From Conference Stages to Wedding Madness

Welcome Back And Why It Feels Hard

SPEAKER_02 0:17

What's up, everybody? Coming to you from Raleigh, North Carolina. In the stew, I think is how uh Saquon labeled it the last time. The Stew, the lab.

SPEAKER_06 0:27

Yeah, the lab, whatever you want to call it.

SPEAKER_02 0:30

I'm Brian B. On the other mic, we got Joseph Eagles Bun Jr. Wow. Going full name. Wow. Uh thanks for listening. We really appreciate you guys sharing the pod, and uh hopefully this is making a difference for you and giving you things for people. I hope so. It's kind of hit amiss on episodes.

SPEAKER_05 0:49

It's unfulfilling. Yeah. I don't want to be nasty, but I'm being honest. Yeah. If you post a reel that pops, right? Yeah. You get that dopamine hit and everybody likes it and they're sharing it and they're commenting on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

This isn't like that. Yeah, it is tough. I I can tell you that I see it in the comments on Spotify because people leave comments. Speaking of Spotify, if you haven't didn't catch it in the last episode, we're now going video on Spotify, so you can see all the insider jokes and things that are on the screen. But yeah, I mean I see those comments, so that kinda helps me kind of Do I see them? You have the permission to see 'em, but I don't think you actually go that deep.

SPEAKER_05 1:31

But you think people are listening to the fucking show? I sure hope so. I sure hope so. I mean, w uh I mean, really, like I I just I mean, I know we get some comments and we get some questions and stuff, but it's like this is a lot of work. It is a lot of work. And I know we've said this before, but like I know why people quit podcasting before 10 episodes. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

Well, it's a lot easier when it's like we set the bar pretty high. What you mean? Like we set it up with the video, we have the studio, like we can't come in like janky. No, I don't do anything half-assed. Yeah, that's childish. I I'm but that's the problem, is that so many of the pods out there are kind of janky. Right. And we've set the bar high for ourselves, so we can't every week it's like we gotta do another thing that's better than the last, if you will.

SPEAKER_05 2:20

So well, I hope you're listening.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

I hope people are listening.

SPEAKER_05 2:23

Yeah. Call your friends, man. Call your DJ. I mean, well, the one way that I call your baby mama and like I don't call somebody and put them onto this podcast. Like, all your DJ friends that are private event DJs should be listening to this podcast.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

And I would love it if someone would leave us some reviews. We haven't gotten any of those in a while.

SPEAKER_05 2:40

That's always I haven't seen a review since the early 70s.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

But one way that I feel fulfilled is seeing them enjoy the it's me and you here together. You want to hold hands? Nah, nah, nah. I don't know where those hands have been. Um I want to say that it I feel fulfilled through the Patreon. I do too. Because I feel like we do get some love there about people stoked that they got the pack or the bonus content or the even the bonus episodes. Yeah. So we should probably shout out a couple of those folks today. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:11

Go back one uh Seguan, sorry. Yeah, shout out uh DJ Davey Dave, Vincent T. And Black Tie Celebrations DJ. Black tie. Yeah. Thank you guys for being Patreon.

SPEAKER_02 3:23

You wearing a lot of black ties these days?

SPEAKER_05 3:25

No, but I did buy a I did. You remember when a new Tux? I bought a Tux and it's navy. Navy. Remember because it said like it says something like list on on sp or on Yeah. What did you do?

SPEAKER_02 3:36

You go you go you go three live.

SPEAKER_05 3:38

You go vest, you go No, no, no. I went um regular shirt, not that I don't like those kinds that have that little wing collar.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:46

Uh fake bow type that looks real.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

You go English like tub.

SPEAKER_05 3:50

No, no, I just went um just really well-fitted pants.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 3:55

With the almost like a ribbon and then the stripe down the side. Yeah. So no, no cumber bun, no belt, no suspenders. You take it to Shirley or whatever her name is?

SPEAKER_02 4:03

I didn't need to, it was custom.

SPEAKER_05 4:04

Oh. Came custom. So wait, how did you do the measurements? You just you Oh, Indochino. Okay. Remember they've got them on on record. And I've and I did have to go back when I lost the 25 pounds from the no sugar party.

SPEAKER_03 4:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 4:16

So I had to go back to Indochino at Nordstrom to get re-measured. And I it I tried on the jacket and the pants the other day, man, and it was spot. Fit like a glove. Yeah, like a glove. Right out of it. What do you go on shoes-wise? I'm gonna go, I might go with a velveteen loafer. Wow. The velveteen rabbit. Penny loaf? No socks. Yeah. No socks. Wow. Yeah. Those gonna be a stank. I know. I throw them right in the trash because I think those are bootlegs. They're like aldo. They're not like Gucci. Yeah. That's nice. Or or or just black, regular dress shoes.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

Okay. It's good to have a.

SPEAKER_05 4:48

You gotta have one of these just in case you have a formal. 100%. Uh you were right. You were like, you're a grown-ass man, you need a tuxedo. You're right. I need one. Just one.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 4:56

You don't need to have a whole like a weird color blue, but it's like it, and it's got the look like it's a tux.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:02

Like it's it's all I was. I'll need some picks.

SPEAKER_02 5:04

Maybe this will get you best dressed. Maybe. It could be. It could be. It could be. What's at the next thing? Oh yeah. We got uh a DJC ticket increase coming in about 11 days, June 1st. We've announced uh a few people so far, or one so far, but by the time this comes out, it'll have been a few different people. But the one I'll talk about today is hamster dance, is yeah, gonna be one of our closing DJs. Yeah. I love it because he's not somebody you've seen at any show necessarily yet. I'm sure he will be on the circuit. Oh, here we go. Yeah, but uh his stuff's great, man. He throws his own parties. Yeah, that's also kind of a cool thing. He's not just doing weddings and the private events, but he's literally throwing his own parties and getting thousands of people to come to these things.

SPEAKER_05 5:47

Yeah, you hung out with him for a week in Mexico, too. I did.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

He's a cool guy, yeah. He's got great mixes, yeah. Like he's full of energy, as you can tell from his his uh social. So I think he's gonna bring it. I'm excited to see him play. I haven't seen him play live yet, obviously. Yeah, so it'll be cool. And we've got more people like that lined up that we're gonna announce. Uh, if we haven't already, we'll have uh hopefully be announcing some of our educators soon and topics. I'm excited about it, but you don't want to wait because we're already at about 60 or so people. We clap it at 100. Get in there before the price increase hits. Anything else you want to bring up?

DJ Collective Updates And Ticket Deadline

SPEAKER_05 6:23

No, the DJ CollectiveOfficial.com. This is our conference that me and Brian do with Jason J and I. It's here in Raleigh, North Carolina November 16th and 17th. And that's all I can say about it. Raleigh is incredible at that time of year. We're gonna bring it education-wise, we're gonna bring it entertainment-wise. And I don't think you can talk to any of the people that were here last year that did not say that they took something away from this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

So do it now before the price goes up June first.

SPEAKER_05 6:50

The DJ CollectiveOfficial.com.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

So you've been on the road on planes, uh doing a lot of different traveling things. You went to you spoke your first uh second conference. Second conference. Tell us, give us a little review of the Midwest.

SPEAKER_05 7:04

Yeah, Pittsburgh DJ Summit, which I'm sure we talked about on the show earlier this year. That I think that was in January, and then uh just a couple of weeks ago, Midwest CJ's live, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. New talk for you. New talk for me. Meet me at the crossroads. Uh I've been going to this conference for years. I've spoken at the conference multiple times. Shout out to them. Another great one in the books. Um the seminar I gave was kind of like you opened the show. I did open the show, dude. Is that a first for you? I think so. At 8 40 in the morning. Oof. And I was like, dude, I don't think anybody's gonna be here. Yeah. They showed up.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:40

I mean, they probably had 300 people at that conference, and everyone was there.

SPEAKER_03 7:43

Yeah.

Midwest Conference Talk And Life Balance

SPEAKER_05 7:43

And they were like, dude, you uh we have to open with you. Like, you're the people, you know, people get up and see you. And they showed up. I was pretty impressed. I was worried. I'm not gonna, you know. Meet me at the crossroads. Give us a little bit. It's like um about the the kind of pivotal moments that like shaped the business. So, for example, did I want to stay solo op or did I want to go multi-op? Did I want to hire experienced DJs or inexperienced DJs? Um did I want to expand and open more offices or just stay with one office?

SPEAKER_02 8:14

And you were giving your take on which of those two and why? Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 8:18

Got it, why I did it.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

And how many of these crossroads?

SPEAKER_05 8:21

I think there were three, and then I went into the whole life part, which was kind of emotional about, you know, listen, man, I I want you guys to book all the shows and I want you to work hard, but like at a certain point, if you're not careful, you're gonna miss you're gonna miss your life, and you're gonna miss your children's lives. And I battle that every day as you get older, and I showed a picture of my dad, and I'm like, eventually they're gonna pass. Like it's not yeah, you know, the and you you don't want to miss that. Like, I just can't tell you enough like how to balance these two things out, you know. So business and life, yeah. And I think it was really well received, and it was quick, man. Like, I'm I'm now on the 25-30 minute. I think I gotta be that. I I I I don't want to do any more than that. And I I've said it up a hundred times. The only person that can do an hour is Mike, yeah, Walter. Yeah, he can do an hour, and it seems to not seem like an hour. Right. Anyone else, I I would say give them 25-30. Yeah. Include myself. Yeah. I'm sorry. I told a few stories. I felt like I got some good laughs. I I just it felt good, man. Yeah. It felt good. And that and the uh I'm not a big rehearsal guy, and so I was like, be ready to play me off if I come in short. Yeah, but uh, I think I was looking at that last few statements I was making, and it was like 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 5, 51.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

I like how great nail that.

SPEAKER_05 9:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:39

What about any of those standouts speaker-wise, uh entertainment-wise, you go to the parties? Tell me.

SPEAKER_05 9:44

I went to a couple of parties. I didn't see the closing party. I left a little early. Uh in fact, I left early on day two. I saw Jack Christian open the second day, killed. He was great. He was talking, it wasn't about social, it was about being the vendor's favorite DJ or something, and all the things he does to kind of ensure that. He was great. Um, who did I see on the first day? Ah, man, I'm spacing on it. If I had the schedule in front of me, I could tell you. But listen, man. And I went to the ladies' night party. I saw the big Ron spinoff, Dave Gordon from Buff Fighting One. He was great. Yeah, he's a guy. Everybody was great. Cam was great, all the girls were great for the ladies' night thing. I mean, I had a good time, man. That's awesome. I was just ready to come home. I didn't see Jan I.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:28

Uh he spoke late on the side. Ships in the night passing. Yeah, we were ships in the night. We saw each other at the bar, and that was it. Yeah. He closed it out.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

So you opened, he closed. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Then you went to uh Mike's 60th. I saw that.

SPEAKER_05 10:41

Yeah, you go to Mike Walter's 60th. Uh I mean, you know, Mike's Mike's a big part of my life, man. Oh, yeah. I've been a mentor. We did the PHDJ workshop together. We did the PHDJ podcast together. We mean you wouldn't be doing this if I had not already done one. And he was like, I'm turning 60. It's on a Sunday night. He went rocker. Where did you go? I went um, oh, I was uh run. Oh run. I went to run DMC. Did you already have that in the collection? I had parts of it. Yeah. Um and I uh I had the fedora and the and the glasses and the gold chain because I wore those to the Midwest DJs 80s 90 party. By the way, the I I was in I went to High Kevin's wedding also somewhere in the middle of this. Yeah, before I went to Midwest. Okay. So I was in New Jersey back-to-back weekends. Yeah. So I go to Mike's back up in New Jersey, and uh it was a great party, man. He had kind of like a prince, I don't want to call it a tribute band, but almost more of a lounge version of it.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 11:42

Kind of opened the party, and then one of his DJs just went in on the 80s set and killed.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

Uh shout out Tommy Monaco. I saw a bunch of my uh Mike's friends, Mike's DJs. Um Quayne was there, you know him. Um a bunch of people. I love that though.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

Because it's great. Great party. We're always working weekends, so like our friends become people in this industry at these shows. That's another plug for shows in general.

SPEAKER_05 12:07

Dude, right? Like I would say some of my best friends live around the country and are in the private DJ space.

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Yeah. And to see people come out there and travel to go to his birthday, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_05 12:16

It was yeah, man. My Mike, Mike is awesome. And you know, he's kind of moving into his next chapter. I mean, he's selling his company, and and I bet he's gonna be traveling more. And you know, he's still in great shape, and so he can.

SPEAKER_03 12:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:30

So shout out Mike, man. Happy 60th, dude. Oh man, we got an off the record segment. Let's hit it.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

Uh, off the record, let me talk my sugar honey ice team. They throw a shade while I'm sipping on this ice tea. Don't care if you hate on like me. You know why? Cause that's just how life is record of the record, off the record, off the record. Say it with the chest. Got a microphone, check it. I'm gonna say what I want to say. It's right time to write and red, get out the way.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

So I did a co corporate not too long ago, actually this last week, and uh I bought three TVs, 75 inches. We needed it for this conference. I'm doing them for this conference. In Destine. In Destine. What did you have to put on? I've got three conferences like this coming up, so I needed some screens. This is for presenters to show their stuff. They're in three separate rooms. For one of them, I had two, and I could not believe how cheap these TVs are nowadays. Oh, yeah. 75 inches from Costco cost me 1500 bucks. 75 inches. No, wait, how many? Three or fifteen hundred bucks. For 1500.

unknown 13:43

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

But here's my rent.

SPEAKER_06 13:47

I know where this is.

Road Case Prices Are Out Of Hand

SPEAKER_02 13:48

I'm trying to protect these things. Yeah. I go look at cases. I know where this is. A rolling case. Yeah. It's a thousand dollars minimum, up to fifteen hundred bucks, depending upon if you get it. For holding one or two. For holding one or two. Right. I'm like, this is more than the TVs. Yeah. Like, when did it flip from the cases being more than the product inside of it that they're protecting? I don't know, dude. But I hear this all the time from people about like any gear. Yeah. And you have to have cases because other but I'm at the same point, I'm like, I could almost afford to have to let it go shitty.

SPEAKER_04 14:19

Leave it in the cardboard box and let it go shitty. Right. And just buy another one.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

Yeah. Now, of course, you're screwed if it's in the morning, you know, outside of Walmart. You know, there might not be another place open. Right. But I'm just like, these cases, I gotta figure out a better situation. I'm just frustrated these cases are costing as much or more than the product that they're supposed to protect. Like, when did that become a thing?

SPEAKER_05 14:39

I don't know, man. I I I think probably the cost of the the parts to make the cases has gone up. Labor. I mean, I've I there's a case making company here in Raleigh, and I bought a case, and me and Saquon Saquon goes, dude, this case ain't gonna make it to three shows. It did make it to three shows. And I bet I paid$2,000 for it.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

There's a guy I know who uses the Bun command center. Command center. Yeah. He's had it for a while.

SPEAKER_05 15:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

His cases, his, I think they're the soft cases.

SPEAKER_05 15:09

The bags come in, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

They went bad after a couple years. Yeah, that they would if you use it hard, yeah. So he goes to find an actual permanent solution. Yeah. He's like, it's literally$1,500 to$2,000. Easily. He's like, I already spent whatever it was on the crack. He's like, I'm not looking to spend another two. Yeah. But like, what am I supposed to do?

SPEAKER_05 15:29

You can order another set of bags.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

I don't know. I just feel like if you're making, if you're a manufacturer, you gotta figure it out. Because also, I'm finding out with the fast set table I had for a while.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Those initial bags were terrible. The zippers are always now the bags are better. The bags are great now. But I feel like a lot of these manufacturers almost like that's a secondary business. Like they don't even want to handle bags. And if they do, they're shitty. No. Our bags are elite. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 15:54

I'm gonna say we have some of the best bags in the business. Got it. Uh oh over like the speaker manuf manufacturers. Okay. Like, and again, like if you're going out every weekend two, three years, yeah, you're gonna need to buy another set of bags for two or three hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_03 16:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:07

Right. But you're the exception, not the very proud of our bags.

SPEAKER_03 16:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 16:12

Uh I mean But they shouldn't be more than the freaking product. Oh no, no, right? Definitely not. No. That's my road cases are harder than you think, I think, to build, cut, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

I was almost like, can I get these in China? Will they lie? Will they last? I know it's gonna take a while to get here. Right. But is that the move for these cases? Did you find them? No, I haven't yet. Oh, okay. I I'm still in the in the market for them, but I just was like, God, this thing is So what'd you do? Cardboard box it? No, I I found some um uh soft bags. I didn't even do bags. Oh, they are kind of bags. I guess it's like a soft cover that goes over on top of it. Yeah, it's not great. No, I mean, if it if it bangs into something, you're so I strapped it in, a raptic strapped it into a you-haul van. But I'm just like, I I'm using it three times. Like, do I really need it to be in a case that's gonna take up a huge amount of room in my storage? It doesn't sound like something you would buy. So that's my rant. I just I can't believe that these cases are so expensive compared to the product that they're supposed to protect. What is my rant? Dude, you were saying something about country music, remixes, country in general. Give me the I don't I mean, why is it?

SPEAKER_05 17:17

I feel like everything now that I'm getting is like a country remix of like an Ella Langley song.

unknown 17:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:24

Do I do I even give a fuck about her or country?

SPEAKER_02 17:26

She's big, man. She's big. I'm telling you that I told you about the Choose in Texas song. It's massive. Which is a crazy that at a wedding that's the song that everyone Nobody's asking me for it.

SPEAKER_05 17:37

Really? Nobody asked me for it. Everybody thinks that just because I'm a redneck and that I live in North Carolina, that all I am I'm asked for and all that we play is country. We never, ever play country, man. Okay. Ever. The only time I played it last weekend at the wedding I did, but it was dinner and cocktails.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

Right.

SPEAKER_05 17:56

Once it switched over, I didn't play. I might have played a classic rock song, yeah, or like a Skinnard song, but like I did not play country. And these people were country. We were in the country on a farm, and I still did not have country requests.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

That's interesting.

SPEAKER_05 18:11

It's just not dance music, man. I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

It's uh the there's a whole j subgenre now.

SPEAKER_05 18:16

It's yeah. I mean, I understand that shit, man, but like I'm just I don't know, man. Maybe it's here, maybe it's just here. I I don't know. I've been in brutal road.

Country Remixes And Stagecoach Clips

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Yeah, and I will say, like, in markets, you wouldn't expect it, like New York and New Jersey. I would not. You're right. I wouldn't have. You wouldn't think that would go off. They're massive. I mean, they just had stagecoach. I know. Where was that? The Coachella area, same spot, same literally same grounds as where Coachella is. I know that. Yeah. And I mean, look how many people that drew. I know. Massive. Country is on the uptick, man. It's become normal.

SPEAKER_05 18:51

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, in terms of our playlist that I'm getting from these guys. That's weird. It's not on there.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

But you're 10 years behind. You're in your North Carolina. To the point. You know what I mean? Good point. All right. We just got cold sparks. But you want less, you want less remixes. You want less. We don't have cold sparks. Don't call me about cold sparks.

SPEAKER_05 19:07

You want less country music on the request list, anyways. It's not on the request list. I just would like less remix. Can I get an edit of I'd rather have an edit of uh Backstreet Boys or Um Fallout Boy than I would of Morgan Wallen.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

Yeah. Okay. I get you.

SPEAKER_05 19:25

I don't need any more goddamn Morgan Wallen edits, man. Okay. From Wallen Dow.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 19:29

And I love Morgan Wallen.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

You know that. Yeah. Well, it's at our pop culture segment. Which is Stagecoach. Okay. Brian B. Jump on. Dropping heat just for fun.

SPEAKER_05 19:43

Pop talk spinning like a record spine.

SPEAKER_07 19:48

Pop culture class where the stories collide. Two DJs bringing the flavor world wild.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Have you seen anything? This just happened this weekend as of recording. Not really. You didn't see any clips? Nah. Well, uh, I gotta shout out our boy Scooter. Shout out Scooter always. Hit the next slide. Our boy played on the honky tonk stage that was Diplos. Okay. I mean, to know somebody that like personally that did that. Like, this dude's been grinding for years. So I just want to give him his flowers. I thought he did a tremendous job from what I saw on clips. I didn't watch the show. Right. But could you watch the show? I don't know. Oh, okay. I don't know. But I was just super stoked for him that he's been on that grind for so long. He got to do a uh a set with Waka Flacca, who was there? I know this is part of my rant a little bit here. I know we're off the rants, but I want to talk about that in stagecoach. But yeah, he uh he did it. You know, the girl you just brought up, Ella Langley. Yeah, you sure he brought out a special guest? Did you see that? No, yeah. Theo Vaughn. Oh, yeah, why him? Well, hey, you know he used to sing. I did not. Yeah. So he I don't know why he brought him out. I love that guy. I played a put a little clip up here for you. Are they boning? I don't think so. Look at him, dude. Got the got the hat.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

I love that thing. He's a freaking gaver. I love him though. I do too. He actually saying like here. He's getting rid of yourself.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

My mom loves this song. I mean, the crowd, look how many people are out there for this show, dude. You can't tell me country isn't like crossing over. And I'm not a big country fan, but look at me either. I know. Um then my mom loves that song. Oh, like she was an early adopter. Yeah. Oh, that's a great song. It's a great team. You look like you love. Oh, you go back one more quick. Let me let me set it up first. So um I saw loud luxury was there in the dipotent. Okay. And he had a great opener, which I always like to see what how people open their shows. Yeah. So check this out.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

But are you ready? This is Lena Dunham's. I don't think so, honey. Time starts now.

SPEAKER_07 22:20

I don't think so, honey. Quiet luxury.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 22:23

I don't. If I'm gonna have luxury, I want it to be loud. I want it to be loud. I want it to be loud.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Is this the name of their group? Yeah. Luxury.

SPEAKER_07 22:33

I want it to be loud. Luxury. I want it to be loud.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

I thought that was a great opener.

SPEAKER_07 22:39

I want it to be loud.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Is that how they got the name, I wonder?

SPEAKER_07 22:42

From I want it to be loud.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_07 22:44

I want it to be loud.

SPEAKER_05 22:46

Look at all those people there, though, right?

SPEAKER_07 22:48

I want it to be loud.

SPEAKER_05 22:49

But it's not really uh, I mean, obviously, not exclusively luxury. I'm getting there to that point.

SPEAKER_07 22:55

I want it to be loud.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

So then did you hear what happened day two? No. Day two, they had winds up to 40 miles per hour.

SPEAKER_05 23:05

That wasn't the day scooter. Glad I'm glad. He was day one. Yeah, I'm glad.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

So day two, yeah, and they had these winds. Yeah. They tell everybody to get out. Yeah. And then they reopened it like within an hour or so. Yeah. And so after they tell everybody to evacuate, it was gonna be pandemonium getting them all back. Right. You know what I mean? Right. But I saw a lot of luxury actually posted from their set on day two with this win thing. So I'll show you what it what it was like for them.

unknown 23:39

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

They're saying, hell no. They literally have to cut their set. And then on the screens here, you'll see it says evacuate from the ground. Stay calm. And everybody has to get out of there. I mean, can you imagine you're playing your set? Like you just I mean, a lot of luxury is big already, but still the play for this, and then you get that kind of thrown at to you. So they evacuated everybody out of there, and then they told them all to come back within an hour, but not everybody did. It's kind of crazy, which I just thought was an interesting story moment. Right. Uh now everybody's pissed off because they want to get a refund. Yeah. Because they're like, you told us to evacuate, you know what I mean? Right. We didn't get to see the show. So, but to your point, I'm trying to understand like this it's supposed to be a country thing. Yeah. And I don't see them playing all country music. No, like even the acts were kind of not country acts necessarily, not all of them. And the songs that did the best from what all the clips I saw were not country ones. This was loud luxury playing gimme gimme. I'm like, yeah, I don't get it. I don't know. So here hit this club. But look up people. They did have a country dance. Gimme gimme. Maybe that was a tie-in. At least this one tried to tie in country dancers to it. I mean the dressless country, I guess. They even called They even called it mainstage M-A-N-E, like the cowboy thing. I I don't know what this is.

SPEAKER_05 25:25

And then Wookie played. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

Did you see him do his thing? Play his. Did he rock? Waiting for tonight. You love that song. But I don't get it. Like, we're at a country show. You're playing Latin? Yeah. So I'm trying to understand like how I get it if they were playing electronic with the country remixes, but this isn't even that. And then the last sector.

SPEAKER_05 25:53

What does this crowd look like? I mean, was there like 10,000 people there? Was there 5,000 people there? I just saw it at an angle, so I don't know. Man, we we should have we gotta we I gotta shout out. I gotta look, I gotta text Scooter and see what happened.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

Like they even had Pitbull and Lil John there. Huh? Hit this clip.

SPEAKER_05 26:18

Not pit bull.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

You know this time too much of the crowd though? This was they played after they evacuated everybody. So they made out quite too many people.

SPEAKER_05 27:00

I played Disney on Saturday. Everybody was fine.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

You ever play it? No. What's the name of it called? Damn I Love Miami. Okay. Oh, it must be is a new one is it one of the newer ones tracks? Anyway, I just show these things because I think these have the chance to move the needle musically. Yeah. So you gotta be watching these clips, seeing what's popping off. Then check the lists and see what's what's cranking. But uh this is only I don't know if they do it like Coachella and they have a week two. I think they do. Another weekend, yeah, I think they do. So this was weekend one of two, I think. So worth kind of I would as my dad would say, yeah, I'd rather be dipped in goat shit than go to a go to one of these festivals.

SPEAKER_05 27:41

I'm sorry. I don't I love these artists, man, but then like I just will see them by themselves.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

I think you would change your story because I think what was big in the 90s and 80s festival wise has changed. So you haven't been in a while. You're right. So I think you need to make a make a trek. I mean I I'm gonna have to mortgage my house. I thought for the Patreon, you and I could put together a little pack of some of our go-to country edits. Okay. In honor of Stagecoach, if you will. Sure. Okay. I mean, I don't have a uh bag, yeah. But I'll throw a couple of them in there. Yeah, too. So if you're a member of the Patreon, that'll be our music contribution for this episode. Woo! Couple country tracks.

SPEAKER_05 28:20

Patreon.com slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast. There you go. Get on it.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

Now let's hit the story time. Okay. Let's go into story time. All right. So one of the last gigs I had, dude, this was a heavy Christian wedding, bro. Heavy Christian. Like, I mean, hey, I get the prayers, all that. No problem. I don't even mind it. Oh my god.

unknown 28:52

Oh my god.

Worship Music Wedding Surprise Story

SPEAKER_02 28:54

But uh shout out, Jesus. So cocktail hour, they go, hey, um, we want to play this uh worship set. Uh-oh. Worship set, like you're having somebody play live. No, no, no. We just want the tracks to play while people I'm like a service? Like live? You know, just like these are Oh, oh, okay. You know, from actual tracks of it. You know, whatever. I got you, right? But these things are like six or seven minutes long. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, I'm not spending the time editing these down. No. I'm letting this roll. Let it ride, yeah. Yeah. But I have never done a cocktail hour where it was all worship music. Me neither. And I'm just like, I don't know how I'm gonna turn this around when we're coming into I don't even remember the song we came into the grand entrance, but it wasn't that. Yeah. So, anyways, I play this thing, uh, play the cocktail hour, just let it ride. We go in the grand entrance, and the bride comes in, she's gonna give the first welcome after she comes in. They're not doing the dances until after dinner, it's kind of random. Okay. She comes in, she takes them like, hey, I want to thank everybody, but you know, this night's not just about me and so and so. It's also an opportunity for you to know the Lord. Okay. She goes into full altar call mode. What's that mean? Like, basically, like, if you want to accept God, uh, I'm gonna give you the opportunity to do that. I'm like, are you a preacher? What? Like, what is happening? Was she a preacher? No, no, she just I don't know. Just fulfilling the Lord. Fulfilling the Lord. So she has everybody bow and like, you know, basically has these people like, hey, if you don't know God, I want you to know him tonight. Like, this is the night to know him. And I'm just like, whoa, I'm gonna be able to do that. Hold on a second, man. Hold on. This is at your wedding.

SPEAKER_05 30:24

I know, but what I'm saying, did you know this was coming before you got there?

SPEAKER_02 30:27

I knew she was giving up.

SPEAKER_05 30:28

Did you know it was gonna be Christian? Oh, I didn't know it was Christian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did know that. Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

But I'm not expecting this at the welcome.

SPEAKER_05 30:34

No, me neither.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

I'm like, do we need to dim the lights? I thought they were gonna do I need to be playing underground. Do I need to roll the baptism bowl out? They just start dumbing people. I had no idea. I'm like, yo, this is the first time I've ever had this. And then the last two songs of the night were worship songs that they wanted in the set. And they wanted some Christian music. I'm gonna go, hey, that's not my bag. I don't have a ton of that. I might know two or three, but I don't even know anything I play during dancing. Right. So you're gonna have to hook me up. Yeah. I will say this there's some decent EDM-esque kind of bangers of Christian music. Really? Yeah. So I play uh this the last year. I'm like, oh my god, I can't believe I have to land the plane with this. And they're like 140 beats per minute. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 31:11

Jeez.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

Going off. I'll put the clip in. I don't have it with me, but I'll put the clip in here so you can kind of see how it goes off. So let me hit that right now. Anyway, never done a wedding like this in my life. I don't think I would recommend it personally.

SPEAKER_03 31:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

But like their crowd kind of was that. So it worked. So did you get saved? No, no, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good on that. I'm good on that.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

But uh, yeah, man, I was like, wow. Oh, and that was the other thing. They go, hey, uh, the bartender comes up to me and she goes, Hey. What they have alcohol? She goes, You want anything to do at the bar? You want anything to drink? I go, Oh, no, no, I don't really drink. She goes, Oh, no, no, nothing is alcoholic here. You can have whatever you want. I go, oh, all right. So I'll put a picture up. I don't have it because I just thought about it. I forgot about it now. But uh they had a drink called Christian Mingle. And I'm like, Isn't that the you know the dating app? I guess that went bust. So now they made a drink. I'm like, I'm married. I'm like, I don't know if I should really be drinking this right now. You know, I don't know what's gonna happen. What was in it? It was like a seltzer, and I will tell you, it kind of hit. Yeah, I was like pretty impressed. Everything was on alcohol, no alcohol whatsoever. Did you know that? I did not know that going in. No, I mean I should have assumed based on the playlist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I thought they'd have wine or you know, what was on the playlist? Like, what like I mean, would there be a lot of things? Tomorrow, like all that stuff. There was I did play No Hands that was on the list, surprisingly. Wow. I played the clean version, clearly. Did anybody drop it to the floor? I mean, like a few, but I mean, it was not heavy in that. It was mainly like 80s, right? You know, 90s boy band. Not a lot of throwing ass. No, uh, that was probably the deepest one. Holy moly, dude. Anyway, you've been on a string. String of some crazy ones. Yeah. But it is what it is. Talk to me about your back to back. You got a new laptop.

SPEAKER_05 32:55

Boy, did a small wedding uh last Friday. Yeah, last Friday. Oh, you need that stinker button?

unknown 33:02

Yeah, go ahead and hit the button.

SPEAKER_05 33:04

Maybe I'm gonna hold the button, but I'm not gonna hit it yet. Hold on. Let me finish the story. Uh, ceremony, reception, whatever. Day before. Uh, my mom hired a sax player. I'm like, uh, come and say, what? Like, yeah. Sax players coming. And uh Where'd she find him? Here's a note Seattle from TikTok. She paid for this guy to fly in. Yes, that's when I knew I had not charged enough. Homeboy flew here 3,200 miles from Seattle. You couldn't find one in the southeast. I know 17 in the county of Orange.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

So you probably need to start like mention this in your sales calls. Right. I told you. I told you that.

Sax Guest And The Laptop Crash

SPEAKER_05 33:49

So I'm like, uh, okay. I email the guy, no response. We get to the wedding, he shows up. Well, he shows up in the middle of the ceremony and said, Hey man, I'm gonna put you on pause right now because this is this is incredibly important. I have to do the ceremony. And we were using the brand new rig with you know new mixer and everything. I was like, I'll come back to you after the ceremony and I'll get you right. But he's playing cocktail out. No, I got him right. I got him right. So I send Saquon, I go, yo, go get your man right on the everse eight. He rigs up a little laptop with his track.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

So he's playing his own music for cocktail, or you don't have to worry about anything. That's a sign. That's a sign.

SPEAKER_05 34:25

Ukrainian guy. Ukrainian! Yep. Now I don't want to shit on Ukraine. I know it's unpleasant territory right now. Right. But my man So could he not speak English? Barely. No, is he very delicate, yeah. Not well. Definitely his second, second, second choice.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

Is that what he's playing?

SPEAKER_05 34:42

Ukrainian tracks? He's playing like RB and funky. The tone was okay. We were like, okay, he's good. You know what? He's okay. But once dancing started and we plugged him into my system, my man didn't know the records.

SPEAKER_03 34:56

No.

SPEAKER_05 34:57

Nah. And I'm playing, you know, I'm playing just as straight ahead as again. Yeah. He didn't know the records. So he made mostly sat out and just kind of roamed around holding the sacks, not really tootin' it. Not really tootin' it. Yeah. But the bride was super happy. It was small, man. 71 people. We don't do weddings that small, really. Yeah. But she was super happy. She wrote me an incredible review two, three days later, man. And they were super happy. And I all is well that ends well, right? Next day, and I but keep in mind, by the way, that this that particular weekend, I am sick sick. Coughing. Voice is shot. I had been Midwest. I just run myself ragged. My nose is running. I'm coughing.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

But at this wedding, didn't you also debut a new computer? I did.

SPEAKER_05 35:50

I bring out a new MacBook Air based on Drew Pierce and Brian Bonacisi saying the MacBook Air is plenty good for Serato Joe. Don't spend your money on the MacBook Pro, you stupid bastard. Get the air. Well, I get there, I've I've I've prepped it all. I've loaded Serato. I've done everything, moved the music over. Everything is fine on internal mode. I hook it up to the controller. I start trying to play during, you know, a sound check. Now keep in mind, before you go, boy, that was dumb. I agree, that was dumb, but keep in mind, I had all my other computers. Right. I had now I had three other two other computers. Yeah. So I had three total. Yeah. So it's it's giving me a bit of a problem. Uh I'm texting Drew. He's giving me a couple ideas that I had I had not checked a couple of boxes. And keep in mind, it's a new operating system, new Serato. Yeah. From the old computer, because I never updated the old one to Tahoe. And you still haven't. Uh I got rid of it. Oh, okay. And anyway, long story short, I play the entire three-hour dance set. And I'm next to lax last song and I load a track and the computer starts beach balling. And I'm like, we're gonna crash. So I start grabbing I already. How much time do you have on the beach ball? Less than 30 seconds. Oh yeah, less than before Cerato crashes. So I grab the mic. I already know I'm gonna have to talk, like say something. And I'm kind of fumbling for the the um and I grab the iPad and the dongle, and I and I don't know why I did that. I think I thought the computer was gonna crash, not just Cerato. I could have just hit play on Serrato and gone right into another song. I mean I'm sp on Spotify. Right. I grab the iPad, Saquon hears it, looks, sees me scrambling, he comes over, he's like, What can I do? I was like, just we gotta figure out how to play a song on Spotify. So it crashes, and it's like titanium, and I go, keep singing, keep singing. I'm like, y'all are going so hard the computer crashed or whatever. Like I just admitted it.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:48

And in the interim, I'm kind of fumbling around. And it was maybe 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:52

And I pull up another song, like American Pie, or something that I had like not wanted to play. It was on our list. Yeah. Like I would never play American Pie. I hate that song. And it's 10 minutes long. Oh, absolutely. But I knew it would buy me enough time to like make sure. Yeah, that'll buy you plenty of time. You could go to the store and buy a new computer and come back. I went and shaved. I went and shaved and came back. And anyway, and then I played the last song or whatever off Spotify as well, just to be safe. But it didn't seem to affect the party. They stayed out there, sang along, dance, whatever. Yeah. It just but the next day I did not use it. Went to this wedding out in the country. I mean, out in the middle of the country on somebody's property, yeah, under a tent, American themed, red, white, and blue. Like, I mean, um as country as you can get Americana. And ceremony was in the front yard, no tent for that. But dude, all in all, a great set. I played it, you know, everything from living on a prayer to waka flocca, you know, not a lot of country, tons of country for dinner, tons of country for cocktails. Saquon wasn't there, he had his own show. Yeah. So I took another one of my DJs to assist because I needed help. But man, I mean, I went back to the old laptop. Yeah, and then on Monday, took both of those MacBook Airs back and bought two brand new MacBook Pros, and I'm still in the process of loading them up now. New Mac two MacBook Pros. Pros. All right. So what I want to see is if this that is the issue. I don't I don't know. To be fair, no, I do not believe this is a hardware issue. I believe, though, that the migration, the one-to-one migration, instead of starting fresh, was my downfall. If if I can be completely honest. Yeah. Because the the the two operating systems were different. I think the versions of Serato were different. I think I brought over some bad doo-doo from the transport of one-to-one. So on both of these when I started them, fresh. I literally said start from nothing. Right. So I downloaded Serato. Downloaded Dropbox. It's a pain in the ass.

SPEAKER_01 39:46

Yeah. Can't imagine.

SPEAKER_05 39:47

And I moved all the music now off of Dropbox into the internal Dropbox. Got it. Okay. But what happens if that goes down? Uh I do have a backup. A computer. But it is brand new as well. Oh. But I do have the internal. Yeah. And now everything's on an external. Oh, that's good. Yeah, you gotta do that. It is a lot. It's a lot, dude. It's scary. Okay. To be fair, go on. The MacBook Gear has been good to you. Rock solid.

SPEAKER_02 40:16

I know. Zero, not even limp. I know. I mean just cooking. But I'm telling you. I used it outdoors. I know. This weekend where I was untendent, blazing hot, and I was freaking out. Yeah. I mean, I could feel it. It was getting warm. There's no fan on those. No, but I had a fan X with me. Right. Blow on that thing like nobody's business. Right. It eventually kind of cooled off, but there was so much moisture. Right. It was just like my iPad was wet. Oh. Like one of those kinds of things. Wow. And so I'm like, well, this is a good test. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 40:48

And I had a backup. That picture you sent me was nuts, bro. You were in a dusty ass piece of like the wheat grass.

SPEAKER_02 40:54

It was even grass. It was a mud mud pit because the it had rained earlier in the day. So it just turned everything to like gross. But it cooled it off a little. Yeah. Um, but no, I haven't had any problems with that laptop. So I'm not of the same. I'm not sure. I I don't want to say it was but it could also be the music, is what my theory was. Is that you had it on a dropbox thing? I don't know if that caused anything. Right. Could have been that. But I always say, too, you should always plug in the controller before you get to the gig. I know you didn't have time, and I know, but that would have been my only other thing. I'll I'll eat that one.

SPEAKER_05 41:28

But again, I had all my shit backed up, ready to go, emergency ready. I was almost I was mad that I even let it go 30 seconds. You know what I mean? Totally. Because I had it, I had it. I had it right there. Right. But I thought the computer was crashing. I get that erotic. I get that. So I'm sitting there fumbling for an iPad to fire off a song, and I could have just fired it right off the laptop.

SPEAKER_02 41:50

That's where our oh shit playlist comes in handy. Yep. I'm gonna say. So if you're uh a listening member, you get that on the Patreon too.

SPEAKER_05 41:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 41:57

Uh let's hit these last two things and get out of here. I'm hungry.

SPEAKER_04 42:02

The gear's here. The gear. The gear is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here.

SPEAKER_02 42:11

So I told you I did these this corporate. Yep. Uh I am going to shout out something that I think is massive, which is this HDMI wireless adapter. Okay. My my issue was uh I was going from the TV to somebody using their um own computer to and I didn't know what size cable I needed. Yeah, right. Do I need a 30? Do I need a 20? Do I need a two-footer, which you have? Yeah, or do I need a 50 or 100? So I'm like, there's gotta be a better way to do this. So I bought this wireless adapter. It comes like this. I'll let you look at it here. Uh I like this little box, actually. I don't like the the topper, obviously, for it, but they make them in one-to-one configurations, or they make them in three to one, which is what I used. I used a three to one. So they're not battery powered from the standpoint of you know charging them with a USB-C or whatever.

SPEAKER_05 43:02

USB power though.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

They are USB powered. So it has to the TV has to be new enough that it has that in there.

SPEAKER_05 43:07

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 43:08

Used it for two straight days, no problems really on multiple TVs.

SPEAKER_05 43:12

I actually think the range was on it.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

I mean uh it says it right there on there on the front there. It says uh 200 meters, dude.

SPEAKER_05 43:18

200 meters.

Wireless HDMI Setup That Just Works

SPEAKER_02 43:18

600 feet. Yeah, decent, decent throw. But where it really comes in handy is if you're in the back of the room. So I got this picture here that I'll show up here of uh Saquon, you want to go to the next picture? I mean, this is what it's supposed to look like when you're doing it for a massive thing. And I'm telling you, it was rock solid. And this lady was so impressed with just the way I was doing it all. She's like, Are you available to go to Aruba next year for our conference? And I was like, Yeah. So I kept thinking, like, what are the things I need to take with me out of the country to do this? I use my battery powered lapel. Yeah. Zero dropouts. Yeah, perfect. We've already talked about this on that show. So this and this with the uh Allen and Heath mixer. I mean the only thing I'm missing is really like uh uh screens. That's it. So I'm like, I could take this on the road. So I'm a high endorser of this particular product. Was this Amazon? It was Amazon. It goes for a one fur. What do you think a one fur goes for of this? A one to one? One to one. Um 89? 69 bucks. Okay. The three fur goes for 169. Okay. So they give you a little bit of a break on the price. Okay. Um, huge advocate of it. Yeah. Worked great for me. So if you're looking for this, I didn't even know this existed, to be honest with you. I was just looking for something that would be, I didn't have to go buy a bunch of cable that's expensive. HCMI cable is expensive. And I've had problems with them even working sometimes. I'm like, I gotta bring us back up. I'm like, I gotta I don't want to do that. No, I gotta figure this out. So this is the move. Wow. Just throwing it out there. Nice, nice find. Let's hit the question of the day and end it here.

SPEAKER_05 44:51

Question of the day. I'm DJing a women's flag football tournament coming up soon in Phoenix. It's gonna be unseasonably hot. Being from this area isn't a problem. The question is, how do you prepare both mentally and physically, or both mentally and musically for a gig that starts at 8 30 a.m. and goes till 7 30 p.m. on Saturday and then go back there again on Sunday from 8 30 a.m. until 4 30 p.m. I plan on splitting time with another DJ, but those are some long ass sets. Shout out DJ Damien42 on YouTube.

SPEAKER_02 45:30

It's been a while since I've done one of those kinds of marathon sets. I'm gonna just say I wouldn't do it. No amount of money would make it McMahon.

Marathon Gig Prep For Heat And Hours

SPEAKER_05 45:39

I mean, money would probably get me to go there, but I'm definitely not doing it by myself. Yeah. Like I'm I'm bringing another DJ? Oh, 100%. Or I'm just splitting it, like like he said. You know, I I think you do 8 30 to 1230, or you do the you know, 230 to 730. It's just like any other gig. Right. Right? I mean I mean, mentally, I I I just I wouldn't play for 11 hours, man. And then again the next day for another eight. I I'm I mean, Damien, I think definitely splitting it up with another DJ or your assistant or somebody so you can take at least you know an hour or two break in the middle. Yeah. Even if you don't leave, you're just kind of chilling in the background or something on your laptop. And and then musically, it's I mean, this isn't a dance thing, right? So it's not that high stress. Like play what you want, you know what I mean? Keep it clean, keep it energetic, right? Keep it moving. And I don't think I would overthink the the music part of it. Right. You know, I I don't even I don't think I would prep for it like Brian was saying, he and I were talking about something earlier before off camera. Like it's not a thing that you prep for. Right. You know, you just have a big old crater, pull from the master folder, yeah. Play stuff you never get to play. Yeah. And you know, maybe you'll find some gems in it and mark them, you know, a certain color or something for the next gig. Yeah. You know, mark them yellow, be like, damn, I forgot about this.

SPEAKER_02 46:57

I don't know. I'll be honest, this is where uh uh I kind of cheat the system a bit. I mean, I have a couple of mixes that I've made. Yeah, I also have other DJs who've given me non-branded ones. Right. And I mean, I'll make sure it fits. I'm not gonna be playing something crazy at 8:30 in the morning. But like, especially for that time frame when there's like hardly anybody there.

SPEAKER_01 47:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

Like, that's a great time to, or during lunch, when you need to just take like a quick 20 minutes to like refresh yourself. Yeah. I will say that my other go-to moves are uh change out your socks.

SPEAKER_05 47:30

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

I bring a freshy, freshy pair. I love a change, uh a sock change. Yeah, you do. So I bring out one or two of those. Interesting. Uh, I would bring uh a fan. Yep. I mean, obviously, if you're in Phoenix, you're gonna need it anyways. Yep. Um tons of water stay hydrated, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

Uh electrolytes, cooler. I'd bring a whole full of cooler. Seriously, because you might have a lunch in there, Gatorade, water, yeah, coconut water.

SPEAKER_02 47:53

Would you go like poo-poo platter? I'd put a little poo-poo platter together. You get that delivered, no sushi. And then uh I would also just think about maybe for this gig, I don't know, but uh a little stool of some sort.

SPEAKER_05 48:07

Yeah, one of those little lean back stood or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 48:08

Yeah, I might so I might uh invest in one of those for this kind of a gig. Right. This is a long, I mean, I used to do nightlife stuff where it was eight hours. I was playing from eight at night until four in the morning. Trip club? Uh no, no, no, no. This is nightclub. Nightclub. I was doing it for one in Destin. You ever played a strip club? Uh uh, I'm gonna leave that uh unanswered. But I will say, yeah, that uh that eight hour I was playing from eight at night till four in the morning. And that no one was showing up before 10. I'm playing a pre-mix. Yeah. From eight to ten.

SPEAKER_05 48:41

Hit the J mix.

SPEAKER_02 48:43

Yeah. He's got enough of those out there.

SPEAKER_05 48:45

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 48:45

You know, play a little Joe Bunn mix. So, anyways, that's what I would suggest. Wow. Uh I don't know if I would good luck. Yeah. The the the um assistant thing, I don't know, man. Because I mean, I don't know. I feel like if they're thinking they're getting a DJ. What if you're like me where you have 20 other DJs? Yeah, maybe. But you still gotta pay them. Well, that's true. I mean, yeah, I mean, you gotta make sure you're charging enough. I'm guessing that this is you're charging it for one DJ, not two. I would suggest that on the call, actually. I would say, hey, listen, I think you should freshen it up. Yeah, you're gonna want this anyway. That way it would just be burnt, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 49:21

Especially in Phoenix, bro. Do you remember those things when we were younger called project graduation where they went all night? It was big here. Oh, yeah, grad nights. Well, we called it project graduation.

SPEAKER_03 49:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 49:31

Where like you would kind of have like a lock-in. You'd sleep. I do know those. And you we had to play all night. Yeah. Remember those? I did one or two. Yeah, I did one or two too, and I was like, I'm good on this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

When I was young, when I was mine was in uh at Disneyland. I did it at Disneyland, and they'd hire me for the grad nights. Wow. But that would be like nine at night until like two or three in the morning. Oh, yeah. They were long. No, this thing I think went into like you you brought like a sleeping bag. Oh, no, no, I didn't do that.

SPEAKER_05 49:56

It was all night. Like it was terrible.

SPEAKER_02 49:59

Okay. I ain't doing that shit again. Did you play uh what was that song you were talking about last the last recording? Um uh Sailing? Did you play Sailing?

SPEAKER_01 50:07

I could have, though.

SPEAKER_05 50:11

Boy, Chris Recross.

SPEAKER_02 50:13

Let's put a bow on this. Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_05 50:14

Ladies and hostage. We are gonna wrap this one up and eat a delicious sub from Jersey. Mike's that's not our sponsor, but let me tell you who he is. DJ Event Planner. They are the CRM of choice of the Beyond the DJ Booth podcast. Go check them out if you're looking for a CRM Beyond the DJ Booth. Main sponsor is DJ Event Planner, DJ Eventplanner.com. We'll see you next week. Later, y'all