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Balancing Beats, Bytes, and Bakersfield Laughs
What happens when a graphic design guru, a seasoned DJ, and a comedy promoter walk into a podcast? You get a lively conversation about the intersections between creative pursuits and mental well-being. Stacey Henzo Monroebot shares her transformation from screen-obsessed designer to a digital dynamo advocating for screen breaks and outdoor adventures for mental health. Tune in as DJ Ajax reveals his secret to thriving both behind the decks and in the gym, emphasizing the balance needed to handle the nightlife scene. Despite the odd technical hiccup, Clyde McGregor lights up the room with tales of turning Bakersfield into a comedy haven, proving that laughter truly is the best medicine for a community.
Ever wondered how web design impacts brand identity or what makes AI-generated art feel a tad robotic? We dig deep into the world of digital aesthetics, dissecting why a sleek website is crucial for brand credibility and how poor SEO can be a brand's Achilles' heel. The gang also tackles the hot topic of AI in the creative industry, sharing a mix of excitement and skepticism about its role. Will AI replace traditional artists, or will it merely assist them? Listen in as we share personal experiences and expert insights into bringing client visions to life, making the case for authenticity over automation.
Imagine a dream festival with no budget constraints—an electrifying lineup featuring legendary acts like Parliament and Outkast. We let our imaginations run wild, planning an epic event that combines the timeless energy of live music with the freedom of unlimited resources. Alongside this fantasy, we navigate real-world entertainment trends and the irreplaceable artistry of real DJs, even as AI and streaming change the game. Clyde and the crew reminisce about the joy of nurturing local talent and the burgeoning comedy scene in Bakersfield, wrapped up in the magic of passion, community, and the unyielding power of live entertainment.
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Thank you, living life filled up with family. We got the hallway of panties.
Speaker 2:Matt Miller in the most dope family. What's up y'all? The Most Dope Podcast is back. We have a rather large gathering today, however, which is very, very nice. The wife is back, marion. She she's sitting here. She's ready to jump in and and have some fun with us.
Speaker 3:We got dos muchos what's going on y'all, how everybody doing out there hey dos uh dj ajax up in the bay area.
Speaker 2:How you doing, brother? Good man, good you guys do well, yeah, it's uh, it's a good evening, man, it's uh exciting evening. We got uh Clyde McGregor, cmaq Productions, and we have Stacey Henzo Monroebot um hey guys let's go ahead and jump in. I'll just start off with Stacey, since she was just live. Stacey, tell us uh, tell us a little about this web design and graphic design thing you got well, um, I think, well, yeah, this year it's been.
Speaker 1:It'll be eight years that I've been in business, but I've been doing it for, I want to say, approximately about 10, a little over 10. So, um, anything from I started off a graphic designer, I, I do web design, photography, branding, social media, all that stuff, videography, so it's just a bunch.
Speaker 2:And they basically all branched off into that big conglomerate of everything that you do. They all are related all are related.
Speaker 1:Yes, like originally, it started out just a few things, but then you have your clients that need something. It's like, well, I can do that. So then you start basically coming in-house. You know situation for everybody, for all their needs jack of all trades.
Speaker 2:Jack of all digital design trades I like that there you go hey, hey, jacks, tell us, uh, tell us a little bit about yourself, your little history brother oh, man, um, and there's so much to tell.
Speaker 4:I swear. Um, it started out just like everybody else, you know, like I just wanted to be a dj like everyone on the radio. Um, I grew up listening to folks like cameron paul, michael erickson up here in the Bay and all the mobile DJ crews that were doing the parties and stuff out here. I wanted to be like them. I just wanted to learn how to mix and actually make mixtapes and scratch like you see on Breaking and Beat Street. That was my era growing up. In high school I picked up a pair of turntables and just kind of went from there.
Speaker 2:Nice, clyde McGregor, c-mac Productions. How you doing tonight, brother.
Speaker 4:Can you hear me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got you. Can you hear me okay? Yes, sir.
Speaker 6:Okay, sorry about that. I'm having some internet issues. That's all right, brother.
Speaker 2:Okay sorry about that. I'm having some internet issues. That's all right, brother, we'll jump back to you. Man, or are you live with us again? No, that's a negative, all right, so we're going to continue. We'll jump back in with Clyde McGregor, cmaq Productions. I've known the brother for I don't know probably 10 years now. He brings comedy to Bakersfield Basically every month. He brings a pretty heavy hitter into Bakersfield in the comedy world. He started out over at Bricks Bricks Lounge. He's done it over at Bricks, he went over to the Marriott, he was down at the Fox Theater and he's over at 1933 Speakeasy, which he's going to have a show coming up in March. So as soon as he gets back on, we'll try to chime in and hit him up. Ajax, you balance life pretty well. It, it would seem from the outside looking in. Um, you're pretty big into fitness, pretty big into fitness. How? How does your fitness, uh, how? How important is it in relationship to your djing and your mental health and your physical health?
Speaker 4:It's just, it's balance. You know where DJs aren't necessarily the most healthiest. You know DJing isn't the healthiest lifestyle, right, I mean?
Speaker 2:Sure, Late nights alcohol.
Speaker 4:Wake up late. We're going to bed late, you know you I don't know if it's a thing anymore because I don't do this, but, like you know, we used to go to Denny's after gigs, like every weekend. You know you're drinking and just there has to be that balance. You know you can't be doing all this damage to your body and not be doing some kind of good for it too. I guess you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely To combat it or to balance, like you said. To even it out just a little bit, hopefully take the edge off of the damage that you may be doing with these late nights and early mornings and double shifts and double backs and everything else that you run into.
Speaker 4:Right, and I mean, you know, our era too was carrying record crates and was like oh fuck man, start lifting some weights so that the damn crates aren't so heavy anymore. You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:And then you're talking about form and you say, hey, you're supposed to lift with your knees.
Speaker 4:Grab that crate and jam. Don't lose your back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Stacey. How does mental health work for you in your scope of the realm of digital design and web and everything else? How do you balance your your health with that?
Speaker 1:Uh well, I've kind of learned the hard way, and so now it's basically cause I work from home and that your face is in front of your phone or in front of a computer constantly.
Speaker 1:So, uh, basically get the hell outside for one all right, you know, um, whether it's like walking, like you need obviously some form of exercise, but even just taking a walk, uh, listening music, because it's so easy to get caught up, like while you're working, watching like your favorite shows, like in the same time, which is not really good. So incorporating music for sure, so that for me that's really good. So incorporating music for sure, so that for me that's really good for mental health and then taking taking breaks, like whether it's with family or you just escaped to the beach recently.
Speaker 1:Yes, and that's also another one Several times throughout the year the beach. I just need that salty air, all right. So that's good, or getting out of town, getting the hell out of town, basically.
Speaker 5:That helps getting the hell out of town basically that helps Getting the hell out of Beko Sometimes.
Speaker 2:So this one's going to be a bit of a crossover question and this is going to be directed to everyone, no one specific. It's not about web design, it's not about DJ, it's what's just a daily habit that helps you stay mentally strong within your own profession. Uh, one daily habit dose. What do you? Uh, what do you do on a daily?
Speaker 3:that's a habit man, I sit up and watch. I mean watch tv like you know. I mean like like I sit up and watch like classic wrestling okay you know I mean just to, just to take my mind off of you know what I mean. Just go back to a good time you know what I mean, you know what I mean and sit here and just, you know, just space out for a minute.
Speaker 2:Space out, transport yourself to a different era, a different time in your life, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, when I wasn't. Yeah, you know where I about getting from point a to point b and what time I'm just this is me I'm, this is my time, I'm just doing.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like meditating yes, all right, yes, and yeah I go, I go to sleep with it on, all right, I mean so, hey, hey, a lot of people go to sleep with a box fan I've heard that, oh yeah they need the hum they need some kind of noise as they sleep. Yeah, yeah, how about? You ajx oh I'm sorry, oh no.
Speaker 1:No, I was gonna say I agree with you I need a something to kind of numb yourself, which you yeah, how?
Speaker 2:about you, Ajax. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Oh no. No, I was going to say I agree with you. I need something to kind of numb yourself, which you could say meditating. But sometimes TV shows that kind of numb the brain a little bit.
Speaker 2:It's just easy to watch like put ridiculousness on in the background and look up from your phone and have a laugh every once in a while.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 4:All right, ajax, sir, you know I, aside from the TV thing, like I don't have anything that I do like on a daily basis and I think that actually kind of makes it better for me, because then you don't have that same thing every day Like no, no, two days are ever the same the redundancy, the monotony.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like one. You know, one day I might be out in the field like doing some, some work. You know like have a midday gig or something like that. One day I might be stuck doing turntable repairs like all day long. You know I'm not actively training clients anymore as far as like fitness and everything, but I'm still trying, you know, and I don't always make it, but I try to like hit the gym, you know, and I don't always make it, but I try to like hit the gym, you know, at least like three times a week, sure. And now I've even, uh, like I just moved and so everything is different, right? So like my tv habits are different, my eating habits are different, my training habits, like nothing is the same as it was last year. So right now I even have like this little squat device and a pull-up tower, like in my living room All right.
Speaker 4:And so if I'm cooking dinner I'll run over and knock out like a set of 10, 12 pull-ups or whatever. Yeah, and then go back and set the air fryer, run over here and do some sets real quick. So it's kind of cool that, like I don't have the monotony of like a regular schedule like when I used to have a day job or whatever.
Speaker 2:Sure, sure, clyde, were you able to join us. Brother, I'm not sure Clyde was able to join us.
Speaker 4:I can hear him.
Speaker 2:Oh man Can you hear me?
Speaker 5:Yeah, we can hear you.
Speaker 2:Clyde? Yeah, that was Clyde for a second, he's out now. Though. Hey, ajax, tell me about the uh, the turntable repair business, brother. How did you? I mean, obviously you got into that because you broke some yeah, um, it was uh, oh, my god.
Speaker 4:So I, I started in 1990 and literally like my first um, like within a year, I started working at this record store and, um, like my manager over there, like he was a stanford graduate, like really smart dude, and his, like even his, the other co-workers and everyone, like everybody was like really smart and I was like this young, arrogant, little punk ass kid but who knew his shit and was a dope dj, you know.
Speaker 4:And so I thought, and, um, I remember one of my 1200s was having an issue and I did the ghetto thing, you know, you snip the wire, you splice it together and now it's running mono off of like one side, yeah, and I was talking to my manager about it and he was just like, dude, you can't be doing that, you're running mono. Like he scolded me, you know. And, um, he was just like, no, you're gonna bring your turntable in, we're gonna fix it. Go to radio shack tonight, pick this cable up and, uh, we'll take care of it tomorrow. I was just like, all right, cool, I'm gonna get a free fucking turntable repair. You know why not? And he actually took the time to take me through the process and showed me exactly what he was doing, like every step, and explained it. You know like, okay, you should do this.
Speaker 4:Tin the wire, splice the wire this way, twist it this way, add a little curve into the wire and all like every little step, and I was just like, alright, cool. And next thing, you know, I was able to open up my other one. I didn't do it, but messed it up. But you know just, it's a learning process, right, and I started to do them just for a handful of people and then I took an electronics class and just got better at everything. You know, like my tech, my soldering technique was better. I ended up getting faster because I was doing it more often. And um, then, two years later, we opened up our own record store and then we started buying parts from techniques directly because the um like the service center was authorized to.
Speaker 4:Yeah city, over from where we were. We were located and, um, they got so tired of me calling, saying you know, hey, I need this part, I need this part. And then we had to research the part numbers that they just said here we're going to give you this service manual, so when you come to us or you call us, you have all the part numbers ready for us, please. And I'm like oh OK. And it was the whole teardown manual, you know had like the exploded view of everything.
Speaker 4:So I was like, ok, now I can see how this other stuff works, how to take the rest of it apart instead of only doing just the rca cables. Now I was able to do, you know, replacing tone arms, replacing pitch controls, all the other stuff, and then everything else.
Speaker 2:You just kind of learn as you go all right, all right, what is, what are the big ones that you do, man? I mean, do you do all the leds, you do all the tricks, do all that? I?
Speaker 4:don't, I don't do all the like the really custom stuff. Like you see some crazy. You see some crazy customs. You know that are like powder-coated and you know custom designs and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 4:Like I look at that as like okay, that's my ride, that's bling.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm Jiffy, I'm functionality, I I will do all the basic repairs, like the necessary stuff, and I can you know I can change your lights. Yeah, I can. You know I can. I can give you blue LEDs. I can do some, some of some of the basic custom stuff, sure, but other than that, it's just like you can come in and I'll knock your stuff out within a day. So, like right now, because I live close to Napa, like I tell people come in around noon, drop off your gear, just go over to Napa real quick and I'm pointing over here, because that's where Napa is.
Speaker 2:Yeah we know where it's at.
Speaker 4:And just go get lunch at Napa or do what you want to do over there and come back in like two hours, all right.
Speaker 5:So Stacey? How does web designing impact brands credibility?
Speaker 1:brand identity and especially web design in general is everything, because anymore people you know you google everything. Yeah, so even you know, even having your presence on google. And then for me, and maybe just because I'm kind of nerdy, so it's like if you Google like a bit, even if it's a restaurant, I want to see the website, I want to see the menu. I don't want to see people's pictures that may be like six years old of whatever it is Like. It's, it's the most important and it's important to to update it, you know, every three to five years. So it's's a really huge, huge deal. And then also the which again I'm sounding super nerdy you have the back end of, like, you know seo, so you want to make sure that that's constantly ranking as well, because you don't want to be like page five yeah, so and you really, you really, really really dislike ai, don't you?
Speaker 1:dislike AI, don't you? There's so many levels that I can't even get to.
Speaker 2:Tell us about AI.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there, of course, there are always benefits to new tech in general, but what I don't appreciate is the fact that it's replacing artists in general. You have it's replacing graphic design. It's replacing even people that paint. They're taking, you know, anything digital and they were, even if people weren't paying attention to even Photoshop, which I love. When you sign, you know you agree to the conditions. You're allowing them to take pieces of your work or all of your work incorporated to AI, and you're not making a dime off of it. So there's a lot of things. And then now, all of a sudden, people think that they you know, I don't want to put people down, but I see people within marketing thinking that there are these massive artists, and it's my daughter's nine and her art looks just as great. So there's that.
Speaker 2:And my AI art is amazing too, Would you. Would you is amazing too, would you would you say that it all?
Speaker 3:would you say that it like can you just look at it and be like that's AI?
Speaker 1:it's so ridiculous now, like I was it's so dumb looking at Pinterest trying to find a hair color, and most of the chicks that they have on there are AI and it's like, not even a real like. So anyway, it's like that close to being like anime right but that's, but I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 3:Like I understand. I understand it, but like I would that was my question because, like, when I look at it, it all seems like it is like.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know what the database behind it is, but it seems like it's all coming from the same place, it's well, and I feel bad too for people that are dating, like you know, with all the filters, and people making their pictures that are from ai and if you see them in real life, wow. So there's all kinds of weird I didn't know.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that he's going that far with you.
Speaker 4:I don't know I hate when I meet a girl and she shows up without her dog ears.
Speaker 1:And her tongue sticking out. It's that furry stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Stacey hey, what's your process when you bring a client's vision to life? So, like me, for instance, I didn't know you. I came to you a couple years ago, maybe a few years ago. Just so happened that you knew my wife and you had worked with my wife prior, didn't know that I had posted something. Looking for a web designer, looking for a logo, looking for graphics, you gather certain bits of information. So for a DJ, we gather event information from somebody and we say, okay, it's going to be at this location at this time, from this time to this time, for X amount of hours on this date. And you know that's the information we go with. And you know genre music. What's the event type? Is it a quinceanera, is it a 80th birthday party? Whatever it may be, how do you bring our visions to life?
Speaker 1:what is your process? Well, I kind of think it's a lot for my background. I used to I was a stylist for a little bit and a fashion merchandiser and then, um, I used to while going to school I bartended as well, so you kind of get my iended as well, so you kind of get my, I guess, secret. It's like you kind of get vibes off of people and I can kind of quickly grasp maybe your style. What you like, like, I do like some. I need kind of it's helpful to have some direction, but it's kind of quick for me to kind of realize what I think that you really like and what you would really dig, and then you bring it in, like obviously the logo first, and then you go to the website, you know, into other marketing designs. But that's kind of. I think what it is is my background a little bit.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 6:All right, hey Gordon, can you hear me?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 6:How you doing, Clyde. I'm good buddy.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry I had to get on my phone, my computer and my internet was causing me some issues, so it's all right, brother. Hey, hey, give us a quick intro to yourself, brother thank you, man.
Speaker 6:So I'm um born and raised in San Francisco. Uh live here in Bakersfield, been here for about 25 26 years. Um got into the uh entertainment industry back in 2019. I started my own business, uh bringing comedians out here to bakersfield. Also do shows in san francisco. I've did about five shows in san francisco. For those of you who know just you know. For those of you who know something about san francisco, down at fishman's wharf, down at the Grotto, I've done five shows and I was in the fitness industry for 25 years. So I had a great career in the fitness industry. So that's a little bit about me, married for 35 years.
Speaker 2:Hey, congratulations. Yeah, so we got a lot of fitness here. I've been in fitness ever since my pops passed away. Ajax is heavily into fitness and Clyde is heavily into fitness as well. Stacey Dose, Marion, I don't know what your guys' situation is on the fitness level, but we got three or four of us fitness nerds on here.
Speaker 1:We're mommies so we don't have time for that. I'm a retired athlete, so I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2:There you go. You've had enough.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we'll go with that.
Speaker 2:Hey, clyde brother. What makes a great event flow smoothly from your perspective?
Speaker 6:You know, first of all, just making sure that you know you bring the right people that's going to come and entertain. I think that's always important. You know, I've always been one to make sure that. You know, I have a quality lineup of comedians that I bring to any town that I'm in. I think the person who's, you know, pretty much promoting the show has to be, you know, kind of in line with that too.
Speaker 6:You know, I'm always wanting like an adult type crowd, people who work every day, who just want to come out and have a good time and get some laughs. And then, you know, go back home today, you know, today, home, you know, today, today, life and just promoting, you know, just making sure that you promote. You know, quite naturally, if you don't promote and nobody will know that you're having an event. So I think promoting is big. You know, via social media, via reaching out to the news outlet, your local news outlet, you know, getting flyers. It's just a lot that goes into it. It's not easy but it's very rewarding when you make it happen. So I've had a lot of success with it. I'm very, very pleased with that.
Speaker 2:Let me ask about it's going to be a kind of a two-part question Clyde, what was your favorite favorite guest that you've had?
Speaker 6:And what was your favorite audience?
Speaker 6:interaction that you had with that guest, you mean the performer, yes, sir, somebody who came for me, okay. So probably my favorite uh show was probably, I would say, boogie b. Uh, most of you might not know who boogie b is. Uh, boogie b was um, he was a comedian, he, he passed away and um, but he was one of my favorite comedians. I mean, we had so much fun in the green, in the green room, you know, with comedians. You know you're constantly laughing. So I'm in the green room with the comedians and I mean I never stopped laughing because I mean they just got. Comedians are some of the smartest people that you ever want to be around Quickest wittiest, quickest, wittiest in the whole nine Right.
Speaker 6:Quickest, wittiest. Quickest wittiest in the whole nine, right? So Boogie B probably was my favorite interaction, but I've had so many, it's really hard to say just one, but you asked me for one. But Boogie B was one of my favorites and I think I just posted not too long ago Boogie B. He passed away. Yeah, rip Boogie B. He came out and did a great great. He did two shows for me out here in Bakersfield and just ripped it, ripped it, ripped the stage. But but I've had so many, I've had over 35 shows in Bakersfield, and so it's just hey, what's, what's your biggest challenge when you're hosting these events?
Speaker 2:Clyde, oh, I think he dropped.
Speaker 6:Oh he's, there. No, no, you still there brother, can you hear me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. What's your biggest challenge? Hosting these events, Clyde?
Speaker 6:I wouldn't say so much of a challenge. I think the biggest obstacle is just, you know, as you're winding down and you're getting closer to these shows, just making sure tickets are being sold. You know, I think that's the biggest challenge, right, because you know, as you're winding down and you're getting closer to these shows, just making sure tickets are being sold. You know, I think that's the biggest challenge, right, because you know you got everything in place. You know you got the comedians, you know you did the work and now it's just a matter of just wait for people to just, you know, buy tickets to sell your rent out. I think that's my biggest challenge. That's, if you want to call it a worry. That's what kind of keeps me up as we get closer, just making sure that people are purchasing tickets and coming to patronize the business. But not really a lot of challenges in terms of what I do on a day-to-day basis, but just making sure that I'm selling tickets.
Speaker 2:All right. What's your information, Clyde? You've got cmac-productionscom, is that correct?
Speaker 6:Yeah, so I have a few. So I'm cmac-productions on IG, on Facebook and then my web. I also have a web page that's cmac-production. That's where I have my website and so you can reach me on those platforms.
Speaker 3:I had a question real quick for Ajax. You know, with AI and streaming you know what I'm saying being popular right now, where do you see DJing within the next five years?
Speaker 4:I think the real DJing is not going to change. Um, your real djs with real skills. Nothing's going to change. I mean it might. It might change the way that we you know pre-program or whatever like that when it comes to like setting up for events. But you know you're you're not going to replace somebody doing all these like hard scratches and and you know all that. Like there's programs right now where you can load in you know 15 tracks to the program and it'll, it'll scan the tracks and then it'll fill in the gaps put together the right harmonics in the right order and mix those together to make you a mixtape.
Speaker 3:I was listening to the radio. I'm sorry, I was listening to the radio and what you're saying right now. I know what you're talking about. I think I know, I just don't know the name of it.
Speaker 4:I know what you're talking about and I mean, don't get me wrong, you know, I mean in radio. Every single one of my radio mixes that I had done was all done on a computer. They were all edited, but they were done in programs, you know, like Acid Pro or Ableton. But I'm still controlling everything and I'm still, you know, okay, if the track drifts, I've got to slice it up, I've got to fix it. I'm doing the volume crossfades, I'm balancing the tracks, I'm, you know, mixing it down, mastering it and doing all those. All of that stuff, like a lot you know myself. So I don't trust ai for any of that.
Speaker 2:you know, like you're saying, you know you see the pictures right, like oh, there's all kinds of errors in the pictures all the time I have six fingers.
Speaker 4:Yeah, right, right, right. You know little things like that, or why is it? Why is it? The? Um, the toes look like long fingers or something. You know all that. So you got to figure, if you're letting the ai thing make your tracks or make your mixes and everything for you, then it's going to give you that equivalent of six fingers into your set. So you know, and I mean I came from the turntablist background, the battle scene, you know. So like I mean, I was battling in the early nineties and everything like that. So I'm one of those, those angry older dudes who's always like got you, got you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're doing pre-made mixes on this big giant stage, on this music festival, whatever, so you know it's almost like lip singing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, there's going to be evolution and you do have to embrace it. I mean, we are all running digital. We are running, you know, controllers instead of uh turntables and our gigs. But I'm not gonna, you know, and there's nothing wrong with the sync button. Let me say that first off, because I think the sync button's a dope tool when you're using it for, um, enhancing right. You know, like you see guys like craze and lazy boy where they're doing the sync button so that they can do other stuff while the thing, while the tracks are mixing together. But if you're the type that's just only using the sync to mix your your a to b, right, come on, man.
Speaker 2:You know like it's a little lazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I was going to say that it sounds lazy.
Speaker 4:Especially when the tracks aren't, like you know, perfectly beat gridded right when they're not perfectly quantized, when you're running Live music, like live bands or disco. You know stuff from the 70s and 80s. Everything wasn't perfectly metronomed. You see these guys on the message boards complaining like oh my God, I was trying to do this and then it's already. You're like I had it locked in I had it locked and then the beat changed Like what the fuck?
Speaker 3:That's called human error.
Speaker 5:There's always going to be that human error. Yeahacy, I'm gonna go back to you. What are the biggest trends in design that businesses should pay attention to?
Speaker 1:the biggest trends and designs um, this, I guess, for me, I feel like I'm going to be against the norm and that's kind of like what my style is. I'm a maximalist. I'm not really everybody's. There's so much minimalism everywhere that I feel like it's just like your eyes kind of blind to it, that I just think that I'm just more dramatic. So, personally, for me, it's just I wish that people would be more out there.
Speaker 1:Like it's really yeah, and that's like what I try to do for my clients is to bring not just you out but push you a little bit. You know a little bit more towards the edge, but not too far, but like the minute, but a lot of everybody. You know the minimalism I think I'm not knocking anybody but you. But you know it's everywhere, yeah, so that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you think a common misconception of people in your industry is? What do you think there's a common misconception? Do you think there's one?
Speaker 1:Ah, that's a really good question ah, that's a really good question.
Speaker 2:Maybe, uh, maybe that people have teams.
Speaker 1:Um, I guess, because I I'm just because you're a one woman team, one woman show. So I think the misconception is that people think that you have, you know, eight people a lot of resources a lot of resources doing it all and trying to make it. You know, making all, not trying to make it happen. Making it happen off the top of my head, that's what I would say.
Speaker 2:Clyde, this one's for you, brother. How important do you think collaboration and networking is within the entertainment and comedy industry, and I'll say specifically in regards to, let's say, bakersfield, probably not the most sought after venue in California to entice somebody to come perform at?
Speaker 6:Yeah, you know, that's a really good question and one of the obstacles early on was just trying to get comedians to come to Bakersfield, because there's a lot of comedians, you know, big name comedians that necessarily won't even come to Bakersfield. They hear Bakersfield and they kind of go no, I'm not going to Bakersfield and I've had that happen to me several times. But I think as we put on these shows and you know people see that, you know it's a great crowd, it's a lot of energy. I know, just to answer your question, you know people like TK Kirkland I brought him out here, he had never been here. Earthquake I brought him out here, he had never been here. Dc Youngfly I brought him out here, he had never been here. You know Damon Williams, and the list goes on and on. These guys never been in. Coco Brown I just had actress, movie, star, comedian, she had never been out there. So I mean you had some more out here. Even I had some more to queen of comedy out here. You know I had Godfrey out here. You know none of these folks had ever been to Bakersfield to put on a show.
Speaker 6:And so as I continue to see video footage and speak to people that came out because they talk. I can tell you one thing about the comedy industry they're really a close-knit family. You've got people like Dave Chappelle. You've got him as big as he is. He hangs out with Evan Lionel and people like Dave Chappelle, you know, you got him. You know as big as he is. He hangs out with Evan Lionel and people like that who are not, as let's say, famous, if you will, sure, you know, and so that was the biggest obstacle in the beginning. But now I'm breaking that wall and we're starting to get more and more and we got a lot of things that we have prepared, that's coming up in the near future, but that we have prepared. That's coming up in the near future. But definitely Bakersfield is becoming on the map for a lot of comedians now.
Speaker 2:You know, tell me about your thought process on bringing the young talent in that you do. You know, we got some Bakersfield brothers, we got Lito, we got K Mitch, we got Demarie, we have I forgot the young lady's name, but we have a lot of good young comedians here. Tell me your thought process On bringing them out here and letting them cut their teeth To open up on your shows.
Speaker 6:Yeah, Right, you know that was one of the things for me, that was to me first of all. You know it's been the most rewarding thing to do. In the very beginning, one of the things that I always said that I would try to give the youngsters you know, the young comedians in Bakersfield a platform, and not only just to perform but to be able to engage in all these. I call them like Hall of Famers. These comedians have been in the game for 30 years or so and just the wealth of knowledge, you know, just sitting in the green room with them and picking their brains and you know, and having older you know older vets, you know guys and girls tell them look, you know you're doing great.
Speaker 6:Hey, here's my number. Hey, you know what I got to LA. I'm going to look out for you. You know that's been the most rewarding. So I know the guys. You know I love all the guys and girls out here in Vegas who do comedy and I know they got a lot of love. For me too, because I've always that's been one of my main focuses was the opportunity to be on the platform when I did my first show at the Fox you know the bigger audience.
Speaker 6:Yeah, you know what I mean. And so for my very humbling beginnings at Briggs Lounge, he was there from the beginning, so you already know because you've seen it with your own eyes. So but it's been very rewarding. Been there since day one, brother, I've been to every show. I think, every show, every show, and I think the one that you didn't come to you was out of town on work. Yeah, yeah, but you still purchased.
Speaker 2:Oh, I always buy tickets, man. I try to give tickets away, man, I always try to support brother, always, will man.
Speaker 6:Yeah, but I'll say this real quick and then I'll let you pass it on, unless you have something else for me. But one thing that I have to say about you, brothers you've been there from day one and I'm so honored to be on your, on your platform, that you know that you would reach out and have me on. You know how much love I have for you and just a remarkable path that you're taking and everything that you're doing. I remember when you first talked about being a DJ and all of that. You talked about being a DJ and all of that. You know what I'm saying. And to see you flourish and to be where you are now, I mean that's a blessing, so it's just an honor. And also to have you even DJ on these shows that we're having now too, so that's an honor and I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 2:Hey, thank you so much, brother, that meant more than you know to me man, I appreciate it. They got me over here trying to tear up. I, I appreciate it. They got me over here trying to tear up. I ain't doing it y'all. That's all we got for you. Clyde, if you need to bounce, you can go ahead and jam out of here, brother.
Speaker 6:Okay, all right, all right. Thank you so much, gordon. You take care, and everybody on the call. Thank you so much. Y'all take care.
Speaker 1:Bye.
Speaker 6:Bye.
Speaker 1:Bye.
Speaker 2:Man, I'm going to give this question to my boy Dos over here. I'm going to give this question to my boy Dos because I got a real honest question for him. I've been talking to him about plans that I have and things that I want to do and I think I've been a little bit selfish and I wouldn't say unlimited. But you had some resources, what would you do? What kind of event would you throw?
Speaker 3:Man, this is something I've had in my mind ever since I was a kid man, don't you know?
Speaker 3:man, I try to have one of them festivals, like one of them three-day events. You know what I'm saying, like with Parliament, and you know what I'm saying. The Mary Jane girls, and you know what I'm saying. I want Andre 3000 and Big Boy to perform again. I'm talking about, like, if it's endless resources, man, let's go for the moon. You know what I mean. I want them all out there. You know what I mean. I want Rolling Stones. We're putting ZZ Top back together. I know a boy. One of them passed away.
Speaker 2:He did One of them passed away. You know what I?
Speaker 3:mean I want Huey Lewis in the news. You know what I mean. I'm talking about it.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a smorgasbord. It's going to be wild.
Speaker 3:You'd be like he picked all these. Yes, he did. Tell me about the in your eyes. What do you see outside? Where where are you at, where is this venue? Where is this event man?
Speaker 2:you know it probably has to be. It doesn't be in my hometown yuma.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I already got the spot picked out. It's right off of 8th street. Man, I'm telling you this has been something like since I was like 16 years old. I just like I want to field up. I want you know, I mean like I'm on golf court carts. You gotta get to the state, you gotta get to the area. I want golf carts. You got to get to the state, you got to get to the area in golf carts and stuff. I want big security. I want it like that. You know what I mean. Out of control. You know what I mean, but just like that. But everybody's just having fun, all right.
Speaker 5:You know what I?
Speaker 3:mean. And for free, hey, and for free. If there's money like that, I'm like, hey, man, you know, and then I don't want nothing back from this because it could destroy me. So I'm going to go ahead and be like everybody have fun, Everybody have fun.
Speaker 5:What about you, Stacey have you had unlimited resources.
Speaker 1:I dig because you had me everywhere, from like Mary Mary Jane Girls to like Andre, like whether it be Outkast to I Want Missy Elliott. Oh yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 2:It's two days yeah get some old Timberland and Magoo back in there.
Speaker 1:It's two days, oh seriously. I'm like go space Like get them all in there.
Speaker 3:I'm talking about historic.
Speaker 5:I want to cover a.
Speaker 3:Rolling Stone that week. I want to say you missed the world's greatest concert like that. I want to like that.
Speaker 2:That could be Woodstock-esque.
Speaker 4:I see those ideas and I'm gonna raise you okay, here we go, here we go, man every artist has to perform with a band real musicians music yes, that yeah that would be.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that would be like just this past, this past saturday, um, jizza was in town in napa and the opening dj, william big shout to william. Um, he hooked me up with with tickets and everything and he was jizza was performing with a live band called the funky nomads and holy shit like to to see, um, all that classic material and especially because because I mean, he didn't just like it was the like the liquid swords, um anniversary swords.
Speaker 4:We were just talking about that but he, he did a bunch of like Wu Tang tracks too Right. So he did like triumph. He did um cream and a few other tracks. He did like shimmy, shimmy and um like. I've always felt that triumph was one of the greatest hip hop instrumentals of all time.
Speaker 4:Like ever it's in my top like three probably, and to see a live band perform Triumph with like that bass line coming through on the violin, ok, it was just like some next level shit you know, and it was like a small venue, it wasn't sold out, it was the Uptown Theater in Napa, shit you know, and this is. It was like a small venue, it wasn't sold out, it was the uptown theater in napa, but like it was probably one of the best shows I've ever seen, just because the band made it that way I got goosebumps when you said that right now, I could just hear that dude, I had like video footage.
Speaker 4:I put them all on my um, on my my stories, like over the weekend, but I'll put them all like on the real post so you guys can like check it out. Please do, please, please do please. And it's only, you know, a little short, because I hate when people do that shit, right? So I didn't record anything longer than like one minute at a time, but gotcha.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the fan in me, because you need to be there to experience it not through the lens of a phone that's me.
Speaker 3:That's me. I'm like, I hold it up like, but I'm not watching the whole show through the phone.
Speaker 4:I literally only recorded, like you know, 30 to 45 to a minute at a time, and just you know like, okay, just a little of that song and a little of that song, just to be able to remember it.
Speaker 5:Right, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Let me see, I'm going to close it up with a question and then I'm going to come around to everybody and we're going to let everybody know where we're at, what we're doing, what our socials are, what our you know websites are, everything else. What is the song that when you're at a wedding, you're at a big event that comes on, that would just spark you? It's just, it's there's like. For me it probably it's. There's like. For me, it probably it's. It might be like a fat man scoop song or something.
Speaker 2:Oh right Bitch drop.
Speaker 3:Single ladies, okay, oh, who's it on?
Speaker 2:Everybody whoever wants to chime in.
Speaker 3:Oh, you already know my answer. Oh, you know you know my answer.
Speaker 2:Africa. You know my answer Africa, bombada Damn right. Planet Rock, planet Rock Right.
Speaker 3:When I hear that it's, I just remember when I was a kid, when I first heard that I was just like what the hell is this? I was like I love this right here. Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I was like this is like Star Wars in the streets. I was like what the hell is this? Well, the last podcast I said Sugar Hill Gang was. You know, that's what got me into hip hop and DJing and the love for music and everything else. So definitely if Rapper's Delight dropped I would go crazy.
Speaker 3:Got you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, got you Stacey, had Single Ladies. What else you got? Oh well, it's probably not appropriate, but uh, maybe she'd get like a salt shaker. Every fucking thing's appropriate on this podcast. How about you, babe?
Speaker 5:I don't know this. We had this wedding recently and um this dad was just so into love shack oh, it was so awesome like that just went crazy yes, it was so fun yeah, he had. He had the entire dance scripted like he's like oh, like it was awesome around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he did the whole music video.
Speaker 4:Man got you, yeah, got you all right, it's pretty awesome, it's birthday last week and, um, they wanted like to do karaoke and everything One of the little kids wanted to do love shack. Oh we stopped. We stopped before we got to to get her song on, but I, just I was like oh, god damn it, I wanted to be able to see her do that myself.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can't see, you know me. I'm already like I'll do the you know me.
Speaker 5:I'm already like.
Speaker 2:I'm going to the next one, second song, third song no, no, no, I'm already in my mind.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking right now like okay, what spot can I go ahead and drop Love Shack at and lock?
Speaker 5:that whole place up.
Speaker 2:That's what.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking right now All right y'all.
Speaker 2:Well, it was a wonderful podcast. I appreciate everybody for joining. Ajax, brother, thank you for joining, joining, taking the time out your day up there, stacy. Thank you, dose, as always. Thank you for coming through. Babe. Thank you for everything thank you. Ajax, let us know where we can find you. Uh, let us know what you do your turntable repair, your uh 1200 site. You have um everything. Let us know, brother um.
Speaker 4:So Instagram, I've got two, two pages. One's the dj ajax sf um and the other one is the fresh 1200s. So I mean, I pretty much post the same stuff on both of them, but the the fresh 1200s is a little bit only repair, repair stuff, sure, but my favorite thing to do is to post the disaster repairs that I do oh yeah all the the mountain of solder like holy well, not even that, but like like the one that I'm working on, like right right now downstairs.
Speaker 4:Um, this thing, like he didn't even know, because this guy bought the turntable used and I'm able to tell him this turntable was definitely used at burning man or some kind of a desert rave oh, and he was like how can you tell like there's so much dust and and it's a different type of, it's a fine dirt, club dirt that's been caked on and everything right.
Speaker 4:So like I love posting the, the horror stories even you know, of course, the do-over work, like the um, the bad fodder jobs and everything, and like I mean to the point where people, people come to me and they're like don't put my turntable on your page.
Speaker 2:It's like their child.
Speaker 4:For one, one favorite story this, this was hilarious this guy. He found me like on Instagram or whatever you know, and because of that, like he was following all the all that stuff, and then he his turntable and he brought in. He tried to do it himself and couldn't do it. So he brought me like a box full of parts and the little Ziplocs full of the screws and everything. So I remember the look on his face and I was like so wait a minute, you've been following me for two years and you still decided you've learned nothing.
Speaker 4:It was that little kid that was in trouble, you know just like that, just so I mean you'll see all that I mean, you know my, my main page, the dj page, like you'll see all that you know. Okay, I'm doing a party, I'm doing this. You'll see little footage, um, from whatever, but I'll post up, like the turntable, horror stories on both and then, um, my online store, uh, where you can buy, like my turntable repair kits and all that stuff.
Speaker 4:Like I actually made a turntable cleaning and detailing kit awesome. Um, I'm a car detailer too. We haven't talked about that and, um, you know, my, my repair kits, the little things and, of course, like the dj edits, the edit packs and everything I make A handful of, like different T-shirts that you can get and everything that's fresh1200sclub.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right. Thank you, brother Stacy. Let us know, give us all the infos.
Speaker 1:Across the board. It's just a Monroe bot. So, whether it's Instagram, facebook, I haven't done the greatest job I do for clients, but not for myself. So I I'm starting to post. Within this next month, I'm going to start posting what I'm up to.
Speaker 2:Hey, you can post our new site.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, so Monroe bot everywhere. Everywhere it's Monroe bot M. O N R O E B O T Yep Monroe bot All right, brother dose, brother dose JJ.
Speaker 3:Y'all can find me at the real DJ dos muchos. That's the real D, e, j, a, y, d O S, m-y-d-o-s-m-u-c-h-o-z. On Instagram and on TikTok. I'm on Facebook. It's just as Dos Muchos with a Z. You know what I mean. Got a whole bunch of you know I've been putting you know my little gigs and you know a little funny thing I'm thinking about of the day, you know, hopefully you don't know why you flip out behind it and usually We've been keeping that at an ice-cold level right now.
Speaker 3:So everything's fine, come check me out. You're not like me trying to fight people on the internet.
Speaker 2:No, no, no no, no.
Speaker 5:You're so bad.
Speaker 2:Tell us about you, what you do and where we can find you, and everything else.
Speaker 5:So I actually do like balloons. I'm very creative with balloons, so I do all of that. We have our photo booth business, so you can find me at Cali Entertainment or we can do the Busy Bee Creations which Stacey did for me. Stacey's done all of it. Cali Entertainment Group DJ.
Speaker 2:Gordy B.
Speaker 5:Busy Bee Creations, all of the above.
Speaker 2:She's working on a website for us right now. We got all kinds of stuff in the works.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But yes, balloons, balloon, garlands, planning, decorating. Yeah, that's all Marion, that's right up her. Alley, don't ask me for it, just hit her up directly, even though people don't listen. And I'm DJ Gordy B, gordon Baldridge, everywhere. Is it Gordon dot Baldridge or Gordon dash Baldridge or Gordon Baldridge or DJ Gordy B? Cali Entertainment Group all over the board. Same thing DJ Gordy B across the board and Gordon Baldridge across the board. So again, thank you, guys, all for coming. We're going to wrap this podcast up and uh um. Oh.
Speaker 4:I'm trying to build up my YouTube. I'm actually doing like turntable repair tutorials.
Speaker 2:Oh, there we go.
Speaker 4:Like three things up there right now, but it's the same same across the board. Dj Ajax SF.
Speaker 2:DJ Ajax SF is your YouTube channel. Yeah, including probably your Twitch, instagram, facebook, all of the above.
Speaker 4:Not on Facebook, because that's like my personal stuff. I think it might be because I have a business page on Facebook too, but, like my TikTok Instagram Twitch, which I don't really do anymore, I've seen your post recently.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, brother. Well, thank you guys. I appreciate you all joining. You guys have a good evening.
Speaker 4:All right, have a good night. Outro Music.
