Oct. 8, 2025

DJ Gear Fails at 11,000 Feet: What Every Working DJ Should Know

DJ Gear Fails at 11,000 Feet: What Every Working DJ Should Know

Send us a message A perfect set can’t save a broken signal path.. and that’s exactly where our night in Peru began. After a marathon climb to Cusco and a day at Machu Picchu, the after-party kicked off with the wrong rig, a cryptic “In Use” input, and five minutes on the clock. We walk through the split-second choices that kept music on and panic off: deploying a tiny travel controller, rethinking routing, and choosing simple and certain over fancy and fragile. If you play on the road or rely...

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Season 5

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A perfect set can’t save a broken signal path.. and that’s exactly where our night in Peru began. After a marathon climb to Cusco and a day at Machu Picchu, the after-party kicked off with the wrong rig, a cryptic “In Use” input, and five minutes on the clock. We walk through the split-second choices that kept music on and panic off: deploying a tiny travel controller, rethinking routing, and choosing simple and certain over fancy and fragile.

If you play on the road or rely on provided gear, this breakdown will change how you prep.

From there, we pivot to programming with purpose: cocktail and dinner covers that land across generations without killing the vibe. Expect field-tested picks like “Fast Car” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” plus clever mashup blends that spark recognition without stealing attention from conversation.

We also unpack a recent weather-battered outdoor wedding that tested our gear prep and adaptability, plus a story from Joe’s throwback arena night with Ja Rule and Nelly that sparked a conversation about nostalgia, tempo control, and how to balance genres to keep diverse rooms engaged.

Booth Heads, you’ll love the candid talk on upgrades, backups, and hearing protection - and how a simple “faster, better, or profitable” test keeps your setup bulletproof. Plus, we reveal why we returned a powerful digital mixer to prioritize reliability over bells and whistles.

And for community builders, we’re opening the doors to our Patreon with weekly Top 10 bangers from real events, bonus episodes, coaching, and record-pool hookups to sharpen your sets without losing hours to digging.

Whether you’re refining your travel rig, rethinking your programming, or just here for some good DJ war stories, this episode is packed with takeaways for every working DJ.

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00:00 - Opening, Merch Drop, Patreon Tease

02:58 - Peru Trip and Machu Picchu Story

06:05 - Off The Record: Gear Provider Rant

13:45 - Backup Plans, International Travel Tips

18:40 - Cover Songs For Cocktails And Dinner

28:30 - Mashups, BPM Talk, Specific Track Recs

36:40 - Patreon Launch: Tiers And Perks

39:00 - Ja Rule & Nelly Show Recap

44:30 - Recent Gigs: Weather Chaos And EDM Heavies

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What's up, Boothheads?

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I'm Brian B, one of the co-hosts, and this is Joseph Bunn.

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We are with Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

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Thanks for tuning in.

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Hell yeah.

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You know, our goal with this podcast is to make you guys great DJs, and that could myriad a bunch of different things.

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Business, music, gear finds, all kinds of different ways.

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But that's our goal with this podcast is that we hopefully are giving you some things that will make you better and make you great, right?

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Make you think, yeah.

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Speaking of word myriad.

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Myriad of things.

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Go ahead.

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Speaking of.

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You didn't mention it the last recording, but do you see the uh the little merch.

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The merch.

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Bro, that I mean, I love the design.

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Yeah.

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I feel like the guy that I hired killed that.

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The bootheads.

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So where can people get this if they want to get the merch?

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Uh it is going to be on the Patreon.

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It's on the Patreon.

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Right.

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But it can, but they can see.

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They can't see it.

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Oh, they can't even see it unless they're a member.

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Unless they're a member.

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Exclusive.

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So exclusive merch.

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Exclusive.

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Exclusive.

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One and only.

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So on future episodes, we'll show you some other shirt designs.

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Yeah.

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You got one, right?

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Yes, yes.

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Yeah, I'm going to put mine on the next one.

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Yeah.

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You got a hat?

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I got a hat.

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How'd the hat work?

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I love it, man.

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Snapback?

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Yeah.

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No, it's not.

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It's a trucker hat, I think.

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No, but it's got a snapback.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Snapback.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Nice.

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Okay.

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So, dude, I've been on the road.

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Uh, like I just mentioned before.

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Bro, you've been on tour.

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International trips in a row, which is really rare.

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Went to Peru.

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Was your wife home when you got back?

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She was, thank you.

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She actually picked you up at the airport.

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I had to lavish her with gifts.

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Wow.

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And uh handbags.

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And today I'm paying for it this month or this week because I'm home single parenting.

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So it's been it's been a lot, but it's all good.

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Dude, I heard some guy one time he was like, Man, yeah, I'm babysitting for my kids.

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And I was like, bro, that's called parenting.

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It ain't called babysitting when the child is yours, you idiot.

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I was like, you're so stupid.

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Well, that was like one of two continents I had left that I hadn't been on.

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What?

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Yeah, I've been to every continent, but Antarctica is the last one.

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I don't think I'm ever gonna get there.

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And now you've been to South America.

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And been to South America.

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Have you ever been to South America?

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I've not have not.

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Peru is amazing.

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Great food scene.

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You were in Machu Picchu?

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I was in my I did do that as well.

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But the elevation isn't really that Is Machu Picchu a a mountain or a town?

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It's a it's a mountain.

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It's one of the seven original wonders of the world.

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Yeah, it's a huge mountain.

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Um and why were you there?

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I was there for the engaged conference.

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Was gonna play one of the sets.

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I thought it was at Machu Picchu, but that wasn't the case.

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It was just You'd never played?

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I did play, but not at I thought I was playing on the mountain.

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Oh, geez.

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Which would have been epic.

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That would have been sick.

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But there's like no power.

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Right, right.

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Like nothing out there.

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In fact, the elevation really did mess with me.

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Yeah, because they tell you that, well, to give you perspective, and I will put a picture up here of me up on the mountain, but basically Colorado Springs is a good uh uh placeholder.

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It's six thousand six thousand feet up above above sea level.

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Right, exactly.

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Um Machu Picchu's 9,000.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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Which 3,000 you don't think makes a big difference, but it does.

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Oh yeah.

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But where they tell you to go first is a place called Cusco, which you take the train up to the, or actually down, you actually are at 11,000 feet in the air.

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And when I got off that plane, boy, I had to off the train or the plane?

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The plane, because I we landed, they tell you to go to Cusco first.

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Oh, okay, okay.

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They get used to the elevation.

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Yeah, because then you're going down.

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Okay, I guess.

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And you're not going up from that.

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Yeah, your pressure drops.

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So I took a little video, we'll put it on here of the um, I don't know if you can play it, but this is like just of the mountain range, so you can kind of see like how damn gorgeous this place is.

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Um, it's a two-hour hike that you have to do once you get there.

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Right.

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And you said all the girls were like trying to dress up.

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Yeah, I mean, even me, I wasn't dressed great, but for a hike, I wasn't expecting.

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I thought we were going a mile.

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I'm like, oh, I can do a mile.

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This was like just crazy, but um, it kind of leads to the segment, which is off the record.

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Uh off the record, let me talk my sugar on the ice tea.

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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 on like me.

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You know why?

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Cause this is a life.

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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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So this is my rant.

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Um boy.

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I basically gave these guys, like the gear providers, my options for controllers, right?

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Okay.

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So I said a DDJ uh 1000 SRT, which is my go-to.

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I prefer that one.

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Sure.

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Or I can use the SZ.

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Or the Flex 10.

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I haven't played on it yet.

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Oh, okay.

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I would have.

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Uh probably.

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It's probably no different, right?

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Very similar to the 1000.

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Go ahead.

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So they go, go ahead.

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We can't find it.

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We got CDJ 3000s, which I have played on, but I don't play them regularly.

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You know, and they have the DGM 900.

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And I'm like, I don't have them set up in my house to make sure that I got the right cables.

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I don't want to deal with all of that.

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Right.

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So I'm like, firmware updates, software.

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Boy, we're in South America, bro.

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Right.

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So I'm like, you guys gotta have a town.

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Like, bring it in from Lima.

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You know what I mean?

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Like it's a major town, like a major city.

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Like, bring it in for this.

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I said, get me a controller.

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I have to have a controller.

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So they say we have the SC.

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I'm like, great, perfect.

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So we go do this thing.

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This, by the way, when you go to this, this is like 6 30 in the morning.

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It's an all day till 10 o'clock at night.

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Yeah.

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I get back, we have the after party.

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The whole train ride, which is three hours there, three hours back, just on the train.

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Yeah.

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Not including buses and all everything else.

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I'm like working on the set.

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I've got this thing dialed in.

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I'm so excited to play this.

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And people had been hearing, you know, South American music all week, and they're like, can we play something that we know?

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Like we can play.

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So I was like, give me the Brian B's treatment.

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I go there, they don't have the SZ.

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Oh boy.

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They have the Alpha Theta XDJ A Z four channel digital DJ system, which is like$3,000.

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Massive, but it's not laid out like any other Pioneer controller.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I I hook in.

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Um like first of all, do I even have the drivers?

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Right.

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Number one.

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You don't.

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I did actually.

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I don't know how.

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Okay.

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Um, or it didn't require it.

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It just showed in use on the on the thing, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So I'm like, there's no knobs on the back of the of the internal controller where you can switch it to like uh uh you know, controller line or whatever.

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I can't get it off in use.

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And I'm literally supposed to go on in five minutes.

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And I'm like, dude, this is just dookie.

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Every story you tell is just anxiety ridden by me.

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So and I'm like, I don't understand how they don't have anything to turn this to.

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I like I don't know how to do this.

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So I go in there and I'll show it on another video.

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But you're not, are you Googling shit?

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No, I have like five minutes.

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Okay, right.

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So I run up to my room, I go grab my little travel controller, which is a piece of, you know, it works, it's okay.

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Yeah, but it's not meant for this.

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I mean, it's meant to practice.

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Yeah, right.

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I could I perform on it?

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I had to.

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I ended up so what I basically did is we plugged it into their mixer.

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I still couldn't get the line to show any line, even though I can hear it through my headphones and my thing.

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I'm like, it's this controller.

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I don't know what's wrong with it.

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There's no one here who knows how to operate.

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It's 10 o'clock at night, no one's there, no tech people.

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Right.

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So I'm like, do you have a spare mixer?

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Like any kind of spare mixer on a standalone.

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Just go in.

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Sure.

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So that's what we end up doing.

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And I play on this little bitty controller.

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Can't do a true Brian B show with this.

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I mean, I can fake it well, right?

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But it's not like a true thing that I've been working on with all these hot cues and different things.

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You just you're not used to it.

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You know what I mean?

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Yeah, no.

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Uh so my rant is basically gear providers.

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If you're gonna say you're gonna provide it, provide it.

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You and use the talent gets jacked with that kind of situation, especially when you don't speak the language.

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We got a translator trying to help me tell this other guy who supposedly knew the gear, like what the issue was.

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And I'm like, bro, there's no way to switch those from in use to like line.

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There's gotta be something.

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I don't know where it is.

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So I get back after the show's over with, which went fine, and there is a knob that says or a button, I'm sorry, that says mixer settings.

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It's digital mixer settings.

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In the menu or in the menu.

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Uh-huh.

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Right.

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I would have never found that.

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No.

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It's so I I just was curious, like, how do if you had to do a show, yeah, what would you have done in that situation?

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Like, to like, would you have tried to Google it?

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Because I th that was on my list, but I'm like, I don't have enough time to really figure this out.

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And what happens if there's something else on this mixer that I have no idea what's going on?

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Well, there's two, there's two things.

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If if something is not going right with SoundSwitch or whatever, when we do a show locally, right?

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I look at Saquon, I'm like, yo, start Googling this.

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Like the other day we were trying to find the utility menu in the Flex 10 to turn off, it kept going to sleep.

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Not during the show, but like it was going to sleep and then it would turn on the lights because the lights are running through SoundSwitch, which are running through the same computer.

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So it kept going to sleep.

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So we were Googling that, right?

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Just always look at Saquon like, yo, man, Google this.

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Let's fix it.

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Yeah.

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For me, man, and I've only done maybe one or two international things, and they were the same type things, wedding conferences.

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This was 10 years ago.

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I'll be honest with you, man, I just carried my the controller.

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That was gonna be my recommendation.

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I carry the controller I like.

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Oh, that you like.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Not not the baby controller, the actual I put a DDJ 1000.

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I can't remember if it was in one of those magma cases and I carried it on the plane, or if it was a road case.

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And that was the story about when I got to Mexico, and I think it came off the baggage claim and it was in a road case.

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Right.

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So it actually went under the plane, came off the plane, and I'm walking out of the airport with it in one hand and my my suitcase in the other, and a guy stopped me and pulls me in his back office.

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Yeah, it happened to me in Mexico this week.

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And I go, What's going on?

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And he writes down 1,000 on a piece of paper and slides it across the table.

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And I was like, I'll just go home, man.

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Like, I'm not even getting paid.

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Fuck this.

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And he goes, pesos, which is what, a hundred dollars?

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So I just pulled a hundred bucks out of my wallet and laid it up there, and they were like, thumbs up.

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And you know, he just put it in his pocket.

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Oh, totally.

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It was like airport security.

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He was like, You yeah, yeah, like airport security.

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He was like, hey, you can't be and I he goes, What is this?

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I was like, a DJ controller, you can't work in Mexico.

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You you you're not a you're not Mexican.

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And I'm like, with the green.

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And literally back office, writes down a thousand, yeah, slid him a hundo, US, and just rolled out with it.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, my my thing would be I would be so paranoid, I would have to take my controller.

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Well, the only issue with that that I'm always freaked out about is the electricity polarity issue.

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Even with a thing, I'm like, I don't want to fry my thousand dollar board or whatever it is.

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So I was gonna suggest at least like thank God I had a uh a baby mini controller with me.

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I think you gotta bring a backup no matter what.

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No matter what, if anything, just to make sure you have it.

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Yeah.

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And that saved me.

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I mean, I got through it, it wasn't like detrimental.

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I could still like do what I need to do.

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You know what I mean?

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It wasn't like the premium, but I just wanted to share that because I think that could be helpful for somebody who, if they're ever going international, dealing with it.

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Um let's move into some music.

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Let's talk about music.

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So, you might be wondering what that bumper's all about.

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So uh my girl is like growing up, man.

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She's listening to these music songs, and she's like just on it.

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So I run everything by her now.

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She's ahead of me on the music.

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It's crazy.

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Alice is a six-year-old.

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I don't know.

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She is, she's on top of me.

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She's no five.

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Five.

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She's crushing it on the music.

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So uh we were gonna do a list of you brought this list up of category of covers.

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Yes.

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You want to talk it through?

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Yeah, man.

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I mean, um the only reason I thought about it is really because of you.

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You know, I feel like a lot of your vibes lists, dinner lists, cocktail lists, when I listen to them or I look at them, or we talk about it on the show, you're like, Man, have you heard this version?

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You know, have you heard this cover of?

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And eight times out of ten, I just I want to hear the original.

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Right.

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And every once in a while, though, I'm I'm pleasantly surprised.

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Yeah.

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Or Randy will introduce me to something, or a guest will come up at a wedding and go, hey, have you heard so-and-so's version of this?

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Yeah.

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You should, you know, put it on your your dinner list or your cocktail list.

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I don't know though, going into this segment, that I've ever played a cover of a of a dance song.

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Um you know what I mean?

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Like as as I was thinking about this this morning that we were gonna talk about this, I'm like uh I'm just trying to think of Do you remember when we were younger and Bobby Morgenstein, shout out Bobby Morgan would make those are bad those records that were covers because you could get like 15 songs on one CD.

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Right.

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So it did September, oh what a night.

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But but they had it, they were re-recorded, re-recorded, and they were and they were extended versions, they were like eight or nine minutes long.

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He still makes money on those things.

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They're on Spotify.

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Shout out Bobby Morgenstein.

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So you wanted to go cocktail and dinner only, though.

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That was my theory.

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Which I is what I picked.

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Yeah, but I'm asking, can you think of I'm DJing and I'm playing a cover of X?

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No.

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Me neither.

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And I think that's a good thing.

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Anyway, so what you got about it?

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What do you got?

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Yeah, man.

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Um, a couple just off the top of my dome that I play pretty regularly, and then I kind of hit up Randy for some other ones.

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Uh one of my favorite is I love this song.

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Uh the original Van Morrison, Days Like This is amazing.

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Uh, but Dermot Kennedy, you know, I love that guy.

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I mean, I've seen I haven't heard this.

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It's really Days Like These.

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I think that was on the like this.

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That was on my request list.

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Uh really?

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This last not the the cover, but the original.

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I th I thought it was sounds thin.

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The original Van Morrison.

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I mean, I listen, he's a legend.

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Yeah, dude, yeah, Dermot Kennedy Is it beefed up?

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Sounds more modern?

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Not so much, man.

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It's still pretty stripped down, but I mean, in terms of I mean, I hate to say it, but I mean if you're comparing two Irish-born singers, uh, Dermot Kennedy wipes the wipes him all over the f the street.

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Like, I mean, Dermot Kennedy is probably one of the strongest singers live or on record I've ever heard.

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I've come that far.

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That's a dinner track for you or cocktail hour?

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It would be dinner.

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Okay.

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It's not swinging enough for cocktails.

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Uh another dinner for me is Radiohead recorded a song called High and Dry.

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Don't leave me.

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Anyway, this dude, Jamie Cullum.

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You know this guy?

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I know, I love Jamie Cullum.

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He recorded a version of High and Dry by Radio Head, and every single time I play it during dinner, somebody come up and be like, dude, is this a Radiohead cover?

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And I'm like, it is.

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Who is this?

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Jamie Cullum.

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Really good.

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Okay.

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Neither of these are on my radar.

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Um, and then some of these were given to me by Randy.

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I kind of briefly listened to these.

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Um have you heard this version of Gimme Gimme by ABBA by Lee Cabrera and Kevin McKay featuring Bleach?

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I believe I have it, but I don't remember it off the top of my head.

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Good?

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Uh that would be a for dancing or a cocktail or is it?

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I think it's cocktail.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I would not put any of these on a dance list.

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Again, I'm just saying.

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And I it's not like that now.

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It's for this.

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Uh I hate to even suggest this, but uh Randy threw out Joseph Vincent, a cover of Valerie, which I think I know Amy Winehouse didn't is covering that song, I think, when she sings it, but that song to me is just hers.

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Yeah.

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I don't I know it's not hers, but in my eyes and heart it is.

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Yeah.

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And those are the only ones I really uh he he listed one more.

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I don't know how to say this artist's name, really.

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Kina Granis, I think.

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Yes.

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Can't help falling in love.

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Uh no, uh Yellow Coldplay.

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Ooh.

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I have played that the Can't Help Falling in Love for ceremonies.

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Ceremonies a lot, yeah.

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Or for stance.

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Coldplay.

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Okay.

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Yellow.

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Yeah, you you you you're a copplay?

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I d I am a copplay guy.

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I am a copplay guy.

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Definitely not taking my mistress to the show, though.

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I don't have a mistress.

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Strike that from the record.

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So I got five of them for you.

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I cut them up.

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Oh, yeah.

00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:23.440
So yeah.

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So my first one here is a shout out to Drew Pierce.

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That he let me know when this new album came up.

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I was aware of the artist, Jackson Breat.

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Do you know him?

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Or Britt maybe it's B-R-E-I-T.

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Don't know him.

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Bright?

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New record came out.

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He is not only doing cover, but he's also doing mashups with two songs together.

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So this is Blinded by the Light, which I absolutely love that song.

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Do you ever play a?

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I had a um uh breakbeat version of this back in the day that I play all the time.

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You still have it?

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I still have it.

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Send it to him.

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Yeah.

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Uh DJ Shiraz did the edit back in the day.

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Shout out DJ Shiraz.

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But uh, this is Blinded by the Light versus Mrs.

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Officer.

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Little Wayne.

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Bro, play it.

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And you'll hear the you'll hear it right in the intro, the little bit of that um of Mrs.

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Officer.

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Then he he does it later.

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He goes back and forth.

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So here it is.

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I played this for dinner last last week.

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Here we see my Red Up like it was another bottom in the night.

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Oh, that's cool.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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And then he does like the go back and forth between that and blinded by the light.

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It's it's a dope.

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All the the whole record is the whole record is like where he's doing two songs in one.

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Yeah.

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He does like um Love It on Me with the Joker, Steve Miller band.

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Damn.

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And he's and his vocals great.

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No, he can sing.

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And it's and like people were like, what is this?

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Yeah.

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And that was the first time I've dropped it at a dinner, but it it worked really well.

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Whenever.

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And people were singing it like crazy.

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I love that.

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So that's one.

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Um this other one's kind of older, but it's fast car, uh, the Tracy Chapman, but not the country version.

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This is um Tob Talk, which is actually one of the more rare EDM versions of it.

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I play it for cocktail hour if it's progressive enough.

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It's 117.

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Okay.

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Uh so Tob Talk feature in River.

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This is Fast Car.

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I like it because the drum isn't too EDM-y.

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It's just kind of punchy, but not fast.

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I want it to get to Lady Wedding.

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Maybe we can make the we can get some wet and it plays bad.

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Yeah.

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Just clean a lot like crisp.

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Maybe we'll make something.

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But I play that for doors open a lot.

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Play it for cocktail hour.

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Very cigo-y.

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Yes.

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But not overly kaigo-y.

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You don't hear a bunch of little bad.

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Very cygo-y.

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Talking heads.

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This must be the place.

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I think this was on my list.

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Was it?

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This was one of my alternate.

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Sure, sure.

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No, I had a different one.

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Oh, this one's great.

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I had Iron and Wine.

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Okay.

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You know them?

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I do know them.

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This is a good one.

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Uh, I like it because it's more beefy.

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Okay.

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But a place for dinner, too.

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It's where I want to be.

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Pick me up and turn it out.

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Sounds more modern.

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110.

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Mix in and out of it.

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I love it.

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Not me either.

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I would only play this version.

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I think it's better.

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Yeah.

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Here it comes chorus.

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With my feet on the ground.

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I'm a turn beat this off.

00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:00.400
I know.

00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:01.359
It's okay.

00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:03.519
I know nothing's wrong.

00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:05.599
Oh.

00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:07.920
Yeah, this is the guitar.

00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:09.279
Yeah.

00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:11.039
Good shit, good shit, Brian B.

00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:12.400
Two more here.

00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:16.880
Uh this is Everybody Wants to Rule the World, the Tears for Fears cover.

00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:20.319
But this is Borth or Tiger.

00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:21.440
Borth or Tiger.

00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:23.759
B-O-R-T-H-E-R.

00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.359
Borther Tiger.

00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:27.440
You sure you didn't misspell brother?

00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.359
I'm pretty sure.

00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:30.480
I'm pretty sure.

00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:31.359
I'm pretty sure.

00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:32.559
I'm pretty sure.

00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.160
This is like one of those mislabeled tracks that you used to download from LimeWire.

00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:38.079
Dude, the quick story.

00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:39.200
Let me interject a quick story.

00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:39.680
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:39.920
Do it.

00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:44.400
Me and this dude named Kevin were at a restaurant one night.

00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:49.440
And it's a tiny restaurant, it's loud as shit.

00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.640
And this was 15 years ago at the beach.

00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:54.000
I remember what restaurant it was.

00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:55.839
Island Grill, right there on the ocean.

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And it's packed.

00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:58.079
It's a Saturday night.

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And we're he's drunk.

00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:02.880
I at that time I don't even think I was drinking.

00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.079
He's ape shit.

00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:11.359
And he starts talking about um man, that um that blink 182 song, the car's in the front yard.

00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:12.160
And I go, stop.

00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:14.079
I go, that's not blink.

00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:16.000
That's uh Lyd.

00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:16.880
It's a band called Lid.

00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:17.839
And he goes, no, no, no.

00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:19.519
And he's getting belligerent.

00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:21.920
The waitress has to come over and say, guys, calm down.

00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:24.160
And I'm like, I'm screaming in his face.

00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:26.319
You're a fucking software salesman, bro.

00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:28.640
I only this is all I know.

00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:30.640
I promise you, you're wrong.

00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:30.960
Yeah.

00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:32.640
And I and he goes, no, dude.

00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:36.319
And he's it was we're getting louder, louder, louder, screaming across the table.

00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:37.200
I said, stop.

00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.920
And this was way before Spotify.

00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:41.519
You couldn't pull out your phone and even look at it.

00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:42.799
So whatever era that was.

00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:44.880
And I go, when it was iPod.

00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:51.200
And I go, when we get back to the house, we're gonna get out of the iPod and I'm gonna show you that you're wrong.

00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:58.720
And and and I go, and on top of it, and I said, if you really believe in what you're saying, we're gonna we're gonna do a thousand dollar bet.

00:22:58.960 --> 00:22:59.759
And he had it.

00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:04.480
And I said, and when you lose, we're going to aid him and you're gonna get my fucking money tonight.

00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:05.759
Screaming at him.

00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.119
I said, don't do this.

00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:08.880
I'm begging him, do not do this.

00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:10.160
You're a software salesman.

00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:11.039
I'm a DJ.

00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:11.359
Nope.

00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:12.640
Blink 182.

00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:13.519
I said, okay.

00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:15.440
We go back to the house, walk in.

00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:16.400
I could go get it.

00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:17.359
Go get your iPod.

00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:18.880
Click, click, click, click, click.

00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:20.319
He's turning the jog wheel.

00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:24.799
Hits play on whatever we had it cord wired into the speaker.

00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:31.039
And sure enough, he had downloaded it from LimeWire, and it's my own worst enemy by Blink 182.

00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:34.480
And so I take out mine and I go, here's mine.

00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.039
Blink or lit my own worst enemy.

00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:39.039
And I didn't make him pay the thousand dollars.

00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:47.359
But we were fighting in this restaurant over this song over a poorly downloaded lime wire song that he had mislabeled.

00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:48.319
Anyway, sorry.

00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:52.079
This version of it, the original is 87 beats per minute.

00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:52.480
Okay.

00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:53.759
This is 107.

00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:54.240
Okay.

00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:59.599
And you really can't tell a difference, like from the standpoint of like it's too fast or whatever, because that's like 20 clicks up.

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:00.000
Okay.

00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:02.000
I think it's a great, great mix.

00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:12.480
Welcome to your hot tell for sure.

00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:14.079
I haven't played this during game.

00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.480
But it's just form four.

00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:18.799
Yeah.

00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:20.160
Easy to mix in and out.

00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:34.400
I mean, for me, I'm I'm like the last one, okay?

00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:37.200
This is Electric Feel, MGMT.

00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:37.599
Okay.

00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:39.759
This is by Mike Taylor.

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:43.039
Uh, one of my favorite versions always gets a great reaction.

00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:43.440
Okay.

00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:47.759
Played it during dinner, progressive dinner this last week, and it went over really well.

00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:49.519
110 beats per minute.

00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:50.559
Different.

00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:51.920
Very vibey.

00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:01.279
All along the Western flood.

00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:05.759
People lined up to receive.

00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:09.599
She got the power in her hand.

00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:11.440
Isn't this vocal just so good?

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:18.240
I stopped in the Amazon.

00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:19.920
I love this dude.

00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:21.519
I'll stop in the middle.

00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:24.640
I need to go get on the DL.

00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:29.119
But you just have 800 million people that listen to this year.

00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.680
And you don't teach me how to swing.

00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:34.960
It won't be me sending it, it'll be somebody else.

00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:39.599
And I said, So, how can people get this playlist?

00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:40.640
They have to be at the Patreon.

00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:42.960
You have to be a member of the Patreon.

00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:43.359
Right.

00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:44.559
Uh either tier, right?

00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:45.200
Either tier.

00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:45.920
Would get that.

00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:48.079
And it's the it's the PDF of all these songs.

00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:48.319
Yes.

00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:48.640
Right?

00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:50.559
Or the playlist, if we can put some of these on a playlist.

00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:51.119
Oh, that's true.

00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:51.359
Yeah.

00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:51.920
We can do them.

00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:53.200
I think most of mine are on Spotify.

00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:53.440
Okay.

00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:54.319
Think of mine are two.

00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:54.720
Yeah.

00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:55.839
Those five for sure.

00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:00.160
So you'll get the PDF and the Spotify link, or is it just the Spotify link?

00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:00.799
We can do both.

00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:01.359
It's easy.

00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:02.720
Easy peasy, guys.

00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:07.440
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00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:08.079
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00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:09.759
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00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:13.200
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00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:15.599
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00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:17.119
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00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:20.559
One for$5.99 and one for$19.99.

00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:24.400
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00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:27.759
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00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:33.119
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00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:44.880
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00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:47.920
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00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:53.359
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00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:55.519
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00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:59.279
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00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:06.400
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00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:14.160
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00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:19.839
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00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:25.119
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00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.799
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00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.720
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00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:32.960
So continuing about music, you just went to a show.

00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:35.440
Little Jaw Rule Nelly, I heard.

00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:37.920
Dude, Saquon was there.

00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:45.839
Um, yeah, it was it was I'm surprised Jaw looks like he while back, looked like he was old, man.

00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:47.119
They all look pretty good.

00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:51.519
Jaw Rule was 1000% cut up shredded.

00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:51.839
Wow.

00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:58.160
Like opened the show, got out of this bed, went over and changed into his his outfit, like his Jordan's and his.

00:27:58.480 --> 00:27:59.119
He opened.

00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:00.960
Uh Chingy opened.

00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:01.359
Who did?

00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:01.920
Chingy.

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:03.279
But we missed it.

00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:03.920
We missed Chingy.

00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:06.160
We caught the end of it.

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:07.680
Yeah, we were late, late arriving.

00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:08.319
Right there.

00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:09.200
Right there.

00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:15.119
We saw Chingy on the screen from the VIP area, and then we made our way to the box.

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:16.240
This is Lenovo?

00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.640
Uh no, outdoors at uh Coastal Credit.

00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:19.440
Too hot.

00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.319
It wasn't hot.

00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:23.119
It was an absolutely perfect night.

00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:23.440
Okay.

00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:24.480
Light breeze.

00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:25.839
They had the big ass fans going.

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:26.079
Yeah.

00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:27.440
We're under shelter.

00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:28.640
We have a waitress.

00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:29.200
Oh, okay.

00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:31.200
I'd been drinking topos all afternoon.

00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.880
Like I came in there hot.

00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:33.200
Yeah.

00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:34.559
I knew I didn't have to drive.

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:34.880
Yeah.

00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:38.079
And me and Saquon got on the strawberry vodka lemonades.

00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:42.240
It was we were sideways by the time Nelly came out.

00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:44.559
Talk about the guy that we had in front of us.

00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.319
Bro, it was this kid in front of us.

00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:48.960
You gotta add that video into the podcast.

00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:49.839
You have a video of it?

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:50.160
Yes.

00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:51.359
Saquon got him.

00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:51.599
Okay.

00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.880
He was, he thought he was on the in the show.

00:28:55.039 --> 00:29:00.079
He was in the box in front of us, but he was doing like all these like choreographs dances.

00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.799
Bro, he was hitting the craziest moves out of his side.

00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:03.359
Like that.

00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.480
He would pull out the pistol, like wow.

00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.240
It was, we were, it was more entertaining than the show.

00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:11.759
But Ja came right by us.

00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:13.440
He had on this Burberry suit.

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:14.960
I mean, we were going nuts, man.

00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:15.759
We had a great time.

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:16.400
That's amazing.

00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:24.640
Yeah, it was a great show, great throwback, great mix of all types of people, mostly older, you know, 40s and up, black, white.

00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:26.079
I mean, everybody's having a good time.

00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:27.200
It was all party music.

00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:33.039
It didn't feel like, you know, thugged out or Ashanti.

00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:34.160
No, no, Ashanti.

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:36.240
He brought out uh City Spud.

00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.039
City's Bud.

00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:38.160
Oh wow.

00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:38.880
Murphy Lee.

00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:39.839
Oh, Murphy Lee.

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:40.319
Jayquan.

00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:41.039
Jayquan.

00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:43.519
Jayquan hit the um hit the whatever.

00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:45.680
Everybody in the Tipsy.

00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:46.400
Yeah, Tipsy.

00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:46.960
The original.

00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:47.359
Yeah.

00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:47.920
Wow.

00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:55.519
So I dude, I liked it, but it was a it was it was just such a great diverse crowd.

00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:59.200
Because then you also got to remember, man, that venue is very country heavy.

00:29:59.279 --> 00:29:59.839
So Nelly was.

00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.400
Went into that whole baby you're a song.

00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:05.599
And then he had another show with um Tim McGraw.

00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:06.079
Oh, yeah.

00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:06.960
Remember that song?

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.640
Yeah, I do remember that song.

00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:10.640
So little bit.

00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.440
A little bit.

00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:11.839
Yeah.

00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:12.079
Yeah.

00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:13.200
He did that.

00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:14.880
He did all three of those like back to back.

00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:16.240
So he had a little country segment.

00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:16.960
Oh, I love it.

00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:17.920
For the rednecks there.

00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:19.839
They're going across the country.

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:20.640
Oh, hell yeah.

00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.039
It's a I mean, it might be going across the world.

00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:24.079
I mean, it was a big tour.

00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:24.799
Wow.

00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:26.480
They both did their thing, man.

00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:26.720
Okay.

00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:27.359
It was fun.

00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:28.559
It was, we had a lot of fun.

00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:29.599
Amazing.

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:30.799
Let's see.

00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:31.440
What do we got next?

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:32.160
Oh, Gear Corner.

00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:33.599
Oh, what about shows?

00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:34.240
I've been playing.

00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:34.720
We've been on.

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:35.440
You want to do one?

00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:35.680
Yeah.

00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:36.079
Do it.

00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:36.559
Hit it.

00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.119
Sure.

00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:48.240
Tell me about the rain.

00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:53.440
We were off for about a month from August 1st.

00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:59.759
I think I did that wedding where that there was no elevator, and me and Saquon was out of town.

00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:03.519
He had a hip-hop show, and I had to get another one of my DJs, thank God to help me.

00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:06.640
But we we were off for about 30 days.

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.759
The only thing I did was play at Ashley's uh spin studio.

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:14.000
We did a little thing where she was teaching the class and I was DJing the the ride.

00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:16.079
And then most of August we were off.

00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.119
And then we came back on the first week of September.

00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:21.920
We go to Elon, I don't know, hour from here.

00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:23.279
Gorgeous hotel.

00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:26.000
And and Saquon have played there multiple times.

00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:28.880
Saquon and I have been there multiple times for different kinds of events.

00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:32.799
Holiday parties, weddings, uh, this huge fundraiser we do every year.

00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:33.680
So I'm stoked.

00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:36.880
I'm like, man, new hotel, it's gorgeous ballroom, air conditioning.

00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:37.359
Nope.

00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:43.359
Start looking at the floor plan the week before, and I'm like, uh, why does this why does this say outside?

00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:47.119
Ceremony and tinted courtyard outside.

00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:52.720
But now keep in mind, we come we were coming off a week of like 78 degrees, and I'm like, maybe it's gonna be good.

00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:54.480
It was a beautiful day in the beginning.

00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.680
Nope, it was not.

00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:57.119
If you remember, it was 93.

00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:58.000
It was hot.

00:31:58.160 --> 00:31:58.480
It was hot.

00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:59.039
But it was hot.

00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:04.799
So we're we're we're like, sun's out, it's 93 degrees, it's gonna be hot, but but that's okay.

00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:13.039
Yeah, dude, I promise you the last road case we rolled under this tent, a rolling burst of thunder.

00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:14.880
It was lasted like four seconds.

00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:16.000
Was it wind too?

00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:16.319
Nope.

00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.720
Not at this point, and then all of a sudden, we're like, I'm like, Saquon, give me an update.

00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:27.440
He's got his radar out, the wedding planner's coming over, like, yeah, it's about to get nasty.

00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:29.440
So we just we we don't even set up.

00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:31.279
We move everything to the middle of the tent.

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:33.039
Was a nice tent, brand new tent.

00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:34.000
Did it delay everything?

00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:41.440
Only by a few minutes because the bride was like holding, holding, holding because she was hell bent that she was going to get married outside.

00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:44.960
And I'm telling you, it's raining sideways at five minutes till five.

00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:45.279
Yeah.

00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:48.400
And she's still going, I think we can do it outside.

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:54.400
And finally, like they just scramble and open up a ballroom inside, and we move all, you know.

00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.680
Our ceremony rig is so easy now that it took two seconds.

00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:02.160
But it rained up until probably open dancing.

00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:03.519
Four or five hours.

00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:06.640
Rained through the cocktail hour, rained through the first dance.

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.480
Was it one of those ones like before where it was coming in to the it was definitely coming in.

00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.079
They were having to squeegee the dance floor.

00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:13.599
The dance floor was soaked during the entire time.

00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:15.680
I always worry about like the formality dances.

00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:17.519
Oh, a couple people almost ate it.

00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:22.480
The back of my suit is soaked, the back of my legs are soaked because it's pouring off the back of the tent.

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:26.160
I mean, we're just like, we're pushed all the way up on the dance floor as far as we can go.

00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:32.960
We all I at one point I was like, if it gets any worse, I'm gonna have to boil a roommate and just move the booth to the middle of the floor and let people surround me.

00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:33.279
Yeah.

00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.000
And just literally dance 360 around the middle of the booth.

00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:36.240
Yeah.

00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:39.200
And finally, right around open dancing, it stopped.

00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:39.759
Wow.

00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:40.960
We came off that.

00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:44.319
That was then we had the break week, which is kind of rare.

00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:54.799
We that's when we went to Nelly and Jaw Rule, and then we went back last week, did the double Umstead Hotel, again, horrible load in with that loading dock through the five-star kitchen down the hall.

00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:05.039
But me and Saquon came up with this little kind of what we call now the Umstead rig, smaller speakers, smaller lighting rig, blah, blah, blah, and got in and out quick.

00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:09.519
Left there, went straight to the next day, Donovan Manor.

00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:14.239
Big wedding, much better setup than we've been having there in the past.

00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:18.719
Took off, you know, reset the van, put the bigger speakers back in, the bigger lighting.

00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:21.199
Like it's just Were you wiped by the second?

00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:21.920
Do you want a double?

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:22.960
I don't do that many.

00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:24.320
I don't do that many doubles.

00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:26.320
No, I felt pretty pretty good.

00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:27.760
Edit that out.

00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.159
I felt pretty good on Sunday, to be honest with you.

00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:38.559
Um and as much as I wanted to take the day off and sit on the couch and watch football, I was I had a phone call about this business opportunity.

00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:40.400
Then I went to look at a new piece of property.

00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:45.840
Then I I mean it was like next thing I know, it's three or four o'clock, and I'm like, damn, dude, there went my Sunday one day off.

00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:46.159
Yeah.

00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:48.559
It just anyway, no, I felt fine.

00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:48.880
Yeah.

00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.440
I mean, I don't want to do doubles or triples anymore.

00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:51.760
Right.

00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:56.239
But then I talked to Randy and was like, yeah, man, just did five events in a row Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:02.800
They weren't all weddings, but I mean he had done like a 40th birthday party, a class reunion, a wedding, a wedding.

00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:15.280
Like any songs stand out for those two events that were like Um, I don't think we've really played anything kind of off the beaten path that that I you know what's been going on for me lately?

00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:17.360
You were talking about T-Paying when you walked in.

00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:18.719
Uh Best Love Song.

00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:18.960
Yeah.

00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:19.760
You ever play that?

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:20.639
I love that song.

00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:20.880
Yeah.

00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:21.119
Yeah.

00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:27.840
I played that at a few weddings this past summer, uh, brought about by this girl, Emma's wedding at the beach.

00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.960
She had it on the list, but this girl also had it on the list.

00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:34.480
Um, sorry, icemaker's running back there.

00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:40.480
But I'll tell you, man, the other thing that I did, um, I've had a couple of kind of heavier EDM weddings.

00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:41.199
Same.

00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:44.960
Like golden era EDM type stuff.

00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:46.559
And that one list I think I did.

00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:47.440
Yes.

00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:48.639
Um the Patreon.

00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:54.960
Yeah, Patreon in the Patreon was very heavy EDM, like reload Sebastian and Grosso.

00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:57.119
That was the the Elon wedding thing.

00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:58.159
The Elon wedding.

00:35:58.239 --> 00:35:59.199
Very heavy EDM.

00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:00.320
And they were going for it.

00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.360
It went crazy.

00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:08.960
But the main thing about it is I've been getting of several playlists lately from couples where it's too much 128.

00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:09.280
Yeah.

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:23.519
And I I either I either have to tell them on the call I think it's a a little too aggressive, or I just start to interject my own get low or do you put any like I don't want to say trap, but like lower tempo, like something like that.

00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:24.400
I know what you're saying.

00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.320
No, I I usually would go back to hip hop.

00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:26.719
Hip hop.

00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:27.679
Just flip it up.

00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:28.079
Yeah.

00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:30.000
That's my that's my kind of go-to move.

00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:31.280
Stuff I know is gonna work.

00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:31.760
I love it.

00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.679
Just to break up the the 128.

00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:34.000
Yeah.

00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.199
And either get there just buy an echo out or a transition edit.

00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:37.840
So good.

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:38.159
Yeah.

00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:39.920
Let's hit the gear corner.

00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:40.480
Let's do it.

00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:41.440
What do you got for us?

00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:44.079
The gear's here.

00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:47.519
The gear.

00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:48.639
The gear is here.

00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:49.599
Is here is here.

00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:50.480
Is here is here.

00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:51.360
Is here is here.

00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.480
Well, by the time this drops, you'll have already celebrated another birthday.

00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:55.039
Yes, sir.

00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:57.440
So it's kind of a little small gift for you.

00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:59.199
I've been giving you so many gifts lately.

00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.239
I feel like this is called uh hearts.

00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:03.280
I think it's what it's called.

00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:03.840
It says on there.

00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:04.880
Does it say hearts?

00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:07.599
Well, it's hearts without a T.

00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:08.639
Oh, here.

00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:10.400
Here's Here's.

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:10.800
I'm sorry.

00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:11.599
Here's yes.

00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:12.239
Sorry.

00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:13.679
He's good at messing up.

00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.039
Yeah, mess that one up.

00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:22.079
Here's you know, I go to a lot of these events and I need something to like block out the their earplugs.

00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:24.800
Well, we were talking about that for him the other day.

00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:29.760
So these are premium because if you turn it on the back, on the back, uh you can just turn that thing up.

00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:33.039
It tells you it kind of it drops it on the uh just turn it completely over.

00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:34.079
Oh, doesn't that say it?

00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:34.880
Oh, it's yeah, yeah.

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:35.840
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.960
So it drops it 25 dB maximum.

00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:39.280
Yeah.

00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.320
I don't know about the 19 decibels are does it say 17 decibels?

00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:42.719
17.

00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:44.320
I don't really know what that means exactly.

00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:46.800
Noise reduction rating, 17 decibels.

00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:48.719
Tested attenuation.

00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:49.679
I got one.

00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:51.119
They got the case with it.

00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.000
Little mini case there in the case, so you got that too.

00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:56.559
So check it out, see if it fits your ear.

00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:57.599
Sure.

00:37:57.679 --> 00:37:59.519
And you can pick whichever tip you want.

00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:03.039
It's got large, small, extra small.

00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:05.199
Um, I think they're great.

00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:07.199
They I I keep them in my backpack.

00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.599
Yeah.

00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:09.519
And I just pull them out when I need them.

00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:13.360
But this would be what you're going to a concert, you don't want to get blown out.

00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:13.599
Right.

00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:15.280
Or you're going to see another DJ.

00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:16.159
Right.

00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:18.559
I'm trying to find the price here.

00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:21.599
Is this an Amazon purchase?

00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.039
This is uh an Amazon.

00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:24.079
Yeah, what do you think?

00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:28.320
I think they're um probably$19.99.

00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:28.960
No.

00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:29.920
A little bit more.

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:31.199
I spent a little bit more on you this year.

00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:31.920
$42.

00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:32.960
$42.

00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:33.920
Really?

00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:35.280
Oh, these must be good.

00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:35.920
They are good.

00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:42.480
And and and uh it's because of the fact that they can um uh they block out so much decibels, you know.

00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:47.119
They have cheaper ones that you can get that aren't that but dude, these are these areas.

00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:47.760
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:48.719
Hold on a second.

00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:50.000
Now it's me having it.

00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:51.119
I was struggling with it too.

00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:51.760
Yeah, I'll do it.

00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:52.880
I don't have fingernails.

00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:55.119
Look at you.

00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:55.760
That's the top.

00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:59.679
I always have problems with any of those like things that require fingernails.

00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:01.199
Yeah, you just put them in like this.

00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:02.400
I always cut my nails off.

00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:03.280
Oh, you don't see that side.

00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:03.840
Hold on a second.

00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:05.199
Yeah, I'm like, I can't.

00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:08.480
And then this just goes on this side, like this.

00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:10.480
Camera.

00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:13.199
Camera, and it's noise cancellation.

00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.079
So I mean, can you I mean I can hear it a little bit.

00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:17.119
You can hear me talking on it.

00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:17.920
I can hear you talking.

00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:18.159
Right.

00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:19.519
Yeah, but I mean it's very muted.

00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:19.840
Yeah.

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:21.039
But that looks kind of clean.

00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:23.840
Yeah, they're not like and they make them in a bunch of different colors.

00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:25.840
So if you don't like black, you don't know black is key.

00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:27.039
You know, whatever you want.

00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.000
But just to have an extra pair to save your hearing, man.

00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:31.519
We were talking about this the other day.

00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:34.400
I looked at him and I said, Man, because he was running around shooting and stuff.

00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:38.480
Yeah, like when I think through the speaker, I'm like, I said, dude, don't end up like me, man.

00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:40.719
Seriously, you need to start wearing these at these things.

00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:44.480
You don't even this ain't even your damn full-time job.

00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:45.599
You're a music producer.

00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:48.719
You don't want to cook your fucking ears before you're 30.

00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:49.440
You know what I mean?

00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:50.639
Like totally.

00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:52.400
I'm gonna get you a pair of ears.

00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:53.280
All right, appreciate it.

00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:53.920
Good looking out.

00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:54.559
Happy birthday.

00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:55.440
Yeah, thanks, dude.

00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:56.079
Appreciate it.

00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:57.280
Let's hit the question.

00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:57.760
Okay.

00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.119
Um you don't have to fire it.

00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:01.760
Yep.

00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:10.239
How do you prioritize getting new gear compared to other business expenses?

00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:20.239
Is your philosophy for purchasing the same as it was when you were leveling up your company, or has it changed from Ian in Buffalo, Wisconsin?

00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:20.960
Buffalo?

00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:22.320
I didn't even know there was another Buffalo.

00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:23.199
Me neither.

00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:23.840
Interesting.

00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:24.320
Okay.

00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:26.239
What's your thoughts on this?

00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:30.719
I mean, yeah, when I was dumb, I just was like the newest thing, gotta have it.

00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.000
Let me just buy it.

00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:32.320
Yep.

00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:35.280
And I think uh I now I'm completely the opposite.

00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:35.760
Me too.

00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.840
Until it breaks, I'm pretty much riding the thing.

00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:38.480
Me too.

00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:44.480
And I think it's also just because, you know, you I you at least for me, I try to learn it to the best of my ability, whatever I get.

00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:44.960
Yeah.

00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:52.639
And now I'm like, when something new comes out, I'm like, will it make my job faster or will it make my performance better?

00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.280
Like those are like two big considerations that maybe weren't the top of the list before.

00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:58.320
It was just because it was new.

00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:01.119
Maybe, oh, I guess the third one would be can it make me money?

00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:01.840
You know?

00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:02.159
Yeah.

00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:03.679
Can I actually make money with this?

00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:05.840
Because sometimes I'm like, it could be brand new.

00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:10.480
Like a good example would be the um when the uh uh silent disco headphones came out.

00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:11.199
Yeah.

00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:14.400
I hit every planner and said, Listen, I want to invest in these.

00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:15.440
These weren't cheap back then.

00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:18.639
This is like 10 years ago when they first were like hot on the scene.

00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:19.119
Yeah.

00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:29.039
And um, they're like, Listen, even with those, we still are gonna have to stop because people are gonna be yelling because they can't hear what they're saying and they don't know how loud they're, we're still gonna get called by the cops.

00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:30.480
It's not gonna work for us.

00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.199
So I was like, could I I'm not gonna be able to make money.

00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:36.800
No one's gonna book this in our venues that are all outdoors to go longer.

00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:37.679
Because that was my thought.

00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:42.800
Yeah, we go longer, money DJ in and make them rent the headphones and this and that.

00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:50.159
Yeah, but that's like uh uh a scenario where it could make it didn't make me money, it was new, and I was like, can't pull the truck trigger on that.

00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:51.119
What about you?

00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:53.039
Um, man, that's a great question.

00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:59.840
I mean, I was sitting there as you were talking about it, thinking about like the stuff I bought over the last few years, and it was always can it make me money?

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:10.800
And again, I did the same thing, either ping the couples or ping the venues and say, can we use this there or or is this gonna work there or can you sell this for us?

00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:17.920
Um, but secondly, it really is about is this going to make my life or my job easier?

00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:22.400
And that's the only time I really buy stuff.

00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:30.559
I mean, I do get a lot of free stuff, which is kind of uh a benefit of being a creator, I guess is what they call me.

00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:32.079
You just got the flexor.

00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:33.280
Why would you get the flex?

00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:34.480
Was that more about a look?

00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:44.320
No, uh, because I had a if you look, there's the other one, and it was skinned white already, but I like to have a double of whatever my go-to is.

00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:44.960
Oh, okay.

00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:57.840
So now it's like I've got a flex 10 here in the office if I ever make commercials or do a live stream or do a mix, and then I've got the one in the booth that I always have in the van.

00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:59.599
So at least I have a double of the same thing.

00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:00.239
Got it.

00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:04.639
The 1000, I'll probably keep it, but now I'm so used to the flex 10.

00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:06.079
It's like some of that.

00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:06.480
You want that?

00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:06.880
Yeah, I do.

00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:07.840
Done.

00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:09.840
We'll leave with it today because I've been trying to sell it.

00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:10.320
Oh, great.

00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:10.880
Yeah, take it.

00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:11.440
Done.

00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:12.960
That was easy.

00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:18.800
Um, and and and then again, I will also say this I am the anti-hoarder.

00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:25.599
When I don't use something, or it's back there collecting dust, or I bought it and didn't use it, or it didn't work out the way I thought it was, I sell it.

00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:26.000
Yeah.

00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:31.519
And I I always start with my guys, and then if they don't want it, then I'll just go to Facebook Marketplace.

00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:32.159
Love it.

00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:32.719
Yeah.

00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:34.159
Hope that helps, Ian.

00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:35.199
Yeah, hopefully that helps.

00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:39.199
So the bottom line is, Ian, uh, it is now for me, it's not a want thing.

00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:40.400
It is like, do I need it?

00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:53.360
Is it gonna be make the faster setup, faster, you know, strike, help my job, you know, better range on the wireless mic, whatever it is, like it's got to have some sort of true value for me to invest in it these days.

00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:53.840
Love it.

00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:56.000
The gear is not what people care about.

00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:58.880
It's it's your performance and the music and everything else.

00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:01.119
And I don't know if it's because of just electrical.

00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:03.599
Other than the command center, uh Bob Ungeared.

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.119
Every DJ needs that.

00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:05.599
Go ahead.

00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:10.719
Well, I was gonna say technology, I feel like has evolved and everything's getting cheaper to make to an extent.

00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:13.440
So like there's just so much more out there nowadays.

00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:16.079
Everything's getting released, like there's a new thing every six months.

00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:16.880
Oh, easily.

00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:22.400
So I I think and now it's you have to whereas before you might get one new pioneer product a year, yeah.

00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:22.559
Right.

00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:22.880
Yeah.

00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:25.679
So like now it's you can be more choosy because of the upgrade.

00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:26.800
It's like the iPhone.

00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:28.239
Are you getting a new iPhone?

00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:29.039
I don't know.

00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:29.599
Are you?

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.639
I wasn't gonna.

00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:34.480
I like I but I it took me two generations to get the 16 because I can't.

00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.199
It kind of took me a while to I didn't feel like it was that different.

00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:37.760
No.

00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:43.039
So like I don't like that's where I'm saying with like technology with DJ gear, it's the same thing, right?

00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.960
It's like a new controller, is the Flex 10 that much different than the 1000?

00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:49.280
No, you know, yeah.

00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:54.719
So apparently, if you get the Alpha Theta uh all in one DJ system, that is.

00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:58.159
So definitely the thing they gave you in Machu Picchu.

00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:02.480
Yeah, be ready for a tech, you know, engineering degree to pull it off.

00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:06.800
One last thing about gear before we move on and and and close this episode out.

00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:09.519
So I was gonna build out a second booth.

00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:09.840
Yeah.

00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:16.719
And I was I've never used an external mixer, and then people that are listening to this are probably gonna shit their pants over that.

00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:27.519
But I was like, okay, you know, the I get that the microphone preamp on the controller is not that great, but it's not enough for me to want to put in an external mixer.

00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:29.840
So finally I was like, man, maybe I'll try it.

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:36.880
And everybody's screaming about this new Allen and Heath CQ 18T with Wi-Fi, control it from your iPad, blah, blah, blah.

00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:38.719
I order it, shows up here.

00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:43.760
I start watching the videos on YouTube, and I was like, what the fuck am I doing?

00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:46.320
Like, I'm I'm 54 years old.

00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:48.400
I'm very good at what I do.

00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:50.960
Yeah, I know the gear really well that I own.

00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:57.679
I'm not going to sit here for two or three days and try and watch these videos and learn this mixer.

00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:00.000
That now is another thing that can go wrong.

00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:09.440
Another thing I can hit a button and screw up the whole show and have to rewire it five minutes before I'm going live or in the middle of the performance because I've hit a reverb button that I can't get off.

00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:10.480
What am I doing?

00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:10.719
Yeah.

00:46:11.039 --> 00:46:11.920
Send the whole thing back.

00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:12.239
Yeah.

00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:12.880
Nah.

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:13.760
Ain't doing it.

00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:16.559
Anyway, shout out to the people that use external mixers.

00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:17.119
Yeah.

00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:17.760
Jeez.

00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:19.760
Anyway, are we wrapping this one up?

00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:20.079
Yeah.

00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:21.119
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00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:25.599
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00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:29.519
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00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:30.559
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00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:31.599
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00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:33.360
All right.

00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:34.559
We'll see you guys on the next episode.

00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:34.880
Thanks.