March 4, 2026

Must Play vs Do NOT Play Lists

Must Play vs Do NOT Play Lists

Send us a message Two lists can make or break a wedding: the must-plays that define the couple’s voice, and the do-not-plays that guard against landmines. We pull back the curtain on how we handle both without tanking momentum, from planting a clear 25–50 song inspiration list to avoiding negative framing that leads couples down a rabbit hole of “don’ts.” We get candid about when to push back on rigid must-play demands, how to protect the dance floor for every guest, and why RSVP song polls a...

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Season 6

Send us a message

Two lists can make or break a wedding: the must-plays that define the couple’s voice, and the do-not-plays that guard against landmines. We pull back the curtain on how we handle both without tanking momentum, from planting a clear 25–50 song inspiration list to avoiding negative framing that leads couples down a rabbit hole of “don’ts.” We get candid about when to push back on rigid must-play demands, how to protect the dance floor for every guest, and why RSVP song polls almost always produce chaos instead of clarity.

The conversation gets real with two contrasting event blueprints. First, a 50th birthday planned with AI that packed the night with a sax feature, aerialist, magician, and a “toast and roast” that stalled the energy. Then, a New Orleans wedding built for pure motion: strings to set the tone, three formal dances, and four straight hours of dancing in a 500-person tent with bars flanking the DJ booth and a video wall mirroring the surrounding trees. We break down why certain layouts amplify heat, how production can support programming, and what it takes to keep a massive crowd engaged without constant resets.

We also step into the practical details pros obsess over: wireless in-ear monitoring that frees you from the booth, and dress shoes that look sharp but feel like sneakers so you can survive long sets without wrecking your feet. And we unpack a thorny real-world scenario: arriving early in a snowstorm to set up and getting lectured by the venue. We'll share the communication steps that protect your reputation while keeping clients calm.

If you care about programming that respects the couple and still lights up the room, this one’s for you. Hit follow, share it with a DJ friend, and drop your rule for do-not-playlists vs must-plays in a review. We’re featuring the best takes next week.

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00:00 - March Banter And Patreon Shoutouts

02:46 - Prize Giveaway And IEM Pack Breakdown

04:56 - Can You Find The One Music Game

09:30 - Airline Fiasco Storytime

10:50 - The DJ Do-Not-Play Debate Erupts

15:30 - Must-Plays, Reading Rooms, And Boundaries

21:04 - Why RSVP Song Requests Fail

21:44 - Gig Story: AI-Planned 50th Birthday Chaos

28:40 - Mentalist Magic And Event Energy

30:22 - Upcoming Mega Wedding In New Orleans

36:40 - Bars Flanking The Booth And Production

40:39 - Patreon Tiers And Backroom Perks

43:25 - Gear Corner: Comfortable Dress Shoes

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It's batch day.

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It's batch day.

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Welcome back to Beyond the DJ booth.

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That's why we look the same as the last few episodes, right?

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Yeah.

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Might as well give away the secrets.

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Might as well.

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Secret sauce.

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I'm Brian B.

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if you're listening on.

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And I'm Joe Bunn.

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Good to see you.

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Happy March.

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When this drops, of course.

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Happy March, yeah.

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Yeah.

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March uh, what it would be, the fourth?

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March 4th, okay.

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Yeah.

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Right on.

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It's not the May the 4th, right?

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This is the March the 4th.

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That's right.

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Welcome to March, everybody.

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Welcome to March.

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Thanks for listening.

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Uh, we like to start every episode out with shouting out some of our friends who are in the Patreon.

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The Patreon is critical for your business and especially if you love music.

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I'm just gonna say there is tons of bonus content.

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And that's all I'm gonna say.

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Patreon.com slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

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Shout out Aaron Malig.

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Malig?

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Malig?

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Malig?

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Shout out Aaron.

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Malig?

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Dave Dam.

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Oh, what a great name.

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What else?

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Are we missing a T?

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No.

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Kevin Duran Jr.

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Jr.

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Should it be Durant?

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No.

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Not Durantula?

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Nah.

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I don't think he, I don't think he's I don't think Kevin Durant's listening.

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His son?

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Maybe his son.

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Who knows?

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What's up, Dylan?

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Dylan Verhoff.

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Missouri.

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Yeah, Missouri, good dude.

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And Tim Gleasing.

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Here we go.

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Tim Gleasing.

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Thanks for listening, guys.

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I appreciate you guys.

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Thanks for listening.

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And thanks for being a member of the Patreon more than anything else.

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You know what happens with these people?

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What?

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They get entered into the end of the month.

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They sure do.

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Everybody in the back room on the Patreon gets entered into the wheel of names.

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I spin it, I do it live and record it, and I paste it in the Patreon, post it in the Patreon, so you can see I didn't rig it.

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What are we giving away this one?

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Uh this is an X Viv E U45 IEM pack.

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Is that what you use?

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Uh I would use it if I didn't have like an expensive synizer already.

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Is this the one that was at one of your streams that you went to and you're like, somebody gave me this pack, I bought another one?

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Actual in-ears.

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Okay.

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Non-custom one.

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This is the belt pack.

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This is the belt pack.

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So you're not chained to the booth anymore.

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Got it.

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So the the one plug part plugs right into your mixer, and then the other part goes on your belt, and then you just put your in-ears in, and then what's the radius?

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You can go to the bathroom.

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Oh man, that thing was crazy.

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We just I made a YouTube video on it.

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We'll post it.

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Okay.

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What's it go for?

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Any idea?

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Uh 150 bucks, something like that.

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Solid.

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Yeah.

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We have solid gifts here, man.

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Yeah.

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So get it in before the end of March.

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Yeah.

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Usually pull it the last day, or if we forget the day after.

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Yeah.

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That's been the last day.

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It's usually the last day of the month or the first day of the next.

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Yeah.

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So there's that.

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Yeah.

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Um.

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Well, let's move into can you find the one?

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Okay.

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Again.

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Can you find the one?

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Joe Bine.

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All right.

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I don't even know where this is going.

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I don't feel like I'm doing very good.

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Oh, yeah.

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You're getting better every time.

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You're getting better every time.

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So I'm gonna make it a little easier.

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I felt like the last one I kind of hosed you with the rap.

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This one, we're gonna go, it's just woes.

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It's all it is.

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Okay.

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In fact, uh let's we can go to the next screen, you can just see.

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I mean, how easy is this?

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Yeah.

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Oh, oh, oh.

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Do you know what the song is?

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Um I don't know.

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Just off reading oh oh oh oh.

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And the last one.

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I'm on the deep end.

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I don't know.

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Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Shallow.

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Yeah, this is the saddest song ever.

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Yeah, but it's got the big build.

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I'm on the deep end.

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So I'll give you a little sample.

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Okay.

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And then we're gonna give you a test.

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Jesus.

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Kind of lead it into it.

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Okay?

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It's a little slower beat.

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Really keep that time.

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Here we go.

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Build it, baby.

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One more.

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Give us one more.

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Holy shit.

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You got four lives.

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It's just a little bit.

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You wanna hear it one more time?

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No, I got it.

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Okay.

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I love this.

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I should have gotten headphones though, because I didn't really get into it.

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Yeah.

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I'll lead you in.

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I'm not gonna totally pull your pants down.

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I thought they were gonna have the drum believe.

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Oh man.

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You might turn up a little louder, too.

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Let me hear when we're done.

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Let me hear the sample.

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You really just gotta keep it full.

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Okay.

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It's really not even rhythmic.

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All right, go ahead.

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If you would have asked me as you started, if you were gonna get it, I'm gonna go.

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I had it.

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I had to hear it one more time.

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Well done.

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Hire this guy.

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Man, it was like the bucket.

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I got that bucket finally, too.

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Remember we did the bucket on the Whitney Houston challenge?

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Shit, I finally got it.

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Oh man.

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Oh, God bless y'all for listening to that wailing.

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Mine's worse than hers.

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That movie.

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Oh man, is so sad.

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So sad.

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Did I watch it on a plane one time?

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I swear to God, I was bawling.

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Like, I'm I'm sure the lady beside me is like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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Sidebar.

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Yeah.

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American Airlines the other day.

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I pay for the upgrade.

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I'm in first class.

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I'm feeling like Brian B.

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Yeah.

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I'm walking in my seat, third person on the plane, you know, first class, come on, scan, walk down the jet web jet bridge, get on, walk into my seat.

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Ladies like, hold on a second.

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Your seat is broken.

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And I'm like, what?

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She was like, Yeah, the the front of the seat, the seat in front of you, the magazine thing is basically ripped off, laying on your seat.

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I'm like, okay, what do you want me to do?

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Go back out.

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So now she's got to back the whole line up.

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There are all these people behind me.

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And now she's got me standing in the fucking galley with two ladies that are trying to do their job.

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Yeah.

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And they're like, what's going on?

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I'm like, my seat's broken.

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They're calling maintenance, about walking in there, taking pictures.

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Now I'm getting like embarrassed, kinda.

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Because I'm like in that little galley.

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They're trying to do their job, get coffee for people.

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Yeah.

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It's hot.

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Five minutes turns to ten.

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Should have just said, I don't care, man.

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I'll just I'm fine.

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I did that.

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We can't do it now that we've already reported it.

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I go, put a piece of fucking tape on it.

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Now I'm getting mad.

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Yeah.

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Ten minutes, ten minutes in, I go, I gotta get out of the galley.

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Can I go back on the jet bridge?

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Yes.

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Ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes.

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They've boarded the whole plane.

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Wow.

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I go to the back of the line.

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250 people get on this plane from Dallas to Raleigh.

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I walk back to the door.

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I stand there.

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I go, it's my seat fixed.

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Not quite.

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They're still working on it.

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I'm standing still just standing at the door.

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Wow.

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Dude, I was like, you guys realize I paid a lot of money for this seat.

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Yeah.

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And you got me standing out here.

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I was like, I my intention was to get on the plane and do a bunch of work.

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Yeah.

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I was like, I'm getting my fucking money back.

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Yeah.

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Now I'm heated.

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Like I'm not cursing, but I'm like, I'm getting my money back.

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This is stupid.

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Did you get it?

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I don't.

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What are you supposed to do?

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Call customer service.

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I did that.

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Then I was on hold too long.

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I bailed, then I submitted a form.

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You ever heard?

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I hadn't heard.

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I had it on America 2.

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I was furious, dude.

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And American did me dirty like that.

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Not with the seat, but it was with the TV.

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I'm like, I I don't watch it anyway.

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Yeah.

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I don't care.

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Yeah, I don't either.

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And they're like, well, we can't, you know, we have to like, it's just part of protocol.

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And I'm like, you're kidding me.

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I'm like, literally, this isn't gonna make a break.

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Like, it's not a seat issue.

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This is the TV.

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Who cares?

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I don't care.

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And we had to wait for them to come out, do whatever.

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I bet we took off probably five or ten minutes later than we were supposed to.

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Crazy.

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Because they're dicking around with it.

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Crazy.

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And I wasn't even the one that reported it.

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Yeah.

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I would have sat down, taken the thing, and just thrown it on the floor.

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Right, right, right.

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But once that flight attendant saw it, I was cooked.

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Let's take it to the bring it back.

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I want it back.

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So there's been some news in the DJ space last week.

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What happened?

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Have you been seeing all this?

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Like people talking about the two YouTube videos that are going head to head.

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In fact, there was a third.

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Oh, I don't know about this.

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No, so DJ Barr put out a shout-out bar.

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Shout out, Barr.

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He put out a video about do not playlists.

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Oh, okay.

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And basically his whole thing was and he was, I think people took it as gospel that like everybody should do it this way.

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He was explaining how he does it, which kind of got taken out of context.

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But basically he said that he puts a limit on his do-not plays because the lists were getting kind of out of control.

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And you mean the do-not plays.

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Okay.

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For the clients.

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For the client.

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They were giving him that many do-not plays.

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He's like, second, checking, second, you know, looking at things over, just like, you know, it was messing with them.

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And people were going crazy on it.

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And so he's like, I cap it at 10.

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And then I don't know how it came out, but Spinelli, our other guy, decided to uh make a rebuttal and basically said that I don't cap anybody.

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In fact, that's the most important thing to me is getting the do not plays.

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I want them to give me as many as they want.

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So I know where the landmines are.

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Basically.

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And then he went a step further and said basically, that um, you know, it's their party.

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Yeah.

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They're throwing the party.

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Yeah.

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Like they're gonna understand if you only want their songs.

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Like, and he used the example of Metallica.

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If people played a Metallica song, you might feel like that's really weird.

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But if you know the couple, you know that they're into them.

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Yeah.

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And you're gonna be okay with that.

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Right, right.

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So he was like, I don't cap them on the do not plays, and I do definitely don't count on uh cap them on the must plays.

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So then there was this kind of like heated comments going back and forth, not between those two, but just the different case.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the peanut gallery, sure.

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So then Drew and Fuse decided to do a little thing on this.

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I saw that.

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And they had them both on, they had them both on at the same time, and they both gave their takes.

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And Drew had a great take that, in my opinion, that he said, Um, I don't uh even bring up the don't plays.

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Yeah, he said, I feel like it's taking us down a negative hole, which sounds like something you would say.

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Yeah, yeah.

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You know, he's like, I want to keep a positive.

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Give me your must plays, that's cool, but like let's not lead you down the road.

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And to Nick's credit, he said, I don't lead with, hey, give me your don't plays.

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Yeah, right, right.

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Even though I do say it's like the most important thing to me.

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And so it kind of started this thing where, and then, you know, uh, Fuse was talking about how for him, you know, he and I think they're a little bit of an anomaly, all four of those guys, and even probably the two of us, in the sense that people now hire us for what we do.

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Yeah, right, right.

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Do the Joe Bund thing.

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Right.

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And and they know what we do, you know.

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So it's not like they are gonna give us typically a crazy do-not playlist or whatever.

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So it made me think about it because in fact, Drew even said he doesn't even uh for systems that allow it that don't allow you to to put in a do-not play, he'll take it off completely and not even give them the option.

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So I thought that would make an interesting conversation piece for us to give our takes.

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I'm curious what your take is on a do-not playlist and a must playlist.

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Do you and lean more heavy into the do-not plays?

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Do you cap people?

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Do you uh have conversations when it gets out of control?

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How does it mess with you?

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Are you seeing a bunch?

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Like, what's your take?

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Yeah, um, I mean, I I love to get lists.

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Obviously, I really want to get the what do you really want to dance to type list.

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And I can usually feel my way around that list into what's safe territory.

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Normally, on that initial consultation, literally a year to 18 months in advance of their wedding, I'll say, you know, I'm gonna ask for a Spotify playlist.

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You know, as many songs as you want.

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I'd love to get 25 to 50.

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So I'm I'm I'm I'm psychologically planting a seed of 25 to 50 songs I would like to get from you.

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And then I say, and then I'll sometimes say, I would love to know, you know, maybe some artists or genres to kind of stay away from as well.

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Now by no means am I asking for a Spotify link.

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Do I say that that I need a Spotify link?

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Do I really push hard for that list when I'm, you know, doing the final planning meeting two weeks before the wedding?

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Absolutely not.

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Like if they haven't told me by then I hate, you know, 24 karat magic or I hate, you know, don't play uh Creed higher because that was my ex-boyfriend's favorite song, you know, riding around in his Mustang or whatever.

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Like, I I don't I don't get granular like that when it comes to the do-not plays.

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Yeah.

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And and by no means, because it is Spotify, you can make as many songs as you want to a fucking playlist.

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I don't care, but I I kind of soft plant that I'd like to get about 25 to 50.

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And you're not even really necessarily because on a Spotify playlist, you can't highlight songs as must-plays or do not plays.

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I don't care.

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No, there was that whole thing, uh, I don't know if it's an event planner or DJ Intelligence about must play, try to play.

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It's must play, try to play possible, play if possible, or do not play.

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Like, I no, I do not want it broken up like that.

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I I'm not gonna I'm not gonna track it like that.

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I'm not gonna play it like that.

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Yeah.

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Put together a like if you were going to a party and you were putting together a Spotify list of what you would dance to and shake your ass to and your friends and family are gonna like, give me that.

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I want that.

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And then if there's anything that stands out as like, oh my god, we hate chumba wamba, who doesn't?

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Fucking, then I want to know.

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You're gonna get knocked out.

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Yeah, you're gonna knock out.

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But it's it's just good that you're gonna be.

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You're not asking for uh you're not asking for like a like a numerical list, though.

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You you plant the seed, yeah.

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Well, you know what?

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Actually, yeah, I don't like that song.

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Yeah, but you're not it's just it's just planting the seed.

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It's not a bad thing to bring it up.

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No, it's not.

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I got no problem with bringing it up, but I'm looking for it more as a generalization than a give me a a now.

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I have had people make literally a Spotify list too that says do not play like Wow.

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And it's 10 songs, okay.

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Whatever.

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I've never seen like a hundred songs, right?

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Like, and no normally people would just be like, we don't like lion dances.

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Okay, well that that's six songs right there.

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Right.

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Uh we don't like Bruno Mars, we don't like Michael Jackson or whatever.

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But you've been doing it this way for how long?

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Because I mean, before you were on DJ Planner, people would actually enter these so five years.

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So out of those five years worth, would you say not even half or even mentioning I do not play amount of tracks?

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I mean, if I do 40 a year, I mean if they mention anything, it's gonna be one or two songs or like a a genre.

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I don't like country.

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Okay, cool.

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So you're never asking this.

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So you don't know what landmines you're typically could step on if you're having to read it in real time to hopefully, you know.

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I could.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I could.

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I feel like worst case scenario, they just come up and you know, give me a yeah, I feel like if anybody other than them did this, the the the move it on type thing, yeah, I would probably blow a gasket.

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But if the writer grooms like move it on, then I'm like, okay, I hit a nerve there.

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I feel like it's but that's super rare.

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Yeah, it's kind of like part of the job though to read the room.

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Or like if you're playing a if you're playing something, you're like, oh, these people aren't really.

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Yeah, okay, then move at it.

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Get them out.

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I'm out.

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I I get that to an extent, but I I also can see the other side of it where it's like you're getting the cheat sheet to the test, knowing what songs work, which songs don't.

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Sure.

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So it kind of speeds up the process.

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So I don't have to spend time watching everything.

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I call it fishing.

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That's what I tell them.

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I'm like, listen, you you could tell me, Joe, just do your thing or do what you did.

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What was the wedding you saw me at?

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Katie and and Bobby.

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Yeah.

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If you want to do that, I'll do that.

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But I'm but I know that y'all have songs that you like.

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I don't know your friends and family.

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You guys do.

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So give me it like a starting point instead of letting me just sit there and fish.

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Right.

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I would rather not fish.

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I would rather just let's start the party and know that these are gonna work, and then everything else is gonna be a surprise to you, and you're gonna be like, holy shit.

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Have you ever had it the other way?

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Must play.

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I know you don't call it that, but let's just say that you said, hey, we want everything on this list played, because you probably just deal with one list.

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How do you navigate that?

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And have you run into issues where like you detour, detour off of it, and all of a sudden they're coming up to the booth going, Hey, can you just stick to our list?

00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:31.759
You get that?

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I've I've had that.

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It's but not as pretty.

00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:34.799
Yeah.

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No, it's pretty rare.

00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:37.920
Uh it would have it was years ago.

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We had like one of those last year.

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Yeah.

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It was it was pretty hardcore.

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And people were still dancing to what you were doing originally, or was it kind of clearing out and that's why they came out?

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No, I think the list was okay, but it was basically like stick to our list.

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Like we we'd appreciate if you don't deviate.

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Like in that final meeting.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Now it wasn't played in this order.

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Right.

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I wouldn't, I wouldn't take that gig.

00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:01.119
I wouldn't do that.

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I wouldn't play unless you already signed up.

00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:04.160
Well, right, yeah, right.

00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:08.079
If if I found out later, I guess I'm kind of committed under contract.

00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:13.440
But if if I knew that, you know, a year in advance, and they were like, we're gonna give you a list and we want you to play it in order.

00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:14.079
No, you're not.

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I'm not doing that show.

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So I never capp people on the and we do have a do-not play section, but I did like the way that uh Drew brought it up about you know, why even bring it up?

00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.240
Yeah, because why start it negatively?

00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:26.640
Yeah.

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Um, if they haven't do not, if if they're that serious about music, they would bring it up, in my opinion.

00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:32.480
Yeah.

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Like they're gonna tell you if they don't like a song, if they are that passionate about music.

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Yeah.

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Where you don't need to have a category necessarily for that.

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Right.

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So I think I am gonna be switching my forms around to take that off.

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Yeah, number one.

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Yeah.

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And then on the other side of it, the must plays, like the Metallica thing, you know, I I get the sentiments that it's somebody's wedding, and yes, you know, stick to it.

00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:53.519
I mean, I had a couple who did it with Rufus deSoul.

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Yeah, they wanted all Rufus deSoul for this after party.

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I'm like, he's cool for about 15, 20 minutes, but we have to like add some other things in there.

00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:02.559
Is it a group or a group?

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Yeah.

00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:14.079
Um however my take on it is this like, I don't subscribe to Nick's theory in the sense of like, if they only want a Metallica, that you would only play Metallica.

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Because like if they wanted that, they wouldn't throw a party.

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They're throwing a party and inviting their friends.

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When you throw a dinner party, you know, are you gonna have some of your favorite dishes?

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Probably.

00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:29.440
But if you went hardcore with your only dishes, let's say you were vegan or something like that, right?

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You're gonna have some hungry guests who aren't vegan, who are be like, yo, it's like you're throwing a party, you should include everybody.

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And that's the way I kind of approach it is like, listen, I know it's your wedding.

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Trust me, I'm gonna hit the songs that you really love, but let's talk about everybody else.

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Where are they coming from?

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Right.

00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.039
You know, what demographics are we looking at?

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Again, for me, I love to get the cheat sheet a little bit ahead of time.

00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:58.480
Yeah, it's not that I don't want to do work, it just gives me ability to actually go further than I would be able to if I'm having to constantly read the room.

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Yeah, you know what I mean?

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Absolutely.

00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.599
And it just makes you more confident going into it if they're truthful.

00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:04.240
Yeah, right.

00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.039
You know what I mean?

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What throws you for a loop, and I can usually tell when I look at the list, is when they do that thing where they send out the RSVP card.

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Oh, I hate that.

00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:14.000
Fuck that.

00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:14.960
Yeah, quit that.

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Stop that.

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Yeah, I wish couples listen to this because I'd be like, stop that shit.

00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:19.599
Yeah.

00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:23.759
Well uh return the RSVP card and also return this card.

00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.279
What songs are gonna get you out on the dance floor shaking your ass?

00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:37.039
And it'll be the most disjointed, yeah, stinky looking list with like, you know, it'll be SpongeBob theme song, and then somebody will put, you know, pop that P.

00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:39.519
I mean, like, it's like the most, you know what I mean?

00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:40.559
Like any sense.

00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:41.839
It it makes zero sense.

00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:42.640
Yeah.

00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:43.359
Yeah.

00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:44.079
Anyway.

00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:44.559
All right.

00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:46.880
Well, I think we can put a ball in this particular section.

00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:47.200
Okay.

00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:48.160
Moving on.

00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:49.599
Let's go to story time.

00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:50.079
Okay.

00:21:58.799 --> 00:21:59.759
So these are like gig stories.

00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.319
If you're new to the pod, kind of just sharing things.

00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:06.880
So I had a uh birthday party not too long ago.

00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:08.799
Um, a different one than the one we talked about.

00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:11.839
We talked about the 65, but I was about to say yeah, we've done a few birthday parties.

00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:13.359
You have I have, yeah.

00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:14.720
I got a third one coming up.

00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:17.279
So I've done three birthdays, 65.

00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:24.240
This last one was the 50th uh for this guy, and uh the planner had seen me do some things before.

00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:26.480
She called me in, she said they gotta have you, da-da-da.

00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:27.119
Great.

00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.119
And I'm walking into this event.

00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.880
In fact, we had a planning call, it was pretty standard, like just great dance music.

00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:35.599
The client's own it, or the planner and both.

00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:37.200
Okay, just pretty standard.

00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:41.359
It's gonna be just, you know, um cocktail music.

00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:42.559
We'll get into dancing.

00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:47.359
There wasn't even a meal, it was just like kind of, you know, there might be some appetizers out, but it's not gonna be a full meal.

00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:48.160
And then we're just dancing.

00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:49.200
And it was a long night.

00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:53.440
It's gonna be from uh I think we started at seven and it was going to one.

00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:56.799
And the first question I had was like, they're how old?

00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:00.480
Because I'm like, right, 50-year-olds are gonna be partying this line.

00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:01.920
Like, there's some I know who will, obviously.

00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:03.359
I will, but there's not many.

00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:04.799
Some people blow their hip out.

00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:06.240
Yeah, totally.

00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:12.079
So um uh the client reaches out to me and goes, Hey, um, I think we should have one more call.

00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:14.000
You know, I'm like, Okay, yeah, sure, whatever.

00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:18.079
And she goes, So ahead of that, she sends me this text of like, hey, I've come up with the timeline.

00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:19.680
I'm like, Timeline?

00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:23.839
Uh, because I was looking at my thing, I'm like, I don't remember us even having a discussion about that.

00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:28.400
So I get a text from the client about three or four days beforehand.

00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:30.960
And by the way, this planner was just making the introduction.

00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:32.160
She wasn't actually planning this at all.

00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:32.960
Oh, okay, okay.

00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.880
She goes, Hey, I have the agenda altogether.

00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:36.559
I was like, Well, what much?

00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:37.920
I mean, how much more do we have?

00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:42.400
She goes, Here, uh, just to kind of set it up for you, here's here's the rundown.

00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:49.599
And it's so long in the text that it actually only shows you like the four first like five or six lines, and then you have to hit the arrow button.

00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:50.160
Yeah.

00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:54.000
And this thing is a massive document.

00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:57.759
And I can tell just by the way it's written, like, you know, the emojis.

00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.000
I'm like, oh, somebody went to AI with this.

00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.079
I go, hey, uh, so do you have a planner now?

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:05.680
She goes, No, uh, I have Chat GPT as my uh planner.

00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:07.519
I go, oh, okay.

00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:16.079
And uh she's hired a saxophonist that I've never played with to play for cocktail hour, and then she wanted some of that for dancing.

00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:20.240
She hires an aerialist to come in and do an aerialist performance.

00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:21.680
This was the worst idea.

00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:24.400
She decided to have what they call a toast and roast.

00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:26.319
So they're gonna toast and then roast these people.

00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.680
But these aren't professional roasters.

00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:28.079
Yeah, right.

00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:31.920
And unless you're good, yeah, those go, I mean, they drain the energy.

00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:32.559
Yeah.

00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:33.759
Fourth thing.

00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:39.119
I mean, this is breaking up this entire night, which is kind of nice because I'm going to one anyways, which I thought was gonna be a stretch.

00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:39.359
Right.

00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:42.160
Just for straight up dancing, and it would have died way earlier.

00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:42.799
Way earlier.

00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:43.039
Yeah.

00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:44.319
She hires a magician.

00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:47.359
I'm like, are we at a freaking, you know, bar mitzvah?

00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:49.119
What if this is a 50-year-old birthday party?

00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:51.119
Who's hiring musicians, magicians?

00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:52.640
Has that.

00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.960
Then there's this other bit where um she's got this skit.

00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:05.279
She hires some little people to come in on a uh dressed as policeman, coming on in a little scooter.

00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:10.079
And they ask me to play a siren song, or just a siren.

00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:12.960
Guy's got a microphone.

00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.640
He goes, Hey, is there a I forgot the guy's name, Andy here?

00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:20.720
And um and and he goes, You're under arrest.

00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:32.160
So he brings out his cuffs and um basically cuffs this guy and he goes, and they want me going to fireball, and they're gonna do a shot.

00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:35.200
And I'm like, I don't get it, but like maybe there's some kind of connection.

00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:38.400
Second gig, by the way, in a row where I've had like little people for birthdays.

00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:39.279
I don't know if that's a thing.

00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:40.000
I don't know what's happening.

00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:41.039
What's going on with that?

00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.200
Um then they were supposed to go back and did some dancing, and then one other final performance.

00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:47.920
And I'm like, we are way overthinking.

00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.359
This is way too much overkill.

00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:51.200
I can't even believe we're doing all of this.

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:52.880
And uh they must have had money.

00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:54.559
This shit cost money.

00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:55.359
Oh, tons of money.

00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:56.799
And then they decked it out.

00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:58.160
It was like James Bond kind of stuff.

00:25:58.400 --> 00:25:59.519
Weird, like in a in a hotel.

00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:05.759
It was a uh a showroom for cars, which is actually one of the worst places to have it because it's not soundproofed at all.

00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:06.000
Right.

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:07.440
It's like just bouncing off walls.

00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:09.519
It was in Florida.

00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:17.839
So do this event, and I mean, believe it or not, they did stay till 1245, which I thought was pretty bold.

00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:19.839
Yeah, this was also during the snowstorm.

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.640
So a lot of our crowd that was coming from out of town couldn't come.

00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:24.079
So they had half the crowd.

00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:27.440
We started at 100, I think we were under 50.

00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:33.519
So for us to be able to stick around, but the worst, you know, uh drain on the whole event is a toast and roast.

00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:36.079
Highly discourage anybody ever doing that.

00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.000
Unless you're like Nikki Glazer.

00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:39.680
If you're not heard, then stop.

00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:40.640
Or Jeff Ross.

00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:40.880
Right.

00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:42.160
Like, yeah, you're not gonna do it.

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:42.319
Right.

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:43.359
It's just not gonna work.

00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:45.359
So don't, don't, don't recommend that.

00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:49.359
The magician, however, super impressive, was more like a mentalist.

00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:51.039
Oh, which those are dope.

00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:51.599
I know.

00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:57.440
This guy got me two years ago in Mexico, yeah, fucked me up for three days.

00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.079
Yeah, yeah.

00:26:58.319 --> 00:26:59.680
I could not figure it out.

00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.279
Whatever he did, and I don't it actually ended up being in his show.

00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:04.400
Like a hypnotist?

00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:07.599
No, it's it's it was more like reading your mind, dude.

00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:17.359
He was doing shit like hand like hand me a book and go flip it, stick your finger on a word, and I'll tell you the word.

00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.720
And the dude would be up there, like it was like bonkers.

00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:22.960
The one that got me, he goes to he goes, open your.

00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:33.519
It was so bad that, dude, I was at this resort in Mexico going up to people that were that I had seen, you know, put in the and it was only maybe um 100 people in this room.

00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:33.839
Yeah.

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.200
And I was like, dude, what was that the other day?

00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:38.319
And they were like, What are you talking about?

00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:40.319
I was like, weren't you in that mentalist show?

00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:42.559
And she was like, Yeah, that was the craziest shit ever.

00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:43.920
So they weren't like a plant.

00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:49.839
This was three, four days later, laying on the beach, and I would just go up to some random lady and be like, How did he do that?

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:53.680
I mean, it was so I I'm not kidding, man.

00:27:53.759 --> 00:28:01.759
I wish I could remember like the final trick or what it what um no, but I'm not so sure he wasn't from around here or something.

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:02.319
Okay.

00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:04.880
It was mind-blowing.

00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:05.680
I'm going that far.

00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:08.319
Because the next day it was like a Mexican Michael Jackson show.

00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:08.960
You know what I mean?

00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:14.400
It was like, I was like, okay, we went from a mentalist, it literally blew my mind to like a Mexican Michael Jackson.

00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:20.400
They did a uh he did one trick where he basically said, Everybody pull out your phones in your calculator.

00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:27.039
And he was asking them for like just random numbers, like whatever, 314, 5 million, whatever.

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:33.279
And he would times it by whatever, do whatever, and he'd have us do it on our phone, all of us are on the calculator app doing this.

00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:35.359
And then the final He was shelling out the numbers.

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:36.640
Uh, just random people in the crowd.

00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:37.039
Sure.

00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:38.400
He was just pointing, hey, give me a number.

00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.359
What's the first thing that comes to your mind?

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:41.920
All right, now give me a number, whatever.

00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.599
And we hit the equals sign.

00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:47.119
He goes, Okay, now we've because we've times it, we plus it, we've done all the different things.

00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:48.799
And he said, Hey at equals.

00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:50.480
He goes, You guys know what this number is?

00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:52.240
And it was like in the millions or whatever.

00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:57.039
He's like, This is the date, today's date, and this is the exact hour, minute, and second that we're looking at.

00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:58.000
Get out of here.

00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.960
And I'm like, How is this possible?

00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:05.279
Like, we went through probably 30 numbers of random people just yelling them out.

00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:09.759
And to land on the exact time and finish it just like that, I was like, What?

00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:11.039
It was crazy, dude.

00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:11.680
I'm telling you.

00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.720
And he literally actually got pulled up there to volunteer.

00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:17.119
So I mean, I was like, we know she's not a plant.

00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:18.480
Like, this is crazy.

00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:19.200
Yeah.

00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:20.319
So anyway.

00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:21.119
Anyway.

00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:22.240
Um, yeah, crazy.

00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:24.000
I'm on the deep.

00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:28.960
So any gigs you're looking forward to?

00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:31.279
Uh uh first wedding of the year.

00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:32.160
Uh next weekend.

00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:32.720
New place.

00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:34.000
We're going same old, same old.

00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:35.359
Same old, same old.

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:38.240
You and Saquon's gonna be like, you son of a bitch.

00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.359
No elevator.

00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:40.720
Wakefield barn.

00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:42.079
Oh, I hate that place.

00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:43.200
They got that lift.

00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:44.400
They got that little lift reading.

00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:44.960
It's okay now.

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.640
Actually, I've been there for a couple of years.

00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:48.160
No, you went there for that candlelight.

00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:49.599
Yeah, I never went upstairs.

00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:50.240
So I don't remember.

00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:50.480
What?

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:51.599
Or at least I don't remember it.

00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:53.039
I thought it was flat, but maybe I'm not.

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:53.920
No, you were upstairs.

00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:54.480
I was upstairs?

00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:54.799
Yeah, yeah.

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:55.039
Okay.

00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:55.359
There you go.

00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:55.839
The downside.

00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:56.880
So many years ago, I don't remember.

00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:58.880
That's a cocktail hour.

00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:00.880
Crazy gig in New Orleans.

00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:02.240
It's a tent wedding.

00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:03.119
When's that?

00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:04.880
Uh March 28th.

00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:05.519
Coming up.

00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:06.880
Is that Mardi Gras?

00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:08.720
No, I think it'll have already passed.

00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:10.079
But they sent me the renderings.

00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:10.960
Oh boy.

00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:13.200
Uh no, I thought it was really cool.

00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:15.279
So I'll show you the first picture here.

00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:18.079
This is of the um the tent.

00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:18.720
Okay.

00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:21.519
Building it out in this thing.

00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:25.119
The white in the towards the bottom there is where everybody's entering.

00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:30.880
The one on the left is where all the service people kind of come in from the for catering and stuff like that, which I felt like was a super long way.

00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:33.119
I was about to say, they're gonna be hating it.

00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:34.400
It's a damn quarterback.

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:40.400
And as you can see, where the dance floor is at the top, uh where the checker just area is.

00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:42.559
That's the dance floor, and then I'm uh uh in front of that.

00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:43.599
A little rouser.

00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:46.319
But this is a wedding reception for 500 people.

00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:48.640
Woo! There's no tables, as you can see.

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:51.039
This is a straight up dance party.

00:30:51.279 --> 00:31:06.960
They are I asked them if they wanted to do a walk uh so the order is they have strings playing outside the outside of it, um, where the where the uh towards the bottom where that white carpet is or whatever, and they're gonna play for a ceremony and cocktail hour.

00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.119
And in fact, the cocktail hour is gonna be piped in to the sound system.

00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:13.680
I don't even have to bring sound, it's all coming with everything.

00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:19.200
Yeah, so um they're playing that, and then about halfway through cocktail hour, they want me to take over.

00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:25.200
And then what happens is um after cocktail hour happens, the couple will already be there.

00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:29.440
We're doing three dances, and they want me to invite the couple up to do the father-daughter.

00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:33.440
I'm sorry, the their first dance, father-daughter, mother-son, and then we're dancing the rest of the night.

00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.960
No other announcements.

00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:35.519
Wow.

00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:37.119
No anything, no dinner, no nothing.

00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:37.680
No nothing.

00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:39.680
It'll be open throughout, whatever.

00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:40.160
Yeah.

00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:41.279
No special acts.

00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:41.519
Wow.

00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:42.480
Just dancing.

00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:44.559
And uh how many hours do you think that'll be?

00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.039
I think it was like eight till twelve or something like that.

00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:47.519
Okay.

00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:48.240
Of dancing.

00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:48.880
Of dancing.

00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:49.279
Ooh.

00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:50.559
So long, long set.

00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:51.039
We'll have it.

00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:54.880
We have a saxophone player playing, but the booth is what was really cool to me.

00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:57.440
So I'll show you this picture of this booth that they're making.

00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:00.960
This is uh a rendering of it where I'm in the middle.

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:01.599
See that?

00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:02.640
Yeah, it's recessed.

00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:03.680
Guess what's on either side?

00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:04.480
The bar.

00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.720
No, that's the bar is right there, which I thought was super cool.

00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:10.960
I was like, Oh, that's kind of cool.

00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:14.640
Usually you're like, you know, get people away from the bar because you want to give them to the dance board.

00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.200
It's like the bar is the DJ movie.

00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:17.920
Essentially.

00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.559
So if you're not watching this, yeah, it's basically you can describe it.

00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:24.400
Yeah, it's basically Brian in the middle, bar on the left of him, bar on the right.

00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:25.200
All is one.

00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:27.359
Yeah, with like kind of like a library.

00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:28.799
Um that's the part that's different.

00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:29.039
Yeah.

00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:30.880
So if you go to the that's just the rendering of it.

00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:33.279
But if you go to the next slide, look at that video wall they're gonna do it.

00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:34.079
Video wall.

00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:43.920
And what they're gonna do is basically for the cocktail hour, they're going to mirror all those trees that are around there on the outside of the tent, so it feels like it's a part of the structure.

00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:48.640
Ah, and then afterwards, it's gonna be like um when I'm actually playing the dance, it's actual visual.

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:51.680
So if you go to the next screen, people got money, dude.

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:52.079
Right?

00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:56.079
And the only weird part about this whole thing was I was like, you see anything kind of weird in this picture?

00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:57.920
If you're watching this on YouTube, you'll see it.

00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:59.839
I was like, the speaker cluster.

00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:00.880
Yeah, what is that thing?

00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:02.799
I'm like, yo, what kind of speakers are those?

00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:04.400
Because I haven't seen those before.

00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:05.440
What is that?

00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:06.480
They're not.

00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:10.240
That is just an aesthetic thing, they won't even be real.

00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:13.359
That's just to kind of like create the vibe or whatever.

00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:15.440
And then as you can see, maybe just flying again.

00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:17.200
It's a clear temp, which I absolutely hate.

00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:18.559
You hate those.

00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:19.920
So hot.

00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:21.119
And it's New Orleans.

00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:21.279
Yeah.

00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:24.079
Luckily, it's March, it's not like May August, right?

00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:24.960
Or whatever.

00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:31.759
But on those steel beams is where all of the lighting is gonna be kind of shining down, and that's also where all of the liner rays are gonna be.

00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:33.599
What's the playlist look like?

00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:35.279
Uh, they haven't given me that yet.

00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:36.559
So we're still working on it.

00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:40.880
Um, but anyways, I'm kind of this will be kind of a cool uh gig.

00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:41.599
I love that.

00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:45.680
I'll be interested to see how it works with the um the bars on either side.

00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:48.319
Yeah, I mean, they're literally like close to this to the dance floor.

00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.480
I mean right there, you know?

00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:53.119
So it should be pretty interesting to see how it all kind of plays out.

00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:55.519
But that's uh speed it up a little bit.

00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:57.039
So hell yeah, that's gonna be fun.

00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:58.400
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00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:21.599
Um let's talk about the gear corner.

00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:21.920
Okay.

00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:26.239
The gear's here.

00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:37.599
The gear is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, not drugs, not cocaine.

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:41.440
So um I'm switching up the shoe game.

00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:43.599
You know, I sometimes wear these white ones.

00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:45.199
I have a black pair.

00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:45.519
Yeah.

00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:48.880
Uh that's not ten of shoes, but they're just kind of nicer shoes.

00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:50.880
And I was like, you know, I wanted to have a dress pair.

00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:51.280
Okay.

00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:54.239
But I hate how they wreck my feet.

00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:56.400
I had plantar fasciitis.

00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:56.960
Yes, the worst.

00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:57.599
The worst.

00:35:57.679 --> 00:35:58.880
I still kind of have remnants of that.

00:35:59.360 --> 00:35:59.840
It is the worst.

00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.239
And so I might I have to be really careful about the shoes I wear.

00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:04.320
Because I mean, it will tear me up for two days.

00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:04.559
Yeah.

00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:05.679
If I'm not like whatever.

00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:09.280
So I was looking for some dress shoes.

00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:10.960
I call our boy Trago.

00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:12.559
Like, hey, what do you what do you recommend?

00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:13.119
Do you anything?

00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:16.159
Because he always has kind of he doesn't wear tennis shoes really that I notice.

00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:16.719
Yeah.

00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:19.840
Um, he wears more just like nice dress shoes and stuff.

00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:21.840
But he said, dude, the Cole Hans.

00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.199
Have you been wearing the Cole Hans?

00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:23.440
Yeah.

00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:24.960
I said, no, I haven't I don't even know what they are.

00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:26.800
So they're kind of like more loafers style.

00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:27.840
I used to wear, yeah.

00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:29.199
So I brought them with me.

00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:30.239
I just got them.

00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:31.039
Let me see.

00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:35.360
So these are the black loafy loafs.

00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:38.159
They are super call them the driver.

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:39.440
These are super comfortable.

00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:41.760
I have not worn them yet, outside of just testing them.

00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:44.480
But you can press in on the inside of the thing.

00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:45.599
Good traction.

00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:46.400
Yeah.

00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:49.360
A little driving loafer.

00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:49.760
Yeah.

00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:51.360
And I'm not a loafer guy.

00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:52.800
Like I feel like this is very southern.

00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:54.719
Drop a drop of penny in there?

00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:56.000
Little penny loafer?

00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:57.280
Remember when people used to do that?

00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:57.920
Yeah, I do.

00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.880
So I have some pictures of some other ones that they have style-wise.

00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:05.440
So if you're looking for other ones, they got the the the the twin sister that's kind of more of the brown.

00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:07.280
The saddlebred brown.

00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.840
Then we got the the the the suede?

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:10.159
Wow.

00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:11.119
The suede?

00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:12.239
Did you buy all these?

00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:12.800
No, no.

00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:14.639
I was thinking of like which one should I go with?

00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:15.760
I thought I kind of like scared about it.

00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:17.360
The next one here.

00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:18.400
We got a little oh black.

00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:20.480
Ooh, the black velvet Victorian?

00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:21.519
The white trim?

00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:24.400
With the white trim package?

00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:25.920
And then we go a little weird.

00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:26.719
I don't know what this is.

00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:33.599
That's a damn uh damn Bad Bunny three things.

00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.400
Um so, anyways, I thought I'd throw these out there.

00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:43.519
What do you think?

00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:44.639
What do you think they go for?

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:45.440
Oh, those?

00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:46.000
Yeah.

00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:48.800
Um, I think they're like 129.

00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.639
They are uh sorry, I had them in the wrong spot listed.

00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:54.880
They are 90 bucks.

00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:55.840
Okay.

00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:58.719
These ones are a little bit more pricier for some reason.

00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.480
Did you not like don't get those.

00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:07.440
Did you not like the um the other ones that they have?

00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:09.679
They have kind of more of the sneaker sole on them.

00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:10.719
I haven't looked at them.

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.519
I just was asking him for the most comfortable that look like a dress shoe.

00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:15.280
Let me, I'll put you on after this.

00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:15.679
Okay.

00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:17.039
And are those comfortable?

00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:17.599
Yeah.

00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:17.920
Okay.

00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:18.639
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:20.559
And how often do you, I mean, could you wear all whites?

00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:21.599
Are those the all whites?

00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:23.119
No, no, no, no, no.

00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:24.639
These are these look like a dress shoe.

00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:25.199
Oh, dress shoe.

00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:25.440
Okay.

00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:25.599
Yeah.

00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:25.920
Okay.

00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:26.480
All right.

00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:27.199
Uh I'll show you.

00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:28.159
They're Cole Hans.

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:28.639
Cool.

00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:29.440
Yeah, I'll show you.

00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:30.480
Question of the day.

00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:32.800
Question of the day.

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:39.119
This was a book.

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:42.159
Uh, our boy Nathan, is it Nathan Jones?

00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:46.480
I think is what I didn't I TLDR somebody too long didn't read.

00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:46.960
Oh, yeah.

00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:48.559
So I mean I can- What was that?

00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:51.679
And I go, I go send that to Brian and make him read.

00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:53.440
Bro, I cut this down from what it was.

00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:55.519
So I'll let you uh read this two-pager.

00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:56.400
All right.

00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:01.679
Hey guys, I had an event last month at a venue I performed in two dozen times with high appraises from the owners.

00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:10.079
Last month we had a snowstorm ripped through Illinois to the point where every school, store, church, and office had closed due to the weather, but the gig I had was still happening.

00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:12.000
I was scheduled to arrive at 4 p.m.

00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:12.559
to set up.

00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:16.800
However, due to the snowstorm, I gave myself extra time to account for the drive there.

00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:18.480
I got there at 3 p.m.

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.440
The venue door was unlocked, the lights were on, so I started setting up.

00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:33.119
Fifteen minutes in, I'm two-thirds away set up when the venue owner arrived and says I was not supposed to set up yet, and that he's losing money since the client didn't have the venue until four.

00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.400
He went and called the client and asked if they wanted to pay for the extra hour that I'm there.

00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:43.119
He tells me to stop setting up my equipment because the client isn't going to pay for the extra time.

00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.039
He then paused and said I could stay because I have a good reputation there.

00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:50.800
He then proceeds to lecture me to show up on time in the future.

00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:55.039
It was really off-putting vibe and I'm debating blacklisting the venue.

00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:57.119
Oh, we just lost a camera.

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.440
How would you have I'll just do the last sentence?

00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:06.880
It was really off-putting vibe, and I'm debating blacklisting the venue.

00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:11.039
How would you have handled this situation, Nathan Jones, via Patreon?

00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:12.880
Dude, holy shit.

00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.920
I mean, I couldn't have shortened that anymore for you to get the full.

00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:17.840
Well, no, I mean, I don't even mind how long it is.

00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:19.280
I'm just more reacting to the story.

00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:21.360
Of this asshole.

00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.400
I mean, it's different if this guy's walking into some place he's never been.

00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:24.880
Right.

00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:27.119
But like the fact that he's there every time.

00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:28.159
It's a snowstorm.

00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:28.559
Right.

00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:29.360
Trying to be on.

00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:29.920
Right.

00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:31.280
And the owner is already there.

00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:38.400
It's not like he's banging on the door going, hey, let me in, or like calling somebody, going, hey, show up early, like in the middle of a snowstorm.

00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:41.840
Like he's he's doing it exactly what he should be doing.

00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:43.519
And it's not like he's five hours early.

00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:45.760
He's an hour earlier than he said he was going to be there.

00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:50.960
It's like, and you're gonna charge a client money, like that's insane.

00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:51.599
Yeah.

00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:56.559
I I dude, I I mean, Nathan, here's the thing, man.

00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.519
It's like we don't know this guy, right?

00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:06.480
And you do, could have been having a bad day, could be going through money troubles, could be just you know, reaching for straws.

00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:16.239
But if you do that many gigs there, and otherwise it's been low-key or not problematic, I I'm still playing there.

00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:23.679
I I'm gonna just cross it off as the guy was having a bad day, yeah, and and and pray that I didn't lose my cool.

00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:29.920
But if if something else like that happened again, I would probably move him to a list of like, hey Randy, I'm not playing there anymore.

00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:30.639
Blacklist.

00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:31.039
Yeah.

00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:32.079
What about you?

00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:36.880
The only thing I think he could have done differently is notified the venue.

00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:37.679
Hey, listen.

00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:39.360
He didn't tell him he was coming early.

00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:39.920
True.

00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:43.199
Could have said, hey, I'm a little nervous about getting there.

00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:43.760
True.

00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:51.119
And even, you know, I don't know if I would have done it to the client, but if I needed to, if I knew that they were gonna get charged money, and I don't know, I wouldn't probably have known that.

00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:52.239
I would have never known that.

00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:56.719
But I would have had no problem saying, hey, I think it's worth me getting there a little bit earlier.

00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:58.559
I'm not gonna charge you as the DJ.

00:41:58.719 --> 00:41:59.119
Yep.

00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:04.719
But I would rather be safe than sorry and you know, not be setting up if something were catastrophic were to happen.

00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.119
You know, there's an accident rather be early than late.

00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:07.760
Exactly.

00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:15.519
And like if if they're closing school, church businesses in Illinois for snow, that's a big yeah, that shit is serious.

00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:19.360
Yeah, and I feel like he was he went above and beyond just to even be there.

00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:19.760
Right.

00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:21.519
He risked his life just to get there.

00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.000
And I'm another learning thing there for me.

00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:28.800
I mean, when we do things in Florida, we get hurricanes all uh all the time, you know.

00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:34.559
And so we we have a clause in our contract that says if because some clients they're from you know a place where that doesn't happen.

00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:36.639
Yeah, right, you know, and they're like, Oh, it's no big deal.

00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:38.320
We're having it, we're already here, right?

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:41.199
And you're like, bro, like, yeah, you don't live here, but we do.

00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:41.599
Yeah, yeah.

00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:43.920
And I have some of our guys are like, man, I'm not risking my life.

00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:45.440
Staff and this, that, and the other.

00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:45.760
Yeah.

00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:49.519
And so it's it's a really tricky line to walk with that.

00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:59.039
It was tricky a few weeks ago when we had that snow because we had about six shows that night, four of the six rescheduled, and then two were weddings, and they were like, We're having it.

00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:04.000
And I called both of the DJs, I said, Listen, man, we're where where are you at on the comfort level on this thing?

00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:06.400
Like it's gonna start snowing at some point.

00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:11.920
And you know, the South is not equipped like we don't have the salt, we don't have the salt, the infrastructure, whatever.

00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.840
And they were like, Man, we're just gonna go early and set up and do the damn show.

00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:16.639
Like, that's cool.

00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:20.800
They both that both of them were like, dude, if if they're having it, I'm gonna be there.

00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:26.719
And I because I was I wasn't playing and I was like, listen, I gotta be I got a rover, I it's got four-wheel drive.

00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:32.960
If I need to do it, I'll just put the I'll put a smaller rig in my in the in the in the rover, you know, and then go, and I'll go do it myself.

00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:34.079
If they say they're having it, yeah.

00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:36.480
And both of them are like, no, man, we're committed, we're doing it.

00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:36.960
That's cool.

00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:38.719
They both went off without a hitch.

00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:48.800
To your point, I mean, we don't know the whole relationship here, but if you're doing a significant amount of dollars, yeah, I wouldn't want to burn that bridge, even if this guy is kind of a tool, unless it's becomes regular.

00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:49.039
Right.

00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.000
I mean, he sounds like it's one time that it's happened.

00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:53.440
I'm not gonna write him off on that.

00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:55.519
But boy, that's frustrating to go through.

00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:59.199
It doesn't set you up well for the show that you're supposed to be like, yeah, you know, Mr.

00:43:59.280 --> 00:43:59.679
Positivity.

00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:00.480
Yeah, Mr.

00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.960
Excited, and you just got your ass handy to you.

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Tough.

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And the clients got to walk in and deal with this dick.

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They just tried to get more money out of your body.

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Yeah.

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And I'm sure that wasn't a big thing.

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Yeah.

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Jeez.

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It's crazy.

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And with that, uh, thank you.

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Thank you, DJ Event Planner.

00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:19.519
Absolutely.

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For sponsoring this.

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Uh, we couldn't do the show without you, really.

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Uh, so appreciate you uh uh you know sponsoring this.

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And for those of you that aren't on a CRM, you gotta check it out.

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Come on.

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What are you waiting for?

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DJ Eventplanner.com.

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And as every closing we do here goes, we'll see you on the next episode every Wednesday.

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Peace.

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Later.