Are DJ Conferences Dead?

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What's up, Boothheads? Welcome back to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast with your two co-hosts. Trying to get some pep in this a little bit. It's early. I'm not having had the coffee. I'm just like manufacturing this right now. You got it. You got it, bro. Brian B. Joe Bond. Welcome.

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Welcome.

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To episode four. Beyond the DJ Booth. Booth. Happy tax day. Jesus. When this drops. By the way, we are batching this, so if we don't capture anything in real time that's happening in the world, music, whatever, uh, we are way going to be way ahead in the process.

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That's good. That's a good thing.

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Yeah. We're traveling a lot this next month, and we needed to get this.

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Traveling, doing shows, Easter, spring break, blah zé blah.

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Let's do what we always do in the beginning of the episode. Shout out some of our Patreon members here. So we're going to shout out one of our newest Patreon members, but a good friend of ours of the show. Yes, sir.

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Shout out Chris Romero and Albuquerque, New Mexico Cutmaster. Cutmaster.

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I couldn't remember the name of this.

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Cut Master. Yeah. Good, good dude.

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I haven't seen him in a while.

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Let me think. I hadn't seen him in person in a minute either.

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Yeah. I think uh last time I saw him was at a show or something. Shout out Chris Romero. You should come to the collective, man.

Welcome And Patreon Shout Out

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We're gonna talk about the collective in one of these episodes, aren't we? Yep, it's coming up. Speaking of the Patreon, speaking of the Patreon, number one, the fact that we only got one shout out is acceptable.

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Part of it is because we're batching. Oh, right, right, right, right, right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. But we got some exciting news for season. Uh, what are we in? Seven? Seven. Yep. So we're making some changes to the Patreon. And really, this is more administrative than anything else because we had two tiers. We had the booth crew, we had the back room. Back room being the premiere, the other one being entry level. And it's just hard to keep track of like what each person gets in each tier, at least from the administrative side. I'm always like, wait, do they get the bonus episode? Do they get this or whatever? It just became a lot to manage internally. And we obviously feel like the values in the back room. So what we're gonna do is effective May 1st. If you are, we're no longer gonna offer the booth crew. Now, if you are already a booth crew member, you don't lose anything, you'll still get everything like the booth crew does. But if you're new to signing up, you won't see that as an option. So what we'd like to encourage everyone to do is to move to the back room. I think if you are in the booth crew, when you see all the value that comes with the back room with some of the winky wink uh bonus content plus bonus episodes, we just shot one a minute ago. Like, I think all of that stuff, it's worth you being$14 more. Yeah.

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$14, guys. So that's two of these shitty ass Starbucks coffees. That's seven dollars. It was more because he had it delivered.

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It's probably$36 right there.

Patreon Tier Change And Giveaway

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It probably is. Um, to incentivize folks to do this, it says seven, but should be five. So for five days at the end of the month, we may do seven. Okay, you want to do seven? It's up to you. So who's gonna go in the drawing room for five for five or seven days every day, the last weekend of the last week of April, okay, leading into this Patreon change, okay? We're giving away a prize a day if you are in the back room.

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So so previous anybody in the back room. Anybody in the back room. You sign up, you move over, you're new, every back room person goes in this. So even if you join the back room on episode one, right, you're in it. Right.

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So gotta be in by April 26th. Gotcha. That's the key. Okay. And by April 26th, you're not gonna get it. That's when we start the drawing. That's when we start the drawing. Hell yeah, dude.

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I'll do, I'll do, we'll do seven days. You said you had a lot of stuff. Bro, open that closet. It's full of nothing but prizes. Okay. That's the prize closet over there, folks. Okay. I got in-ear monitors, microphones, speakers.

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It seems like every prize you've given away, though, has like been three to five times what the membership is for the year.

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The worst prize we've probably given away was a hundred dollars something. Right. Yeah. I mean, that's the entry level prize. And they probably go up to two to two fifty. Yeah, yeah. And you haven't used this stuff, right? Or have you? I uh the only time I've used it is to demo it to make a video.

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Okay.

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So if it comes to you and it's not in the original packaging, that is why.

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Got it.

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It's not like I've you know had them stuck in my ears and walking around with earwax and shit in them for the last month. It is it is a brand new, lightly demoed product, normally either here, one gig or in the parking lot. Yeah. So we do a lot of wireless demos out in the parking lot if you watch my YouTube channel. Okay. If you don't, then please subscribe. Thank you.

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So hopefully you'll join us. I think and we're gonna continue to make it better now that we have one tier to manage. Yeah, yeah. It's just a lot.

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Yeah, it's everything to do with this, guys, is a lot. Like it, this is a lot of work. Like, I don't, I don't, I don't know how to explain it any better than that, but like setting up all these cameras, getting Saquon here, getting Brian here, getting me here on the same day at the same time for four hours to shoot. Like, we put a lot of time and effort into this. Then it's got to be dumped, then it's got to go to the editors, then Brian's got to watch it back. Yeah, then I gotta clip it up for the social. Like, it is uh I I just don't know that people really appreciate it. And that is why historically, factually, podcasts do not make it best to episode 10. Yeah. We are now at episode almost 100, probably. Right. We need to do something good for that one, by the way. I need to get when would that fall? Let's see. 13 times seven is ninety-one. Okay. So at the end of episode, I mean, I'm sorry, season seven, thirteen times seven is ninety-one. So it would be it would be season eight, episode nine. Okay, I'll make it. We need to mark that.

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Yeah, for sure. Let's move on. Okay, moving on. Sorry. Ooh, we have an off the record segment. This this uh episode. Let's go ahead and roll the intro.

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Uh off the record, let me tell my sugar on the ice tea. They throw a shade while I'm sipping on this ice tea. Don't care if you hate or like me. You know why, cause this is a I see. Record up the record, off the record, off the record. Say it with the chest, got a microphone, check it. I'm gonna say what I want to say. Time to write and ready, get out the way.

Survey Results And DJ Shows Rant

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I'm gonna say this. Say professional. We just talked about that. I am, I am. I'm gonna say this without naming names. Names of shows or names of show producers. And what I'm gonna let happen is I'm just gonna let things unfold as they may. But if you follow our friend Nick Spinelli, you saw him post a survey recently about DJ shows and your experience there. If you didn't, I don't remember all the questions he asked, but we me, Brian, Jason, and the other show producers that are mentioned in this survey got the results. Okay. Which I thought was kind for him to do that. I I th I did too. Right. He didn't have to do that. In anticipation of him obviously collecting this data and having been to most of these shows and going to make a video about these shows, which I don't know when it's coming. By the time this airs, it could have already been out.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. We don't know when it's coming. We really don't know what he's going to say. I'll say this the results, especially for our show. So for those of you who don't know and who listen to the show maybe in other countries or are just new to it, myself, Brian Bonacisi, and Jason Janai have produced a conference for eight, nine years now. Yeah. Called the DJ Collective. We started with 10 dudes in an Airbnb in Austin, Texas, and grew it to up to 200 people in Atlanta, Georgia, and Nashville, and then kind of retooled it back to what we call now the recharge, which is capped at 100 people and will forever be uh probably in Raleigh, North Carolina in November. So we have we have run the gamut, you know, and our ticket has gone as high as three thousand dollars.

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So at some point, yeah.

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And now it sits around eleven hundred, probably about the average ticket price. The comments were uh all for the most part about our conference were very positive. I think we had some really nice things said about our our thing. Most of it looked to be anonymous or either emate it anonymous. But a recurring theme was um DJ shows are dead, nobody's going anymore, the trade show floors are dead, which by the way, we've never done a trade show floor, and we never will. And then the main topic that I kept seeing come up that I think got me heated was it's the same fucking people talking over and over and over again. You're putting the same people on stage, the same old hat, they're saying the same old things. Well, why don't you bring in a Gary V or a uh Damon John from Shark Tank or you know Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank? Well, I'll tell you why, people, because they cost a lot of fucking money, and you guys won't pay what it costs to get those people here. Right. Period. It's just not mathematically possible to get a venue and this and that and that and bring in Gary Vee and blah blah blah, and even break even. It's not possible.

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Right.

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I I'll I'll relate it to uh something that Brian's been to more than any vendor in the not the DJ category, more than any vendor probably, period, is engaged. What is the lowest price in the last four years that you've seen an engaged ticket? Not travel, not hotel room, not uh I would say thirty five hundred. Okay. What do you what what what's the highest you've seen? Uh 15,000. Right. Okay. There you go. 3,500 to 15,000, depending on for the ticket. That doesn't include the baths. Anything and a swag bag. A swag bag. That's it. No hotel, no travel, no nothing. And engage puts on insane parties, insane dinners, insane speakers, because they are charging$3,500 to$15,000. If you guys would would, I'll tell you what, everybody watching this right now message us. If you would pay$3,500 to$15,000, I'll get Gary V here in November. I'll tell you that much, right? That would be a game changer. Whatever you want. Yeah. If you're going to pay$3,500, let's just average it in the middle.$3,500 to$1,500. Let's say we're going to be$10,000 a ticket. Yeah. I'll get whoever the fuck you want. Dude, this is crazy, guys. I mean, so don't look at it like, oh, it's the same hat. Look at it like, what are the, what are the, what are you going to, what is that one takeaway you're going to get from Joe Bunn that has spoken at two conferences this year? What is the one takeaway from Brian or Jason? What is the one takeaway from who else are we bringing in? We haven't even announced those people, so I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole. Yeah. And I guess my last point on this is to to please people. And I'm not, again, I'm not going to name names. I'm not going to even say what shows I'm talking about. Stop supporting the shows that don't support you. The last thing this is for me and Brian and Jason is a money brider. We ain't made shit off this. The entire reason we had to make it to Raleigh was to crest over the break-even point. Right. Because I call in every favor I have here. Right. So it isn't a moneymaker. It genuinely is to elevate DJs, to make them better, to teach something, to learn something myself selfishly. So these shows that are just a facade of a trade show floor or are putting people up on stage that have no business speaking, all they're doing is trying to take your money. Please stop supporting shitty DJ conferences. And and I'll I'll tell you right now, the the two that I am speaking at this year and have been to already by the time this airs, I think, will be Pittsburgh, DJ Summit. Great. Yeah. Already went. And Midwest DJ's Live. That'll be happening when this comes out. That's happening when this comes out. Speaking of both of them, would have attended probably had I not. But look at those conferences. Okay? Look at those conferences. Jess, A Rock, Bill Jacob, produced Pittsburgh. Excellent job. Midwest TJ's Live, uh, Mitch Taylor, a whole board of people. Yeah. Um, and Nate Nelson in particular. What do you think they have in common with us? They are modeled, and and I I I'll say this to their faces, and they would say it if they were sitting here with us at that conversation. Those conferences, those two in particular, are modeled after the DJ collective. From the talent to the to the way they're done, to the whatever. Other than the fact that there's not three, you know, the three of us kind of sitting up there or the three of them sitting up there. Those conferences and the the best parts of DJC are inhabited or are implemented into those shows. And I'm fine with it.

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Me too. Like it actually pushes us to think differently and to like the best you want the best parts. A thousand percent.

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I'm completely fine with that. I'm just saying that that that those shows are doing it right. Right. Yes. Yeah. I I I just I don't know, man. I I'm I'm it gets me so fired up as somebody that produces these and doesn't make much money doing it, and it takes me and you uh a year to do it every time.

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The only comment that got me was the ones that we're talking about, man. And we love the old way you guys were doing. And it's like, yeah, I did too, but it we lost money.

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Like I love it too. Do you want to support it? Do you want to produce it? Yeah. I'll tell you what, we'll help you plan it if you bankroll it. How about that? Yeah. Do you what what did we have in Atlanta? Over a quarter million? Uh yes. I mean 350? Uh-ish. Okay. So if you have$350,000 and you want to produce a DJ show, we'll help. There you go. I mean, that's it. I'll I'll summarize it by that. If you want to risk$350,000 of your money, I'm looking right at camera fucking one, then you can put on a DJ conference and call it Bob's DJ show, and we'll help you plan it. Yeah. And we'll show up. I will show up. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Here we go. I'm done with this conversation. Sorry, man. I mean, you wanted a rant. That was a good one. You made up. Okay, I got just went on the. I mean, that's the whole episode. There we go. Can you turn it positive? I'm gonna try. Okay, go ahead. Let's move into story time. Oh boy.

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So I've been off the last uh couple of weeks, or actually two weeks. So this will be the second week I've been off. It's been cool because I've been able to do family stuff. It's usually slow around Easter.

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Yes. My mom asked me one time, she's like, How do you have this weekend off? I said, Mom, it's hard to compete with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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That's very, she goes, good point. Yeah, yeah. He wins on that one.

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Yeah. Um tough act to follow.

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But last weekend, Saturday, we had a daddy's daughter dance that was at the YMCA. Uh my daughter goes to um Hillsboro. Uh yeah. Yeah. I've never been there. It's nice. Actually, is it Hillsboro? It's Alexander. Maybe it is Hillsboro. Actually, it is. It is the Hillsboro one. Yeah.

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It's a nice, it's really nice.

Daddy Daughter Dance Breakdown

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So they had a DJ, photo booth, crafts, snacks, and pizza. Okay. Uh it was like, I think maybe like 30 people showed up, if I had a guess, which isn't a great attendance, but it's fine. Yeah, they had like uh so look at the I was looking at the map. You put a picture of it. Oh yeah, I got the picture. Yeah, yeah. So there we go. Oh, that's adorable. A little balloon arch. You know what I mean? And then we did a craft, which you can see there. So she was making a picture frame for the photo booth. So all the kids could do that. Here we go with the photo booth poses. I mean, it was pretty well done. I mean, I was pretty impressed. And then this is her favorite part coming into the gym to go dance. So I did a slow-mo. I mean, look at the smile. She's just like, Yes, finally. Sun's still up. But the crazy part's full up. Yeah. The programming. How many kids? About 15, 20. 15 or 20 kids and dads? Okay. Yeah, I mean, this is about what you would see. Okay. Uh, but I was impressed by the DJ. Wait, hold on one second. I'm sorry. Who put this on? The YMCA did.

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Interesting.

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Which is weird because that's why I was trying to get to the math there. So if they had 30 people times 25 bucks, that's like 750 is your budget. Right. To do all of this. Well, I'm assuming they expected a lot more people. Maybe.

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Maybe.

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How did you know about it? Well, because she goes to aftercare that's hosted by YMCA. And so they sent a thing home to all the parents who are part of their aftercare, probably to their whole roster of anybody who's a member of YMCA.

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They expected a ton more people.

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Dude, look how big the room is. Oh, I know. Yeah. And that gym is actually kind of smaller, too. All things considered. But yes, it was. Sorry. I'm just trying to do the math as well. Yeah. So I'm like, how did they afford this? Yeah. You know, it's it looks kind of nice. It was. The DJ was great. I mean, all things said. So, of course, they did the standards. They got the Macarena, you know. Um, you didn't catch his name or I did not. He, but it was just funny to see how these kids know these songs. That was the thing that blew my mind was the programming. Sure. And how some of these songs now like are just so crazy. Because obviously that's that's came out in the 90s, right? Yeah. Uh, the one the Opal Light's obviously current. There was a lot of Taylor Swift, uh-huh, no K-pop demon hunters. That was surprising to me. Shocking. Uh, a lot of like these interspersed dances, yeah, like uh Cha Cha slide, all of that. The funny ones to me were how long do you think he actually had to play? I mean seven to ten. Oh seven to nine, sorry, seven to nine. Okay. So two hours.

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Okay.

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But he did a great job of mixing it up. He did not have a microphone, which was surprising. Interesting. They never had him on the mic at uh ever. Um, but what he did bring, which I thought was interesting, was two party motivators, critical, who knew the dances. So to be able to do this stuff with them out there. Um, so YMCA was obviously another one. But the funny thing was, like the I'll show you the last song on.

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I did not think this was gonna go here. I thought you were gonna say the guy was terrible. He was playing inappropriate music.

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Oh, not at all. The thing that was crazy is he so he played uh um low flow rider, which is think about it, that's like th almost 30 years old now. It's like in the 2000s, yeah. You know, it's 24. Where when I was doing these kinds of dances, it was stuff in the 70s in the 2000s, you know, so it's 30 years. Right. And then um, what was it? Uh uh Stanky Leg got played, which I thought was also kind of interesting for this crowd. Stanky leg. Watch her do that. So she she actually knows it. No.

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I don't play this on the regular, right?

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Oh, so like all the kids were crazy. Yeah, dude. She was going nuts, dude. She loves it. She's the greatest ever.

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Yeah. But just funny to see, like, what like I would never have played that at a school dance, you know. I don't think so either. Now it's like pop.

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Like it's like it's like candy music, right? You know, at this point, this is crazy. She's just bugging out though, like over how deep you know, the YMCA went into this, and there's 30 people there. Yeah. Well, it's a father daughter. I mean, it's not a school school. I mean, it's aftercare. No, I understand, but I mean, I I again I don't know. It's all about marketing, man. Well, I just it was uh That's great, dude. You're right. I've haven't been to a dance yet. You've turned the episode around for me. This is a very positive and wholesome entertainment.

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And I had not been to a dance yet with her.

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Yeah.

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So that was kind of fun to go.

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Yeah, of course.

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And then of course you're always judging, you know.

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You were gonna tell me the guy was good. Because you go, I got things to talk about on the podcast. I went to this daddy daughter, I gotta talk about the DJ, and I'm like, oh shit. This is like I thought he was gonna be playing like dirty edits.

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No. Oh, but you know, I'm thinking too, like, 750 is the entire budget.

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Hold on. We we we just gotta assume they lost money. I mean I mean I'm not saying that I'm assuming the guy would charge more than$750 alone. I would hope. I would hope you would. With two motivational dancers?

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I don't think the Y's like press for money.

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No, they're not. They're probably fun to go. They're good.

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They're good.

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Right. You're right. But it was fun to go. And they have budget for stuff like this. Yeah. Yeah. It's dude, it's great. I you know, I mean, I guess if you if you look back on it, like that's the one thing like as having daughter, uh as having a daughter versus a son. Yeah, they didn't have stuff. Yeah. I mean, we had Y guides. I did that with both of my sons. Okay. And that was like a you know, dad-son kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. And that was good. And it's one run by the Y. Okay. Okay. That was fun. I mean, we'd camp and go to Camp Seagull once during the spring. And I mean, we had fun doing that. That's awesome. Yeah. But the the dance thing, the daddy-daughter dance always has like a soft spot in my heart.

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And all of us dads, you know, we're not great dancers. You know, we're not we're not Ross B's out there, like, you know, breaking it down. Rushing it. So I'm just like, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And especially in the gym, but it's not like you can hide. Like it's that's the lighting.

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That's what it was. No lighting. That was no dimming. It was like all that.

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So it was still daytime, right?

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Ish. Oh, right.

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Up until I guess like eight.

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Eight or something. Yeah. Let's move to the next thing. Watch me whip. Which is let's talk some music. Okay.

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Great. Fine's great. Finds digging deep for the good times. Great. Fine screen. Finds hidden gems in the rewind.

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All right. So I thought I would play you some tracks that are kind of new and fresh in my library. Wait, these are coming from Annie though? Well, I mean, these are songs she likes too. Okay, okay. But I've been playing them at gigs. And they've been working on the game. Did you introduce them to her or vice versa? No, no, I introduced them to her. Okay. She has me on have them on repeat at this point. So these are how they make the list. Sure. So to speak. So grab the little heady headphones here. You know? I'm not familiar. I don't know if you're familiar with a lot of these, but um I've given you a few over the last little bit. So this first one just came out. It's Bob Sinclair, who is the guy who Sinclair. Is it Sinclair? But it's spelled Sinclair. No, you left it later. Guaranteed it's the spell. Guaranteed. Here we fucking go. Guaranteed. You know who he is, though, right? Yeah, he's pretty good. World hold on guy? Yeah, I love that guy. I thought it was Bob Sinclair. It's Sinclair. You want to put 100? You want to put a Hundo? No. I'm down to put a Hundo. Shit, you're right. Ah! You knew it. No, I've always spelled it Sinclair, and then I saw it one time and I was like, oh, I gotta switch this.

New Music Finds For Your Gigs

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But I wonder what the pronunciation is. That's true. I'm gonna put Saquon on that. All right. See who the see if you can type that in on there.

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So this is a cool opener. Cocktail hour, doors open. See if you like it. It's kind of got a twist on the new shoes tracks.

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Oh yeah. I jump. I jump. I jump.

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I love it. What were your boarders dead?

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Is that what you would call it? I love it.

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It just kind of rides. Yeah. Odd and clear. I kind of want a hundo on that. Now you know I don't like to mess with the the classics, so I typically stay away from those uh things. But this is a cool version. If you don't have Staying Alive by BG's like on your playlist, it's a good way to play it early. This is kind of again a disco house one by I don't know how you'd say it, Audrey Block, I'm gonna say, featuring Soul Boys. Okay. Again, disco house is really big right now. Yeah. You don't really see it coming until that little part right there.

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You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man. No time to talk. Music loud and twin walking. I like to know that it turned out since I was born and now it's okay. It's okay. You made it look the other way. We can try to look to understand.

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Do we open in the comedy? Oh yeah. Yeah, I love it. I like that. Good early. Yeah. Again, if you don't have it on your playlist, a must-play, or even on a D request list, I would use that early. And that's just in like if the bride had to be. Yeah, right, right. That's a blasphemy. Yeah, totally. Okay. But it's just a good one to have in the library, I think. Right. Uh, this one I've been wearing out. Yeah. Have you played this yet? No. I you I got it from you. God, yeah. It is so good. It's the late night talking, which is the Harry Styles. I never really played the original. Did you play it much? I just in my, I mean, as I listen, I listen like Styles as a listener. Okay. Yeah. It's just riding around. I mean, it wasn't never really a gig song for me. Yeah. Right. But this with this Fleetwood Mac track, You Make Love and Fun, this is by Touch of Funk. Okay. He's got some good edits. And this one, uh, man, what a great way to open a room for doors open for a wedding. You could play it for cocktail hour. I it's actually helped me transition into dancing at times from a dinner hour. This is one of those ones that's like an ace, in my opinion. Here we go. Iconic Leewood Mac too. And it's not just the vocal layered over this track. He actually had some of the instrumental from late night talking into it too.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

It's only been a couple of days.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Right key? Yeah. About 120. Right.

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Yep.

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So that's the instrumental of uh Harry Styles. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you just brought it in subtly. These editors. It comes a chorus, I think.

SPEAKER_03 28:41

We've been doing all this later talking.

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Isn't that a great version of that? Yeah. You don't really see it coming. It's not bastardized. No. Like I feel like it's a good one. It almost sounds correct.

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Like it could be the real song.

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Totally. So that's one you gotta have. And then I wanted to play you this one because I had both these songs on my. I don't know how this is gonna work.

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I'm almost scared.

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So I had Live Your Life.

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Are you playing that camera over, or I'm gonna be fucking hype?

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Have you played Live Your Life? Do you play it often? No, not often. I'm gonna be playing that every game. Really? It is my hooks and drops is all you need. Okay. But I had the middle by Jimmy Eat World in there. And I'm like, all right, I'm gonna give this a shot. It actually worked pretty well for this crowd. Um, and it was a great way to then go into a rock set in that 80 BPM range. So this is Rihanna versus Jimmy Eat World. This is by Mike Fresh. I think you can get this on heavy hits, but here's a here's a little sample. So it's played this whole course.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Don't write yourself off yet.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

It's only in your head you feel that uh, now it's really hard to get that vocal to line up key-wise, dude.

SPEAKER_03 29:58

Try your best.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

Okay. So then you can go into like an a cappella in the tell them.

SPEAKER_03 30:05

And then go into something else.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

Yeah, a pump. That's five minutes. 80.

SPEAKER_03 30:10

It just takes some time to do it.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

You make it no, oh my fresh.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

I'm gonna allow it.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

I'm gonna allow it.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

It's a bridge track. Yeah. You know what I mean? You get into something else. Sure, sure. And it worked for my genre, a genre switch, genre flip. The middle is a good song, but it's one of those ones it's hard to mix in in general. I've had trouble mixing that song in. It's almost a slam mix. It has to be almost. And this gives you a fresh way to play it in a way that can work. So those are some new tracks.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

Oh, you know that TI video I made, you know, where I just step out of the car. Yeah, it's literally the biggest video I ever made now. Wow. Are you gonna comments on it too, or is it just like oh boy, when you go into the 1.5 million range, it's the haters. Both. Okay. It's I've picked up, this is no exaggeration. I told Saequan this, over three to four thousand. This is not I'm followers? Nope. Not not they've a very specific follower, middle-aged black women. Oh I'm like a sex symbol to middle-aged black women. That's good for you, man. Yeah, it's a I it works for me. I'm fine with it. Three to four thousand. Wow. Then get them to come in. In the comments, though. In the comments. We could go for in the comments. It goes from everything to um wash your car, um, um, to oh, the white interior's crazy. Um, um, you're invited to the cookout, you're not invited to the cookout, and then then it goes, then it goes racist, uh, colonizer. Wow, which Saquon says is like the the the the ultimate uh insult word for for white people. That's crazy. That's what I'm saying. Like once you get into that million plus views, it goes from uh you know the highest yeah, like the the the the dopamine hit to like just like straight races.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

And are you going you you fighting back? Nah. Nah, you just let it roll. Let them roll.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

At a certain point, you just gotta let it roll. Yeah, you just gotta let it roll. That's crazy. It's just like, how did I become a sex symbol? In that couple.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

So good. So good. Well, some of these uh tracks are gonna be potential bonus winky wink stuff. So interesting.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Living in the Patreon in the top tier, the only tier. The only tier once we get to May. Is it I feel like this is a long episode. Probably. Yeah, what's the next thing here?

SPEAKER_01 32:37

Oh, gear corner. Good lord. Let's move to the gear corner.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

The gear's here!

SPEAKER_01 32:48

The gear.

SPEAKER_06 32:49

Is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is it here.

Gear Corner New MacBook Setup

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Alright, man, so I was due for a new computer. What's due to you? How many years? So I looked at it. Last time I bought one was 2021. So it's been five years. And uh I did a uh little pick picture comparison of the uh two Macs, if you want to go to the next slide here. So I had it before, a 13-inch, 16 gigabyte memory, two stair two terabyte storage. Okay. And the reason the impetus for me to move over to this was the fact that's a good word, man. Hey, you usually get me on those. Impetus is is I don't even know if that's right. Is it right? I think so. Okay, go ahead. But um, I was running out of storage space and I was having to like it was getting close to the top. So I needed to move over. It was running fine. Like this computer has been running like a machine for for years. Sure. So then I was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna look into it. And 13 inch, so same uh you go with the little boys. I go with the little boys, I don't need a biggie. Okay, because also I'm fly so much, I hate the big screens on the thing. When someone brings their seat back, it pisses me off. All right. At 13 inches, it's a problem. Right. If I went 15 inch, I'd be really pissed. Right. You know, so I just go, okay. So this is moving from an M1 to an M5. Okay. We're going from uh 16 gigabyte to 32. So this thing is screaming fast, and I went from two terabyte to four terabyte. But here's the crazy part when I bought this, I literally bought it around the same time in 2021, around uh middle March. 2597 was what I paid. Okay, but so for this upgrade, just the computer at 2800, it's$300 difference. And look at the years later. Isn't that nuts? For basically triple the computer. Well, this thing's lasted me five years. Like I said, I could use it. The only thing was the space situation. Are you just gonna move it to the backup position? Yeah, oh, totally. And where's the backup computer going? Facebook marketplace? No, I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep oh the back the current backup, yeah. It's it's it's it's not even an M1. It's it's it's old. Yeah. It's time for that one to go doo-doo. Right.

SPEAKER_05 34:52

They put a headphone jack back up there.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Well, the other thing about this is that's nice too, is you get back your um another USB C. Now, with this computer, now it's MagSafe again. That's right. So MagSafe, two USB Cs. And that's all that's on the sides. That's it. And then then the headphone. Is that enough? I think it's it's more than I needed. Oh. Because I was having to use a dongle, because I use an external as well. And so this is just cuts that all out because now the mag safe takes care of that. Yeah. And even on the mag safe itself, you can actually it's USB C on the other end, you know, right? Yeah, yeah. You can still charge it on the USB CD. Totally. Yeah. So then the other thing I got with this to go along with it is a new screensaver. Or I'm sorry, uh, a laptop skin, Etsy. My friends over there in Etsy. I like this one because it actually is not like sticking to it, it's just kind of an easy pull-off, like you can have your thing to it. But it looked it lights up, it has a dimmer switch, so it can't be too bright. This is just one example. It can do multiple colors too. If you click on the next picture, too. Like it can go, you know, whatever color you want it to be. That's cool. So 150 bucks. You already got it? It's in route. We'll be here Thursday. But that's gonna eat up a USB plug, isn't it? Uh no, it can, or it has the plug. I'm gonna use it the plug. I'm not gonna use that. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

Let me know how that works out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

It's in a route? Well, the computer's here. No, no, no. The uh skins are skin's in a route. Yeah, I'll let you know. And it should be here Thursday. I was hoping to get it get it by today, but it didn't. So, anyways, those are two new things I've got coming up. And if you're not, I mean, at this point, if you don't have an M1 or M2, you're you're crazy. Like that that's actually imperative. Right. It's so cheap. Like it's crazy. You don't need a MacBook. I would say it's cheap because a lot of these PC guys are gonna come for your head. Well, let's just put it this way a MacBook Pro, you don't need that anymore. You can get by DJ. Oh, that's not a MacBook Pro that's a MacBook Air, bro. I'm telling you, you don't need a pro to do these gigs anymore. The M1 wasn't go, you wouldn't get that Neo though that just came out.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

No. The little color thing. It's supposed to be like a basically an iPad with a 200. Right. I've heard about that. Yeah, and I uh I don't know. But so that was a MacBook Air. MacBook Air. Is there a bigger screen MacBook Air? There is a 15-inch.

SPEAKER_01 37:06

I didn't get it.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

So two inches. So now I'm trying to think of what even the MacBook Pro has.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

It's an advantage. It's there, I'm telling you, you don't need it. The air is thinner, it it works like that.

SPEAKER_02 37:16

I mean, it's got plenty of processing power about to run Serrato.

SPEAKER_01 37:20

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:21

You used to have to have a pro. Oh, you had to. Yeah. When you were running those like that that S1 Serrato box with all those RCAs and shit.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

I also upgraded my Serato because I hadn't gone on to 4.0 yet. Have you done that yet? Um gone to 4.0? Not sure. It's good.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's got some new features. Yeah, it's cleaner look. The library's nice. I haven't played with it yet. Yeah, me neither. But I'm going to. No, I played on it. I I'm just not using all the features. I need to watch a video. Right. There's a lot of nice stuff that they add. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

I'm just doing all this before the spring season kicks in and I'm going to be going, you know, false to the wall.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

I think I'm going to go one more year.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

When's the last time you got yours? Probably four years ago. Okay. It's in it's definitely an M1. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

I'm curious to see how fast this really is.

SPEAKER_02 38:03

I I the the real difference in the M1 thing and the and the silicon or whatever. What is the old chips called? The fan. That that freaking fan and the heat. Right. Dude, I played gigs, you know, I played in a hot yoga studio shut down before. I played outdoors shut down before. I played gigs where I could literally hear the laptop over top of the loudspeaker trying to cool itself.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

That M1 is just pure solid work. And the other thing too, I was talking to Trego about this because he was saying that was his concern was the heat. But I think you know, the South is actually worse because you have the moisture with the humidity. Yeah. Which is another layer on top of heat. Yeah. And if it's working the M1, I've had zero problems, you know, going down into Florida. Yeah. Shout out. Shout out M1. I'm curious to see how it's going to be. Or shout out M series Apple. Well, it's almost gonna be like we planned this episode because the question of the day segues perfectly. So let's get the question of the day. Yeah, I remember this.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

Question of the day.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

DJ Celos scenario, brand new MacBook. What's the strategy to transfer all music and Serato playlists to from the old one to the new one? I think is what you meant to say. External hard drive, dropbox, iCloud, etc. So I literally just did this. Yeah, you did. I could not believe how easy it was. Like literally, you have a Wi-Fi signal. You can do it this way. Now I did talk to Drew after the fact. He's like, I always like to start fresh. And I'm like, okay, that's cool for you. I don't want to start fresh. Right. He actually has a dropbox of all of his programs. That's what I do. I don't even have to do that now. Because basically it clones exactly everything. The only thing I had to put a password in for was my email because I have um what is it? Two two no, it's like the two part um authentication. Two factor. Two-factor authentication. It was the only thing. All the programs loaded in, the settings were already the same. Everything. I don't have to download everything. Yeah. Now it did take time. Took me about three hours worth of time. Not you. I mean just the transfer.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

Yeah, the transfer. I had to just monitor it. Once you started it, you open them both and it says, Do you want to transfer from another Mac? Yeah. Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 40:13

And then and it clones it.

SPEAKER_02 40:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

So no more like having to put in passwords or anything.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

Redownload Microsoft Word or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

Like down to literally like my Facebook. The dockets the same. Which is crazy how it's like advanced to that level where you don't need any of that stuff. Yeah. Because it used to be another hour of just like downloading all the programs, getting your preferences right. You're talking about pure panic. Yeah. I mean, that shit's scary. So I I again use an external for my Yeah, but why do you use an external if you have problems, man?

SPEAKER_02 40:44

I've had problems with Why do you need a four terabyte internal then?

SPEAKER_01 40:46

Because I have a lot of video.

SPEAKER_02 40:48

What the fuck is video for?

SPEAKER_01 40:50

Vid not video files, meaning like that I'm playing music, but I'm talking about like just content stuff that I shoot, and that takes up a ton of space. Yeah, oh it takes up stupid space.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

But what I I I would like I I still think you need a work, like I have a work computer and then I have a DJ computer.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

I pretty much am kind of try to do it that way. I would I would advise that. I mean, I've always done it that way, except I was I ran out of space on the backup. So then I had to go to the other one. So it's just been kind of migration.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

I cannot believe that's a MacBook error. I wish you had brought it. Did you bring your name? I did bring it.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

I I want to see it between between sets. So hopefully that helps you, Celos. You're gonna be just fine, buddy. You don't need to do a uh uh I mean, literally just hook it up to same Wi-Fi.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

Yeah, mine was gonna be a much more complicated answer, Celos, because again, it's been a while since I've done it. But Ryan B literally just did it last week and he's ready for this week. So two days ago. There you go. Very timely question. Shout out to the Patreon members, by the way. Yeah, let's wrap it. All right. So thank you guys for listening. Thanks for being a Patreon member. And thanks to our sponsor, DJ Event Planner. If you're looking for a CRM to help you manage your leads and run your DJ business, go to DJEventplanner.com. Thanks everybody. See you next week.