Dec. 24, 2025

Tricky Intros, Tough Venues, and the DJ Skills That Keep Crowds Moving

Tricky Intros, Tough Venues, and the DJ Skills That Keep Crowds Moving

Send us a message Season Six opens with a true DJ gauntlet: impossible song intros, broken grids, and venues that think bass is optional. We start by dissecting one of the hardest count-ins in rock history - The Rolling Stones’ Start Me Up - and break down how phrasing, hi-hat patterns, and cue-point choices determine whether your floor lifts off…or looks at you like you’re insane. If you’ve ever had a track refuse to land on beat, this segment is your new cheat code. From there, we zoom out ...

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Season 6

Send us a message

Season Six opens with a true DJ gauntlet: impossible song intros, broken grids, and venues that think bass is optional. We start by dissecting one of the hardest count-ins in rock history - The Rolling Stones’ Start Me Up - and break down how phrasing, hi-hat patterns, and cue-point choices determine whether your floor lifts off…or looks at you like you’re insane. If you’ve ever had a track refuse to land on beat, this segment is your new cheat code.

From there, we zoom out to Spotify Wrapped and the gap between what DJs love and what their data says they actually play. Cocktail playlists inflate your minutes, client requests warp your genre map, and yet trends emerge: Teddy Swims for tone, Giveon for texture, Boy & Bear for mood, and the Nashville storytelling that keeps finding its way into 2025 weddings. We turn those insights into real programming ideas for dinners, corporate events, and mixed-age dance floors.

Gear Corner brings a small upgrade with a huge quality-of-life payoff: the Gator tripod shelf that solves cluttered ceremony setups and keeps lav receivers, remotes, or iPad notes clean and elevated. And then comes the high-stakes part: venues with hard dB ceilings, meter-triggered shutdowns, or outright bans on subs. We walk through red flags to spot early, questions to ask before signing, the parking-garage wedding that pushed every limit, and why being honest with couples about volume rules is essential to protecting your reputation.

If you’re a working DJ who wants better mixes, smarter setups, and a roadmap for sound-restricted venues, this episode gives you tools you can use this weekend. Share it with a DJ friend, subscribe for more weekly takeaways, and drop a review with the hardest track you’ve ever tried to count in.

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00:17 - New Season And Holiday Chaos

03:37 - Family Gifts And Travel Plans

09:56 - Backroom Member Shoutouts

12:28 - Drum Challenge: Finding The One

20:48 - Mixing Start Me Up Without A Trainwreck

26:20 - Spotify Wrapped: Minutes And Genres

33:46 - Top Songs, Bands, And Live Shows

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What's up and welcome back to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

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I'm Brian B., one of your co-hosts, and this is Joe Bunn.

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Yes, it is.

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Welcome to a new season.

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Season six.

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I'm proud of us.

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We're doing it.

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I'm proud of us.

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Right before Christmas, we're starting a new season.

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We're batching it out.

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That's right.

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Today's batch day.

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This drops December 24th, so I'm sure everybody uh who is in the DJ world like myself is probably running around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to get some gifts.

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Do you do that stuff early?

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Are you uh where are you at in the Christmas gifting?

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You know where we are early.

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You know where I am now.

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Colin, my oldest son, has bought at least eight to ten things and sent them to my house.

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So he does his own shopping.

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For himself.

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For himself.

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Wow.

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So using your card.

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Correct.

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Okay.

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Is there a limit?

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Is there a limit to?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I gave him.

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I don't want to say the limit because people I don't know if people are gonna be like, it's too low or too high.

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I just don't want to say the money.

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Yeah, he has a budget.

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So I give him a number and then I'm like, and he and he'll keep a little spreadsheet of what he's ordered.

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And and he, like I said, he sends it to my house, and then I'll wrap it up and then put it under the tree, and then he's gonna get it.

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That's solid.

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So he knows what he's getting.

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He does, but I think a lot of times he just kind of forgets.

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You know, um, Davis uh only wanted stuff for his car, so I got he wanted his car tinted.

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So he got his car tinted.

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Already.

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Already, yeah, yeah.

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Early, early gift.

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Early gift.

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And then he'll get like a jacket or something.

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And you have to go get that, or he orders similar to same thing.

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He'll order it on my card, send it, and then I'll wrap it up.

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And then what are what is on the Joe Bunn wish list?

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The Joe Bund wish list, honestly, man, I I've said this probably since I turned 35.

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If you want it, you're gonna go get it.

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If I wanted it, I already got it.

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I'm the same way.

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I don't, I I just want to be around my friends, around my family.

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I want to enjoy some time off.

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I want everybody to be happy and get along and eat some good food.

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And And is the girlfriend like this too?

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Yeah, man.

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She she she doesn't well that she's she's hosed, right?

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Because she's um December 17th birthday.

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Oh, got it.

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December 17th birthday.

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That's the worst.

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And what she she doesn't really want anything either.

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What we did last year, and I think we're do what we're doing this year, is just saying we're gonna go on a trip in 2026.

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And where have you determined?

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We haven't gotten that far.

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Okay.

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But uh it's probably gonna be Italy or Spain.

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Oh, okay.

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Uh I'm definitely going to Australia next year, whether she comes or not.

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Yeah.

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Um sick.

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Yeah.

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So that's where that is.

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And then for her birthday, I usually just we will usually go out to dinner and then we go to like one of two jewelry shops and get something not crazy, like small.

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Right.

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A little necklace or you know, a small ring or something like that.

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That's what we did last year, and that's what she prefers.

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Nice.

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So those Christmas birthdays are tough.

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So anyway, though, everybody that celebrates, Merry Christmas to you.

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Seriously, take some time off.

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Enjoy your friends, enjoy your family, put away your laptop, put away all your work shit at least for a few days, and then enjoy yourself and enjoy your people you're around.

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So, speaking of friends, yeah, let's shout out some of our back room members.

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Dude, that was good.

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Oh no, that was really good.

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I'll hit the first one.

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Nick Nystrom, is that right?

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Yeah, that's your boy.

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Dude, he came to the DJC.

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Um we've been friends for a little bit, like online friends, and it was great to see him in person.

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And he always got a great attitude.

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Dude, his attitude is outstanding.

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His energy is through the roof.

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Right.

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He's out there in the lawn on those beautiful, you know, North Carolina fall days.

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They were making videos.

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Videos of making mixes.

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Yeah.

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He's hyping people up.

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And I feel like he really you can just tell he enjoys the craft.

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Like he's always wanting to learn, always wanting to get better at it.

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He loves it.

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And uh just good dude.

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So next out Nick Nystrom.

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Next one, you got this?

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Shout out Nathan Jones.

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I know Nathan Jones.

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Where's he out of?

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I can't remember.

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All right.

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Shout out Nathan Jones.

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DJ GWS.

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Now, these names, they they can sign up as hello if they wanted to, and we have one of those.

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Oh, we did coming up.

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So I I don't know where you're from.

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I don't even know who you are, really.

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But GWS.

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Shout out, and I know Ben as well.

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I can't remember where Ben is.

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Ben Gersham, what's up?

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Shout out, Ben.

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So again, thank you guys for being uh members of the Patreon, being back room members.

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Um, we have got tons of stuff planned, but we're always looking for feedback from you guys.

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And um big thumbs up and uh if you like the bonus content.

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Wink wink.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Well, uh, we got a new segment today.

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We're we're branding this a new segment.

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Okay.

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So let's roll the video.

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So this is one of my favorite things we did in the last couple of seasons, it's been this drum challenge.

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It was pretty great.

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I agree.

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And so we're bringing it back.

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Okay.

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We've got a different drum kit today.

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Different color.

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I'm I apologize, bro.

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I didn't know we were gonna need it again.

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I've got limited storage here.

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I we got the sticks.

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Eventually, if this becomes if this is gonna become a real thing, we have to get a real drum.

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Yeah, totally.

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We're gonna get a snare drum.

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We need to.

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Surely.

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Um, so let me kind of set this up.

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This was a song that was on my request list that I had to mix in.

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Okay.

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I usually have no problem finding this, but this is where I'm gonna lean into your experience because you've been doing this, you've been on the game a while.

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So this should be so easy for you to be able to count this in and find the one.

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I feel like it's impossible.

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Like I have to literally cue it up further into the song to find the one.

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It's that bad.

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Oh God.

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Worse than Whitney?

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Worse than Whitney.

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So the song is Do I need the headphones?

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No, yeah, you won't need the headphones.

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So the song is Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones.

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So uh Charlie Watt, to be fair, was the weirdest drummer you've ever seen.

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Is that who a drummer goes like this?

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Um I'll bring this over for you.

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So a drummer, you know, because I would play badly.

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So a drummer is doing, you know, three things at one time, right?

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Right.

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Hi hat.

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It's actually better than me.

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I can't do that.

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So hi hat here, kick, kick, there.

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Yeah, kick.

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He's going, he's going like that.

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It's the weirdest drumming style ever.

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If you ever watch videos of the stones, you're gonna look at because he's not doing this.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It it's it is bizarre.

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And he and people like think he was legendary.

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He's like a jazz drum.

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Yes, it's it's so that's why I think this is gonna be so fucked up.

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So whenever you think the one comes in on this track, yeah, we'll give you a couple chances.

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I'm not gonna like it make you nail it on the on the first try.

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Because it's it we're starting at the top now.

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At the top.

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Yeah.

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He but also what's weird is he goes pop he he hits like a like an open hi-hat, then he snaps it.

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Anyway, all right.

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So you got the track, Saquon?

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Yeah, let's go.

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You ready?

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Yeah.

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Can you turn it up a little bit more?

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You can get into the groove.

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You can get into the groove if you want to.

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You hear what I'm saying though.

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He goes, Okay.

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All right, you ready?

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Yeah.

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You can hear it.

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It's good.

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Yeah, I can take you.

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Now I got it.

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He goes, he goes, he opened the hat, then hits a kick.

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No, he goes, kick.

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Okay.

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And that's and when you hit that, that's the one.

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That's the snare.

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Yeah.

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So count it when you're.

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No, the one to me is is that he goes kick.

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That would be the one.

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Okay.

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Listen to it again.

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I am I hit hold on.

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Sorry.

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I'm hitting the snare, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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All right.

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That was pretty close.

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That was pretty close.

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One more time.

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One more time.

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I'm gonna keep the groove going.

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See, there's a one.

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One, two, three, four.

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See, once we get into it, it's easy.

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No, you you gotta skip that whole first part.

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You're right.

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But that's like such a legendary spot.

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Like part of it.

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It has to start from there.

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Right.

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I mean, like from the guitar?

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I mean, yes, in my opinion.

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So, how can you mix that in?

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I guess is my point.

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Like, I always try to figure out where that is.

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What is the guitar?

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Is that on the one?

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Is the guitar like when you were starting that?

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Where do you start that?

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No, I don't think I don't think they're I don't think they care.

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So you're just saying fade out, start gold.

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You would have to, yeah, you would have to.

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You come out of um something that ends cold.

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I'm I'm just trying to think of something, whatever, right?

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I didn't even look for it, but I'm sure there's you can't be a quantized version of this because that's just like impossible.

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Like I was sitting there for like two minutes trying to just like figure out how to get this on the one.

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I got it.

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You know who we're gonna give this to?

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I I think I know who you're gonna say John Hanna.

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Yeah.

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This is a John Hannah Throwback Brothers special edition.

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It's tricky, it is crazy tricky.

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And as soon as you say start me up, and I go, nah, and but the song technically, as a as a DJ, you want it to start from there.

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Because that's one of the most iconic guitar riffs.

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I agree.

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Yeah.

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So, but I was trying to go out of a song into this because it's up, I think it's like around 120 something.

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So it's actually a great tempo.

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It's a great tempo, but I could not find the one.

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Yeah.

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So you just skipped ahead too.

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I skipped ahead.

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You had because I would have too.

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You know, unless you and something's fading out, and then and I'm definitely not one of those ones that is like you gotta mix everything.

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Like I you can definitely drop things cold, but for whatever reason, you want to give it one more try, one more go?

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Yep.

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One, two, three, four.

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See now we're into it.

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That's the only way.

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Like you said, it it's it's so the snare has to be on the two, then.

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Yeah, you're right.

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It be because the one is really like the open hi hat.

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It's like spoon, pop.

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So it's not, it goes, it goes open hi hat, then he does kick it before he then snare.

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He goes like that.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's like jazz drummer.

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Anyway, yeah, yeah.

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It's all it's out there.

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Crazy, crazy.

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Well, there we go.

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Great song, though.

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And they were on a lot of drugs.

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So true, true, true, true.

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Facts, facts.

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All right, we can dispose of these uh uh headphones here.

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Okay.

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So the second piece of this so funny isn't that crazy?

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It's hard, man.

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Let's move into some music then.

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We're already into music, but we'll go into the Annie's playlist.

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Um, so Spotify rap came out yesterday.

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We are recording this, batch recording this.

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Uh, this came out, so I guess that would be on the third, December 3rd is when it came out.

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That was the first day it came out?

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Yep, yesterday.

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So uh today's the fourth, batch recording this.

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Oh, yeah, sorry.

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I thought the the right it came out on the third, today is December 4th, and this comes out on the 24th.

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Correct.

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Merry Christmas.

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Go ahead.

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So I thought it'd be interesting to see what our comparisons are as far as some of the categories.

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So I had you screenshot some.

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We've got them on the screen here, and let's go with the first one here.

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This was crazy to me.

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Like, are you just literally like having this on 24-7?

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Like, how do you get work done?

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I'm I can't believe the disparity here.

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You're listening to 31,000 minutes worth of music.

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I don't feel like I'm not listening to music at all.

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Like, I'm listening to it a lot, I feel like.

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And only 8,000 minutes.

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Okay, but also we've talked about this before.

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To be fair, remember how much time you're spending in the pools and stuff.

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True.

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I listen to a lot more just music as a pleasurable item.

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Okay.

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And also, you know, um, usually cocktail hour, Spotify's running dinner at a wedding another hour.

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You know what I mean?

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And that and this is minutes, not hours.

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So it adds up.

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Think of all the shows I've done this year.

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Think of all the cocktail hours that ran over to 90 minutes.

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Think of all the dinners that ran over to 90.

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I mean, so I use it for a lot of different stuff, but it it it is definitely on uh always in the car.

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Got it.

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Not a lot in the office.

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If I'm trying to focus, I can't.

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It it if it's on if I'm working like I'm really trying to grind on something, I may put it on quietly, but it can't have words.

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So it would be like um chill house.

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Or like lo-fi or like it's gotta be that type, very like Miami hotel lobby type.

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Sure.

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Sure.

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I just thought that was an interesting disparity there.

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All right, go with the next one.

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So genres listened to.

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We're actually pretty darn close.

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I'm at 325.

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I think you're at what?

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335?

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338.

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Okay.

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So we're pretty close.

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We're listening to a diverse amount of music, apparently.

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I didn't even know there were that many genres.

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So speaking of genres, these are the top genres of for each of us coming up next.

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Yeah, this one's weird.

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I don't I don't honky tonk?

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What is that?

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I don't even know.

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I was just like, I don't I don't listen.

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I mean, there's only I don't dude anyway.

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It must be the only thing I can think of is that, and I don't even know if this is actually qualifies because when I make the playlist, sometimes I'm dragging in cocktail songs from the couples.

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Stuff I wouldn't personally listen to, but because the couple has it on that stuff, maybe it's in the well that's why our Spotify's and like Ashley's as well, because she uses it at the studio when she teaches it.

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It's all it's all tainted.

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Yeah, like it's it's not I almost need a separate account, yeah.

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Yeah, totally.

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Would honky tonk be like Morgan Wildland?

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I I mean my Morgan Wallin shows up.

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Well represented.

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Yeah.

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I guess they've categorized him as honky tonk, but like I only like about genuinely about five country singers.

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Like to where I would go, hell yeah, I'd go see him or listen to his album.

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Got it.

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Well, the oldies ones, like I don't listen to Oldies, but my couples may have had that.

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Oh, I know what folk pop is.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that uh other than honky tong, it's pretty spot on.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, mine is not.

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I can tell you that much.

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Okay.

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House I listen to soft pop.

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No, I'm not listening to soft pop.

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I'm an it's tainted.

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Right.

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Acoustic country, oldies.

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Two, three, and four are definitely clients.

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I definitely listen to some indie music.

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I love some indie stuff.

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All right, next.

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So our listening age.

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Yeah.

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Based on that, that's what's weird about this age to me.

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Like if I'm listening to acoustic country, 24 year olds listen to this.

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It just doesn't make sense if you're listening to Oldies.

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I know.

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So both of us are at least we're listening to current stuff, apparently.

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Yeah.

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We're cool.

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That's great.

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Love that.

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Next.

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Uh, how many songs was this two?

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So this kind of goes with the amount of hours, or I'm sorry, minutes, but I'm you're way ahead of me.

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You're 1500 and I'm 3600.

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So can you guess?

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Could you were you when you saw your number one, did that make sense to you?

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100%.

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I guessed it.

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Okay, you guessed it.

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It was a quiz.

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Did you see it?

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Oh, I didn't know that.

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Yeah, you could touch it.

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Okay, go ahead and go to the next.

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So these are our top songs.

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Yes, sir.

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So you just went to their concert.

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I didn't.

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Is that why but you always I mean it could have ranked always of that?

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I always have them on.

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See, I feel like they're kind of an imitation of Laney, in my opinion.

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But I love Laney.

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But I'm like, why not just listen to Laney?

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Uh it is it's different, man.

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It sounds more Nashville to me.

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There's two lead singers.

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Like it it's it's different.

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It's different, but the same.

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It's the same kind of poppy, rocky, like perfectly written songs.

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Well, I've got a sample of energy.

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I got a sample of the song for people that haven't heard it.

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So if you want to hit this, his one.

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It's gotta get to the chorus, though.

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Did you cut that?

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I think so.

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Okay.

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Oh, should we go ahead and make you?

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Yeah, we can't.

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Oh no, that's a bat.

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That's a song I like cheese.

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That's me.

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Hit his.

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We'll cut this part out.

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Sorry, his is the next one.

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Sorry.

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That's from the top, though.

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I think I let it roll for a minute until it gets to the course.

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You know how to keep me waiting.

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You know there's a card that you missed.

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I mean, I like the style, but I just feel like it's a cheap laney imitation.

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Were they great?

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But were they first before laney?

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Were they a band?

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Probably about the same.

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I had to look it up.

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Copy the formula, copy paste.

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It's chorus, and it's so like wordy, but it's so good.

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And this place was 5,000 kids going nuts.

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And it looks like it's different albums, this one in your number two.

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Okay.

00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:48.640
Daphne Blue.

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So my number one was uh I I don't even know what the name of that title is.

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I just liked it because I like Teddy Swims in general.

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I like I'm surprised this is my number one.

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I really did not expect this to be number one, but I think it's just kind of cool.

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I like Giveyon is kind of a newer artist, I would think.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, you wanna hit that one?

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That was the one before this one.

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Are you even real?

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Fucking crazy.

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The chorus is the best.

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This is the way it sounds all like I'm calling terror on.

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Supposed to be true.

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This part.

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It just kits me.

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That's that's fucking good.

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That needs to be in Mike Balter's book.

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It really is.

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Here it is.

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Shout out Mike Balters.

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That's good.

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Uh any of these other ones stand out to you at all?

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Um, what's number five?

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For me.

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On yours, yeah.

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Yeah, Southern Sun.

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Uh, you know, I just this came up on my Spotify Discovery, okay, and I really liked it.

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I actually have a sample of it.

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That's a great call out by you.

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I'd love to hear that.

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Will I like it?

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I think you will.

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Hear that, Saquon.

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Uh, Southern Sun, Boy and Bear.

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Yes, to the music.

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I gotta hear the guy's voice.

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Sit out there in the cover in the baskings of a holy night.

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Wait till the chorus.

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Okay.

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And I was lucid.

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It's not what I would ever gig to, but I just like listening to it.

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I'm thinking who is like what it's up to.

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Oh yeah.

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I love the chorus though.

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It's just the vocals are so Yeah.

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Great.

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Yeah.

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I like this.

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Annie's well represented in here too.

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Number three and four were her favorites.

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Yeah.

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So she she was playing those on repeat.

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And again, I'm not a big Teddy Swim's huge super fan, but number two, I'm surprised as well.

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Yeah.

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So you got the band Camino number two.

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I was not familiar with this Mumford song.

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Yeah.

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Is this not the new album?

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Newest album, the title track, the first song on the record.

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So and and to be fair, man, I didn't love the album and I love Mumford.

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I went and saw Mumford this year, and um I think they opened with this actually.

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We actually have a sample.

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Yeah.

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If you're not familiar with it.

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Yeah.

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Bloodshot dreams underscore.

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I mean, they always sound the same, which is great.

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I like it, I like it.

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Very formulaic.

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Yeah.

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Now we're just hits.

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And dude, the video, like, it gives me kills.

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They the whole video was just all these people sitting in a room.

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Yeah.

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Super fans, I guess.

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Okay.

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Like in a white, you know, studio, and they basically put headphones on them and let them hear the song for the first time.

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Wow.

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And it was their reactions.

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And Mumford had been gone for several years.

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Right.

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And every some people were crying.

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Some people were it was powerful, dude.

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I mean, it was people, you know, people were like, oh, they're like they're back.

00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:30.480
Like this is the sound that we wanted.

00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:30.880
Right.

00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:32.079
The album didn't hold up.

00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:32.960
And Morgan.

00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:35.279
Dude, this is, you know, what's funny about this, dude?

00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:36.880
Number one, I'm not a big country fan.

00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:42.880
I know people think that everybody in North Carolina is just a redneck and loves country, but I I don't know, man.

00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:46.720
Something about this album just kind of had me in a chokehold, and it's crazy long.

00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:48.319
I think he has like 30 songs on it.

00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:48.559
Wow.

00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:50.799
I don't even know that I've ever truly gotten to the end.

00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:57.279
But about the first 10 or 12 songs are probably the most, you know, and nobody, none of these guys write their own stuff.

00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:03.519
I mean, there's people that just sit in a room all day in Nashville and write these songs for these people, but God, man, they're just that good.

00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:05.200
They're that well written.

00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:09.519
You can we were talking about Nas last night and how he's just a master storyteller.

00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:11.920
Like, I feel like he's selling these songs.

00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:12.400
Totally.

00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:14.160
You know, he was on the voice too, right?

00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:14.640
Yeah.

00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:15.599
I've seen those clips.

00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:16.160
Crazy.

00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:16.400
Yeah.

00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:17.680
Oh, William Waller?

00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:18.000
Yeah.

00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:19.359
Like uh got cut.

00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:20.000
Anticipated?

00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:20.720
Oh, yeah.

00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.200
Yeah, like a young, you know, a young version of him.

00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:23.599
Yeah.

00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:24.799
And uh, what's his name?

00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:25.599
Benson Boone.

00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:26.160
He was on there.

00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:26.559
Totally.

00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.359
Or one of those, I don't know, it's the voice, American Idol, whatever.

00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:29.920
Totally.

00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:30.400
Anyway.

00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:31.680
Well, there's one more category.

00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:32.160
Okay.

00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:36.480
Um, so you didn't you didn't have one.

00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:37.359
You didn't have any.

00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:39.680
I didn't it didn't even show up.

00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:41.119
It didn't even give me that screen.

00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.400
Doesn't listen to one podcast, not even our own.

00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.440
And dude.

00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:53.119
Meanwhile, uh, you know, I don't even listen to Joe Rogan that much, but his are so long that for when I'm doing long drives, I'll put one of his on.

00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:59.519
And so I think it's calculating minutes because there's no way I'm listening to maybe I probably listen to like two or three episodes of his the whole year.

00:22:59.599 --> 00:22:59.759
Right.

00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:00.880
But they're mad long.

00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:02.160
They're like four hours long.

00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:02.640
What?

00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:03.599
Well, I shouldn't say four hours.

00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.119
No, they're always saying it.

00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:06.799
They're like two, at least two.

00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:07.359
Okay.

00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:08.559
And then good hang.

00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:10.960
If you're not listening to You love that, I love it, dude.

00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:11.519
It's so good.

00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:12.160
I like game.

00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:13.279
Yeah.

00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:15.680
Um, and then of course I'm checking ours, you know?

00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:17.599
Bro, so I appreciate that.

00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:20.160
Should we do something for the people who tag us?

00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:32.400
Because in uh, I know we put it on our socials today, which this episode won't drop for a while, but uh is there I don't know, something we should do for those that tag us, maybe put them in some kind of wheel of names thing or yeah, let's do it.

00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:37.039
All right, so if you tag us, again, this is December 24th, so it may be too late.

00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:40.799
Can you will in on December 24th, will you still be able to see your wrapped?

00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:41.519
I would think so.

00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:52.960
Okay, well, if you tag if you post this screen shot and tag beyond the DJ booth and Joe Bunn and DJ Brian be official, yeah, then we will put you in a wheel of names.

00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:55.200
We'll come up with some wheel of names and we'll give away something.

00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:55.759
I love that.

00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:56.079
Okay.

00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:05.279
So again, if you got if we ended up if we ended up in your top podcast, yes, we said this on a bonus episode, but I don't think we said this on this one, did we?

00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:05.759
No.

00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:07.599
Um, sorry, we've been matching already.

00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:08.799
Yeah, kind of lost.

00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:13.680
But it's hard to crack into the top three, top two, uh, and even top one is impossible.

00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:17.039
So the fact that if we made any of those numbers, thanks for listening.

00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:19.759
We appreciate a ton, and um, we don't take that lightly.

00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:21.119
We're we're very appreciative of it.

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.240
How long have we been doing this, Brian?

00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:22.799
15 months?

00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:24.799
Didn't we start in September last year?

00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:25.359
Yeah.

00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:31.279
So if we've cracked into your top three, top five, whatever, we are greatly uh appreciative of you.

00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:32.079
Seriously, man.

00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:32.960
Thanks for listening.

00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:34.400
I hope you get something out of it.

00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:35.279
I hope you laugh.

00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:36.559
I hope you learn something.

00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.319
I hope you get some music stuff.

00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:39.440
Anyway, thank y'all.

00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:43.039
All right, booth heads, we made a move and it's a bold one.

00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:45.359
We officially launched a Patreon.

00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:50.319
We've got two tiers: one for$5.99 and one for$19.99.

00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:54.160
Basically, the cost of a coffee or a cocktail, depending upon how you roll.

00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:57.519
Listen, this isn't some support us or we disappear kind of thing.

00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:02.880
You actually get some things that are useful that we think that you're gonna need to run your DJ business.

00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:14.559
Like early access to batched episodes, bonus episode that we couldn't post publicly, maybe, and our weekly top 10 banger lists, songs that absolutely crushed at our events this week.

00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:17.680
You know, the stuff that you really want to steal from us anyway.

00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:23.119
But if you want to go deeper, jump into the booth backroom at$19.99 a month.

00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:25.279
That's where the extra love lives.

00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:28.960
Monthly prize drawings like headphones, merch, coaching calls.

00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:36.160
We've got Serato exports of our history, discounts on exclusive merch, and record pool hookups.

00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:43.920
Backroom members aren't just listening, they're actually shaping what this podcast is going to become and probably making your DJ sets better in the process.

00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:49.599
So stop texting us asking what remix was that and get in the booth for real.

00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:54.880
Patreon.com forward slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:58.559
Choose a tier, grab your spot, and let's keep building.

00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:00.559
Booth heads, you know where to go.

00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:02.079
Let's move into the gear segment.

00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:02.559
Okay.

00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:05.359
The gear's here.

00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:13.759
The gear is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here.

00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:21.440
I often post videos from events, and sometimes I'm just literally can pan the room, right?

00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:21.920
Yeah.

00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:27.839
And you know, just go, hey, like last night, I was like, all right, holiday season or holiday party season begins.

00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:28.799
Just pan the room.

00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:30.400
Sometimes I'm very intentional.

00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:34.880
I might shoot something on the glasses or with the you know, little Osmo that we use.

00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:42.079
And I'm showing like the ceremony rig, and and and I'll always seem to glance over this.

00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.720
And this is probably the most asked about item in my videos that I don't ever really talk about.

00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.039
And it's so simple and so basic.

00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:52.240
It's made by a gator that makes stands and other things.

00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:54.000
My wife would deny it just on the name.

00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:54.400
Okay.

00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:55.039
She would.

00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:55.279
Yeah.

00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.759
As a Florida State Seminole, she would shit on them.

00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:59.440
Is this a music stand?

00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:05.920
It's it is it goes on a tripod, and this is where we either set the lavalier mics, the iPad.

00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.079
We have two of them on one tripod.

00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.440
One of them is holding the receiver for the microphone.

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.079
I love that.

00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:12.319
Yeah.

00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:12.799
I need to do that.

00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:16.720
And then the other one is holding the lavaliers until we give them to the officiant and the groom.

00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:22.079
Or sometimes it's just holding the iPad notes, the program for the wedding.

00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:29.680
But like this thing, and we'll we'll put uh my Amazon link uh under the video or whatever, or it'll be in my shopping cart or what do you call it?

00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:32.160
Amazon shopping cart.

00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.480
And that link is always on the YouTube video.

00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:39.440
But it's just made by Gator and it's basically just a tripod shelf stand.

00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:39.920
I love it.

00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:42.559
It just clamps right on and super heavy.

00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:45.759
I mean, I got we have multiples of these.

00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.720
This this item is asked about every time I don't mention it.

00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:50.880
So now I'm mentioning it to you guys here.

00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:52.799
And on let me guess the price.

00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:53.599
Damn it.

00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:54.640
Um, okay, go ahead.

00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.519
I'm gonna say Feel the quality first.

00:27:57.680 --> 00:27:58.240
Feel the quality.

00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.359
I was wondering if it was possible.

00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:00.079
Oh no, this is heavy.

00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:00.559
Yeah, it's heavy.

00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:00.880
This is good.

00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:01.599
You want it to be heavy.

00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.799
That's what I'm saying.

00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:04.160
Hold on.

00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:08.960
I'm gonna say$39.99.

00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:12.240
I think it should be$29.99, but I'm gonna say$39.99.

00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.200
Okay, hold on.

00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:14.400
It can't be more than$50.

00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:15.359
Let's see.

00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:25.119
Stand by Gator Frameworks, microphone stand, 9x9 shelf,$26.99.

00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:25.599
Okay.

00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.720
I was I was I was hoping it would be$29.99, so I'm close.

00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:30.079
Two-pack$49.

00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:30.960
You get a two-pack.

00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:32.640
A two-pack$49.2.99.

00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:33.680
So you get a little bit of savings.

00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:34.240
Yeah.

00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:34.880
Love it.

00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:35.680
It's amazing.

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:36.319
Good shit.

00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:36.720
Good shit.

00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:38.559
Let's hit the question of the day.

00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:41.200
Question of the day.

00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:46.720
Michael Copen.

00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:47.599
You want me to read it?

00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.319
Yeah, go ahead.

00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:54.720
I'm seeing more and more venues requesting that DJs sign an agreement in quotes when playing in their venue.

00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.039
It's almost always related to sound.

00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.839
Absolutely no subwoofers is the big one.

00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:06.480
Do you sign those agreements or do you explain that your contract is with the bride and groom and not the venue?

00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:09.359
That's from Mike Copen via Patreon.

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:11.599
Shout out Mike Copen for being a member.

00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.039
You ever uh run of that here in Raleigh with some of the venues?

00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:16.880
Yes.

00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:22.240
Well, you we talked about the uh what's the place that we just had the Merriman win.

00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:22.480
Yeah.

00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:25.119
I mean, that's not subwoofer driven, but right.

00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:31.920
There is no agreement that I've had to sign, but it is implied that you're gonna follow the rules.

00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:32.480
Yeah.

00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:40.480
That you need to follow the rules and that there will be somebody roaming around the property at the property line, and you can't be over X decibels.

00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.880
Is there anyone that has an agreement that they've had you sign in the past?

00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:49.519
I don't want to say the name of the place, but I think so, and then we just banned it.

00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.200
Said you're not working there anymore.

00:29:51.519 --> 00:30:02.160
We did not verbally say that to them, but whenever somebody inquires through the website to that venue, Randy is instructed to say we are all sold out on that date.

00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:02.960
Yeah.

00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:11.440
So I it I mean, it and theirs is not so much, Brian, this agreement.

00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:13.359
I'm sure there is an agreement in place, right?

00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:21.279
But it is uh an installed sound system that I promise you, man, is do you know what a 70-volt system is?

00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:22.880
That's that's what they put in a restaurant.

00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:27.119
Like when you look up the ceiling and see those little Tweeters, that's what's in there.

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:27.839
Wow.

00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:35.599
Like and and like I tried to stick like a wedge or a monitor or something under my DJ booth one time to subsidize it, got cussed out for that.

00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:36.079
Wow.

00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:37.680
It is so bad, dude.

00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.960
And people the whole time are yelling at you, turn it up, turn it up.

00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.119
There's nothing to turn up because you're playing you have to play through their sound system.

00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.960
Speakers in the top of this tent that are, I think, like 70 volt rated.

00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:50.400
And why do you think they've done that?

00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:51.839
Oh, the residential neighborhood.

00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:52.720
Ah, yeah.

00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:57.359
They're res and it's like, why did you open a place in the middle of a neighborhood?

00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:03.039
So if a new venue came online, they brought you this agreement that you've already been booked to play.

00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:04.799
They say, We need you to sign this.

00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:05.680
What are you doing?

00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:06.880
I need more data.

00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:08.799
I mean, like what am I signing?

00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.000
How loud can I play?

00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:11.119
You can't bring subs.

00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:13.039
I'm okay with not bringing subs, man.

00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:13.920
Uh honestly, man.

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:18.799
I played 20 years of parties and weddings with two QSC K-12s.

00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:18.960
Yeah.

00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:34.000
And in fact, I told my guys at Merriman Wynn, I said, stop taking the Evolves, stop taking any of that stuff, take two 12s, take two ELX 200 EVs, take two QSC K-12s or 12.2s, just and put them on tripods, and it's more than enough for that room.

00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:35.359
You've heard how boomy it is.

00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:35.519
Right.

00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.160
We're playing to 125, 130 people.

00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.920
Just for just even something sub-related, just leave it out, man.

00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:42.160
Right.

00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:42.799
Leave it out.

00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:43.119
Okay.

00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.880
But if if somebody new came along and I wanted to play there, I need more data.

00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:48.799
Like, what are you asking me to sign?

00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:51.359
No subwoof woofers, I'll sign that all day.

00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:51.759
Right.

00:31:52.000 --> 00:32:00.000
But a a crazy, you know, hair dryer volume inside the building, you know, DB meter reading type shit.

00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.559
Where I've seen people lately posting stuff with a DB meter up on the wall in the venue.

00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:05.119
Have you seen that?

00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:06.319
No, I have not.

00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:10.079
That literally is like showing like if you're going over it.

00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:10.319
Yeah.

00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:12.240
I'm not, I'm not going to play there, man.

00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:13.359
I don't need that business.

00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:17.119
I don't need, I don't need that in this chapter of my career.

00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:21.440
And I certainly don't want to play at those kind of places.

00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:26.960
Do you ever, if it's a venue you're not familiar with, ask the question if they have any of this kind of stuff?

00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:28.880
Or are you just assuming it?

00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.359
And I mean, that's the where that's where I get caught.

00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:32.559
That's a great question.

00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:33.359
Yeah, man.

00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:36.400
I mean, I think I would probably get caught out on that first one.

00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:36.640
Right.

00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:38.000
Because we're not asking that.

00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:45.519
So or, you know, one of our DJs plays there and comes back and sends into the group chat, hey guys, I was just at blah, blah, blah.

00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:49.440
And, you know, fair warning that they've got a music, I mean a noise problem.

00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:50.400
So I had one.

00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:52.720
This is, you know, I'm traveling around to do these events.

00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:53.200
Yeah, you are.

00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:57.119
So every venue, I'm not usually familiar with it unless it's in the Florida market.

00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:57.359
Right.

00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:00.880
You know, so there's one that I did maybe two or three years ago.

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:04.640
I'll never forget uh Brock Barton came and shadowed me at this event.

00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:06.720
It was going to be in a parking garage.

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.079
I remember in Miami.

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I remember that.

00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:10.079
Stunning video.

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Like if you look at the um what of it, the drone footage that came in.

00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:15.519
I mean, it they transformed.

00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:17.839
No, you were you were messaging me from there.

00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:18.640
It was incredible.

00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:21.200
And they chained together a bunch of like eight-inch speakers or something.

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:36.079
So the day I remember that the week of, they send a note to me, the planner does and said, Hey, listen, I just got this agreement from the the owner of this parking structure that um we can't be above such and such a thing.

00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.279
And the kicker for me was they had 200 people there.

00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:48.319
So, like, that's where it's the dilemma of like needing a subwoofer kind of kind of comes into it because it's not like to me that those people are gonna eat up that sub anyways.

00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:49.599
It's not gonna be as boomy as you think.

00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:54.079
Now, if you only had 50 people and you're bringing a sub and the room is boomy, then yeah, you're screwed.

00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:56.880
But I feel like it soaks it up when you have more people in there.

00:33:56.960 --> 00:34:01.680
And for 200 people, I was like, it's gonna sound tinny, you know, that's all I can tell you.

00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:07.839
So their solution was we're gonna hire uh because I wasn't bringing in the sound actually, it was a third party.

00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:14.480
So they had the sound company come in, and what their solution was to put a bunch of K8s all around the room.

00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:19.119
I'm talking almost probably 50 to 60 of these around the I'm not kidding.

00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:20.159
Oh, I didn't know that.

00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:22.880
Yeah, but I thought you meant like eight or ten.

00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.679
No, no, they're all because it's I mean it's a parking garage.

00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:28.880
This place is massive, like the floor is massive.

00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:34.079
So they have this all around, you know, linked together, all of these 80s or eights.

00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.360
So what happened was um I start playing.

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.719
I'm like, dude, I I'm talking louder than the music is playing.

00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:46.880
No, and I'm like, this is fine for dinner, fine for a walk in, but when we get to dancing, can we go up at all?

00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:51.920
And he's like, This is the they had basically been instructed the the third party not to do it.

00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:56.559
So it wasn't necessarily no bass, it was there's a cabin of volume.

00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:57.920
Oh right, no, dude.

00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:11.840
So what was happening was we're on a parking garage which has no um walls, so you can just that was the thing, is it was it kind of can travel across, but we're hearing it from the other side way louder at some bar coming in to our event.

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.400
And I'm like, wait, they can do it, but we can't?

00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:15.679
This is crazy.

00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:18.559
So if you look at that video, I still think I have it on my Instagram.

00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:22.880
There is zero footage of any dancing or any music because it was so terrible.

00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:24.960
Dude, that's and it made me look terrible.

00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:30.239
And I, of course, just like you were saying earlier, everybody's coming to you to tell you to turn up, and I'm like, you're handcuffed.

00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:31.599
You know, I can't do anything.

00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:33.039
That sucks, man.

00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:33.760
I hate that.

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.119
That would be a place where I do it one time, yeah, never again.

00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:37.360
Right.

00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:38.880
They're on that band list for me.

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:39.920
Yeah, absolutely, man.

00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:45.599
I probably wouldn't say I'm booked because in case what if they come back and they go, hey, we booked another venue and they really wanted you.

00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:46.320
Right, right.

00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:46.960
Yeah, right.

00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:51.119
But I'll just say, hey, that's just a place that um it makes it impossible to do my job.

00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:53.760
Let me let me let me put one more tip out here.

00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:56.719
Here's the thing that you cannot do.

00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:00.159
And we we did this, and I'm sorry, we didn't.

00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:02.159
Randy made the mistake of doing this.

00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:03.920
And it was a learning thing, right?

00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.239
It was early on in his career?

00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:07.840
No, uh um, sorta.

00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:09.599
I mean, this was 10 plus years ago.

00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:17.760
I mean, yeah, but he was now I'm sitting here like second guessing myself if if it is wrong or right.

00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:20.320
You you decide, here we go, here's the scenario.

00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.000
Uh a couple comes in, right?

00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:27.599
And they this place that I just mentioned to you that with these shit speakers in the ceiling or in the top of a tent, right?

00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:36.000
They come in and go, uh uh, this was pre-pandemic when people used to come here and do their final meetings and they're and they come in and go, you know, we're so stoked.

00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:39.280
Um this was I uh I guess the initial console.

00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:40.000
We're so stoked.

00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:41.199
Randy goes to the presentation.

00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:44.480
Oh, listen, all we want to do is party.

00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:49.199
Uh you know, like uh we got guests from New York and right Europe and blah blah blah.

00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:53.440
Like we want to throw down, we heard you're the guy, you you know, we're ready to sign.

00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:57.440
And Randy was like, Yeah, that's not gonna happen there.

00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:03.440
Like he basically told them, like, this place has a severe noise restriction.

00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:08.079
You you there is no throw down banger, rager at this place.

00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:09.920
And they're like, What are you talking about?

00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:12.159
So they haven't been informed now, right?

00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:23.360
So they go back to the venue and they cancel their contract and it gets back to us immediately after the fact that we lost them that gig, or basically Randy did.

00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:23.760
Yeah.

00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:27.039
And it's not a place you want to be playing at anyway, but right?

00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:30.000
We don't, but did we do the right thing?

00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:31.360
Yeah, I think you did, man.

00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:35.039
Because you could have you wouldn't have said nothing, you would have ruined their wedding.

00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:38.000
But not we wouldn't have ruined their wedding, but it would have been.

00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:41.599
But if you had the opportunity to say stop it.

00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:48.639
And I know it might be wrong for the venue, but maybe they just I don't know.

00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:50.719
That's not that's not their you know what I'm saying?

00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:53.760
That's not the couple's problem.

00:37:54.239 --> 00:38:05.599
I probably would have preempted it by letting the venue know, you know, and said, hey, listen, this couple that you is under contract with you, I just want you to let you know that they asked my opinion on your venue about playing.

00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:09.760
Before it got back before I got back to them, because they probably spun it a different way, you know.

00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.719
They're probably upset at the venue for not disclosing this.

00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:13.760
Absolutely, they were.

00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:17.199
They don't care if they're throwing you under the bus, you know, they're already signed with you.

00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:20.079
So I probably would have had that conversation with them ahead of time.

00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.800
I don't want that business, anyways, to be honest with you, from that venue.

00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:26.400
I don't either, but I'm just saying, like, and I didn't cuss Randy out.

00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:31.519
Obviously, he's been here for for he had been here for 10, 15 years, he's gonna be here till you know the day that both of us.

00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:37.920
Then you would have been But I was like, bro, that's it, it kind of makes us I got my ass chewed out by this lady.

00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:38.159
Right.

00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:41.440
I mean, like But I mean, what's she gonna what what was you're supposed to say?

00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:42.239
That's what I'm saying.

00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:53.440
Would you rather have that or would you rather go there, nobody says anything, and then take the party or they think we took the party or they think that you took the money grab because you just wanted the book.

00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:59.519
So now 10 years later, I have to go back to Randy and say I apologize for for for getting all that.

00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:02.000
I mean there's a way he probably could have handled it too, right?

00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:04.639
In the sense of like, I don't know how he told us.

00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:05.840
No, I like your thing.

00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:07.119
He's we should have headed it off.

00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.480
As soon as they walked out the door, message that lady and be like, hey, just listen.

00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:12.880
Listen, we're trying to save you guys from getting a bad review.

00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:13.119
Right.

00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:13.840
You know what I mean?

00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:20.159
Like, we don't want you to be, and we don't think this is I mean, if you want to take it on, great, but they're expecting this to be a throwdown and we can't.

00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:21.039
Nah, right.

00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:21.760
You know?

00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.280
Yeah, I do know.

00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:25.440
So, anyways, well thanks, Mike.

00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:26.800
Long, long answer.

00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:29.280
I don't know if we ever look a little heated in there.

00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:31.920
This is a DJ nightmare.

00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:32.880
It really is, man.

00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:33.360
I hate that.

00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:34.159
I hate that shit.

00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:35.360
Anyway, thanks, Mike.

00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:38.400
All right, well, hey, we'll put a bow on this one and wrap it up.

00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:39.679
Thanks everybody for listening.

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Shout out to DJ Event Planner, our sponsor, hopefully, the podcast, and hopefully going into the next year.

00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:46.559
It sounds like they will be.

00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:51.599
Hey, listen, if you guys want to sponsor, you know anybody else that wants to sponsor, we'd love to have you.

00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:53.360
And um, that's a wrap on this one.

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All right, everybody.

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We'll see you next week.

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Peace.

00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:00.480
Oh.