#111 - Gage Speas - Daisy May Hat Co

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Evan Hafer welcomes hat maker and owner of Daisy May Hat Company, Gage Speas to the BRCC offices. Gage shares the origin story that led him from bull riding in high school and dropping out to tour with a metal band, to becoming an apprentice and now creating some of the highest-quality custom handmade hats in Nashville

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0:00.0	Okay, today is a great show. We've got Daisy here. No, so we have a hat maker. Is that
0:27.5	what you call yourself a professional hat maker? Would you call yourself a mad hatter or just a regular
0:33.6	like that's like over everyone. Everyone's like on the mad hatter. Oh, is that a thing? It's like a
0:38.2	thing. Yeah. Okay. Every dude does mom's like, I'm like the mad hatter. Dude, I like it though.
0:45.7	I'm not going to lie. I like the, I like the ability to, to brand around mad hatter for like a second.
0:54.2	Obviously, it's not my thing. So for a second, that's the most obvious choice. Would be the mad
0:59.6	hatter, right? Yeah. So, but how did you come up with your name?
1:06.2	I had to go back a little bit. Please. Yeah. Cool. We're here for you. We got nothing
1:09.7	to time. I'm here for you. Okay. So I used to tour with a metal band. I was like a merch guy,
1:18.6	tour manager kind of thing. We're in the small somewhere, middle America. And this kid's like,
1:25.7	oh, you guys are a sleeper. Like, oh, my God. And the kids like, I'm Twitch. And the other kids like,
1:32.2	I'm flame boy or like whatever. And they introduced their nicknames. I'm leaving. And I was like
1:37.5	18 year old kid. I was like, God, that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. And I was like,
1:42.8	Hey, what's up guys? I'm the maze. I'm Daisy Maze. And the dudes in the van were like,
1:50.5	never heard my name again. I was never called gauge ever again. It was always Daisy Maze or
1:55.5	the maze. So into this day, right? Like, that's awesome. When I was trying to think of a name,
2:03.0	you know, for my company, I was like, oh, I'll just do Daisy Maze. Like, it's perfect. Yeah.
2:07.1	And so I was telling friends, I'm like, yeah, I'm starting Daisy Maze and they go, Daisy Maze.
2:12.5	And I'm like, no, fuck, do you know it's Daisy Maze. And they'd be like, oh, okay, cool, man. Yeah,
2:16.7	yeah. Yeah. And then my fiance's like, Daisy Maze sounds better. It's easier to say. And so I was like,
2:23.4	okay, let's do it. Let's roll with that. So literally that's how I got the name. It just
2:28.0	people were saying Daisy Maze instead of Daisy Maze. And so I was like, well, customers like
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