Sip it Slow: The Art of Taking Your Time - Juna N Joey

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Meet Juna and Joey

Speaker 1 0:00

Hello everybody and welcome back to Skip Happens . My name is Skip Clark , of course , the host of Skip Happens , and tonight I'm joined by rising country sibling duo Juna and Joey , and I might say they are no stranger to the Skip Happens podcast . I think it's been twice , but it's been quite a while . But we're going to be talking about their brand new single . It's called Sip it Slow . It's more or less a laid-back summer anthem about love , timing , letting things unfold naturally , and from their viral videos to big stages , they're a duo you will want to keep an eye on . So we're going to dive right in . Juna and Joey , how are you guys Good to see ?

Speaker 2 0:41

you . We're great . Thank you so much for having us back .

Speaker 1 0:44

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 say that from before ?

Speaker 2 0:54

yes , we are from florida originally and we still go back occasionally . We have a residency that we play there still , so we'll go back from time to time to play that and other shows there that we have , but we're mainly in nashville now cool .

Speaker 1 1:07

Every time I see you , you look a little bit older I mean , I was looking back at some of the early videos . I was actually actually like stalking your youtube page a little while ago and I saw videos . It's like I'm looking at joey's hair and it's I think it was blonde and it was like really short and and and Aduna , you looked about 12 . I mean it was like wow , but you sounded so good in that they had to be six or eight years ago .

Speaker 2 1:33

So yeah , oh yeah , that was a long time ago . The hair phases have definitely he's been through it .

Speaker 1 1:39

I've noticed Joey's hairstyles . You had the the mullet going there for a little bit . I think I'm going back to it . I'm sorry , Are you ?

Speaker 3 1:47

Yeah , I need to . Instead of rounding the back , I need to put it more square so that it's more visible . But yeah , I think the mullet's coming back .

Speaker 2 1:55

Yeah , he had the short hair , then he had the man bun , then he had the mullet and now he has .

Speaker 1 2:08

I never saw you in the man , but yeah , oh god , I have to look that up . That was that was quite a while ago . Yeah , I love that . I love that , but , uh , for those that don't know you , uh , maybe they are just discovering you . Uh , who are you guys and how did this journey that you guys are on , how did all that start ?

Speaker 2 2:22

well , it started when I was around three or four years old . I got influenced into music through the movie the little rascals . Actually I would put that in my mom's cd thing , that she had a little tv in the back of her car and I put that in . I would watch it every single day on my way to school . I was obsessed with that movie and I fell in love with the song love by frank sinatra . That was when alfalfa and Darla did their talent show scene and I thought to myself you know , I want to be just like Darla , I want to be on stage performing in the spotlight . And so then I learned the song and I performed it for our dad on our coffee table . He was like , oh my gosh , like we need to get you to lessons , we need to get her into singing . So that's when I started learning classical music and training in the classical piano .

Speaker 1 3:04

And then that's kind of when Joey and Joey said I want to do it if you're doing it .

Speaker 3 3:09

Yeah , I was a sports guy . I played baseball for eight years , played basketball , football , soccer , every sport you can think of . And then I eventually went to one of her lessons and the teacher was like do you sing ? And I was like . And the teacher was like do you sing ? And I was like you know , in the shower , you know just , or taste swift on the radio , nothing too special . And so then I she , you know played a couple of chords on the piano and I started humming and she was like she's got something and I was like really so we eventually did that I started singing with June a little bit .

Speaker 3 3:49

We had like a wedding and we did that wedding and I actually fainted .

Speaker 2 3:52

Our cousin's wedding , yeah , you fainted , fainted . On the harpist .

Speaker 3 3:56

On the harpist . It was really hot and I was sweating . Oh my God , I couldn't control it and I was like I am the bread of and I just like everything starts to fade away . Yep and uh . You don't want to ever see that video no , no , no .

Speaker 1 4:13

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 4:24

I'm just kind of because you're both so talented um , you know , we've kind of like we feel that with our duo , our sibling harmonies is something that we really love to emphasize into our music and into our writing .

Musical Origins and Influences

Speaker 2 4:37

I just feel like that's something that is so unique for us , like , obviously , like if you don't have a sibling that sings the music , you that's something that you don't have access to . And I feel like we're both lucky enough to have , you know what I think great voices and great harmonies . So I think that is what is something that sets us apart from everybody . So that's something that we really like try to , you know , push ourselves with our brand .

Speaker 1 5:02

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 5:09

I guess that's what I'm trying to say well , it kind of depends on who we're writing with and the vibe of the day and what we're kind of feeling about writing , whether it's like an emotional deep song or just a fun upbeat chill song . It'll probably start with joey playing like a little riff or like a little loop kind of thing on the guitar .

Speaker 3 5:26

Yeah , like the one , four , five or the one .

Speaker 2 5:28

Yeah , and he'll play like some interesting , cool thing , and then we'll get out of the groove going and then we have like a hook book in our phone of all the different like titles and ideas and thoughts that we have , and some of them are like complete gibberish . Like I go back and I look at them and I'm like what was I even thinking ? What ?

Speaker 3 5:45

kind of song . That's not even right . I'm having voice memos on my phone . I'm like yeah , yeah , yeah . And I'm like no , I'm like what is that no-transcript music theory , all sorts of things like that . We're still keeping up with school because it's important , it makes radio , tour and touring and other things like that .

Speaker 1 6:20

I don't know how you , as an artist , do that . I don't know how all the artists do that , because a lot of them are trying to go to school , 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 to five job and I can't keep that straight . But you know it gets a little crazy . I'm going to hang on , I'm just .

Speaker 2 6:47

I don't know if you can see that or not , but I'm going to take Juna and Joey name off me .

Speaker 1 6:48

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'm doing . It's not like . I've never done this before but skip happens every time . It is skip happens , baby . So let me ask you who decides who's going to sing lead ?

Speaker 2 7:08

I think it goes back to the writing and , depending on what the song is and the meaning and what it's about , we'll kind of dictate who takes the lead , like if it's a more . You know , that's another thing that I feel that's so great about the duo is that we have a male perspective and we also have a female perspective , and so I think that's really cool . We like to do that a lot in our songs , although , like when it comes to love songs , we don't like to do that . But if the song and the meaning is right , we'll try and do like the back and forth thing , just because we have the opportunity to do it . Um , but like I said , with the love songs , like it'll be one of us doing the lead and like it just depends if it's coming from a female perspective , like talking about guy stuff , or if it's like girls . I'm saying it just depends .

Speaker 3 7:51

Yeah , and now that we're , you know , basically transitioning , I mean , we've lived in Nashville for six years and Florida most of our lives , but now we're like moving here .

Speaker 3 8:01

So the venue that we're opening up on in goodlettsville is going to be a songwriting kind of venue and we're wow writers come in and , you know , tell their story and have tapas and drinks and food , and it's gonna be a whole 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 have our career . We're going to , you know , obviously still have our career .

Speaker 3 8:24

We're going to have a venue , so there's different assets . You know we got songwriting all over the place in Goodlandsville , so there's going to be people flowing in there telling their stories .

Speaker 1 8:36

How close this is in Tennessee . So how close is that to Nashville ? It's around 25 minutes outside okay , all right , okay , and it's on a good day like .

Speaker 3 8:48

I feel like there's not like too , many places like for people to listen to music and they don't have to drive through nashville to park and park . You know it's and it gets a little hectic , you know .

Speaker 1 8:59

Yeah , yeah yeah , I've been there . Uh , yeah , you know , my wife and I went there for a weekend here a while ago , just to get away , and we stayed at the Omni . And then it's like Saturday rolled 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 9:17

It was crazy .

Speaker 1 9:18

I mean , you know it's a lot of fun , I get that , but I so it's a lot of fun , I get that , but I'm not one to stand in lines , and just when it gets to be that crowded I'd rather go back to the hotel and have a glass of wine at the bar .

Speaker 2 9:31

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 the strip like you can't really move .

Speaker 1 9:42

No , no , it's crazy .

Speaker 2 9:44

It's just a lot of action going on .

Speaker 1 9:47

Do you guys get down there at all ? Do you just go down there ? If you go down , you probably don't go at night . You'd probably go midday or early in the morning , for whatever reason . Maybe you have friends that come into town and you want to show them Broadway .

Speaker 2 9:59

I was going to say , yeah , that's pretty much the only reason we would go down there , at least on Broadway . I mean , Nashville is a little different , not directly on the strip of Broadway .

Speaker 3 10:07

We'll go into Nashville , obviously , yeah sometimes we'll play at Live Oak down there .

Speaker 2 10:11

Yeah , oh yeah , as far as Broadway , we only really go down there if our friends come in town and we

Balancing Education with Music Career

Speaker 2 10:16

want to be like . This is what it's busy it's busy .

Speaker 1 10:26

Yeah , exactly , well , just hook them up with the webcams , they can see what Nashville's doing . Just saying , uh , what's it like to work as a brother and sister , I mean with your ? You know you're working with your 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 be those moments . 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 most surreal 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 a country radio seminar but it's artists like Juna and Joey that will go out and meet the radio programmers and the record labels and everybody that does a little something-something in the music industry . But what's your most surreal moment ?

Speaker 2 11:38

I would say . I mean , we just did an interview 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 year like that's always just a great time to do that , Like to meet everybody in the radio industry in one place . You know all there , I'd have to say .

Speaker 3 11:59

Key West Songwriters Festival . I love every year that comes around I'm like , just come on , get to Cuba song . I just love like going down there and listen to people's story and hearing some of my favorite songs being played by the artists and the people that wrote it .

Speaker 2 12:14

And also the UK when we toured there , for that was definitely like one of the highlights 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 venue was , but , like I said , I was stalking your youtube page and I went . That's really cool .

Speaker 2 12:30

Good for them yeah , and country is big there and we were just talking about that the other day , recently it's just been , it just grew so much like our , our manager has always , like , had ties to the uk , like that's been somewhere , she's always traveled and and and she's like , oh , the country music is really great over there , like it's really big , and Joey and I were like , yeah , okay , so we get over there and we're like wait , actually you really love it there , Like we didn't believe her at first .

Speaker 2 12:57

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 their country music and it's so great . Yeah , they buy merch you know , they're very supportive . They're . Yeah , I mean , you got you guys killed 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 seeing that reaction and knowing that these people are new fans and they're buying your merch and all that and supporting you . It's got to be such a great feeling .

Speaker 3 13:33

I think the best feeling is like when they're singing your song . Yeah , that is like that hits the 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 , you know . But let's talk about sip it slow . It feels like it's a metaphor for more than just romance Does it also reflect your journey as an 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 and they have kind of like this underlying connection . I feel like at some point everybody has like that thing for their coworker or someone they work with like a little fling , and you know , it was never anything serious . But then they go to the bar and they have a couple of drinks and the feelings come out on the table and they both didn't realize that they felt this way for 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 , bomb them . 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 this song . I love the groove , I love it . Listen to this just for a moment .

Speaker 4 14:49

Nothing about you and me was supposed to go this far . Just a couple friends after work 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 to make 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 the Skip Happens podcast , and you know it doesn't come out till Friday , 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 see what happens ? How does that work from your perspective ?

Speaker 2 15:42

We are up , ready and waiting . We just want to see it on the Spotify you know page . Every time it's just awesome to see 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 all the songs , It'll be like 1.30 , and I finish the album and I'm like , 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 the bar and hanging out . It's a coworker comes by and you want to have a drink with that person and maybe just talk about things . How did I mean ? Did you have any help writing that ? Or did you know how all talk to me ? How did all that come about again ?

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 makes the great songwriters is just taking something that maybe you've never experienced before , but being able to translate it into a song and , you know , say it from your own heart , as if you have experienced it , or just think about it as if you were in somebody else's shoes , is just what makes it so great , what makes it so unique . You know , what I'm saying is that , although you haven't experienced it , it feels like it , you know , and you can portray it in a way that it's like wow we 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 just kind of flows and sip it slow , sip it slow , you got it . Uh , you know , it's such , I guess , a summer anthem . It's a little late in the summer , but I think it's an anthem that could be played at any time . But , uh , you know , what's your idea of that ? We're gonna kind of drift away from that , because this is what happens on skip happens . Uh , what is your idea of the perfect 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 get coffees , and then we have to get like a refreshing beverage , like you have your coffee . Then you have to get like a starbucks or something , like a refreshing beverage or like a lemonade or something . And then you go to the jet ski and you ride around on the jet skis and you're blasting music or boat , boat or jet ski and you blast music and you have a great time and you're hanging out , you're having fun . And then you all come back to the house and we have a game night , big family game night , and we play pictionary sounds in our pps and has snacks sounds fun so what do ?

Speaker 3 18:39

you have . Oh , go ahead , joey oh no , I was just gonna say yeah , usually like on a summer day off , like I'll just like go outside , get hit , let the sun hit you in the eyes . You know just kind of get some vitamin d first thing in the morning and then I'll probably like make some you know meal preps for the week , and then I'll probably hit the gym get some protein in good for you very 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 fan unfortunately I am I know I saw the jersey . I saw you on as I was going through your stuff online and I said , oh , he's got a dolphin shirt on , or I saw the logo and it was like so I was going to bust on you about that . Good luck with the Dolphins . By the way , we got the Bills , we have the Giants and we have 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 baseball team 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 when it'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 did about 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 of those games .

Speaker 1 20:07

so bad I can't believe you haven't been , because I mean , here's a guy about five or six years ago just had an idea and they wanted to have a little bit of fun and you know they took some of the players that really there are college players . They never . Maybe they were minor league but 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 arenas everywhere . They're um their pa announcer . Actually , we're friends on facebook , so it's kind of cool and I would just love to fill in some time doing that .

Speaker 1 20:46

I do it here for our mets , but to do it for the Bananas it's a whole different attitude , Bananas I mean if I had known , I would have worn my Savannah Bananas jersey , because they did play here in Syracuse , where the podcast originates from , and you know , I got to say when they announced that they were coming , then the tickets went on sale . It was they . I got to say when they announced 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 to Taylor Swift or something .

Speaker 1 21:16

Yeah , exactly , are you a Swifty ?

Opening a Songwriters Venue

Speaker 2 21:24

I wouldn't say that I'm a Swifty . I have doubted listening to her music a little bit , but I don't know , I wouldn't say that I'm a swifty . I love her and she is like the most , like she is a boss girl , like she's a queen and she's iconic for sure . But you know , and I listen to her music like I do like a lot of artists , but I asked that because of your age and I figured it's that you know it's just the younger ladies are are 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 favorite version .

Speaker 1 21:57

I have a man . I should have brought it downstairs . I have a card from Taylor Swift . When I was at another radio station here in town when she was first starting out , she came through with Capitol Records . Her mom , the label rep and I gave 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 drive here somewhere . But I do have the thank you card that she sent afterwards saying , hey , if there's anything you 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 and she 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 could handpick anybody to collaborate with , dead or alive , who would that 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 Zach Topp . Yeah , he's good . I like the fact that I know you guys do a lot of country pop type . That's your style and I totally get that . But Zach is bringing back , in my opinion , bringing back that 90s sound . When I hear a Zach Topp song , I think of Chattahoochee , alan Jackson . You know what I mean , just because 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 your gigs 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 things Absolutely . But when we do cover gigs we'll do like a mix of some modern country and then we'll do some traditional country and maybe a little bit of like kind of a little 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 , I could 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 a little 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 from this area . He went to the same high school I did . He's younger but uh , when , when they played here , uh , I saw him , I went holy crap . So I made it a point to say hello , he goes . Yeah , I've been playing with him for a little bit now .

Speaker 1 24:53

I said that's so cool that is so cool , so cool , uh . So are you working on a full album or how's that going ? I know you had a song out prior to sip it slow , uh , about a bar tab . That was good . I I'm you know , it's just , but are 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 of releasing them one by one just to really squeeze the most we can out of the , out of each song , um . So we're releasing them a couple weeks out of time and then we're getting back in the studio to record some more . It's like a cycle . It comes up so fast .

Speaker 1 25:36

I love it . Jeff Galko , I don't know , have you 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 one of the best , one of the best . You know a lot of stuff going on , but yeah , do you remember the first concert you guys ever went 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 the back .

Speaker 2 26:07

Oh , yeah , yeah , yeah yeah , they had like a prayer and a shot before they went on stage .

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 the opportunity to use the bathroom on the tour bus , so that's pretty 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

"Sip It Slow" and Songwriting Process

Speaker 1 26:38

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 to experience 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 know they're not doing Florida Georgia line anymore , but yeah , I know , I know , but you never know what the future is going to bring .

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 of yes and no , so you know a lot , just like you do , I would suppose . So , yeah , what's the ? What song has taught you the most about yourselves as an artist or a performer ? That's a good question it's a really good question um you can thank ai for that question because 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 tomorrow morning , 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 I feel like in our age group right now that are doing so well and are so successful , like Hudson Westbrook and Vincent Mason and Abrianna Like . I feel like a group like that would 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 songwriters coming to our venue and yeah , you know telling their story about how they wrote this song 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 out there about the venue ?

Speaker 2 28:53

well , we , you know , what's crazy is that we have people coming in every single day , just walking up to the door and saying are you guys ? Open yet or when you guys like sometimes one or two people a day just coming up and introducing themselves and wanting to know when we're opening emails and phone calls all the time . So it's almost like word of mouth . I guess is working really well . So far it's the best advertising .

Speaker 2 29:15

We have social media that we're planning on starting up and getting set and everything , and you're just talking about it . Like I said , it's just brought some people already .

Speaker 1 29:23

Cool , I feel good about that . I think you guys are going to do 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 able to connect with them , obviously through social media , because we had so much connection with a lot of our fans from uk that we don't get to see , obviously , all the time . So it's great that we still get to keep in touch with them over social media and we have we talk to them all the time like on snapchat .

Speaker 2 29:59

We have them all like on snapchat and we talk to them you guys are so amazing and they comment on our stuff and things like that , so it's great way to be able to still connect with them , although we haven't been there in a long time .

Speaker 1 30:09

Wow , when were you there ? That was a while ago , right ? I mean , obviously you said a long 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 seems like it was just a few days ago . It was a couple of years ago probably , 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 at all ? Do you work the stand or what is it ? Because I remember we talked about that before . But tell us a little bit about that .

Speaker 2 30:44

Yeah , our dad is still working it and we work there a lot . Sometimes too , we'll help him out all the time there . But I think we're kind of moving on from that . I don't know he's in the position 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 been doing 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 New York . Yeah , he's getting back to his roots .

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 that in New York . Yeah , what's your when you get ready to go on stage ? You talked about doing the prayer with Florida Georgia Line and all that , and I see so many others do that . I've been involved in those as well . If I've been working a show and we're all backstage , it's like get over here and then we all do it together . What do you do before you go on stage , if anything ?

Speaker 2 31:46

We do a lot of warmups A lot of lip trills . A lot of thinking and a lot of like just chilling and having fun , Like not stressing ourselves out too much . You know just A little handshake .

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 out maybe 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 juice before you go on ? No , okay , cause I was .

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Speaker 1 32:23

I was wondering about the acid in the orange juice and your vocal cords ? No , we'll drink tea or honey . Arjuna does a shot and we just don't know about it . Yeah , never mind , mom and dad might be watching , we're all 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 is such like a brilliant song . It's so amazing , dirt cheap by cody johnson , oh my god . That song makes you cry , like every single time I hear . I can't listen to it as a father .

Speaker 1 32:57

It's like , I think , when I hear dirt cheap and you know the swing swing in the backyard 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 like the 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 an interview today with WSM Opry today for our first time . So we have not been on the stage , but we have been .

Speaker 1 33:44

Being on that , doing the interview . That's a step in the right direction .

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 would call you and say you know , Juna , Joey , we're going to give you a spot 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 on that stage . It just would be an honor to just 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 or separately ?

Speaker 1 34:38

Um , joey's probably not like he doesn't really watch a lot of shows . Yeah , he's that tv guy , um , sports , it's about it , football . You watch a lot of things on netflix and peacock , I love it , I love it , uh , netflix , uh . So I'll ask you this , juna , if they could , uh , what would let me put it this way what would be the title title of your Netflix documentary if it was about you ? It would probably be like Joey's waiting to see what you say .

Speaker 3 35:12

I got my . I'm waiting on the edge of my seat . 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 j of j and j yeah , like the little j like my perspective , like from 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 , as somebody wants to get their hands on it on Friday right Midnight , thursday night , friday morning midnight , it'll be out for 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

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Speaker 2 36:10

Anywhere you listen 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'll probably have a music video with oh okay okay , that's right . All right , I got you there . So , and if people want to find out 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 , the letter 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 of mine . I love to cook . I cook dinner every night , so I'm chefing it up in the kitchen making recipes , and I love baking and things like that , so that's definitely where I'd be at .

Speaker 3 37:16

I don't know , I dabble with gym stuff . I really like working out and being healthy A fitness influencer . No , that's cool , though I dabble 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 stick to a pretty strict diet .

Speaker 3 37:39

Yeah , I do animal-based . It's really weird . Animal-based diet , a pretty strict diet yeah , I do like animal based . It's really weird . I just ordered some supplements like 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 like definitely helps you with your , you know , just living and being like in a good work space , like when you're , when you're eating good foods and you're doing your job , you just feel a lot better . If you're eating not the most healthiest foods , you just feel terrible . I don't know , I just love eating 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 lost weight .

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 .

Speaker 1 38:30

I'm down to 185 now , but it's the wonder drugs . I mean , it's no secret , I don't care , but my A1C was high . I'm older , obviously , and it's time to really start taking care of myself , and on the edge of being a full-fledged diabetic . So we started working on things with my doctor , and you know so , and and once I started taking certain meds , it's like the the weight was just falling off me . And you're right about , because now I don't eat like I used to . I've cut back on bread , and that is so hard because I love bread , but you know . But now , man , I might cheat a little 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 what Joey was saying . You start eating like that . You , actually , you feel the difference . I wake up early in the morning , I have energy . I feel great all day long , and I 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 extra sauce .

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 because you know I have seen you and you've been on Skip Happens before and when you come out with the new music , it's just an honor to have you here to talk about it . And such a talented duo you need to be heard , you need to be seen . It's a talented duo , you need to be heard , you need to be seen . But it's a struggle . But you're both young enough to get out there and hopefully you don't get burned out with it and I hope that you guys just keep writing and keep while you got the venue now so you'd be able to put out some music and I'd like to see that . And next time I come to Nashville I'll have to look you up . I'll definitely come out to the opening . You let me know , you let me know when it is and I'll definitely be there .

Speaker 1 40:47

This is Juna and Joey . Check them out online , I'm sorry . Check them out online and buy the music , get the music , support the artists , independent artists . They work so hard . It's their passion , it's their drive , it's their dedication to you know to put it out there and they 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 well the 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 one more 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 after work talking in a patio bar . When you're drinking that drink , it starts making me think Just could go fast and I don't want that . I want to make this last . So sip it slow . Let's not go down like a shot of whiskey . Take some time . Like a red wine Gets better when 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 it Good 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 online as well , so , but uh , there , you have a good idea . Sip it slow . It's junit and joey , thanks for hanging out and skip happens tonight of course , thank you so much for having us so much .