby the end of the day cause you
have to sing it about 200 times,but other than that, uh it's,
it's a good time and we enjoyedit a lot.
It was the perfect uh setting.
It turned out great.
I'm really happy with how itturned out.
(30:24):
One of my co-writers, davidSeeger.
Him and his wife don't live farand so he was working and his
wife showed up in his truck andwe went.
That would look really cool inthe video.
Here's the keys.
And I got to drive his truck inthe music video.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So it's good to know people.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's not about what you know it's about who you know
, right Isn't?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
that how it's done.
No, no, yeah, it's who you know.
There you go and that's a goodexample of it.
But that's all with the music,and I tell you you're just
kicking some tail with that andmoving on with Red and
everything that's gotten you tothis point.
But I want to talk a little bitabout voice acting.
It's a very unique craft.
Um does working in animation,like you did for pip the penguin
(31:09):
, um, or bubble guppies, uh,give you a different outlet than
music, does that, do you?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
they're.
They're different, yes, but Ithink that they're also more
similar than people realize.
One of the things that mostpeople don't realize is, if
you're in the studio doingvoiceover work, they have a
camera filming you, because alot of the time the animators
don't know what to do with thecharacter, because they're
creating it from scratch.
What kind of face should thecharacter make?
(31:39):
What kind of information theirface show?
So they'll go to the actualvideo of the actor saying the
line to see what we do.
So it's not all that differentfrom being on stage and
performing.
It might not matter as muchabout what you're wearing, but
it definitely matters about thefeeling.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
The feeling, the expressions.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Exactly.
If I'm not smiling when I say aline, you can definitely tell
uh, and so it's little thingslike that that I, I think,
translate very clearly over tomusic and and vice versa.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I don't think I yeah, yeah, I'm at either one if I
didn't have each.
Are you do?
Yeah, are you doing any of thatnow, or are you sticking with?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I still do.
I still do auditions and stuff.
Actually, tomorrow morning,once we get home tonight
tomorrow morning, I will recorda voiceover audition from home.
That's cool, but I am sofocused on music right now that
that's kind of the main focus,especially since it's summer and
there's fairs and festivalshappening everywhere across the
(32:44):
country and we're kind oftraveling about every week for a
different show.
We'll be traveling what's today, we traveling on Friday for a
show this coming weekend.
So that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That's kind of where my head space has been for the
past while I got you You're, ifyou don't mind me asking because
I'm a geek what do?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
you use at home to record your auditions.
What is it just so I?
I have a little kind ofvariation.
It depends on the on the show.
I love a shirt, SM seven B as amicrophone, but I also use the,
the blue bluebird.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Oh yeah, okay, I did that a lot for season two of
Tots.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I pretty much did 98% of that show from home because
of COVID and it was recorded onthe Blue Bluebird.
So that's what I use Simplerecording software.
If I'm on my Mac, I'll be usingjust Logic and I've got an
interface.
I've got a couple differentinterfaces.
I at a clear it.
I like that interface.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So nice, yeah, yeah, nice.
See just the point.
If somebody wanted to do whatyou're doing or give it a shot,
I mean you don't need anythingover the top now I have a full
studio here, of course sure,sm7bs and all that, and I love
it, but I do this almost atleast twice a week, so just
keeps me going you also don'thave to have, like a lot of
(34:10):
people think, that you have tohave a nice recording software.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
If you can save a file as an mp3 or a wave, that's
all you need.
Go online and use audacity,it's free.
Literally the first, like 12years of my voiceover, all of my
auditions were recorded on ablue snowball microphone and
audacity.
So you can definitely get intothe industry for little to no
money.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Exactly.
That was kind of where I wasgoing with that.
So, and look where it got you.
So anybody could do that.
What about your acting?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I saw gray's anatomy on this I did gray's anatomy
when I was five, I think reallysix.
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
My wife has watched every freaking episode of gray's
anatomy, and then over again.
So it's and I saw that on onthe notes that they sent me and
I went really wow, do you recallwhat did you do in gray's
Anatomy?
Were you just a patient?
I?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
was just in one episode.
Uh, my dad was like my fake dadwas a patient on the show.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I gotcha there.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Uh, I, I vaguely remember it.
It's crazy to think that Iexperienced so many, yes,
interesting cool things young,because some of them I don't
even really remember and I wishthere's a part of me that wishes
I would have you knowexperienced that when I was like
13, because then I'd have afull memory of it.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Right, no, exactly what keeps you grounded, though,
because you've got all thesedifferent things going on in
your life or you had them.
What keeps you grounded whenlife gets really hectic?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Definitely my friends and family, my faith, but being
able to, you know, go to churchon Sundays and spend time with
my family when I am home, go tothe farm and you know things.
Like I said earlier last week,tedding hay, mowing hay 321
bales of hay is what we got onthe 75 acres that we mowed last
week.
So being able to do things likethat, that I think not many
people imagine somebody in myindustry would be doing during
(36:14):
the week when they're not on theroad with their band, was
literally driving back from ourshow in Idaho, stopped in
Missouri to do hay and now we'retraveling back to Tennessee.
So I mean, it's stuff like thatthat uh definitely reminds you
where you came from and is uhkind of brings it all back rock.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, exactly, tell me a little bit about your band.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
the same guys all the time pretty much the same guys
all the time.
Every now and again somebodywill have a different show.
You know, we're not headliningarenas yet, so it's not quite
the Ace in the Hole band, wherethey've been playing for 30
years together.
All the same people, but it'smainly the same guys.
We kind of float around acouple people every now and
(36:56):
again, but all of them arewithin two years of my age, so
we're all pretty young and we'reall you know.
Just I guess the word is likestarving musicians we just want
to play, we want to play shows,and so we're always down to do a
show and have fun.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Are you, let me ask, are you looking forward to
selling out stadiums, or wouldyou prefer to perform in a venue
?
Maybe?
That's limited to maybe 1500,2000 people.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
You know, I mean there's always the point in your
career where you'd be like, oh,that that'd be cool to be
George straight or Garth Brooksand sell out Nissan stadium in
Nashville, especially the newindoor one, because then you
won't have to deal with as muchhumidity in july or something
down by the river.
Yes, but the the, the box thatI want to check more so than any
(37:54):
place really in the world isthe ryman auditorium.
I mean the original grand oleopry.
That's the place that, if Icould perform anywhere.
It's intimate.
You can essentially see thefaces of everybody that paid
money to come and see you andit's which is important for me
especially.
You know I've played plenty ofdive bars where there's been six
(38:16):
people and two of them are myparents.
So being able to play someplacethat's intimate, but also that
that would feel like pretty muchthe biggest milestone for me.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
See, I asked you that because, you know, I've talked
to a lot of other artists, bothindependent and also major,
major artists, and the answer Iusually get is you know, I don't
care too much about thestadiums, I want to be able to
connect with the fans, sotherefore I prefer a smaller
venue where I.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
You have to remember those people that got you there.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yes, exactly.
And Jed, I can't believe youhave not performed the Mother
Church yet.
At the Mother Church I Dude,we'll see.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
We'll see.
I would love to.
We've got to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
You haven't been on in the Grand Ole Opry either.
I've not.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I performed outside last year with my band in the
fall.
I got to perform on their stageoutside the Opry, which was
really really cool.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Especially getting to work with the Opry sound guys
that are running the soundoutside.
That was cool to me Becausewithout those guys I wouldn't be
performing, because I don'tknow how to run that sound
system.
Um, but there's, there'sdefinitely a few places that I
want to check off.
Uh, the Opry, you know, stepinto the circle and you know the
(39:36):
original Opry the Ryman.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yes, it'd be pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh my God, I know, you know we do the CRS thing and
we do the lunch thing at the,you know at the Ryman, and it's
just like you get in there andit's just like wow.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
It's surreal.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
You know, I've done that for so many years and it is
surreal.
And to think about somebodylike yourself as an artist, and
those artists that areperforming for that lunch, that
they're walking out on thatstage and doing their thing, and
you know, it's just the firsttime experience had to be so
like surreal, I mean just.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I don't even know if I can describe it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, so we'll get you there.
You got to get there.
You're going to get there.
We'll see.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely,we'll definitely get you there
tell me about the ryan seacrestfoundation.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I've I've worked with that foundation for a really
long time.
I was probably 10 or 11 thefirst time I went into for the
people that don't know.
They raise money to build,essentially, studios like the
one that you have or radiostations have, uh, inside
children's hospitals around thecountry and they'll have anybody
from Taylor Swift to localsports stars to me.
(40:48):
Come in and we'll perform andwe'll play games with the kids
and try to help take their mindoff of whatever it is that
they're going through that hasthem there in the first place.
So I've worked with them for along, long time.
Meredith Seacrest Ryan's sister, is an amazing person Actually
wrote me a letter ofrecommendation for college,
(41:09):
which was super special, niceand it's just.
It's been awesome to be able towork with them.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Have you been to St Jude?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
You're talking about those hospitals, have you?
Speaker 1 (41:22):
had that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
St Jude, you're talking about those hospitals.
Have you had that opportunity?
I don't believe I have workedwith St Jude in the past.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
If you did, you would remember there's so many
artists and everybody.
Eventually you will be thereand you will see what's going on
and you know.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Just work with the kids and be in who you are and
getting pictures taken and stuffthe best thing honestly is
being able to see the faces ofthe family members, because they
are, in some cases, having aharder time than the actual
patient, because, I mean, Ican't imagine being a parent
having to watch your kid gothrough that, or even a sibling,
you know, seeing how close theyare.
So to be there and be able tohelp them because we're playing,
(42:02):
playing games right there withtheir siblings and that makes
the parents happy that's reallyspecial.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I've seen it, I've been there, I've done that a few
times and it's an experience.
You're absolutely right.
And the parents.
They'll be smiling, but what'sbehind that smile?
You know what I mean.
There's a lot going on and it'sjust I mean I'll be honest with
you.
I cried, I cried, oh yeah, it'shard not to, it was so hard?
Yeah, exactly.
So if somebody wanted to get ahold of your music, where can we
(42:30):
find you?
Your name is hard to spell, butI got it right, I think.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
But tell us where can we go.
So anywhere that you buy orlisten to music.
It's just my name, jetjurgensmeyer.
Jet with one t like a plane, asuper fun way to remember it.
Jurgensmeyer, I'm typically theonly one that's on the internet
, so if you type jet and then jI'll, I should be the only one
that comes up probably will yeahon social media.
(42:57):
It's all the same.
It's not official or music orany of those.
It's just jet jurgensmeyer, mywebsite's, jetjurgensmeyercom,
and that's kind of the simplestway to find me, get ahold of me,
see where I'll be performingsocial media and my website.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Is there somewhere where we're going to see you,
either on TV or hear your voice,besides the music, real soon.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
There's always a possibility.
I know that Disney Junior andNickelodeon Nick Jr is always
playing old episodes, so thereis a chance that you will hear
what my friends and family callBaby Jet on TV.
There's a possibility you'llhear that.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
When you hear it, what do you think?
Do you sit there and go?
Oh my God, I can't believe Idid that.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Sometimes I'm like oh , I should have said that line
differently.
Why'd they use that?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Sometimes it's like why?
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yeah, it's like man.
Why did I sound like that I was14.
I sound like I'm about six.
Oh, why did I do that?
Why?
Speaker 1 (43:54):
did I sound like that .
Speaker 2 (43:56):
This is true, uh, so there's always that, but also
it's.
I mean, it's kind of neat.
You know, being being on TV iskind of cool when you find, when
you step back and get to thinkabout it and not not just, you
know, act like it didn't happen,it is pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So I have to ask if you look out your window,
there's mom and dad likestanding over there looking at
their watch going come on, dude,dude, dude.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
they were they got hot because of how the humidity
is outside, so they actually aresitting in the front seat now.
So, it is 93 outside, withabout a hundred percent humidity
, so it's warm.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Well, tell them we said hello and appreciate all
they do for you as well.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
I will do it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
That's.
That's pretty cool.
It's so good to see you.
I know you got to get on theroad and get back home.
You got a lot going on tomorrow.
You on the road and get backhome.
You got a lot going on tomorrow.
You got stuff going on, so thesooner you get home the better.
You must be pretty close,though, right.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
We are pretty close.
We're only you know hour, hourand a half maybe.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, Something like that, Something like that oh
we're only an hour away, therewe go.
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
All right, Do you have?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
are there pets waiting for you at home at all,
or anything like that?
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No pets.
I think I travel too much thatI couldn't keep a goldfish alive
.
So it's too difficult.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I got you, jet Juergensmeyer.
You're awesome, my friend.
There's a lot going on with youand everything that we can look
forward to.
I love the new song and I knowthere's going to be a lot more
and I love everything behind it.
Thank you, so it.
It's just, it's your feelingsyou're doing it and everything
you've done.
Your mom and dad must be soproud and of course you said
they're kind of in the businessas well.
(45:28):
So you know what God bless youall.
Thank you for coming on, skipHappens tonight.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Thank you for having me.
God bless, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
All right, it's Jet Juergensmeyer.
Everybody, do you have aYouTube page?
Can they go and subscribe, oranything like that.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I do Quite literally every social media page is just.
Jet Juergensmeyer, it's prettyeasy to find me.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Yep and Skip Happens the same way, or Skip Clark.
There you go, it all works out.
All right, jet, have a greatnight and safe travels for the
remainder of the ride home forthe next hour or so, and thanks.
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