June 18, 2025

The Night The Laptop Froze And No One Knew

The Night The Laptop Froze And No One Knew

Send us a text What happens when your DJ equipment completely fails during the peak of a wedding reception? Brian i takes us through his heart-stopping experience when his laptop froze mid-set, forcing him to create what we're now calling the "Oh S*** Playlist" - a collection of carefully selected tracks designed to keep the dance floor moving during technical emergencies. The perfect emergency song needs specific qualities: a natural cold ending or smooth fadeout, universal appeal to mainta...

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What happens when your DJ equipment completely fails during the peak of a wedding reception? Brian i takes us through his heart-stopping experience when his laptop froze mid-set, forcing him to create what we're now calling the "Oh S*** Playlist" - a collection of carefully selected tracks designed to keep the dance floor moving during technical emergencies.

The perfect emergency song needs specific qualities: a natural cold ending or smooth fadeout, universal appeal to maintain energy, and enough length to buy precious troubleshooting time or one that has an immediately recognizable hook to start. Brian reveals how songs like Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me," The Killers' "Mr. Brightside," and The B-52's "Love Shack" saved his performance when mixing wasn't possible. Most remarkably, the wedding couple never realized anything went wrong - the ultimate testament to professional crisis management.

Beyond music emergencies, we explore practical tools every DJ should carry, including a clever pill case system for essential medications that might be needed during long events. At just $9 for a set of three, this simple addition to your DJ bag could save you when unexpected health issues arise on the job.

We also dive into marketing strategies for DJs at different career stages, discussing the relative value of platforms like WeddingWire, Zola, The Knot versus traditional referrals. While established DJs like ourselves now rely primarily on referrals after years of building relationships, newer professionals might need to invest more heavily in paid advertising to jumpstart their business.

Comment "ohshit" on our social media posts to receive our curated Spotify emergency playlist that might save your next gig when technology inevitably betrays you. Because the best DJs aren't those who never face equipment failures - they're the ones who handle those failures so smoothly that no one ever knows they occurred.

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00:00 - Intro and Sponsor Spotlight

01:32 - Venue or Bar? Testing DJ Knowledge

05:05 - The Goat Farm Wedding Experience

08:28 - On Being Busy and Career Evolution

10:55 - DJ Training Resources and The Vault

14:15 - The Laptop Emergency Story

19:21 - The "Oh S***" Emergency Playlist

23:54 - Essential DJ Emergency Kit

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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'm thankful, thankful for those clients that keep calling and people who keep referring and the window seems to be shortening yeah, on that, you feeling that too a little.

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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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Do you want me to say the DJs vaultcom?

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That's where I was going with it.

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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?

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Yeah, I know that's gonna work and I know that either abc or I want you back that's a good way that I want you back starts better.

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It got, it has that piano roll dancing, dancing Queen too, probably Dancing.

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Queen, like I'm trying to think of, like what are just how they start.

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Yes how they start and are they going to keep people on the dance floor, because almost like the starting moment or that starting piece of A-Town Down or that piano ring or whatever-.

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Yeah, it's a very good point.

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Is going to be like oh shit, I still love this song.

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Even though this guy can't mix chocolate milk, he's still playing good songs you know what I mean like right right off his ipad, you could even do window to the wall.

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You know what?

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I mean something like that.

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That's actually a long song, yeah, yeah and the thing about get low is it does go into different parts of it.

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You know, let me see you get low, yeah, to the window, to the wall.

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You know what I mean.

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Yeah, jay that ass.

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Like stuff like that is what I'm thinking about from that first note is like oh okay, I'm going to stay out here, even though he didn't mix this very well.

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The crazy part is the amount of pause between going from that laptop incident to the iPad was literally like four seconds.

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Once.

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I saw it didn't go play Right and the bride and groom didn't know anything.

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No right, and in fact I thought they would call me out for not mixing any of these songs.

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But the ones I picked kind of had the natural ending, where it never felt like I wasn't mixing.

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But the ones I picked kind of had the natural ending where it never felt like I wasn't mixing, even though I definitely wasn't, for probably like six or seven songs in.

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So at the end of the night they go.

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You crushed that the whole time.

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I'm thinking they're going to call me out for this because they probably noticed it or whatever.

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None was the wiser.

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Nah, man, you know Again, you know, if it had been the whole night, I think you would have gotten called out Right Playing the whole song for two or three hours, however long your dance that was.

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Yeah, they would have been like this, ain't the Brian V?

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we signed up for Right but on a thing like that.

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To me, the greatest sign of correcting an emergency or an error is that the couple or the client never knows that there was an error Right and for them to say that they had no clue that you had to go to that extreme.

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I was sweating bullets once that, I can't even imagine.

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The entire rest of the night.

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You need to take your whole suit to the cleaners, your underwear?

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you might as well throw them out.

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You probably shit yourself.

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Throw your pants out Like was it indoors.

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It was indoors Okay, but when you had to run outside.

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It was 100 degrees.

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Oh yeah.

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To get the laptop.

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Oh yeah, Hair's all messed up.

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You're a mess.

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Sweating Jesus bro.

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What the heck man.

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So we got you on deck for the next couple of gear.

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Finds.

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What do we got here?

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Gear segment.

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Gear segment.

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You're still supposed to make a little beat.

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A little beat for the gear segment.

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Okay, I got you.

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All right.

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So we've got this little pill case okay, okay, bro, what are you?

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Taking look, no, no, no, look, check this out, though it comes.

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My wife has that.

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Yeah, it comes with these stickers, and so this is like emergency, emergency.

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Well, in your dj bag, or in the van the other night we were in charlotte.

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Oh boy gets some sort of allergy problem in charlotte.

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I don't know what all of a sudden, his nose is running.

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He's like do you have any um benadryl?

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Benadryl do you have any benadryl no pseudofed.

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No benadryl.

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I don't even think I put that in here.

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That was the whole reason and I'm like bro, I don't have any benadryl, like that's extreme, like we do have a first aid kit, but it's like advil you know what I mean.

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That's, it suture you up, so I started thinking about it and I remember actually buying one of these.

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I was like dude, I got to buy one of these.

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They come in a three-pack.

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Guess how much for three of these with the stickers Three of them Three with the stickers.

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I mean $10 a piece.

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Is that too cheap?

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I'm going to say $39.99.

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$9.

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No, for three of them with the stickers.

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So I got Sudafed Advil, pepto, tums, zyrtec, dolcolax.

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If you need a little, do you get to pick them?

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Which ones are they Exactly?

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Wow, because it just comes with a stack of stickers.

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Oh, so you got to put it in the actual pills.

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These are just the containers.

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Yes, sir, exactly, I thought they came with the actual pills.

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I'm sorry.

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I went and bought the things Imodium if you got diarrhea, more Tums, zycam like if you feel a cold coming on, and do these expire?

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Well, of course I mean, but so you gotta be.

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But I feel expired medicine, like expired like mayonnaise, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna throw that shit out or expired milk, yeah, but like an expired pill I'd take that Okay.

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Take that okay if I needed it.

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That's a good little find.

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Doesn't take much of your room, yeah nine bucks for three with the stickers, wow there you go and they can get this.

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We're gonna actually put the actual link.

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We're gonna put the actual link under the youtube video, and then also it will be in my amazon store.

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So no more having to search, no more like hey, you guys didn't put the link, you guys didn't put the link.

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The links are on.

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The links are in the amazon store link under the YouTube description, but we're going to put the specific link to this.

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I'm going to put the specific link for this.

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Okay, great.

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Hey want to make more money at every single event.

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Let me put you onto something.

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It's called S-Start.

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It's the event platform made by a DJ for DJs.

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With S-Start, you can offer apps like live photo sharing, real-time slideshows, song requests and even seating charts, and you can upsell your clients like a pro.

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Do we have a?

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question we do.

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Are we moving on to that?

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No, let's do it.

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This is coming from YouTube, actually From what would be Ness Entertainment.

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Yeah, nes Entertainment, okay.

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My question for you guys is where do you see the most ROI with these platforms?

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We've got five of them WeddingWire, zola, the Knot, wedding Venues and Referrals.

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Do you mess with Zola?

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That's kind of newer, yeah, okay.

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I think we have a paid subscription.

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So what do you see?

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The most ROI with Number five referrals.

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This is planners, or because Wedding Venues is pulled out of this?

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I would put that under anybody other than venues.

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I mean number four and number five are where we're going to probably get the most amount of business, after being in business for 25 years in North Carolina.

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So, besides planners, are these professionals or couples?

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It's different now.

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Right, because when I started in Raleigh, the DJ was in the bottom third of the list of things that people would book.

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Right Now we're in the top third Three.

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Yeah, yeah, top three I would say so and it was not like that right 1990, whatever a dj was needed, but it was almost an afterthought.

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We were down at the bottom by like videography or like freaking cake pops or some shit do you think that uh has changed, where maybe you had more couple referrals earlier on and you're not getting, because I feel like this is more of a destination market now.

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It's almost like people have moved away and they're coming back.

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Every time I see people doing them here in Raleigh.

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It seems like they went to school year, like it's not a local spot as much as it is maybe becoming a destination spot again or no.

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I don't know, man.

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I mean, I think the referrals are multiples.

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Right, you get referrals from past clients For sure.

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So has that gone down?

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I guess that's where I was going with that comment.

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I would have to kind of pull the numbers from DJ event planner, dj event plannercom.

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But I would say no, not that I've noticed, but I mean again referrals from past clients, right, referrals from wedding venues, referrals from planners referral from other vendors that are just in the category referrals from.

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I was at the wedding that you played last weekend.

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You killed it.

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I remember that.

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And now I'm getting married, you know, a year from now or whatever can you do, my wedding it's just referral, referral, referral man, like I mean and you know as well as I do, I mean, think about it.

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You've gotten the car and drove all the way to wilmington, which is two hours away.

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The most You've got to whip a meeting two weeks ago, you know, to network.

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Minimal bathrooms en route.

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Minimal Minimal bro.

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Choose wisely.

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You've got to stop in that I forget that little city in the middle.

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Pick your battles, bro yeah.

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I pulled off on a road because and it didn't say it had anything- Don't say you pissed on the side of the road I was like.

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I was worried that there was some copper that was going to pull me over and I'd be written up in some you know pervert magazine Exposing himself on the way to a wedding gig.

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No, I can't do it.

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So out of these, back to the question.

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I don't know, I mean all of them.

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You want to play in, right, because they all have different audiences.

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I have a paid WeddingWire ad and an odd ad and I pay for Zola.

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I have a paid WeddingWire ad and an iAd and I pay for Zola.

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But I mean I feel like I put most of my eggs in my basket of getting referrals, whether it's from doing a great show or being good to people or networking with people or sending out gifts Like I still put my eggs in the referral basket more than anything, especially this far into the game.

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I would agree with you a hundred percent.

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My only thing I'll add to this is I do think it's.

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You just said at the tail end there, if you're starting out, the referrals is a longer game.

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It's a long game Absolutely.

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So it's going to take a little bit longer to generate business from that.

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So if you are brand new in the business and I don't know if this person is or not if you want that immediate hit, probably the paid way is the way to go.

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A thousand percent.

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And I'll add in paid wedding shows.

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Yeah, not the boutique one, the big shit.

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Whatever the big thing is in your town there might be 10, 12 DJs there, but you need to be there.

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When we started here and nobody knew who Joe Bunn was and nobody knew what Bun DJ Company was, we did everything, everything.

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I made no money, I'm sure, those first few years because we did everything, everything you could run an ad in, even print ads in, magazines.

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Right, you know we did it all.

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I'm sure it's changed, but what would you say was the timetable where it switched over?

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Two or three years, five years, five?

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I was going to say five.

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Say you think it's still that?

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Yeah, I do.

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No, I would shorten it to three because of social right.

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Back then there was no social right.

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Nobody cared about your social.

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There was no instagram.

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No, no, no nothing like this is crazy.

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Thinking about nostalgia, did you?

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This is random, this has nothing to do with this question, but I just had to throw it out there.

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Do you ever remember calling time to find out what time it actually was?

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There was actually a phone number that you would call to get the time.

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No, I don't remember that.

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I mean, I definitely remember, like calling like the movie theater to listen to the recording of what was playing, just the concept of a phone, like, even like a rotary phone.

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Or even 411 to get a phone number.

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I definitely remember doing that.

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I had a cell phone so early on.

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You used to have to call an operator to make a phone number.

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I definitely remember doing that.

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I had a cell phone, so early on you used to have to call an operator to make a long distance call.

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Wow, like to call out of north?

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oh yeah, wow I mean, I was early cell phone adopter.

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Okay, like the brick.

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Oh yeah, no, it wasn't.

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You couldn't carry it.

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It was mounted in the car between the two seats.

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Well, you were riding to north carolina.

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I was in college.

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I was making I was making a000 a night, three nights a week.

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I was probably making $50,000 a year in college, Wow.

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And I would pull up and be like let's roll.

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And they'd be like, okay, you about to leave your place.

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I'd be like I'm sitting outside, bitch, I'm on a cell phone and people would be like oh, I remember that.

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It took a half day to install it.

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They had to run the wire up through the ceiling.

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Oh, that's crazy.

00:26:06.201 --> 00:26:08.823
People were like yo this man's got a cell phone.

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He's outside.

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So good, so good.

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That's how old I am, man, good shit.

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Well, hopefully this is helpful for NES.

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Shout out NES from YouTube.

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Or comment, just show us what you're enjoying, what you would like to see, give a question, put it in there, all the things, and with that we will see you on the next episode.

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Ciao.