July 23, 2025

Wordplays, Surprise Drops, and Dance Floor Chaos

Wordplays, Surprise Drops, and Dance Floor Chaos

Send us a text Every DJ lives for that moment: you drop the unexpected track and the crowd loses it. In this episode, Brian and Joe dive into the art of musical left turns; those surprise selections and clever transitions that flip the energy of a set and burn the moment into people’s memories. Brian shares how he recently cracked an EDM-heavy wedding by dropping a custom edit of Toto’s “Africa”, skipping the extended intro and going straight into the chorus. The result? A packed room singing...

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Every DJ lives for that moment: you drop the unexpected track and the crowd loses it.

In this episode, Brian and Joe dive into the art of musical left turns; those surprise selections and clever transitions that flip the energy of a set and burn the moment into people’s memories.

Brian shares how he recently cracked an EDM-heavy wedding by dropping a custom edit of Toto’s “Africa”, skipping the extended intro and going straight into the chorus. The result? A packed room singing at full volume. Joe confesses his love for “Sugar, We’re Going Down” (even if it’s just for him), and why sometimes personal joy is the move that wins the crowd.

Then it’s all about wordplay transitions - smooth, witty, and often genius ways to connect songs using lyrics or phrases. Whether it's “It’s Going Down” into “In Da Club,” or Sinatra into Jay-Z, the hosts break down why these creative pivots work and how to execute them without losing flow.

You’ll also hear:

  • Favorite examples from DJs like Even Steve and Arman Aveiru
  • A clutch piece of backup gear every DJ should own (Rapco Horizon LTGIBLOX Laptop Interface With Ground Lift)
  • A surprisingly useful DJ tip involving airplane practice v. coffee shop branding

Want our top 5 wordplay transitions?
Comment “wordplay” on the Instagram reel or YouTube version of this podcast and we’ll send you a special PDF.

This one’s for DJs who want to stay sharp, get creative, and keep the floor guessing.

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00:00 - Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth

01:30 - Left Turn Songs That Unexpectedly Work

07:40 - Word Play Transitions in DJ Sets

12:50 - Favorite Word Play Examples and Edits

21:00 - Emergency Backup Equipment Tips

22:40 - DJing While Traveling Q&A

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what's up everybody.

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We're back your favorite podcast beyond the dj booth.

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I'm brian b.

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I'm trying to switch it up here a little bit I like it show bun man just sitting here and just been batch recording no shorts all pants, so we'll talk about that on another episode, I'm sure that went.

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That joke went on for a week between me and you.

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We went, we went at it on it.

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We went at it against each other about shorts versus no shorts.

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Yeah, welcome to the podcast, everybody.

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We talk everything, uh, gear music, yeah, yeah, answer questions things that went well recap from yeah you know all kinds of stuff.

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Answer questions, that's right.

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I love the questions anyway.

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What you got to start us off with this episode I've got a music-related question.

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I feel like you are one of the best you know I think the term crate digger is obviously outdated now but I feel like you're one of the best at, like you know, curating music really deep, diving left turns and maybe playing, sometimes, things that people don't expect but they want.

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They don't know they want it, but you're going to give it to them, you're going to feed it to them.

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What's something you played?

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And it can be either a mini set or even just a song.

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That was like a left turn out of the blue.

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And let me preface this by saying this it can either have been on a client's request list or you were just in the moment and you knew that you could play anything and it was going to go what's a good.

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I should have given you a little more prep time to think about it.

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But I feel like sometimes things stand out and I'm like I don't know why, I just grabbed that, but it just worked.

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I had an event just two weeks ago where it was all EDM stuff pretty much.

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I can't play that all night.

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It's for this crowd.

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So I needed to figure out a way to play something else and one of the things that the groom had talked about this is going to sound kind of obvious to play during a dance set.

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The way I flipped it, I think yeah, appreciate, yeah.

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So I asked him what were some songs that were chapter markers in your life, like not for the wedding, you're good, just like and one of them was africa by toto jeez.

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Dude, I was getting ready to mention this, go ahead.

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So you know, I've never actually dropped it during a dance before I have maybe once or twice okay in 20 plus years, but it's not something I do regularly.

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Yeah, no, not for me regularly, but I definitely have played it quarterly.

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But I hate how long the intro is.

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It's like the drum beats then the da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

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Yeah, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, that's the rain in Africa fall, yeah, then you get into the verse.

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Yes, yes get to the chorus, it's the rain, yeah, and I'm just like dude, I gotta wait two and a half minutes just to get to like the good part of the meat.

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Right, but no one had made an edit of going into the chorus first.

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So from the beats, bump, bump and right into the chorus, instead of into the little tickly part, right tickly part.

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I don't like that, so I made this you made it yeah, I'm surprised I don't even have it, because I don't play it that regularly on a dance set?

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Yeah, I can.

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So I did a double chorus.

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Okay, no, tickly, tickly parts, I just took all that out.

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It's just a waste.

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So, Drum fill.

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No, not that at all, that's the tickly part, and then and then.

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Okay, yeah, yeah yeah.

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However, it goes Double.

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Double, double chorus.

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Okay, and then you dumped it.

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Okay, because what happened was Okay.

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I'm noticing these people are singing at the top of their lungs.

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Yeah, I'm like, okay, it was the perfect edit.

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Yeah, but I cut this too short.

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I did a chorus only in and out, in and out, and I'm like I gotta go into the verse, right?

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So while I'm on the double chorus, I'm queuing it up to the verse of another edit that I had to be able to drop it.

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I'm like, oh, this just saved me yeah, so the double course is key, because you may only need that to get out right, right, right, but you might need to have one with the verse how did?

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you get from 125 to 98.

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I think I dropped to like some 70 beat per minute song, so I was already kind of like halfed it halfed it.

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Then I went into 80s, then to whatever 90, but I needed to get up there quick and this was one of those tracks that I was like holy crap, I had no idea this would go over now.

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Maybe it was just this crowd because they had it goes over.

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I mean, I had not played it, even like, like multi-generational right, you know what I mean.

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Like yeah, song slaps it does, but I don't know why, even like multi-generational.

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Right, you know what I mean.

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Yeah, song slaps, it does.

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But I don't think people expect it on a dance floor either.

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No, they don't necessarily expect it unless they put it on their list.

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But also I think Weezer redid it.

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Yes, they did, so that gave it another life.

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Yes, by the way, I would never no, no, Stupid dude.

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Right.

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And Toto, literally man, if you look it up, if you're a musician, there are musicians in Toto that people admire and listen to A thousand percent.

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The drummer is an animal, I can't remember his name.

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The bass player is supposed to be some kind of beast.

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Yeah, like when you talk to musicians, they'll be like oh, so-and-so on the T.

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It's ridiculous.

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They were studio musicians for Linda Ronstadt and also for the Eagles.

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I did not know that my dad was a big Eagles guy.

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These guys are sick players Just nasty.

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You know what I need an edit of that.

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I've been playing lately and it's not on request list, but I've been on a big fake Jamaican kick with Temperature Sean Paul, I love that, but also Sean Kingston Fireburn, I've been playing that a lot lately but it starts with no beat, right.

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But I want this.

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Somebody call 911.

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Somebody call 911.

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So, it's either like something has to end cold and then you slam into that.

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But I need something that goes beat, beat, beat, beat.

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Somebody call 911.

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Call your throwback brothers.

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Boy, I got it.

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John Hanna, you're getting a phone call in about two hours when I'm done with this.

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Anyway, and then mine is Sledgehammer.

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Oh, Peter.

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Gabriel.

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But, I think I came out of Africa when you said that, oh.

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Something about those horns?

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Yeah, and then he goes hey, but if you remember, like two years ago, Stern had on Harry Styles and Styles covered Sledgehammer and fucking killed, oh I could see, and it went super viral and so I think that kind of gave it a little more juice for, like today's generation, styles crushed that.

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I mean he had his whole band in the studio and, for whatever reason, he played sledgehammer.

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I don't know if he was playing it on his door, yeah, or just loves it, you know, and I always loved that song and I remember how like sick the video was when I was a kid like that was when mtv was like heyday, yeah, anyway, sledgehammer, and I don't.

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I'm sure I didn't play the whole thing, but I just kind of and maybe this weekend no, absolutely not yeah, it was at some recent thing though within the last, you know, two months, and maybe it's just a little portion and it could have been self-satisfying.

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It's kind of like Sugar we're Going Down.

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If you don't want to hear it, you're going to hear it anyway.

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You might not hear the whole thing, but at some point I'm playing it for my own selfish reason, because I want to hear it.

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So our playlists have done well.

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Yeah, they have done well.

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I feel like we got a lot of push this last one we just did, which was walk-up music A lot of comments.

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It did really well, so I asked you for one for this batch and you came up with word plays, so you want to talk it through?

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Yeah, I like the concept of doing it live, which I'm not very good at.

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Also, my brain doesn't really think like that, like some of these editors.

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Right, I don't know if yours does, but Sometimes I think you're better at it than I am for sure.

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My point is I love to have in my back pocket something that is going to get that.

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You know, oh shit reaction.

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There's some people who go mad ham on this stuff, right, and everything's about a word at play.

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Right, Like they're doing it.

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They're word playing it to death.

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Yeah and do you think like enough people really recognize it that it's worth like spending all that effort anytime?

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I've ever played one unless it's like super, super obvious.

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Yeah, 10 if reaction you mean?

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Reaction to it as djs.

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We react to it because we play this stuff all the time and to see how someone ties it in.

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But I'm just wanting general public.

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I think you can hurt yourself if you're so you know, hooked to a word play Caught up on the word play.

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And you lose the party.

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I agree.

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Right, I agree with that completely.

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If you comment the word word play down below, we are going to send you our top five.

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Yeah, because I only have about five that.

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I would kind of put in my bag, right.

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All you got to do is comment the word down below, which is going to be on this reel or on the YouTube video.

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We're going to put them on a PDF for you because you're going to have to go and find them on their exclusive record pools, I'm sure, but all you got to do is comment the word wordplay in the comments or on the YouTube video.

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Thank you.

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Give me one of your top five.

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Yeah, we talked about this and I saw even Steve recently at Midwest DJs Live in Wisconsin and we just happened to be walking down the street.

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We're going to a restaurant.

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I go, dude, I ain't gonna lie.

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The last three Saturdays I've dropped the Dynamite Tyo Cruz into Don't Stop Believin' yeah, and it just absolutely smashed.

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Did you use it this weekend?

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Absolutely yeah, and I don't think either one of those songs were on the playlist, but I needed like a sing-along and he's edited it perfectly it's not too long, right.

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It's like the whole thing with both songs is like 320, yeah, or something, and I played it out and then I think he has a longer version or whatever.

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But it's, it's more of the don't stop believing killed.

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That's, that's one of my go-tos lately.

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And then the other one also even steve did is Nicks or it might be Fleetwood Mac.

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Oh yeah, 17.

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Yeah, Edge of 17.

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Ooh, baby, ooh.

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Edge of 17.

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Into, ooh, I want the time of my life, oh yeah yeah, killed Pitbull.

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I mean, you know, that's just yeah, and it's a very tiny portion of Edge of 17.

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So the people aren't going to walk off the dance floor if they don't like classic rock or whatever that would be categorized.

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Even Steve is crushing these word plays.

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He's real creative on them.

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Scooter's another one of those Scooter goat-like.

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Yeah, so those guys are just great.

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I'm the same way.

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I don't use them a ton.

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I don't know why, I just don't.

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And the ones that I do find that I like.

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I try to find the ways that I can do it live, so I bite the idea for sure I would credit whoever.

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I think I just put my hands on the mixer and act like I'm doing it live.

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There's one that you do, that you do live is the Miley Cyrus one into the Jay-Z oh yes, that's right.

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Or the Britney song yeah, and a Britney song.

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You do that a lot.

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Yeah, either Britney or a Jay-Z song was on.

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I just want to love you yeah.

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But I don't know that that's considered a wordplay as much as it would be like a transition mix or something like that.

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I mean it's kind of a wordplay, kind of she's saying the artist.

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You're right, and then you mix into the arts.

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Maybe I've taken credit away from myself.

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I'll give you that one All of these word plays for me.

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I got a couple, I'll play you.

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But the reason why I like to play these pre-made is because they also change tempo for me.

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Oh, you can still do it live, but sometimes when they're putting another beat, that's a tempo thing.

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You have to have that slider, just right.

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And if it's already pre-made, if it makes sense.

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So this I want to play you a couple.

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I got five of these here.

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Brian B here yes, interrupting yet another stellar podcast episode.

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But don't worry, this is a value add, not just me rambling.

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Have you enjoyed the music finds I share on here?

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You know the ones that Joe pretends he discovered first.

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Well, if you didn't know, I've got a Patreon where you can grab not only song lists but also exclusive edits of mine Yep Custom tracks.

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Everyone's trying to figure out how you keep your sets so fire and planners will start nudging their couples your way.

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And if that's not a hard enough sell, I don't know what is All right.

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Back to the episode before.

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Joe tries to convince us that sweet Caroline is actually a banger.

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Joe tries to convince us that.

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Sweet Caroline is actually a banger.

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This is Anthem Kings.

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It starts with it's Going Down Okay Into 50 Cent and the Club.

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So it goes from 84 to 90.

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Young Jock, 50 Cent.

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Okay, it's Going Down.

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It's Going Down.

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Meet me in the mall.

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It's Going Down.

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Meet me in the club.

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It's Going Down.

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Meet me in the club.

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It's Going Down.

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Club.

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It's going down.

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Meet me in the club.

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It's going down.

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Meet me in the club.

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It's going down.

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Meet me in the club.

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It's going down meet me in the club.

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It's going down.

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And then it goes into it.

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It's going down, meet me in the club.

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I love it.

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This is too long for me.

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I would cut that sample and then into the song.

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I love it.

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I haven't played that one in a long time, but that's one.

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And then one that took it from 105 to 95, when this song was big was Players Coy Leroy into the next episode, dr Dre.

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This I would do live myself.

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I don't play Players anymore, I know right, but I play next episode every now and then.

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Yeah, me too.

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Because I can use that hold up part.

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Hold up.

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Oh Right, so here play this one, you'll get it Okay.

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It's a good track, though.

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Hold up, hold up, Hold up, hold up, hold up.

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Who made that?

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That was made by DeVille.

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Oh boy DeVille, oh boy DeVille.

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I love that dude.

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So down, 10 beats per minute, 105 to 95.

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Get you there just like that, not that 10 is a big deal.

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I mean, I don't know that you couldn't still play players from that point.

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Yeah, it just doesn't have any energy?

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No, it doesn't.

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It's hard to manufacture it.

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It was only big for about 30 minutes.

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Right now this is another one that I actually made myself.

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Okay, I use this in a routine bit that I use a lot for my new york crowds do you ever have aspirations or think you could be an editor?

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no, I'm not good enough and I hold myself standard or do you think you don't have enough time to be that too?

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Probably, I think you are good enough.

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I just don't think you have the time to be good right so this is taking again.

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This is for new york crowds, okay, okay, going from frank sinatra new york, new york, yeah big, if you ever have a new york crowd, you gotta play that you can play it during a dance set, sure, but like, how do you get out of it?

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it's like really hard.

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Yeah, it's got a long ending, a big fanfare right, and you're just like.

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So I went from that into empire state of mind.

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Yeah, wait, I do have an edit of this.

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You made this.

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I do have.

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Yeah, I have this edit really, yes, 100 did I send it to you.

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I don't think so, somebody made it, huh oh man.

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Well, and that's the other thing too, with these word plays, right there's 50 people probably probably done these things.

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I don't think I'm original I'm gonna find it after the podcast.

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Tell me about that.

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Unless you know, I may look at it in my say.

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Brian b's, you know, I just did it organically.

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Yeah, right, and I'm like wait a minute.

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That the long it goes in the empire state of mind.

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It does, yes, but I cut it right to the chorus.

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Okay, and the reason why I could do it was because I noticed there was no beat at the end of it's, just a long note that the guy holds out, so I can play whatever tempo I want it's up to you Boom, new York, new York.

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Yeah, Maybe it is yours.

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It's either that or somebody had the same damn idea.

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Like you said.

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That would be frustrating because I was like I thought I was original.

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Right right, I made this Play this one, but this works well for me every time.

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Scooter probably listens, scootered probably listening.

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It's going, you fucker I made that.

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See, it just holds up that note and now watch the word play.

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So the record doesn't start like that empire state of mind does not start with the chorus, right?

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So I kind of knew that, like I didn't want to go into the Jay-Z beginning part because it just doesn't make sense.

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So, finding that, yeah.

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So let me know, because I'm going to be pissed if someone else came up with this already.

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I thought for sure I was an OG on that.

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This is it.

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Yeah, I think Okay.

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So mine isn't like that.

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Can you hear that I want to wake up?

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Oh, so yeah, I don't even have that that never sleeps.

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And find I'm a number one, top of the list, list, king of the hill, a number one.

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It's up to you.

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New York, new York.

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New York, new York, it's actually probably better, it's a firework.

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Yes, it might not have a fire.

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God bless.

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Honestly, I thought it was too long.

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I like that it starts with a beat.

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Yeah, I do like that.

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I mean yours still has a purpose, especially if you're going to play the original Right?

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Yeah, I don't have a house, I mean, yours still has a purpose, especially if you're going to play the original.

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Right.

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Yeah, I don't have a house version like that.

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How it?

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starts.

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It's weird that it would go from that house version to like that cut though.

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I don't know, it seems a little random.

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I'll send it to you just in case you need it in your back pocket.

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Dang man All right, dj and one.

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This is Jump Around.

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His version of how to Pay Jump Around killed Saturday, by the way.

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That's a hard one.

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What are you?

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going to after that.

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It's tough, right, it's a tough one.

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I don't even remember.

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So this is another one.

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I do live, yeah.

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This is going into Get Down On it.

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Cool In the Gang.

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Okay, I love that song.

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So here you'll hear the word play get down, yeah.

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So I use the hot cues.

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No, I did not make this and one, but I do it live.

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I don't use this edit.

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Oh, because I feel like this is super long.

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He does it and I can't.

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I think it looks weird when it looks like I'm doing this and I'm like I don't know how he's doing this.

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You know, like I gotta do it myself.

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That's good yeah.

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But it kind of fits really well.

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And that's one you could do yourself A hundred percent.

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All right, last one.

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This is by DJ Armand Avera.

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Okay, this is a wordplay edit of love tonight, the only thing you're gonna.

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All.

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I Need.

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Yeah, is your Love Tonight.

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Yeah, okay, but then it goes into Waiting for Tonight, jennifer.

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Lopez, my girlfriend, but with the Fisher version, okay.

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So when you'll hear it, you'll hear the.

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Fisher instrumental.

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Go for it.

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All I need Is your love.

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You can kind of hear the Waiting for Tonight Is behind it right now.

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Oh yeah, all I need but all anybody knows From Love Tonight by Shouse, is this verse.

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I want to hear the verse.

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It's subtle.

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I like that one.

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I mean I would still play both of those songs.

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Oh, waiting for.

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Tonight is massive, I told you about that a while back?

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Yeah, you did.

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Yeah, that song.

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Almost every wedding you're going to hear it.

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I'm going to fit it in somehow to pigeonhole it lately, so I've been playing it probably I don't know 80% of the gigs.

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I've been using it.

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Yeah, always goes up.

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It's a great sing along you got to do it from that chorus Right, don't go from the verse the verse is just too long and has no energy, yeah, takes forever oh my God, she can't sing either, and God knows she's hot.

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Oh Jesus, Almighty J-Lo, call me to xlr yes, bro, I did not have this really and somebody uh had it for me yeah, probably two or three years ago tell people what it is exactly so this would go from like a backup from your laptop if serato goes down and you've got something else loaded up or an ipad right, doesn't matter.

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But what I like about it is it's got a ground lift.

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It does, and then also a volume control on it.

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Waiter, this is big yeah, what do they call?

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this thing.

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I don't know what they call it, it's rapa chute l-t-i-g or you could use it for ceremonies, absolutely, you know could be another way.

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You can instead, if you're, if you're going hardwired.

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Rapco horizon made this.

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Did you get this on amazon?

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I did, so what do you think it goes for?

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Hold on, let me think for a second.

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I think they're like 34.99.

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These are not cheap um 51.99 69.99, but I keep it in my bag at all times.

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Yeah, it's a great I have.

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I have this exact same piece from the same company in my dj toolbox.

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Yeah, it's an emergency backup.

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It's come in handy so many times.

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Yeah, because not every place has an rca right in yep, everything almost always has.

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And also the call it the preamp or whatever in an iPad.

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You can only turn it up so far, Right?

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If you run that again, make sure you have the dongle now, because there is no headphone jack on a damn iPad anymore, Right?

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Or a phone Dongle to that and then to XLR.

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Yeah.

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Because a lot of things.

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You got a volume knob attenuator on it yeah, these are killer we'll put the link yeah, direct link, direct link right under the youtube video.

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Yeah, or you can click on brian's amazon store link.

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He'll also have it linked there.

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There we go.

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Let's hit this question.

00:22:42.721 --> 00:22:44.064
Oh yeah, we got a question.

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This came to our website fan mail and it didn't have a guy's name or a girl's name, so it just said texting from Buffalo, I don't even know what that means.

00:22:53.284 --> 00:22:56.318
I'll read it Like they're on a Buffalo or they live in Buffalo.

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It might be on a rancher Crossing the damn plains on the back of a Buffalo, I mean it might be with your sisters.

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In Montana.

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Are they living out there?

00:23:04.892 --> 00:23:11.537
Do either of you ever bust out Serato no controller controller while on a flight or an airport to prep or practice?

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If yes, has it ever led to interesting conversations or a booking?

00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:20.383
I definitely have brought it out on a flight just by itself.

00:23:20.383 --> 00:23:25.026
I always have my AirPods in, usually on a flight and I refuse to talk to people on a flight.

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Same, unless it's my family.

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I don't like people.

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Yeah, it's got to be my family.

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I do not like people who are a DJ.

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It's got to be like my sons or my family.

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I like you, mom, you know.

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But I definitely use it to set cue points or prep a wedding playlist or something like that.

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I've definitely done that.

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Never had anybody look over my shoulder and say what are you doing?

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Now I've seen people like Dynamics on the way to Europe or Spyder or some of these other people that are so filthy on a controller.

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They're literally like making mixes, but they had one of those little like Numark pocket goes or whatever, Like actually cutting it up.

00:24:02.116 --> 00:24:05.159
Yeah, I can see people being like what are you doing over there?

00:24:05.159 --> 00:24:08.338
Right, Mine is just the screen and I'm basically just doing work.

00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:09.770
Yeah, I have never had a booking from it.

00:24:09.770 --> 00:24:10.961
Yeah, zero the screen and I'm basically just doing same work.

00:24:10.961 --> 00:24:11.459
Yeah, I have never had a booking from it.

00:24:11.415 --> 00:24:31.618
Yeah, yeah, I can see, though, if you went the extra step right and put, you know, a control in your lap and we're physically like making a mix while you're on this long flight, there's no way somebody's not going to be like what the hell is going on however, I have gotten pinged because on my front of my music laptop oh, yeah, my name, me too too this is my Instagram and.

00:24:31.659 --> 00:24:33.442
I have had people go hey, you're a DJ, Yep.

00:24:33.442 --> 00:24:36.849
So them seeing the back more so than the front of the laptop.

00:24:36.849 --> 00:24:43.317
The laptop skin in a coffee shop has definitely gotten conversation started and possibly led to a booking for sure.

00:24:43.577 --> 00:24:45.170
Yeah, that's how I got here, yeah.

00:24:45.651 --> 00:24:46.353
I think you're right.

00:24:46.353 --> 00:24:47.934
The laptop skin, that's right.

00:24:47.934 --> 00:24:48.876
Wait, I thought it was Indeed.

00:24:48.876 --> 00:24:56.550
No, when he sees the listing on Indeed, he applies for the job, but he goes.

00:24:56.550 --> 00:24:59.005
I'm also that dude from Benelux that makes the vanilla skim latte.

00:24:59.849 --> 00:25:04.883
If I would have never saw his laptop skin, I wouldn't have known that he was the DJ guy.

00:25:04.883 --> 00:25:06.250
Ah, you know what I'm saying.

00:25:07.193 --> 00:25:10.333
It was meant to be it was multi-layered hiring approach.

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We're like four plus years in now.

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That's crazy.

00:25:12.955 --> 00:25:16.079
As soon as the reset after COVID he was on, yeah.

00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:24.830
Maybe he misses like one or two gigs a year, you know for his own, like hip hop gigs or something like that, like he has one coming up he's going to miss in August.

00:25:24.830 --> 00:25:26.211
But man, I don't go out without Saquon very often.

00:25:26.211 --> 00:25:27.333
Benelux never recovered.

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It's still there, is it?

00:25:29.055 --> 00:25:34.838
It's still there, but Wow, exchange owners went to an old man and he really tanked it.

00:25:34.838 --> 00:25:38.061
And then a younger, like wasn't that guy Colombian or something?

00:25:38.061 --> 00:25:40.963
Yeah, they're still there New furniture Okay.

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If you live in Raleigh, go show some love To Benelux.

00:25:44.306 --> 00:25:45.708
We like Benelux Because we like them.

00:25:46.789 --> 00:25:52.540
We don't understand that why he didn't rebrand, because he's, you know, completely changed inside and it's not like they had.

00:25:53.082 --> 00:25:54.443
I mean, they did have cups with their name on it.

00:25:54.443 --> 00:25:56.115
But I mean, what's that?

00:25:56.115 --> 00:25:59.767
I don't know, that's crazy good stuff, great episode man.

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That's it, thanks y'all.

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See you later.

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Bye.