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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody and welcome back to Skip Happens.
My name is Skip Clark, ofcourse, the host of Skip Happens
, and tonight I'm joined byrising country sibling duo Juna
and Joey, and I might say theyare no stranger to the Skip
Happens podcast.
I think it's been twice, butit's been quite a while.
But we're going to be talkingabout their brand new single.
(00:22):
It's called Sip it Slow.
It's more or less a laid-backsummer anthem about love, timing
, letting things unfoldnaturally, and from their viral
videos to big stages, they're aduo you will want to keep an eye
on.
So we're going to dive right in.
Juna and Joey, how are you guysGood to see?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
you.
We're great.
Thank you so much for having usback.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Awesome.
Are you in nashville?
Are you in florida?
We're in nashville okay,because you have a place there
as well as am I right to saythat from before?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
yes, we are from florida originally and we still
go back occasionally.
We have a residency that weplay there still, so we'll go
back from time to time to playthat and other shows there that
we have, but we're mainly innashville now cool.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Every time I see you, you look a little bit older I
mean, I was looking back at someof the early videos.
I was actually actually likestalking your youtube page a
little while ago and I sawvideos.
It's like I'm looking at joey'shair and it's I think it was
blonde and it was like reallyshort and and and Aduna, you
looked about 12.
I mean it was like wow, but yousounded so good in that they
(01:31):
had to be six or eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So yeah, oh yeah, that was a long time ago.
The hair phases have definitelyhe's been through it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I've noticed Joey's hairstyles.
You had the the mullet goingthere for a little bit.
I think I'm going back to it.
I'm sorry, Are you?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, I need to.
Instead of rounding the back, Ineed to put it more square so
that it's more visible.
But yeah, I think the mullet'scoming back.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, he had the short hair, then he had the man
bun, then he had the mullet andnow he has.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I never saw you in the man, but yeah, oh god, I
have to look that up.
That was that was quite a whileago.
Yeah, I love that.
I love that, but, uh, for thosethat don't know you, uh, maybe
they are just discovering you.
Uh, who are you guys and howdid this journey that you guys
are on, how did all that start?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
well, it started when I was around three or four
years old.
I got influenced into musicthrough the movie the little
rascals.
Actually I would put that in mymom's cd thing, that she had a
little tv in the back of her carand I put that in.
I would watch it every singleday on my way to school.
I was obsessed with that movieand I fell in love with the song
love by frank sinatra.
That was when alfalfa and Darladid their talent show scene and
(02:46):
I thought to myself you know, Iwant to be just like Darla, I
want to be on stage performingin the spotlight.
And so then I learned the songand I performed it for our dad
on our coffee table.
He was like, oh my gosh, likewe need to get you to lessons,
we need to get her into singing.
So that's when I startedlearning classical music and
training in the classical piano.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And then that's kind of when Joey and Joey said I
want to do it if you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, I was a sports guy.
I played baseball for eightyears, played basketball,
football, soccer, every sportyou can think of.
And then I eventually went toone of her lessons and the
teacher was like do you sing?
And I was like.
And the teacher was like do yousing?
And I was like you know, in theshower, you know just, or taste
swift on the radio, nothing toospecial.
(03:30):
And so then I she, you knowplayed a couple of chords on the
piano and I started humming andshe was like she's got
something and I was like reallyso we eventually did that I
started singing with June alittle bit.
We had like a wedding and we didthat wedding and I actually
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fainted.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Our cousin's wedding, yeah, you fainted, fainted.
On the harpist.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
On the harpist.
It was really hot and I wassweating.
Oh my God, I couldn't controlit and I was like I am the bread
of and I just like everythingstarts to fade away.
Yep and uh.
You don't want to ever see thatvideo no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm sure we could find it somewhere, but we won't
do that not at all did you, um,did either one of you ever think
about doing a solo career?
But you're great together.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm just kind of because you're both so talented
um, you know, we've kind of likewe feel that with our duo, our
sibling harmonies is somethingthat we really love to emphasize
into our music and into ourwriting.
I just feel like that'ssomething that is so unique for
us, like, obviously, like if youdon't have a sibling that sings
the music, you that's somethingthat you don't have access to.
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And I feel like we're bothlucky enough to have, you know
what I think great voices andgreat harmonies.
So I think that is what issomething that sets us apart
from everybody.
So that's something that wereally like try to, you know,
push ourselves with our brand.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Right, you talk about your song, your songwriting.
What's what's your process like?
How?
What's your creativity?
Um, how does all that come out?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I guess that's what I'm trying to say well, it kind
of depends on who we're writingwith and the vibe of the day and
what we're kind of feelingabout writing, whether it's like
an emotional deep song or justa fun upbeat chill song.
It'll probably start with joeyplaying like a little riff or
like a little loop kind of thingon the guitar.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, like the one, four, five or the one.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, and he'll play like some interesting, cool
thing, and then we'll get out ofthe groove going and then we
have like a hook book in ourphone of all the different like
titles and ideas and thoughtsthat we have, and some of them
are like complete gibberish.
Like I go back and I look atthem and I'm like what was I
even thinking?
What?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
kind of song.
That's not even right.
I'm having voice memos on myphone.
I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'm like no, I'm like whatis that no-transcript music
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theory, all sorts of things likethat.
We're still keeping up withschool because it's important,
it makes radio, tour and touringand other things like that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't know how you, as an artist, do that.
I don't know how all theartists do that, because a lot
of them are trying to go toschool, they're trying to keep
up their tour schedule.
They're on a radio tour.
It's like are you kidding me?
I can't.
You know, I just have a nine tofive job and I can't keep that
straight.
But you know it gets a littlecrazy.
I'm going to hang on, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know if you can see that or not, but I'm
going to take Juna and Joey nameoff me.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh, I don't know where that came from.
Let's see what happens Did it,go away it went away.
Yeah, I have no idea what I'mdoing.
It's not like.
I've never done this before butskip happens every time.
It is skip happens, baby.
So let me ask you who decideswho's going to sing lead?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I think it goes back to the writing and, depending on
what the song is and themeaning and what it's about,
we'll kind of dictate who takesthe lead, like if it's a more.
You know, that's another thingthat I feel that's so great
about the duo is that we have amale perspective and we also
have a female perspective, andso I think that's really cool.
We like to do that a lot in oursongs, although, like when it
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comes to love songs, we don'tlike to do that.
But if the song and the meaningis right, we'll try and do like
the back and forth thing, justbecause we have the opportunity
to do it.
Um, but like I said, with thelove songs, like it'll be one of
us doing the lead and like itjust depends if it's coming from
a female perspective, liketalking about guy stuff, or if
it's like girls.
(07:49):
I'm saying it just depends.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, and now that we're, you know, basically
transitioning, I mean, we'velived in Nashville for six years
and Florida most of our lives,but now we're like moving here.
So the venue that we're openingup on in goodlettsville is going
to be a songwriting kind ofvenue and we're wow writers come
in and, you know, tell theirstory and have tapas and drinks
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and food, and it's gonna be awhole thing.
We have cornhole in the back.
We're gonna have, like you know, and uh yeah, so we're gonna,
you know, obviously still haveour career.
We're going to, you know,obviously still have our career.
We're going to have a venue, sothere's different assets.
You know we got songwriting allover the place in
Goodlandsville, so there's goingto be people flowing in there
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telling their stories.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
How close this is in Tennessee.
So how close is that toNashville?
It's around 25 minutes outsideokay, all right, okay, and it's
on a good day like.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I feel like there's not like too, many places like
for people to listen to musicand they don't have to drive
through nashville to park andpark.
You know it's and it gets alittle hectic, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, yeah yeah, I've been there.
Uh, yeah, you know, my wife andI went there for a weekend here
a while ago, just to get away,and we stayed at the Omni.
And then it's like Saturdayrolled around and I said, come
on, let's go down to Broadway,let's see who's playing, let's
see what's going on Mistake.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean, you know it's a lot of fun, I get that, but I
so it's a lot of fun, I getthat, but I'm not one to stand
in lines, and just when it getsto be that crowded I'd rather go
back to the hotel and have aglass of wine at the bar.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, it gets really crowded.
And then you know I am only 20,so I can't really get into the
bars yet.
But even just being on thestrip like you can't really move
.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
No, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's just a lot of action going on.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Do you guys get down there at all?
Do you just go down there?
If you go down, you probablydon't go at night.
You'd probably go midday orearly in the morning, for
whatever reason.
Maybe you have friends thatcome into town and you want to
show them Broadway.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I was going to say, yeah, that's pretty much the
only reason we would go downthere, at least on Broadway.
I mean, Nashville is a littledifferent, not directly on the
strip of Broadway.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
We'll go into Nashville, obviously, yeah
sometimes we'll play at Live Oakdown there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, oh yeah, as far as Broadway, we only really go
down there if our friends comein town and we want to be like.
This is what it's busy it'sbusy.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, exactly, well, just hook them up with the
webcams, they can see whatNashville's doing.
Just saying, uh, what's it liketo work as a brother and sister
, I mean with your?
You know you're working withyour sibling.
I mean, are there those?
I know Joey's going, yeah, okay, uh, yeah, or maybe you are
Juna, but uh, there's got to bethose moments.
(10:46):
You know, brothers and sisters,it happens.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It does happen.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Skip happens, skip happens.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's the answer to everything on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That's such a great tagline 99% of the time we're
good and 1% we're just.
I know we have our moment, no.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I know, I get it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
We have our moment.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No, no, and I get it.
Uh, how that works.
Um, can you what was your mostsurreal moment in your music
career to this point?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You know, I mean I, I see you around at CRS and, for
those that don't know, it's acountry radio seminar but it's
artists like Juna and Joey thatwill go out and meet the radio
programmers and the recordlabels and everybody that does a
little something-something inthe music industry.
But what's your most surrealmoment?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I would say.
I mean, we just did aninterview today with WSM at the
Aubrey.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We were just going to say that so that was pretty
awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Cool, that was great.
And CRS, I feel like every yearlike that's always just a great
time to do that, Like to meeteverybody in the radio industry
in one place.
You know all there, I'd have tosay.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Key West Songwriters Festival.
I love every year that comesaround I'm like, just come on,
get to Cuba song.
I just love like going downthere and listen to people's
story and hearing some of myfavorite songs being played by
the artists and the people thatwrote it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And also the UK when we toured there, for that was
definitely like one of thehighlights of our career.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I happened to see a video of you in London.
Yeah, I can't.
I don't recall what the venuewas, but, like I said, I was
stalking your youtube page and Iwent.
That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Good for them yeah, and country is big there and we
were just talking about that theother day, recently it's just
been, it just grew so much likeour, our manager has always,
like, had ties to the uk, likethat's been somewhere, she's
always traveled and and andshe's like, oh, the country
music is really great over there, like it's really big, and Joey
and I were like, yeah, okay, sowe get over there and we're
(12:52):
like wait, actually you reallylove it there, Like we didn't
believe her at first.
But you know, we saw first.
Sorry, I just love you.
Oh my God, I saw it.
I saw it, joey.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I saw it happen when we saw firsthand like just how
appreciated they are theircountry music and it's so great.
Yeah, they buy merch you know,they're very supportive.
They're.
Yeah, I mean, you got you guyskilled it up there like I just
want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You know like it was, oh man that's got to be such a
cool feeling, though.
You being on stage and seeingthat reaction and knowing that
these people are new fans andthey're buying your merch and
all that and supporting you.
It's got to be such a greatfeeling.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I think the best feeling is like when they're
singing your song.
Yeah, that is like that hitsthe heart.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
They sing it back to you.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, flashlights.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, I know, everybody.
Everybody gets phones out, youknow.
But let's talk about sip itslow.
It feels like it's a metaphorfor more than just romance Does
it also reflect your journey asan artist A little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I mean, it's written kind of through the perspective
of coworkers.
Actually, they're at work andthey have kind of like this
underlying connection.
I feel like at some pointeverybody has like that thing
for their coworker or someonethey work with like a little
fling, and you know, it wasnever anything serious.
But then they go to the bar andthey have a couple of drinks
and the feelings come out on thetable and they both didn't
(14:21):
realize that they felt this wayfor each other until it got
brought up, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
You got to take things slow.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know how relationships go.
You don't want to love, bombthem.
You know you drink too fast.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's I as you know, I was listening to this when,
when, we clicked on a little bit, but just give it, give our
viewers a little taste of thissong.
I love the groove, I love it.
Listen to this just for amoment.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Nothing about you and me was supposed to go this far.
Just a couple friends afterwork talking at a patio bar.
When you're drinking that drink, it starts making me think it
just could go fast.
I'm not a want that want tomake this last, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'll do this like we do in radio.
There they are, Juna and Joey.
It's called Sip it Slow on theSkip Happens podcast, and you
know it doesn't come out tillFriday, though.
Yes, At 11, at a 12, 1159,.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It counts down to the 15th.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And it is out.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Do you like?
Watch it, Do you like?
Okay, it's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
Are you up at midnight to seewhat happens?
How does that work from yourperspective?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We are up, ready and waiting.
We just want to see it on theSpotify you know page.
Every time it's just awesome tosee it there.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
We were just talking about that in another interview.
When an artist drops an album,I'm literally up at 11.59,
counting down, listening to allthe songs, It'll be like 1.30,
and I finish the album and I'mlike, all right, it's time for
me to go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Now, I might have asked you this in a previous
podcast which one is older?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Joey is 23.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, so you write a song like Sip it Slow.
You have yet to experience life, but yet you listen to that
song and it's about going to thebar and hanging out.
It's a coworker comes by andyou want to have a drink with
that person and maybe just talkabout things.
(16:32):
How did I mean?
Did you have any help writingthat?
Or did you know how all talk tome?
How did all that come aboutagain?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, well, we wrote it with a buddy of ours here in
Nashville.
But I think that, you know,although I'm not allowed in the
bars, I think that's what makesthe great songwriters is just
taking something that maybeyou've never experienced before,
but being able to translate itinto a song and, you know, say
it from your own heart, as ifyou have experienced it, or just
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think about it as if you werein somebody else's shoes, is
just what makes it so great,what makes it so unique.
You know, what I'm saying isthat, although you haven't
experienced it, it feels like it, you know, and you can portray
it in a way that it's like wowwe had that title in the hook
book for like a long time, yeah,we were like, oh, it's good
Speaker 3 (17:18):
we didn't know how to translate it rolls off the
tongue like sip it slow it does,it does and it goes.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I mean the music right there, you know just the
way the groove that just it justkind of flows and sip it slow,
sip it slow, you got it.
Uh, you know, it's such, Iguess, a summer anthem.
It's a little late in thesummer, but I think it's an
anthem that could be played atany time.
But, uh, you know, what's youridea of that?
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We're gonna kind of drift awayfrom that, because this is what
happens on skip happens.
Uh, what is your idea of theperfect summer day off for music
?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
oh okay, yeah, I'll tell you mine.
So we go to the cafe.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We get hang on, hang on, judah, joey, joey, she's
showing you up here.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I just saying she's all right, go ahead we go to a
cafe, we get pastries, we getcoffees, and then we have to get
like a refreshing beverage,like you have your coffee.
Then you have to get like astarbucks or something, like a
refreshing beverage or like alemonade or something.
And then you go to the jet skiand you ride around on the jet
skis and you're blasting musicor boat, boat or jet ski and you
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blast music and you have agreat time and you're hanging
out, you're having fun.
And then you all come back tothe house and we have a game
night, big family game night,and we play pictionary sounds in
our pps and has snacks soundsfun so what do?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
you have.
Oh, go ahead, joey oh no, I wasjust gonna say yeah, usually
like on a summer day off, likeI'll just like go outside, get
hit, let the sun hit you in theeyes.
You know just kind of get somevitamin d first thing in the
morning and then I'll probablylike make some you know meal
preps for the week, and thenI'll probably hit the gym get
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some protein in good for youvery different answers.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Clearly what else, what else?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
well, you're a sports guy, so I would expect that out
of you.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yep, yeah what I mean .
I'm so excited for football.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I'm so glad that it's oh yeah pre-seasons I hope
you're not a dolphins fanunfortunately I am I know I saw
the jersey.
I saw you on as I was goingthrough your stuff online and I
said, oh, he's got a dolphinshirt on, or I saw the logo and
it was like so I was going tobust on you about that.
Good luck with the Dolphins.
By the way, we got the Bills,we have the Giants and we have
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the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's not a great start so far.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We'll see what happens.
What about baseball?
You got a favorite baseballteam Because you said you played
baseball.
Do you watch it?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I haven't, but I don't like really watch baseball
, like I sometimes watch it whenit's on, but football is like
that's it, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
You know what we were talking about in another, in
another interview that we didabout the Savannah banana.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Love the Savannah bananas.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
How funny are they?
I mean, I want to go to one ofthose games.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
so bad I can't believe you haven't been,
because I mean, here's a guyabout five or six years ago just
had an idea and they wanted tohave a little bit of fun and you
know they took some of theplayers that really there are
college players.
They never.
Maybe they were minor leaguebut they never made it to the
majors.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And so now they're out there having a ball, like
they're so famous and popular,like, yeah, they're so fun, I
can't I want to go?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
yeah, I, I love it, you need to go.
They're selling out arenaseverywhere.
They're um their pa announcer.
Actually, we're friends onfacebook, so it's kind of cool
and I would just love to fill insome time doing that.
I do it here for our mets, butto do it for the Bananas it's a
whole different attitude,Bananas I mean if I had known, I
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would have worn my SavannahBananas jersey, because they did
play here in Syracuse, wherethe podcast originates from, and
you know, I got to say whenthey announced that they were
coming, then the tickets went onsale.
It was they.
I got to say when theyannounced that they were coming,
then the tickets went on sale,they were all sold out in a
matter of hours.
It was amazing.
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I know that's so crazy.
It's like getting tickets toTaylor Swift or something.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, exactly, are you a Swifty?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I wouldn't say that I'm a Swifty.
I have doubted listening to hermusic a little bit, but I don't
know, I wouldn't say that I'm aswifty.
I love her and she is like themost, like she is a boss girl,
like she's a queen and she'siconic for sure.
But you know, and I listen toher music like I do like a lot
of artists, but I asked thatbecause of your age and I
figured it's that you know it'sjust the younger ladies are are
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loving her and I think it's.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You know it's the songs that she sings.
They can relate to.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And like old Taylor, country Taylor.
You know that was my favoriteversion.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I have a man.
I should have brought itdownstairs.
I have a card from Taylor Swift.
When I was at another radiostation here in town when she
was first starting out, she camethrough with Capitol Records.
Her mom, the label rep and Igave her one of her first radio
interviews.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yes, and do you think I look every day for that audio
because it's on a hard drivehere somewhere.
But I do have the thank youcard that she sent afterwards
saying, hey, if there's anythingyou ever need, don't be afraid
to reach out.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That's not like yeah, I need you no, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So I think it's so cool.
But that was many years ago andshe had just come out with a
song Tim McGraw at that time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh yeah, and she sang that in the studio.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, very cool, is there either one of you could
answer this, but if you couldhandpick anybody to collaborate
with, dead or alive, who wouldthat be?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I would say probably either Fleetwood Mac or Dan and
Shay, or Hardy Hardy or again,or Zach top or Ernest.
Cody Johnson, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, I know, it's just.
I am such a big fan of ZachTopp.
Yeah, he's good.
I like the fact that I know youguys do a lot of country pop
type.
That's your style and I totallyget that.
But Zach is bringing back, inmy opinion, bringing back that
90s sound.
When I hear a Zach Topp song, Ithink of Chattahoochee, alan
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Jackson.
You know what I mean, justbecause of his style.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
He's making it fresh.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
He is when he sings.
You know it's him.
He's got something going on.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Is there.
When you go out and do yourgigs you're playing at these
different events.
What kind of covers do you do,or do you stick to all your own
stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well, we love to do our originals, like in writers
and all sorts of thingsAbsolutely.
But when we do cover gigs we'lldo like a mix of some modern
country and then we'll do sometraditional country and maybe a
little bit of like kind of alittle bit of rock, just to get
everybody up and dancing.
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, we try to do songs like hit me with your best
shot, or you know oh wow, Icould see you doing that hit me
with your best shot
Speaker 2 (24:20):
joey, that's good or keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You know, we throw that in oh, george's satellites
oh yeah now I'm showing my age alittle bit Some Dwight Yoakam
on the playlist.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We got Zach Topp on there.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh, my goodness we got.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Sarah Evans we got a mix.
Yeah, we got a mix.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, do you know Nate Felty from Zach Topp?
He's the drummer, he's fromthis area.
He went to the same high schoolI did.
He's younger but uh, when, whenthey played here, uh, I saw him
, I went holy crap.
So I made it a point to sayhello, he goes.
Yeah, I've been playing withhim for a little bit now.
I said that's so cool that is socool, so cool, uh.
(24:58):
So are you working on a fullalbum or how's that going?
I know you had a song out priorto sip it slow, uh, about a bar
tab.
That was good.
I I'm you know, it's just, butare they all going to be on an
album?
Do you have them on an ep?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
fill us in on that well, we have around nine songs
recorded, but we're kind ofreleasing them one by one just
to really squeeze the most wecan out of the, out of each song
, um.
So we're releasing them acouple weeks out of time and
then we're getting back in thestudio to record some more.
It's like a cycle.
(25:35):
It comes up so fast.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I love it.
Jeff Galko, I don't know, haveyou worked with Jeff?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, yeah, he says hey.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, so him and I were pretty close, so he's a
cool guy, he's great, he's oneof the best, one of the best.
You know a lot of stuff goingon, but yeah, do you remember
the first concert you guys everwent to?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
First concert was I think it was the Morgan Wallen
and Florida Georgia line.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
We saw we got to go back stage.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, with Florida Georgia line, we got to like do
their, their prayer thing in theback.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, they had like a prayer and
a shot before they went onstage.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
When we were on the bus, I got to use the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Oh, wow.
So yeah, that's quite theopportunity to use the bathroom
on the tour bus, so that'spretty cool.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
It was an incredible idea.
It was Morgan Wallen.
He was the opener.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It was Dan Wallen.
He was the opener.
It was Dan and Shay.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He was the opener, and then was Dan and Shay next.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I think it was Dan and Shay next.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And then Florida Georgia Line was the headliner
Like.
That's kind of like.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's great.
That had to be a great show.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's a lineup you would never see today.
You know what I'm saying.
So it was crazy for us toexperience those three like in
the same it was great yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Dan and Shay are still together.
Of course.
You know Brian and uh, you knowthey're not doing Florida
Georgia line anymore, but yeah,I know, I know, but you never
know what the future is going tobring.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
True, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
What's that they?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
might.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
They might.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I heard some stuff going or something, I don't know
.
Talk to me, joey.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Talk to me, Give me the scoop.
You know, I've heard a lot ofyes and no, so you know a lot,
just like you do, I wouldsuppose.
So, yeah, what's the?
What song has taught you themost about yourselves as an
artist or a performer?
That's a good question it's areally good question um you can
(27:32):
thank ai for that questionbecause I said, give me a
question that's going to be hard, but no go ahead okay, um,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
it's tough.
Really great question.
I don't even know.
I'm drawing a blank right now.
What song.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All right, never mind , think about it Just have it on
paper by 9 o'clock tomorrowmorning, we'll be good.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So yeah, and where would you like to see you guys
in a year from now?
That's kind of a dumb question,but I'm going to ask it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
We'd love to see ourselves opening up for some
artists that we really like,some artists I feel like we
connect with.
Like there's a lot of artists Ifeel like in our age group
right now that are doing so welland are so successful, like
Hudson Westbrook and VincentMason and Abrianna Like.
I feel like a group like thatwould be so great to tour and do
something with them so we can,you know, be on their level yeah
, or or like, maybe in a year,like we'll have like some crazy
(28:34):
songwriters coming to our venueand yeah, you know telling their
story about how they wrote thissong and that song, the songs
that we listen to.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So that'd be pretty cool too, and how does it work?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
because you're opening up the venue geared
towards songwriters.
How do you get the word outthere about the venue?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
well, we, you know, what's crazy is that we have
people coming in every singleday, just walking up to the door
and saying are you guys?
Open yet or when you guys likesometimes one or two people a
day just coming up andintroducing themselves and
wanting to know when we'reopening emails and phone calls
all the time.
So it's almost like word ofmouth.
I guess is working really well.
So far it's the bestadvertising.
(29:15):
We have social media that we'replanning on starting up and
getting set and everything, andyou're just talking about it.
Like I said, it's just broughtsome people already.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Cool, I feel good about that.
I think you guys are going todo really good.
What about your social media?
Who handles that?
Both of you.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, we both handle it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Cool, because your TikTok blew up way back in the
day and it's still blowing up.
But how has that shaped the way?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
that you connect with your fans or even write music.
Well, it's so great to be ableto connect with them, obviously
through social media, because wehad so much connection with a
lot of our fans from uk that wedon't get to see, obviously, all
the time.
So it's great that we still getto keep in touch with them over
social media and we have wetalk to them all the time like
on snapchat.
We have them all like onsnapchat and we talk to them you
(30:01):
guys are so amazing and theycomment on our stuff and things
like that, so it's great way tobe able to still connect with
them, although we haven't beenthere in a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Wow, when were you there?
That was a while ago, right?
I mean, obviously you said along time.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Three years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, yeah that seems like yesterday, but it was so
long ago.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I know right.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, just like with the Skip Happens podcast.
Last time you were on, it seemslike it was just a few days ago
.
It was a couple of years agoprobably, but no, so do you?
All right, you're in Nashville,but you still got the Florida
thing going.
You got the vegetable stand.
Do you guys get back there atall?
Do you work the stand or whatis it?
Because I remember we talkedabout that before.
(30:42):
But tell us a little bit aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, our dad is still working it and we work
there a lot.
Sometimes too, we'll help himout all the time there.
But I think we're kind ofmoving on from that.
I don't know he's in theposition right now to maybe move
on.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Good for him, good for him.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, we're kind of just transitioning there's a lot
of change happening he's beendoing it for 35 years.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh God bless him he actually had a bar at a young
age In his younger days in NewYork.
Yeah, he's getting back to hisroots.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You mean upstate New York or New York?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
New.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
York.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
New York City.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Wow, that's tough man .
I don't know if I could do thatin New York.
Yeah, what's your when you getready to go on stage?
You talked about doing theprayer with Florida Georgia Line
and all that, and I see so manyothers do that.
I've been involved in those aswell.
If I've been working a show andwe're all backstage, it's like
get over here and then we all doit together.
(31:41):
What do you do before you go onstage, if anything?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
We do a lot of warmups A lot of lip trills.
A lot of thinking and a lot oflike just chilling and having
fun, Like not stressingourselves out too much.
You know just A littlehandshake.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, a little let's go do it.
Let let's go do it, let's go.
You know just fire it up.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, just pump energy.
You get the energy pumping up.
You know, before we walk outmaybe a little shot or two.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Only you drink orange juice yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, okay, do you?
Do you drink orange juicebefore you go on?
No, okay, cause I was.
I was wondering about the acidin the orange juice and your
vocal cords?
No, we'll drink tea or honey.
Arjuna does a shot and we justdon't know about it.
Yeah, never mind, mom and dadmight be watching, we're all
(32:34):
good.
Yeah, is there a song out there?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
that you wish you had written.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Is there just one?
I say probably a lot.
I think waiting the truck issuch like a brilliant song.
It's so amazing, dirt cheap bycody johnson, oh my god.
That song makes you cry, likeevery single time I hear.
I can't listen to it as afather.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's like, I think, when I hear dirt cheap and you
know the swing swing in thebackyard and yeah exactly, yeah,
exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
When you say nothing at all.
That's such an amazing song.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Alison Krauss.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, Keith Whitley.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh yeah, You're going .
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, that's the version where that's all the
time and the harmonies and likethe story, it's just like so
great.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
It's so sweet.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Like I just love it, Like it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Have you been able to jump on the Opry stage at all?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You know it's funny.
You say that we actually did aninterview today with WSM Opry
today for our first time.
So we have not been on thestage, but we have been.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Being on that, doing the interview.
That's a step in the rightdirection.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yes, so that's cool, that's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, what do you think?
It would be like they wouldcall you and say you know, Juna,
Joey, we're going to give you aspot on the Opry on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Just about that.
Speechless, really.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Just excited to hear the sound, because the sound
over there.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh yeah, the sound system I'm sure is incredible
and obviously the history onthat stage.
It just would be an honor tojust even Now we're talking
about the Mother Church.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
We're talking about the mother church, we're talking
about the, the actual Ryman.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And I know they do the grand old Opry at, you know
Opry land, but it's still wow,wow, you know, do you guys binge
, watch anything together orseparately?
Um, joey's probably not like hedoesn't really watch a lot of
(34:51):
shows.
Yeah, he's that tv guy, um,sports, it's about it, football.
You watch a lot of things onnetflix and peacock, I love it,
I love it, uh, netflix, uh.
So I'll ask you this, juna, ifthey could, uh, what would let
me put it this way what would bethe title title of your Netflix
documentary if it was about you?
It would probably be likeJoey's waiting to see what you
say.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I got my.
I'm waiting on the edge of myseat.
I see that.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The little J of J&J.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I don't think joey's getting that and I'm kind of
going like the little.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
J like you know, I'm saying like I feel like that's
kind of cute, like the little jof j and j yeah, like the little
j like my perspective, likefrom my perspective of a duo,
like a little J.
I might have to work on it,he's thinking I get it, I get it
.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I know it's a lot of fun, so let's get back to sip it
slow.
That comes out on Friday, assomebody wants to get their
hands on it on Friday rightMidnight, thursday night, friday
morning midnight, it'll be outfor everybody to grab.
Where can they go and get it?
Just about anywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Just about anywhere iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify,
Pandora, SoundCloud Anywhere youlisten to music, it'll be there
.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Is anybody pushing it to radio?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yes, okay.
Yes, I'm not sure at the moment, but we have future plans.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
It will happen.
It will happen, it will happen.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Video too, hopefully the video, would you say it is
it, it's not yeah, it'llprobably have a music video with
oh okay okay, that's right.
All right, I got you there.
So, and if people want to findout more about you both of you
um, where can they go?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
they can go to all social media platforms and they
just search juna j-u-n-a, theletter n j-o-e-y easy so easy
easy so easy to do.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, so let's uh.
If you weren't doing music,what would you guys be doing?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
if we're doing music, I would definitely be in the
cooking industry.
Baking that's a big passion ofmine.
I love to cook.
I cook dinner every night, soI'm chefing it up in the kitchen
making recipes, and I lovebaking and things like that, so
that's definitely where I'd beat.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I don't know, I dabble with gym stuff.
I really like working out andbeing healthy A fitness
influencer.
No, that's cool, though Idabble that with music.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
but I don't know.
Yeah, what's your diet like?
I mean doing what you do,working out and all that.
I would assume that you stickto a pretty strict diet.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah, I do animal-based.
It's really weird.
Animal-based diet, a prettystrict diet yeah, I do like
animal based.
It's really weird.
I just ordered some supplementslike beef organs and stuff like
that.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So what yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
you see, like that's what I'm talking about I'm
telling you, like diet likedefinitely helps you with your,
you know, just living and beinglike in a good work space, like
when you're, when you're eatinggood foods and you're doing your
job, you just feel a lot better.
If you're eating not the mosthealthiest foods, you just feel
(38:12):
terrible.
I don't know, I just loveeating good foods.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
No, you're right, You're right.
Been there, I've been there,and now I've changed my life a
little bit, where I've lostweight.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
I know you look like you did lose a lot of weight.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I did.
Yeah, I went from 230 to 200.
I'm down to 185 now, but it'sthe wonder drugs.
I mean, it's no secret, I don'tcare, but my A1C was high.
I'm older, obviously, and it'stime to really start taking care
of myself, and on the edge ofbeing a full-fledged diabetic.
So we started working on thingswith my doctor, and you know so
(38:51):
, and and once I started takingcertain meds, it's like the the
weight was just falling off me.
And you're right about, becausenow I don't eat like I used to.
I've cut back on bread, andthat is so hard because I love
bread, but you know.
But now, man, I might cheat alittle bit here and there, but I
don't overdo it.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, it's all about moderation.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
You know what I'm saying yeah, that moderation was
hard.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
But no, and I feel great.
You're right, going with whatJoey was saying.
You start eating like that.
You, actually, you feel thedifference.
I wake up early in the morning,I have energy.
I feel great all day long, andI go to bed at a decent hour, so
yeah, don't worry, I will eat,but I'm the old man, so.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I will eat enough pizza for the three of us.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
What do you like on your pizza?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I like pepperoni, sometimes mushrooms, sometimes
sausage Cheese, of course extrasauce.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Protein powder.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Double cheese Well done Protein powder, that would
be Joey's.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah right, Protein powder Meat lovers with protein
powder Meat lovers yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Oh my gosh.
You know you guys are great.
I wish you much success becauseyou know I have seen you and
you've been on Skip Happensbefore and when you come out
with the new music, it's just anhonor to have you here to talk
about it.
And such a talented duo youneed to be heard, you need to be
seen.
It's a talented duo, you needto be heard, you need to be seen
.
But it's a struggle.
(40:23):
But you're both young enough toget out there and hopefully you
don't get burned out with itand I hope that you guys just
keep writing and keep while yougot the venue now so you'd be
able to put out some music andI'd like to see that.
And next time I come toNashville I'll have to look you
up.
I'll definitely come out to theopening.
(40:43):
You let me know, you let meknow when it is and I'll
definitely be there.
This is Juna and Joey.
Check them out online, I'msorry.
Check them out online and buythe music, get the music,
support the artists, independentartists.
They work so hard.
It's their passion, it's theirdrive, it's their dedication to
(41:03):
you know to put it out there andthey love it.
They love what they do.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
We appreciate you so much for having us on.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, you know I'll have to.
I got to get you the new wellthe old one, but you know, do
you have one or two of those.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
We have two.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Okay, good.
Yeah, they haven't broken yet.
No, they have enough.
But two.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
You know you can never have enough.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Well, we'll take care of that.
Anyways, you guys are awesome.
Thank you for coming on tonight.
Thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Of course.
Thank you so much, and just onemore little.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Let's do this a little bit more over time.
Here they are Skip Adams,Ladies and gentlemen, Juna and
Joey, here we go.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Nothing about you and me was supposed to go this far.
Just a couple friends afterwork talking in a patio bar.
When you're drinking that drink, it starts making me think Just
could go fast and I don't wantthat.
I want to make this last.
So sip it slow.
(42:09):
Let's not go down like a shotof whiskey.
Take some time.
Like a red wine Gets betterwhen it hits me.
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
I'm not going to play the whole thing.
I want them to go and get itGood idea.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
And there it is, but you get a me all right, I'm not
gonna play the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
I want him to go and get it.
So, yeah, and uh, there it is,but that you get a good idea.
I know you have teasers onlineas well, so, but uh, there, you
have a good idea.
Sip it slow.
It's junit and joey, thanks forhanging out and skip happens
tonight of course, thank you somuch for having us so much.
Hello everybody and welcome back to Skip Happens.
My name is Skip Clark, ofcourse, the host of Skip Happens
, and tonight I'm joined byrising country sibling duo Juna
and Joey, and I might say theyare no stranger to the Skip
Happens podcast.
I think it's been twice, butit's been quite a while.
But we're going to be talkingabout their brand new single.
(00:22):
It's called Sip it Slow.
It's more or less a laid-backsummer anthem about love, timing
, letting things unfoldnaturally, and from their viral
videos to big stages, they're aduo you will want to keep an eye
on.
So we're going to dive right in.
Juna and Joey, how are you guysGood to see?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
you.
We're great.
Thank you so much for having usback.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Awesome.
Are you in nashville?
Are you in florida?
We're in nashville okay,because you have a place there
as well as am I right to saythat from before?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
yes, we are from florida originally and we still
go back occasionally.
We have a residency that weplay there still, so we'll go
back from time to time to playthat and other shows there that
we have, but we're mainly innashville now cool.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Every time I see you, you look a little bit older I
mean, I was looking back at someof the early videos.
I was actually actually likestalking your youtube page a
little while ago and I sawvideos.
It's like I'm looking at joey'shair and it's I think it was
blonde and it was like reallyshort and and and Aduna, you
looked about 12.
I mean it was like wow, but yousounded so good in that they
(01:31):
had to be six or eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So yeah, oh yeah, that was a long time ago.
The hair phases have definitelyhe's been through it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I've noticed Joey's hairstyles.
You had the the mullet goingthere for a little bit.
I think I'm going back to it.
I'm sorry, Are you?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, I need to.
Instead of rounding the back, Ineed to put it more square so
that it's more visible.
But yeah, I think the mullet'scoming back.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, he had the short hair, then he had the man
bun, then he had the mullet andnow he has.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I never saw you in the man, but yeah, oh god, I
have to look that up.
That was that was quite a whileago.
Yeah, I love that.
I love that, but, uh, for thosethat don't know you, uh, maybe
they are just discovering you.
Uh, who are you guys and howdid this journey that you guys
are on, how did all that start?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
well, it started when I was around three or four
years old.
I got influenced into musicthrough the movie the little
rascals.
Actually I would put that in mymom's cd thing, that she had a
little tv in the back of her carand I put that in.
I would watch it every singleday on my way to school.
I was obsessed with that movieand I fell in love with the song
love by frank sinatra.
That was when alfalfa and Darladid their talent show scene and
(02:46):
I thought to myself you know, Iwant to be just like Darla, I
want to be on stage performingin the spotlight.
And so then I learned the songand I performed it for our dad
on our coffee table.
He was like, oh my gosh, likewe need to get you to lessons,
we need to get her into singing.
So that's when I startedlearning classical music and
training in the classical piano.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And then that's kind of when Joey and Joey said I
want to do it if you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, I was a sports guy.
I played baseball for eightyears, played basketball,
football, soccer, every sportyou can think of.
And then I eventually went toone of her lessons and the
teacher was like do you sing?
And I was like.
And the teacher was like do yousing?
And I was like you know, in theshower, you know just, or taste
swift on the radio, nothing toospecial.
(03:30):
And so then I she, you knowplayed a couple of chords on the
piano and I started humming andshe was like she's got
something and I was like reallyso we eventually did that I
started singing with June alittle bit.
We had like a wedding and we didthat wedding and I actually
(03:52):
fainted.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Our cousin's wedding, yeah, you fainted, fainted.
On the harpist.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
On the harpist.
It was really hot and I wassweating.
Oh my God, I couldn't controlit and I was like I am the bread
of and I just like everythingstarts to fade away.
Yep and uh.
You don't want to ever see thatvideo no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm sure we could find it somewhere, but we won't
do that not at all did you, um,did either one of you ever think
about doing a solo career?
But you're great together.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm just kind of because you're both so talented
um, you know, we've kind of likewe feel that with our duo, our
sibling harmonies is somethingthat we really love to emphasize
into our music and into ourwriting.
I just feel like that'ssomething that is so unique for
us, like, obviously, like if youdon't have a sibling that sings
the music, you that's somethingthat you don't have access to.
(04:46):
And I feel like we're bothlucky enough to have, you know
what I think great voices andgreat harmonies.
So I think that is what issomething that sets us apart
from everybody.
So that's something that wereally like try to, you know,
push ourselves with our brand.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Right, you talk about your song, your songwriting.
What's what's your process like?
How?
What's your creativity?
Um, how does all that come out?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I guess that's what I'm trying to say well, it kind
of depends on who we're writingwith and the vibe of the day and
what we're kind of feelingabout writing, whether it's like
an emotional deep song or justa fun upbeat chill song.
It'll probably start with joeyplaying like a little riff or
like a little loop kind of thingon the guitar.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, like the one, four, five or the one.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, and he'll play like some interesting, cool
thing, and then we'll get out ofthe groove going and then we
have like a hook book in ourphone of all the different like
titles and ideas and thoughtsthat we have, and some of them
are like complete gibberish.
Like I go back and I look atthem and I'm like what was I
even thinking?
What?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
kind of song.
That's not even right.
I'm having voice memos on myphone.
I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'm like no, I'm like whatis that no-transcript music
(06:08):
theory, all sorts of things likethat.
We're still keeping up withschool because it's important,
it makes radio, tour and touringand other things like that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't know how you, as an artist, do that.
I don't know how all theartists do that, because a lot
of them are trying to go toschool, they're trying to keep
up their tour schedule.
They're on a radio tour.
It's like are you kidding me?
I can't.
You know, I just have a nine tofive job and I can't keep that
straight.
But you know it gets a littlecrazy.
I'm going to hang on, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know if you can see that or not, but I'm
going to take Juna and Joey nameoff me.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh, I don't know where that came from.
Let's see what happens Did it,go away it went away.
Yeah, I have no idea what I'mdoing.
It's not like.
I've never done this before butskip happens every time.
It is skip happens, baby.
So let me ask you who decideswho's going to sing lead?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I think it goes back to the writing and, depending on
what the song is and themeaning and what it's about,
we'll kind of dictate who takesthe lead, like if it's a more.
You know, that's another thingthat I feel that's so great
about the duo is that we have amale perspective and we also
have a female perspective, andso I think that's really cool.
We like to do that a lot in oursongs, although, like when it
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comes to love songs, we don'tlike to do that.
But if the song and the meaningis right, we'll try and do like
the back and forth thing, justbecause we have the opportunity
to do it.
Um, but like I said, with thelove songs, like it'll be one of
us doing the lead and like itjust depends if it's coming from
a female perspective, liketalking about guy stuff, or if
it's like girls.
(07:49):
I'm saying it just depends.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, and now that we're, you know, basically
transitioning, I mean, we'velived in Nashville for six years
and Florida most of our lives,but now we're like moving here.
So the venue that we're openingup on in goodlettsville is going
to be a songwriting kind ofvenue and we're wow writers come
in and, you know, tell theirstory and have tapas and drinks
(08:13):
and food, and it's gonna be awhole thing.
We have cornhole in the back.
We're gonna have, like you know, and uh yeah, so we're gonna,
you know, obviously still haveour career.
We're going to, you know,obviously still have our career.
We're going to have a venue, sothere's different assets.
You know we got songwriting allover the place in
Goodlandsville, so there's goingto be people flowing in there
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telling their stories.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
How close this is in Tennessee.
So how close is that toNashville?
It's around 25 minutes outsideokay, all right, okay, and it's
on a good day like.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I feel like there's not like too, many places like
for people to listen to musicand they don't have to drive
through nashville to park andpark.
You know it's and it gets alittle hectic, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, yeah yeah, I've been there.
Uh, yeah, you know, my wife andI went there for a weekend here
a while ago, just to get away,and we stayed at the Omni.
And then it's like Saturdayrolled around and I said, come
on, let's go down to Broadway,let's see who's playing, let's
see what's going on Mistake.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean, you know it's a lot of fun, I get that, but I
so it's a lot of fun, I getthat, but I'm not one to stand
in lines, and just when it getsto be that crowded I'd rather go
back to the hotel and have aglass of wine at the bar.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, it gets really crowded.
And then you know I am only 20,so I can't really get into the
bars yet.
But even just being on thestrip like you can't really move
.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
No, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's just a lot of action going on.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Do you guys get down there at all?
Do you just go down there?
If you go down, you probablydon't go at night.
You'd probably go midday orearly in the morning, for
whatever reason.
Maybe you have friends thatcome into town and you want to
show them Broadway.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I was going to say, yeah, that's pretty much the
only reason we would go downthere, at least on Broadway.
I mean, Nashville is a littledifferent, not directly on the
strip of Broadway.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
We'll go into Nashville, obviously, yeah
sometimes we'll play at Live Oakdown there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, oh yeah, as far as Broadway, we only really go
down there if our friends comein town and we want to be like.
This is what it's busy it'sbusy.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, exactly, well, just hook them up with the
webcams, they can see whatNashville's doing.
Just saying, uh, what's it liketo work as a brother and sister
, I mean with your?
You know you're working withyour sibling.
I mean, are there those?
I know Joey's going, yeah, okay, uh, yeah, or maybe you are
Juna, but uh, there's got to bethose moments.
(10:46):
You know, brothers and sisters,it happens.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It does happen.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Skip happens, skip happens.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's the answer to everything on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That's such a great tagline 99% of the time we're
good and 1% we're just.
I know we have our moment, no.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I know, I get it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
We have our moment.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No, no, and I get it.
Uh, how that works.
Um, can you what was your mostsurreal moment in your music
career to this point?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You know, I mean I, I see you around at CRS and, for
those that don't know, it's acountry radio seminar but it's
artists like Juna and Joey thatwill go out and meet the radio
programmers and the recordlabels and everybody that does a
little something-something inthe music industry.
But what's your most surrealmoment?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I would say.
I mean, we just did aninterview today with WSM at the
Aubrey.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We were just going to say that so that was pretty
awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Cool, that was great.
And CRS, I feel like every yearlike that's always just a great
time to do that, Like to meeteverybody in the radio industry
in one place.
You know all there, I'd have tosay.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Key West Songwriters Festival.
I love every year that comesaround I'm like, just come on,
get to Cuba song.
I just love like going downthere and listen to people's
story and hearing some of myfavorite songs being played by
the artists and the people thatwrote it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And also the UK when we toured there, for that was
definitely like one of thehighlights of our career.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I happened to see a video of you in London.
Yeah, I can't.
I don't recall what the venuewas, but, like I said, I was
stalking your youtube page and Iwent.
That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Good for them yeah, and country is big there and we
were just talking about that theother day, recently it's just
been, it just grew so much likeour, our manager has always,
like, had ties to the uk, likethat's been somewhere, she's
always traveled and and andshe's like, oh, the country
music is really great over there, like it's really big, and Joey
and I were like, yeah, okay, sowe get over there and we're
(12:52):
like wait, actually you reallylove it there, Like we didn't
believe her at first.
But you know, we saw first.
Sorry, I just love you.
Oh my God, I saw it.
I saw it, joey.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I saw it happen when we saw firsthand like just how
appreciated they are theircountry music and it's so great.
Yeah, they buy merch you know,they're very supportive.
They're.
Yeah, I mean, you got you guyskilled it up there like I just
want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You know like it was, oh man that's got to be such a
cool feeling, though.
You being on stage and seeingthat reaction and knowing that
these people are new fans andthey're buying your merch and
all that and supporting you.
It's got to be such a greatfeeling.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I think the best feeling is like when they're
singing your song.
Yeah, that is like that hitsthe heart.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
They sing it back to you.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, flashlights.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, I know, everybody.
Everybody gets phones out, youknow.
But let's talk about sip itslow.
It feels like it's a metaphorfor more than just romance Does
it also reflect your journey asan artist A little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I mean, it's written kind of through the perspective
of coworkers.
Actually, they're at work andthey have kind of like this
underlying connection.
I feel like at some pointeverybody has like that thing
for their coworker or someonethey work with like a little
fling, and you know, it wasnever anything serious.
But then they go to the bar andthey have a couple of drinks
and the feelings come out on thetable and they both didn't
(14:21):
realize that they felt this wayfor each other until it got
brought up, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
You got to take things slow.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know how relationships go.
You don't want to love, bombthem.
You know you drink too fast.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's I as you know, I was listening to this when,
when, we clicked on a little bit, but just give it, give our
viewers a little taste of thissong.
I love the groove, I love it.
Listen to this just for amoment.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Nothing about you and me was supposed to go this far.
Just a couple friends afterwork talking at a patio bar.
When you're drinking that drink, it starts making me think it
just could go fast.
I'm not a want that want tomake this last, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'll do this like we do in radio.
There they are, Juna and Joey.
It's called Sip it Slow on theSkip Happens podcast, and you
know it doesn't come out tillFriday, though.
Yes, At 11, at a 12, 1159,.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
It counts down to the 15th.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And it is out.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Do you like?
Watch it, Do you like?
Okay, it's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
Are you up at midnight to seewhat happens?
How does that work from yourperspective?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We are up, ready and waiting.
We just want to see it on theSpotify you know page.
Every time it's just awesome tosee it there.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
We were just talking about that in another interview.
When an artist drops an album,I'm literally up at 11.59,
counting down, listening to allthe songs, It'll be like 1.30,
and I finish the album and I'mlike, all right, it's time for
me to go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Now, I might have asked you this in a previous
podcast which one is older?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Joey is 23.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, so you write a song like Sip it Slow.
You have yet to experience life, but yet you listen to that
song and it's about going to thebar and hanging out.
It's a coworker comes by andyou want to have a drink with
that person and maybe just talkabout things.
(16:32):
How did I mean?
Did you have any help writingthat?
Or did you know how all talk tome?
How did all that come aboutagain?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, well, we wrote it with a buddy of ours here in
Nashville.
But I think that, you know,although I'm not allowed in the
bars, I think that's what makesthe great songwriters is just
taking something that maybeyou've never experienced before,
but being able to translate itinto a song and, you know, say
it from your own heart, as ifyou have experienced it, or just
(17:00):
think about it as if you werein somebody else's shoes, is
just what makes it so great,what makes it so unique.
You know, what I'm saying isthat, although you haven't
experienced it, it feels like it, you know, and you can portray
it in a way that it's like wowwe had that title in the hook
book for like a long time, yeah,we were like, oh, it's good
Speaker 3 (17:18):
we didn't know how to translate it rolls off the
tongue like sip it slow it does,it does and it goes.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I mean the music right there, you know just the
way the groove that just it justkind of flows and sip it slow,
sip it slow, you got it.
Uh, you know, it's such, Iguess, a summer anthem.
It's a little late in thesummer, but I think it's an
anthem that could be played atany time.
But, uh, you know, what's youridea of that?
(17:45):
We're gonna kind of drift awayfrom that, because this is what
happens on skip happens.
Uh, what is your idea of theperfect summer day off for music
?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
oh okay, yeah, I'll tell you mine.
So we go to the cafe.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We get hang on, hang on, judah, joey, joey, she's
showing you up here.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I just saying she's all right, go ahead we go to a
cafe, we get pastries, we getcoffees, and then we have to get
like a refreshing beverage,like you have your coffee.
Then you have to get like astarbucks or something, like a
refreshing beverage or like alemonade or something.
And then you go to the jet skiand you ride around on the jet
skis and you're blasting musicor boat, boat or jet ski and you
(18:25):
blast music and you have agreat time and you're hanging
out, you're having fun.
And then you all come back tothe house and we have a game
night, big family game night,and we play pictionary sounds in
our pps and has snacks soundsfun so what do?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
you have.
Oh, go ahead, joey oh no, I wasjust gonna say yeah, usually
like on a summer day off, likeI'll just like go outside, get
hit, let the sun hit you in theeyes.
You know just kind of get somevitamin d first thing in the
morning and then I'll probablylike make some you know meal
preps for the week, and thenI'll probably hit the gym get
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some protein in good for youvery different answers.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Clearly what else, what else?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
well, you're a sports guy, so I would expect that out
of you.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yep, yeah what I mean .
I'm so excited for football.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I'm so glad that it's oh yeah pre-seasons I hope
you're not a dolphins fanunfortunately I am I know I saw
the jersey.
I saw you on as I was goingthrough your stuff online and I
said, oh, he's got a dolphinshirt on, or I saw the logo and
it was like so I was going tobust on you about that.
Good luck with the Dolphins.
By the way, we got the Bills,we have the Giants and we have
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the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's not a great start so far.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We'll see what happens.
What about baseball?
You got a favorite baseballteam Because you said you played
baseball.
Do you watch it?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I haven't, but I don't like really watch baseball
, like I sometimes watch it whenit's on, but football is like
that's it, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
You know what we were talking about in another, in
another interview that we didabout the Savannah banana.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Love the Savannah bananas.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
How funny are they?
I mean, I want to go to one ofthose games.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
so bad I can't believe you haven't been,
because I mean, here's a guyabout five or six years ago just
had an idea and they wanted tohave a little bit of fun and you
know they took some of theplayers that really there are
college players.
They never.
Maybe they were minor leaguebut they never made it to the
majors.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And so now they're out there having a ball, like
they're so famous and popular,like, yeah, they're so fun, I
can't I want to go?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
yeah, I, I love it, you need to go.
They're selling out arenaseverywhere.
They're um their pa announcer.
Actually, we're friends onfacebook, so it's kind of cool
and I would just love to fill insome time doing that.
I do it here for our mets, butto do it for the Bananas it's a
whole different attitude,Bananas I mean if I had known, I
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would have worn my SavannahBananas jersey, because they did
play here in Syracuse, wherethe podcast originates from, and
you know, I got to say whenthey announced that they were
coming, then the tickets went onsale.
It was they.
I got to say when theyannounced that they were coming,
then the tickets went on sale,they were all sold out in a
matter of hours.
It was amazing.
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I know that's so crazy.
It's like getting tickets toTaylor Swift or something.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, exactly, are you a Swifty?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I wouldn't say that I'm a Swifty.
I have doubted listening to hermusic a little bit, but I don't
know, I wouldn't say that I'm aswifty.
I love her and she is like themost, like she is a boss girl,
like she's a queen and she'siconic for sure.
But you know, and I listen toher music like I do like a lot
of artists, but I asked thatbecause of your age and I
figured it's that you know it'sjust the younger ladies are are
(21:47):
loving her and I think it's.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You know it's the songs that she sings.
They can relate to.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And like old Taylor, country Taylor.
You know that was my favoriteversion.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I have a man.
I should have brought itdownstairs.
I have a card from Taylor Swift.
When I was at another radiostation here in town when she
was first starting out, she camethrough with Capitol Records.
Her mom, the label rep and Igave her one of her first radio
interviews.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yes, and do you think I look every day for that audio
because it's on a hard drivehere somewhere.
But I do have the thank youcard that she sent afterwards
saying, hey, if there's anythingyou ever need, don't be afraid
to reach out.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That's not like yeah, I need you no, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So I think it's so cool.
But that was many years ago andshe had just come out with a
song Tim McGraw at that time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh yeah, and she sang that in the studio.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, very cool, is there either one of you could
answer this, but if you couldhandpick anybody to collaborate
with, dead or alive, who wouldthat be?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I would say probably either Fleetwood Mac or Dan and
Shay, or Hardy Hardy or again,or Zach top or Ernest.
Cody Johnson, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, I know, it's just.
I am such a big fan of ZachTopp.
Yeah, he's good.
I like the fact that I know youguys do a lot of country pop
type.
That's your style and I totallyget that.
But Zach is bringing back, inmy opinion, bringing back that
90s sound.
When I hear a Zach Topp song, Ithink of Chattahoochee, alan
(23:29):
Jackson.
You know what I mean, justbecause of his style.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
He's making it fresh.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
He is when he sings.
You know it's him.
He's got something going on.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Is there.
When you go out and do yourgigs you're playing at these
different events.
What kind of covers do you do,or do you stick to all your own
stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well, we love to do our originals, like in writers
and all sorts of thingsAbsolutely.
But when we do cover gigs we'lldo like a mix of some modern
country and then we'll do sometraditional country and maybe a
little bit of like kind of alittle bit of rock, just to get
everybody up and dancing.
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, we try to do songs like hit me with your best
shot, or you know oh wow, Icould see you doing that hit me
with your best shot
Speaker 2 (24:20):
joey, that's good or keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You know, we throw that in oh, george's satellites
oh yeah now I'm showing my age alittle bit Some Dwight Yoakam
on the playlist.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We got Zach Topp on there.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh, my goodness we got.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Sarah Evans we got a mix.
Yeah, we got a mix.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, do you know Nate Felty from Zach Topp?
He's the drummer, he's fromthis area.
He went to the same high schoolI did.
He's younger but uh, when, whenthey played here, uh, I saw him
, I went holy crap.
So I made it a point to sayhello, he goes.
Yeah, I've been playing withhim for a little bit now.
I said that's so cool that is socool, so cool, uh.
(24:58):
So are you working on a fullalbum or how's that going?
I know you had a song out priorto sip it slow, uh, about a bar
tab.
That was good.
I I'm you know, it's just, butare they all going to be on an
album?
Do you have them on an ep?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
fill us in on that well, we have around nine songs
recorded, but we're kind ofreleasing them one by one just
to really squeeze the most wecan out of the, out of each song
, um.
So we're releasing them acouple weeks out of time and
then we're getting back in thestudio to record some more.
It's like a cycle.
(25:35):
It comes up so fast.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I love it.
Jeff Galko, I don't know, haveyou worked with Jeff?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, yeah, he says hey.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, so him and I were pretty close, so he's a
cool guy, he's great, he's oneof the best, one of the best.
You know a lot of stuff goingon, but yeah, do you remember
the first concert you guys everwent to?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
First concert was I think it was the Morgan Wallen
and Florida Georgia line.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
We saw we got to go back stage.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, with Florida Georgia line, we got to like do
their, their prayer thing in theback.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, they had like a prayer and
a shot before they went onstage.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
When we were on the bus, I got to use the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Oh, wow.
So yeah, that's quite theopportunity to use the bathroom
on the tour bus, so that'spretty cool.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
It was an incredible idea.
It was Morgan Wallen.
He was the opener.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It was Dan Wallen.
He was the opener.
It was Dan and Shay.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He was the opener, and then was Dan and Shay next.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I think it was Dan and Shay next.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And then Florida Georgia Line was the headliner
Like.
That's kind of like.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's great.
That had to be a great show.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's a lineup you would never see today.
You know what I'm saying.
So it was crazy for us toexperience those three like in
the same it was great yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Dan and Shay are still together.
Of course.
You know Brian and uh, you knowthey're not doing Florida
Georgia line anymore, but yeah,I know, I know, but you never
know what the future is going tobring.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
True, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
What's that they?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
might.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
They might.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I heard some stuff going or something, I don't know
.
Talk to me, joey.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Talk to me, Give me the scoop.
You know, I've heard a lot ofyes and no, so you know a lot,
just like you do, I wouldsuppose.
So, yeah, what's the?
What song has taught you themost about yourselves as an
artist or a performer?
That's a good question it's areally good question um you can
(27:32):
thank ai for that questionbecause I said, give me a
question that's going to be hard, but no go ahead okay, um,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
it's tough.
Really great question.
I don't even know.
I'm drawing a blank right now.
What song.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All right, never mind , think about it Just have it on
paper by 9 o'clock tomorrowmorning, we'll be good.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So yeah, and where would you like to see you guys
in a year from now?
That's kind of a dumb question,but I'm going to ask it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
We'd love to see ourselves opening up for some
artists that we really like,some artists I feel like we
connect with.
Like there's a lot of artists Ifeel like in our age group
right now that are doing so welland are so successful, like
Hudson Westbrook and VincentMason and Abrianna Like.
I feel like a group like thatwould be so great to tour and do
something with them so we can,you know, be on their level yeah
, or or like, maybe in a year,like we'll have like some crazy
(28:34):
songwriters coming to our venueand yeah, you know telling their
story about how they wrote thissong and that song, the songs
that we listen to.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So that'd be pretty cool too, and how does it work?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
because you're opening up the venue geared
towards songwriters.
How do you get the word outthere about the venue?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
well, we, you know, what's crazy is that we have
people coming in every singleday, just walking up to the door
and saying are you guys?
Open yet or when you guys likesometimes one or two people a
day just coming up andintroducing themselves and
wanting to know when we'reopening emails and phone calls
all the time.
So it's almost like word ofmouth.
I guess is working really well.
So far it's the bestadvertising.
(29:15):
We have social media that we'replanning on starting up and
getting set and everything, andyou're just talking about it.
Like I said, it's just broughtsome people already.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Cool, I feel good about that.
I think you guys are going todo really good.
What about your social media?
Who handles that?
Both of you.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, we both handle it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Cool, because your TikTok blew up way back in the
day and it's still blowing up.
But how has that shaped the way?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
that you connect with your fans or even write music.
Well, it's so great to be ableto connect with them, obviously
through social media, because wehad so much connection with a
lot of our fans from uk that wedon't get to see, obviously, all
the time.
So it's great that we still getto keep in touch with them over
social media and we have wetalk to them all the time like
on snapchat.
We have them all like onsnapchat and we talk to them you
(30:01):
guys are so amazing and theycomment on our stuff and things
like that, so it's great way tobe able to still connect with
them, although we haven't beenthere in a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Wow, when were you there?
That was a while ago, right?
I mean, obviously you said along time.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Three years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, yeah that seems like yesterday, but it was so
long ago.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I know right.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, just like with the Skip Happens podcast.
Last time you were on, it seemslike it was just a few days ago
.
It was a couple of years agoprobably, but no, so do you?
All right, you're in Nashville,but you still got the Florida
thing going.
You got the vegetable stand.
Do you guys get back there atall?
Do you work the stand or whatis it?
Because I remember we talkedabout that before.
(30:42):
But tell us a little bit aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, our dad is still working it and we work
there a lot.
Sometimes too, we'll help himout all the time there.
But I think we're kind ofmoving on from that.
I don't know he's in theposition right now to maybe move
on.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Good for him, good for him.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, we're kind of just transitioning there's a lot
of change happening he's beendoing it for 35 years.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh God bless him he actually had a bar at a young
age In his younger days in NewYork.
Yeah, he's getting back to hisroots.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You mean upstate New York or New York?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
New.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
York.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
New York City.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Wow, that's tough man .
I don't know if I could do thatin New York.
Yeah, what's your when you getready to go on stage?
You talked about doing theprayer with Florida Georgia Line
and all that, and I see so manyothers do that.
I've been involved in those aswell.
If I've been working a show andwe're all backstage, it's like
get over here and then we all doit together.
(31:41):
What do you do before you go onstage, if anything?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
We do a lot of warmups A lot of lip trills.
A lot of thinking and a lot oflike just chilling and having
fun, Like not stressingourselves out too much.
You know just A littlehandshake.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, a little let's go do it.
Let let's go do it, let's go.
You know just fire it up.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, just pump energy.
You get the energy pumping up.
You know, before we walk outmaybe a little shot or two.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Only you drink orange juice yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, okay, do you?
Do you drink orange juicebefore you go on?
No, okay, cause I was.
I was wondering about the acidin the orange juice and your
vocal cords?
No, we'll drink tea or honey.
Arjuna does a shot and we justdon't know about it.
Yeah, never mind, mom and dadmight be watching, we're all
(32:34):
good.
Yeah, is there a song out there?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
that you wish you had written.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Is there just one?
I say probably a lot.
I think waiting the truck issuch like a brilliant song.
It's so amazing, dirt cheap bycody johnson, oh my god.
That song makes you cry, likeevery single time I hear.
I can't listen to it as afather.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's like, I think, when I hear dirt cheap and you
know the swing swing in thebackyard and yeah exactly, yeah,
exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
When you say nothing at all.
That's such an amazing song.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Alison Krauss.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, Keith Whitley.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh yeah, You're going .
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, that's the version where that's all the
time and the harmonies and likethe story, it's just like so
great.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
It's so sweet.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Like I just love it, Like it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Have you been able to jump on the Opry stage at all?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You know it's funny.
You say that we actually did aninterview today with WSM Opry
today for our first time.
So we have not been on thestage, but we have been.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Being on that, doing the interview.
That's a step in the rightdirection.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yes, so that's cool, that's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, what do you think?
It would be like they wouldcall you and say you know, Juna,
Joey, we're going to give you aspot on the Opry on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Just about that.
Speechless, really.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Just excited to hear the sound, because the sound
over there.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh yeah, the sound system I'm sure is incredible
and obviously the history onthat stage.
It just would be an honor tojust even Now we're talking
about the Mother Church.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
We're talking about the mother church, we're talking
about the, the actual Ryman.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And I know they do the grand old Opry at, you know
Opry land, but it's still wow,wow, you know, do you guys binge
, watch anything together orseparately?
Um, joey's probably not like hedoesn't really watch a lot of
(34:51):
shows.
Yeah, he's that tv guy, um,sports, it's about it, football.
You watch a lot of things onnetflix and peacock, I love it,
I love it, uh, netflix, uh.
So I'll ask you this, juna, ifthey could, uh, what would let
me put it this way what would bethe title title of your Netflix
documentary if it was about you?
It would probably be likeJoey's waiting to see what you
say.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I got my.
I'm waiting on the edge of myseat.
I see that.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The little J of J&J.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I don't think joey's getting that and I'm kind of
going like the little.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
J like you know, I'm saying like I feel like that's
kind of cute, like the little jof j and j yeah, like the little
j like my perspective, likefrom my perspective of a duo,
like a little J.
I might have to work on it,he's thinking I get it, I get it
.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I know it's a lot of fun, so let's get back to sip it
slow.
That comes out on Friday, assomebody wants to get their
hands on it on Friday rightMidnight, thursday night, friday
morning midnight, it'll be outfor everybody to grab.
Where can they go and get it?
Just about anywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Just about anywhere iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify,
Pandora, SoundCloud Anywhere youlisten to music, it'll be there
.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Is anybody pushing it to radio?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yes, okay.
Yes, I'm not sure at the moment, but we have future plans.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
It will happen.
It will happen, it will happen.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Video too, hopefully the video, would you say it is
it, it's not yeah, it'llprobably have a music video with
oh okay okay, that's right.
All right, I got you there.
So, and if people want to findout more about you both of you
um, where can they go?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
they can go to all social media platforms and they
just search juna j-u-n-a, theletter n j-o-e-y easy so easy
easy so easy to do.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, so let's uh.
If you weren't doing music,what would you guys be doing?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
if we're doing music, I would definitely be in the
cooking industry.
Baking that's a big passion ofmine.
I love to cook.
I cook dinner every night, soI'm chefing it up in the kitchen
making recipes, and I lovebaking and things like that, so
that's definitely where I'd beat.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I don't know, I dabble with gym stuff.
I really like working out andbeing healthy A fitness
influencer.
No, that's cool, though Idabble that with music.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
but I don't know.
Yeah, what's your diet like?
I mean doing what you do,working out and all that.
I would assume that you stickto a pretty strict diet.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah, I do animal-based.
It's really weird.
Animal-based diet, a prettystrict diet yeah, I do like
animal based.
It's really weird.
I just ordered some supplementslike beef organs and stuff like
that.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So what yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
you see, like that's what I'm talking about I'm
telling you, like diet likedefinitely helps you with your,
you know, just living and beinglike in a good work space, like
when you're, when you're eatinggood foods and you're doing your
job, you just feel a lot better.
If you're eating not the mosthealthiest foods, you just feel
(38:12):
terrible.
I don't know, I just loveeating good foods.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
No, you're right, You're right.
Been there, I've been there,and now I've changed my life a
little bit, where I've lostweight.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
I know you look like you did lose a lot of weight.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I did.
Yeah, I went from 230 to 200.
I'm down to 185 now, but it'sthe wonder drugs.
I mean, it's no secret, I don'tcare, but my A1C was high.
I'm older, obviously, and it'stime to really start taking care
of myself, and on the edge ofbeing a full-fledged diabetic.
So we started working on thingswith my doctor, and you know so
(38:51):
, and and once I started takingcertain meds, it's like the the
weight was just falling off me.
And you're right about, becausenow I don't eat like I used to.
I've cut back on bread, andthat is so hard because I love
bread, but you know.
But now, man, I might cheat alittle bit here and there, but I
don't overdo it.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, it's all about moderation.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
You know what I'm saying yeah, that moderation was
hard.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
But no, and I feel great.
You're right, going with whatJoey was saying.
You start eating like that.
You, actually, you feel thedifference.
I wake up early in the morning,I have energy.
I feel great all day long, andI go to bed at a decent hour, so
yeah, don't worry, I will eat,but I'm the old man, so.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I will eat enough pizza for the three of us.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
What do you like on your pizza?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I like pepperoni, sometimes mushrooms, sometimes
sausage Cheese, of course extrasauce.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Protein powder.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Double cheese Well done Protein powder, that would
be Joey's.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah right, Protein powder Meat lovers with protein
powder Meat lovers yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Oh my gosh.
You know you guys are great.
I wish you much success becauseyou know I have seen you and
you've been on Skip Happensbefore and when you come out
with the new music, it's just anhonor to have you here to talk
about it.
And such a talented duo youneed to be heard, you need to be
seen.
It's a talented duo, you needto be heard, you need to be seen
.
But it's a struggle.
(40:23):
But you're both young enough toget out there and hopefully you
don't get burned out with itand I hope that you guys just
keep writing and keep while yougot the venue now so you'd be
able to put out some music andI'd like to see that.
And next time I come toNashville I'll have to look you
up.
I'll definitely come out to theopening.
(40:43):
You let me know, you let meknow when it is and I'll
definitely be there.
This is Juna and Joey.
Check them out online, I'msorry.
Check them out online and buythe music, get the music,
support the artists, independentartists.
They work so hard.
It's their passion, it's theirdrive, it's their dedication to
(41:03):
you know to put it out there andthey love it.
They love what they do.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
We appreciate you so much for having us on.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, you know I'll have to.
I got to get you the new wellthe old one, but you know, do
you have one or two of those.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
We have two.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Okay, good.
Yeah, they haven't broken yet.
No, they have enough.
But two.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
You know you can never have enough.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Well, we'll take care of that.
Anyways, you guys are awesome.
Thank you for coming on tonight.
Thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Of course.
Thank you so much, and just onemore little.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Let's do this a little bit more over time.
Here they are Skip Adams,Ladies and gentlemen, Juna and
Joey, here we go.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Nothing about you and me was supposed to go this far.
Just a couple friends afterwork talking in a patio bar.
When you're drinking that drink, it starts making me think Just
could go fast and I don't wantthat.
I want to make this last.
So sip it slow.
(42:09):
Let's not go down like a shotof whiskey.
Take some time.
Like a red wine Gets betterwhen it hits me.
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
I'm not going to play the whole thing.
I want them to go and get itGood idea.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
And there it is, but you get a me all right, I'm not
gonna play the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
I want him to go and get it.
So, yeah, and uh, there it is,but that you get a good idea.
I know you have teasers onlineas well, so, but uh, there, you
have a good idea.
Sip it slow.
It's junit and joey, thanks forhanging out and skip happens
tonight of course, thank you somuch for having us so much.
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