April 8, 2026

Fun Fact: Networking Works

Fun Fact: Networking Works

Send us a message You can be an incredible DJ and still feel stuck if nobody knows you well enough to refer you. We get honest about networking for DJs, what actually moves the needle, and why “just posting more” is not a substitute for real relationships. We break down the industry groups that have consistently turned into bookings and vendor trust for us, including NACE, WIPA, and ILEA, plus the simple habits that make those memberships pay off: show up, volunteer, meet the new venue conta...

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Season 7

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You can be an incredible DJ and still feel stuck if nobody knows you well enough to refer you. We get honest about networking for DJs, what actually moves the needle, and why “just posting more” is not a substitute for real relationships.

We break down the industry groups that have consistently turned into bookings and vendor trust for us, including NACE, WIPA, and ILEA, plus the simple habits that make those memberships pay off: show up, volunteer, meet the new venue contacts before your competitors do, and stop clustering with your own friends at events. Then we zoom out to networking outside the wedding industry with founder dinners and entrepreneur dinner clubs. One dinner leads to a surprising connection with a creator running a massive paid email list, which sparks a bigger point: the best contact might be someone with the audience and clients you want, not just someone in your lane.

After that, we switch gears into DJ music programming, sharing a few vibey tracks that are working for cocktail hour and dinner, plus a quick conversation on AI covers and how to think about them responsibly. We also hit Gear Corner with travel-friendly picks, and wrap with a real-world question every wedding DJ and event DJ faces: what to review when the dance floor falls flat, how to collect accurate feedback, and how to rebound without spiraling.

If you got value, subscribe, share this with a DJ friend who needs better referrals, and leave a review so more booth heads can find us.

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RESOURCES & LINKS

Our website. Please leave a review! - https://www.beyondthedjbooth.com/
To book Joe Bunn: https://bunndjcompany.com/
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Joe’s Gear Finds on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/djjoebunn
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DJ Event Planner free demo: https://www.djeventplanner.com/signup.php
Brian B's Coaching Options: Https://www.thdjscreativeedge.com

00:17 - Welcome To The Lab

01:21 - Patreon Community Shoutouts

02:42 - Raleigh Game Show Night Recap

06:52 - NACE Awards And Champagne Regrets

11:20 - Networking Groups DJs Should Join

16:52 - Founder Dinners Outside The Industry

24:08 - DJ Coaching Platform Pitch

25:11 - Monthly Music Picks And Edits

29:40 - AI Covers And Sampling Money

36:03 - Patreon Tiers And Perks Breakdown

37:24 - Gear Corner Travel Tools And Snacks

43:11 - Fixing Flat Dance Floors With Feedback

50:14 - Sponsor Thanks And Wrap Up

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What's up, everybody?

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Welcome back to Beyond the DJ Booth from Raleigh, North Carolina.

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The studio, as we like to say.

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The lab.

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The lab.

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Is that what you call it?

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That's what I call it.

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What do you call it?

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The lab.

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We're in the lab.

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All right.

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I feel like I need the lab coats.

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We're gonna do the call at the lab.

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I'm Brian B.

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And next to me is Joe Bunn.

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Yes, indeed.

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Dude, think about the amount of content we've made in this room.

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Not just a podcast.

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This dude, Saquon, has made albums down here.

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Oh, full on albums.

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Right.

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Artwork.

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We've shot videos in the parking lot.

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Like the amount of crack actors shit back here.

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Shot videos out there in the lobby in the common area.

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Like that's crazy.

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It it really is crazy.

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Over I think I've been here 10 years.

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I still, by the way, do not know what I'm gonna do when September comes.

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Yeah.

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I have nothing.

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I've got nothing.

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Yeah.

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Well, maybe keep it on for another month or two.

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Month a month.

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Month a month that I swear to God, I was not gonna pay rent again, but here we are.

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Well, if you are new to the podcast, we actually have a community that we utilize through Patreon.

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And that's where we're able to do some cool things in there, like uh playlists and bonus content.

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I'll just kind of leave it at that.

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We do some giveaways, a bunch of different things.

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If you're not familiar with it, you should check it out.

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We've got two different tiers, and one of the things we like to do at the beginning of every episode is shout out some of our Patreon backroom members, uh, people who've joined recently, and uh Corey Harmon from Bird's Nest.

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What I didn't even know that was a city.

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Bird's Nest, Virginia.

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I didn't either.

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Shout out Corey Harman and uh Dave Mancini from Valencia, California.

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I used to live near Valencia, Valencia.

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Was that Southern California?

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Southern California, man.

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Damn.

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Cool place, dude.

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We kind of hung out uh not too long ago.

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Who?

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Me and you and you.

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It was your birthday.

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It was my birthday, and uh shout out Rombi's birthday.

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Uh place that wrecked your stomach, uh, apparently.

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Oh my shit.

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But you liked it at first.

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I did.

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It just came back to haunt you.

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Something got me, man.

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And then, dude, I had No, no, no.

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No, this place got me.

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It got oh, the hot sauce.

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Yeah, bro.

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Yeah, no, it wasn't Mr.

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Wong's or what I'm gonna do.

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Oh, God, I was worried.

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I was like, the hot sauce got me.

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I woke up that same night, not not having the problem in the bathroom, but my throat was on fire.

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I'm telling you.

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He this so we what is this you tell him?

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All right, so you know, my wife's like, dude, we can't just do a dinner, we need to do something.

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And I'm like, all right, let's look around.

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She sent me this thing, it was called the Raleigh Game Show.

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Brand new, brand new, apparently, uh, near my house, literally right down the street.

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Yeah.

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So we went to this place.

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I thought it was pretty nice.

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Dude, I thought it was great.

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Like for what they did to the space.

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Yep.

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Um, they had a couple of movers, they had that LED dance floor, video wall, right?

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Uh, and then 12 podiums with a buzzer.

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Boop, boop, boop, boop.

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Yeah.

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And they could play up to 12 people.

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Yeah, family feud.

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And how it works is basically you can rent it out yourself.

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Yeah.

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Like, or if it's already had some people who've registered, you register online.

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You can't just walk in.

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Yeah.

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I don't think.

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Yeah.

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Um, and so they had six spots.

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So I invited six people.

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Oh, and then another couple.

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A couple showed up.

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They were supposed to be more, but they backed out.

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And so I don't know if this guy called some regulars or what happened, how that how they came in and about it.

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But what I loved about the game show in general was that they moved fast.

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The games were not like you weren't bored.

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No.

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Like it moved pretty quick.

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They were all different.

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So I felt like if you weren't good at one, you weren't gonna be as sucky at all of them.

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Yeah.

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But they did do one, which was the fear factor.

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And he goes, hot or spicy or crunchy.

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And we all said spicy.

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Yeah, I'm like crunchy.

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Old boy walks out with a chick, with a Chick-fil-A nugget.

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And it's this a dap.

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A dap.

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Like the dab, like he said it was an eyedropper he put from one of those hot wing challenges.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And he said it was what, an eight?

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I think he said it was an eight.

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Level eight.

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Bro, at first I mean this way, I'm like, oh, this is nothing.

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Then I'm talking for 24 hours, my whole throat.

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I thought I'm tore my asshole.

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Swear to God, bro.

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One drop on one chicken nugget.

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I woke up in the middle of the night like 3 a.m.

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I'm like, I can still feel it in the back of my throat.

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And the next morning I woke up, I was like, oh, sweet mother of Mary, help me.

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I texted Brian, I was like, bro, I'm in trouble, man.

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That damn what time of night was it?

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Nine?

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Yeah, I was like nine late.

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But boy, that thing just went.

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12 hours later, it came back home.

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Three or four in the morning, I'm like, I don't know how I get rid of this.

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Because there's nothing you can do.

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It was burning like my esophagus and my rectum.

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So bad, dude.

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But we had fun though.

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Brian won.

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I did.

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Yeah, it was crazy.

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Uh, we kind of just paired up in couples, and that was fun.

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I probably would do it like individual.

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No, I'm 1,000% taking my team here.

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Because I was thinking do like two shifts.

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Because we have 20 some people.

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So do do everybody's got their own podium, right?

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We paired up, but I mean everybody's got their own podium, and say five to seven or five to six thirty is the first shift, and then the second group of guys come at like 6:30 to 8 or whatever.

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It was like one hour, a little over an hour.

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Yeah.

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The host was super cool.

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He owned the place.

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Young guy, I mean, young-ish, you know, probably late 30s, early 40s.

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He was pretty funny on the mic, like, but not corny, corny.

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No.

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Nice guy.

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He was like, I was in corporate America and just had this idea and and it popped off on TikTok, and now we're busy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We did some music.

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Uh the music challenge was extremely hard because it was not just normal, like, hey, uh, name that tune.

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It was warped.

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It was so starts to switch slower and get faster.

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So yeah, and we and I'd be like, oh shit.

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Yeah.

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That was a kind of an interesting game.

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Yeah, that was tough.

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Tough.

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That was fun, man.

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They did the uh what was it, the uh Jeopardy theme thing that went pretty well as well.

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Jeopardy, that, Fear Factor Family Fuse Wheel of Fortune, Wheel of Feud.

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Oh, yeah, they did.

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They did for one of them, yeah.

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I don't remember how it worked.

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You had to guess the word or whatever.

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They did have that, yeah.

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They did have that.

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Yeah, they had that.

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That's how it started.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It was pretty good.

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I mean, so I don't know if this is just in our area or if this is a new uh something like this, but it was a function.

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He had printed out probably a thousand, maybe two thousand square feet, something like that.

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The front was kind of like a little party room with a little bar, yeah, a couple of tables.

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That room didn't look great, but the back room looked great.

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Yeah.

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For a game show.

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They had beer and wine and nothing hard liquor, but they had the other stuff there, so that was cool.

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So, anyways, uh speaking of hard liquor.

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Uh-oh.

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Bro, I the NACE awards were last night or the night before, right?

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So our Triangle NACE Award.

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Yeah.

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We entered for award, didn't win.

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Second year in a row.

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I don't know how to TJ?

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Uh best TJ.

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I don't know how to fucking write these things, apparently.

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Oh, okay.

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I mean, last year I kind of phoned it in because I was like, well, we're just gonna win.

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And we didn't.

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Yeah.

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We lost to like a one-man DJ.

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Wow.

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This year again, we lost to a one-man DJ.

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And I don't know.

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This year is that you know them?

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Yeah, I mean, they're they're they're both good guys and good.

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I mean, I don't want to just Yeah, yeah, I got it.

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And and and the the entries are sent off to third party out of state vendors to judge.

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Why would they do that?

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Because I don't think they want us to be biased to our own friends.

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So how do they judge it?

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That they've never seen any you send any materials.

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It's a write-up.

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It's a write-up in all the photos.

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Like I picked that beach wedding from last year with the those sisters that I've done.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, gorgeous girl, gorgeous guy.

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Parents are gorgeous, pictures are gorgeous, the dance floor was gorgeous, the the setting when the sun came out at the beach.

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I mean, yeah, and I write it accordingly.

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Like I've done this, you know, sister's wedding, and you know, I here's I mean, video clips, photographs, like the professional ones, not shit on my camera.

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And I'm like, I don't know what these guys are writing, but I obviously didn't need to like hire somebody, yeah, like a copywriter.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I tried to chat GPT it and then tweak it this time instead of phoning it in like I did last year.

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Yeah, still lost.

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But your boy won best dressed, male.

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This was another award you uh voted in?

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Uh no, this was just they have At that event.

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Yeah, they'd have people roaming around at the event.

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Yeah, at the event, I'm the best dressed.

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Got it.

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Because I took a suit that I didn't really like, I sent it to my son.

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The purple?

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Nope, not the purpose.

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The purp is like a go-to.

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Yeah, I can't get rid of that.

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Yeah, this was like a too pale blue.

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Aqua?

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The aqua too pale.

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Okay.

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Too pale blue.

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Too pale.

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Almost like baby blue, like you would paint a nursery.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Not good with a ultra pale.

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But that's Carolina, right?

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No, Carolina, if you really look at the color, is more like that painting.

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Oh, okay.

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Okay.

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It's not, it was back in the 70s, like baby blue.

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It's it's it's changed though.

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It's changed a lot over the years.

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So you wouldn't wear this one normally?

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I sacrificed this.

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Send it to my son who's in fashion design school down in Atlanta.

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I was like, and I was like, here's the inspiration.

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Chris Martin Coldplay, like those suits that he wears when they're on stage, which has like stars and statches and stuff.

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And Bro, he kind of he kind of crushed it.

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Yeah.

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He had painted on it, he had drawn on it, he had added all these embellishments down the bottom.

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Love it.

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That's awesome.

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And so shout out Colin Bunn.

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Shout out me winning.

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But the the the the downside was they the award was a bottle of that Vouve Clicot.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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You opened it up.

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I popped it.

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At the event.

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I'm walking around with it all night.

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Oh, bottle in hand.

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Bottle in hand, Randy's DJing.

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You're not he's he's killing it.

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I'm not ashamed of the biggest.

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You're like Tito's That's it.

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Yeah, I'm a purist.

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Yeah, Tito's soda lime.

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Yeah.

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Boy, I was fucking.

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The bubbles got me.

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It got me, bro.

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I didn't like right away.

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No, man, but but like like Randy's stopping, and I look around, I'm like, the lonely dude left there.

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And I'm like, the bottle's gone, and I'm just like, what are we doing?

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And he's like, it's over.

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I'm like, huh?

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And I was just sideways, dude.

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Saquon said champagne will get you.

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Did it hurt the next morning?

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Yes, dude.

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I and I never ever get hung.

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And yesterday I felt like shit.

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And I just pushed through.

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You know, it's not uh, I mean, I'm still woke up at seven o'clock and still came here and still did what I do, but I was like, Well, you're just like, I'm gonna get some greasy fries.

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I did.

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I went just fillet and just like loaded up, trying to come back.

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Yeah, caught some Gatorade.

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I bought some damn coconut water.

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I'm like, I gotta get out of this.

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This is it's Wednesday.

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Yeah, you can't mix.

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Because you probably also had Tito's, too, but yeah, you can't mix that stuff.

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I it was a champagne, it was a bad decision.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Anyway, so no more voodoo.

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Nah, you're gonna you're gonna pass it.

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I'm all I ain't doing the champagne.

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Okay, just don't drink it out of the bottle, bro.

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That wasn't smart.

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It was not, it was unregulated.

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The guy didn't want to give me the bottle, and I said, It's my bottle.

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Like I'm yelling at him.

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That's so funny.

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Well, this that's a good segue because we're gonna talk about networking.

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Okay.

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This is kind of inspired by um a DM from Maddie Stewart.

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You sent it to me, who mentioned he's looking or he's lacking on the networking side.

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Yeah.

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So I was about to time out you.

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Did you go to that dinner thing the other day?

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I did.

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I'm gonna talk about it.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So uh his question was really like what networking groups are we a part of?

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Which ones should DJs consider joining?

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And more importantly, how has going to these events or being a member enhanced your business?

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I mean, you're uh the networking king, so I'm sure you're gonna do them all.

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Which ones?

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Is it always the same two, though, that you tend to want to do?

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Yeah.

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I mean well, it was three.

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I mean, we have NACE, National Association of Catering and Events.

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Yeah.

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I would go so far as to say if you had a chapter within an hour of you, what was the guy's name?

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Uh Stewart.

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Stewart, I would I would join it and I would go.

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Maddie Stewart, sorry.

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I would go.

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Maddie Stewart.

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I would go.

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Literally, if you had a chapter within an hour of you, I would actually go.

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Uh we had an ILEA chapter up until two years ago.

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Okay.

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Uh International Live Events Association.

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Okay.

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I mean, I bet I was a member of that for 20 years.

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I think I'm at least 20 years in NASE.

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And then WIPA started here three years ago.

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Yeah.

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And I was up until recently a member of that.

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I know you're a member of that.

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Our WIPA chapter covers the entire state.

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Right.

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It's not just a Raleigh thing.

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So, and that's wedding intern wedding industry, professional association or something.

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If you have any of those three, I would within an hour of you, yeah, I would go.

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I would join and go.

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What I mean, what uh fruits have come from that?

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Does it sped up the referral network?

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100%.

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Yeah.

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It is, it is, it is divide and conquer, because Randy has a NACE membership as well.

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Okay.

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And normally, other than the other night, they put us at the same table for the gala, but normally uh it's choose your own table.

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And I'm like, don't sit with me, man.

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Yeah.

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Mark Tony started going.

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Oh, I did see him there.

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Yeah, I'm like, let's let's let's go to other tables, divide and conquer.

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Especially these, you know, these these girls and guys that are in their 20s now.

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Right.

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They're new.

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They don't know us.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Or somebody that's been brought in from Michigan to run the new Weston.

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They don't know us.

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Right.

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Now there is a lot of interchanging positions.

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Like the girl at the Crabtree Marriott.

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Right.

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Uh, I did her wedding last year.

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She's leaving, but she's going to the Bradford.

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The girl that used to be at the Crabtree Marriott is now at the Weston.

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So, like, but again, we met those people at the SNACE meeting, and they love us now.

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Yeah.

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So I cannot tell you the value of it any better than that.

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And and volunteer to DJ the cocktail hour, volunteer to donate a mic for the speaker, uh, be on the board.

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I'm on the board this year for the first time in a few years on the programs committee.

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That's how I got Brian to speak there two weeks ago.

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By the way, that video went up Monday.

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I don't know if you saw.

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I didn't.

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Yeah, you're in it.

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Okay, cool.

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The one that you're in.

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Oh, I did see that.

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Yeah, I got tagged.

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Yeah.

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So anything outside of the industry, like not industry related that you are considering, like, you know, I don't know.

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We're a member of Shop Local Raleigh, which is kind of like a small local group.

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Yeah.

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Um membership's not much, probably.

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It's$100 a year or something like that.

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And I feel like every once in a while she'll probably throw our name out to people because there's probably not a lot of DJs in it.

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As much as I want to tell you that we've been active with the Chamber of Commerce, we haven't.

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Right.

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But I I know there's business there.

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Yeah.

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Corporate business.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I feel like if you'll come and they have a meeting every week.

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Yeah.

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Totally.

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If you would join your chamber of commerce and get up and go to these morning meetings, I promise you that there's business there.

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And you're going to be the coolest person in the room.

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Totally.

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But I'm not going to sit here and lie to you and tell you that I do that.

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Yeah.

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There's only so many hours in a day.

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Knowing that that question was coming, I knew that you'd hit those organizations.

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So I kind of want to hit the other ones, maybe.

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There's a bunch now that are popping up like on Facebook.

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Yeah.

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Or I'm literally in a WhatsApp community now, like a channel on my WhatsApp.

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Yeah.

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That is for networking.

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And the names locals?

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Uh there are some.

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Yeah.

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So it's it's a national association, but then there's local people who can join it from all over the US.

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Money or no money?

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Uh no, it's money.

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So it's like uh, I don't know, 500 bucks a year.

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It's not crazy.

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They throw little events all over the country, but uh one would be E3.

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There's a merge is another one.

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I wrote a couple of them down here.

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Um there's also just DJ ones, like uh the one that I do with Brock, the retreat that we do.

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It's a community as well.

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Small, it's not a uh we don't throw a conference, we have a little get together once a year.

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That's pretty much it.

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Um, and then I was gonna talk about the one you were about to previously.

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Well, before you talk about that one, have you been vetted though to be an EO or gone to one of their oh no dinners, entrepreneurial organization or something like that?

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It's a huge, a national thing.

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Okay.

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It's very, very expensive, and it is very, very time inclusive, time demand head.

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Right.

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Um but I went to the dinner and I listened to the whole pitch.

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This was six months ago or something at a car club.

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Yeah, which was cool just to be at a car club with all these Porsches and Ferraris and Lamborghinis and stuff.

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But um EO is another huge group.

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National, national.

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But I get I I still get asked for them to come and still be a member.

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Um, but then I started getting targeted by that thing you went to the other night.

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So I was thinking, like, hey, I don't really do anything in this.

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I know you.

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Yeah.

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And like I as I was doing the birthday thing, I was like, I don't know many people here.

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Yeah.

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So I'm like, I don't really work here.

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I don't need to necessarily, but I was like, I need to get out of my bubble.

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I need to like push out a little bit.

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So I got targeted for this group, and it's called the Entrepreneural Dinner Club.

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Yeah.

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They basically charge like, I don't know, 80 bucks a month, I think is what it is, and they just organize it.

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And essentially you go to this, it's a different restaurant.

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Every it's dinner.

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It's like just break basically breaking bread.

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The ad to to for those of you that that don't aren't getting targeted by it, or maybe it's not in your area.

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It just said have dinner with 10 entrepreneurs.

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Yeah, or they call them founders.

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It's called a founder's trend.

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That's what it was.

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So were you getting emails from them too?

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I think I got emails.

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And I got text.

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I don't know how they got my number.

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They got text you.

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They got text me.

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Oh name.

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So anyway, so you go.

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I I went.

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I couldn't I joined last month, but I couldn't make the dinners.

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You don't have to make them.

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You're gonna get charged regardless.

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So they have, you know, they're making their money regardless if you show up or not.

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But if you say you commit, they want you to commit, and then they basically say, Hey, you are in a table of six people.

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They try to uh pair you with people that you want to be connected with or industries that you're interested in at your table.

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Where what was the restaurant?

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Uh oh, dude, you talked about the chicken the other day.

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It was my one of my go-tos here.

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Uh, what's that place um near across the street from the your uh ladies' studio?

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Mammy Nora's?

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Um no, uh it's the the southern spot.

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They do waffles and chicken.

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Oh, yeah, tu below honey.

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Toupelo honey.

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Yeah, yeah.

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One of my go-tos when I first got here.

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Oh, yeah.

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That chicken, the dusty chicken.

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Oh my god.

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It's got seasoning on it.

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Bro.

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Sounds like seasoning.

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Crack.

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Okay.

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Crack.

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Okay, all right.

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So I show up there, and I'm like, I don't know what's gonna happen here.

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I have no idea.

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Right.

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I'm like, is there a guy who's gonna moderate?

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Like, are we gonna hear a speech?

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Yeah.

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I don't know what's happening.

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Right.

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There was nobody there from that organization.

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It was literally, you just they just organized it and said, they sent me a text said, You're table one.

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Let them know when you arrive to go to table one.

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So I go to table one, I'm like, hey, I'm Brian.

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Everybody except for one person, this was their first time.

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They all joined either that week or the week before to this group.

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And I don't know.

00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:56.559
How many total people were there?

00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:58.079
Uh, maybe 18.

00:18:58.240 --> 00:18:58.559
Okay.

00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:00.000
So they had three or four tables.

00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:00.480
Sure.

00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.000
I never got out of my table to go meet anybody else because it wasn't really like that.

00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:05.359
You're just literally ordering a meal.

00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:09.920
You pay for the meal in addition to the fee you're doing, yeah, 80 bucks or whatever.

00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:12.160
Um, but I had a girl at my table.

00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:14.799
It was very male-dominated, which I was surprised at too.

00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.559
I thought it would be a lot female driven.

00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:16.960
Uh-huh.

00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:24.720
Bro, this girl, she does um, she's got about 150,000 uh followers on Instagram.

00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:24.960
Okay.

00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.039
She sells digital products.

00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:38.480
Primarily, her big hustle is selling uh deals on airlines for business class or hire only, not like the junior stuff.

00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:44.000
She has a mailing list of 60,000 paying people to get on the mailing list.

00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:45.680
You have to pay to get on the to get these deals.

00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:46.960
200 bucks.

00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:48.000
Do the math.

00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:48.799
200 bucks.

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A mother a year.

00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.200
200 bucks a year times 60,000.

00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:53.680
Right.

00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:55.279
And you get these deals.

00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:58.720
So uh I put a picture of a here's the the invitation.

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It basically it says that it's in like multiple cities, like uh they got a thousand members in 20 plus cities, it says.

00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:10.400
Um, so if you're interested, check out this uh websites at the bottom there, it kind of lists you where you can go and check it out.

00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.359
But um, I saw I started following her on Instagram.

00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:16.720
They were intrigued by me being a traveling DJ for whatever reason.

00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.319
That was like a big point of conversation.

00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.599
But uh, she posted this on her Instagram story uh the the next day.

00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:22.559
Go ahead and go to the next slide.

00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.559
It's no, that's what I was saying, though, man.

00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:35.440
In in any setting like this, whether it's the chamber or even in a wedding thing, you're you as a DJ, the people listening to this, are the most interesting fucking person in the room.

00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:35.920
Totally.

00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:36.640
I'm sorry.

00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:44.319
Like, I'm no offense to the planners or the the florists or the tent tent people, but you're the most interesting person in the room.

00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:44.880
Totally.

00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.200
I was getting me, I was pinging this girl's brain though, because I'm like 60,000 people.

00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:50.880
I'm doing the math of my head.

00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:53.119
I'm like, I need to get that many on my Patreon.

00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:54.799
So she found this ticket.

00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:58.000
Uh, it's$200 a month or$200 a year, I'm sorry.

00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:00.000
And she found this business class.

00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:07.119
This is$1,500 for an overseas trip and business class and a live flat seat instead of$5,000 for that ticket.

00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:09.119
So you're more than making your money on this.

00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:09.599
100%.

00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:10.319
Right?

00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.480
Um, I just bought my Australia tickets.

00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:13.519
Stupid, dude.

00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:15.039
Thousands and thousands and thousands.

00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:16.319
Should have done it right, you know.

00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.559
So, anyways, the and you're buying up a service?

00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:19.119
Here's the deal.

00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:21.039
I'm going to, yeah, for sure.

00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.880
Because the other thing about this, and she says this down below, she doesn't do it on points.

00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:26.079
It's all cash.

00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:27.440
So, why is that important?

00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:35.839
Because cash gets you miles on the airline for a business class ticket, which is usually in this case, so then you add miles on the air.

00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:36.720
You're not the early account.

00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:38.480
Yeah.

00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:43.039
So you might earn a hundred thousand miles on one to Australia.

00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:44.240
But how is she doing it?

00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:49.119
She has, dude, I ironically, I said, Hey, how are you doing it?

00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:53.920
She's got she uses uh the Filipino VA service, the same one that we do.

00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:54.640
Oh, wow.

00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:57.920
And she has three or four of them working round the clock.

00:21:58.319 --> 00:21:59.759
On top of that, I'll talk to you about this later.

00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.920
But she basically has a screen um tracker.

00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:05.759
So she knows that they're working.

00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:08.960
I need to get all that right.

00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:13.359
So, anyways, um, but the best thing about her was the name of her business.

00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:15.039
So her name is Ashley.

00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:19.759
Uh, her name of her business, and this is her Instagram handle, Ashley gets around.

00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:20.400
Wow.

00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:22.000
Which I thought was genius.

00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:23.039
So genius.

00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:27.279
So they brought the bill to her, you know, for her own thing, and they're like, what are you really?

00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:32.000
They thought she was like an OnlyFans or like, you know, prostitution or whatever.

00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:32.319
Right.

00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:37.279
And she was like super like snarky and whatever in a good way, like just putting people on bus.

00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:41.680
She's like, Yeah, people look at me like when I go to the bank or whatever, they're like, look at my business name or whatever.

00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:46.480
And she wants to say to them, like, I'm making way more money than you are at that teller position right now.

00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:47.359
Let me just put it that way.

00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:48.240
You know, who cares?

00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:49.599
You know, if it was OnlyFans.

00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:50.480
Yeah, exactly.

00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:54.960
But the way I looked at it was like that, she's targeting the kind of people I want to be in front of.

00:22:55.119 --> 00:23:02.400
What would it be for me to sponsor an ad on her mailing list to people who have the money to do business class?

00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:02.880
Yeah.

00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:03.759
You know what I mean?

00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:04.079
Yeah.

00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:06.480
So you never know what you're gonna walk into, to your point.

00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:07.759
Like you said, we're interesting.

00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:11.839
Yeah, I'm looking at like, okay, because there were some other people who did uh, there's a guy who does like home health care.

00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.839
I'm like, right, I was hoping this was not gonna be a bunch of realtors.

00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:17.119
Yeah, realtors.

00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:19.279
I'm like, I don't want that's not gonna help my business.

00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:21.920
But this one girl, it's like, you're my contact for that.

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:23.440
I need to kind of like stay connected to.

00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:24.480
They started following me.

00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:29.279
I started following some of them, so it was just kind of a cool thing, and it was a good meal, didn't cost me much.

00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.240
I don't get out a ton, so for me, this was like a cool thing to do.

00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.240
So a group like this, founder dinner then could be good for you.

00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:37.440
So good for you.

00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:38.240
I'm glad you did it.

00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:43.440
The other one that's like yeah, the other one that's got mentioned too is Cave Days, is another one that's really good.

00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:47.039
So if you check it out, Fast Company has a big write-up on them.

00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:52.640
And uh yeah, you wanted that Whip a working thing this week or whatever it is, office days or whatever.

00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.400
So anyway, wanted to talk a little bit about it.

00:23:57.599 --> 00:23:58.480
Ashley gets around, dude.

00:23:58.559 --> 00:23:59.759
What a great name, right?

00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:02.000
Uh, I wanted to hit Was she cute?

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:03.519
Um, yeah, okay.

00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:04.640
Yeah, nice, okay.

00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.440
Yeah, business.

00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:06.880
I mean, she's a business person, right?

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:08.240
Gotcha, right, yeah, yeah.

00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:09.839
Hey, Brian B here.

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:13.920
Sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast, but let's be real.

00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:17.279
You're here because you actually care about your DJ business.

00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:23.359
And if you've been nodding along, like, yeah, I should totally step up my game, then let me make it easy for you.

00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:34.799
I've got a coaching platform, the DJ's Creative Edge, where I help DJs like you stand out, raise their prices without feeling guilty, and actually get paid what they're worth.

00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:44.400
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00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:48.000
The website, the DJ'sCreativeedge.com.

00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.119
That's the DJ'sCreativeedge.com.

00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:53.039
Because you know, repetition works.

00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:58.400
And if you want to just lurk for now, hit up Instagram at the DJ's Creative Edge.

00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:10.720
All right, back to the show before Joe starts yelling in his extra thick North Carolina accent about how back in his day, DJs used CDs and still had to walk uphill both ways to a gig.

00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:13.680
I wanted to hit some music, man.

00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:17.119
Okay, so let's put on the on the headphones, all right.

00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:33.759
These are songs I'm feeling this month.

00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:38.559
They may go in the on the you know, bonus packs of bonus content.

00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:41.680
Okay, but I thought I would play you a couple that I have been working for me recently.

00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:43.440
This was I supposed to send anything for this.

00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:44.240
No, no, no, no.

00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:45.519
This is just me just being whatever.

00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:47.519
I've been playing a lot of vibey stuff lately.

00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.920
Okay, and I love this version.

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:54.400
I know you're gonna crap on it, but to your saxophone situation, this is Careless Whispers.

00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:57.680
This is the Pat C's Afro House version.

00:25:57.839 --> 00:25:58.160
Okay.

00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:02.000
Uh George Michael versus DJ Amora and DJ O'Neill.

00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:02.400
Check it out.

00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.000
This is on Crate Gang.

00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:08.720
I feel so far, Joby.

00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:12.960
But if you have a sax player, I would remove that sax line.

00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:20.880
Like it's not overly techno.

00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:29.599
Another beast, yeah.

00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:39.920
Oh, in the pocket though.

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:40.319
Yeah.

00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:41.680
It's a vibe.

00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:44.640
You can pull that tack out.

00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:51.519
So we talked about this artist before, Sha Day.

00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:52.400
Oh god.

00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:54.000
This is ordinary love.

00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.640
This is the Ardent Disco house version.

00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:57.039
Okay.

00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:58.000
Love this too.

00:26:58.240 --> 00:26:58.960
Great vibe.

00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:00.559
This is the course only.

00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:06.240
Love the piano.

00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:09.279
Piano house, as they call it.

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:13.759
Those ardent edits are great, great, great.

00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:15.440
And he puts out a ton.

00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:21.519
Add stacks on top of it.

00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:23.599
Love it.

00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:29.440
Fivey jazzy.

00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:34.960
Love it.

00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:40.720
Um, dude, party pupils.

00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:41.920
You've been watching them?

00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:42.240
Bro.

00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:43.440
Blowing up.

00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:44.079
Yeah.

00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:50.000
So he's on Bandcamp and he's been taking a lot of yacht house, a lot yacht rock stuff and turning it into yacht house.

00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:50.480
Yeah.

00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:53.039
Uh, not like 112 beats per minute.

00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:55.599
It's not like it's it's over the top like 128.

00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:56.720
BDM'd out, right?

00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:01.599
Uh, he just put out a new pack and this version of brandy looking glass.

00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:02.240
Wow.

00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:02.720
Throw it.

00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:03.519
Check it out.

00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:05.920
Just modernized.

00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:08.079
Not overly done.

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:11.359
This is working, Raleigh.

00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:14.079
Oh, yeah.

00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:17.119
It's tasteful.

00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:18.319
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:20.160
Just modernize.

00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:22.079
It's not like all bastardized.

00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:22.480
Right.

00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:25.519
Cocktail hour, dinner hour.

00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:26.960
I'm not on a walk in.

00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:29.519
This was one of my least favorite yacht rock songs.

00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:30.079
The original.

00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:31.599
I like this a lot better.

00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:33.680
And they're all this good.

00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:34.400
Yeah, yeah.

00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:35.599
He's crushing it right now.

00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:36.160
Party people.

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:36.880
Party peoples.

00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:38.240
Go on band camp.

00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:38.880
Subscribe.

00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:39.359
You can do that.

00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:40.160
Band camp.

00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:40.799
Wow.

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.000
Telling y'all, Brian B goes down the rabbit hole.

00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:45.440
So this one's definitely down that.

00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:45.839
Okay.

00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:47.519
This is work, Rihanna.

00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:48.079
Okay.

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.119
And Drake.

00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:52.480
This is the Afro Soul Choir version.

00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:52.960
Jesus.

00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:53.440
Okay.

00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:54.799
By Altverse.

00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:55.680
Alt verse.

00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.079
Okay.

00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:58.079
Here you go.

00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:00.240
From the beginning.

00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:02.880
Dinner.

00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.480
Damn.

00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:10.799
Oh shit.

00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:16.160
Send me off the wire, boy, send it on my da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:17.519
But it's covered though.

00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:18.480
That's cover.

00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:18.720
Yeah.

00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:20.640
But sounds like her once she gets to sing in.

00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.160
I mean that that's part, but when she gets with her verse.

00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:29.200
Sounds kinda like her, right?

00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:32.720
This is sick.

00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:39.519
Uh it on the touch.

00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:41.200
Alright, so you want to know the secret of this one?

00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:41.440
Yeah.

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:42.240
AI.

00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:45.680
You made it.

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:46.240
No.

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:47.519
Just found it.

00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:48.960
How do you know they made it?

00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.400
But I'm starting to be okay with it.

00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:55.519
With the right ones.

00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:56.319
With the right ones.

00:29:58.640 --> 00:29:59.119
How could you tell?

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.960
Uh, because all of the stuff that this person's posting, altverse is all this kind of stuff.

00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:05.279
Right.

00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:06.960
And I could tell it wasn't Drake.

00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:08.960
And I just knew.

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:09.920
I could just tell.

00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:12.400
But I wake up and make like nothing.

00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:15.599
See, the Drake.

00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:17.519
I mean, to be fair, also though, man.

00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:21.519
I mean, like, think of I mean, you've made a million records in here, right?

00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.720
More hip hop and stuff.

00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.720
But I mean, think about how difficult this would be to make, right?

00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:29.200
Right.

00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:31.279
Oh, yeah, you would need like a choir and like.

00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:32.000
Yeah.

00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:36.799
I mean, and and an accomplished singer, an accomplished male and female singer.

00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:37.039
Yeah.

00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:38.000
Drums and everything.

00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:38.559
Right.

00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.279
I mean, I mean, it definitely you could make the track.

00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:43.039
I mean, I I could task you with Amen.

00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:49.680
Even if I just needed to take this little part, because Evan's done that before, where he needed somebody to like voice over.

00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:49.920
Yeah.

00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:52.960
And like he had somebody like talking over one of his records.

00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:54.400
I was like, who the hell is that?

00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:54.720
Yeah.

00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:56.000
He's like, AI, bro.

00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:56.480
Yeah.

00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:56.880
Right.

00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:58.079
Crazy.

00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:01.039
So you mentioned the even Steve.

00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:02.640
That's uh that's the way I like it.

00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:02.960
Yeah.

00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:09.200
I thought you were gonna say a different song, which is the sample that's used in the new French Montana French Montana track.

00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:09.680
Yeah.

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:10.720
Have you been playing that one yet?

00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:12.400
No, not yet, but I hear I hear it a lot.

00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:14.480
So it's on it's big on social right now.

00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:20.240
Uh Pete Down did a good version of it on DMS, but I like this Headliners Music Club version because it actually transitions.

00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:24.480
Whereas the Pete Down is it just keeps the disco version with the wrap over it in pieces.

00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:26.079
This actually transitions it.

00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:28.319
Uh this is Headliners Music Club's version of it.

00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:28.799
Check it out.

00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:29.680
This is the segue.

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:30.640
Yeah.

00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:43.920
Clean version.

00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:50.000
I went depth on the Ever since you left me.

00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:56.160
It's very like it doesn't feel like such a departure from the original enough.

00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:57.440
You think it's gonna be big?

00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:57.920
Like a lot of people.

00:31:58.079 --> 00:31:58.960
I've been playing it a lot.

00:31:59.039 --> 00:31:59.279
Really?

00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:00.480
Yeah, the last couple weeks.

00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:01.119
It's been good.

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:01.839
People have been into it.

00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:03.599
You don't fuck with Rinch Montana, Digga.

00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:06.480
He always does that.

00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:07.200
Montana!

00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:09.519
I only play a short edit of that.

00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:10.319
I would not play long.

00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:12.720
Did you see he married like some princess or something?

00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:14.799
He's up right now.

00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:15.519
You see that?

00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:16.240
I did see that.

00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:17.440
That was a while back, though, right?

00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:18.799
I mean a year or so ago.

00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:19.759
I don't know.

00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:21.119
Good for him, man.

00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:22.160
Good for him, exactly.

00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:22.960
Marrying a princess.

00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:24.079
Royalty, baby.

00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:24.799
It's pretty sad.

00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.440
Yeah, there's not too many people that can say they married royalty, you know.

00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:29.440
Um, yeah, man.

00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:32.079
Uh, you know what I was I was telling Ashley this last night?

00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:36.000
Like, think about Casey, by the way, lives in Durham.

00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:36.559
Oh, wait, right.

00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:37.519
From Casey in the side.

00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:37.839
Wow.

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.079
Yeah.

00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:41.759
I mean, he's an old man now, but like, think about that, right?

00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:44.240
Like, all of a sudden, you're just chilling at home.

00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:49.200
You get a call from your agent or whoever represents you, and they're like, French Montana wants to sample.

00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:50.480
That's the way I like it.

00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:52.079
You just make up a price, whatever.

00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.319
And all of a sudden you have an incredible year.

00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:56.480
Like last night watching TV, right?

00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:56.720
Yeah.

00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:58.640
Got the shitty Hulu package.

00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.839
The ads come on.

00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:01.039
Volkswagen.

00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:02.480
Jump around.

00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:08.480
So House of Pan, that I played Jump Around in '93 and '94 when I was at Carolina.

00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:10.319
That's 32 years ago.

00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:11.039
Yeah.

00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:15.519
So all of a sudden, they're just, you know, chilling, and Volkswagen calls on.

00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.799
We want to we want to use sample uh jump around in our new Volkswagen commercial.

00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:19.359
Yeah.

00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:21.920
I mean, at the worst, you're gonna get a million dollars.

00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:22.319
Right.

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:22.559
Right.

00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:23.920
Split three ways or four ways.

00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:25.519
Right.

00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:27.680
I mean, it's a pretty good year.

00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:28.240
Yeah.

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:34.400
And like, I just think about shit like that all the time, or something pops off on TikTok again, that's running up that hill from Stranger.

00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:35.279
Oh, yes.

00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:37.920
She owned the publishing to that, I think, as well.

00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:38.960
Yeah, totally.

00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.440
Now, some instances are different than others, right?

00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:45.440
Like, I mean, that jump around, I I Googled it last night, it has four samples in it.

00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:48.799
Do the four people that also get paid?

00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:52.799
Yeah, you know what I mean, or a portion of their money gets divided up to them as well.

00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:53.200
Yeah.

00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:55.839
They may or may not be alive, but their family might get some money.

00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.480
All of a sudden you get a check at Christmas for 50k.

00:33:58.640 --> 00:33:59.039
Totally.

00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:00.400
I'm like, damn, this is dope.

00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:01.039
Where'd it come from?

00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:02.160
A Volkswagen commercial.

00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:02.319
Yeah.

00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:03.759
They used Jump Around.

00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:05.599
And your dad's song was in it.

00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:06.000
Totally.

00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:06.880
Sampled in it.

00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:07.200
Yeah.

00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:08.960
Well, on that It's crazy, dude.

00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:09.440
Anyway.

00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:11.119
You mentioned Stranger Things.

00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:15.679
This song that was kind of uh running up that hit.

00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.199
Well, this one also took off.

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:18.639
It was actually released in 2022.

00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:19.679
It's a song by Joe.

00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:20.320
Oh, yeah.

00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.400
No, that um uh that acted.

00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:23.199
And the beginning.

00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:24.079
And the beginning.

00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.039
Yeah.

00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:26.159
No, that's not from that, is it?

00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:26.880
No, no, no, no.

00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.920
No, but the kid that's playing one of the characters is actually.

00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:30.719
Oh, that kid, yeah.

00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:31.599
No musician.

00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:32.320
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:32.559
Yeah.

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:35.119
So this song's been blowing up for me too.

00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:39.119
I've been playing it late night in like uh with the Vandalux remix.

00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:41.599
This is kind of more of a down tempo version.

00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:47.840
No, that uh that that Kona or whatever it was uh blew up from that show where um John Ham.

00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:48.480
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:50.960
Yes, yeah, yeah.

00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.159
So this is a cool version of it.

00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.239
If uh I played it late night, this is on their list.

00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:56.000
I'm getting it on a lot of lists right now.

00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:58.079
Maybe it's in the sorry.

00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:02.159
That's what they're from.

00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:04.239
Yeah.

00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.119
Another chin of me.

00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:14.079
Bandelic.

00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:26.719
Oh, nothing but it's a right.

00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:27.599
It's a great crowd.

00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:28.800
You gotta have the right crowd.

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.079
I thought we did that.

00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:33.760
You put me on that guy.

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:34.639
Did you?

00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:36.880
Oh, told me about that guy.

00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:39.840
It's a big thing.

00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:44.000
I think whoever told me about that guy didn't realize it was the guy from Stranger Things.

00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:45.280
And I thought it was you.

00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:49.119
Those, those, uh, that sing along is big, uh, especially that chorus.

00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:51.840
People, so I have a short edit of that that I've been using.

00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.719
So there'll be bonus potential content here.

00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:57.679
Patreon.com slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

00:35:57.920 --> 00:35:58.880
Just songs that are working.

00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:01.519
Patreon.com slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:02.719
We got two things and we're out.

00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:03.440
Okay, let's do it.

00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:04.719
All right, booth heads.

00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.880
We made a move and it's a bold one.

00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:09.280
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00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:14.239
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00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:18.079
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00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:21.440
Listen, this isn't some support us or we disappear kind of thing.

00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:26.800
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00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:38.480
Like early access to batched episodes, bonus episode that we couldn't post publicly, maybe, and our weekly top 10 banger lists, songs that absolutely crushed at our events this week.

00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.599
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00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:47.039
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00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:49.199
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00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.880
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00:36:53.039 --> 00:37:00.000
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00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:07.840
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00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:13.519
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00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:18.800
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00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:22.480
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00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:24.480
Booth heads, you know where to go.

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:26.639
Uh, let's talk about Gear Corner.

00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:27.199
Oh, yeah.

00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:29.679
The gear's here.

00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:38.079
The gear is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here.

00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:39.920
You got something this time.

00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:40.320
I do.

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:42.239
And I got something too, but I'll let you go for a good one.

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:43.760
I'm gonna go quickly to mine.

00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:46.159
Um I got this for a Christmas gift.

00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:49.280
It hasn't saved me yet, but I can see it saving me.

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.320
Uh a freaking jumper for your car.

00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:54.639
A bat it's a Boost 2000.

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:57.760
Booze 2000 jump starter.

00:37:58.159 --> 00:37:59.199
They're on Amazon.

00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:00.400
So it's this pack.

00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:01.039
I don't know.

00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:03.920
Let's if you're listening, it's probably um.

00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:07.199
Yeah, it's up like a Game Boy.

00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.440
Yeah.

00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:12.159
And then it's got the same, you know, type jumper cable clips that come with jumper cables.

00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:13.599
When's the last time you charged this?

00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:14.800
Because it's at 100% right now.

00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:15.440
Christmas.

00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:16.719
And it's still at 100%.

00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:17.679
Wow.

00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.199
We turned it on a minute ago.

00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:19.920
Yeah.

00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:21.280
Don't do it right now.

00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:21.920
Yeah.

00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:22.400
Hundo.

00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:23.039
100%.

00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:23.840
Yeah.

00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:26.800
I ain't I it's been in the back of my car since Christmas.

00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:28.880
Would this work with any vehicle or so the certain waters?

00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:32.480
It says gas, 8.0 liter, diesel, 6.5 liter.

00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:33.519
I don't know what that means.

00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:33.920
Yeah.

00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.280
But if you're gonna pinch, leave your lights on, whatever.

00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:39.599
Yeah, better than calling triple A.

00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:42.239
I mean, so I saw it on Amazon.

00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:43.119
It's$59.

00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:44.320
It's on sale right now?

00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:45.280
Yeah, on sale right now.

00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:46.719
Shout out to Eaton Wolf.

00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:47.199
Yeah.

00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:52.480
Again, we're batching this, but well, summarily for the travel folks, dude.

00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.039
Uh my uh gratuity's been interesting this year.

00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:57.760
I've been getting gifted different things than cash.

00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:59.039
Oh, interesting.

00:38:59.280 --> 00:38:59.519
Yeah.

00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:01.440
So somebody goes, uh example.

00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:03.679
Someone goes, hey, what's your what's your jacket size?

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:04.400
Interesting.

00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:05.119
Like, what?

00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:06.239
I'm gonna send you something.

00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:07.360
This is after the gig.

00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:08.559
I wasn't expecting anything, whatever.

00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:09.679
Large, whatever.

00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:12.400
They send this jacket I'm wearing.

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:12.880
Okay.

00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.360
And I love a black hoodie in general.

00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:16.480
You're the king of the house.

00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:17.599
I love a black hoodie.

00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:17.840
Yeah.

00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.639
This one Are you a zip guy or a pull over the head style?

00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:21.599
No, no, zippy.

00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:22.400
Zippy zip.

00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:22.960
Yeah.

00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:27.920
So this is uh this is uh because on planes, I need something that's because you never know.

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.000
You sometimes you're walking into it, it's freezing.

00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:31.440
Even if it's the middle of summer.

00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:31.760
Yeah.

00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:35.519
This one I wouldn't wear in the summer just because it's weighted, it's it's comfy.

00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:37.599
So I'm gonna take it off, let you put it on.

00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:38.559
It's clean, don't worry.

00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:38.960
Okay.

00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:40.719
And then I'll show you something.

00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:53.119
So it's by uh uh you can't get this on Amazon, you have to get it from the company.

00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:54.320
It's by comfort.

00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:56.400
Uh CEO.

00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:57.760
Yeah, right?

00:39:58.400 --> 00:39:59.360
Does it feel weighted?

00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:01.280
It's comfortable, right?

00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:03.039
Right.

00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:04.880
But look at all the pocket heavy.

00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:09.280
Yeah, in fact, you even have zip-up ones or some uh even within that.

00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:10.880
But here's what got me.

00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:12.000
I didn't do any research on this.

00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:13.039
I didn't get in the mail.

00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:14.159
I'm on the plane.

00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:15.440
I put the hood on.

00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:15.679
Okay.

00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:22.559
Bro, there is a drop-down eye mask built into it.

00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:24.559
And it works.

00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:27.599
Bro, we out here.

00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:30.079
Oh shit, I hit the mic.

00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:31.760
Pretty good, right?

00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:33.360
Bro, you can't see shit.

00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:35.360
I just hit my nose on the mic.

00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:40.159
So anyway, uh I am a huge fan of this for the winter months.

00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.000
Like, this is a great one because it's uh it I was been wearing it in the studio all day and it's been hot.

00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:46.079
Um, but that's heavy, yeah.

00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:46.559
No, no, no.

00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:48.000
It's it's it's spring winter.

00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:59.199
But you could put like on your arm, there's some zippers on either side to put, I don't know, your I your AirPods, your um like zip up on the on the on the no down a little lower.

00:40:59.280 --> 00:40:59.679
Yeah, right there.

00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:00.480
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:01.840
Oh, they got one up there too, yeah.

00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.679
So a lot of hidden pockets for passports or who knows, whatever else you need to like conceal of.

00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:08.639
I like it, dude.

00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:09.840
Um, cool thing there.

00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:11.119
What do you think it goes for?

00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:13.119
$79.95.

00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.440
Um, let me tell you what that goes for here.

00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.840
It is um hold on one second.

00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:19.599
I think I put it in the wrong spot here.

00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:22.159
It is$140.

00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:24.639
Quick question.

00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:26.320
Would you have rather had$140 cash?

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.360
No, I think I would have.

00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:30.639
I mean Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna turn out cash ever.

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.239
But yeah, that's uh a pretty pretty cool thing.

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:36.559
So, anyways, I just wanted to mention that.

00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:40.639
And then the last one I wanted to throw out to you, uh uh, other on the travel tip.

00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:44.480
Um, dude, you know, you you go to gigs, you don't get a chance to eat the meals.

00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:46.400
I haven't been eating meals at the gigs lately.

00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:50.320
Not that I do, anyways, but like I'm a starving after the events.

00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:53.280
And uh I've been going with these no vendor meal for you?

00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:54.159
I mean, you're a Brian B.

00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:56.320
I've I've been playing during dinner.

00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:56.639
Right, right.

00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:58.079
Like they're not serving it to me early.

00:41:58.159 --> 00:41:58.400
Yeah, yeah.

00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:01.679
And I just, you know, sometimes I would get it to go, but they forget to make it.

00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:02.239
Right.

00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:07.199
So these 20 grams of protein, I've been eating these or drinking these, I should say, Chabonis.

00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:09.360
Uh, there's a bunch of different flavors.

00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:11.440
Um, and I get it like on the way to the gig.

00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:16.880
They have it at every gas station or whatever, uh supermarket, whatever.

00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:19.760
Uh, they stay cool longer than the normal ones.

00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:19.920
Yes.

00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:22.800
And great way to put some protein in you if you can't.

00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:24.480
Does it taste all like chalky or anything?

00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:25.119
No, no, no.

00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:25.679
This one doesn't.

00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:26.800
This one's really good.

00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:27.360
Okay.

00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:32.000
And then the last thing I'll show it to you is this new hair mat.

00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:32.800
You don't need this.

00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:33.199
No.

00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:39.199
Uh, some people like myself, when you get in the humidity spots, none of the product works really well.

00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:39.840
Interesting.

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.440
And this one is called Statement, is the name of it.

00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:44.559
It's a black mat.

00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.760
And uh man, in humidity, holds up really well.

00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:50.239
Okay.

00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:54.639
Uh, it is uh grooming goods, matte paste.

00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:56.000
$24.95.

00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:57.360
So it is a little bit pricey.

00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:00.320
You can Amazon, it'll be on my store.

00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:00.559
Okay.

00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:01.599
You can grab it there.

00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:06.639
But these are some travel things I would get with this because if you're in a place where it's humid, this will keep your hair intact.

00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:07.199
Damn.

00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:08.480
Wish I had some.

00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:09.280
Hair.

00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:11.119
Let's hit the question and bounce out.

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:11.840
Question.

00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:19.440
Are we doing two or one?

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:21.440
I think it's the same one.

00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:22.000
Okay.

00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:27.360
Question number one on the rare occasion that we have a wedding where the dancing falls flat.

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:35.199
What are the key factors that you look at afterwards to see where you could have done better?

00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:36.639
And then how do you rebound?

00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:39.679
That's why our our boy Corey Barron has that.

00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:46.400
And then question two semi-related how do you go about collecting accurate feedback for bettering your own performance?

00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:47.599
Outstanding questions.

00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:49.440
Um, Chris Davis.

00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:50.559
Shout out, Chris Davis.

00:43:50.880 --> 00:44:05.840
Um Man, I I I was telling Brian, I think I I don't remember now if we were talking off air or on air about um going back and and preparing the These banger lists that are in the Patreon where I, you know, sometimes feel like I'm playing the same thing, but I'm not.

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:06.559
You know what I mean?

00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:13.280
I I look at these lists and I've gotten all these requests from the couple, or I've just kind of made a left turn sometimes.

00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:19.519
And um, I think going back uh to both y'all's performance and looking at what you played.

00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:30.880
I think looking back at footage if you have an assistant that's shooting, uh, or looking back at your 360 footage, even is is important at where things went well, where things went wrong.

00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:48.320
Um, I think really hyper analyzing probably like last 30 minutes to an hour is is probably the most crucial for me because that's kind of where, you know, ladies and gentlemen, we're opening the dance floor, everybody's gonna come out there, but can you sustain that at our two plus?

00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:49.360
You know what I mean?

00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.039
That's where I really try to analyze.

00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:53.440
Like, did I go too hard too fast?

00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:54.559
Yeah, you know what I mean?

00:44:54.719 --> 00:45:03.119
Like so for me, it's it's but I guess Corey's more asking just on these ones that are not ragers or where it falls flat.

00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:07.039
I I mean, it goes back to what I was saying earlier on air, man.

00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:11.039
I I think sometimes you just get that kind of crowd, right?

00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:24.159
Or you get uh not a big dancing bride and groom, and so people are more following their lead, or you get these corporate events like the cotton gin thing that Brian did, that's 95% older males that did not bring their spouses.

00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:31.519
Like, and you just look at it and and you always have to think about it this way what would this have been like had I not been here?

00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:33.760
How bad would this event have been?

00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:36.400
And I leave events all the time and I'm like, that wasn't great.

00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:42.800
And then I'll get these reviews or get these emails like you saved our event, or that was the best thing of the night.

00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.360
Yeah, that I thought was mid at best.

00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:50.320
So I I think we're just really hard on ourselves sometimes.

00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:51.199
Oh, totally.

00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:58.800
And and in in regards to Chris, I think the feedback, Chris, just the the main people I like to hear from are are the clients, obviously.

00:45:58.960 --> 00:45:59.119
Yeah.

00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:06.719
And whether I have to ping them and try and get a review, or they just freely email or text me after the event, that's how you know you did a good job.

00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:10.079
I mean a no review doesn't mean you did a bad job, though.

00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:10.960
I do want to say that.

00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:13.760
A bad review means you fucked up something.

00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:14.480
Yeah.

00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:18.559
I played a uh a version of a song, um, I think I sent it to you too.

00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:20.000
Oh, oh, I remember what it was.

00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:23.280
I played uh uh uh they had shake it off on their list.

00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:26.639
Yeah, they also had blame it on their list, the T-Pain.

00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:31.840
So um I found the in my library randomly this shake it versus blame it off.

00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:33.360
I hate uh versus blame it.

00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:34.559
I hate shake it off in general.

00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:35.679
I don't like it either.

00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:38.639
I don't know, I've just never been a fan of it and like when it was big.

00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:57.199
So I played that edit short down, but it didn't do as well as I thought it would do, and I realized what was missing was I needed to have played blame it first and then go into that edit instead of just playing this, like it feels like you're forcing it, like I was forcing it.

00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:58.719
Yeah, and I could just tell.

00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.519
So, what do I do when I notice it in the moment?

00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:03.519
I'm literally on my phone making a note.

00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:03.920
Really?

00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:08.400
Edit this, or I'll drag it into a folder if I'm my phone isn't near me, like edit this.

00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:13.679
Yeah, and I'll just drag these tracks in and I know that because sometimes you do you forget in the moment if you're not recording the whole show.

00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:14.239
Sure.

00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:19.360
But that's a good go-to for me is to just drag it into a to fix is the name of the crate.

00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:19.599
Yeah.

00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:21.920
And I just drag it in there and and look at it.

00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:27.840
Um another one where it like the order just didn't seem right, like the edit needed to be reworked for me.

00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:29.840
In some cases, I'm like, oh, that didn't really work.

00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.480
Another one where recently it's it's kind of fallen off.

00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:34.320
I have uh That's so true.

00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.199
Uh I forgot the girl's name who the the pop song.

00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:37.599
Oh, yeah.

00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:38.400
Um Gracie A.

00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:38.960
Gracie A.

00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:39.280
Yeah.

00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:40.960
I have that over promiscuous.

00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:41.199
Yeah, yeah.

00:47:41.199 --> 00:47:42.159
I'm like, it's fallen off.

00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:42.559
Yeah, right.

00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:46.719
Like, I need to take that out, replace it with the where uh, you know, the the where's my husband.

00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:48.400
Or man I need.

00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:48.800
Yeah.

00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.159
So I reworked the edit that I had with that song when it was popping off.

00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.239
I'm like, you need to change your mind.

00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:54.480
Right.

00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:56.639
Think about your dumb face all the time.

00:47:56.880 --> 00:47:58.480
Yeah, it's not hitting anymore for me, anyways.

00:47:58.639 --> 00:47:59.039
Right, right.

00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:00.079
Um, so that's number one.

00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:06.880
I think you said it nail it too, is like um the watching back the footage or recording your set through Serato or any other program you're in.

00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:11.119
Yeah, the videos revealing because there's been some events where I was like, this popped off.

00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:14.000
And I look at the footage and I'm like, nah, man, you really didn't.

00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:19.280
Like, I thought it was way more lit than it was than I'm like, these clips just aren't like showing what I felt.

00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:24.400
I'll look back at some stuff he shoots sometimes from the back of the dance room, and I'm like, man, these people are fucking lazy.

00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:25.920
Yeah, they're just talking or whatever.

00:48:26.079 --> 00:48:28.639
I'm like, but I only stole like maybe three or four rows deep.

00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:29.280
You know what I mean?

00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:29.679
Right.

00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:33.679
And I'll tell I'm like, Say go on, there's got we got some lazy dancers back there.

00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:34.079
Right.

00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:42.559
And where I and the last uh the last piece I'll say is where I I this is just a limitation on my own performance style.

00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.920
It doesn't come natural to me, is being on the mic more often than I need to be.

00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:46.320
Yeah.

00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:53.760
Um, there's just pockets in time where I'm like, I should be like, I'm seeing this clip, and I'm like, it feels like there's not a lot of energy there, and I could have inserted something.

00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:54.239
Yep.

00:48:54.400 --> 00:49:02.320
So I'll make a note in the comments um MC need in there, and I'll put it for certain tracks where I go, okay, hey, here's it is.

00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:09.519
And so then I'll go in there and actually uh put a cue point so I know where it needs to be on Serata.

00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:10.159
On Serata.

00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:10.880
That's smart.

00:49:11.039 --> 00:49:14.880
So those are some things I'll do if if I'm looking for a feedback on myself.

00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:26.159
But I mean, I think it's also too is like if you're not getting any reviews or people aren't saying that wasn't the best night ever, then I would be like, yo, if I haven't gotten that in a while, then I need to like, what am I doing that feels stale?

00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:28.159
Yeah, you know, like am I just change it up a little bit, yeah.

00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:28.800
What's missing here?

00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:31.599
Yeah, yeah.

00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:32.480
Totally.

00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:38.239
Um, and then as far as the the rare occasions where it falls flat, I mean, my my thing is there's always next week.

00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:38.639
Yeah.

00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:38.880
Right.

00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:47.679
So I'm always like, I mean, I hate to end the year like that, so I try not to let that be the last thing, but like sometimes you're just gonna get that crowd and there's nothing you can do, man.

00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:54.239
And it's like, and and I love it when I have a gig the very next day, because then I'm like, I could recover from last night, get that one out of my head.

00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:54.719
Right, right.

00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:59.360
Because you do, if you get two or three in a row, you can start kind of like getting into a dark place, bro.

00:49:59.440 --> 00:49:59.760
Oh, yeah.

00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:00.719
Me and Saquon went to the next one.

00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:02.159
Listen to Alice in Wonderland stuff.

00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:02.639
You know what I mean?

00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:05.440
It's like you're like me and Saquon went on this streak of last year.

00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:07.440
I think I was like, bro, we we're overdue.

00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:08.239
We're overdue.

00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:08.480
Yeah.

00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:09.679
I mean, right here.

00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:10.159
Totally.

00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:12.239
I'm second guessing my career.

00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:13.519
Well, that's what we got.

00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:14.559
Good shit.

00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:21.360
Thank you, as always, to DJ Event Planner, and they are the CRM that we prefer, DJEventplanner.com.

00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:26.639
Thank you for sponsoring Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast, and thank you guys for watching and listening.

00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:28.239
And we will see y'all back next week.

00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:29.760
Hungrier than a hostage, right now.

00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:30.320
I'm starving.

00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:31.119
Let's go.

00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:31.519
Let's go.

00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:32.239
See ya.