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Sip it Slow: The Art of Taking Your Time - Juna N Joey
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:you. We're great. Thank you so much for having us back.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:So yeah, oh yeah, that was a long time ago. The hair phases have definitely he's been through it.
Speaker 1: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: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:Yeah, he had the short hair, then he had the man bun, then he had the mullet and now he has.
Speaker 1: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: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:And then that's kind of when Joey and Joey said I want to do it if you're doing it.
Speaker 3: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:We had like a wedding and we did that wedding and I actually fainted.
Speaker 2:Our cousin's wedding, yeah, you fainted, fainted. On the harpist.
Speaker 3: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: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: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. 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: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: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:Yeah, like the one, four, five or the one.
Speaker 2: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:It was crazy.
Speaker 1: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: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:No, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:It's just a lot of action going on.
Speaker 1: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: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:We'll go into Nashville, obviously, yeah sometimes we'll play at Live Oak down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, as far as Broadway, we only really go down there if our friends come in town and we want to be like. This is what it's busy it's busy.
Speaker 1: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:It does happen.
Speaker 3:Skip happens, skip happens.
Speaker 1:That's the answer to everything on this podcast.
Speaker 3: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:I know, I get it.
Speaker 3:We have our moment.
Speaker 1: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:Hmm.
Speaker 1: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:I would say. I mean, we just did an interview today with WSM at the Aubrey.
Speaker 3:We were just going to say that so that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: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: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:And also the UK when we toured there, for that was definitely like one of the highlights of our career.
Speaker 1: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: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:But you know, we saw first. Sorry, I just love you. Oh my God, I saw it. I saw it, joey.
Speaker 3: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: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:I think the best feeling is like when they're singing your song. Yeah, that is like that hits the heart. Yeah.
Speaker 1:They sing it back to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, flashlights.
Speaker 1: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: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:You got to take things slow.
Speaker 2:You know how relationships go. You don't want to love, bomb them. You know you drink too fast.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:It counts down to the 15th.
Speaker 2:And it is out.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:Now, I might have asked you this in a previous podcast which one is older?
Speaker 2:Joey is 23.
Speaker 1: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: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: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: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:oh okay, yeah, I'll tell you mine. So we go to the cafe.
Speaker 1:We get hang on, hang on, judah, joey, joey, she's showing you up here.
Speaker 2: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: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:Clearly what else, what else?
Speaker 1:well, you're a sports guy, so I would expect that out of you.
Speaker 3:Yep, yeah what I mean. I'm so excited for football.
Speaker 1: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:It's not a great start so far. We'll see.
Speaker 1: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: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:You know what we were talking about in another, in another interview that we did about the Savannah banana.
Speaker 1:Love the Savannah bananas.
Speaker 2:How funny are they? I mean, I want to go to one of those games.
Speaker 1: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: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: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: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:I know that's so crazy. It's like getting tickets to Taylor Swift or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, are you a Swifty?
Speaker 2: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:You know it's the songs that she sings. They can relate to.
Speaker 2:And like old Taylor, country Taylor. You know that was my favorite version.
Speaker 1: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:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1: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:That's not like yeah, I need you no, but yeah.
Speaker 1: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:Oh yeah, and she sang that in the studio.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:He's making it fresh.
Speaker 3:He is when he sings. You know it's him. He's got something going on.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:joey, that's good or keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 1: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:We got Zach Topp on there.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness we got.
Speaker 2:Sarah Evans we got a mix. Yeah, we got a mix.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:I love it. Jeff Galko, I don't know, have you worked with Jeff?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he says hey.
Speaker 1: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:First concert was I think it was the Morgan Wallen and Florida Georgia line.
Speaker 2:We saw we got to go back stage.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with Florida Georgia line, we got to like do their, their prayer thing in the back.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, they had like a prayer and a shot before they went on stage.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:When we were on the bus, I got to use the bathroom.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow. So yeah, that's quite the opportunity to use the bathroom on the tour bus, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:It was an incredible idea. It was Morgan Wallen. He was the opener.
Speaker 3:It was Dan Wallen. He was the opener. It was Dan and Shay.
Speaker 2:He was the opener, and then was Dan and Shay next.
Speaker 3:I think it was Dan and Shay next.
Speaker 2:And then Florida Georgia Line was the headliner Like. That's kind of like.
Speaker 1:That's great. That had to be a great show.
Speaker 2: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: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:True, I don't know.
Speaker 4:What's that they?
Speaker 3:might.
Speaker 1:They might.
Speaker 2:I heard some stuff going or something, I don't know. Talk to me, joey.
Speaker 1: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:it's tough. Really great question. I don't even know. I'm drawing a blank right now. What song.
Speaker 1:All right, never mind, think about it Just have it on paper by 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, we'll be good.
Speaker 4:All right.
Speaker 1: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: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:So that'd be pretty cool too, and how does it work?
Speaker 1:because you're opening up the venue geared towards songwriters. How do you get the word out there about the venue?
Speaker 2: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: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: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:Yeah, we both handle it.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:Wow, when were you there? That was a while ago, right? I mean, obviously you said a long time.
Speaker 3:Three years ago.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah that seems like yesterday, but it was so long ago.
Speaker 2:I know right.
Speaker 1: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: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:Good for him, good for him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're kind of just transitioning there's a lot of change happening he's been doing it for 35 years.
Speaker 3: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:You mean upstate New York or New York?
Speaker 3:New.
Speaker 1:York.
Speaker 3:New York City.
Speaker 1:New York City.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1: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: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: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:Yeah, just pump energy. You get the energy pumping up. You know, before we walk out maybe a little shot or two.
Speaker 3:Only you drink orange juice yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, do you? Do you drink orange juice before you go on? No, okay, cause I was. 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:that you wish you had written.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: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: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:When you say nothing at all. That's such an amazing song.
Speaker 1:Alison Krauss.
Speaker 2:No, Keith Whitley.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, You're going. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: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:It's so sweet.
Speaker 2:Like I just love it, Like it's so sweet.
Speaker 1:Have you been able to jump on the Opry stage at all?
Speaker 2: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:Being on that, doing the interview. That's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 2:Yes, so that's cool, that's really exciting.
Speaker 1: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:Just about that. Speechless, really.
Speaker 3:Just excited to hear the sound, because the sound over there.
Speaker 2: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:We're talking about the mother church, we're talking about the, the actual Ryman.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: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: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:I got my. I'm waiting on the edge of my seat. I see that.
Speaker 2:The little J of J&J.
Speaker 1:I don't think joey's getting that and I'm kind of going like the little.
Speaker 2: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: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:Just about anywhere iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, SoundCloud Anywhere you listen to music, it'll be there.
Speaker 1:Is anybody pushing it to radio?
Speaker 2:Yes, okay. Yes, I'm not sure at the moment, but we have future plans.
Speaker 3:It will happen. It will happen, it will happen.
Speaker 1: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: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:Yeah, so let's uh. If you weren't doing music, what would you guys be doing?
Speaker 2: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: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: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: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:So what yeah?
Speaker 3: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: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:I know you look like you did lose a lot of weight.
Speaker 1:I did. Yeah, I went from 230 to 200.
Speaker 1: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:Yeah, it's all about moderation.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying yeah, that moderation was hard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: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:I will eat enough pizza for the three of us.
Speaker 1:What do you like on your pizza?
Speaker 2:I like pepperoni, sometimes mushrooms, sometimes sausage Cheese, of course extra sauce.
Speaker 3:Protein powder.
Speaker 1:Double cheese Well done Protein powder, that would be Joey's.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, Protein powder Meat lovers with protein powder Meat lovers yeah.
Speaker 1: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: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:We appreciate you so much for having us on.
Speaker 1: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:We have two.
Speaker 1:Okay, good. Yeah, they haven't broken yet. No, they have enough. But two.
Speaker 2:You know you can never have enough.
Speaker 1:Well, we'll take care of that. Anyways, you guys are awesome. Thank you for coming on tonight. Thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 2:Of course. Thank you so much, and just one more little.
Speaker 1: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: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:I'm not going to play the whole thing. I want them to go and get it Good idea.
Speaker 2:And there it is, but you get a me all right, I'm not gonna play the whole thing.
Speaker 1: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.
