Oct. 22, 2025

DJ Economics 101: Rent Hikes, Heat, and Hit Songs

DJ Economics 101: Rent Hikes, Heat, and Hit Songs

Send us a message An email can change your month...and your mindset. Joe's arrived with a “pursuant to your lease” assessment that nearly doubled the rent on a 600-square-foot office in a 100-year-old building. We unpack what that clause really means, how to demand transparent line-item accounting, and why negotiating caps on pass-through costs might be the most valuable sentence in your next contract. If a landlord’s endgame is clearing tenants for redevelopment, we share the leverage plays ...

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Season 5

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An email can change your month...and your mindset. Joe's arrived with a “pursuant to your lease” assessment that nearly doubled the rent on a 600-square-foot office in a 100-year-old building. We unpack what that clause really means, how to demand transparent line-item accounting, and why negotiating caps on pass-through costs might be the most valuable sentence in your next contract. If a landlord’s endgame is clearing tenants for redevelopment, we share the leverage plays and exit strategies that keep your business solvent instead of squeezed.

Then the conversation cools (…barely) to the real-world pain of summer gigs without functioning air-conditioning. From portable fans to backup gear placement, we trade music-gear-gadget fixes that keep you alive through triple-digit heat and outdoor weddings.

From there, it’s all about music that saves dance floors. We spotlight K-pop crossovers that work even in crowds who “don’t do K-pop,” anchored by universal pop backbones. You’ll also hear the 80s flip that instantly reignited a dinner crowd, the wordplay transitions that turn recognition into momentum (think Glamorous → No Broke Boys), and the subtle meme-sample that had an entire cocktail hour smiling. Plus, a Johnny Cash bootleg that proves you can honor a request without killing your set’s flow.

Traveling to make those moments happen? We review the TRTL travel pillow plus and talk about why the redesigned support finally let us sleep on flights, and when investing in travel comfort is worth every penny for working DJs constantly on the move.

Finally, we tackle a listener question: what counts as a “decent living” as a DJ? Instead of throwing out a single income number, we define sustainability: covering bills, taxes, and a healthy buffer without needing a second job. We break down real regional differences and show how to build event DJ business advice that keeps you stable year-round.

Whether you’re negotiating leases, refreshing playlists, or trying to survive another wedding in the heat, this episode blends humor, real-life DJ stories, and strategies to help you run a stronger, smarter, more profitable business.

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00:00 - Cold Open & Banter

02:45 - Lease History & Sudden Assessment

04:05 - What “Assessment” Really Means

06:40 - Pushing Back: Accounting, Caps, And Moving

10:50 - Is Office Space Still Worth It?

14:10 - Can’t Work From Home: Finding Alternatives

18:20 - Music Segment Kickoff

19:20 - K‑Pop Edit That Actually Works

22:30 - 80s Flip That Opens Dance Floors

25:00 - Left-Field Edits That Crush Requests

29:30 - Wordplay Transitions: Glamorous → No Broke Boys

33:20 - Jet2 Holiday Meme Edits That Land

36:40 - New Watch: Olivia Dean House Version

39:50 - Live Cocktail DJing vs Spotify “Mixing”

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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.

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Yes, sir.

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This is Joseph Eagles Bun Jr.

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Sometimes you do like to give my full name like that.

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Yeah, man.

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It's my government name.

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What was your middle name again?

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Robert or something like that?

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No.

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And then you said Michael one time.

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No.

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Like, I don't know.

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Rare you're.

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It's always something.

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It's something basic, though, isn't it?

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Teeth, baby.

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Why do I always forget that?

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I don't know, man.

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It's a great segue into our next segment here.

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Which is off the record.

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Listen to this shit.

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Off the record.

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Let me talk my sugar honey ice team.

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They throw a shade while I'm sipping on this ice tea.

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Don't care if you hate or like me.

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You know why?

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Cause that's just how life before record off the record, off the record, off the record.

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Say it with your chest.

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Got a microphone, check it.

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I'm gonna say what I want to say.

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It's right time to write and red.

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Get out the way.

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So wait, first of all, let's set it up again.

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How long when did you move into this spot?

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Do you remember?

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Four years ago?

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But okay.

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I moved into this bottom place in this building around the pandemic.

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So five years ago.

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Okay.

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And you weren't in this room.

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I was not.

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I was on the other side of that green awning out that window in a little office over there.

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Got it.

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This became available a year in.

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No, no.

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I was over there five or six years.

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Well that's now.

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No, no, no, no.

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Twenty twenty fifteen to twenty twenty.

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Oh, got it.

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Okay.

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I was over there.

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Yeah.

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Same building, right over there.

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Yeah.

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And then 2020 to current day.

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So I've been here 10 plus years.

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Loyal.

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Loyal.

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Never missed a payment.

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Even through the pandemic.

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I think they let me stop paying rent, but then they came for it when the pandemic ended.

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Yeah.

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And your lease was about what, a four year or five years?

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My lease was four or five years.

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No, my lease over there was probably two or three.

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I re-signed for another two or three.

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Then I moved here, signed for two or three, then another two or three.

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And the lease ends September 30th, 2026, a year from basically today.

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Okay.

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Two days ago, I get a mail, a letter.

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No, it wasn't in the mail.

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It was an email letter that said pursuant to your lease agreement, you're being assessed a fine of or an amount of four thousand dollars for January to September of 2025, in addition to an assessment of$1,300 on top of your rent.

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Existing rent.

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Which my rent now is about$1,300.

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Right.

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I mean it's a 600 square foot.

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Basically doubled.

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Yeah.

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And I immediately am like, I mean, I just stopped what I'm doing.

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I started emailing them back.

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What are you what is what is this?

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What are you talking about?

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Second person I email Ashley, my girlfriend, is a literal contract attorney.

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I'm like, it's this, what is happening right now?

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She's like, it's pretty standard, and it's probably in your lease.

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And so then the next thing, you know, a day goes by and now all these other tenants are coming by my office because they know I'll get fired up.

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Yeah.

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And they're like, what the fuck is going on?

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And I'm like, and and I'm again, keep in mind I probably have the smallest office space.

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So if I'm being assessed 4,000, there's some people here being assessed 8,000, 10,000, 12,000.

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It's how much square footage you own at least.

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For those that don't have an office, what does an assessment mean necessarily?

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They're saying that they have made improvements to this property that you are basically taking, let's say, let's say it was$100,000 and they're dividing it up amongst the tenants.

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Based on the size of your property, y'all pay for it, the improvement.

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Exactly.

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And I and so my first question is I need to see the accounting.

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Yeah, wait a minute.

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Question one is math, ain't mathing.

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Oh, our accountants are out of the office until Thursday.

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That's convenient.

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Yeah.

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I'm so sure they are.

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Like my my number one thing was like, I'm not, number one, I'm not paying this.

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Number two, uh, I need to see the full accounting.

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What have you done here?

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Because there's been nobody here.

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What?

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There's nobody that's fixed the roof.

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The parking lot hasn't been repaid.

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A C was going out of the house.

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The AC was out half the summer.

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Oh, geez.

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They come by once a week and blow the driveway.

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So they're trying to just make some cash off of you.

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Absolutely.

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I mean, again, extortion it.

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A cash grab, something.

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And I'm not standing for this shit.

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So I'm already picking apart the lease.

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And I'm So you have an out in your lease that you can get out of it to move?

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It doesn't look great.

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I think I might just leave and see what happens.

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I got it.

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So for somebody who sue me, if if uh there there is no advice I can give these people because there is no standard lease that you're gonna sign on an office space that's not going to have that verbiage in it.

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And they're not gonna let you take it out.

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So it's it's just like if the HOA Save some money, in other words.

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Save your money.

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I mean, it's an emergency rainy day thing.

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I mean, because if they come knocking.

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Now, the only thing I will say, I will give one tip you you need to write in there or have them write in there that there's some sort of a cap that they can't bump it to whatever they want to, which is what they just did.

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Right.

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Now, listen, I'm I may I'm they may be trying to clear the building.

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That the the building is ancient.

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It may not be protected under code.

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They might be tearing it down and putting up uh houses or condos here.

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And that may be the play, but and that's fine, but then you just have to let me out of I'm not paying the next year a double double rate.

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I'm not doing it for principal only.

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I'm not paying three thousand dollars for a six hundred square foot space.

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I don't know what the square footage cost is.

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That is way above market value.

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Right in a in a hundred and one year old building.

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And why are you saying that there's so many other places that are building up like commercial?

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We work in and and and have a coffee barista, yeah, uh a conference room with with plexiglass overlooking the city, like uh a uh Ames, whatever those uh super high-end chairs are called.

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Like I mean, I mean I mean, I mean, I did all this work that you see that makes it look cool myself.

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Right.

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It's just there's no way I'm paying that.

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I'm not paying it.

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Yeah.

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There's no way.

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So have you done anything to uh I've been looking for years to try and get out of here.

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Right.

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Because I need something with a warehouse to move bun gear and everything else into here.

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Put a studio for Saquon, put our podcast studio in here, put a place to shoot content against a white wall that has AC that doesn't go out.

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Has air conditioning that doesn't go out, like freestanding building so we can play music and have parties and like it's it's a needle in a haystack.

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Right.

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And and Raleigh's gotten too big too fast for me to buy something.

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Yeah.

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So no clapbacks yet?

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I'm not gonna speak on that.

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What I what I'm I I must save that for off the record.

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Real off the record.

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Real off the record.

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I I Joe Bunn ain't going down without a fight.

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Put it that way.

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This shit is going to get get get a biblical uh war is going to take place.

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Uh and it helps if your girlfriend's a lawyer, put it that way.

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But um you would still say that this has I mean is has been an investment worth doing, right?

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100% pre-pandemic.

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Realize this.

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I would have told you 1,000% that this is.

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You told me when you told you the two markers that that made my business go to the roof 15 years ago.

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Number one, rebranding.

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I had bad branding.

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Number two, I was always good at marketing, so I'll throw marketing in there with branding.

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But number three was to get an office space pre-pandemic.

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Every single night of the week, we would have couples in here to the point where we had to have a shared calendar so that DJs weren't sitting here with couples doing the presentation.

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Yeah, and somebody walks in on top of them.

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We had champagne, we had the up light set up, we had a photo booth so they could take a picture.

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We would show the presentation up on the TV screen.

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Yeah.

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Every single night we had people here prior to 2020.

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Right.

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And ever since that day, nobody has come and sat down in here.

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So if you weren't doing content creation, would you need a space?

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Would you I can't work from home.

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You can't.

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I not one single minute of work gets done at my house.

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Interesting.

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I can't do it.

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There are a thousand distractions.

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There are a thousand things that need to be cleaned around the house or done, or I'll look outside and a bush needs to be trimmed, or you know, paint needs to be touched up on the back door.

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There is a fucking dog there that Ashley has that barks every time somebody comes around.

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And the entire front of the house is glass, if you recall.

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Yes.

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The front door is glass, all her office is glass, the dining room is all glass.

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So every time somebody walks by, dog barks.

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She works from home two out of the three days.

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So she's back there on some conference call the whole day.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Like there is a lot of things.

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You would have at least a one office no matter what.

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There is no matter what, at some point, even if I have to go to WeWork or a co-working space, I will always, till the day that I die, have a separate office from my home.

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I don't even think if I had taken my garage and built a second level on it and made some kind of swagged out place up there, that I could do it.

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Because it is still at the house.

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Yeah.

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I don't like it, man.

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I don't see how people do it.

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I don't know how you do it.

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Yeah.

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I I think you just city, right?

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Which is a cracker box as it as it is.

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So you kind of you just make it work, you figure it out.

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Yeah.

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And um, I will say there was a guy, uh, shout out Travis Wackerly from Oklahoma.

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He's he That's a great name, Wackerly.

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He created a uh a shed in the back.

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Like it looked like a shed.

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Yeah.

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It's like pimped out.

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No, I know, yeah.

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It's an office.

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And it's it's literally separate.

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So it's not in the house.

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Right.

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Would something like that work if you had that in the backyard?

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That's what I was saying, man.

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I mean, because that could, you know, if I spent a hundred thousand, I could I could add a second story to our garage and get permitted and everything.

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I I still're still in the main house.

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I'm saying behind the house.

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That's right.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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It's not your garage is on in your house.

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Right.

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My garage is behind the house.

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No, I don't, man.

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I really don't.

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All right.

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I don't.

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I as much as I I mean, as much as it sounds like a great idea, yeah.

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I and and I could probably get a loan and I could probably get it permitted and and build it.

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Yeah.

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I I just I think I still want to be out out truly out of the house.

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So end of the day, the story is I got something somewhere to go.

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And beyond and if you need a space, go get a space still.

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They can come for you, man.

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You're there nobody's gonna uh write a lease up in a in a true um legal fashion without having that assessment in it.

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Right.

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Well or that ability to assess you if the parking lot all of a sudden the tree roots from all the oak trees popped it up.

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Yeah, and they had to repave it and it was ten, twenty, fifty thousand dollars.

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You're gonna you're gonna get taxed for that.

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Got it.

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I ain't going down.

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There we go.

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I might be leaving, but uh you might see us in a different spot soon.

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Yeah.

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But uh, but it but it ain't gonna be pretty.

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We'll send you a cell number, so if you need to send me correspondence, you can see that.

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Uh let's hit the music.

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Some music.

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Okay, let's talk about music.

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So on Annie's playlist, let's talk about some of the stuff that's popping off on your five-year-old daughter's playlist.

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We talked about K-pop a couple episodes back.

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Yeah.

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Um, you still not playing any?

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Nah.

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No, not even getting requested.

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Nah.

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Still not.

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Raleigh is behind, man.

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Bro, Raleigh stays behind.

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I wouldn't say it's just not what Raleigh's listening to.

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Uh-uh.

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It's crazy.

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Yeah.

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I mean, there's because I mean, I know some nerds that like anime and stuff, they listen to it.

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Right.

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But it's not like the majority of Raleigh.

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Right.

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Majority of Raleigh's like, okay.

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No, we've never got a request for it.

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Absolutely not.

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I mean, listen, dude, I'm not one of those DJs that doesn't take requests.

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I know that.

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Yeah, yeah.

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You know, if somebody comes up to me and is like, hey, man, this is gonna go off.

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Or what somebody came up a couple nights ago and was like, you know, did the bride put this?

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And I was like, no.

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And then they were like, I promise you this is gonna go off.

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And it, whatever it was, it went off.

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Got it.

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So this is that K-pop song, Golden.

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Okay.

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But this makes it playable for a party.

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This is with Black IP's I Got a Feeling.

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Okay.

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Now I'm more interested.

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Got Annie's sign off on it.

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Okay.

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She's jamming to it in the car.

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So I know it's gonna work.

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So here we go.

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See if we can play this for a party.

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Here we go.

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Here we go.

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Go, go, go, go, go.

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Go with the girls, go with the girl.

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What I like about this is you can go into it.

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But if it was on a request list, you wouldn't lose half the crowd who doesn't like K-pop.

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You're getting like this behind it.

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It's like you're right.

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So anyway, good edit.

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I don't even remember where I got it from, but super solid.

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I'm gonna allow it.

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I'm allowing it.

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All right, number two.

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This is um the song called Together.

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It's a brand new release, ish.

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David Guetta takes the old 80s song.

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Um he loves to do that.

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He does.

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But I love this edit.

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This is a DJ.

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He's the new puffy.

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He is.

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Nah, ish.

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No did he know.

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Production version.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But this uh this edit starts with the chorus as like a slam in.

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Okay.

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And I played it during dinner.

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It opened my dance floor organically for me.

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It was like the last song I played at dinner, and I was shocked at how well this did.

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I was like, okay, I gotta keep this in the back pocket.

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Okay.

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So here it is.

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The edit I have.

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That's what I'm saying.

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The J City edit.

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Just to start it off.

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Like, you know what I mean?

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It's not aggressive where you're Totally Clips of the Heart.

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Totally Clips of the Heart.

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Yeah, that's what it was.

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Anyway, brand new, great song to Totally Clips of the Heart.

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I hate that song.

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I think I hated it too.

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But with that edit, I was surprised everybody.

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I think I even hated it back then in the 80s.

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But I like this.

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I I I'll I could see this going over.

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So I had a Do you still play um Good Feeling around?

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Yeah.

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A version of it.

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Yeah.

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It's a good closer.

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Oh, it's great, works great.

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Okay.

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So uh Wookie put out a new track.

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Yeah.

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Um that's that My Girl Yeah, My Girl Guy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sunshine.

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I think that track was called.

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Oh, yeah, you're right.

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It wasn't called My Girl, it was Sunshine.

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These guys wanted some old like 70s rock stuff.

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Okay.

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And on the list was Ring of Fire.

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Johnny Cash.

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Wookiee made a version on Friday.

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This last Friday released.

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I played it on Saturday.

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Wow.

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Now I don't really do that that often, but it was on the list.

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I was like, oh wait, he just released this.

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I'm gonna try this.

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Played it in the main dance set.

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Fire.

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Flames, flames, flames.

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Jesus.

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Let me hear this.

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Low is a burning thing.

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And it makes sense.

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You think that's really gonna be right?

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Oh, I don't know.

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I don't think so.

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I cleared it.

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But it is an official boot.

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Right, right.

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Oh, it's powerful.

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Yeah.

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I'll let it ride for a second.

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Yeah, we have it turn.

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Oh hell yeah.

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And people are just like, oh, it's crazy.

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It was so funny.

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It was so great.

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But if you just have like something like that on the request list and play something like this type of edit and then give you blowback, you have to be so careful.

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Right.

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Like so careful.

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Like that one stays so true to the original to an extent.

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Uh-huh.

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It's just a thicker beat.

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Yeah.

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So the fact that they can hear it during an actual dance, if they actually enjoy it.

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Right.

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But if it was like you know, like the you know, trap.

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People are like, this is over the top.

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Yeah.

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But that one's like rides pretty clean.

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Like it doesn't go aggressive.

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So did that my girl thing he did.

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Yeah, totally.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna like to play that track.

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I love that.

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It would work in a North Carolina.

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Okay.

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100%.

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All right.

00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:50.240
So uh number four.

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Love that one.

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I told you the song of the summer was No Broke Boys.

00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:53.680
Yeah.

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You're still not playing it.

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No, I am.

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Are you now?

00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:56.799
Yeah, we played it a couple times.

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Did it go off?

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It was fine, yeah.

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It's fine.

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Fine.

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It just, dude, I mean, we're behind.

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I mean, we're not getting it on every list.

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We're, you know, it was on one or two.

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It was on, I think the one that we did at Elon with the EDM stuff.

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So it it segue seg into the rest of the stuff that we were playing that night at what is it, 120 something?

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Yeah, 128-ish.

00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:19.279
I dude, I don't know what to tell you.

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You played at that EDM wedding?

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Yeah.

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And it went over?

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Yeah, it went over, of course.

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Yeah.

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I mean, but it just, it's not something we see on every playlist.

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We we I mean, you also have to remember July and August are super slow.

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So for us to say Song of the Summer, like it would have had to be in May or June.

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Yeah.

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I mean, July and August didn't really do shit.

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Yeah.

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Well, this is one of those ones that Annie has all the lyrics memorized to No Broke Boys, which is not great.

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Just kind of made up a little bit.

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But the song, uh, there's a great wordplay with this.

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This is going from mainstream glamorous into no broke boys.

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From Fergie?

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Fergie.

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I play that song all the time.

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Are you playing that one?

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Yeah, I'll still play Fergie every once in a while.

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Okay.

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But I use but I usually Yeah, we play glamours.

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Yeah, we play glamours.

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All right, so here you go.

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You'll hear the wordplay.

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And just with the chorus.

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Uh that's a great question.

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I actually made this edit of it because I like this version edit of an edit.

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Yeah.

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Very even Steve is what makes having the wrap over too.

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So does that kind of light that for me a second?

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So people can make the connection.

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Great, great, great.

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Isn't that a good version?

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Bravo.

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I need it.

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Dude.

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I need it.

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It's it gets to the level of the journey, even Steve, recognition.

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That's a specific edit with that transition.

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Need it for this weekend.

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Please.

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Okay.

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By the way, corner, corner, um, corner store boy on uh Saturday.

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Got me in the corner.

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Oh, yeah.

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Saw it three weeks ago.

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Sent to the planner, would rather not be there.

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Oh.

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Took it back to the couple.

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Couple said that's where he is.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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Maybe, maybe, baby is in the corner in this particular Saturday.

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Yeah.

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Tell the planner I'm like, anywhere but there.

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Come back to me a week later after their tour.

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Nah, that's where you are.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I think I even circled on the floor plan.

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I could be here, here, here.

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Nope.

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Options in the corner.

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One through ten and they then go for anything.

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In the corner, homie.

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Wow.

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Yes, sir.

00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:48.480
So the one that you said was kind of the song of the summer, which wasn't even a song, but it was the Jet 2 holiday.

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Right.

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So, dude, I've been playing.

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There's an edit out with that.

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There's multiple edits out.

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I know.

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So Diggs did one.

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Yeah.

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You can get on DMS.

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Yeah.

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I'm doing destination stuff, so it's a holiday for a lot of people.

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Sure.

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I've been playing that song with that piece of it's it's um it's Jess Glenn.

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Right.

00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:06.799
Yeah.

00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:08.000
So here it is with that song.

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I saw them meet recently on a podcast.

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It was so funny.

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Like, you know what I mean?

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The girl that does the voiceover for Jessica.

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And then they were like hugging.

00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:16.079
It was so funny.

00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:16.880
Oh my gosh.

00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:17.759
The song went off.

00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:19.039
People get the joke.

00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:19.839
Yeah, right.

00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:20.720
So here it is.

00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:22.880
They didn't they didn't take it as a troll?

00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:26.000
Uh, I mean, no, they just thought it was funny because they didn't expect it.

00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:26.400
Right.

00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.759
Because the song is good in itself.

00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:28.319
No, yeah.

00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:29.839
Jess Glenn has banger.

00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:30.079
Right?

00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.000
Yeah, and this one specifically.

00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:37.839
This is like an cocktail hour.

00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:38.720
I'm playing this.

00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:39.200
Oh, really?

00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:41.119
Yeah, not even dance that's a big one.

00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:51.759
Nothing beats the shit.

00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:52.720
Do you want to do it?

00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:54.240
He's dying.

00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:56.720
It's just that one little hole.

00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:58.319
Oh, I didn't even do the rest of the commercial.

00:21:59.039 --> 00:21:59.920
I didn't get another commercial.

00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.799
So this one makes it.

00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:02.319
They have another version of it that's longer.

00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:02.640
Right.

00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:03.680
You want the full thing?

00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:05.440
If you want to save 500 pounds.

00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.160
This just has that one little bit so it's not like super like over the top.

00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:18.799
I for for like two weeks, I would hear it on Instagram, and I was working on that saying, nothing beats a jet fueled holiday.

00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:21.279
And Tiki was like, What are you saying?

00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:23.680
And I was like, I think it's jet-fueled holiday.

00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:26.319
And she was like, It's jet to holiday.

00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:28.880
And I had to look it up and I was like, shit.

00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:30.000
I'm wrong.

00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:31.119
All right, new singer.

00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:32.000
Last one.

00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:33.759
This is uh You got something else?

00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.279
Oliver Olivia.

00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:36.799
Sorry, Olivia Dean.

00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:38.240
He loves the fuck smite name.

00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:39.119
I'm sorry, yeah.

00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:40.240
Olivia Dean.

00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:41.519
It's the song called Man I Need.

00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:42.799
It's a brand new release.

00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:44.799
And this is just a house version of it.

00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:45.839
It's really catchy.

00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:46.880
I think it's gonna be big.

00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:47.359
Really?

00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:47.920
Mm-hmm.

00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:48.480
Yeah.

00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:49.759
Wait, the I'm sorry.

00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:51.440
The original is gonna be big.

00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:51.839
Okay.

00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:52.799
That's on every thing.

00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:53.599
You need to always know.

00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:54.720
Like if you're talking about the original.

00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:56.079
It's on every TikTok right now.

00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.200
It's on mine.

00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:58.000
Can I hear it?

00:22:58.079 --> 00:22:58.319
Yes.

00:22:58.400 --> 00:22:59.759
This is the house version of it.

00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:08.799
The break though.

00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:29.279
If you played it for the case, I think it's super.

00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:31.519
Yeah, but I think it could be a bullet.

00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:35.119
I like that halftime.

00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:36.079
Yeah, yeah.

00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:37.920
And the beat's not too aggressive.

00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:38.480
No, yeah.

00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:43.039
It's like a good modern cocktail song.

00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:45.440
So anyway, just want to throw that out there.

00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:53.279
Do you literally play, even if they like like we're in the ballroom right now, nobody's really supposed to be in here.

00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:56.079
The cocktail hour is going on out there.

00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:58.160
People are just mingling, having a drink.

00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:02.400
You're telling me if that was happening right now, you would be out there playing this set live.

00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:03.759
The cocktail set live.

00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:12.160
So you'd have another controller and every time we do a a cocktail hour, it is in somewhere other than the ballroom.

00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:12.480
Okay.

00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:18.319
We we we there I don't remember the last time that the ballroom was the cocktail spot.

00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:24.240
And I'm not usually either because usually it's I'm under a tent 90% of the time.

00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:24.960
In Florida.

00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:25.599
In Florida.

00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:26.799
They want it outdoors.

00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:30.640
So cocktail hour is outside the tent.

00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:34.240
So I put a satellite speaker out there playing what I'm playing.

00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:39.200
So you're still close enough to your main gear to jump into a satellite.

00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:39.440
Right.

00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:40.480
So you will play it live.

00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:41.359
I will play it live.

00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:43.440
I I I could see doing that.

00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:44.720
That makes more sense to me.

00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:49.519
I and I agree, it definitely is a big difference than throwing on the autoplay Spotify live.

00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:49.759
Right.

00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:53.440
No matter how good your music is, nothing's gonna be as good as a live DJ.

00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:53.839
Right.

00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.240
Right.

00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:55.680
Especially if you have a musician.

00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:01.119
Actually sent me that new update the Spotify two days ago, you know, where you can like blend music and stuff.

00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:02.240
It's like, check this out.

00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:05.440
And I'm like, I'm not exactly fucking excited about that, actually.

00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:06.559
Like, I'm glad you are.

00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:10.480
Like I'm not I'm not like hyping people up to be a Spotify DJ.

00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:13.920
It's like an actual mix.

00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:15.839
Yeah, no, you can like lay them together.

00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.319
And you can pick the effect that transitions.

00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:20.640
But from everything I've seen, I haven't tried it myself.

00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:21.599
Everybody says it's garbage.

00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.359
I mean, I will get better.

00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:27.440
It's better than the regular crossfade.

00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.480
But you gotta like manually go in and do it, I think.

00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.799
Like you have to you have to like but will it like sync the songs?

00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:35.759
It will.

00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:36.799
Yeah.

00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:38.640
She was like, this is cool.

00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:40.160
I'm like, it's not that cool.

00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.960
Don't get so hyper replacing the DJ.

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:43.440
Yeah.

00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:44.160
Anyway.

00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:45.200
Let's go to the gear.

00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:46.000
The gear?

00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:46.319
Yeah.

00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:47.440
Oh, we hadn't done that yet.

00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:47.920
You're right.

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:49.440
We've been batching today.

00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:49.920
Sorry guys.

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:51.119
I'm I've lost my place.

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:52.559
So let's go to the gear.

00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:55.680
The gear's here.

00:25:58.480 --> 00:25:58.960
The gear.

00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:01.039
Is here is here.

00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:02.079
Is here is here.

00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:03.119
Is here is here.

00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:05.920
Can you um sleep on planes?

00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:07.599
Or you know.

00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:08.319
Why?

00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:14.319
Um is it the comfortability factor or is it just something else?

00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:20.240
I can't because I feel like I need to be aware of my shit.

00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:21.359
You know what I mean?

00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:24.480
Somebody's gonna jump you.

00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:26.640
Or no, I just need to like know somebody's going down.

00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:28.160
But what are they going with it?

00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:31.519
They go to the bathroom with it?

00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:32.720
I mean, where are they taking it?

00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:34.799
Um, I don't know what mine is, man.

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:42.160
I um I think I I I can feel myself kind of not off at the very beginning, and I think it's because of the white noise.

00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:44.000
And that reminds me of the fan.

00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:44.240
Yes.

00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:47.519
Because I run a fan at night because I have tinnitus or whatever.

00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:54.720
But I never like if there was a whatever, that four hour, five-hour flight to Phoenix, you there's absolutely no way I could sleep on it.

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.279
Got it.

00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:57.680
Not not I mean, I may not for 50.

00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:58.960
Uh no, I didn't sleep.

00:26:59.039 --> 00:26:59.279
Okay.

00:26:59.359 --> 00:26:59.920
I didn't even sleep.

00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:00.799
That was overnight, right?

00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:01.519
It was overnight.

00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:02.960
I remember kind of tossing and turning.

00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:04.799
We had the nice kind of like lay down seats.

00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:05.680
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:06.160
Nah.

00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:06.400
Okay.

00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:12.480
Well, for me, I couldn't sleep because I my neck would just like I'd fall off and then everything go down.

00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:13.119
I'd just be.

00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:15.039
So I tried every pillow out there.

00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:15.839
None of them work.

00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:17.759
The Bucky or Buppy or whatever the page.

00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:18.880
I tried all of them, dude.

00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:23.680
I mean, I spent so much money on pillows and threw them all away or returned them.

00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:24.400
They're just trash.

00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:24.799
Right.

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:29.279
Till uh our mutual friend Kaylee Weiss, I think that's how you say it.

00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:30.000
That is.

00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:32.160
She introduced me to the turtle pillow.

00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:32.640
Okay.

00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:38.240
Which is um kind of like it's actually a medically designed device.

00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:38.799
Okay.

00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:40.720
So inside of it, this is what it is.

00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:41.599
This is the old version.

00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:42.799
I'm gonna show you the new version.

00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:43.279
Okay.

00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.240
But it's got like a an actual like you can feel it in there.

00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:48.799
Like that's it's like an actual um wire frame.

00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:50.000
Wire frame in there.

00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.480
Yeah, this is great because for the people who can't see it, yeah.

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:55.039
Um, but it when you rest it on your shoulder.

00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:56.480
Wait, it goes on your shoulder?

00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:58.799
So you you wrap it around your output for you.

00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:00.000
So here it goes like this.

00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:03.119
So you see how it's got velcro on it on one side, okay.

00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:04.559
Goes around it like this.

00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:04.960
Okay.

00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:07.359
Looks kind of crazy, but you just go to sleep like this.

00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:07.680
Oh.

00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:13.359
So you can kind of it's it's basically like a plastic insert inside a piece of fabric.

00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:19.759
He's got one part on his shoulder and one part on like right under his ear, and then his head is just tilting to the side.

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:20.240
Right.

00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:25.039
And when I tried this, yeah, it was the first time I've ever woken up and my neck hasn't been hurting.

00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:25.519
Right.

00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:29.039
And so it's the only pillow that I've been able to use that's what's great like this.

00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:30.559
So I just sleep like this, right?

00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:31.200
Wow.

00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:33.920
So I lost, I thought I lost it.

00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:34.319
Okay.

00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:36.559
Go on Amazon, I'm gonna reorder it.

00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:37.440
New turtle.

00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.039
New premium.

00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:43.440
It's the it's the new uh turtle pillow plus.

00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:44.799
Okay, let me see it.

00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.480
Let me see the first of all, the thing I don't like about this is I have a carrying bag.

00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:49.200
No satchel.

00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:49.920
No satchel.

00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:50.880
You love a satchel.

00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:52.240
I love a satchel.

00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:54.000
I've got a satchel.

00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:56.400
The best thing about it was, and I broke it already.

00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:57.279
Carabiner.

00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:58.000
Carabiner.

00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:00.400
I gotta replace this, but that would hang on my backpack.

00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:00.559
Yep.

00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:01.920
Because I don't have to pull out of my bag.

00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:03.680
Now I gotta pull this out of my bag every time I do it.

00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:04.319
Right, right.

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.680
So you pull it out.

00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.359
This thing has been improved 110% here.

00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:09.920
Really?

00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:10.720
Oh, yeah.

00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:14.559
I mean, how long do you think you had that other one?

00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:16.319
Oh, I've had that five years?

00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:18.079
Since 2019, maybe.

00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:18.960
So a long time.

00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:19.920
Yeah, five, six years.

00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:20.640
Okay, turtle.

00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:23.759
So this is this is you can kind of see it's even got the knobs.

00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:27.119
Like this is just the build is ten times better.

00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.480
And I haven't really even had to adjust anything with it yet.

00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:30.720
Okay.

00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.480
So I don't know if that's gonna make a difference, but you can just tell it's just a lot more sturdy.

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:34.880
Yeah, yeah.

00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:39.599
And it's not one big plastic piece, it's like a couple different ones in there.

00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.480
So same thing, it's the same kind of design.

00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:44.799
But you basically have a preference on left or right?

00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:45.759
Yeah, it's this side.

00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:46.240
That's it.

00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:47.039
It has to be this side.

00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.000
I can't do the left side.

00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:48.880
You gotta go left.

00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:50.000
No, I yeah, I have to go left.

00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:51.039
Left, yeah.

00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:52.000
So same thing.

00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:54.559
Like this doesn't stay on the lip though.

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.039
Hold on.

00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:57.839
And you just go like this and you just sleep like that.

00:29:58.720 --> 00:29:59.839
And I don't have to, and dude, I can.

00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:01.839
Can totally sleep with this thing.

00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:06.160
I I honestly have never seen anybody really even on a plane using it.

00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:07.279
Incredible.

00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:08.400
You gotta get it.

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:12.480
If you want to try to sleep, this is the on a long flight, I would love to sleep.

00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:13.920
I don't really like to sleep during the day.

00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:14.319
Okay.

00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:15.119
You know what I mean?

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.319
Like I feel like I need to get away from the floor.

00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:17.200
Road trips, though.

00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:17.839
Road trips.

00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.160
If you're the passenger, if you're not on the thing, you're just like, and you I've tried to bring my pillow before.

00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:23.519
It never works, right?

00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:24.000
This thing.

00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:24.640
Turtle.

00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:25.440
The turtle.

00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:25.920
Damn.

00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:32.640
And I think there's something to be said for like somebody who understands sleep patterns and what makes people like, I don't know if they're chiropractors or whatever.

00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:32.880
Right.

00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:35.119
They designed it correctly with something that's got that.

00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:37.119
I feel like it looks like a neck brace.

00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:37.599
It does.

00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:38.960
It does totally look like that.

00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:40.880
So any idea on cost?

00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:43.279
I think it's probably 75 plus.

00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:44.000
Close.

00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:44.640
A little more.

00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:45.440
84 bucks.

00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:45.759
Yeah.

00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:46.720
84.99.

00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:47.279
I can tell.

00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:47.839
Premium.

00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:49.599
Turtle TRTL.

00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:51.039
Oh, T R T L, okay.

00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:51.920
Plus.

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:54.400
And I'm assuming it comes in different colors.

00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:54.880
Oh, yeah.

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:56.000
You can do whatever you want.

00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:58.240
I just went gray because Turtle Plus, guys.

00:30:58.400 --> 00:30:58.720
Get it.

00:30:58.799 --> 00:30:59.200
I'm telling you.

00:30:59.440 --> 00:30:59.680
Get it.

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Yeah.

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That turns you onto it.

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On Brian B's Amazon.

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Let's move into the question.

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By the way, where do they find your Amazon and my Amazon again?

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I put the actual now the URL in the email newsletter that goes.

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Okay.

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Okay, and then I put the URL on the podcast description under the YouTube video.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Um the today's question comes from Richie Steadman, our boy out in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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And it's a simple one first for him.

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Yeah, he usually write a damn novel.

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He'll write a damn noveletta.

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Uh, what do you think making a decent living as a DJ is?

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What do you think making a decent living as a DJ is?

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And he put that in quotes.

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Making a decent living is in quotes.

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Brian, you want to go first on it, or do you want me to go first?

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I can go.

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Okay.

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Well, I think we just we talked about a pre-show, but this is gonna be regional for whatever market you're really in.

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Because what what makes a decent living in Mississippi as opposed to what makes a decent living in New York City, totally two different things.

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I guess I mean, I'm not gonna put a number to it, but I would say this if it allows you to go full time, I mean, that's kind of I think where you're trying to go with it, make a decent living that where you don't need a second job to support you.

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So something that will pay your bills and give you a little bit in savings would be my most generic answer ever to this question, uh in my opinion.

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I hate when you answer first because then I feel like I'm just going, yeah, me too.

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I feel like I was gonna give a very similar answer.

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My my gut reaction when he asked, it was a hundred.

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A hundred thousand.

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Yeah, that's probably what get you pretty far in most places.

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I mean, that was my gut reaction for a number.

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I thought he wanted a number, but then the more I went deeper into it, I was like, you know what, man?

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Maybe that's not necessarily the number that somebody needs in rural America or that or that doesn't have kids, or you know, that that has paid off their car and paid off their house, like Randy.

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You know what I mean?

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Like never got married, never had kids.

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His house is paid off, his car is paid off.

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It's crazy.

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I mean, just I mean, you talk about somebody making bank, like, I mean, I I got kids and ex wives and cars and houses and of of doubled office rent rate.

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I've been shit on all over the place.

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But I I but then I think about it more from what you just said, from a and I don't want to say financial freedom, but it to the point where you don't wake up every day worried about money, that your bills are paid, that you're not severely in debt, that you that you do make enough money to not only pay your bills, but to put some away for an emergency, for taxes, for somebody in your family needing medical assistance or whatever that is, that to me is making a living.

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And if you and and to be full-time is obviously the the dream for most people that are that are doing private event DJing, but if you have to go out and subsidize it, whether it's a side hustle, driving Uber Eats or uh, you know, m 3D printing objects or whatever, then you gotta do that.

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Yeah, you know what I mean?

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Like if that's the if they if you have to subsidize your income, there's nothing wrong with that to get to this making a decent living.

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I would also say, too, it's uh not living paycheck to paycheck.

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Yeah.

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You know, I would say that.

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Which is essentially that's the majority of the country.

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What we're talking about.

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That's the majority of the country.

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I looked this up recently.

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The majority of the country is living paycheck to paycheck?

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It's it's it's I think I Googled what is the percentage of the US population, not the the world, that has five thousand dollars in their account right now, cash, liquid, and it was the number was small.

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I don't remember what it is.

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Go Google that if you don't mind, segwan, just out of curiosity.

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What percentage of the US population has five thousand dollars in their account right now?

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And how would they know that?

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That's a great question.

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I don't fucking know.

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I mean probably asked banks, but then the CNL in the world, it's it's like 1% or something like that.

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In the world, because there's so many impoverished country countries or whatever.

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You have the answer.

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Did it pop up?

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Yeah, I I don't I mean the number was very low.

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Yeah.

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So what do you say?

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Or what's it saying?

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29%.

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That's what I was about to say, 20%.

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Yeah, 29% between 500 and 5,000 in their savings.

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That's how much.

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That's a good idea.

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And only 11% have close to 50,000.

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Saved up.

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So I mean, it's just you know what I mean?

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So I don't even know that that's the benchmark.

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I mean, investing's hard.

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I've done a terrible job.

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I'm sure you've done better.

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No, I have not.

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I mean, uh, I've done a terrible job.

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Like I Ashley's done a great job, but she's always been corporate.

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Right.

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I'm a serial entrepreneur, man.

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I cannot have that money tied up somewhere.

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Right.

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I can't do it.

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Yeah.

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If you know 401k or Roth this or that, we do have that, but like But I mean, I've always had to pull it.

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Right.

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You know what I mean?

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Like I've I've I've needed it.

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And I'm like, dude, I gotta get that money back, pay the penalty, get beat up.

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It's just yeah, I I just am always moving too fast to have my money tied up.

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Right.

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Anyway.

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Well, that helps, Rich.

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Yeah.

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Hope that helps Richie Steadman.

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Anything else for today?

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Like I said, man.

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Dude, this is good stuff.

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Thanks, y'all.

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Later, booth heads.