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welcome to beyond the dj booth podcast.
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I'm one of the co-hosts, Brian B, and this is yes sir Joe Bunn.
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Batch Day Love Batch Days On a Monday.
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On a Monday, start the week out hot.
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Yeah, that is not something I'd recommend.
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Mondays are tough.
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Mondays are tough Coming off the weekend of playing.
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Friday and Saturday, were you off this weekend.
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I was off this weekend.
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Good for you, man.
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I'm off for like the next three.
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Yeah, you told me Florida's different it is, and just in general, I'm usually off in July.
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End of June through July.
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No, it's June, though.
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Yeah, end of June through July.
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Usually too hot.
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What's crazy man, is I always, for example, like all of our Arizona DJs, right, they've been off.
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They've been off, yeah, and so they crushed it like January to April and then once May hit, you know, and it's 100 and something degrees there, they're done Probably May, june, july, and then they probably don't come back till September AD.
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My sister in Montana is more like end of may to maybe end of september, that's it, maybe four months total.
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North carolina is kind of up and down yeah, I feel like florida is kind of kind of done now, yeah, going into but we only really have like two months july august done, and then it used to be September through end of October.
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Now we're stretching into like beginning of December for weddings.
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Yes, it's crazy.
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Same here and I do believe since COVID's over and we've had four or five years now that people are starting to regain that budget for a holiday party.
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We've booked a ton of holiday parties.
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Really A ton.
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Yeah, and the key is man and I even had Rain to do this the other day because I knew he didn't have a lot going on that day I said, hey, man, go back the last two or three years, look at everybody that we've done holiday parties for and just if they haven't booked already, just ping them.
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He booked two within an hour.
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Wow, yep, oh yeah, I have been meaning to do that, you know, and whether you're filling up or not, just say you're filling up.
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You know what I mean.
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He was like hey, we're just, you know, heads up, we're kind of filling up.
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Are y'all thinking about doing it?
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And two, he he texted me later that day.
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He was like good idea, we just picked up two in June type thing you probably don't need to right no.
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And again and some people will wait until November We'll get a flurry in November of just oh man, I forgot to do this, or my boss just approved this, or we had a good quarter, or we had a good year.
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Yeah, it's nothing like it was back in the day.
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Yeah, of course we used to have weekdays.
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Oh days, oh yeah, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday.
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I mean you, you could end your year killer.
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Yeah, in december.
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Yeah, off corporates.
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Yeah, it ain't like that anymore.
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This was the weekend for you.
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Uh, you've been blown up on social from this client I have and her family.
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I think they're great yeah, so I gotta family give me the download on the download man.
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Was it as?
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epic, as you were thinking it was going to be, because going in you're like this is going to be a rager.
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That's what you told me Saturday 100%.
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Everything that I thought would be great about it was great about it, with the exception of which is completely out of her control and mine the weather.
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That's what I was worried about.
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Holy shit, it looked like it was pouring.
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It was pouring from the second we pulled into the parking lot until dinner, which meant Because that load-in isn't covered, Dude the load-in, it was at a country club we've never been to, oh.
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I thought it was the beach club that you're always at.
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No, it was not Different beach club.
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I've been going to that beach for 53 years and have never set foot in this country.
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Club Looked gorgeous, it's gorgeous, it's gorgeous and she wanted to get married outside and we waited to the last second and I kept telling him.
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I said, listen, I have a battery-powered rig.
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I can carry it out there in one hand.
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The mics and everything are battery.
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You don't have to tell me until 15 minutes before the guests arrive what you want me to do.
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Right back in the day it took me 30 minutes to set up all that stuff.
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But the florist I could tell he was kind of pressuring her and sweating her, you know, because he had this big floral cross.
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They can't do that in 15 minutes.
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No, that's a half a day and finally, about four, one hour before the guest, he just basically made her make a decision and so she had to get married inside the reception dinner dancing.
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It was under a tent which was not a permanent tent, it had been brought in.
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It had ranges everywhere Carolina, blue and white.
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I mean it was gorgeous.
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But man, that rain poured off that tent and just created a mud bog in the grassy part and they had a wrapped white dance floor and it was gross.
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I mean gross.
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So do you have the—what about your speakers?
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I want to hear about—.
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So what I did.
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And as soon as we walked out there and we looked around, I looked at the planner and I looked at the lady at the venue and I said ma'am, I'm not going to set up all this gear in the grass or in this mud, I'm going to set it up on the dance floor.
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So I was standing in the grass.
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Our side was on the low side, so by the time the water got down there it was kind of dissipated okay.
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So we were on the sound.
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You know, our back was to the ocean.
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Yeah, the sound.
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the gear was fine, man, other than the cables were kind of laying in the grass and I and I in fact I was telling saquon, like we play again on friday a big wedding here for um, somebody in the industry and I just have a huge bucket of those like uh, pre-wet rags in the car and just all the cables are going to need to be cleaned.
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So the speakers, the booth and everything did not really get dirty.
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Good.
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Sneakers destroyed.
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I mean, the bottom of my pants have mud all over them like splat, splat, splat.
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All the girls' shoes there were ruined.
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So yes, the party was epic.
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She was gorgeous.
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Her twin sister who?
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I did her wedding.
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Gorgeous.
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The third sister gorgeous, both of their parents gorgeous.
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The groom doctor, handsome as hell.
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His dad, handsome as hell.
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His mom gorgeous, like they're friends.
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Gorgeous, you know what I mean.
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Like every video clip I was looking at this morning.
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For two hours I've been looking through the meta glasses footage.
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Yeah, I had 360 footage and all the stuff he shot on the osmo and it's just like gold.
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Only other problem was she came up the at the end of the night and hugged me and said the nicest things probably somebody's ever said about me.
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And the fucking card was on the on the 360 was full.
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She was like you just gave us the wedding of our dreams.
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We knew you would do and I looked up at the camera and Saquon was like why didn't you hit record on the glasses?
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And I was like it just felt weird, but would she have known, I've never worn them, so I don't.
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It's got a white light on the front.
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I still think they would have taken it.
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It just felt Disingenuous yes, exactly Great word disingenuous.
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Yes, exactly great word man.
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It felt disingenuous and I, just I, was like man.
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That is probably the best testimonial I've ever gotten like live, real action and I went fuck yeah, card was full cooked.
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I mean I was like no, we're not gonna get that again I mean, would it look good on a real?
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yes, but I think the the dance footage is gonna be way it is.
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Have more longevity.
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Yeah, even the stuff from the point of view glasses.
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They came behind the booth pretended they were djing, but I think the dance footage is going to be way it is.
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It's great, yeah, even the cell phone, the point of view glasses.
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They came on the booth, pretended they were DJ and photographers popping off pictures.
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And so with your gear and all that on the dance floor, were you nervous of like people just bumping into stuff and did it happen, or you know.
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I taped the laptop to the.
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I'm looking at the booth there tape it.
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And one guy said his beer up there.
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I don't know if we got that on camera, but I just took it right back off.
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Yeah.
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A couple people kind of like pump faked and then they kind of realized like this is dumb, I'm not going to do it.
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Yeah.
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There were a few sitting on the subs.
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You know a few drinks sitting on the subs and stuff, but no man.
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I mean, you know that's been my, my push.
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You know, get me out of the corner.
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I don't want to be over here.
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I don't want tables between me put me on the dance floor right.
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This was literally the gear was on the dance, wow speakers too.
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Yeah, right on it, because we didn't uh, no, I had the 90s, yeah, 90s 90s, the booth.
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Wow, the tubes that had been massively banging.
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Geez, it was banging well if and especially outdoors.
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But they're on the dance floor.
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Yeah, literally they're on the dance.
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Speaker.
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Yes, wow, it sounded you feel like you, any idea if you got any referrals from this that you could tell like I knew new venue?
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You hadn't been to yes, like new planner, I'm assuming oh, no, planners from here.
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Okay, photographer from here.
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So we knew all the players.
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Even the florist got kelly odom here.
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The lady had been there 14 years.
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At the venue.
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At the venue and I could tell, was passing the torch to this new girl, I kind of got the lowdown.
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But again, man's three hours.
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The loading was not great.
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I mean, it's beautiful, I love going to the beach, but it's like I don't know that I was really pressing them to put me on the list.
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Yeah, and we're back there in two more weeks.
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Wow, at a different place, 10 miles down the road called Merrill Estates, and you've been to that one.
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I have not been there either.
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Oh wow, so this place is blowing up, then, huh.
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Maybe somebody's not doing a very good job down there.
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To be fair, I'll take that back.
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I know some DJs down there and they're good.
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Both of these people obviously are from Raleigh.
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There's no way Sophie Burns was not going to have me at her wedding based off her sisters three years ago.
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Her twin sisters.
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Yeah, and then the other girl knows me from Valare, the spin studio, and you know she's from Raleigh as well, sure, so anyway, that's how I got those All right Brian B here.
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Back to the episode.
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Before Joe tries to convince us that sweet Caroline is actually a banger.
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I had a little like kind of not icebreaker, but I had something that was like poignant or relevant to today, because you're like me, man, like a lot of what you make for social is completely.
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I mean, at the end of the day, I'll call it selfless, right?
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You're not necessarily getting anything out of it.
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You know it's not going to go viral.
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You're not even really pitching at the end.
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Oh oh, buy this or join my call or my coaching.
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Are you at the point in your career where you will let people talk shit to you or about you or your brand or any brand you represent, and I'm talking specifically about online keyboard warriors?
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Are you going to say anything back?
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Are you just going to block and delete?
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What is your go-to move in this day and age?
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This happened to me earlier this year.
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Something happened to me this morning and it's got me kind of nasty.
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Oh, okay, so this guy.
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He became a Facebook friend.
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I don't really know how Okay.
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Every video was just literally like putting something negative about it.
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And I'm like a dj yeah, I let it go for a while, but come to find out I'm not the only person that this person's done this to.
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I just didn't know this person, yeah, okay.
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So first thing I try to do is always trying to be helpful, like oh hey, maybe I did word this weird or maybe I didn't give enough context.
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So I'm always asking like yeah here.
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Let me clarify what I meant.
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If there, was something there, and then this person just kept being nasty.
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Even on the reply and I'm usually like I'll hold off.
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I will not be nasty back initially.
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I try yeah right but then eventually it got to the point where I'm like this dude's doing this to every video I have that comes out next.
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So I'm just like I got to block this dude.
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But did you ever clap back and then block him?
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No, no, I just, I just.
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I just dude.
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I've been having a hard time lately, man, but you're better at it than most.
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I feel like I definitely am better than most because you have so many ads.
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You have a lot of ads.
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The ads is what people are adding on and they don't like that.
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The booth is three thousand dollars, you know.
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So that's their, so that's their main go-to comment Too expensive?
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And that's fine.
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I have no problem with somebody saying, hey, it looks good, $3,000 is a little expensive, or even $3,000 is crazy, lol, whatever.
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But when somebody this dude this morning it was a picture.
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It was a static ad Me and Saquon standing at the booth and it was like picture.
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It was a static ad, me and saquon standing at the booth and it was like.
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I can tell by the way you have your hands on the mixer.
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You're a fucking clown.
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So I went at him, I went in his profile and I look at it and guess what?
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The profile picture is a white bmw3 series.
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And I go any douchebag with this profile picture as a white BMW 3 Series can fuck right off.
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And this is a public comment and I'm just like now I've gotten to the point where I've started to be that guy and I'm like really questioning do I need to be responding to my own ads?
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I don't Do, I I would not, because then it fuels them.
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It makes you look crazy, I know.
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It makes you look like they got to you crazy.
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yeah, I know it makes you look like they got to you.
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You know what I mean.
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You can't let these people get.
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I just saw, didn't uh, eric rhodes post like two things about that recently too.
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I don't know he did what.
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He's like dude, maybe I should call him he should.
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He posted two things where people were like I don't remember the exact comment, but it was something about him just being a tool bag, oh wow.
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And he copied and pasted it and said you're gonna get this all the time.
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Did he blur out the dude's name, or did he he did?
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I'm one of them, for sure.
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Okay, yeah.
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I mean, I just think it comes with the territory.
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I agree, and normally I can brush it under the rug.
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I think, though, when it goes into something like imagine how difficult it is, man, to build and manufacture a product with your name on it.
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They don't have any clue and sell it to thousands of people.
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People are just haters, man.
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Yeah, but it's different, like hating on, oh, this dude's old, this dude's bald.