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

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SPEAKER_08 (00:30):
What's the most dope episode?
Season two, episode two, I thinkit is, and we got a uh we got
quite a little cast, man.
I'm gonna call them the unks.
I'm gonna call them the unks ofBaker Swim, man.
We gotta we got some age up inhere today.
I'm the baby unk, man.
I'm doing that.
We got we got big Noe G checkingin his Unk number one, probably.

(00:51):
Probably probably Unk numberone.
Noe G been in it for a while,man.
We got Dos Muchos at the otherend of the table.
Yeah.
Unk number two.
Sagittarius.
We got Henry from the BugPodcast.

SPEAKER_07 (01:07):
I think he's gonna be Unk number three, man.
What up, bro?
Skeeves, your boy the BiggityBomb over here, the most dope
podcast.
I'm enjoying a nice beverageover here.
Thank you for the invite.
Nice beverage, man.

SPEAKER_08 (01:16):
We got food, drinks.
We all it's all love.
We all chill.
We all just take it easy, man,and uh enjoy the art, if you
will.
Uh we got younger, the youngerunks.
I'm gonna say patomime next isthe next unk.

SPEAKER_06 (01:32):
I mean, I'm still pretty old, but you know.

SPEAKER_08 (01:36):
Thank you.
What's pretty old?
Yeah, yeah.
What number is that, man?

SPEAKER_06 (01:40):
Give me a range.
I'll just say I'll just say 37.

SPEAKER_08 (01:43):
37.
All right.

SPEAKER_06 (01:45):
I mean, I'm the fun unk.
You're good.
You're good.
You're good.

SPEAKER_09 (01:48):
You're good.

SPEAKER_08 (01:49):
And then I'm gonna say the babyface assassin over
here, man.
Big Dre, man.
What what what age are youclocking in at, man?

SPEAKER_05 (01:55):
I'm old at heart.

SPEAKER_08 (01:56):
Yeah, old soul.

SPEAKER_05 (01:58):
But uh, I'm 32.

SPEAKER_08 (01:59):
Oh, see, I was right.
I think I was right in the exactorder.
I think it went Noe G, DosMuchos, Henry, Patty Prime,
Andre, and then the lovely QueenB.
I'm old.
You're younger than all of them.
No, no?
No.
Oh, well, whatever.
32.

SPEAKER_02 (02:18):
I call that puppy skin.

SPEAKER_05 (02:21):
32 is the new 16, bro.
That's like puppy skin.
That's how long I've been anuncle, 16.
Oh man.
Early.
My sisters are fast with almostanybody need uh Andre's sister's
info, man.

SPEAKER_08 (02:38):
Uh hit him up after the show.
All right, man.
So we got uh we got quite the uhthe mix, man.
Like I said, we got some unks inhere.
We got some some guys that havebeen in this for a very, very,
very long time.
And I'm gonna start out withNoe, man.
I you know what me.
This is the man.

SPEAKER_03 (03:00):
Is it is it because I'm I have to be in bed early?

SPEAKER_08 (03:03):
Padomon, Padamon's next, man.
I gotta get him out of herebefore he's next.

SPEAKER_03 (03:07):
Right on.

SPEAKER_08 (03:08):
But Noe, man, I've met you a couple times, man.
I think I met you over atElements uh before Manual passed
away.

SPEAKER_03 (03:15):
Probably.

SPEAKER_08 (03:16):
Uh I think Chalk was out there.

SPEAKER_03 (03:18):
Okay, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
That was the first time, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (03:21):
Or or it was uh two goats and a goose.

SPEAKER_00 (03:25):
Uh no, no, with the fairgrounds.
That was the fairgrounds andthen two goats.

SPEAKER_03 (03:28):
Yeah.
And then uh the um Elements.

SPEAKER_08 (03:33):
All right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (03:34):
That's right.

SPEAKER_08 (03:35):
So something that I've noticed from you
personally, man, watching you,watching your journey, watching,
you know, not creep like, man.
I promise I'm a weird man.
I ain't watching that much, man.
But somebody watching me.
Always feel like you know, I Isee you do that's cool.
I see you do more in thecommunity, I would say, than uh

(03:57):
a lot of other DJs that I see.
Uh same thing with Petomime.
I see Petomime out in thecommunity.
I I see you in the community.
When I think of community DJ, Itend to think of No EG.
Why is that?

SPEAKER_03 (04:11):
Because I'm always out there.

SPEAKER_08 (04:13):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (04:13):
Well, I mean, you know, you gotta you have to like
at my age, especially in orderto get booked, you know, you
have to market yourself reallygood out there.
So I like to be involved withthe community because the
community, you get uh all kindsof events.
You're gonna get either aquinceignada out of all that,
doing all that, you're gonna getum uh you know, Suite 16, a 20th
birthday grant opening, anotherum, I don't know, like a

(04:37):
fundraiser or something likethat.
You know, so I mean I I justlike to stay locked in with the
community, you know, especially,you know, I have a lot of uh
clients that um hire meconsistently and all that, and
they're always having something.

SPEAKER_08 (04:49):
So I mean that just smart for business.

SPEAKER_03 (04:52):
Yeah, you know, I mean you gotta and and and you
just can't be out there DJing.
You have to build relationshipswith these people because if you
don't build really if you'rejust gonna go DJ and then leave
and not communicate or somehow,you know, like hey, you know,
like interested or get involvedsomehow or something.
That when you're that close andyou build that relationship,
then they're gonna they're gonnause you all the time.

(05:14):
You know what I mean?
They'll use you all the time.

SPEAKER_08 (05:17):
So you're you're also the DJ that I see, I would
say, most frequently out oftown.

SPEAKER_03 (05:24):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (05:24):
I see you travel a bit, man.
I see you branch out.
Yeah, I see you down in LAquite.

SPEAKER_03 (05:28):
Well, see, again, it goes with building
relationships.
Like and I've been gettinghooked up in Clovis a lot, and
it all started with uh I wascontracted with Walmart and
Coca-Cola, uh Reyes Coca-Cola,some company.
They had called me up to do umall the grand openings, you
know, up California.
Up and down, yeah, yeah.
And so whenever we call you, youjust you know, can you come out?

(05:49):
I said, Yeah, you know, money.
Money is different in townbecause I'm not traveling, but
it's it's it changes out oftown.
So I just want to get that clearwith you, and then they're all
like, yeah, we're good withthat.
I gave them a price.
Okay, cool.
That's all right, cool.
And uh so doing those events,you know, people, you know, they
come up to you and hey, youknow, you have a car, where are
you from?
We have this coming up, okay.
Yeah, yeah, call me up, let'sdiscuss details, right?

(06:10):
Yeah, cool.
Absolutely.
So I go do that, and then youknow, it follows.

SPEAKER_08 (06:14):
It's it's a it's a mixer for DJs.

SPEAKER_03 (06:16):
Yeah, it's a mixer for you as a DJ.
You gotta make it a mixeryourself, you know.
I mean, every event, you know,talk to your client, you know,
even if if you're not busy, kindof act like you know, hey, kind
of help them out.

SPEAKER_08 (06:27):
Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 (06:28):
But uh just stay connected with your clients,
keep it build a relationship.
And I mean you gotta be outthere, out of sight, out of
mind.

SPEAKER_08 (06:37):
Yeah, if they don't know that you're there, if you
don't know if they don't knowyou do.

SPEAKER_03 (06:43):
We'll call you up.

SPEAKER_08 (06:44):
Yeah, and they'll say, Hey, you remember the DJ
from XYZ?

SPEAKER_03 (06:48):
And they'll say, Yeah, I know him, I can give you
his info and hook you up, andyeah, and that's how I've been
getting hooked up a lot lately,even more, with new people that
I've noticed that they're newclients, you know.
But like I just got hired withClinica Sierra Vista.
I did one event for them.
She called me again and doanother one, and now she just
called me again and now they'regonna have another one.

(07:08):
So that's three events that Igot from her, and then meeting
her was at a mixer.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
So, you know, we connected, shewas, yeah.
I I remember you did this at themixer, you DJ there and all
that.
Can you do our yeah?
We need audio, we need a podium.
I got all that.
You know, I bought a podium andshit.
Yeah.
Even if I don't have it, Istarted noticing that a lot of
mixers were asking me, Hey, canyou well do you have a podium?

(07:28):
No, I don't.
I go, okay.
So I hooked up the podium, youknow what I mean?

SPEAKER_08 (07:32):
Am I losing business because I don't have a podium?

SPEAKER_03 (07:33):
Yeah, so boom.
Yeah.
Well, instead of callingsomebody else for that, hey,
here's your package.
I got a podium now.
So you need audio, you know,hey, you want some up lights
too?
It'll look nice for your oh, youknow, yeah, all right, cool, all
right, yeah, boom, you know,I'll shoot you the quote right
now, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
And usually if it's like, youknow, you don't always have to
charge an arm and a leg, man.

(07:54):
Like, usually, this is what Isay.
If if it's a Monday, like this,I did a gig this past Monday,
800 bucks, bro, and I wasn'teven there.
But that was like literally, Iwas supposed to play from 7 to
11 30.
I played from 7 to 10.
I was out of there by 10 15.
Sure.
But it I always say, well, evenif it was 350, 500, that's five,

(08:15):
three fifty, uh, three hundredand fifty, five hundred dollars
you're not gonna have in yourpocket on Tuesday.
Like, you know what I mean?
Come on, like, and what are youwhat are you gonna do on a
fucking Monday?
You're gonna sit your ass down,you're gonna do it, like take
the fucking gig for 300 bucks.
If they can't afford 500 or 600,fucking charge 300.
All right, yeah, what's wrongwith 300?

SPEAKER_08 (08:31):
Do you know everybody in the world that
makes$300 in one day?

SPEAKER_03 (08:34):
And in fucking three hours or two hours that you're
gonna be there, and they'refeeding you and it's fun, it's
something you like to do.
I take those little gigs aspractice, you know what I mean?
I'll practice, or I'll I'll testnew music on them, you know what
I mean?
Those are those are the littlegimme's.
I I call those gigs gimme's, youknow what I mean?
Because you can test them, youcan play whatever you want.
Yeah, there's no, it's not likeyou're doing a wedding, you know
what I mean?
It's kind of like, you know,you're you're just you know it's

(08:56):
practical, it's fun.
You're you$300, man, you'regonna have it in your pocket.
That's the Ouija's, you knowwhat I mean?

SPEAKER_08 (09:02):
A lot of people in a uh, I would say the younger
generation, they fail to havevision the long term, the long
run.
Another thing is one smalllittle event that I'm doing
today will reach somebody in asuit or reach somebody that's uh
ahead of somewhere that will nowhire you because of that one
little event that everybody elsesaid, no, I'm not doing for$300.

(09:25):
Well, I'm gonna do it.
Okay and I'm gonna turn thatinto a$2,000 quinted next year
and a$3,000 wedding the yearafter, and and they don't see
that vision that lower.

SPEAKER_03 (09:35):
And see it from from doing the small audios and
visuals that I do like formixers and all that, that
brought me now to do like bigum, I'm not gonna say political
parties.
I'm not gonna say, you know, whoparties.
But now, but now they hire me todo like their galas or their
big, you know what I mean?
Where I mean, you know, the thegoza guy that's running for

(09:56):
mayor, he was at this event thatI was doing the whole thing.
And I was you know, kind of youyou get nervous, I mean, but
that's why you always go early,set up early, and do a test run.
It's like it's like you're a banor some shit.
You you want to make sure you'reyou're gonna walk where you just
go home, relax, and then youdon't have to worry about it,
you just walk in, turn it on,and you know everything's gonna
work already.
Instead of going in late,setting up, and then you just

(10:16):
all that pressure, and then youhave shit, something's not
working, you're like, fuck, youknow, shit starting, you know,
what are you gonna do?
And I don't drink or smoke whenI go do my because man, you
know, I mean, I've been thereback in the 80s.
Uh fucking, you know what Imean?
I had one bad one one time.
You're you're not in your rightmind, you can't fix it, and it
just takes you longer, you'reloopy, you know what I mean?

(10:38):
So nah, you I don't I don't Idon't drink or smoke or anything
before after, you know, that'sdifferent.
Of course, of course.
I'm not really a big drinker,but a smoker, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (10:46):
But yeah, I mean that that's just like at work,
right?
Normally you're not gonna drinkand smoke at work, but
afterwards, I I'm gonna enjoymyself a drink and a smoke and
chill and and like a gentlemanand and uh uh conduct myself
accordingly and handle business,do whatever, but I'm gonna be
real, I'm gonna be high.

SPEAKER_03 (11:01):
Yeah.
But I mean, if you if you reallyif you really wanna be sore all
day, all day on your feet, youwant to be.
But if that's if that's what youwant to do, like longevity, like
I mean, if you don't thinkyou're gonna because there's
some DJs that are just DJingright now and all that, but
they're not connecting.
You gotta you gotta put moneyinto social security because
later on, when you're older,bro, you know what I mean?

(11:22):
Yeah it's not gonna be easy.
You're not gonna be able to geta regular job.
And the DJing eventually that'sgonna go away.
I mean, it's gonna go away.
Like I I mean, I'm I'm blessedto still be doing it, you know
what I mean?
But any day now it could goaway.
But I worked my whole life.
I worked, I DJ'd right after.
You know, it wasn't like I wasjust, you know, I worked for
Kaiser Permanente, I had a goodjob, you know, and everything.
So once I was done with Kaiser,I started doing uh work for the

(11:44):
housing authority, but then butI always kept the job on the
side, yeah, because you knowbecause that's what puts money
into social security andbenefits and and all the
intangibles that I got the 401,but I can't get into that shit
until I'm 65.
You know, that's still a longbetter quitting and crazy ass
burgers.
See, but that's what sucks aboutthat is that man, you gotta wait

(12:06):
for you know, I'm alreadyretired, but I have to wait now.
It's because I didn't retire at65.
Yeah, yeah.
You retired early.
Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, you know, but yeah, youknow, you gotta you gotta think
of it that way.
You know, you don't just thinkthat DJ's gonna do right now,
it's good money because you'reyoung and you know, you're
making good money and all that.
But are you saving?
Are you putting it away?
Are you again vision and futurelong term?

(12:27):
Yeah, you gotta think about thefuture too.

SPEAKER_08 (12:28):
So that's gonna go into a segue, man.
Tell me about radio, brother.

SPEAKER_03 (12:32):
Radio's fun, man.
Is it I started radio in 1997?
Yeah, I was with uh Hot.
Well, back then it was uh Kiss94.1, and then uh it went into
Hot.
Um it started off.
I was doing a uh I did a concertat the uh Cal State, and it was
uh Silky Fine and uh Romeo andJuliet.

(12:53):
Yeah, and uh I can't rememberwho else it was, man, but uh uh
I did that show and then uh MarkFeather, which was the uh
program director for thestation, he uh he walked up to
me and he goes, Hey, can you canyou put this shirt on?
It was a kiss sniper, and Isaid, No.

SPEAKER_08 (13:10):
Are you paying me, motherfucker?
Oh exactly what I said.
Yeah, are you fucking paying me?

SPEAKER_03 (13:15):
Yeah, well, no.
He's all that's uh I like that.
I why what's the reason?
Because I don't work for you.
So why am I gonna wear it?

SPEAKER_08 (13:22):
Why am I gonna represent you?
Why am I gonna make you lookgood?
Yeah for free.
Yeah, yeah.
That was it.
That was that was it.

SPEAKER_01 (13:28):
That's when you that's when you hit him on.
He was like, he's different.

SPEAKER_03 (13:31):
Yeah, so then uh so after that, um after the whole
show and everything, uh, me andmy girl were taking off, and I
don't remember if we got a ridewith somebody or I don't know
how it happened, but he ended uptelling her, hey, go with us,
we're gonna go to the limo,we're gonna go after party or
whatever.
Ooh, science, hey you wanna go?
I really didn't want to go, butshe's like, let's go, fuck it,
it'll be fine.

(13:51):
You mean I was all right, fuckit.
So we went in and and he throwsa shirt at me and he goes, He
goes, You want to wear thatshirt?
And I said, No.
He goes, Well, the reason I wasI was wanted to talk to you
after that, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, he goes, I kind of wantedto see if uh, you know, we're
gonna start a house show.
I want to see if uh you want tobe the, you know, I mean, you I
know you play house, you know,because back then in the 90s,
you know, it was the hard housewas hitting, you know.

(14:11):
So that's basically what we werea lot of us were well, we were
playing everything, but most ofit, some of it, there was a time
when we were playing hard house.
Predominantly, yeah.
And uh so I said, All right, hesaid, Yeah, it'll be a four hour
uh eight-hour show, four hourson Friday, four hours on
Saturday.
I said, Damn, that's a lot ofrecording.
That's a lot of time, a lot ofrecords, too.
Yeah, so then uh, you know, Ithought about it, I said, Well,

(14:34):
let me think about it, you knowwhat I mean?
And he goes, Yeah, so but whatdoes it pay?
And then you know, he told me,and I said, Oh, okay, well,
that's that's cool.
That's doable.
Yeah, that's that's our youknow, hourly, you know what I
mean?
Like, so I go, well, fuck it.
You can do one hour mix, ittakes you like two hours to do
it if you don't like the wayit's coming out or whatever, you
know what I mean.
Back then, back then that wasme.
I was fucking now.

(14:54):
I don't give a fuck.
You know, I was recordedfreestyle.
I don't edit, I don't do that.
If if I fuck up, it's gonnasound fucked up.
That's gonna that's the way it'sgonna sound like.
I'm a human fucker.
Yeah, right.
It's that that's you know what Imean.
That's a real mixing.
Like putting my car, you go,damn.
No, he goes, All that man, hegoes, That shit brings me, takes
me back because it's like you'remixing, like real, you know,
mixing, like it's not all editedand shit.
Right, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (15:13):
That's that's what I say about I'm sorry to
interrupt, but that's that's onething I appreciate when I listen
to a mix.
If I hear if I hear a fucker,I'm like, okay, because now I
know I'm listening to a humanbeing.
I know I know you gotta yougotta have imperfections.

SPEAKER_03 (15:25):
Yeah, I'm not gonna sit there and I mean I'm too old
to be sitting there and doing itover and over there.
So but, anyways, man, uh yeah,so I started doing the house
show, and then uh I started uh Irecruited uh this guy named Alex
Boogie and Damage.
I got them two.
Uh, you know, it it four hoursis too much, man.
So eight hours, I mean.
So I gave them each like twohours each, two hours.
Then I I can't remember whatother DJ I got.

(15:46):
God damn it, I can't rememberwho it was.
But um anyways, I recruited likethree of them and they were all
training them in, you know whatI mean, and shit.
And uh I was giving them a pieceof the pie, you know, you know,
take them to dinner or whatever.
Every time the numbers wouldcome up, you know what I mean.
We were number one at that hour.
Yeah, I'd take them to school,we eat.
Let's go, you know, we'reratings party, but you know,
really it was it was our ownlittle ratings party, you know,
for the for the house show.

(16:07):
And then uh after that, likeafter 10 years, you know what I
mean?
I kind of got tired and let'scut it, you know what I mean?
So we did, and then I starteddoing on-air uh weekends and
then uh pandemic hit and cuteverybody off, you know.
So it was kind of it was timethough, I mean, because I was
like, I don't want to be on air,you know, hey, I'm not a
footpoint one, blah, blah, blah,with a bunch of 15-year-olds,

(16:28):
you know what I mean?
So I'm cool.
So then uh Danny had hit me upabout going over there to Groove
and then Danny Hill.
Yeah, uh Danny, that came later.
Danny Danny Pete Danny Pete.
He was PD at Groove.
So I said, all right, I go,well, I just want to mix.
Like I don't wanna, you knowwhat I mean?
I don't want to because hewanted me to be on, I don't want
to I don't want to do all that.
I just want to mix, yeah.
So and that's what I did.

(16:49):
And then Danny Hill, after wellsome shit happened with with
that station, and and it's funnybecause now I'm back, it's kind
of like that was a segue now.
So uh yeah, you know, uh I meanI like I said, you're I would
you're not paying me.
Like I'm I'm just sending youmixes, you know, it's just that

(17:10):
in other words, think of it.
This was just another platformfor you, also, you know what I
mean?
It's just you know so uh I wentin, I was gonna mix with
Drewski, and then they got win.
I was the only one that got anemail.
Oh, we will no longer need yourservices.
I can't wait to shoot that emailback, but I'm just kidding.
I hear you.
Nah, but you know what I'msaying, like you know, and then

(17:31):
uh it was just whatever.
So, anyways, uh I thought aboutgoing with Drusky, you know what
I mean, and and then you know,Danny he'll hit me up, and me
and Danny met up and you know,went to breakfast, and and uh,
you know, he said, Yeah, I'vebeen trying to get you over
here.
Danny's a cool dude, man.
You know, I I never really knewhim or sat out and talked to
him, you know, like that, but uhhe's you know we started get to

(17:52):
know him and he's a really cooldude, man.
And uh so I told him, you know,okay, well, I want to do this, I
want to do that, and I want tohave this show, and I want to do
this.
And he said, Okay, he goes, butlet's hold off on this show, he
goes, until next year.
Until this one next year.
And I won't tell you why yet,but got you.
Okay, it was already in theworks.
He goes, but he goes, that's whyI want to talk to you.

(18:13):
I said, sure.
All right, cool.
You mean I don't want to say toomuch, but yeah, yeah,
absolutely, man.
Uh so then I said, All right,cool.
Um uh I said, well, let's uhlet's do it then, you know what
I mean?
And then uh he goes, well, youcould do, I said, I want to do a
house show also, you know what Imean?
Just like a two-hour show onSaturday nights.
He's all right, because I got somuch dope house, man, and where
am I gonna play it?

SPEAKER_09 (18:32):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (18:32):
He goes, All right, let's do it.
So I and I'm I'm the one laggingright now.
Sorry, Dan.
I'm the one lagging right now,you know what I mean?
Because uh I still haven't sentmy writers, I haven't sent my
you know, like my liners, what Ibecause Kate's gonna have to
voice it all for me, you know,to get it started.
So I'm lagging on that.
But uh that's what I'm gonna Iplan on starting on on uh 98.1
on uh rewind, and then later onthe other work will come up.

(18:56):
It's in the works, yeah.
It'll come up somewhere else.
But yeah, man, that's as far asradio, and I mean it's you know,
it's always good to, it's just aplatform, you know, like
something you know, keep you outthere, keep people, you know,
booking you.

SPEAKER_08 (19:09):
And some people like, you know, if you're on the
radio, the notoriety of hey, Igotta lie, I gotta DJ from the
radio.

SPEAKER_01 (19:15):
I I don't I don't listen, this is my own personal
opinion opinion, but guess what?
When it comes to this music, Idon't care if you're make you're
making if you're an artist, Idon't care if you're a DJ or a
personality.
There's something about thecelestial radio.
When you hear that on that, whenyou know when you're on that
celestial radio where you knowit's not like on the internet
where, okay, I got this manylisteners.
I got this, you you don't know.
Yeah, I mean, they they know, Imean, but number wise, whatever,

(19:37):
how they gather it, but just tofind out.

SPEAKER_04 (19:39):
Yeah, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 (19:40):
Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm aware, yeah, I'm aware, I'm
aware that, but I'm I'm saying,like, like, you know, to the to
the average person, like just toknow that, like, hey, just turn
on the radio and you're gonnahear me.
That that that's always gonna besomething.
I don't care, you know what Imean?

SPEAKER_02 (19:53):
What technically it's a different feeling too
when you hear yourself, when youhear your mixing on the radio,
it's a different feeling.
Right.
It'll seal a deal for people.

SPEAKER_01 (20:00):
I mean, think about it.
I mean, think about every moviewe've watched, you know what I
mean?
If it's about an artist orsomething, that moment is when
they hear it on the radio.
Now that's that's that's when itthat's when everything begins,
is when they're on the radio.
Every every music movie we canname, that was the point.

SPEAKER_03 (20:14):
So that's why I'm saying, like, people that don't
know radio, they love, they lovethat.
People they love to hear liketheir names or anything kind of.

SPEAKER_08 (20:21):
What do you guys, what do you guys, what's your
take on the newest, the newestradio quote unquote takeover
with Danny Hill and Danny andKate and all that.

SPEAKER_03 (20:29):
Danny's gonna do great.
Yeah, he's he's gonna do a goodjob, man.
Danny's he knows what he'sdoing.

SPEAKER_08 (20:34):
I mean, that that's that's a pretty impressive thing
for it's coming.
That's a pretty impressivething.
I mean, that that that excitesme.
Five stations now.
And it excites me that a normalhuman being like you or me or
like any of us who came fromDJing, who DJed some weddings,
who who did whatever, now wentand opened his own radio show,

(20:55):
his own radio station, and nowhe's swooped up.
Well, how many three other ones?

SPEAKER_03 (20:59):
Yeah, he has five total of five now.

SPEAKER_01 (21:01):
Yeah, it's a lot of people.
And sat on the info on the andsat on it.
That that tells you that tellsyou enough right there.

SPEAKER_08 (21:09):
Like he was he posted a teaser, he said, Hey,
big news coming, you know.
Normally, hey, I'm gonna putsome uh man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Somebody's gonna be upset bythis next comment, man.
It's fine.
But people always saying bigthings coming.
Yeah, right, right.
When there's nothing, there'sthere's no big thing, right?
Like, like you want somethingbig, and and I understand the

(21:32):
speaking things into existenceuh and giving love and thinking
about it and saying it andbelieving it, right?
But you also have to showsomething for it, right?
You got something big coming.
Hey, well, Danny had somethinghuge coming, right?
And that was something bigcoming that was that came to
fruition, right?

(21:53):
It's almost like a lot of theseuh counting your chickens or
counting your eggs beforethey're hatched kind of thing,
right?

SPEAKER_03 (21:59):
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

SPEAKER_08 (22:01):
Yeah, and and don't don't share your news, like
don't share your good news.
Like those are some like comesome cardinal sins, or you know,
that hey, do not do this becausethere are a lot of people
wishing on your downfall.
Uh-huh.
There are a lot of peoplerooting against you.
There are a lot of people thatthey are unhappy with themselves
and are envious or jealous orhateful or whatever it may be.

(22:24):
When when somebody experiencessomething that that should be
celebrated, something thatshould be grand and great and
and people should be happy for.
And then all of a sudden it'skind of like a whole lot of
strangers are happy for me.

SPEAKER_03 (22:37):
That's something that every DJ, I mean, anybody
can do it, just do it.
Anybody can have an event.
Anybody can be a promoter,anybody can, you know, uh just
can do anything.
Anything any other DJ is doing,you can do it too.
Just do it.
Yeah, that's it.
We did our we did our somepeople hate because you're doing
it.

SPEAKER_08 (22:54):
Yeah, we did our little beats over the city.
Yeah, they it it it started fromsomething of uh of a wild idea
that that I've always had that Iwanted to perform on a rooftop
somewhere.
I see these goddamn YouTubevideos uh venue.
I see these YouTube videos, man,and and these DJs are on Santa
Santa F San Francisco rooftopsand just the most epic, you

(23:16):
know.

SPEAKER_03 (23:16):
I've done a couple rooftops.
I hate you, man.
It's just not not here in town,but I mean it it it's it's a
cool experience.
Did you bring your own sound?
No, no, I didn't have to.
Oh, big dog over there had tostand up for all.
Well, I mean I'm messing withyou.
I'm messing with down with that.

(23:37):
I mean, I wish some of some ofthe spots I wish I would have,

SPEAKER_08 (23:40):
Right, but not coming upstairs and shit.

SPEAKER_03 (23:42):
My homie uh Moosey, uh uh Chris Boogie, he he's in
LA.
He's the DJ, he's oh OG DJ withme.
And I mean, like we we did VDows, we did everything, but now
he that's what he does now inLA.
He goes and sets up all the uhsound system for all like DJs
and all, and that's what he getspaid.
And sometimes I'll I said, Whatare you doing this weekend?
He goes, I got a couple parts.
All right, I'm gonna be in LA.
Pick me up.
All right, cool, pick me up.
And I just cruise around withhim.

(24:03):
Yeah, if I just go to LA to goeat, we go eat.
I just go help him out and checkout the spots.
That's what I'm seeing out.
Yeah, mansions.

SPEAKER_01 (24:10):
Hey, stay up in the motel Mondays, don't he?

SPEAKER_03 (24:13):
Yeah, I'll be going uh I'll be going on motel
Mondays.

SPEAKER_01 (24:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (24:18):
But uh that because that's when I go to LA because
after my gigs, you know what Imean?
So Sundays I'll go to LA.
That's what's up Sunday throughTuesday or Wednesday, and then
I'll, you know, I'll hang outwith the my DJ buddies up there.

SPEAKER_01 (24:28):
Hey, bro, hey, let me just tell you personally,
that that shit's inspiring tome.
That's why whenever you see mein LA, I'm on like, hey, look at
me.
You know what I'm saying?
It's you.
It's you.
I'm putting that out that that'syou.
That's you.

SPEAKER_03 (24:39):
You know, it's like it's uh it's cool because you
know, you I just go with him andhe and and over there, it's
there's always something goingon every fucking day, Monday
through fucking Sunday.
Sunday through Sunday, there'salways anything going on.
So he, you know, I just go toclubs, you know, he'll be
walking in, just setting up afucking, we'll go into some
store, clothing stores, right?
Setting up a balances.

SPEAKER_01 (24:57):
But see, but that's my my point simply is that like
I know, I mean, in my mind, Imean, you know, when I'm seeing
the videos, you're just youknow, you're hanging.
And it's basically what I'msaying is that like, you know,
the the DJ fun I see you having.
Oh, yeah.
That's what inspires me.
I'm like, man, like he ain't hejust out here, he ain't enjoying
the vibe.
He watched he listening to themusic and whatnot.
And that's that's what chilling.
Just chilling.
Yeah, real talk.
That's what that's I go over tochill, man.

(25:18):
So I say this, man.
Salute, man.
Keep it up, man.

SPEAKER_08 (25:23):
Big Dre.
Yeah.
You being quiet, homie?
Oh, my girl texted us.
Oh hey, we're gonna pause thisthing.
Let's take care of this businessfirst, man.
Hey, quickly take a picture.

SPEAKER_01 (25:36):
Let her news.
Quick take a picture for thisguy.
Y'all got a newspaper you needto hold up today's newspaper.

SPEAKER_08 (25:49):
Hey, but big hey, big Dre just got married
recently.

SPEAKER_01 (25:51):
Congratulations, it's they own it then, okay.

SPEAKER_08 (25:59):
Reporting and checking, and I won't even give
you shit about it, homie.
Check in.
I don't gotta check in, she'salready here, man.
She knows what I'm doing all thetime.
Petomime, how you doing,brother?
Pretty good, man.
How about yourself, man?
Hey, I'm a little jealous, man.
I'm gonna tell you right now,I'm a little jealous of you,
man.
But look, Petomime hooks me upevery once.

(26:19):
I've gotten some gigs fromPetomime.
He slides in my way, he can't dothem, he's busy, whatever else.
So, first and foremost, thankyou for that.
Yeah, no problem.
Uh, secondly, uh, what the fuckwith the um the guitar, man?
Oh, that's yeah, that's the hardrock guitar.

SPEAKER_06 (26:35):
Yeah, the hard rock guitar.
I mean, we got invited to thethe soft opening, the VIP
opening, and we also got invitedto the grand opening, uh, even
to perform out there too, man.
It was it was a lot of fun.
Thanks, man.

SPEAKER_01 (26:45):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 (26:46):
Well, what's the uh what was the energy?
What was the adrenaline, man?
Uh dude, I mean, we went onright after Brett Young, so it
was like that you know bigartist.
Damn.
Right after the first time I wasnervous.
Country, right?
Yeah, yeah, country.
Country artists.
Yeah, I'm just like, you caneven ask my wife too, because
she was there with me, she'senjoying the show.
I'm literally just lookingaround trying to catch a vibe

(27:08):
out of everybody.

SPEAKER_03 (27:08):
Did you did you follow up with country or I I
didn't actually.

SPEAKER_06 (27:11):
I quit.

SPEAKER_01 (27:12):
I was gonna say I was just thinking the same shit.

SPEAKER_08 (27:14):
I'm like, what like do I put do I put Chris
Stapleton on right after?
What do I do?

SPEAKER_06 (27:20):
Some Garth Brooks, some so about that, like again,
I was trying to get a vibe ofeverybody because I'm there, you
know, watching the show, but I'malso looking, I'm I'm people
watching.

SPEAKER_02 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (27:29):
You know, that's one of the things that I do is I
people watch, I read myaudience, I read my crowd, see
what they're liking, see whatyou know, what t-shirts they got
on, what they're doing, you knowwhat I mean?
So I actually started out withQueen.
I did We Will Rock You because Imean hard rock.
Okay, okay.
And I have this really fun mixum that I got that it's just
like EDM with We Will Rock You,so it's like you know, really
cool segue to do that.

SPEAKER_03 (27:50):
That'll that'll drag them back in.

SPEAKER_01 (27:51):
Yeah, that was that was smart.
That was going off to the left,but keep but keeping them there.
Okay, but keeping them there.

SPEAKER_06 (27:57):
Yeah, and then I followed up with like Kiss too,
you know, kind of kept it atthat.
And then after a while, like theSpanish music really started to
hit.

SPEAKER_08 (28:04):
You you have a uh um a library and a music knowledge
that I I tend to respect, justjust from seeing the gigs that
you do.
You do some gigs with some musicthat might not be my strongest
suit, right?
Tell me about some of thosegenres, why you play those
genres, how they hit you, whywhy you grew up with them, what

(28:25):
the influence was with those.

SPEAKER_06 (28:26):
So, uh, for me, I mean, I love heavy metal.
That's always been my thing.
New metal, thrash metal, youknow, speed metal, whatever you
want to call it.
You know, that that's alwaysbeen me.
So whenever we get together withlike Jerry's or we get together
with other venues and stuff likethat.
Because you did the Aussiething, right?
Yeah, we're the Aussie.
Oh, that's actually we we weresupposed to do a new metal night
that particular night.

(28:47):
So I'd already had it bookedwith them.
And then we got the sad newsthat Ozzy passed, and I'm like,
dude, that was like my idol.
I always told him, like, myfamily, if he dies, I gotta take
a few days off of work.
I'm gonna take Breavement.
You know, like, you know, wherewe're the ones, that was my
uncle, you know what I mean?
Like, that was my my uncle Ozzy,you know what I mean?
And so when he died, I'm justlike, I reached out to to Amy

(29:09):
from from Jerry's, and I'm like,hey, you know what?
Can we switch it up?
Can we do instead of new metal,let's do a tribute night to
Ozzy, because I just I know hiswhole catalog, yeah, and of
course I'm not gonna play Ozzyall night, but at least you
know, exactly.
So stuff familiar with the hits,yeah, exactly.
So I mean you I would do likeDef Leopard and all that stuff,
like everything that was in theera that he was in.

(29:31):
But yeah, I mean, for me, I justI grew up with heavy metal.
You know, I discovered it when Iwas 10 years old.
Started playing guitar becauseof it.
So actually, DJing was like thefurthest thing from my mind back
then.
No, I'm a I've always said likeI'm a guitarist first, I'm a
lyricist first, I'm a I'm amusician first, I'm all that
stuff before I was ever a DJ.

(29:53):
And DJing kind of just like cameeasy to me afterward.
I mean, not that easy, but likeI knew the sound part of it
because.

SPEAKER_08 (30:02):
Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 (30:02):
Because I mean when it came down to the gigs, I was
always the sound guy because Ididn't like how my guitar
sounded or how everybody elsesounded.
So I'm like, you know what?
Let me go back there and let medo it real quick.
So coming to the audio part ofit, like I I learned that first.
And then um, you know, like Isaid, I just for me the heavy
metal thing was just I I love toplay it.
I never had an opportunity toplay it.

(30:24):
It wasn't until I met the peoplefrom Stage Fry Clothing, and um
I ended up doing a gig withthem.
They were doing the nightmare on19th Street.
It was the first event that theyhad ever done.
And I'm like, you know what,guys?
Like, I love the store, I lovehorror, I love you know heavy
metal, like I love the wholevibe.
I'm signing up and I'm doing it.
Yeah, like you know, I'm like,can I do this?
Like, give give me theopportunity, just give me the

(30:45):
chance.
And they did, they took theytook that chance and I killed
it, man.
I mean, I got to finally playthe music that I love that means
something to me, you know what Imean?
And it's like it was a lot offun.

SPEAKER_08 (30:55):
Because as a DJ, we play for other people, exactly,
yeah.
Unless we're here at the house,right?
Yeah, right.
Unless we're here at the house,we play for other people, and
then when you have that thatthat that one gig that aligns
with your genre and music, thenyou get to go the fuck off.
Yeah, I was I was I want to addon to that.

SPEAKER_01 (31:16):
I was just gonna say, and as a DJ, as a music
lover, you how would you havefelt, okay, if like put like
this, I don't know what what thedeal was, but bottom line is
this in your mind, you was like,I'm the only motherfucker that's
gonna do this shit.

SPEAKER_06 (31:28):
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, no, that that's prettymuch what it was.
That's right, yeah.
That's what I was gonna do.
That's his specialty, that's hiswheelhouse.

SPEAKER_01 (31:33):
He's like, Yeah, yeah, he was like, I don't give
a fuck.
What's going on?
I'm doing this.
Yeah, that's what's up.

SPEAKER_06 (31:39):
They could have gone with anybody else, and I would
have been fine with it, but it'slike I my heart was in the
doesn't mean delivering it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 (31:48):
Nah, you can you can't just go with anybody, man.
You can't you can't just go withanybody.
It's mixes up, yeah.
Yeah, no, no, hey bro.
Oh, thanks.
Hey, hey, hey, no, hey, no joke.
I remember seeing that Ozzy uhflyer seeing your name on that
motherfucker, and I'm like,okay.
You knew it, you know it, butno, no, because because guess
what?
You know what it is is Jerry's.
It could have been a band, itcould have been it could have
been a band.
It was like, no, we're givingthis to a DJ.

(32:08):
And that's and let me and let mejust say salute, man.

SPEAKER_08 (32:12):
How many tribute bands can go through this man to
log in as a right?
I know what he's doing.
And it's for one artist,usually, man.
So like even if it's a uh a bandthat plays three or four
different artists, this guy'shead is categorized with 20, 30
different artists, a hundreddifferent songs, BPMs, keys,
energies.
Okay, last question, lastquestion.

SPEAKER_01 (32:32):
Did you play Close My Eyes Forever?
I did.
Okay.
That was one of my segue.
That's my shit.
That's my shit.

SPEAKER_03 (32:42):
Has anybody ever caught caught uh C minus' uh
rock uh set?
It's crazy.

SPEAKER_08 (32:48):
Really?

SPEAKER_03 (32:49):
It's not yeah, it's pretty dope.

SPEAKER_08 (32:50):
C minus on YouTube?

SPEAKER_03 (32:51):
Yeah, yeah.
No, uh, I don't know.
No, well, he did it at uh EricV's birthday party.
He did a rock set.
Yeah, I mean, fucking killedthat.
So it's it just reminded me ofwhen you said you you like rock
and all that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We start out with corn andstuff.
We need you out here though.
I just want to let you know thatwe need you.
I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 (33:08):
Yeah, we need we need to.

SPEAKER_06 (33:09):
And honestly, there, and no offense to any of you
guys, like, but there's not alot of alternative DJs.
There's not your either.

SPEAKER_08 (33:14):
That's my point.
I can tell you that right now.
Yeah, I'll be the first to tellyou that's probably one of my
weakest categories.
I can go yacht rock, right?
I I can go rock, I can do softrock, I can do hip hop, art.

SPEAKER_01 (33:24):
But let's be honest, how many people are going into
uh any kind of uh music store,any kind of uh pro audio store,
and saying, you know what, Icame in here because I love rock
and I want to buy some DJequipment.

SPEAKER_08 (33:36):
Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 (33:37):
That's why that's why that's why that's why I say
I salute you.

SPEAKER_08 (33:39):
How many rock DJs are there?

SPEAKER_01 (33:41):
Yeah, I can't name one.
I can't, I can't, I can't, I I Icannot just say like, you know,
like like like if somebody likethink about it, think about it
like it's like okay, we wantrock.
We just we don't want to hearnothing, we want to hear rock.
We want to hear that shit.
How who you gonna call?
That's my point.
Yeah, well, we know we know weknow now.

SPEAKER_03 (33:57):
We know we know now making it.
But us as like open format DJs,I mean, I that's I call myself.
Absolutely.
Um, I mean, we know when toplay, like, I mean, we don't
play it a lot, but there's gonnathere's times when we should
play it or we know when to playit.
Right.
Yeah, no, and I understand that.
And that's like again, it goesback to you.
But see, read the crowd, readthe crowd.

SPEAKER_01 (34:18):
But see, say for instance, like I'm putting my
I'm gonna put myself out here.
Say, say if it's my black ass uphere, DJing, and they come over
here and they're like, hey, wewant to hear some rock, and I'm
over here and I'm hanging.
I'm okay, woo woo.
And you got a motherfucker likehim over here, he's gonna be
like, hey, you got this, you gotthis, you got this, run this.
And then I'm like, I don't knowwhat you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 (34:36):
That's what that's gonna be that D you should build
a folder with like some coolshit.

SPEAKER_01 (34:40):
I got I got the cool, I mean it ain't about me,
but like I said, I'm justsaying, like, you know, probably
like like you saying, bro, likeyou got you got your market,
bro, bro.

SPEAKER_08 (34:48):
See, yeah, I I I'll say I agree as far as the open
format DJing is I have a folderfor everything.
I have a folder for themerengue, so cumbia, some the
head.
Yeah, you ain't gonna run, yeah.
You ain't gonna run me out thebuilding.
I'm gonna have shit.

SPEAKER_01 (35:03):
Whatever it is, we're gonna we're gonna we're
gonna do it.
But but I'll be honest with you.
I'm gonna say I'm telling youlike this.
Like if the motherfuckers overthere, like I'm gonna tell you
where I'm lacking at is theMiddle East stuff.
If they come over there everyday, like Punjabi, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (35:18):
I got the Bollywood too.

SPEAKER_01 (35:19):
See, I came, I came up with that.

SPEAKER_06 (35:22):
Speaking of that, so I've always said like heavy
metal runs like all the theentire world, my different
countries.
So right now that you mentionedthat you got the Bollywood,
check out this band calledBloodywood.
They're a heavy metal Punjabiband.
They are badass.
Let me tell you.

SPEAKER_03 (35:37):
See, I do a lot of parties for Raji Bra and all
that, and they're Punjabi.
So she uh, you know, every so II have to have that.
Yeah, and Punjabi's fun.
And her brother, actually, herbrother's the one that he'd be,
no, we play this one and playthis one.
Here's what and then next thingyou know I got his whole
Spotify.
I was like, All right, cool.

SPEAKER_01 (35:54):
I remember one time I was at a spot and you know,
Cat was like, I want, you know,he came over there.
I mean, I seen he was in thereand he was like, Man, you know,
okay, boom.
I dropped that.
Of course, you know, I droppedthe you know the Jay-Z.
Yeah, oh and next thing I've gotthe boys.
Yeah, next thing you know, thatmotherfucker was in my face all
night.
He was like, No, brother, thisis what I'm like, I'm like, hey
man, Tido ain't got it.

SPEAKER_08 (36:12):
It's all about Siddhu Muswala, man.
Siddhum Muswala is like theirmech, their their Tupac.
Sidu Muswala was was was India'sTupac.
He died, he was killed, he wasmurdered, whatever.
You have some of that.
And I have Siddhu Muswala, andhe's one of the hottest.

(36:32):
What I was gonna say is mehaving a folder of Punjabi music
doesn't mean that I have theheart or the soul of that music
or understand the message thatthat music is supposed to
deliver at the time it issupposed to deliver.
And somebody with patomimes, youknow, uh his knowledge and his

(36:53):
archive and his brain to wherehe knows what song hits, what
song exudes, what emotion, whatsong is at the right time.
You know, because there'sSpanish songs that I you know I
played, you know, at thebeginning, and I shouldn't be
playing.
That's that's uh that's whythat's why I sat back.

SPEAKER_01 (37:12):
When you start talking about that, I'm like,
that's me.
I'm like, and and and and andthat's always my that's always
my my hesitant is like, okay, Idon't want to, you know what I
mean?
Because like this day music, Idon't want to, you know, I don't
want to be up here looking likea poser.

SPEAKER_03 (37:23):
Yeah, see, and that's what uh weddings and uh
like weddings, that's why westart off slow with like some
slow, cool shit.

SPEAKER_06 (37:32):
Like yeah, the stuff that people love or they can
actually reception to and justbob their head to and all that,
but it's not the good stuff.

SPEAKER_03 (37:40):
And then you kind of start building up the energy.
You start building up the energyand then now you're fucking
playing, you know, some fuckingain't no fun.
Yeah, you're playing all thehood shit, yeah, all the
classics, all the bangers, allthe and you know, and I'll tell
you, there's much politicalpeople there, they party, man.
They've I've done a couplemyself.

SPEAKER_04 (37:57):
Yeah, you start off all professional.
You gotta you gotta work.

SPEAKER_01 (38:04):
I I I like to I like to poke them over like I'm like
let me drop some Bruno realquick.
You see what they you see whenthey moving.

SPEAKER_03 (38:13):
Next thing you know, man, it's like you know, they're
next thing you know, they'rerequesting fucking Tupac and
shit.
It went for disumption, it wentfrom all richy rich to fucking
hood, you know what I mean?
Like, man, well, I got you shit.

SPEAKER_08 (38:26):
Hey, one of my best weddings I ever did was uh a
country wedding up in Woody, youknow, just north of here, right
before Porterville, right beforeyou just crank off into the
mountains or whatever.
And uh it was country, it waslike 300 people, but it was
country country, like cowboyhats and wranglers and boots and
and you know, L L bean orsomething, whatever they wear,

(38:47):
man.

SPEAKER_03 (38:47):
Like you gotta you gotta be ready to rock anyway.

SPEAKER_01 (38:51):
I'm gonna I was go I was going with you, T said,
whatever.
I was like, okay, okay, we bepoking fun now.

SPEAKER_08 (38:56):
Okay, yeah, just like Noah's experience, man.
I was trying to play it safe.
I, you know, I was hitting PatsyKlein and I was hitting George
Strait and you know, all theseclassic country, and then I was
mixing in some soft rock and youknow, trying to, and then
they're coming up to me.
Uh we want too short.
I was like, Jesus Christ, whatyeah, it's it's a it's amazing.

(39:17):
You and you can't judge a uh abook by its cover, and it's a
weird right, right?

SPEAKER_03 (39:23):
Like you look at the crowd and you're like, damn,
this is an early crowd in hell,that's the wrong thing to
fucking say.
Yeah, this shit, I'm leavingearly.
So this looks like hell.
You're like, fuck, you stayanother hour?
Like, God damn, I thought youwere the crowd that was gonna
leave early.

SPEAKER_01 (39:37):
Like, see, like I was saying, like about Panama
when he said, you know what Imean, about how his love for the
uh you know me, for the rockmusic, hard rock, I'm like,
okay.
Like, like that, that was, youknow, like you said, you can't
judge book by his by his cover.

SPEAKER_08 (39:48):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (39:48):

SPEAKER_08 (39:49):
It's a rare thing, right?
So, like, comparatively to likebeing uh Cleveland Browns fan.
If you're a Cleveland Brownsfan, you're definitely a fucking
Cleveland Browns fan as bad asthey suck, right?

SPEAKER_01 (39:59):
Hey, I'm an Arizona Cardinals fan.

SPEAKER_08 (40:01):
And I'm a Raider fan, so I understand, man.
Like we're fucking terrible,man.
If you're a Raider fan, you'vebeen losing for 25 years.
I trust that you're a Raiderfan.
Damn right.
I trust that you are a Raiderfan because nobody wants to go
through 25 miserable fuckingyears of losing and failing and
sucking.

SPEAKER_01 (40:19):
Okay, okay, let me tell you that.
I'm a I'm an Arizona Cardinalfan and a Chargers fan, okay?
And I and I I remember Iremember I remember the year
2000, the Chargers, we didn'twin nothing but one game.
We didn't win but one game, andthat was against and that was
against motherfucking KansasCity.
You know some really loyal fans,the Browns.
You gotta you gotta be a loyalfan.

(40:40):
They ain't playing, they ain'tplaying.
No, they take it seriously.
No, hell no.
When that Baltimore movehappened, and you see how they
was like, they was like, that'sour championship.
That was Mo Dale, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, our Model has a you seewhen they went when the
Baltimore Ravens won that shit,they was like, nah, that's ours.
Yep, that's ours.
It's like that's ours.
We got that one.

SPEAKER_08 (40:58):
What is it, the Texans and the Oilers?

SPEAKER_01 (41:00):
The Oilers, the Tennessee Oil, the Tennessee,
the Tennessee Titans, TennesseeTitans, Houston Oilers.

SPEAKER_08 (41:04):
They did the same thing, they bounced too.

SPEAKER_05 (41:06):
Yep.

SPEAKER_08 (41:07):
Yeah, it's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_05 (41:08):
What's your uh top three Ozzy Osbourne songs?

SPEAKER_06 (41:11):
Oh shit, top three.

SPEAKER_05 (41:12):
Um, good question.

SPEAKER_06 (41:15):
I mean, depends if you want to go like a super
classic or super hard.
Because I mean, one of myfavorite albums was Down to
Earth.
You know, even though he did gofrom like, you know, Blizzard of
Oz and all that stuff, right?
Like when it was Down to Earth,I that album just kind of spoke
to me because it was like, youknow, to my time.
So gets me through wasdefinitely top up there for me.

SPEAKER_01 (41:36):
You know when you know when I see you on a peep
game.
You asked him Ozzie Osbourne, henamed Ozzie Osbourne.
He didn't name Black Sabbath.

SPEAKER_06 (41:43):
You know when I uh And that's true Black Sabbath
too.

SPEAKER_03 (41:46):
You ever hear of rat?

SPEAKER_06 (41:47):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, man.

SPEAKER_03 (41:49):
I I was just gonna say that I was smoking my first
cigarette too.
I said I said I was in highschool and I was uh I was at the
that little dairy or hamburgerstand on Fairfax and uh Pioneer
right there in the corner.
Oh yeah.
Oh no, We Patch Highway and uhand Pioneer, yeah, right there.

(42:11):
I still remember that rat.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 (42:13):
What was he what was the mental space on that first
cigarette?
Where were you mentally, man?
Were you in a cool stage?

SPEAKER_03 (42:19):
Yeah, I was actually uh I was DJing and I remember uh
what the hell?
I was uh we went to uh we werehanging out at uh this doctor's
house.
His name was Dr.
uh damn it's the fucking name.
He had that house right acrossthe street from Foothill High,

(42:39):
big white house right there.
It's it's all fucked up now, butback then that shit was uh
Bullard, Dr.
Bullard, because we were hangingout with his son, and we would
go to that house and then Idon't know, we were just
starting to smoke cigarettes andthere were more cigarettes, you
know, the big long morecigarettes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Old school, dude.

SPEAKER_08 (42:56):
Well, like those the ones that the females smoke, the
big old big, big, long brownones.
Wow, man.

SPEAKER_03 (43:04):
Yeah, we were we're we I went from those from that
to cools, you know what I mean?
So we started yeah, crazy goodold days, man.

SPEAKER_08 (43:10):
Not Newports, nah.

SPEAKER_03 (43:13):
That was my neighbor.

SPEAKER_08 (43:15):
Hey Henry, man, on on the podcast, man, on the bug.
Man, I see you doing all kindsof stuff on the bug, man, and I
see you very, very, very busywith interviews.
I love your energy.
I know you stand up at yourspot.
Yeah, this is weird right here,man.
Yeah, you're a standing prodpodcaster, man.
Yeah, yeah.

(43:36):
You know what?
Tell me about the bug podcast,man.
Tell me about its its itsorigins.
Tell me about the the culture.
What is the bug podcast?
Is it a cultural podcast?
Is it a hip-hop podcast?

SPEAKER_07 (43:48):
It's a fucking takeover, bro, is what it is.
Hey, but first of all, I I wantto thank you for inviting me
back on the show.
It is an honor to be here on themost dope podcast over here, you
know.
And shout out to uh Mrs.
B also, because these drinks arefire right here, you know.
And I I I, for one, I do drinkon the job.
So, you know, this is dope righthere.
These drinks are really great.

(44:09):
Right up your alley.
Yeah, yeah.
And just to let you guys know,breaking news, I did I did DJ
one time.
I did.
I have I picked all the wrongsongs.

SPEAKER_08 (44:17):
Let's make it let's make it more than once, brother.
Let's make it more than once.

SPEAKER_07 (44:21):
I would be down.
I am a huge fan of music, radio,you know, no.
G we're talking about it.
Um, I grew up listening to talkradio, radio, Howard Stern, um,
Big Boy in the morning, youknow, back when I lived over
there in San Fernando Valley.
Um, so I'm I'm big talk radio,music, um, all of that.
You know, I did try to DJ onetime, but yeah, it didn't go
that that great.
We should try again.
I we should try again.

SPEAKER_08 (44:41):
We should try multiple times.

SPEAKER_07 (44:43):
We should.
I feel like I can put in atleast two minutes of good mixes
right there, you know.
You got it, brother.
But no, man, much respect to allthe DJs out there for real,
though, because uh without theDJ, there is no party.
And I've always said that, youknow, that's that's with any
genre, you know.
So that that's um this is cool.
I love listening to this showbecause I learn a lot about
DJing too, you know.
I've had pants of mine on myshow, and he actually mixed.

(45:05):
You did some like EDM shit, huh?
Live right there on the show,and I was just like, oh shit, I
was thrown away, you know.
So that that stuff that onceagain, you know, I feel like
everybody Bakersfield hasdifferent DJs out here.
All of them are fucking good,man.
So this is this is dope righthere.
Shout out to everybody outthere, everybody that's
listening out there, too.

SPEAKER_08 (45:22):
You know, hey, Cheeto's chat out, shout out to
Cheeto.
He slid in, he had a littlescratch in the throat, man.
So we we were afraid he might beuh contagious.
So we said, hey, you gotta getout of here.
Yeah, you can't beat it.
Some of us have to work, man.
Zoom card.

SPEAKER_07 (45:34):
You gotta zoom it in.
That's my boy right there,Cheeto.
You gotta FaceTime that shit.

SPEAKER_03 (45:38):
I gotta I gotta admit, Cheeto's one cool dude,
man.
He's he's he's a cool, he's agood friend.
You know, yeah, shout out toyou.
I never knew Cheeto.

SPEAKER_08 (45:48):
Just like I never knew any of you guys, never knew
him.
I started following him,following you, following a bunch
of people on social mediabecause you know, just love for
the DJ thing.
That's it, that's it.
And and I want to see everybodyelse's experience and and
everything else.
For real, man.
Cheeto, man.
Never knew the guy.
Hit him up, talk to him about umlighting and stuff, projection.
Like he's crazy about that shit.

(46:09):
He's crazy about the visuals.
Yeah, and I was so impressedwith them, right?
I was like, I gotta have that, Iwant to do that as well.
And then he told me how much itwas, and I was like, nah, never
mind.
But hey, lots of things.

SPEAKER_07 (46:21):
That brings a lot to the party.

SPEAKER_08 (46:22):
Yeah, and not to interrupt you, brother, but uh
Cheeto came out to one of my DJgigs that I did off the rails.
It was a Mac Miller night.
It was a tribute to Mac Miller,it was on his birthday.

SPEAKER_03 (46:32):
I said the thing about Cheeto too, he shows love
everybody.

SPEAKER_08 (46:34):
He showed love.
That that was the biggest thingfor me, is he showed love.
Noe G has showed love, everybodyhere has showed love.
Um, and and it's something thatthat means a lot to me.
So I'm gonna shout out Cheetosince he wasn't able to be here.
But but tell us about thepodcast and about the the feel
for it, the genre of it, the youknow, the whole idea of it.

SPEAKER_07 (46:54):
Oh, it's just me talking bullshit, man.
That's pretty much what it is.
Um, I interview a lot of uhmusicians, a lot of rappers,
anything that has to do withmusic, man.
I'm huge on that.
I'm big on lyrics, man.
That's like my shit.
So I break down lyrics, we getthe real stories behind every
every single track from all ourguests.
Um I've had DJs on, you know,and and uh I'm hoping that after
tonight I can go ahead and booksome more, more DJs out here,

(47:17):
you know, because that's one ofthe things I love, man.
Music brings everybody together,you know.
And uh once it doesn't matterwhat genre, man.
I'm into all types of shit, youknow.
And um I love talking music.
Anything that has to do withmusic, whether it's the
production side, recording, um,lyrics, um, anything, you know.
So that's what we chatted up.
We don't just do music, man.
We do um I've had authors on TV,TV uh uh show guests.

(47:40):
You know, we've had an artistout there.
Uh we just had some uh an artgallery that's gonna be coming
up.
We did that.

SPEAKER_03 (47:46):
Other stuff.
I talked to everybody.
We've had that's a good thing todo, though.

SPEAKER_07 (47:49):
Yeah, we've had uh Ted Bundy's brother, Rich Bundy.
I mean, we've had him on, youknow, and we got crazy stories.
We do true crime stories too.
Um we've had Olivia LaVoice whoused to work here.
She works for iHeartRadio now.
She was a news reporter here whoreported on um the yeah, the
Bakersfield 3 case.
We had her on and um true crime.
We do we do a little bit ofeverything, you know.

(48:10):
So yeah, we'll with the doorsopen for anybody that uh that
has a story that wants to comein.
You know, um just last night wewere we interviewed a
16-year-old rapper, and it waslike, dude, this guy is like
he's doing his thing, you know.

SPEAKER_06 (48:21):
Local rapper?
That's awesome.

SPEAKER_07 (48:22):
Yeah, local rapper and uh run it up so him, you
know, and uh he has a tragicstory, but he's putting it all
all that all that negativeenergy is putting it into like
music, a conduit, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (48:32):
So it's like directing it, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_07 (48:34):
So, you know, this is a youngster that could have
been in the streets doing somestupid shit, right?
Taking it out on the world, butnah, man, I think he's impacting
the world in a different way, ina positive way, you know.
So it's just artists like that.
I love to support local artistsout here, you know.
We've have we have expanded toother other cities also now, you
know, yeah, other markets.
We started with the podcast, andthen people demanded the YouTube

(48:55):
channel, which I didn't want todo because I'm I'm a huge fan of
radio, you know, uh podcasting,and um it's good to leave it to
the imagination too, sometimes.
But nowadays everybody wantsvideo.
Yeah, so I I gave I'm givingthem half of the show on
YouTube, you know, which it isslowly taking off.
But um, yeah, we do a little bitof everything, man.
A little bit of everything.

SPEAKER_08 (49:14):
What is what do you think it's about for you, the
the bunk podcast as a whole, asyour uh project.
What is it for you?
Is it the journey or is there adestination?
Is there is there an end goal?
Yeah, there is.
There is.

SPEAKER_07 (49:29):
Um, uh uh there's a lot of things that are happening
right now behind the scenes thatum eventually I'm gonna be able
to share.
Yeah, uh, we got big plans.
We we started the first step,which is taking the bug live.
Now we're hitting differentcities.
We've been to LA already, we'vebeen to Fresno already.
Well, we're taking the show livenow and bringing it to the
audience.
This is more like um audienceparticipation.
And I do bring uh local rappersout there with us too, so we can

(49:51):
spotlight Bakersfield everywherethat we go, you know.
Um, but uh my ultimate goalright now is to have a live
event where I can have multipleartists out there, different
genres, because that's what I'minto.
And um different podcasts, I'vedone different, I've done
interviews with differentpodcasters also.
I like to show that support, youknow.
So I would like to bring them onand uh give everybody a good

(50:12):
solid hour, hour and a half, anduh.
Give everybody a voice and achance.
Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_08 (50:16):
You know, the the underground.

SPEAKER_07 (50:18):
The underground, there you go, man, for real.
So that that's the ultimategoal, you know what I mean?
To bring all these differentshows because there's a lot of
like just like this one righthere, most dope podcasts, you
know.
You guys have something reallygood going on over here, and I
want to be a part of this too,you know.
So it'll be cool if we couldbring this show out there too,
And and just spread, uh sharethe spotlight with somebody else
too, you know?

SPEAKER_08 (50:37):
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, yeah.
So that's what we're about righthere.
It's been fun, man.
You know, the the you know, themetrics for the most dope
podcast, the metrics for my andmy wife's, you know, personal
little podcasts we do, they'renot huge, man.
You know, they get like 200, 300views, listens.
Yeah, but that's still somethingmore than what you had last
year.

(50:58):
The thing that excites me themost is seeing other states and
countries that have listened toit.
It's like it's wild that theythey have chose somebody from
Pakistan, yeah, chose to listento the most dope podcasts, which
A means they probably had tolearn English at some point or
another, the language itself,right?
Yeah, and B is a DJ in in such aremote region or somewhere that

(51:21):
we feel is like I hate to saythird world, right?
But yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (51:24):
But that's where it's at, though.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (51:27):
Yeah, I mean, it's not America, it's not what we're
used to.

SPEAKER_07 (51:29):
It's yeah, you know, it's uh it's a trip though, just
to know that.

SPEAKER_08 (51:32):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (51:33):
Um, I I just recently had my first guest,
he's from London, England.
Oh, so I was gonna use myaccent, you know, but nah, man,
it was uh it's a trip just to belike, hey, but how did you hear
about us?
You know, I was like, Oh, yeah,Bakersfield, you know, there's a
there's a lot of artists thatare from there.
I'm like, oh shit.
It's that's fucking dope rightthere.

SPEAKER_08 (51:50):
Yeah, it's a it's a crazy thing, man.
Big Dre.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (51:55):
What have you been up to, man?
Besides getting married.
I'm actually gonna start uhDJing at the farmer's market.

SPEAKER_08 (52:02):
Oh, really?
Okay on uh Osford Hagen Oaks?

SPEAKER_05 (52:05):
Yeah, right at the Kaiser.

SPEAKER_08 (52:06):
I DJ'd out there once for uh 502 coffee.
Oh, okay.
It was fun, man.
It was a blast.
Good people, everybody enjoyedit, man.
Play a little bit, something foreverybody.

SPEAKER_03 (52:14):
Extremely open format, man.
A lot of people go out to thattoo.

SPEAKER_05 (52:18):
Yeah, hell yeah.
I met uh Martin.
Uh he helps run it.
Yeah, yeah.
He came into Stellas because Inormally DJ over there.
He liked my vibe.
He's like, I'm gonna get you outhere.
I was like, okay, cool.
Let's do it.

SPEAKER_08 (52:30):
That's exactly what Noah was talking about when he's
talking about doing these othergigs, and you know, is Stellas
paying you$800?
No.
But hey, I just hooked up withthe dude that runs the farmer's
market and I got another gig outof it.
So you know, I'm I'm notcomplaining.

SPEAKER_03 (52:45):
It's just like any any promotion is a good
promotion, brother, even whenthey talk shit about you.
That's the best promotion.
For real.
Because everybody likes toeverybody likes to listen to
that.
Everybody got an opinion.

SPEAKER_08 (52:55):
I love hearing the shit about me, too.
And you know what?

SPEAKER_03 (52:57):
And I mean, uh, you know, I talk shit, you know.
I mean, we all talk shit, youknow.
I mean, let's be real, you knowwhat I mean?
But I'm gonna say it, I'm gonnatell you.
I'm not gonna say it behind yourback.
And that's the difference, youknow.
I mean, but like I said, anyshit, I mean, there's you know,
there's talking shit and thenthere's like just talking shit,
you know.
Sometimes yeah, sometimes youknow you're you're saying it
just so that, you know, okay,maybe you know, I mean, if you

(53:19):
can't take constructivecriticism, then you know, maybe
you shouldn't be where you'redoing what you're doing, you
know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, for real.
Yeah, I mean, like, you know,there's certain rappers here in
town that, you know, yeah, theygot mad at me.
Like, dude, I'm you know, thisone, I'm not gonna say who, but
you know, I just I was drunk onenight and I just told her, I
said, you know what?

SPEAKER_07 (53:37):
You fucking suck.

SPEAKER_03 (53:39):
What I said is that you know, you you have a good
voice, use that voice, becauseI've heard you sing with your
voice.
Throw that other one away.
Oh, they're trying to usesomething.
Throw that other voice.
Throw that other voice awaybecause that right there sucks.
She went, I go, yeah, I did saythat.
I go, because nobody else istelling them.

(54:00):

SPEAKER_07 (54:01):
At least you're honest, right?

SPEAKER_03 (54:02):
Yeah.
And I notice now that it's kindof changed a little bit with
them, you know what I mean?
And now they sound good, youknow what I mean?
It's like that rapper is Drake.
That's Drake.
But I mean, you know, it's justlike, I mean, I don't I don't
know, you know, I'm not an Imean, a lot of people say I'm an
asshole, but uh, it's because ofthat, you know what I mean?
I mean, I I'm guessing, you knowwhat I mean, and I don't know,

(54:22):
but I mean I just you know, justkeep it real, man.

SPEAKER_08 (54:26):
Yeah.
Even if even if people have aproblem with it, they still
respect the person that keeps itreal with them in the long run.
They'll be like, hey, you know,Dre came up to me and he said,
Hey, this was kind of kind ofsketchy, man.
You might need to tune, youknow, tighten up on that
transition or do whatever,right?
Just constructive criticism andpeople be getting upset and
shit.
But and even even I think mostpeople will take some kind of

(54:49):
like, hey, man, like that, yeah,you know, but but in the long
run, in the hour after, in theday after, you realize that it
came from a good place.
It wasn't from an evil place, itwasn't from I'm trying to shit
on you, it was from a placewhere I've been there, I've done
it, I care about you, I see thatyou care about your craft.
Yeah, let me just let me giveyou that little tad bit of

(55:11):
information that might help youuh just tighten your craft up
some more, like you know, justjust build a better overall set
and overall performance, uh,overall whatever it may be.

SPEAKER_07 (55:22):
Yeah, that is true.
A lot of them are stuck in thatgimmick though, huh?
Yeah, it's oh man, I I've I'vehad several times where they
wanted to get down with me onthe show, but I tell I tell them
how it is.
Change it, yeah.
I don't know, just I don't know,man.
Just take that littleconstructive criticism.
You took the time to listen totheir music and hey man, you
know, this and that.
You could choose to take it oryou could choose other things.

SPEAKER_03 (55:41):
I'm not gonna criticise like mixing or
anything like that, because youknow, we're not all perfect in
mixing, even me.
I mean, as you get older, you'remixing kind of blah, you know
what I mean, unless you're doingit every day, which I don't do
every day, you know what I mean?
I just you know, I do it whenI'm recording or if I have a
gig, but yeah, my mixing sucks.
It's like it's like, you knowwhat I mean?
Uh you know, just like you'rewiring or something.
You mean I'll be like, dude,what's the line of wiring?

(56:01):
Like, you're cool, but fuck,man.
You got a nice set of cover allyour wires, dude.
Clean up shit like that.
Yeah, I mean, tidy up.

SPEAKER_08 (56:08):
Yeah, take some pride in what you're doing, what
you're displaying, and whatyou're performing.
Take some pride in your own.

SPEAKER_03 (56:18):
That's true.
That's a nice side.

SPEAKER_08 (56:19):
Oh, they'll look over other things, they'll look
over other unimportant things.
You had shoes in the dryer onone transition.
Fuck, who cares?
It was a good song to anothergood song.
He has a clean setup, he'sprofessional, he's likable, he's
personable, he's good to workwith.
I'm good.
I don't care about the shittyone transition that it didn't
nail perfectly because theydon't even hear it, anyways.

(56:40):
This guy might hear it, he mighthear it, and I might hear it.
People that have an ear for it,DJs hear it.
Yeah, we hear it.
Yeah, but the common person.

SPEAKER_04 (56:49):
They don't hear dancing, they don't give a shit.

SPEAKER_03 (56:51):
They're drunk, they're high, they're dancing.
They don't care.
They don't care, man.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (56:55):
I wanted to ask you, um, oh, yeah, are you have you
done uh farmers markets and allthat before?

SPEAKER_05 (57:02):
So you guys know the food truck thing right there off
of Rose Dough?
Uh huh.
I was I was in there for awhile.

SPEAKER_06 (57:08):
One thing I've always said, like one of the
smartest decisions I ever madewas actually get into pop-ups
and get into markets.
Because pretty much like onceCOVID hit, like all that started
popping up everywhere.
No pun intended.
Yeah, but you know, they're likepop-ups are everywhere now,
which is a good thing, you know,because there's a lot of people
that during COVID, during thelockdowns, they got into their
craft and they really startedmaking all these really cool

(57:29):
items, whether it's likewoodworking, wood burning, or
even cups, mugs, tumblers,whatever.
And one of the smartest things Iever did was actually get into
that because that's gonna takeyou a lot of places too.
You're gonna meet a lot ofdifferent people.
So definitely, I mean, have fun,have fun, be you, and trust me,
you're gonna get that attentiontoo, man.
Because that's how my name gotout there.
And trust me, you're gonna booka lot of stuff out of that.

(57:50):
And you get to write everything.

SPEAKER_08 (57:52):
You get to play whatever of everything, a little
bit of everything.

SPEAKER_06 (57:56):
Kind of like Noah said earlier.
I use those as practice, youknow what I mean?
Like, can this song hit?
Will this song hit?
And me was as collectic as I amwith my music, I get weird.
I really get weird with this.
I'm like, I've literally playedSleep Token at a pop-up, and
people are like, dude, we lovethis, like, this is so cool.
Yeah, even though it's noteverybody, but at least one or

(58:17):
two people that are walkingaround, they're gonna listen to
them, like, you know what?
I want to talk to this guy now,I want to hire this guy.

SPEAKER_03 (58:23):
So Monday night, I was uh I I DJed, I thought it
was gonna be like, you know,they were gonna start partying
and all that, you know.
So I took lights and all thisshit, and you know, for the
money they were paying me, youknow what I mean?
But I I just pretty much justplayed for dinner music like
while they were eating dinner,and after that, they drank a
little bit and boom, yeah, I wasdone.
But I was playing shit that Ididn't never like play, you know

(58:43):
what I mean?
I was just trying out, and theywere like, they're looking at
me, so I was like, Yeah, well,that's cool, just lesser known
as a few.
It was just kind of like somecool dinner music, you know.
It wasn't like nothing crazy,but it was Spanish, you know,
because they were they wereSpanish, obviously, you know
what I mean.
But I got some bangers that, youknow, I kind of like you know,
you always have to have that onecrate where you know you don't
think everybody else has it, butyou know, they're not it's music
that they might not have thatyou only have in yourself, so

(59:06):
yeah.
I was playing some of that shitand they were gigging it, but so
yeah, that's a that's a goodthing, man.

SPEAKER_08 (59:10):
So Big Dre got married, man.
Ow! Chilling over it Stellos,yeah, filling in over it Azul,
yeah, Eclipse Azul.
Filling in for Azul for uhkaraoke KJs, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (59:22):
And then I just started uh it's uh right there
by the old David's bridle.
It's the Eclipse Azul, the onethat they were talking about on
Bicycle.

SPEAKER_03 (59:30):
It's right next to K.
Yeah, yeah, I know where it'sat, but uh there's like four
knees.
I heard Eclipse Azul is what Iknow it by.
Yeah, okay.
Eclipse is what I've known itwhen that's like the first time
they opened it, right?
It was called Eclipse, wasn'tit?

SPEAKER_05 (59:41):
Or I think so.

SPEAKER_03 (59:42):
I think it was not a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_05 (59:44):
I just I know I like going there, it gets crazy.

SPEAKER_08 (59:47):
So you and you're over there at Stella's.
When are you at Stella's man?

SPEAKER_05 (59:50):
Uh I've been doing Fridays.
All right.
Um I started doing the Belvedereactually on Thursdays.
Oh, right.
And then does private.

SPEAKER_08 (59:57):
Is Belvedere the one over on Columbus?

SPEAKER_03 (59:58):
Uh Brundage.
Yeah.
That my cousin Aloise alwayspromotes for them.

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:02):
Oh yeah, right next to the thing.
Yeah, it's right here around thecorner.
Yeah, that's right.
They got uh they have a poolleague in there, so it's it's
chill.

SPEAKER_08 (01:00:11):
I was helping my boy Daniel move the other day from
his old spot on the way out, wayout west to all the he moved off
damn near over where I we live,right here.
He was like, Yeah, man, I wentinto that Bilvid G the other
day, and it was really fuckingcool.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:24):
Yeah, they have good bands and shit over there.
Do they really?

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:26):
They do on uh Saturdays.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:28):
My cousin Alloy promotes it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:30):
She's always there right here by the gas station on
the corner.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:32):
Lives there, man.
Heck yeah.
There's a bar that's alwaysdoing stuff there.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:36):
You guys being DJs for a while.
Do you think it's worth going tolike the conventions?

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:43):
Like what what do you mean convention?

SPEAKER_08 (01:00:45):
Like Nom, like the hardware conventions?

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:49):
No, I'm going to the mobile DJ expo, the one in Vegas
in February.
Really?
Uh the slash photo booth one.
Send me the info, man.
I might I might go.
Heck yeah.
Well, Kyle Brown told me aboutit.
I know you guys know him.
Yeah.
Uh, but uh, I thought it wascool because I wanted to get
some more experience and I likegoing, being more hands-on.
Yeah.

(01:01:09):
I just started school too,actually, to do uh audio
production at Full Cell.
Oh, really?

SPEAKER_08 (01:01:14):
So uh just trying to do a little bit of a lot of
things.
Hey, you know who does that,man?
Is uh Ilflow.
Oh, does yeah?
Ilflow has a uh musicengineering background.
Oh, that's dope.
So you might be able todefinitely run some shit off of
Ilflow and talk to him about it.
You guys would probably yeah, hehe knows all about that shit,
man.
He I think he went to a schoolin LA for it.
Oh heck yeah.

(01:01:34):
Yeah, so Ilflow's been throughthat uh that sound engineering
school, he's been through BeatJunkies, you know.
So you guys might, you know.
Thank you.
You might have to hear it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:44):
Going back to that, I mean that question.
Um, I mean, like you, you'reinterested in it.
I mean, if it has something todo with all that, then yeah,
it'd be worth it to go.
You know, some people just gojust to go fucking partying and
you know what I mean.
For all the wrong reasons.

SPEAKER_06 (01:01:56):
Yeah, if you go to learn and to to hear some new
stuff, I mean definitely go forit.
I mean, I would.
I definitely would.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:02):
I would too.
That's pretty dope right there.
Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (01:02:04):
And I've always wanted to go to NAM.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:06):
Equipment, you know what I mean, equipment-wise,
stuff like that.
You know, it's good to learn,but yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:02:10):
And plus it's a trip to Vegas, man.
Like like Noah said, you know,if you go and it's great, great.
Works.
If you go and it's not great,great.
I'm still in Vegas,motherfucker.

SPEAKER_07 (01:02:20):
Yeah, there's plenty to do out here.

SPEAKER_08 (01:02:23):
Yeah, yeah, I'm still in Vegas.
I'm good, man.
I'm good.
What uh what's a track, man,that you guys always go to
personally?
Something a track that you mightnot play out out in the wild,
man, but it resonates with youpersonally.
Some kind of uh It's gonna soundfunny.

SPEAKER_05 (01:02:44):
Hey, man, is but it's a genre swap.
So it's an 80s version of WAP.
Oh, really?
It's like Jay Diggs.
Oh, really?
Nobody knows unless it soundslike Midnight Star.
Oh, it's great.

SPEAKER_07 (01:02:58):
It's it's it's you just bust out with that whenever
and you see it too.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:01):
They'd be like nodding their head and just kind
of moving along.
And I'm like, they don't know.
And then it connects.

SPEAKER_08 (01:03:06):
Does it do you ever see it connect with anybody in
light bulb?
Sometimes they'd be like That isdope, man.
And uh how about you know?

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:17):
Mine would have to be uh I have this one cool
little remix, it's um spilledwine, but it's uh I can't
remember the the artist that Iplay.
I mean, but it's pretty badassbecause he kind of like it's the
spilled wine music, but uh ithas him singing and then it has
him kind of like like Spanishkind of rapping to it, but it's

(01:03:39):
like real chill, it's just dope,dude.
Like I played it on Monday, theywere like that's pretty badass.
That's a dope beat just byitself, yeah.
But I always have to play that.
Like, I don't know, it justyeah, and I know when to play
it, you know.

SPEAKER_08 (01:03:50):
I mean, it's never so would you say that that one
is more for you?

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:53):
Yeah, kind of like more for uh I play it for
myself, yeah.
Hell yeah.
Like receptions, you know.
I want to hear it.
I'm here, I'm gonna mix one infor me.

SPEAKER_07 (01:04:00):
Hey, fun fun fact that's spill of wine by war is
what I play before I startrecording.
That's what gets me in the mood.
Yeah, spill of wine, man.
That's the one.
This version I can do.
I gotta check it out for me.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:13):
I can't remember the name of it.
God damn it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:15):
Um shit.
I can't remember, man.
Got me.
Let me know when you find it.
Yeah, I I want to check it out.
I don't even know if it's onYouTube.
I don't remember where I got itfrom, but I heard it.
I heard it somewhere, and then Ithink Chalk gave it to me.
I think I want to say he sent itto me, or or it was uh the Cesar

(01:04:38):
Chavez dude.
Um my homie Andreas.
I think I think Andres is theone that turned me on to it.
Oh, that's dope, man.
Yeah, that's looking dope.
It's it's just something that Ilike to play.
I mean I I myself I I like toplay house music.
You know, that's if if I want torock a party and uh I want to do
house music.

SPEAKER_08 (01:04:55):
Do you get out there with Cheeto at Rectify?
Yeah, I've been out there.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:58):
Yeah, he he had me out there uh before.
I've been out there.
As a matter of fact, uh lastyear or uh two years ago, me and
Chalk were gonna do it inDecember, but uh my dog ended up
dying, so we ended up cancelingand uh because chalk also does
uh house music.
Yeah, he goes as uh black carloswhen he does.
Oh, that's dope.
And dude, yeah, thatmotherfucker kills it on the

(01:05:19):
house.
House music, huh?
I mean he's badass in hip-hoptoo, but yeah, yeah, fuck it.
I was like, damn, Charlie'sfucking I go check him out
sometimes.
He does this uh club called SoulTice or Saltis or whatever it's
called Sultis.
And uh it's it's pretty badass,man.
That's dope right there.
The the crowd in LA, the partycrowd in L is way different than
it's like.
It is different.

(01:05:39):
They do like free bass and allthat stuff too, huh?
You know, over there, man, II've been to so many parties
over there, and you you never Imean, when I was younger, yeah,
the music that we were playing,yeah.
You know, of course, you know,we were young, we're going to
these clubs, and you know, youget older, we don't go to those
clubs anymore.
Yeah, we just you know, it's alldowntown LA areas now, you know,
certain parties, rooftops, oryou know.
But when I was gonna say thevibe over there, I mean the

(01:06:00):
music, you're not gonna hearnothing that we play, they don't
fuck with that.
Yeah, they don't play nothingwhat we play as DJs, they don't
play that over there, man.
They they be playing like someold shit, you know what I mean?
Like average white band, likesome Chase man, you know what I
mean?
Some I mean shit like that, someold school, but like shit that

(01:06:21):
you probably never even heardof.
Like, I mean, you you heard theartist, but you it's like the B
side of the stuff.
It's the other side, yeah.
Yeah, live tracks, but when theyplay it, it's dope.
I mean, I'm like, all right,fuck yeah, but they sound
different, yeah.
When you play it over here, it'sjust it's just it don't hit
right.
It doesn't matter.
It's a different vibe, is whatit is.
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Exactly.
But uh over there, I mean, like,you know, you see everybody

(01:06:43):
there, like you see Indians,Mexicans, Koreans, I mean,
foreigners, uh, Russians,everybody coming together, and
and they're all uh older, youknow what I mean, and they're
just all dancing and having agood time, nobody's arguing, you
don't see nobody on their phone.
It's just a whole you know,that's why it's a different
vibe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You go over here and you're justlike fuck, man.

(01:07:04):
Just like I don't know, man.
Yeah, it ain't nothing wrongwith it, but it is a different
vibe.

SPEAKER_07 (01:07:08):
I do know like in LA they do a lot of free bass.
Do you ever fuck with that kindof music?
You know, she got she's back inthe day.

SPEAKER_03 (01:07:15):
Like, like that's what they fuck with freestyle
stuff, the disco style, yeah.
Yeah, I love that shit.
Oh, yeah.
I did a wedding not too long agoand where I played all that
mandala, the forbidden lover,yeah, spin it.
Oh, dude, and they were I likeliterally they were dancing to
it.
Yeah, you know, something likethat.
Hell yeah, you know, Mondeley.
Then once I knew, okay, I'm inLA, which you had that hook.
This is what they like.

(01:07:36):
LA, I mean, LA was booked.
I mean, that's I mean, that'sbefore the Baker boys went there
to LA, that's all they wereplaying was the disco and the
new wave shit, you know what Imean?
The you know, all that goodshit.
So once I noticed, I was like Irealized, man, I'm in LA, like
fuck, let's keep this shitgoing.
So I mean, I start playing taps.
I mean, you know, this is wherethen I went to some hard house

(01:07:57):
and they're fucking loving it.
I mean, they ate it up, and thenyou know, of course, you know,
you all right, fuck, I hadenough of that shit.
Let's let's give them, let'sgive them a break, throwing a
kumbia, you know what I mean?
And salsa, they like salsa alot.
Yeah, so you play that shit, andthen you know, okay, the people
that love that they go out, thenyou see the older, a different
crowd come in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You keep it, keep it going untilyou start seeing little people
leaving.
Okay, now what am I gonna whatam I gonna bring them back?

(01:08:19):
Yeah, well, how am I gonna keepthem out there?
Then you know, okay, let's trythis.
You testing, and then all right,this is working, keep it at
that, you know.
I mean, but it's always gonna beold school or like you know,
Norsetta, all that shit, littlesusie, you know.
I mean, they eat it up now.

SPEAKER_08 (01:08:32):
They get that freestyle down there, yeah.
Yeah, it's okay.
It's a vibe out there.

SPEAKER_03 (01:08:36):
The freestyle, kind of, but it's more the disco that
they like, you know.
I mean, the the mandalay, like Isaid, the taps and the forbidden
lover, all that shit, the blueMondays, you know, the and they
actually dance the salsa musicout there.

SPEAKER_07 (01:08:47):
It's kind of hard to get people to dance salsa over
here.
You do salsa night at all.
Yeah, we got it.
I was gonna ask you about that.
Yeah, I got a gin.
So we got invited out there,yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:08:55):
Yeah, we've been doing that every month, man.
For that ended up that ended upbeing good.
Yeah, it's been great, man.
We get 150, 200, 250,000.

SPEAKER_07 (01:09:04):
Because I got I got invited by this one chick that I
met, right?
And um, she sent me the flyer.
She said, You know how to dancesalsa my fuck yeah, I do.
So then uh I saw the flyer said,DJ Gordy B, that's a homeboy
right there.
So I was gonna go, you know,then we lost contact.
But yeah, that's fucking dope.
That's cool.

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:18):
They gotta I've been wanting to check it out, man.
But every time you have it, I'mI'm booked.
Like, yeah, you know what?
That's cool though.
That's cool.
But I I love that music.
I like to I like to see them.
Kumbia is another thing that Iwould that I like to do.
When I do a cumbia set, man,like literally they fucking stay
out there.
And I'm like, I'm gonna do that.
Because that's the easiest thingto dance, too.
And then of course, you know,you gotta break it down, you
know.

(01:09:38):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (01:09:39):
You throw a bachata in there, they slowly start to
set, but you throw a salsa,there's not too many people that
can dance it out here.
No, but that's still dope,though.
The salsa music, beautifulmusic.
I love it.

SPEAKER_08 (01:09:48):
Uh yeah, we get we get all of it.
We do the salsa, the merengue,the bachata, we put cumbias in
there.
We play some little club stuffnear the city.

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:57):
Cumbia is kind of like a cousin to salsa.
Yeah, it's kind of likeslow-down version of it, pretty
well.
It's the same vibe.

SPEAKER_08 (01:10:03):
They always give salsa to Spanish, Colombia,
other regions.
It's not so much a Mexican,quote unquote Mexican genre.
Salsa is not a Mexican genre,contrary to popular belief,
right?
Yeah, no, it's not.

SPEAKER_03 (01:10:17):
It's more like uh, like you said, Miami shit.

SPEAKER_07 (01:10:21):
It's fucking hard to dance, too, man.
Oh, yeah, they're they're justkilled, man.

SPEAKER_08 (01:10:25):
They come out there, they come out there changes of
shoes.
I know.
They have bags with shoes inthem, and oh yeah, and and they
specifically say that thelegend's floor is nice and
smooth.
They can do all theirtransitions, there's not a bunch
of cracks and you know stufflike that.
Where they they then they makethat they they make that
correlation of the laughter overto cumbias and say you can dance

(01:10:48):
on that in gravel roads.

SPEAKER_07 (01:10:50):
Yeah, it's a hard dance to learn.
Yeah, I learned it because Iwanted to dance with this one
chick.
I said, Fuck, I'm gonna go inthere.
Give me three beers, man.
I'm good, you know.
But it it is nice to have uhparties like that where they
have all different kinds ofmusic, you know.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_08 (01:11:05):
So, Dre, man, you you you're talking about I feel
like you're talking aboutexpanding a little bit.
I feel like you know, you'regoing over to Stella's, you're
you're you're opening that doorover to the farmer's market, and
then you're talking about uh theshow in in Vegas for mobile DJs
and photo booths and stuff likethat.
So it sounds like you're tryingto expand.
Sounds like you're trying tomake a business out of it per

(01:11:28):
se.

SPEAKER_05 (01:11:29):
That's exactly what I'm doing.
I've been doing a lot ofweddings, but I'm like every
time I get asked, do you havethis?
Do you have that?
And I'm like, I need to learnmore about it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:11:36):
That way I can like what are what are what are like
what are some of the thingsthey're asking you for though?

SPEAKER_05 (01:11:41):
Uh photo booth.
Oh, okay, is like a big one.
So you don't do like a packagethough, like no, because I have
a lot of stuff, but I don't havelike photo booth or anything
like that.
And that's what I need.

SPEAKER_03 (01:11:51):
Like uplighting, stuff like that.
Yeah that's where the that'swhere the money's at, too.

SPEAKER_07 (01:11:54):
And like I said, man, photo booths and all that
though.

SPEAKER_08 (01:11:57):
Everybody that's been on the podcast, I welcome
everybody into whateverequipment I have.
So if you need cold sparks, justhit me up.
I'll rent them to you, rent themto your customer at a at another
value.
So you're both making money, soit makes sense.
Same thing with the photobooths.
If you need a photo booth, hitme up.
I'll hook you up$100,$200,charge your client four,$500,

(01:12:17):
break me off, get your money,everybody wins, everybody grows.
And eventually you buy your ownphoto booth, right?
Eventually you buy your old ColdSparks.
You take those profits fromthose add-on sales and you dip
them into one little containerand you say, That's that's my
growth container.
That's that's where I'm gonnabuy that photo booth for$1,500.
That's where I'm gonna buy thecold sparks for$700, whatever it

(01:12:40):
may be.
Um, but yeah, everybody's alwayswelcome to.

SPEAKER_07 (01:12:45):
Hey, so so DJing is not just you playing music up
there with your equipment now.
It it has expanded to have tohave a solution now.
360 camera, the whole balloonsetup, and expensive, man.

SPEAKER_03 (01:12:56):
You know, you figure they're gonna get it anyways
from somebody else, so why notget it from you where you can
charge them?
You know, pricing go up.
And you're already there.

SPEAKER_08 (01:13:03):
You get to watch your own shit.
Yeah, you're already there.
If they get the photo booth fromme, I drop my photo booths off
and I bounce.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's it's it's a completelyautonomous unit.
It's like a microwave.
You go up to it, you can't fuckit up.
See, I don't you put your timein, you hit start, and you're
done.
Yeah, I don't have your money.

SPEAKER_03 (01:13:18):
I don't have a photo booth, but I got a girl that she
gives it to me for cheap, andthen so I you know, yeah, add it
to mine, and then she goes, andhe goes and and and uh he runs
it for me, and I mean I justbreak him off for money.
That's the way to do it.
I don't have to do nothing, butyou know, I made 700 bucks off
that.
Yeah, yeah.
That's interesting.
So you're you're the wholeparty, pretty much.
Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, well,I mean, if you have all the

(01:13:40):
equipment, like most time it'scold sparks, you know, numbers,
low fog.
Yeah, I don't like to do the lowfog.

SPEAKER_08 (01:13:46):
We've had hit and miss with it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:13:47):
I I tried to do that one time and it just ended up
being a mess.
I said, you know what I'm notoffering that because I just got
hit up for that and I I kind oftalked her out of it.
I go, you know, you reallygonna, you know, kind of some of
that.
So yeah, maybe you're right.
Maybe that's all right, cool,you know what I mean?
So, you know, cold sparks, youknow, uplighting, uplighting's
important, you know what I mean?
And it all and it all, I mean,they're gonna get that whole,

(01:14:08):
they're gonna get your package,but it all depends on how you
sell yourself and how you sellit.
That's interesting, yeah.
Like sometimes, I mean, youknow, like I start off at$1,500,
and that's just me bringing abackyard party with a light, and
that's it, you know.
I mean, for four or five, fivehours, maybe, no longer than
that.
Which is pretty good.

SPEAKER_08 (01:14:24):
Because that's a long goddamn time.
Five hours is a long fuckingtime, especially if it's not
filler music, like you hit afucking Spotify playlist for
dinner.
If you're mixing for four orfive fucking hours, man, it
truly is Tetris on level ninefor four hours.
You're doing it, you'rephysically doing it, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:14:40):
And I like to do that, I don't like to play mixes
a lot.
Some teachers like to playmixes.
Oh, it's just dinner, uh youknow, but don't realize that I
like to just I like to playmyself because then you find
music that you know I'm goingthrough, you know, because it's
just dinner, you mean?
So you're like, let me try, letme play this shit.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
And then you find music that,like, oh shit, like I forgot
about this song.
So then I'm gonna throw thisover here, I'm gonna make a

(01:15:02):
crate for that shit because Iforgot about it.
So now I have it over here, Iwon't forget about it for next
time, you know what I mean?
So it kind of brings backbecause you're not playing
everything at every party, youknow.
I mean, you're you're set atevery party is different.
So sometimes you'll find musicthat you're like, oh shit, you
forgot about it.
That's a banger, or people likeit, you know what I mean?
You play and you see everybodygo up like, oh shit, I forgot
about this song.
I mean, so you throw it on theside, you start building that

(01:15:23):
crate.

SPEAKER_08 (01:15:23):
Because when the dance floor, when the dance
floor hour hits, your time isprecious.
Your time is very, very, veryprecious.
Each song that you select has toserve the purpose, it has to
make sense, it has to deliver adance floor.
It has to deliver an experience.

(01:15:43):
So some of the songs aremandatory, right?
So once you get to dinner, youhave two hours of whatever or
dance.
Once you get to dance and suaveit, you know, like I I try to
stay away from all of that.

SPEAKER_03 (01:15:57):
I don't I don't even remember when the last time I I
played.
They read they actually askedfor it on Monday, but I didn't
even play it.
Like I that La Chona, it's toomuch.
The it's too much.
Caballo, Dorado, I don't playnone of that.
If you ask for it and you know,you're bugging, I might play it.
Yeah, but if you're not nobody'sasking me, it had enough time.
It had enough time on the listalready.
Yeah, but you're right, youknow, like after you're done

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with yeah, uh the reception onit's already like eight, seven,
sometimes seven thirty, you knowwhat I mean?
But and you do have like acouple hours if you're gigs and
I end at 10, you know.
So most venues are ending at 10anyways.
I mean, 11 o'clock the latestnow.
I mean, I remember back in thedays, man, doing a fucking
wedding from 3 a.m.
3 p.m.
Yep, and we get out of like four5 a.m.
Yeah, because we had to take allthese fucking speakers, and and

(01:16:41):
now I think about it.
Man, I used to play the watersong and take all my baseball
shit.
Now it's like two fuckingspeakers.
And I think, man, back then Ididn't even need all that shit.
But it was just different, youknow.
I mean, it was a different vibe.
It was we had to have thebasebottom, and then we had to
have our highs and then ourtweet.
I mean, our mids, and they'reall separate speakers, they
weren't all in one speaker likethey are now.

SPEAKER_07 (01:17:01):
And they were like technology has changed, it's
shrunk now.

SPEAKER_03 (01:17:05):
Yeah, you don't have to take crates of vinyl in our
city on the controller, but backthen it was like, you know, you
had your two fucking uh amps,you know, your whatever, all
this bullshit, you know, andwires, and then your fucking six
crates of you know, yeah twocrates of old school, two crates
of hip hop, one crate of newwave.
That's all you had too, right?

SPEAKER_08 (01:17:26):
To play like that, isn't that fucking like you
weren't asking any quests thatweren't on your vinyl yet?
Like, no, I don't have it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:17:31):
Yeah, and and I have it for real.
My Spanish, well, you know, backthen there was not well, if
there were, I didn't know whereto get them at.
Was the Spanish records, youknow what I mean?
So I would always take mycassette player.
Oh, yeah.
Cassette player with my all myturntable shit, and then that my
Spanish mix my Spanish cassette,I would just throw it on, and
then all right, boom, fuckingthat's the song, you know.
Spanish, you know, stop andpush, stop, you gotta get

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creative, man.

SPEAKER_07 (01:17:55):
Okay, that was gonna be my question.
Did you guys ever fuck with likeCDs or even vinyl on your mixes?

SPEAKER_03 (01:18:00):
Well, I well after the cassettes, we I went to CDs.
Of course, I had to get a CD butbecause then you had that
briefcase like I did.
There was no more, there was nomore uh no, I I would do
turntables.
The CDs were just for likeSpanish or anything else that I
didn't have, yeah, yeah, that Icouldn't get on vinyl, and it
was only on CD or something, soyeah, you know, and then from
there, it just technologychanged, you know, after that.

(01:18:20):
Everything changes whilerecording for us when we were
record for the radio station, itwent from dat to mini disc, you
know, all these little things,yeah, yeah.
But that never went into theDJing part, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:18:30):
It stopped at CDs, like no, see, my my journey with
with the whole DJing thingstarted digital.
It started with digital.
Okay, it started with Sorata.
I'm going backwards.
I'm going to vinyl.
I'm going, I'm going so.

SPEAKER_07 (01:18:44):
Are are you having a mark, a spot with the chalk
stick?
Or the sticker?
Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:18:49):
Yeah, like going back to vinyl and learning vinyl
and then something that the thevinyl aficionados, the the
original vinyl DJs talk about isthe audible beat matching,
right?
Not the visual shit, not thewaveforms, not watching all of
this shit.
Put a paper over it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:06):
You gotta get numbers.

SPEAKER_08 (01:19:07):
Put a paper over it.
Don't look at that motherfucker.
Don't look at it, put a paperover it, close the laptop lid to
where you can't see it, and thenstart doing it and just over and
over and adjustment, over,speeding it up, slowing it down.

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:18):
So all that easy because you you gotta you gotta
it's like I mean, now it's easybecause you got the BPMs, but
back then.
Yeah, back then it wasn't inthere.
You have to count your BPMs, youknow what I mean?
So that's how you and then eventhen, I mean you you get a
record and you're like, shit,what uh what can I, you know
what I mean?
If you're not familiar with therecords, then you're not gonna
know what you're intimatelyfamiliar.
Yeah, yeah.
That's I that was us back in theday.
It's like, all right, shit, allright, what's next?

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Boom, pretty much.

SPEAKER_08 (01:19:40):
And see, I I have that respect for the originals,
right?
The OGs.
That I oh yeah, feel like I'mnot as whole or complete of a DJ
as if I don't go backwards, if Idon't go to vinyl, if I don't
experience those struggles andthe knowledge and everything
else.
And ultimately, it's just gonnamake me a better DJ in the end,

(01:20:03):
anyways.

SPEAKER_07 (01:20:03):
Yeah, it's good to know.
Yeah, I had that conversationwith Dolce Muchos, right?
Before I found out he's stillalive and shit.
He was at my bed, right?
And we're just going back andforth.
Hey, have you ever heard thisartist or something?
I played the vinyl for him.
He was like, What track is that?
And we're talking about thisshit, and he's somebody that
knows a lot about you know oldschool hip hop and everything.

SPEAKER_08 (01:20:18):
Dolce Muchos has an elephant brain.
Oh, hell yeah.
He has an elephant, yeah.
He remembers fucking everything.
Oh, hell yeah, he does.
He remembers where he was uh thelast day of school in seventh
grade.
He fucking remembers, man.

SPEAKER_03 (01:20:28):
I have a friend like that, man.
He's incredible.
That's interesting.
He's uh he's he's homeless, youknow what I mean?
But he's he's he was likeschizophrenic.
He was cool back in the days,but you know, now he kind of you
know he's little guy.
So yeah, he's you know, he'shaving trouble, but that
motherfucker remembers everyparty that I've DJed at because
he used to go and help mesometimes, you know.
I mean, I remember one time hehad like maybe four or five

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crates, you know, and then triedto put them down and bang.
That's the worst thing thatcould happen.
I mean they rolled out of theirsleeves and everything.
Now what?
Now you know you gotta look foryour for your hip-hop, you know.
There you are, like, god damnit.
That's the worst.
But that dude, man, like yousaid, Alan, he remembers like
remember that party we used todo on Pacific?

(01:21:11):
Yeah, it was a backyard party.
Yeah, you remember you DJing andpeople started shooting in the
front and this and that.
I was like, What?
Yeah, they when they they putyou inside and woo woo.
And I had to grab all yourrecords, and I'm like, fuck any
of you.
And I was like, Oh, yeah, that'sright.
You remember that shit?
Shit, man.
That's funny, huh?
That's funny.
Yeah, man.
That's some some people justhave that, you know.

SPEAKER_07 (01:21:29):
Have you guys ever remembered a track that you guys
put on the playlist?
Boom, and it fucked up the wholevibe.
Oh, yeah.
Everybody remembers that, right?

SPEAKER_08 (01:21:39):
It was a guest, it was a guest's request.
And I I my dumbass put it on,man.
I my dumbass put it on.
And I've learned since then, Istill accept requests, but we
call them suggestions now,right?
Still accept suggestions.
And I tell everybody at thebeginning, like when I introduce
myself, hey, uh, my name's GordyB.
I'm gonna be your DJ and MCtonight.
Uh just let you know I do takerequests.

(01:22:01):
Uh, if they fit in with whatwe're doing, and it's not a good
idea.
Or you let them know.
I kind of put it out there as aas a as a warning.
Yeah, so they don't think I'mjust one of them asshole DJs
that be like, nah, fuck you, Iain't taking it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (01:22:12):
You leave it open.

SPEAKER_06 (01:22:13):
Yeah, what was yours, man?
Uh, I don't remember.
It was it was it was a requestand it was like some weird off
the wall type thing.
And I'm just like, I don't knowabout this, but you know, I
played it anyway.
It was again, it was like aB-side type thing.
Yeah, okay.
Only that person knew, and I'mlike, okay, well, whatever you
want.

(01:22:33):
Oh, you didn't know the song.
I didn't even know the song.

SPEAKER_09 (01:22:35):
Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_08 (01:22:35):
Yeah, it just are true salespeople, man.
Yeah, if they can sell you, heyman, this is a hit, everybody's
gonna love it, play it, yeah.
Promise you.

SPEAKER_03 (01:22:44):
I straight up tell them, I said, you know what, I
I'll play it, but not right nowbecause it's it's just no, and I
tell them you're gonna kill myvibe, bro.
Like, seriously, they go, Oh,uh, yeah, just play it.
I said, Okay, cool.
And they forget, man.

SPEAKER_07 (01:22:55):
Oh, they do, yeah.
They forget.
Do you remember the song?

SPEAKER_06 (01:22:58):
No, I don't remember the song.

SPEAKER_07 (01:22:59):
Gordy, do you remember the song that the
request that it that it was?
Mine was very interesting, man.
Mine was a Wahawkin song.
Oh, Wahaqin song, all right.
You didn't you didn't know aboutit, you just said, all right,
Mom to come up.

SPEAKER_08 (01:23:10):
I was trying to be cultural, I was trying to be
diverse, I was trying to giveeverybody their something.
One of my favorite things to dois is especially in the
Bakersfield crowd and for thePunjabi crowd, I have a lot of
Punjabi people at events that Igo to for some reason or
another.
If I'm over at HighgateElementary, they have a pretty
high population of PunjabiIndian people with their kids.

(01:23:33):
Very nice people, too, man.
Oh, yeah, nicest.
So I take a great amount ofpleasure by putting some of the
Bollywood music and some of likethe pseudo muswala and stuff
like that.
And you can see their eyes lightup, the happiness in their body,
and then they start doing theirquick dance.

(01:23:53):
They kind of be left up.
They love to dance.
Oh, hell yeah, they do, they gottheir own little vibe right
there.
And it makes me think that'scool.
If White Gordon moved to India,right?
I would love for a DJ torecognize that I was American
and to play something, quoteunquote, that he thinks that I

(01:24:13):
would love that I can relate to,I recognize.
Otherwise, there's a bunch ofPunjabi music.
I have no idea.
Yeah, for real.
I love it.
I love the beats, I love theenergy.
I don't understand a singleword.
Yeah, but but if somebody tookthe time out of their day to
single my ass out of a crowd andsay, that white boy, that white
boy needs some Garth Brooks orsomething, right?
It's like I don't I'm not a bigcountry fan, but if he if he did

(01:24:35):
it for me, I I would take it andI would take it as a badge of
honor, appreciation.

SPEAKER_07 (01:24:41):
You're right about that, yeah.
That's true.
And you already got the dancemoves down.
I saw you moving around all thetime.
They dance, they party, man.
The Punjabi.
I love my Punjabi people.

SPEAKER_06 (01:24:49):
No, and let me actually relate to that too,
because I've also DJ'd for theBC commencement.
And um, during the fireworks,they wanted DJ to do you know
mixes and stuff, and they toldme to do it pre-recorded.
So I did, I recorded mixes, Isent to them, they denied every
single one.
So I was like, you know what?
Fuck it, let me do it live.
They're like, what?
And I'm like, let me do it liveright then and there, let me do

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it.
And they're like, well, as longas it's clean, you could do
whatever you want.
And kind of like what you weresaying, I snuck in like one or
two Punjabi songs in therebecause I know there's you know,
Indian students that were like,you know, medical or whatever it
is that they were doing, yeah,not to single out like medical.

SPEAKER_08 (01:25:23):
Yeah, yeah, like but but but you know, but like the
Filipino Postmaster, man, dude.

SPEAKER_06 (01:25:28):
Like you look at your crowd, you know what I
mean?
And when I when I played it andI I heard the roar of the crowd
later, yeah, even over thespeakers, like I heard them
like, you know what, that wasfor you guys.

SPEAKER_02 (01:25:39):
Yeah, that's a good feeling, too.
It really is.
That's dope.

SPEAKER_06 (01:25:42):
You know, then you play like some break of thone or
something like that, and dude,they love it too.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:45):
So I I do.
Um, it was a brother lynch song.
Brother Lynch, yeah.
I like Brother Lynch kind ofcertain time and place, yeah.
You know, talk about eatingpeople and don't always fit the
vibe.
And I didn't know because I'monly knowing like one or two,
and I'm like, oh no, we're notgonna.
My bad.
Yeah.
My bad.

SPEAKER_07 (01:26:05):
Yeah, I can see that happening.

SPEAKER_03 (01:26:08):
What's your what's your guys' uh best hall to play
at, and what's the worst hall toplay at?
Venue.
Let's say venue.

SPEAKER_08 (01:26:16):
Are we talking about acoustics, reverb issues?

SPEAKER_03 (01:26:19):
Just whatever.
What's the what's your like yourfavorite hall that you like to
play at?
That you know just what's thehall here?
Like the best hall you like toplay at?
And the worst.
Like one hall where you've beenat and you're just like, I had a
couple great experiences over atPatino.
Yeah, Patino's cool.

SPEAKER_08 (01:26:37):
I had a couple great experiences.

SPEAKER_03 (01:26:38):
I like the halls that have the easy fucking in
and out set up in and out, rightby the door.
Boom, set up right here.
I love those venues, you knowwhat I mean?
Yeah.
One venue that I would never, Idon't give a shit.
I would never play there again.
Or even if they asked me, hey,you want to DJ my wedding?
It's at this venue, I wouldnever go back there.

SPEAKER_08 (01:26:59):
Where is it?

SPEAKER_03 (01:26:59):
Tango Hall.

SPEAKER_08 (01:27:01):
Which one is Tango?
I've never been there.

SPEAKER_03 (01:27:03):
Yeah, it's where is Tango at?
It's like way over there by um,where's it at?
Like New Stein Road or New Steinor something.
I think we've been there in theback.
So it's a nice hall.
It's a nice hall, you know whatI mean?

SPEAKER_06 (01:27:15):
Oh no, no, yeah, in Tango, yeah.
Yeah, I've been there.

SPEAKER_03 (01:27:18):
But but we've got you know, somebody running it
that is just yeah, hard to workwith, you know what I mean?
I just don't want to go back.

SPEAKER_08 (01:27:24):
That's my opinion on uh I I've had quite a bit of I
I've never really had a badBridezilla, but I've had some
bad wedding coordinators.

SPEAKER_03 (01:27:32):
No, I never had a bad Bridezilla or a wedding
coordinator.
It was the you know it was thevenue person.

SPEAKER_08 (01:27:37):
The venue personally that just kind of that wedding
coordinators for me sometimes,man, just rub me the wrong way.
And I'm like, hey, I'll let youdo my job.
You let me do my job.

SPEAKER_03 (01:27:46):
I've worked with some uh wedding coordinators,
but like the same ones.
Sometimes I get the same ones.

SPEAKER_04 (01:27:51):
Hey, oh hey, we worked together.

SPEAKER_03 (01:27:52):
Yeah, you already have a relationship, yeah, yeah.
So it's there, you know.
I don't think I've had a a badone yet.
You know, I I won't let thathappen anyway.
So yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:28:00):
So all of you, all of you, man, this is open for
all of you.

SPEAKER_03 (01:28:04):
Is um you never told me which hall though you guys
are.

SPEAKER_06 (01:28:09):
Oh, um the I would say my favorite was probably the
Destiny Hall because they havethat light up dance floor.
Yeah, I just thought I haven'tbeen there.
You never played there?
It's dope.

SPEAKER_03 (01:28:18):
I might have, but I don't I don't I don't remember
made it.
What which one's that one?
Where's that one at?

SPEAKER_06 (01:28:22):
It's on uh I think like Plans Road or like White
Lane.
It's all it's around theresomewhere.

SPEAKER_03 (01:28:27):
I've never played there that's a lot.
I haven't played there either.

SPEAKER_06 (01:28:29):
It's a dope place.

SPEAKER_08 (01:28:30):
Yeah, I want I want an LED dance floor though.
Yeah, those are fun.
Yeah, I want one.
I wanted one after that.

SPEAKER_05 (01:28:36):
I think my favorite one I did was at the Pioneer
Village, actually.
I did that recently.
That was fun.
It was outside, it was right bythe neons.
I did a wedding at the Neon.
It was cool.
Uh my least favorite.
Yeah, that would be nice.
Probably the War is on 18th.
I I DJ'd there.
Because of the setup or or no,because I literally unloaded all

(01:28:58):
my stuff.
I come back out, they broke mywindow and took just my empty DJ
bag out of the car.
Oh and it had my dongle for myMacBook that I had to go get at
Best Buy.
So it was so annoying because Ihad a 2012 one.

SPEAKER_03 (01:29:12):
It was see that's one thing I never do.
Is I don't uh I don't be leavingmy car when I'm loading up and
all.
If there's a security, I go,Hey, can you stand right and
watch my car, man?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, it was for real.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:22):
Four o'clock, and my windows were tinted.
They still the guy was just likehe just rolled by it on a bike.
Boom.
I wasn't the only window thatgot hit though.
Did you just random?
No, they just kind of did itrandomly and then they did.

SPEAKER_04 (01:29:35):
I'm on no empty bag or not.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:39):
I was I was pretty mad.
That was that's money rightthere.

SPEAKER_03 (01:29:42):
That's just a violation, you know.
You know what?
And the water saw that that'slike that's a historic hall,
man.
Like, I mean, dude, we I I'vedone so many weddings there like
back in the eighties, bro.
Like, it's like crazy.
Like I said, that was one of theupdate.
That's yeah, they they finallyput an AC in there.

SPEAKER_07 (01:29:56):
Oh, they didn't have one when you were playing up
there.
Oh, Mike.

SPEAKER_03 (01:30:02):
Oh man, it was fun.
Like, I mean, it would getpacked car shows with you know
we'd have our the they wouldhave their car show dances
there, but back then it lookedbig to us, you know what I mean?
Because we were young, you knowwhat I mean?
Yeah.
Now I walk in there like goddamn, it's like from right here
to right there, you know.
Back in the days though, but itit's a it's a it's a good hall
to play.
I mean, you know, I'm surprisedit's still there.
Yeah, you know, it's been therefor years.

SPEAKER_08 (01:30:24):
There's one that we had a weird experience with.
It was the one off of Jumaniover off of Rosedale and Alan.

SPEAKER_03 (01:30:30):
Uh Giamatti was at um oh you're talking about the
um Lemcato?
Lemkato.
Oh.

SPEAKER_08 (01:30:35):
We had a weird experience over there, man.
We we were doing a walkthroughthe day before, you know.
I like to be involved with mybride with.

SPEAKER_03 (01:30:40):
With uh what's her name?
But the uh the owner?

SPEAKER_08 (01:30:42):
Um two ladies, I don't know their name, but they
were real weird about stuff,man.
And look, I hate it's on thepodcast, people are gonna hear
it.
It is what it is, whatever.
I'm not telling a lie.
They were real weird with thebride and and reviewing the
entire facility and saying,Okay, do you see any scuff marks
on the baseboards, or do you seeanything here?

(01:31:04):
See anything there?

SPEAKER_03 (01:31:05):
Yeah, they charge you like 25 50 bucks just to use
an extra outlet.

SPEAKER_08 (01:31:10):
It's kind of weird.
I don't like it, man.
I got it here if I was there.

SPEAKER_03 (01:31:13):
I had went and I was insane.
I go, Oh, yeah, I need to uh goI need this outlet.
She goes, Well, they didn't payfor that outlet.
And I was like, Well, you'regonna have to get them to pay
for it because I need it, youknow what I mean?
Wow, and I just plugged aninterest in there.
I'll take it for that.
I had a weird experience there,man.
Real weird, real, real kind ofthat's funny because you know,
she's she's kind of actuallypretty cool, but I mean, uh, you
know, like they were nice, yeah.
They were nice.

SPEAKER_00 (01:31:34):
It was kind of odd because you know, they're
videotaping and the branches aremade.
Oh, to see if what's gonnahappen after damages.

SPEAKER_08 (01:31:42):
Yeah, they were they were doing a live walkthrough
with video.
Do you see any marks on the doyou see anything on the glass?
Do you see anything on thebaseboards?
Do you see?
And it felt real weird to me.
It felt like, hey, this is kindof fucking strange.

SPEAKER_03 (01:31:56):
Yeah, I get it.
I get it.
I feel it.

SPEAKER_08 (01:31:58):
I mean, I understand wanting to protect your venue
and and and you know, maybeyou've had a bad experience with
it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:32:04):
That comes with you with renting a venue, it comes
with business and insurance.
That's what it's for.
That's what it's for.
Your deposit, that's you knowwhat I mean.
That don't make the the clientfeel uncomfortable about doing
that.
I I would have been, you knowwhat, fuck you this wedding.

SPEAKER_08 (01:32:17):
I felt uncomfortable for my client.
I was like, Yeah, I wasn't, Iwas not okay with it, man.
So that's that's one of the onesI don't appreciate.

SPEAKER_03 (01:32:24):
Did she end up uh booking it though?
Yeah, well the wedding was thenext day.
Oh shit.

SPEAKER_08 (01:32:29):
Yeah, this was just the walkthrough, and it was the
day before the walkthrough thatthey were doing this video
walkthrough, and it was kind ofstrange to me, man.
Which which hall did you say youwas yours?

SPEAKER_06 (01:32:37):
The Destiny Hall.
Oh, yeah, my favorite one.

SPEAKER_03 (01:32:40):
What's your worst one?

SPEAKER_06 (01:32:41):
Honestly, I don't have a worse one.
I mean, it because like you guyswere saying, it's the people you
work with.
Yeah, it's not so much the hallitself, because I mean you can
find you know any which way tomake it sound good, but it's the
people you work with that makeit kind of weird, like, uh, do I
want to come back to that ornot?

SPEAKER_03 (01:32:55):
Yeah, you have to be able to click with everybody
you're working with.
Yeah, if if there's that oneperson, you just you know, it
kind of it could it could dothat.

SPEAKER_06 (01:33:02):
Yeah, and and it's different for some people too,
because like I did a wedding inExeter just last month, and um
the bride told me, like, hey,has our our venue person
contacted you at any point?
I'm like, no, why I sent themeverything they wanted, they
wanted the insurance, theywanted this, I wanted like
signed, whatever.
I'm like, okay, cool, I'll dowhatever you want.
She's like, Oh, well, they weretelling our bartenders that they

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couldn't, you know, perform thisday if they uh if they hadn't
updated their their insurancepolicy, and they already had a
million-dollar policy.
And it's just like, damn, theywouldn't even let them set on
foot until they actually updatedit and all that.
I'm like, she didn't give itaway.

SPEAKER_03 (01:33:36):
Some venues, I'm I'm I'm uh some venues are asking
for insurance now.
Like most of the big ones, youknow what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 (01:33:41):
They're but and most of that is because you know laws
change, and that's one of thethings that changed in
California this just this pastyear.
So now a lot of venues areasking their vendors to have
insurance because theirinsurance is not going to cover
them anymore.

SPEAKER_08 (01:33:53):
You know where I suspect some of it came from was
social media and uh cold sparkscatching on fire and things of
that nature.
I think that's what's driven alot of these venues uh uh is
fear or ignorance or uh notbeing educated on cold sparks or
the appropriate powder or theappropriate height or the you
know any of the other thingsthat go into it.

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And I suspect that's where quitea bit of the the insurance
because we do we use canopy.
We use insurance canopy andwe'll use it for a one-day
thing, or we'll get it all andwe'll we'll cover our gear for a
year and everything else thatcomes with it.
Um, but yeah, we had to do thesame thing.
We you know, business license,LLC, uh everything.

SPEAKER_03 (01:34:32):
We we Yeah, I have none of that shit.
I just do insurance at theAspirus.
That's what I've been trying todo.

SPEAKER_05 (01:34:39):
I mean, since I've been DJing stuff too.
Yeah, her.

SPEAKER_03 (01:34:42):
I mean, I'll I probably I should have maybe
gotten that, but uh now it'slike her dad is some brilliant
paralegal lawyer, whatever.

SPEAKER_08 (01:34:50):
He he he's he's crazy smart.
Yeah, we just gave him theinformation he created our LLC
and we were out.

SPEAKER_00 (01:34:56):
My daddy's gross though.

SPEAKER_08 (01:34:58):
So that's the only reason we have interesting.

SPEAKER_07 (01:35:01):
What's his name?

SPEAKER_00 (01:35:02):
Well, he's not an attorney, he's like um
paralegal, he does it on theside, you know.
Like my dad has so many bachelordegrees.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, he's really, really smart.
Hell yeah.
But I do Jack of all trades.
I hate it.
Yeah, there you go.
I'll see, and he'll he'll justdo it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:35:19):
Those are the good ones.
I know.
And like the other day he textedme.
Oh, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00 (01:35:23):
The other day he texted me, he said, sweetie,
don't forget your year's comingup.
You need to pay for this.

SPEAKER_08 (01:35:28):
We had to pay for our LLC renewal or something, 20
or 30 bucks for a year, whateverit is.
Yeah, they did.
But he has it in his system,it's already on his calendar, so
he lets her know, hey, you needto renew it.
Which is good, yeah.
Yeah, because we wouldn't haverenewed it otherwise.
We don't know anything better.

SPEAKER_07 (01:35:42):
You know, I'm big on technology, guys, and I want you
guys' opinion.
How do you feel about the thedecks that are coming out?
They're like this this small,you know, Hercules has one, DJI
has one.

SPEAKER_08 (01:35:51):
Have you guys ever in my studio, man?
Really?

SPEAKER_07 (01:35:54):
I want to see that, but yeah, okay.
So how do you guys feel aboutthe controllers?
The little small ones, yeah.
They look it looks just likewhat you have with, but it's
just really shrunken down.
Yeah, how do you guys feel aboutthat?
Have you guys ever messed withit?

SPEAKER_06 (01:36:04):
I I've never messed with it, but I've seen them
before, and I think they're kindof cool to like have at home and
practice on.

SPEAKER_03 (01:36:09):
To practice on, okay, yeah, yeah.
I don't, I mean, I don't, Idon't, it's too small for me.
I don't, yeah, I need thatspace.
Yeah, I need that space.
Yeah, I can't.
Yes, I can't, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (01:36:20):
Okay, so this is the one I wanted to buy.
I had no idea you had it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:36:23):
I mean, but if you want to like mess with it and
stuff like that, yeah, that Iguess that'd be good, you know
what I mean?
For practice, but I understandit at the pad, you know what I
mean?

SPEAKER_07 (01:36:29):
Like in bed, you know, or something.
But can you do a party with thisright here?
You could mix live.

SPEAKER_08 (01:36:36):
You could, you could, but them jog wheels on
there are very, very, verysmall.
It's like putting your pinky onthem.
For me, that's a travel unit.
I take it to my mom's in Ohio.
I take it wherever I'm going soI can work on music, so I can
set Q point.
Oh, they're not here, yeah.
Yeah, but left side and rightside.
Okay, yeah, they don't have XLRsor anything, so you have to take

(01:36:56):
a mini jack to a RCA to whateverand convert a couple times.
But yeah, this is dope, right?
I take that just so I can playwith stuff.

SPEAKER_07 (01:37:05):
So does this have everything that you have there?
Is it missing anything?

SPEAKER_08 (01:37:10):
Well, it it's missing the the EQ a little bit.
The EQ, okay.
So doesn't have a base filterdown there, so you can you can
uh that top button in themiddle, it says base filter, top
white button.
Oh, yeah, yeah, right.
So that controls those lower twoknobs, and you can either choose
I want to choose a filter or Iwant to cut the base.
So it doesn't have your highs,your mids, and your lows to

(01:37:30):
where you can manipulate your EQand you can blend more
beautifully, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the basic.
But it does the job.
Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_07 (01:37:38):
This is dope right here.
Yeah, this is the one I waslooking at, actually.
This is fucking dope right here.

SPEAKER_08 (01:37:42):
Okay, good.
There's nothing to it, man.
I took it to Ohio with us acouple weeks ago.
I was working on music at mom'shouse, setting cue points, you
know, just playing withtransitions and shit like that.
Just I like to see it.
This is dope.
I've never seen it in person.
This is actually pretty fuckingsmall.
Yeah, it's it's small.
They have a uh they have onethat I like.
That's a uh it's batterypowered.

(01:38:03):
It's rechargeable.
Is it alpha or something?
Oh yeah.
It's it's about this big.
It's about this big, and it Ithink it's white and it has a
rechargeable battery and itlasts for like 10 hours or
something.
Oh shit.
And nowadays they have they havebattery-powered mixers.

SPEAKER_03 (01:38:18):
I don't like anything battery powered because
eventually it's gonna run.
I just can't, I don't, I justdon't trust it.
Is it a countdown in your head?
Okay, it's gonna last as long asit gets.
Is it gonna last that long?

SPEAKER_08 (01:38:28):
You mean redundancy is good, but otherwise, the only
time I use battery is like on myAlto Buskers, my little, my
little what it my little mobilespeakers, I use them for
ceremonies, especially if I ifI'm at a venue where the
ceremonies are one end, yeah,and and you know Bonji Gardens.
Yeah, we use Mongi.

SPEAKER_07 (01:38:47):
Yeah, so this one right here requires an
application for you to uh playwith it then.

SPEAKER_08 (01:38:51):
Yeah, you can use DJ Pro, you can use Serato, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (01:38:54):
Oh, okay.
This is dope right here, man.

SPEAKER_08 (01:38:57):
And DJ Pro you can use on your phone, on your
tablet, you know, you can use DJPro on any either of those.

SPEAKER_07 (01:39:02):
Yeah, I fuck with DJI on the phones and tablets
just to mess with it, you know.
But yeah, it's pretty cool righthere.
I like this.

SPEAKER_08 (01:39:07):
Yeah, it's not bad, man.
So I'm gonna finish you guys upwith this one, man.
And this one goes for each oneof you guys.
I just want to kind of get a uhan answer, a feeling from you
guys on on what's your why,right?
What's your why?
Is this is this uh about legacy?
Is it about brand or is it aboutboth?

(01:39:28):
I'm gonna start with Noe, man.
Is is your DJ journey about yourlegacy?
Do you want it do you you wantyour legacy to remember?
Are you building a brand?
Are you doing both?
What's important to you, man?

SPEAKER_03 (01:39:40):
Just make people happy, man.
I don't I don't care about allthat other stuff.
I mean, legacy, I mean, as faras like the legacy, um, maybe
I'm already like kind of, youknow, because of I've been doing
it for so long.
So I mean that's cool with me.
I'm I'm I'm good with both ofthat, you know what I mean?
But um I just I just do itbecause I like to do it, man.
I love music, I like to seepeople dance, I like to get

(01:40:02):
everybody out there, you knowwhat I mean.
Something I I I've always toldpeople, I I feel like uh because
I don't I don't just DJ, I meanI also promote, you know, I do
some shows and stuff like that,you know.
And I uh you know I work withlike Tim, I work with a couple
promoters out there and shit,behind the scenes, you know what
I mean, stuff like that.
But I like doing that, you knowwhat I mean?

SPEAKER_08 (01:40:18):
I feel like there there's a byproduct, right?
Money is a byproduct of doingsomething well and uh having
success at it and having funwith it, right?
And and I feel like legacy andand brand and that kind of ties
in directly, right?
If you care about what you'redoing, if you love and
appreciate it, if you care aboutthe art, if you if if you put

(01:40:42):
everything you have into it andit's important to you, one of
them takes care of the otherautomatically.
Like, like money's gonna come.
Money's gonna come no matterwhat.
You do a good job at somethingyou have good, you you you have
fun doing it, money will come.

SPEAKER_04 (01:40:56):
Yeah right?

SPEAKER_08 (01:40:57):
Legacy is gonna come.
The more that you have fun withit, the more that you get out
into the community, the morethat you people that you reach,
uh the legacy is gonna come.
They're gonna remember the Noe Gshows, they're gonna remember
the pantomime shows, they'regonna remember all of these
things.
Um and you know, God forbid oneof us are gone, you know, we're

(01:41:18):
gonna be remembered forsomething, right?
Yeah, there you go.
And and that legacy and thatbrand.
You left your footprint, yeah.
Yeah, what what do you think,Dre?
So you're just getting into totrying to build the business and
and do that.
It the legacy, the brand.
It looks like you're headedtowards brands initially.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:36):
Yeah, I see, I want to be different because I've
always had like the mindset ofthe customer first.
Yeah, like um, and I that's justhow I am.
I like helping people uh througheverything that I do.
Like, I outside of that, I workwith kids, uh special education.

SPEAKER_03 (01:41:51):
That's good too, man.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:52):
Um, I just I really feel like if I can make the
difference on like a bright dayand help, even with the little
in-between things, I think youkind of mentioned it.
Yeah, it's worrying.
I just naturally like sometimesyou're the coordinator, yeah.
Yeah, all the time.
Yeah, all the time.
All the time.
I remember a one time uh the acaterer was there and he he

(01:42:14):
messed it up.
He's bombing, yeah.
And it was they hired him, and Ihad to make sure like things
were going.
I'd help put the menus, I'd helphim assemble the the shaving
dishes, uh, and I just did it.
Um because it's the right thingto do, exactly.
Um, I know it's outside myscope, but as if they enjoy the
event, I did my job.

(01:42:35):
Damn, there you go.

SPEAKER_08 (01:42:37):
How about you, Henry?
When it comes to the boat,domination.

SPEAKER_07 (01:42:41):
No, no, I mean everything, everything is a
brand, bro.
For real, everything is brand.
You know, I've been working,I've been in it for what, six,
seven years now, and uh, we'vebeen doing our thing.
Brand is everything to me, justlike the Nike, the McDonald's
sign.
When you see the BUG logo, youknow what's up, you know.
So it's um as far as legacy, Iguess time will tell.
You know, but right now I'm anentertainer, bro.
I like to entertain everybody,you know, uh, and I love what

(01:43:02):
I'm doing.
You know, I'm talking aboutmusic.
I I can talk about this shitevery fucking day, all day, you
know, and it I'm enjoying it.
The most important thing is I'menjoying it, and I love that the
people come up to me and theytell me, hey, you know what?
This shit was funny.
You know, I'm like, that'sthat's what I'm about, right?

SPEAKER_03 (01:43:17):
See, then that's how they're gonna remember you, like
all the stuff that you do, youknow.
Mixers are mixers are good to goto for like DJs and all that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
If you're serious, like youknow, you like if you want to
you should go to mixers, man,all any mixers.
I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:43:33):
I feel like people miss out on on when they lose
sight of the customer, if thenthey lose sight of the bride,
the groom, when they lose sightof the events, uh, when they
lose sight that it's notnecessarily about me or Noe G,
it's not about us.
It's the wedding isn't about us,it has nothing to do with us,
right?
We don't need to keep directingthe energy towards us.
I'm like, keep pounding a you'reon the mix with DJ Gordy B,

(01:43:56):
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, over and over and over
again, right?
Um, it's something that I I feela lot of people uh fail to
execute on is experience.
It's the experience that youprovide.
The experience, the laughter,the giggle, the smile, the the

(01:44:18):
click, the one song that youplayed for somebody because you
noticed, hey, that might betheir wheelhouse, right?
Um the professionalism, the theyour ability for them to sign
with you, you know, uh thecontract for their wedding for
$2,700, and your ability toconvey trust, peace, peace of

(01:44:44):
mind, something that that brideand groom is not going to have
to worry about.
I don't have to worry about noEG.
I've got my DJ, that part'sdone, he's gonna deliver, and I
don't have to worry about ifhe's gonna be any good.
I don't have to worry about ifhe's gonna be professional.

(01:45:04):
I don't have to worry about allthese things, and I think a lot
of times people don't don'tunderstand that aspect or take
that in to where you can conveyum just a massive amount of
confidence, you can exudeconfidence so much that you can

(01:45:26):
put their worries to rest andthat they feel good about the
investment that they have madein you and the product that you
are gonna deliver because theyknow that you're gonna deliver
it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:45:38):
Especially when the event's like a year away, you
know, and then they give youthat deposit again.
And I always tell my clientsthis I was uh when they book me
for like next year, I I alwaystell them, I said, okay, you
know, it's it's 50%, you know,deposit.
I'm gonna tell you right now,you're not gonna hear from me
once you do the deposit, you'renot gonna hear from me at all

(01:45:59):
until three, two, three months,three weeks prior before your
event.
So don't fucking freak out oranything.
Yeah, like when if you have anyquestions or anything, you know,
text me and I'm gonna get backto you or email me or whatever.
And once you give me thedeposit, I'll revise the invoice
showing deposit paid, and thenwe're good.
You won't hear from me until youknow three because that's when
I'll when I get to your the weekthat I get to your event, like

(01:46:20):
Monday, I start working on yourshit.
And I'm ready.
I got everything ready byFriday.
I don't have to worry about youno more.
Yeah, I like to get my shit doneearly that way, you know,
because then you don't want tobe done last minute.
It's kind of you get lazy.
And don't pay me, don't finishpaying me before the event
because I don't want to feellike I'm doing your shit for
free.

SPEAKER_08 (01:46:39):
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah, we have we have all beenthere, I think, to where we have
somebody has paid for a fullevent up front a year later, and
that event comes up and you feellike you're not getting paid.
I spent that$2,500 on lastyear's Christmas.
So I I spent it, it's done, andnow I'm having to do it.

(01:47:00):
And so nowadays we collect thedeposit and then we say two
weeks prior to your date, theremainder is due.
Yeah, so we have we get paidwithin that two weeks.

SPEAKER_03 (01:47:10):
I don't I don't even do that.
I said just pay me the day of,you know.
I don't want to go there andsay, shit, man, I ain't fucking
going home, broke.

SPEAKER_07 (01:47:21):
So everything that you guys are saying, that this
is really cool.
This is why I like this fuckingshow right here, man, because
you bring in different DJs here.
Because during the parties, it'shard to talk to a DJ because
they're working, right?
But you're giving them, you'regiving them the platform right
here to really expressthemselves and really get to
know the DJ.
So people that are tuning inright now and they have a party
coming up, they can go ahead andhit any one of these gentlemen
over there.

SPEAKER_08 (01:47:41):
Yeah, they're gonna hear one of these people and
they're gonna resonate with thatperson.
Somebody is gonna resonate withTrey over here and knowing and
Patamar.
Somebody's gonna resonate withthis brother, and they're gonna
be like, something that he saidtouched my heart, clicked with
me.
Reminded me of grandma andgrandpa.
Some if something happened,that's my guy.
It's it's it's that's my guy.

SPEAKER_07 (01:48:05):
Yeah, this is why I like what you got going on over
here, and I most definitelysupport this show right here
because you're doing somethingdifferent right here.
And it benefits everybody, itain't just VJ Gordy B.
It's everybody that is overhere, man.
Hey, shout out to you for realfor giving us the platform for
for that, man.

SPEAKER_03 (01:48:21):
Thanks for having us.

SPEAKER_07 (01:48:22):
And cheers, all be quiet now.

SPEAKER_08 (01:48:26):
All right, man.
Is it the legacy?
Is it the is it the thebusiness?
Is it the the brand?
What is it?

SPEAKER_06 (01:48:33):
Honestly, man, when it it just kind of like knows
that I don't really care aboutthat.
I just want people to have agood time.
I mean, I've done everythingfrom weddings to quantitarias to
backyard parties to even likehospice events.
You know, I even told my wifetoo, because she goes to me with
all my events, also, and likethere was uh an event that we
did for a hospice company, andit was like their senior prom,

(01:48:55):
literally senior citizens.

SPEAKER_08 (01:48:56):
Oh man, that's cool.

SPEAKER_06 (01:48:58):
Honestly, like I was playing songs from like their
era, and now again, just kind ofcrooners, man.
Frank Sinatra's like, and again,just even growing up knowing
that music too, like it reallyresonated with them.

SPEAKER_03 (01:49:10):
Gotta have the big the big band, man.
Yeah, you really do.
The 40s, the 50s, guys.
Yeah, swing music.

SPEAKER_06 (01:49:15):
Yeah, and I and I looked at my wife because I saw
the dance floor packed, andhere's like these you know,
70-year-old guys with theirwalker, and you know, I'm like,
at that moment, they're not old,right?
They're young again.
They are there.
I took them back in time.
I I gave them that time capsuleto go back, and it's like that's
what DJing's all about.
That's when it's that that'sthat's when it clicks, that's

(01:49:36):
when I'm happy.
That's I mean, I honestly didn'teven care what I got paid that
day.
That was my payment.
I was so happy to see that.

SPEAKER_03 (01:49:43):
Sometimes, you know, you gotta do gimme's, you gotta
do free, you gotta do freebies,you gotta do the you know, the
end kinds of the end kinds.
I mean, and even those gigs giveget you another gig, you know, a
good paying gig, you know.
I mean, so you you gotta do, Ido at least maybe three a year,
you know.
I mean, uh after that, you know,you gotta all right, you know.

SPEAKER_04 (01:50:00):
You gotta scale back because they next car take out
things.
I already do my did my three andkinds.
I know some other DJs they needto do their their yeah, they
they need to make they need toput in their end kinds, you know
what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:14):
Like, even for me, like I'm still the same
pendehole that was in my back mybackyard making mud pies and
slinging them at my sister, youknow what I mean?
Like, I'm I'm nobody, you knowwhat I mean?
So it's like the legacy may bethere, it may not be there, the
brand may be there, may not bethere.
I'm still the same guy no matterwhat.
How how long have you beenDJing?
About 13 years.

SPEAKER_03 (01:50:32):
Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:33):
Yeah, so I've been doing it for a while now, and I
don't know how many times I'vedone like the shitty backyard,
you know, to like the mostsketchy neighborhood.
But you know, it's like youknow, I I kind of feel like I
paid my dues in that sense, butyou know, like leaving the
legacy, I again doesn't matter.
Like I could be forgottentomorrow, but you know what?
I still have those memories ofthe gigs that I did where I know
I was happy because I kind ofdid it not just for them, but

(01:50:54):
for myself as well.
You know, I love music.
Like I told you guys, I startedplaying guitar first.
I was a guitarist at 10 yearsold.
I've been in bands, I toured allaround California, I did all
that, and I learned the soundpart of it.
You know, one of the reasons Ibecame a DJ is because I missed
the stage.
That was the like the mainthing, and I know all this
music, I know I have all thisknowledge of it.

(01:51:15):
Like I tell people I'm kind oflike Slum Dog Millionaire, you
know, that movie where it's likeevery question is another aspect
of his life.
So when they tell me a genre ofmusic, I go back to like, oh, I
remember my uncle played thatfor me, or my aunt played that
for me, or like I heard thathere and I loved it, so I found
it on my own, you know, and andstuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 (01:51:32):
So I like to do that, research the music, yeah.
Exactly.
I'll I'll I'll type that likeI'm a music nerd or something
just weird, and you can go downthat rabbit hole, yeah, and it
there really is.

SPEAKER_06 (01:51:44):
Like, there's a lot of stuff around the world.
Like I did uh uh an event uh newmetal night, and I told people
like new metal goes all aroundthe world.
I play stuff from like India,from Brazil, you know what I
mean, like all these otherdifferent places, Greece, even
you know, they have stuff too.
So it's like I'm just a musicalnerd.
So but like you said, uh Gordy,with you know, with one comes
the other.

(01:52:04):
So the if the if you see thebranding and you've you've heard
pantomime, you've heard mebefore, great, I love that.
But I'm still the same guy thatI was five minutes ago before
you even mentioned that name.

SPEAKER_03 (01:52:15):
And then you have to promote yourself too.
And you really do, yeah.
Out of sight, out of mind.
I mean, if you're not doinganything, ain't nobody gonna
think about you, you know what Imean?
You gotta put them out there.
Sometimes people probably gettired of it, but hey, yeah,
yeah, I'm you're you're the oneworking, and the other guy
that's talking shit ain'tworking.

SPEAKER_08 (01:52:33):
Yeah, I'm always trying to feed the machine, man.

SPEAKER_03 (01:52:35):
I'm going on 46 years, man.
Every there hasn't been a timethat I've stopped DJing.
Like I literally 46 since I was15 years old.
Consistent years.
It's every year, you know.
I mean, I I post it.

SPEAKER_08 (01:52:46):
There are some DJs that keep retiring and coming
back, man.
Yeah, no, I don't I'm when I Iwhen I retire, I'm gonna trust
me.

SPEAKER_03 (01:52:52):
When I retire, I'm gonna retire.
I'm done.
I'm done.
Y'all can have this, yeah.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
I I I'm I'm pushing the big youknow number this year, and uh I
don't know, but after that mightgo another five years, maybe,
you know what I mean, Godwilling.
But if not, you know, I'm goodwith it.
You know, I'm I've already doneit.

SPEAKER_08 (01:53:09):
I'll just for me, man, it's it's it's the whole
thing about not stopping,especially when you have a bad
you have a bad night, right?
You have a bomb night, youbombed, you did something
terrible, the dance floor suckedfor whatever reason, whatever it
is.
And then you start questioning.
We've all had those things.
You start questioning things,you question your ability, you
question if you're any good, youquestion if the people you've

(01:53:29):
played for before were just fullof shit and didn't know
anything, and you know, you godown this this whole just
plethora of things.
My my thing is is if you don'tstop, you never have to start
again.
Like keep going from whereyou're at.
Like, yeah, you had a broke, youhad a rough event, you had a
rough patch, you had whatever itmay be.
It's like going to the gym ordoing anything else on a

(01:53:51):
consistent, uh regular basis,right?
If you never stop, you neverhave to start over.
Yeah, exactly.
If you stop DJing, you're gonnahave to start over from the
basics.
You really are, like, yeah, youcan beat match and everything
else, but there's a there's alot to it that you're gonna have
to study, you're gonna have toget caught back up with music,
you're gonna have to currenttrends, newest trends, stems,
whatever technology comes outnext, left and right.

(01:54:14):
If if you stop now, you willhave to.

SPEAKER_06 (01:54:16):
You always got to keep it interesting.
Yeah, you know, if you don'tkeep it interesting, if you
don't love what you do, then whyeven do it at all?
You know, and kind of like whatyou were saying, that you want
to expand too.
Like me and my wife, we havethis plan every year.
We want to make a biginvestment.
So last year it was the coldsparklers, you know.
So we got our own.
We spent like$1,600 on four ofthem.
Damn man, what are you guysgetting?
Sparkles are so cheap for, man.

(01:54:38):
I gotta get a connect for thefive.

SPEAKER_08 (01:54:40):
I paid$2,200 for mine.
I gotta connect in China, man.
In China, no, we didn't pay thatmuch.

SPEAKER_07 (01:54:47):
No, we paid more.
I was gonna say Little Sanheleis callejones, we yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (01:54:50):
So I mean, but that was like fresh for us.
Now this is a new toy, so it maynot be with DJing, but it's like
cool, now I can offer this.
So I get excited to promoteagain.
And then this this next comingyear, we're actually wanting to
expand to a photo booth as well.
And it's like, okay, now that'sgonna be our shiny new toy.
Now we can promote that.
So it's still not at the DJbooth for myself, but now I can

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promote something else, and it'sgonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 (01:55:14):
And then your wife can your wife can be able to run
the book.
Yes, and then that's exactlywhat she wants to do, just like
they do, you know what I mean.
So you have a team, you know.

SPEAKER_08 (01:55:21):
I mean, see, yeah, you're never completely out of
it.
I gotta make my team.
I know me too, bro.
Like, even if the customerdifferent DJ, they can still
book you for a photo course andyou're not completely out all
that money.
Exactly.
That is true.
You have it in somewhere, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:55:35):
Even with the cold sparkers, we literally rented
them out just like that.
We didn't even do anything.
I used to I used to rent my coldsparks, like, yeah, yeah,
because I was like, man, Ididn't I and the reason that was
what was holding me back was Ididn't know what brand to get.
I wanted to get the the goodones, right?
I my mom always said, if you'regonna buy something, buy the
best because otherwise you don'thave to be fucking that it's not
breaking on you or anything.

(01:55:55):
Buy the good ones, the expensivegood ones.
And and I was I would askpeople, and I even you know, and
nobody would tell me, like, oh,these are good ones.
Or what?
Yeah, well, I got the J Maz,those are the ones that I got.
You know, I ended up finding outwhich ones are the good ones.
I said, okay, and man, they theywork perfect.
The only thing I don't likeabout those is that you have to
get that fucking card and to getthe seconds, otherwise, if if

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you run out of seconds, oh ifone RFID scan it, yeah, you
can't do the other one, so youhave to buy two fucking co uh uh
uh powder just to get the thing.
So you so they both have yeah,and I'm over here buying one,
thinking that card's good forboth of them until I used them
one time and shh when the thiswas like, I was what the fuck,
man?

(01:56:37):
And then somebody told me theygo, Oh, you oh it was James
Waters.
He said, Well, you have to usethat other card to put I was
like, Oh, so I have to buy twofucking powders that yeah, I was
like, God damn it, do yourresearch.
That's how they that's how theyget you to to buy the powder
from them, so I have to alwaysbuy powder from them, but yeah,
it's it's a it's a goodinvestment, man.
Like the uplights, you have anyup lights?

(01:56:58):
Yeah, we have uplights too.

SPEAKER_06 (01:56:59):
Yeah, because that's yeah, like I said, we know we
try to expand every year, try toget something new, and again, it
becomes this new bright shinything, and it keeps me excited
to DJ, keeps me excited topromote and do all these other
things too.

SPEAKER_03 (01:57:10):
That's why I like to do my little videos to some
people, yeah.
Man, just look at the rail, youmean you're just saying I rock
parties.
Yeah, like you know, the proofis in the video.
There's nobody sitting down,everybody's on the dance floor.
Because, of course, that's whenwe're gonna record.
I mean, that's like you're notgonna scroll through my feed.

SPEAKER_08 (01:57:25):
I'll tell you right now, you will not scroll through
my feed, and it'll just be atext post that hey, I rocked a
party tonight.
Yeah, just I'm gonna have avideo attached to it showing it.
I'm gonna have a video attachedto it showing that it's not a
fucking line dance.
Yeah, that shit drives me crazy.
I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03 (01:57:41):
I stopped recording the line dance as well.

SPEAKER_08 (01:57:43):
I feel like that's a gimme.
I feel like line dance, dancefloor is full.
That doesn't mean that you lovethat dance floor you created
organically.
That's just something thateverybody's gonna dance to
automatically.

SPEAKER_03 (01:57:53):
Yeah, that's a that's another thing.

SPEAKER_08 (01:57:54):
It doesn't count, right?

SPEAKER_03 (01:57:56):
Like I see that shit, I'm like playing Lachona
and Solomon.
Like, I love the fact that Istill dance to damn.

SPEAKER_04 (01:58:04):
Everybody does, and I still like La Chona, I'm not
gonna lie.

SPEAKER_06 (01:58:08):
Like, I love the fact that my wife goes out there
and she helps me with this, andshe's like my partner in club
with all this as well.
You know what?
Because when you're DJing, likeyou're so focused on what you're
doing, you can't record.
It's damn near impossible.
So she already took care of allthat.
She's not doing that for you,you know.
She's not gonna see her, youknow, taking her video, she'll
talk to and saying where we'reat, what we're doing.

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And then I I even told her toolike, don't do the line dances
anymore.
Don't do this or do that.
I go, because that's not right.
Like oh, that one song that'sweird that will hit, that's when
you want to record becausethat's when you found the crowd.

SPEAKER_03 (01:58:40):
I did I do that myself.
I don't have all that help, butI still go out, believe it or
not, I still do my mid song.
I do, yeah, I do all I load up,I set up, I break down myself.
I don't I I don't I don't haveany help.
Like, I never have help.
So I have to do my own videostoo.
Like, I'll play a song whenthey're all gonna get I'm like,
all right, cool.

(01:59:01):
A little bit more, a little bitmore of this cool shit, and then
I'll be at home and I'll justlet me ask you something about
the solo setup, right?

SPEAKER_08 (01:59:07):
Because that's something that I uh I've started
to just despise a little bitsetting up and breaking down,
right?
I've become kind of like kind ofsnobby where I like I'm just
gonna fucking hire somebody togo set up, so all I have to do
is bring my laptop.

SPEAKER_04 (01:59:20):
I wish I I wish I you know it's coming at my age,
it's coming, it's coming five,and it hasn't happened for a
while.

SPEAKER_03 (01:59:27):
I just can't find anybody, yeah, somebody that's
dependable.
Well, lately, me and uh Eric uhAvalon, um Eric Tapia, DJ, yeah.
Yeah, me and him, we wepartnered up, you know.
I mean, so we've we've we'vebeen doing gigs together.
I've been giving him some, andhe's he's been helping me with
some because I I've mostly beengiving him some.
And he wants to get out theremore now.
So we've been kind of helpingeach other.
He's the only motherfucker thatevery time uh I've done some

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gigs and he he's gone to helpme, you know.
Just you know, take his basemodel or whatever, you know.
Let me borrow your base bottom,whatever.
And he stays there, and then atthe end of the night, I don't
even have to tell him.
He everything's I'm like, whatthe fuck?
Like he's the only one thatknows how to break.
Yeah, correctly.
He's done it.
You know, he does it with his.
I said, damn, you're the onlyone, even the D, even though the
DJs can't even do it.
Nah, nah, I don't even know howI'll do it myself.

(02:00:09):
You mean?
But him's all everything's allput right there.
Speaker's already down.

SPEAKER_07 (02:00:12):
The you know, the that's how it is with her and
her daughter's summer.
He knows how to wrap the cable.
It's very important.

SPEAKER_04 (02:00:20):
You know what?
I'm not gonna lie.
When when I wrap the cable, ifI'm gonna hurry, I'll just
around the house.
I'm like, let's get fucked overhere.
But that's you, it's your shit,though.
But if somebody else does it,what are you doing?
Yeah, it it it's um it it'scrazy.

SPEAKER_03 (02:00:37):
I think I'm I'm gonna wait till like maybe I
want to wait till at least I hit50 years of DJ maybe to retire,
and that's not too far away.

SPEAKER_08 (02:00:43):
It'll keep you young, man.
It'll keep you young.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, that's cool though.
You did your thing though.
That's fucking hella cool rightthere.
So, with the mobile setup, I wasgonna ask you, man, with the
mobile setup, what is youropinion on column arrays?
Technology-wise, DJ-wise,speaker sub bottom, column array
up top, you know, real nice,beautiful, classy for weddings,

(02:01:06):
whatever it may be.
Um, but because I've been in themarket for them.
I want something a little bitlighter, a little bit easier.

SPEAKER_03 (02:01:14):
Yeah, you know, I mean, I mean, I don't know.
I don't like the look.
Yeah, yeah.
But I mean, some DJs, you know,they swear they're good, you
know what I mean?
When they play, but they are.
I don't know.
Yeah, see, I don't know if theyare.
I think my top 15 I'm oldschool, so I'm gonna take my 15s
and and my, you know, I'm gonnado it OG style.
And to me, I'm comfortable.
I don't like no, like I said, Idon't like no uh battery

(02:01:36):
operated unless they're myuplights or something, but
anything.
Yeah, the speakers, oh well, youcan put this thing, it's
cordless.
I don't fuck with that.
Yeah, because uh you don't knowwhat you don't know the failure
rate, just like when DJs say,Oh, I I I need to go to the hall
and see if they have Wi-Fi.
If I send somebody to do a gigfor me there, well, I need to
know if they have five becauseI'm using title, what like come

(02:01:58):
on?

SPEAKER_08 (02:01:58):
And title doesn't even have uh DJ lights.

SPEAKER_03 (02:02:01):
I'm not like, but okay, say you know you go and it
has Wi-Fi, but somethinghappens, like what if it goes
down?

SPEAKER_08 (02:02:06):
Yeah, like you don't have any folders, so you falsely
no, I have folders, but but putbelief into their Wi-Fi and it
fails and you're screwed.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (02:02:15):
So I said, I said, no, you know what, never mind.
I'm gonna get somebody else.
I like to some folders, do somemake some folders, you know, and
then for bat.

SPEAKER_07 (02:02:22):
I mean, yeah, it's like what you're saying is
right, but everybody has theirdifferent way of doing it.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (02:02:27):
My primary is folders.
Primary is folders.
99.9% of my music is folders.
I have it.
Yeah, you can't take it awayfrom me, you can't kill the
internet.
I have it no matter what.

SPEAKER_03 (02:02:37):
No matter what happens, you have it ready to
go.
But I do like folders and mycrates.
I'm good.

SPEAKER_08 (02:02:42):
I do like the ability.
If they do have Wi-Fi, I do likethe ability of taking a request
of a song that I might not havehad and be able to stream that
through my DJ software, whetherit be Spotify or title, right?

SPEAKER_03 (02:02:54):
Fuck that.
I bust out my phone.
But I do that too.
There it is.
There's your song.
Yeah, I don't like to do I don'twith when on my computer, all I
have there is my music.
I don't like to like get intothe website or little pictures
and that shit.
I don't like to do any of thatbecause you never know what's
gonna happen.
I yeah, I'm just very you knowwhat I mean.

SPEAKER_07 (02:03:16):
It's like hey, here's a real quick question for
you guys.
Does it matter the the audiofile, the format that it is,
whether it's MP3, wave file,does it matter to you guys?

SPEAKER_03 (02:03:24):
I fuck with all that stuff, but or you guys I know
the wave is making a big hitright now, but to me the MP3, I
mean Does it really matter ifyou're bumping it through a
speaker into a party?

SPEAKER_07 (02:03:34):
That's that you know that's the question.
No, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_08 (02:03:36):
It's all the quality of the song, it's just whether
there's peaks, you know, whetherit's getting chopped off or
whether it's not, you know, thevolume isn't there.
There's gonna be there's gonnabe volume differences, right?
Yeah, and then that's where yourlittle trim comes in, right?
You'll add a little trim for atrack that's a little bit lower,
you'll add a little bit of trim,and it'll just be volume for
that track, right?

SPEAKER_03 (02:03:54):
Always fuck with your EQ, man, when you're
trying.

SPEAKER_07 (02:03:57):
You're gonna have to trade me on this, bro.
I'll I'm getting that.
I always wondered about that.
If you guys ever ever take thatunder consideration when you're
out in a party, because thisyou're you're the the sound is
coming from speakers andeverybody has different
speakers.
Does it really matter if you'reat a party, or do you just well
the hall?

SPEAKER_03 (02:04:14):
I mean, certain halls, you get that.
It just fucking just soundshorrible.

SPEAKER_08 (02:04:18):
If you're an audiophile, yeah.
If you're an audiophile DJ,first and foremost, you're a DJ,
right?
You play a fucking wave, an MP3,an MP4, a Flack Audio, whatever.
If you're an audiophile, youwant that Flack FLAC.

SPEAKER_07 (02:04:35):
That's a big file is right there.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (02:04:37):
Fully lossless audio compression.
You want that flak file.
That's the most authentic soundthat you you you're gonna get
everything from.

SPEAKER_07 (02:04:44):
But for headphones, yeah, right?

SPEAKER_08 (02:04:46):
But when you're playing through a speaker, a PA
system or whatever it is, thenthe normal person the normal
person isn't gonna be able totell that, and they're not gonna
be able to tell your badtransition.
No, yeah, they're they're gonnalisten to the song, they're
gonna be happy the song.

SPEAKER_06 (02:05:00):
I'll tell you one thing too.
I mean, even at concerts,because I go to a shit ton of
concerts, I have a stack oftickets like that that I've
gotten.

SPEAKER_09 (02:05:07):
Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (02:05:07):
And um, sadly, one of my favorite bands, Deftones.
I don't know if you guys knowwho that's so um we were at the
Mayhem Festival and they wereplaying.
I was super excited to see theDeft Tones because I fucking
love that band, right?
And it was the same PI, the samePA person, it was the same, you
know, out there audio doing allthat stuff, but for some reason

(02:05:28):
they sucked.
Their audio sucked.
I'm sorry, I love that band.
Yeah, but that day, like it'slike if your guitar's not tuned,
what the hell does it matterwhat the guy on the sound
systems do?
It's not so going to what you'resaying, like all the all
whatever, whatever file youhave, you can actually mess with
the EQ yourself.
Yeah, I was just gonna say that.

(02:05:50):
So coming through a speaker, noone's gonna tell.

SPEAKER_03 (02:05:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's your job to.
I mean, you know, so if it's asong that sounds dippy, it's
your job if it needs more bass,put more bass.
If it needs less exactly morehighs, turn that fucking high on
the ball.

SPEAKER_06 (02:06:00):
And I was far away at that concert.
I was uh sitting on the lawnbecause I couldn't afford the
front row, but uh but um I canactually hear because I'm now
trained in that.
I can hear the audio guy tryingto lower the bass, higher the
mids, higher like I can hearwhat he's doing to get to them,
yeah.
And they just weren't giving himanything back, like they just it

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was bad.
Yeah, it was really bad.

SPEAKER_07 (02:06:23):
Now, okay, I know you wanted to end the show
already, but I have a lot ofquestions here.
So does that ever fuck with yourguys' head because you do this
for a living pretty much?
Oh, yeah.
Does it fuck with you when yougo to somebody else's party and
it's like they have a DJ there?

SPEAKER_08 (02:06:35):
Nah.
Nah, you know what?
If they're rocking it and theircrowd is happy, I'm happy for
them.
If they're if they're if they'rerocking it, if their crowd is
happy, I'm happy for them.
It might be one of those thingswhere we go up to them at the
end of the night or somewhereand we say, hey man, loved your
set.
I love that you're having fun, Ilove that you're rocking it.
Just something that I noticed,if you don't mind.

(02:06:56):
Can I can I share with yousomething that I noticed?
Sounds like, hey, you know, youyou you might want to start
playing with your trim level alittle bit.
Like some people don't knowthat.
It's a very simple thing.
It's a trim, it's a trim knob,right?
It's gonna increase the audio ofthat track, decrease the audio
of the track, whatever it maybe.
And like Noah said, that trackneeds a little more bass, you
know.
Crank that low back up in therea little bit more.

SPEAKER_03 (02:07:17):
Uh you just always gotta work with your fuck with
your EQ, no matter what songyou're playing.
I'm an EQ mixer.
I especially when you're comingin, your bass always has to be
low.

SPEAKER_08 (02:07:26):
Yeah, when I when I mix it's all EQ.
I don't really mess with thefilter too much, the high pass
filter.
My my I try to take pride in mymy transitions between songs and
and melding them or making themseem like it's just one infinite
track, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't want any kind of garble,I don't want any kind of jump, I

(02:07:47):
don't want vocals over vocals,you know, the typical I still do
everything OG.

SPEAKER_03 (02:07:51):
Like I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 (02:07:52):
So you pay attention to those kind of details.

SPEAKER_03 (02:07:54):
You know, no EQ.
Like if I'm mixing it onturntables, but it's a
controller, it's I do just likeI fuck with it.
Like if I'm mixing withturntables, absolutely the same
thing, yeah.
Yeah, I don't use all the otherlittle buttons and shit, you
know what I mean sometimes, butyou know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 (02:08:07):
I have another question here.
It uh I might be starting someshit right here, okay?
But that's that's what I do.
That's what I do.
Do we respect DJs that just hitplay and that's it?
No, because I've gone to partiesand they where they just hit
play and it's like that's it.
They walk away, you never evensee them close to the table.
And I'm kind of like, like,damn, is it really that easy?
You know, because I know it'shard, it takes time to really

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blend, and I'm just breaking itdown.
Blend one song.

SPEAKER_03 (02:08:33):
Like if they oh, like just they already have a
mix, but they just already hitplay.
Oh, like it's all mixed, youknow what I mean?

SPEAKER_07 (02:08:39):
Yeah, like they already they already
pre-recorded it.
They already have 20 minutesalready recorded and they just
hit play.
DJing getting paid.

SPEAKER_08 (02:08:45):
For me, it's lazy.
For me, it's lazy.
For me, like Noe said, I want totake every opportunity I can,
whether it's dinner, whetherit's reception, whether it's
whatever, right?
Where I could put a playlist on,but I want to play with the song
myself and I want to transitionthe song myself.
If I just play a pre-recordedmix that I did here at the house
and it's a good mix and it's twohours long and it gets the party

(02:09:07):
going and everything else, am Ihoning my skills?
Am I being honest?
Am I being honest with myself?
Am I being honest with otherDJs?
Am I bettering myself?
Am I practicing?
And I don't think any of that isbeing done.
Um, I I do believe everybody hasto start somewhere, right?
Yeah.
Everybody has to startsomewhere.
And if if for some reason you'replaying a mix, you know, and at

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the end of the day, it all comesdown to your client and whether
your client's happy or not.
Uh if you're not going to beable to knew that you they were
getting a playlist DJ orwhatever, then they could have
just done it themselves.
But I always ask them.

SPEAKER_07 (02:09:44):
That's what I'm saying because I could have done
that shit myself.
Yeah.
I mean, that's why I'm askingyou guys.
You guys do this for a playlist.

SPEAKER_03 (02:09:51):
Yeah, I get a playlist, and then uh I always
tell them, you know, give me aplaylist of music that you like
that I might not have.
That way I can uh get that musicand then I can incorporate it
with my music.
Yeah, kind of blend it in alittle bit.

SPEAKER_07 (02:10:01):
We'll make it work.
Now, I understand if you guysare taking a break.
I understand that you know youalways want to keep the party
going and stuff, but but thewhole night doing it.

SPEAKER_03 (02:10:07):
We do have I do have break mixes, you know what I
mean?
Like oh, yeah, of course.
That is understandable.
That's right.

SPEAKER_04 (02:10:12):
That's one where I play like, okay, fam.
Where I can walk to the bathroomcomfortable.
Yeah, that's understandable.
Comfortable, but I'm not fuckingrunning three minutes.

SPEAKER_07 (02:10:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because once again, you're notplaying the whole song.
You got a verse or maybe eventwo verses in.
These are things that peopledon't know, right?
Yeah, you play one verse.

SPEAKER_03 (02:10:34):
Yeah, sometimes I'll do their verse.
I'm like, okay, damn, can I gopee way in the fuck up there in
one minute and 52 seconds?
I'll go 51 seconds, then we'repeeing.
I'll just wait.
I've found a bad too long andthen I'm waiting.
Yeah, and then I'm waiting, andI'll say, okay, and then I'll
throw another sound like fourminutes.
Okay, fuck now.
I'm gonna go fucking.

SPEAKER_07 (02:10:52):
You play Rapper's Delight, you got four point
twenty five minutes to get backin there.

SPEAKER_03 (02:10:56):
But if I want to, but if it's a if the restroom's
far, you know what I mean?
I okay, that's when you throwyour break mix, and then okay,
fuck, I'm gonna walk over therecomfortable.
Hey, let's oh, hey, you know,okay, okay.
You know you you have a good mixon, you know.
So so everybody here does dotheir mixes.

SPEAKER_07 (02:11:11):
Live the major I'm gonna say the majority of the
party, the majority of theevent, you guys.

SPEAKER_03 (02:11:15):
And the only time the only time I use that would
probably be like when I have togo to the restroom, or if it's a
really boring party where it'sjust not happening, nothing's
happening, nothing's working.
Anything you throw is notworking, and people are just
like over there, and you're overhere.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
And and those parties sometimesI'm like, man, you know, you you
you pay all this money, youknow.

SPEAKER_07 (02:11:34):
I mean, to have a you know, it's like you could
have bought but a lot of peopledon't realize that that you guys
are paying attention to theroom.
Oh, yeah.
You know, I've heard you say,you know, you're looking at
t-shirt, you're looking atwhether they're just standing
there in the wall, you'relooking at different things, and
you're always thinking of head,which is much respect to you
guys, man, because you're alwaysthinking ahead of what the next

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track is gonna be and how youkeep that flow going.

SPEAKER_08 (02:11:57):
You know, at dinner time, if you see a head nod, if
you see a smile, if you seesomething like that to a
particular song you play, gointo that year, go into that
genre, go into thatconversation.
That's fucking fascinating,right?
And expose that, expose that'sdope.

SPEAKER_06 (02:12:12):
One of my favorite ones I ever did, it was a
wedding, and it was during thedinner, and I played um I just
called it say I love you byStevie Wonder.
Stevie.
Oh, yeah.
Oh my god, dude.
The whole crowd started singing.
That's my jam the bride andgroom.
I was like, dude, that wasawesome.
That was one of the bestfeelings ever.
It's like Sweet Caroline, man.
You play on Sweet Caroline,everybody.

SPEAKER_03 (02:12:34):
My the the one that I always play while I played it
and they sing as the I LoveMusic.
Yeah, the OJs.
The OJs.
They love that shit.
Yep, that's a good one, too,though.

SPEAKER_07 (02:12:44):
That's fucking hella dope, right there.
Do you guys find that playingold school music is more, you
know, it picks up the party alittle bit more than modern
music?
Or how does it go?

SPEAKER_03 (02:12:52):
Every wedding, I mean, not every wedding, but
every mostly every wedding, evensome white weddings that I teach
it at, it's always like the sameplaylist, bro.
It's like, you know what I mean?
I mean, okay, so what is that?
Even even uh even quincinetas,like I don't need I don't get
these young girls, they don'tsend me like the new hip hop
book.

SPEAKER_04 (02:13:10):
It's all the yeah, I love that song, by the way.
That's uh that's uh uh and thenthey be getting on the floor.

SPEAKER_03 (02:13:21):
But uh, but yeah, you know, it it pretty much, I
mean, since I've been DJ, theplaylist has been the same.
I mean, you know, I mean I'veI've rocked air change.
I've rocked like all country,I've done that before.
I've done like all 1940s, wherethat's all I've played, you
know, nothing, you know.
I've done like um like he said,like uh yacht rock, you know.

(02:13:43):
I've never done like an all rockone.
I I would like to do that, butyeah, you say that yacht rock
though, you know, I mean, uhsome of that.
But like I don't get like thesequincineas where the the girls
asking for like the new stuff,you know, like it's rare, you
know what I mean?
Like it's rare, or they want theJ Balvin and yeah, yeah, it's
it's always reggaeton, yeah, youknow, cumbias, banda, old school

(02:14:05):
2000s, you know what I mean,90s, 2000s.

SPEAKER_07 (02:14:07):
That's that's usually yeah, that's what I
figured.

SPEAKER_03 (02:14:09):
It's usually around the 2000s where the where all
the dance music really came out,you know, and if and if I do
like an all-white uh wedding or16th birthday party, you know,
then it's because there's adifference.

SPEAKER_07 (02:14:21):
Sweet 16 right a sweet 16 and a quinceanera are
different, right?

SPEAKER_03 (02:14:27):
I mean it's kind of like the same, but you know,
different age, yeah.
But different yeah, different,but the the if I do like a white
party, you know, for like asweet 16, yeah, yeah, sweet 16
for a white person, yeah, yeah.
You know, it it's like like yousaid, you know, the Taylor
Swift, you know, kind of likethat.
They they all request a lot ofthat, which is more modern,
yeah.
Country, you know, JustinBieber, the Jonas Brothers, you

(02:14:50):
know.
Stuff like that.

SPEAKER_07 (02:14:51):
Ah, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 (02:14:52):
I see it's no, you know, some old school, but it's
like the familiar stuff, youknow, Earth Wind and Fire, the
September, you know, stuff likethat.
The familiar those never go outof style, pretty much.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (02:15:02):
Pantomite, what about you?
Because you fuck with all theseother different music.
Has it changed at all?

SPEAKER_06 (02:15:06):
No, kind of like when he said the playlist stayed
the same.
I mean, there are some there aresome rarities.
Like there was one quincenatethat I did.
You could tell she was like atheater girl because she wanted
all these show tunes.
Oh, yeah.
I get those too.
Oh, like music.
Never go on with Mamma Mia.
Like that's always one of theclassics, too.
Ah, okay.
Or you even throw in like theGrease soundtrack, and it's like
they love that too.
Every song is a banger.

SPEAKER_03 (02:15:27):
And sometimes, uh, you know, when you get their
their playlists, I mean you findsome bangers in there, like,
yeah, you do.
You get educated.

SPEAKER_08 (02:15:34):
All right, you get educated by other people's
playlists and by their lists.
Yeah, because sometimes theyrequest a banger that you didn't
have in your fucking library forsome reason.
I'm like, I gotta get, I gottamake that edit now.

SPEAKER_03 (02:15:45):
Because it's hard to keep up with everything.
Then I'll I'll research thatartist, and then you know, I
find out, oh man, he's gonna beable to do it.
Down the rabbit hole.
Yeah, I do the same thing.
I do the same thing.
Next, you know, I'm I'm playinghis shit, and then somebody else
is liking it.
They're like, how is that?
You know, you know, it justgrows.
Yeah, yeah, it grows.

SPEAKER_07 (02:16:00):
How do you guys feel about you know when the party's
over, the guests come up to you,hey man, you guys got down on
that.
Right.
That's a good feeling.

SPEAKER_08 (02:16:08):
That's the best feeling.
That's the best feeling iseither me mid-performance or
after performance for them tocome say, Hey, that that Gary
Stewart country song you playedthat nobody in the world knows
was my wife's and I's uh youknow, wedding song or whatever,
and you played it, you know, youjust you play.
Isn't that crazy?

SPEAKER_07 (02:16:27):
Out of like the 200 songs that you guys played, that
one song stuck with them.
That's fucking incredible,friends.

SPEAKER_08 (02:16:33):
So those are the ones and and it kind of patamine
hit on it, it is is again whenyou talk about the experience
and and legacy, right?
The the legacy that you live bethat you leave behind.
Even if I were to fail and quitDJing tomorrow, I go away,
something happens, whatever itmay be.
I'm still gonna have one or twopeople, maybe three or four,
from every single event that Idid, that is is gonna be a very

(02:16:56):
special memory in their headthat you don't know that they
ever go home and and lay in bedtogether and talk about, hey,
you remember that DJ that playedthat song for us that night?
You know, you're never gonnahear it.
You're never gonna get thataccolade, you're never gonna
hear it, but you definitelyaffected two people, four
people, however many people youyou had an imprint and a lasting

(02:17:19):
effect on them.
Give me the impression.
And your memory is in theirbrain.
No amount of money, no amount ofanything can can buy that.
You can't buy that.
I can't I can't sell you thatexperience that I played the
right song at the right time forthe right people for whatever it
may be.
You're right.
And it it's a it's a verypowerful thing, and that's

(02:17:40):
something that helps me keepgoing as well.
Is even if I don't get thoseaccolades, and even if I do have
a bad event, I can go back andsay, man, that Woody Wedding
where I played that two shortsong and they went crazy, and
and you know, or this, you know,Manji Garden, I played Gary
Stewart or whoever it was, youknow, uh the the Punjabi song
that I played.
You know, I made one guy's lifejust that so fucking happy in

(02:18:02):
that three minutes that I playeda damn song for.
Yeah, because they feel seen.

SPEAKER_07 (02:18:06):
Yeah, you know, yeah, especially something rare,
as you know, a Punjabi song likethat, that you took the time to
really put in your effort,right?
Because you could have playedanything other easy stuff,
right?
But you took your time to look,look, search through this uh one
track.

SPEAKER_08 (02:18:18):
And I feel like we're all typecast to a certain
extent.
When I say how's that when I sayyou look at somebody and you
can't tell uh the book by itscover, okay, you wouldn't come
and meet me on the street oranywhere else and say that
motherfucker slings some cumbia,right?
You wouldn't you wouldn'tassociate Gordon B with Kumbia,

(02:18:39):
right?
Like, let alone Pajabi, right?
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (02:18:42):
I get you.

SPEAKER_08 (02:18:42):
I don't necessarily associate this guy with hard
rock or heavy metal or anythingelse either.
I don't, I don't see that, youknow?
And then if I judge Dre overhere, well, I think Dre's gonna
play Dre.
I think he's gonna play Tupac.
I think he's gonna play.
I don't know that he knows GunsN' Roses or Journey or anybody
else.
Noe G, uh Noey, hey, I love you,brother.

(02:19:04):
Yeah, he has some silver in him,right?
We all we all got that silvercoming in.
I'm gonna assume Noah knows someold techno.
I'm gonna assume that he knowssome old yacht rock.
I'm gonna assume he knowsoldies.
I'm gonna assume, I'm gonna makeseveral assumptions about this
brother, just based off of whathe looks like.
Yeah, and you you're gonna bewrong about all of us.

SPEAKER_09 (02:19:25):
Yeah, yeah.
You're guessing now.

SPEAKER_08 (02:19:27):
You're wrong about all of us, you're wrong about
almost every DJ.
I will say a a complete openformat DJ has to know pretty
much every genre.

SPEAKER_03 (02:19:41):
You gotta have all the music too.

SPEAKER_08 (02:19:42):
You have to have the music, you have to be you have
to categorize your music, youhave to be organized, you have
to you have to do your homework,you have to set up your crates,
you have to be prepared forsuccess, right?
You're already coming in, likeNoah said, I'm I'm good a week
out from the event.
I've already done your guys'shit, I've already got all the
crates set up.

(02:20:02):
I have your your pre-ceremony, Ihave your your your ceremony, I
have your reception, I have yourdinner, I have your
post-ceremony, I have yourspecial songs, I have everything
ready.
It's in a crate with five, tensubcrates, right?
Have all your shit ready.
Uh I'm there early and I'msetting up and I'm testing,
right?
And then you have your libraryand everything else.
I'm so crazy about my library,kind of kind of OCD about my

(02:20:26):
library, that I feel like themore prepared I am on that damn
laptop and on my crates and onmy organization and on my
tagging of songs and my yearsand my genres and everything
else.
I cocky, cocky or confident, youcan call it what you want.
I'm confident that I can succeedalmost at any event that I'm

(02:20:50):
thrown into because of thepreparedness of all of that
music.
Now I love that.
I come in late.
Uh I'm I'm setting up in apanic.
I'm already frazzled.
A goddamn top's not working.
One of my one of my DMX is on myup light's not working.
I'm sitting here fuckingfiguring everything out.
Fucking drives you nuts, yeah.
And then on top of that, mymusic is also not ready.

(02:21:13):
Yeah, like it's not organized.
I'm not, I'm not set up, I'm notprepared to succeed.
Like I already know, hementioned this a while earlier,
and you were talking about allthe the subs, the mids and the
tops, and all the equipment thatyou probably didn't need, but
you used.
I did the very exact same thingwhen I first started DJing, and

(02:21:35):
I felt like for me I wasovercompensating because I was
not confident in my skills as aDJ.
Oh really?
So I set up these totems, I setup these moving heads, I
provided all of this stuffalmost at no cost, right?
Just as an extra sellingfeature, whatever it else may
be.

SPEAKER_07 (02:21:55):
That's interesting.
All right.

SPEAKER_08 (02:21:56):
And I finally got to the point where I felt pretty
confident with dance floors andreading crowds and have failed
enough, man.
I played for empty, I played forempty venues, I played for three
people, I paid for 500 people,whatever it may be.
And I got to the point where Ifelt like I didn't need to rely
on that equipment.

(02:22:17):
Uh and I felt like I was usingit as you know, as a crutch or
as as uh something to hide aninsufficiency or something that
I was not comfortable orconfident.

SPEAKER_03 (02:22:28):
You'll also get to know, like, I mean, what I've
noticed too is that um you'llyou'll start get to notice like
okay, this venue, I don't needto take all of this for this
venue.

SPEAKER_08 (02:22:37):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (02:22:38):
Uh for this venue, okay.
Yeah, I do need a bottom.
You know, I mean, for this one,nah, I don't, because then
people are like, okay, you knowright here because it's so
small, I don't need that muchshit.
So you'll start getting to okay,this venue, like I said, you
know, you'll start knowing whatequipment to take, what lights
work in there, you know.
I mean, is it too small for allthe fucking lights?
Yeah, lasers and everything,man.

(02:22:58):
Yeah, I mean, but I mean, youknow, I trip out on like some of
these spices, you know, spice ofDJs, man.

SPEAKER_07 (02:23:03):
They they come out with goddamn TV wallets now.
You're fucking with DJ boobs tohave like a foldable, bendable L
C D screen.

SPEAKER_03 (02:23:13):
Yeah, I'm not hating on them, you know.
That shit looks some of thatshit looks dope, but I mean it's
crazy now, yeah.
Yeah, you know, you have alittle it's you know what I
mean?
It's like you're really neat.
Do you need all that for like ahundred people?

SPEAKER_08 (02:23:24):
Yeah, and and you're only charging 300 bucks, yeah.
It's like 500 bucks, and you'resetting up goddamn trussing with
fucking lights and a light showand uh an LED video wall behind
you and everything else.

SPEAKER_07 (02:23:35):
It looks cool, but I mean it looks cool, yeah.
But I love that you guys aresaying that because I started
taking my show on the road now,right?
And I invested a lot of money inlights to make it look
presentable, yeah.
Um, not necessarily to hide whatmy show is about, but I like
what you guys are saying thatsometimes you don't need all
that shit, right?
Your presentation alone, it'slike bam, already, right?

SPEAKER_03 (02:23:56):
I mean, it could be a small venue, you can still
make you you're gonna fit inthere, you just make it look
nice, you know what I mean?
Just as long as it looks nice,man.
You're good.
Nobody's gonna say anything.

SPEAKER_07 (02:24:06):
I think at the end of the day, it's just about the
music, music, and and what'scoming up.

SPEAKER_03 (02:24:09):
What they're paying you for is go play music, do
what you gotta do, and thenthat's it.
I don't care what you'rebringing, just bring what you
need to take care of the job,finish the club.

SPEAKER_08 (02:24:16):
Keep it lively, keep it fun, and and yeah, a lot of
uplights, sometimes uplights.

SPEAKER_03 (02:24:20):
You know, I don't I don't I won't take DJ line, I'll
teach some uplights, and thenwhen they're when it's time to
dance, you know, okay, just putthem on sound mode, sound mode,
and then they let it flash.
They don't care, some peopledon't care.

SPEAKER_07 (02:24:30):
Yeah, as long as you're entertaining, huh?
As long as you're entertainingthe crowd, pretty much.

SPEAKER_06 (02:24:33):
Something I've applied to the way I DJ is
something I learned from beingin a band.
If you can rock the crowd duringthe day with no lights, no
nothing, and you can rock itjust as much as the headliner
can with all the lights andpictures, that's where it's at.

SPEAKER_08 (02:24:48):
Yeah, the products.

SPEAKER_06 (02:24:49):
If you can be a good DJ during the day, no lights, no
production, no nothing, andstill rock that show, then
that's where that's where yourconfidence should be.
Rock it either way no matterwhat.
Yep.

SPEAKER_08 (02:25:00):
Y'all, we are uh we are going on two and a half
hours.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (02:25:08):
I'm used to doing four-hour episodes, bro.

SPEAKER_08 (02:25:10):
So I'm gonna do quick exits on everybody, man.
I'm gonna go round table.
I'm gonna ask you what you'redoing, where you're gonna be at,
what the plans are, and uh on tothe next.
So petamon, man.
What do you got, brother?

SPEAKER_06 (02:25:20):
Um, so coming up, uh, we're gonna be doing a food
giveaway December 20th.
Not food giveaway, sorry.
We're gonna do like a fooddrive.
Um, it's gonna be a bottleshock.
We're still in the works withall of that, with the timing and
everything.
And uh, we've teamed up withBlue Zone and Gleaners.
We're gonna donate the food tothem.
Um, it's gonna be like a PJ.
That's dope, huh?

(02:25:41):
So put like a pajama on we'recalling it dancing shops.
We're gonna try to get vendorsout there.
Um people coming in and um likein their PJs.
You don't have to dress in PJsand whatnot, but um the cost of
entry is gonna be a foodproduct, non-perishable.
All right.
Um donation.
We're gonna be you know, DJingout there, of course.
We're gonna have some vendorsset up.
Uh that's gonna be December20th, and we got other stuff in

(02:26:03):
the works too.
Um, but for now, that's like thebiggest thing I'm working on.
You know, everything else iskind of like private events and
stuff.
Giving back, man.
That's a great thing.
Yeah, I love giving back, youknow, and and all that.
So yeah, that's where you cancatch us next.
Um, but yeah, if you just evensee us out on the street, say
hi.
You know, if you see us DJingsomewhere, say hi.
You know, we're we're veryapproachable.

SPEAKER_08 (02:26:23):
Noe G, man.
What do you got, brother?

SPEAKER_03 (02:26:25):
Uh man, well, let's see.
Um I got a couple gigs comingup, and then I have uh, of
course, um December I do the uhChristmas for homeless teens.
I do that.
Uh this will be my 11th yeardoing it.
Uh I do it by myself.
Um also uh we do the JamesonCenter, uh Children's Center,
Fifth Annual WishlistCollection.
We do that on um with I do thatfor that, I do that for free

(02:26:49):
with for uh OG's Car Club.
Okay, they do it every year uhin December at uh Fairfax and uh
Niles at the uh Food Max.
Yep.
So we got that.
And then we got a big good show,man.
I'm not gonna say who, but wegot a good show coming up next
year in March.
Oh come on, tell us everybody'sgonna like that.

SPEAKER_08 (02:27:05):
Yeah, tell us off the air.
Tell us off the air.

SPEAKER_03 (02:27:08):
And uh yeah, man, pretty much just you know, just
regular gigs right now.
Uh anything big, you know,usually till next year, you know
what I mean.
All right, all right.
Big Andre.
Oh, uh also you can catch me onuh Rewind on uh Friday night
seven.
I call it yo Friday night mix.
Shout out Rewind, shout out No Gfor Friday night, Friday night

(02:27:28):
seven seven to eight.
It's only an hour, but you know,it's it's I get to I you know
what I like about Danny is helets us play what we want, man.
It's a solid hour, though.
Yeah, it's like I mean, I couldplay all the new stuff, I can
play the old stuff, I can playwhatever I want.
That's that's what I like aboutDanny.
I love it.
He gets it, you know what Imean.

SPEAKER_08 (02:27:43):
Big Dre, what you got, brother?

SPEAKER_05 (02:27:45):
Uh I'll just be doing a lot of covers this
coming week.
I'll be at uh Eclipse Azul.
I'll also be at uh El Portal.
Oh, yeah, West there on uhSaturday.
All right.
Um, and then catch me atStella's whenever I'm there.

SPEAKER_08 (02:27:59):
Stella's and and the the the brothers expanding
business, man.
He's getting into all the uh allthe upsells, all the add-ons,
all the all the DJ stuff aswell.
So uh he's growing, man.
Taking over, man.

SPEAKER_03 (02:28:10):
Definitely go to that convention though, man.

SPEAKER_06 (02:28:12):
Yeah, go to it, dude.
And he'll be at the farmersmarket.

SPEAKER_09 (02:28:15):
Oh, yeah, the farmer's market, man.

SPEAKER_08 (02:28:17):
Farmer this Sunday?

SPEAKER_05 (02:28:18):
Yeah, I believe this Sunday, as long as it doesn't
rain.

SPEAKER_08 (02:28:21):
You got everything you need, man?
You you need a generator.

SPEAKER_05 (02:28:23):
It's supposed to be nice.
Dude, I you know what I don'thave a generator.

SPEAKER_08 (02:28:27):
All right, you might have electric out there, you
might have outlets, but if youneed something, let me know,
man.
Because they have other DJs outthere too.
The bug, Henry.

SPEAKER_07 (02:28:35):
Oh shit, man.
For real.
Hey, don't forget to catch theBaker's Fuel Underground on all
streaming platform and onYouTube also.
We're gonna be taking a bug liveon uh December 18th.
We're gonna be doing a toydrive.
I don't know where the fuck it'sat, but as soon as I get that,
go ahead and follow at the bugpodcast.
But yeah, man, we've been uhwe've been doing a lot of
things, man.
But once again, I just want totake this time to thank you, DJ

(02:28:57):
Gordi B, to having us over hereat the Most Dope Podcast.
This is my second appearance,right?
Yeah, buddy.
Fuck yeah.
I'm gonna try to break therecord, man.
But yeah, man, you know, thankyou very much.
You know, thanks for the drinksand everything.
I really do appreciate youopening the doors for uh the
Bakersfield Underground, alsoover here, man.
I'm gonna stay quiet now.
I'm done.

SPEAKER_08 (02:29:15):
We are out, yeah.

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