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what's up everybody?
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Welcome back to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.
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I'm Brian B and this is it's Joe Bunn.
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How you doing man, I'm good dude.
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Morning recording, once again.
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Morning recording batch content, both coming off gigs working hard, we're back, though.
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We're back for you guys.
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That's right.
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How long did you think we would last doing this real talk?
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Did you think we were in in it for the long haul?
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I figured at least a year I figured we were in it for the long haul I mean like that's kind of why I picked you.
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I think me and you both know people that we just couldn't do it with we'll leave it at that god bless him.
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Oh man, good stuff, good stuff did you have a good weekend I did, man, let's hear about yours, you, you were on tour I have been on tour for a while.
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Yeah, yeah we're in a season of life where we're like trying to make as much money as we can right now.
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I thought you were just about to say you were trying to have another baby.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, you're not having any more babies.
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We're done, we're done, we're done.
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One and done, one and done but things are getting expensive.
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My mortgage went up.
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Yeah, I guess.
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Got a new draft and it came out and I was like what just happened?
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we went on to refi.
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I thought it was, I thought it was time to refi brutal and then tuition's going up.
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So we just kind of got in this mindset of like I'm going to book as many shows as I can do oh wow, that would make sense that I can still manage.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know so I've been working doubles the last two weeks, which is rare for me.
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I don't really do that very often.
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It's been in Florida, where it's been hot, humid, already Soaking through shirts.
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By the end of it I'm just exhausted.
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And then this again right, and then get on a plane and come back, come back.
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I have switched that up.
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My thing was I would take the first flight home to be home with the family as soon as I could pointless, I'll come home.
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Oh yeah, I'll be home at 9 am 10 am and I'm like I gotta take a napper because I just can't like, you know, I'm gonna do the dad thing and go to the park and the pumpkin patch and all the bullshit you do with a little girl.
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Right, do it do it, so I got to sleep a little bit.
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I just need like a power nap, but that ends up being about 3, 5 o'clock by the time I'm, like, ready to go.
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Then I'm fine, and then they're cooked and they don't want to do anything.
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We swapped it up last two weeks, which I don't think has actually worked.
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I've been leaving at 5 at night.
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The problem with that this is why I'm a big first flight out guy is you hit delays, hit delays.
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So I've been delayed the last two weekends.
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Right, supposed to be home at nine, home at 11, both times different airlines.
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It doesn't matter, it just stacks up you know.
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So first flight out.
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You have to do it.
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Stick to your old rules, yeah but the gigs are fine, the gigs are great.
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I feel like I'm in the zen state of just crushing these shows like I just can walk in and I feel so confident.
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Are you feeling that way with shows right now?
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Yes, we have changed the trajectory of the end of last year, which was a string of six shit balls to six no five, I think weddings now starting in end of March.
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That have been really good.
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Okay, all of them, all of them really good.
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We were in Charlotte Saturday and you know that's not our market, right, we have an office in Charlotte, right, brandon usually takes those.
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But it was family.
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I had done this kid's brother's wedding.
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He was married to a girl.
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I had done several members of her family this was I'm five deep into this family now, and were they all there as a guest?
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Um, no, the, the, obviously.
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The brother was the best man.
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His wife, like I said, I did her family's wedding.
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They weren't there, but she was like, oh, I gotta you know, let's take a selfie, I gotta send it to my sister or brother like, yeah, I had done a lot of people's.
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Okay, so that's how I get the gig end up working with a planner, was not it, bro?
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I'm not gonna say a name on here, but she just was nasty from the minute we walked in.
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I hate that and I don't know if it was because you know she has some dj that she always works with right, she's like who is this guy?
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Whatever.
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But man just an attitude from the start like give me an example um load in load in.
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She kind of walked us to where you know, pointed to the door, type thing, yeah.
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And then we kind of go down this series of corridors and I was like we get into the big ballroom and I'm like where exactly do you want me?
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I sent you a layout.
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Now again, keep in mind.
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She's three and a half feet from the door, like all you had to do is point it was a point, type thing yeah, and I was like, okay, like I just didn't, I didn't even look like, I never even got the layout out of my pocket, or like trying to find the email.
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Yeah.
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I was like I'm going to set up right here and if you don't like it, this is where we're going to be, type thing.
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And it was in the right spot, Thank God.
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But nasty like right out of the gate, then just kind of disappears.
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Oh, I hate that too, it's seven, 40, it's 740, whatever toaster's supposed to be at 720.
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And I started just like literally doing it myself.
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Like got the videographer, photographer.
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Are y'all ready?
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Where do you want them to sit?
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Where do you want the toaster?
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I'm like moving chairs around.
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I finally go over to her.
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I see her and I'm like we're running the toast.
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Okay, I'm like what am I doing?
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Right, what are you doing?
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Oh, wow, end of the night comes, sparkler departures, send everybody out.
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And the couple walks out and literally has their hand on each other.
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You know, like looking at me to play their private last dance.
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Now, let's say there's 165 people, 135 are outside, there's 30 still kind of blah, blah, blah in the back, keep in mind.
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Now the videographer has lit the dance floor up and did all night, which I fucking hate.
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It's absolutely daylight and then they had flipped on the house lights.
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So this isn't even sexy or private.
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And they're looking at me like play the song Iris.
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By the way, goo Goo Dolls, it's a Brian B karaoke staple.
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It could be Never played it, but anyway I play it and it's a long song.
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It's like five minutes.
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It's like five minutes, it's super long.
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And it's gotten to the point where he takes that breath and he goes and she comes over and goes start it over the planner, start it over.
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And I go.
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Huh, she goes, you started it before everybody was outside.
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I go, okay, and I walked over to the board like I was going to do something and then just walk back and I think it's on the 360 camera.
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I think I looked up at the 360 camera.
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I was like get the fuck out of here.
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Like what are you talking about?
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You know what I mean?
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Like they clearly wanted to start the song.
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There was no ambience in the room whatsoever, right, so I just played it and it's like I'm trying to get them to the thing.
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And then the bride comes over.
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We have a long conversation.
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She's like you fucking killed it.
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Blah, blah, blah yeah, he was more reserved.
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But he was like dude, so good, like we had to have you, they planned their wedding date around my schedule.
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Wow, that's how important it was that they had me.
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Then she was like I want to go change.
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She had this little cute white dress.
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So I'm like dude, if I had started it over blah, blah, number one, they would have been like why are you starting?
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Over a private last night it was just whatever man it.
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It put a a wedding into the b category right, she soured it, and was every vendor feeling that, or was it just?
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I didn't know anybody man, so I couldn't really be like yo, what's up with your girl?
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yeah, I talked to brandon.
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You know that owns my office.
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He was like I don't know who that is that's not a good start right, he's a good networker, right, right, anyway real quick, I real quick.
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I have a little show opener for you, A little DJ dilemma.
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We're going to call this Ready.
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It doesn't necessarily have to be speed round, but I thought it was a nice little icebreaker.
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These are ridiculous scenarios, but you have to pick a side and explain yourself Ready.
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You show up to a formal wedding and realize you've either forgotten your laptop or your suit.
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One has to say forgotten.
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Which is it?
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The one that's saying?
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forgotten is the suit.
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I'll figure it out.
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You're in shorts and a tee Formal.
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Yeah, I'm behind a booth, though that was mine.
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I won't be going out to the front, let's, you're not walking out in the audience.
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No, no, no.
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Okay, that was mine too.
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I mean because I could get through a wedding with, like, a phone or an iPad or something I have.
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You've heard that story about Bald Ed Island, but I'm the same way.
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I'm just back there in a pair of shorts and flops or whatever Just raw talking in a black tie wedding at like the Ritz Carlton.
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Right, okay, let's say you have a one set, like there's a band and they're putting on brian b.
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You can only play line dances or ballads.
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Which do you choose.
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And we're going line dances just because it's upbeat.
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I mean most of them are sure, sure.
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I can't imagine and I figure I got a 50 chance that they're gonna work right, that's what I'm saying.
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It's a crutch, it's always been a crutch.
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Yeah, okay, I got one more Ready.
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You accidentally double book yourself Oof One Thousand dollar local gig, other $5,000, but it's on a cruise and you hate boats and you can't swim.
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What are you doing I?
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guess I'm going the cheapie.
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I guess I'm going $1,000.
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If I can't swim you definitely can't swim.
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Yeah, that'd be a problem.
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Can you swim?
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I can, I can, I can.
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Saquon, can you swim?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can swim.
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Okay, okay, I can swim, but I'm not good.
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Yeah, I can swim enough to save myself.
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Right, exactly Same.
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I can't tread water.
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This is a crazy quick story.
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When I was at Carolina, I graduated in 1994.
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You had to pass a swim test to graduate Everybody look it all, and I don't remember if it was like a donor's kid had died, you know, or something it's just a school thing.
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It was a school thing, not a state.
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Thing nope, not a state thing the university of north carolina, again, this was 1994, 30 some years ago.
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You had to pass a swim test and it was not stupid, but I I remember jumping in the pool and then I was like super competitive, so it was one lap down and back and there was other kids that jumped in so I tried to be fast and then when you got to the end of the lap you had to tread water for, let's say, I don't remember a minute or 45 seconds or what, but I'm so winded and out of shape, like back then I was I never even went to the gym that I was kind of like sinking a little bit like barely past the swim test what was the enrollment at that time?
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oh dude there was 20 000, was 20,000 kids there, so at some point they all got to get in that pool.
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Yes, 100%, is it?
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like a day where they go like swim test day.
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No, I think it was through the year and I probably waited until like the last day to do it, or whatever.
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You had to take a swim test in 1994 at the University of North.
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Carolina to get your diploma Crazy.
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Now I'm sure that's not the case anymore.
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Anyway, let's get into DJ shit.
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So you've been playing some gigs, any new music that you have been playing out, that you have had requested, that songs that you weren't maybe that familiar with, that have been working, anything that just kind of hits you.
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I've got a couple I'll share with you, but I thought I'd hit you first before I share some that have been doing well or what have been the bangers, regardless if they're new or not yeah, right, and then west dj's live last week right great job.
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By the way, they did a great job and I'll see a bunch of people there right, our friends, people, you know, people, I know, and I was walking down the street with, uh, even steve, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I look at him and I'm like I ain't gonna lie bro.
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Two, three saturdays in a row, that dynamite wordplay into don't stop believing has murdered, yeah, like.
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And people are looking at me like as if I did it, you know, and I just kind of like giving the thumbs up, like yeah, I did that.
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Yeah.
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And then what also destroyed on Saturday was I have a scooter edit of, and both of these songs were on the playlist Keep that in mind was a closer chain smokers into you know when she goes, smokers into you know when she goes.
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I played that blink 180.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, and it goes into that transition of all the small things havoc, those were huge.
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Okay, the two word play kind of transition things that have been working really well for me, any new songs that have come out you know I'm the the worst at the new stuff yeah, like I knew to me it'd be like two years from now.
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I'm like like pink pony club is hot right now for us, like it'd be like two years from now I'm like Pink Pony Club is hot right now for us, Like that's the biggest song right now for us.
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Oh man.
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Randy played it three times for some gala or auction the other night Pink Pony Club.
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He was forced to Wow.
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It's like middle-aged housewives attack Wow and they were hot on Pink Pony Club.
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That's crazy, crazy.
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We're way behind.
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Where are you Bring me up to speed?
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I got five of them for you, five.
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Yeah, five tracks.
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They're small little edits.
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One is the new Callum Scott, I think is his name.
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He's got that song called Biblical and it's been slaying for me at dinner.
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It's normally a ballad, though it is.
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This is kind of the acoustic version For dinner For dinner.
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This is not a dance floor.
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This is a good one.
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If you're not playing it, you should Do.
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You want to hit a little bit of a?
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sample for us.
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So won't you give me tonight and the rest of your life.
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I want to have it all with you.
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I want to have it all with you.
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The original is good too, but the acoustic version is where it's at I'll be there by your side.
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I want to have it all with you.
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I want to have it all with you.
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So he was made, I think, famous with his song Dancing on my Own, the cover he did.
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Yeah, yeah, that's how I know it.
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Yeah and then this came out and people have been loving it every time I play it.
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Ironically, I played Dancing on my Own during the dance set.
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There's a Tiesto edit of that.
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Yes, that's a great version I played that one Instead of the Robin version.
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Saturday they wanted the Callum Scott version.
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Nice.
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Yeah, it was the first time, whatever her name was oh, jordan Sparks Went crazy it did Okay it went off Finally.
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The first time I dropped it it was a doo-doo, but Saturday, it went off.
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So Janai's back in the game on edits.
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He's been sending us stuff and I've been trying to play a lot more upbeat on the walk into the reception and this is a newer song People are out in the cocktail.
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Yeah, and this is a newer song.
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People are out in the cocktail.
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Some other ballroom doors open and a lot of mine are outdoors right now.
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We're in outdoor season so everything is outdoors, so it's kind of got that almost like a pool party type.
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Feel yeah, yeah, yeah, summer, summer, summer.
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So that song Ordinary, which I'm in love with right now there's this version that Alex Warren kind of a British dude.
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So this is Janaiice, blend with satisfy your soul which is a I saw he sent me that yeah great version upbeat.
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People don't really know ordinary that well yeah but it's kind of one of those ones where it's just a happy-go-lucky feel yeah, like that stargazing how that got bigger and bigger and bigger yeah, see if you can tell you see yourself playing this.
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I think the horns and just the disco-y vibe as people are walking in, it's just groovy.
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Walking in, finding your seat, your table, getting out of the sun yeah, I love it, it's been massive it's doing so well for me.
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People come up to me like what's?
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this version and all this stuff and janice has been crushing in those like vibey tracks.
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So, speaking of stargazing, uh-huh, peak hour.
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Okay, with levels, our boys dafts.
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Uh-huh, drew and fuse and views.
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Put this together, goat like, okay, this smashes.