June 11, 2025

Would You DJ a Wedding at Chuck E. Cheese?

Would You DJ a Wedding at Chuck E. Cheese?

Send us a text Would you take a celebrity wedding over your cousin’s…or DJ a full-pay gig at Chuck E. Cheese? This episode kicks off with real DJ dilemmas that blend humor, horror, and hard truths about reputation, branding, and where we draw the line in our careers. Then we flip the script and dive into something every DJ needs to master but few talk about: musical transitions. Those 30–50 second instrumental tracks can make or break the moments between moments — like corporate walk-ups, wed...

Send us a text

Would you take a celebrity wedding over your cousin’s…or DJ a full-pay gig at Chuck E. Cheese?

This episode kicks off with real DJ dilemmas that blend humor, horror, and hard truths about reputation, branding, and where we draw the line in our careers.

Then we flip the script and dive into something every DJ needs to master but few talk about:
musical transitions.

Those 30–50 second instrumental tracks can make or break the moments between moments — like corporate walk-ups, wedding toasts, or emotional intros. We share our curated list of go-to tracks and explain:

  • Why you don’t want these songs in your dance set
  • What makes a great transition song (and when to use it)
  • How subtle musical cues elevate the entire event experience

Finally, we tackle the dreaded sentence:

“Just so you know… our guests probably won’t dance.”

We walk through strategies to warm up the room, change the vibe, and create movement — even with the toughest crowds.

Want our full walk-up track guide?
Comment “walk up” on Instagram or YouTube on Joe's Instagram reel and we’ll send you our exclusive PDF.

Sponsored by DJ Event Planner and ESSTART.

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00:00 - Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth

03:22 - DJ Dilemmas Part 2: Tough Choices

11:21 - Music Beds for Walk-ups and Toasts

19:32 - Walk-up Music Examples and Tips

24:52 - Handling Non-Dancing Wedding Crowds

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what's up everybody.

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Welcome back to beyond the dj booth podcast, the private event dj premiere podcast in the world.

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I'm going with it, let's go with it, I love it with my guy brian b.

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I'm joe bunn and, uh, we're back for another episode this is sponsored by.

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I'm gonna hit it early do that.

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um, yeah, I've heard of it.

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I've been using that shit for about two decades.

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It's crazy to think that right I really have like been booking shows on this thing the client's using the planning portal for probably two decades.

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Crazy, yeah, crazy.

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So shout out to troy and his people over there for sponsoring this beautiful podcast for the entire year they have.

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They did a year.

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So thank you, thank you, thank you.

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And then our homie, mr cp.

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Right now, e s s t a r t dot com perfect what do you got?

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yo, yeah, I got some stuff for you.

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I this went well a couple of episodes ago.

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I was very interested in your answers, so I've got a part two.

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Part two I call it DJ dilemmas, part two.

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Okay, and so it's like you got to think about what you would do yeah, and then you have to justify Okay, I repeat justify your answer.

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Justify, okay, I repeat, justify your answer.

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Hair is looking premium today is it?

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yeah, you get a cut friday, and I was.

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It's now at the perfect spot.

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Friday's too, too skint, yeah, too skint let me check the fade.

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Real the fade, yeah, it's solid, it's solid.

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What do you think, sequin's?

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you gotta, you gotta, go with the and then they my guy does the knife shave or the love that right out with the hot towel.

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So good, so good.

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You gotta go with how often are you going?

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I've scaled it back.

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I used to go every week.

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I know now I'm going twice a month.

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Still a lot, well for money reasons, or just time both.

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Yeah, I quit went straight.

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Just uh, one guard saving that money.

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Yeah, dude, it was 60 dollars.

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I know that's crazy, I'm bald.

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That's crazy.

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Hey, by the way, did your girl, uh chalene, hit you up?

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No, she hit me up, she did like hey, I'm coming back Not to move, but just to visit and she's like can you fit me in?

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And I'm like, uh, I'll be there on a Saturday.

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I'm like, on a Saturday, you know what I do, you know I'm going to be gone.

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Like, but also also hold on a yeah, that's cheating, bro.

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Yeah, that's cheating.

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You don't cheat on your wife.

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You don't cheat on your barber.

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Yeah, yeah, what are you doing?

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No, the reason why I was, you considered it, I considered it, I saw it on your face.

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I did, but the reason why was because my guy I got sick and he couldn't see me, and so I'm like well, perfect timing except you.

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Okay, I'll add a show opener chalene moves back.

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Oh, chalene moves back.

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Oh, that's a toughie.

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I feel like I like to answer.

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This is a part of the game.

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Yeah, I really did like her.

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She was good, but I think I gotta stick with my new guy.

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Wow, okay, he's got it down now like we've come they both ear.

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Fuck you though, right they do.

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I think it's just barber chatter, it is, it's part of the gig I think it's hard, like if you're in a one-on-one situation.

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How do you not right, like if you're in a shop and you got nine other barbers in there?

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Yeah that can kind of like mask the silence because you hear other people kind of talking or whatever yeah but when it's one-on-one like, what are you gonna do?

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Just be quiet for a while.

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Great point.

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Give me these other ones here.

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Okay, I'm ready.

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Here we go.

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Two weddings Same day One's your cousin, but like the cousin you like, like you went to the beach with and you used to make sandcastles.

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Other is a celebrity.

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You can only do one.

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Who's getting ghosted?

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It's going to probably be the cousin.

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Jesus bro.

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That's your family, I know, but you know what they don't have?

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no, money and if this is peak season, he's honest.

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If it's peak season, the celebrity ain't getting it for free either.

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No, no, no, no.

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This was a paid gig, but I mean the celebrity's going to go through like Epilito and it's going to be like a million dollar wedding and you can make up like the Brian $25,000 package.

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I think people know my family knows Like, hey, this is my Lovely yeah, how you feed your family Totally.

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All right, I'm going to allow it, your book for a wedding, but, ready, I'm ready.

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It's at Chuck E Cheese.

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Hold on, I'm not finished.

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Full pay Luxury wedding planner and know and respect, are you taking it?

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It's at chucky and you could be photographed and videoed and back, and I'm talking about back when chucky had the animatronics so I got a guy.

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He's amazing you're not entering.

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No, I'm telling you he's okay.

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This is it subliminally.

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Uh, I have an amazing dj.

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I'm not available, but I have have a guy and his name's Joe Bunn.

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He does these.

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He's at Chuck E Cheese all the time.

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You'll love him.

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He even has the hat.

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We might have to pull up.

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I'd pull up Am.

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I giving Brian B money.

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Yeah, sure, sure, yeah, I can't do it.

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I can't do it.

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No, it's all brand for you.

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I can't do it.

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Joe the chuck E Cheese here okay, now take this one with a grain of salt.

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This, this is, bypass all that stuff that you do where you get them to sign off.

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You're the lead.

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Yeah, yeah, just make it more like you're, more like Joe Bunn level DJ, right, you're not Brian B.

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You show up.

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Rod walks up to you, hand you a flash drive.

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Only play what's on this.

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What do you do?

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I mean I play it, I gotta play it.

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I guess if I'm Joe Bunn, I'm I mean I play it, I got to play it.

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I guess If I'm Joe Bunn, I mean I'm doing anything right, if you're Joe Bunn, you're a yes man.

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So yeah, but I mean, I'm testing these.

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This is what I would do, literally, if that happened to me.

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I'm putting them in through the analyzer on Serato, I'm plugging my Serato going, ipad, ipad, spotify until I know that I don't have any corrupt files.

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I got you.

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Right, then plug back in.

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I guess I'm more saying, I'm more thinking of this question as like a-.

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The songs suck.

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You don't know what the songs are at this point.

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You've done no prep.

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I feel like I can figure it out.

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Okay, last one, your next three gigs.

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These are your two choices of tech Vinyl only or ipod with the jog wheel, from 20 from 2007 wow, with cds, you mean no, like literally an ipod.

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So an ipod okay out of, not a phone no internet connection you remember when they used to go click, click, click, click, they had that little jog wheel on yeah, but that wasn't.

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Yeah, but you had that ipod.

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That was ipod, but you did have to upload your cds to the computer and then Dump them onto the iPod.

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Okay, okay, okay.

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But you've got an iPod, a fully loaded iPod, top 200 wedding songs, got it?

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Or vinyl, only Like actual vinyl, not Serato.

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Yeah, you can do vinyl.

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Only I would do that.

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Oh Okay, I feel like I'd be more comfortable than Because you can't beat, mix that stuff.

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You definitely cannot, you definitely cannot.

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So I, you were, channel paid it yeah, I mean I'd even give you two of them.

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What if I gave you two old school?

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no, not still.

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Now you're like uh, go vinyl.

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Okay, all right, you could you do it?

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not on vinyl.

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No, you couldn't even.

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I mean, I'm not gonna scratch, I don't scratch.

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No, no, no, no either but I can blend two songs together yes, I can blend two songs together.

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But like I'm just, I guess I'm thinking about it more from a record standpoint and just like needles and bumping the table like we were mobbed on saturday.

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Like I mean, there ain't no way you could play a regular record, right, it was nuts.

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Right, we were right on the dance floor right where we wanted to be, like I couldn't even see the bride and groom.

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Like it was nuts anyway.

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Well, one of the things our podcast seems to do, especially when it comes to the music stuff, is people love when we give them lists of ideas and just to enhance what they may already have you're right, you put out the post, you said, hey, what would you guys like to have us create a list for?

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and hold on recap for the audience real quick.

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My stomach's growling if you hear that on the microphone, I'm sorry.

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Uh, recap that for us, brian B.

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What have we put out so far?

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I know we've done cocktails, we have, we've done dinner, we have.

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And we've done ballads.

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That's right.

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Those are the three, and those were all on Spotify.

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This one is a little more unique.

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I think it's going to be PDF based, maybe.

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Yeah, we had a couple for instrumental beds for, like, corporate walk-up music.

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I'm also going to say that this could work for toasts.

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Yeah, you're a big, never a moment of no music.

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Well, when they're giving the toast, it's dead air.

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Yeah of course, right right, right In between.

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I hate when you're like.

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So run the scenario real quick.

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So John, the best man, is getting ready to give a toast.

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Okay, and then walk me through that.

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So quick.

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So john, the best man's getting ready to give a toast, okay, and then and then walk me through that.

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So at that first one, yeah, it's dead air, and I just say we're gonna go into our toast for the so let's just say you fade out the dinner music.

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Yeah hope you enjoyed your meal.

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We're gonna go into our toast now.

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Our first toaster is john.

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He's our best man.

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Take it away, john and he, and then you're hitting a music band.

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No, no, no then I let him do his thing, okay okay, gives us toast.

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Okay, I have two tracks ready, one that is more upbeat, one that's more kind of sentimental oh, you know, because I don't know how he's gonna go.

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I don't need it till we're in the midst of it.

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Then he finishes and so let's raise a glass to the thing.

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Play as soon as he says, at the very end of the toast.

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It's kind of like a timing thing.

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Kind of like when you would say for the first time, my husband and wife, mr and Mrs or whatever.

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As soon as he says that, then I hit the song Me too, right, you're talking about for the ceremony, right, same thing in the toast, because they're holding like hugging and you got nothing playing and you're waiting for that moment to get over with.

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Yeah, you know.

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So I play a little bit, maybe 15, 20 seconds, right right until the next, until my and then fade out.

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Next up made of honor, kathy, whatever that's what you gotta have too, because I hope y'all listen to this podcast.

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There's always gold, right always gold so anyway, that could be for the toasters, but for corporate it would be hey, we're bringing up the CEO to talk.

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What's that walk-up music like?

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So do you have like a playlist?

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Do you have a folder of these?

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tracks.

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I have a giant folder of basically instrumentals that I have either hot cued or cut to the best part, and let me preface that by saying there's a lot of hip-hop and R&B and EDM, so it's all tempo-related and out of all of them, I don't think any of them were ever what I would consider a hit or something I'm going to play.

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I'm not going to play we Found Love instrumental, right, but I might play Turn Up the Music, chris Brown or whoever that was.

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Right.

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Something that I would never play in a dance set but that has good energy, or even just sometimes hip hop things like like a root song, right, it just is instrumental.

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And those are either found Randy makes a lot, I mean now I guess technically you can make your own just drop, take the stems and drop the vocal out of it and record it on your Serato, or even just do it live like find a beat.

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But I think the key is for me.

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I don't like to play stuff that is going to be played during the dance party and where are you finding these Like?

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how do you know?

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Randy is kind of my curator, if I'm being completely honest.

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I think he does find some in certain music pools.

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Um, we use about five different pools.

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I think there's some music on x mix, we have dms, we have club killers, we have this, that and the other.

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But I'm intentionally searching for instrumentals and whenever I know I've got to do one, especially when I'm doing 30, 40, 50, 60 names, like at these hospital award shows or something I'll usually hit up Randy, and be like you know, let's refresh the queue, like let's put some new ones in here.

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Hey Brian B here.

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Sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast, but let's be real.

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All right back to the show.

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Before Joe starts yelling in his extra thick North Carolina accent about how back in his day, djs used CDs and still had to walk uphill both ways to a gig.

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So that's my benchmark is any tempo from, let's call it, 95 to 130.

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Yeah.

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And then any genre, but it's not a hit record.

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How about you?

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I have some actual examples and I'll give you know when we make this PDF that we'll deliver to the people that love and enjoy and want to know about this and love the podcast.

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What is that key word that they're going to say when we chop this up into a reel?

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Walk up, walk up, no hyphen, no hyphen, just one word walk up.

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So you're going to comment that in the comments on the Instagram reel that I usually post and then I collaborate him in.

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So you got at Joe Bunn and then at DJ Brian the official.

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You can find it on either one, but on my reel on the at Joe Bunn, all you do is comment the word walk up, and I'm sure people are going to do it on YouTube too, and I have to manually do it, but we love you guys, so we'll do it for you.

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That's right, all right.

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So you have some actual examples yeah.

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So to your point, I tend to go either edm vibes, yeah, or hip-hop.

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R&b is usually what it is we're aligned I feel like you have to be careful on the edm stuff because there's a lot of times where there's like a big drop right, they hit the 808 and you're like what?

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The shit, yeah, and then bam, it hits you all right, right right so you have to like be intentional about how you cut them.

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Usually it's the instrumental in the beginning that I tend to use.

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I mean these don't need to be long.

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Yeah, these need to be 30 seconds.

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I have I think the longest one I do is 50 seconds yeah, yeah, yeah super short.

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This is one that's worked really well for me.

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This is jackie chan, the tiesto and the zeko.

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Here's a little stinger I call.

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Call them stingers, I call them bumpers, bumpers, yeah.

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But again it's upbeat.

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Yeah, they're just walking up to the stage.

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I wouldn't use this for a toast, but I would use this for a walk-up for corporate.

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That's kind of where I was going with it.

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It's a great one.

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It's a great one.

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We talked about this one before and this is one where you have to watch out for the break.

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But titanium, yeah, I have like a 30-second version.

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See, I'll just be a no on this one, because I'm probably playing titanium.

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Yeah, but for, like corporate walk-up music, I'm usually not doing a dance set, that's right A lot of times.

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I'm not either, so I'm just doing the conference.

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I'm the vibe setter, yeah, yeah.

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Good point.

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So here's what this, but again, this is just walking up.

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I'm not getting to the big break.

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This is just the verse.

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There's no verse.

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You loop this.

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Then here's the oh yeah, just looped it.

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Yeah, that's it.

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That's a good one, then I'll fade out at the.

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I gave it enough of a turn.

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That's actually a great one.

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Now, I like this.

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The little guitar part a little explosion and I'm out 50 seconds.

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Sure, if I need to loop it again, I can.

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I can just hit the right cue right from the beginning.

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And you did this a lot for engage.

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I still do them for a lot of corporate stuff.

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Yeah, me too but I know you did a lot of oh yeah, stuff too, where you go.

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Our next speaker is blah blah blah.

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She hails, she hails from Philadelphia.

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Blah, blah, blah.

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Susie Smith Right.

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So here's an example of a hip-hop version.

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Okay, if I'm not playing a dance set, this is taking a banger of a track right now.

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This is the Nokia track by Drake.

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Here we go Again.

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It lets people know that you're not playing just old stuff.

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Yeah, like you've got a little bit of an idea of what you're going to, yeah I do try and update mine.

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You know what I mean?

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yeah, everyone this one, I actually added an explosion at the very end, I think damn, just as they get up there right, quick shotgun blast to the forehead, yeah so here's one I've used for a toast in between.

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Yeah, this is a sentimental toast or like anthemic this is more chill, okay so this is trey songs with bob.

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A song is called not for long.

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I don't remember this song.

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It's kind of old.

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Uh, ish, okay oh, I know this song, I love this song, yeah but it's.

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It's just kind of R&B-ish right.

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This is a big song, but it wasn't like something I played Right, it was on the radio.

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But if they're giving hugs and stuff, it's got enough of a beat where it's not going to be totally.

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Debbie Downer, I'm going to start doing that.

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Saquon, make a note that we're going to start doing that.

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I'll send you a bunch yeah, you will.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, can you?

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Can you send me some of the sentimentals too?

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Yeah, well, here's another one like that.

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Like bobby, I'll never forget those moments, you know on the beach.

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Yeah, you know, here's to you guys.

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I love you so much, brother.

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So this is odeza, who is a great artist to use.

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Yeah, I think it's a duo.

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Actually, I think it is too uh great artist to use, a great group to use for those sentimentals.

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This is is For Us is the name of the track, and he actually has a whole album of instrumentals.

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He did an instrumental album of all these songs.

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Speaking of before we hear this, did you see Moby release 500?

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songs with the stems To do whatever you want with it.

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Do whatever you want.

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Yeah, I saw that that's crazy.

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Did you see that?

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What?

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Do whatever you want with it.

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Do whatever you want.

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Yeah, I saw that that's crazy.

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Did you see that?

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What Dude Moby put out 500 songs, stems, sounds, whatever, and was like have at it On his website.

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I don't know.

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I mean this was on a reel or something that was kind of going around the DJ, but somebody like you, a producer, you know there's got to be some gold in there.

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Time to go eat.

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That's what I'm saying.

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Time to eat, all right.

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Sorry, go ahead, all good.

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So that's it for us.

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Who is this again?

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Odessa, I love that Again.

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They just you're the best thing in my life, that kind of vibe.

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Yeah, it does have that kind of vibe to it.

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I don't know what I'd do without you, the most beautiful person inside and out.

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Why'd you marry her?

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We used to go to football games together, right, but I'm not even really getting into it.

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Yeah, it's just kind of like tingly, yeah, tingly.

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It's very tingly.

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It's very tingly, I love it.

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All right, I got one more.

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Okay, this is Hold on one second before you go to that.

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Are you in town Friday?

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Rufus DeSoul is here, you know them.

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I do know.

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Rufus DeSoul.

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Yeah, I think it's going to be a great show, but I'm not going to be here.

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I got to go to that wedding.

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Oh see, I'm leaving Saturday, so yes, I will be here.

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Where is it called Water?

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This is by Snake Hips featuring Bryce Vine.

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So not the Tyler Water, okay, no, this is not that one.

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Okay Again, instrumental.

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Yeah, electronic, a little bit Great walk-up song.

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You're right, I wouldn't use this for toast, but for corporates you could put it, I guess, for toast.

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Yeah, I'll definitely add some of my actual favorites, the ones I hear where I'm like this is perfect.

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So, again, you're going to comment on the Instagram reel.

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It's going to be walk up in the comments.

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Or, if you're watching this on YouTube, just comment, walk up.

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It might take a little bit longer because it's not automated.

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I personally have to copy and paste it and send you the PDF, but this one's going to be PDF because some of these are going to come from pools, I guess Is that kind of what you're thinking?

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Well, it's just hard to find them yeah.

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And we'll try.

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Should we try and list?

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the pool if we know where it came from yeah, we'll try and list the pool.

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Or, if there's a Spotify link, maybe we can put the Spotify link.

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We got a quick question here, quick question.

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Let's rip through it, all right, this is from.

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Eric, yeah, my guy Eric, in Minneapolis, minnesota.

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Fan mail.

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This came through our website Fan mail.

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Yeah, beyondthedjboothcom, you can submit questions to get answered by Brian B or myself, or both of us.

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Question Just had a final consult with my couple their wedding's one month out and they tell me for the first time we don't think most of our guests want to dance.

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It's far too late to get out of this, so I'm working on a plan to avert disaster, but any advice is welcome.

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What would you do?

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I'm going to let you take it first, because I always go first.

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So you're out, you're on the hot seat.

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Yeah, it would have definitely been a red flag for me If I'd known this pre-concert.

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I just would have said I don't think I'm the right DJ for you.

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I would literally have excused myself.

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Right, you're committed now, my boy Eric, so I think you go in there and my take is you try and prove them wrong.

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I've been told that before.

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Again, these were back in the day when we used to take any gig and didn't really pre-qualify anybody and we're, you know, $9.95 for everything and we had some of those people I do get this still at a corporate event every once in a while.

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Listen, we need, we know we need a DJ.

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People aren't bringing their spouses.

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I don't know if people are going to dance.

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My goal, my attitude, is to go in there and change that mentality and to play my ass off and to try and get people to dance to do what I do.

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You know what I mean.

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I'm gonna play it just like it was saturday, absolute rager dance floor pack song one.

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I'm still gonna play it like that now.

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I will finish this statement by saying I would pivot if I'm an hour into it and it's just not going anywhere.

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I would change it to more of a vibe set DJ.

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Open the doors, let them play cornhole or smoke cigars out on the patio or whatever they're doing, and I would change it more to summertime Joe at the pool playlist.

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But, I'm going hard at first Right and I'm going to try and change what you think your guests are going to do.

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Thoughts I like to say stack the deck in your favor, Right?

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So a couple of ways that I do that.

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Number one would be if I'm a month out, I use Vibo for my songs, requests and things.

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I would say, hey, listen, if we know this, now we have a month to go let's get as many people on Vibo as we can to see what they would be liking.

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Right?

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That's number one.

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Number two when I get there, I'm going to every table during cocktail or during, like the seating.

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Ever.

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It's just hey, I'm the DJ today.

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Is there anything that's really like a song that you think would go over really well?

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So not what's going to make you get up and shake your ass.

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Like you're.

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You're more low key.

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Yes, okay, not on the microphone, going by table.

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Yeah, what's some favorite artists you guys like?

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Just want to make sure I've got enough.

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It's a classic, whatever, right, so it's just easy again stacking the deck.

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And then the third thing I would say is, if you know that it's just a, not a non-dancing crowd like you could just tell, slow songs are your friend to start with so.

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I would play a ballad probably, at least to get a couple of pictures of people dancing Sure and then ease into it, not go like EDM heavy early.

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Maybe a line dance, if you allowed them.

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Yeah.

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And then the last one because this guy's from Minneapolis.

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I had a Minnesota crowd this weekend and you know who's from Minnesota, right, prince, absolutely.

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So I go.

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At a pivotal point I was like, hey, I need to switch the energy a little bit.

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Let's go crazy.

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Dearly beloved, really.

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It starts off like that yeah, I made a quick edit, so we didn't have because the intro was like mega long, yeah, yeah, probably a minute of him just talking right.

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So I just said the dearly beloved and then kick right into the beat.

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Was that on their list at all?

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It was not holy shit, that's brazen.

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It worked I mean either they either hate it or they're gonna write right.

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Sure, but I could tell this crowd would be game for pretty much anything I'd kind of worked my way towards earning their trust?

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Sure, but if you know that, like you're in a destination market, you're dealing with people from out of town, find out where they're from.

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Is it a song from their college?

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You know that they like another one that was really big not too long ago.

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It was a Tom Petty song.

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If that was where the college they play this song a lot.

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I'm drawing a blank on the college name Massive.

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University of Tennessee.

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They love Rocky Top.

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Yes, exactly An inner.

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Sandman for Virginia.

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Tech?

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I know what you're saying.

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What's North Carolina's, by the way?

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Do they have one?

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I mean, I'm sure it's Petey Pablo.

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I make Petey Pablo.

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Or Jump Around, but they play that at the stadium.

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Absolutely Okay, yeah, so hopefully that helps.

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That's how they do that right before the ball tips at the basketball games Jump around, okay, which is crazy, man, cause I was playing.

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That when that came out was when I was in school there and that was like my go-to at the frats, wow, like the peak hour.

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Crazy Good stuff.

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Let's put a bow on it and keep on moving with recording.

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