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Family Over Everything: Building a Legacy Through Love
What happens when a group of passionate event industry professionals gather to share their journeys? Magic—pure conversational magic. In this deeply personal episode, we're joined by DJ Dante Cross, Nate and Courtney Antwine of NAL Entertainment and I Do Events 661, and Marion of Busy Bee Creations for an unfiltered look at building businesses while keeping family at the center.
The conversation reveals the surprising parallels between seemingly different creative fields. DJ Dante vulnerably shares how he once "let the music inside him die" before rekindling his passion, while Nate explains his philosophy of treating contractors as peers rather than employees—"What's knowledge if you're not sharing it?" Meanwhile, Courtney offers insights into wedding coordination, approaching each bride as if she were her own daughter to ensure they can actually enjoy their celebration instead of stressing over logistics.
What makes this discussion truly special is how it weaves between professional expertise and deeply personal wisdom. We explore the psychology behind reading a room as a DJ, the artistry often unrecognized in balloon arrangements, and the challenges of pricing creative services when clients don't see the expertise involved. But we also delve into what makes marriages last, with each guest offering heartfelt advice summed up beautifully by Dante: "Find somebody that will truly love you through your darkest moments, and when you can be the one to shed the light, turn back around and reciprocate that love."
Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, event professional, or simply someone trying to balance passion with family priorities, this conversation offers both practical business insights and soul-nourishing perspective. Connect with our guests on Instagram (@djdantecross, @nalentertainment, @idoevents661) and discover why doing what you love means you'll never work a day in your life—especially when you're building something alongside the people you love most.
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Speaker 2:We got the whole world paying to go, mac Miller and the most loud family.
Speaker 3:What's up y'all? We are live with the most dope and we have some very, very special guests. Today we have D-Cross Yo D-Cross, the man himself. We got Nate Antwine and Courtney Antwine. Just the team, Yep, the team Like, it's just the capital, the like, the Ohio.
Speaker 1:State Well, you could actually say the A-Team, because our last name is Antwine. So I think we just might, we might coin that. Yes, you know what?
Speaker 3:I mean we got the A-Team. Yeah, I got the a team yeah, we got the a team, a team llc.
Speaker 1:I might have to change the llc and, by the way, I gotta tell you the funniest story, because everybody's like hey, check out nate, from now entertainment. I, it's n-a-l entertainment. I just didn't like the way the dots looked, so I just took them out and then I then my wife, who's a grammar nazi, was like hey, honey, like she wants to slap me across the face whenever I mispronounce it Avocado. Like she literally it just Almond, almonds, you know whatever. I'm an Okie from.
Speaker 1:Muskogee Potato, potato baby. So anyway, I named my company NAL Entertainment and then I was like I don't like the way the dots look. I'm going gonna take the dots out. You know I'm gonna redesign my logo and then now everybody calls it now entertainment. So I'm like I don't know what to do now, man, you're stuck with it.
Speaker 2:It's time to rebrand. I think it just maybe put the dots back in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're the a team, the a team I. I think it's gonna fail. Okay, due to the fact that everybody has already become accustomed to now entertainment I hear it all the time, right, yeah, so even if you put them dots back in there, they're gonna say, hey now that's true, all right, okay, all right, I'll own it. Hey, hey, there, now entertainment.
Speaker 1:Come on now, come on now I did say I was an okie from mistoki, so that's good hey, awesome, we got the queen bee herself.
Speaker 3:Hi, hi, everybody. Hello, we're back, we're back. We're back and we got a full house. Mi casa es su casa. Everybody, this is everybody's house, everybody's welcome. Once you've been in this house, you're trusted, you're in that circle of trust or whatever Like. Meet the fuckers. The fuckers. Yeah, don't step out the side this circle.
Speaker 1:Fucker bro, I got the code to your front door yes I could legitimately just sneak in anytime. I know that there's gonna be slots playing on youtube right now, like I could literally sneak in at any time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and cuddle up on your couch I him, it's probably him, and we're like, what's that noise? Babe, it's Nate.
Speaker 2:It's probably Nate. He's dropping off a photo booth.
Speaker 1:He's dropping off some equipment.
Speaker 3:I love it. Oh man, I can't imagine that. Now, man, I'm just chilling in the bedroom hanging out and you just open the door, set the stuff inside, leave mind your business, man. You know that's a trusted thing, right there, man.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't take it for granted either dude. Like, that is a level of love and respect that I don't have with anybody, and you have that with me, so I mean literally nobody's got the key
Speaker 4:to my front door.
Speaker 3:I do, some of my kids don't even have the key to my front door.
Speaker 1:yeah, Courtney indeed does. Anyway, love you, brother. Thank you for having us on, for sure.
Speaker 3:Hey, I appreciate you guys coming out. Man, we have some drinks. Nobody can see because this is not a video podcast, this is a podcast. And Queen B Marion, she put together a little bar for us real quick before everybody got here. We ordered some Wingstop.
Speaker 1:We got some wings, we're chilling hanging out, uh listening to good music and uh hanging out with good people love it. Thank you for having us man.
Speaker 5:So I just want to put on the record. Uh to my wife, I did not drink today oh yeah, so you know hey hey, d is not drinking.
Speaker 3:He's on a juice cleanse and, uh, he has been strictly on juice, um I I been to the bathroom a couple times.
Speaker 4:I'm not just kidding, it's no gin.
Speaker 1:No gin in that juice.
Speaker 5:There's no gin in that juice. No gin in my juice.
Speaker 3:I mean I might have to apologize to your wife. You know I did try to pressure you into a drink. I'm like, ah, you'll be here an hour, you can have a drink, it'll wear off. You're cool man. I'm a bad influence brother, I don't you know?
Speaker 5:Mental discipline man. Nobody can be a bad influence upon me but myself. Yes, sir, that's true.
Speaker 3:That's personal responsibility, right there baby.
Speaker 4:That's why I love this guy man.
Speaker 3:I would want to work with him too. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1:Only the best, only the best.
Speaker 3:Hey, speaking of work, dante man, tell me a little bit about yourself, man, I know you're over there at Chewy's. Yes, sir, I know you, dj, you do your thing on the side. I know you have a growing family, or a family that grew recently and you got quite the little family like we do. It's been growing. Tell me about all the hustle.
Speaker 5:Tell me about everything, man, I think the hardest hustle and the most beautiful hustle that I put and try to put my best into is being a father first. Everything starts there. That is the hardest job that I have and that will forever be the hardest job that I have, because it's not about a financial dividend, right, it's about true investments, because you reap those back in time yeah um.
Speaker 5:As for the nine to five, it's just nine to five. Um. As for this part of it right, being able to uh be an artist in every way, come over here and talk to you, being gracious in your home, uh, the way you reach out to me on instagram, the way that we locked in from day one when you sent me, and you send me memes all the time shoot love. No, it's love man it's genuine, it's genuinely built, this friendship yeah um started seven years ago.
Speaker 5:Uh started working uh for a company named crown entertainment. Big shout out to jimmy sanchez over there jimmy sanchez yes sir, good dude, I worked for him for a little bit and really I just sat behind the board man, I didn't really get into the essence of djing right what you weren't emceeing.
Speaker 3:You, you were. You were sitting behind the controller, so I was behind the controller Because it's a safe space, boom.
Speaker 5:So I was behind the controller working the board and one of my good friends, man like a brother to me, jeremy McDonald, he was the emcee and we used to link on do weddings and then shout out to my guy, joey over at Masterpiece, joey was there too and he kind of left and started his own thing. Joey was there too and he kind of left and started his own thing. So I was like man, I'm going to help you try to build your empire. So I went with him for a while and just helped him do some things and then I kind of took a little bit off and life kind of happened. I went through some things and a good friend family of mine, my shug, tracy Lynette, she was over working with TSV and she reached out to me one day and shout to Gabriel over there at TSV, dude is a, that dude right there, man is an entertainer.
Speaker 5:All right, he taught me so much, but he also just taught me just be myself when I'm on the mic, when I'm doing a wedding, and just watching him and just learning from him, and that truly just opened up, opened doors for me. All right, so I was there at TSV for a while. I decided to leave, and when I left, I decided to branch out on myself, man, and I took a gamble. Sometimes fear ooh, fear is a thing, man, because fear can hold you back from a lot of things, but fear can hold you back from yourself.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 5:And I bought a bunch of gear from a buddy of mine, mike Villa, that is my spirit animal, your OG source.
Speaker 4:Yeah, man out there in Texas, man, he left me.
Speaker 5:But DJ Mike Villa is one of one that is a big brother. That's my mano right there, man. So when he left he sold me his gear. He sold me his subs, his speakers, and then from there, man, we built the Big, bright Brick. And now I'm three years in to being on my own. Not like crazy, legit, I'm not like this guy over here at now, entertainment right n-a-l, but we're building, we're building and hopefully by next year, man, I can go ahead and lock in that that license and get everything up. But for now, man, I just appreciate everybody that supported me on the journey. Yeah, absolutely all the way through, man. And uh, just working, just working. I can say I'm really like a dj, but again, I'm working on that craft every day.
Speaker 5:Them lonely nights in the garage at three in the morning really build character yeah, absolutely that's what it goes, you know, when the lights are dark in the garage, it really don't matter too much, but when they're the brightest, if you're not putting that work in the garage. When it's time to shine, it's time to go. Yeah, it's time to go. So that's that's pretty much the story right there for now, but we're, the story is not finished hey, so I, uh, I studied you two a little bit.
Speaker 3:I did I, I did my homework, I studied you two a bit and something I found on both of you, um, that really, that really tied in, especially now knowing that Nate has a stable of DJs, such as myself, such as Dee Tyler and a few others that he can really count on, and things of that nature. On both of your guys' pages, you guys are fathers first, yeah, and you guys are fathers first, yeah, and you guys are Christian men.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:On both of your pages. Yeah, they look kind of similar guys. I'm just going to let you know, man, I've been looking, I've been stalking, I've been watching, I did my homework and I love that about you guys and I think that, like shoes, it can tell you a lot about a person. Like shoes, there's a saying about shoes shoes can tell you a lot about a person where they going, where they been.
Speaker 5:That's from forrest gump but you know what you were gonna go he's. He's like listen.
Speaker 1:Bay of Jetty like peas and carrots, gordon, you were going to go so deep. He's like. I think Socrates said that.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I was going to come up with a Play-Doh or something.
Speaker 1:It's definitely written on a cave somewhere.
Speaker 3:No, it's Forrest Gump. Look, God damn it. I was trying to get deep here.
Speaker 1:It was so good by the so good I was following I'm tracking with you.
Speaker 3:I got you, man. I was trying to pull everybody into that one I love you.
Speaker 2:Take the Lord's name in vain after you.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'm a heathen.
Speaker 1:I am a heathen. We love you where you're at. We love you right where you're at.
Speaker 3:I'm a heathen man. I'm a good-hearted heathen, I love it. So that's awesome to learn about you, d and, like I said, both of us working for Nate and both of us all three of us being fathers, family men, good men. At least we try to be right. I'm not going to talk myself up and say I'm a great man, but you know, we try to be. We do what we can. We do what we can to provide, we do what we can to spoil, we do what we can to provide, we do what we can to spoil, we do what we can to over-provide. We do, you know, but we're not messing with anybody, we're not hurting anybody.
Speaker 3:We're not good positive energy, good positive results, good positive outcome and Dante was talking about art earlier we're artists, all of us are artists. We are and I have a hard time saying that about myself. I won't ever brag to somebody and say, hey, I'm an artist. Look, I'm Gordy B, I play music. I enjoy playing music. I enjoy people you know being happy and and providing a, a, uh, an entire experience, where sometimes other entertainers or professionals fall short. Um, and and that's another reason why you know the community and getting together with everybody and doing the podcast and doing beats over the city and and going out to Chewy's and supporting and and you know getting gigs from Nate and you know being able to pass a gig on to somebody because Nate already blessed you, so now you're able to bless somebody else, you know. So I appreciate that out of you, brother.
Speaker 1:I appreciate that. No, I couldn't do it without you guys. Honestly, I appreciate that. No, I couldn't do without you guys. Honestly, um, yeah, no, I'm blessed to be able to, um provide so much for so many different households. You know, it's like my ultimate goal is not just to only, you know, provide for my household, but it's like I want to bless you guys like I want you to be able to have so many gigs.
Speaker 1:You know, in a in a 12 month calendar where you guys are like, hey, you know, you know NAL entertainment, we've got so much on the calendar, Like we've got a steady stream of income and it's it's, it's a blessing to be able to do what you love. And we said this earlier off the air, but we'll say it again Like when you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life Absolutely. And you know what? And I think that everybody that I have, that I have kind of just gathered underneath the wing of my NAL entertainment, I think that everybody that I have is a contractor. I don't think of them as employees ever I think of them.
Speaker 1:you're a contractor, they're peers, yeah you're peers, you're my friends, you're people that I want to see succeed. If you need help in an area, I there, literally. Like you know, we we've talked about some certain software that we can integrate and things that we can kind of use in our lives. That'll make our lives easier. And you know, um, I'm an open book man. Honestly, like I don't, I don't want to, like, keep any trade secrets. I don't want to see you guys all become nal entertainments, yeah, in your own right. It's like you know, if you guys can grow and you guys can have other people that you can bless, I mean that's great. If I could be a part of that, that's amazing, man, and that's that's the ultimate goal for what what I've started out to to be, to to be a part of. So, yeah, man, I'm super blessed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you were a part of it this week, man, because I passed a gig on to somebody I know and it's probably a pretty high paying one hey, I quoted him really good too. So the guy that got it, man, let's just say he's pretty happy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would say, I would say hey if and if I could have found some coverage for that. You know, by the way. You know what? It's funny because so there's so many people right now we see that are waiting last minute to book. Um, it's crazy. The economy is kind of nuts right now. People are uncertainty with. You know, the stock market today actually took like an all time plummet. Yes, it did so. I think there's a lot of uncertainty out there but honestly, like securing good quality DJs and good vendors for your wedding, you're going to spend 40, 50, 60, a hundred thousand dollars on your wedding.
Speaker 4:Get the good, high quality venue vendors early on. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Get them locked in, yeah because I mean, if you're a good, if you're, if you've still got, you know, availability a month out, two months out, you're probably not like the, the creme de la creme. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're not the first choice, you're definitely not the first choice, but I mean you're, you're probably not the seventh or eighth choice either yeah, so I mean a lot of people that we see, we see book out, uh, a year, two years in advance and, uh, you know that and that's, that's a good high quality client that you want to go after. But, honestly, the same thing, dude, if I, if I have, you know, I have six high quality contractors that that work for my company and when we get to a seventh, I'm going to pass that on Like same thing. It's like pay it forward, you know. But again, like I'm blessed, very blessed, to have such a good team of people that work under this umbrella.
Speaker 3:You know, something Dante said earlier that got me was he took a hiatus, took a break, there was a break, there was a hiatus, took a break, there was a break, there was a hiatus. Now for me. I also took a hiatus from music, just period. Right, I played the saxophone since I was in third grade, played all the way through high school, everything else I was decorated, I was, I was very good, um, and I fell out of love senior year in high school and after that, and I never played again. I just bought a saxophone again a few months ago.
Speaker 3:So stuck right now there for me, it was there for me, it's here for me. Right, it's back into something that I'm doing very, very actively and passionately and pursuant very aggressively to chase that dream, if you will. You know DJing and adrenaline and whatever it may be. Dante man, when you lost that year or two, or however long, it was what was it that broke for you and what was it that made you realize you needed it back later?
Speaker 5:I think everything inside me broke to be, honest with you and just going back to what you said, I let the music inside me die. I'm an artist, I'm a musician too, so I put down the writing, I put down everything, man, and I just just broken inside, just going through things.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Right, not midlife crisis, because I ain't that old yet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we ain't there yet. We ain't there. Well, I might be.
Speaker 5:I was in that process, man just searching, just trying to scratch and claw, man just trying to put myself together, and it took a lot to get out of it. You know, like not trying to go too far into it, but it was I. Let the music inside me die. I told my best friend Timbo, probably about a week ago, I'll never let the music inside me die again.
Speaker 3:I tell my wife the same thing. I tell Marion the same thing Music will never leave me ever again. It keeps wife the same thing. Okay, I tell marion the same thing music will never leave me ever again. Uh, it keeps me, even keeps me kill. It's the best therapy, bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is, yeah, it's always been, since the time I was a was a young kid. I started playing the guitar at 15 and, uh, it was always. It was always that therapy, it was always that like happy place for me, where I could go and literally no matter what was going on. The screaming in the other room, parents fighting oh yeah, you know, broken home kind of situation.
Speaker 1:That was a the place where I could go, where it would literally just fill my life with just nothing but happiness. Yeah, um, you know, I've been a musician my own my entire life. I've been a dj for a very short portion of my life, so it was crazy, yeah, um, but yeah, same, same love of music, man, and it's it is the most healing, magical thing that you can. You can have a part of your life, but I love it, yeah, I love it, man. So that's cool courtney.
Speaker 3:no, yes, you've been quiet over over there. You've been a little too quiet. You haven't really been participating a whole lot, so it's coming.
Speaker 4:Yay, it's coming.
Speaker 3:I do events. Yes, yes, sir, that is your company, I do events.
Speaker 2:It is my company.
Speaker 3:Yes, how old is your company?
Speaker 2:So we're on our third birthday this year congratulations I know I'm super excited about it, so yeah, um, I would go with nate to his gigs for the last 11 years of being in the wedding industry and djing, you know, doing all the amazing things that he does.
Speaker 2:And I would just kind of start to feel a need. That was in these weddings where, you know, maybe the couple didn't already hire a coordinator and so there was just things that needed to be done and I would just start doing those things and naturally it just kind of evolved into me thinking like, hey, maybe this is something that needs to be a little bit more professional, like a little bit more something that I should consider as a business.
Speaker 3:So yeah, so three years old, which means you were doing this prior to three years. So how long have you been doing planning, would you say? Would you guesstimate that the first time that you were helping another coordinator at a now Nate Antwine wedding, how many years ago was that?
Speaker 1:Oh, five years ago was when I really probably started. Yeah, I would be at a wedding and a lot of the times. If you don't have a coordinator, the DJ falls in.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do. You guys end up being the coordinator. You got to be the coordinator.
Speaker 1:You got to be the planner. You got to be the officiant.
Speaker 2:You got to be. You guys tag team it with the photographer. No, yeah, seriously.
Speaker 1:Honestly, today I'm going to tell you this is no joke. The officiant had to go and the bride was late and I literally almost had to get ordained online oh really, and I was about to do the wedding I was about to officiate the wedding.
Speaker 1:So like literally, as a I'm not joking, by the way, this is no joke. This is this, legitimately the church of california. You do whatever it takes to make that bride's day fantastic. That's just how it goes. So having my wife there, uh, you know, some people would say it's unprofessional at times, but I would, you know, I would really like she was always there, she was always my supporter, it would be. I would try to like tell her, hey, maybe you should come to this wedding, uh, and she'd be like I don't really know, it's just like I wasn't invited or anything, like I'm like, no, I your help. Like literally come help me.
Speaker 1:Um. So it turned into something that was I was like hey, I really need you to go, like handle this situation, or handle this situation, and she would go and she would do it.
Speaker 2:It started as him just saying things like I need you to go and line up the bridal party for the grand entrance and I want you to cue me when they're ready to go. And I was like so nervous because you know number one.
Speaker 4:I didn't know the bride and groom and I'm just going in there like hi, I'm Courtney and I'm going to line you up and like tell you what to do.
Speaker 1:Who's this chick? Who is this chick?
Speaker 3:We've never met her before. She's an assertive person.
Speaker 1:But yeah, but honestly, it was trial by fire because it's like she, I would tell her to do those things and she would literally jump in and like just go do them, and I think that Reluctantly. Reluctantly, reluctantly at first, but then, as you do those things that are really uncomfortable more and more and more, you become really really comfortable with them.
Speaker 2:So she, uh, I have here's, here's where it is right now. I have three daughters and none of them are getting married right now, necessarily. Um, one of them has a pretty serious boyfriend and they're talking about things like that. But like I look at it, as all of these brides are my daughter, how would I want to feel on my daughter's wedding day? How would I want my daughter to feel on her wedding day? You know what are the things that are going to make this girl absolutely like stress free on her day and not. You've already invested so much money, you've already spent so many months planning this. You know one particular day and I know sometimes it seems ridiculous, but honestly, it's very important that they feel supported and they feel comfortable with the person that is there to really be in charge and guide everything through. They don't want to be looking at their watch. When am I supposed to cut my cake? When am I supposed to start the stages?
Speaker 3:They want to live their night a little bit. They want to be looking at their watch. When am I supposed to cut my cake? When am I supposed to? You know, they want to live their night a little bit.
Speaker 2:Be present and hang out with their first of all. I always tell them spend as much time as you can with your spouse yeah, you have to.
Speaker 3:You have to, you have to hold on to them because you get separated so much yeah, so I feel very motherly in that which I love, like you know it.
Speaker 2:I feel very motherly in that which I love, Like you know. It's just nurturing motherly nurturing.
Speaker 2:Like that's kind of my personality, but like I just I want to just guide them into like showing I've been to so many weddings, I've seen so many things happen. At this point I'm like stay with your, stay with your new husband, make sure you guys don't get separated. Make sure you guys don't get separated. Make sure that you actually get to enjoy all of this. Like this is a celebration of the coming together of you and the person that you love the most in the world. So like let's make sure that you actually get to enjoy it. You know, and you're not worried about all of these little tiny details and they're're important details but you don't want to get sucked into being stressed out about all of that stuff. You want to just show up, get married and have the best time of your life.
Speaker 4:We've been to so many weddings where the couple only dances one or two songs Right, because they're just they're split up between sides of the families.
Speaker 2:Yes, and honestly, like it's been so good to be married to somebody that is a DJ, because that's a lot of the times, that's the things that I tell them the most. I tell them things like and you guys have all seen this because you're all DJs but I tell them, if you're not dancing on the dance floor, your guests are not going to dance. I tell them if you're not dancing on the dance floor, your guests are not going to dance.
Speaker 1:It's so awkward, could you imagine. I say this all the time to my brides and grooms. Could you imagine being at a celebration?
Speaker 1:and you're celebrating a bride and groom and they're not on the dance floor. How awkward do you feel going out on the dance floor and dancing? It's so weird. So we tell the brides and grooms like, hey, look at there, everybody's here for you. Like, these are your friends and your family. You threw yourself a party. You threw yourself a party. You need to be in the middle of the dance floor. Yeah, you need to be the one and it I've seen it so many times where the energy of the bride and groom will literally completely orchestrate the whole entire day. So if you guys are having the time of your life and you're happy and nothing can get to you and you guys are just like well, this is the greatest day ever, all your guests are going to feel that way. If you guys are like, oh my gosh, everything's good, everything could go wrong, I don't know what's going to happen, oh my God, if you're like that, your guests can pick up on that energy and they're going to be like whoa.
Speaker 1:They're going to split and go to Chick-fil-A on the road they're going to leave at 8, after the cake is cut, and they're going to be like we're going to get some late night Taco Bell.
Speaker 1:Oh man, it's so crazy, but the bride and groom set the stage for every wedding. They really do, and it, it, it. I've. We've obviously dealt with so many different personality types, but, like when we see that bride, it's like oh, oh, I can't let go. I can't let go of this. I have to literally walk over to her and I well, that doesn't happen when I'm there. I have to say that's absolutely true. She's already, she's already done.
Speaker 1:She's already done that long in advance, but this just happened. No joke, this just happened a month and a half ago, where I had to walk over to a bride and I go look, hey, I understand this is stressful for you, but if you don't, let go and enjoy this moment, that's a lot of wasted money. Okay, you spent a lot of money on this day. So you need to be present, you need to have fun, you need to just relax, take a deep breath. Let's take, take, take a deep breath with me, and I will tell you this I've done this so many times with brides and they look at me and they go. You don't know how badly I needed that.
Speaker 3:Oh, decompress, they're like you don't know.
Speaker 1:I said look at me in the eyes. I've got you, everything is going to go great. We're on timeline, Everything's going fine, your guests are having a good time, everything's perfect. That's part of your job is to exude confidence.
Speaker 1:So exactly, not only do you exude confidence, but you just take command and you're just like look, and when you've done this for so many years, you're like this is it's like breathing honestly, it's so easy. And uh, you're there to reassure the bride and groom. I'll even go over and like, by the way, nothing is beneath me as a dj I know that it's my job.
Speaker 3:I'll mop a floor. I don't care.
Speaker 1:Yeah, by the way, I do that at noriega, sometimes like I'll shoot off the cold sparklers, it has some granules. I have to go sweep the floor.
Speaker 2:I'm like Dick Van.
Speaker 3:Dyke man, I'm like, yeah, right, I do.
Speaker 1:I'm like Dick Van Dyke with the chimney sweep man. I'm like I don't care, whatever I got to do to make their day perfect, I'll do it. I'll go check on their drinks. Hey, you guys need cocktail. Cool, he gets what uh music's on autopilot right now. Let me go get your drink. Boom, all right, you know, whatever it is, it's the level of service that you provide, the above and beyond experience, and that honestly goes so much. By the way, anybody can press play on an ipod. I mean honestly. I mean that's not what we do, true story. But I mean anybody can press play on an ipod. But it's like it's, it's the things that you do in between when you're djing that make or break how good of a wedding dj you are I mean honestly, yeah, that's true, because also not every wedding, I'm a music guy right, so I'm a dancer.
Speaker 5:I love dancing but, not every wedding is filled with a bride and groom, that's dancers dancers.
Speaker 3:So when you?
Speaker 5:don't have a bride and groom that really don't dance, then you're like all right, cool, cool, I already caught the vibe, so you're reading the room. You're trying to keep the energy up for everybody else, but not everybody is a dancer. Some people's grandma might never touch the floor. Some people's grandma will be out there torching. Yeah, oh man, I got some videos of some grandmas getting dirty.
Speaker 1:I was like I had a sweater on, by the way it was nothing, it was not pornographic on your show literally this, this grandma, like man, she was feeling it on the dance floor and she pulls her own sweater off and like, throws it around and like, thankfully she had something underneath. But I was like man. Like this, this woman is feeling it and I can't remember the song I played. I wish I could, uh wild thing, that funky music probably something crazy like that.
Speaker 4:Rick.
Speaker 5:James gave it to me baby. Yeah right.
Speaker 3:Candy, cameo candy, that song gets me going.
Speaker 5:Oh my God, he played Love Shack. The intro was a thing.
Speaker 1:Oh, hey, I got a funny story. We were at a wedding one time in Tehachapi and this is one of my favorite weddings because these people were so fun but they were so quirky and so weird and their favorite song but you just said love jack, made me think of this was rock lobster from the b-52s.
Speaker 2:They requested it like five times they're like if you've never heard the song.
Speaker 1:It's a long it's a long, quirky, weird ass song and uh play it, dj.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, don't play it right now.
Speaker 1:No, we're not taking this podcast don't turn this podcast we played this song and I kid you, not so this was a magical song for this family. We had no idea the connection they had with this this song. But, like I was like, okay, rock lobster, all right, not a, not a big hit. I thought love shack was the big hit. So, anyway, we play this song and it is hilarious five times in a row, like they literally had the every family member dancing on the floor.
Speaker 3:They were on the ground like literally like slippery, like like they were literally like a beach dolphin like a dolphin without water.
Speaker 1:I'm not kidding, I'm not joking. To this day I could not believe the power that this song had over this family. That's awesome, but it was so special to them and they were like play it again. I was like we just played it three times.
Speaker 3:Do it again I was like Play it again.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we go. Maybe scratch intro this time. Oh man, it was crazy, it was nuts. But hey, to this day I literally look back on that wedding and I go man, that was one of the funnest weddings.
Speaker 2:Do you guys all have like a crazy wedding story?
Speaker 3:Oh, man yeah I mean everybody.
Speaker 4:We played Old McDonald's. If you've done it long enough, yeah, At a wedding.
Speaker 3:Oh, I take requests, and I take requests from everybody.
Speaker 1:But hey, but if they have a bad request, you got to call them out babe, oh yeah, hey, by the way, what's your name? By the way, hey, no?
Speaker 2:no, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, what's your name? What's?
Speaker 1:your name. Oh, hey, john know, right now this is a request from uncle john. Uncle john wanted to hear this song. So bad, by the way. You know. What should you guys all call it out like if you got it, I'm calling, I'm calling you got to, because then they're gonna be like this dj is bunk man.
Speaker 5:I'm asking your name as soon as the floor clears. Like what song? Oh?
Speaker 3:what's your name? Donald? All right cool hey sometimes I'm super honest, I'll say no, and then other times I'll say I'll put it in my prepare folder and I'll see if I can get to it. That's great.
Speaker 1:That's the best thing you can say.
Speaker 2:Gordon on our wedding that we have together next weekend. The bride said no requests.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, no requests.
Speaker 1:Nobody can bother me, nobody can bother you, and it's almost all country music, hey straight to Bakersfield. Listen to me, listen to me.
Speaker 5:They're going to love you. They're going to love you. A little bit of why Yoko May never hurt nobody.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's amazing.
Speaker 3:Hey. So, speaking of gigs and this question is for everybody and I want everybody to chime in on it you know, give a. What is a gig that you did that? You thought this is it for me. I'm done. This is not for me. This is not for me. I am failing. I am a terrible DJ. I'm a terrible balloon artist. I'm a terrible coordinator. I have failed and I'm going to go home and I'm never going to touch a controller again or a balloon. Everybody immediately knows exactly yeah, so I want your stories. Just put your head down and just be like Do you?
Speaker 2:Okay, Dante, go All right?
Speaker 5:Well, I gotta go first. First, bro, you be quiet. So we were talking about earlier, yeah, the wedding I did for you last year in the backyard.
Speaker 2:It was an NAL entertainment wedding N I was now Now Damn it.
Speaker 5:And at first, man, I was like it's like I couldn't catch a vibe, you know what I mean, like people weren't really into a dance.
Speaker 3:I'm like man, I'm hitting all of them. They weren't showing you no love. I'm hitting all your requests, though.
Speaker 5:I'm hitting, I'm hitting, but then that goes back to that thing is like the groom, wasn't? He probably touched a flag once.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but the brides she would touch it in selections, right. So you can tell what were her requests and what were everybody else's. But for the most part the family was not dancers, right, so I felt I failed.
Speaker 1:And then I called and we talked you were out of town. Yeah, we talked in great detail about that one and they said it was all good.
Speaker 5:But then I'm like, okay, cool, so then I do a wedding this weekend on a Sunday. I do a wedding this weekend on a Sunday Sunday weddings are weird, Weird strange, but they're cool, right. So they didn't give me any requests for music or anything like that, right?
Speaker 3:So I'm like okay, what do I do?
Speaker 5:They're like oh, Straight up, read the crowd, Do your thing right. So I'm like four or five songs in and I'm like Not working and I'm looking in my head I'm thinking like this is not a dancing family, so I play it smart. I say, if you have any requests, let me know. They started requesting Creed Nickelback.
Speaker 2:There you go, nickelback is my favorite band.
Speaker 1:I'm not joking. She's not joking, by the way I don't clown anybody for their music.
Speaker 5:So the dopest part is for the last hour and 20 minutes. I did only requests and it was songs like that, but I wasn't getting people in the dance floor. What I was getting was tables, singing, people standing up.
Speaker 3:You were making people happy Holding each other. You can see those little ticks.
Speaker 5:Read the room, man, so it's like God would come up. And oh, this is the groom's favorite song. All right, cool, Put it on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanks for throwing me that bone, man, because I needed it.
Speaker 5:Seven people in a circle singing Creed Ones Wide Open. I'm like, hey, let's get it, baby Bro that's so magic.
Speaker 1:You have to take requests, you have to be able to say okay and if it's a horrible request and you're vibing, okay. So if you have a packed dance floor and somebody comes up and like, hey, I want to hear, Cher, do you believe in life after love? I'm like, okay, I don't know if that's really going to fit right here.
Speaker 3:That's a banger too.
Speaker 1:Leave in life after love, after love.
Speaker 3:I love that song. That's why I just said that song.
Speaker 1:But what I'm saying is if you have a whole packed dance floor and then somebody comes up and throws like a curveball sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad but like if what you're doing is working, keep doing it.
Speaker 3:Keep doing bad, but like if you, if what you're doing is working keep doing it, keep doing it.
Speaker 1:It gives you a chance to interact. Yeah, absolutely. But when somebody comes up and like they just got broken up with a girlfriend, they're like, hey, we want to hear, like you want to hear the song we're not putting on mother's flowers at the end of the wedding.
Speaker 5:I'm by myself. Flowers, yeah, that yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you gotta at a point you gotta like kind of be like all right. Well, you know, guess what? I'll try to work it in. That is the best thing you could say as a there's some hoes in this house yes all right.
Speaker 3:Hey, man, I just broke up my girlfriend man and she's here with somebody.
Speaker 1:There's some hoes yeah, there you go. Hey, by the way, there's so many songs you played in that, yeah I've seen a video.
Speaker 5:Somebody did that.
Speaker 1:Cry Me a River, Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 2:Literally Nate. When he does his consultations with brides, he says I do not play WAP.
Speaker 1:I don't.
Speaker 3:Oh man, I'll never play it, never, ever play it. I don't play Ratchet too much man.
Speaker 5:It doesn't fit at a wedding. You have to understand what fits at a wedding man.
Speaker 1:He's like I don't care who comes up and asks me I'm not playing it. Yeah, no, and that's a hard stopping because a wedding at the end of the day, if you look at it from a biblical standpoint, it's like it's the marriage between a man and a woman before god. Um, it's, it's a good, um, it's a good representation of, uh, of of what god intended for man and woman, and so it's. I don't want to get too crazy here, but, like, honestly, like, when you have that kind of like energy with a song like that incorporated into your day, it's not good, it's not a good energy song. You know what I mean? It's a. It's a kind of a raunchy, horrible, wretched, kind of just just despicable wretched song. So I will never play that song.
Speaker 2:All the fans out there are going.
Speaker 1:what, by the way, you can, guys email me please? All your hate mail. That's fine, but it doesn't belong at a wedding. Maybe at a nightclub, but definitely never.
Speaker 4:What about Bruno Mars' new song?
Speaker 1:That's wretched too I hate to say it. Yeah, that guy hey by the way from 24 Karat Magic, bro, like I mean why you got to hurt my heart like that man, like that was a banger at weddings, and then now I feel like I feel bad even playing his songs. It's like you know it's good, it's all good until it's not good.
Speaker 5:And then you got to just kind of take each right, like I was born in 88. So some of the music I listened to growing up and you listen to those lyrics now and you're like damn, I was singing this.
Speaker 1:I know I had no idea what I'm doing, like some of the songs, like even somebody was saying something about I was.
Speaker 5:I did a gig one time at a all out football and, um, I do the Superbow every year and I'm playing a couple of songs and of course there's going to be some lyrics that don't hit and miss. And this dude comes up and he's mad and I'm, like you realize, I can throw in like seven country songs, 10 rock songs, and they're still talking about the same thing, same thing, yeah Right.
Speaker 1:So understand it's clean, yeah, innuendos.
Speaker 5:It's clean, right, but at the same time a lot of songs. I would say 70 of the songs. They really be talking about the same thing, man. So, at the end of the day, it's about frequencies and it's about knowing when to play something right, absolutely. And it's timing. It's about reading the room. Yeah, you know what I mean. So everything is timing right. So if the wedding is at 11, maybe at 10 30, I might play some.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna ratchet it up for the last. You know Absolutely, and hey, I'll tell you what you said that my weddings go in accordance to age. When I play music at weddings, I am catering to the 80-year-olds, the 70-year-olds, the 60-year-olds in the first couple hours, as you should Catering to them as you should.
Speaker 3:Because what's going to happen? They're going to leave early, that's true, so make them happy while they're there. The young kids are going to stay anyways. So then you get into eight and nine, you start hitting that hip-hop, r&b, whatever else and then, like you said, hey, if there's some little 18-year-old girls and boys out there hanging out and that's their jam, that's their style of music, then hey, we're going to twerk it up and we're going to ratchet it up and for the last 30 minutes now, I have made an entire spectrum of people happy. Yeah, covered decades. You haven't offended anybody.
Speaker 1:You haven't offended any group. You've done a great job to cater to all those groups and, by the way, old people know that there's young people that like different music than them and they hate that music and they get it. But here's the thing If you cater to them first and you're like, hey look, we're going to honor you guys, we're going to start the open dancing off with you, we're going to do some disco, we're gonna do some some september, yeah do you remember how, staying some break house all that stuff, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1:These people are gonna remember that and they're gonna go. You know what? That? They're gonna look back on that night and they're gonna go. Oh, that was so much fun. But the people who start the night out with that and the djs who do that literally shoot themselves in the foot because it's like a scratching on a record dude.
Speaker 3:There's ebbs and flows man, there's peaks and valleys.
Speaker 3:You can't keep somebody's heart rate up at 130 beats per minute for 10, 15 minutes, four songs straight. You can't do it. You're going to lose that dance floor floor. But you can start coming back down in bpm and energy and start adjusting the other things that you're doing within serato to to have an effect on them and to to still go down to 115 100, just to bring it back up to 150 again eventually with like don's a kuduro or whatever. It may be right, some, some heat again, yeah, but but banger after banger after banger after banger, it's exhausting, it's exhausting, it's exhausting. That's my downfall.
Speaker 2:She's like, please, oh, you play as bangers I said let the people rest Please let them sit down.
Speaker 1:Nate, Please Play a slow song for the old people, For the love For the lovers, and you know what. I guess I'm just that good. There we go. I mean I'm sorry to say it, but like I mean, nobody wants to sit down at my sets, I mean never, I'll just maybe one or two slow songs throughout the night.
Speaker 2:I actually like personally attest to being a guest at a wedding. So my best friend's daughter got married. I guess she actually had her third year anniversary.
Speaker 3:Yeah three years ago, literally a couple days ago, Anyways.
Speaker 2:So before I started officially my company even, but I had helped out with that wedding but he played every good song for like three hours in a row and I was with my best friend. I was with my best friend's sister.
Speaker 3:Exhausted, looking, looking a mess, sweaty and like just a mess.
Speaker 2:I was sore the next day. I was like I hate you, I cannot move that's what you want. I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry you played every good song for three hours in a row and I am out of shape.
Speaker 1:But I'm going to tell you one thing right because he actually hit on a really good thing, a really great DJ and I don't consider myself a really great DJ. The guys that I'm sitting across the table from right now are really great DJs and they will be able to mix those BPMs and kind of do those Edmonds and flows. I don't, I just stay in a pocket and I just kind of bang them out. I just bang them out.
Speaker 2:So they'll go home early. Listen to me.
Speaker 1:This wedding ends at 10. By 9.45 you guys are all going to be gone. There's piles of shoes over off to the side, nobody's wearing shoes.
Speaker 2:I want to know, though for the DJs are you dancers? I am.
Speaker 3:I loosen to know, though, like for the DJs, are you dancers, I am, I loosen up and I kind of just I have my own little good time behind the podium, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like if you were a guest at an event dance on the dance floor.
Speaker 5:I'm in it. I have to drink a little bit. You would do it.
Speaker 1:I'm a dancer, I think for me and you, we would not be dancing on the dance floor. I think, for me and you, we would not be dancing on the dance floor.
Speaker 5:I think you for sure he doesn't dance. I get out there eventually, man.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. Right in the microphone, Right in the microphone.
Speaker 3:I got to go pay, jenny, I got to go pay. Hey, don't forget how to use that handle, man. You're going to get locked in our bathroom.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you'll cut it up.
Speaker 5:To answer your question. Uh, even sometimes I'm in the garage just mixing. I'm feeling it like yeah because, at the end of the day, a lot of people are gonna look behind that board and see what do you? Are you just standing there mixing music? Yeah are you? Are you a whole vibe yourself?
Speaker 3:are you? Are you having fun right? So you gotta. Do you hate your job or do you love your job?
Speaker 5:I love music in itself, right, so I'm not vibing as, pretending I'm not doing this. So you look at me and be like, oh, he's having fun.
Speaker 3:I'm like, yo, I'm like I'm jamming to this music now.
Speaker 5:I'm playing, yeah and then I think the biggest thing too, is nate, even though he went to the restroom please wash your hands wash your hands. Uh, we have a wedding coming up on the 24th and the reason why she requested me, even though she went through Nate, is because at times, I'll get on the dance floor.
Speaker 4:And.
Speaker 5:I'll engage with the guests. I know that some people are like, oh my god, the cupid shuffle and the cha-cha slide are so played out. But it's not your wedding.
Speaker 3:I hate DJ to say I won't play this. It's not your choice to play what you want to play. You guys are at weddings all the time and it engages people.
Speaker 5:That's an engaging song. You can get everybody on the floor and then switch that song to another song. So that's another pocket of people to slow down, and then you have everybody again. Then you put another banger, banger, banger, banger so it's like I have to understand pockets yeah and unless, unless my bride tells me it's a do not play we're playing everything yep, it's not it's.
Speaker 5:It's nobody else's choice but hers to tell me what to play, and most grooms. I don't know why I've had a couple, but it's like a lot of men. I don't know if they're too uh shy, yeah pride, insecure, I don't know what insecurity is too shy, yeah, pride. Insecure. I don't know what insecurity is a big thing, yeah, but it's like you sit on some of these calls and you're like all you do is talk to the bride, and I try to engage with the groom as well, yeah.
Speaker 3:I've always been growing up like you don't even talk to somebody else's wife.
Speaker 5:I don't talk to somebody else's wife. You don't even talk to somebody some type of permission, right, but we're sitting in a meeting, so, yes, I'm talking to the bride. Yeah, but that's how I grew up. I grew up not going to my parents' room.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. You know what I mean, so it's very different. You don't go in your mom's purse, either I bet.
Speaker 3:You don't go in your mom's purse, I'll bring it to you and you can dig what so yeah, you put your purse on the floor.
Speaker 5:That means you're low on money, but it means something in every culture which is so crazy. Like my family to my family was bad luck it's bad luck.
Speaker 4:My grandma told me don't put on the floor, you won't have money in your purse if you put it on the ground.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm gonna be poor forever.
Speaker 3:It's like this and this and this one is. This one is real. You can't, you can't put a battery on the floor because it discharges the battery. That is actually true. So I think it's the same idea. They think it's pulling out, it's taking away, it's messing with the feng shui. Oh, the feng shui, the feng shui, by the way, I'm pointing that phrase, the feng shui, feng shui, baby, don't put your purse on the floor?
Speaker 4:I think it's on the floor right now You're good.
Speaker 3:So this one's going to be for Marion and Courtney.
Speaker 2:You want to know how we met.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:What's it like being married to such a man, to such what?
Speaker 4:A madman.
Speaker 3:I thought he was going to say a madman, and she knows what that's like.
Speaker 4:Yeah same.
Speaker 2:How are they right before a gig? Okay, ask me that question like five years ago and it would be different than it is today.
Speaker 1:Like oh, nate has some growth, baby hey are you talking about a dj show or a live music show? Because I used to be the lead singer of an 80s glam rock heavy metal band.
Speaker 3:Ask your question.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ask your question.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, baby. No, go ahead. I want to hear about this man.
Speaker 2:You had us in a. We were going to have a dual question. Yeah, it's a dual question.
Speaker 3:So the question is what do you guys wish you girls, guys, whatever, I don't care. People, people, y'all people, youths what are you, youths? What do you guys wish people knew about your businesses and about what you do and your services and what you don't do? What do you wish they knew and that they don't know?
Speaker 4:about our business. Yes, I think. For me, it's like I go above and beyond, no matter what, like I'm going to go. You're you're expecting this, but I'm going to do more. I, that's just how I am. I'm going to make it bigger and better, even though that's what you asked for just a little balloon arrangement.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna go overboard I guess I just always like to outdo myself. Yeah, I like to do every event better than the last one because, just like my kids parties every year it's better we were talking about this a little bit before we started.
Speaker 2:But marian and I were talking about how, like you know, people kind of like sometimes get a little bit offended about, like what we charge for things, because they're like, well, it's just balloons or oh, you're just doing the day of you know, yeah, but it's not, it's. It's not. First of all, it's a luxury service you know, like you don't have to have a wedding you don't you can get married you just need that court document right like you can get married, yeah, anywhere, for free basically, um, you can have a party and you can put the balloons together like they sell Amazon arrangements that you can go and buy and it's like what?
Speaker 2:30 bucks. I don't know, but there's a level of experience and care that comes with hiring somebody to do that for you, and we really do take that very seriously and it's, you know, like something that we really like, like you said, like we're going to go super, above and beyond. You're going to have the best day ever because we were there.
Speaker 4:I don't mean that in some kind of conceited way, we're pretty much your bride, your your maid of honor. Yes, we really are, even though the true maid of honors yeah. You do have your maid of honor. We're your maid of honor. Yeah, like you know, you do have your maid of honor. We're your maid of honor. We're going to make sure you have everything. Yes, something blue, something old, something, we're going to make sure you have everything, yeah, same.
Speaker 2:Because I really do think that, like, I think that we're the same in that way, it's like we bend over backwards for our clients, because it's really important that like again, like going back to like my kids, it's like how would I want my daughters or myself to be treated if I was in this position? Yeah, and it's one of those things where you look at it and you go like I'm going to go and provide a service for this client that they're just like going to have the best day ever, and things that they didn't even think that they hired me to do. We're going to make sure that happens.
Speaker 2:Even if they don't ever know about it.
Speaker 4:It's to the point, even to where you need your shoe tied. I'm going to tie your shoe for you. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3:Sit down.
Speaker 4:Sit down, I will do it. Yeah, you know, and it's just a service, it's like you know. Ever tried going to the bathroom in a bridal gown. Yeah, I will lift it up for you Like, yeah, don't worry, I got you.
Speaker 5:It goes back to what we were saying earlier and you can mirror the same thing from the DJ side or whatever, but it's artistry. They're putting their artistry into that. Blown up balloons, blown up balloon. But putting that together in the way that you compile it and the design you do, and putting the pieces to the puzzle to make it all make sense, you're paying for somebody's artistry.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Not only are you paying for the equipment, I mean at the end of the day. Most of our equipment is already paid off, Right, but at the end of the day? But at the end of the day, yes, that is a cost, right.
Speaker 3:And we always have to reinvest and reinvent ourselves. And now we need cold sparks, now we need low fog, now we need a flame machine. And now for me to get the flame machine, I got to go get my pyrotechnics license. I need a confetti machine. Hey, people do not like cleaning that up. Listen to me.
Speaker 1:I know they don't.
Speaker 2:And it's outlawed in a lot of places Listen to me.
Speaker 1:I don't care what they like, we got to have it.
Speaker 3:Okay, we got to have it. I'll get on, judy, for one, we'll get one.
Speaker 2:It's got to be biodegradable.
Speaker 1:It does. There's a new I want the color.
Speaker 4:Oh, the smoke.
Speaker 3:The smoke. Hey, you got to get that pyrotechnic thing, let's go. That might not be a bad investment for Bakersfield. I mean, how many pyrotechnic people do you know in Bakersfield? Not a lot. That might be a corner of the market.
Speaker 5:We'll piece together.
Speaker 1:There's a new fad that I'm going to share on your podcast. We're going to break it.
Speaker 5:news no don't do it, don't save it. Someone will steal your idea.
Speaker 3:Somebody stole my idea. Okay, you know what, all right. We'll just I'll tell you off air we can't off the record here Our phones, google, have already heard everything.
Speaker 1:It's so funny. Back in the sixties you're like, hey, we might be wiretapped. And now, now, all of a sudden, we're like, hey, wiretap.
Speaker 3:Where's the? You know? Like it's so crazy how times have changed. Uh, no, I'll tell you that that idea, this is this is a fire, fire idea. I'm there, I'm here for it. I'm like that, I'm here for it, fire idea. Um, this one is going to be a all-inclusive question as well. Um, you guys are already well in. We're well into 2025. We've already done weddings in 2025. We've already done quince's and parties and everything.
Speaker 4:Seven-year-old birthday party.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we've done everything already in 2025. And we're all booked in 2025 as well, throughout the year. Yeah, where do you guys see yourselves? Your businesses, the growth, the direction? Where do you guys see yourselves in the next two years? So I'll start with Busy Bee Creations over here Two years, where do you think you're going to be after being this busy or this early on in this year already?
Speaker 4:I think we're going to have a crew. We're going to have a crew at this point, we're going to have a crew and I'm just going to be like this is what needs to be done.
Speaker 1:This is your crew, right here. Like, here's the synergy that you have when you're, you have like a community. You have a community of people who are like literally looking out for each and every one of the people in the community. Who do you think we're going to like? Somebody's like hey, I need a balloon person Like I got you. We're only going to refer you. Somebody's a wedding coordinator?
Speaker 4:You're only going to. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's just the synergy when you start literally thinking like you don't think about like it's mine no you're not out for what, what, what you can get, when you think what you can give, like the, the return on that is so much bigger, it's so much bigger.
Speaker 2:So so when you say a crew like you want to have, like people that you well like, where it's not just just me doing it right like a team, a team.
Speaker 1:Scaling your business.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm going to do a whole I don't know venue with balloons where I'm going to need six or seven people.
Speaker 3:You're going to need additional balloon pumps, additional balloon people. Do you have people?
Speaker 4:right now. Or is it just you? It's just me and my daughter once in a while, right.
Speaker 1:We love the cheap slave labor. Hey, that daughter, that kid labor, we got a 16-year-old too, man, we don't pay her nearly what she like she's not going to listen to this podcast, but if she, does like, we pay her a fraction
Speaker 3:of what she's worth. You know what she does. She does a hard worker.
Speaker 4:Like, honestly, we'll pay her like a hundred bucks, right. And to her her that's like a lot of money, you know, and and she, she loves it like.
Speaker 2:I can't wait till she drives where she can go and drop off a photo booth, like you know, something that you might be able to like give to your children and they can be a part of.
Speaker 3:It's incredible that we can give them something that's profitable an empire an empire, something that we're building, something that we're give them, something that's profitable. An empire, an empire, something that we're building, something that we're putting together, something that we're laying the framework for that. We are never going to see the yields from. No, no, absolutely.
Speaker 1:But you are because you're actually providing the lifestyle right now. If you think about the way we grew up as kids, think of the way you grew up as kids. By the way, did you go on vacations as a kid? No. Did you go to the beach? No. Did you have any of the kind of lifestyle that your kids have? I grew up in Arvin man. Okay, okay, so same here, and I don't want to speak for Dante, but I'm going to say probably we all grew up pretty like it was tough.
Speaker 5:It was tough If it wasn't for my nana man, I wouldn't have experienced anything like that as a child, and this is no disrespect to my mother.
Speaker 1:No, absolutely not, I mean.
Speaker 5:I didn't grow up with a father, so it's no disrespect to him either. Like we're not even at that place in life, me and him, anymore. Yeah, but if it wasn't for my nana man, I'd like all fronted by her, you know so.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:God bless the day because without her man, I wouldn't have culture, I wouldn't have Amen.
Speaker 3:She took you places. I wouldn't have manners, man.
Speaker 5:I understand how to hold a door for a woman. Biggest thing I learned at a young age boy if you go pee in the middle of the night you better put that toilet seat down, because she's been in the toilet one time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, boy, come on, I need your nana to come to my house please, oh Nate.
Speaker 1:Dante.
Speaker 3:Nate shots. Fired with Nate Shots fired.
Speaker 4:Shots fired right there hey.
Speaker 3:Why you have to put me on blast too. You know what?
Speaker 1:Your nana could have done me some good man.
Speaker 5:She's doing you good right now. Boy, put that toilet down. I'm speaking she's speaking through me to you, you know what.
Speaker 1:I love it. You know what? I actually did it last night for the first time in my entire married life and she sets up and she's like, she's like. I didn't put this one on the seat, I was like.
Speaker 5:I did. Man? What's going on? What? It's not a coincidence that the first time you do that is the first time I'm not at work. You didn't come see me at Chewy's. We didn't talk over the phone On a call with a bride. We're not texting over the phone trying to coordinate. Hey, man, hit me up so I can go over there. I'm sitting down getting to talk with you. While I'm here in this moment. I want to be present. That's another reason why I ain't been drinking. I like to be present right now. I just want to say thank you. Shared the other day. I can think of a couple of names, but he's that guy.
Speaker 3:He is that guy.
Speaker 5:DJ Richie Rich is that guy.
Speaker 3:And he gave me the ability to do it for somebody else. And what's knowledge if you're?
Speaker 4:not sharing it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:You're just keeping it for yourself, so your legacy ends with you.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 5:Nate's legacy will live through me Seeded through everybody.
Speaker 3:Nate's legacy lives through myself. Me Seeded through everybody.
Speaker 5:Nate's legacy lives through my soul.
Speaker 1:Please do not feed his EOL. Stop it. No, bro, because I'm going to keep it a book.
Speaker 5:Sometimes in business people get cutthroat and forget that to humble yourself, because you were me at one time and I've worked for different companies and I didn't make a fraction of what Nate pays, and we're not talking about schematics and money right now online for everybody else to hear, but I'm going to tell you what. You hit me up and said I'm going to bless you and that's what you give me. You give me a blessing, but in return, every time that I go out and your name's on it are we stamping it?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, because I'm not only doing this for me, you're representing somebody, this guy put.
Speaker 3:He took a chance on us Stop putting me out there. He took chances on us over and over again, even after a bad review. Right, we've all had a bad review. We've all had a bad review In life and the boss man will always hear reviews. They'll always hear good things and bad things, 100%. So the boss man hears bad shit, he doesn't just run with it, he doesn't believe it, he just doesn know accept it and jump down your throat or something. It's like hey, you know everything going all right over there.
Speaker 1:I'm like hell, no, it's not, I'm working with it by the way, gordon's always honest man he's like I'm literally the wicked wick of the witch of the west over here like this chick. And then literally I text like that's so funny because the the the situation that we talked about earlier. I talked to probably three or four other people Because I got eyes everywhere. People are like I don't know what she's talking about. He's doing a great job, everybody loves him, the dance floor is popping, everything's fine. And then I texted Brighton Groom. Brighton Groom was like yeah, he's awesome, we love him, everything's good. So I'm like okay, cool, I don't ever jump to conclusions. I love you. I picked you guys to couple and partner with me for a reason. But, man, thank you so much for saying that.
Speaker 1:Because, honestly, that's the way I've coupled my business and that's the way I want to continue to run my business. And, yeah, I'm blessed and I want to bless as many people as possible. But you know what I got? A great crew, man, and thank you guys for representing the brand the way you do. And just man, you guys are so great, I'm so lucky.
Speaker 5:You said what you said you would text him. He would text me like is everything good? I'd be like damn, did somebody text his phone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what it is. I Somebody text his phone, that's what it is. I'm like what did I?
Speaker 5:do wrong. Man, you guys are scared. Man, you guys are so scared. Why is the boss? Man, you know what?
Speaker 1:Sometimes I'm just checking in.
Speaker 5:It's crazy because it's just checking in, I'm just saying hi, sometimes I'm just saying hello.
Speaker 2:How's it going? He does it to me too. He's like everything okay.
Speaker 1:Of course, you become your own worst enemy. At times when you're doing a gig, you know what. It only makes you guys better. It only makes you guys. You guys are great. You guys are all great, I love it now.
Speaker 5:Next time I get a text on this next wedding and man, be like it sucks, hey you gotta text.
Speaker 4:The other day, gordon, I texted I texted gordon yesterday.
Speaker 1:I'm like hey, man, you got spotify. He's like why are you asking me this? I'm like, just like, don you download songs? Like he's like why you asking me this, bro, because I'm gonna send you to a place where there's no wi-fi. Bro, like he's, like he's in his own head, he's in his own head like paranoid.
Speaker 3:What's going on?
Speaker 1:man like I'm like gordon gordon, I'm sending you to a place.
Speaker 3:Did somebody tell you I was using spotify unless you got?
Speaker 1:starlink on your phone, which I know you're not a T-Mobile guy. Unless you got Starlink, I got to ask this question Do you download the Spotify playlist I sent you? Okay, all right, good, you do. All right, cool, we're good.
Speaker 3:Oh, and I do. I do three times over. I do it on my phone, my iPad and my laptop.
Speaker 1:I have redundancy. I didn't see the immediate response text that I got from him.
Speaker 4:He was like are you asking me this?
Speaker 1:Like I just so suspect I love it. He was too.
Speaker 2:Sorry, but that was actually me asking. I was like make sure that everything's downloaded, Cause we're going to be in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1:I can blame her. I can blame her.
Speaker 3:I'm going to get me a little Starlink dish and just set up anywhere, man, A little Starlink subscription man.
Speaker 4:That's the worst going somewhere and there's no Wi-Fi, I know.
Speaker 2:I have two Caliente weddings back-to-back weekends. There's nothing out there, no, but these people that I'm sending to have Wi-Fi supposedly. And cows.
Speaker 1:And cows.
Speaker 3:Thank you honey. That's it. I love animals. I'm cool, All right, cool Wi-Fi and cows.
Speaker 1:The Wi-Fi may or may not drop out. So that was it. Do you like cow tongue?
Speaker 3:We're not going to be reliable? No, we're not. We're good. We're not relying on it, we're good cow tongue.
Speaker 2:Yes, I've had cow tongue where did you grow up in basque?
Speaker 3:of course, I know. Did you grow up here, gordon? Yeah, he's an arvin, he's from so you're you.
Speaker 2:You grew up in biggersfield and you don't like basque food no, I love basque food, I just don't like pickled tongue.
Speaker 3:I don't like tongue either. I mean, it's okay, I can eat it. You're supposed I'm mature, I can eat it, I can deal with it, I can tolerate it. Kind of like different kinds of more exotic sushi. I'm like sushis and stuff like that. I'm like I don't know. Yeah, you don't mess with that. Here's the thing about Basque food.
Speaker 1:I go to Basque food and besides the pickled tongue, I'm like, okay, you got one dish that's pretty signature. The rest, you got french fries. You got spaghetti you got bread, you got spaghetti.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, you got bread. Yeah, you got beans, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:None of this Fried chicken.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fried chicken. Yeah, how is this? Basque, yeah, it's absolutely, and the cabbage. I feel like I'm going to die, yeah, and all you've got to do is get the starter, or whatever it is just.
Speaker 1:It is kind of so, basically Basque food of foods.
Speaker 3:It seems like a poor soup kitchen yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like this is all we have, we're going to throw it together. You know, and that's Bakersfield for you, they get some chicken and meat every once in a while, but it's a poor soup kitchen.
Speaker 2:It's like partially French and like partially New Orleans.
Speaker 3:Is it southern France or northern France where Basque population was, and then Bakersfield became the Basque capital?
Speaker 2:of the world and beans and salsa, yeah, and bread.
Speaker 1:But French fries actually aren't from France, so how did they get in there?
Speaker 3:Were they from Holland or something I don't know? Probably Holland.
Speaker 5:Chickens don't have nuggets. It's also not from.
Speaker 1:France. Salsa is not from France. You're right, we're heading way off. Yeah, I'm sorry All right, All right.
Speaker 3:So we're going to close. We're at an hour in. I'm going to close with one question and it's going to be for everybody as well Directed kind of towards Courtney Wifey for lifey, Wifey for lifey. I did my homework on you too. You have a wifey for lifey saying I want a piece of advice from everyone here on a successful relationship.
Speaker 2:Successful relationship.
Speaker 3:You have to be best, Honestly you have to be best friends.
Speaker 2:You have to be best friends, you have to literally want to spend all of your time together, and I know that sounds ridiculous, but honestly, when I'm excited about something, I want to tell him first.
Speaker 3:When I want to go on a trip.
Speaker 2:I don't want to go with my girlfriends. I love my girlfriends. I want to go with my husband. I don't want to be somewhere where he's not experiencing what I'm experiencing. I don't want to do anything that he's not doing with me. It's so important to be friends.
Speaker 2:It's actually, I think, think romantic love is amazing and of course, we love the fireworks and the sparks and the physical like all of that biochemistry, that is all of that is amazing, but you have to also realize that, like, at the end of the day, we're all going to be old and wrinkly and crusty, and like maybe you, at the end of the day, you really just want to hang out with the person that you want to like, you just want to hear everything that they have to say, you are interested in them, you love them and you just want to spend every last waking moment with them. And that's what nate is to me.
Speaker 3:He's my best friend, so all right, it's nate I Nate. I apologize that you're going to have to follow that up, brother, but you're next on deck.
Speaker 1:Bro, I just want to echo everything that you said, ditto.
Speaker 1:Have you ever seen Ghost with Patrick Sway to you, that guy was so stone cold, he's like ditto Everything you said babe. No, she's right, absolutely. I can actually add a lot to that, but she's right. You grow either with somebody or you grow apart from somebody. So there are so many changes that we go through, especially in our 30s, in our 20s, in our 40s, when you hit 40. And there are so many life changes that you go through, like, if you're not going through that with somebody and you're not growing with somebody, you're growing apart from somebody.
Speaker 1:Because there's so many times where you know and this is again why a lot of relationships don't work is because you have one person who's you know, really driven and self-motivated and they want to better themselves and they're reading their personal development books every day and they're literally like you know, maybe they're reading scripture every day and they're spiritually growing and they're doing all these things and the other person is left on the sidelines. You got to literally link arms with these people and you got to. You know, especially if you say you love them. You got to grow with that person. You got to. You got to say hey, you got to be talking about your goals with this person. You got to be like, say, this is where I want to be in five years, this is where I see us being in you know 10 years and and can you get behind this? And and maybe you can give me some insight on how we can get there and like, if you're not doing that with your spouse, then it's probably got an expiration date on it.
Speaker 3:D man. We need some words of wisdom on your side, man. What's been something successful in your relationship, that you've practiced, that you feel has strengthened and solidified your relationship over time?
Speaker 5:Continue working on yourself, because you can't love anybody else until you love yourself. And it's not all about yourself, but if you don't have self-love, how can you give love back to anybody? And after a while, if you don't have self-love, your love and so inside yourself will expire. And guess what will happen to the everybody else around you? Yeah, so it's continual battle, working on yourself and then find somebody that loves you unconditionally. Man, I'll be honest with you we all have times in our life where we get dark and you need somebody to bring you back to light.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 5:And you got to find somebody that will truly love you through your darkest moments and then, when you can be the one to shed the light, you shed light, you turn back around and you reciprocate that love. Man, find somebody that reciprocates love with you at all times. It's not just about having children, like Courtney said. It's about somebody that, when it's all said and done, the physical can't be no more. There's no more intimacy. You're broken, you're a vegetable, you're down, your ass needs to be wiped.
Speaker 5:That person you look over and you can still say I love, yeah do it all I would never love nobody like I love you, and I think I said that to my wife more times in this last recent year than I've ever said it. I would never love nobody like I love her. I couldn't, I couldn't meet another family over after more cousins and all that, but all that doesn't matter.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I would never invest myself into anybody other than my children, because I got goals, dreams and aspirations outside of my kids and my wife. That as I get deeper into those goals and I'm building it brick by brick, the only people I want to share that with, and the financial way with all that I'm going to gain, is them, and all the knowledge that I've gained in life through everything I've been through the only ones. I want to give that back to is them at the end of the day.
Speaker 5:And then once you get and you do find that, because some people find it differently and some people lose it and it's a blessing if you get it back. I've been there. So when you do get it back, you hold on to it and even when you're slipping in yourself For dear life, you hold on to it, and even when you can't, as long as she's still holding on to you that means you got a chance, somebody that sees the better in you when you can't see it in yourself, and, in turn, when it's time to do something like I love my wife.
Speaker 5:She's so creative man, she does flower arrangements, so what she's doing right now I told you she couldn't come and her family they're beautiful man, my father-in-law, my mother-in-law, some of the most beautiful humans on this earth right, they love us, they take care of us as best as they can and I don't want her to work some nine to five and the family has a company so she can go work for them and make money. But then the day it's like I'd rather you find exactly what I found something you love and this is people get it confused.
Speaker 5:Like I just show up and play music for hours, no homie. Like there's work put into this right and I mean all the equipment set up the breakdown the teardown is two hours alone bro oh yeah, okay, we do it, we wedding I got to sit and meet with you, I got to text you, I got to do no. That's why the money is equaled into that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:But there's so much into what we're doing that you're just not paying for that little bit of service.
Speaker 5:You're paying for a full day service of an artist, yeah Right, so I want my wife to find something that she loves and that would be like something I can give back to her. It's like, don't worry about the money too much when I make a little bit, but not enough to like keep us secure, but make a little bit to help. But until you find that thing that you love, we're gonna keep doing exactly what we're doing. I'm gonna keep poking and prodding. If it's check to check, one a month, or if we live in, we're good, going vacation, cool. But until she can have something like courtney has and like busy b has and your wife has, I'm gonna keep fighting, I'm gonna keep scratching, I'm gonna keep calling because I'm trying to give her what she gave me.
Speaker 3:I will not be here without her.
Speaker 5:So in this instance, this is the epitome of unconditional love. I'm just trying to give it back. It's awesome.
Speaker 3:that's awesome. So we going to wrap this up. I'm going to give everybody a minute. I want you to tell me who you are. I want you to give me your socials, any kind of information that you want everybody else to hear and have and have handy. Let us know what's going on, let us know of your events coming up, let us know of everything. So we're going to start with Courtney. One minute. You're on the clock, girl.
Speaker 2:Okay, so, courtney, I do events 661. That's pretty much like all you ever need to know, because all of my stuff is that I do events 661 on my website, so it's wwwidooevents661. And then Instagram same thing I do events 661. Same thing with Facebook, which I don't use.
Speaker 2:It's really bad Instagram automatically puts it onto Facebook, I know, I'm working on TikTok, but I waste more time on TikTok than I use it for yeah perusing, yeah Perusing, micro learning. Tiktok is really fun for me, and I kind of don't want to spoil it by using it for business For work.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's tainted.
Speaker 2:Now that's like where all the kids are that are getting married.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a lot of young kids getting married.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, but yeah. So basically what we do is we do coordination services for couples that are DIY, so they don't need a full service planner. They don't want to spend four to $10,000 on somebody to help them plan their wedding. They really want to do everything, but they don't want to work on their wedding day. They don't want their mom to be um out, you know, at the at the reception setting up tables and chairs and linens and place settings, and you facilitate this.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, so we just really catered and play settings and you know all the things you facilitate this, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:so we just really cater to couples that you know really want to do the majority of it on their own but maybe need help with their master timeline and their vendor coordination and their setup and breakdown and um, yeah, so that's basically what we do and we, I think, do a really good job at it. We have, besides myself, I have two lead coordinators who are amazing. Shout out to Shannon and Harmony.
Speaker 3:There we go, they're amazing.
Speaker 2:They are my right-hand girls and they're the sweetest things in the world and I appreciate them very much. And then we have lots of amazing assistants also, and we can pretty much facilitate anybody.
Speaker 3:So yeah, mr Nathan Antwine. Sir, wow, all right. Yeah, very official, very formal.
Speaker 1:That's very hard to follow, Okay. So yeah, Nate Antwine, NAL Entertainment. We have been being a full-service wedding company for the better part of 12 years. So 12 years we've done many, many weddings. I lost count after 400.
Speaker 1:So, we've done a lot of weddings for many, many brides and grooms. We strive on that. We have six fantastic contractors now that represent this brand, that fly their flag underneath my flag uh, that do a fantastic job for our brides and grooms. So, uh, we put a lot into every single wedding. No two weddings are the same. I mean really, they're all different. Um, every single thing that we do is custom fit for the bride and groom.
Speaker 3:As unique as a personality.
Speaker 1:It is. And you know, we, we, we gather a lot of things on the front end to just kind of get their personality profile. It's almost like a matchcom personality profile. I can see by their, their song choices. You know, the things that they've, they've chosen, you know, doing this for so many years, like you, really like you're, like I got these people.
Speaker 3:You compare it to a wedding that reminds me of that one we did three and a half years ago out in Woody, or something Sure.
Speaker 1:Right, You're going to experience that very soon. That one in Woody is coming up next week for you. But no, yeah, we pride ourselves on being a full-service DJ wedding DJ company. There are people who can DJ clubs and do a great job at that, but there's so much more that goes into a wedding DJ. You've got to be a master of ceremonies. That means you're familiar with the way that a flow of a wedding goes.
Speaker 1:Then you have to keep things on timeline, you have to be an emcee, you have to be comfortable behind the mic, you have to be able to announce when things are happening, which is very hard for most DJs, I would say by and large, because most DJjs like again like you said you, you're the guy behind the tour. We all hid behind a facade, yeah and so again, like you can't be that guy in my company, you have to be the guy that is the guy outgoing.
Speaker 1:You have to be the guy, yeah uh, so, and I'm so proud of all the people that represent my, my company and my flagship, um, but yeah, that's pretty much what we do in a nutshell. Uh, nal entertainment, uh, for all, we do corporate events as well, but I mean really the sweet bread and butter. Bread and butter is we love weddings and that's what we really wanted to. Uh, we set out to kind of be the best at weddings, so that's what we do.
Speaker 3:All right, my, my, my boy D, the best at weddings. All right, that's what we do.
Speaker 5:All right, my boy D Cross, I like what you said. We all hid behind a facade, yeah we all have. Yeah, I'm done hiding behind a facade.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, no more, no more man.
Speaker 5:Dante Cross, first and foremost man at Instagram, dj Dante Cross Facebook. I just go by Dante Cross. You go on my Instagram man, you're going to see a lot of my family At the end of the day. I had a conversation with somebody a while ago talking about I need more content. Well, yes, but it's like money or like friends or like anything, or like anything you do in moderation.
Speaker 4:The value of the content, all content and good content, yeah.
Speaker 5:I'm a father first. So on my gram, if you pop up one day, you're going to see on my story pod my baby daughter doing some crazy dancing. You might see my son at a football game, killing it. Shout out to RJ Flock, that's my man. You might see my big daughter cheering, or just me and her grooving in a grocery store or something, because without her I'm not here. Or you might see my son, luca man. His name means bring her a light, because he brought me out of a dark place. Man. So you're going to see that first and foremost because when you look at my Instagram or you get my phone number or recommendation, that person is recommending and referring you because I sell me. One day I will be a great DJ. I plan on it. I plan on getting you know. We taught I hit you up about the baby scratch.
Speaker 5:Now I plan on doing all that crazy flipping technique because anything is built repetition, but it takes time. But at the end of the day, I'm an entertainer. You get somebody who is comfortable behind the mic and every day that I do it I'm going to get more comfortable. You get somebody who, again, loves music through and through. There's nothing better than music. So, when it comes to musical selection, jazzy Jeff said it perfectly Play good music, play good music Right. So I understand pockets and how to play good music. Because I know music, I can hit everything.
Speaker 3:We can genre jump, Come on man we can go in.
Speaker 5:I'm married to a Latina.
Speaker 3:I've been with her for 20 years, bro, I got a little.
Speaker 5:you know what I mean, I got a little cumbia, got a little bit of West Coast, but I got a little bit of everything in me. And with that said, I got a little bit of everything in me and with that everything in me it made me who I am, so big. Shout out to you, gordie B, for having me here. I love brother.
Speaker 5:Big shout out to Nate for just being a stand-up person, man At the end of the day. There's a lot of people out here that have a facade and they say they're somebody they're not. Oh yeah, every time, through and through, I've talked to you. Every event, you gave me anything. I can't even remember the moment that we met, but it was epic because it must have you remembered me somehow. And the moment that you met me wasn't even how you remember me when you hit me up to DJ. So if I keep living life like that and creating those everlasting vibes that's what it says on my DJ card is I want to create everlasting vibes. So I do love weddings, but I want to jump out and do more right, more with my artistry.
Speaker 3:But at the end of the day, if it's a wedding, I'm putting my all into it.
Speaker 1:We know, we're going to get you out at.
Speaker 3:Beach Over the City, man. Oh, stop it, I'm there next time, man, we're going to get you at the next one, I'm there next time, man.
Speaker 5:So it's love all around and I feel the love, courtney, I feel the love for you and your husband. You already know.
Speaker 3:I can already tell man.
Speaker 4:It's two power couples and my wife.
Speaker 3:Hey, she's welcome. We'll get her on on the next one. Man, we can do this as often as we want. Man, this is us.
Speaker 4:She's at home making the bread and butter.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the bread and butter is taking care of my children.
Speaker 1:That's the bread and butter Amen.
Speaker 5:That's the bread and butter, right? They're taking care of my legacy.
Speaker 1:This is a lot of fun, dude. I gotta say this is a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:So, last but not least, we got Busy Bee Creations.
Speaker 4:Cali Entertainment.
Speaker 3:What's going on with you? Where can people find you? What do you do? What do you offer?
Speaker 4:I do a bunch of balloon arrangement, balloon walls, photo booths, anything with balloons. What?
Speaker 3:don't you do. She's very crafty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah she says like balloons, but it's like this amazing structure of like glorious.
Speaker 1:Don't say I do balloons, because it's like falls short of what you do.
Speaker 2:Cascading, gorgeous.
Speaker 4:Yes, like just amazing arrangement, and I also personalize like stuff with the. Cricut.
Speaker 1:You do seating charts vinyl seating charts on mirrors. What else? Etching, etching.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can cut anything on that machine. Where can everybody find you?
Speaker 4:How can people get a hold of you? Cali Entertainment.
Speaker 3:And where are these? At Instagram And's?
Speaker 4:it facebook, instagram. I don't have it on facebook. Wait, wait, don't you?
Speaker 1:have a brand new website. Do you have a brand new website? We do have a brand new. What is the website.
Speaker 3:Can you please tell me again cali entertainment grouporg. I love that. Oh nice and official, like a government website.
Speaker 4:We paid for it Wow.
Speaker 1:You know that ain't getting taken down, that's official LLC All it calls is dot commerce. Your dot com is pale and compared I got dot org alright, love it.
Speaker 3:It's not dot gov man, so we're still good. I ain't selling my people out. All right, Love it. All right, y'all, we are going to wrap this up. I want to thank everybody for coming out and making this podcast what it was. Appreciate you, d-cross. Thank you for the love, thank you for the support, thank you for the camaraderie just the DJ community. Same thing with Nate and Courtney, especially that Courtney branches off into the parties, the events, the planning and things of that nature. It's a variable variable. It is a very valuable thing to have within our group, a very powerful commodity, if you will, in our group. So we appreciate you guys, thank you guys, and we are going to go ahead and cut this out.
