Episode 146: Dan + Shay

Dan + Shay are hittin’ all the high notes on this Cody Alan Cody Cast podcast. Listen in and catch the award-winning duo talk about their sleeping schedules, keeping vocals in tip-top shape, enjoying life at home, and their actual fear of being caught on a Zoom call with no pants.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Podcasting from Welcome to Cody Allen's podcast cast. Yo, Dan
and Jay? What good man? It's Cody. Remember me? Remember
remember live shows and humans? Remember human interaction? What that
was like? Wasn't it really does? I knew you little

(00:21):
sneaky devils were up to something when you were like
off the grid for you know, a couple of months. Yeah.
I was like, they're doing something, and I bet it's
gonna be good. And here you come, here you come.
I'm already singing the hook and I should probably go
to bed. I mean, remix come with Cody Allen. Soon.
I will do the live acoustic version. I'll play the

(00:42):
kazoo or something. It'll be great where I'll make that happening.
I thought you're gonna bring up the Ones season. I'm
so glad you did. Um we'll get that in a second. First,
the song telling about the origins of this, where it
came from, and how it really kind of happened in Quarantine, right. Yeah. Man.
We started this song we were in l A for
the Grammys. I think it was like late January, and
we had, you know, four or five hours to spare

(01:05):
before some event we had to go to. And it
was like you know, normal humans, I guess would go
relax at the pool or go chill and you know,
taking the sites. But it was like, no, we should
go to the studio. So we we went to the
studio with a couple of friends and we uh, you know,
we we cooked this up. We had the title, we
had the concept you know, in our phone, and we
just we wrote the hook, we wrote a verse, who
wrote a chorus, and didn't quite get to finish the song,

(01:25):
and uh, we knew it was something we know. We
knew it was catchy, we knew it had something to it.
But when we got home, it was like boom, like
tour mode. We had to launch the tour. We had
to get all the production and set list and everything ready.
So we uh we tinkered with the song a little bit,
like during sound checks and like you know, here and there,
but it wasn't really until like quarantine five or six
weeks in. Shay and I were like, all right, we
haven't seen another human. We've been locked down. Let's like

(01:48):
let's jam, let's make some music. See what happened to
Shay came over the house. We started, like you know,
I think we were tracking some other vocals, but we
sat down on the piano started singing this and then
she just starts going off like on the crazy vocal,
which you know you you now here at the end
of the record, but it's uh. I was like, we
gotta record that right now, So we just jumped upstairs.
I've got like the most d i y studio set

(02:10):
up ever, mattress leaning against the walls. I mean, you
would think by now I would get you know, we're
making all these songs, like, okay, you should spend like
a couple of days, like hang up some sound panels
or do something. Now we're we're still standing on dog
blankets and holding pillows up the whole thing. But yeah,
that's we made the record there, and we played all
the instruments on it, so if you don't like them,
it's all our fault. You do hit some pretty crazy

(02:33):
high notes, shade. Do you ever second guess yourself with
some of those, knowing eventually you're gonna have to sing
this song night after night live. No, not until I
get there and I have to sing it night after
night live. You go there and you don't you don't
really think about that. I should probably think about that,
but Hey, it's as long as it sounds good in
the cord. You know, we did it once, I could
do it again, and uh, it's it is something I

(02:55):
think about that it's an intimidating thing, especially like when
I think about moments of like what if we, you know,
have the opportunity to play this at the Grammys and
I'm gonna be I'm already like thinking twelve steps ahead
of something that might not ever happen. Of Oh god,
I'm gonna have to hit that in front a million
of people and it's going to be very nerve wracking.
Just pull up your zipper this time and it'll be fine. Yeah,
I don't think I will. I'm gonna wear a one.

(03:15):
This sounds a lot to worry about that. I probably
I will bring up the Onesies before this is over.
You guys don't have to like rest the Onesie conversation.
Get run into one. I'd really like to talk about onesies.
Can we get the Onesies? Please? Um? The influences on
this song, I feel like I heard some queen am
I right? Yeah, man. The beauty of Quarantine is like
we have unlimited time on our hands, so we can
just like do anything you know, experiment get crazy. There's

(03:38):
like a little bit of Beach Boys pet sounds kind
of stuff in there, like maybe some Sargeant peppers from
the Beatles, uh, you know, put from all over the place.
We had fun with it. It comes to probably going
to bed and sleep. Um, what any secrets on how
to fall asleep easily? Oh? Man, you know I did
read something that they said you shouldn't watch TV or
be on your phone like two hours before bed. And

(04:00):
I can imagine that is one true because I feel
like every time I'm late night and I'm on my phone,
I'm like not going to bed at all, and I
really just need to turn it off. But it's hard
to do. Man. My wife she's so good at falling asleep.
She takes those melotonin gummies and she'll fall asleep. Dude.
It's like, and I know whenever she you know, she
takes a couple of those, Like I see her Popman
on my Cowboy, like, we're not you're not gonna be

(04:22):
up to finish this movie. You don't even get through
the credit at the beginning of this movie. Right now,
she's out within five minutes. Those companies will make you
loopy sometimes if they don't they have a little bit. Yeah,
it's a strange time. Yeah, before you know what you're
like in a onesie, like waking up in a there's
other gummies that I don't know if we're talking about
the same gum um when you guys are on tour.

(04:45):
Who goes to sleep first? Who goes to bed first? Oh,
I'm sleeping within like fifteen minutes of being off stage.
I'm out. Yeah, speaking of gummies. And I used to
I used to stay up on the road to like
three am just because I couldn't fall asleep. I would try,
and uh, I say that I try, I'd probably you know,
on my phone playing stupid games. And uh. But now

(05:07):
I go to bed at like ten because I have
to get up so early with the kids. So it's like,
all right, I gotta go to bed. Yeah. How was
life at home with the kids right now during this time,
especially a lot of extra time? Right, Yeah, it's been
such a blessing in disguise. You know, I wouldn't have
been this, been home this much, and you know, having
a five month old Aimes is five months now and
Asher is three and a half, and you know, just

(05:28):
getting to be there for those huge moments, the flagship
moments that you think about. You know that I missed
a lot of that with Asher if just you know,
the first time he smiled, the first time he kind
of stood up on his own, and just those little
moments that that I didn't necessarily get to see. I
saw it all through FaceTime and on videos. So being
there and every day and actually experience experiencing that is
a huge blessing for me and and Dan at home

(05:51):
as well during this time. What moments have you most relished? Honestly, man,
just hanging out with Abby, hanging out with the dogs,
being able to be outside. This is like the first
summer we've ever had off the road, So like just
being able to go swimming or hang out, go to
the lake, whatever it is. Just enjoy being home. I
got a birthday coming up in August, and like, I've
never been home for my birthday ever, single time. Ever

(06:12):
since I've known you, We've always had a show, and
it's always in the most random place. It's never in
like a cool city where we can like be something.
It's in like well, yeah, Billings, Montana. Here as far
as like I don't know, like four or four hours great.
All right, as we wrap, Uh, tell me what you
wanted to say. Shake, stop begging onesies, go ahead, just
go on, you know, just I'm a big advocate for onesies.
I feel like right now there is a huge it's

(06:34):
a culture shift. I think everyone's wearing more more sweats.
You are working from home, so I think it's uh,
it's it's business. It's casual all the time. It's casual
Friday every single day. People like you know, there's been
some viral moments of people like on zim of you know,
they're wearing like a button up shirt and they'll be
wearing sweatpants on the bottom and there's like a mirror
behind them they don't see. And there's some of those

(06:56):
things that people forget to put on pants at all.
So it's like my greatest fear enever. I'm on zoom calls,
like I always know the rule number one, always wear
pants even if you don't think someone's watching. Yeah, I'm
always scared that someone's going to see my white claw
on those zooms. That's me. Hey, love you guys so much,
thanks for the time. Congrats on this amazing news. So
I can't wait to see you in person. And actually interact.
Maybe give I don't know, maybe a hug. Dan is

(07:18):
all I really work? All right? I could use it. HU.
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