January 29, 2025 • 51 mins
What happens when a graphic design guru, a seasoned DJ, and a comedy promoter walk into a podcast? You get a lively conversation about the intersections between creative pursuits and mental well-being. Stacey Henzo Monroebot shares her transformation from screen-obsessed designer to a digital dynamo advocating for screen breaks and outdoor adventures for mental health. Tune in as DJ Ajax reveals his secret to thriving both behind the decks and in the gym, emphasizing the balance needed to handle the nightlife scene. Despite the odd technical hiccup, Clyde McGregor lights up the room with tales of turning Bakersfield into a comedy haven, proving that laughter truly is the best medicine for a community.
Ever wondered how web design impacts brand identity or what makes AI-generated art feel a tad robotic? We dig deep into the world of digital aesthetics, dissecting why a sleek website is crucial for brand credibility and how poor SEO can be a brand's Achilles' heel. The gang also tackles the hot topic of AI in the creative industry, sharing a mix of excitement and skepticism about its role. Will AI replace traditional artists, or will it merely assist them? Listen in as we share personal experiences and expert insights into bringing client visions to life, making the case for authenticity over automation.
Imagine a dream festival with no budget constraints—an electrifying lineup featuring legendary acts like Parliament and Outkast. We let our imaginations run wild, planning an epic event that combines the timeless energy of live music with the freedom of unlimited resources. Alongside this fantasy, we navigate real-world entertainment trends and the irreplaceable artistry of real DJs, even as AI and streaming change the game. Clyde and the crew reminisce about the joy of nurturing local talent and the burgeoning comedy scene in Bakersfield, wrapped up in the magic of passion, community, and the unyielding power of live entertainment.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Thank you, living life filled up with family.
We got the hallway of panties.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Matt Miller in the most dope family.
What's up y'all?
The Most Dope Podcast is back.
We have a rather largegathering today, however, which
is very, very nice.
The wife is back, marion.
She she's sitting here.
She's ready to jump in and andhave some fun with us.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We got dos muchos what's going on y'all, how
everybody doing out there heydos uh dj ajax up in the bay
area.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
How you doing, brother?
Good man, good you guys do well, yeah, it's uh, it's a good
evening, man, it's uh excitingevening.
We got uh Clyde McGregor, cmaqProductions, and we have Stacey
Henzo Monroebot um hey guyslet's go ahead and jump in.
I'll just start off with Stacey, since she was just live.
(01:18):
Stacey, tell us uh, tell us alittle about this web design and
graphic design thing you gotwell, um, I think, well, yeah,
this year it's been.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It'll be eight years that I've been in business, but
I've been doing it for, I wantto say, approximately about 10,
a little over 10.
So, um, anything from I startedoff a graphic designer, I, I do
web design, photography,branding, social media, all that
stuff, videography, so it'sjust a bunch.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And they basically all branched off into that big
conglomerate of everything thatyou do.
They all are related all arerelated.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, like originally, it started out just a few
things, but then you have yourclients that need something.
It's like, well, I can do that.
So then you start basicallycoming in-house.
You know situation foreverybody, for all their needs
jack of all trades.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Jack of all digital design trades I like that there
you go hey, hey, jacks, tell us,uh, tell us a little bit about
yourself, your little historybrother oh, man, um, and there's
so much to tell.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I swear.
Um, it started out just likeeverybody else, you know, like I
just wanted to be a dj likeeveryone on the radio.
Um, I grew up listening tofolks like cameron paul, michael
erickson up here in the Bay andall the mobile DJ crews that
were doing the parties and stuffout here.
I wanted to be like them.
(02:51):
I just wanted to learn how tomix and actually make mixtapes
and scratch like you see onBreaking and Beat Street.
That was my era growing up.
In high school I picked up apair of turntables and just kind
of went from there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Nice, clyde McGregor, c-mac Productions.
How you doing tonight, brother.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, we got you.
Can you hear me okay?
Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Okay, sorry about that.
I'm having some internet issues.
That's all right, brother.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Okay sorry about that .
I'm having some internet issues.
That's all right, brother,we'll jump back to you.
Man, or are you live with usagain?
No, that's a negative, allright, so we're going to
continue.
We'll jump back in with ClydeMcGregor, cmaq Productions.
(03:42):
I've known the brother for Idon't know probably 10 years now
.
He brings comedy to BakersfieldBasically every month.
He brings a pretty heavy hitterinto Bakersfield in the comedy
world.
He started out over at BricksBricks Lounge.
He's done it over at Bricks, hewent over to the Marriott, he
(04:04):
was down at the Fox Theater andhe's over at 1933 Speakeasy,
which he's going to have a showcoming up in March.
So as soon as he gets back on,we'll try to chime in and hit
him up.
Ajax, you balance life prettywell.
(04:27):
It, it would seem from theoutside looking in.
Um, you're pretty big intofitness, pretty big into fitness
.
How?
How does your fitness, uh, how?
How important is it inrelationship to your djing and
your mental health and yourphysical health?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It's just, it's balance.
You know where DJs aren'tnecessarily the most healthiest.
You know DJing isn't thehealthiest lifestyle, right, I
mean?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Sure, Late nights alcohol.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Wake up late.
We're going to bed late, youknow you I don't know if it's a
thing anymore because I don't dothis, but, like you know, we
used to go to Denny's after gigs, like every weekend.
You know you're drinking andjust there has to be that
balance.
You know you can't be doing allthis damage to your body and
not be doing some kind of goodfor it too.
I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, absolutely To combat it or to balance, like
you said.
To even it out just a littlebit, hopefully take the edge off
of the damage that you may bedoing with these late nights and
early mornings and doubleshifts and double backs and
everything else that you runinto.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Right, and I mean, you know, our era too was
carrying record crates and waslike oh fuck man, start lifting
some weights so that the damncrates aren't so heavy anymore.
You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And then you're talking about form and you say,
hey, you're supposed to liftwith your knees.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Grab that crate and jam.
Don't lose your back.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, absolutely Stacey.
How does mental health work foryou in your scope of the realm
of digital design and web andeverything else?
How do you balance your yourhealth with that?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Uh well, I've kind of learned the hard way, and so
now it's basically cause I workfrom home and that your face is
in front of your phone or infront of a computer constantly.
So, uh, basically get the helloutside for one all right, you
know, um, whether it's likewalking, like you need obviously
some form of exercise, but evenjust taking a walk, uh,
(06:32):
listening music, because it's soeasy to get caught up, like
while you're working, watchinglike your favorite shows, like
in the same time, which is notreally good.
So incorporating music for sure, so that for me that's really
good.
So incorporating music for sure, so that for me that's really
good for mental health and thentaking taking breaks, like
whether it's with family or youjust escaped to the beach
(06:53):
recently.
Yes, and that's also another oneSeveral times throughout the
year the beach.
I just need that salty air, allright.
So that's good, or getting outof town, getting the hell out of
town, basically.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That helps getting the hell out of town basically
that helps Getting the hell outof Beko Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So this one's going to be a bit of a crossover
question and this is going to bedirected to everyone, no one
specific.
It's not about web design, it'snot about DJ, it's what's just
a daily habit that helps youstay mentally strong within your
own profession.
Uh, one daily habit dose.
What do you?
Uh, what do you do on a daily?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
that's a habit man, I sit up and watch.
I mean watch tv like you know.
I mean like like I sit up andwatch like classic wrestling
okay you know I mean just to,just to take my mind off of you
know what I mean.
Just go back to a good time youknow what I mean, you know what
I mean and sit here and just,you know, just space out for a
(07:53):
minute.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Space out, transport yourself to a different era, a
different time in your life,right.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, when I wasn't.
Yeah, you know where I aboutgetting from point a to point b
and what time I'm just this isme I'm, this is my time, I'm
just doing.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's kind of like meditating yes, all right, yes,
and yeah I go, I go to sleepwith it on, all right, I mean so
, hey, hey, a lot of people goto sleep with a box fan I've
heard that, oh yeah they needthe hum they need some kind of
noise as they sleep.
Yeah, yeah, how about?
You ajx oh I'm sorry, oh no.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
No, I was gonna say I agree with you I need a
something to kind of numbyourself, which you yeah, how?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
about you, Ajax.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh no.
No, I was going to say I agreewith you.
I need something to kind ofnumb yourself, which you could
say meditating.
But sometimes TV shows thatkind of numb the brain a little
bit.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's just easy to watch like put ridiculousness on
in the background and look upfrom your phone and have a laugh
every once in a while.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
All right, ajax, sir, you know I, aside from the TV
thing, like I don't haveanything that I do like on a
daily basis and I think thatactually kind of makes it better
for me, because then you don'thave that same thing every day
Like no, no, two days are everthe same the redundancy, the
monotony.
Yeah, like one.
You know, one day I might beout in the field like doing some
(09:06):
, some work.
You know like have a midday gigor something like that.
One day I might be stuck doingturntable repairs like all day
long.
You know I'm not activelytraining clients anymore as far
as like fitness and everything,but I'm still trying, you know,
and I don't always make it, butI try to like hit the gym, you
know, and I don't always make it, but I try to like hit the gym,
you know, at least like threetimes a week, sure.
And now I've even, uh, like Ijust moved and so everything is
(09:30):
different, right?
So like my tv habits aredifferent, my eating habits are
different, my training habits,like nothing is the same as it
was last year.
So right now I even have likethis little squat device and a
pull-up tower, like in my livingroom All right.
And so if I'm cooking dinnerI'll run over and knock out like
a set of 10, 12 pull-ups orwhatever.
(09:51):
Yeah, and then go back and setthe air fryer, run over here and
do some sets real quick.
So it's kind of cool that, likeI don't have the monotony of
like a regular schedule likewhen I used to have a day job or
whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Sure, sure, clyde, were you able to join us.
Brother, I'm not sure Clyde wasable to join us.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I can hear him.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh man Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah, we can hear you .
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Clyde?
Yeah, that was Clyde for asecond, he's out now.
Though.
Hey, ajax, tell me about the uh, the turntable repair business,
brother.
How did you?
I mean, obviously you got intothat because you broke some yeah
, um, it was uh, oh, my god.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So I, I started in 1990 and literally like my first
um, like within a year, Istarted working at this record
store and, um, like my managerover there, like he was a
stanford graduate, like reallysmart dude, and his, like even
his, the other co-workers andeveryone, like everybody was
like really smart and I was likethis young, arrogant, little
(11:02):
punk ass kid but who knew hisshit and was a dope dj, you know
.
And so I thought, and, um, Iremember one of my 1200s was
having an issue and I did theghetto thing, you know, you snip
the wire, you splice ittogether and now it's running
mono off of like one side, yeah,and I was talking to my manager
(11:22):
about it and he was just like,dude, you can't be doing that,
you're running mono.
Like he scolded me, you know.
And, um, he was just like, no,you're gonna bring your
turntable in, we're gonna fix it.
Go to radio shack tonight, pickthis cable up and, uh, we'll
take care of it tomorrow.
I was just like, all right,cool, I'm gonna get a free
fucking turntable repair.
You know why not?
And he actually took the timeto take me through the process
(11:44):
and showed me exactly what hewas doing, like every step, and
explained it.
You know like, okay, you shoulddo this.
Tin the wire, splice the wirethis way, twist it this way, add
a little curve into the wireand all like every little step,
and I was just like, alright,cool.
And next thing, you know, I wasable to open up my other one.
I didn't do it, but messed itup.
(12:05):
But you know just, it's alearning process, right, and I
started to do them just for ahandful of people and then I
took an electronics class andjust got better at everything.
You know, like my tech, mysoldering technique was better.
I ended up getting fasterbecause I was doing it more
often.
And um, then, two years later,we opened up our own record
(12:30):
store and then we started buyingparts from techniques directly
because the um like the servicecenter was authorized to.
Yeah city, over from where wewere.
We were located and, um, theygot so tired of me calling,
saying you know, hey, I needthis part, I need this part.
And then we had to research thepart numbers that they just
(12:51):
said here we're going to giveyou this service manual, so when
you come to us or you call us,you have all the part numbers
ready for us, please.
And I'm like oh OK.
And it was the whole teardownmanual, you know had like the
exploded view of everything.
(13:12):
So I was like, ok, now I can seehow this other stuff works, how
to take the rest of it apartinstead of only doing just the
rca cables.
Now I was able to do, you know,replacing tone arms, replacing
pitch controls, all the otherstuff, and then everything else.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You just kind of learn as you go all right, all
right, what is, what are the bigones that you do, man?
I mean, do you do all the leds,you do all the tricks, do all
that?
I?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
don't, I don't do all the like the really custom
stuff.
Like you see some crazy.
You see some crazy customs.
You know that are likepowder-coated and you know
custom designs and all thatstuff.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Like I look at that as like okay, that's my ride,
that's bling.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah.
I'm Jiffy, I'm functionality, II will do all the basic repairs,
like the necessary stuff, and Ican you know I can change your
lights.
Yeah, I can.
You know I can.
I can give you blue LEDs.
I can do some, some of some ofthe basic custom stuff, sure,
but other than that, it's justlike you can come in and I'll
knock your stuff out within aday.
(14:04):
So, like right now, because Ilive close to Napa, like I tell
people come in around noon, dropoff your gear, just go over to
Napa real quick and I'm pointingover here, because that's where
Napa is.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah we know where it's at.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
And just go get lunch at Napa or do what you want to
do over there and come back inlike two hours, all right.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
So Stacey?
How does web designing impactbrands credibility?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
brand identity and especially web design in general
is everything, because anymorepeople you know you google
everything.
Yeah, so even you know, evenhaving your presence on google.
And then for me, and maybe justbecause I'm kind of nerdy, so
it's like if you Google like abit, even if it's a restaurant,
I want to see the website, Iwant to see the menu.
(15:01):
I don't want to see people'spictures that may be like six
years old of whatever it is Like.
It's, it's the most importantand it's important to to update
it, you know, every three tofive years.
So it's's a really huge, hugedeal.
And then also the which againI'm sounding super nerdy you
have the back end of, like, youknow seo, so you want to make
sure that that's constantlyranking as well, because you
don't want to be like page fiveyeah, so and you really, you
(15:26):
really, really really dislike ai, don't you?
dislike AI, don't you?
There's so many levels that Ican't even get to.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Tell us about AI.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Okay, so there, of course, there are always
benefits to new tech in general,but what I don't appreciate is
the fact that it's replacingartists in general.
You have it's replacing graphicdesign.
It's replacing even people thatpaint.
They're taking, you know,anything digital and they were,
even if people weren't payingattention to even Photoshop,
which I love.
When you sign, you know youagree to the conditions.
You're allowing them to takepieces of your work or all of
(16:06):
your work incorporated to AI,and you're not making a dime off
of it.
So there's a lot of things.
And then now, all of a sudden,people think that they you know,
I don't want to put people down, but I see people within
marketing thinking that thereare these massive artists, and
it's my daughter's nine and herart looks just as great.
So there's that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And my AI art is amazing too, Would you.
Would you is amazing too, wouldyou would you say that it all?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
would you say that it like can you just look at it
and be like that's AI?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
it's so ridiculous now, like I was it's so dumb
looking at Pinterest trying tofind a hair color, and most of
the chicks that they have onthere are AI and it's like, not
even a real like.
So anyway, it's like that closeto being like anime right but
that's, but I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Like I understand.
I understand it, but like Iwould that was my question
because, like, when I look at it, it all seems like it is like.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I mean, I don't know what the database behind it is,
but it seems like it's allcoming from the same place, it's
well, and I feel bad too forpeople that are dating, like you
know, with all the filters, andpeople making their pictures
that are from ai and if you seethem in real life, wow.
So there's all kinds of weird Ididn't know.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I didn't know that he's going that far with you.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I don't know I hate when I meet a girl and she shows
up without her dog ears.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And her tongue sticking out.
It's that furry stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, Stacey hey, what's your process when you
bring a client's vision to life?
So, like me, for instance, Ididn't know you.
I came to you a couple yearsago, maybe a few years ago.
Just so happened that you knewmy wife and you had worked with
my wife prior, didn't know thatI had posted something.
(18:00):
Looking for a web designer,looking for a logo, looking for
graphics, you gather certainbits of information.
So for a DJ, we gather eventinformation from somebody and we
say, okay, it's going to be atthis location at this time, from
this time to this time, for Xamount of hours on this date.
And you know that's theinformation we go with.
(18:23):
And you know genre music.
What's the event type?
Is it a quinceanera, is it a80th birthday party?
Whatever it may be, how do youbring our visions to life?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
what is your process?
Well, I kind of think it's alot for my background.
I used to I was a stylist for alittle bit and a fashion
merchandiser and then, um, Iused to while going to school I
bartended as well, so you kindof get my iended as well, so you
kind of get my, I guess, secret.
It's like you kind of get vibesoff of people and I can kind of
(18:58):
quickly grasp maybe your style.
What you like, like, I do likesome.
I need kind of it's helpful tohave some direction, but it's
kind of quick for me to kind ofrealize what I think that you
really like and what you wouldreally dig, and then you bring
it in, like obviously the logofirst, and then you go to the
website, you know, into othermarketing designs.
But that's kind of.
(19:19):
I think what it is is mybackground a little bit.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
All right.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
All right, hey Gordon , can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
How you doing, Clyde.
I'm good buddy.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm sorry I had to get on my phone, my computer and
my internet was causing me someissues, so it's all right,
brother.
Hey, hey, give us a quick introto yourself, brother thank you,
man.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
So I'm um born and raised in San Francisco.
Uh live here in Bakersfield,been here for about 25 26 years.
Um got into the uhentertainment industry back in
2019.
I started my own business, uhbringing comedians out here to
bakersfield.
Also do shows in san francisco.
(20:01):
I've did about five shows insan francisco.
For those of you who know justyou know.
For those of you who knowsomething about san francisco,
down at fishman's wharf, down atthe Grotto, I've done five
shows and I was in the fitnessindustry for 25 years.
So I had a great career in thefitness industry.
So that's a little bit about me, married for 35 years.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Hey, congratulations.
Yeah, so we got a lot offitness here.
I've been in fitness ever sincemy pops passed away.
Ajax is heavily into fitnessand Clyde is heavily into
fitness as well.
Stacey Dose, Marion, I don'tknow what your guys' situation
is on the fitness level, but wegot three or four of us fitness
(20:41):
nerds on here.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
We're mommies so we don't have time for that.
I'm a retired athlete, so I'lljust leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
There you go.
You've had enough.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yeah, we'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Hey, clyde brother.
What makes a great event flowsmoothly from your perspective?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
You know, first of all, just making sure that you
know you bring the right peoplethat's going to come and
entertain.
I think that's always important.
You know, I've always been oneto make sure that.
You know, I have a qualitylineup of comedians that I bring
to any town that I'm in.
I think the person who's, youknow, pretty much promoting the
(21:25):
show has to be, you know, kindof in line with that too.
You know, I'm always wantinglike an adult type crowd, people
who work every day, who justwant to come out and have a good
time and get some laughs.
And then, you know, go backhome today, you know, today,
home, you know, today, today,life and just promoting, you
know, just making sure that youpromote.
(21:46):
You know, quite naturally, ifyou don't promote and nobody
will know that you're having anevent.
So I think promoting is big.
You know, via social media, viareaching out to the news outlet
, your local news outlet, youknow, getting flyers.
It's just a lot that goes intoit.
It's not easy but it's veryrewarding when you make it
happen.
(22:06):
So I've had a lot of successwith it.
I'm very, very pleased withthat.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Let me ask about it's going to be a kind of a
two-part question Clyde, whatwas your favorite favorite guest
that you've had?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
And what was your favorite audience?
interaction that you had withthat guest, you mean the
performer, yes, sir, somebodywho came for me, okay.
So probably my favorite uh showwas probably, I would say,
boogie b.
Uh, most of you might not knowwho boogie b is.
Uh, boogie b was um, he was acomedian, he, he passed away and
(22:49):
um, but he was one of myfavorite comedians.
I mean, we had so much fun inthe green, in the green room,
you know, with comedians.
You know you're constantlylaughing.
So I'm in the green room withthe comedians and I mean I never
stopped laughing because I meanthey just got.
Comedians are some of thesmartest people that you ever
want to be around Quickestwittiest, quickest, wittiest in
the whole nine Right.
Quickest, wittiest.
Quickest wittiest in the wholenine, right?
(23:11):
So Boogie B probably was myfavorite interaction, but I've
had so many, it's really hard tosay just one, but you asked me
for one.
But Boogie B was one of myfavorites and I think I just
posted not too long ago Boogie B.
He passed away.
Yeah, rip Boogie B.
He came out and did a greatgreat.
He did two shows for me outhere in Bakersfield and just
(23:33):
ripped it, ripped it, ripped thestage.
But but I've had so many, I'vehad over 35 shows in Bakersfield
, and so it's just hey, what's,what's your biggest challenge
when you're hosting these events?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Clyde, oh, I think he dropped.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Oh he's, there.
No, no, you still there brother, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, yeah.
What's your biggest challenge?
Hosting these events, Clyde?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I wouldn't say so much of a challenge.
I think the biggest obstacle isjust, you know, as you're
winding down and you're gettingcloser to these shows, just
making sure tickets are beingsold.
You know, I think that's thebiggest challenge, right,
because you know, as you'rewinding down and you're getting
closer to these shows, justmaking sure tickets are being
sold.
You know, I think that's thebiggest challenge, right,
because you know you goteverything in place.
You know you got the comedians,you know you did the work and
now it's just a matter of justwait for people to just, you
know, buy tickets to sell yourrent out.
(24:23):
I think that's my biggestchallenge.
That's, if you want to call ita worry.
That's what kind of keeps me upas we get closer, just making
sure that people are purchasingtickets and coming to patronize
the business.
But not really a lot ofchallenges in terms of what I do
on a day-to-day basis, but justmaking sure that I'm selling
(24:44):
tickets.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
All right.
What's your information, Clyde?
You've got cmac-productionscom,is that correct?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Yeah, so I have a few .
So I'm cmac-productions on IG,on Facebook and then my web.
I also have a web page that'scmac-production.
That's where I have my websiteand so you can reach me on those
(25:16):
platforms.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I had a question real quick for Ajax.
You know, with AI and streamingyou know what I'm saying being
popular right now, where do yousee DJing within the next five
years?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I think the real DJing is not going to change.
Um, your real djs with realskills.
Nothing's going to change.
I mean it might.
It might change the way that weyou know pre-program or
whatever like that when it comesto like setting up for events.
But you know you're you're notgoing to replace somebody doing
(25:53):
all these like hard scratchesand and you know all that.
Like there's programs right nowwhere you can load in you know
15 tracks to the program andit'll, it'll scan the tracks and
then it'll fill in the gaps puttogether the right harmonics in
(26:14):
the right order and mix thosetogether to make you a mixtape.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I was listening to the radio.
I'm sorry, I was listening tothe radio and what you're saying
right now.
I know what you're talkingabout.
I think I know, I just don'tknow the name of it.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I know what you're talking about and I mean, don't
get me wrong, you know, I meanin radio.
Every single one of my radiomixes that I had done was all
done on a computer.
They were all edited, but theywere done in programs, you know,
like Acid Pro or Ableton.
But I'm still controllingeverything and I'm still, you
know, okay, if the track drifts,I've got to slice it up, I've
(26:45):
got to fix it.
I'm doing the volume crossfades, I'm balancing the tracks, I'm,
you know, mixing it down,mastering it and doing all those
.
All of that stuff, like a lotyou know myself.
So I don't trust ai for any ofthat.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
you know, like you're saying, you know you see the
pictures right, like oh, there'sall kinds of errors in the
pictures all the time I have sixfingers.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, right, right, right.
You know little things likethat, or why is it?
Why is it?
The?
Um, the toes look like longfingers or something.
You know all that.
So you got to figure, if you'reletting the ai thing make your
tracks or make your mixes andeverything for you, then it's
going to give you thatequivalent of six fingers into
(27:24):
your set.
So you know, and I mean I camefrom the turntablist background,
the battle scene, you know.
So like I mean, I was battlingin the early nineties and
everything like that.
So I'm one of those, thoseangry older dudes who's always
like got you, got you.
Yeah, you're doing pre-mademixes on this big giant stage,
on this music festival, whatever, so you know it's almost like
(27:49):
lip singing.
Yeah, I mean, there's going tobe evolution and you do have to
embrace it.
I mean, we are all runningdigital.
We are running, you know,controllers instead of uh
turntables and our gigs.
But I'm not gonna, you know,and there's nothing wrong with
the sync button.
Let me say that first off,because I think the sync
button's a dope tool when you'reusing it for, um, enhancing
(28:12):
right.
You know, like you see guyslike craze and lazy boy where
they're doing the sync button sothat they can do other stuff
while the thing, while thetracks are mixing together.
But if you're the type that'sjust only using the sync to mix
your your a to b, right, come on, man.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
You know like it's a little lazy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, yeah, I was going to say that it sounds lazy
.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Especially when the tracks aren't, like you know,
perfectly beat gridded rightwhen they're not perfectly
quantized, when you're runningLive music, like live bands or
disco.
You know stuff from the 70s and80s.
Everything wasn't perfectlymetronomed.
You see these guys on themessage boards complaining like
oh my God, I was trying to dothis and then it's already.
(28:58):
You're like I had it locked inI had it locked and then the
beat changed Like what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
That's called human error.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
There's always going to be that human error.
Yeahacy, I'm gonna go back toyou.
What are the biggest trends indesign that businesses should
pay attention to?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
the biggest trends and designs um, this, I guess,
for me, I feel like I'm going tobe against the norm and that's
kind of like what my style is.
I'm a maximalist.
I'm not really everybody's.
There's so much minimalismeverywhere that I feel like it's
(29:42):
just like your eyes kind ofblind to it, that I just think
that I'm just more dramatic.
So, personally, for me, it'sjust I wish that people would be
more out there.
Like it's really yeah, andthat's like what I try to do for
my clients is to bring not justyou out but push you a little
bit.
You know a little bit moretowards the edge, but not too
(30:05):
far, but like the minute, but alot of everybody.
You know the minimalism I thinkI'm not knocking anybody but
you.
But you know it's everywhere,yeah, so that's just my personal
opinion.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, what do you think a common misconception of
people in your industry is?
What do you think there's acommon misconception?
Do you think there's one?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Ah, that's a really good question ah, that's a
really good question.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Maybe, uh, maybe that people have teams.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Um, I guess, because I I'm just because you're a one
woman team, one woman show.
So I think the misconception isthat people think that you have
, you know, eight people a lotof resources a lot of resources
doing it all and trying to makeit.
You know, making all, nottrying to make it happen.
Making it happen off the top ofmy head, that's what I would
say.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Clyde, this one's for you, brother.
How important do you thinkcollaboration and networking is
within the entertainment andcomedy industry, and I'll say
specifically in regards to,let's say, bakersfield, probably
not the most sought after venuein California to entice
(31:22):
somebody to come perform at?
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Yeah, you know, that's a really good question
and one of the obstacles earlyon was just trying to get
comedians to come to Bakersfield, because there's a lot of
comedians, you know, big namecomedians that necessarily won't
even come to Bakersfield.
They hear Bakersfield and theykind of go no, I'm not going to
Bakersfield and I've had thathappen to me several times.
(31:47):
But I think as we put on theseshows and you know people see
that, you know it's a greatcrowd, it's a lot of energy.
I know, just to answer yourquestion, you know people like
TK Kirkland I brought him outhere, he had never been here.
Earthquake I brought him outhere, he had never been here.
Dc Youngfly I brought him outhere, he had never been here.
(32:09):
You know Damon Williams, andthe list goes on and on.
These guys never been in.
Coco Brown I just had actress,movie, star, comedian, she had
never been out there.
So I mean you had some more outhere.
Even I had some more to queenof comedy out here.
You know I had Godfrey out here.
(32:30):
You know none of these folkshad ever been to Bakersfield to
put on a show.
And so as I continue to seevideo footage and speak to
people that came out becausethey talk.
I can tell you one thing aboutthe comedy industry they're
really a close-knit family.
You've got people like DaveChappelle.
You've got him as big as he is.
(32:51):
He hangs out with Evan Lioneland people like Dave Chappelle,
you know, you got him.
You know as big as he is.
He hangs out with Evan Lioneland people like that who are not
, as let's say, famous, if youwill, sure, you know, and so
that was the biggest obstacle inthe beginning.
But now I'm breaking that walland we're starting to get more
and more and we got a lot ofthings that we have prepared,
that's coming up in the nearfuture, but that we have
prepared.
That's coming up in the nearfuture.
(33:11):
But definitely Bakersfield isbecoming on the map for a lot of
comedians now.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You know, tell me about your thought process on
bringing the young talent inthat you do.
You know, we got someBakersfield brothers, we got
Lito, we got K Mitch, we gotDemarie, we have I forgot the
young lady's name, but we have alot of good young comedians
here.
(33:34):
Tell me your thought process Onbringing them out here and
letting them cut their teeth Toopen up on your shows.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Yeah, Right, you know that was one of the things for
me, that was to me first of all.
You know it's been the mostrewarding thing to do.
In the very beginning, one ofthe things that I always said
that I would try to give theyoungsters you know, the young
comedians in Bakersfield aplatform, and not only just to
perform but to be able to engagein all these.
(34:00):
I call them like Hall of Famers.
These comedians have been inthe game for 30 years or so and
just the wealth of knowledge,you know, just sitting in the
green room with them and pickingtheir brains and you know, and
having older you know older vets, you know guys and girls tell
them look, you know you're doinggreat.
Hey, here's my number.
(34:20):
Hey, you know what I got to LA.
I'm going to look out for you.
You know that's been the mostrewarding.
So I know the guys.
You know I love all the guysand girls out here in Vegas who
do comedy and I know they got alot of love.
For me too, because I've alwaysthat's been one of my main
focuses was the opportunity tobe on the platform when I did my
first show at the Fox you knowthe bigger audience.
(34:51):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
And so for my very humblingbeginnings at Briggs Lounge, he
was there from the beginning, soyou already know because you've
seen it with your own eyes.
So but it's been very rewarding.
Been there since day one,brother, I've been to every show
.
I think, every show, every show, and I think the one that you
didn't come to you was out oftown on work.
(35:11):
Yeah, yeah, but you stillpurchased.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh, I always buy tickets, man.
I try to give tickets away, man, I always try to support
brother, always, will man.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Yeah, but I'll say this real quick and then I'll
let you pass it on, unless youhave something else for me.
But one thing that I have tosay about you, brothers you've
been there from day one and I'mso honored to be on your, on
your platform, that you knowthat you would reach out and
have me on.
You know how much love I havefor you and just a remarkable
path that you're taking andeverything that you're doing.
I remember when you firsttalked about being a DJ and all
(35:40):
of that.
You talked about being a DJ andall of that.
You know what I'm saying.
And to see you flourish and tobe where you are now, I mean
that's a blessing, so it's justan honor.
And also to have you even DJ onthese shows that we're having
now too, so that's an honor andI appreciate you so much.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Hey, thank you so much, brother, that meant more
than you know to me man, Iappreciate it.
They got me over here trying totear up.
I, I appreciate it.
They got me over here trying totear up.
I ain't doing it y'all.
That's all we got for you.
Clyde, if you need to bounce,you can go ahead and jam out of
here, brother.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Okay, all right, all right.
Thank you so much, gordon.
You take care, and everybody onthe call.
Thank you so much.
Y'all take care.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Man, I'm going to give this question to my boy Dos
over here.
I'm going to give this questionto my boy Dos because I got a
real honest question for him.
I've been talking to him aboutplans that I have and things
that I want to do and I thinkI've been a little bit selfish
and I wouldn't say unlimited.
(36:45):
But you had some resources,what would you do?
What kind of event would youthrow?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Man, this is something I've had in my mind
ever since I was a kid man,don't you know?
man, I try to have one of themfestivals, like one of them
three-day events.
You know what I'm saying, likewith Parliament, and you know
what I'm saying.
The Mary Jane girls, and youknow what I'm saying.
I want Andre 3000 and Big Boyto perform again.
(37:14):
I'm talking about, like, ifit's endless resources, man,
let's go for the moon.
You know what I mean.
I want them all out there.
You know what I mean.
I want Rolling Stones.
We're putting ZZ Top backtogether.
I know a boy.
One of them passed away.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
He did One of them passed away.
You know what I?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
mean I want Huey Lewis in the news.
You know what I mean.
I'm talking about it.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's going to be a smorgasbord.
It's going to be wild.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
You'd be like he picked all these.
Yes, he did.
Tell me about the in your eyes.
What do you see outside?
Where where are you at, whereis this venue?
Where is this event man?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
you know it probably has to be.
It doesn't be in my hometownyuma.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah, yeah, I already got the spot picked out.
It's right off of 8th street.
Man, I'm telling you this hasbeen something like since I was
like 16 years old.
I just like I want to field up.
I want you know, I mean likeI'm on golf court carts.
You gotta get to the state, yougotta get to the area.
I want golf carts.
You got to get to the state,you got to get to the area in
golf carts and stuff.
I want big security.
I want it like that.
You know what I mean.
Out of control.
You know what I mean, but justlike that.
(38:12):
But everybody's just having fun, all right.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
You know what I?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
mean.
And for free, hey, and for free.
If there's money like that, I'mlike, hey, man, you know, and
then I don't want nothing backfrom this because it could
destroy me.
So I'm going to go ahead and belike everybody have fun,
Everybody have fun.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
What about you, Stacey have you had unlimited
resources.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I dig because you had me everywhere, from like Mary
Mary Jane Girls to like Andre,like whether it be Outkast to I
Want Missy Elliott.
Oh yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
It's two days yeah get some old Timberland and
Magoo back in there.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
It's two days, oh seriously.
I'm like go space Like get themall in there.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I'm talking about historic.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
I want to cover a.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Rolling Stone that week.
I want to say you missed theworld's greatest concert like
that.
I want to like that.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
That could be Woodstock-esque.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I see those ideas and I'm gonna raise you okay, here
we go, here we go, man everyartist has to perform with a
band real musicians music yes,that yeah that would be.
Yeah, that would be like justthis past, this past saturday,
um, jizza was in town in napaand the opening dj, william big
(39:49):
shout to william.
Um, he hooked me up with withtickets and everything and he
was jizza was performing with alive band called the funky
nomads and holy shit like to tosee, um, all that classic
material and especially becausebecause I mean, he didn't just
like it was the like the liquidswords, um anniversary swords.
(40:09):
We were just talking about thatbut he, he did a bunch of like
Wu Tang tracks too Right.
So he did like triumph.
He did um cream and a few othertracks.
He did like shimmy, shimmy andum like.
I've always felt that triumphwas one of the greatest hip hop
instrumentals of all time.
Like ever it's in my top likethree probably, and to see a
(40:31):
live band perform Triumph withlike that bass line coming
through on the violin, ok, itwas just like some next level
shit you know, and it was like asmall venue, it wasn't sold out
, it was the Uptown Theater inNapa, shit you know, and this is
.
It was like a small venue, itwasn't sold out, it was the
uptown theater in napa, but likeit was probably one of the best
shows I've ever seen, justbecause the band made it that
way I got goosebumps when yousaid that right now, I could
(40:54):
just hear that dude, I had likevideo footage.
I put them all on my um, on mymy stories, like over the
weekend, but I'll put them alllike on the real post so you
guys can like check it out.
Please do, please, please doplease.
And it's only, you know, alittle short, because I hate
when people do that shit, right?
So I didn't record anythinglonger than like one minute at a
time, but gotcha.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Yeah, like the fan in me, because you need to be
there to experience it notthrough the lens of a phone
that's me.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
That's me.
I'm like, I hold it up like,but I'm not watching the whole
show through the phone.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
I literally only recorded, like you know, 30 to
45 to a minute at a time, andjust you know like, okay, just a
little of that song and alittle of that song, just to be
able to remember it.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Right, that's awesome .
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Let me see, I'm going to close it up with a question
and then I'm going to comearound to everybody and we're
going to let everybody knowwhere we're at, what we're doing
, what our socials are, what ouryou know websites are,
everything else.
What is the song that whenyou're at a wedding, you're at a
big event that comes on, thatwould just spark you?
(41:59):
It's just, it's there's like.
For me it probably it's.
There's like.
For me, it probably it's.
It might be like a fat manscoop song or something.
Oh right Bitch drop.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Single ladies, okay, oh, who's it on?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Everybody whoever wants to chime in.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Oh, you already know my answer.
Oh, you know you know my answer.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Africa.
You know my answer Africa,bombada Damn right.
Planet Rock, planet Rock Right.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
When I hear that it's , I just remember when I was a
kid, when I first heard that Iwas just like what the hell is
this?
I was like I love this righthere.
Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
I was like this is like Star Wars in the streets.
I was like what the hell isthis?
Well, the last podcast I saidSugar Hill Gang was.
You know, that's what got meinto hip hop and DJing and the
love for music and everythingelse.
So definitely if Rapper'sDelight dropped I would go crazy
.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Got you.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah, got you Stacey, had Single Ladies.
What else you got?
Oh well, it's probably notappropriate, but uh, maybe she'd
get like a salt shaker.
Every fucking thing'sappropriate on this podcast.
How about you, babe?
Speaker 5 (43:15):
I don't know this.
We had this wedding recentlyand um this dad was just so into
love shack oh, it was soawesome like that just went
crazy yes, it was so fun yeah,he had.
He had the entire dancescripted like he's like oh, like
it was awesome around.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, he did the whole music video.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
Man got you, yeah, got you all right, it's pretty
awesome, it's birthday last weekand, um, they wanted like to do
karaoke and everything One ofthe little kids wanted to do
love shack.
Oh we stopped.
We stopped before we got to toget her song on, but I, just I
was like oh, god damn it, Iwanted to be able to see her do
that myself.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, I can't see, you know me.
I'm already like I'll do theyou know me.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
I'm already like.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I'm going to the next one, second song, third song no
, no, no, I'm already in my mind.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
I'm thinking right now like okay, what spot can I
go ahead and drop Love Shack atand lock?
Speaker 5 (44:10):
that whole place up.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
I'm thinking right now All right y'all.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Well, it was a wonderful podcast.
I appreciate everybody forjoining.
Ajax, brother, thank you forjoining, joining, taking the
time out your day up there,stacy.
Thank you, dose, as always.
Thank you for coming through.
Babe.
Thank you for everything thankyou.
Ajax, let us know where we canfind you.
Uh, let us know what you doyour turntable repair, your uh
(44:38):
1200 site.
You have um everything.
Let us know, brother um.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
So Instagram, I've got two, two pages.
One's the dj ajax sf um and theother one is the fresh 1200s.
So I mean, I pretty much postthe same stuff on both of them,
but the the fresh 1200s is alittle bit only repair, repair
stuff, sure, but my favoritething to do is to post the
disaster repairs that I do ohyeah all the the mountain of
(45:06):
solder like holy well, not eventhat, but like like the one that
I'm working on, like rightright now downstairs.
Um, this thing, like he didn'teven know, because this guy
bought the turntable used andI'm able to tell him this
turntable was definitely used atburning man or some kind of a
desert rave oh, and he was likehow can you tell like there's so
(45:27):
much dust and and it's adifferent type of, it's a fine
dirt, club dirt that's beencaked on and everything right.
So like I love posting the, thehorror stories even you know, of
course, the do-over work, likethe um, the bad fodder jobs and
everything, and like I mean tothe point where people, people
come to me and they're likedon't put my turntable on your
(45:47):
page.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
It's like their child .
Speaker 4 (45:54):
For one, one favorite story this, this was hilarious
this guy.
He found me like on Instagramor whatever you know, and
because of that, like he wasfollowing all the all that stuff
, and then he his turntable andhe brought in.
He tried to do it himself andcouldn't do it.
So he brought me like a boxfull of parts and the little
Ziplocs full of the screws andeverything.
So I remember the look on hisface and I was like so wait a
(46:19):
minute, you've been following mefor two years and you still
decided you've learned nothing.
It was that little kid that wasin trouble, you know just like
that, just so I mean you'll seeall that I mean, you know my, my
main page, the dj page, likeyou'll see all that you know.
Okay, I'm doing a party, I'mdoing this.
You'll see little footage, um,from whatever, but I'll post up,
(46:41):
like the turntable, horrorstories on both and then, um, my
online store, uh, where you canbuy, like my turntable repair
kits and all that stuff.
Like I actually made a turntablecleaning and detailing kit
awesome.
Um, I'm a car detailer too.
We haven't talked about thatand, um, you know, my, my repair
(47:02):
kits, the little things and, ofcourse, like the dj edits, the
edit packs and everything I makeA handful of, like different
T-shirts that you can get andeverything that's fresh1200sclub
.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Okay, all right.
Thank you, brother Stacy.
Let us know, give us all theinfos.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Across the board.
It's just a Monroe bot.
So, whether it's Instagram,facebook, I haven't done the
greatest job I do for clients,but not for myself.
So I I'm starting to post.
Within this next month, I'mgoing to start posting what I'm
up to.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Hey, you can post our new site.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (47:57):
Y'all can find me at the real DJ dos muchos.
That's the real D, e, j, a, y,d O S, m-y-d-o-s-m-u-c-h-o-z.
On Instagram and on TikTok.
I'm on Facebook.
It's just as Dos Muchos with aZ.
You know what I mean.
Got a whole bunch of you knowI've been putting you know my
little gigs and you know alittle funny thing I'm thinking
(48:17):
about of the day, you know,hopefully you don't know why you
flip out behind it and usuallyWe've been keeping that at an
ice-cold level right now.
So everything's fine, come checkme out.
You're not like me trying tofight people on the internet.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
No, no, no no, no.
Speaker 5 (48:31):
You're so bad.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Tell us about you, what you do and where we can
find you, and everything else.
Speaker 5 (48:37):
So I actually do like balloons.
I'm very creative with balloons, so I do all of that.
We have our photo boothbusiness, so you can find me at
Cali Entertainment or we can dothe Busy Bee Creations which
Stacey did for me.
Stacey's done all of it.
(48:58):
Cali Entertainment Group DJ.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Gordy B.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
Busy Bee Creations, all of the above.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
She's working on a website for us right now.
We got all kinds of stuff inthe works.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
But yes, balloons, balloon, garlands, planning,
decorating.
Yeah, that's all Marion, that'sright up her.
Alley, don't ask me for it,just hit her up directly, even
though people don't listen.
And I'm DJ Gordy B, gordonBaldridge, everywhere.
(49:29):
Is it Gordon dot Baldridge orGordon dash Baldridge or Gordon
Baldridge or DJ Gordy B?
Cali Entertainment Group allover the board.
Same thing DJ Gordy B acrossthe board and Gordon Baldridge
across the board.
So again, thank you, guys, allfor coming.
We're going to wrap thispodcast up and uh um.
Oh.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
I'm trying to build up my YouTube.
I'm actually doing liketurntable repair tutorials.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Oh, there we go.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
Like three things up there right now, but it's the
same same across the board.
Dj Ajax SF.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
DJ Ajax SF is your YouTube channel.
Yeah, including probably yourTwitch, instagram, facebook, all
of the above.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
Not on Facebook, because that's like my personal
stuff.
I think it might be because Ihave a business page on Facebook
too, but, like my TikTokInstagram Twitch, which I don't
really do anymore, I've seenyour post recently.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, all right, brother.
Well, thank you guys.
I appreciate you all joining.
You guys have a good evening.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
All right, have a good night.
(50:58):
Outro Music.
Thank you, living life filled up with family.
We got the hallway of panties.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Matt Miller in the most dope family.
What's up y'all?
The Most Dope Podcast is back.
We have a rather largegathering today, however, which
is very, very nice.
The wife is back, marion.
She she's sitting here.
She's ready to jump in and andhave some fun with us.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We got dos muchos what's going on y'all, how
everybody doing out there heydos uh dj ajax up in the bay
area.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
How you doing, brother?
Good man, good you guys do well, yeah, it's uh, it's a good
evening, man, it's uh excitingevening.
We got uh Clyde McGregor, cmaqProductions, and we have Stacey
Henzo Monroebot um hey guyslet's go ahead and jump in.
I'll just start off with Stacey, since she was just live.
(01:18):
Stacey, tell us uh, tell us alittle about this web design and
graphic design thing you gotwell, um, I think, well, yeah,
this year it's been.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It'll be eight years that I've been in business, but
I've been doing it for, I wantto say, approximately about 10,
a little over 10.
So, um, anything from I startedoff a graphic designer, I, I do
web design, photography,branding, social media, all that
stuff, videography, so it'sjust a bunch.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And they basically all branched off into that big
conglomerate of everything thatyou do.
They all are related all arerelated.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, like originally, it started out just a few
things, but then you have yourclients that need something.
It's like, well, I can do that.
So then you start basicallycoming in-house.
You know situation foreverybody, for all their needs
jack of all trades.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Jack of all digital design trades I like that there
you go hey, hey, jacks, tell us,uh, tell us a little bit about
yourself, your little historybrother oh, man, um, and there's
so much to tell.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I swear.
Um, it started out just likeeverybody else, you know, like I
just wanted to be a dj likeeveryone on the radio.
Um, I grew up listening tofolks like cameron paul, michael
erickson up here in the Bay andall the mobile DJ crews that
were doing the parties and stuffout here.
I wanted to be like them.
(02:51):
I just wanted to learn how tomix and actually make mixtapes
and scratch like you see onBreaking and Beat Street.
That was my era growing up.
In high school I picked up apair of turntables and just kind
of went from there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Nice, clyde McGregor, c-mac Productions.
How you doing tonight, brother.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, we got you.
Can you hear me okay?
Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Okay, sorry about that.
I'm having some internet issues.
That's all right, brother.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Okay sorry about that .
I'm having some internet issues.
That's all right, brother,we'll jump back to you.
Man, or are you live with usagain?
No, that's a negative, allright, so we're going to
continue.
We'll jump back in with ClydeMcGregor, cmaq Productions.
(03:42):
I've known the brother for Idon't know probably 10 years now
.
He brings comedy to BakersfieldBasically every month.
He brings a pretty heavy hitterinto Bakersfield in the comedy
world.
He started out over at BricksBricks Lounge.
He's done it over at Bricks, hewent over to the Marriott, he
(04:04):
was down at the Fox Theater andhe's over at 1933 Speakeasy,
which he's going to have a showcoming up in March.
So as soon as he gets back on,we'll try to chime in and hit
him up.
Ajax, you balance life prettywell.
(04:27):
It, it would seem from theoutside looking in.
Um, you're pretty big intofitness, pretty big into fitness
.
How?
How does your fitness, uh, how?
How important is it inrelationship to your djing and
your mental health and yourphysical health?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It's just, it's balance.
You know where DJs aren'tnecessarily the most healthiest.
You know DJing isn't thehealthiest lifestyle, right, I
mean?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Sure, Late nights alcohol.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Wake up late.
We're going to bed late, youknow you I don't know if it's a
thing anymore because I don't dothis, but, like you know, we
used to go to Denny's after gigs, like every weekend.
You know you're drinking andjust there has to be that
balance.
You know you can't be doing allthis damage to your body and
not be doing some kind of goodfor it too.
I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, absolutely To combat it or to balance, like
you said.
To even it out just a littlebit, hopefully take the edge off
of the damage that you may bedoing with these late nights and
early mornings and doubleshifts and double backs and
everything else that you runinto.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Right, and I mean, you know, our era too was
carrying record crates and waslike oh fuck man, start lifting
some weights so that the damncrates aren't so heavy anymore.
You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And then you're talking about form and you say,
hey, you're supposed to liftwith your knees.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Grab that crate and jam.
Don't lose your back.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, absolutely Stacey.
How does mental health work foryou in your scope of the realm
of digital design and web andeverything else?
How do you balance your yourhealth with that?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Uh well, I've kind of learned the hard way, and so
now it's basically cause I workfrom home and that your face is
in front of your phone or infront of a computer constantly.
So, uh, basically get the helloutside for one all right, you
know, um, whether it's likewalking, like you need obviously
some form of exercise, but evenjust taking a walk, uh,
(06:32):
listening music, because it's soeasy to get caught up, like
while you're working, watchinglike your favorite shows, like
in the same time, which is notreally good.
So incorporating music for sure, so that for me that's really
good.
So incorporating music for sure, so that for me that's really
good for mental health and thentaking taking breaks, like
whether it's with family or youjust escaped to the beach
(06:53):
recently.
Yes, and that's also another oneSeveral times throughout the
year the beach.
I just need that salty air, allright.
So that's good, or getting outof town, getting the hell out of
town, basically.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That helps getting the hell out of town basically
that helps Getting the hell outof Beko Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So this one's going to be a bit of a crossover
question and this is going to bedirected to everyone, no one
specific.
It's not about web design, it'snot about DJ, it's what's just
a daily habit that helps youstay mentally strong within your
own profession.
Uh, one daily habit dose.
What do you?
Uh, what do you do on a daily?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
that's a habit man, I sit up and watch.
I mean watch tv like you know.
I mean like like I sit up andwatch like classic wrestling
okay you know I mean just to,just to take my mind off of you
know what I mean.
Just go back to a good time youknow what I mean, you know what
I mean and sit here and just,you know, just space out for a
(07:53):
minute.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Space out, transport yourself to a different era, a
different time in your life,right.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, when I wasn't.
Yeah, you know where I aboutgetting from point a to point b
and what time I'm just this isme I'm, this is my time, I'm
just doing.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's kind of like meditating yes, all right, yes,
and yeah I go, I go to sleepwith it on, all right, I mean so
, hey, hey, a lot of people goto sleep with a box fan I've
heard that, oh yeah they needthe hum they need some kind of
noise as they sleep.
Yeah, yeah, how about?
You ajx oh I'm sorry, oh no.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
No, I was gonna say I agree with you I need a
something to kind of numbyourself, which you yeah, how?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
about you, Ajax.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh no.
No, I was going to say I agreewith you.
I need something to kind ofnumb yourself, which you could
say meditating.
But sometimes TV shows thatkind of numb the brain a little
bit.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's just easy to watch like put ridiculousness on
in the background and look upfrom your phone and have a laugh
every once in a while.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
All right, ajax, sir, you know I, aside from the TV
thing, like I don't haveanything that I do like on a
daily basis and I think thatactually kind of makes it better
for me, because then you don'thave that same thing every day
Like no, no, two days are everthe same the redundancy, the
monotony.
Yeah, like one.
You know, one day I might beout in the field like doing some
(09:06):
, some work.
You know like have a midday gigor something like that.
One day I might be stuck doingturntable repairs like all day
long.
You know I'm not activelytraining clients anymore as far
as like fitness and everything,but I'm still trying, you know,
and I don't always make it, butI try to like hit the gym, you
know, and I don't always make it, but I try to like hit the gym,
you know, at least like threetimes a week, sure.
And now I've even, uh, like Ijust moved and so everything is
(09:30):
different, right?
So like my tv habits aredifferent, my eating habits are
different, my training habits,like nothing is the same as it
was last year.
So right now I even have likethis little squat device and a
pull-up tower, like in my livingroom All right.
And so if I'm cooking dinnerI'll run over and knock out like
a set of 10, 12 pull-ups orwhatever.
(09:51):
Yeah, and then go back and setthe air fryer, run over here and
do some sets real quick.
So it's kind of cool that, likeI don't have the monotony of
like a regular schedule likewhen I used to have a day job or
whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Sure, sure, clyde, were you able to join us.
Brother, I'm not sure Clyde wasable to join us.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I can hear him.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh man Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah, we can hear you .
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Clyde?
Yeah, that was Clyde for asecond, he's out now.
Though.
Hey, ajax, tell me about the uh, the turntable repair business,
brother.
How did you?
I mean, obviously you got intothat because you broke some yeah
, um, it was uh, oh, my god.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So I, I started in 1990 and literally like my first
um, like within a year, Istarted working at this record
store and, um, like my managerover there, like he was a
stanford graduate, like reallysmart dude, and his, like even
his, the other co-workers andeveryone, like everybody was
like really smart and I was likethis young, arrogant, little
(11:02):
punk ass kid but who knew hisshit and was a dope dj, you know
.
And so I thought, and, um, Iremember one of my 1200s was
having an issue and I did theghetto thing, you know, you snip
the wire, you splice ittogether and now it's running
mono off of like one side, yeah,and I was talking to my manager
(11:22):
about it and he was just like,dude, you can't be doing that,
you're running mono.
Like he scolded me, you know.
And, um, he was just like, no,you're gonna bring your
turntable in, we're gonna fix it.
Go to radio shack tonight, pickthis cable up and, uh, we'll
take care of it tomorrow.
I was just like, all right,cool, I'm gonna get a free
fucking turntable repair.
You know why not?
And he actually took the timeto take me through the process
(11:44):
and showed me exactly what hewas doing, like every step, and
explained it.
You know like, okay, you shoulddo this.
Tin the wire, splice the wirethis way, twist it this way, add
a little curve into the wireand all like every little step,
and I was just like, alright,cool.
And next thing, you know, I wasable to open up my other one.
I didn't do it, but messed itup.
(12:05):
But you know just, it's alearning process, right, and I
started to do them just for ahandful of people and then I
took an electronics class andjust got better at everything.
You know, like my tech, mysoldering technique was better.
I ended up getting fasterbecause I was doing it more
often.
And um, then, two years later,we opened up our own record
(12:30):
store and then we started buyingparts from techniques directly
because the um like the servicecenter was authorized to.
Yeah city, over from where wewere.
We were located and, um, theygot so tired of me calling,
saying you know, hey, I needthis part, I need this part.
And then we had to research thepart numbers that they just
(12:51):
said here we're going to giveyou this service manual, so when
you come to us or you call us,you have all the part numbers
ready for us, please.
And I'm like oh OK.
And it was the whole teardownmanual, you know had like the
exploded view of everything.
(13:12):
So I was like, ok, now I can seehow this other stuff works, how
to take the rest of it apartinstead of only doing just the
rca cables.
Now I was able to do, you know,replacing tone arms, replacing
pitch controls, all the otherstuff, and then everything else.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You just kind of learn as you go all right, all
right, what is, what are the bigones that you do, man?
I mean, do you do all the leds,you do all the tricks, do all
that?
I?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
don't, I don't do all the like the really custom
stuff.
Like you see some crazy.
You see some crazy customs.
You know that are likepowder-coated and you know
custom designs and all thatstuff.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Like I look at that as like okay, that's my ride,
that's bling.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah.
I'm Jiffy, I'm functionality, II will do all the basic repairs,
like the necessary stuff, and Ican you know I can change your
lights.
Yeah, I can.
You know I can.
I can give you blue LEDs.
I can do some, some of some ofthe basic custom stuff, sure,
but other than that, it's justlike you can come in and I'll
knock your stuff out within aday.
(14:04):
So, like right now, because Ilive close to Napa, like I tell
people come in around noon, dropoff your gear, just go over to
Napa real quick and I'm pointingover here, because that's where
Napa is.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah we know where it's at.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
And just go get lunch at Napa or do what you want to
do over there and come back inlike two hours, all right.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
So Stacey?
How does web designing impactbrands credibility?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
brand identity and especially web design in general
is everything, because anymorepeople you know you google
everything.
Yeah, so even you know, evenhaving your presence on google.
And then for me, and maybe justbecause I'm kind of nerdy, so
it's like if you Google like abit, even if it's a restaurant,
I want to see the website, Iwant to see the menu.
(15:01):
I don't want to see people'spictures that may be like six
years old of whatever it is Like.
It's, it's the most importantand it's important to to update
it, you know, every three tofive years.
So it's's a really huge, hugedeal.
And then also the which againI'm sounding super nerdy you
have the back end of, like, youknow seo, so you want to make
sure that that's constantlyranking as well, because you
don't want to be like page fiveyeah, so and you really, you
(15:26):
really, really really dislike ai, don't you?
dislike AI, don't you?
There's so many levels that Ican't even get to.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Tell us about AI.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Okay, so there, of course, there are always
benefits to new tech in general,but what I don't appreciate is
the fact that it's replacingartists in general.
You have it's replacing graphicdesign.
It's replacing even people thatpaint.
They're taking, you know,anything digital and they were,
even if people weren't payingattention to even Photoshop,
which I love.
When you sign, you know youagree to the conditions.
You're allowing them to takepieces of your work or all of
(16:06):
your work incorporated to AI,and you're not making a dime off
of it.
So there's a lot of things.
And then now, all of a sudden,people think that they you know,
I don't want to put people down, but I see people within
marketing thinking that thereare these massive artists, and
it's my daughter's nine and herart looks just as great.
So there's that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And my AI art is amazing too, Would you.
Would you is amazing too, wouldyou would you say that it all?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
would you say that it like can you just look at it
and be like that's AI?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
it's so ridiculous now, like I was it's so dumb
looking at Pinterest trying tofind a hair color, and most of
the chicks that they have onthere are AI and it's like, not
even a real like.
So anyway, it's like that closeto being like anime right but
that's, but I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Like I understand.
I understand it, but like Iwould that was my question
because, like, when I look at it, it all seems like it is like.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I mean, I don't know what the database behind it is,
but it seems like it's allcoming from the same place, it's
well, and I feel bad too forpeople that are dating, like you
know, with all the filters, andpeople making their pictures
that are from ai and if you seethem in real life, wow.
So there's all kinds of weird Ididn't know.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I didn't know that he's going that far with you.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I don't know I hate when I meet a girl and she shows
up without her dog ears.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And her tongue sticking out.
It's that furry stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, Stacey hey, what's your process when you
bring a client's vision to life?
So, like me, for instance, Ididn't know you.
I came to you a couple yearsago, maybe a few years ago.
Just so happened that you knewmy wife and you had worked with
my wife prior, didn't know thatI had posted something.
(18:00):
Looking for a web designer,looking for a logo, looking for
graphics, you gather certainbits of information.
So for a DJ, we gather eventinformation from somebody and we
say, okay, it's going to be atthis location at this time, from
this time to this time, for Xamount of hours on this date.
And you know that's theinformation we go with.
(18:23):
And you know genre music.
What's the event type?
Is it a quinceanera, is it a80th birthday party?
Whatever it may be, how do youbring our visions to life?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
what is your process?
Well, I kind of think it's alot for my background.
I used to I was a stylist for alittle bit and a fashion
merchandiser and then, um, Iused to while going to school I
bartended as well, so you kindof get my iended as well, so you
kind of get my, I guess, secret.
It's like you kind of get vibesoff of people and I can kind of
(18:58):
quickly grasp maybe your style.
What you like, like, I do likesome.
I need kind of it's helpful tohave some direction, but it's
kind of quick for me to kind ofrealize what I think that you
really like and what you wouldreally dig, and then you bring
it in, like obviously the logofirst, and then you go to the
website, you know, into othermarketing designs.
But that's kind of.
(19:19):
I think what it is is mybackground a little bit.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
All right.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
All right, hey Gordon , can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
How you doing, Clyde.
I'm good buddy.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm sorry I had to get on my phone, my computer and
my internet was causing me someissues, so it's all right,
brother.
Hey, hey, give us a quick introto yourself, brother thank you,
man.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
So I'm um born and raised in San Francisco.
Uh live here in Bakersfield,been here for about 25 26 years.
Um got into the uhentertainment industry back in
2019.
I started my own business, uhbringing comedians out here to
bakersfield.
Also do shows in san francisco.
(20:01):
I've did about five shows insan francisco.
For those of you who know justyou know.
For those of you who knowsomething about san francisco,
down at fishman's wharf, down atthe Grotto, I've done five
shows and I was in the fitnessindustry for 25 years.
So I had a great career in thefitness industry.
So that's a little bit about me, married for 35 years.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Hey, congratulations.
Yeah, so we got a lot offitness here.
I've been in fitness ever sincemy pops passed away.
Ajax is heavily into fitnessand Clyde is heavily into
fitness as well.
Stacey Dose, Marion, I don'tknow what your guys' situation
is on the fitness level, but wegot three or four of us fitness
(20:41):
nerds on here.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
We're mommies so we don't have time for that.
I'm a retired athlete, so I'lljust leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
There you go.
You've had enough.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yeah, we'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Hey, clyde brother.
What makes a great event flowsmoothly from your perspective?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
You know, first of all, just making sure that you
know you bring the right peoplethat's going to come and
entertain.
I think that's always important.
You know, I've always been oneto make sure that.
You know, I have a qualitylineup of comedians that I bring
to any town that I'm in.
I think the person who's, youknow, pretty much promoting the
(21:25):
show has to be, you know, kindof in line with that too.
You know, I'm always wantinglike an adult type crowd, people
who work every day, who justwant to come out and have a good
time and get some laughs.
And then, you know, go backhome today, you know, today,
home, you know, today, today,life and just promoting, you
know, just making sure that youpromote.
(21:46):
You know, quite naturally, ifyou don't promote and nobody
will know that you're having anevent.
So I think promoting is big.
You know, via social media, viareaching out to the news outlet
, your local news outlet, youknow, getting flyers.
It's just a lot that goes intoit.
It's not easy but it's veryrewarding when you make it
happen.
(22:06):
So I've had a lot of successwith it.
I'm very, very pleased withthat.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Let me ask about it's going to be a kind of a
two-part question Clyde, whatwas your favorite favorite guest
that you've had?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
And what was your favorite audience?
interaction that you had withthat guest, you mean the
performer, yes, sir, somebodywho came for me, okay.
So probably my favorite uh showwas probably, I would say,
boogie b.
Uh, most of you might not knowwho boogie b is.
Uh, boogie b was um, he was acomedian, he, he passed away and
(22:49):
um, but he was one of myfavorite comedians.
I mean, we had so much fun inthe green, in the green room,
you know, with comedians.
You know you're constantlylaughing.
So I'm in the green room withthe comedians and I mean I never
stopped laughing because I meanthey just got.
Comedians are some of thesmartest people that you ever
want to be around Quickestwittiest, quickest, wittiest in
the whole nine Right.
Quickest, wittiest.
Quickest wittiest in the wholenine, right?
(23:11):
So Boogie B probably was myfavorite interaction, but I've
had so many, it's really hard tosay just one, but you asked me
for one.
But Boogie B was one of myfavorites and I think I just
posted not too long ago Boogie B.
He passed away.
Yeah, rip Boogie B.
He came out and did a greatgreat.
He did two shows for me outhere in Bakersfield and just
(23:33):
ripped it, ripped it, ripped thestage.
But but I've had so many, I'vehad over 35 shows in Bakersfield
, and so it's just hey, what's,what's your biggest challenge
when you're hosting these events?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Clyde, oh, I think he dropped.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Oh he's, there.
No, no, you still there brother, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, yeah.
What's your biggest challenge?
Hosting these events, Clyde?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I wouldn't say so much of a challenge.
I think the biggest obstacle isjust, you know, as you're
winding down and you're gettingcloser to these shows, just
making sure tickets are beingsold.
You know, I think that's thebiggest challenge, right,
because you know, as you'rewinding down and you're getting
closer to these shows, justmaking sure tickets are being
sold.
You know, I think that's thebiggest challenge, right,
because you know you goteverything in place.
You know you got the comedians,you know you did the work and
now it's just a matter of justwait for people to just, you
know, buy tickets to sell yourrent out.
(24:23):
I think that's my biggestchallenge.
That's, if you want to call ita worry.
That's what kind of keeps me upas we get closer, just making
sure that people are purchasingtickets and coming to patronize
the business.
But not really a lot ofchallenges in terms of what I do
on a day-to-day basis, but justmaking sure that I'm selling
(24:44):
tickets.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
All right.
What's your information, Clyde?
You've got cmac-productionscom,is that correct?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Yeah, so I have a few .
So I'm cmac-productions on IG,on Facebook and then my web.
I also have a web page that'scmac-production.
That's where I have my websiteand so you can reach me on those
(25:16):
platforms.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I had a question real quick for Ajax.
You know, with AI and streamingyou know what I'm saying being
popular right now, where do yousee DJing within the next five
years?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I think the real DJing is not going to change.
Um, your real djs with realskills.
Nothing's going to change.
I mean it might.
It might change the way that weyou know pre-program or
whatever like that when it comesto like setting up for events.
But you know you're you're notgoing to replace somebody doing
(25:53):
all these like hard scratchesand and you know all that.
Like there's programs right nowwhere you can load in you know
15 tracks to the program andit'll, it'll scan the tracks and
then it'll fill in the gaps puttogether the right harmonics in
(26:14):
the right order and mix thosetogether to make you a mixtape.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I was listening to the radio.
I'm sorry, I was listening tothe radio and what you're saying
right now.
I know what you're talkingabout.
I think I know, I just don'tknow the name of it.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I know what you're talking about and I mean, don't
get me wrong, you know, I meanin radio.
Every single one of my radiomixes that I had done was all
done on a computer.
They were all edited, but theywere done in programs, you know,
like Acid Pro or Ableton.
But I'm still controllingeverything and I'm still, you
know, okay, if the track drifts,I've got to slice it up, I've
(26:45):
got to fix it.
I'm doing the volume crossfades, I'm balancing the tracks, I'm,
you know, mixing it down,mastering it and doing all those
.
All of that stuff, like a lotyou know myself.
So I don't trust ai for any ofthat.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
you know, like you're saying, you know you see the
pictures right, like oh, there'sall kinds of errors in the
pictures all the time I have sixfingers.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, right, right, right.
You know little things likethat, or why is it?
Why is it?
The?
Um, the toes look like longfingers or something.
You know all that.
So you got to figure, if you'reletting the ai thing make your
tracks or make your mixes andeverything for you, then it's
going to give you thatequivalent of six fingers into
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your set.
So you know, and I mean I camefrom the turntablist background,
the battle scene, you know.
So like I mean, I was battlingin the early nineties and
everything like that.
So I'm one of those, thoseangry older dudes who's always
like got you, got you.
Yeah, you're doing pre-mademixes on this big giant stage,
on this music festival, whatever, so you know it's almost like
(27:49):
lip singing.
Yeah, I mean, there's going tobe evolution and you do have to
embrace it.
I mean, we are all runningdigital.
We are running, you know,controllers instead of uh
turntables and our gigs.
But I'm not gonna, you know,and there's nothing wrong with
the sync button.
Let me say that first off,because I think the sync
button's a dope tool when you'reusing it for, um, enhancing
(28:12):
right.
You know, like you see guyslike craze and lazy boy where
they're doing the sync button sothat they can do other stuff
while the thing, while thetracks are mixing together.
But if you're the type that'sjust only using the sync to mix
your your a to b, right, come on, man.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
You know like it's a little lazy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, yeah, I was going to say that it sounds lazy
.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Especially when the tracks aren't, like you know,
perfectly beat gridded rightwhen they're not perfectly
quantized, when you're runningLive music, like live bands or
disco.
You know stuff from the 70s and80s.
Everything wasn't perfectlymetronomed.
You see these guys on themessage boards complaining like
oh my God, I was trying to dothis and then it's already.
(28:58):
You're like I had it locked inI had it locked and then the
beat changed Like what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
That's called human error.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
There's always going to be that human error.
Yeahacy, I'm gonna go back toyou.
What are the biggest trends indesign that businesses should
pay attention to?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
the biggest trends and designs um, this, I guess,
for me, I feel like I'm going tobe against the norm and that's
kind of like what my style is.
I'm a maximalist.
I'm not really everybody's.
There's so much minimalismeverywhere that I feel like it's
(29:42):
just like your eyes kind ofblind to it, that I just think
that I'm just more dramatic.
So, personally, for me, it'sjust I wish that people would be
more out there.
Like it's really yeah, andthat's like what I try to do for
my clients is to bring not justyou out but push you a little
bit.
You know a little bit moretowards the edge, but not too
(30:05):
far, but like the minute, but alot of everybody.
You know the minimalism I thinkI'm not knocking anybody but
you.
But you know it's everywhere,yeah, so that's just my personal
opinion.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, what do you think a common misconception of
people in your industry is?
What do you think there's acommon misconception?
Do you think there's one?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Ah, that's a really good question ah, that's a
really good question.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Maybe, uh, maybe that people have teams.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Um, I guess, because I I'm just because you're a one
woman team, one woman show.
So I think the misconception isthat people think that you have
, you know, eight people a lotof resources a lot of resources
doing it all and trying to makeit.
You know, making all, nottrying to make it happen.
Making it happen off the top ofmy head, that's what I would
say.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Clyde, this one's for you, brother.
How important do you thinkcollaboration and networking is
within the entertainment andcomedy industry, and I'll say
specifically in regards to,let's say, bakersfield, probably
not the most sought after venuein California to entice
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somebody to come perform at?
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Yeah, you know, that's a really good question
and one of the obstacles earlyon was just trying to get
comedians to come to Bakersfield, because there's a lot of
comedians, you know, big namecomedians that necessarily won't
even come to Bakersfield.
They hear Bakersfield and theykind of go no, I'm not going to
Bakersfield and I've had thathappen to me several times.
(31:47):
But I think as we put on theseshows and you know people see
that, you know it's a greatcrowd, it's a lot of energy.
I know, just to answer yourquestion, you know people like
TK Kirkland I brought him outhere, he had never been here.
Earthquake I brought him outhere, he had never been here.
Dc Youngfly I brought him outhere, he had never been here.
(32:09):
You know Damon Williams, andthe list goes on and on.
These guys never been in.
Coco Brown I just had actress,movie, star, comedian, she had
never been out there.
So I mean you had some more outhere.
Even I had some more to queenof comedy out here.
You know I had Godfrey out here.
(32:30):
You know none of these folkshad ever been to Bakersfield to
put on a show.
And so as I continue to seevideo footage and speak to
people that came out becausethey talk.
I can tell you one thing aboutthe comedy industry they're
really a close-knit family.
You've got people like DaveChappelle.
You've got him as big as he is.
(32:51):
He hangs out with Evan Lioneland people like Dave Chappelle,
you know, you got him.
You know as big as he is.
He hangs out with Evan Lioneland people like that who are not
, as let's say, famous, if youwill, sure, you know, and so
that was the biggest obstacle inthe beginning.
But now I'm breaking that walland we're starting to get more
and more and we got a lot ofthings that we have prepared,
that's coming up in the nearfuture, but that we have
prepared.
That's coming up in the nearfuture.
(33:11):
But definitely Bakersfield isbecoming on the map for a lot of
comedians now.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You know, tell me about your thought process on
bringing the young talent inthat you do.
You know, we got someBakersfield brothers, we got
Lito, we got K Mitch, we gotDemarie, we have I forgot the
young lady's name, but we have alot of good young comedians
here.
(33:34):
Tell me your thought process Onbringing them out here and
letting them cut their teeth Toopen up on your shows.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Yeah, Right, you know that was one of the things for
me, that was to me first of all.
You know it's been the mostrewarding thing to do.
In the very beginning, one ofthe things that I always said
that I would try to give theyoungsters you know, the young
comedians in Bakersfield aplatform, and not only just to
perform but to be able to engagein all these.
(34:00):
I call them like Hall of Famers.
These comedians have been inthe game for 30 years or so and
just the wealth of knowledge,you know, just sitting in the
green room with them and pickingtheir brains and you know, and
having older you know older vets, you know guys and girls tell
them look, you know you're doinggreat.
Hey, here's my number.
(34:20):
Hey, you know what I got to LA.
I'm going to look out for you.
You know that's been the mostrewarding.
So I know the guys.
You know I love all the guysand girls out here in Vegas who
do comedy and I know they got alot of love.
For me too, because I've alwaysthat's been one of my main
focuses was the opportunity tobe on the platform when I did my
first show at the Fox you knowthe bigger audience.
(34:51):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
And so for my very humblingbeginnings at Briggs Lounge, he
was there from the beginning, soyou already know because you've
seen it with your own eyes.
So but it's been very rewarding.
Been there since day one,brother, I've been to every show
.
I think, every show, every show, and I think the one that you
didn't come to you was out oftown on work.
(35:11):
Yeah, yeah, but you stillpurchased.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh, I always buy tickets, man.
I try to give tickets away, man, I always try to support
brother, always, will man.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Yeah, but I'll say this real quick and then I'll
let you pass it on, unless youhave something else for me.
But one thing that I have tosay about you, brothers you've
been there from day one and I'mso honored to be on your, on
your platform, that you knowthat you would reach out and
have me on.
You know how much love I havefor you and just a remarkable
path that you're taking andeverything that you're doing.
I remember when you firsttalked about being a DJ and all
(35:40):
of that.
You talked about being a DJ andall of that.
You know what I'm saying.
And to see you flourish and tobe where you are now, I mean
that's a blessing, so it's justan honor.
And also to have you even DJ onthese shows that we're having
now too, so that's an honor andI appreciate you so much.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Hey, thank you so much, brother, that meant more
than you know to me man, Iappreciate it.
They got me over here trying totear up.
I, I appreciate it.
They got me over here trying totear up.
I ain't doing it y'all.
That's all we got for you.
Clyde, if you need to bounce,you can go ahead and jam out of
here, brother.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Okay, all right, all right.
Thank you so much, gordon.
You take care, and everybody onthe call.
Thank you so much.
Y'all take care.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Man, I'm going to give this question to my boy Dos
over here.
I'm going to give this questionto my boy Dos because I got a
real honest question for him.
I've been talking to him aboutplans that I have and things
that I want to do and I thinkI've been a little bit selfish
and I wouldn't say unlimited.
(36:45):
But you had some resources,what would you do?
What kind of event would youthrow?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Man, this is something I've had in my mind
ever since I was a kid man,don't you know?
man, I try to have one of themfestivals, like one of them
three-day events.
You know what I'm saying, likewith Parliament, and you know
what I'm saying.
The Mary Jane girls, and youknow what I'm saying.
I want Andre 3000 and Big Boyto perform again.
(37:14):
I'm talking about, like, ifit's endless resources, man,
let's go for the moon.
You know what I mean.
I want them all out there.
You know what I mean.
I want Rolling Stones.
We're putting ZZ Top backtogether.
I know a boy.
One of them passed away.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
He did One of them passed away.
You know what I?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
mean I want Huey Lewis in the news.
You know what I mean.
I'm talking about it.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's going to be a smorgasbord.
It's going to be wild.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
You'd be like he picked all these.
Yes, he did.
Tell me about the in your eyes.
What do you see outside?
Where where are you at, whereis this venue?
Where is this event man?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
you know it probably has to be.
It doesn't be in my hometownyuma.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah, yeah, I already got the spot picked out.
It's right off of 8th street.
Man, I'm telling you this hasbeen something like since I was
like 16 years old.
I just like I want to field up.
I want you know, I mean likeI'm on golf court carts.
You gotta get to the state, yougotta get to the area.
I want golf carts.
You got to get to the state,you got to get to the area in
golf carts and stuff.
I want big security.
I want it like that.
You know what I mean.
Out of control.
You know what I mean, but justlike that.
(38:12):
But everybody's just having fun, all right.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
You know what I?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
mean.
And for free, hey, and for free.
If there's money like that, I'mlike, hey, man, you know, and
then I don't want nothing backfrom this because it could
destroy me.
So I'm going to go ahead and belike everybody have fun,
Everybody have fun.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
What about you, Stacey have you had unlimited
resources.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I dig because you had me everywhere, from like Mary
Mary Jane Girls to like Andre,like whether it be Outkast to I
Want Missy Elliott.
Oh yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
It's two days yeah get some old Timberland and
Magoo back in there.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
It's two days, oh seriously.
I'm like go space Like get themall in there.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I'm talking about historic.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
I want to cover a.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Rolling Stone that week.
I want to say you missed theworld's greatest concert like
that.
I want to like that.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
That could be Woodstock-esque.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I see those ideas and I'm gonna raise you okay, here
we go, here we go, man everyartist has to perform with a
band real musicians music yes,that yeah that would be.
Yeah, that would be like justthis past, this past saturday,
um, jizza was in town in napaand the opening dj, william big
(39:49):
shout to william.
Um, he hooked me up with withtickets and everything and he
was jizza was performing with alive band called the funky
nomads and holy shit like to tosee, um, all that classic
material and especially becausebecause I mean, he didn't just
like it was the like the liquidswords, um anniversary swords.
(40:09):
We were just talking about thatbut he, he did a bunch of like
Wu Tang tracks too Right.
So he did like triumph.
He did um cream and a few othertracks.
He did like shimmy, shimmy andum like.
I've always felt that triumphwas one of the greatest hip hop
instrumentals of all time.
Like ever it's in my top likethree probably, and to see a
(40:31):
live band perform Triumph withlike that bass line coming
through on the violin, ok, itwas just like some next level
shit you know, and it was like asmall venue, it wasn't sold out
, it was the Uptown Theater inNapa, shit you know, and this is
.
It was like a small venue, itwasn't sold out, it was the
uptown theater in napa, but likeit was probably one of the best
shows I've ever seen, justbecause the band made it that
way I got goosebumps when yousaid that right now, I could
(40:54):
just hear that dude, I had likevideo footage.
I put them all on my um, on mymy stories, like over the
weekend, but I'll put them alllike on the real post so you
guys can like check it out.
Please do, please, please doplease.
And it's only, you know, alittle short, because I hate
when people do that shit, right?
So I didn't record anythinglonger than like one minute at a
time, but gotcha.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Yeah, like the fan in me, because you need to be
there to experience it notthrough the lens of a phone
that's me.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
That's me.
I'm like, I hold it up like,but I'm not watching the whole
show through the phone.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
I literally only recorded, like you know, 30 to
45 to a minute at a time, andjust you know like, okay, just a
little of that song and alittle of that song, just to be
able to remember it.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Right, that's awesome .
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Let me see, I'm going to close it up with a question
and then I'm going to comearound to everybody and we're
going to let everybody knowwhere we're at, what we're doing
, what our socials are, what ouryou know websites are,
everything else.
What is the song that whenyou're at a wedding, you're at a
big event that comes on, thatwould just spark you?
(41:59):
It's just, it's there's like.
For me it probably it's.
There's like.
For me, it probably it's.
It might be like a fat manscoop song or something.
Oh right Bitch drop.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Single ladies, okay, oh, who's it on?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Everybody whoever wants to chime in.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Oh, you already know my answer.
Oh, you know you know my answer.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Africa.
You know my answer Africa,bombada Damn right.
Planet Rock, planet Rock Right.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
When I hear that it's , I just remember when I was a
kid, when I first heard that Iwas just like what the hell is
this?
I was like I love this righthere.
Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
I was like this is like Star Wars in the streets.
I was like what the hell isthis?
Well, the last podcast I saidSugar Hill Gang was.
You know, that's what got meinto hip hop and DJing and the
love for music and everythingelse.
So definitely if Rapper'sDelight dropped I would go crazy
.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Got you.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah, got you Stacey, had Single Ladies.
What else you got?
Oh well, it's probably notappropriate, but uh, maybe she'd
get like a salt shaker.
Every fucking thing'sappropriate on this podcast.
How about you, babe?
Speaker 5 (43:15):
I don't know this.
We had this wedding recentlyand um this dad was just so into
love shack oh, it was soawesome like that just went
crazy yes, it was so fun yeah,he had.
He had the entire dancescripted like he's like oh, like
it was awesome around.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, he did the whole music video.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
Man got you, yeah, got you all right, it's pretty
awesome, it's birthday last weekand, um, they wanted like to do
karaoke and everything One ofthe little kids wanted to do
love shack.
Oh we stopped.
We stopped before we got to toget her song on, but I, just I
was like oh, god damn it, Iwanted to be able to see her do
that myself.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, I can't see, you know me.
I'm already like I'll do theyou know me.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
I'm already like.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I'm going to the next one, second song, third song no
, no, no, I'm already in my mind.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
I'm thinking right now like okay, what spot can I
go ahead and drop Love Shack atand lock?
Speaker 5 (44:10):
that whole place up.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
I'm thinking right now All right y'all.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Well, it was a wonderful podcast.
I appreciate everybody forjoining.
Ajax, brother, thank you forjoining, joining, taking the
time out your day up there,stacy.
Thank you, dose, as always.
Thank you for coming through.
Babe.
Thank you for everything thankyou.
Ajax, let us know where we canfind you.
Uh, let us know what you doyour turntable repair, your uh
(44:38):
1200 site.
You have um everything.
Let us know, brother um.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
So Instagram, I've got two, two pages.
One's the dj ajax sf um and theother one is the fresh 1200s.
So I mean, I pretty much postthe same stuff on both of them,
but the the fresh 1200s is alittle bit only repair, repair
stuff, sure, but my favoritething to do is to post the
disaster repairs that I do ohyeah all the the mountain of
(45:06):
solder like holy well, not eventhat, but like like the one that
I'm working on, like rightright now downstairs.
Um, this thing, like he didn'teven know, because this guy
bought the turntable used andI'm able to tell him this
turntable was definitely used atburning man or some kind of a
desert rave oh, and he was likehow can you tell like there's so
(45:27):
much dust and and it's adifferent type of, it's a fine
dirt, club dirt that's beencaked on and everything right.
So like I love posting the, thehorror stories even you know, of
course, the do-over work, likethe um, the bad fodder jobs and
everything, and like I mean tothe point where people, people
come to me and they're likedon't put my turntable on your
(45:47):
page.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
It's like their child .
Speaker 4 (45:54):
For one, one favorite story this, this was hilarious
this guy.
He found me like on Instagramor whatever you know, and
because of that, like he wasfollowing all the all that stuff
, and then he his turntable andhe brought in.
He tried to do it himself andcouldn't do it.
So he brought me like a boxfull of parts and the little
Ziplocs full of the screws andeverything.
So I remember the look on hisface and I was like so wait a
(46:19):
minute, you've been following mefor two years and you still
decided you've learned nothing.
It was that little kid that wasin trouble, you know just like
that, just so I mean you'll seeall that I mean, you know my, my
main page, the dj page, likeyou'll see all that you know.
Okay, I'm doing a party, I'mdoing this.
You'll see little footage, um,from whatever, but I'll post up,
(46:41):
like the turntable, horrorstories on both and then, um, my
online store, uh, where you canbuy, like my turntable repair
kits and all that stuff.
Like I actually made a turntablecleaning and detailing kit
awesome.
Um, I'm a car detailer too.
We haven't talked about thatand, um, you know, my, my repair
(47:02):
kits, the little things and, ofcourse, like the dj edits, the
edit packs and everything I makeA handful of, like different
T-shirts that you can get andeverything that's fresh1200sclub
.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Okay, all right.
Thank you, brother Stacy.
Let us know, give us all theinfos.
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So, whether it's Instagram,facebook, I haven't done the
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Everywhere it's Monroe bot M.
O N R O E B O T Yep Monroe botAll right, brother dose, brother
dose JJ.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Y'all can find me at the real DJ dos muchos.
That's the real D, e, j, a, y,d O S, m-y-d-o-s-m-u-c-h-o-z.
On Instagram and on TikTok.
I'm on Facebook.
It's just as Dos Muchos with aZ.
You know what I mean.
Got a whole bunch of you knowI've been putting you know my
little gigs and you know alittle funny thing I'm thinking
(48:17):
about of the day, you know,hopefully you don't know why you
flip out behind it and usuallyWe've been keeping that at an
ice-cold level right now.
So everything's fine, come checkme out.
You're not like me trying tofight people on the internet.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
No, no, no no, no.
Speaker 5 (48:31):
You're so bad.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Tell us about you, what you do and where we can
find you, and everything else.
Speaker 5 (48:37):
So I actually do like balloons.
I'm very creative with balloons, so I do all of that.
We have our photo boothbusiness, so you can find me at
Cali Entertainment or we can dothe Busy Bee Creations which
Stacey did for me.
Stacey's done all of it.
(48:58):
Cali Entertainment Group DJ.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Gordy B.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
Busy Bee Creations, all of the above.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
She's working on a website for us right now.
We got all kinds of stuff inthe works.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
But yes, balloons, balloon, garlands, planning,
decorating.
Yeah, that's all Marion, that'sright up her.
Alley, don't ask me for it,just hit her up directly, even
though people don't listen.
And I'm DJ Gordy B, gordonBaldridge, everywhere.
(49:29):
Is it Gordon dot Baldridge orGordon dash Baldridge or Gordon
Baldridge or DJ Gordy B?
Cali Entertainment Group allover the board.
Same thing DJ Gordy B acrossthe board and Gordon Baldridge
across the board.
So again, thank you, guys, allfor coming.
We're going to wrap thispodcast up and uh um.
Oh.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
I'm trying to build up my YouTube.
I'm actually doing liketurntable repair tutorials.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Oh, there we go.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
Like three things up there right now, but it's the
same same across the board.
Dj Ajax SF.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
DJ Ajax SF is your YouTube channel.
Yeah, including probably yourTwitch, instagram, facebook, all
of the above.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
Not on Facebook, because that's like my personal
stuff.
I think it might be because Ihave a business page on Facebook
too, but, like my TikTokInstagram Twitch, which I don't
really do anymore, I've seenyour post recently.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, all right, brother.
Well, thank you guys.
I appreciate you all joining.
You guys have a good evening.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
All right, have a good night.
(50:58):
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