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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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Answer questions, that's right.
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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I feel like you are one of the best you know I think the term crate digger is obviously outdated now but I feel like you're one of the best at, like you know, curating music really deep, diving left turns and maybe playing, sometimes, things that people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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Forward.
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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.