Family Over Everything: Building a Legacy Through Love

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
one Living life filled up with family.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
We got the whole world paying to go, mac Miller
and the most loud family.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
What's up y'all?
We are live with the most dopeand we have some very, very
special guests.
Today we have D-Cross YoD-Cross, the man himself.
We got Nate Antwine andCourtney Antwine.
Just the team, Yep, the teamLike, it's just the capital, the

(00:52):
like, the Ohio.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
State Well, you could actually say the A-Team,
because our last name is Antwine.
So I think we just might, wemight coin that.
Yes, you know what?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I mean we got the A-Team.
Yeah, I got the a team yeah, wegot the a team, a team llc.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I might have to change the llc and, by the way,
I gotta tell you the funnieststory, because everybody's like
hey, check out nate, from nowentertainment.
I, it's n-a-l entertainment.
I just didn't like the way thedots looked, so I just took them
out and then I then my wife,who's a grammar nazi, was like
hey, honey, like she wants toslap me across the face whenever
I mispronounce it Avocado.

(01:27):
Like she literally it justAlmond, almonds, you know
whatever.
I'm an Okie from.
Muskogee Potato, potato baby.
So anyway, I named my companyNAL Entertainment and then I was
like I don't like the way thedots look.
I'm going gonna take the dotsout.

(01:50):
You know I'm gonna redesign mylogo and then now everybody
calls it now entertainment.
So I'm like I don't know whatto do now, man, you're stuck
with it.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's time to rebrand.
I think it just maybe put thedots back in.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, we're the a team, the a team I.
I think it's gonna fail.
Okay, due to the fact thateverybody has already become
accustomed to now entertainmentI hear it all the time, right,
yeah, so even if you put themdots back in there, they're
gonna say, hey now that's true,all right, okay, all right, I'll
own it.
Hey, hey, there, nowentertainment.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Come on now, come on now I did say I was an okie from
mistoki, so that's good hey,awesome, we got the queen bee
herself.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Hi, hi, everybody.
Hello, we're back, we're back.
We're back and we got a fullhouse.
Mi casa es su casa.
Everybody, this is everybody'shouse, everybody's welcome.
Once you've been in this house,you're trusted, you're in that
circle of trust or whatever Like.
Meet the fuckers.
The fuckers.
Yeah, don't step out the sidethis circle.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Fucker bro, I got the code to your front door yes I
could legitimately just sneak inanytime.
I know that there's gonna beslots playing on youtube right
now, like I could literallysneak in at any time.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, and cuddle up on your couch I him, it's
probably him, and we're like,what's that noise?
Babe, it's Nate.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's probably Nate.
He's dropping off a photo booth.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
He's dropping off some equipment.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I love it.
Oh man, I can't imagine that.
Now, man, I'm just chilling inthe bedroom hanging out and you
just open the door, set thestuff inside, leave mind your
business, man.
You know that's a trusted thing, right there, man.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean, I don't take it for granted either dude.
Like, that is a level of loveand respect that I don't have
with anybody, and you have thatwith me, so I mean literally
nobody's got the key

Speaker 4 (03:40):
to my front door.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do, some of my kids don't even have the key to my
front door.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
yeah, Courtney indeed does.
Anyway, love you, brother.
Thank you for having us on, forsure.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Hey, I appreciate you guys coming out.
Man, we have some drinks.
Nobody can see because this isnot a video podcast, this is a
podcast.
And Queen B Marion, she puttogether a little bar for us
real quick before everybody gothere.
We ordered some Wingstop.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
We got some wings, we're chilling hanging out, uh
listening to good music and uhhanging out with good people
love it.
Thank you for having us man.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
So I just want to put on the record.
Uh to my wife, I did not drinktoday oh yeah, so you know hey
hey, d is not drinking.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
He's on a juice cleanse and, uh, he has been
strictly on juice, um I I beento the bathroom a couple times.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I'm not just kidding, it's no gin.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
No gin in that juice.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
There's no gin in that juice.
No gin in my juice.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I mean I might have to apologize to your wife.
You know I did try to pressureyou into a drink.
I'm like, ah, you'll be here anhour, you can have a drink,
it'll wear off.
You're cool man.
I'm a bad influence brother, Idon't you know?

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Mental discipline man .
Nobody can be a bad influenceupon me but myself.
Yes, sir, that's true.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's personal responsibility, right there baby
.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
That's why I love this guy man.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
I would want to work with him too.
I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Only the best, only the best.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Hey, speaking of work , dante man, tell me a little
bit about yourself, man, I knowyou're over there at Chewy's.
Yes, sir, I know you, dj, youdo your thing on the side.
I know you have a growingfamily, or a family that grew
recently and you got quite thelittle family like we do.
It's been growing.
Tell me about all the hustle.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Tell me about everything, man, I think the
hardest hustle and the mostbeautiful hustle that I put and
try to put my best into is beinga father first.
Everything starts there.
That is the hardest job that Ihave and that will forever be
the hardest job that I have,because it's not about a
financial dividend, right, it'sabout true investments, because

(05:40):
you reap those back in time yeahum.
As for the nine to five, it'sjust nine to five.
Um.
As for this part of it right,being able to uh be an artist in
every way, come over here andtalk to you, being gracious in
your home, uh, the way you reachout to me on instagram, the way
that we locked in from day onewhen you sent me, and you send
me memes all the time shoot love.

(06:01):
No, it's love man it's genuine,it's genuinely built, this
friendship yeah um started sevenyears ago.
Uh started working uh for acompany named crown
entertainment.
Big shout out to jimmy sanchezover there jimmy sanchez yes sir
, good dude, I worked for himfor a little bit and really I
just sat behind the board man, Ididn't really get into the
essence of djing right what youweren't emceeing.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
You, you were.
You were sitting behind thecontroller, so I was behind the
controller Because it's a safespace, boom.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
So I was behind the controller working the board and
one of my good friends, manlike a brother to me, jeremy
McDonald, he was the emcee andwe used to link on do weddings
and then shout out to my guy,joey over at Masterpiece, joey
was there too and he kind ofleft and started his own thing.
Joey was there too and he kindof left and started his own
thing.
So I was like man, I'm going tohelp you try to build your
empire.
So I went with him for a whileand just helped him do some

(06:48):
things and then I kind of took alittle bit off and life kind of
happened.
I went through some things anda good friend family of mine, my
shug, tracy Lynette, she wasover working with TSV and she
reached out to me one day andshout to Gabriel over there at
TSV, dude is a, that dude rightthere, man is an entertainer.

(07:09):
All right, he taught me so much,but he also just taught me just
be myself when I'm on the mic,when I'm doing a wedding, and
just watching him and justlearning from him, and that
truly just opened up, openeddoors for me.
All right, so I was there atTSV for a while.
I decided to leave, and when Ileft, I decided to branch out on
myself, man, and I took agamble.

(07:33):
Sometimes fear ooh, fear is athing, man, because fear can
hold you back from a lot ofthings, but fear can hold you
back from yourself.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
And I bought a bunch of gear from a buddy of mine,
mike Villa, that is my spiritanimal, your OG source.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, man out there in Texas, man, he left me.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
But DJ Mike Villa is one of one that is a big brother
.
That's my mano right there, man.
So when he left he sold me hisgear.
He sold me his subs, hisspeakers, and then from there,
man, we built the Big, brightBrick.
And now I'm three years in tobeing on my own.
Not like crazy, legit, I'm notlike this guy over here at now,

(08:10):
entertainment right n-a-l, butwe're building, we're building
and hopefully by next year, man,I can go ahead and lock in that
that license and get everythingup.
But for now, man, I justappreciate everybody that
supported me on the journey.
Yeah, absolutely all the waythrough, man.
And uh, just working, justworking.
I can say I'm really like a dj,but again, I'm working on that
craft every day.

(08:31):
Them lonely nights in the garageat three in the morning really
build character yeah, absolutelythat's what it goes, you know,
when the lights are dark in thegarage, it really don't matter
too much, but when they're thebrightest, if you're not putting
that work in the garage.
When it's time to shine, it'stime to go.
Yeah, it's time to go.
So that's that's pretty muchthe story right there for now,
but we're, the story is notfinished hey, so I, uh, I
studied you two a little bit.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I did I, I did my homework, I studied you two a
bit and something I found onboth of you, um, that really,
that really tied in, especiallynow knowing that Nate has a
stable of DJs, such as myself,such as Dee Tyler and a few
others that he can really counton, and things of that nature.

(09:16):
On both of your guys' pages,you guys are fathers first, yeah
, and you guys are fathers first, yeah, and you guys are
Christian men.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
On both of your pages .
Yeah, they look kind of similarguys.
I'm just going to let you know,man, I've been looking, I've
been stalking, I've beenwatching, I did my homework and
I love that about you guys and Ithink that, like shoes, it can
tell you a lot about a person.
Like shoes, there's a sayingabout shoes shoes can tell you a

(09:53):
lot about a person where theygoing, where they been.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
That's from forrest gump but you know what you were
gonna go he's.
He's like listen.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Bay of Jetty like peas and carrots, gordon, you
were going to go so deep.
He's like.
I think Socrates said that.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh yeah, I was going to come up with a Play-Doh or
something.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's definitely written on a cave somewhere.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
No, it's Forrest Gump .
Look, God damn it.
I was trying to get deep here.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
It was so good by the so good I was following I'm
tracking with you.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I got you, man.
I was trying to pull everybodyinto that one I love you.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Take the Lord's name in vain after you.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh yeah, I'm a heathen.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I am a heathen.
We love you where you're at.
We love you right where you'reat.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I'm a heathen man.
I'm a good-hearted heathen, Ilove it.
So that's awesome to learnabout you, d and, like I said,
both of us working for Nate andboth of us all three of us being
fathers, family men, good men.
At least we try to be right.
I'm not going to talk myself upand say I'm a great man, but

(10:57):
you know, we try to be.
We do what we can.
We do what we can to provide,we do what we can to spoil, we
do what we can to provide, we dowhat we can to spoil, we do
what we can to over-provide.
We do, you know, but we're notmessing with anybody, we're not
hurting anybody.
We're not good positive energy,good positive results, good

(11:18):
positive outcome and Dante wastalking about art earlier we're
artists, all of us are artists.
We are and I have a hard timesaying that about myself.
I won't ever brag to somebodyand say, hey, I'm an artist.
Look, I'm Gordy B, I play music.

(11:39):
I enjoy playing music.
I enjoy people you know beinghappy and and providing a, a, uh
, an entire experience, wheresometimes other entertainers or
professionals fall short.
Um, and and that's anotherreason why you know the

(12:00):
community and getting togetherwith everybody and doing the
podcast and doing beats over thecity and and going out to
Chewy's and supporting and andyou know getting gigs from Nate
and you know being able to passa gig on to somebody because
Nate already blessed you, so nowyou're able to bless somebody
else, you know.
So I appreciate that out of you, brother.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
I appreciate that.
No, I couldn't do it withoutyou guys.
Honestly, I appreciate that.
No, I couldn't do without youguys.
Honestly, um, yeah, no, I'mblessed to be able to, um
provide so much for so manydifferent households.
You know, it's like my ultimategoal is not just to only, you
know, provide for my household,but it's like I want to bless
you guys like I want you to beable to have so many gigs.
You know, in a in a 12 monthcalendar where you guys are like

(12:44):
, hey, you know, you know NALentertainment, we've got so much
on the calendar, Like we've gota steady stream of income and
it's it's, it's a blessing to beable to do what you love.
And we said this earlier offthe air, but we'll say it again
Like when you do what you love,you'll never work a day in your
life Absolutely.
And you know what?
And I think that everybody thatI have, that I have kind of

(13:04):
just gathered underneath thewing of my NAL entertainment, I
think that everybody that I haveis a contractor.
I don't think of them asemployees ever I think of them.
you're a contractor, they'repeers, yeah you're peers, you're
my friends, you're people thatI want to see succeed.
If you need help in an area, Ithere, literally.
Like you know, we we've talkedabout some certain software that

(13:27):
we can integrate and thingsthat we can kind of use in our
lives.
That'll make our lives easier.
And you know, um, I'm an openbook man.
Honestly, like I don't, I don'twant to, like, keep any trade
secrets.
I don't want to see you guysall become nal entertainments,
yeah, in your own right.
It's like you know, if you guyscan grow and you guys can have
other people that you can bless,I mean that's great.

(13:47):
If I could be a part of that,that's amazing, man, and that's
that's the ultimate goal forwhat what I've started out to to
be, to to be a part of.
So, yeah, man, I'm superblessed.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, you were a part of it this week, man, because I
passed a gig on to somebody Iknow and it's probably a pretty
high paying one hey, I quotedhim really good too.
So the guy that got it, man,let's just say he's pretty happy
.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, I would say, I would say hey if and if I could
have found some coverage forthat.
You know, by the way.
You know what?
It's funny because so there'sso many people right now we see
that are waiting last minute tobook.
Um, it's crazy.
The economy is kind of nutsright now.
People are uncertainty with.
You know, the stock markettoday actually took like an all
time plummet.
Yes, it did so.

(14:29):
I think there's a lot ofuncertainty out there but
honestly, like securing goodquality DJs and good vendors for
your wedding, you're going tospend 40, 50, 60, a hundred
thousand dollars on your wedding.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Get the good, high quality venue vendors early on.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Get them locked in, yeah because I mean, if you're a
good, if you're, if you'vestill got, you know,
availability a month out, twomonths out, you're probably not
like the, the creme de la creme.
Yeah, you're not the firstchoice, you're definitely not
the first choice, but I meanyou're, you're probably not the
seventh or eighth choice eitheryeah, so I mean a lot of people
that we see, we see book out, uh, a year, two years in advance

(15:10):
and, uh, you know that andthat's, that's a good high
quality client that you want togo after.
But, honestly, the same thing,dude, if I, if I have, you know,
I have six high qualitycontractors that that work for
my company and when we get to aseventh, I'm going to pass that
on Like same thing.
It's like pay it forward, youknow.
But again, like I'm blessed,very blessed, to have such a

(15:32):
good team of people that workunder this umbrella.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
You know, something Dante said earlier that got me
was he took a hiatus, took abreak, there was a break, there
was a hiatus, took a break,there was a break, there was a
hiatus.
Now for me.
I also took a hiatus from music, just period.
Right, I played the saxophonesince I was in third grade,

(15:57):
played all the way through highschool, everything else I was
decorated, I was, I was verygood, um, and I fell out of love
senior year in high school andafter that, and I never played
again.
I just bought a saxophone againa few months ago.
So stuck right now there for me,it was there for me, it's here

(16:26):
for me.
Right, it's back into somethingthat I'm doing very, very
actively and passionately andpursuant very aggressively to
chase that dream, if you will.
You know DJing and adrenalineand whatever it may be.
Dante man, when you lost thatyear or two, or however long, it
was what was it that broke foryou and what was it that made

(16:50):
you realize you needed it backlater?

Speaker 5 (16:54):
I think everything inside me broke to be, honest
with you and just going back towhat you said, I let the music
inside me die.
I'm an artist, I'm a musiciantoo, so I put down the writing,
I put down everything, man, andI just just broken inside, just
going through things.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
Right, not midlife crisis, because I ain't that old
yet.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, we ain't there yet.
We ain't there.
Well, I might be.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
I was in that process , man just searching, just
trying to scratch and claw, manjust trying to put myself
together, and it took a lot toget out of it.
You know, like not trying to gotoo far into it, but it was I.
Let the music inside me die.
I told my best friend Timbo,probably about a week ago, I'll
never let the music inside medie again.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I tell my wife the same thing.
I tell Marion the same thingMusic will never leave me ever
again.
It keeps wife the same thing.
Okay, I tell marion the samething music will never leave me
ever again.
Uh, it keeps me, even keeps mekill.
It's the best therapy, bro.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, it is, yeah, it's always been, since the time
I was a was a young kid.
I started playing the guitar at15 and, uh, it was always.
It was always that therapy, itwas always that like happy place
for me, where I could go andliterally no matter what was
going on.
The screaming in the other room, parents fighting oh yeah, you
know, broken home kind ofsituation.

(18:11):
That was a the place where Icould go, where it would
literally just fill my life withjust nothing but happiness.
Yeah, um, you know, I've been amusician my own my entire life.
I've been a dj for a very shortportion of my life, so it was
crazy, yeah, um, but yeah, same,same love of music, man, and
it's it is the most healing,magical thing that you can.

(18:33):
You can have a part of yourlife, but I love it, yeah, I
love it, man.
So that's cool courtney.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
no, yes, you've been quiet over over there.
You've been a little too quiet.
You haven't really beenparticipating a whole lot, so
it's coming.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Yay, it's coming.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I do events.
Yes, yes, sir, that is yourcompany, I do events.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
It is my company.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yes, how old is your company?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
So we're on our third birthday this year
congratulations I know I'm superexcited about it, so yeah, um,
I would go with nate to his gigsfor the last 11 years of being
in the wedding industry anddjing, you know, doing all the

(19:24):
amazing things that he does.
And I would just kind of startto feel a need.
That was in these weddingswhere, you know, maybe the
couple didn't already hire acoordinator and so there was
just things that needed to bedone and I would just start
doing those things and naturallyit just kind of evolved into me

(19:46):
thinking like, hey, maybe thisis something that needs to be a
little bit more professional,like a little bit more something
that I should consider as abusiness.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
So yeah, so three years old, which means you were
doing this prior to three years.
So how long have you been doingplanning, would you say?
Would you guesstimate that thefirst time that you were helping
another coordinator at a nowNate Antwine wedding, how many
years ago was that?

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh, five years ago was when I really probably
started.
Yeah, I would be at a weddingand a lot of the times.
If you don't have a coordinator, the DJ falls in.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yes, we do.
You guys end up being thecoordinator.
You got to be the coordinator.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
You got to be the planner.
You got to be the officiant.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
You got to be.
You guys tag team it with thephotographer.
No, yeah, seriously.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Honestly, today I'm going to tell you this is no
joke.
The officiant had to go and thebride was late and I literally
almost had to get ordainedonline oh really, and I was
about to do the wedding I wasabout to officiate the wedding.
So like literally, as a I'm notjoking, by the way, this is no
joke.
This is this, legitimately thechurch of california.
You do whatever it takes tomake that bride's day fantastic.

(21:03):
That's just how it goes.
So having my wife there, uh,you know, some people would say
it's unprofessional at times,but I would, you know, I would
really like she was always there, she was always my supporter,
it would be.
I would try to like tell her,hey, maybe you should come to
this wedding, uh, and she'd belike I don't really know, it's
just like I wasn't invited oranything, like I'm like, no, I

(21:23):
your help.
Like literally come help me.
Um.
So it turned into somethingthat was I was like hey, I
really need you to go, likehandle this situation, or handle
this situation, and she wouldgo and she would do it.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
It started as him just saying things like I need
you to go and line up the bridalparty for the grand entrance
and I want you to cue me whenthey're ready to go.
And I was like so nervousbecause you know number one.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
I didn't know the bride and groom and I'm just
going in there like hi, I'mCourtney and I'm going to line
you up and like tell you what todo.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Who's this chick?
Who is this chick?

Speaker 3 (22:00):
We've never met her before.
She's an assertive person.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
But yeah, but honestly, it was trial by fire
because it's like she, I wouldtell her to do those things and
she would literally jump in andlike just go do them, and I
think that Reluctantly.
Reluctantly, reluctantly atfirst, but then, as you do those
things that are reallyuncomfortable more and more and
more, you become really reallycomfortable with them.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
So she, uh, I have here's, here's where it is right
now.
I have three daughters and noneof them are getting married
right now, necessarily.
Um, one of them has a prettyserious boyfriend and they're
talking about things like that.
But like I look at it, as allof these brides are my daughter,
how would I want to feel on mydaughter's wedding day?
How would I want my daughter tofeel on her wedding day?

(22:46):
You know what are the thingsthat are going to make this girl
absolutely like stress free onher day and not.
You've already invested so muchmoney, you've already spent so
many months planning this.
You know one particular day andI know sometimes it seems
ridiculous, but honestly, it'svery important that they feel

(23:10):
supported and they feelcomfortable with the person that
is there to really be in chargeand guide everything through.
They don't want to be lookingat their watch.
When am I supposed to cut mycake?
When am I supposed to start thestages?

Speaker 3 (23:25):
They want to live their night a little bit.
They want to be looking attheir watch.
When am I supposed to cut mycake?
When am I supposed to?
You know, they want to livetheir night a little bit.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Be present and hang out with their first of all.
I always tell them spend asmuch time as you can with your
spouse yeah, you have to.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
You have to, you have to hold on to them because you
get separated so much yeah, so Ifeel very motherly in that
which I love, like you know it.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I feel very motherly in that which I love, Like you
know.
It's just nurturing motherlynurturing.
Like that's kind of mypersonality, but like I just I
want to just guide them intolike showing I've been to so
many weddings, I've seen so manythings happen.
At this point I'm like staywith your, stay with your new
husband, make sure you guysdon't get separated.
Make sure you guys don't getseparated.

(24:09):
Make sure that you actually getto enjoy all of this.
Like this is a celebration ofthe coming together of you and
the person that you love themost in the world.
So like let's make sure thatyou actually get to enjoy it.
You know, and you're notworried about all of these
little tiny details andthey're're important details but
you don't want to get suckedinto being stressed out about

(24:30):
all of that stuff.
You want to just show up, getmarried and have the best time
of your life.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
We've been to so many weddings where the couple only
dances one or two songs Right,because they're just they're
split up between sides of thefamilies.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yes, and honestly, like it's been so good to be
married to somebody that is a DJ, because that's a lot of the
times, that's the things that Itell them the most.
I tell them things like and youguys have all seen this because
you're all DJs but I tell them,if you're not dancing on the
dance floor, your guests are notgoing to dance.
I tell them if you're notdancing on the dance floor, your
guests are not going to dance.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's so awkward, could you imagine.
I say this all the time to mybrides and grooms.
Could you imagine being at acelebration?
and you're celebrating a brideand groom and they're not on the
dance floor.
How awkward do you feel goingout on the dance floor and
dancing?
It's so weird.
So we tell the brides andgrooms like, hey, look at there,

(25:27):
everybody's here for you.
Like, these are your friendsand your family.
You threw yourself a party.
You threw yourself a party.
You need to be in the middle ofthe dance floor.
Yeah, you need to be the oneand it I've seen it so many
times where the energy of thebride and groom will literally
completely orchestrate the wholeentire day.
So if you guys are having thetime of your life and you're

(25:49):
happy and nothing can get to youand you guys are just like well
, this is the greatest day ever,all your guests are going to
feel that way.
If you guys are like, oh mygosh, everything's good,
everything could go wrong, Idon't know what's going to
happen, oh my God, if you'relike that, your guests can pick
up on that energy and they'regoing to be like whoa.
They're going to split and go toChick-fil-A on the road they're

(26:10):
going to leave at 8, after thecake is cut, and they're going
to be like we're going to getsome late night Taco Bell.
Oh man, it's so crazy, but thebride and groom set the stage
for every wedding.
They really do, and it, it, it.
I've.
We've obviously dealt with somany different personality types
, but, like when we see thatbride, it's like oh, oh, I can't

(26:32):
let go.
I can't let go of this.
I have to literally walk overto her and I well, that doesn't
happen when I'm there.
I have to say that's absolutelytrue.
She's already, she's alreadydone.
She's already done that long inadvance, but this just happened.
No joke, this just happened amonth and a half ago, where I
had to walk over to a bride andI go look, hey, I understand

(26:55):
this is stressful for you, butif you don't, let go and enjoy
this moment, that's a lot ofwasted money.
Okay, you spent a lot of moneyon this day.
So you need to be present, youneed to have fun, you need to
just relax, take a deep breath.
Let's take, take, take a deepbreath with me, and I will tell

(27:16):
you this I've done this so manytimes with brides and they look
at me and they go.
You don't know how badly Ineeded that.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Oh, decompress, they're like you don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I said look at me in the eyes.
I've got you, everything isgoing to go great.
We're on timeline, Everything'sgoing fine, your guests are
having a good time, everything'sperfect.
That's part of your job is toexude confidence.
So exactly, not only do youexude confidence, but you just
take command and you're justlike look, and when you've done

(27:45):
this for so many years, you'relike this is it's like breathing
honestly, it's so easy.
And uh, you're there toreassure the bride and groom.
I'll even go over and like, bythe way, nothing is beneath me
as a dj I know that it's my job.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
I'll mop a floor.
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, by the way, I do that at noriega, sometimes
like I'll shoot off the coldsparklers, it has some granules.
I have to go sweep the floor.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
I'm like Dick Van.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Dyke man, I'm like, yeah, right, I do.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
I'm like Dick Van Dyke with the chimney sweep man.
I'm like I don't care, whateverI got to do to make their day
perfect, I'll do it.
I'll go check on their drinks.
Hey, you guys need cocktail.
Cool, he gets what uh music'son autopilot right now.
Let me go get your drink.

(28:31):
Boom, all right, you know,whatever it is, it's the level
of service that you provide, theabove and beyond experience,
and that honestly goes so much.
By the way, anybody can pressplay on an ipod.
I mean honestly.
I mean that's not what we do,true story.
But I mean anybody can pressplay on an ipod.
But it's like it's, it's thethings that you do in between
when you're djing that make orbreak how good of a wedding dj
you are I mean honestly, yeah,that's true, because also not
every wedding, I'm a music guyright, so I'm a dancer.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
I love dancing but, not every wedding is filled with
a bride and groom, that'sdancers dancers.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
So when you?

Speaker 5 (28:59):
don't have a bride and groom that really don't
dance, then you're like allright, cool, cool, I already
caught the vibe, so you'rereading the room.
You're trying to keep theenergy up for everybody else,
but not everybody is a dancer.
Some people's grandma mightnever touch the floor.
Some people's grandma will beout there torching.
Yeah, oh man, I got some videosof some grandmas getting dirty.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I was like I had a sweater on, by the way it was
nothing, it was not pornographicon your show literally this,
this grandma, like man, she wasfeeling it on the dance floor
and she pulls her own sweateroff and like, throws it around
and like, thankfully she hadsomething underneath.
But I was like man.
Like this, this woman isfeeling it and I can't remember
the song I played.
I wish I could, uh wild thing,that funky music probably

(29:43):
something crazy like that.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Rick.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
James gave it to me baby.
Yeah right.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Candy, cameo candy, that song gets me going.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Oh my God, he played Love Shack.
The intro was a thing.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh, hey, I got a funny story.
We were at a wedding one timein Tehachapi and this is one of
my favorite weddings becausethese people were so fun but
they were so quirky and so weirdand their favorite song but you
just said love jack, made methink of this was rock lobster
from the b-52s.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
They requested it like five times they're like if
you've never heard the song.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
It's a long it's a long, quirky, weird ass song and
uh play it, dj.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
No, no, no, no, don't play it right now.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
No, we're not taking this podcast don't turn this
podcast we played this song andI kid you, not so this was a
magical song for this family.
We had no idea the connectionthey had with this this song.
But, like I was like, okay,rock lobster, all right, not a,
not a big hit.
I thought love shack was thebig hit.
So, anyway, we play this songand it is hilarious five times

(30:45):
in a row, like they literallyhad the every family member
dancing on the floor.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
They were on the ground like literally like
slippery, like like they wereliterally like a beach dolphin
like a dolphin without water.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I'm not kidding, I'm not joking.
To this day I could not believethe power that this song had
over this family.
That's awesome, but it was sospecial to them and they were
like play it again.
I was like we just played itthree times.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Do it again I was like Play it again.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, here we go.
Maybe scratch intro this time.
Oh man, it was crazy, it wasnuts.
But hey, to this day Iliterally look back on that
wedding and I go man, that wasone of the funnest weddings.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Do you guys all have like a crazy wedding story?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Oh, man yeah I mean everybody.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
We played Old McDonald's.
If you've done it long enough,yeah, At a wedding.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Oh, I take requests, and I take requests from
everybody.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
But hey, but if they have a bad request, you got to
call them out babe, oh yeah, hey, by the way, what's your name?
By the way, hey, no?

Speaker 2 (31:54):
no, no, no, no, no, no.
Hey, what's your name?
What's?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
your name.
Oh, hey, john know, right nowthis is a request from uncle
john.
Uncle john wanted to hear thissong.
So bad, by the way.
You know.
What should you guys all callit out like if you got it, I'm
calling, I'm calling you got to,because then they're gonna be
like this dj is bunk man.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
I'm asking your name as soon as the floor clears.
Like what song?
Oh?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
what's your name?
Donald?
All right cool hey sometimesI'm super honest, I'll say no,
and then other times I'll sayI'll put it in my prepare folder
and I'll see if I can get to it.
That's great.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
That's the best thing you can say.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Gordon on our wedding that we have together next
weekend.
The bride said no requests.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Oh yeah, no requests.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Nobody can bother me, nobody can bother you, and it's
almost all country music, heystraight to Bakersfield.
Listen to me, listen to me.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
They're going to love you.
They're going to love you.
A little bit of why Yoko Maynever hurt nobody.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Hey.
So, speaking of gigs and thisquestion is for everybody and I
want everybody to chime in on ityou know, give a.
What is a gig that you did that?
You thought this is it for me.
I'm done.
This is not for me.
This is not for me.

(33:08):
I am failing.
I am a terrible DJ.
I'm a terrible balloon artist.
I'm a terrible coordinator.
I have failed and I'm going togo home and I'm never going to
touch a controller again or aballoon.
Everybody immediately knowsexactly yeah, so I want your
stories.
Just put your head down andjust be like Do you?

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, Dante, go All right?

Speaker 5 (33:29):
Well, I gotta go first.
First, bro, you be quiet.
So we were talking aboutearlier, yeah, the wedding I did
for you last year in thebackyard.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
It was an NAL entertainment wedding N I was
now Now Damn it.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
And at first, man, I was like it's like I couldn't
catch a vibe, you know what Imean, like people weren't really
into a dance.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I'm like man, I'm hitting all of them.
They weren't showing you nolove.
I'm hitting all your requests,though.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
I'm hitting, I'm hitting, but then that goes back
to that thing is like the groom, wasn't?
He probably touched a flag once.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Yeah, but the brides she would touch it in selections
, right.
So you can tell what were herrequests and what were everybody
else's.
But for the most part thefamily was not dancers, right,
so I felt I failed.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
And then I called and we talked you were out of town.
Yeah, we talked in great detailabout that one and they said it
was all good.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
But then I'm like, okay, cool, so then I do a
wedding this weekend on a Sunday.
I do a wedding this weekend ona Sunday Sunday weddings are
weird, Weird strange, butthey're cool, right.
So they didn't give me anyrequests for music or anything
like that, right?

Speaker 3 (34:31):
So I'm like okay, what do I do?

Speaker 5 (34:32):
They're like oh, Straight up, read the crowd, Do
your thing right.
So I'm like four or five songsin and I'm like Not working and
I'm looking in my head I'mthinking like this is not a
dancing family, so I play itsmart.
I say, if you have any requests, let me know.
They started requesting CreedNickelback.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
There you go, nickelback is my favorite band.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
I'm not joking.
She's not joking, by the way Idon't clown anybody for their
music.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
So the dopest part is for the last hour and 20
minutes.
I did only requests and it wassongs like that, but I wasn't
getting people in the dancefloor.
What I was getting was tables,singing, people standing up.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
You were making people happy Holding each other.
You can see those little ticks.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Read the room, man, so it's like God would come up.
And oh, this is the groom'sfavorite song.
All right, cool, Put it on.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, thanks for throwing me that bone, man,
because I needed it.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Seven people in a circle singing Creed Ones Wide
Open.
I'm like, hey, let's get it,baby Bro that's so magic.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
You have to take requests, you have to be able to
say okay and if it's a horriblerequest and you're vibing, okay
.
So if you have a packed dancefloor and somebody comes up and
like, hey, I want to hear, Cher,do you believe in life after
love?
I'm like, okay, I don't know ifthat's really going to fit
right here.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
That's a banger too.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Leave in life after love, after love.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
I love that song.
That's why I just said thatsong.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
But what I'm saying is if you have a whole packed
dance floor and then somebodycomes up and throws like a
curveball sometimes that's good,sometimes that's bad but like
if what you're doing is working,keep doing it.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Keep doing bad, but like if you, if what you're
doing is working keep doing it,keep doing it.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
It gives you a chance to interact.
Yeah, absolutely.
But when somebody comes up andlike they just got broken up
with a girlfriend, they're like,hey, we want to hear, like you
want to hear the song we're notputting on mother's flowers at
the end of the wedding.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
I'm by myself.
Flowers, yeah, that yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
So you gotta at a point you gotta like kind of be
like all right.
Well, you know, guess what?
I'll try to work it in.
That is the best thing youcould say as a there's some hoes
in this house yes all right.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Hey, man, I just broke up my girlfriend man and
she's here with somebody.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
There's some hoes yeah, there you go.
Hey, by the way, there's somany songs you played in that,
yeah I've seen a video.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Somebody did that.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Cry Me a River, Justin Timberlake.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Literally Nate.
When he does his consultationswith brides, he says I do not
play WAP.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Oh man, I'll never play it, never, ever play it.
I don't play Ratchet too muchman.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
It doesn't fit at a wedding.
You have to understand whatfits at a wedding man.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
He's like I don't care who comes up and asks me
I'm not playing it.
Yeah, no, and that's a hardstopping because a wedding at
the end of the day, if you lookat it from a biblical standpoint
, it's like it's the marriagebetween a man and a woman before
god.
Um, it's, it's a good, um, it'sa good representation of, uh,
of of what god intended for manand woman, and so it's.
I don't want to get too crazyhere, but, like, honestly, like,
when you have that kind of likeenergy with a song like that

(37:32):
incorporated into your day, it'snot good, it's not a good
energy song.
You know what I mean?
It's a.
It's a kind of a raunchy,horrible, wretched, kind of just
just despicable wretched song.
So I will never play that song.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
All the fans out there are going.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
what, by the way, you can, guys email me please?
All your hate mail.
That's fine, but it doesn'tbelong at a wedding.
Maybe at a nightclub, butdefinitely never.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
What about Bruno Mars' new song?

Speaker 1 (37:59):
That's wretched too I hate to say it.
Yeah, that guy hey by the wayfrom 24 Karat Magic, bro, like I
mean why you got to hurt myheart like that man, like that
was a banger at weddings, andthen now I feel like I feel bad
even playing his songs.
It's like you know it's good,it's all good until it's not
good.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
And then you got to just kind of take each right,
like I was born in 88.
So some of the music I listenedto growing up and you listen to
those lyrics now and you'relike damn, I was singing this.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
I know I had no idea what I'm doing, like some of the
songs, like even somebody wassaying something about I was.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
I did a gig one time at a all out football and, um, I
do the Superbow every year andI'm playing a couple of songs
and of course there's going tobe some lyrics that don't hit
and miss.
And this dude comes up and he'smad and I'm, like you realize,
I can throw in like sevencountry songs, 10 rock songs,
and they're still talking aboutthe same thing, same thing, yeah
Right.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
So understand it's clean, yeah, innuendos.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
It's clean, right, but at the same time a lot of
songs.
I would say 70 of the songs.
They really be talking aboutthe same thing, man.
So, at the end of the day, it'sabout frequencies and it's
about knowing when to playsomething right, absolutely.
And it's timing.
It's about reading the room.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
So everything is timing right.
So if the wedding is at 11,maybe at 10 30, I might play
some.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
I'm gonna ratchet it up for the last.
You know Absolutely, and hey,I'll tell you what you said that
my weddings go in accordance toage.
When I play music at weddings,I am catering to the
80-year-olds, the 70-year-olds,the 60-year-olds in the first
couple hours, as you shouldCatering to them as you should.

(39:43):
Because what's going to happen?
They're going to leave early,that's true, so make them happy
while they're there.
The young kids are going tostay anyways.
So then you get into eight andnine, you start hitting that
hip-hop, r&b, whatever else andthen, like you said, hey, if
there's some little 18-year-oldgirls and boys out there hanging

(40:05):
out and that's their jam,that's their style of music,
then hey, we're going to twerkit up and we're going to ratchet
it up and for the last 30minutes now, I have made an
entire spectrum of people happy.
Yeah, covered decades.
You haven't offended anybody.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
You haven't offended any group.
You've done a great job tocater to all those groups and,
by the way, old people know thatthere's young people that like
different music than them andthey hate that music and they
get it.
But here's the thing If youcater to them first and you're
like, hey look, we're going tohonor you guys, we're going to
start the open dancing off withyou, we're going to do some
disco, we're gonna do some someseptember, yeah do you remember

(40:46):
how, staying some break houseall that stuff, but here's the
thing.
These people are gonna rememberthat and they're gonna go.
You know what?
That?
They're gonna look back on thatnight and they're gonna go.
Oh, that was so much fun.
But the people who start thenight out with that and the djs
who do that literally shootthemselves in the foot because
it's like a scratching on arecord dude.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
There's ebbs and flows man, there's peaks and
valleys.
You can't keep somebody's heartrate up at 130 beats per minute
for 10, 15 minutes, four songsstraight.
You can't do it.
You're going to lose that dancefloor floor.
But you can start coming backdown in bpm and energy and start
adjusting the other things thatyou're doing within serato to
to have an effect on them and toto still go down to 115 100,

(41:33):
just to bring it back up to 150again eventually with like don's
a kuduro or whatever.
It may be right, some, someheat again, yeah, but but banger
after banger after banger afterbanger, it's exhausting, it's
exhausting, it's exhausting.
That's my downfall.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
She's like, please, oh, you play as bangers I said
let the people rest Please letthem sit down.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Nate, Please Play a slow song for the old people,
For the love For the lovers, andyou know what.
I guess I'm just that good.
There we go.
I mean I'm sorry to say it, butlike I mean, nobody wants to
sit down at my sets, I meannever, I'll just maybe one or

(42:18):
two slow songs throughout thenight.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I actually like personally attest to being a
guest at a wedding.
So my best friend's daughtergot married.
I guess she actually had herthird year anniversary.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah three years ago, literally a couple days ago,
Anyways.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
So before I started officially my company even, but
I had helped out with thatwedding but he played every good
song for like three hours in arow and I was with my best
friend.
I was with my best friend'ssister.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Exhausted, looking, looking a mess, sweaty and like
just a mess.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I was sore the next day.
I was like I hate you, I cannotmove that's what you want.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sorryyou played every good song for
three hours in a row and I amout of shape.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
But I'm going to tell you one thing right because he
actually hit on a really goodthing, a really great DJ and I
don't consider myself a reallygreat DJ.
The guys that I'm sittingacross the table from right now
are really great DJs and theywill be able to mix those BPMs
and kind of do those Edmonds andflows.
I don't, I just stay in apocket and I just kind of bang
them out.
I just bang them out.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
So they'll go home early.
Listen to me.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
This wedding ends at 10.
By 9.45 you guys are all goingto be gone.
There's piles of shoes over offto the side, nobody's wearing
shoes.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
I want to know, though for the DJs are you
dancers?
I am.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
I loosen to know, though, like for the DJs, are
you dancers, I am, I loosen upand I kind of just I have my own
little good time behind thepodium, yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Like if you were a guest at an event dance on the
dance floor.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
I'm in it.
I have to drink a little bit.
You would do it.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
I'm a dancer, I think for me and you, we would not be
dancing on the dance floor.
I think, for me and you, wewould not be dancing on the
dance floor.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
I think you for sure he doesn't dance.
I get out there eventually, man.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
No, no, no.
Right in the microphone, Rightin the microphone.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
I got to go pay, jenny, I got to go pay.
Hey, don't forget how to usethat handle, man.
You're going to get locked inour bathroom.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Okay, so you'll cut it up.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
To answer your question.
Uh, even sometimes I'm in thegarage just mixing.
I'm feeling it like yeahbecause, at the end of the day,
a lot of people are gonna lookbehind that board and see what
do you?
Are you just standing theremixing music?
Yeah are you?
Are you a whole vibe yourself?

Speaker 3 (44:39):
are you?
Are you having fun right?
So you gotta.
Do you hate your job or do youlove your job?

Speaker 5 (44:45):
I love music in itself, right, so I'm not vibing
as, pretending I'm not doingthis.
So you look at me and be like,oh, he's having fun.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
I'm like, yo, I'm like I'm jamming to this music
now.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
I'm playing, yeah and then I think the biggest thing
too, is nate, even though hewent to the restroom please wash
your hands wash your hands.
Uh, we have a wedding coming upon the 24th and the reason why
she requested me, even thoughshe went through Nate, is
because at times, I'll get onthe dance floor.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
And.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
I'll engage with the guests.
I know that some people arelike, oh my god, the cupid
shuffle and the cha-cha slideare so played out.
But it's not your wedding.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
I hate DJ to say I won't play this.
It's not your choice to playwhat you want to play.
You guys are at weddings allthe time and it engages people.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
That's an engaging song.
You can get everybody on thefloor and then switch that song
to another song.
So that's another pocket ofpeople to slow down, and then
you have everybody again.
Then you put another banger,banger, banger, banger so it's
like I have to understandpockets yeah and unless, unless
my bride tells me it's a do notplay we're playing everything

(45:50):
yep, it's not it's.
It's nobody else's choice buthers to tell me what to play,
and most grooms.
I don't know why I've had acouple, but it's like a lot of
men.
I don't know if they're too uhshy, yeah pride, insecure, I
don't know what insecurity istoo shy, yeah, pride.
Insecure.
I don't know what insecurity isa big thing, yeah, but it's
like you sit on some of thesecalls and you're like all you do
is talk to the bride, and I tryto engage with the groom as

(46:12):
well, yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
I've always been growing up like you don't even
talk to somebody else's wife.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
I don't talk to somebody else's wife.
You don't even talk to somebodysome type of permission, right,
but we're sitting in a meeting,so, yes, I'm talking to the
bride.
Yeah, but that's how I grew up.
I grew up not going to myparents' room.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Oh yeah.
You know what I mean, so it'svery different.
You don't go in your mom'spurse, either I bet.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
You don't go in your mom's purse, I'll bring it to
you and you can dig what so yeah, you put your purse on the
floor.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
That means you're low on money, but it means
something in every culture whichis so crazy.
Like my family to my family wasbad luck it's bad luck.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
My grandma told me don't put on the floor, you
won't have money in your purseif you put it on the ground.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Oh, I'm gonna be poor forever.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
It's like this and this and this one is.
This one is real.
You can't, you can't put abattery on the floor because it
discharges the battery.
That is actually true.
So I think it's the same idea.
They think it's pulling out,it's taking away, it's messing
with the feng shui.
Oh, the feng shui, the fengshui, by the way, I'm pointing

(47:18):
that phrase, the feng shui, fengshui, baby, don't put your
purse on the floor?

Speaker 4 (47:22):
I think it's on the floor right now You're good.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
So this one's going to be for Marion and Courtney.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
You want to know how we met.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
What's it like being married to such a man, to such
what?

Speaker 4 (47:41):
A madman.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
I thought he was going to say a madman, and she
knows what that's like.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
Yeah same.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
How are they right before a gig?
Okay, ask me that question likefive years ago and it would be
different than it is today.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Like oh, nate has some growth, baby hey are you
talking about a dj show or alive music show?
Because I used to be the leadsinger of an 80s glam rock heavy
metal band.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Ask your question.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Yeah, ask your question.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Go ahead, baby.
No, go ahead.
I want to hear about this man.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
You had us in a.
We were going to have a dualquestion.
Yeah, it's a dual question.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
So the question is what do you guys wish you girls,
guys, whatever, I don't care.
People, people, y'all people,youths what are you, youths?
What do you guys wish peopleknew about your businesses and

(48:39):
about what you do and yourservices and what you don't do?
What do you wish they knew andthat they don't know?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
about our business.
Yes, I think.
For me, it's like I go aboveand beyond, no matter what, like
I'm going to go.
You're you're expecting this,but I'm going to do more.
I, that's just how I am.
I'm going to make it bigger andbetter, even though that's what
you asked for just a littleballoon arrangement.

(49:09):
I'm gonna go overboard I guess Ijust always like to outdo
myself.
Yeah, I like to do every eventbetter than the last one because
, just like my kids partiesevery year it's better we were
talking about this a little bitbefore we started.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
But marian and I were talking about how, like you
know, people kind of likesometimes get a little bit
offended about, like what wecharge for things, because
they're like, well, it's justballoons or oh, you're just
doing the day of you know, yeah,but it's not, it's.
It's not.
First of all, it's a luxuryservice you know, like you don't

(49:48):
have to have a wedding youdon't you can get married you
just need that court documentright like you can get married,
yeah, anywhere, for freebasically, um, you can have a
party and you can put theballoons together like they sell
Amazon arrangements that youcan go and buy and it's like
what?
30 bucks.

(50:08):
I don't know, but there's alevel of experience and care
that comes with hiring somebodyto do that for you, and we
really do take that veryseriously and it's, you know,
like something that we reallylike, like you said, like we're
going to go super, above andbeyond.
You're going to have the bestday ever because we were there.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
I don't mean that in some kind of conceited way,
we're pretty much your bride,your your maid of honor.
Yes, we really are, even thoughthe true maid of honors yeah.
You do have your maid of honor.
We're your maid of honor.
Yeah, like you know, you dohave your maid of honor.
We're your maid of honor.
We're going to make sure youhave everything.
Yes, something blue, somethingold, something, we're going to
make sure you have everything,yeah, same.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Because I really do think that, like, I think that
we're the same in that way, it'slike we bend over backwards for
our clients, because it'sreally important that like again
, like going back to like mykids, it's like how would I want
my daughters or myself to betreated if I was in this
position?
Yeah, and it's one of thosethings where you look at it and
you go like I'm going to go andprovide a service for this

(51:20):
client that they're just likegoing to have the best day ever,
and things that they didn'teven think that they hired me to
do.
We're going to make sure thathappens.
Even if they don't ever knowabout it.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
It's to the point, even to where you need your shoe
tied.
I'm going to tie your shoe foryou.
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Sit down.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Sit down, I will do it.
Yeah, you know, and it's just aservice, it's like you know.
Ever tried going to thebathroom in a bridal gown.
Yeah, I will lift it up for youLike, yeah, don't worry, I got
you.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
It goes back to what we were saying earlier and you
can mirror the same thing fromthe DJ side or whatever, but
it's artistry.
They're putting their artistryinto that.
Blown up balloons, blown upballoon.
But putting that together inthe way that you compile it and
the design you do, and puttingthe pieces to the puzzle to make
it all make sense, you'repaying for somebody's artistry.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
Not only are you paying for the equipment, I mean
at the end of the day.
Most of our equipment isalready paid off, Right, but at
the end of the day?
But at the end of the day, yes,that is a cost, right.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
And we always have to reinvest and reinvent ourselves
.
And now we need cold sparks,now we need low fog, now we need
a flame machine.
And now for me to get the flamemachine, I got to go get my
pyrotechnics license.
I need a confetti machine.
Hey, people do not likecleaning that up.
Listen to me.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
I know they don't.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
And it's outlawed in a lot of places Listen to me.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
I don't care what they like, we got to have it.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Okay, we got to have it.
I'll get on, judy, for one,we'll get one.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
It's got to be biodegradable.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
It does.
There's a new I want the color.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Oh, the smoke.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
The smoke.
Hey, you got to get thatpyrotechnic thing, let's go.
That might not be a badinvestment for Bakersfield.
I mean, how many pyrotechnicpeople do you know in
Bakersfield?
Not a lot.
That might be a corner of themarket.

Speaker 5 (53:13):
We'll piece together.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
There's a new fad that I'm going to share on your
podcast.
We're going to break it.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
news no don't do it, don't save it.
Someone will steal your idea.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Somebody stole my idea.
Okay, you know what, all right.
We'll just I'll tell you offair we can't off the record here
Our phones, google, havealready heard everything.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
It's so funny.
Back in the sixties you're like, hey, we might be wiretapped.
And now, now, all of a sudden,we're like, hey, wiretap.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Where's the?
You know?
Like it's so crazy how timeshave changed.
Uh, no, I'll tell you that thatidea, this is this is a fire,
fire idea.
I'm there, I'm here for it.
I'm like that, I'm here for it,fire idea.
Um, this one is going to be aall-inclusive question as well.
Um, you guys are already wellin.
We're well into 2025.
We've already done weddings in2025.
We've already done quince's andparties and everything.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Seven-year-old birthday party.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Yeah, we've done everything already in 2025.
And we're all booked in 2025 aswell, throughout the year.
Yeah, where do you guys seeyourselves?
Your businesses, the growth,the direction?
Where do you guys seeyourselves in the next two years

(54:31):
?
So I'll start with Busy BeeCreations over here Two years,
where do you think you're goingto be after being this busy or
this early on in this yearalready?

Speaker 4 (54:45):
I think we're going to have a crew.
We're going to have a crew atthis point, we're going to have
a crew and I'm just going to belike this is what needs to be
done.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
This is your crew, right here.
Like, here's the synergy thatyou have when you're, you have
like a community.
You have a community of peoplewho are like literally looking
out for each and every one ofthe people in the community.
Who do you think we're going tolike?
Somebody's like hey, I need aballoon person Like I got you.
We're only going to refer you.
Somebody's a weddingcoordinator?

Speaker 4 (55:14):
You're only going to.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
It's just the synergy when you start literally
thinking like you don't thinkabout like it's mine no you're
not out for what, what, what youcan get, when you think what
you can give, like the, thereturn on that is so much bigger
, it's so much bigger.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
So so when you say a crew like you want to have, like
people that you well like,where it's not just just me
doing it right like a team, ateam.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Scaling your business .

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Yeah, I'm going to do a whole I don't know venue with
balloons where I'm going toneed six or seven people.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
You're going to need additional balloon pumps,
additional balloon people.
Do you have people?

Speaker 4 (55:56):
right now.
Or is it just you?
It's just me and my daughteronce in a while, right.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
We love the cheap slave labor.
Hey, that daughter, that kidlabor, we got a 16-year-old too,
man, we don't pay her nearlywhat she like she's not going to
listen to this podcast, but ifshe, does like, we pay her a
fraction

Speaker 3 (56:15):
of what she's worth.
You know what she does.
She does a hard worker.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Like, honestly, we'll pay her like a hundred bucks,
right.
And to her her that's like alot of money, you know, and and
she, she loves it like.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
I can't wait till she drives where she can go and
drop off a photo booth, like youknow, something that you might
be able to like give to yourchildren and they can be a part
of.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
It's incredible that we can give them something
that's profitable an empire anempire, something that we're
building, something that we'regive them, something that's
profitable.
An empire, an empire, somethingthat we're building, something
that we're putting together,something that we're laying the
framework for that.
We are never going to see theyields from.
No, no, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
But you are because you're actually providing the
lifestyle right now.
If you think about the way wegrew up as kids, think of the
way you grew up as kids.
By the way, did you go onvacations as a kid?
No.
Did you go to the beach?
No.
Did you have any of the kind oflifestyle that your kids have?
I grew up in Arvin man.
Okay, okay, so same here, and Idon't want to speak for Dante,

(57:16):
but I'm going to say probably weall grew up pretty like it was
tough.

Speaker 5 (57:20):
It was tough If it wasn't for my nana man, I
wouldn't have experiencedanything like that as a child,
and this is no disrespect to mymother.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
No, absolutely not, I mean.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
I didn't grow up with a father, so it's no disrespect
to him either.
Like we're not even at thatplace in life, me and him,
anymore.
Yeah, but if it wasn't for mynana man, I'd like all fronted
by her, you know so.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
God bless the day because without her man, I
wouldn't have culture, Iwouldn't have Amen.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
She took you places.
I wouldn't have manners, man.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
I understand how to hold a door for a woman.
Biggest thing I learned at ayoung age boy if you go pee in
the middle of the night youbetter put that toilet seat down
, because she's been in thetoilet one time.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Yeah, yeah, boy, come on, I need your nana to come to
my house please, oh Nate.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Dante.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Nate shots.
Fired with Nate Shots fired.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Shots fired right there hey.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
Why you have to put me on blast too.
You know what?

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Your nana could have done me some good man.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
She's doing you good right now.
Boy, put that toilet down.
I'm speaking she's speakingthrough me to you, you know what
.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
I love it.
You know what?
I actually did it last nightfor the first time in my entire
married life and she sets up andshe's like, she's like.
I didn't put this one on theseat, I was like.

Speaker 5 (58:29):
I did.
Man?
What's going on?
What?
It's not a coincidence that thefirst time you do that is the
first time I'm not at work.
You didn't come see me atChewy's.
We didn't talk over the phoneOn a call with a bride.
We're not texting over thephone trying to coordinate.
Hey, man, hit me up so I can goover there.
I'm sitting down getting totalk with you.

(58:50):
While I'm here in this moment.
I want to be present.
That's another reason why Iain't been drinking.
I like to be present right now.
I just want to say thank you.
Shared the other day.
I can think of a couple ofnames, but he's that guy.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
He is that guy.

Speaker 5 (59:06):
DJ Richie Rich is that guy.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
And he gave me the ability to do it for somebody
else.
And what's knowledge if you're?

Speaker 4 (59:13):
not sharing it.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
You're just keeping it for yourself, so your legacy
ends with you.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
No.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Nate's legacy will live through me Seeded through
everybody.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Nate's legacy lives through myself.
Me Seeded through everybody.

Speaker 5 (59:23):
Nate's legacy lives through my soul.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Please do not feed his EOL.
Stop it.
No, bro, because I'm going tokeep it a book.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
Sometimes in business people get cutthroat and forget
that to humble yourself,because you were me at one time
and I've worked for differentcompanies and I didn't make a
fraction of what Nate pays, andwe're not talking about
schematics and money right nowonline for everybody else to
hear, but I'm going to tell youwhat.
You hit me up and said I'mgoing to bless you and that's
what you give me.
You give me a blessing, but inreturn, every time that I go out

(59:51):
and your name's on it are westamping it?

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Oh yeah, because I'm not only doing this for me,
you're representing somebody,this guy put.
He took a chance on us Stopputting me out there.
He took chances on us over andover again, even after a bad
review.
Right, we've all had a badreview.
We've all had a bad review Inlife and the boss man will
always hear reviews.
They'll always hear good thingsand bad things, 100%.
So the boss man hears bad shit,he doesn't just run with it, he

(01:00:18):
doesn't believe it, he justdoesn know accept it and jump
down your throat or something.
It's like hey, you knoweverything going all right over
there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
I'm like hell, no, it's not, I'm working with it by
the way, gordon's always honestman he's like I'm literally the
wicked wick of the witch of thewest over here like this chick.
And then literally I text likethat's so funny because the the
the situation that we talkedabout earlier.
I talked to probably three orfour other people Because I got

(01:00:47):
eyes everywhere.
People are like I don't knowwhat she's talking about.
He's doing a great job,everybody loves him, the dance
floor is popping, everything'sfine.
And then I texted BrightonGroom.
Brighton Groom was like yeah,he's awesome, we love him,
everything's good.
So I'm like okay, cool, I don'tever jump to conclusions.
I love you.
I picked you guys to couple andpartner with me for a reason.

(01:01:10):
But, man, thank you so much forsaying that.
Because, honestly, that's theway I've coupled my business and
that's the way I want tocontinue to run my business.
And, yeah, I'm blessed and Iwant to bless as many people as
possible.
But you know what I got?
A great crew, man, and thankyou guys for representing the
brand the way you do.
And just man, you guys are sogreat, I'm so lucky.

Speaker 5 (01:01:33):
You said what you said you would text him.
He would text me like iseverything good?
I'd be like damn, did somebodytext his phone.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
Yeah, that's what it is.
I Somebody text his phone,that's what it is.
I'm like what did I?

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
do wrong.
Man, you guys are scared.
Man, you guys are so scared.
Why is the boss?
Man, you know what?

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Sometimes I'm just checking in.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
It's crazy because it's just checking in, I'm just
saying hi, sometimes I'm justsaying hello.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
How's it going?
He does it to me too.
He's like everything okay.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Of course, you become your own worst enemy.
At times when you're doing agig, you know what.
It only makes you guys better.
It only makes you guys.
You guys are great.
You guys are all great, I loveit now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
Next time I get a text on this next wedding and
man, be like it sucks, hey yougotta text.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
The other day, gordon , I texted I texted gordon
yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
I'm like hey, man, you got spotify.
He's like why are you asking methis?
I'm like, just like, don youdownload songs?
Like he's like why you askingme this, bro, because I'm gonna
send you to a place wherethere's no wi-fi.
Bro, like he's, like he's inhis own head, he's in his own
head like paranoid.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
man like I'm like gordon gordon, I'm sending you
to a place.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Did somebody tell you I was using spotify unless you
got?

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
starlink on your phone, which I know you're not a
T-Mobile guy.
Unless you got Starlink, I gotto ask this question Do you
download the Spotify playlist Isent you?
Okay, all right, good, you do.
All right, cool, we're good.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Oh, and I do.
I do three times over.
I do it on my phone, my iPadand my laptop.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
I have redundancy.
I didn't see the immediateresponse text that I got from
him.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
He was like are you asking me this?

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Like I just so suspect I love it.
He was too.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Sorry, but that was actually me asking.
I was like make sure thateverything's downloaded, Cause
we're going to be in the middleof nowhere.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
I can blame her.
I can blame her.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
I'm going to get me a little Starlink dish and just
set up anywhere, man, A littleStarlink subscription man.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
That's the worst going somewhere and there's no
Wi-Fi, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
I have two Caliente weddings back-to-back weekends.
There's nothing out there, no,but these people that I'm
sending to have Wi-Fi supposedly.
And cows.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
And cows.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Thank you honey.
That's it.
I love animals.
I'm cool, All right, cool Wi-Fiand cows.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
The Wi-Fi may or may not drop out.
So that was it.
Do you like cow tongue?

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
We're not going to be reliable?
No, we're not.
We're good.
We're not relying on it, we'regood cow tongue.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Yes, I've had cow tongue where did you grow up in
basque?

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
of course, I know.
Did you grow up here, gordon?
Yeah, he's an arvin, he's fromso you're you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
You grew up in biggersfield and you don't like
basque food no, I love basquefood, I just don't like pickled
tongue.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I don't like tongue either.
I mean, it's okay, I can eat it.
You're supposed I'm mature, Ican eat it, I can deal with it,
I can tolerate it.
Kind of like different kinds ofmore exotic sushi.
I'm like sushis and stuff likethat.
I'm like I don't know.
Yeah, you don't mess with that.
Here's the thing about Basquefood.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
I go to Basque food and besides the pickled tongue,
I'm like, okay, you got one dishthat's pretty signature.
The rest, you got french fries.
You got spaghetti you got bread, you got spaghetti.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Uh-huh, you got bread .
Yeah, you got beans, uh-huh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
None of this Fried chicken.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
Yeah, fried chicken.
Yeah, how is this?
Basque, yeah, it's absolutely,and the cabbage.
I feel like I'm going to die,yeah, and all you've got to do
is get the starter, or whateverit is just.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
It is kind of so, basically Basque food of foods.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
It seems like a poor soup kitchen yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
It's like this is all we have, we're going to throw
it together.
You know, and that'sBakersfield for you, they get
some chicken and meat every oncein a while, but it's a poor
soup kitchen.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
It's like partially French and like partially New
Orleans.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
Is it southern France or northern France where Basque
population was, and thenBakersfield became the Basque
capital?

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
of the world and beans and salsa, yeah, and bread
.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
But French fries actually aren't from France, so
how did they get in there?

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Were they from Holland or something I don't
know?
Probably Holland.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
Chickens don't have nuggets.
It's also not from.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
France.
Salsa is not from France.
You're right, we're heading wayoff.
Yeah, I'm sorry All right, Allright.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
So we're going to close.
We're at an hour in.
I'm going to close with onequestion and it's going to be
for everybody as well Directedkind of towards Courtney Wifey
for lifey, Wifey for lifey.
I did my homework on you too.
You have a wifey for lifeysaying I want a piece of advice

(01:06:02):
from everyone here on asuccessful relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Successful relationship.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
You have to be best, Honestly you have to be best
friends.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
You have to be best friends, you have to literally
want to spend all of your timetogether, and I know that sounds
ridiculous, but honestly, whenI'm excited about something, I
want to tell him first.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
When I want to go on a trip.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
I don't want to go with my girlfriends.
I love my girlfriends.
I want to go with my husband.
I don't want to be somewherewhere he's not experiencing what
I'm experiencing.
I don't want to do anythingthat he's not doing with me.
It's so important to be friends.
It's actually, I think, thinkromantic love is amazing and of
course, we love the fireworksand the sparks and the physical

(01:06:49):
like all of that biochemistry,that is all of that is amazing,
but you have to also realizethat, like, at the end of the
day, we're all going to be oldand wrinkly and crusty, and like
maybe you, at the end of theday, you really just want to
hang out with the person thatyou want to like, you just want
to hear everything that theyhave to say, you are interested

(01:07:10):
in them, you love them and youjust want to spend every last
waking moment with them.
And that's what nate is to me.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
He's my best friend, so all right, it's nate I Nate.
I apologize that you're goingto have to follow that up,
brother, but you're next on deck.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Bro, I just want to echo everything that you said,
ditto.
Have you ever seen Ghost withPatrick Sway to you, that guy
was so stone cold, he's likeditto Everything you said babe.
No, she's right, absolutely.
I can actually add a lot tothat, but she's right.

(01:07:49):
You grow either with somebodyor you grow apart from somebody.
So there are so many changesthat we go through, especially
in our 30s, in our 20s, in our40s, when you hit 40.
And there are so many lifechanges that you go through,
like, if you're not goingthrough that with somebody and
you're not growing with somebody, you're growing apart from

(01:08:12):
somebody.
Because there's so many timeswhere you know and this is again
why a lot of relationshipsdon't work is because you have
one person who's you know,really driven and self-motivated
and they want to betterthemselves and they're reading
their personal development booksevery day and they're literally
like you know, maybe they'rereading scripture every day and
they're spiritually growing andthey're doing all these things

(01:08:33):
and the other person is left onthe sidelines.
You got to literally link armswith these people and you got to
.
You know, especially if you sayyou love them.
You got to grow with thatperson.
You got to.
You got to say hey, you got tobe talking about your goals with
this person.
You got to be like, say, thisis where I want to be in five

(01:08:53):
years, this is where I see usbeing in you know 10 years and
and can you get behind this?
And and maybe you can give mesome insight on how we can get
there and like, if you're notdoing that with your spouse,
then it's probably got anexpiration date on it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
D man.
We need some words of wisdom onyour side, man.
What's been somethingsuccessful in your relationship,
that you've practiced, that youfeel has strengthened and
solidified your relationshipover time?

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Continue working on yourself, because you can't love
anybody else until you loveyourself.
And it's not all about yourself, but if you don't have
self-love, how can you give loveback to anybody?
And after a while, if you don'thave self-love, your love and
so inside yourself will expire.
And guess what will happen tothe everybody else around you?
Yeah, so it's continual battle,working on yourself and then
find somebody that loves youunconditionally.

(01:09:43):
Man, I'll be honest with you weall have times in our life
where we get dark and you needsomebody to bring you back to
light.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
And you got to find somebody that will truly love
you through your darkest momentsand then, when you can be the
one to shed the light, you shedlight, you turn back around and
you reciprocate that love.
Man, find somebody thatreciprocates love with you at
all times.
It's not just about havingchildren, like Courtney said.
It's about somebody that, whenit's all said and done, the

(01:10:12):
physical can't be no more.
There's no more intimacy.
You're broken, you're avegetable, you're down, your ass
needs to be wiped.
That person you look over andyou can still say I love, yeah
do it all I would never lovenobody like I love you, and I
think I said that to my wifemore times in this last recent
year than I've ever said it.
I would never love nobody likeI love her.
I couldn't, I couldn't meetanother family over after more

(01:10:35):
cousins and all that, but allthat doesn't matter.
Yeah, I would never investmyself into anybody other than
my children, because I got goals, dreams and aspirations outside
of my kids and my wife.
That as I get deeper into thosegoals and I'm building it brick
by brick, the only people Iwant to share that with, and the
financial way with all that I'mgoing to gain, is them, and all

(01:10:58):
the knowledge that I've gainedin life through everything I've
been through the only ones.
I want to give that back to isthem at the end of the day.
And then once you get and you dofind that, because some people
find it differently and somepeople lose it and it's a
blessing if you get it back.
I've been there.
So when you do get it back, youhold on to it and even when

(01:11:18):
you're slipping in yourself Fordear life, you hold on to it,
and even when you can't, as longas she's still holding on to
you that means you got a chance,somebody that sees the better
in you when you can't see it inyourself, and, in turn, when
it's time to do something like Ilove my wife.
She's so creative man, she doesflower arrangements, so what

(01:11:40):
she's doing right now I told youshe couldn't come and her
family they're beautiful man, myfather-in-law, my mother-in-law
, some of the most beautifulhumans on this earth right, they
love us, they take care of usas best as they can and I don't
want her to work some nine tofive and the family has a

(01:12:04):
company so she can go work forthem and make money.
But then the day it's like I'drather you find exactly what I
found something you love andthis is people get it confused.
Like I just show up and playmusic for hours, no homie.
Like there's work put into thisright and I mean all the
equipment set up the breakdownthe teardown is two hours alone
bro oh yeah, okay, we do it, wewedding I got to sit and meet
with you, I got to text you, Igot to do no.
That's why the money is equaledinto that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
But there's so much into what we're doing that
you're just not paying for thatlittle bit of service.
You're paying for a full dayservice of an artist, yeah Right
, so I want my wife to findsomething that she loves and

(01:12:48):
that would be like something Ican give back to her.
It's like, don't worry aboutthe money too much when I make a
little bit, but not enough tolike keep us secure, but make a
little bit to help.
But until you find that thingthat you love, we're gonna keep
doing exactly what we're doing.
I'm gonna keep poking andprodding.
If it's check to check, one amonth, or if we live in, we're
good, going vacation, cool.
But until she can havesomething like courtney has and
like busy b has and your wifehas, I'm gonna keep fighting,

(01:13:09):
I'm gonna keep scratching, I'mgonna keep calling because I'm
trying to give her what she gaveme.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
I will not be here without her.

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
So in this instance, this is the epitome of
unconditional love.
I'm just trying to give it back.
It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
that's awesome.
So we going to wrap this up.
I'm going to give everybody aminute.
I want you to tell me who youare.
I want you to give me yoursocials, any kind of information
that you want everybody else tohear and have and have handy.
Let us know what's going on,let us know of your events
coming up, let us know ofeverything.
So we're going to start withCourtney.

(01:13:41):
One minute.
You're on the clock, girl.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Okay, so, courtney, I do events 661.
That's pretty much like all youever need to know, because all
of my stuff is that I do events661 on my website, so it's
wwwidooevents661.
And then Instagram same thing Ido events 661.
Same thing with Facebook, whichI don't use.

(01:14:06):
It's really bad Instagramautomatically puts it onto
Facebook, I know, I'm working onTikTok, but I waste more time
on TikTok than I use it for yeahperusing, yeah Perusing, micro
learning.
Tiktok is really fun for me,and I kind of don't want to
spoil it by using it forbusiness For work.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
Yeah, yeah, it's tainted.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Now that's like where all the kids are that are
getting married.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
Yeah, a lot of young kids getting married.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Yes, yes, but yeah.
So basically what we do is wedo coordination services for
couples that are DIY, so theydon't need a full service
planner.
They don't want to spend fourto $10,000 on somebody to help
them plan their wedding.
They really want to doeverything, but they don't want
to work on their wedding day.

(01:14:52):
They don't want their mom to beum out, you know, at the at the
reception setting up tables andchairs and linens and place
settings, and you facilitatethis.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
Yes, yes, so we just really catered and play settings
and you know all the things youfacilitate this, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
so we just really cater to couples that you know
really want to do the majorityof it on their own but maybe
need help with their mastertimeline and their vendor
coordination and their setup andbreakdown and um, yeah, so
that's basically what we do andwe, I think, do a really good
job at it.

(01:15:24):
We have, besides myself, I havetwo lead coordinators who are
amazing.
Shout out to Shannon andHarmony.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
There we go, they're amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
They are my right-hand girls and they're the
sweetest things in the worldand I appreciate them very much.
And then we have lots ofamazing assistants also, and we
can pretty much facilitateanybody.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
So yeah, mr Nathan Antwine.
Sir, wow, all right.
Yeah, very official, veryformal.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
That's very hard to follow, Okay.
So yeah, Nate Antwine, NALEntertainment.
We have been being afull-service wedding company for
the better part of 12 years.
So 12 years we've done many,many weddings.
I lost count after 400.
So, we've done a lot of weddingsfor many, many brides and

(01:16:15):
grooms.
We strive on that.
We have six fantasticcontractors now that represent
this brand, that fly their flagunderneath my flag uh, that do a
fantastic job for our bridesand grooms.
So, uh, we put a lot into everysingle wedding.
No two weddings are the same.
I mean really, they're alldifferent.
Um, every single thing that wedo is custom fit for the bride

(01:16:37):
and groom.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
As unique as a personality.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
It is.
And you know, we, we, we gathera lot of things on the front
end to just kind of get theirpersonality profile.
It's almost like a matchcompersonality profile.
I can see by their, their songchoices.
You know, the things thatthey've, they've chosen, you
know, doing this for so manyyears, like you, really like
you're, like I got these people.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
You compare it to a wedding that reminds me of that
one we did three and a halfyears ago out in Woody, or
something Sure.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
Right, You're going to experience that very soon.
That one in Woody is coming upnext week for you.
But no, yeah, we prideourselves on being a
full-service DJ wedding DJcompany.
There are people who can DJclubs and do a great job at that
, but there's so much more thatgoes into a wedding DJ.

(01:17:23):
You've got to be a master ofceremonies.
That means you're familiar withthe way that a flow of a
wedding goes.
Then you have to keep things ontimeline, you have to be an
emcee, you have to becomfortable behind the mic, you
have to be able to announce whenthings are happening, which is
very hard for most DJs, I wouldsay by and large, because most

(01:17:45):
DJjs like again like you saidyou, you're the guy behind the
tour.
We all hid behind a facade,yeah and so again, like you
can't be that guy in my company,you have to be the guy that is
the guy outgoing.
You have to be the guy, yeah uh,so, and I'm so proud of all the
people that represent my, mycompany and my flagship, um, but
yeah, that's pretty much whatwe do in a nutshell.

(01:18:06):
Uh, nal entertainment, uh, forall, we do corporate events as
well, but I mean really thesweet bread and butter.
Bread and butter is we loveweddings and that's what we
really wanted to.
Uh, we set out to kind of bethe best at weddings, so that's
what we do.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
All right, my, my, my boy D, the best at weddings.
All right, that's what we do.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
All right, my boy D Cross, I like what you said.
We all hid behind a facade,yeah we all have.
Yeah, I'm done hiding behind afacade.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Oh, yeah, no more, no more man.

Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
Dante Cross, first and foremost man at Instagram,
dj Dante Cross Facebook.
I just go by Dante Cross.
You go on my Instagram man,you're going to see a lot of my
family At the end of the day.
I had a conversation withsomebody a while ago talking
about I need more content.
Well, yes, but it's like moneyor like friends or like anything
, or like anything you do inmoderation.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
The value of the content, all content and good
content, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:18:57):
I'm a father first.
So on my gram, if you pop upone day, you're going to see on
my story pod my baby daughterdoing some crazy dancing.
You might see my son at afootball game, killing it.
Shout out to RJ Flock, that'smy man.
You might see my big daughtercheering, or just me and her
grooving in a grocery store orsomething, because without her

(01:19:17):
I'm not here.
Or you might see my son, lucaman.
His name means bring her alight, because he brought me out
of a dark place.
Man.
So you're going to see thatfirst and foremost because when
you look at my Instagram or youget my phone number or
recommendation, that person isrecommending and referring you
because I sell me.
One day I will be a great DJ.
I plan on it.
I plan on getting you know.

(01:19:39):
We taught I hit you up aboutthe baby scratch.
Now I plan on doing all thatcrazy flipping technique because
anything is built repetition,but it takes time.
But at the end of the day, I'man entertainer.
You get somebody who iscomfortable behind the mic and
every day that I do it I'm goingto get more comfortable.
You get somebody who, again,loves music through and through.
There's nothing better thanmusic.
So, when it comes to musicalselection, jazzy Jeff said it

(01:20:01):
perfectly Play good music, playgood music Right.
So I understand pockets and howto play good music.
Because I know music, I can hiteverything.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
We can genre jump, Come on man we can go in.

Speaker 5 (01:20:11):
I'm married to a Latina.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
I've been with her for 20 years, bro, I got a
little.

Speaker 5 (01:20:17):
you know what I mean, I got a little cumbia, got a
little bit of West Coast, but Igot a little bit of everything
in me.
And with that said, I got alittle bit of everything in me
and with that everything in meit made me who I am, so big.
Shout out to you, gordie B, forhaving me here.
I love brother.
Big shout out to Nate for justbeing a stand-up person, man At

(01:20:39):
the end of the day.
There's a lot of people outhere that have a facade and they
say they're somebody they'renot.
Oh yeah, every time, throughand through, I've talked to you.
Every event, you gave meanything.
I can't even remember themoment that we met, but it was
epic because it must have youremembered me somehow.

(01:21:00):
And the moment that you met mewasn't even how you remember me
when you hit me up to DJ.
So if I keep living life likethat and creating those
everlasting vibes that's what itsays on my DJ card is I want to
create everlasting vibes.
So I do love weddings, but Iwant to jump out and do more
right, more with my artistry.

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
But at the end of the day, if it's a wedding, I'm
putting my all into it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
We know, we're going to get you out at.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Beach Over the City, man.
Oh, stop it, I'm there nexttime, man, we're going to get
you at the next one, I'm therenext time, man.

Speaker 5 (01:21:26):
So it's love all around and I feel the love,
courtney, I feel the love foryou and your husband.
You already know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
I can already tell man.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
It's two power couples and my wife.

Speaker 3 (01:21:45):
Hey, she's welcome.
We'll get her on on the nextone.
Man, we can do this as often aswe want.
Man, this is us.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
She's at home making the bread and butter.

Speaker 5 (01:21:52):
Yeah, the bread and butter is taking care of my
children.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
That's the bread and butter Amen.

Speaker 5 (01:21:57):
That's the bread and butter, right?
They're taking care of mylegacy.

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
This is a lot of fun, dude.
I gotta say this is a lot offun.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
So, last but not least, we got Busy Bee Creations
.

Speaker 4 (01:22:08):
Cali Entertainment.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
What's going on with you?
Where can people find you?
What do you do?
What do you offer?

Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
I do a bunch of balloon arrangement, balloon
walls, photo booths, anythingwith balloons.
What?

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
don't you do.
She's very crafty.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Yeah, yeah she says like balloons, but it's like
this amazing structure of likeglorious.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Don't say I do balloons, because it's like
falls short of what you do.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
Cascading, gorgeous.

Speaker 4 (01:22:39):
Yes, like just amazing arrangement, and I also
personalize like stuff with the.
Cricut.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
You do seating charts vinyl seating charts on mirrors
.
What else?
Etching, etching.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Yeah, you can cut anything on that machine.
Where can everybody find you?

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
How can people get a hold of you?
Cali Entertainment.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
And where are these?
At Instagram And's?

Speaker 4 (01:23:08):
it facebook, instagram.
I don't have it on facebook.
Wait, wait, don't you?

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
have a brand new website.
Do you have a brand new website?
We do have a brand new.
What is the website.

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
Can you please tell me again cali entertainment
grouporg.
I love that.
Oh nice and official, like agovernment website.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
We paid for it Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
You know that ain't getting taken down, that's
official LLC All it calls is dotcommerce.
Your dot com is pale andcompared I got dot org alright,
love it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
It's not dot gov man, so we're still good.
I ain't selling my people out.
All right, Love it.
All right, y'all, we are goingto wrap this up.
I want to thank everybody forcoming out and making this
podcast what it was.
Appreciate you, d-cross.
Thank you for the love, thankyou for the support, thank you
for the camaraderie just the DJcommunity.
Same thing with Nate andCourtney, especially that

(01:24:11):
Courtney branches off into theparties, the events, the
planning and things of thatnature.
It's a variable variable.
It is a very valuable thing tohave within our group, a very
powerful commodity, if you will,in our group.
So we appreciate you guys,thank you guys, and we are going
to go ahead and cut this out.

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