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  SPEAKER_00: Disclaimer, the views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listener discretion is advised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today on Caught on the Mike, I am joined by one of the most exciting fans who soundtrack new stars, the stories brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's already making waves across three platforms.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't heard of them yet, trust me, you are about to add them to your favorite playlist.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am super excited to dive into their journey, their sound, and find out what is next for the Reese Brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Caught on the Mic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am absolutely stoked to have these guys on the show today.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are not a new band, but maybe they are a new band to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joining me on the podcast is Charlie and Kevin Jordan Reese, the Reese brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Man, if you have not checked them out yet, I am telling you, they have just released Summer 2025's perfect song.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get into that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guys, how are you guys doing?
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  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate you having us.
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  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate that too.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, thank you so much for doing the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, you guys are not a new band per se, but you might be new to the general public.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have taken a deep dive into your music lately, and I am just blown away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I went on a three-hour drive and I put like a Reese Brothers uh Spotify thing, one of those pre-packaged things on.
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  SPEAKER_00: My wife and I were just loving every single song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk a little bit about your guys' origin story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charlie, you kind of started the project initially before your brother joined in, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, right before I was allowed to be in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, let's talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, back in that and back in the day, uh, Kevin was pretty serious about playing baseball.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh he he actually won the 11 and under Florida State Championship for AAU.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, no big deal.
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  SPEAKER_03: He kind of thought that was the direction he was you know gonna try to pursue.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um while I was you know falling in love with the drum kit at that time.
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  SPEAKER_03: I I started on piano lessons when I was about six.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um the story about that my mom tells me is it was summer vacation, I was six years old, and she said, You're not gonna just sit around the house all summer.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, do you want to do swimming lessons, tennis lessons, or piano lessons?
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  SPEAKER_03: And she said that I picked piano because it was air conditioned.
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  SPEAKER_03: Anybody who knows a Florida summer, that makes sense, you know?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I I see why I picked it back then, and I'm so glad that I did, because it gave me that foundation.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, but it still kind of felt like, you know, as a lot of kids, like, oh, I gotta go take a piano lesson.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's um I didn't love it yet.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then it was, I think it was the drums that made me really fall in love with music.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um and particularly, I remember the um the Beatles were the first band uh that my dad got me a CD of, and particularly Ringo's drum solo on the end.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was like, that is cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, I want to do that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh started playing drums, started uh backing up a few people around town as I as my first gigs, and then kind of started picking up the guitar around that time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, as soon as I stopped you know playing baseball, I kind of fell in love with music and saw Jimi Hendrix play on the on a TV screen somewhere.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, not a lot, yeah, yeah, not a lot.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna say, man, are you some kind of time traveler or what?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_02: No, yeah, yeah, no, on a YouTube video, but um as soon as this I saw him, I was like, this is like I want it, I want to be that.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_02: So uh picked up the guitar, uh, got some lessons, and then we kind of he had a band before we were the Reese brothers, um, and I was kind of just a fan.
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  SPEAKER_02: I went to the shape, I was I went to the shows and and just hung out, and then finally we started a band with a couple other guys um that went to our school with us.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then it we weren't, you know, we're like we're the only two people that were serious about making a career out of this.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let's just do it as a duo, and then that's when you came up the playing the bass and the drums and the and vocals at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that idea came from I sa uh the Beatles were my first big influence, the doors were my second huge influence growing up.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Ray Manzaric, well, because famous of the doors never had a bass player live, so Rayman Zaric played key bass with his left hand, organ with his right hand that enabled him to have the full sound.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, well, if they didn't have a bassist, what if we, you know, we don't have a bassist?
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  SPEAKER_03: We can, you know, there's a way we could do this.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I taught myself to play key bass while I played the drums, and then that enabled us to get a full sound for the live setup.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_03: And then um a family friend of ours owned a seafood restaurant and out on Indian Rocks Beach.
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  SPEAKER_03: Shout out to Krabby Bills to giving us our first paid gig.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh we started playing there.
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  SPEAKER_03: We were like the house band for like two years.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is like I was freshman high school at this point.
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  SPEAKER_03: Kevin was like in sixth grade when we started playing there.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: And like for three years through high school, uh we were the house band, we played there once a week.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's how we learned how to play in front of a crowd, how we learned you know to write a set list, how we how we learned to work, you know, do crowd work and and all that um came from that that weekly gig there.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's where we uh got uh discovered by someone who knew Chicago and it kind of set us on our whole path there.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I could barely let my brother play G.I.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joe's with me, let alone play in a band with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, like how did that sibling rivalry dynamic play out over the years to where you guys are making such fantastic songs now that sound super collaborative?
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  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think that music helped us get along, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's definitely moments where we were fighting, but as soon as we like picked up the instruments and are like are playing together, it kind of fades away and we're all on the same page.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's what makes it so special.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like when we play live, we don't have to know what's coming next.
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  SPEAKER_02: We kind of like give each other the look, and we kind of know just from that brother thing, like, all right, we're gonna extend the song.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know that look.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, it helps.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like bond in that way, and you know, when there'd be an argument about like about a song or in the writing process or in the the set planning process, there'd be an argument about something, and one of us would like storm out and we'd like we'd be like, Alright, well, you're still in a band, you gotta come back at some point, so just you know, take your time, but you're not going anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, we knew we were in this together, so like right after a few times of that, we realized, all right, you know, fighting doesn't help anything.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's you know, let's figure a way, let's figure out how to work together.
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  SPEAKER_03: And and once we worked that out, um, that mutual respect, then it just like came natural beyond that.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_03: And um, so I think you know, I I hear that from a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, I could never be in a band with my brother, you know, I could never sit in a van with my brother for that long or all this.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we've we've been lucky that we haven't had you know too much of that problem.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: So far, let's see the how the rest of the interview goes, see if we can well I was just gonna say, like, historically, it hasn't played out well in the long term.
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  SPEAKER_00: You think of guys like the black, the black crows and oasis, which have both come back together over time, but but the art they created, I think, is also an end result of being brothers and having that collaborative energy for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: You mentioned that your first kind of big break was with Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to walk us through how that happened?
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_03: So they were another uh you know band that was we we used to cover 25 or 6 to 4 in our early like bar bar days, and so we were we were big fans.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_03: Um and basically through our regular gig at Krabby Wills, uh, we developed like a local following that would come back and see us each week.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um one of our locals uh came up to us after one of the shows and said, Um, uh my friend is coming in town next week, and she actually works for Chicago, and I want to bring her to see you guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we were kind of like, you know, you know, there's you know, Florida's a wild place, so people all the time were like, Yeah, I know this guy, I know this guy, and it, you know, nothing ever came about, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, so we thought it was another one of those, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um but then sure enough, uh our regular came back with with his friend who turned out to be the accountant for Chicago since day one.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um we were after the gig, we we got to meet her, it was awesome, and then she she my our dad was pr pretty much managing us at the time, um helping us out with everything.
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  SPEAKER_03: So she gives my dad a business card after the show, and it says Peter Schibarelli, and it's got the Chicago logo on it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we're like, well, this looks real, right?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_03: Like, that's a lot of effort to make a fake card, if you know, and uh she said he's actually uh expecting your call.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_03: If I've told already told him about you guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: So my dad calls the manager of Chicago like the next day, and you know, we're all thinking this is great, this is wild.
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  SPEAKER_03: And basically he says, Alright, I heard about the boys.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, I like what they do.
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  SPEAKER_03: I want you to send me a few things.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he wanted all everything mailed, he didn't want anything emailed.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's like, send me a DVD, the guy's playing, send me a CD of the songs, send me an EPK, electronic press kit.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like old school, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and luckily, like by that time we did have DVD made.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we we actually had one that we shot at the at the Murray Theater in Clearwater.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, it was like our first ticketed show ever, and uh we had it filmed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um so we had something ready to send, luckily.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um so we sent it off and we didn't know if we've ever heard from him again.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: It it was about a month later, I think, that he called my dad and it's like, all right, here's what I want to do.
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  SPEAKER_03: I want to put the guys on two shows.
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  SPEAKER_03: One's in Orlando, one's in Atlanta, and then if those go well, we can go from there.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we were like, hell yeah, like let me call my teacher and yeah.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: Young neighbors can't make it in the school now.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: So we found out that they liked this because we we didn't have many originals back then, but they loved that we played classic rock covers.
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  SPEAKER_03: We were a great warm-up for the crowd.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_03: We were young and we were only a duo, and they they liked that we were easy on, easy off the stage.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: Because obviously, Chicago doesn't need help selling tickets, so they don't need an act that's kind of pretty because we were completely unknown.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_03: They liked us because we could, you know, pretty much warm up the crowd for them.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: And the Orlando show Hard Rock Live, and it was just you know, at universal.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_03: So we'd as kids we got to take a tour of that venue.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um and then never knowing within like 10 years of that that we'd get to play that stage.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that was our first chance to open for them.
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  SPEAKER_03: The second show was in Atlanta at the Chastain Park Amphitheater.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was Reese Brothers, then Ario Speed Wagon, and then Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was the Bill.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I learned one of the most valuable lessons I've ever learned at that show.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Chicago's stage manager came over to me and said, Okay, you guys have 15 minutes set time.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_03: If you guys play 16 minutes, you'll never play with us again.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like 19, Kevin's like 15.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_03: And like to hear that right away after coming just from the bar circuit where everything's loose, you know, and then chill.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_03: We're like, oh, okay, all right, this is a new world.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_03: Like, and if we want to be in it, we gotta learn fast.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_03: And kind of that's what we did.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_03: I think I ended a minute early that night, just to be safe, you know.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you get put in that predicament and you're just kind of like, okay, it's better to be overly safe than sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kind of a funny, funny anecdote is I have an 18-year-old daughter, and she just recently started playing in bands, and they had a uh they had a show at a a local event here in Nebraska, and uh, and they had hit their hour mark.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were given an hour period of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I looked at the set list, and if they hadn't cut it right then, they had like six songs left.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh, you guys aren't timing your practices or your rehearsals, are you, at all?
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's wild.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's tough.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_03: That's something that uh it's it's there's no way to learn that except for those experiences.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, exactly.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's just kind of getting thrown into the abyss and saying, okay, survive.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_03: Then you learn to cut your middle songs, not your end songs.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: You're like our six best songs we didn't play.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right, exactly, because you learn dynamics through that.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna ask you how old you guys were when that Chicago experience happened.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: You guys were still teenagers, essentially, when all that went down.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of lessons do you feel that you guys have learned individually, getting such big opportunities and big experiences at such a young portion of your lives and your career?
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_03: I think for me the biggest one was uh professionalism and just how to how to carry yourself in a in an environment like that.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_03: Just like seeing how they ran their show, seeing how like um just getting to see what they do every night, no matter whether it was a thousand people or five thousand people or eight hundred people or six thousand people, because the show is varied in in venue size.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um just seeing that they put on the same exact show, no matter how many people were there, they showed the same joy in what they did, no matter no matter what.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: And I mean, yeah, the music industry is like it's a big gossip fest.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_02: So, like if you know, if you're not you have to be just super professional, easy to work with, because that's that stuff will spread to you know, all these touring bands coming in saying, Oh, use players, you know, they were great to work with.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so like you just want to be acting.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're there.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: Breast players open for us, they went 20 minutes over, yeah.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_03: So do not have them out on tour, guys.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: Like that shit gets around fast.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: Just yeah, just to be consistent in everything you do, um, and treat every show like it's like you're playing the same way, you know, as yeah, advertising no matter if there's five people there or five thousand, like you definitely energy.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: Huge advice we give to to new brand new bands is like know your worth, but also be easy to work with.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like don't get don't let you know everyone step all over you, but also know your place and know that you're still new, and show some, you know, show honesty, show respect for bands who have done this and been there before you.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, because we've seen you know openers come in, even open it for us and and and just you know eat go way over their time, uh go into the green room, bring all their friends, take all the food and drinks that are in there.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_03: Like there's little things.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: Fully breaking down a 50-piece drum kit on stage.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and then they completely use all their other stuff, all their own stuff.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_03: And then someone asked me to use you know the kit who was opening for us, and normally I'm fine with that.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: They just use their symbols and snare uh because it helps us with changeover.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_03: But they didn't tell me they were completely shifting into a lefty kit.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_03: They never told me and then they left it that way.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: 15 minutes until our set, it's like, here you go.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you almost have to re-sound check everything again because of the repositioning of everything.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's like why are we doing a little sound check before?
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: If we're just yeah, I would just like to know that it was kind of, you know.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I I assume that your rep reputation of professionalism that you spoke about is kind of what led to a number of the collaborations that you guys have had in your short but extensive career.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: You guys have c collaborated with people uh as far as Iration, and most recently with our mutual friend Nick from 311.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, like tell me about how some of those collaborations came about for you guys.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_03: So most of them came from through touring experiences, and I think um that's uh the the way we got to know these people and got to uh you know work closely with them and became friendly with them.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: I think the first our first national tour was G Love the Special Sauce.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um, our first like full national tour, that was um 2018, and from then we got to start jamming with G, and we did two other tours with him where it was just him solo.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_03: And what was really cool about it is we did our opening set, and then G Love played his solo set, and then we did a half hour Encore set where we became his backing band.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's dope.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: Kevin and me, Kevin and I uh backing up G Love on like cold beverage, and his biggest hit was like we were like loving that aspect of the the jam session with him.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_03: So from then on, like um we got to do a song with him, and that's kind of how that came about.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_03: Same thing with Iration.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_03: It was after a tour we did with them and got to know him.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um that we and we got to jam with them on stage, and that just carried over into uh doing a song with him.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: And uh yeah, pretty much, yeah.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_03: So that's translating translating a live uh jam session to the recording is how most of this came about.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's dope.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, one thing that I've observed, and just not with you guys, but with a lot of new bands coming into prominence uh recently, is that there are not those barrier lines of genre like there used to be.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: I remember when I was younger and I was in my early 20s, like punk rock guys were punk rock guys, metal guys were metal guys, ska guys were ska guys, so on and so on, so on.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: But it was never the musicians' mindset, it was usually the fan bases that drove drove that.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: Do you guys feel that with how prominent social media and streaming has become, that maybe listeners and fans of music are just removing those barriers and allowing for you guys to be a little bit more artistic in blending sounds and styles?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think there's a I think that's a great point.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_02: I think that's yeah, I think um especially when you go to Spotify now, like you see a lot of moods instead of genres.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: You see, like, oh happy, energetic, it's not just rock, blues, reggae.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_02: So like, yeah, there's there's I don't know, you can feel like it's a lot easier nowadays to be a multi-genre blending band than it maybe would be like 10 years ago.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I remember hearing 10 years ago people telling us that we had to pick a lane, and we were I mean, we have we had producers trying to turn us into like a Disney type pop band, or we had people saying here you have to stick with this, stick with that.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_03: And the bands that we loved didn't, you know, adhere to one set of rules there.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_03: Like we loved, I mean, 311 is a great example.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, what genre is three?
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_03: They're they're 311, that's what they are.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, yeah, oh yeah, and and Nick and I talked about that just a few weeks ago when I had him on the pod.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: We talked a lot about the clash because the clash was very eclectic in that sense, where they could make a funk record, uh, a hip-hop record in the early days of hip-hop, but punk and and country and dabble in a little bit of everything, and people just didn't think anything of it in their time.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: That was just completely unheard of.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: But I I do think uh Nick and the 311 guys did help usher a lot of that in to the mainstream audiences that are are are listening to music today and consuming music.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they opened a lot of doors for bands like us that don't necessarily fit into a perfect box.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, now I'm gonna contradict myself after I said, oh, genre lines don't matter.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: If if somebody was new to the Reese Brothers, how would you describe your sound?
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: We like to go under the umbrella of we're a rock and roll duo, and then beyond that, our influences come from blues, jam music, and reggae, kinda.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um with but there's still more, there's alternative in there, there's a little, you know, there's a little funk in there.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um like I guess kind of that's what we say.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we're huge fans of black keys and white stripes and the being a duo, being a fellow duo.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: I always loved how you know uh I was a huge fan of watching like old late night sets, like black keys on Letterman, stuff like that, and he would always The way Letterman always introduced them.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_03: My next guest are a rock and roll duo from Akron, Ohio.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, that's you know, that's cool.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: I just love rock and roll duo.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_03: So we we go under the umbrella of that, but live we be you know, we become a reggae band some sets, some uh songs, we become a jam band of some songs, you know.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um that's kind of what like Slightly Stupid does.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_02: They're they do a lot of uh you know, a lot of reggae, but also some blues stuff, and like all their band members are just incredible musicians.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um they can bust into like a punk rock, you know, jam, they can do uh alternative stuff.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like, are they really just a reggae band?
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think so.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_03: Right, and they were an influence in the early days as well, and still are because they defy the genres like that.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I I think a good example for people to kind of digest of the Reese Brothers are your three most recent singles coming out swinging, destination unknown, and Golden Sun.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: Holy crap, man! I watched, I was sitting in your live stream last week, whenever you guys did your listening party.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: And what's funny is I was bouncing back and forth between the live stream and Spotify.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I was listening to the song in real time and then going to the live stream, watching you guys kind of talk about it a little bit, going back and listening to it again.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I I don't need to shine ass or you know bullshit anybody here for real.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, dude.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: I okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of expand upon what I was telling you earlier.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: My wife is the pickiest ass music consumer of any person I know.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: She wants to listen to 80s stuff, 90s stuff, and then maybe some modern country.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: So for her to bring her into my lane and my style of music, it's gotta be really good.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I brought her over to you guys, and she loved it, man.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: So we did we took us road trip down to Kansas City, we're in Lincoln, Nebraska, and I'm like, we're gonna listen to Reese Brothers, and we had to pull over for gas or something, and we're right in the middle of listening to Golden Sun.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: We go into the gas station, we come back out, I start the song over, and she goes, You really had to listen to it from the beginning.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I go, Yeah, it was fucking interrupted.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I love that.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: So seriously, anybody that's listening or watching this, I know I just rambled on a whole lot of word vomit, but go check out those three songs.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about these three songs and kind of what's to come for you guys.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: These three songs are going to be on an upcoming album, correct?
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_03: And I I appreciate you saying that they, you know, kind of define the sound well, because I agree with you.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's you know, where the the sound has evolved to can can be you know summed up in those three in a lot of ways.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Coming Out Swing was the first single of the year, and it's also the first song that we wrote with Nick, also.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, we were we have the basic, and that one is our blues rock side.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we took our you know, our influences there, combined them with our love of baseball, and Kevin came up with the uh the title there.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it didn't have a chorus, and we knew what we wanted to say in the chorus, but um it was kind of stuck, and we had just started writing with Nick, and we were like, Hey, can we send you one of our ideas and see what you think?
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_03: And he's like, Yeah, of course.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_03: He comes back that night with, oh, if you're ready and that.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, that's it.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like right away.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like, God damn, like that was quick.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, I tell you what, what's funny was when I listen to that song, I'm like, oh shit, the black keys are gonna have to hand the baton for the badass truck commercial song to the Reeds Brothers.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I hear that in commercials, like at some point in time, you know?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I would love that.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_02: We're trying to get it to Major League Baseball too.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like, if like for commercials and stuff and ads, like it's like the perfect is the is the commissioners watching.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we got the track, ready.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_03: What's up, bro?
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Give me your email, send it over.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: So let's move on to Destination Unknown.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: How did that song come about?
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because honestly, that that one, like again, kind of tying it to personal experience.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have this is a weird thing.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: I talk about it, I swear, on every podcast episode, but I have three daughters that graduated high school this year.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: I have twin stepdaughters and my daughter.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's funny, I discovered Destination Unknown, like literally right as we were starting to get into graduation season.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's something that's kind of emotionally tied with graduation season for me.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: So so tile, tell me about how that song came about for you guys.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_03: So we starting with to work with Nick, we also started working with this incredible songwriter, producer, engineer um named Jared Masters out of Oregon.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_03: And uh he's a friend of Nick's, and uh he put us together, and uh we he is he started writing that song like 10 years ago.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um and it was just kind of sitting on it, and we started going through it.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's like a rough demo of it and um just the start of it, and we're like, okay, this is like super cool.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I feel like Charlie's voice would be perfect for this, and it's kind of like a little bit of a new alley for us to go down, right?
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_02: But we you know, just lyrically we we loved it too.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_03: Um Yeah, because our parents had just bought a farm up here.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_03: We're we're actually there right now in Brooksville, Florida, about an hour north of Tampa, and they have cows, and one of the lines is like, them boys will catch the cows.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, this is like surreal.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like, they just came up here to the farm.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_03: This new songwriting partnership's happening, and they just sent us this song, and it's got all these this vivid imagery.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we were like, let's develop this one because this they sent us a few, and I'm like, this one in particular.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_03: There's something special here for sure.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_03: We saw that right away.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_03: And then we started going back and forth on how to craft it uh to our style, and uh we'll rework the lyrics a little bit, and um then we went up to Nashville and and and met Jared there and and knocked it out, and then within a few weeks it was already um getting into uh a movie.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um that movie Plight that uh we got to go out to uh to LA in April, raise the song dropped.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_03: The premiere was the same night.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_03: And what's very cool about this movie is it's the first movie with an all-autistic leading cast, and which is the first of its kind.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_03: And we were such it was such an honor to be part of that, and to go out and to see the movie and to see that song on the big screen through the speakers.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_03: We got to we got to play the song before the premiere and then just just to be a part of and to to hear the song uh like I said through those speakers on that screen was surreal for us.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um and they're uh still working on the distribution, so hopefully that movie is widely available very, very soon.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: And now with the grand finale of the three, let's talk about Golden Sun.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: This kind of learning through your live stream, this kind of came through a writer's block session, right?
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: And and and and Kevin Jordan, you're you were kind of like you were you were the architect of this idea originally, right?
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's let's let's tell everybody how that came to be.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so like I think it's funny because when you when you look at bands that you know collab with other artists, um that might not be the first idea that those two artists have had to develop a song together.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_02: So most times, like with Iration, even we had a couple different songs before we went to this, got to the final product, and that's the same thing with the the song with Golden Sun.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we tried a few different songs with Nick, and um it wasn't until we collabed on the Golden Sun structure that we were like, okay, this is the one, like we're all feeling it.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, we were working at the farm, and it's just one of those days I couldn't come up with anything.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_02: And there's like I was like doubting myself, I was doubting my guitar playing, just everything's not good.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: And then uh I was like, All right, I'm gonna get into a different mind space.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna have Charlie go out of the room, go for a walk.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, just gonna play whatever comes to mind and like fall back in love with music.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_02: And uh then I started playing that riff, and I was like, all right, like we finally got something here.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_03: I think you texted me a 10-second audio clip of just the riff, the opening riff, and I just like ran back home.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, that's something already.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_03: I hear it.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I'm like, there's certain things you know, like right away, whether it's gonna be a song, you know, or like if you hear something, you're like, that's cool, it could develop as it's like you probably are already aren't gonna, you know, but if you will you want to be excited from the get-go, and that with that riff, I was.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and when do you think we started working on that?
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_01: It was like January or February, right?
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_03: Probably, yeah.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_03: So we didn't know that Nick was gonna be a part of it for a couple months.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, um, we just thought it was a really cool song that we really wanted to make the record.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we wanted to be on the album.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_02: I think I think we just send it to Nick like, hey, here's something we've been working on.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_02: Let me know if you like this.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_02: And then he immediately said, All right, this this I love.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I already hear some uh some of my verse in this, like, I'm gonna start getting to work on this.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, all right, cool.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we found the song.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: What was that that first like that first time when you heard the finished product and you hear Nick's voice collaborating with you guys, especially, you know.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, we haven't even gotten in the weeds about how you came to work with Nick Hexum, which we'll probably talk about here in a minute, but uh being 311 fans yourselves, like what was that experience like listening to that final product for the first time?
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_03: I think I I don't think I still can get over the whole the whole thing that we're ever even working with them uh is is incredible.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_02: And um for me it was just like a reminder that all right, we're on the right track, we're doing we're doing good because a lot of times as a musician you doubt yourself and your career where you're at, and you and listening to Golden Sun, it's like all right, like this is a great like mission accomplished right now.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_02: We're still you know, we still have many more goals to reach, but like be celebrate this because this is very special for sure.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, it's a it's a moment of reassurance, and I and I think anybody that's creative in any way, shape, or form needs that in order to move themselves forward.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I ironically, you know, I think we share a kinship in that fact.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like just having Nick on the podcast just recently, as a longtime 311 fan myself, like I literally moved cities because I was such a huge 311 fan when I was playing in bands.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: So it is, it's kind of like one of those things where it's like, you know what, when you get the nod, like it's it's life-changing and and it's unbelievable.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: And you can't put it into words, can you?
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's not a like but in the song when he yeah, when he sent that first he sent that first uh voice memo of the his verse, and uh we were just like this is wild.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: Like he's singing on our song right now.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_03: This is insane.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and I I got to tell on this story recently that um in high school we I took a music theory class, and every Friday the teacher would let us uh play a song off our iPod and talk about it, just say what we were listening to at the time, kind of share our musical taste.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_03: And I was I played Don't Tread on Me one one time, and I remember just feeling like the most badass person in that class, just playing 311 in there, and then like you never know that your career can be long enough that you can actually like work with that person that you know that's crazy.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so how did the overall collaboration with Nick Hexham and your involvement with SKP come about?
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_03: So the roots has its roots in the 311 community, obviously the 311 cruise in particular.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um we just played it in March and that was our third time.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_03: The first time as a wild story, it was 2019.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: 2019.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_03: Um, the cruise is leaving out of Tampa, um, and we were playing at the pre-party when um their management said basically, uh, I think it was either comedian or a DJ, someone dropped out and there was an extra room.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: And after seeing the set at the pre-party, uh they were like, Do you guys want to come on the boat tomorrow?
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_03: We have an extra room.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we dig the vibe, and we were like, uh, yeah.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: Luckily it left out of Tampa.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_03: We were like 20 minutes from our house.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like, right.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_03: We're like, we just gotta go home and grab the thing and we'll we'll see you in the morning.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like, but then we remembered we're like, oh shit, we have a show in Brooklyn next week, like already booked, um, during the cruise.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_03: It was like that Saturday.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_03: That the cruises like Wednesday through Sunday.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_03: Show was in Brooklyn.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_03: Saturday was um to open for Jojo Herman of widespread panic.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_03: And we also had an agent coming to check us out.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_03: It was like an audition.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_03: So we're like, there's no way we can cancel that, but there's also no way we could say no to a 311 cruise.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because we had known it changed the lives of so many bands before us, just getting on the boat opens because uh 3,000 hardcore music fans from all over the world that you get you're exposed to.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_03: So we're like, there's no way we can say no.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_03: So um get on the phone with our manager, shout out to David.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_03: Um, he had just taken his AMV and going to sleep, like, and then I'm like I'm like, well, David, I might want to put on some coffee because we have to figure out how to get off the 311 cruise early and then fly to New York.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_03: And we figured out we we got three sets on the boat, and they were able to put us our sets the first three days, so we got to do the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then get off the boat early Saturday morning in Costa Maya, Mexico.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_03: And to the closest, I think the closest airport was like direct to JFK, I think, was Cancun.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_03: I think it was Cancun.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_03: We had to take a four-hour taxi ride.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_03: They said they shout out to the sixth man at he runs the 311 cruise.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_03: They were able to figure this all out for us.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we took a four-hour cab ride through Mexico.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: Through cartel country, ladies and gentlemen.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_03: We were getting off the boat.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_03: They told us they're like, uh, because customs had to come on and like help us check us out of the, you know.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_03: And they said, we've got uh GPS on the taxi.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_03: Like, all they all have them.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, if they take a turn that we don't like, we'll know about it.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, yeah, but it'll be too late, right?
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you'll know about it, that's great, but jeez.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_03: So but I'm so so lucky that we were so young and just like anything goes, we were just so happy to be out there doing it.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_03: Because now we'd be like, maybe it's not the best idea, but then we're like, yeah, fine, like whatever it takes, yeah, of course.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: Nothing crazy about that at all.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_03: And then we made it happen.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_03: We did the cruise, took the ride, flew to New York, and then played the show.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and that was our yeah, our first uh taste of the 311 community, it was incredible.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_03: Um, after that, we got to open for them two years later, or no, the next cruise didn't happen because of COVID, but after that, uh, we got to do the second cruise, our second cruise in 23, and we got to open for them in uh at the culture room at Fort Lauderdale, and so we kind of like were in their sphere, we hadn't really met them yet.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but on that second boat, we got to meet Nikki.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_03: And uh for those out there who don't know, Nikki Hexon runs as key p records.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um, she's incredible to work with.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_03: Um, that's how we first got our introduction with her, and that's when they were just starting to to say this is like 2023, they were just starting to put the word out like that this label was kind of forming, and that it was a label based around giving the artist as much power as possible, which is huge, especially as an independent band.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um and then to it took another two years of us keep grinding things out and uh to come back on you know the radar there with this cruise that just happened.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_03: And basically from that meeting with Nikki though, like things started to roll, and then uh our manager David Parnes was a huge, huge part of putting all this together.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_03: And uh he started working with the label as well, and then they they decided to start bringing on bands, and we were one of the first ones they brought on, and it's it's been an absolutely incredible experience.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I love that man.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: I love whenever you can form forge your own path and and and you know form your own destination.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um I've really enjoyed learning about you guys in depth.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: This has been exciting.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: Let's uh let's just kind of take a moment and let's talk about where you see things for the band two years from now and five years from now.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, interesting.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_03: You want to start?
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'd say like a goal, a good goal of ours would be in two years being able to headline across the country and sell, you know, 500, 2000 tickets at every city we go to.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's that would be uh a really cool goal while still releasing you know an album of the year for every two years.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, I'd say just be able to keep touring um constantly.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: We we're ready to do like 300 shows a year, like at this point, you know, as as much as we can.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, just to be able to to no matter where we go across the country, to be able to sell a good amount of tickets is uh yeah, that's always been the goal is to set up where you can control your own schedule because as an upcoming band, you really don't have control of your schedule too much.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_03: Like you take offers when they come.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_03: And if like like the cruise, we gotta ask the day before it left.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_03: Like, and and we've gotten we've gotten month-long tour offers like the week before they left.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_03: Like you have to be ready to drop everything at a you know moment's notice.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but the whole the goal has been set this up so we can start to set our own schedule and as a headliner, um, and uh and just play, yeah.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_03: Our goal since day one is to build the fan base organically, have a group that comes along with us on the journey.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_03: We had opportunities when we were younger to do like the America's Got Talent stuff, and that it just we we kind of saw what that would have turned into.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_03: We and we knew 10 years time we didn't want to be oh, three spoilers are playing.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, remember them?
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_03: They were that kid's band on America's Got Talent, right?
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it just puts a like a stain on you that we didn't want.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_03: We wanted to even if we knew it would take longer, we knew if we went on those type shows, um immediately we'd see the spike in in likes, in follows, all that, but then it would it would fade out.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_02: And we wanted to to it's like yeah at the top of your head, you can't name who came in second place in the voice three years ago.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like who won?
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: I yeah, realistically now, yeah.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: There's so many of them, you you you know, it's not like it used to be.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so we just wanted to build this thing organically and over time just keep bringing more people, more fans into this, um, and to have a long career that is you know timeless.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, like Cy Stupid's on their 30th year or something of touring, and they know constantly, like every year they're gonna be able to sell out amphitheaters.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_02: It's just probably for the rest of their lives they're gonna be doing that.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_02: So uh because they built it over the years, they tour constantly every single year and built that fan base.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_02: So that's kind of our goal as well.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, I love that because I I think that's another area where we share a kinship for sure.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's necessary if you have a creative endeavor that you want people to invest in, you have to equally invest in those people, and that is a result of building a culture around the thing that you care about.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_00: And what you guys are talking about is building a culture.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's why, you know, going back to the 311 thing, that's why 311's fan base is so fanatical, is because they've built a whole culture around their fan base, that's why they're able to have a cruise.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: And it sounds like you guys are kind of modeling a similar blueprint.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's a blueprint that I use for my show too.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: I like, yeah, it's it's not a have a guest on and it's a one and done thing.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: If you've given me your time, you've given me the greatest gift in the world because you'll never get that time back.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: So now we are in each other's stratosphere.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like you know what I mean?
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so so I mean, I I I totally am on board with what you guys are saying as far as building your career organically.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I appreciate that.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's uh we didn't see another way to do it, honestly.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_03: Just felt it it's what we thought was right.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, in particular, 311's been a huge influence on that.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um the most incredible fan base in the world, and and what they're what they're you know, able to do year after year on the you know, the the vibe they bring, the fans and the band.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's something that it's a family, it's and it's like Like that's what we want.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_03: Like not like you have people come to see you once and then they might not come back the next year, and then or even if you have a huge you could be the number one song in the country in three years, people might not come back to see you because you didn't follow it up and you didn't follow up with your bass and you didn't build a bass from that, like and uh so like what they've been able to do has been incredible.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_03: And like you said, we've been modeling pretty much after that.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: So since we've talked about culture and we've talked about developing a fan base and doing the right thing, and like having these good, like sensible morals around building a fan base, I'm gonna ask you my most off-the-wall question that I ask every single guest as my closing question uh for the podcast, and everybody's answer is unique.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: So my question is, guys, one at a time, what's your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than what it is today through your experiences?
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's a great question.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'd say uh a big one is having patience and understanding and trying to put yourself in another person's shoes and not judging quickly too quickly.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um that's a big one.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_02: Just kinda you know, feel feel it out and um try to get in someone's shoes and what they're going through, um, and just how you can be the best friend to them you can be and uh be supportive.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um because everyone's no matter how big you are, how famous you are, everyone's still human.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_02: So you gotta be, I think everyone's on the same level.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so we can all help each other out that way.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_03: That's great.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_03: I'd say, you know, be self-aware, be easy to be around.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um empathy is a huge one.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um like you know, we're we're all more alike than than we think, and that's portrayed to us, you know.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_03: And it's just yeah, being able to like not develop enemies, you know, and to forgive easier, and um understanding and and you know self-awareness are big, and I think um having a calm demeanor too really helps to evaluate things, not let your temper take over.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_03: You can people fight, you know, not speak for 10 years over an argument they don't even remember.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_03: Um take a step back, breathe, evaluate situations, uh, be rational, think, use critical thinking, um stay healthy.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_03: Health is the biggest thing, and we're we're we're trying to be big advocates of that um health through basically through food, and like it can be a big um thing that gets in the way of your mental health is diet, and we're uh trying to raise awareness of that um through through how we live and how we can try to help people that way.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_03: And um shout out to our mom, she's incredible.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_03: She up here at the farm, she makes kombucha and kefir to teach us classes on how to do that.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_03: And um a thing that people you know take for granted is health and mental health.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_03: And if you have those two things, you're able to be a much better person in the world.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_03: And so sometimes when people aren't super friendly, I try to think there might be something else going on there, you know?
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_03: And that's where the understanding comes back into it.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_03: And um, so that's pretty much yeah, I'm rambling a little bit.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, no, no, man, that's that's so perfect.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's funny.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_00: I made this uh reel yesterday, um, drawing attention to the fact that June is men's mental health awareness month.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't actually know that.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yes, and you know, not to go dark and dreary or anything, but the statistics show that men have a three times higher suicide rate than women, and it's a lot of the times it's because men hold in their emotions, they're not afraid to communicate, or they are afraid to communicate, they are afraid to open up.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I'm a big advocate of you know men's mental and physical health, and so I was just sitting there agreeing and nodding with everything that you are saying, but you know, kind of going to both of your points, one of my favorite lines to tell people is you are an individual, but so is everybody else.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_00: And if if you understand that, it makes getting along and breaking those barriers down so much easier.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_02: I love that, absolutely.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_00: So, why don't you guys tell my audience where they can find you and your music online?
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're on all social media at Reese Brothers R-I-E-S, um on Spotify.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_02: You can check us out, YouTube, Apple Music.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, make sure you guys stream the new single Golden Sun with Nick Hexum.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, we have a lyric video for that on our YouTube page as well.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_02: Check that out.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and yeah, much love.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having us on.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, I tell you what, I am so hoping that we get to run into each other in the real world here sometime in the near future.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot wait for the album.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, no firm release date yet, but late summer, early fall is kind of what you guys are thinking, right?
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: Charlie, Kevin Jordan, the world is a much better place with you in it.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for doing the show today.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, man, this is so much fun.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate talking to you.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_00: Once again, I want to thank my new friends, Kevin Jordan and Charlie Reese, for joining me on the podcast today.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_00: They've got some big show announcements in the pocket, even some things I'm considering traveling for.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_00: I am super excited to see what's next for these guys.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_00: Make sure you give them a follow on Instagram at Reese Brothers.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: Also give the record label SKP a follow on Instagram at skp.io.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_00: I know they will appreciate the support.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_00: While you're being generous with follows, make sure you are following Caught on the Mic on all your podcasting platforms, your social media platforms.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_00: Go visit my website www.cotonthemic.com and shoot me an email for all guest inquiries at caught on the mic at gmail.com.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: A few months back, I said summer 2025 was gonna be one filled with music, and I am still delivering.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.