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what's up everybody.
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Welcome back to beyond the dj booth podcast, your favorite podcast in the world.
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If you're a private event dj, that's true.
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What's up?
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I'm joe bunn.
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That is my guy.
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Brian bonacisi, that's right straight from italy straight from italy.
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Straight from italy.
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Just got in town, rose from like california or something with the damn Italian last name.
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What's up, dude?
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Hey we got this I haven't seen you in five minutes.
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It's crazy.
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We're getting a lot of shows still coming in for this year.
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Yeah, yeah, we're getting a lot of shows still coming in for this year.
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Yeah, me too.
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So I feel like you've seen a lot of venues come and go right a lot of venues come and go, so we're going to test your knowledge here on oh shit, is it a venue, okay, or is it a bar, okay, all right okay, we're going to start with our first one here.
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This is called.
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All I get is the name.
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All you get is I thought I was going to get a picture- no picture Is this local?
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I mean, they're all like you know.
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In the United States?
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Yes, the first one is the Velvet Oak.
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Do you think that this is a wedding venue or a bar?
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I mean, what's crazy is?
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I used to play at a place on Hillsborough Street called the Velvet Cloak Inn.
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I'm going to say it is a venue.
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It is a bar in the state of Florida apparently.
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Of course it would be right.
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Does anybody want to take a bet, though?
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If we Google it right now that there's a wedding venue called Velvet Oak, We'll come back to that.
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Saquon, you can look that up.
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The second one, the Crooked Willow, is this Venue.
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You are correct, this is a wedding venue in Colorado, but it also sounds like a speakeasy.
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Yeah, it does Run by an herbalist.
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It does An herbalist?
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I don't know.
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Here's a third one here the goat farm.
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Look, dude, I'm going to tell you right now.
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I think it's a wedding venue.
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I know this is a fact.
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Two things happen at this place it's called Celebrity Dairy and it is a goat farm.
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It's 30 minutes from here.
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It's on the way to Farrington, You've heard of Farrington.
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I have heard of it.
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Celebrity Dairy.
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It's a goat farm.
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I played there.
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Three things happen at one wedding.
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I don't think I've been back since One.
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It's cocktail hour and I'm about to start playing.
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I look and all I could think to myself is like there's some DJ right now getting ready to play a stadium and I'm playing, and there's a chicken that just walked across.
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Did you go chicken dance?
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Did not go chicken dance?
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Oh, that would have been iconic.
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Damn, that would have been iconic.
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Should have just dropped a little sample.
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Secondly, I there was a blessing that night Jewish wedding.
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The challah sent out and I go, oh, we're going to have a blessing over the challah.
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Is Rabbi Smithstein here, or whatever his name was right?
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And it's crickets nobody.
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And then I hear somebody go, he left, and I go is anybody feeling holy?
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Swear on my life.
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No, I go.
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And when it went crickets, first I go holla and then no real laughter.
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And then I go, is anybody feeling holy?
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And an old man raised his hand and gave an incredible blessing.
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Wow, yeah, wow, okay, that place is called the Goat Farm.
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I'm saying it's a wedding venue.
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Was it a wedding venue?
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It is.
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A wedding venue in Atlanta, georgia, of course.
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All right.
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Here's the next one White Horse Social.
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That's a bar.
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It is a wedding venue in the state of Texas, damn.
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So this next one is the Drunken Goat oh, that's a bar.
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It is, and it's in North Carolina.
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I know where that is, is it?
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in the mountains or something I don't know.
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Oh, okay, I think it does sound familiar.
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I got an update.
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Okay, go on the Velvet Oak, go on Nebo, north Carolina.
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Oh jeez.
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Okay, so it's a wedding venue.
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They ain't doing many weddings apparently.
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Nebo.
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I used to have a friend from that town.
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Wow, that's crazy.
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So I've been doing a lot of gigs the last couple of weeks.
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This is busy season for us, so we're just crushing through.
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And, by the way, for those that have mentioned it on comments, let's go ahead and just deal with the elephant in the room.
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It's been busy.
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So if I come across as complaining, I am not super grateful for these events.
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It's just being real talk that you know, sometimes you just get tired while you're doing this.
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Yeah, man, I mean.
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Yeah, not shaming anybody, he kind of put you on blast with saying you know, hey, we're struggling, you know, to get the shows that you guys get or the amount of shows that you guys get we weren't trying to come off that way at all achieved a point in my career where I don't feel or do what you do, like I don't ever do back-to-back nights and I certainly don't do what Randy does, where he'll do three completely different weddings I mean three completely different couples, three completely different venues on Friday, saturday, sunday Like I don't do that anymore.
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So I don't ever really feel and, to be fair man, I never really did, ever get burnt out.
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That's not why I changed the schedule.
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I just changed it as my career progressed and I started making a little bit more money and I started adding more djs and diversifying income and selling dj booths and selling, you know, vault memberships I don't need to play three times a week anymore and you feel like your shows are better because of that, or 100, yeah, 100 you percent.
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I'm strictly focused on that one couple.
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I only have to remember one set of names, one first dance, you know one planner, one you know venue, where we're going, and I feel like I put every bit of effort prepping for that and then delivering it on the day of.
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This is going to sound like a salesman here, but I feel like, if people are struggling with that, we have a great resource for them, don't we?
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For them to be able to learn how to book more shows, how to market themselves, and it's an educational platform that you might be aware of.
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Thedjsvaultcom so if you really seriously and I'm not just saying it because you're sitting here, I do know because I've seen some of the quality that's in there and it never stops.
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You keep adding stuff to it.
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So if you haven't looked at it, it's worth a trial, Absolutely.
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Brian's one of the Vault educators.
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He makes a video about every other month for the platform.
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There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of videos and I'd say most of them are under 10 minutes quick, bite-sized.
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You know, just watch a few a day, take a few notes and just keep it moving.
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You know it's not something that's designed to overwhelm you.
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So, thedjsvaultcom, thank you I had a gig this weekend, okay, yeah actually a couple weekends ago and I had a backup situation that was needed.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah you mentioned it the cliff notes version, and this is going to lead into a playlist yeah, right so essentially, my computer just froze.
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It was still playing the song yeah I didn't see the wheel of death, nothing.
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I always restart the computer before I start.
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I start every event.
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So it's not, it's not like it was some a bunch of I don't know, it was like a grandma on Serato Stop moving, stop moving song Still playing live, still playing live.
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I'm like is this going to stop any minute, or is this going to stop at the end of the song?
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I don't have no idea.
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I don't know what's going to happen.
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I have my backup computer, which I always bring.
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Unfortunately, because of the way it was set up, I couldn't have my backpack near me, and so my backup was in my car.
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Luckily it wasn't that far, but still far enough where I couldn't leave right that second Right right, but I had my iPad, no assistant obviously, so put the iPad in and queue it up to some Spotify playlist.
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I have a backup of all of their dance requests right just as a backup, sure, so I'm looking for a song that's gonna last me while I look into the situation.
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I might have to do a hard reboot, right, so it does go to the end of the song and then it just doesn't play anything.
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I can't move anything, nothing's working, so hit the play button on the spotify playlist.
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While I'm trying to figure this situation out and it was a fuster cluck, as I would like to call it I put in the password on it, did a hard reboot and it was like on the backup on the on the regular one.
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Okay, I did that first I'm like maybe just needs a hard reboot.
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I have no idea.
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Yeah, and the password said it wasn't accepting it.
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Oh jesus, and I'm like am I typing it too fast?
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I have caps lock on everything I'm going super slow two times and it locks me out for 15 minutes.
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So then I'm like finding other songs on this on Spotify that I have downloaded, that are ready to go.
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So thankfully I had that.
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I run to the car, go grab my backup, but I haven't used it in a long time, oh boy.
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So I hit power up.
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It won't power up because the battery's dead and just when you plug it in it still doesn't start and he's like a little bit of a charge.
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So by this point I've played seven songs on Spotify.
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Oh wow, I didn't know it was that many.
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Oh yeah, so the whole song no mixing, no mixing.
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And so I came up with this idea.
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Yeah, I'm going to call it the oh S*** Playlist.
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I love it, okay, yeah.
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So the idea here is if you are in a dance set, yes, what are some songs that you know you can play to the end?
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Yeah, that almost have like a cold end, uh-huh or that.
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If it does fade out, it doesn't feel like it's a long fade out like it's kind of like you could easily transition to another song so I have five of them that I'm going to share with you, that I played right, that kind of work that happened to be on the playlist, and then, if you have any you want to add, we can go back and forth for a few, and then what we'll do is we'll put this playlist out.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'll definitely add mine.
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You'll add more.
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Yes, we'll drop this playlist to all the listeners and all you have to do is, when you see this reel, you're going to comment oh shit in the comments.
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Okay, o-h-s-h-i-t, oh shit, okay, perfect.
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And then we will send you the Spotify link to the emergency backup playlist.
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I think it's also not just that it fades correctly or a cold end, it's also length.
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Length is big, but do you?
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want it long, or do you want it short and more song?
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Because you're talking about Paradise by the Dashboard Light, but I haven't seen that on a request list since probably 97.
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I never played that one for this event.
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I just threw that on as an example.
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I agree.
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Actually, I have had one recently with that one.
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It's the right crowd.
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No, it's got to be a crowd from like I don't know where.
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Yeah, New.
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Jersey.
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Here's one that's like popular now to get away with.
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You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift, so let me play you the ending.
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This is over a love story.
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I'm just saying, if you're in the oh shit situation and you need this.
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This is what the ending of it sounds like, so you can hear what I'm talking about.
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Yeah.
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See how it kind of rings out yeah, and then you go right into the next one yeah, right, so that's one, okay, that song is, by the way, three minutes and 51 seconds.
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So it buys you at least almost four minutes of time.
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Great, and it's one of those songs that I feel like doesn't get repetitive too much.
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Like it, right.
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Right, it's got a great bridge build up all of that.
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But again, that over love story for this list I would say that okay, because it has the cold end.
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I don't think love story does.
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I can't remember second one, mr bright side the way it ends cold.
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You can kind of go into anything, yeah.
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So you can kind of go into something that does ring out.
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It's not like exactly cold cut off.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah but it's one of those ones that people will sing every word you're right.
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You're right, and it's almost blasphemy to cut that song short.
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I don't think I ever have yeah, me neither.
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Yeah, and you play the original.
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I usually start with an edit and then I go into the original like halfway through okay so that one's also pretty long three minutes and 43 seconds.
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The third one this is gonna be for the right throwback crowd.
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I'm throwing a throwback on here.
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Okay, love shack, it's going over right now, by the way.
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Really, this is how it ends.
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That is truly cold, right, and that is five minutes and 21 seconds, so that buys you a decent amount of time.
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Obviously, throwback crowd, you wouldn't want to play it, you know peak hour but yeah, yeah if you need to get by and you have older crowd out there, that can kind of work it along as well, right another sing-along bohemian rhapsody.
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Wow, this one's even longer.
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This is almost six minutes, five minutes and 54 seconds.
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The ending has a natural kind of cold end, if you want to hear this one.
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Oh right, when he goes back to like the ballad peace up a town down.
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Yeah, you can get out of it into something else.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, and then the last one I have for you.
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Well, actually there's two more, but one would be specific to jersey, okay, and I don't know if you ever played this one.
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It's a bruce springsteen's track, rosalita.
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Yeah, I have played it.
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This one clocks in at seven minutes and one second, so here's the ending of that.
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It's like a big like and then an honorable mention, if you had to do it.
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I don't play these a lot, but a lot of line dances also end cold.
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Oh, good point.
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Cupid Shuffle yeah.
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That one ends cold.
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That one's at three minutes and 51 seconds.
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Good point Off the Dome.
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Do you have any you would think of?
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I definitely would play yeah.
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Does that end cold?
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I don't even know.
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Great question.
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I'm more thinking about it laptop, shit, the bed.
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What am I going to do to keep these people on the dance floor while I get out and replug in this backup laptop right, and possibly have to power it up or whatever?