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Bay Area Beats, Wedding DJ Magic & DJ Crew Stories w/ Sick Mix
Imagine stepping back into the vibrant 80s Bay Area music scene, where the pulsating rhythms of Crush Groove and Beat Street ignited passions and transformed lives. Our special guests, John Cota and Derek Bergersen, better known as Sick Mix, join us to share their riveting journeys through the world of music. John's entrepreneurial spirit shines through as he recounts his experiences with All Sound Music and ASM Dance Floors, while Derek takes us on a nostalgic tour of his early days DJing unforgettable house parties. Together, they shed light on the influences of radio legends like Michael Erickson and Cameron Paul, and how these experiences cultivated their passion for DJing.
The journey continues into the transformative year of 1993, a pivotal moment marked by joining Young Black Brother Records and collaborating with renowned artists like Mac Mall and Mac Dre. This period of creativity and exploration paved the way for launching a record label and eventually moving to Tucson, where new opportunities awaited. Diving into the world of radio, our guest became a cornerstone of Hot 98's Lowrider Oldie Show, weaving Chicano hip hop into the mix. As we navigate through transitioning from DJing to touring and music distribution, you'll discover the genesis of Southwest Bound Magazine and SickMix.com, emblematic of the mixtape boom and a testament to career evolution.
Unravel the complexities of DJing at weddings and the art of creating the perfect atmosphere. Our exploration of the music industry spans multifaceted roles—from orchestrating lively wedding experiences to launching a music distribution company and exploring the cinematic world. Experience the thrill of forming an all-dads DJ crew, blending community spirit with a profound love for music, and gain insights into choosing the ideal wedding DJ. This episode is a celebration of passion, community, and music's unifying power, leaving you inspired and eager for more.
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We got the whole world panicking, matt.
Speaker 2:Miller in the most love family. What's up y'all? We have two new guests today. We have John Cota, all Sound Music and ASM Dance Floors.
Speaker 1:ASM Dance Floors. Thanks for the plug.
Speaker 2:All Sound Music and ASM Dancem dance floors. You need a dj, you need a, a great mc, right? Hey, rich is always talking about your mc skills, man, so I'm gonna go ahead and put that out there, greatest, one of the greatest mcs, and uh, dance floors, what, what size?
Speaker 1:is brother, oh man you want to go from uh, you want to go from a nine by nine, or you want to go to a 39 by 39 you got the big guns out there with a 39 man. In fact, the last time we checked was last year. We rechecked but we have the biggest dance for inventory in current county oh, there you go, so we can take care of it all right, we got also.
Speaker 2:We have derrick beren. Did I get that right, derek?
Speaker 4:That's it, derek Bergersen.
Speaker 2:Derek Bergersen. A lot of you guys may not know the name, derek Bergersen, but I'll almost guarantee you know the name Sick Mix. Everybody knows Sick Mix. We all have his packs, we all have his music, we all have his edits, we have all of it. How you doing over there, derrick? Oh man I'm blessed.
Speaker 2:Hey, hey, that's the positivity right there, man. Well, we're gonna jump straight into this thing. Man, uh, we want to know a little bit about you, brother. Um, growing up in the bay during the 80s, man, how did the local hip-hop scene influence your decision to become a DJ? You went into the military, right?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, the local scene didn't really influence me to be a DJ. I would say it was Crush Groove and Beat Street. I think those are the two main influences. That was like well, you know, crush Groove, you know, know, I'm not just a dj, I'm also, you know, I have a record label. So crush groove kind of give me a lot of push um about the whole industry and and a little sneak peek into how how it works how did um?
Speaker 2:michael erickson and cameron paul? What about their, their, their, man? What did you take from them? What did you incorporate from them?
Speaker 4:Well, the station was KSOL and at that time in 1985, there was no DJs mixing music on the radio that I knew of in the Bay Area, but KSOL. On Friday nights at midnight they'd have a mix show and it was Cameron, paul and Michael Erickson. It was called the Midnight Beat 12 o'clock beat, and they would broadcast live from a club, a nightclub. It was crazy, but I would stay up to midnight and record the mixes, and so I listened to them and, of course, tried to buy the records that they were playing and try to copy them for sure.
Speaker 2:All right, All right, how about those initial memories of DJing man? Your first house party, your first club, your? What were the fondest memories of your initial coming out as a DJ.
Speaker 4:It wasn't just me, right, it was. You had a crew of DJs. So, um, my crew happened to be, uh, a black guy, a Filipino guy, a Mexican dude, uh, and then me, the white dude. So, um, it was fun to see people's reactions, like, when we pull up to the party, they would look at us like who's actually going to DJ? Which one of these guys is the party? They would look at us like who's actually going to DJ? Which one of these guys is the DJ, you know, and of course it was all of us, and they would be initially shocked when they saw me play and but then, of course, pleasantly surprised that it sounded good.
Speaker 2:Why do you say that, brother? So everybody that can't see you physically on the screen right now, why would they doubt whether or not you would be a dj?
Speaker 4:well, you know, I mean, um, back then I was doing a lot of fraternity parties at colleges and stuff and they were mostly black, black fraternities, all right, and so they kind of figured like, oh, oh, I think this guy is going to come in here playing Journey, right, but no, it was. You know, oaktown 357, mc Hammer Too Short. All these groups were, you know, just getting started and the independent world was starting to starting to begin at that time.
Speaker 2:In 93,.
Speaker 4:You remember 93, remember 93, man, yeah vaguely.
Speaker 3:I was 11, I was 13 man.
Speaker 2:You joined uh young black brother records man under rob nonis. Uh you worked with mac mall, mac dray, ray love. What were your experiences and how did that enhance your skills, your promotions, your marketing?
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was my first experience with the real record label. You know, that was, you know, a big reason why I didn't just stay a DJ. I started my own label and put out tons of records. But it was a great experience. I mean, it definitely got me in a lot of nightclubs that I wasn't going to get in. I got to bypass security because I'm coming in with giveaways and cassettes and posters and things like that. So it was fun it was fun, it was fun, all right, all right.
Speaker 2:Let's jump forward a little bit. What took you to Tucson man?
Speaker 4:Um, I used to DJ for a group called into deep and um they got a gig in uh Tucson at um hot 98, um hot 98 and um it was. It was called the lowrider oldie show and they needed a dj, and um I was open to trying it. So we, we all, moved to arizona.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, that's a big jump and you moved from Vallejo to Arizona.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah and um. We became the number one show in two within two months and it was. It was awesome. Um, I was not just the DJ, I was a producer for shows. All these um, all these show. But we didn't just play oldies, we played like Chicano hip hop. So we play like artists like Gemini from Texas and Nasty Boy. You know a lot of the Chicano artists we play on there as well. Of course, we play hella N2 Deep songs on there.
Speaker 4:Yeah right artists we play on there as well. Of course, we play hella into deep songs on there. Yeah right, um, but we just took. We took what we, we used to hear these type of shows in the bay area, and so we just copied stuff that we, we used to do you knew the recipe and you took it somewhere where they didn't know the food yeah, so tucson was ready for us all right.
Speaker 2:What, um? What happened to djing at that point in time, man? Did you slow down djing? Did you quit? Did you lose, like your, your passion, what? What were you doing? And then, how did you get back into djing after that?
Speaker 4:um, I was putting out records. I, I had, you know, a lot of albums out. Uh, we were touring again with into deep, with gemini, with frost, um, latino velvet. Uh, we were, we were doing, we were doing shows all over the place. I was doing distribution for people.
Speaker 2:Um, were those the good old days that you didn't know were gonna be the good old days? I didn't know those were the good old days.
Speaker 4:Yeah, for didn't know were going to be the good old days. I didn't know those were the good old days. Yeah for sure we were. Just honestly, we were just trying to make a dollar. You know, when we would go on tour we would bring tons of product with us, so cassettes and CDs. And, being that we're friends with tons of artists, we would go on the road and we would go up to, like Mac Dre and get 200 CDs from him, and we would go to, uh, keep the sneak and get 200 CDs from him.
Speaker 4:So when we went on the road we didn't just have into deep CDs, we had the whole we were like a mobile distributor, so we're in the bay area we pull into kansas city to seventh heaven and make a few thousand dollars. So we were just on the road for a few years and I didn't do gigs outside of the radio show because I was on the road. I could pre-record the radio show and not even be there.
Speaker 2:Sure and just send it in.
Speaker 4:And just send it in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the early days of the internet.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How long did that take to send in man those files?
Speaker 4:Well, we all still lived in Tucson, so we would go back there, do the show and just turn it in. So I didn't actually email oh nobody. Yeah, um, but yeah, so after we would be on the road for a week or two. If we were going to be gone for more than a week, we just pre-record two shows and leave them at the station all right, all right.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, 2002. 2002. You founded two different items Southwest Bound Magazine and SickMixcom. Yeah, what motivated you to start those platforms? Money.
Speaker 4:Hey, I love the honesty man, there you go. That was the time when mixtapes were big, big and I just explained to you how we did very well selling albums.
Speaker 4:We transitioned into selling mixtapes as well so don't worry, thank you um, we sold thousands of snoop dogg mixtapes and we sold thousands of lil wayne mixtapes and anything we can get our hands on. Anyone who would work with us. We would sell their products through sick mix. Um, and I, of course, was making tons of mixtapes as well, and not just uh, street mixtapes. We were making real albums that we sold. So, um, I did one with mac dre he's the best of the rompilation. I did one within too deep. It's called the menudo mix.
Speaker 2:Um, I did one latino velvet's menudo mix.
Speaker 4:Latino velvet's menudo mix. Um, there's a group called the hieroglyphics. I did a mixtape with them. Casual of hieroglyphics casual. These are all real albums that are on Spotify.
Speaker 1:They were all cleared and you know real projects. Hieroglyphics like connected to Souls of Mischief, souls of Mischief, is part of it Souls of Mischief.
Speaker 2:93 to Infinity.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:The Bay Area was a crazy. It was a crazy place in the 90s because everybody was rapping and everybody was doing well Like there were groups like Eleven Five and RBL Posse, rbl Posse, helski and 415. And they all you know there's their cassettes were at Sam Goody's and they were at the warehouse and they were at Tower Records and they were like the first rap albums were at Tower Records and they were like the first rap albums we've ever seen in these stores. So it was. It was a lot of action happening back then.
Speaker 2:That's cool tell me a little bit about the Breaking Bread Foundation, brother.
Speaker 4:Break Bread Foundation is. It's not actually mine, it's my, my friend. He has a restaurant and every Sunday, out of his own pocket, he will feed anybody who comes up to his restaurant. And it's not just hot dogs and sandwiches, it's a barbecue joint, so he will feed you anything you want.
Speaker 2:I mean, you can go over there and you can be poor, broke handed and you're going to you can still get some tri tip or something.
Speaker 4:Yes, you can get the tri tip, you could get the ribs, you could get whatever you want.
Speaker 2:How do, how does he, how does he fund that man and what are you doing to help him?
Speaker 4:So when I first when he first told me about it he has a food truck and the food truck is open on the weekends first told me about it he has a food truck and the food truck is open on the weekends. Every dime he makes from the food truck goes to the break bread foundation. So I said to myself man, I think I could help you out. And so I said I'm going to start a patreon and I'm going to make it very limited. I'm only having 20 spots and it's $40 a spot and I use, and that's you know, around 800 bucks. And so, um, you know, patreon number one is is, uh, in the room with us.
Speaker 4:Number one right here, Bubba, I was number one and I'm very proud of that so um, we, we spend, you know, about 15, 1600 a week and we feed people in vallejo. Is it every sunday? Every single sunday, rain or shine?
Speaker 2:so we could possibly make a trip up there. Hang out, see how you know, see how you guys do things, try to help out. Do. Can we cook. What can we do up there? Man does he. Is he gonna let us behind the grill?
Speaker 4:um, if you have your food handlers card he will yeah, we don't, we don't.
Speaker 2:Man, I can hand out drinks or or paper plates or something right?
Speaker 4:we could dj okay hey, there we go, we play music there sometimes and it's so. He's he's. You know he's found god. He was a um, you know he was a rough character growing up and um, he found god and settled down. He's married, he has kids and so what he calls it is his food ministry. So if you show up on sunday, he's gonna talk to you a little bit, yeah, and see if you need anything. You want to just talk about life. He doesn't force God on anyone.
Speaker 4:It's just a safe place that you can come and talk if you need be, and so I was moved. You know, when I first went there, I was touched and I said I have to get involved.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's amazing, man. I'll head up there soon, man, I've been wanting to do that for a long time.
Speaker 1:Well, man, we will head up there I'm in. I know exactly what I'm in. The Lord just spoke to me right now. He says I have people to pray over for that ministry. Absolutely yes.
Speaker 4:I over at that for that ministry? Absolutely, yes, no, it it's um. I always tried to help people, you know. You guys know I'm a I'm fairly nice person but, um, when I physically went there, you know, I teared up and I'm like there's no way I can't help.
Speaker 2:That's cool yeah, that's a. Uh, how many people you think you guys are feeding on a on a weekly?
Speaker 4:not I. Vallejo's got a lot of people in need, so honestly, I think we're probably doing between 100 and 200 people.
Speaker 2:All right, that's a lot of people, a lot of meals, that's just one side of Vallejo.
Speaker 4:There's a whole other side of Vallejo that needs help, and so there's a restaurant on the other side of town called Sharky's and, if you don't mind, let me tell you about this fundraiser For sure. Yeah, it's Sharky's Family Foundation. It's a chicken and fish restaurant. They're on the opposite side of town and we are partnering with a company called Beats for Hope. That's headed by a veteran DJ from the Bay Area, alex Mejia, and what his company does is they sell T-shirts and all the proceeds go to a nonprofit. So what we're doing is we're getting.
Speaker 4:I'm going around to rappers that I know and I'm asking them if I could use their album cover for three months, and I'm going to sell T-shirts. So this first three months we're going to launch the first one is, um, of course, into deep back to the hotel, awesome, and then um, and then 11.5 um, fiending for the funk those two albums. So, um, we're going to sell those t-shirts for three months. Um, half of the money goes to beats for hope and their foundation. Pretty much they do clothing, so they they give clothing and jackets to people, and then sharkies, we're going to use that money to feed people in Vallejo.
Speaker 2:Awesome man. Are you going to be splitting time at the locations or are you still going to be at the main spot, the break bread spot?
Speaker 4:I actually don't go to either one as much as I used to Break bread. Just needed a financial help, a backing, yeah. So we set that up with your help. The Patreon's been going strong for a while now, and then every three months we're going to swap out. The next two album covers are RBL, posse and Mac Mall. So I'm just going to keep doing two every three months, two different covers, for as long as they'll let me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. How are we going to get those shirts out there, brother?
Speaker 4:um, they'll be on. Beats for hope, beats for hopecom.
Speaker 2:All right, and all of those proceeds are going right up there to the valet.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, all right. Every shirt on that site has a different charity behind it, and it'll tell you which charity it goes which one you're?
Speaker 2:yeah, you get to pick which one you're investing into yeah.
Speaker 4:All right, yeah, yeah, so it's not just ours. There's shirts from other people. All right, Other DJs it's mostly DJs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Are raising money.
Speaker 2:How many Patreon subscribers are you guys up to now?
Speaker 4:Patreon we are capped at 20.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right. Yeah, all right, I might, I might sit, uh, I might get you on the side and try to pick up one of those. If somebody falls off, man, I can uh give it out to somebody.
Speaker 4:There's a spot open right now.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'll take it. Mark, mark me down for that, brother, and I'm going to. I'm going to hook my one of my DJs up over here in Bakersfield.
Speaker 4:Awesome.
Speaker 2:Right on and uh, we'll a month perfect. Yeah, appreciate it, derek. Hey, um 2015. Last question for your interview process man, uh, 2015, you kind of got back into the wedding industry. Um bay mix bay mixes events with uh charlie days yeah uh, well, over 300 weddings. We were busy 300 weddings, man.
Speaker 4:That's when the controllers started popping up. Okay, and I think I had a vestex 300 um, I still have it, or I have a 380, maybe all right, but those texts were the first controllers I that I knew of, um, so it got easy. So I I started DJing more. That's really what happened. Djing easier because I didn't really, I didn't really participate in the CD era, that much Um. But when the controllers showed up, I jumped back in full time.
Speaker 2:All right, all right and uh. Ever since then, you've it's all downhill from there with weddings and photo booths.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, you know, that was my pretty much nine to five, all right.
Speaker 2:All right, but nowadays you're doing a whole lot of stuff. You're doing production, you're doing. I mean, what all are you doing? Now, man, recap it for us.
Speaker 4:I'm back in the music business. I just started a new distributor that I can you know kind of work against companies like TuneCore and DistroKid and CD Baby. It's kind of on the lines of that those platforms charge you per album, per single, which you know could get costly to some independent artists if they have multiple releases and they're not seeing any returns. Yeah, they're just shooting stuff out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm going to just do a flat rate, 80-20 split with the artist. They don't have to pay anything. If they got money, let's use it to promote. Awesome, yeah, we got that going. Next month I'm going to be dropping another magazine called Addicted to Vinyl all DJ magazine. I got DJ Shortcut on the front cover. Oh nice, I got DJ shortcut on the front cover, DJ epic on the back cover. It's a full size, real printed magazine. We're going to print a thousand copies and see how it goes.
Speaker 2:I'm going to need a copy of that too, brother. Oh yeah yeah, I'll shoot you some money. You can do with it whatever you want, man, but hook me up with one of the first copies. I want an autograph on it too, man. You'll get it, you'll get it um.
Speaker 4:And then the last thing which is like my full-time job right now is um.
Speaker 2:I just wrote and I'm directing my first feature film I didn't know if you were going to comment on it, because I that was going to be my next question.
Speaker 4:Man, I want to know what's going on with this this friday film you got going on, man well, um, a friend of mine who was a retired music industry executive got into making movies a few years back and I've been watching him, I've been assisting him learning, and it turns out the movie industry is very, very, very similar to the music industry. I would think so, yeah. So it used to cost me five thousand to ten thousand dollars to make an album. And I'm, you know, I'm, I'm at ten thousand dollars, and I've got a thousand dollars to make an album. And I'm, you know, I'm, I'm at ten thousand dollars and I've got a movie now instead of an album. All right, the same expense. But uh, you know, my royalties in streaming have slowly started to slow down okay um and so to replace that income you know, offset it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. When is that coming out? When's that due man um?
Speaker 4:I should be done filming the entire, the entire. I got three more days of filming, so by the end of February to be done, and so I could probably show you the movie in March. It'll be on. Uh, I've already got a distribution deal, so it'd be on to be an Amazon.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, nice. And then, of course, youtube. Oh yeah, you got to. Yeah, yeah, all, eric man. I really appreciate having you, man. We are going to jump into the next section of our podcast, which is going to be the great big W weddings. So we're going to jump right into weddings DJ responsibilities of those weddings, curating your playlist, reading the crowd, handling audio equipment, technical issues and, of course, the MC responsibilities on the side of that keeping everything on time, being punctual, keeping the actual festivities going and rolling and it's a smooth process. So I'm going to start over here with John man, because I think he has just a wealth of information and you know your role as a DJ and MC man for a wedding.
Speaker 1:You know what we are, the? It's like a circus. When you see the circus top right and you see the guy that's conducting everything and just really just controlling the flow, and that's me, man. I got the big black top hat on and I'm opening up the lion's mouth, so to speak, and you know you're just taking care of the time, watching the time, communicating with everybody. I always say if it's a spoke on the wheel of your wedding day and it's moving, we'll be communicating with them from staff to. I mean, we go, we go deeper too.
Speaker 1:I'll talk to the caterer, because there's one thing I always say you have no control of as a dj, and that's when the food's going to be done, sure, so obviously it goes before. You hit them with a timeline so that they have an expectation of when dinner's supposed to be served. Okay, you got six o'clock or whatever the case is, but still you don't release tables. In those cases you touch base with the chef or the staff and see what's going on, little things like that. You talk to the bartender and nine times out of 10, the bartender's never talked to. If there's a photo booth or whatever the case is, just anything and everything. If you need to communicate with them that. That's a big part of my responsibility.
Speaker 2:That's why we um, our philosophy is is the two-man team, the mc and the dj. How do you um? For me personally, I have a great amount of problems doing both, and and the reason I say that is is we're behind the dj booth. You can queue up the first song, you can queue up the special song you can queue up, but then, if you're a good mc, you actually go out into the dance floor. You go out there, you talk, you get everybody's attention, everybody's, and then who hits play for you. Next you gotta run back over to your dj booth yeah, well, that then you're by yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good luck. Yeah, and because I've done before I've in fact, at that spot, on the rock and roll spot here, that was the one time that anthony's back gave out on him and I I had a DJ, a wedding by myself and luckily I was really closely connected to that's when he went to dance. For you, you can put yourself where you want to be put, but I was able to work that, but it was. I'm talking about five feet in back and yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:And that's why I just said right now, our philosophy is it's a two man team, Cause we ask a lot of ourselves, all just just all that communication stuff. You need a separate person to do that. You look at coordinators or even photographers. There's there's frequently, if not almost all the time, there's a second shooter. So Anthony, stationary, he's got microphones, he's got volumes, he's got cues, he's got, he's got the program music, he's taking requests and all that other good stuff. He'll let the old man on you know to scratch that itch every now and again, but for the foremost, especially during the program that's, his responsibility is to be stationary and take care of all that, where I have the itinerary in my hand, exact same one as he has, but I'm flying around and just communicating and orchestrating everything, making sure they're they're lined up, reviewing names. You know that, man, that's one of the worst things you could do is not review the name you know, especially a family name.
Speaker 1:I've I've heard so many times a family name gets badgered, or you know, god forbid, you call him ramirez when his last name is smith. Oh yeah, that's not a good look, yeah, but that's that's us. Right there we're. We're a two man team. So you know, I I take my hat off to anybody who does a wedding by themselves nonetheless does it successfully I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm lucky in the fact that I have marion with me. Usually, um, she doesn't dj, really, she doesn't mc at all, but she filters everything through for me, like if there's somebody that if the wedding coordinator comes and I'm doing something she can talk to Marion, then Marion can relay it to me.
Speaker 3:I had my wife do that a lot. You know my wife and my son has helped me out a lot because I've always done it by myself yeah majority of the time it's hard, yeah, and then as I've progressed into bigger and better weddings, you know I have a good team like Gus and Monks over at am entertainment. They help me out a lot yeah that.
Speaker 3:And then, when I started pairing up with jc, and yeah, you need that, you know you have some, you know some big weddings, you know. So you need a, you need a big team sometimes.
Speaker 1:So you know one thing that you, that you absolutely need to do as a wedding pro is you need to to get a liaison, you need to make best friends with that maid or matron of honor or sister or a cousin or anybody, and it's got to be a female. You know why we can't get into them rooms. We can't get into the bridal room and check to see if she's dressed or whatever the case is, because you know the start of the show.
Speaker 4:She's ready to come down that aisle then it's time to go until then, we're waiting on her yeah, so that that's that's my thing is get a liaison man john, a lot of times people don't understand that as wedding djs we also become unofficially the day of coordination oh man, we're not getting paid for it, man along with being a psychiatrist too.
Speaker 1:Man come on family counselor, you know about that, bro. Oh, family counselor, we should, we should get it. There should be a degree family counselor, marriage, marriage counselor, but on a dj and we're like a, we're like a subsidiary or something.
Speaker 4:Man yeah, bartenders and djs can get it hey, you know who.
Speaker 2:It reminds me of barbers. You go into the barbershop, there's barbershop talk.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, there is, this is what this is right here.
Speaker 2:This is dj talk among barbers. Oh yeah, man, derrick, hey man, what do you? Uh, what goes into your planning of a wedding soundtrack? You know, from ceremony to reception to must plays and do not plays even.
Speaker 4:I got a form that I have on my website that anyone could download. Any DJ could download and send it to your bride and it's pretty much a breakdown of everything they want. So it'll start at the ceremony and there's a spot for, you know, families family in their song, bridal party in their song, bride in her song, exit song. So I pretty much have them fill out the form. They tell me what they want and you know, as you know, they honestly don't really know what they want.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they don't know what they need or want until you tell them what they need and want.
Speaker 4:Right. So maybe they say we like 2000s, hip hop and disco, and so I put a little small crate together with what they asked for. But nine times out of 10, you know it's. I just read the crowd and see who shows up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. And let me ask you what your, what your strategy is on reading the crowd. So obviously, initially we're going to gear towards the ladies.
Speaker 4:You get the ladies on the dance floor first well, I mean, the first thing I do is, uh, I look at the room and I I kind of, I guess I prejudge everyone ageism, their age. Yeah, that's part of it based on their age is where I'll start, so I'll.
Speaker 4:If I see a you know, a older group, I'll start with the, of course, the 70s and 80s, first some oldies, some motown, you know, yeah, they get tired easy, and then after that it's pretty much whatever I want. Normally, you know, um, you'll just see what songs work, and if justin bieber works, then you stay pop, and if it doesn't, you switch it.
Speaker 1:I don't know yeah, all right, you know what I just noticed right now? D I'm the old crowd, because you just said 70s and 80s, bro, so I'm part of that old crowd.
Speaker 4:I'm 53. I'm the old crowd too. I got you by a year man.
Speaker 1:I'm 55 in March.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay. Well, you know we're pretty much the same crowd music because obviously we grew up to it. We have a special connection. You always connect, you know strongly, with music from your high school era. You're the most emotional you've ever been. You've gotten your heart broken and you want to listen to brian mcknight and boys to men back at, back at 10, what is that song man back at? One, back at one, back at one, one last cry.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I'm like ready for the world and prince and dream boy and people like that man. Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 4:So you know, I just read the crowd like that and you know I mean, if I get lucky enough to play music, I fucking enjoy. I'm really pumped yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2:It's a big difference when you play music for yourself versus others oh yeah, yeah, people would hate my party. Yeah, mine too, yeah I'd have some like reggae going and I'd have some straight rap and hip hop. I'd be all over the damn place.
Speaker 4:But now that you're, you know, because you guys have all done tons of weddings, you've been introduced to new music. So you know, I could make a list of 100 country songs that I like now, but I couldn't years ago. Absolutely. I'm in the same boat with country, you know. I know jazz music. I'm in the same boat with country. I know jazz music. I know a lot more because of the diversity.
Speaker 3:It's always nice to have that grandpa or grandma come up to you with some jewel of a song.
Speaker 2:And then you were able to play it for them, and you're like wow, I didn't know this was. You either had it sitting in your catalog or you streamed it off a title and you made their evening. So it was nice.
Speaker 3:Getting some of those jewels, and so it was nice getting some of those jewels. Man, I never heard that song. Yeah, it was a banger.
Speaker 1:There was a wedding like four years ago and he's all white, real classy dude, real old, I would say they're about 75, 80 or so. Right, they come up and I read people for a living, everybody knows what that means. And he came up and he just had that glimmer of hope. I hope this young man has heard of this song and maybe, maybe for some miracle reason, he has it. He says, excuse me, young man, yes, sir, was. I don't know if you've heard of this song, but it's me and my wife's wedding song and if you could play it sometime during the evening, that would be fantastic. Sure, what do you got? He goes it's pledging my love by johnny ace from like the 1950s. You probably don't have, and I said I know exactly what it is.
Speaker 3:boom, because that's what I was raised on. My dad loved johnny ace man I played that.
Speaker 1:I played that the next song. To anthony I said play that, the next song. So anthony, my boy, my partner, on the wedding side of all sound music, he, he played it and he knows it too. And he got his wife's hand and this was this is cocktail hour and he takes the dance floor alone and they look like it's the prom.
Speaker 3:It was their wedding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he came up to me and and he, just he shook my hand like that old school man and I could tell how sincere you know he was and when he told me that meant the world to me and it meant the world to her, which was more important. But that's what we get to do, man.
Speaker 4:Absolutely, man, absolutely I. I've had that song requested and, to be honest with you, I didn't have it.
Speaker 1:Oh no, that's a classic. It's a 50s classic, though.
Speaker 4:Well, I hope I think I may have put it in my oldies, crate now but back then johnny ace. Yeah, I know about johnny ace.
Speaker 1:If you guys ever have oldies but goodies, like all these but goodies questions, or you need a list or you need, you need a little, you know a little.
Speaker 2:411 do you hesitate? Do you have a do-op? Uh a? Do you have a doo-wop, crate?
Speaker 4:Do you have a doo-wop crate? No, bro, I can get with you.
Speaker 1:We can make a doo-wop crate. If you want to do that, bro, just let me know. I'm all in.
Speaker 4:Yeah, let's give it a go. I think I got Select Mix's doo-wop crate. I like theirs there, okay.
Speaker 1:They do a more production in there, right, and it's select mix. I like your intros better, man. Your intros are are a lot cleaner. It's that clean beat that we can get in and get out. Yeah, select mix is cool, but it's more of a not quite a redrum.
Speaker 2:But is it? Is it a quick mixer?
Speaker 4:select, no, they they, it's they do some real production in their songs. I mean um, someone over there is a producer.
Speaker 2:Knows what they're doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm just a.
Speaker 2:DJ remixer. I guess Redrum remix intro, outro. Yeah, I'm going to go with Rich on this one man Couple collaborations. When you get that message, that text message, that phone, call, the Instagram, the social media, they say hey, I'm looking for a dj and an mc. Or actually I'm just gonna go ahead and throw a little kink in there to you they're just looking for a quote-unquote dj. They didn't say anything about an mc. What's your process, man? How do you fill them out?
Speaker 3:yeah, I mean we get first. You got to figure out like what's I mean right away. I'll just go through like a little quick you know questionnaire like okay, what's your occasion, what's the date, what's the venue, location, approximately how many guests.
Speaker 2:Link you know, just real quick.
Speaker 3:I mean, just those right there will get me, even if I'm not available. I mean, I have a great network. You know DJs, that you know awesome too. What kind of genre of music do you guys like? What are you guys looking for? You know what I mean. And boom, just that right there could let me. Just guys, just you know I'm doing a micro wedding next week, 50 people. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:So it's a nice one yeah, so, um yeah, so I'll just go through them with that a little questionnaire, see what they need, you know so?
Speaker 2:and then, yeah, just go from there what kind of what kind of traditions have you ran into at your weddings? Any kind of family traditions, any kind of cultural traditions? Yeah, I mean well the hispanic culture.
Speaker 3:I mean big time. Obviously it's always. It's always fun when you get like the grooms super. You know hispanic one, yeah, I mean and then you got you know megan smith, you know coming on the other end and you know they, you know they're okies, you know what I mean. And so those are the, those are the fun weddings, that where, if you can knock those out, together with two different genres of music so you're gonna play.
Speaker 2:They're both out there some elvis crispo and some taylor swift. You know what I?
Speaker 1:mean yeah you know a mashup, george stranier, fernandez, in a lot of cases, yeah, man, but it's fun when you see all of them out there together dancing to both of those genres of music.
Speaker 3:Because they're just out there having a good time, because if you're mixing it right, you're giving them plenty of both of them and the beat is still on.
Speaker 2:And the beat's on Exactly. They don't have to stop moving their body, they just keep moving. Now, they might not be familiar with that music.
Speaker 3:But and even the celebrations. Sometimes you know they do that well, I forgot what it's called, but they get the bright and green up on the on the chair.
Speaker 1:It's like the snake dance right and they try to knock them off right yeah yeah, that one that always, that always stresses me out it is.
Speaker 4:I've seen some chairs break and some guys get a little crazy on those things, man, so but uh yeah, they start tossing them up in the air higher and higher and higher. Yeah, yeah please don't drop it, john you, uh, have, have you. I've seen him do that. Yeah, mike, but at some some of my gigs, well, they're spinning, running through the circle. They stop the cut, they stop the crowd and make you take a shot.
Speaker 1:Oh, I've seen that yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, as soon as they go under that. Yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 4:I've seen a people start falling down oh man, it's almost like.
Speaker 1:This is how many times you can run around in a circle while you take a shot. Then keep running around yes who can stand?
Speaker 2:up, where's that bat spin?
Speaker 1:you spin your head on the bat yeah, I remember that like this yeah, yeah, yeah and they grabbed the groom.
Speaker 3:One time they picked him up and took him to the bar, took off his shoe, poured the liquor in the shoe, made him take the shot out of the shoe.
Speaker 2:Hey what do you? I don't know, it's crazy stuff people these guys do tell me about the shoe game, the shoe game.
Speaker 3:You know what I've?
Speaker 2:I've never experienced one personally I've done it.
Speaker 1:I've done it several times, but I've never pitched them.
Speaker 2:How about you, derrick?
Speaker 4:you ever do the shoes, man yeah, um, sometimes I like it because it kills.
Speaker 2:It kills a good, good 10-15 minutes yeah, it's a good transition between something you think sometimes I don't have enough time in my weddings.
Speaker 4:It just depends, like it just depends on the bridal party, you know, because they have a lot to do with it. But it's fun, I don't mind. I don't mind it what do you guys?
Speaker 2:are you guys seeing any new trends in weddings lately?
Speaker 4:the speed round where they take a picture. I actually like that one. A lot of people don't like.
Speaker 1:I like that one because it gives me a chance to get out there and be super vibrant and just be me and and really just get them and and usher them this way, that way, and you get to talk to everybody and talk about the ultimate icebreaker. That's the ultimate icebreaker right there, because you're in front of everybody. Man. They see all this personality back there and you know we're having fun tonight and it's like let's go, man. The rest of the night is is pretty smooth in most cases how is that one?
Speaker 3:it's that one how's that one?
Speaker 2:yeah, how is it?
Speaker 1:okay. So how do you do it? Yeah, okay. So how we do it is I get up and I'll tell them this is what we're gonna do. So you have, you have so many people that want to take pictures with the bride and groom, but we're gonna, we're gonna take care of every table right now. So this is, this is the goal. We're going to play one song and we're going to see if the bride and groom and that's up to y'all see if they can be fast enough to take a picture of that one song with every table. So then I tell them I said so if you have table one that they're taking a picture of table two and three needs to be up and ready. And you know you're prepping them and you just keep doing it the whole time and it's fun, man.
Speaker 3:It the bride and groom, and they're. You know they're. It's chaos. It is, but it's organized chaos, organized chaos. By the time they get halfway, though, like all the other tables, are just like putting props, putting glasses on sunglasses. They're getting ready, they have things ready to go they're trying to outdo the other table before them yeah so by the time you get to the last one, they're going so what do we have to do?
Speaker 2:do we have to play rapper's delight for this? Like a seven minute song, like?
Speaker 1:play, play something extremely upbeat. Okay, have you heard of a song called? Maybe you heard, I know you heard this d. It's uh, it's kind of a freestyle, kind of la disco dance. Um, it's called uh, wake up by stop. I think that was our only hit. It's a jam man, it's a jam wake up by stop, we play something super upbeat like that. They don't even have to know it, it just has to be super upbeat.
Speaker 2:It has to get them moving, get their blood flowing get their heart racing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with us it emceeing also, and it don't have to be one song, you can say all right, you got two songs to do it. Boom. That way you have a little more to say about how many guests you have. You know if you have 50 guests or 250 guests.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:When you get up to the 400, I'm like I need rapper's delight. Yeah, we're gonna play this game with 250 guests. Yeah, this is gonna take too long. A lot of the brides.
Speaker 2:They've seen it on instagram, right, so they they know what song they want. They usually tell you what song they want to do. Yeah, yeah, how about? Um, what are your most memorable moments? What are you guys's most memorable moments? Your most memorable wedding? That, your absolute favorite way? I'll tell you mine right now.
Speaker 2:I had one in in Woody and it was like 300 plus people in a pasture in Woody. You know Glenville, woody, right up towards there. Okay, I know the area. They had a whole ranch. They drove pickup trucks of people with hay bales all the way. It looked like a, it looked like a fair ride or something Drove 300 people back up in there. They got married, came back out and we were under the barn or whatever. Now this is where I'm going to become racial, right, I didn't think I was going to have a great wedding because I'm not a big white country. What? What I assumed and what I thought about reading my clients, right, no man turns out. I was playing too short knee 40 and mac dre and everything else and these country folk were going crazy that was my absolute favorite man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's always fun when you just got them like that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know what I mean yeah, you know, typically people who want country music, they generally just want it for cocktail music, but they they want to dance to everything yeah yeah
Speaker 2:yeah, I was. I was very intrepid, if you will.
Speaker 3:I was very worried, I was very scared, but uh, it came out to be my favorite wedding I've ever done yeah, and then you go in there loaded with all this classic rock and country and I didn't use half of it and you're like but, but now you feel like you have enough music now oh yeah, oh well, I got all that I had to study and then I still have I had to put in my homework.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I had to put in my homework. I had to get all these tracks. I had to gather these tracks, whether it was, whether it was sick mixes, whether it was bill bass's with somebody's. I had to download and buy their music packs and go through every single song. And that's just how I am. I'm very, very ocd, very meticulous. My, my libraries are very clean. Um, I walk up to some other people's laptops. Man, I don't. I don't know what the hell's going on. I have some dirty room crates in my I got a playlist for everything
Speaker 2:I got too many because sometimes I'll make you make a playlist for an event and you're like, oh, I'm gonna save that playlist. That was a good one yeah, and they say the easiest way to do it is to go to your history and then highlight all of them and drag them into a crate you can do that for your date, yeah yeah, you can do that for the.
Speaker 2:If you really liked the event, you did, go to your history, copy all of it and put it into a crate I've done that before, like oh, what was that?
Speaker 3:can see that I just did. Oh, I went, I go to that date real quick, boom, like oh yeah, and I was kind of going that little history and yep, I remember these. There's three songs. I put cool little tools in there man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know something that you have to take in consideration. You got to be smart. Now. All of us this pertain to all of us is like derek just touched on it. Right now they say they want country music. Right, they're telling you they want country music. They even give you a nice playlist on spotify or apple music or whatever that you transfer over and you make a crate for them. But that doesn't mean that that's what they want for the entire night and I think a lot of the younger jocks will just take that and they kind of get dictated to. But you know, as older cats, we got to maintain full creative control of where we play, when we play it, how we play it, what we play in almost every case. And I'll tell you what even though it's a country crowd, everybody got a little ghetto in them, everybody got a little dirty funk in them.
Speaker 4:So we can't forget that man.
Speaker 3:I've played blow the whistle at every country gig come on, hey, you know, especially if you throw it neon moon. Neon moon neon moon right into that.
Speaker 2:All of us have done that one man to a predominantly white crowd yeah, yeah, almost every time I see I get the same thing, that derrick, I get he's white. I don't think he's going to be a good DJ, you know what Hold on?
Speaker 1:I did the sparklers and the dance for the one time. I can't agree with you there because you were more than comfortable and that was a pretty black crowd. Is what that?
Speaker 2:was right Kind of mixed up.
Speaker 1:She was white.
Speaker 2:She was white, he was black, he was black, he was black. So you were right there. Oh, I'm comfortable because, like Derek, derek grew up in Oakland, I grew up in Arvin, all right, 99% Hispanic population. You grew up in Arvin, arvin, california, baby.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's like when you grew up in a small town in LA.
Speaker 2:I grew up in Santa.
Speaker 4:Paula back home.
Speaker 1:So yeah, man Kind of Arvin-esque of arvin-esque.
Speaker 2:It is very. Yeah, we're shafter-esque, yeah, yeah, hey, shafter's doing pretty good man I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm proud of shafter.
Speaker 1:Hey, bro, shafters, don't, don't sneeze and don't don't be looking past. Shafter.
Speaker 2:Shafter's got a lot of spots now, yeah, and a lot of beautiful private residences shafter did amazing by bringing in those companies, amazon and target and all those warehouses and everything else. Whoever was the mayor back then city council, they knew what the hell they were doing. Yeah, they, they did well that was a win.
Speaker 2:That was a definite win, derrick everybody. Uh, advice for couples, man. What? What tips would you give to couples to choose the right dj mc? What kind of questions do you ask and how do you make sure that their wedding day runs smoothly?
Speaker 4:that's a lot of questions, but, um, I make sure I mean so. Obviously we've all done weddings and so I mean I've. You know, I've accepted the fact that you know I'm a wedding dj and so I'm. I take that very seriously. Um, but on a lighter note, every wedding I do is about 90% identical. So I'm comfortable with weddings, I'm comfortable with them. Now, if I'm giving advice to someone on how to choose a DJ, I think you have to go check them out, you have to go see them. That's the only way. I mean, a good DJ to your friend may not be a good DJ to you, because each bride is looking for different things. A thousand percent, so go see them.
Speaker 3:That's what I would tell the brides. Yeah, go see them if they're on social media. In the mix.
Speaker 4:you know Well, social media is kind of like you only post the pretty pictures, the highlights.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're going to post the highlights.
Speaker 3:You can make 10 people look like there was 100 people in that dance floor, right?
Speaker 2:what. I'll tell you one thing about that that whole social media thing is and I apologize because we've all done it, I've even done it I almost refuse to post pictures and videos of fucking line dancing. The lane dances, like I mean, isn't that automatic? Isn't that like, hey, you put a line dance on, you say, hey, everybody, come out, have a dance, get it. You know, make some memories. Everybody goes out there and you, you have everybody tricked into thinking you're a great DJ.
Speaker 4:Only other DJs care. Only other DJs care. So keep posting it, because the bride doesn't know, she's not a hater.
Speaker 3:She doesn't want that gig Because society they eat with their eyes A packed dance floor.
Speaker 1:So you know what I would say to that is there's so many brides that will contact all of us on a daily basis in a lot of cases. Hey, and the first thing that flies out of their mouth hey, how much do you charge? Not? Hey, what kind of DJ are you? What kind of music do you play? Do you have more than one speaker? Do you? You know, can you MC? Can you do? Because a lot of cats are just Give me your price sheets. Yeah, just give set a consultation.
Speaker 1:I offer the zoom consultation, everything's zoom. So it's super convenient for both of us. But it's a simple explanation. You get to meet me face to face. I share the experience and the potential breakdown of how your wedding could go from ceremony to the end, including all your extras dance, dance floor, sparklers, lighting, et cetera, et cetera. But you get to see a picture form of it. You know you get slides with stills and this is how it looks. But if you don't take that time to consult, you don't know me, you don't know the value, you know, you just know a number. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 4:I actually give a price quote, and the reason why I do is because I want to pre-qualify these people and I don't want to spend a whole. I don't want to give a whole presentation to someone who wishes they could hire me, and so I tell them what it costs and they could either afford me and want to continue the conversation or they're. You know like, there's a variety of DJs, there's also a variety of brides and unfortunately, a lot of brides don't feel like the DJ is that important, yeah, and so in those cases're they're looking for something different. That's also. There's other people that will be happy to take that gig, but I I like to say, hey, this is what it costs. If you want to get into this club, pay up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I kind of do this. I kind of do the same. I mean I have a price sheet with my packages. I have a one, two, three and holocart and um, they'll ask me, you know, I'll give them the little quick, you know, questionnaire of like when, stuff like that, what's the occasion? And stuff like that. If it's a wedding, I have a price sheet and send them off to them. I go, this is what I can offer If you have any questions on the prices are up there compared to a lot of other djs in town.
Speaker 3:So it kind of just eliminates that clientele. That really puts the dj on the back burner, you know, I mean of their event. You know they tell me oh, my wedding's next month, I got everything else, but I just need a dj. Those are the kind of clients I really don't really like messing with, right, you know. But the ones that are calling me a year in advance because they've seen me play x, you know wherever I played at, and they, hey, man, you know, or I was at a wedding that you were at, I really want you for my wedding or I went to the condors game yeah, and I loved you as my dj.
Speaker 2:Or I was at chewie's and I seen you throw down or something you know.
Speaker 1:Neither one of us is wrong. We're both right, and it boils down to what works for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah what works for you.
Speaker 4:I do almost the exact same as rich man I think, john, you are just you know, from talking to you and listening to you speak, I think you're probably a really good salesman. Yeah, so for that consultation, I'm sure you probably book a lot based on you, based on your spit yeah, it's a strength.
Speaker 3:You know what?
Speaker 1:it is, bro, it's, it's, and I I take that as a compliment, I don't take that as a well, I'm not a salesperson. I'm not selling anything, bro. Give it a name. Everybody's selling something, bro. If you're seating somebody at a restaurant, guess what you're selling? You're selling them potentially coming back, so yeah, you're selling them an experience everybody's selling so I'm a.
Speaker 1:The difference between my presentations, when I am going through, quote, unquote, the sales pitch, so to speak, is that passion, bro, and the love of the game, and it's wedding love also. In my experience it just poured out, and I'll be honest with you, man, it's a whole lot of Jesus too, because you combine all of those, bro, and I'm an unstoppable like presentation. And it's a presentation is what it is, because at the end of the day, I'm going to quote them a price, I'll show them three prices and, like Rich said, you can customize or do whatever you want, but it's up to them. But my job, my ultimate job, is to make that very difficult to walk away from because of my presentation oh yeah, no, that's, that's you being a good salesman.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, no doubt.
Speaker 4:No doubt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. I just I think that you're a better salesman than me, and so that's why I just say this is what it costs. Here's what I can give you. But I also offer a lot of browsing on my website. So there's a few gig logs, there's mixes they can listen to, there's pictures they can see, and I let them make because, ultimately, I'm going to do whatever they want. So I take the lead from the bride. What do you want me to do? And then, of course, if I could slide in a photo booth or up lighting or a monogram, I try to do that, but I can see that you sell more packages than me. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But what though? I might be a better salesperson as far as the wedding game than you, but I don't know in too deep. So you know, and that's that's one of my favorite jams. Every time rich plays it like we're hanging at chewy's or something, he kind of looks at me and I'm like that's my jam.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, like, yeah, the back to the hotel and uh, that drew down a pimp of the year.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Pimp of the year.
Speaker 3:That makes perfect.
Speaker 2:All right, gentlemen, we're going in on an hour long now. We're going to go ahead and I'm going to give you guys each about a minute or two exit. You can say what you want to say, say what you've been up to, where you're at your ads, your social medias, anything. So take it away.
Speaker 1:You got it Well JC Cota with all sound music and ASM dance floors. You can find us on IG at, uh, ASM DJ events or at ASM dance floors. Um, that Facebook is basically the same thing. Our, our website is all sound music entertainmentcom. Uh, I don't have any. I don't have any residencies or anything. I'm one of the older cats in the business. I've been in the business for about four decades, so I've seen the better part of the last four decades, from roughly 85 to current date. We play all types of music. The difference between us also is that we play nothing but family friendly edited music. But my library is strong, from the twenties up to current date in every popular genre, and one of the significant weapons that I have is the ability to hold that microphone really in the most unique way that you'll see anybody hold it here. I just don't have a style like everybody else, but it's all love man, A lot of Jesus and a whole lot of love for the game.
Speaker 2:I like that. Hey, we had to give them a round of applause, man, what's?
Speaker 3:that, what do you got rich? No, um, residencies, yeah, I'm kind of all over here in bakersfield so yeah, so if people want to come see me, you know you catch me at the biggest condors, hockey games, um in-game dj all season long, with Chewy's do cruise night every Thursday. So JC kind of got some residency because he's out there guest DJing with me almost every Thursday.
Speaker 4:It's all fun, man, so much fun.
Speaker 3:We call it the DJ gym because you know it's an all-format spot.
Speaker 1:It's a workout. We still need a name for our crew, so maybe somebody can help us out.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, we're all dads, so I think that's where we go somewhere down that route. But uh, but yeah, you can catch me out there and also out, you know, e-mountain casino. You know at least once a month, twice a month maybe. Sometimes you know doing out there. So but, yeah, catch me on, you know instagram dj richie rich, tiktok dj richie rich.
Speaker 2:So yeah, all right, derrick, we're gonna go ahead and close it out with you. Brother, man, what, what, what all do you want to get out there to the people that we haven't already? Even if we have already talked about it, man, if it's important to say it again, I just want to thank you for having me on your show.
Speaker 4:John and Rich appreciate you guys. Everybody out there who supports the Sick Mix edits and the Sick Mix edit family. Thank you guys for your support and it was. It's been a pleasure and I'd love to do it again we definitely will.
Speaker 2:Man with that, we'll close it up. Thank you guys for joining nice meeting you, derek we'll get together again in a few weeks.
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