Feb. 4, 2026

What Would You Do If You Couldn’t DJ Anymore?

What Would You Do If You Couldn’t DJ Anymore?

Send us a message What would you do if your main gig disappeared tomorrow? We put that question on the table and followed it into some unexpected places : law, sports agency, music programming, even D1 basketball before circling back to the core skills that make great DJs irreplaceable: reading people, controlling momentum, and telling a story in real time. From there, the episode jumps into both the practical and the absurd. We break down a ’90s slumber-party after-party concept that actuall...

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Season 6

Send us a message

What would you do if your main gig disappeared tomorrow?

We put that question on the table and followed it into some unexpected places : law, sports agency, music programming, even D1 basketball before circling back to the core skills that make great DJs irreplaceable: reading people, controlling momentum, and telling a story in real time.

From there, the episode jumps into both the practical and the absurd. We break down a ’90s slumber-party after-party concept that actually improves events. We talk why themed after-parties are a cheat code for music curation, how not to cannibalize big reception moments, and what discoverability really looks like in 2026: where SEO, social proof, and timing collide. 

In our "story time" segment, we talk through a 65-and-a-half birthday that found Brian B through ChatGPT, featured a bass-and-vocal virtuoso, and somehow ended with Jenny McCarthy FaceTiming Donnie Wahlberg from the dance floor while he played a smart NKOTB routine.

Then we shift into a blunt breakdown of a venue showcase: banner messaging that sells benefits (not features), the impact of DJ-plus-sax fusion, and the contact-form mistake we won’t make again. When three DJs started clashing in the same outdoor space, we solved it the hard way: syncing systems with wireless remotes so one playlist fed multiple rigs, zero chaos. Along the way we unpack ROI on wedding showcases, when saying no is the smarter play, and how much “relationship value” actually matters when attendance is soft.

We wrap with growth and future-proofing: scaling a gear line toward seven-figure revenue while navigating real manufacturing constraints, and building a weekday corporate niche in medical software to balance the calendar and reduce dependence on weddings.

It’s honest, tactical, and a little unhinged. Part strategy session, part story hour, and part field guide for creative businesses wondering what comes next.

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00:00 - Kicking Off And Patreon Shoutouts

02:55 - What We’d Do If We Weren’t DJs

08:40 - Alternate Careers And Coaching Stories

12:40 - Radio DJ Real Talk

15:44 - Pop Culture Minute: Slumber Party After-Parties

24:25 - Story Time Setup And Patreon CTA

26:00 - Jenny McCarthy, ChatGPT Booking, And A Wild 65.5 Party

36:20 - New Kids Routine And Celebrity Moments

39:05 - Wedding Showcase Strategy And Booth Setup

47:10 - Vetting Shows, Lead Quality, And Forms

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What's up, everybody?

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Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth.

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I'm Joe Bunn.

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That's my boy Brian B, and we are back with another brand new episode to start your February the right way.

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Episode seven.

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Episode seven, season six.

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Let's thank our friends.

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Well, friends from Patreon, uh, we appreciate y'all.

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But shout out Excellent Entertainment.

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What a name.

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Excellent Entertainment.

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Can you get that?

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I mean, I feel like there's probably 30 of them, but excellent entertainment.

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Yeah.

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I mean, you wouldn't want to be like sucky entertainment, or good point.

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You know?

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Yeah.

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Jason Landry.

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And my guy Joey McDonald.

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Appreciate you guys.

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I can't remember.

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You don't remember.

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I don't remember.

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I mean, it's it's hard enough to keep up with my own uh family, much less our extended family.

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So, this opener, why don't you set this up?

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This is what would we be doing if we weren't DJs?

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Man, so I don't know how this conversation started with my boy Johnny Rich down in Florida.

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He works with Malik and those guys at Curate.

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Love those guys.

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Yeah, good dudes.

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And Johnny Rich, uh, you'll see him online as J.R.

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Conti, but I'll I I think his DJ name is Johnny Rich.

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Great DJ name, by the way.

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I love that name.

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Johnny Rich.

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Uh Johnny Rich said, hey man, what do you and Brian think y'all would be doing if you weren't DJing it?

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And I said something completely crass.

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I'm not gonna say it, but I I I don't know.

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I don't know any other world.

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I don't know any other job since I was 13.

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So I was like, man, I don't freaking know.

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And all of a sudden he just responds back as if he's been thinking about this.

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He goes, I feel like you would be a barista at an overpriced coffee shop.

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Wow.

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So we got this picture here.

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Love the overalls.

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Uh if you're watching on YouTube, uh he AI generated these within seconds, he's firing these off to me.

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I mean, I don't hate this idea.

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Saquon said, There's no way that I could be a barista.

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Wouldn't you rather be at a barista at a real bar?

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I feel like you'd be a better bartender.

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That's late night, though.

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That's late night.

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That is true.

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Not a big late night guy anymore.

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It had to be early morning.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You'd be running it, not pouring, not not pouring shots of uh some great latte art you got going on.

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A guy is spot on, though.

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I gotta be honest.

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It's really good.

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And then I go, what about and then he goes, what about Brian B?

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And then I think I said, I feel like Brian would be a barber because you you're a you're the king of getting a haircut.

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I I am, but yeah, nah, I wouldn't ever want to do that.

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I couldn't and he goes, nah, the baby's hair only.

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So here we got the Brian B with the gold chain, wow, the the hairbrush.

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Yeah.

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So then when you said this to me that we were talking about this, I thought you were saying, like, legit, what would you do if you were?

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So I'll come back to mine.

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Yeah, what would you be doing?

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So it'd be one of three things.

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Okay.

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So I got a picture here generated.

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Is that a a lawyer?

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A lawyer.

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Okay.

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I've always loved to like just win arguments.

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Okay.

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So I would do that.

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You an Ashley.

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Sports agent.

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Oh, an agent.

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Oh, okay.

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I like that.

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I've always wanted to do that.

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I think you could be good at that.

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Or a programmer for like Spotify, like, or those are all good, dude.

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These images, that first one is terrible, by the way.

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Why did they do that to me?

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Uh the other two are not too bad.

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They even got my watch on there and everything.

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That's crazy.

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It is crazy.

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What did you use for that?

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Just out of curiosity.

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It generates images now.

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I know, but it takes forever.

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I don't know.

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I feel like nano banana is superior.

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Yeah.

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I I mean, I I don't really do it much.

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Well, I mean, you don't have five fingers or anything weird, so I mean it's obviously good.

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Yeah, it's quick.

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I mean, not five fingers, six fingers.

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Everybody's got fingers.

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Any of those jobs.

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If I if I wasn't in D.

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You know, ironically, man, I feel like you would be really good at all three of those or any of those three.

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Man, what would I be doing?

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Or, you know what?

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The fourth one would be if I if I really wanted I would love to have been a basketball coach.

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Like not like college?

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Yeah.

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D two, D one?

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D1.

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D1.

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Wow.

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I would do that.

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I love it enough.

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I worked high school.

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I do high school, but they don't pay anything.

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That's the problem.

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I feel like you would be good at that too.

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Because you played.

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Like I played.

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I didn't know.

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I I coached um the Boys and Girls Club where I went and played for uh before I got to high school.

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When in California?

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California.

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When I finished high school, they were looking for coaches.

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So and how old would the kids?

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God.

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Eighth grade?

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Eighth grade?

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Yeah.

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So I my son played for that league.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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So I Oh no, no, Salvation Army, sorry.

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Well, I was like in my twenties.

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, I really shouldn't be coaching these kids, probably.

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I'm like, it was just I thought it was kind of weird in a sense.

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Like, I think that's perfect age to catch that age.

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But dude, that was when like uh it was after Pat Riley was kind of a coach, and that whole like wear a suit, slick back the hair was a thing.

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Dude, I did all of that.

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Stop it for a freaking, you know, boys and girls club.

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And I'm down there like pounding the ground, you know, press, you know, like just calling it.

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But dude, we won the championship my first year.

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Did you ever do it again?

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No, I never did it again.

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So I'm one and oh.

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You really are, man.

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One more going top.

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Yeah, but it was awesome.

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I actually really like because to see where these kids came from, like before they, you know, had been coached to like where we ended up.

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I'm like, wow, this was actually a really cool experience.

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It made it kind of got me fired up to do it.

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I mean, ironically, man, even after he said that, I don't think I ever even gave it another thought.

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Like, you gave it a thought.

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You've created some images here.

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I I I don't I don't know what I would be doing.

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I really don't, man.

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I I you would be an entrepreneur.

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There's no doubt.

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That was exactly what I was gonna say.

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It would have to be some so I don't care if it was a food truck.

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It would have to be something where I'm working for myself doing something that I either like or love.

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Yeah, I I just cannot see anything like that.

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I never wanted to go back to school to learn a trade or to be a lawyer or a doctor.

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I never, you know, I think I had a couple of friends that were super talented in high school and went to college and got drafted.

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I did think about getting my agent card at one point.

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I do remember that.

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Yeah.

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Um man, the radio DJ thing was absolute the worst fucking job I ever had.

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Well, and did you ever do that?

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No, and it doesn't pay, I know.

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It doesn't pay.

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It's horrible.

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They have no allegiance to you, they'll move you.

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It it is the I I I know there's probably a lot of radio DJs listening to this, and I'm sorry I'm shitting on that profession, but I had the worst experience ever.

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Yeah.

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At a major station.

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Well, and I clear channel.

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To your point, there is no loyalty, and I knew some really talented people that got moved all the time.

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Shit on.

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And they were promised the world.

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Jeff Brown got moved all up.

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Squirrel used to be a radio DJ, I think.

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Um uh who else?

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Trailer.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Tough yeah, it's a tough occupation.

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Anyway, I definitely wouldn't be doing that.

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Well, let's move into the pop culture minute.

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Okay.

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Brian B.

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Jobon dropping heat just for fun.

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Pop talk spinning like a wreck of spine.

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Pop culture class where the stories collide.

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Two DJs bringing the flavor we're a while.

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So uh I saw this online from a wedding professional.

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She posted this idea of wedding party, wedding after party versus wedding slumber party.

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Thought it was a decent idea.

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Okay, let's hit the video.

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So I was just at a wedding industry event thrown by two like very big thought leaders in the wedding industry, and they threw an after party that was a 90s slumber party, and I just don't understand why n all wedding after parties are not slumber parties.

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They had a pajama changing service, like you threw your pajamas in a bag, and then they like brought that to the event, and then there were dressing rooms for you to change into.

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And when I am telling you, the girls in the bathroom, the do you have a lip gloss?

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Do you have a deodorant?

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Do you your guests will never forget it?

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So forget like this after party.

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Everybody wants to change anyway.

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They want to get into jam jams.

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Like there was McDonald's and like beds and like posters on the walls and like nostalgic candy, like fun dip.

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Like the napkins on the bar were like screenshots of Aim Messenger.

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That's what you should do.

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You should have a slumber party, and like it should be 90s coded or like princess diaries coded.

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Like, we're thinking about this all wrong.

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The Bachelorette party is not the time for that slumber party vibe.

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It is the after party when everybody wants to kick off their heels and dance to like I don't even know.

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The playlist was so fire.

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I the Backstreet Boys.

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Bring out, just just do that.

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That's all I've got.

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I need to post here more.

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Okay, bye.

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Love you.

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Bobs?

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Do you know her?

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I don't know her.

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Okay.

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No, it just came up on feed.

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Dude, I kind of like it.

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I I don't play a lot of after parties like you do.

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I guess my first question is how many people are normally at an after party?

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A hundred less.

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A hundred or less.

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And that's a that's coming from, I guess, kind of let's say one february.

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Does she really mean like to sleep in that room though?

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No, not to sleep.

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It's just like the theme.

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I got you.

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Right, right.

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You know?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I love the idea of- I do I love I love a lot of it.

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I mean, I love the the idea of the theme.

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Drop off your pajamas and then you just put it in there.

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Right.

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I mean, I don't think guys are gonna go to this length of like, you know, hey, hand me the lip gloss necessarily.

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No, right, right.

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But I mean I put on my jam jams.

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I don't have jam jams.

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Do you have jam jams?

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I feel like you have a matching.

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No, no.

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I actually want my negatives.

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Like, what do you sleep in?

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Drawers?

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Uh no, just no, uh shorts.

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Shorts and a wife beater.

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And a beater?

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Yeah, a beater.

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Yeah.

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Like a white, like an actual No, no, no.

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It's like just cut off, kind of cut off sleeves.

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Dude, I love it.

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I'm just I'm just straight boxers.

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That's it.

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No shirt.

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No shirt.

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Wow.

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Yeah, I know.

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Okay.

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I know no shirt.

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Okay, okay.

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You don't go the nude, you don't go nude jam jams.

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You don't go the nude, nude?

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You not go Winnie the Pooh style?

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What's that?

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Just shirt.

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That's pretty good.

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Forget that Winnie the Pooh just rocks a fucking shirt.

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I forgot about that.

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It balls out.

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Winnie the Pooh's wild, dude, if you think about it.

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Oh man.

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Oh.

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Just shirt.

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Nah, that's not a good look.

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I can't do nothing.

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Not a good look.

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Not a good look.

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But I like the idea.

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I do do.

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Yes.

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It's a great idea.

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Did you just say doo doo?

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No.

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I do too.

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I do too.

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No, it's a great idea, man.

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I just think it's something that people are.

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I mean, I'm always getting asked, like, how can we make this different?

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1000%.

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Save this, send them this, or send it to the planner that is kind of like egging you on to do it and be like, and then you sell it.

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Like, I will kill this shit.

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Yeah.

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Let me go in full Brittany.

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Again, if it's a 90s theme, let me go in full British British.

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Or 2000s, one direction.

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You know, there are so much stuff.

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Dude.

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Just I love the idea of a themed party, anyways, because it really helps set the direction musically to what to stay away from at the reception.

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Thousand percent.

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That was about to say it delineates what you can play at the reception versus all right, I'm going into this thing, I'm gonna change it to my jam jams, and I'm going full boy band mode.

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Yeah, you know what I mean?

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So you're not hitting bye-bye bye and all that stuff during the reception.

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If you had to go, what kind what kind of jam jams would you be bringing into this?

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I'm curious.

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It would have to go on themes.

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So like if it was like truly 90s boy band, I would find like some in sync like on Etsy or eBay or something.

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Yeah.

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Or like you like a theme too, right?

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Like, I mean, I'll if I need, like you said, if I'm getting paid, I'll dress up.

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If I Tara's always mad at me because I don't do anything for Halloween.

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I'm like, right, I'm not you're not paying me to go right on the street.

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I'm not doing it.

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I will do Halloween.

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Yeah, just because I never really did Halloween.

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As a kid?

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I did it as a kid.

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My mom was unbelievably good at making costumes.

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Oh, my mom did it, and she was not good.

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Yeah, no, my mom was outstanding.

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My Mr.

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T costume, I did not go blackface, don't worry.

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I did not, but the Mohawk was fucking elite.

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Did you do it to your actual hair?

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No, I had a bald head wig on, a bald head cap, and then my mom cut the strip out the middle.

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And I think, you know, back then I had a hair, I was a kid, and it was long, like I have this long kind of mop.

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And she pulled it out of that little strip in the bald head wig and then just kept teasing it.

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And she gave me all of her costume jewelry, like and that was when the A-team was like everything to me.

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And I came out the house with the sleeveless denim vest on, bro.

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You couldn't tell me nothing.

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So my white Mr.

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T when I uh told my mom that I'm never having her make a costume for me again was when uh Karate Kid was big.

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Yeah.

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So I went as Mr.

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Miyagi.

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Okay.

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And we didn't have a lot of money back then or anything.

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So my mom's like, um, so let's let's get your uh let's get your suit jacket.

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Okay.

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And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you oh no, it was a bathroom robe.

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It was a bathroom robe that she cut in half for the for the ghee, as they called it, right?

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Then she says, go get your um your suit tie.

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We're gonna use that as your belt, right?

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And then go get your your shower shoes.

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We're gonna use those for your your feet.

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And I'm like, what are we doing here?

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This looks nothing like Mr.

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Miyagi whatsoever.

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And then she found a bandana, you know, that didn't even look like it was just like a cowboy one.

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It was a cowboy one, it wasn't even like a karate one.

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And I go out there and they're like, What are you?

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I'm like, I don't know.

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Your guess is as good as mine.

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Get me out of here.

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So I'm like, mom, from now on, we're buying it.

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I remember um Raggedy Andy.

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She had a she made this wig out of yarn.

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It was unbelievable.

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Yeah.

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Shout out my mom, dude.

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That's amazing.

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Let's move into story time.

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Storytime, story time.

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00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.000
So this is where we do gig recaps, things like that.

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I wanted to talk about this Chat GPT 65.5 birthday that just happened this last week for me, which again we're batching this, so this is will be a few weeks.

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By the way, before you get into that one, I just want to say the only other gig I did other than what we talked about on the last one was I went to Dom's 40th birthday party.

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You want to talk about that first?

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Go back.

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Yeah, just I just was gonna enter, it wasn't a lot to tell, but I mean Dom uh prone had his 40th birthday party outside of Atlanta in one of the suburbs.

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And I had to be there.

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I mean, Dom's my boy.

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Yeah.

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We started the DJ's vault together, we started Crate actors together.

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So I went and he was like, Will you play 45 minutes at the end of the night?

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And I was like, Who was playing before you?

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Um this dude hired a metal karaoke band, and they were really good.

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So it was a live karaoke band with the list up on the TV.

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So they just didn't play instruments.

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They no, no, they played.

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I mean, go ahead.

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So what's a karaoke band?

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As a difference between a cover and they're the singers.

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Oh, you're the singers.

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Yes.

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So they just played the instrumental.

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Yes.

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Interesting.

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And the the playlist was fire.

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I mean, you know, bright side, my own worst enemy, sugar were going down.

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So you got to pick from their list of what they knew.

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Yes, just like a karaoke.

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But they're live music.

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Wow.

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Never seen that.

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They were called Metalsome.

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And about eight, ten people go up, and then all of a sudden I hear, next up, Joe and Ashley.

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And I go, What the fuck?

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And I've I go, I don't do karaoke.

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I've never done karaoke in 54 years ever.

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Yeah.

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Not Eminem, not bust a move, not anything.

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And I was like, huh?

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And Ashley's like grabs my arm and like, next thing I know, they're ripping in the sugar.

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We're going down.

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And I'm like, well, I guess we're doing it.

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Yeah.

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I got the bit we'll put the video in here if you want to.

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I mean, you want it for yet.

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If I just tell you everything you want to hear, is that just who I am in sweet?

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It was not good by any means, but I mean, it was, you know, I I love that song.

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Like it's top five of all time for me.

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So, and then she was kind of into it, and I was like, well, and then the crowd was into it.

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I was like, well, it it kind of just worked.

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Yeah.

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And nobody was great.

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Right.

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It wasn't one of those audiences where like everybody's like a ringer.

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Yeah, that's nice to carry a lot of things.

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It's not supposed to be fun, yeah.

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It was fun.

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And I was like, you know what?

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You you sold me.

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You like you tricked me, but but we had fun.

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Then I played for 45 minutes, trailer played for 45 minutes, got a lot of people dancing at the end of the night.

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How many people were there?

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Great party.

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50.

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Okay.

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Small party.

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Great party though.

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Great way to do it for your 40s.

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It was fun.

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Yeah, that's awesome.

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Great time.

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Anyway, I want to hear about this 65th.5 party.

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Before I get there, the karaoke thing, there used to be so my boy Rooney G.

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No, we talked about yours.

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You're yours for like no, those are the karaoke songs, but I never it made me think of another type of entertainment with the karaoke band that you're talking about.

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Yeah.

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He hired and sold tickets for an air guitar band.

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Okay.

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They don't play anything.

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It's all not like lip-synced, but like lip played.

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Like they don't even play the instruments.

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They are just basically playing to what, like, let's say Guns N' Roses is playing.

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Yeah, yeah.

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They will fake, like, they're not even plugged in.

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And people will go ape over this.

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And they were selling tickets at$20 a pop at the bar for this air guitar band that would come in and play.

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Stop.

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I'm not kidding.

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So not a cover band, not a karaoke band, literally an air band.

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An air band.

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Then they air band.

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Drummer, air guitar, air bass player, air singer.

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The whole thing.

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And they were doing what?

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Just like whatever.

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They actually, I saw it on um Were they doing rock covers?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Rock covers it was uh well, that's all I saw was rock.

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But they actually have this on ESPN as well, like the Ocho or whatever, like one of those fringe uh channels of theirs.

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Yeah.

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And they're they have like an uh an actual, like I don't want to say it's a uh um airband competition.

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Yeah, they have an airband competition.

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Come on, I'm not kidding.

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It's crazy.

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I mean, I know those guitar solos from those like Van Halen records and Guns N' Roses records.

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Like, I know my name.

00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:55.119
So let's talk about this party.

00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:57.759
The 65 and a half birthday party to set the stage.

00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:02.880
If you didn't listen to the episode that we talked about this a while back, this lady found me on Chat GPT.

00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:03.279
Yeah.

00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:04.480
And I was shocked.

00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.799
It was actually during the collective, like the morning of before we were talking about like the new trends and stuff.

00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:11.759
I just happened to have the inquiry sheet where she listed it.

00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:13.279
And you put use in your presentation.

00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:14.480
Yeah, like that morning.

00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:15.839
It was like fresh.

00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:18.079
So uh it actually booked.

00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:24.240
I thought it was a fake, and um, she was a former publicist for a bunch of Hollywood stars at one point.

00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:25.440
She's now retired.

00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:31.200
I misspoke on one of the last episodes that you clipped for me, and I said that she was turning 65.

00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:34.000
She was turning 60 in 2020.

00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:35.200
Okay, right.

00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:40.720
She waited until 2026, so she's now 20 uh 65 and a half.

00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:41.200
Right.

00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:42.480
That's where I misspoke.

00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:42.720
Right.

00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:44.240
Let's clear the air on there.

00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:44.480
Okay.

00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:49.759
And so she's throwing this party, and she her theme was that she was gonna have like six and a half wishes.

00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:50.240
Random.

00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:54.319
If it's your 65th birthday, you would think you'd have 65 wishes and a half, but whatever.

00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:55.680
So six and a half.

00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:03.359
And her first wish was to have uh, well, I guess I'll get to it in a second, but the the party was having happening in Jacksonville, Florida.

00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:04.400
Which just happened this week.

00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:05.359
What was the venue?

00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:07.119
It was called Private 131.

00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:08.640
Just a place you could rent out.

00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:09.759
Beautiful space.

00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:10.880
I got some pictures of it here.

00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.240
So let's hit the first picture.

00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:15.200
This is the entrance of the space coming off of the elevator.

00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:16.480
We're going into the entrance here.

00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:17.279
No planner.

00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.079
No planner.

00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:18.640
Wow.

00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:21.279
Actually, they did have a planner, but he was really a designer.

00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:21.599
Yeah.

00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:23.039
That also did some planning stuff.

00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:24.480
Go to the next photo here.

00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:30.000
They had this thing that she had this table that said, I said no gifts, because people always bring gifts no matter what, even if you tell them no.

00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:31.200
So there's like four gifts on there.

00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:32.880
I just thought that was kind of cool looking.

00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.559
Uh, this was the outdoor space of the venue.

00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:38.559
So indoors is where the dancing was happening.

00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:41.039
I had a remote speaker, you can kind of see it in the back back there.

00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:43.039
Uh, where they had a bar out here.

00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:46.000
This reminded me of the Graduate Hotel Rooftop.

00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:51.440
Had that same kind of flooring, very symphallic uh floral there, as you can see.

00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:52.480
Wieners.

00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:54.240
Um couple wieners, yeah.

00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:57.759
Shorty's uh Joe Buns.

00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:00.799
A couple of Joe Bunski.

00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:03.440
Wait a minute, hold on.

00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:04.880
What how many people were good there?

00:24:05.119 --> 00:24:05.680
Uh about a hundred.

00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:06.400
Okay, okay.

00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:07.839
So then we go to the next.

00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.039
This was cool.

00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:11.279
They're in the space, they actually have a thing.

00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:15.200
These are not this is not signage, this is like raised like lettering.

00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:20.000
Yeah, it's a green room in there, and so this is where we hung out until six o'clock.

00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:24.000
And then at six o'clock, we me, and there was another act before me.

00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:25.440
Um I'll show you him in a second.

00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:31.599
But then we got kicked out because the celebrity had to be in there the rest of the night, basically to hang out until his time was in.

00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:32.640
So he had to kick us out.

00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:33.680
But it was cool that they had this.

00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:34.640
I've never seen a sign like that.

00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:35.599
Yeah, green room.

00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:36.240
Yeah, that's cool.

00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.400
Um, so I was wish number four.

00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:40.319
Yeah, they made me wear this shirt, right?

00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:43.680
And to your point, I said, I'm only wearing this because I'm getting paid.

00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:46.000
I would never wear this kind of stuff, but whatever.

00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:50.960
Uh, so I was the fourth wish, as we talked about on the previous episode, Tony Cox, which I'll get to that story in a second.

00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:51.680
He was the half wish.

00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:52.960
Is that the right name at this time?

00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:54.000
Because you call it something.

00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:54.720
Yeah, I called it.

00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:55.119
Okay, okay.

00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:56.240
So Tony Cox was there.

00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:56.799
That was his shirt.

00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:01.839
Uh and then um, this is her first wish, right?

00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:03.279
Uh, which is Casey Abrams.

00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:04.240
I do remember this guy.

00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:07.839
I do remember the bun up there on the top, hair bun.

00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.519
But if you're not watching it, it's basically a guy who is a bass guitarist.

00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:14.000
I thought this was gonna suck, to be completely honest.

00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:20.799
I didn't look him up beforehand or anything like that, but he was gonna play with no tracks, just the bass and his vocal.

00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:22.559
And it was incredible.

00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:23.839
This dude was crushing.

00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:26.480
He was having people singing along during cocktail hour.

00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:29.759
I was he was supposed to be background, but people were so into it.

00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:30.160
Right.

00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:40.160
And he was doing everything from you know, uh standards, standards to white stripes to hip hop, all with a bass line only in his vocal, and he was an incredible singer.

00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:43.599
Yeah, no, he he I remember this was when I used to still watch American Idol.

00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:44.240
I remember this kid.

00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:52.079
So she was like, my first wish is I would when I saw that guy on American Idol, and she gave a speech and she said that I wanted to have that guy at my 60, 60th party.

00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:53.680
Well, now it's 65 and a half.

00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:57.920
And then her second wish was great wine, great food, and all of that.

00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:58.799
So that was that.

00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:02.400
Then the third wish was I can't remember, fourth wish was a great DJ.

00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:03.119
Wow.

00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:07.599
And then she picked herself off asking Chat GPT.

00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:09.440
That's unbelievable, man.

00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:11.680
Seriously, like I mean, yeah.

00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:12.799
So then we get there.

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.680
Shout out you.

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:18.720
I mean, like, that's and I see this blonde, yeah, and I'm like, wait a minute, I think she looks a little familiar.

00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:20.559
I'm like, is that Jenny McCarthy?

00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:21.599
I think it is.

00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:23.039
Yeah, and sure enough, it was.

00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:23.839
She looked good.

00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:25.279
So she wrapped her at some point.

00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:25.599
Yeah.

00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:26.240
She looked good.

00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:26.799
Yeah, yeah.

00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:27.680
Oh, she looked great.

00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:29.279
She was great, and she was super nice.

00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:29.759
Yeah.

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:35.440
And then uh the whole th story is that she went to a party at Howie Mandel's house.

00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:40.960
This is the client, and said, Hey, and and he would always make fun of her for not having a date.

00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:43.359
He's and so finally she's like, I have a date.

00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:47.759
And she's like, made a joke about it, and she brought Tony Cox with her to the thing.

00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:49.519
This is the picture from that party.

00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:50.079
Oh, wow.

00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:52.880
Howie Mandel, her, and Tony Cox.

00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:54.400
And he cracked up.

00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:56.720
And uh everybody was like, whatever.

00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:02.240
So she's like, for my 65th and a half, I, you know, our date got cut short, no pun intended.

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.039
And uh, I wanted to have him be my half-wish.

00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:05.519
That's great.

00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:09.599
So she he came out, he danced for a little bit, so you can see him on the dance floor.

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.640
This is the only picture I got of him from the DJ booth.

00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:19.839
She was out there dancing, and um, dude, Jenny McCarthy uh pretty much fell in love with me uh for whatever reason.

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:20.240
Wow.

00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.279
She got to the point where she was FaceTiming Donnie.

00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:23.920
Stop it.

00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:28.240
That's Donnie on the pick on the phone, saying, We have to hire this guy.

00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:31.039
Like she, but she treated me like she never said one word to me.

00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:32.319
I was like third person.

00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:35.680
She's she asked the client, why like they're right in front of the booth, right?

00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:36.240
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:38.960
She asked the client, she's like, Where did you find this DJ?

00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:40.319
She's like, I just found him online.

00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:41.680
That's like her answer.

00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:46.160
So then she's like, Donnie has to hear this guy, he needs to come to Vegas.

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:48.079
Uh and so she facetimes him.

00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:48.960
Is that where they live?

00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:49.759
I I don't know.

00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:51.440
That's where he has a residency, I'm guessing.

00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:53.440
Uh or New Kids does, I guess.

00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:53.920
I don't know.

00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:54.400
I don't know.

00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:54.960
I don't know.

00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:56.960
Anyway, so she's FaceTiming him.

00:27:57.119 --> 00:27:58.240
Listen to this DJ.

00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:02.640
And I'm so I waved like at one point on the phone to this dude.

00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:05.519
And then she, you know, she left about an hour or so later.

00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:07.920
Uh it was an incredible party.

00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.920
It was an interesting um age dynamics, as you can kind of see there.

00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.799
There's a lot of older people in her age range, but a lot of younger people too.

00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:15.119
Sure.

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:16.799
Here's a little people actually get down.

00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:23.039
Oh, they totally got down until it was, I think, uh started at seven, and we went till 10:30.

00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:23.839
So not long.

00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:25.119
That's pretty long.

00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:26.640
Yeah, I mean three and a half hours.

00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:27.440
Three and a half hours.

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:29.680
No, because uh an hour was hit that other guy.

00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:30.240
Okay, okay.

00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:31.759
So I played for two hours.

00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:32.400
Nice.

00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:37.920
Uh, here's a little video of me doing a the a scan of the room if you want to see the inside.

00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:39.039
Oh no, I guess we didn't.

00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:40.319
There was a video, was there?

00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:41.440
I guess not in there.

00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:42.160
Should be one.

00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:43.440
Okay, it's fine.

00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:43.839
Yeah.

00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:45.200
Um, I'll insert it.

00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.119
Here's a video of the space.

00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:48.559
Uh cool venue.

00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:53.359
And a lot of people were like told her that, hey, we we will hire this guy.

00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:55.359
So I don't know what will come from it, but who knows?

00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.200
Maybe I'll be on tour with new kids.

00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:03.599
I I did have a routine, that's why I I was gonna mention that too, where I actually have a little bit of the right stuff.

00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:04.079
Uh-huh.

00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:09.599
I it it what used to be in lieu of um, I think I gave you that edit of this is how we do it.

00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:09.920
Yeah.

00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:11.519
And to it would go into that.

00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:22.640
Uh, yeah, it would say I would loop back to uh something about the old school, yeah, and then I would play the oh oh oh yeah instead of the um fresh prints.

00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:22.960
Yeah.

00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:24.319
So I still had that routine.

00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:29.599
Uh and so during that time, because I was like, I never know if celebrities really want their music played.

00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:30.480
Right, me neither.

00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:31.759
He wasn't there, right?

00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:33.759
But is it kind of cheesy to play it?

00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.559
Like, I don't know.

00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:39.920
So she, the client, comes up to me and goes, Hey, I think you should play a backstreak, uh not backstreet, new kids track.

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.319
And I'm like, I happen to be in that same like in that same uh tempo range.

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.279
Yeah, and so I'm like, let me go ahead and just go into this.

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:55.680
And so I played it, he came out, and then she's FaceTiming him while I'm playing it, and he he they all lost it, so it was all kind of a cool, cool thing.

00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:57.599
So wow, great party.

00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:58.720
Hope I get more of them.

00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:00.319
We'll see what happens.

00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.000
So I left that.

00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:11.279
Yeah, and then drove three hours, drove three hours back to Destin and did my first event showcase at a venue in probably the last one I did was 2012.

00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:12.079
Jesus Christ.

00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:12.880
So what is that?

00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:13.680
Uh 14 years?

00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:14.720
14 years, yeah.

00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:16.000
Another one in 2026.

00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:17.039
So I haven't done one in a while.

00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:21.279
So I picked your brain, I was like, dude, this is for my mid-level brand.

00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:24.960
Yeah, I'm not trying to go crazy with this, I'm not going all out on the booth, right?

00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:28.559
You know, she told me she is a new venue, so let me set the stage.

00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:37.039
New venue, they're coming in the market, they have a beautiful piece of property on the water, and basically she's this is a pay-to-play place.

00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:37.920
I haven't done that either.

00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:38.799
Yeah, me neither.

00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:39.920
But I was like, you know what?

00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.880
I'm paying for it because this is gonna be a good venue, could be.

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.759
Yeah, um, you like the space.

00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:49.279
I like the space, it's has potential, but I can already see the problem.

00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:55.119
The writing on the wall is that it is gonna be a venue poor uh client that is gonna book this spot.

00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:56.079
It's too much money.

00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:57.599
I have no money for anything else.

00:30:57.759 --> 00:30:58.160
Yep.

00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:02.480
And I already see it because to some of the vendors that were there, I was like, they should not be here.

00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:05.920
Yeah, and that's no shade on them, it's just not it doesn't align.

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:07.200
Let's just put it that way.

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.559
So I thought it would be worth me showing some pictures from this.

00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:13.680
Um, so here's a video of the walkthrough of my space.

00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:14.319
I was out on the thing.

00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:15.519
You owe me for those banners.

00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:16.480
I do, yeah.

00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:18.240
I actually did pay a pretty penny for them though.

00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:18.799
Yeah, I thought.

00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:26.720
So I had a little uh I had a little uh my ceremony speaker on the far right, had the two banners.

00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:28.400
It was a very windy day.

00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:34.799
I had two DJ furniture pieces, which was that piece there, and then uh behind it that little facade because we have a bunch of different things that we can do.

00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:36.319
It also hid all my cables.

00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:41.279
You can see, unfortunately, I've got that um lighting case there because it was so windy that thing was gonna blow over.

00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.559
I have it zip tied to the evolve.

00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:45.440
The pipe and drift.

00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:46.240
Oh, wow.

00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:47.920
Because it was gonna move that quickly.

00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:50.559
I had some sandbags for you, but I don't know how you would have gotten it.

00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:52.079
I do have sandbags on the other one.

00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:52.319
Right.

00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:54.559
I didn't think it was that windy, it's gonna be that windy.

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:58.799
Um, and then as we go into the different pictures here, you can kind of see this next one.

00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:00.880
This again, a little close up of it.

00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:01.759
This is really critical.

00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:04.559
I think uh to say what you do, and this is uh something I got from you.

00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.519
You're like, hey, make sure besides your logo, what do you do?

00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:08.640
Yeah, put that at the top.

00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:09.599
No, at the top, right.

00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:10.240
That's what I say.

00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:13.200
So DJ and live entertainment, and that's what I tried to sell here.

00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:16.960
Yeah, it's like listen, there in that market, there is not a lot of people doing fusion.

00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.039
So I wanted to lead with that because everybody else is gonna say we just do DJing, whatever.

00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:21.759
So I said, listen.

00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:23.039
How many other DJs were there?

00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:24.559
Uh two others of other companies.

00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:25.359
Do you know them?

00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:26.079
I do know them.

00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:26.480
Yeah.

00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:31.599
So you can see that I got the sacks guy with the DJ to show exactly what this is.

00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:32.079
Yep.

00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:32.720
I like that.

00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:35.599
And then the other thing, uh, I can't remember whether it says in the bottom.

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:36.720
What does it say, Saquon?

00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:38.799
Your story, your energy, our pack.

00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:41.039
No, one pack dance floor.

00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:41.279
Yeah.

00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:44.480
So I want to say that we pack the dance floor, but we customize it.

00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.039
The QR code goes to my website.

00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:47.519
Yep.

00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:49.920
I was thinking I was gonna do this instead of print a thing.

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.079
I will say I kind of didn't like this after I did it.

00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:56.799
I should have done a more simplistic form, just because it was it's tied into DJ Event Planner.

00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:58.799
Yeah, no one wants to fill out all that information.

00:32:58.960 --> 00:32:59.119
Right.

00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:00.160
Like, how did you hear about us?

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:01.039
All the different things.

00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:05.119
I should have just done like a Google thing that just said name, email, date.

00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:05.920
That's it.

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.160
Yeah.

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.079
And so I got three that came from this.

00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:12.160
Um, I did have business cards.

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:13.039
I think that's critical.

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:14.240
Yeah, I still do.

00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:16.079
I saw your post on that just the other day.

00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:16.480
Yeah.

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.759
Uh I mean, I didn't print anything else off, but I think just having the card, it is, it's kind of critical.

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:27.200
That was what I knew you were running out of time, and I didn't I don't think even Alpha Graphics could have pulled it off for you.

00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:29.359
But we always do a four by six card.

00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:29.680
Yeah.

00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:31.759
One side is probably just a photo.

00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:33.039
The back has our pricing on.

00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:33.519
Okay.

00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:35.759
Literally the pricing, the three packages.

00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:42.640
And so because we we were having people like, turn around, let me write this down, you know, and they're like trying to take notes and stuff.

00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:44.160
I'm like, no, you don't need to do that.

00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.920
Here's a card with all the information on it.

00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:47.759
And you could QR code that as well.

00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:50.880
But my other thought was if I had to do it again, I wouldn't put the QR code.

00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:53.119
I'd have the iPad right there ready for them just to type it in.

00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:54.240
Yeah, we did that before.

00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:55.440
We've done that before as well.

00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:58.079
So I thought this would be easier because they could do this at their own leisure.

00:33:58.720 --> 00:33:59.039
Yeah.

00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.000
But uh that was a miss on my part.

00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:06.720
The next banner, if you go to the next picture, this one just says, I think it says like 50 events.

00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:08.559
What does it say, Saquon on the top?

00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:09.519
I don't know if you can read it.

00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:11.679
50 weddings per year per DJ.

00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:13.840
All fully custom.

00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:18.320
So we try to tell them, well, listen, our guys, again, I'm looking for differentiators to be listed here.

00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:18.880
Yeah.

00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.559
And to me, that just says, hey, listen, we're not uh a factory.

00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:26.320
We have 10 DJs on our team, but they all only take 50 weddings a year.

00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:34.639
So you can be guaranteed, and that's kind of what I led with was like, listen, the difference between us and the other DJs around here, we have the fusion stuff, and we only take 50 events.

00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:37.840
And it's because what's up with those with that little roll, and why'd you bring that out?

00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:39.840
Because we do a lot of ceremonies on the beach.

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:40.320
Oh, right.

00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:42.000
And they always want to know what that looks like.

00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:44.000
And I like to show them, hey, it's battery powered.

00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:44.719
You love that thing.

00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:46.320
I mean, I'm gonna ride or diet until it dies.

00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:49.119
Yeah, then I'll go with the everse eights, which I know it's where I need to be.

00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:49.360
Right.

00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:50.639
But I'm like, this thing works great.

00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.039
No, you you you've been a ride or die with that thing.

00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:55.280
And it's got EQ, it's got I mean, it's everything.

00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:57.199
Yeah, I've done a bunch of events with that.

00:34:57.360 --> 00:34:59.360
So that's uh what we had with that.

00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:01.599
And um, I think that was it.

00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:02.559
Cool.

00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:04.159
So are you doing any wedding shows?

00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:05.440
Let me close the segment with that.

00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:08.480
Are you doing we do a dozen before March?

00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:11.360
And how do you feel like the return's been on them lately?

00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:13.199
Like, is it worth doing it?

00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:20.159
I mean, you have to do it right because of the relationship, or you are cutting them down, like what at some point, I feel like the market.

00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:21.679
We definitely cut down.

00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:23.199
We definitely have cut it down.

00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:25.519
And what's your criteria for keeping them?

00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:27.119
What happened last year?

00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:29.280
Leads or bookings?

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:33.599
Like, what's your criteria for saying what happened last year to make this assessment?

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:34.239
Leads.

00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:35.599
And how many people showed up?

00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.840
So what's like the rainy, rainy?

00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:42.159
So this year they would call, hey, we've got another wedding show at the blah blah blah house.

00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:42.960
Okay, cool.

00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:44.639
Randy, what happened last year?

00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:46.000
Um, let me ask Chris.

00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:47.920
Hey, Chris, what happened at the so-and-so?

00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:49.440
Uh four people showed up.

00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:50.639
How does he remember that?

00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:51.840
I would never remember that.

00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.400
Because we only make the DJs do one or two a year.

00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:54.719
Okay.

00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:56.719
So they would go, Oh, yeah, I did that.

00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:57.679
It was fucking terrible.

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.320
Nobody showed up.

00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:58.639
Yeah.

00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:03.119
And I'll just go, Randy, just tell them we're we're we're all out of free this year.

00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:07.519
Or just we're we don't have anybody that you know is willing to take off their Sunday.

00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:11.360
Or just make up something, man, and and be diplomatic about it.

00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:13.599
Hey, but we still love playing there, you know.

00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:15.679
We we always recommend you something else.

00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:16.079
Right.

00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:16.960
But we're not coming.

00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.360
Right now, if I'm pulling fifty, hundred thousand dollars out of that place, right?

00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:22.320
I'm coming regardless.

00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:22.719
Right.

00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:28.719
But if it's a a pseudo-new place or a place that just did a poor job of promoting it, we're not going again.

00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:31.840
So what is the max you'll do in a year?

00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:34.880
Ten of these?

00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:36.559
And they're always the same time of year?

00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.519
January, February?

00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:39.199
It's usually in the very beginning of the year.

00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:40.079
Fifteen, twenty?

00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:40.639
Okay.

00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:41.599
I mean, that's still a lot.

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:41.920
Yeah.

00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.119
For the whole year.

00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:44.719
But still, I mean, there's only so many weeks.

00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:47.599
I think Mer Merriman Wynn does probably win a quarter, so that's four.

00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:48.559
Gotta do those.

00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:51.280
And let's say another ten, the beginning of the year.

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:52.480
Ten different venues.

00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:54.800
And are you or Randy going to all of these?

00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:55.599
Oh no.

00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:57.519
So you only send the Okay.

00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.400
Well, I the pictures I see, you guys are together in some of these.

00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:03.199
We we we will go to the Merriman Wynn one in in two weeks.

00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:04.639
We'll be there on the Sunday.

00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:05.280
He and I.

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.320
But the other ones you just send a DJ with similar setups?

00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:08.559
Yeah.

00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:09.280
Like banners.

00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:14.320
Yeah, a couple banners, and maybe if they want a booth and uh and uh two speakers.

00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:16.480
One guy is enough to cover it.

00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:19.920
I usually like to try and get two to go, to be honest with you.

00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:23.280
Background music is pretty much not live DJing.

00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:23.679
Okay.

00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:24.719
Yeah, I played some mixes.

00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:25.440
Did you?

00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:25.599
Yeah.

00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:26.960
I had some pre-mix stuff.

00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:27.440
It was great.

00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:28.480
Yeah, same as us.

00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:29.920
You know, um, same as us.

00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:35.440
One thing I did uh do with this particular one is there were two other DJs and we were somewhat in proximity.

00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:44.559
And as soon as we started, she said, Hey Brian, we're gonna uh separate the DJs so they're not all playing at the same time because it was a mess would have been a mess.

00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:45.599
Mess, hot mess, yeah.

00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:48.000
So she said, I want you to play from one to two thirty.

00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:48.239
Uh-huh.

00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:49.360
The next guy to go whatever.

00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:49.840
Sure.

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.760
Well, those other guys didn't get the memo because they're playing full felt boogie.

00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:56.079
And I'm just like, dude, like, this isn't gonna work.

00:37:56.159 --> 00:38:03.199
So I go to the the the venue owner and I said, Listen, I don't mind going over and telling them, but I don't want them to feel like I'm like pressuring them.

00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:05.599
It really needs to be you that delivers the message.

00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.400
I'm happy to go with you if to communicate like the technical side.

00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:17.920
But I said, why don't we just I have wireless remotes, I'll plug into their speakers as well, so it's all the same music, and then when they're done, I'll give them the transmitter, I'll put the receiver in mine.

00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:18.800
Oh, wow.

00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:21.280
Because I mean, it was like one big outdoor space.

00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:21.599
Yeah, yeah.

00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.800
It wasn't like we were like in our own little booth spaces or whatever.

00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:25.440
Yeah.

00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:27.679
And they all jumped on board with it.

00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:31.920
But as soon as we did that, it was a lot more clean for everybody because it was so much music going on.

00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:33.519
It's like no one can think, no one can talk.

00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:35.599
And that was a win.

00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:40.559
So it actually like diffused any kind of you know tension amongst the vendors.

00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:42.000
But I'll be honest with you, man.

00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.000
I she said she registered 50 people.

00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:45.599
I bet you half showed.

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.360
If that, that's not good.

00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:49.280
And I just was like, Yeah, that's not good.

00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:53.760
And in the destination market, it's really tough to get people to come from out of town to this.

00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:54.000
Yeah.

00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:56.159
So we had some locals, they didn't have a lot of money.

00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:58.480
I could that's just typical thing there.

00:38:58.559 --> 00:38:59.440
So it wasn't great.

00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:02.480
If I had to do it again, I would do it just because it was a new venue.

00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:05.519
But if she asked again, I probably won't do it.

00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:06.559
Yeah, man.

00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:09.599
I it for me now it's gotten to be how was it last year?

00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:12.079
And then how much money have we made there in the past few years?

00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:12.800
You know what I mean?

00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:18.800
And like I said, if we're pulling tens of thousands of dollars out of there yearly, I don't care what's happening, we're doing it.

00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:19.039
Okay.

00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:19.760
You know what I mean?

00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.559
Like it's just it's a bad look to be like, nah, we're good.

00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:22.960
Yeah.

00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:24.320
It's just a slap in their face.

00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:24.559
Right.

00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:25.840
Well, especially if they're sending you a business.

00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:27.039
So you gotta know your numbers.

00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:28.400
Yeah, you gotta know what happened.

00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:28.639
Yeah.

00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:32.400
Do you track it in the inquiry source or I think Randy tracks it in the inquiry source?

00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:38.719
And then also just asking the previous year's DJ what happened at this thing last year.

00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.920
Do we want to do it again?

00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:41.599
Hey man, no, it was shitty.

00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:43.199
Like they didn't get anybody there.

00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:45.440
I wasted my entire Sunday away from my family.

00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.280
Like, and I'm like, all right, we're not doing that again.

00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:51.760
So to help people, one last thing on this what are you using for a form?

00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:53.360
Is it linked to that?

00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:54.880
Like, is there a software program?

00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:01.599
I think that our QR code, um, honestly, Brian, just goes directly to the Raleigh contact form.

00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:05.679
Instead of going to bun DJ Company.com, it would be Bundy J Company slash contact or whatever.

00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:06.880
Slash Raleigh slash contact.

00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:08.079
There's still a lot of stuff to fill out.

00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:08.960
Mine doesn't have a lot.

00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:09.519
It doesn't.

00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:12.960
It's it's name, date, phone number, venue.

00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:13.679
That's it.

00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:14.159
Okay.

00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:14.960
Got it.

00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.679
Maybe maybe there's how you how you heard about us.

00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:19.199
That that would make a lot of sense.

00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:21.440
So yeah, I agree.

00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.159
It's a little much, but I mean, not too much.

00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.840
But I do like the iPad idea of just something they can do right there.

00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:28.719
Already listed to that.

00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:30.159
Sitting on a cocktail table.

00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:30.639
Yeah.

00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:31.679
That could work too.

00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:32.079
Yeah.

00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:32.400
All right.

00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:34.480
The screen that we're using now is touch screen.

00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:34.719
Yeah.

00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:35.519
That's a great thing.

00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:36.880
That's what I bought this for, really.

00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:37.840
For the way it shows.

00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.079
I definitely would if I could go back, I would do that.

00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:40.320
Yeah.

00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:41.440
I think that's a win-win.

00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:41.760
Yeah.

00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:44.239
Well, let's hit the question and then let's let's wrap it.

00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:46.320
Question of the day.

00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:52.639
Uh, our boy Richie Steadman.

00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:53.440
Shout out Richie Steadman.

00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:54.239
Best DJ in Utah.

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:54.960
Best DJ in Utah.

00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:55.519
What a company name.

00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:56.880
What a great company name.

00:40:57.039 --> 00:40:57.920
What are you reading?

00:40:58.079 --> 00:40:59.280
What are you changing?

00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:00.480
What are your goals?

00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:03.440
And what does 2026 have in store for each of you?

00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:06.159
Well, I know what you're reading, which is about nothing.

00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:14.079
To be fair, I did uh because I'm going on a trip today, uh, download a new James Patterson book.

00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:17.360
I only read uh like trashy murder mystery type shit.

00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:18.000
Oh, okay.

00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:22.960
I I if I had a guess, it won't get read until I go to the a beach and sit on it and read it.

00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:24.239
I don't think I'll read it.

00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:26.400
So we're like uh what, two weeks into the year?

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.840
Have you and Randy had your meeting?

00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:29.039
No meeting yet.

00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:35.599
I my intentions are to have a meeting with you about all the stuff podcast, yeah.

00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:37.920
Life, uh, customer experience.

00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:45.599
And then I have a uh meeting with Randy, what went well, what didn't go so well, yeah, what DJs are performing well, etc.

00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:50.880
And I don't really have goals necessarily in terms of monetary.

00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:57.360
I I feel like the only thing that I'm super focused on right now is a new thing that I'm not ready to talk about yet.

00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:10.559
And then for Bund gear, I I need to get that company stable, you know, and I've had supply chain issues and fulfillment issues, and who's making it and where are we making it?

00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:12.480
And why do you keep flip-flopping?

00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:18.880
Tariffs, uh most of there is like like uh time timelines, you know.

00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:25.840
So like it's just not when you say it's not stable, why is it the the people you're picking aren't like uh are you trying to I don't know.

00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:30.800
At the end of the day, man, it's just the industry, it is very difficult to make anything in the United States.

00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:31.119
Okay.

00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:31.920
I'm I'm sorry.

00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:42.079
I don't I if you're in manufacturing, you can contradict me, but I I guarantee people that are if anybody listens to this that is making something in mass, it is very difficult to do in the United States.

00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:47.039
Hence why everybody goes to China, Vietnam, right, uh Mexico.

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:47.760
I don't care.

00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:48.320
Mexico.

00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:49.679
Yeah, South America.

00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:50.239
I don't care.

00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.960
It's it's it is so when you're talking about stability, you're talking about just supply chain.

00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:58.079
Supply China's been incredible to me, man.

00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:00.960
That factory's been great, the product is unbelievable.

00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:02.480
I can't tell one from the other.

00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:10.800
Okay, I make it right here in the United States ten minutes from here, or if I make it in China and comes over on a ship, I can't put them side by side and tell you which came from which.

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:11.679
Ever.

00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:13.360
Not once have I been able to.

00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.800
The quality's there, it just takes a long time to get here.

00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:22.079
So speaking of taking a long time to you have to plan accordingly.

00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.440
So speaking of taking a long time to get here, three weeks ago, yeah, we talked about this cart.

00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:28.639
The command center cart.

00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:31.440
So you want to clear the air on that or where are we at with it?

00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:36.480
Uh I mean, I thought we were gonna be able to make it in the United States because it was not as complicated.

00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:38.159
And to drop in January.

00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:38.559
Yeah.

00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:39.039
Right.

00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:39.920
Nah.

00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:40.719
Nah.

00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:44.000
Price wasn't right, turnaround time wasn't right.

00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:47.679
Oh, well, well, I can make it, but I can't get the casters for it.

00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:50.320
I can make it, but then you got to take it somewhere else, get it powder coated.

00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:52.159
It's just so what's the timeline?

00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:53.039
Are you even doing it?

00:43:53.199 --> 00:43:53.679
Absolutely.

00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:54.800
It's being made now.

00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:57.519
I would say they'll be here first week of March.

00:43:57.679 --> 00:43:57.840
Okay.

00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:02.079
So you along with the new quad pods, which are the stands that hold the tube lights.

00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:07.440
And your strategy the last time we talked was you're not going to put anything on the website until you have it in the inventory.

00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:08.079
Is that still the case?

00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:09.360
Or are you pre-order?

00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:10.079
I think so.

00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:19.280
Or if I know it's in the ocean and like on the way here and they're done, and I've gotten one of them and seen it and been like, I love this thing, then I might go pre-sale.

00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.719
But I need to have like a a one of the batch that's being made.

00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:23.519
Right.

00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:29.280
I just, man, as much as I love America and as much as I wanted it to work here, it just it doesn't.

00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:30.079
Sorry.

00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:31.760
Like I it not for me at least.

00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.519
So it's not a goal, but you'd say 2026 has I need to make I need to that company needs to grow seven figures.

00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:39.440
That needs to be a million dollar company.

00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:40.239
In one year.

00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:40.800
Yeah.

00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:42.800
And that's not preposterous.

00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:43.440
We're we're three.

00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:45.360
That's not profit, that's revenue.

00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:46.480
Yeah, gross revenue.

00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:47.119
Gross revenue.

00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:48.159
It needs to be seven figures.

00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:48.639
Yeah.

00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:50.079
We're three quarters of the way there.

00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:50.400
Yeah.

00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:52.800
We need to we need to cross that threshold.

00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:53.199
Right.

00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:56.079
For people to take the company serious to ever sell it.

00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:57.760
And is your goal?

00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:58.639
What about distribution?

00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:00.159
Do you think you can just do it directly?

00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:04.400
You need to get some partners involved, like man, the margins get messed up, man.

00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:06.559
I guitar center wanted to take it on.

00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:06.800
Yeah.

00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:10.400
You know, they were they would have sold it for us, but man, the margin just it doesn't make any sense.

00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:10.719
Yeah.

00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:14.559
I mean, yeah, they'd move some product, but I mean what and are those even players anymore?

00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:16.559
I'm talking more like online retailers.

00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:17.119
Amazon.

00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:18.320
I think they're players.

00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:20.159
I mean, Amazon would be the same thing.

00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:21.199
It's just margin, man.

00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:22.719
They're just gonna take too much of the money.

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:23.119
Yeah.

00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:24.880
It's gotta be B2C, man.

00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:28.719
And that's why what and and I don't we don't make a ton of money on these things.

00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:29.599
You know what I mean?

00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:32.239
Like it's gotta be business to consumer.

00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:32.639
Got it.

00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:34.400
You want it, it's at bungear.com.

00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:35.760
Please go buy it there.

00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:39.440
There is no other, there is no other place to buy it, quite frankly.

00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:40.239
Yeah.

00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:41.840
So that's for me.

00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:44.960
Uh I that that I'm hyper focused on that company right now.

00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:45.679
What about you?

00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:51.440
I think we talked about this on a previous episode for me, but I need to make some new relationships.

00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:58.239
And uh so I'm that's kind of my focus this year is to like go after some um new inroads.

00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:00.880
Not and I'm not even talking about weddings necessarily.

00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:06.000
I mean, I actually just want to get out of the wedding business as my primary and do other ones.

00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:16.800
So I actually I just I started before the year kicked off, but I have gone into a micro segment of the corporate world with medical software companies.

00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:18.079
Yeah, you were telling me that.

00:46:18.239 --> 00:46:19.840
And it's booked my January.

00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:31.920
In fact, this this um person who's kind of helped me make these connections has said your September, you will not be home the whole month because that's when we pull, that's when we have our fourth quarter kind of kickoffs and stuff.

00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:34.159
She's like, these are during the week, by the way.

00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.239
Yeah, these are not weekend joke shows.

00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.639
So we're testing this uh right now.

00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:41.199
I've got a show actually Thursday in DC.

00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:42.559
So I'm gonna do that.

00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:44.559
And then um, what else?

00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:46.559
And then the week after I'm in Fort Lauderdale.

00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:47.840
Same company, same company.

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:50.320
Yeah, week after that, I'm in Coronado, California.

00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:52.880
So I've got these filled my January.

00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:53.119
Yeah.

00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:54.960
In addition to already had three weddings.

00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:55.199
Yeah.

00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:56.639
So I'm you're busy.

00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:57.280
So I'm busy.

00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:58.800
So I'm really hoping that these take off.

00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.880
Shout out and shout out that medical company.

00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:01.920
Yeah, and I don't know.

00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:08.400
We'll see if they'll I mean I my goal is that hopefully, you know, they they lead to other inroads in that same industry.

00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:11.199
Yeah, it's very niche, yeah, but could be good.

00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:12.400
So that's kind of my goal.

00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:13.760
You know, again, it's the same thing.

00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:20.880
It kind of it kind of leads me back to that, you know, the whole Epic Games thing, which by the way, I've had have I've salvaged the show.

00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:23.280
You know, the convention center burnt down and that's right.

00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:34.239
Then I was gonna get you to do it, and then I just finally was like, I gotta change my plans and do this show because they were started to talk about bringing in some buckface from California I've never heard of.

00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:37.840
And I'm like, I can't lose this Epic Games account.

00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:42.960
Like, but I kind of think or thought that that was gonna lead to more things that haven't.

00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:44.000
Yeah, that it hasn't.

00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:46.800
Well, you get that you've been with them for so long, you gotta keep them.

00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:48.800
I gotta I gotta take care of my people though, man.

00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:52.639
Yeah, you know, it's just it's it's those recurring corporate clients are outstanding.

00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:53.039
Yeah.

00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:53.440
Yeah.

00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:53.920
Totally.

00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:54.320
Yeah.

00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:55.840
What's at the gear corner?

00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:56.800
I know this is a long one.

00:47:57.119 --> 00:47:58.960
This is where I'm hungry.

00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:02.960
The gear's here.

00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:06.559
The gear.

00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:11.440
Is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here.

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:15.360
So we gotta we gotta shout out Sean's signs, I think is his name.

00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:17.199
Yeah, okay, okay.

00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:23.039
According to Sean's signs or scenes, in the UK, gear is cocaine.

00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:28.559
So when we say the gear is here, it's here, we're saying the cocaine is here for apparently.

00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:30.719
It's it is not here, people.

00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:34.320
There's no coke here.

00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:38.559
So if you've been watching from the UK or listening, we we are not a cocaine distributor.

00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:43.199
When we talk about beach music and the dance shagging, we're not talking about humping.

00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:48.079
Because I know shagging does not mean a dance that they do in the south.

00:48:48.320 --> 00:48:50.880
In the UK, it means humping.

00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:51.280
Yeah.

00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:52.400
Shaggy.

00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:55.760
So here's my piece for the for the for the segment here.

00:48:56.159 --> 00:48:58.960
This is a multi-charger 3.0.

00:48:59.119 --> 00:48:59.519
Wow.

00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:01.119
Look at that premium.

00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:03.199
That is a lot of USBs, people.

00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:04.559
And a lot of different types.

00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:04.800
Yeah.

00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.679
So not just C, A, bunch of different ones.

00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:08.480
Fast charging.

00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:10.480
No, fast charger, Ricky.

00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:10.880
Wow.

00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:14.239
I was looking for something I could just plug in and not have to bring anything too thick.

00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:15.360
Right.

00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:17.679
So this is, I don't even know what the brand is.

00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:20.079
I love the way you leave the cellopane skin on stuff.

00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:21.519
Yeah, I don't like that to get scratched up.

00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:21.760
Yeah.

00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:22.960
I don't like to get scratched up.

00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:23.519
There's no case.

00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:24.719
All I want to do is take it off.

00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:25.760
I know, I know, I know.

00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:26.800
He's like, don't do it.

00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:27.280
What do you think?

00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:29.599
This is uh$29.99.

00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.559
That is$21.99.

00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:33.119
Okay.

00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:33.519
Okay.

00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:34.400
But I don't know.

00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:35.199
It's just a good one.

00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:36.000
It's small enough.

00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:37.679
I wish it would be more compact.

00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:38.159
Yeah.

00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:41.599
I wish this thing would like uh recess in or something like that.

00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:44.000
The plug, because I hate it when they hit bend or whatever.

00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:44.320
Right.

00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:46.159
But I've used it on this last trip.

00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:46.719
It was great.

00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:48.639
And uh it's a good one.

00:49:48.800 --> 00:49:51.360
So I think the fast charging is the orange, maybe.

00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:52.480
Maybe I'm not too sure.

00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:56.960
Uh, but it does have a fast charging one, and you can do multiple things, including your computer, into it as well.

00:49:57.199 --> 00:49:57.679
All at once.

00:49:57.840 --> 00:49:58.559
So all at once.

00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:00.960
So highly recommend it if you're looking for it.

00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:04.159
I'll have the link in the newsletter that goes out.

00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:05.760
And under the YouTube video.

00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:06.800
Yeah, if we can do that.

00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:07.199
Cool.

00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:07.519
Yeah.

00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:08.239
Love it.

00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:09.760
Let's uh close this out.

00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:10.159
All right.

00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:15.679
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00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:17.280
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00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:19.599
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00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:24.880
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00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:27.119
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00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:38.159
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00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:38.960
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00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:39.519
Peace.

00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:40.480
Later.