How Working DJs Really Win: Small Gigs, Building Relationships, Read-The-Room Skills, And Add-Ons

A table full of working DJs. A pile of real stories you can use this weekend. We brought together veterans and rising voices to unpack how bookings actually happen, why the smallest Monday gig can lead to a $3,000 wedding, and what it really means to serve the room instead of your ego. From community mixers and corporate road shows to rooftop parties and radio, it’s a candid look at the craft, the business, and the moments that stick.

We get specific about the long game—how staying visible in your city turns into referrals, why you treat every event like a networking mixer, and how to price weekday work without undercutting yourself. We also get into add-ons that sell themselves: uplighting, cold sparks, podiums, photo booths, and how to partner and rent before you own, so you grow profit without heavy debt. If you’re searching for practical ways to raise your average booking value, this is a blueprint.

The music talk runs deep. You’ll hear how great open-format DJs read tiny signals—t-shirts, ages, seated smiles—and pivot from Queen to Kiss to cumbia to Punjabi to freestyle without losing the floor. We challenge lazy proof-of-skill videos, talk EQ over filters, and explain why compact controllers are perfect for travel practice but not your flagship rig. We even demystify file formats: MP3 vs WAV matters less than a clean master, trim discipline, and tasteful EQ.

What hits hardest are the reasons why we show up. A Sinatra set that made seniors feel young again. A Punjabi anthem dropped at commencement that sparked a roar. An Ozzy tribute done with heart. Serve the moment, prepare like a pro, and the brand builds itself. If you’re a wedding DJ, club DJ, or event pro looking for booking strategy, crowd-reading tactics, and right-sized production, you’re going to leave with notes—and a few new songs to test.

If this sparked ideas, follow, share with a DJ friend, and drop a review telling us your dance-floor rescue track. Your story might make the next show.

Chapters

• 0:00 Meet The “Unks” And The Crew
• 4:10 Community Work And Booking Strategy
• 9:35 Travel Gigs, Mixers, And Packages
• 16:32 Pricing Small Gigs And Long Game
• 22:40 Big Events, Prep, And Professionalism
• 29:20 Radio Journey And House Shows
• 37:48 Station Moves, Autonomy, And Notoriety
• 45:40 Rock Sets, Tribute Nights, And Range
• 53:12 Alternative DJs And Crate Building
• 1:00:30 Reading Crowds Across Genres
• 1:07:28 Salsa, Cumbia, And Latin Nights
• 1:14:10 Expanding Services And Photo Booths
• 1:21:04 Old School To Streaming: Tech Talk
• 1:29:36 Controllers, Portables, And Practice
• 1:38:00 Legacy, Brand, And “Why”
• 1:46:40 Giving Back, Mixers, And Growth
• 1:55:05 Live vs. Pre-Recorded Ethics
• 2:02:20 Weddings, Playlists, And Timeless Hits
• 2:10:24 Gear, Lights, And Right-Sized Rigs
• 2:20:00 Bookings, Drives, And Sign-Offs

Transcript

SPEAKER_08: 0:30

What's the most dope episode? Season two, episode two, I think it is, and we got a uh we got quite a little cast, man. I'm gonna call them the unks. I'm gonna call them the unks of Baker Swim, man. We gotta we got some age up in here today. I'm the baby unk, man. I'm doing that. We got we got big Noe G checking in his Unk number one, probably. Probably probably Unk number one. Noe G been in it for a while, man. We got Dos Muchos at the other end of the table. Yeah. Unk number two. Sagittarius. We got Henry from the Bug Podcast.

SPEAKER_07: 1:07

I think he's gonna be Unk number three, man. What up, bro? Skeeves, your boy the Biggity Bomb over here, the most dope podcast. I'm enjoying a nice beverage over here. Thank you for the invite. Nice beverage, man.

SPEAKER_08: 1:16

We got food, drinks. We all it's all love. We all chill. We all just take it easy, man, and uh enjoy the art, if you will. Uh we got younger, the younger unks. I'm gonna say patomime next is the next unk.

SPEAKER_06: 1:32

I mean, I'm still pretty old, but you know.

SPEAKER_08: 1:36

Thank you. What's pretty old? Yeah, yeah. What number is that, man?

SPEAKER_06: 1:40

Give me a range. I'll just say I'll just say 37.

SPEAKER_08: 1:43

37. All right.

SPEAKER_06: 1:45

I mean, I'm the fun unk. You're good. You're good. You're good.

SPEAKER_09: 1:48

You're good.

SPEAKER_08: 1:49

And then I'm gonna say the babyface assassin over here, man. Big Dre, man. What what what age are you clocking in at, man?

SPEAKER_05: 1:55

I'm old at heart.

SPEAKER_08: 1:56

Yeah, old soul.

SPEAKER_05: 1:58

But uh, I'm 32.

SPEAKER_08: 1:59

Oh, see, I was right. I think I was right in the exact order. I think it went Noe G, Dos Muchos, Henry, Patty Prime, Andre, and then the lovely Queen B. I'm old. You're younger than all of them. No, no? No. Oh, well, whatever. 32.

SPEAKER_02: 2:18

I call that puppy skin.

SPEAKER_05: 2:21

32 is the new 16, bro. That's like puppy skin. That's how long I've been an uncle, 16. Oh man. Early. My sisters are fast with almost anybody need uh Andre's sister's info, man.

SPEAKER_08: 2:38

Uh hit him up after the show. All right, man. So we got uh we got quite the uh the mix, man. Like I said, we got some unks in here. We got some some guys that have been in this for a very, very, very long time. And I'm gonna start out with Noe, man. I you know what me. This is the man.

SPEAKER_03: 3:00

Is it is it because I'm I have to be in bed early?

SPEAKER_08: 3:03

Padomon, Padamon's next, man. I gotta get him out of here before he's next.

SPEAKER_03: 3:07

Right on.

SPEAKER_08: 3:08

But Noe, man, I've met you a couple times, man. I think I met you over at Elements uh before Manual passed away.

SPEAKER_03: 3:15

Probably.

SPEAKER_08: 3:16

Uh I think Chalk was out there.

SPEAKER_03: 3:18

Okay, yeah, yeah. That's right. That was the first time, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 3:21

Or or it was uh two goats and a goose.

SPEAKER_00: 3:25

Uh no, no, with the fairgrounds. That was the fairgrounds and then two goats.

SPEAKER_03: 3:28

Yeah. And then uh the um Elements.

SPEAKER_08: 3:33

All right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 3:34

That's right.

SPEAKER_08: 3:35

So something that I've noticed from you personally, man, watching you, watching your journey, watching, you know, not creep like, man. I promise I'm a weird man. I ain't watching that much, man. But somebody watching me. Always feel like you know, I I see you do that's cool. I see you do more in the community, I would say, than uh a lot of other DJs that I see. Uh same thing with Petomime. I see Petomime out in the community. I I see you in the community. When I think of community DJ, I tend to think of No EG. Why is that?

SPEAKER_03: 4:11

Because I'm always out there.

SPEAKER_08: 4:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 4:13

Well, I mean, you know, you gotta you have to like at my age, especially in order to get booked, you know, you have to market yourself really good out there. So I like to be involved with the community because the community, you get uh all kinds of events. You're gonna get either a quinceignada out of all that, doing all that, you're gonna get um uh you know, Suite 16, a 20th birthday grant opening, another um, I don't know, like a fundraiser or something like that. You know, so I mean I I just like to stay locked in with the community, you know, especially, you know, I have a lot of uh clients that um hire me consistently and all that, and they're always having something.

SPEAKER_08: 4:49

So I mean that just smart for business.

SPEAKER_03: 4:52

Yeah, you know, I mean you gotta and and and you just can't be out there DJing. You have to build relationships with these people because if you don't build really if you're just gonna go DJ and then leave and not communicate or somehow, you know, like hey, you know, like interested or get involved somehow or something. That when you're that close and you build that relationship, then they're gonna they're gonna use you all the time. You know what I mean? They'll use you all the time.

SPEAKER_08: 5:17

So you're you're also the DJ that I see, I would say, most frequently out of town.

SPEAKER_03: 5:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 5:24

I see you travel a bit, man. I see you branch out. Yeah, I see you down in LA quite.

SPEAKER_03: 5:28

Well, see, again, it goes with building relationships. Like and I've been getting hooked up in Clovis a lot, and it all started with uh I was contracted with Walmart and Coca-Cola, uh Reyes Coca-Cola, some company. They had called me up to do um all the grand openings, you know, up California. Up and down, yeah, yeah. And so whenever we call you, you just you know, can you come out? I said, Yeah, you know, money. Money is different in town because I'm not traveling, but it's it's it changes out of town. So I just want to get that clear with you, and then they're all like, yeah, we're good with that. I gave them a price. Okay, cool. That's all right, cool. And uh so doing those events, you know, people, you know, they come up to you and hey, you know, you have a car, where are you from? We have this coming up, okay. Yeah, yeah, call me up, let's discuss details, right? Yeah, cool. Absolutely. So I go do that, and then you know, it follows.

SPEAKER_08: 6:14

It's it's a it's a mixer for DJs.

SPEAKER_03: 6:16

Yeah, it's a mixer for you as a DJ. You gotta make it a mixer yourself, you know. I mean, every event, you know, talk to your client, you know, even if if you're not busy, kind of act like you know, hey, kind of help them out.

SPEAKER_08: 6:27

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03: 6:28

But uh just stay connected with your clients, keep it build a relationship. And I mean you gotta be out there, out of sight, out of mind.

SPEAKER_08: 6:37

Yeah, if they don't know that you're there, if you don't know if they don't know you do.

SPEAKER_03: 6:43

You know what I mean? We'll call you up.

SPEAKER_08: 6:44

Yeah, and they'll say, Hey, you remember the DJ from XYZ?

SPEAKER_03: 6:48

And they'll say, Yeah, I know him, I can give you his info and hook you up, and yeah, and that's how I've been getting hooked up a lot lately, even more, with new people that I've noticed that they're new clients, you know. But like I just got hired with Clinica Sierra Vista. I did one event for them. She called me again and do another one, and now she just called me again and now they're gonna have another one. So that's three events that I got from her, and then meeting her was at a mixer. Yeah, you know what I mean? So, you know, we connected, she was, yeah. I I remember you did this at the mixer, you DJ there and all that. Can you do our yeah? We need audio, we need a podium. I got all that. You know, I bought a podium and shit. Yeah. Even if I don't have it, I started noticing that a lot of mixers were asking me, Hey, can you well do you have a podium? No, I don't. I go, okay. So I hooked up the podium, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 7:32

Am I losing business because I don't have a podium?

SPEAKER_03: 7:33

Yeah, so boom. Yeah. Well, instead of calling somebody else for that, hey, here's your package. I got a podium now. So you need audio, you know, hey, you want some up lights too? You know what I mean? It'll look nice for your oh, you know, yeah, all right, cool, all right, yeah, boom, you know, I'll shoot you the quote right now, you know what I mean? Yeah. And usually if it's like, you know, you don't always have to charge an arm and a leg, man. Like, usually, this is what I say. If if it's a Monday, like this, I did a gig this past Monday, 800 bucks, bro, and I wasn't even there. But that was like literally, I was supposed to play from 7 to 11 30. I played from 7 to 10. I was out of there by 10 15. Sure. But it I always say, well, even if it was 350, 500, that's five, three fifty, uh, three hundred and fifty, five hundred dollars you're not gonna have in your pocket on Tuesday. Like, you know what I mean? Come on, like, and what are you what are you gonna do on a fucking Monday? You're gonna sit your ass down, you're gonna do it, like take the fucking gig for 300 bucks. You know what I mean? If they can't afford 500 or 600, fucking charge 300. All right, yeah, what's wrong with 300?

SPEAKER_08: 8:31

Do you know everybody in the world that makes$300 in one day?

SPEAKER_03: 8:34

And in fucking three hours or two hours that you're gonna be there, and they're feeding you and it's fun, it's something you like to do. I take those little gigs as practice, you know what I mean? I'll practice, or I'll I'll test new music on them, you know what I mean? Those are those are the little gimme's. I I call those gigs gimme's, you know what I mean? Because you can test them, you can play whatever you want. Yeah, there's no, it's not like you're doing a wedding, you know what I mean? It's kind of like, you know, you're you're just you know it's practical, it's fun. You're you$300, man, you're gonna have it in your pocket. That's the Ouija's, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 9:02

A lot of people in a uh, I would say the younger generation, they fail to have vision the long term, the long run. Another thing is one small little event that I'm doing today will reach somebody in a suit or reach somebody that's uh ahead of somewhere that will now hire you because of that one little event that everybody else said, no, I'm not doing for$300. Well, I'm gonna do it. Okay and I'm gonna turn that into a$2,000 quinted next year and a$3,000 wedding the year after, and and they don't see that vision that lower.

SPEAKER_03: 9:35

And see it from from doing the small audios and visuals that I do like for mixers and all that, that brought me now to do like big um, I'm not gonna say political parties. I'm not gonna say, you know, who parties. But now, but now they hire me to do like their galas or their big, you know what I mean? Where I mean, you know, the the goza guy that's running for mayor, he was at this event that I was doing the whole thing. And I was you know, kind of you you get nervous, I mean, but that's why you always go early, set up early, and do a test run. You know what I mean? It's like it's like you're a ban or some shit. You know what I mean? You you want to make sure you're you're gonna walk where you just go home, relax, and then you don't have to worry about it, you just walk in, turn it on, and you know everything's gonna work already. Instead of going in late, setting up, and then you just all that pressure, and then you have shit, something's not working, you're like, fuck, you know, shit starting, you know, what are you gonna do? You know what I mean? And I don't drink or smoke when I go do my because man, you know, I mean, I've been there back in the 80s. Uh fucking, you know what I mean? I had one bad one one time. You know what I mean? You're you're not in your right mind, you can't fix it, and it just takes you longer, you're loopy, you know what I mean? So nah, you I don't I don't I don't drink or smoke or anything before after, you know, that's different. Of course, of course. I'm not really a big drinker, but a smoker, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 10:46

But yeah, I mean that that's just like at work, right? Normally you're not gonna drink and smoke at work, but afterwards, I I'm gonna enjoy myself a drink and a smoke and chill and and like a gentleman and and uh uh conduct myself accordingly and handle business, do whatever, but I'm gonna be real, I'm gonna be high.

SPEAKER_03: 11:01

Yeah. But I mean, if you if you really if you really wanna be sore all day, all day on your feet, you want to be. But if that's if that's what you want to do, like longevity, like I mean, if you don't think you're gonna because there's some DJs that are just DJing right now and all that, but they're not connecting. You gotta you gotta put money into social security because later on, when you're older, bro, you know what I mean? Yeah it's not gonna be easy. You're not gonna be able to get a regular job. And the DJing eventually that's gonna go away. I mean, it's gonna go away. Like I I mean, I'm I'm blessed to still be doing it, you know what I mean? But any day now it could go away. But I worked my whole life. I worked, I DJ'd right after. You know, it wasn't like I was just, you know, I worked for Kaiser Permanente, I had a good job, you know, and everything. So once I was done with Kaiser, I started doing uh work for the housing authority, but then but I always kept the job on the side, yeah, because you know because that's what puts money into social security and benefits and and all the intangibles that I got the 401, but I can't get into that shit until I'm 65. You know, that's still a long better quitting and crazy ass burgers. See, but that's what sucks about that is that man, you gotta wait for you know, I'm already retired, but I have to wait now. It's because I didn't retire at 65. Yeah, yeah. You retired early. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, you know, but yeah, you know, you gotta you gotta think of it that way. You know, you don't just think that DJ's gonna do right now, it's good money because you're young and you know, you're making good money and all that. But are you saving? Are you putting it away? Are you again vision and future long term? Yeah, you gotta think about the future too.

SPEAKER_08: 12:28

So that's gonna go into a segue, man. Tell me about radio, brother.

SPEAKER_03: 12:32

Radio's fun, man. Is it I started radio in 1997? Yeah, I was with uh Hot. Well, back then it was uh Kiss 94.1, and then uh it went into Hot. Um it started off. I was doing a uh I did a concert at the uh Cal State, and it was uh Silky Fine and uh Romeo and Juliet. Yeah, and uh I can't remember who else it was, man, but uh uh I did that show and then uh Mark Feather, which was the uh program director for the station, he uh he walked up to me and he goes, Hey, can you can you put this shirt on? It was a kiss sniper, and I said, No.

SPEAKER_08: 13:10

Are you paying me, motherfucker? Oh exactly what I said. Yeah, are you fucking paying me?

SPEAKER_03: 13:15

Yeah, well, no. He's all that's uh I like that. I why what's the reason? Because I don't work for you. So why am I gonna wear it?

SPEAKER_08: 13:22

Why am I gonna represent you? Why am I gonna make you look good? Yeah for free. Yeah, yeah. That was it. That was that was it.

SPEAKER_01: 13:28

That's when you that's when you hit him on. He was like, he's different.

SPEAKER_03: 13:31

Yeah, so then uh so after that, um after the whole show and everything, uh, me and my girl were taking off, and I don't remember if we got a ride with somebody or I don't know how it happened, but he ended up telling her, hey, go with us, we're gonna go to the limo, we're gonna go after party or whatever. Ooh, science, hey you wanna go? I really didn't want to go, but she's like, let's go, fuck it, it'll be fine. You mean I was all right, fuck it. So we went in and and he throws a shirt at me and he goes, He goes, You want to wear that shirt? And I said, No. He goes, Well, the reason I was I was wanted to talk to you after that, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, he goes, I kind of wanted to see if uh, you know, we're gonna start a house show. I want to see if uh you want to be the, you know, I mean, you I know you play house, you know, because back then in the 90s, you know, it was the hard house was hitting, you know. So that's basically what we were a lot of us were well, we were playing everything, but most of it, some of it, there was a time when we were playing hard house. Predominantly, yeah. And uh so I said, All right, he said, Yeah, it'll be a four hour uh eight-hour show, four hours on Friday, four hours on Saturday. I said, Damn, that's a lot of recording. That's a lot of time, a lot of records, too. You know what I mean? Yeah, so then uh, you know, I thought about it, I said, Well, let me think about it, you know what I mean? And he goes, Yeah, so but what does it pay? You know what I mean? And then you know, he told me, and I said, Oh, okay, well, that's that's cool. That's doable. Yeah, that's that's our you know, hourly, you know what I mean? Like, so I go, well, fuck it. You can do one hour mix, it takes you like two hours to do it if you don't like the way it's coming out or whatever, you know what I mean. Back then, back then that was me. I was fucking now. I don't give a fuck. You know, I was recorded freestyle. I don't edit, I don't do that. If if I fuck up, it's gonna sound fucked up. That's gonna that's the way it's gonna sound like. I'm a human fucker. Yeah, right. It's that that's you know what I mean. That's a real mixing. Like putting my car, you go, damn. No, he goes, All that man, he goes, That shit brings me, takes me back because it's like you're mixing, like real, you know, mixing, like it's not all edited and shit. Right, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 15:13

That's that's what I say about I'm sorry to interrupt, but that's that's one thing I appreciate when I listen to a mix. If I hear if I hear a fucker, I'm like, okay, because now I know I'm listening to a human being. I know I know you gotta you gotta have imperfections.

SPEAKER_03: 15:25

Yeah, I'm not gonna sit there and I mean I'm too old to be sitting there and doing it over and over there. So but, anyways, man, uh yeah, so I started doing the house show, and then uh I started uh I recruited uh this guy named Alex Boogie and Damage. I got them two. Uh, you know, it it four hours is too much, man. So eight hours, I mean. So I gave them each like two hours each, two hours. Then I I can't remember what other DJ I got. God damn it, I can't remember who it was. But um anyways, I recruited like three of them and they were all training them in, you know what I mean, and shit. And uh I was giving them a piece of the pie, you know, you know, take them to dinner or whatever. Every time the numbers would come up, you know what I mean. We were number one at that hour. Yeah, I'd take them to school, we eat. Let's go, you know, we're ratings party, but you know, really it was it was our own little ratings party, you know, for the for the house show. And then uh after that, like after 10 years, you know what I mean? I kind of got tired and let's cut it, you know what I mean? So we did, and then I started doing on-air uh weekends and then uh pandemic hit and cut everybody off, you know. So it was kind of it was time though, I mean, because I was like, I don't want to be on air, you know, hey, I'm not a footpoint one, blah, blah, blah, with a bunch of 15-year-olds, you know what I mean? So I'm cool. So then uh Danny had hit me up about going over there to Groove and then Danny Hill. Yeah, uh Danny, that came later. Danny Danny Pete Danny Pete. He was PD at Groove. So I said, all right, I go, well, I just want to mix. Like I don't wanna, you know what I mean? I don't want to because he wanted me to be on, I don't want to I don't want to do all that. I just want to mix, yeah. So and that's what I did. And then Danny Hill, after well some shit happened with with that station, and and it's funny because now I'm back, it's kind of like that was a segue now. So uh yeah, you know, uh I mean I like I said, you're I would you're not paying me. Like I'm I'm just sending you mixes, you know, it's just that in other words, think of it. This was just another platform for you, also, you know what I mean? It's just you know so uh I went in, I was gonna mix with Drewski, and then they got win. I was the only one that got an email. Oh, we will no longer need your services. I can't wait to shoot that email back, but I'm just kidding. I hear you. Nah, but you know what I'm saying, like you know, and then uh it was just whatever. So, anyways, uh I thought about going with Drusky, you know what I mean, and and then you know, Danny he'll hit me up, and me and Danny met up and you know, went to breakfast, and and uh, you know, he said, Yeah, I've been trying to get you over here. Danny's a cool dude, man. You know, I I never really knew him or sat out and talked to him, you know, like that, but uh he's you know we started get to know him and he's a really cool dude, man. And uh so I told him, you know, okay, well, I want to do this, I want to do that, and I want to have this show, and I want to do this. And he said, Okay, he goes, but let's hold off on this show, he goes, until next year. Until this one next year. And I won't tell you why yet, but got you. Okay, it was already in the works. He goes, but he goes, that's why I want to talk to you. I said, sure. All right, cool. You mean I don't want to say too much, but yeah, yeah, absolutely, man. Uh so then I said, All right, cool. Um uh I said, well, let's uh let's do it then, you know what I mean? And then uh he goes, well, you could do, I said, I want to do a house show also, you know what I mean? Just like a two-hour show on Saturday nights. He's all right, because I got so much dope house, man, and where am I gonna play it? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_09: 18:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 18:32

He goes, All right, let's do it. So I and I'm I'm the one lagging right now. Sorry, Dan. I'm the one lagging right now, you know what I mean? Because uh I still haven't sent my writers, I haven't sent my you know, like my liners, what I because Kate's gonna have to voice it all for me, you know, to get it started. So I'm lagging on that. But uh that's what I'm gonna I plan on starting on on uh 98.1 on uh rewind, and then later on the other work will come up. It's in the works, yeah. It'll come up somewhere else. But yeah, man, that's as far as radio, and I mean it's you know, it's always good to, it's just a platform, you know, like something you know, keep you out there, keep people, you know, booking you.

SPEAKER_08: 19:09

And some people like, you know, if you're on the radio, the notoriety of hey, I gotta lie, I gotta DJ from the radio.

SPEAKER_01: 19:15

I I don't I don't listen, this is my own personal opinion opinion, but guess what? When it comes to this music, I don't care if you're make you're making if you're an artist, I don't care if you're a DJ or a personality. There's something about the celestial radio. When you hear that on that, when you know when you're on that celestial radio where you know it's not like on the internet where, okay, I got this many listeners. I got this, you you don't know. Yeah, I mean, they they know, I mean, but number wise, whatever, how they gather it, but just to find out.

SPEAKER_04: 19:39

Yeah, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01: 19:40

Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm aware, yeah, I'm aware, I'm aware that, but I'm I'm saying, like, like, you know, to the to the average person, like just to know that, like, hey, just turn on the radio and you're gonna hear me. That that that's always gonna be something. I don't care, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02: 19:53

What technically it's a different feeling too when you hear yourself, when you hear your mixing on the radio, it's a different feeling. Right. It'll seal a deal for people.

SPEAKER_01: 20:00

I mean, think about it. I mean, think about every movie we've watched, you know what I mean? If it's about an artist or something, that moment is when they hear it on the radio. Now that's that's that's when it that's when everything begins, is when they're on the radio. Every every music movie we can name, that was the point.

SPEAKER_03: 20:14

So that's why I'm saying, like, people that don't know radio, they love, they love that. You know what I mean? People they love to hear like their names or anything kind of.

SPEAKER_08: 20:21

What do you guys, what do you guys, what's your take on the newest, the newest radio quote unquote takeover with Danny Hill and Danny and Kate and all that.

SPEAKER_03: 20:29

Danny's gonna do great. Yeah, he's he's gonna do a good job, man. Danny's he knows what he's doing.

SPEAKER_08: 20:34

I mean, that that's that's a pretty impressive thing for it's coming. That's a pretty impressive thing. I mean, that that that excites me. Five stations now. And it excites me that a normal human being like you or me or like any of us who came from DJing, who DJed some weddings, who who did whatever, now went and opened his own radio show, his own radio station, and now he's swooped up. Well, how many three other ones?

SPEAKER_03: 20:59

Yeah, he has five total of five now.

SPEAKER_01: 21:01

Yeah, it's a lot of people. And sat on the info on the and sat on it. That that tells you that tells you enough right there.

SPEAKER_08: 21:09

Like he was he posted a teaser, he said, Hey, big news coming, you know. Normally, hey, I'm gonna put some uh man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Somebody's gonna be upset by this next comment, man. It's fine. But people always saying big things coming. Yeah, right, right. When there's nothing, there's there's no big thing, right? Like, like you want something big, and and I understand the speaking things into existence uh and giving love and thinking about it and saying it and believing it, right? But you also have to show something for it, right? You got something big coming. Hey, well, Danny had something huge coming, right? And that was something big coming that was that came to fruition, right? It's almost like a lot of these uh counting your chickens or counting your eggs before they're hatched kind of thing, right?

SPEAKER_03: 21:59

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

SPEAKER_08: 22:01

Yeah, and and don't don't share your news, like don't share your good news. Like those are some like come some cardinal sins, or you know, that hey, do not do this because there are a lot of people wishing on your downfall. Uh-huh. There are a lot of people rooting against you. There are a lot of people that they are unhappy with themselves and are envious or jealous or hateful or whatever it may be. When when somebody experiences something that that should be celebrated, something that should be grand and great and and people should be happy for. And then all of a sudden it's kind of like a whole lot of strangers are happy for me.

SPEAKER_03: 22:37

That's something that every DJ, I mean, anybody can do it, just do it. Yeah, you know what I mean? Anybody can have an event. Anybody can be a promoter, anybody can, you know, uh just can do anything. Anything any other DJ is doing, you can do it too. Just do it. Yeah, that's it. We did our we did our some people hate because you're doing it.

SPEAKER_08: 22:54

Yeah, we did our little beats over the city. Yeah, they it it it started from something of uh of a wild idea that that I've always had that I wanted to perform on a rooftop somewhere. I see these goddamn YouTube videos uh venue. I see these YouTube videos, man, and and these DJs are on Santa Santa F San Francisco rooftops and just the most epic, you know.

SPEAKER_03: 23:16

I've done a couple rooftops. I hate you, man. It's just not not here in town, but I mean it it it's it's a cool experience. Did you bring your own sound? No, no, I didn't have to. Oh, big dog over there had to stand up for all. Well, I mean I'm messing with you. I'm messing with down with that. I mean, I wish some of some of the spots I wish I would have, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 23:40

Right, but not coming upstairs and shit.

SPEAKER_03: 23:42

My homie uh Moosey, uh uh Chris Boogie, he he's in LA. He's the DJ, he's oh OG DJ with me. And I mean, like we we did V Dows, we did everything, but now he that's what he does now in LA. He goes and sets up all the uh sound system for all like DJs and all, and that's what he gets paid. And sometimes I'll I said, What are you doing this weekend? He goes, I got a couple parts. All right, I'm gonna be in LA. Pick me up. All right, cool, pick me up. And I just cruise around with him. Yeah, if I just go to LA to go eat, we go eat. I just go help him out and check out the spots. That's what I'm seeing out. Yeah, mansions.

SPEAKER_01: 24:10

Hey, stay up in the motel Mondays, don't he?

SPEAKER_03: 24:13

Yeah, I'll be going uh I'll be going on motel Mondays.

SPEAKER_01: 24:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 24:18

But uh that because that's when I go to LA because after my gigs, you know what I mean? So Sundays I'll go to LA. That's what's up Sunday through Tuesday or Wednesday, and then I'll, you know, I'll hang out with the my DJ buddies up there.

SPEAKER_01: 24:28

Hey, bro, hey, let me just tell you personally, that that shit's inspiring to me. That's why whenever you see me in LA, I'm on like, hey, look at me. You know what I'm saying? It's you. It's you. I'm putting that out that that's you. That's you.

SPEAKER_03: 24:39

You know, it's like it's uh it's cool because you know, you I just go with him and he and and over there, it's there's always something going on every fucking day, Monday through fucking Sunday. You know what I mean? Sunday through Sunday, there's always anything going on. So he, you know, I just go to clubs, you know, he'll be walking in, just setting up a fucking, we'll go into some store, clothing stores, right? Setting up a balances.

SPEAKER_01: 24:57

But see, but that's my my point simply is that like I know, I mean, in my mind, I mean, you know, when I'm seeing the videos, you're just you know, you're hanging. And it's basically what I'm saying is that like, you know, the the DJ fun I see you having. Oh, yeah. That's what inspires me. I'm like, man, like he ain't he just out here, he ain't enjoying the vibe. He watched he listening to the music and whatnot. And that's that's what chilling. Just chilling. Yeah, real talk. That's what that's I go over to chill, man. So I say this, man. Salute, man. Keep it up, man.

SPEAKER_08: 25:23

Big Dre. Yeah. You being quiet, homie? Oh, my girl texted us. Oh hey, we're gonna pause this thing. Let's take care of this business first, man. Hey, quickly take a picture.

SPEAKER_01: 25:36

Let her news. Quick take a picture for this guy. Y'all got a newspaper you need to hold up today's newspaper.

SPEAKER_08: 25:49

Hey, but big hey, big Dre just got married recently.

SPEAKER_01: 25:51

Congratulations, it's they own it then, okay.

SPEAKER_08: 25:59

Reporting and checking, and I won't even give you shit about it, homie. Check in. I don't gotta check in, she's already here, man. She knows what I'm doing all the time. Petomime, how you doing, brother? Pretty good, man. How about yourself, man? Hey, I'm a little jealous, man. I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm a little jealous of you, man. But look, Petomime hooks me up every once. I've gotten some gigs from Petomime. He slides in my way, he can't do them, he's busy, whatever else. So, first and foremost, thank you for that. Yeah, no problem. Uh, secondly, uh, what the fuck with the um the guitar, man? Oh, that's yeah, that's the hard rock guitar.

SPEAKER_06: 26:35

Yeah, the hard rock guitar. I mean, we got invited to the the soft opening, the VIP opening, and we also got invited to the grand opening, uh, even to perform out there too, man. It was it was a lot of fun. Thanks, man.

SPEAKER_01: 26:45

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06: 26:46

Well, what's the uh what was the energy? What was the adrenaline, man? Uh dude, I mean, we went on right after Brett Young, so it was like that you know big artist. Damn. Right after the first time I was nervous. Country, right? Yeah, yeah, country. Country artists. Yeah, I'm just like, you can even ask my wife too, because she was there with me, she's enjoying the show. I'm literally just looking around trying to catch a vibe out of everybody.

SPEAKER_03: 27:08

Did you did you follow up with country or I I didn't actually.

SPEAKER_06: 27:11

I quit.

SPEAKER_01: 27:12

I was gonna say I was just thinking the same shit.

SPEAKER_08: 27:14

I'm like, what like do I put do I put Chris Stapleton on right after? What do I do?

SPEAKER_06: 27:20

Some Garth Brooks, some so about that, like again, I was trying to get a vibe of everybody because I'm there, you know, watching the show, but I'm also looking, I'm I'm people watching.

SPEAKER_02: 27:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 27:29

You know, that's one of the things that I do is I people watch, I read my audience, I read my crowd, see what they're liking, see what you know, what t-shirts they got on, what they're doing, you know what I mean? So I actually started out with Queen. I did We Will Rock You because I mean hard rock. Okay, okay. And I have this really fun mix um that I got that it's just like EDM with We Will Rock You, so it's like you know, really cool segue to do that.

SPEAKER_03: 27:50

That'll that'll drag them back in.

SPEAKER_01: 27:51

Yeah, that was that was smart. That was going off to the left, but keep but keeping them there. Okay, but keeping them there.

SPEAKER_06: 27:57

Yeah, and then I followed up with like Kiss too, you know, kind of kept it at that. And then after a while, like the Spanish music really started to hit.

SPEAKER_08: 28:04

You you have a uh um a library and a music knowledge that I I tend to respect, just just from seeing the gigs that you do. You do some gigs with some music that might not be my strongest suit, right? Tell me about some of those genres, why you play those genres, how they hit you, why why you grew up with them, what the influence was with those.

SPEAKER_06: 28:26

So, uh, for me, I mean, I love heavy metal. That's always been my thing. New metal, thrash metal, you know, speed metal, whatever you want to call it. You know, that that's always been me. So whenever we get together with like Jerry's or we get together with other venues and stuff like that. Because you did the Aussie thing, right? Yeah, we're the Aussie. Oh, that's actually we we were supposed to do a new metal night that particular night. So I'd already had it booked with them. And then we got the sad news that Ozzy passed, and I'm like, dude, that was like my idol. You know what I mean? I always told him, like, my family, if he dies, I gotta take a few days off of work. I'm gonna take Breavement. You know, like, you know, where we're the ones, that was my uncle, you know what I mean? Like, that was my my uncle Ozzy, you know what I mean? And so when he died, I'm just like, I reached out to to Amy from from Jerry's, and I'm like, hey, you know what? Can we switch it up? Can we do instead of new metal, let's do a tribute night to Ozzy, because I just I know his whole catalog, yeah, and of course I'm not gonna play Ozzy all night, but at least you know, exactly. So stuff familiar with the hits, yeah, exactly. So I mean you I would do like Def Leopard and all that stuff, like everything that was in the era that he was in. But yeah, I mean, for me, I just I grew up with heavy metal. You know, I discovered it when I was 10 years old. Started playing guitar because of it. So actually, DJing was like the furthest thing from my mind back then. No, I'm a I've always said like I'm a guitarist first, I'm a lyricist first, I'm a I'm a musician first, I'm all that stuff before I was ever a DJ. And DJing kind of just like came easy to me afterward. I mean, not that easy, but like I knew the sound part of it because.

SPEAKER_08: 30:02

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06: 30:02

Because I mean when it came down to the gigs, I was always the sound guy because I didn't like how my guitar sounded or how everybody else sounded. So I'm like, you know what? Let me go back there and let me do it real quick. So coming to the audio part of it, like I I learned that first. And then um, you know, like I said, I just for me the heavy metal thing was just I I love to play it. I never had an opportunity to play it. It wasn't until I met the people from Stage Fry Clothing, and um I ended up doing a gig with them. They were doing the nightmare on 19th Street. It was the first event that they had ever done. And I'm like, you know what, guys? Like, I love the store, I love horror, I love you know heavy metal, like I love the whole vibe. I'm signing up and I'm doing it. Yeah, like you know, I'm like, can I do this? Like, give give me the opportunity, just give me the chance. And they did, they took they took that chance and I killed it, man. I mean, I got to finally play the music that I love that means something to me, you know what I mean? And it's like it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_08: 30:55

Because as a DJ, we play for other people, exactly, yeah. Unless we're here at the house, right? Yeah, right. Unless we're here at the house, we play for other people, and then when you have that that that that one gig that aligns with your genre and music, then you get to go the fuck off. Yeah, I was I was I want to add on to that.

SPEAKER_01: 31:16

I was just gonna say, and as a DJ, as a music lover, you how would you have felt, okay, if like put like this, I don't know what what the deal was, but bottom line is this in your mind, you was like, I'm the only motherfucker that's gonna do this shit.

SPEAKER_06: 31:28

Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, that that's pretty much what it was. That's right, yeah. That's what I was gonna do. That's his specialty, that's his wheelhouse.

SPEAKER_01: 31:33

He's like, Yeah, yeah, he was like, I don't give a fuck. What's going on? I'm doing this. Yeah, that's what's up.

SPEAKER_06: 31:39

They could have gone with anybody else, and I would have been fine with it, but it's like I my heart was in the doesn't mean delivering it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01: 31:48

Nah, you can you can't just go with anybody, man. You can't you can't just go with anybody. It's mixes up, yeah. Yeah, no, no, hey bro. Oh, thanks. Hey, hey, hey, no, hey, no joke. I remember seeing that Ozzy uh flyer seeing your name on that motherfucker, and I'm like, okay. You knew it, you know it, but no, no, because because guess what? You know what it is is Jerry's. It could have been a band, it could have been it could have been a band. It was like, no, we're giving this to a DJ. And that's and let me and let me just say salute, man.

SPEAKER_08: 32:12

How many tribute bands can go through this man to log in as a right? I know what he's doing. And it's for one artist, usually, man. So like even if it's a uh a band that plays three or four different artists, this guy's head is categorized with 20, 30 different artists, a hundred different songs, BPMs, keys, energies. Okay, last question, last question.

SPEAKER_01: 32:32

Did you play Close My Eyes Forever? I did. Okay. That was one of my segue. That's my shit. That's my shit.

SPEAKER_03: 32:42

Has anybody ever caught caught uh C minus' uh rock uh set? It's crazy.

SPEAKER_08: 32:48

Really?

SPEAKER_03: 32:49

It's not yeah, it's pretty dope.

SPEAKER_08: 32:50

C minus on YouTube?

SPEAKER_03: 32:51

Yeah, yeah. No, uh, I don't know. No, well, he did it at uh Eric V's birthday party. He did a rock set. Yeah, I mean, fucking killed that. So it's it just reminded me of when you said you you like rock and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We start out with corn and stuff. We need you out here though. I just want to let you know that we need you. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01: 33:08

Yeah, we need we need to.

SPEAKER_06: 33:09

And honestly, there, and no offense to any of you guys, like, but there's not a lot of alternative DJs. There's not your either.

SPEAKER_08: 33:14

That's my point. I can tell you that right now. Yeah, I'll be the first to tell you that's probably one of my weakest categories. I can go yacht rock, right? I I can go rock, I can do soft rock, I can do hip hop, art.

SPEAKER_01: 33:24

But let's be honest, how many people are going into uh any kind of uh music store, any kind of uh pro audio store, and saying, you know what, I came in here because I love rock and I want to buy some DJ equipment.

SPEAKER_08: 33:36

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01: 33:37

That's why that's why that's why that's why I say I salute you.

SPEAKER_08: 33:39

How many rock DJs are there?

SPEAKER_01: 33:41

Yeah, I can't name one. I can't, I can't, I can't, I I I cannot just say like, you know, like like like if somebody like think about it, think about it like it's like okay, we want rock. We just we don't want to hear nothing, we want to hear rock. We want to hear that shit. How who you gonna call? That's my point. Yeah, well, we know we know we know now.

SPEAKER_03: 33:57

We know we know now making it. But us as like open format DJs, I mean, I that's I call myself. Absolutely. Um, I mean, we know when to play, like, I mean, we don't play it a lot, but there's gonna there's times when we should play it or we know when to play it. Right. Yeah, no, and I understand that. And that's like again, it goes back to you. But see, read the crowd, read the crowd.

SPEAKER_01: 34:18

But see, say for instance, like I'm putting my I'm gonna put myself out here. Say, say if it's my black ass up here, DJing, and they come over here and they're like, hey, we want to hear some rock, and I'm over here and I'm hanging. I'm okay, woo woo. And you got a motherfucker like him over here, he's gonna be like, hey, you got this, you got this, you got this, run this. And then I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03: 34:36

That's what that's gonna be that D you should build a folder with like some cool shit.

SPEAKER_01: 34:40

I got I got the cool, I mean it ain't about me, but like I said, I'm just saying, like, you know, probably like like you saying, bro, like you got you got your market, bro, bro.

SPEAKER_08: 34:48

See, yeah, I I I'll say I agree as far as the open format DJing is I have a folder for everything. I have a folder for the merengue, so cumbia, some the head. Yeah, you ain't gonna run, yeah. You ain't gonna run me out the building. I'm gonna have shit.

SPEAKER_01: 35:03

Whatever it is, we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna do it. But but I'll be honest with you. I'm gonna say I'm telling you like this. Like if the motherfuckers over there, like I'm gonna tell you where I'm lacking at is the Middle East stuff. If they come over there every day, like Punjabi, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 35:18

I got the Bollywood too.

SPEAKER_01: 35:19

See, I came, I came up with that.

SPEAKER_06: 35:22

Speaking of that, so I've always said like heavy metal runs like all the the entire world, my different countries. So right now that you mentioned that you got the Bollywood, check out this band called Bloodywood. They're a heavy metal Punjabi band. They are badass. Let me tell you.

SPEAKER_03: 35:37

See, I do a lot of parties for Raji Bra and all that, and they're Punjabi. So she uh, you know, every so I I have to have that. Yeah, and Punjabi's fun. And her brother, actually, her brother's the one that he'd be, no, we play this one and play this one. Here's what and then next thing you know I got his whole Spotify. I was like, All right, cool.

SPEAKER_01: 35:54

I remember one time I was at a spot and you know, Cat was like, I want, you know, he came over there. I mean, I seen he was in there and he was like, Man, you know, okay, boom. I dropped that. Of course, you know, I dropped the you know the Jay-Z. Yeah, oh and next thing I've got the boys. Yeah, next thing you know, that motherfucker was in my face all night. He was like, No, brother, this is what I'm like, I'm like, hey man, Tido ain't got it.

SPEAKER_08: 36:12

It's all about Siddhu Muswala, man. Siddhum Muswala is like their mech, their their Tupac. Sidu Muswala was was was India's Tupac. He died, he was killed, he was murdered, whatever. You have some of that. And I have Siddhu Muswala, and he's one of the hottest. What I was gonna say is me having a folder of Punjabi music doesn't mean that I have the heart or the soul of that music or understand the message that that music is supposed to deliver at the time it is supposed to deliver. And somebody with patomimes, you know, uh his knowledge and his archive and his brain to where he knows what song hits, what song exudes, what emotion, what song is at the right time. You know, because there's Spanish songs that I you know I played, you know, at the beginning, and I shouldn't be playing. That's that's uh that's why that's why I sat back.

SPEAKER_01: 37:12

When you start talking about that, I'm like, that's me. I'm like, and and and and and that's always my that's always my my hesitant is like, okay, I don't want to, you know what I mean? Because like this day music, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to be up here looking like a poser.

SPEAKER_03: 37:23

Yeah, see, and that's what uh weddings and uh like weddings, that's why we start off slow with like some slow, cool shit. You know what I mean? Like, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06: 37:32

Like yeah, the stuff that people love or they can actually reception to and just bob their head to and all that, but it's not the good stuff.

SPEAKER_03: 37:40

And then you kind of start building up the energy. Yeah, you know what I mean? You start building up the energy and then now you're fucking playing, you know, some fucking ain't no fun. Yeah, you're playing all the hood shit, yeah, all the classics, all the bangers, all the and you know, and I'll tell you, there's much political people there, they party, man. They've I've done a couple myself.

SPEAKER_04: 37:57

Yeah, you start off all professional. You gotta you gotta work.

SPEAKER_01: 38:04

I I I like to I like to poke them over like I'm like let me drop some Bruno real quick. You know what I mean? You see what they you see when they moving.

SPEAKER_03: 38:13

Next thing you know, man, it's like you know, they're next thing you know, they're requesting fucking Tupac and shit. You know what I mean? It went for disumption, it went from all richy rich to fucking hood, you know what I mean? Like, man, well, I got you shit. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 38:26

Hey, one of my best weddings I ever did was uh a country wedding up in Woody, you know, just north of here, right before Porterville, right before you just crank off into the mountains or whatever. And uh it was country, it was like 300 people, but it was country country, like cowboy hats and wranglers and boots and and you know, L L bean or something, whatever they wear, man.

SPEAKER_03: 38:47

Like you gotta you gotta be ready to rock anyway.

SPEAKER_01: 38:51

I'm gonna I was go I was going with you, T said, whatever. I was like, okay, okay, we be poking fun now.

SPEAKER_08: 38:56

Okay, yeah, just like Noah's experience, man. I was trying to play it safe. I, you know, I was hitting Patsy Klein and I was hitting George Strait and you know, all these classic country, and then I was mixing in some soft rock and you know, trying to, and then they're coming up to me. Uh we want too short. I was like, Jesus Christ, what yeah, it's it's a it's amazing. You and you can't judge a uh a book by its cover, and it's a weird right, right?

SPEAKER_03: 39:23

Like you look at the crowd and you're like, damn, this is an early crowd in hell, that's the wrong thing to fucking say. Yeah, this shit, I'm leaving early. So this looks like hell. You're like, fuck, you stay another hour? Like, God damn, I thought you were the crowd that was gonna leave early.

SPEAKER_01: 39:37

Like, see, like I was saying, like about Panama when he said, you know what I mean, about how his love for the uh you know me, for the rock music, hard rock, I'm like, okay. Like, like that, that was, you know, like you said, you can't judge book by his by his cover.

SPEAKER_08: 39:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 39:48

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 39:49

It's a rare thing, right? So, like, comparatively to like being uh Cleveland Browns fan. If you're a Cleveland Browns fan, you're definitely a fucking Cleveland Browns fan as bad as they suck, right?

SPEAKER_01: 39:59

Hey, I'm an Arizona Cardinals fan.

SPEAKER_08: 40:01

And I'm a Raider fan, so I understand, man. Like we're fucking terrible, man. If you're a Raider fan, you've been losing for 25 years. I trust that you're a Raider fan. Damn right. I trust that you are a Raider fan because nobody wants to go through 25 miserable fucking years of losing and failing and sucking.

SPEAKER_01: 40:19

Okay, okay, let me tell you that. I'm a I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan and a Chargers fan, okay? And I and I I remember I remember I remember the year 2000, the Chargers, we didn't win nothing but one game. We didn't win but one game, and that was against and that was against motherfucking Kansas City. You know some really loyal fans, the Browns. You gotta you gotta be a loyal fan. They ain't playing, they ain't playing. No, they take it seriously. No, hell no. When that Baltimore move happened, and you see how they was like, they was like, that's our championship. That was Mo Dale, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, our Model has a you see when they went when the Baltimore Ravens won that shit, they was like, nah, that's ours. Yep, that's ours. It's like that's ours. We got that one.

SPEAKER_08: 40:58

What is it, the Texans and the Oilers?

SPEAKER_01: 41:00

The Oilers, the Tennessee Oil, the Tennessee, the Tennessee Titans, Tennessee Titans, Houston Oilers.

SPEAKER_08: 41:04

They did the same thing, they bounced too.

SPEAKER_05: 41:06

Yep.

SPEAKER_08: 41:07

Yeah, it's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_05: 41:08

What's your uh top three Ozzy Osbourne songs?

SPEAKER_06: 41:11

Oh shit, top three.

SPEAKER_05: 41:12

Um, good question.

SPEAKER_06: 41:15

I mean, depends if you want to go like a super classic or super hard. Because I mean, one of my favorite albums was Down to Earth. You know, even though he did go from like, you know, Blizzard of Oz and all that stuff, right? Like when it was Down to Earth, I that album just kind of spoke to me because it was like, you know, to my time. So gets me through was definitely top up there for me. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01: 41:36

You know when you know when I see you on a peep game. You asked him Ozzie Osbourne, he named Ozzie Osbourne. He didn't name Black Sabbath.

SPEAKER_06: 41:43

You know when I uh And that's true Black Sabbath too.

SPEAKER_03: 41:46

You ever hear of rat?

SPEAKER_06: 41:47

Oh yeah, oh yeah, man.

SPEAKER_03: 41:49

I I was just gonna say that I was smoking my first cigarette too. I said I said I was in high school and I was uh I was at the that little dairy or hamburger stand on Fairfax and uh Pioneer right there in the corner. Oh yeah. Oh no, We Patch Highway and uh and Pioneer, yeah, right there. I still remember that rat. I don't know.

SPEAKER_08: 42:13

What was he what was the mental space on that first cigarette? Where were you mentally, man? Were you in a cool stage?

SPEAKER_03: 42:19

Yeah, I was actually uh I was DJing and I remember uh what the hell? I was uh we went to uh we were hanging out at uh this doctor's house. His name was Dr. uh damn it's the fucking name. He had that house right across the street from Foothill High, big white house right there. It's it's all fucked up now, but back then that shit was uh Bullard, Dr. Bullard, because we were hanging out with his son, and we would go to that house and then I don't know, we were just starting to smoke cigarettes and there were more cigarettes, you know, the big long more cigarettes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Old school, dude.

SPEAKER_08: 42:56

Well, like those the ones that the females smoke, the big old big, big, long brown ones. Wow, man.

SPEAKER_03: 43:04

Yeah, we were we're we I went from those from that to cools, you know what I mean? So we started yeah, crazy good old days, man.

SPEAKER_08: 43:10

Not Newports, nah.

SPEAKER_03: 43:13

That was my neighbor.

SPEAKER_08: 43:15

Hey Henry, man, on on the podcast, man, on the bug. Man, I see you doing all kinds of stuff on the bug, man, and I see you very, very, very busy with interviews. I love your energy. I know you stand up at your spot. Yeah, this is weird right here, man. Yeah, you're a standing prod podcaster, man. Yeah, yeah. You know what? Tell me about the bug podcast, man. Tell me about its its its origins. Tell me about the the culture. What is the bug podcast? Is it a cultural podcast? Is it a hip-hop podcast?

SPEAKER_07: 43:48

It's a fucking takeover, bro, is what it is. Hey, but first of all, I I want to thank you for inviting me back on the show. It is an honor to be here on the most dope podcast over here, you know. And shout out to uh Mrs. B also, because these drinks are fire right here, you know. And I I I, for one, I do drink on the job. So, you know, this is dope right here. These drinks are really great. Right up your alley. Yeah, yeah. And just to let you guys know, breaking news, I did I did DJ one time. I did. I have I picked all the wrong songs.

SPEAKER_08: 44:17

Let's make it let's make it more than once, brother. Let's make it more than once.

SPEAKER_07: 44:21

I would be down. I am a huge fan of music, radio, you know, no. G we're talking about it. Um, I grew up listening to talk radio, radio, Howard Stern, um, Big Boy in the morning, you know, back when I lived over there in San Fernando Valley. Um, so I'm I'm big talk radio, music, um, all of that. You know, I did try to DJ one time, but yeah, it didn't go that that great. We should try again. I we should try again.

SPEAKER_08: 44:41

We should try multiple times.

SPEAKER_07: 44:43

We should. I feel like I can put in at least two minutes of good mixes right there, you know. You got it, brother. But no, man, much respect to all the DJs out there for real, though, because uh without the DJ, there is no party. And I've always said that, you know, that's that's with any genre, you know. So that that's um this is cool. I love listening to this show because I learn a lot about DJing too, you know. I've had pants of mine on my show, and he actually mixed. You did some like EDM shit, huh? Live right there on the show, and I was just like, oh shit, I was thrown away, you know. So that that stuff that once again, you know, I feel like everybody Bakersfield has different DJs out here. All of them are fucking good, man. So this is this is dope right here. Shout out to everybody out there, everybody that's listening out there, too.

SPEAKER_08: 45:22

You know, hey, Cheeto's chat out, shout out to Cheeto. He slid in, he had a little scratch in the throat, man. So we we were afraid he might be uh contagious. So we said, hey, you gotta get out of here. Yeah, you can't beat it. Some of us have to work, man. Zoom card.

SPEAKER_07: 45:34

You gotta zoom it in. That's my boy right there, Cheeto. You gotta FaceTime that shit.

SPEAKER_03: 45:38

I gotta I gotta admit, Cheeto's one cool dude, man. He's he's he's a cool, he's a good friend. You know, yeah, shout out to you. I never knew Cheeto.

SPEAKER_08: 45:48

Just like I never knew any of you guys, never knew him. I started following him, following you, following a bunch of people on social media because you know, just love for the DJ thing. That's it, that's it. And and I want to see everybody else's experience and and everything else. For real, man. Cheeto, man. Never knew the guy. Hit him up, talk to him about um lighting and stuff, projection. Like he's crazy about that shit. He's crazy about the visuals. Yeah, and I was so impressed with them, right? I was like, I gotta have that, I want to do that as well. And then he told me how much it was, and I was like, nah, never mind. But hey, lots of things.

SPEAKER_07: 46:21

That brings a lot to the party.

SPEAKER_08: 46:22

Yeah, and not to interrupt you, brother, but uh Cheeto came out to one of my DJ gigs that I did off the rails. It was a Mac Miller night. It was a tribute to Mac Miller, it was on his birthday.

SPEAKER_03: 46:32

I said the thing about Cheeto too, he shows love everybody.

SPEAKER_08: 46:34

He showed love. That that was the biggest thing for me, is he showed love. Noe G has showed love, everybody here has showed love. Um, and and it's something that that means a lot to me. So I'm gonna shout out Cheeto since he wasn't able to be here. But but tell us about the podcast and about the the feel for it, the genre of it, the you know, the whole idea of it.

SPEAKER_07: 46:54

Oh, it's just me talking bullshit, man. That's pretty much what it is. Um, I interview a lot of uh musicians, a lot of rappers, anything that has to do with music, man. I'm huge on that. I'm big on lyrics, man. That's like my shit. So I break down lyrics, we get the real stories behind every every single track from all our guests. Um I've had DJs on, you know, and and uh I'm hoping that after tonight I can go ahead and book some more, more DJs out here, you know, because that's one of the things I love, man. Music brings everybody together, you know. And uh once it doesn't matter what genre, man. I'm into all types of shit, you know. And um I love talking music. Anything that has to do with music, whether it's the production side, recording, um, lyrics, um, anything, you know. So that's what we chatted up. We don't just do music, man. We do um I've had authors on TV, TV uh uh show guests. You know, we've had an artist out there. Uh we just had some uh an art gallery that's gonna be coming up. We did that.

SPEAKER_03: 47:46

Other stuff. I talked to everybody. We've had that's a good thing to do, though.

SPEAKER_07: 47:49

Yeah, we've had uh Ted Bundy's brother, Rich Bundy. I mean, we've had him on, you know, and we got crazy stories. We do true crime stories too. Um we've had Olivia LaVoice who used to work here. She works for iHeartRadio now. She was a news reporter here who reported on um the yeah, the Bakersfield 3 case. We had her on and um true crime. We do we do a little bit of everything, you know. So yeah, we'll with the doors open for anybody that uh that has a story that wants to come in. You know, um just last night we were we interviewed a 16-year-old rapper, and it was like, dude, this guy is like he's doing his thing, you know.

SPEAKER_06: 48:21

Local rapper? That's awesome.

SPEAKER_07: 48:22

Yeah, local rapper and uh run it up so him, you know, and uh he has a tragic story, but he's putting it all all that all that negative energy is putting it into like music, a conduit, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 48:32

So it's like directing it, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_07: 48:34

So, you know, this is a youngster that could have been in the streets doing some stupid shit, right? Taking it out on the world, but nah, man, I think he's impacting the world in a different way, in a positive way, you know. So it's just artists like that. I love to support local artists out here, you know. We've have we have expanded to other other cities also now, you know, yeah, other markets. We started with the podcast, and then people demanded the YouTube channel, which I didn't want to do because I'm I'm a huge fan of radio, you know, uh podcasting, and um it's good to leave it to the imagination too, sometimes. But nowadays everybody wants video. Yeah, so I I gave I'm giving them half of the show on YouTube, you know, which it is slowly taking off. But um, yeah, we do a little bit of everything, man. A little bit of everything.

SPEAKER_08: 49:14

What is what do you think it's about for you, the the bunk podcast as a whole, as your uh project. What is it for you? Is it the journey or is there a destination? Is there is there an end goal? Yeah, there is. There is.

SPEAKER_07: 49:29

Um, uh uh there's a lot of things that are happening right now behind the scenes that um eventually I'm gonna be able to share. Yeah, uh, we got big plans. We we started the first step, which is taking the bug live. Now we're hitting different cities. We've been to LA already, we've been to Fresno already. Well, we're taking the show live now and bringing it to the audience. This is more like um audience participation. And I do bring uh local rappers out there with us too, so we can spotlight Bakersfield everywhere that we go, you know. Um, but uh my ultimate goal right now is to have a live event where I can have multiple artists out there, different genres, because that's what I'm into. And um different podcasts, I've done different, I've done interviews with different podcasters also. I like to show that support, you know. So I would like to bring them on and uh give everybody a good solid hour, hour and a half, and uh. Give everybody a voice and a chance. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_08: 50:16

You know, the the underground.

SPEAKER_07: 50:18

The underground, there you go, man, for real. So that that's the ultimate goal, you know what I mean? To bring all these different shows because there's a lot of like just like this one right here, most dope podcasts, you know. You guys have something really good going on over here, and I want to be a part of this too, you know. So it'll be cool if we could bring this show out there too, you know what I mean? And and just spread, uh share the spotlight with somebody else too, you know?

SPEAKER_08: 50:37

Yeah, absolutely. Oh, yeah. So that's what we're about right here. It's been fun, man. You know, the the you know, the metrics for the most dope podcast, the metrics for my and my wife's, you know, personal little podcasts we do, they're not huge, man. You know, they get like 200, 300 views, listens. Yeah, but that's still something more than what you had last year. The thing that excites me the most is seeing other states and countries that have listened to it. It's like it's wild that they they have chose somebody from Pakistan, yeah, chose to listen to the most dope podcasts, which A means they probably had to learn English at some point or another, the language itself, right? Yeah, and B is a DJ in in such a remote region or somewhere that we feel is like I hate to say third world, right? But yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 51:24

But that's where it's at, though. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 51:27

Yeah, I mean, it's not America, it's not what we're used to.

SPEAKER_07: 51:29

It's yeah, you know, it's uh it's a trip though, just to know that.

SPEAKER_08: 51:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 51:33

Um, I I just recently had my first guest, he's from London, England. Oh, so I was gonna use my accent, you know, but nah, man, it was uh it's a trip just to be like, hey, but how did you hear about us? You know, I was like, Oh, yeah, Bakersfield, you know, there's a there's a lot of artists that are from there. I'm like, oh shit. It's that's fucking dope right there.

SPEAKER_08: 51:50

Yeah, it's a it's a crazy thing, man. Big Dre. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 51:55

What have you been up to, man? Besides getting married. I'm actually gonna start uh DJing at the farmer's market.

SPEAKER_08: 52:02

Oh, really? Okay on uh Osford Hagen Oaks?

SPEAKER_05: 52:05

Yeah, right at the Kaiser.

SPEAKER_08: 52:06

I DJ'd out there once for uh 502 coffee. Oh, okay. It was fun, man. It was a blast. Good people, everybody enjoyed it, man. Play a little bit, something for everybody.

SPEAKER_03: 52:14

Extremely open format, man. A lot of people go out to that too.

SPEAKER_05: 52:18

Yeah, hell yeah. I met uh Martin. Uh he helps run it. Yeah, yeah. He came into Stellas because I normally DJ over there. He liked my vibe. He's like, I'm gonna get you out here. I was like, okay, cool. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_08: 52:30

That's exactly what Noah was talking about when he's talking about doing these other gigs, and you know, is Stellas paying you$800? No. But hey, I just hooked up with the dude that runs the farmer's market and I got another gig out of it. So you know, I'm I'm not complaining.

SPEAKER_03: 52:45

It's just like any any promotion is a good promotion, brother, even when they talk shit about you. That's the best promotion. For real. Because everybody likes to everybody likes to listen to that. Everybody got an opinion.

SPEAKER_08: 52:55

I love hearing the shit about me, too. And you know what?

SPEAKER_03: 52:57

And I mean, uh, you know, I talk shit, you know. I mean, we all talk shit, you know. I mean, let's be real, you know what I mean? But I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna tell you. I'm not gonna say it behind your back. You know what I mean? And that's the difference, you know. I mean, but like I said, any shit, I mean, there's you know, there's talking shit and then there's like just talking shit, you know. Sometimes yeah, sometimes you know you're you're saying it just so that, you know, okay, maybe you know, I mean, if you can't take constructive criticism, then you know, maybe you shouldn't be where you're doing what you're doing, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, for real. Yeah, I mean, like, you know, there's certain rappers here in town that, you know, yeah, they got mad at me. Like, dude, I'm you know, this one, I'm not gonna say who, but you know, I just I was drunk one night and I just told her, I said, you know what?

SPEAKER_07: 53:37

You fucking suck.

SPEAKER_03: 53:39

What I said is that you know, you you have a good voice, use that voice, because I've heard you sing with your voice. Throw that other one away. Oh, they're trying to use something. Throw that other voice. Throw that other voice away because that right there sucks. She went, I go, yeah, I did say that. I go, because nobody else is telling them. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07: 54:01

At least you're honest, right?

SPEAKER_03: 54:02

Yeah. And I notice now that it's kind of changed a little bit with them, you know what I mean? And now they sound good, you know what I mean? It's like that rapper is Drake. That's Drake. But I mean, you know, it's just like, I mean, I don't I don't know, you know, I'm not an I mean, a lot of people say I'm an asshole, but uh, it's because of that, you know what I mean? I mean, I I'm guessing, you know what I mean, and I don't know, but I mean I just you know, just keep it real, man. Like, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 54:26

Yeah. Even if even if people have a problem with it, they still respect the person that keeps it real with them in the long run. They'll be like, hey, you know, Dre came up to me and he said, Hey, this was kind of kind of sketchy, man. You might need to tune, you know, tighten up on that transition or do whatever, right? Just constructive criticism and people be getting upset and shit. But and even even I think most people will take some kind of like, hey, man, like that, yeah, you know, but but in the long run, in the hour after, in the day after, you realize that it came from a good place. It wasn't from an evil place, it wasn't from I'm trying to shit on you, it was from a place where I've been there, I've done it, I care about you, I see that you care about your craft. Yeah, let me just let me give you that little tad bit of information that might help you uh just tighten your craft up some more, like you know, just just build a better overall set and overall performance, uh, overall whatever it may be.

SPEAKER_07: 55:22

Yeah, that is true. A lot of them are stuck in that gimmick though, huh? Yeah, it's oh man, I I've I've had several times where they wanted to get down with me on the show, but I tell I tell them how it is. Change it, yeah. I don't know, just I don't know, man. Just take that little constructive criticism. You took the time to listen to their music and hey man, you know, this and that. You could choose to take it or you could choose other things.

SPEAKER_03: 55:41

I'm not gonna criticise like mixing or anything like that, because you know, we're not all perfect in mixing, even me. I mean, as you get older, you're mixing kind of blah, you know what I mean, unless you're doing it every day, which I don't do every day, you know what I mean? I just you know, I do it when I'm recording or if I have a gig, but yeah, my mixing sucks. Yeah, you know what I mean? It's like it's like, you know what I mean? Uh you know, just like you're wiring or something. You mean I'll be like, dude, what's the line of wiring? Like, you're cool, but fuck, man. You got a nice set of cover all your wires, dude. Like, you know what I mean? Clean up shit like that. Yeah, I mean, tidy up.

SPEAKER_08: 56:08

Yeah, take some pride in what you're doing, what you're displaying, and what you're performing. Take some pride in your own.

SPEAKER_03: 56:18

That's true. That's a nice side.

SPEAKER_08: 56:19

Oh, they'll look over other things, they'll look over other unimportant things. You had shoes in the dryer on one transition. Fuck, who cares? It was a good song to another good song. He has a clean setup, he's professional, he's likable, he's personable, he's good to work with. I'm good. I don't care about the shitty one transition that it didn't nail perfectly because they don't even hear it, anyways. This guy might hear it, he might hear it, and I might hear it. People that have an ear for it, DJs hear it. Yeah, we hear it. Yeah, but the common person.

SPEAKER_04: 56:49

They don't hear dancing, they don't give a shit.

SPEAKER_03: 56:51

They're drunk, they're high, they're dancing. They don't care. They don't care, man. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 56:55

I wanted to ask you, um, oh, yeah, are you have you done uh farmers markets and all that before?

SPEAKER_05: 57:02

So you guys know the food truck thing right there off of Rose Dough? Uh huh. I was I was in there for a while.

SPEAKER_06: 57:08

One thing I've always said, like one of the smartest decisions I ever made was actually get into pop-ups and get into markets. Because pretty much like once COVID hit, like all that started popping up everywhere. No pun intended. Yeah, but you know, they're like pop-ups are everywhere now, which is a good thing, you know, because there's a lot of people that during COVID, during the lockdowns, they got into their craft and they really started making all these really cool items, whether it's like woodworking, wood burning, or even cups, mugs, tumblers, whatever. And one of the smartest things I ever did was actually get into that because that's gonna take you a lot of places too. You're gonna meet a lot of different people. So definitely, I mean, have fun, have fun, be you, and trust me, you're gonna get that attention too, man. Because that's how my name got out there. And trust me, you're gonna book a lot of stuff out of that. And you get to write everything.

SPEAKER_08: 57:52

You get to play whatever of everything, a little bit of everything.

SPEAKER_06: 57:56

Kind of like Noah said earlier. I use those as practice, you know what I mean? Like, can this song hit? Will this song hit? And me was as collectic as I am with my music, I get weird. You know what I mean? I really get weird with this. I'm like, I've literally played Sleep Token at a pop-up, and people are like, dude, we love this, like, this is so cool. Yeah, even though it's not everybody, but at least one or two people that are walking around, they're gonna listen to them, like, you know what? I want to talk to this guy now, I want to hire this guy. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03: 58:23

So Monday night, I was uh I I DJed, I thought it was gonna be like, you know, they were gonna start partying and all that, you know. So I took lights and all this shit, and you know, for the money they were paying me, you know what I mean? But I I just pretty much just played for dinner music like while they were eating dinner, and after that, they drank a little bit and boom, yeah, I was done. But I was playing shit that I didn't never like play, you know what I mean? I was just trying out, and they were like, they're looking at me, so I was like, Yeah, well, that's cool, just lesser known as a few. It was just kind of like some cool dinner music, you know. It wasn't like nothing crazy, but it was Spanish, you know, because they were they were Spanish, obviously, you know what I mean. But I got some bangers that, you know, I kind of like you know, you always have to have that one crate where you know you don't think everybody else has it, but you know, they're not it's music that they might not have that you only have in yourself, so yeah. I was playing some of that shit and they were gigging it, but so yeah, that's a that's a good thing, man.

SPEAKER_08: 59:10

So Big Dre got married, man. Ow! Chilling over it Stellos, yeah, filling in over it Azul, yeah, Eclipse Azul. Filling in for Azul for uh karaoke KJs, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 59:22

And then I just started uh it's uh right there by the old David's bridle. It's the Eclipse Azul, the one that they were talking about on Bicycle.

SPEAKER_03: 59:30

It's right next to K. Yeah, yeah, I know where it's at, but uh there's like four knees. I heard Eclipse Azul is what I know it by. Yeah, okay. Eclipse is what I've known it when that's like the first time they opened it, right? It was called Eclipse, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_05: 59:41

Or I think so.

SPEAKER_03: 59:42

I think it was not a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_05: 59:44

I just I know I like going there, it gets crazy.

SPEAKER_08: 59:47

So you and you're over there at Stella's. When are you at Stella's man?

SPEAKER_05: 59:50

Uh I've been doing Fridays. All right. Um I started doing the Belvedere actually on Thursdays. Oh, right. And then does private.

SPEAKER_08: 59:57

Is Belvedere the one over on Columbus?

SPEAKER_03: 59:58

Uh Brundage. Yeah. That my cousin Aloise always promotes for them.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:02

Oh yeah, right next to the thing. Yeah, it's right here around the corner. Yeah, that's right. They got uh they have a pool league in there, so it's it's chill.

SPEAKER_08: 1:00:11

I was helping my boy Daniel move the other day from his old spot on the way out, way out west to all the he moved off damn near over where I we live, right here. He was like, Yeah, man, I went into that Bilvid G the other day, and it was really fucking cool.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:24

Yeah, they have good bands and shit over there. Do they really?

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:26

They do on uh Saturdays. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:28

My cousin Alloy promotes it.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:30

She's always there right here by the gas station on the corner.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:32

Lives there, man. Heck yeah. There's a bar that's always doing stuff there. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:36

You guys being DJs for a while. Do you think it's worth going to like the conventions?

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:43

Like what what do you mean convention?

SPEAKER_08: 1:00:45

Like Nom, like the hardware conventions?

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:49

No, I'm going to the mobile DJ expo, the one in Vegas in February. Really? Uh the slash photo booth one. Send me the info, man. I might I might go. Heck yeah. Well, Kyle Brown told me about it. I know you guys know him. Yeah. Uh, but uh, I thought it was cool because I wanted to get some more experience and I like going, being more hands-on. Yeah. I just started school too, actually, to do uh audio production at Full Cell. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_08: 1:01:14

So uh just trying to do a little bit of a lot of things. Hey, you know who does that, man? Is uh Ilflow. Oh, does yeah? Ilflow has a uh music engineering background. Oh, that's dope. So you might be able to definitely run some shit off of Ilflow and talk to him about it. You guys would probably yeah, he he knows all about that shit, man. He I think he went to a school in LA for it. Oh heck yeah. Yeah, so Ilflow's been through that uh that sound engineering school, he's been through Beat Junkies, you know. So you guys might, you know. Thank you. You might have to hear it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:44

Going back to that, I mean that question. Um, I mean, like you, you're interested in it. I mean, if it has something to do with all that, then yeah, it'd be worth it to go. You know, some people just go just to go fucking partying and you know what I mean. For all the wrong reasons.

SPEAKER_06: 1:01:56

Yeah, if you go to learn and to to hear some new stuff, I mean definitely go for it. I mean, I would. I definitely would.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:02

I would too. That's pretty dope right there. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 1:02:04

And I've always wanted to go to NAM.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:06

Equipment, you know what I mean, equipment-wise, stuff like that. You know, it's good to learn, but yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 1:02:10

And plus it's a trip to Vegas, man. Like like Noah said, you know, if you go and it's great, great. Works. If you go and it's not great, great. I'm still in Vegas, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_07: 1:02:20

Yeah, there's plenty to do out here.

SPEAKER_08: 1:02:23

Yeah, yeah, I'm still in Vegas. I'm good, man. I'm good. What uh what's a track, man, that you guys always go to personally? Something a track that you might not play out out in the wild, man, but it resonates with you personally. Some kind of uh It's gonna sound funny.

SPEAKER_05: 1:02:44

Hey, man, is but it's a genre swap. So it's an 80s version of WAP. Oh, really? It's like Jay Diggs. Oh, really? Nobody knows unless it sounds like Midnight Star. Oh, it's great.

SPEAKER_07: 1:02:58

It's it's it's you just bust out with that whenever and you see it too.

SPEAKER_05: 1:03:01

They'd be like nodding their head and just kind of moving along. And I'm like, they don't know. And then it connects.

SPEAKER_08: 1:03:06

Does it do you ever see it connect with anybody in light bulb? Sometimes they'd be like That is dope, man. And uh how about you know?

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:17

Mine would have to be uh I have this one cool little remix, it's um spilled wine, but it's uh I can't remember the the artist that I play. I mean, but it's pretty badass because he kind of like it's the spilled wine music, but uh it has him singing and then it has him kind of like like Spanish kind of rapping to it, but it's like real chill, it's just dope, dude. Like I played it on Monday, they were like that's pretty badass. That's a dope beat just by itself, yeah. But I always have to play that. Like, I don't know, it just yeah, and I know when to play it, you know.

SPEAKER_08: 1:03:50

I mean, it's never so would you say that that one is more for you?

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:53

Yeah, kind of like more for uh I play it for myself, yeah. Hell yeah. Like receptions, you know. I want to hear it. I'm here, I'm gonna mix one in for me.

SPEAKER_07: 1:04:00

Hey, fun fun fact that's spill of wine by war is what I play before I start recording. That's what gets me in the mood. Yeah, spill of wine, man. That's the one. This version I can do. I gotta check it out for me.

SPEAKER_04: 1:04:13

I can't remember the name of it. God damn it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:15

Um shit. I can't remember, man. Got me. Let me know when you find it. Yeah, I I want to check it out. I don't even know if it's on YouTube. I don't remember where I got it from, but I heard it. I heard it somewhere, and then I think Chalk gave it to me. I think I want to say he sent it to me, or or it was uh the Cesar Chavez dude. Um my homie Andreas. I think I think Andres is the one that turned me on to it. Oh, that's dope, man. Yeah, that's looking dope. It's it's just something that I like to play. I mean I I myself I I like to play house music. You know, that's if if I want to rock a party and uh I want to do house music.

SPEAKER_08: 1:04:55

Do you get out there with Cheeto at Rectify? Yeah, I've been out there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:58

Yeah, he he had me out there uh before. I've been out there. As a matter of fact, uh last year or uh two years ago, me and Chalk were gonna do it in December, but uh my dog ended up dying, so we ended up canceling and uh because chalk also does uh house music. Yeah, he goes as uh black carlos when he does. Oh, that's dope. And dude, yeah, that motherfucker kills it on the house. House music, huh? I mean he's badass in hip-hop too, but yeah, yeah, fuck it. I was like, damn, Charlie's fucking I go check him out sometimes. He does this uh club called Soul Tice or Saltis or whatever it's called Sultis. And uh it's it's pretty badass, man. That's dope right there. The the crowd in LA, the party crowd in L is way different than it's like. It is different. They do like free bass and all that stuff too, huh? You know, over there, man, I I've been to so many parties over there, and you you never I mean, when I was younger, yeah, the music that we were playing, yeah. You know, of course, you know, we were young, we're going to these clubs, and you know, you get older, we don't go to those clubs anymore. Yeah, we just you know, it's all downtown LA areas now, you know, certain parties, rooftops, or you know. But when I was gonna say the vibe over there, I mean the music, you're not gonna hear nothing that we play, they don't fuck with that. Yeah, they don't play nothing what we play as DJs, they don't play that over there, man. They they be playing like some old shit, you know what I mean? Like average white band, like some Chase man, you know what I mean? Some I mean shit like that, some old school, but like shit that you probably never even heard of. Like, I mean, you you heard the artist, but you it's like the B side of the stuff. It's the other side, yeah. Yeah, live tracks, but when they play it, it's dope. I mean, I'm like, all right, fuck yeah, but they sound different, yeah. When you play it over here, it's just it's just it don't hit right. It doesn't matter. It's a different vibe, is what it is. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Exactly. But uh over there, I mean, like, you know, you see everybody there, like you see Indians, Mexicans, Koreans, I mean, foreigners, uh, Russians, everybody coming together, and and they're all uh older, you know what I mean, and they're just all dancing and having a good time, nobody's arguing, you don't see nobody on their phone. It's just a whole you know, that's why it's a different vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You go over here and you're just like fuck, man. Just like I don't know, man. Yeah, it ain't nothing wrong with it, but it is a different vibe.

SPEAKER_07: 1:07:08

I do know like in LA they do a lot of free bass. Do you ever fuck with that kind of music? You know, she got she's back in the day.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:15

Like, like that's what they fuck with freestyle stuff, the disco style, yeah. Yeah, I love that shit. Oh, yeah. I did a wedding not too long ago and where I played all that mandala, the forbidden lover, yeah, spin it. Oh, dude, and they were I like literally they were dancing to it. Yeah, you know, something like that. Hell yeah, you know, Mondeley. Then once I knew, okay, I'm in LA, which you had that hook. This is what they like. LA, I mean, LA was booked. I mean, that's I mean, that's before the Baker boys went there to LA, that's all they were playing was the disco and the new wave shit, you know what I mean? The you know, all that good shit. So once I noticed, I was like I realized, man, I'm in LA, like fuck, let's keep this shit going. So I mean, I start playing taps. I mean, you know, this is where then I went to some hard house and they're fucking loving it. I mean, they ate it up, and then you know, of course, you know, you all right, fuck, I had enough of that shit. Let's let's give them, let's give them a break, throwing a kumbia, you know what I mean? And salsa, they like salsa a lot. Yeah, so you play that shit, and then you know, okay, the people that love that they go out, then you see the older, a different crowd come in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You keep it, keep it going until you start seeing little people leaving. Okay, now what am I gonna what am I gonna bring them back? Yeah, well, how am I gonna keep them out there? Then you know, okay, let's try this. You testing, and then all right, this is working, keep it at that, you know. I mean, but it's always gonna be old school or like you know, Norsetta, all that shit, little susie, you know. I mean, they eat it up now.

SPEAKER_08: 1:08:32

They get that freestyle down there, yeah. Yeah, it's okay. It's a vibe out there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:36

The freestyle, kind of, but it's more the disco that they like, you know. I mean, the the mandalay, like I said, the taps and the forbidden lover, all that shit, the blue Mondays, you know, the and they actually dance the salsa music out there.

SPEAKER_07: 1:08:47

It's kind of hard to get people to dance salsa over here. You do salsa night at all. Yeah, we got it. I was gonna ask you about that. Yeah, I got a gin. So we got invited out there, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 1:08:55

Yeah, we've been doing that every month, man. For that ended up that ended up being good. Yeah, it's been great, man. We get 150, 200, 250,000.

SPEAKER_07: 1:09:04

Because I got I got invited by this one chick that I met, right? And um, she sent me the flyer. She said, You know how to dance salsa my fuck yeah, I do. So then uh I saw the flyer said, DJ Gordy B, that's a homeboy right there. So I was gonna go, you know, then we lost contact. But yeah, that's fucking dope. That's cool.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:18

They gotta I've been wanting to check it out, man. But every time you have it, I'm I'm booked. Like, yeah, you know what? That's cool though. That's cool. But I I love that music. I like to I like to see them. Kumbia is another thing that I would that I like to do. When I do a cumbia set, man, like literally they fucking stay out there. And I'm like, I'm gonna do that. Because that's the easiest thing to dance, too. You know what I mean? And then of course, you know, you gotta break it down, you know. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 1:09:39

You throw a bachata in there, they slowly start to set, but you throw a salsa, there's not too many people that can dance it out here. No, but that's still dope, though. The salsa music, beautiful music. I love it.

SPEAKER_08: 1:09:48

Uh yeah, we get we get all of it. We do the salsa, the merengue, the bachata, we put cumbias in there. We play some little club stuff near the city.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:57

Cumbia is kind of like a cousin to salsa. Yeah, it's kind of like slow-down version of it, pretty well. It's the same vibe.

SPEAKER_08: 1:10:03

They always give salsa to Spanish, Colombia, other regions. It's not so much a Mexican, quote unquote Mexican genre. Salsa is not a Mexican genre, contrary to popular belief, right? Yeah, no, it's not.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:17

It's more like uh, like you said, Miami shit. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07: 1:10:21

It's fucking hard to dance, too, man. Oh, yeah, they're they're just killed, man.

SPEAKER_08: 1:10:25

They come out there, they come out there changes of shoes. I know. They have bags with shoes in them, and oh yeah, and and they specifically say that the legend's floor is nice and smooth. They can do all their transitions, there's not a bunch of cracks and you know stuff like that. Where they they then they make that they they make that correlation of the laughter over to cumbias and say you can dance on that in gravel roads.

SPEAKER_07: 1:10:50

Yeah, it's a hard dance to learn. Yeah, I learned it because I wanted to dance with this one chick. I said, Fuck, I'm gonna go in there. Give me three beers, man. I'm good, you know. But it it is nice to have uh parties like that where they have all different kinds of music, you know. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_08: 1:11:05

So, Dre, man, you you you're talking about I feel like you're talking about expanding a little bit. I feel like you know, you're going over to Stella's, you're you're you're opening that door over to the farmer's market, and then you're talking about uh the show in in Vegas for mobile DJs and photo booths and stuff like that. So it sounds like you're trying to expand. Sounds like you're trying to make a business out of it per se.

SPEAKER_05: 1:11:29

That's exactly what I'm doing. I've been doing a lot of weddings, but I'm like every time I get asked, do you have this? Do you have that? And I'm like, I need to learn more about it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:36

That way I can like what are what are what are like what are some of the things they're asking you for though?

SPEAKER_05: 1:11:41

Uh photo booth. Oh, okay, is like a big one. So you don't do like a package though, like no, because I have a lot of stuff, but I don't have like photo booth or anything like that. And that's what I need.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:51

Like uplighting, stuff like that. Yeah that's where the that's where the money's at, too.

SPEAKER_07: 1:11:54

And like I said, man, photo booths and all that though.

SPEAKER_08: 1:11:57

Everybody that's been on the podcast, I welcome everybody into whatever equipment I have. So if you need cold sparks, just hit me up. I'll rent them to you, rent them to your customer at a at another value. So you're both making money, so it makes sense. Same thing with the photo booths. If you need a photo booth, hit me up. I'll hook you up$100,$200, charge your client four,$500, break me off, get your money, everybody wins, everybody grows. And eventually you buy your own photo booth, right? Eventually you buy your old Cold Sparks. You take those profits from those add-on sales and you dip them into one little container and you say, That's that's my growth container. That's that's where I'm gonna buy that photo booth for$1,500. That's where I'm gonna buy the cold sparks for$700, whatever it may be. Um, but yeah, everybody's always welcome to.

SPEAKER_07: 1:12:45

Hey, so so DJing is not just you playing music up there with your equipment now. It it has expanded to have to have a solution now. 360 camera, the whole balloon setup, and expensive, man.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:56

You know, you figure they're gonna get it anyways from somebody else, so why not get it from you where you can charge them? You know what I mean? You know, pricing go up. And you're already there.

SPEAKER_08: 1:13:03

You get to watch your own shit. Yeah, you're already there. If they get the photo booth from me, I drop my photo booths off and I bounce. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's it's a completely autonomous unit. It's like a microwave. You go up to it, you can't fuck it up. See, I don't you put your time in, you hit start, and you're done. Yeah, I don't have your money.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:18

I don't have a photo booth, but I got a girl that she gives it to me for cheap, and then so I you know, yeah, add it to mine, and then she goes, and he goes and and and uh he runs it for me, and I mean I just break him off for money. That's the way to do it. I don't have to do nothing, but you know, I made 700 bucks off that. Yeah, yeah. That's interesting. So you're you're the whole party, pretty much. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, well, I mean, if you have all the equipment, like most time it's cold sparks, you know, numbers, low fog. Yeah, I don't like to do the low fog.

SPEAKER_08: 1:13:46

We've had hit and miss with it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:47

I I tried to do that one time and it just ended up being a mess. I said, you know what I'm not offering that because I just got hit up for that and I I kind of talked her out of it. I go, you know, you really gonna, you know, kind of some of that. So yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe that's all right, cool, you know what I mean? So, you know, cold sparks, you know, uplighting, uplighting's important, you know what I mean? And it all and it all, I mean, they're gonna get that whole, they're gonna get your package, but it all depends on how you sell yourself and how you sell it. That's interesting, yeah. You know what I mean? Like sometimes, I mean, you know, like I start off at$1,500, and that's just me bringing a backyard party with a light, and that's it, you know. I mean, for four or five, five hours, maybe, no longer than that. Which is pretty good.

SPEAKER_08: 1:14:24

Because that's a long goddamn time. Five hours is a long fucking time, especially if it's not filler music, like you hit a fucking Spotify playlist for dinner. If you're mixing for four or five fucking hours, man, it truly is Tetris on level nine for four hours. You're doing it, you're physically doing it, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:40

And I like to do that, I don't like to play mixes a lot. Some teachers like to play mixes. Oh, it's just dinner, uh you know, but don't realize that I like to just I like to play myself because then you find music that you know I'm going through, you know, because it's just dinner, you mean? So you're like, let me try, let me play this shit. I mean, yeah, yeah. And then you find music that, like, oh shit, like I forgot about this song. Like, you know what I mean? So then I'm gonna throw this over here, I'm gonna make a crate for that shit because I forgot about it. So now I have it over here, I won't forget about it for next time, you know what I mean? So it kind of brings back because you're not playing everything at every party, you know. I mean, you're you're set at every party is different. So sometimes you'll find music that you're like, oh shit, you forgot about it. That's a banger, or people like it, you know what I mean? You play and you see everybody go up like, oh shit, I forgot about this song. I mean, so you throw it on the side, you start building that crate.

SPEAKER_08: 1:15:23

Because when the dance floor, when the dance floor hour hits, your time is precious. Your time is very, very, very precious. Each song that you select has to serve the purpose, it has to make sense, it has to deliver a dance floor. It has to deliver an experience. So some of the songs are mandatory, right? So once you get to dinner, you have two hours of whatever or dance. Once you get to dance and suave it, you know, like I I try to stay away from all of that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:57

I don't I don't even remember when the last time I I played. They read they actually asked for it on Monday, but I didn't even play it. Like I that La Chona, it's too much. The it's too much. Caballo, Dorado, I don't play none of that. If you ask for it and you know, you're bugging, I might play it. Yeah, but if you're not nobody's asking me, it had enough time. It had enough time on the list already. Yeah, but you're right, you know, like after you're done with yeah, uh the reception on it's already like eight, seven, sometimes seven thirty, you know what I mean? But and you do have like a couple hours if you're gigs and I end at 10, you know. So most venues are ending at 10 anyways. I mean, 11 o'clock the latest now. I mean, I remember back in the days, man, doing a fucking wedding from 3 a.m. 3 p.m. Yep, and we get out of like four 5 a.m. Yeah, because we had to take all these fucking speakers, and and now I think about it. Man, I used to play the water song and take all my baseball shit. Now it's like two fucking speakers. And I think, man, back then I didn't even need all that shit. You know what I mean? But it was just different, you know. I mean, it was a different vibe. It was we had to have the basebottom, and then we had to have our highs and then our tweet. I mean, our mids, and they're all separate speakers, they weren't all in one speaker like they are now.

SPEAKER_07: 1:17:01

And they were like technology has changed, it's shrunk now.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:05

Yeah, you don't have to take crates of vinyl in our city on the controller, but back then it was like, you know, you had your two fucking uh amps, you know, your whatever, all this bullshit, you know, and wires, and then your fucking six crates of you know, yeah two crates of old school, two crates of hip hop, one crate of new wave. That's all you had too, right?

SPEAKER_08: 1:17:26

To play like that, isn't that fucking like you weren't asking any quests that weren't on your vinyl yet? Like, no, I don't have it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:17:31

Yeah, and and I have it for real. My Spanish, well, you know, back then there was not well, if there were, I didn't know where to get them at. Was the Spanish records, you know what I mean? So I would always take my cassette player. Oh, yeah. Cassette player with my all my turntable shit, and then that my Spanish mix my Spanish cassette, I would just throw it on, and then all right, boom, fucking that's the song, you know. Spanish, you know, stop and push, stop, you gotta get creative, man.

SPEAKER_07: 1:17:55

Okay, that was gonna be my question. Did you guys ever fuck with like CDs or even vinyl on your mixes?

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:00

Well, I well after the cassettes, we I went to CDs. Of course, I had to get a CD but because then you had that briefcase like I did. There was no more, there was no more uh no, I I would do turntables. The CDs were just for like Spanish or anything else that I didn't have, yeah, yeah, that I couldn't get on vinyl, and it was only on CD or something, so yeah, you know, and then from there, it just technology changed, you know, after that. Everything changes while recording for us when we were record for the radio station, it went from dat to mini disc, you know, all these little things, yeah, yeah. But that never went into the DJing part, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 1:18:30

It stopped at CDs, like no, see, my my journey with with the whole DJing thing started digital. It started with digital. Okay, it started with Sorata. I'm going backwards. I'm going to vinyl. I'm going, I'm going so.

SPEAKER_07: 1:18:44

Are are you having a mark, a spot with the chalk stick? Or the sticker? Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 1:18:49

Yeah, like going back to vinyl and learning vinyl and then something that the the vinyl aficionados, the the original vinyl DJs talk about is the audible beat matching, right? Not the visual shit, not the waveforms, not watching all of this shit. Put a paper over it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:06

You gotta get numbers.

SPEAKER_08: 1:19:07

Put a paper over it. Don't look at that motherfucker. Don't look at it, put a paper over it, close the laptop lid to where you can't see it, and then start doing it and just over and over and adjustment, over, speeding it up, slowing it down.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:18

So all that easy because you you gotta you gotta it's like I mean, now it's easy because you got the BPMs, but back then. Yeah, back then it wasn't in there. You have to count your BPMs, you know what I mean? So that's how you and then even then, I mean you you get a record and you're like, shit, what uh what can I, you know what I mean? If you're not familiar with the records, then you're not gonna know what you're intimately familiar. Yeah, yeah. That's I that was us back in the day. It's like, all right, shit, all right, what's next? Boom, pretty much.

SPEAKER_08: 1:19:40

And see, I I have that respect for the originals, right? The OGs. That I oh yeah, feel like I'm not as whole or complete of a DJ as if I don't go backwards, if I don't go to vinyl, if I don't experience those struggles and the knowledge and everything else. And ultimately, it's just gonna make me a better DJ in the end, anyways.

SPEAKER_07: 1:20:03

Yeah, it's good to know. Yeah, I had that conversation with Dolce Muchos, right? Before I found out he's still alive and shit. He was at my bed, right? And we're just going back and forth. Hey, have you ever heard this artist or something? I played the vinyl for him. He was like, What track is that? And we're talking about this shit, and he's somebody that knows a lot about you know old school hip hop and everything.

SPEAKER_08: 1:20:18

Dolce Muchos has an elephant brain. Oh, hell yeah. He has an elephant, yeah. He remembers fucking everything. Oh, hell yeah, he does. He remembers where he was uh the last day of school in seventh grade. He fucking remembers, man.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:28

I have a friend like that, man. He's incredible. That's interesting. He's uh he's he's homeless, you know what I mean? But he's he's he was like schizophrenic. He was cool back in the days, but you know, now he kind of you know he's little guy. So yeah, he's you know, he's having trouble, but that motherfucker remembers every party that I've DJed at because he used to go and help me sometimes, you know. I mean, I remember one time he had like maybe four or five crates, you know, and then tried to put them down and bang. That's the worst thing that could happen. I mean they rolled out of their sleeves and everything. Now what? Now you know you gotta look for your for your hip-hop, you know. There you are, like, god damn it. You know what I mean? That's the worst. But that dude, man, like you said, Alan, he remembers like remember that party we used to do on Pacific? Yeah, it was a backyard party. Yeah, you remember you DJing and people started shooting in the front and this and that. I was like, What? Yeah, they when they they put you inside and woo woo. And I had to grab all your records, and I'm like, fuck any of you. And I was like, Oh, yeah, that's right. You remember that shit? Shit, man. That's funny, huh? That's funny. Yeah, man. That's some some people just have that, you know.

SPEAKER_07: 1:21:29

Have you guys ever remembered a track that you guys put on the playlist? Boom, and it fucked up the whole vibe. Oh, yeah. Everybody remembers that, right?

SPEAKER_08: 1:21:39

It was a guest, it was a guest's request. And I I my dumbass put it on, man. I my dumbass put it on. And I've learned since then, I still accept requests, but we call them suggestions now, right? Still accept suggestions. And I tell everybody at the beginning, like when I introduce myself, hey, uh, my name's Gordy B. I'm gonna be your DJ and MC tonight. Uh just let you know I do take requests. Uh, if they fit in with what we're doing, and it's not a good idea. Or you let them know. I kind of put it out there as a as a as a warning. Yeah, so they don't think I'm just one of them asshole DJs that be like, nah, fuck you, I ain't taking it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 1:22:12

You leave it open.

SPEAKER_06: 1:22:13

Yeah, what was yours, man? Uh, I don't remember. It was it was it was a request and it was like some weird off the wall type thing. And I'm just like, I don't know about this, but you know, I played it anyway. It was again, it was like a B-side type thing. Yeah, okay. Only that person knew, and I'm like, okay, well, whatever you want. Oh, you didn't know the song. I didn't even know the song.

SPEAKER_09: 1:22:35

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_08: 1:22:35

Yeah, it just are true salespeople, man. Yeah, if they can sell you, hey man, this is a hit, everybody's gonna love it, play it, yeah. Promise you.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:44

I straight up tell them, I said, you know what, I I'll play it, but not right now because it's it's just no, and I tell them you're gonna kill my vibe, bro. Like, seriously, they go, Oh, uh, yeah, just play it. I said, Okay, cool. And they forget, man.

SPEAKER_07: 1:22:55

Oh, they do, yeah. They forget. Do you remember the song?

SPEAKER_06: 1:22:58

No, I don't remember the song.

SPEAKER_07: 1:22:59

Gordy, do you remember the song that the request that it that it was? Mine was very interesting, man. Mine was a Wahawkin song. Oh, Wahaqin song, all right. You didn't you didn't know about it, you just said, all right, Mom to come up.

SPEAKER_08: 1:23:10

I was trying to be cultural, I was trying to be diverse, I was trying to give everybody their something. One of my favorite things to do is is especially in the Bakersfield crowd and for the Punjabi crowd, I have a lot of Punjabi people at events that I go to for some reason or another. If I'm over at Highgate Elementary, they have a pretty high population of Punjabi Indian people with their kids. Very nice people, too, man. Oh, yeah, nicest. So I take a great amount of pleasure by putting some of the Bollywood music and some of like the pseudo muswala and stuff like that. And you can see their eyes light up, the happiness in their body, and then they start doing their quick dance. They kind of be left up. They love to dance. Oh, hell yeah, they do, they got their own little vibe right there. And it makes me think that's cool. If White Gordon moved to India, right? I would love for a DJ to recognize that I was American and to play something, quote unquote, that he thinks that I would love that I can relate to, I recognize. Otherwise, there's a bunch of Punjabi music. I have no idea. Yeah, for real. I love it. I love the beats, I love the energy. I don't understand a single word. Yeah, but but if somebody took the time out of their day to single my ass out of a crowd and say, that white boy, that white boy needs some Garth Brooks or something, right? It's like I don't I'm not a big country fan, but if he if he did it for me, I I would take it and I would take it as a badge of honor, appreciation.

SPEAKER_07: 1:24:41

You're right about that, yeah. That's true. And you already got the dance moves down. I saw you moving around all the time. They dance, they party, man. The Punjabi. I love my Punjabi people.

SPEAKER_06: 1:24:49

No, and let me actually relate to that too, because I've also DJ'd for the BC commencement. And um, during the fireworks, they wanted DJ to do you know mixes and stuff, and they told me to do it pre-recorded. So I did, I recorded mixes, I sent to them, they denied every single one. So I was like, you know what? Fuck it, let me do it live. They're like, what? And I'm like, let me do it live right then and there, let me do it. And they're like, well, as long as it's clean, you could do whatever you want. And kind of like what you were saying, I snuck in like one or two Punjabi songs in there because I know there's you know, Indian students that were like, you know, medical or whatever it is that they were doing, yeah, not to single out like medical.

SPEAKER_08: 1:25:23

Yeah, yeah, like but but but you know, but like the Filipino Postmaster, man, dude.

SPEAKER_06: 1:25:28

Like you look at your crowd, you know what I mean? And when I when I played it and I I heard the roar of the crowd later, yeah, even over the speakers, like I heard them like, you know what, that was for you guys.

SPEAKER_02: 1:25:39

Yeah, that's a good feeling, too. It really is. That's dope.

SPEAKER_06: 1:25:42

You know, then you play like some break of thone or something like that, and dude, they love it too.

SPEAKER_05: 1:25:45

So I I do. Um, it was a brother lynch song. Brother Lynch, yeah. I like Brother Lynch kind of certain time and place, yeah. You know, talk about eating people and don't always fit the vibe. And I didn't know because I'm only knowing like one or two, and I'm like, oh no, we're not gonna. My bad. Yeah. My bad.

SPEAKER_07: 1:26:05

Yeah, I can see that happening.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:08

What's your what's your guys' uh best hall to play at, and what's the worst hall to play at? Venue. Let's say venue.

SPEAKER_08: 1:26:16

Are we talking about acoustics, reverb issues?

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:19

Just whatever. What's the what's your like your favorite hall that you like to play at? That you know just what's the hall here? Like the best hall you like to play at? And the worst. Like one hall where you've been at and you're just like, I had a couple great experiences over at Patino. Yeah, Patino's cool.

SPEAKER_08: 1:26:37

I had a couple great experiences.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:38

I like the halls that have the easy fucking in and out set up in and out, right by the door. Boom, set up right here. I love those venues, you know what I mean? Yeah. One venue that I would never, I don't give a shit. I would never play there again. Or even if they asked me, hey, you want to DJ my wedding? It's at this venue, I would never go back there.

SPEAKER_08: 1:26:59

Where is it?

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:59

Tango Hall.

SPEAKER_08: 1:27:01

Which one is Tango? I've never been there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:03

Yeah, it's where is Tango at? It's like way over there by um, where's it at? Like New Stein Road or New Stein or something. I think we've been there in the back. So it's a nice hall. It's a nice hall, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06: 1:27:15

Oh no, no, yeah, in Tango, yeah. Yeah, I've been there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:18

But but we've got you know, somebody running it that is just yeah, hard to work with, you know what I mean? I just don't want to go back.

SPEAKER_08: 1:27:24

That's my opinion on uh I I've had quite a bit of I I've never really had a bad Bridezilla, but I've had some bad wedding coordinators.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:32

No, I never had a bad Bridezilla or a wedding coordinator. It was the you know it was the venue person.

SPEAKER_08: 1:27:37

The venue personally that just kind of that wedding coordinators for me sometimes, man, just rub me the wrong way. And I'm like, hey, I'll let you do my job. You let me do my job.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:46

I've worked with some uh wedding coordinators, but like the same ones. Sometimes I get the same ones.

SPEAKER_04: 1:27:51

Hey, oh hey, we worked together.

SPEAKER_03: 1:27:52

Yeah, you already have a relationship, yeah, yeah. So it's there, you know. I don't think I've had a a bad one yet. You know, I I won't let that happen anyway. So yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 1:28:00

So all of you, all of you, man, this is open for all of you.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:04

Is um you never told me which hall though you guys are.

SPEAKER_06: 1:28:09

Oh, um the I would say my favorite was probably the Destiny Hall because they have that light up dance floor. Yeah, I just thought I haven't been there. You never played there? It's dope.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:18

I might have, but I don't I don't I don't remember made it. What which one's that one? Where's that one at?

SPEAKER_06: 1:28:22

It's on uh I think like Plans Road or like White Lane. It's all it's around there somewhere.

SPEAKER_03: 1:28:27

I've never played there that's a lot. I haven't played there either.

SPEAKER_06: 1:28:29

It's a dope place.

SPEAKER_08: 1:28:30

Yeah, I want I want an LED dance floor though. Yeah, those are fun. Yeah, I want one. I wanted one after that.

SPEAKER_05: 1:28:36

I think my favorite one I did was at the Pioneer Village, actually. I did that recently. That was fun. It was outside, it was right by the neons. I did a wedding at the Neon. It was cool. Uh my least favorite. Yeah, that would be nice. Probably the War is on 18th. I I DJ'd there. Because of the setup or or no, because I literally unloaded all my stuff. I come back out, they broke my window and took just my empty DJ bag out of the car. Oh and it had my dongle for my MacBook that I had to go get at Best Buy. So it was so annoying because I had a 2012 one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:29:12

It was see that's one thing I never do. Is I don't uh I don't be leaving my car when I'm loading up and all. If there's a security, I go, Hey, can you stand right and watch my car, man? Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, it was for real.

SPEAKER_05: 1:29:22

Four o'clock, and my windows were tinted. They still the guy was just like he just rolled by it on a bike. Boom. I wasn't the only window that got hit though. Did you just random? No, they just kind of did it randomly and then they did.

SPEAKER_04: 1:29:35

I'm on no empty bag or not.

SPEAKER_05: 1:29:39

I was I was pretty mad. That was that's money right there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:29:42

That's just a violation, you know. You know what? And the water saw that that's like that's a historic hall, man. Like, I mean, dude, we I I've done so many weddings there like back in the eighties, bro. Like, it's like crazy. Like I said, that was one of the update. That's yeah, they they finally put an AC in there.

SPEAKER_07: 1:29:56

Oh, they didn't have one when you were playing up there. Oh, Mike.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:02

Oh man, it was fun. Like, I mean, it would get packed car shows with you know we'd have our the they would have their car show dances there, but back then it looked big to us, you know what I mean? Because we were young, you know what I mean? Yeah. Now I walk in there like god damn, it's like from right here to right there, you know. Back in the days though, but it it's a it's a it's a good hall to play. I mean, you know, I'm surprised it's still there. Yeah, you know, it's been there for years.

SPEAKER_08: 1:30:24

There's one that we had a weird experience with. It was the one off of Jumani over off of Rosedale and Alan.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:30

Uh Giamatti was at um oh you're talking about the um Lemcato? Lemkato. Oh.

SPEAKER_08: 1:30:35

We had a weird experience over there, man. We we were doing a walkthrough the day before, you know. I like to be involved with my bride with.

SPEAKER_03: 1:30:40

With uh what's her name? But the uh the owner?

SPEAKER_08: 1:30:42

Um two ladies, I don't know their name, but they were real weird about stuff, man. And look, I hate it's on the podcast, people are gonna hear it. It is what it is, whatever. I'm not telling a lie. They were real weird with the bride and and reviewing the entire facility and saying, Okay, do you see any scuff marks on the baseboards, or do you see anything here? See anything there?

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:05

Yeah, they charge you like 25 50 bucks just to use an extra outlet.

SPEAKER_08: 1:31:10

It's kind of weird. I don't like it, man. I got it here if I was there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:13

I had went and I was insane. I go, Oh, yeah, I need to uh go I need this outlet. She goes, Well, they didn't pay for that outlet. And I was like, Well, you're gonna have to get them to pay for it because I need it, you know what I mean? Wow, and I just plugged an interest in there. I'll take it for that. I had a weird experience there, man. Real weird, real, real kind of that's funny because you know, she's she's kind of actually pretty cool, but I mean, uh, you know, like they were nice, yeah. They were nice.

SPEAKER_00: 1:31:34

It was kind of odd because you know, they're videotaping and the branches are made. Oh, to see if what's gonna happen after damages.

SPEAKER_08: 1:31:42

Yeah, they were they were doing a live walkthrough with video. Do you see any marks on the do you see anything on the glass? Do you see anything on the baseboards? Do you see? And it felt real weird to me. It felt like, hey, this is kind of fucking strange.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31:56

Yeah, I get it. I get it. I feel it.

SPEAKER_08: 1:31:58

I mean, I understand wanting to protect your venue and and and you know, maybe you've had a bad experience with it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:04

That comes with you with renting a venue, it comes with business and insurance. That's what it's for. That's what it's for. Your deposit, that's you know what I mean. That don't make the the client feel uncomfortable about doing that. I I would have been, you know what, fuck you this wedding.

SPEAKER_08: 1:32:17

I felt uncomfortable for my client. I was like, Yeah, I wasn't, I was not okay with it, man. So that's that's one of the ones I don't appreciate.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:24

Did she end up uh booking it though? Yeah, well the wedding was the next day. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_08: 1:32:29

Yeah, this was just the walkthrough, and it was the day before the walkthrough that they were doing this video walkthrough, and it was kind of strange to me, man. Which which hall did you say you was yours?

SPEAKER_06: 1:32:37

The Destiny Hall. Oh, yeah, my favorite one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:40

What's your worst one?

SPEAKER_06: 1:32:41

Honestly, I don't have a worse one. I mean, it because like you guys were saying, it's the people you work with. Yeah, it's not so much the hall itself, because I mean you can find you know any which way to make it sound good, but it's the people you work with that make it kind of weird, like, uh, do I want to come back to that or not?

SPEAKER_03: 1:32:55

Yeah, you have to be able to click with everybody you're working with. Yeah, if if there's that one person, you just you know, it kind of it could it could do that.

SPEAKER_06: 1:33:02

Yeah, and and it's different for some people too, because like I did a wedding in Exeter just last month, and um the bride told me, like, hey, has our our venue person contacted you at any point? I'm like, no, why I sent them everything they wanted, they wanted the insurance, they wanted this, I wanted like signed, whatever. I'm like, okay, cool, I'll do whatever you want. She's like, Oh, well, they were telling our bartenders that they couldn't, you know, perform this day if they uh if they hadn't updated their their insurance policy, and they already had a million-dollar policy. And it's just like, damn, they wouldn't even let them set on foot until they actually updated it and all that. I'm like, she didn't give it away.

SPEAKER_03: 1:33:36

Some venues, I'm I'm I'm uh some venues are asking for insurance now. Like most of the big ones, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06: 1:33:41

They're but and most of that is because you know laws change, and that's one of the things that changed in California this just this past year. So now a lot of venues are asking their vendors to have insurance because their insurance is not going to cover them anymore.

SPEAKER_08: 1:33:53

You know where I suspect some of it came from was social media and uh cold sparks catching on fire and things of that nature. I think that's what's driven a lot of these venues uh uh is fear or ignorance or uh not being educated on cold sparks or the appropriate powder or the appropriate height or the you know any of the other things that go into it. And I suspect that's where quite a bit of the the insurance because we do we use canopy. We use insurance canopy and we'll use it for a one-day thing, or we'll get it all and we'll we'll cover our gear for a year and everything else that comes with it. Um, but yeah, we had to do the same thing. We you know, business license, LLC, uh everything.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:32

We we Yeah, I have none of that shit. I just do insurance at the Aspirus. That's what I've been trying to do.

SPEAKER_05: 1:34:39

I mean, since I've been DJing stuff too. Yeah, her.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34:42

I mean, I'll I probably I should have maybe gotten that, but uh now it's like her dad is some brilliant paralegal lawyer, whatever.

SPEAKER_08: 1:34:50

He he he's he's crazy smart. Yeah, we just gave him the information he created our LLC and we were out.

SPEAKER_00: 1:34:56

My daddy's gross though.

SPEAKER_08: 1:34:58

So that's the only reason we have interesting.

SPEAKER_07: 1:35:01

What's his name?

SPEAKER_00: 1:35:02

Well, he's not an attorney, he's like um paralegal, he does it on the side, you know. Like my dad has so many bachelor degrees. Oh, okay. Yeah, he's really, really smart. Hell yeah. But I do Jack of all trades. I hate it. Yeah, there you go. I'll see, and he'll he'll just do it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:35:19

Those are the good ones. I know. And like the other day he texted me. Oh, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00: 1:35:23

The other day he texted me, he said, sweetie, don't forget your year's coming up. You need to pay for this.

SPEAKER_08: 1:35:28

We had to pay for our LLC renewal or something, 20 or 30 bucks for a year, whatever it is. Yeah, they did. But he has it in his system, it's already on his calendar, so he lets her know, hey, you need to renew it. Which is good, yeah. Yeah, because we wouldn't have renewed it otherwise. We don't know anything better.

SPEAKER_07: 1:35:42

You know, I'm big on technology, guys, and I want you guys' opinion. How do you feel about the the decks that are coming out? They're like this this small, you know, Hercules has one, DJI has one.

SPEAKER_08: 1:35:51

Have you guys ever in my studio, man? Really?

SPEAKER_07: 1:35:54

I want to see that, but yeah, okay. So how do you guys feel about the controllers? The little small ones, yeah. They look it looks just like what you have with, but it's just really shrunken down. Yeah, how do you guys feel about that? Have you guys ever messed with it?

SPEAKER_06: 1:36:04

I I've never messed with it, but I've seen them before, and I think they're kind of cool to like have at home and practice on.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:09

To practice on, okay, yeah, yeah. I don't, I mean, I don't, I don't, it's too small for me. I don't, yeah, I need that space. Yeah, I need that space. Yeah, I can't. Yes, I can't, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 1:36:20

Okay, so this is the one I wanted to buy. I had no idea you had it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:36:23

I mean, but if you want to like mess with it and stuff like that, yeah, that I guess that'd be good, you know what I mean? For practice, but I understand it at the pad, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07: 1:36:29

Like in bed, you know, or something. But can you do a party with this right here? You could mix live.

SPEAKER_08: 1:36:36

You could, you could, but them jog wheels on there are very, very, very small. It's like putting your pinky on them. For me, that's a travel unit. I take it to my mom's in Ohio. I take it wherever I'm going so I can work on music, so I can set Q point. Oh, they're not here, yeah. Yeah, but left side and right side. Okay, yeah, they don't have XLRs or anything, so you have to take a mini jack to a RCA to whatever and convert a couple times. But yeah, this is dope, right? I take that just so I can play with stuff.

SPEAKER_07: 1:37:05

So does this have everything that you have there? Is it missing anything?

SPEAKER_08: 1:37:10

Well, it it's missing the the EQ a little bit. The EQ, okay. So doesn't have a base filter down there, so you can you can uh that top button in the middle, it says base filter, top white button. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. So that controls those lower two knobs, and you can either choose I want to choose a filter or I want to cut the base. So it doesn't have your highs, your mids, and your lows to where you can manipulate your EQ and you can blend more beautifully, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the basic. But it does the job. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_07: 1:37:38

This is dope right here. Yeah, this is the one I was looking at, actually. This is fucking dope right here.

SPEAKER_08: 1:37:42

Okay, good. There's nothing to it, man. I took it to Ohio with us a couple weeks ago. I was working on music at mom's house, setting cue points, you know, just playing with transitions and shit like that. Just I like to see it. This is dope. I've never seen it in person. This is actually pretty fucking small. Yeah, it's it's small. They have a uh they have one that I like. That's a uh it's battery powered. It's rechargeable. Is it alpha or something? Oh yeah. It's it's about this big. It's about this big, and it I think it's white and it has a rechargeable battery and it lasts for like 10 hours or something. Oh shit. And nowadays they have they have battery-powered mixers.

SPEAKER_03: 1:38:18

I don't like anything battery powered because eventually it's gonna run. I just can't, I don't, I just don't trust it. Is it a countdown in your head? Okay, it's gonna last as long as it gets. Is it gonna last that long?

SPEAKER_08: 1:38:28

You mean redundancy is good, but otherwise, the only time I use battery is like on my Alto Buskers, my little, my little what it my little mobile speakers, I use them for ceremonies, especially if I if I'm at a venue where the ceremonies are one end, yeah, and and you know Bonji Gardens. Yeah, we use Mongi.

SPEAKER_07: 1:38:47

Yeah, so this one right here requires an application for you to uh play with it then.

SPEAKER_08: 1:38:51

Yeah, you can use DJ Pro, you can use Serato, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 1:38:54

Oh, okay. This is dope right here, man.

SPEAKER_08: 1:38:57

And DJ Pro you can use on your phone, on your tablet, you know, you can use DJ Pro on any either of those.

SPEAKER_07: 1:39:02

Yeah, I fuck with DJI on the phones and tablets just to mess with it, you know. But yeah, it's pretty cool right here. I like this.

SPEAKER_08: 1:39:07

Yeah, it's not bad, man. So I'm gonna finish you guys up with this one, man. And this one goes for each one of you guys. I just want to kind of get a uh an answer, a feeling from you guys on on what's your why, right? What's your why? Is this is this uh about legacy? Is it about brand or is it about both? I'm gonna start with Noe, man. Is is your DJ journey about your legacy? Do you want it do you you want your legacy to remember? Are you building a brand? Are you doing both? What's important to you, man?

SPEAKER_03: 1:39:40

Just make people happy, man. I don't I don't care about all that other stuff. I mean, legacy, I mean, as far as like the legacy, um, maybe I'm already like kind of, you know, because of I've been doing it for so long. Yeah, you know what I mean? So I mean that's cool with me. I'm I'm I'm good with both of that, you know what I mean? But um I just I just do it because I like to do it, man. I love music, I like to see people dance, I like to get everybody out there, you know what I mean. Something I I I've always told people, I I feel like uh because I don't I don't just DJ, I mean I also promote, you know, I do some shows and stuff like that, you know. And I uh you know I work with like Tim, I work with a couple promoters out there and shit, behind the scenes, you know what I mean, stuff like that. But I like doing that, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 1:40:18

I feel like there there's a byproduct, right? Money is a byproduct of doing something well and uh having success at it and having fun with it, right? And and I feel like legacy and and brand and that kind of ties in directly, right? If you care about what you're doing, if you love and appreciate it, if you care about the art, if you if if you put everything you have into it and it's important to you, one of them takes care of the other automatically. Like, like money's gonna come. Money's gonna come no matter what. You do a good job at something you have good, you you you have fun doing it, money will come.

SPEAKER_04: 1:40:56

Yeah right?

SPEAKER_08: 1:40:57

Legacy is gonna come. The more that you have fun with it, the more that you get out into the community, the more that you people that you reach, uh the legacy is gonna come. They're gonna remember the Noe G shows, they're gonna remember the pantomime shows, they're gonna remember all of these things. Um and you know, God forbid one of us are gone, you know, we're gonna be remembered for something, right? Yeah, there you go. And and that legacy and that brand. You left your footprint, yeah. Yeah, what what do you think, Dre? So you're just getting into to trying to build the business and and do that. It the legacy, the brand. It looks like you're headed towards brands initially.

SPEAKER_05: 1:41:36

Yeah, I see, I want to be different because I've always had like the mindset of the customer first. Yeah, like um, and I that's just how I am. I like helping people uh through everything that I do. Like, I outside of that, I work with kids, uh special education.

SPEAKER_03: 1:41:51

That's good too, man.

SPEAKER_05: 1:41:52

Um, I just I really feel like if I can make the difference on like a bright day and help, even with the little in-between things, I think you kind of mentioned it. Yeah, it's worrying. I just naturally like sometimes you're the coordinator, yeah. Yeah, all the time. Yeah, all the time. All the time. I remember a one time uh the a caterer was there and he he messed it up. He's bombing, yeah. And it was they hired him, and I had to make sure like things were going. I'd help put the menus, I'd help him assemble the the shaving dishes, uh, and I just did it. Um because it's the right thing to do, exactly. Um, I know it's outside my scope, but as if they enjoy the event, I did my job. Damn, there you go.

SPEAKER_08: 1:42:37

How about you, Henry? When it comes to the boat, domination.

SPEAKER_07: 1:42:41

No, no, I mean everything, everything is a brand, bro. For real, everything is brand. You know, I've been working, I've been in it for what, six, seven years now, and uh, we've been doing our thing. Brand is everything to me, just like the Nike, the McDonald's sign. When you see the BUG logo, you know what's up, you know. So it's um as far as legacy, I guess time will tell. You know, but right now I'm an entertainer, bro. I like to entertain everybody, you know, uh, and I love what I'm doing. You know, I'm talking about music. I I can talk about this shit every fucking day, all day, you know, and it I'm enjoying it. The most important thing is I'm enjoying it, and I love that the people come up to me and they tell me, hey, you know what? This shit was funny. You know, I'm like, that's that's what I'm about, right?

SPEAKER_03: 1:43:17

See, then that's how they're gonna remember you, like all the stuff that you do, you know. Mixers are mixers are good to go to for like DJs and all that. Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. If you're serious, like you know, you like if you want to you should go to mixers, man, all any mixers. I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 1:43:33

I feel like people miss out on on when they lose sight of the customer, if then they lose sight of the bride, the groom, when they lose sight of the events, uh, when they lose sight that it's not necessarily about me or Noe G, it's not about us. It's the wedding isn't about us, it has nothing to do with us, right? We don't need to keep directing the energy towards us. I'm like, keep pounding a you're on the mix with DJ Gordy B, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, over and over and over again, right? Um, it's something that I I feel a lot of people uh fail to execute on is experience. It's the experience that you provide. The experience, the laughter, the giggle, the smile, the the click, the one song that you played for somebody because you noticed, hey, that might be their wheelhouse, right? Um the professionalism, the the your ability for them to sign with you, you know, uh the contract for their wedding for$2,700, and your ability to convey trust, peace, peace of mind, something that that bride and groom is not going to have to worry about. I don't have to worry about no EG. I've got my DJ, that part's done, he's gonna deliver, and I don't have to worry about if he's gonna be any good. I don't have to worry about if he's gonna be professional. I don't have to worry about all these things, and I think a lot of times people don't don't understand that aspect or take that in to where you can convey um just a massive amount of confidence, you can exude confidence so much that you can put their worries to rest and that they feel good about the investment that they have made in you and the product that you are gonna deliver because they know that you're gonna deliver it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:45:38

Especially when the event's like a year away, you know, and then they give you that deposit again. And I always tell my clients this I was uh when they book me for like next year, I I always tell them, I said, okay, you know, it's it's 50%, you know, deposit. I'm gonna tell you right now, you're not gonna hear from me once you do the deposit, you're not gonna hear from me at all until three, two, three months, three weeks prior before your event. So don't fucking freak out or anything. Yeah, like when if you have any questions or anything, you know, text me and I'm gonna get back to you or email me or whatever. You know what I mean? And once you give me the deposit, I'll revise the invoice showing deposit paid, and then we're good. You won't hear from me until you know three because that's when I'll when I get to your the week that I get to your event, like Monday, I start working on your shit. You know what I mean? And I'm ready. I got everything ready by Friday. I don't have to worry about you no more. Yeah, I like to get my shit done early that way, you know, because then you don't want to be done last minute. It's kind of you get lazy. And don't pay me, don't finish paying me before the event because I don't want to feel like I'm doing your shit for free.

SPEAKER_08: 1:46:39

Exactly. Exactly. You know what I mean? Yeah, we have we have all been there, I think, to where we have somebody has paid for a full event up front a year later, and that event comes up and you feel like you're not getting paid. I spent that$2,500 on last year's Christmas. So I I spent it, it's done, and now I'm having to do it. And so nowadays we collect the deposit and then we say two weeks prior to your date, the remainder is due. Yeah, so we have we get paid within that two weeks.

SPEAKER_03: 1:47:10

I don't I don't even do that. I said just pay me the day of, you know. I don't want to go there and say, shit, man, I ain't fucking going home, broke.

SPEAKER_07: 1:47:21

So everything that you guys are saying, that this is really cool. This is why I like this fucking show right here, man, because you bring in different DJs here. Because during the parties, it's hard to talk to a DJ because they're working, right? But you're giving them, you're giving them the platform right here to really express themselves and really get to know the DJ. You know what I mean? So people that are tuning in right now and they have a party coming up, they can go ahead and hit any one of these gentlemen over there.

SPEAKER_08: 1:47:41

Yeah, they're gonna hear one of these people and they're gonna resonate with that person. Somebody is gonna resonate with Trey over here and knowing and Patamar. Somebody's gonna resonate with this brother, and they're gonna be like, something that he said touched my heart, clicked with me. Reminded me of grandma and grandpa. Some if something happened, that's my guy. It's it's it's that's my guy.

SPEAKER_07: 1:48:05

Yeah, this is why I like what you got going on over here, and I most definitely support this show right here because you're doing something different right here. You know what I mean? And it benefits everybody, it ain't just VJ Gordy B. It's everybody that is over here, man. Hey, shout out to you for real for giving us the platform for for that, man.

SPEAKER_03: 1:48:21

Thanks for having us.

SPEAKER_07: 1:48:22

And cheers, all be quiet now.

SPEAKER_08: 1:48:26

All right, man. Is it the legacy? Is it the is it the the business? Is it the the brand? What is it?

SPEAKER_06: 1:48:33

Honestly, man, when it it just kind of like knows that I don't really care about that. I just want people to have a good time. I mean, I've done everything from weddings to quantitarias to backyard parties to even like hospice events. You know, I even told my wife too, because she goes to me with all my events, also, and like there was uh an event that we did for a hospice company, and it was like their senior prom, literally senior citizens.

SPEAKER_08: 1:48:56

Oh man, that's cool.

SPEAKER_06: 1:48:58

Honestly, like I was playing songs from like their era, and now again, just kind of crooners, man. Frank Sinatra's like, and again, just even growing up knowing that music too, like it really resonated with them.

SPEAKER_03: 1:49:10

Gotta have the big the big band, man. Yeah, you really do. The 40s, the 50s, guys. Yeah, swing music.

SPEAKER_06: 1:49:15

Yeah, and I and I looked at my wife because I saw the dance floor packed, and here's like these you know, 70-year-old guys with their walker, and you know, I'm like, at that moment, they're not old, right? They're young again. They are there. I took them back in time. I I gave them that time capsule to go back, and it's like that's what DJing's all about. That's when it's that that's that's when it clicks, that's when I'm happy. That's I mean, I honestly didn't even care what I got paid that day. That was my payment. I was so happy to see that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:49:43

Sometimes, you know, you gotta do gimme's, you gotta do free, you gotta do freebies, you gotta do the you know, the end kinds of the end kinds. I mean, and even those gigs give get you another gig, you know, a good paying gig, you know. I mean, so you you gotta do, I do at least maybe three a year, you know. I mean, uh after that, you know, you gotta all right, you know.

SPEAKER_04: 1:50:00

You gotta scale back because they next car take out things. I already do my did my three and kinds. I know some other DJs they need to do their their yeah, they they need to make they need to put in their end kinds, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06: 1:50:14

Like, even for me, like I'm still the same pendehole that was in my back my backyard making mud pies and slinging them at my sister, you know what I mean? Like, I'm I'm nobody, you know what I mean? So it's like the legacy may be there, it may not be there, the brand may be there, may not be there. I'm still the same guy no matter what. How how long have you been DJing? About 13 years.

SPEAKER_03: 1:50:32

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06: 1:50:33

Yeah, so I've been doing it for a while now, and I don't know how many times I've done like the shitty backyard, you know, to like the most sketchy neighborhood. But you know, it's like you know, I I kind of feel like I paid my dues in that sense, but you know, like leaving the legacy, I again doesn't matter. Like I could be forgotten tomorrow, but you know what? I still have those memories of the gigs that I did where I know I was happy because I kind of did it not just for them, but for myself as well. You know, I love music. Like I told you guys, I started playing guitar first. I was a guitarist at 10 years old. I've been in bands, I toured all around California, I did all that, and I learned the sound part of it. You know, one of the reasons I became a DJ is because I missed the stage. You know what I mean? That was the like the main thing, and I know all this music, I know I have all this knowledge of it. Like I tell people I'm kind of like Slum Dog Millionaire, you know, that movie where it's like every question is another aspect of his life. So when they tell me a genre of music, I go back to like, oh, I remember my uncle played that for me, or my aunt played that for me, or like I heard that here and I loved it, so I found it on my own, you know, and and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:51:32

So I like to do that, research the music, yeah. Exactly. I'll I'll I'll type that like I'm a music nerd or something just weird, and you can go down that rabbit hole, yeah, and it there really is.

SPEAKER_06: 1:51:44

Like, there's a lot of stuff around the world. Like I did uh uh an event uh new metal night, and I told people like new metal goes all around the world. I play stuff from like India, from Brazil, you know what I mean, like all these other different places, Greece, even you know, they have stuff too. So it's like I'm just a musical nerd. So but like you said, uh Gordy, with you know, with one comes the other. So the if the if you see the branding and you've you've heard pantomime, you've heard me before, great, I love that. But I'm still the same guy that I was five minutes ago before you even mentioned that name.

SPEAKER_03: 1:52:15

And then you have to promote yourself too. And you really do, yeah. Out of sight, out of mind. I mean, if you're not doing anything, ain't nobody gonna think about you, you know what I mean? You gotta put them out there. Sometimes people probably get tired of it, but hey, yeah, yeah, I'm you're you're the one working, and the other guy that's talking shit ain't working.

SPEAKER_08: 1:52:33

Yeah, I'm always trying to feed the machine, man.

SPEAKER_03: 1:52:35

I'm going on 46 years, man. Every there hasn't been a time that I've stopped DJing. Like I literally 46 since I was 15 years old. Consistent years. It's every year, you know. I mean, I I post it.

SPEAKER_08: 1:52:46

There are some DJs that keep retiring and coming back, man. Yeah, no, I don't I'm when I I when I retire, I'm gonna trust me.

SPEAKER_03: 1:52:52

When I retire, I'm gonna retire. I'm done. I'm done. Y'all can have this, yeah. Yeah, you know what I mean. I I I'm I'm pushing the big you know number this year, and uh I don't know, but after that might go another five years, maybe, you know what I mean, God willing. But if not, you know, I'm good with it. You know, I'm I've already done it. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08: 1:53:09

I'll just for me, man, it's it's it's the whole thing about not stopping, especially when you have a bad you have a bad night, right? You have a bomb night, you bombed, you did something terrible, the dance floor sucked for whatever reason, whatever it is. And then you start questioning. We've all had those things. You start questioning things, you question your ability, you question if you're any good, you question if the people you've played for before were just full of shit and didn't know anything, and you know, you go down this this whole just plethora of things. My my thing is is if you don't stop, you never have to start again. Like keep going from where you're at. Like, yeah, you had a broke, you had a rough event, you had a rough patch, you had whatever it may be. It's like going to the gym or doing anything else on a consistent, uh regular basis, right? If you never stop, you never have to start over. Yeah, exactly. If you stop DJing, you're gonna have to start over from the basics. You really are, like, yeah, you can beat match and everything else, but there's a there's a lot to it that you're gonna have to study, you're gonna have to get caught back up with music, you're gonna have to current trends, newest trends, stems, whatever technology comes out next, left and right. If if you stop now, you will have to.

SPEAKER_06: 1:54:16

You always got to keep it interesting. Yeah, you know, if you don't keep it interesting, if you don't love what you do, then why even do it at all? You know, and kind of like what you were saying, that you want to expand too. Like me and my wife, we have this plan every year. We want to make a big investment. So last year it was the cold sparklers, you know. So we got our own. We spent like$1,600 on four of them. Damn man, what are you guys getting? Sparkles are so cheap for, man. I gotta get a connect for the five.

SPEAKER_08: 1:54:40

I paid$2,200 for mine. I gotta connect in China, man. In China, no, we didn't pay that much.

SPEAKER_07: 1:54:47

No, we paid more. I was gonna say Little Sanhele is callejones, we yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 1:54:50

So I mean, but that was like fresh for us. Now this is a new toy, so it may not be with DJing, but it's like cool, now I can offer this. So I get excited to promote again. You know what I mean? And then this this next coming year, we're actually wanting to expand to a photo booth as well. And it's like, okay, now that's gonna be our shiny new toy. Now we can promote that. So it's still not at the DJ booth for myself, but now I can promote something else, and it's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:55:14

And then your wife can your wife can be able to run the book. Yes, and then that's exactly what she wants to do, just like they do, you know what I mean. So you have a team, you know.

SPEAKER_08: 1:55:21

I mean, see, yeah, you're never completely out of it. I gotta make my team. I know me too, bro. Like, even if the customer different DJ, they can still book you for a photo course and you're not completely out all that money. Exactly. That is true. You have it in somewhere, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:55:35

Even with the cold sparkers, we literally rented them out just like that. We didn't even do anything. I used to I used to rent my cold sparks, like, yeah, yeah, because I was like, man, I didn't I and the reason that was what was holding me back was I didn't know what brand to get. I wanted to get the the good ones, right? I my mom always said, if you're gonna buy something, buy the best because otherwise you don't have to be fucking that it's not breaking on you or anything. Buy the good ones, the expensive good ones. And and I was I would ask people, and I even you know, and nobody would tell me, like, oh, these are good ones. Or what? Yeah, well, I got the J Maz, those are the ones that I got. You know, I ended up finding out which ones are the good ones. I said, okay, and man, they they work perfect. The only thing I don't like about those is that you have to get that fucking card and to get the seconds, otherwise, if if you run out of seconds, oh if one RFID scan it, yeah, you can't do the other one, so you have to buy two fucking co uh uh uh powder just to get the thing. So you so they both have yeah, and I'm over here buying one, thinking that card's good for both of them until I used them one time and shh when the this was like, I was what the fuck, man? And then somebody told me they go, Oh, you oh it was James Waters. He said, Well, you have to use that other card to put I was like, Oh, so I have to buy two fucking powders that yeah, I was like, God damn it, do your research. That's how they that's how they get you to to buy the powder from them, so I have to always buy powder from them, but yeah, it's it's a it's a good investment, man. Like the uplights, you have any up lights? Yeah, we have uplights too.

SPEAKER_06: 1:56:59

Yeah, because that's yeah, like I said, we know we try to expand every year, try to get something new, and again, it becomes this new bright shiny thing, and it keeps me excited to DJ, keeps me excited to promote and do all these other things too.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:10

That's why I like to do my little videos to some people, yeah. Man, just look at the rail, you mean you're just saying I rock parties. Yeah, like you know, the proof is in the video. There's nobody sitting down, everybody's on the dance floor. Because, of course, that's when we're gonna record. I mean, that's like you're not gonna scroll through my feed.

SPEAKER_08: 1:57:25

I'll tell you right now, you will not scroll through my feed, and it'll just be a text post that hey, I rocked a party tonight. Yeah, just I'm gonna have a video attached to it showing it. I'm gonna have a video attached to it showing that it's not a fucking line dance. Yeah, that shit drives me crazy. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:41

I stopped recording the line dance as well.

SPEAKER_08: 1:57:43

I feel like that's a gimme. I feel like line dance, dance floor is full. That doesn't mean that you love that dance floor you created organically. That's just something that everybody's gonna dance to automatically.

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:53

Yeah, that's a that's another thing.

SPEAKER_08: 1:57:54

It doesn't count, right?

SPEAKER_03: 1:57:56

Like I see that shit, I'm like playing Lachona and Solomon. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I love the fact that I still dance to damn.

SPEAKER_04: 1:58:04

Everybody does, and I still like La Chona, I'm not gonna lie. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06: 1:58:08

Like, I love the fact that my wife goes out there and she helps me with this, and she's like my partner in club with all this as well. You know what? Because when you're DJing, like you're so focused on what you're doing, you can't record. It's damn near impossible. So she already took care of all that. She's not doing that for you, you know. She's not gonna see her, you know, taking her video, she'll talk to and saying where we're at, what we're doing. And then I I even told her too like, don't do the line dances anymore. Don't do this or do that. I go, because that's not right. Like oh, that one song that's weird that will hit, that's when you want to record because that's when you found the crowd.

SPEAKER_03: 1:58:40

I did I do that myself. I don't have all that help, but I still go out, believe it or not, I still do my mid song. I do, yeah, I do all I load up, I set up, I break down myself. You know what I mean? I don't I I don't I don't have any help. Like, I never have help. So I have to do my own videos too. Like, I'll play a song when they're all gonna get I'm like, all right, cool. A little bit more, a little bit more of this cool shit, and then I'll be at home and I'll just let me ask you something about the solo setup, right?

SPEAKER_08: 1:59:07

Because that's something that I uh I've started to just despise a little bit setting up and breaking down, right? I've become kind of like kind of snobby where I like I'm just gonna fucking hire somebody to go set up, so all I have to do is bring my laptop.

SPEAKER_04: 1:59:20

I wish I I wish I you know it's coming at my age, it's coming, it's coming five, and it hasn't happened for a while.

SPEAKER_03: 1:59:27

I just can't find anybody, yeah, somebody that's dependable. Well, lately, me and uh Eric uh Avalon, um Eric Tapia, DJ, yeah. Yeah, me and him, we we partnered up, you know. I mean, so we've we've we've been doing gigs together. I've been giving him some, and he's he's been helping me with some because I I've mostly been giving him some. And he wants to get out there more now. So we've been kind of helping each other. He's the only motherfucker that every time uh I've done some gigs and he he's gone to help me, you know. Just you know, take his base model or whatever, you know. Let me borrow your base bottom, whatever. And he stays there, and then at the end of the night, I don't even have to tell him. He everything's I'm like, what the fuck? Like he's the only one that knows how to break. Yeah, correctly. He's done it. You know, he does it with his. I said, damn, you're the only one, even the D, even though the DJs can't even do it. Nah, nah, I don't even know how I'll do it myself. You mean? But him's all everything's all put right there. Speaker's already down.

SPEAKER_07: 2:00:12

The you know, the that's how it is with her and her daughter's summer. He knows how to wrap the cable. It's very important.

SPEAKER_04: 2:00:20

You know what? I'm not gonna lie. When when I wrap the cable, if I'm gonna hurry, I'll just around the house. I'm like, let's get fucked over here. But that's you, it's your shit, though. But if somebody else does it, what are you doing? You know what I mean? Yeah, it it it's um it it's crazy.

SPEAKER_03: 2:00:37

I think I'm I'm gonna wait till like maybe I want to wait till at least I hit 50 years of DJ maybe to retire, and that's not too far away.

SPEAKER_08: 2:00:43

It'll keep you young, man. It'll keep you young. That's what I'm saying. Like, that's cool though. You did your thing though. That's fucking hella cool right there. So, with the mobile setup, I was gonna ask you, man, with the mobile setup, what is your opinion on column arrays? Technology-wise, DJ-wise, speaker sub bottom, column array up top, you know, real nice, beautiful, classy for weddings, whatever it may be. Um, but because I've been in the market for them. I want something a little bit lighter, a little bit easier.

SPEAKER_03: 2:01:14

Yeah, you know, I mean, I mean, I don't know. I don't like the look. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? But I mean, some DJs, you know, they swear they're good, you know what I mean? When they play, but they are. I don't know. Yeah, see, I don't know if they are. I think my top 15 I'm old school, so I'm gonna take my 15s and and my, you know, I'm gonna do it OG style. And to me, I'm comfortable. I don't like no, like I said, I don't like no uh battery operated unless they're my uplights or something, but anything. Yeah, the speakers, oh well, you can put this thing, it's cordless. I don't fuck with that. Yeah, because uh you don't know what you don't know the failure rate, just like when DJs say, Oh, I I I need to go to the hall and see if they have Wi-Fi. If I send somebody to do a gig for me there, well, I need to know if they have five because I'm using title, what like come on?

SPEAKER_08: 2:01:58

And title doesn't even have uh DJ lights.

SPEAKER_03: 2:02:01

I'm not like, but okay, say you know you go and it has Wi-Fi, but something happens, like what if it goes down?

SPEAKER_08: 2:02:06

Yeah, like you don't have any folders, so you falsely no, I have folders, but but put belief into their Wi-Fi and it fails and you're screwed. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 2:02:15

So I said, I said, no, you know what, never mind. I'm gonna get somebody else. I like to some folders, do some make some folders, you know, and then for bat.

SPEAKER_07: 2:02:22

I mean, yeah, it's like what you're saying is right, but everybody has their different way of doing it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 2:02:27

My primary is folders. Primary is folders. 99.9% of my music is folders. I have it. Yeah, you can't take it away from me, you can't kill the internet. I have it no matter what.

SPEAKER_03: 2:02:37

No matter what happens, you have it ready to go. But I do like folders and my crates. I'm good.

SPEAKER_08: 2:02:42

I do like the ability. If they do have Wi-Fi, I do like the ability of taking a request of a song that I might not have had and be able to stream that through my DJ software, whether it be Spotify or title, right?

SPEAKER_03: 2:02:54

Fuck that. I bust out my phone. But I do that too. There it is. There's your song. Yeah, I don't like to do I don't with when on my computer, all I have there is my music. I don't like to like get into the website or little pictures and that shit. I don't like to do any of that because you never know what's gonna happen. I yeah, I'm just very you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_07: 2:03:16

It's like hey, here's a real quick question for you guys. Does it matter the the audio file, the format that it is, whether it's MP3, wave file, does it matter to you guys?

SPEAKER_03: 2:03:24

I fuck with all that stuff, but or you guys I know the wave is making a big hit right now, but to me the MP3, I mean Does it really matter if you're bumping it through a speaker into a party?

SPEAKER_07: 2:03:34

That's that you know that's the question. No, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_08: 2:03:36

It's all the quality of the song, it's just whether there's peaks, you know, whether it's getting chopped off or whether it's not, you know, the volume isn't there. There's gonna be there's gonna be volume differences, right? Yeah, and then that's where your little trim comes in, right? You'll add a little trim for a track that's a little bit lower, you'll add a little bit of trim, and it'll just be volume for that track, right?

SPEAKER_03: 2:03:54

Always fuck with your EQ, man, when you're trying.

SPEAKER_07: 2:03:57

You're gonna have to trade me on this, bro. I'll I'm getting that. I always wondered about that. If you guys ever ever take that under consideration when you're out in a party, because this you're you're the the sound is coming from speakers and everybody has different speakers. Does it really matter if you're at a party, or do you just well the hall?

SPEAKER_03: 2:04:14

I mean, certain halls, you get that. It just fucking just sounds horrible.

SPEAKER_08: 2:04:18

If you're an audiophile, yeah. If you're an audiophile DJ, first and foremost, you're a DJ, right? You play a fucking wave, an MP3, an MP4, a Flack Audio, whatever. If you're an audiophile, you want that Flack FLAC.

SPEAKER_07: 2:04:35

That's a big file is right there. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08: 2:04:37

Fully lossless audio compression. You want that flak file. That's the most authentic sound that you you you're gonna get everything from.

SPEAKER_07: 2:04:44

But for headphones, yeah, right?

SPEAKER_08: 2:04:46

But when you're playing through a speaker, a PA system or whatever it is, then the normal person the normal person isn't gonna be able to tell that, and they're not gonna be able to tell your bad transition. No, yeah, they're they're gonna listen to the song, they're gonna be happy the song.

SPEAKER_06: 2:05:00

I'll tell you one thing too. I mean, even at concerts, because I go to a shit ton of concerts, I have a stack of tickets like that that I've gotten.

SPEAKER_09: 2:05:07

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 2:05:07

And um, sadly, one of my favorite bands, Deftones. I don't know if you guys know who that's so um we were at the Mayhem Festival and they were playing. I was super excited to see the Deft Tones because I fucking love that band, right? And it was the same PI, the same PA person, it was the same, you know, out there audio doing all that stuff, but for some reason they sucked. Their audio sucked. I'm sorry, I love that band. Yeah, but that day, like it's like if your guitar's not tuned, what the hell does it matter what the guy on the sound systems do? You know what I mean? It's not so going to what you're saying, like all the all whatever, whatever file you have, you can actually mess with the EQ yourself. Yeah, I was just gonna say that. So coming through a speaker, no one's gonna tell.

SPEAKER_03: 2:05:51

Yeah, yeah, it's your job to. I mean, you know, so if it's a song that sounds dippy, it's your job if it needs more bass, put more bass. If it needs less exactly more highs, turn that fucking high on the ball.

SPEAKER_06: 2:06:00

And I was far away at that concert. I was uh sitting on the lawn because I couldn't afford the front row, but uh but um I can actually hear because I'm now trained in that. I can hear the audio guy trying to lower the bass, higher the mids, higher like I can hear what he's doing to get to them, yeah. And they just weren't giving him anything back, like they just it was bad. Yeah, it was really bad.

SPEAKER_07: 2:06:23

Now, okay, I know you wanted to end the show already, but I have a lot of questions here. So does that ever fuck with your guys' head because you do this for a living pretty much? Oh, yeah. Does it fuck with you when you go to somebody else's party and it's like they have a DJ there?

SPEAKER_08: 2:06:35

Nah. Nah, you know what? If they're rocking it and their crowd is happy, I'm happy for them. If they're if they're if they're rocking it, if their crowd is happy, I'm happy for them. It might be one of those things where we go up to them at the end of the night or somewhere and we say, hey man, loved your set. I love that you're having fun, I love that you're rocking it. Just something that I noticed, if you don't mind. Can I can I share with you something that I noticed? Sounds like, hey, you know, you you you might want to start playing with your trim level a little bit. Like some people don't know that. It's a very simple thing. It's a trim, it's a trim knob, right? It's gonna increase the audio of that track, decrease the audio of the track, whatever it may be. And like Noah said, that track needs a little more bass, you know. Crank that low back up in there a little bit more.

SPEAKER_03: 2:07:17

Uh you just always gotta work with your fuck with your EQ, no matter what song you're playing. I'm an EQ mixer. I especially when you're coming in, your bass always has to be low.

SPEAKER_08: 2:07:26

Yeah, when I when I mix it's all EQ. I don't really mess with the filter too much, the high pass filter. My my I try to take pride in my my transitions between songs and and melding them or making them seem like it's just one infinite track, right? Yeah, yeah. I don't want any kind of garble, I don't want any kind of jump, I don't want vocals over vocals, you know, the typical I still do everything OG.

SPEAKER_03: 2:07:51

Like I don't know.

SPEAKER_07: 2:07:52

So you pay attention to those kind of details.

SPEAKER_03: 2:07:54

You know, no EQ. Like if I'm mixing it on turntables, but it's a controller, it's I do just like I fuck with it. Like if I'm mixing with turntables, absolutely the same thing, yeah. Yeah, I don't use all the other little buttons and shit, you know what I mean sometimes, but you know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07: 2:08:07

I have another question here. It uh I might be starting some shit right here, okay? But that's that's what I do. That's what I do. Do we respect DJs that just hit play and that's it? No, because I've gone to parties and they where they just hit play and it's like that's it. They walk away, you never even see them close to the table. And I'm kind of like, like, damn, is it really that easy? You know, because I know it's hard, it takes time to really blend, and I'm just breaking it down. Blend one song.

SPEAKER_03: 2:08:33

Like if they oh, like just they already have a mix, but they just already hit play. Oh, like it's all mixed, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07: 2:08:39

Yeah, like they already they already pre-recorded it. They already have 20 minutes already recorded and they just hit play. DJing getting paid.

SPEAKER_08: 2:08:45

For me, it's lazy. For me, it's lazy. For me, like Noe said, I want to take every opportunity I can, whether it's dinner, whether it's reception, whether it's whatever, right? Where I could put a playlist on, but I want to play with the song myself and I want to transition the song myself. If I just play a pre-recorded mix that I did here at the house and it's a good mix and it's two hours long and it gets the party going and everything else, am I honing my skills? Am I being honest? Am I being honest with myself? Am I being honest with other DJs? Am I bettering myself? Am I practicing? And I don't think any of that is being done. Um, I I do believe everybody has to start somewhere, right? Yeah. Everybody has to start somewhere. And if if for some reason you're playing a mix, you know, and at the end of the day, it all comes down to your client and whether your client's happy or not. Uh if you're not going to be able to knew that you they were getting a playlist DJ or whatever, then they could have just done it themselves. But I always ask them.

SPEAKER_07: 2:09:44

That's what I'm saying because I could have done that shit myself. Yeah. I mean, that's why I'm asking you guys. You guys do this for a playlist.

SPEAKER_03: 2:09:51

Yeah, I get a playlist, and then uh I always tell them, you know, give me a playlist of music that you like that I might not have. That way I can uh get that music and then I can incorporate it with my music. Yeah, kind of blend it in a little bit.

SPEAKER_07: 2:10:01

We'll make it work. Now, I understand if you guys are taking a break. I understand that you know you always want to keep the party going and stuff, but but the whole night doing it.

SPEAKER_03: 2:10:07

We do have I do have break mixes, you know what I mean? Like oh, yeah, of course. That is understandable. That's right.

SPEAKER_04: 2:10:12

That's one where I play like, okay, fam. Where I can walk to the bathroom comfortable. Yeah, that's understandable. Comfortable, but I'm not fucking running three minutes.

SPEAKER_07: 2:10:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because once again, you're not playing the whole song. You got a verse or maybe even two verses in. These are things that people don't know, right? Yeah, you play one verse.

SPEAKER_03: 2:10:34

Yeah, sometimes I'll do their verse. I'm like, okay, damn, can I go pee way in the fuck up there in one minute and 52 seconds? I'll go 51 seconds, then we're peeing. I'll just wait. I've found a bad too long and then I'm waiting. Yeah, and then I'm waiting, and I'll say, okay, and then I'll throw another sound like four minutes. Okay, fuck now. I'm gonna go fucking.

SPEAKER_07: 2:10:52

You play Rapper's Delight, you got four point twenty five minutes to get back in there.

SPEAKER_03: 2:10:56

But if I want to, but if it's a if the restroom's far, you know what I mean? I okay, that's when you throw your break mix, and then okay, fuck, I'm gonna walk over there comfortable. Hey, let's oh, hey, you know, okay, okay. You know you you have a good mix on, you know. So so everybody here does do their mixes.

SPEAKER_07: 2:11:11

Live the major I'm gonna say the majority of the party, the majority of the event, you guys.

SPEAKER_03: 2:11:15

And the only time the only time I use that would probably be like when I have to go to the restroom, or if it's a really boring party where it's just not happening, nothing's happening, nothing's working. Anything you throw is not working, and people are just like over there, and you're over here. Yeah, you know what I mean. And and those parties sometimes I'm like, man, you know, you you you pay all this money, you know.

SPEAKER_07: 2:11:34

I mean, to have a you know, it's like you could have bought but a lot of people don't realize that that you guys are paying attention to the room. Oh, yeah. You know, I've heard you say, you know, you're looking at t-shirt, you're looking at whether they're just standing there in the wall, you're looking at different things, and you're always thinking of head, which is much respect to you guys, man, because you're always thinking ahead of what the next track is gonna be and how you keep that flow going.

SPEAKER_08: 2:11:57

You know, at dinner time, if you see a head nod, if you see a smile, if you see something like that to a particular song you play, go into that year, go into that genre, go into that conversation. That's fucking fascinating, right? And expose that, expose that's dope.

SPEAKER_06: 2:12:12

One of my favorite ones I ever did, it was a wedding, and it was during the dinner, and I played um I just called it say I love you by Stevie Wonder. Stevie. Oh, yeah. Oh my god, dude. The whole crowd started singing. That's my jam the bride and groom. I was like, dude, that was awesome. That was one of the best feelings ever. It's like Sweet Caroline, man. You play on Sweet Caroline, everybody.

SPEAKER_03: 2:12:34

My the the one that I always play while I played it and they sing as the I Love Music. Yeah, the OJs. The OJs. They love that shit. Yep, that's a good one, too, though.

SPEAKER_07: 2:12:44

That's fucking hella dope, right there. Do you guys find that playing old school music is more, you know, it picks up the party a little bit more than modern music? Or how does it go?

SPEAKER_03: 2:12:52

Every wedding, I mean, not every wedding, but every mostly every wedding, even some white weddings that I teach it at, it's always like the same playlist, bro. It's like, you know what I mean? I mean, okay, so what is that? Even even uh even quincinetas, like I don't need I don't get these young girls, they don't send me like the new hip hop book.

SPEAKER_04: 2:13:10

It's all the yeah, I love that song, by the way. That's uh that's uh uh and then they be getting on the floor.

SPEAKER_03: 2:13:21

But uh, but yeah, you know, it it pretty much, I mean, since I've been DJ, the playlist has been the same. I mean, you know, I mean I've I've rocked air change. I've rocked like all country, I've done that before. I've done like all 1940s, where that's all I've played, you know, nothing, you know. I've done like um like he said, like uh yacht rock, you know. I've never done like an all rock one. I I would like to do that, but yeah, you say that yacht rock though, you know, I mean, uh some of that. But like I don't get like these quincineas where the the girls asking for like the new stuff, you know, like it's rare, you know what I mean? Like it's rare, or they want the J Balvin and yeah, yeah, it's it's always reggaeton, yeah, you know, cumbias, banda, old school 2000s, you know what I mean, 90s, 2000s.

SPEAKER_07: 2:14:07

That's that's usually yeah, that's what I figured.

SPEAKER_03: 2:14:09

It's usually around the 2000s where the where all the dance music really came out, you know, and if and if I do like an all-white uh wedding or 16th birthday party, you know, then it's because there's a difference.

SPEAKER_07: 2:14:21

Sweet 16 right a sweet 16 and a quinceanera are different, right?

SPEAKER_03: 2:14:27

I mean it's kind of like the same, but you know, different age, yeah. But different yeah, different, but the the if I do like a white party, you know, for like a sweet 16, yeah, yeah, sweet 16 for a white person, yeah, yeah. You know, it it's like like you said, you know, the Taylor Swift, you know, kind of like that. They they all request a lot of that, which is more modern, yeah. Country, you know, Justin Bieber, the Jonas Brothers, you know. Stuff like that.

SPEAKER_07: 2:14:51

Ah, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03: 2:14:52

I see it's no, you know, some old school, but it's like the familiar stuff, you know, Earth Wind and Fire, the September, you know, stuff like that. The familiar those never go out of style, pretty much. Yeah, yeah. You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 2:15:02

Pantomite, what about you? Because you fuck with all these other different music. Has it changed at all?

SPEAKER_06: 2:15:06

No, kind of like when he said the playlist stayed the same. I mean, there are some there are some rarities. Like there was one quincenate that I did. You could tell she was like a theater girl because she wanted all these show tunes. Oh, yeah. I get those too. Oh, like music. Never go on with Mamma Mia. You know what I mean? Like that's always one of the classics, too. Ah, okay. Or you even throw in like the Grease soundtrack, and it's like they love that too. Every song is a banger.

SPEAKER_03: 2:15:27

And sometimes, uh, you know, when you get their their playlists, I mean you find some bangers in there, like, yeah, you do. You get educated.

SPEAKER_08: 2:15:34

All right, you get educated by other people's playlists and by their lists. Yeah, because sometimes they request a banger that you didn't have in your fucking library for some reason. I'm like, I gotta get, I gotta make that edit now.

SPEAKER_03: 2:15:45

Because it's hard to keep up with everything. Then I'll I'll research that artist, and then you know, I find out, oh man, he's gonna be able to do it. Down the rabbit hole. Yeah, I do the same thing. I do the same thing. Next, you know, I'm I'm playing his shit, and then somebody else is liking it. They're like, how is that? You know, you know, it just grows. Yeah, yeah, it grows.

SPEAKER_07: 2:16:00

How do you guys feel about you know when the party's over, the guests come up to you, hey man, you guys got down on that. Right. That's a good feeling.

SPEAKER_08: 2:16:08

That's the best feeling. That's the best feeling is either me mid-performance or after performance for them to come say, Hey, that that Gary Stewart country song you played that nobody in the world knows was my wife's and I's uh you know, wedding song or whatever, and you played it, you know, you just you play. Isn't that crazy?

SPEAKER_07: 2:16:27

Out of like the 200 songs that you guys played, that one song stuck with them. That's fucking incredible, friends.

SPEAKER_08: 2:16:33

So those are the ones and and it kind of patamine hit on it, it is is again when you talk about the experience and and legacy, right? The the legacy that you live be that you leave behind. Even if I were to fail and quit DJing tomorrow, I go away, something happens, whatever it may be. I'm still gonna have one or two people, maybe three or four, from every single event that I did, that is is gonna be a very special memory in their head that you don't know that they ever go home and and lay in bed together and talk about, hey, you remember that DJ that played that song for us that night? You know, you're never gonna hear it. You're never gonna get that accolade, you're never gonna hear it, but you definitely affected two people, four people, however many people you you had an imprint and a lasting effect on them. Give me the impression. And your memory is in their brain. No amount of money, no amount of anything can can buy that. You can't buy that. I can't I can't sell you that experience that I played the right song at the right time for the right people for whatever it may be. You're right. And it it's a it's a very powerful thing, and that's something that helps me keep going as well. Is even if I don't get those accolades, and even if I do have a bad event, I can go back and say, man, that Woody Wedding where I played that two short song and they went crazy, and and you know, or this, you know, Manji Garden, I played Gary Stewart or whoever it was, you know, uh the the Punjabi song that I played. You know, I made one guy's life just that so fucking happy in that three minutes that I played a damn song for. Yeah, because they feel seen.

SPEAKER_07: 2:18:06

Yeah, you know, yeah, especially something rare, as you know, a Punjabi song like that, that you took the time to really put in your effort, right? Because you could have played anything other easy stuff, right? But you took your time to look, look, search through this uh one track.

SPEAKER_08: 2:18:18

And I feel like we're all typecast to a certain extent. When I say how's that when I say you look at somebody and you can't tell uh the book by its cover, okay, you wouldn't come and meet me on the street or anywhere else and say that motherfucker slings some cumbia, right? You wouldn't you wouldn't associate Gordon B with Kumbia, right? Like, let alone Pajabi, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 2:18:42

I get you.

SPEAKER_08: 2:18:42

I don't necessarily associate this guy with hard rock or heavy metal or anything else either. I don't, I don't see that, you know? And then if I judge Dre over here, well, I think Dre's gonna play Dre. I think he's gonna play Tupac. I think he's gonna play. I don't know that he knows Guns N' Roses or Journey or anybody else. Noe G, uh Noey, hey, I love you, brother. Yeah, he has some silver in him, right? We all we all got that silver coming in. I'm gonna assume Noah knows some old techno. I'm gonna assume that he knows some old yacht rock. I'm gonna assume he knows oldies. I'm gonna assume, I'm gonna make several assumptions about this brother, just based off of what he looks like. Yeah, and you you're gonna be wrong about all of us.

SPEAKER_09: 2:19:25

Yeah, yeah. You're guessing now.

SPEAKER_08: 2:19:27

You're wrong about all of us, you're wrong about almost every DJ. I will say a a complete open format DJ has to know pretty much every genre.

SPEAKER_03: 2:19:41

You gotta have all the music too.

SPEAKER_08: 2:19:42

You have to have the music, you have to be you have to categorize your music, you have to be organized, you have to you have to do your homework, you have to set up your crates, you have to be prepared for success, right? You're already coming in, like Noah said, I'm I'm good a week out from the event. I've already done your guys' shit, I've already got all the crates set up. I have your your pre-ceremony, I have your your your ceremony, I have your reception, I have your dinner, I have your post-ceremony, I have your special songs, I have everything ready. It's in a crate with five, ten subcrates, right? Have all your shit ready. Uh I'm there early and I'm setting up and I'm testing, right? And then you have your library and everything else. I'm so crazy about my library, kind of kind of OCD about my library, that I feel like the more prepared I am on that damn laptop and on my crates and on my organization and on my tagging of songs and my years and my genres and everything else. I cocky, cocky or confident, you can call it what you want. I'm confident that I can succeed almost at any event that I'm thrown into because of the preparedness of all of that music. Now I love that. I come in late. Uh I'm I'm setting up in a panic. I'm already frazzled. A goddamn top's not working. One of my one of my DMX is on my up light's not working. I'm sitting here fucking figuring everything out. Fucking drives you nuts, yeah. And then on top of that, my music is also not ready. Yeah, like it's not organized. I'm not, I'm not set up, I'm not prepared to succeed. Like I already know, he mentioned this a while earlier, and you were talking about all the the subs, the mids and the tops, and all the equipment that you probably didn't need, but you used. I did the very exact same thing when I first started DJing, and I felt like for me I was overcompensating because I was not confident in my skills as a DJ. Oh really? So I set up these totems, I set up these moving heads, I provided all of this stuff almost at no cost, right? Just as an extra selling feature, whatever it else may be.

SPEAKER_07: 2:21:55

That's interesting. All right.

SPEAKER_08: 2:21:56

And I finally got to the point where I felt pretty confident with dance floors and reading crowds and have failed enough, man. I played for empty, I played for empty venues, I played for three people, I paid for 500 people, whatever it may be. And I got to the point where I felt like I didn't need to rely on that equipment. Uh and I felt like I was using it as you know, as a crutch or as as uh something to hide an insufficiency or something that I was not comfortable or confident.

SPEAKER_03: 2:22:28

You'll also get to know, like, I mean, what I've noticed too is that um you'll you'll start get to notice like okay, this venue, I don't need to take all of this for this venue.

SPEAKER_08: 2:22:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 2:22:38

Uh for this venue, okay. Yeah, I do need a bottom. You know, I mean, for this one, nah, I don't, because then people are like, okay, you know right here because it's so small, I don't need that much shit. You know what I mean? So you'll start getting to okay, this venue, like I said, you know, you'll start knowing what equipment to take, what lights work in there, you know. I mean, is it too small for all the fucking lights? Yeah, lasers and everything, man. Yeah, I mean, but I mean, you know, I trip out on like some of these spices, you know, spice of DJs, man.

SPEAKER_07: 2:23:03

They they come out with goddamn TV wallets now. You're fucking with DJ boobs to have like a foldable, bendable L C D screen.

SPEAKER_03: 2:23:13

Yeah, I'm not hating on them, you know. That shit looks some of that shit looks dope, but I mean it's crazy now, yeah. Yeah, you know, you have a little it's you know what I mean? It's like you're really neat. Do you need all that for like a hundred people?

SPEAKER_08: 2:23:24

Yeah, and and you're only charging 300 bucks, yeah. It's like 500 bucks, and you're setting up goddamn trussing with fucking lights and a light show and uh an LED video wall behind you and everything else.

SPEAKER_07: 2:23:35

It looks cool, but I mean it looks cool, yeah. But I love that you guys are saying that because I started taking my show on the road now, right? And I invested a lot of money in lights to make it look presentable, yeah. Um, not necessarily to hide what my show is about, but I like what you guys are saying that sometimes you don't need all that shit, right? Your presentation alone, it's like bam, already, right?

SPEAKER_03: 2:23:56

I mean, it could be a small venue, you can still make you you're gonna fit in there, you just make it look nice, you know what I mean? Just as long as it looks nice, man. You're good. Nobody's gonna say anything.

SPEAKER_07: 2:24:06

I think at the end of the day, it's just about the music, music, and and what's coming up.

SPEAKER_03: 2:24:09

What they're paying you for is go play music, do what you gotta do, and then that's it. I don't care what you're bringing, just bring what you need to take care of the job, finish the club.

SPEAKER_08: 2:24:16

Keep it lively, keep it fun, and and yeah, a lot of uplights, sometimes uplights.

SPEAKER_03: 2:24:20

You know, I don't I don't I won't take DJ line, I'll teach some uplights, and then when they're when it's time to dance, you know, okay, just put them on sound mode, sound mode, and then they let it flash. They don't care, some people don't care.

SPEAKER_07: 2:24:30

Yeah, as long as you're entertaining, huh? As long as you're entertaining the crowd, pretty much.

SPEAKER_06: 2:24:33

Something I've applied to the way I DJ is something I learned from being in a band. If you can rock the crowd during the day with no lights, no nothing, and you can rock it just as much as the headliner can with all the lights and pictures, that's where it's at.

SPEAKER_08: 2:24:48

Yeah, the products.

SPEAKER_06: 2:24:49

If you can be a good DJ during the day, no lights, no production, no nothing, and still rock that show, then that's where that's where your confidence should be. You know what I mean? Rock it either way no matter what. Yep.

SPEAKER_08: 2:25:00

Y'all, we are uh we are going on two and a half hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07: 2:25:08

I'm used to doing four-hour episodes, bro.

SPEAKER_08: 2:25:10

So I'm gonna do quick exits on everybody, man. I'm gonna go round table. I'm gonna ask you what you're doing, where you're gonna be at, what the plans are, and uh on to the next. So petamon, man. What do you got, brother?

SPEAKER_06: 2:25:20

Um, so coming up, uh, we're gonna be doing a food giveaway December 20th. Not food giveaway, sorry. We're gonna do like a food drive. Um, it's gonna be a bottle shock. We're still in the works with all of that, with the timing and everything. And uh, we've teamed up with Blue Zone and Gleaners. We're gonna donate the food to them. Um, it's gonna be like a PJ. That's dope, huh? So put like a pajama on we're calling it dancing shops. We're gonna try to get vendors out there. Um people coming in and um like in their PJs. You don't have to dress in PJs and whatnot, but um the cost of entry is gonna be a food product, non-perishable. All right. Um donation. We're gonna be you know, DJing out there, of course. We're gonna have some vendors set up. Uh that's gonna be December 20th, and we got other stuff in the works too. Um, but for now, that's like the biggest thing I'm working on. You know, everything else is kind of like private events and stuff. Giving back, man. That's a great thing. Yeah, I love giving back, you know, and and all that. So yeah, that's where you can catch us next. Um, but yeah, if you just even see us out on the street, say hi. You know, if you see us DJing somewhere, say hi. You know, we're we're very approachable.

SPEAKER_08: 2:26:23

Noe G, man. What do you got, brother?

SPEAKER_03: 2:26:25

Uh man, well, let's see. Um I got a couple gigs coming up, and then I have uh, of course, um December I do the uh Christmas for homeless teens. I do that. Uh this will be my 11th year doing it. Uh I do it by myself. Um also uh we do the Jameson Center, uh Children's Center, Fifth Annual Wishlist Collection. We do that on um with I do that for that, I do that for free with for uh OG's Car Club. Okay, they do it every year uh in December at uh Fairfax and uh Niles at the uh Food Max. Yep. So we got that. And then we got a big good show, man. I'm not gonna say who, but we got a good show coming up next year in March. Oh come on, tell us everybody's gonna like that.

SPEAKER_08: 2:27:05

Yeah, tell us off the air. Tell us off the air.

SPEAKER_03: 2:27:08

And uh yeah, man, pretty much just you know, just regular gigs right now. You know what I mean? Uh anything big, you know, usually till next year, you know what I mean. All right, all right. Big Andre. Oh, uh also you can catch me on uh Rewind on uh Friday night seven. I call it yo Friday night mix. Shout out Rewind, shout out No G for Friday night, Friday night seven seven to eight. It's only an hour, but you know, it's it's I get to I you know what I like about Danny is he lets us play what we want, man. It's a solid hour, though. Yeah, it's like I mean, I could play all the new stuff, I can play the old stuff, I can play whatever I want. That's that's what I like about Danny. I love it. He gets it, you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_08: 2:27:43

Big Dre, what you got, brother?

SPEAKER_05: 2:27:45

Uh I'll just be doing a lot of covers this coming week. I'll be at uh Eclipse Azul. I'll also be at uh El Portal. Oh, yeah, West there on uh Saturday. All right. Um, and then catch me at Stella's whenever I'm there.

SPEAKER_08: 2:27:59

Stella's and and the the the brothers expanding business, man. He's getting into all the uh all the upsells, all the add-ons, all the all the DJ stuff as well. So uh he's growing, man. Taking over, man.

SPEAKER_03: 2:28:10

Definitely go to that convention though, man.

SPEAKER_06: 2:28:12

Yeah, go to it, dude. And he'll be at the farmers market.

SPEAKER_09: 2:28:15

Oh, yeah, the farmer's market, man.

SPEAKER_08: 2:28:17

Farmer this Sunday?

SPEAKER_05: 2:28:18

Yeah, I believe this Sunday, as long as it doesn't rain.

SPEAKER_08: 2:28:21

You got everything you need, man? You you need a generator.

SPEAKER_05: 2:28:23

It's supposed to be nice. Dude, I you know what I don't have a generator.

SPEAKER_08: 2:28:27

All right, you might have electric out there, you might have outlets, but if you need something, let me know, man. Because they have other DJs out there too. The bug, Henry.

SPEAKER_07: 2:28:35

Oh shit, man. For real. Hey, don't forget to catch the Baker's Fuel Underground on all streaming platform and on YouTube also. You know what I mean? We're gonna be taking a bug live on uh December 18th. We're gonna be doing a toy drive. I don't know where the fuck it's at, but as soon as I get that, go ahead and follow at the bug podcast. But yeah, man, we've been uh we've been doing a lot of things, man. But once again, I just want to take this time to thank you, DJ Gordi B, to having us over here at the Most Dope Podcast. This is my second appearance, right? Yeah, buddy. Fuck yeah. I'm gonna try to break the record, man. But yeah, man, you know, thank you very much. You know, thanks for the drinks and everything. I really do appreciate you opening the doors for uh the Bakersfield Underground, also over here, man. I'm gonna stay quiet now. I'm done.

SPEAKER_08: 2:29:15

We are out, yeah.