Mixing it Up: The Chuy's Baja Grill DJ Collective

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up y'all?
This is the Most Dope Podcast.
We're out here at Chewy's BajaGrill.
We got DJ Richie Rich out herebringing a mess of DJs to
Bakersfield and to Chewy's.
Talk to us about it, brother.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
No man.
So Lemon had a good idea aboutit.
Hey, man, let's make it like aformal invite, because you
already know I've had DJs herethe last few years I've been
here.
I invite them out, come outhere, spin.
We already kind of network, sonaturally it was already kind of
organically growing like that.
So then Lem was like man, let'sdo a formal invite to everybody
.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
So everybody knows yeah, exactly, it's just not
Rich's friends.
They can come out at first.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's yeah, it's basically my crew, my circle.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
What happened to the music man?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't know, DJ Candy over there, dj Candy man.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, Candy man over there.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We can't be over there.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
We can't be in two places man, I can't do it all
man.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
All right, so who else do we have on the podcast
today, man?

Speaker 6 (00:57):
What's up, guys?
It's DJ Arsenal.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
DJ.

Speaker 7 (01:00):
Arsenal.
How sexy.
What up my name's, jose.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm going to just go off, jose for today DJ Lemon, dj
Lemon, lemon, dj Lemon.

Speaker 7 (01:10):
Lemon.
Yes sir.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Arsenal and Lemon Arsenal.
What are you doing out here,brother?

Speaker 6 (01:14):
I always pull up on Rich, kind of the same thing.
He was talking earlier, just uspulling up and hanging out.
All right, at first it was justall his friends, and then
people just started pulling upand then yourself, and then
meeting Lemon.
It's just kind of cool pullingup and meeting like-minded
people, you know yeah absolutely.

Speaker 8 (01:32):
And then?

Speaker 6 (01:32):
getting to hear different kind of music just
because the environments thatI'm used to in it's nothing like
you know.
Give it to me, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, we don't get to play that all the time, you
know what I mean.
So it's cool to be in adifferent environment and just
live life, you know.
How do you, how do you feelabout that?
How does that?
How does that hone your skills,man?
How does that make you a betterall-around dj, like a open
format or whatnot.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
Oh, it keeps me really open format.
It keeps you on your toes.
Yeah, because I pull up outhere and I'll play something
that I'll play and wherever I'musing a nightclub or something,
it won't fly, it doesn doesn'twork, yeah, unless they're super
young.
But you know, if I come out hereand play a random Shania Twain
or something, oh it works.
Or you know some weird countryor some weird old school and
they're vibing, you know, andthen normally I just would never

(02:13):
even look at that at all, youknow.
So just knowing that that is inmy catalog, it's cool to have.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, you got to expand yourself.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
You got.
You can't keep yourself in alittle niche?
Not at all.
How did you start, man?
What year?
Oh, I started in high schoolfor like a year Because I
graduated super early, savedsome money, bought turntables,
but then I just stopped.
And then, probably like in 22,a friend of mine invited me to a
nightclub or wherever he wasDJing.
He's like drop a set.
So I dropped a set and theowner was like hey, like tell
him, if he wants Tuesdays, Ihave Tuesdays.
I was like what the hey?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Just fresh off the bench man come in and they're
offering me Tuesdays, literallylike Within the next week.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
I tried my hardest To like get a One turntable and a
mixer and then just Kind of wentfrom there.

Speaker 7 (02:54):
Alright, I'm gonna put you on blast right now.

Speaker 8 (02:59):
He asked you what when he came out of high school.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
He didn't want to tell us, yeah, he didn't want to
tell us His age.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
I'm just damn near 30 , so we'll leave it at that.

Speaker 7 (03:06):
Alright alright, I was wondering.
I was like Lemon over here.

Speaker 6 (03:10):
With the gray hairs.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Hold on, I was like you look young enough that you
shouldn't worry About how oldyou are, man.
Oh, no, no, no yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
That was probably like 2010 2011, if I could take
a good guess.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Hey, some of us older DJs were getting the grades.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
Oh man, I got them all, I got them all but you're
excellent.
That's kind of my thing rightnow All right, brother Lemon,
tell us about yourself, man.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
You came from the OC.

Speaker 7 (03:32):
Yes, sir.
So I'm from Orange County, alittle town called Boynton Park
and Fullerton area, fullerton's,where I mainly DJed out of.
But yeah, dude, out there, youknow, the scene was really live
with a lot of DJs.
And you know, meeting other DJswas like my favorite thing to
do, because back when I startedthere was no, hardly any DJs.

(04:00):
So with that, you know, meetingother DJs just it's a good
thing, you know, you can nevergo wrong with it, it helps you
get more gigs or, you know, younetwork and you just create
lifelong friends With this idea.
We used to have this thingcalled fire poo a long time ago
in LA Orange County area, wherea Network of DJs used to meet.
It used to be like 200, 250 ofus and it was sad because after
the record back in the day usedto get vinyl from from record

(04:22):
pools, people would meet up forthat now and but it died because
of serato.
It died because of digital,yeah, because of digital.
It died.
So there wasn't any space wherewe could all meet up together
and just chop music, you know,talk, you know hang out, drink.
There wasn't any of that and sowhen I moved over here, like
two years ago I was like dude, Imiss a lot of the.

(04:43):
The dj camaraderie yeah, thecamaraderie connection and you
know, yeah, I have a family nowI don't dj as much in the
nightclub scene.
I don't really dj in thenightclub scene at all anymore,
but it's still good and to havelike that same type of
environment because you neverknow when the homie could come
out and help you.
Like, let's say, if you get aflat tire, let's say you forget
your backpack.
Let's say your backpack crasheson you.
Let's say, if you get a flattire, let's say you forget your

(05:04):
backpack.
Let's say your backpack crasheson you.
Let's say you know yourspeakers go out, you know you
need, you forgot a cable.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yeah, dude, all of these things happen in between,
right, yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I think I've had every single one happen to me.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
How many backup drives do you guys have?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
One, I think you know I give a couple copies to other
DJs, right, it's always?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
there I got my main and then I got the cloud.
So if the main gets stolen ormelts or whatever, I just
download it from the cloud again.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
Yeah, you guys also use Time Machine, right?
Everyone here uses the TimeMachine.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I use Google Drive.
I'm an Android guy.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
Okay, so what do you use to DJ?
What do you use?
A laptop?
A laptop.
What kind of laptop do you use?
A MacBook?
Okay, so there's this featurein MacBook.
I was trying to tell him aboutit.
So it's called Time Machine.
It's an app.
It's built into your computer.
You just put in your externalhard drive in there and it
mirrors your laptop.
So let's say, it's ever stolen,everything will be cloned to
your next computer.
So you turn on your computer,like I've had this happen before

(06:04):
Restored from time machine.
Yeah, like a wedding, like I hada wedding the next day, 24
hours, whatever.
I lost my computer.
I don't know where it went, andso I had a time machine put it
up to my backup computer.
Everything was the same,everything.
As long as you just time it,you back it up Seamless.
It's called Time Machine.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
If you don't know now you know you had record on that
one right you had to go back tothat and be like all right.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
What did he say?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
again.
He totally double checked it.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
He was like oh man, like, hey, dude, stop man, we
run out of space somehow.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
He didn't have Time Machine installed.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's why.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
How about you, gordon ?
Where did you start off fromman?
How'd you get started?
Mine was about mine was aboutthree years ago, newer um, I
missed music.
I've been in music all my life.
I've been in music since I wasin about third grade, playing
the saxophone, trumpet in sixthgrade, drum line, stuff like
that, and, um, you know, popspassed away many years ago and
my pops is who got me into musicoriginally, reading music,

(07:08):
writing music, playing music,understanding it, genres, you
know, and I grew up in arvin soI have a very eclectic.
You know, I grew up white incountry and poor in arvin.
So, um, yeah, somebody tried tobring us food right now, I
almost took it.
And poor and arven.
So, yeah, somebody tried tobring us food right now, I
almost took it.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I got you guys in a sapper too, coming.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, so that's how I got back into it.
I needed to get back into music.
I got a saxophone at the housetoo, but DJing just allows me to
be my creative side, if youwill.
I don't really have a creativeside because I'm an it guy.
I'm black and white.
You know it's either on or it'soff.
It's either black or it's white.
There's no gray area, there'sno blending, there's no mashups,

(07:54):
it's just analog, digital, itis what it is zeros and ones.
And music allows me to get outof that box and be a little bit
more creative.
You know, like you said, frommixing like Suavemente into like
Shania Twain or something, youknow just genre bending and
mixing.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
I don't really see genre or tempo, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
So you mentioned that there wasn't a lot of DJs at
one point.
Lemon, you originally said hey,back when there wasn't a lot of
DJs.
Do you feel like there's a lotof DJs at one point?
Lemon, you originally said hey,back when there wasn't a lot of
DJs.
Do you feel like there's a lotof DJs now?
Oh yeah, for sure there's a ton.

Speaker 7 (08:31):
I remember in 2005, I was in college with my freshman
year and there was not thatmany DJs and I needed DJs
because at the time there was alot of parties happening at
school and I needed help withthem Because I wanted a party
too.

Speaker 8 (08:46):
I wanted a DJ, but I wanted a good time.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
It's college, you know, everyone wants to have a
good time and so, um, I rememberjust meeting one DJ and I was
so excited about meeting one DJand he had turntables, he had
vinyl, and I was like, all right, yeah, you know what the hell
you're doing.
All right, and this guy isstill my best friend till this
day, to this day.
Like what, 20 years later?
That's awesome, yeah.
Is he still down south?

(09:07):
Yeah, he's still in OrangeCounty.
Big wedding DJ.
This guy's a beast.
Shout out DJ Leo DJ, who Hisname is, DJ Leo Leo Nice, as in
astrology.
Yeah, his last name's Leon.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Oh, leon Chilean, what is his.

Speaker 7 (09:24):
He's Mexican, even though he's saying gringo.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
He's saying gringo hey so how are you guys getting
ready when you guys come outhere?
Are you guys just off the cuff,just no preparation, just
coming out here and I'm going tojust start playing and spinning
, Is it?

Speaker 6 (09:42):
organic.
I don't really make crates.
I have certain crates of thingsthat I like to play, all right,
or like I'll know that I, oh,everything's here I can touch,
but mainly like just searching,all right, just because the vibe
changes so quick yeah if youlike, try to stick in.
Oh, I came in here with this setand these are songs I want to
play and just don't really readthe room.
Yeah, oh, it's gonna go so badso quick, yeah.

(10:04):
But also I've seen it go badfor myself where I'm not
prepared and I think that I cancome off the cuff and have like
30 seconds left.
I'm on the outro of the songand it's about to end and I
couldn't think fast enough.
You've got to find the song andlaugh.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
And I still can't, and then I've yeah, or have
something with a slammer?

Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yeah, but just so, it's definitely bit me in the
butt.
Preparation is definitelyneeded.
Some people need it, somepeople don't.
I don't really do it All right,how about you Lemon?

Speaker 7 (10:30):
No, I'm the worst with prep.
I'm the worst.
I am the worst.
Even when I DJ'd almost everyweekend, you know, I had my
residency.
I never planned it.
It was just like he said,reading the crowd.
I think that's a big thing thatpeople don't do nowadays.
They're like zoned into thecomputer.
No, you got to watch everyone,even when they're sitting down.
Oh, they're bobbing their head,are they not?
Are they feeling this?
Are they not feeling that?

Speaker 1 (10:51):
you know so it's just because you can't, you can't
just blame a crowd for not beinga dancing crowd.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
You can still entertain people, like you said
that are sitting down yeah, andyou can see them, you know,
vibing out to the music, right?
Yeah, sometimes that's all youneed, like, right?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
now Candyman.
Right now he's playing.
I feel like he's going a littletoo hard right now.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, me too.
No offense to Candyman, hisbands are fire, but it's just a
little early for the club.

Speaker 8 (11:16):
I came out here playing.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
Mac Dre that one day, man, some things are cool, you
know, definitely doing a cool.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
The bridge was reaching over, hitting the
sensor button constantly.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
No, that was at the Condor game that wasn't here, oh
snap.

Speaker 8 (11:28):
No no, no, he had to mix up with the Condor game.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
Huge no-no.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
He's playing Mac Miller.
It was cool at first, you know,and then he talked about weed
and smoking.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Hey, I'm going to challenge everybody to play a
Mac Miller song today.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
I had a radio set yesterday.
I had one on there.
Yay, there you go, brother.
I love Mac Miller.
Thank you, man.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Hey, are you doing the Precious?
Yeah, his was yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
He was on Precious yesterday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (11:53):
Mine's coming up in a couple months.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I found a way to sneak him in there, so I did A
couple weeks, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
I got a little bit.

Speaker 10 (12:01):
Are you ready?
No, I'm not ready.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
I lagged so bad.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
I did it like the night before.
I procrastinated on that onetoo.
Yeah, like a motherfucker.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
How did you throw it together, man, I?

Speaker 6 (12:10):
didn't Okay.
So I went on my search, I putintro clean and I went by play
count.
Oh, you don't have clean.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
There you go, and then Key and B-F-E-R.
Yeah, 100%.
Arsenal taught me that too.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
So if you ever get stuck and have to play on
somebody else's computer right,yeah, that's Chico.
He taught me the biggest thingthe cheat code is go into
history and go to play count andyou'll find out the best songs
on that computer that that DJliked In their library.

Speaker 6 (12:34):
That sounds cool.
Go in it.
If they don't have it, open up,the play, count and then go
from.
How are?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
you guys responding to 4.0 Serato.
Have you guys downloaded thebeta?

Speaker 6 (12:45):
I hate doing betas.

Speaker 7 (12:47):
It's only the beta.
I got it on my backup.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
I had the STEM beta and I don't really do weddings,
but I did a wedding and itcrashed so bad.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
So I don't really mess with betas until they come
out.
We got.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
DJ Jules coming over here.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
What's up, Jules?

Speaker 7 (13:03):
It's funny hey tell the people, what's up Yo?

Speaker 5 (13:05):
yo what's up man?
What's up man.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
The funky Filipino.

Speaker 7 (13:11):
It's funny how you mention that, because I just
updated my Serato to the 3-pointwhatever 2 it is.
And that's exactly why I didn'tupdate it or try any beta
because if you're doinghigh-paying gigs like weddings,
corporate parties, like youdon't want that stuff to crash
on you.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
There's a good trick to installing Serato you just
rename the folder oh yeah, toget the double.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
I don't know about that one.
You can run double.
I've tried that.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
But that time I forgot so I'll just wait nah,
it's like updating youroperating system when it just
comes out.
It's too dangerous.
I don't even know whatoperating system I have.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's on my setup at home so I don't really have to
worry about anything if itcrashes, but it's cool though I
mean I did my research on it Ilike the way you organize your
crates.
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
It's a lot different.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
You can put your favorites up on the top.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean that helped me super OCD with my music in my
crates.
Yeah, like everything is inalphabetical, everything's in
clean, and I posted it one day,so you know just to post to show
people my library.
Yeah, and a couple peoplementioned it.
It's like holy shit, how didyou get it all in alphabetical
order?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I said, well, I had to drag them all the way to town
.
Yeah, drag them all.
Yeah, let's sweat in tears.
Mine looks like a messy room,bro, but it's my messy room, so
I know where everything's at 4.0has the automatic sort
alphabetically feature.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I'm like oh man, yeah life.

Speaker 9 (14:33):
Life to me.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
You can use emojis on there.
You can color code it.
That was pretty dope.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Hey, Marion's DJing on turntables now.
Oh shit, I try, I try.
Come on, she's playing at thehouse on turntables.
I like it I like it.
So she's on vinyl, you knowjust, you know time vinyl, not
real vinyl.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Okay, so after this I'm going to get off in a little
bit I'm going to have Candymancome over here.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
Yeah, so we kind of keep that little flow going.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
And if we do get a break, whatever I'm sure, pause
it.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
And we pick up right where we left off.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
We'll pause it for now and we'll come back.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, you can just keep on going.
I can have Jules come over here, and then we'll do something
like that though, but yeah,we'll get off real quick.
Next man up.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
So I'm curious about yourself how long have you been
practicing and doing your thing?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I've just kind of since we've been together.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
So it kind of just Ever since I started she was
playing a little bit.

Speaker 7 (15:39):
So how long have you guys Going?

Speaker 1 (15:40):
on four years.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Three and a half four years yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Both out of divorces, you know.
So we have five daughters.
Okay, I've come combinedbetween the two of us anywhere
from nine years old to 16 yearsold does your family play at all
?

Speaker 7 (16:01):
um, no, my kids are really small.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Um, I have three kids under five, yeah, so wife,
girlfriend, fiance, okay, doesshe ever jump on and try to play
some of her music?

Speaker 7 (16:12):
no, no, no no I don't honestly I love my wife I love
my wife she is perfect forplaying like at like hippie
events uh because her her music.
I mean she can.
She can pull it off if shereally wanted to, because she's
been around us long enough toknow what to do.
But would she like it?
She may, but she's more intodifferent music Natalie Merchant

(16:35):
, Alison Krauss oh yeah, Likeyou know, she goes to Strawberry
.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
For me if I jump in like say he needs a little break
.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
That's super cool.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Like to go to the restroom or whatever.
You just never know.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
So, I'm able to jump on there and like transition
something in.
So it's bad enough.
I refuse to eat or anything atweddings and events.
I won't do it Just for the fearthat something's going to
happen to my stomach, right, andI'm going to have to bounce.
That's smart and I don't wantto put a free, a free mix on
there.
I want, I want everything to beorganic and, you know, alive as

(17:11):
we go.

Speaker 7 (17:11):
So are you living with like a medical condition?
Is your stomach?

Speaker 6 (17:17):
anxiety is that what it is I have a pepto in my car
for the same reason.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Stomach anxiety, you just never know yeah, stomach
anxiety is scary man, I don'tlike I may mainly go for the
food you know and the cakeshe'll get a plate and I'll like
pick.
I'll pick something I shoulddefinitely get into dj more.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
We need more female djs, for sure.
There's a couple here in townthat I've met are super cool.
Um, there's a chick called caseof faces pulled up.
I've met here through thisplace actually, uh, three or
four female DJs that I know thatare super cool.
They're getting booked Throughright here with Richie Rich Just
him being hey, welcoming Pullup, and then two of them
specifically told me thatthey've been in the DJ
environment and don't feelwelcome, which I can definitely

(17:57):
see happening.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's a hard day.
I don't know if it's justBakersfield.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
No, it's Bakersfield Talking to him when I've gone
out of town just meeting otherDJs and hearing their
experiences compared to ours isjust like whoa.
And then that let alone on topof being a female DJ.
So a female DJ is coming up.
I'm definitely for it.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I feel like there's a lot of insecurity in
Bakersfield.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
Too much.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
A lot of DJ insecurity and I feel like they.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
There's not enough spots to go around, you know.
And then just, I don't know, Ifound just being humble and
being cool and, you know, justmaking a genuine connection
first, you know, and then we cantalk all the other stuff later.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
We're all the same.

Speaker 7 (18:35):
Literally, we're all the same.
I believe we can all eat.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Yeah, no, literally, you know.
We all have our own littletable going on.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
I will say this when it comes to private gigs, it's
all about who you know.
It's all about who you know.
They don't know any DJ'snumbers.
A lot of people don't have thatin their contacts.
They're going to book a friend,or they're going to book a
friend of a friend of a friend.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Somebody that knows somebody.

Speaker 7 (19:02):
Yeah, regardless, you can be the greatestj in the
world and you can sit on thesidelines on the weekend because
nobody knows who you are andI'm out there djing instead.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
No, yeah, definitely gotta be able to show face,
network, smile, say hi, peopleknow your name.

Speaker 7 (19:15):
Yeah, so it's where the mouth goes, yeah because you
never know when you know evenme.
I'm new to bakersfield andsometimes I get inquiries and
I'm booked and and I hand themover.
Yeah, and I have no problemdoing that.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I love being able to hand gigs off to people.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
I love it.
That's such a blessing right.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
There's nothing better than for me to be able to
feed somebody else's family.
Help them out, do whatever itmay be.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
And you still have yours, they get theirs, and then
you add a love.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
And then at you're still taking care of the client
that originally wanted you.
So you're setting thatrelationship with that client
where you have now gone out ofyour way.
You said, you know what?
I know a perfect guy, I'mbooked.
I'm sorry I'm booked, but Iknow the perfect DJ for you.
And then I hit Lemon Up.
Or you know Arsenal, I hitsomebody up and say, hey, I got

(20:00):
a gig right and let them have it, man, let them eat.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
I think we should get a little introduction for Jules
.
He's just on the side.
Hey, jules, over there, hey.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Jules slid in.
What's up, jules, it's good man, thanks for having me guys.
How you doing, bro, I'm justlike snuck in.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
No, no, no.
You know what I mean.
We've all been there, like me,I've been there for so long.
I mean I like hearing stufffrom new guys.
You know what I mean, not justnew, because I just met you.
It's like I would listen to you, I would watch you.
I'm still learning.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Hey man, I've been a little bit worried about you,
brother.
What happened?
I feel like you've been fallingapart over there, man, like
you've been having some issueswith the hands and wrists and
stuff.
Man.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yeah, this is from work, oh is it?

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Yeah, it's from work.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
Yeah, it's too much scratching.
Yeah, that's all it is I'm gladyou were able to have a day off
to come hang out.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, I mean I've been off for like six months.
Nice, I have two, you too, yeah.
Wow so yeah, no, I've been off.
I mean actually.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
I've been off for six months, but I came back for a
month and you know like tried it, but it wasn't feeling good,
you weren't there yet I wasn'tthere yet that's smart man,
that's good.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
And that's okay yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
So hey, are you jumping on today?

Speaker 5 (21:34):
I always jump in, Even if it's like 10, 20 minutes
because there's so many DJs nowyou know.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
Like before we normally have what we got like
at least 30, 45 minutes set.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yeah or more.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
But me, since I'm here every week, I'd rather give
it to someone that hasn't beenhere, because a lot of DJs come
and even though they're coolwith us, they still feel
intimidated to ask or to one-offon, because there's a lot of us
.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
And it's a hard thing performing in front of another
DJ man, yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
I've learned to live with it just because you know
they're going to hear it.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Just embrace the fact that they know that.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
You know it's like a little between us, you learn to
live with it.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't know about that transition.
Yeah, for sure it's kind ofgood for me too.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
I'm that type of DJ where I get intimidated, even
though I know that type of DJwhere I get intimidated.
Even though I know what I'mdoing, I still get intimidated.
But I'm glad I've been herewith them for a while, for a
year now.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's a crazy thing, man.
I can DJ for 300, 400 people ata wedding, no problem, right?
I mean, I still have my anxiety, you know, reading the crowd
and making sure I keep a dancefloor, but nowhere near as
nervous as performing in frontof another DJ man, oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
Or knowing there's a DJ somewhere in the abouts.
Yeah, Like did you hear?

Speaker 1 (22:53):
that he hits you up before the wedding man.
He's like hey man, I DJ too.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
And I'm like, oh shit , yeah, yeah, exactly Just like
when we had the homegirl mix,you know, it's kind of like man
I know there's other DJs goingto be listening to this.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
I played in Super Save.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
But yeah, you get critique.
So you want to play it safe,but at the same time you still
want to drop the set, Well, yeah.
I could not.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
No way, not my first time on the radio.
How do you guys feel aboutsummer as a part of it?
What do you mean In general,summer DJing in Bakersfield,
possibly outdoors, you know?
Yeah, like I'll tell you rightnow and we were laughing about
this before we got here I won'tdo a summer gig outdoors, man,
oh yeah, like that sucks, yeahfor outdoors.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Oh yeah, like that sucks, yeah for sure.
Or pulling up to a gig,thinking it's one thing and then
showing up and it's blazingheat oh yeah, we're gonna stick
you in that corner over therebecause this person wants the
one with the shade in it.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
Yeah, what the you know so it's.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
It's a problem that.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
That's kind of one of the reasons I don't like them
somewhere.
Yeah, yeah if it's not indoorswith the shitty corner yeah,
yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
If you're not there early enough, you know, or they
don't care you will be in theshitty corner.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yeah, but the good thing about my gigs I don't know
if I told you guys I think Itold you I rode with you one
time.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
I love how you say my kids.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
There's a difference with Mike.
The gigs that I do 99.9% of thetime.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
Oh wait, I know the answer to this.
I know the answer to this.
You only take gigs from peopleyou actually know it's family.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
No, no, it's not even family.
It's from a referral fromsomeone that I know.
All right, someone knows methat I got referred.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's not a blind date .
It's not a blind date.
It's not a blind date no.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
I don't take, I won't take.
Blind dates are the worst, likea random call and be like hey,
I need you to DJ, I'd pass it.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Hey, so let me ask you about this, Since you have
this kind of rule have you had abad blind date?
Yeah, in the past.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah of course.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
You've had a bad DJ gig you took.
I thought you were batting athousand.
You said 99.9.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
We're rocking with a funky.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Filipino.

Speaker 7 (25:08):
Everyone's going to dance.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Don't worry.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
No one, I think we all have some horror stories.
For sure there's a back storyto this.

Speaker 7 (25:14):
We're on our way to.
What city was that?
Tehachapi.
We're on our way to Tehachapifor a wedding at a vineyard.
Where's?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
it Sand.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
Canyon.
It's like Dorner FamilyVineyard and this venue.
It's nice but it has a noiseordinance where you can't go
past like 60 decibels, and ifyou know what 60 decibels is,
that's like one speaker from ahome computer, like that's about
as loud as that can go.
So I was nervous.
I was like yo, no one's goingto dance at this gig because the
music is going to be so soft.

(25:44):
No one's going to dance.
And he was building me up.
I don't know what he was doing,but it worked.
He was like yeah, you'rerocking with the fucking
Filipino.
I've never not had an emptydance floor and I'm like dude,
I've done gigs where no matterwhat you play, they're not going
to dance you got the next one.
He definitely put his chest upand, yeah, he definitely Stood

(26:05):
by his word.
Everyone danced the whole nightand, yeah, we rocked that party
.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Hey, we got DJ Candyman over here.
How you doing, brother?
Hey?

Speaker 4 (26:14):
how was that set?
It was good, it was cool.
I did a little bit of what Iwanted to do.
I had to go kind of off script.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
but that's just the way it goes when you're kind of
here with the crowd and whatnot.
So we've already talked aboutit, right?
Yeah, why do you feel that youhad to go off script?

Speaker 4 (26:31):
I mean you always have a plan and then you come in
and that plan just doesn'talways pan out.
So sometimes especially whenyou're djing a different venue
that you don't usually dj.
You're coming in as a guest.
It's like, okay, that's what Iusually do, I usually got this
set, I usually like to go thisway, and then you just come in
and it just feels just a littledifferent and then you just got
to kind of go with the flow.
It's just, you know, years ofof kind of knowing what works

(26:53):
and what doesn't, and how peoplejust kind of stare at you for a
minute and then you're like,okay, maybe this isn't the way
to the way to do it so you know,you learn how to switch it up.
So yeah, I mean I I kind of likedoing the old school hip hop
thing, I like doing the, thestuff that's from the 90s, you
know, kind of going thatdirection.
I also like a little bit of thenew, but you look at people and
they're like nah, they ain'treally feeling it so you're

(27:14):
reading the crowd.
Yeah, let's get a little bit.
Let's get a little bit of thisstuff on.
Let's get a little bit of thatstuff on.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's exactly what we were talking about, man.
We've been talking aboutreading the crowd, man.
Yeah, yeah for sure, andChewy's being a very diverse and
a different crowd, if you will,yes, like for me, I always
associate Chewy's with likeyacht rock or soft rock or you
know stuff like that, yeah.
And then playing that country,led Zeppelin, whoever you know,

(27:41):
yeah.
And then trying to get intoeverything else, like the Jack
Harlow, and you know, for thedifferent ages, for the
different genres, for thedifferent crowds.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah, for sure.
And I come from a clubbackground originally.
So you know, when you do theclub thing, you know what your
crowd is every weekend, you knowwhat they're going to want to
listen to, you know what they'regoing to be hearing.
And it's like, okay, I got whatI'm going to do and you
practice, you're like, all right, this is what I'm going to do,
I'm going to do my part.
If I'm with a partner DJ hedoes what he does and it's kind

(28:16):
of like you know country, yougot people that like english.
You got people that like allthis new stuff and then just
recently, doing sweet 16s, yougot people that like all this
new crazy oh, man, and peoplelike sex raid and all kinds of
shit man like oh man, and yougotta, just gotta be ready.
You could just roll with thepunches, all you can do that's
the best you can do.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I hate to snitch on myself, man, but I can't stand
that new shit.
I hate to snitch on myself, Ihate to do it because, hey, we
have to, we have to play the newstuff that you know, keen says
in certain situations and I feellike an old head by saying that
I feel like my, my grandfatheror my father say why you listen
to this shit, right.
But now I'm in the same placewhere a lot of it I do feel is

(28:57):
is kind of shit, right, andthere's certain artists that
I'll jump onto and I'll enjoy,like I enjoy Jack Harlow, I love
J Cole, so some of those guys Ilove.
But Little this and Little thatand Baby this and Baby that and
this.
I can't keep up with it, man.
It doesn't have a message forme.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
Couldn't have said it better myself, bro.
I listen to Root Jude.
I don't know if doesn't have amessage for me.
Couldn't have said it bettermyself, bro.
I listen to.
I listen to Root Jew.
I don't know if you ever listento him or hear him.
He says why does everybody gotto have Lil in their name?

Speaker 8 (29:27):
Why everybody got to be Lil Lil, this Lil that.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Why can't you just be regular?
Why can't you be regular size?

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Whatever, why can't we be Big G?
Why can't we be big yeah, whycan't the big ones?
That's funny that you say that.
But yeah, you know what'sfunnier too is that a lot of the
time, when you're doing a Sweet16, you know that the person
that's getting the Sweet 16 isjust spoiled a little, you know,
and they're getting everythingthey want.
They're getting all the rosesand the dress and all the

(29:55):
presentations.
So then a lot of times theycome up and they're like I want
to hear this, I want to hearthat, I want to hear it.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
I'm like who the hell are you talking?

Speaker 4 (30:01):
about and I'm over there going through my library,
like who is this, you know,jumping on Tidal, jumping on
Spotify?
I'm like, okay, I see the waythey're dressed on the cover.
I'm like, oh my.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
God, yeah, we know what's going to happen new stuff
.
Man, I have to have my titleaccount and I have to have title
ready, yeah, um, and look, I'mnot gonna say that I have every
song in the world obviously wedon't.
But title is amazing, man, youknow, be able to log in and be
able to get a song that's new toyou and you get to learn.

(30:33):
You get to learn maybe, a newsong from somebody you had no
idea existed and it might be abanger, yeah, and all of a
sudden that's in your arsenal,that's in your belt.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, I've heard a couple of new songs and I'm kind
of like yeah this is actuallypretty good and I'll keep it in
the pocket.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
I hope you guys do too.
I'll go dinner and drink some.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
We got DJ Richie Rich over here, just ordered us food
.
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
We got the podcast.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
That's about to eat real good, what a great host.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
But, candyman, I want to know about you in a second,
but before I get in there I'mgoing to piggyback off of what
you guys said.
We are essentially our parentsnow.
We are complaining about themusic that is coming out, and
I'm a victim of that too.
I complain about the new musicand it takes me a very, very
long time to like the musiccurrently, and I do a lot of

(31:18):
proms in Orange County musiccurrently, and I do a lot of
proms in Orange County.
So from there I have to keep upwith that stuff.
I have to.
I force myself to like themusic and it sucks because I
don't like it initially.
But the new music that I likesounds exactly like the vibes
that I like from the early 2000s.
But yeah, candyman, so where areyou originally from and how did

(31:38):
you start?
Because I met you last week andyou know that was the first
time I ever met Candyman.
The Candyman oh, what up.
So where are you originallyfrom and how did you start?
Because I met you last week andyou know that was the first
time I ever met Candyman.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
The Candyman Candyman , yeah, so the story about my
name is Candyman.
I go by Candy.
Candelario is my name.
My dad's name is Candelario, mydad, god rest his soul.
He called me Candyman, that wasmy nickname nickname, so um I
started off this.
I used to call myself dj trimand that's how I started back.

(32:04):
Wait, wait dj.
What dj trim?

Speaker 1 (32:05):
t-r-i-m-l and it was a play off, a cutting, a play
off, a cutting off, a trim right.
Right, you're gonna get sometrim right.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
So I, I had that name for a long time and then, um, I
, I kind of stopped djing for awhile.
I wasn't really doing it toomuch and I was even
contemplating selling my stuff.
And then, um, I got a wedding.
Uh, one of my daughter'sfriends asked me to do a wedding
and I, and it just sparked the,sparked the interest and it
sparked the pocketbook a littlebit.
So did the wedding just got thebug.

(32:30):
The bug bit me again.
I reinvented myself as DJCandyman.
So, um, I'm originally fromhere, I'm born and raised in
Bakersfield, so I've been mylife.
I started DJing about 25 yearsago and I have a musical
background, so I started.
When I was a kid I startedplaying piano and keyboard, so
I'm a musician by trade.
My dad played Spanish music.

(32:50):
He, he did the club scene herein Bakersfield in the 80s, like.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
La Movida, and before that, oh wow.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Condor Matecito Cali.
I can't even remember half ofthem.
The ones, all the ones on BakerStreet that you're, you'd find
your Nina and on.

Speaker 8 (33:04):
Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
You know, he did all those gems and so he did a.
He did a lot of that stuff andso, yeah, so I just basically
kind of taking this in thisfootsteps on music and then
played, played a keyboard smilealso learned how to play drums
and then, just you know, I'vealways had a buck.
For a while I also learned howto play drums and then, just you
know, I've always had a bug forDJing and I knew DJ Slice when
I was 13 years old.
He got drunk at a ditchingparty that I went to one year

(33:30):
and he passed out on the couchand I jumped on his table and
started messing with him.
And this is back way beforeSerato, way before digital.
So I got myself a vinyl.
When I started djing for thefirst time, I got myself a
couple little cheapy stackturntables.
They weren't even direct drive,they were the plastic ones with
the rubber band.
Um, I got nothing but vinyl andso I had I still have the vinyl

(33:51):
and I still mess with them fromtime to time, but I did a I did
a not did.
but I went to a party with oneof my other dj friends in uh
northridge and that's when Ifirst seen Serato and I was
blown away.
I was like what?

Speaker 8 (34:04):
the hell is this?
You know, this is all digital.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
So then, I started investigating what is this?
What is this crazy scientificcraziness that they got going on
?
So then at that point I just itwas off to the races.
You know, I had you know alittle bit of money put away and
I just I think I spent about Idon't know four or $5,000 on new
gear and a new laptop and allthat stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Easy to do, easy to do.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
Now, that might buy you a speaker, oh yeah, Well,
you're talking about vinyl.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
I was like tonight I'm going to propose to Richard.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
Riggs yeah, bring the turntables.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
I'm going to bring a turntable and bring all vinyl
set man.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
If you do that, I'll bring my vinyl too.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
I'll bring my vinyl, I want two, so I'll bring all
vinyl, because I started messingaround with vinyl again.
I was like man, so this isgoing to be my first all vinyl
set.
Yeah, so we can do.
It's fun because, like, oh,next week, no, that ain't going
to happen.
In October, october, yeah, yeahyeah, you know you can't hear

(35:04):
what I'm saying, for sure, forsure.
But anyways, like I was messingwith it this week actually, and
I posted a mix.
You know I haven't mixed onvinyl for a long time and, mind
you, it's like mixing withSerato right now.
I relied so much on thewaveforms and not so much with
my ear you know what I mean andI catch myself messing up, and

(35:30):
with vinyl you have to be on topof it.

Speaker 1 (35:33):

Speaker 5 (35:38):
I heard they say to put a piece of paper on the
front of your laptop screen andand take that visual away to
hone in on the ears right, yeah,like, like, even though like
that's how it started, you know,I mean I, I started djing in 88
and when I started serato, like, my problem was like where's my
records?

Speaker 8 (35:53):
you know, I mean like your touch.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
yeah, I can't even put it up on the actual playlist
because it's not the same.
Yeah, you know.
So I mean, even to this day, Istill struggle Like where's my
music?
Uh-huh, because I'm used tolike looking it up like on the
crates, you know?
Yeah, so, but it's fun because,like, it reminds you of how it
started you know.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
So we got three vinyl DJs here.

Speaker 7 (36:25):
DJs that started started on vinyl.
I started digitally.
I didn't start on vinyl.
So I actually didn't start onvinyl.
I had to start on cds because Icouldn't afford vinyl.
So, um, I I was I was in highschool, like 2003 and um, I
couldn't afford vinyl.
So the dj that brought hisequipment over at our house and
that's how I started djingbecause this guy just randomly
parked all his dj gear at ourhouse um, he had a little bit of
vinyl but but I didn't know howto do that.
I didn't know what needles were.
I don't know anything aboutthat.
It looked like Foreign.
Foreign, like you know, what isthis, you know.

(36:46):
So I had to start on CDsbecause I could burn CDs at the
time.
And, yeah, I started DJing andmixing with CDs because he had
CDs that could change the pitch,some like some like new mark
thing or something back in theday.
But then, you know, vinyl cameafter, but then vinyl died like
three months later, likeliterally for me.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
Yeah, I know like like the good thing about the
serato too.
When I started I don't knowlike when when it started like I
started with the turntable,also with serato, and I'm glad I
didn't.
I mean nothing against likecdjs or controller, but but I
can't grasp it.
I'm used to just touching it,the feel of it.

(37:24):
So it took me until 2019.
I mean, I started Serato backin 2005, maybe 2004.
But I didn't start having acontroller until 2019.
It took me that long to stilllike okay, I finally gave in.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
You know, See, I went backwards because I started
late.
I only started three years ago,so I started digital.
But then I wanted to feel vinyl.
I wanted to experience vinyl.
I wanted to know how to play onvinyl.
Ideally, I want to be able togo anywhere, whether it's here
on the rain, whether it's on togo anywhere, whether it's here
on the on the rain, whether it'son 1200s, whether it's on a sr2

(38:03):
, whatever, ideally I want to beable to go anywhere and be able
to play, yeah, regardless ofthe equipment that's in front of
you.
Sure, and I think a lot of thenewer digital djs, they can't,
they can't do the vinyl thing no, not everybody can.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
yeah, because I know djs that are like that.
They, they can't, they can't.
Go back and forth, yeah, so ifyou could do it, then you're one
of the few.
Like, I'm not saying you're onthe top tier.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
I'm not in the elite status.
I'm not saying that it's justbecause, like you know, like you
have preference, you know whatI mean, I feel like anything
that you get into that you wantto do, right, you've got to pay
homage to the original, right.
You've got to somehow get backto the beginning so you can
experience everything thateverybody else used to
experience at the very beginningof times, right, yeah.

(38:50):
Or else you come intoconversations with people and
you have no idea about recordpools and vinyl and getting
together and doing all that.
You have no idea.
You have no idea about directdrive versus rubber band.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
Belt drive.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
Belt driven, yeah, like belt driven.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
That's how.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
I started too.
I started with both.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
I said that because when I finally took the table
off and I seen there was nothingbut a rubber band holding the
ladder.

Speaker 10 (39:12):
What the hell is this?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
I was like what in the heck is this.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
Mickey Mouse thing that I've been using Did they
take this from mouse thing thatI've been using this for my car,
that's what it's called andback in the days those are the
cheaper ones.
Like I, I couldn't afford aturntable like a techniques.
I have a techniques, but it'sstill a belt drive, you know.

Speaker 7 (39:29):
So yeah, my hercules t7, my hercules t7 that I was
telling this guy about, umweighs like 11 pounds.
That that thing is a belt driveand it's like basically a rain
one.
It's a rain, it's a rain onewith moving platters only weighs
11 pounds.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
It's gnarly I gotta say, one of the things that
bummed me out when, when I wasdoing the club thing in here uh,
bakersfield, the last, the lastplaces that I was doing was que
pasa, I did both que pasa atthe mall and the marketplace um,
when I got out of it and thereason I got out of it, because
that was around around the timethat controllers started
becoming the thing for DJs andespecially for people that were

(40:02):
trying to be DJs.
And to me it's like if you buysomething that doesn't cost too
much, I don't have a problemwith that.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
You know, I started off with cheap equipment.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
We all got to start somewhere Right?

Speaker 4 (40:10):
But what was happening was you started
getting what we refer to now asfree Js.
I don that's what happens inOrange County, but what happened
, like here in Bakersfield, is alot of these youngsters would
buy these 100, $200 littlecontrollers, start cutting and
they would just undercut DJ.
So like I was DJing with DJ rec, we did que pasa and then it
would get slowly like just lessand less.

(40:31):
Like the promoter I was workingwith, he was just like okay, we
do it for 100 bucks.
It got down to that.

Speaker 8 (40:36):
I was like nah, I'm not doing it for 100 bucks?

Speaker 4 (40:38):
you know, because I I still I did serato, but I took
my techniques, my big, heavytechniques, out in there, uh,
you know my, my flight cases,yeah, and I would set up, I
would put my my needles on my uhand my shirt and 44 sevens on
there and I would still use uh,my needles.
And that's how I did that.
I didn't do controller, Ididn't do any of that.
And you know, it was like Ididn't knock any of the DJs.

(41:00):
They were like, oh, I, you know, I use a controller, I use this
, that's what you do.
But what kind of was a bump?
What bummed me out and what gotme completely not completely,
but mostly out of the club scenehere was people would do it for
$100 and drinks.
Sometimes they would just do itlike, oh, just put my name on
the flyer.
You know, and it's like you,you wanted to be more known and
more famous than have a heart.

(41:20):
And that's true with rappersnowadays.
Look at how many rappers.
They just want to find the nextviral song.
They don't want to go do allthe work, like when you had to
shop a deal.
You had to shop your recordaround to get people to want to
listen to it or buy it.
You know, like NWA started out,they dealt their record from
the trunk just to get people tohear this stuff.
Now, a couple of you know 20dollar mics and a soundcloud

(41:41):
account and a tiktok video manyou could be.
You could be world famous in acouple of days, you know, and
just a clever little hook.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
So but you know what shout out?
Those are all the like the newdjs, especially like like
recently, like last week.
I don't know if you guys guys,follow the dmc, yeah rc3.

Speaker 7 (41:57):
Yeah, shout out to dj islo.
He's only been a dj since 2023and it's.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
It's been in a uh, it's been in a competition two
years in a row.
Wow, check that out.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Like yeah yeah, but that that also a lot of old
heads won't like this, but thatalso says that years of
experience isn't alwayseverything yeah, if somebody's
talented they're talented, Imean.

Speaker 7 (42:29):
True, but when it gets to that level you have to
work so hard.
Yeah, no, to be that good atscratching he's with the right
people.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
Yeah, his circle was the beat junkies you know, I
mean like yeah, so like youcan't go wrong with that.
Yeah, that's number the rightpeople.
Yeah, this circle was the beatjunkies, you know.
So, like you can't go wrongwith that yeah that's number one
right there.

Speaker 7 (42:43):
So and you have to have the time and oh yeah, I
mean when you're that young.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
I mean everything that you grab, like everything
that you learn, like you want totry it right away.
Yeah, you know what I mean likelimit limit?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
I was gonna ask you, man, you said you mentioned a
lot of proms and things likethat.
You know in the newer musicthat you're playing because of
it, what's the what's thestruggle, what's the balance
with music nowadays is moreexplicit than ever.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
I mean you don't drop your coochie to the floor and
do that you know all of thatshit Right?
That doesn't fly at proms, man.
Everything has to be clean.
So it seems like a struggle tobe able to take today's music
and strip out all of the raunchyand explicit content and still
have a song to play.

Speaker 7 (43:29):
You bring up a very strong point and, like a year
ago, the biggest song in theworld for the youth was Carnival
by Kanye West.
You guys know the words to thatright.
You ride your bike at Carnival,so to know the words to that
right.
Ride your like a carnival.
So to play that at a school.
How much pressure is that whenthe kids want it?
The principals don't Exactly,but you know, if you play that
song it's going to take off likea this Is how we Do it, or a

(43:51):
Suavemente, and these kids willmoss to it and I play it.
I play it, but I make sure thatthere's clean versions and
there's super duper cleanversions.
And then there's an extendedclean version that you can do
with stems where whatever songpart you don't like you can just
stem out the vocals and you'regood to go.
So yeah, there's a lot of songslike that that are out there,

(44:12):
because they like a lot of theTravis Scott stuff and you know
the little gutter trap songs,you know.
And you know the little guttertrap songs, you know.
So it's all about getting theclean versions and okaying it.
I don't even know.
I don't even know.
I'm the wrong person to askbecause I will.
My friend will be like I'llnever play Carnival at a prom
and I'll be like dude.
I'm tiptoeing that line.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Because then the kids will think I'm a badass.
You're a bad or a bad DJ.
It's one or the other.
You're a shitty dj and you playshitty music, yeah.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
Or you're a great dj and you make it work and you
make it happen, but theprincipals are going to be upset
and they won't book you again,and that goes bad with the
people who booked you to beginwith.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
That's the rock and hard place that I'm talking
about, the rock and hard placeof of keeping the gig coming
back but also making those kidshappy with their trap music.
Yeah, here's the next part.
Man, my memory is terrible.
How do you memorize where thatyou need to to censor that or or

(45:13):
stim it out, or do you?
I mean, how do you memorize allthese shitty lyrics, man?
You?

Speaker 7 (45:20):
just got to know music, man, you just got to know
music and if you have the cleanversion you know, you pray that
the clean version that you haveis truly clean and on some
parts.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
like I said, you got a lot of backspins on all them
songs.
Well, I forget what was theshortcut for backspins.
Was it like the space bar orsomething I remember like
something you had to do.

Speaker 7 (45:38):
I was space bar or something I remember like
something you, you had to do, Iwas like I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
There was a shortcut man you made it better like
command space bar or something.
Oh yeah, there's a.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
There was a ton of shortcuts before, like these new
controllers, got all these, uh,the buttons that do all that
for you now?

Speaker 7 (45:51):
I remember they used to sell the keyboard.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
You remember the keyboard yeah, yeah, yeah, the
little sheet they had, yep backin the day I was like what is
that is?

Speaker 1 (45:58):
that?
Oh, the one that lines thekeyboard itself.
It lays over it.

Speaker 7 (46:01):
Yeah, it lays over it .
It has all the yellow, it hasall the yellow sheets on it.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
But you can still do it.

Speaker 5 (46:06):
On your Serato you have the question mark yeah,
just hit that and then boom.
But I'm lazy.
I like everything that I cancontrol on my own, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
I got to say it's tough doing those types of gigs.
I'll pass on a prom if I could.
If I can't afford to pass on it, I'll pass on it because I do.
Sometimes I do like the eventsfor, like the, I just did like
an event for a dental companyhere in town and they had a ton
of kids and, like you, couldn'teven play.
I don't know I forget what songI accidentally put on.
It was like a cardi b song, butit was a clean version, but it

(46:38):
was so.
The subject matter was there.
You knew what they were talkingabout, you know what she was
referring to, even though theydidn't say the actual word, that
they actually came up and said,hey, hey, can you please change
that?
Because it's still, she's stilltalking about, even though she
ain't saying the actual word.
You can still kind of like oh,shoot, let me do that.
So yeah, and it's the innuendo,yeah, yeah, so it's like.

(46:58):
So I'm like, shoot, yeah, Ibetter.
I just didn't think about it.
But it's just tough becausewhat, like I like.
Going back to what I saidearlier, like you know, you kind
of have your, your, your gameplan out and how you want to,
how you want to mix everythingand all the songs.
It's like it's well, I can'tplay this song over there after
all.
I can't play that song overthere after all.

Speaker 8 (47:16):
I guess I gotta play baby shark and and coco melon
the whole time and it's like itbums you out.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
I mean, yeah, we djs we have to.
You know we do.
We do cater to our clients, wedo cater to the people who are
paying us, but there is a senseof enjoyment that you have to
get from it.
You can't be just like, okay,I'm gonna go and do a bunch of
gigs that I gotta just be superclean, can't play anything I
don't like gotta play to playall these baby shark songs and

(47:42):
all this stuff.
And it's like okay, thisbecomes like all right, this is
more of a job than anything.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
You got to enjoy it.
You're not going to play WAP ata five-year-old birthday, or
what Heck?
No.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
I might play no Fun.
So I think everybody you knowthrough I've talked to Jules
before.
Jules has been on the podcastjust talking to you guys.
Everybody has mentioned some tosome extent about taking a
break.
There being a hiatus in theirdj career from when I was djing
took a long break and then Icame back.
How are you guys balancingdjing and passion and love for

(48:16):
djing and not losing it again towhere you're having to take
another break?

Speaker 7 (48:23):
I'll go first with this one because I think about
this stuff all the time.
Like I've been DJingconsistently for a long time and
when I the pandemic forced meto break, I used to.
I used to be a resident DJ andI used to be the entertainment
director where I would book DJs,but the pandemic brought a
whole stop to that, toeverything.
But we had I had a baby on theway, so it changed the dynamic.

(48:44):
Now, you know, I take care of ababy, I take care of a family,
I have three kids now and likefor me it's like, um, I'm happy
with my family and like my wifesupports me 100 with this dj
stuff.
Like I'm not playing at clubs,I'm not getting, I'm not trying
to play at those night scenes.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
There's a line.

Speaker 7 (49:04):
Yeah, unless, like my friend hits me up and he's like
yo, you want to come rock withme?
Then I'll be like yo, I'll comeout, you know.
And coming out here, when I metRichie, I met him at NOM and he
was like, you know, just comethrough, come DJ the Condors.
And that was a perfect gig forme because my kids could be
there and I played all theirsongs, you know.

(49:25):
Going back to what you said,you know you were playing for
like kids at a party and like Iplayed for them.
That was an enjoyment that Igot playing for them.
So it's like, how did I handlethe break?
I don't know, man, I missed itfrom the aspect of do I still
have what it takes to be able tocontrol a room?
And that's the biggest partthat I miss is like, well, I

(49:46):
know I can do it, but I misshaving to do it like the way I
did it before and I know it'snot going to be like that
anymore, but like it sucks.
But I'm happy with my family,but I still get the thrill of it
every now and then, but it'sfor me.
The itch has never gone awayand even though I have a family
I have loved ones.

(50:07):
Even tonight, like my heart, Itext my wife.
I was like my heart is home,like I felt bad leaving.
Yeah, she puts the kids to bedat seven.
But like in the back of my mind, I told Richie, I was like I
don't know if I'm going to come,but it just all depends on how
my wife is feeling.
You know that's a big thing forme because family is a priority
.
But yeah, you, I have thepassion to still want to do it,
but right now it's like it's abig burden for me to do it,

(50:31):
cause it applies so muchpressure on my wife to take care
of the kids and be be therepresent, cause for for her it's
not easy to have three kids.
So I go on a tangent.
But anyways, it's just verydifficult to manage and the
break is very hard, especiallybecause you still want to do it
and your heart, that's yourpassion.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
But, um, yeah, it definitely gets easier when your
kids get older yes, it does.

Speaker 7 (50:54):
That's where I'm at my our our 16 yearold daughter
goes with us.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
It definitely gets easier.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
They come help set up the photo booth set up the.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
DJ booth.
We don't have to tell her whatto do.
She knows what she needs to do.
She knows how to hook up XLRsand everything.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
It's nice.
Our 12-year-olds will be likeno, we don't want to go, we're
too lazy to go today.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
We also pay them, though they're working, but
we're paying them so they canlearn the value of work and
getting paid and learn thatexchange and everything.
Okay, hey, we're going to takea break real quick, we're going
to eat and we'll be back y'all.
All right, y'all, we are back,we are live.
Who do we have at the tabletoday?

(51:41):
Tonight we got John Cota, jc,jc.

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Cota knows All sound music.
What up B?
How you doing man, hey, dancefloors DJing Whatever else.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
I can get away with, man, anything you can get into,
right.

Speaker 10 (51:53):
It relates we're Pretty much Special events,
weddings, corporate events, andthen it's the ASM dance floors.
It took a life onto itself, man, but I'm blessed brother.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
I'm happy and blessed .
It's almost like the.
It's dangerous to say this, butis the dance floors has it?

Speaker 10 (52:11):
outgrown.
Look, there's months yes,exactly what you're saying right
now.
There's months, and those arethe hot months.
People don't stop partying, andthey have.
Usually their events are in thebackyard, or whatever the case
is.
They can't dance on their grass, or at least you shouldn't
dance on your grass, yeah, andso that's a quick IG check.
Oh, this guy rents dance floorsand it's olfacto.

(52:34):
It's like oh, but I also DJ, soyou can't, as a dance floor
rental company, you can't forgetto still present the DJing.
Yeah, 90% of the time they havesomebody that's already talking
for them, but what's that?
10%?

Speaker 7 (52:48):
Yeah, why?

Speaker 1 (52:48):
not, not one gig.
Yeah, and the man does it right.
The man has sub floors.
Thank you, brother, he does itright, he has a sub floor.
That dance floor is level, it'ssmooth, it doesn't tear up your
yard, your grass, your lawn.

Speaker 10 (53:03):
Learning from my mistakes.
Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Anytime somebody asks me for dance floors, I go right
to him.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Oh, I see We've seen him on all of our dance floors
too.
Every single one of you guys, Ireally do, who else?

Speaker 8 (53:15):
do?
We got here.
My name's Mike Sanchez.
I'm an up-and-coming DJ.
I come out here to choose.
This is my fourth or fifth time, so I know a lot of these DJs.
The guys ask me hey, what'syour DJ name?

(53:39):
And for many years I've alwayssaid you know what?
What can I call myself?
Because everybody has somecrazy names.
I wanted to keep it simple, soI've always, anytime I talk to
another guy for some reason, Ialways call him Mr.
So, whatever your name is, Icall you Mr, and then I say your

(54:00):
name.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah, it's a respect thing.

Speaker 8 (54:02):
And so I said you know what I'm going to call
myself, dj Mr Michael, and it'ssimple, it's nothing too crazy,
but you know I'm going to rollwith it and see what it does for
me Right now.

(54:22):
Probably for the last year and ahalf I've been collecting a lot
of equipment and just doingbackyard stuff for now and I've
met a lot of intelligent andgood DJs out here in Bakersfield
and I guess when you come outin the scene intelligent and
good DJs out here in BakersfieldI guess when you come out in

(54:42):
the scene you'd be surprised howmany DJs are out here in
Bakersfield.
It's crazy, and I get to seethem firsthand here at Shoes and
I met a lot of respectable guysout here, so it's cool.
I haven't been in Korea.

(55:03):
One of these days I will.
I'm picking their brains, I'mchopping it up.
Hey, what do you have?
How do you like to do this?
And I think I'm asking thequestions that I need to know
because then I can go back to myequipment and I can play with
it and go from there.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
So you're new.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
You're newer.
Yes, I've been doing this forlike two years, but I'm not as
good as these guys man, None ofus are Time brother, it's just
time there's always somebody.
Man, I hear these guys play andman these guys.
Hey, none of us are Timebrother, it's just time.
There's always somebody.
Man, I hear these guys play andthey rock, they rock.
So I respect all these guys and, you know, one day I hope I can

(55:50):
be as good as them.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, man, I think after
20 years, 20-plus years, even ifyou think you're always going
to find somebody better than you, you're always going to see oh,
that guy's good, I like what hedoes.
He's doing some good stuff.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
And here's the thing, man If not, iron sharpens, iron
Amen.
You have to play against thebest you have to DJ with the
best you have to.
It's not comfortable.
It's not comfortable to have an, an intro to djing skill set

(56:24):
and then you've got these othercats out here that are they're
scratching and and doing all thetechniques and everything else
that they got going on.
That's great and it's abeautiful art form right, it is
um, but it is.
It is about surrounding yourselfwith a good people, which I'm
glad you found good peoplealready.
I I did, because some of thesome you know Bakersfield DJs
they're, they're alone, almostright.

(56:47):
And or they're shunned by someof the other DJs in the
community right they're, they'relike just here's another DJ.
You don't get no love, youdon't get no respect, but out
here you have no egos.
Well, at least I don't thinkyou have any egos.

Speaker 8 (57:01):
I've heard some crazy stories, but you know what, I
guess, once you meet thesepeople in person, you know who
the real ones are.
That's how I see it.
I try to keep all the politicswith all that.
There's a lot of it, man, stayaway from it and it's crazy
because you wouldn't think it is.

(57:22):
But you know what I think?
Why I respect the DJs more iswhen they don't bash the other
person.
What they do all you do thisand that, and being out here at
Chewy's I haven't seen it and Irespect these guys and that's

(57:43):
true.
You know I'm going to continueasking questions.
You know, just one day, maybethat button or that switch might
do it for me.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
You know what?
I'll tell you what we talkedabout this shortly before you
got here, man and I was tellingthem about.
It's not a fear, but thenervousness that comes behind.
Djing in front of other DJs,like for me, I can get in front
of a wedding party of three,four hundred, I can get on the
mic, I can do what I'm supposedto do, I can guide the wedding,

(58:15):
I can do everything.
And while it is still a littlenerve wracking you don't want to
mess up, it's somebody'sspecial day, whatever it may be,
it's nothing compared to thepressure that I feel djing in
front of goddamn rich or jc oranybody else.
Man, I don't like it.
I don't.
I.

Speaker 8 (58:30):
I never thought about that because the couple the
times that I came up here I'vehad other ds tell me, hey, you
gonna get up there, and I meanit's I want to.
But to be honest with you, I'mnervous Because, just like what
you just said, you're going upagainst other DJs that I've seen

(58:53):
that man, they know how to work.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
You see, here it's a judgment-free zone, if you will
Like.
Everybody here is just honingtheir skills.
That's Rich's whole idea abouthaving everybody come out to
Chewy's so they can keep theDJing and the performances in
front of people, Maybe whenwe're slow during the summer or
whenever else.
Right, we're still able to getout in front of everybody.

(59:16):
We're still able to DJ in frontof everybody.
We're able to keep those skillsas sharp as we can and or grow
them.
And the intangibles likereading a crowd, reading a
Chewy's crowd we talked aboutthat too.
Chewy's is pretty eclectic.
You can go anywhere from softrock to yacht rock to hip hop.
You can go all over the placewith Chewy's.

Speaker 10 (59:38):
Right.
I mean you got everybody there,from, I used to say, from the
diapers to the Depends, yeah,pretty much what you have in
front of Chewy's, yeah, andthat's Mexican, you have Samoans
, you have Filipinos, you havewhite guys, you have black guys,
it don't matter.
And music, in the end, music ismusic.
You know good music, you knowhow to throw down, you learn how

(59:58):
to blend, you pay attention tothe crowd.
Like gordon said, you get thatthe dj's superpower, being able
to read the crowd.
And man, it's, it's lights outand I'll tell you what the
adrenaline is.
Unlike any anything I've evertried, I've never.
I've never had a high likegetting a dance for it, just
having that dance floor go on onevery whim, every cut, they

(01:00:19):
start singing the songs.
The educated crowds are.
They're the hardest but they'rethe best.
Yeah, because they keep yousharp, they keep you accountable
, because if you mess up, oh,they're going to let you know
what's up.
G yeah, Hard fucking.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 10 (01:00:36):
On top of that, the educated crowds.
They're the sing-along crowds,candy.
You know what's up with thatman, that those?
There's nothing better, bro,when you have that awesome crowd
that's just rocking the floorand there ain't enough dance
floor because everybody'shitting it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Yeah, it's beautiful yeah, and I'm and I'm thinking
back off of my mindset righthere about, like I think and
this is not to insult anybody'sgeneration, you know you're
thinking this way, ourgeneration here, like you know

(01:01:12):
myself, john Richard, you knowall these guys Raleigh, we
started at a time when everybodywas kind of like very, very
like we didn't care.
Like you know, can I get behindyou and check you out?
Yeah, absolutely.
I remember my first experiencewith the DJ community here in
Bakersfield was when I don'tknow if you guys remember Club
Azul used to be downtown.
Yeah, I met a dude named there,named DJ, dj Ironies Ronnie,

(01:01:34):
and I asked him.
I said, hey, can I just getbehind you and watch what you're
doing?
He said come back, man, come on.
And he didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
I was right behind him and I was just watching him,
watching him, and this is whenI was real green and didn't know
nothing nothing, and it wasjust like yeah, you know, I, I'm
not better than anybody butthat's some pretty priceless
experience, right, and youalways remember that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
You always remember you know, like everybody, who's
like nobody here thinks they'rebetter than anybody.
And I, I might have yearsexperience experience on him,
but this guy over here has gotyears of experience on me and
we're all on the same plane.
We're all throwing each othergigs, throwing each other
business.
Hey, you want to come out andjust hang out and do a set?
Come out and just hang out witheach other, just chop it up.

(01:02:13):
And that's what's really coolabout our generation, at least
in my opinion.
I think that maybe it gets lostin translation.
If you know, you're just tryingto do it because I just want,
like I said earlier, you know,oh, I just want some beers, or I
just want 100 bucks.
Put me on the flyer, yeah, andI'll take, I'll do it for free.
I think that we kind of stillhave that class and that I

(01:02:33):
didn't say, like you know, we,we really kind of respect not
only the crap, but we respecteach other, we value, we value
everything that we've all kindof went through and we all lift
each other up whenever you know,whenever we need something or,
you know, for whatever reason.
You know, and that's what Ilike about this generation for
sure.

Speaker 10 (01:02:50):
It hasn't always been like that.
I'll tell you what, because Istarted DJing in about 85.
So I'm older than you cats,raleigh and you know Jules in
the Bay Area, but Arsenal,yesterday he was on Precious for
the hometown DJ throwdown thatthey're doing Drewski.
I mean, it's just awesome.
That kid's been doing it forlike less than five years and

(01:03:13):
his skill set is like crazy.
Is he from Bakersfield?
Yeah, he's the guy in the whitehat.
He's a resident DJ at I Me Patoo, but I just bring him up
also the cat that's on right now.
He's been DJing for less thanfive years.
So you'll see cats that justget it.
It's a combination of love andprobably a lot of good music

(01:03:35):
played around the house whenthey were kids and whatnot, and
they just get it.
And the technology andeverything that is at the
fingertips from the youtubetutorials and everything else in
between.
This is how you use this suadofeature.
This is how you do this.
This is how you do that.
Everything's dissected andbroken down.
It's like as a older jock.
Instead of hating on theyounger generation, my

(01:03:59):
responsibility is to keep thatgeneration right here, man, and
then eventually I'm just goingto see them like damn okay and
ain't nothing wrong.
It's like all of us are parents, right?
You want your son or daughters,you want them to have a better
career, a better job, more money, a better house, better cars,
more stability.
And it's the same basic thingwhen you're in love with the

(01:04:19):
business, like a lot of us arehere career, better job, more
money, a better house, bettercars, you know, more stability.
And it's the same basic thingwhen you're in love with the
business, like a lot of us arehere.
We want to see those kids.
We want to see them take it tothe next level.
For sure.

Speaker 8 (01:04:32):
That's how I feel For sure as a newbie by picking
these guys' brains.
I make sure that I ask myquestions because anything and
everything that I know I learnon my own.

(01:04:52):
I haven't had nobody say, no,do it this way, do it that way.
So it's just like what you saidDJing in front of somebody else
and let's say, the way I talkmyself another DJ.
I'm thinking in my head man,why is he doing it that way?

Speaker 6 (01:05:13):
So I have that mindset.

Speaker 8 (01:05:15):
But, again, I respect these DJs that can sit there
and they give me funerals andthat's what I'm out here for.
I feel I can be a fast learner.
Right now, a lot of what I'velearned as a newbie is watching

(01:05:36):
YouTube and there's so manydifferent videos, there's so
many different ways.
What I try to do is just put ittogether on the equipment that
I have and it'll be easy for mebecause you know, I know that if

(01:05:58):
I played good at a gig, if oneperson can come up to me and say
, you know what?

Speaker 10 (01:06:05):
Hey, that's priceless man, Especially as a
younger John, absolutely.

Speaker 8 (01:06:11):
And I had that one time at a birthday party and it
got me another gig and then itgot me another gig after that
and it got me another gig andthen it got me another gig after
that.
And, like all that does is, itinfluences me to get out there
even more.
So I have to push myself.
You said that you have to kindof get there and kind of

(01:06:33):
challenge yourself.
Yeah, I like challenge, but Idon't feel I'm ready to get
right by.
These guys Like you hit itright on the money and I'm
picking their brains.
I'm looking at what they'redoing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
You know, the cool thing about the mess of DJs, the
cool thing about Chewy's, thecool thing about this little
brotherhood, if you will, islike we've all talked about.
There's somebody that's beendoing it longer.
There's somebody that's beendoing it maybe better, right,
and they've all heard or they'veall made the mistakes that

(01:07:13):
they're hearing us make when wego up there, right, they'll hear
something and they'll hear hey,you didn't bring it in on the
one one, or you juggled a littlebit, or echo out at a half beat
instead of a full beat, orwhatever it may be in the future
.
Right, it's because we've all,we've all made those mistakes
already and somebody's educatedus or we've learned or we've
been taught to to do it adifferent way, and all of that

(01:07:35):
information trickles downhill.
It trickles downhill and itjust it eventually gets to you,
especially when you're exposedto a, a big group of djs.
All right, like when you're atyour house by yourself.
If sometimes I I kill myturntables, I just turn them off
and I'm like I'm not practicingwith the right amount of focus

(01:07:59):
that I should be practicing at.
I have lost it.
I'm just throwing shit on there.
At this point I'm not evenfucking trying right.
So when I practice, I make surethat I'm very focused for that
one hour or whatever it may be,and I'm analyzing everything
that I'm doing and you know thetempo, the key, the BPM, the

(01:08:20):
genres, everything else andseeing how it fits and seeing
how it works and feeling it andknowing to make those
adjustments, Because when you'realone at home, nobody's there
to critique you.
Right, Nobody's there to say hey, it sounded pretty good, but I
would have threw a reverb andpulled my mids and highs out, or
whatever it may be, and that'sa cool thing, is it?

Speaker 10 (01:08:42):
we we have, most of us have a way to record
ourselves.
So, like I had a couple mixesand I have dj homies and I'll
throw in the mix, jules isbrutal to me.
He don't, he don't play with me.
He's like oh, that's prettygood, but you should have done
this.
With the accent and everything,man, I'm married to a Filipino,

(01:09:04):
right, candy, we can do that,right?
Yeah, so that's the whole thingis that you can't be afraid to
maybe not afraid, but you can'tbe too gun shy, right, because
you're not growing at that point.
You're not growing becauseyou're not allowing yourself to
grow.
So if you slid me a mix and yousaid, because you got to open
the door, hey, Gordy, listen tothis G, tell me what's up, pull

(01:09:30):
the covers back bro and go aheadand show all the ta-da-da-dums.
Let me know what's up.
If you have time, make somenotes and shoot them to me, bro.
I don't want, I don't wantanybody to be soft on me with
this one and I got I got homiesaround you.
So you know, obviously we'renot, yes, men around here, right
?
We, we want you to be better.

(01:09:50):
We'll answer your questions.
So, whatever it is that you haveto ask, as a younger jock and
any younger jocks out there, man, if you get somebody that's
willing to answer your questionsand they have some seasoning
and gray hairs and somelongevity in the business,
they're doing something right.
They've done something right.
So, absolutely by all means,pick their brain, man, but not

(01:10:12):
only pick their brain.
Gather that information and goto work and do something with it
, man, you know, turn it into askill for you and if it doesn't
quite work at four, turn it upto five or turn it down to 3.5.
Whatever works for you, there'salways a flavor that's going to
work for you, but there is.
I will correct something thatwas said earlier there is the

(01:10:34):
right and wrong way to docertain things.
There's the creativity andthere's the freedom to do
whatever else in the mix andeverything else in between.
But there is a right and wrongway to work.
A microphone address a crowd,do this, do that.
You know there's a variance ofeverything.
I can stay here for hours, butman, I I love just hearing that
you're I'm picking their brain,but don't forget to go back to

(01:10:56):
the lab and put it to work.

Speaker 8 (01:10:58):
Right, right, and as a newbie knowing stuff like that
because, like what you said, Idon't have nobody watching what
I'm doing or hey, you need to dothis I wouldn't take it as bad
criticism.
You know, I would want somebodyhey, do it this way, Mike, See

(01:11:24):
how you like it, how it sounds,but I don't have nobody to do
that.
So I think I'm starting justfresh.
I'm starting fresh and, to behonest with you, if anybody DJs,
I think it's hard to do.
Anybody can just get that faderand have one song playing and

(01:11:49):
just slide it over and do that.
But there's so much equipmentout there that's so advanced,
it's crazy.
And, like you were saying, ifyou want to do that extra, you
have to learn it.

Speaker 10 (01:12:02):
It all starts with knowledge of music, man and
genres and everything else inbetween.
It all starts with the musicperiod.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
Taking a break.
Yeah, we're going to take abreak.
We're going to go take apicture with the mess of DJs,
all right, all right, y'all.
We're back.
We're going to get into alittle bit of food, since we're
here at Chewy's.
We're going to get into alittle bit of food and we're
going to start rating sometamales, and I'm not saying
brand-wise, I'm not sayinglocation-wise.

Speaker 10 (01:12:39):
I'm saying rojo verde, queso.

Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
Yeah, queso puerco, yeah, I like the chicken.
They even do chicken.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
How about the dessert tamales?
I don't like dessert tamales.

Speaker 8 (01:12:51):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that.
My mom's always made cheese andjalapenos.

Speaker 10 (01:12:56):
Oh man, you ever had cheese, jalapenos and beans.

Speaker 8 (01:13:00):
No, I haven't, I haven't.

Speaker 10 (01:13:01):
I haven't, that's some weight-gaining music right
there bro.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Oh, yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
Which one's yours, man, are you talking about my
best?

Speaker 8 (01:13:11):
tamale, yeah, for me it's always pork, always pork,
because it's OG pork is up.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
It was always been the og.
That's what the tamale is.
My grandma used to make likemountains of them for for easter
, fourth of july, christmas,thanksgiving.
We just go over there tuesday,wednesday pretty much, bro.
It was like, okay, here you go,like she'd have them all in her
foil packs.
All right, you grab yours, yougrab yours in there.
You know we always got puercopork, so that was my go-to my
wife.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
She doesn't like pork .
She.

Speaker 10 (01:13:38):
She doesn't like beef, she only likes chicken,
and she's Filipino.
She's Filipino, bro, and shedoesn't eat pork.
Don't tell Jules that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Yeah, it's always been kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Maybe it burnt out on her from childhood Might have
been.
She's done with it.

Speaker 10 (01:13:52):
We don't eat pork at my house either.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
Funny thing is, though stuff so like, they'll do
like.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Don't tell me, raisins man no not raisins.
Well, they might have.

Speaker 8 (01:14:04):
My mom does that, and she'll give us bags of tamales.

Speaker 10 (01:14:09):
I'd flick them at her.
Oh, that's a sweet tamale.
It has raisins.
Yes, yes, yes, she'll put somepineapple in it as well.

Speaker 8 (01:14:17):
Yep, I just give me the straight cheese, the
straight old cheese.

Speaker 10 (01:14:22):
Let me ask you a question, though.
Everything else is done, butthe sweet tamales are there and
you're hungry.

Speaker 8 (01:14:30):
You're going to eat them I have.
I'll eat them If I'm hungry.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
I'm going to eat them .
I'm not going to eat them.
You're not going to eat them.
That's how much I don't.
Gordy b is not gonna crack.
He's also white I'll go, hey,I'll go, hey, if I run out.
So he's got a little tan.

Speaker 10 (01:14:47):
Now, hey, I'm, I'm more mexican than this, right?
Hey, when I do a wedding, I'lldo a wedding and say the guy's
name is jeff wilson.
I tell him, I said, look, letme just break it down to you,
jeff, after you get married,you're married latina right here
.
She's a strong-minded latina.
Your name is wilson from now on, so I have some fun with it.
Man, yeah, but it's true though.

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
Yeah, 100 true, that's funny because me, me and
john know all the filipinocuisines also so, and then we
know how they get mixed.
So it's like oh, mymother-in-law's banana lumpia
ever had a banana lumpia I havemy mother-in-law is a top shelf.

Speaker 10 (01:15:20):
Is it banana or?

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
is it plantain?
No, banana Plantain would belike Guatemalan.

Speaker 8 (01:15:24):
Okay, yeah they're the ones that and.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
I've had a Guatemalan tamale, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
They're wrapped in banana leaves.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Yeah, they're good Salvadorians, yes, salvadorians
also.

Speaker 10 (01:15:33):
The Salvadorian pap.
Those are the best they are.

Speaker 8 (01:15:36):
I don't even think I've eaten.
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
What is it?
The Filipino?
I like panse.

Speaker 10 (01:15:41):
Oh bro, I just had some panse before I came here.
My mother-in-law Mama.
C she's a top shelf Filipinofood caterer.
Yeah, she makes food.
She just doesn't have thestorefront or anything like that
.
But she she has the same thingmy wife does.

(01:16:02):
My wife cooks something.
It's ruined a bondigas.
I'll never get it at arestaurant again because my
wife's a bondigas is 10 timesbetter.
Yeah, any filipino food and I'mnot really big on filipino food
but any filipino food has gotto be for mama c, or else it
don't taste the same yeah, yeah,like my wife.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
okay, I don't want to knock her, but she, she just
barely started cooking, so she,she's getting better.
But I'm the cook in my familyand so is my father-in-law, the
Filipino cook, and when he getsdown he gets down right.
And so one day she wanted Ican't even think of the name,
it's the soup.
It's kind of sour with thetamarind.
Oh, I get it, and it has salmonin it, or you could get fish,

(01:16:36):
or you could do chicken whatever.
And she said can you make thisfor me?
And I was like I don't know.
so I googled it I grabbed themix, I just threw it all in
there and I got down and it waslike tasted she's, like, it
tastes like my dad's oh, likeshe better not tell her dad, so
google, that's what it's calledmy mother-in-law makes that.
Yeah, it's like a tart tamarindsoup it's got cabbage and it's

(01:17:01):
got different—.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
They make it with beef too.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
You can do beef, you can do anything, and she wanted
salmon, and so I just threw ittogether.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
I thought you were going to give me a horror story
where it did not come out.

Speaker 10 (01:17:13):
I was waiting for it .
I was waiting for it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
I've been cooking since I was 12.
My mom and dad used to worktill like eight, nine o'clock,
so me and my brothers, we usedto have to cook for ourselves,
yeah, so we would get in there,like all right, mommy gonna come
home and cook, so we go grabthe, grab the steaks out of the
freezer or something, and wefigured it out it was so
different man we used to walkhome from school lock the door,
don't answer it for anybody,don't let anybody in right and

(01:17:36):
your parents will be home ateight o'clock at night or
something.

Speaker 10 (01:17:39):
Bro, I walked all over Santa Paula I was born and
raised in Santa Paula Walked allover.
I mean all hours of the nightand nothing, bro, and that was
every single day at all ages.
I walked to school as akindergartner and first grader.
We walked together with somehomies and whatnot and that was
fun, you know, you had nobody totrip if you'd walk by yourself,

(01:18:02):
you know, or throw rocks out orwhatever, but you can't do that
now.
We just did oh no, you getsnatched up quick.
Oh, and a funny thing aboutthat is and parents will, will
they'll echo this what we did?
They ain't no way in sam hellthat we're gonna let our kids do
the same thing.
No, you're not gonna go down tothe river and jump in.
No, no, no, no, you're notwalking over there.
No, no, you're not walkingacross the street.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Yeah you're not gonna go to a party or a friend's
house and go get drunk in afield instead.

Speaker 10 (01:18:26):
Oh and if I couldn't get drunk in a field, let's
just never mind.

Speaker 4 (01:18:30):
Yeah yeah, and I'll be like and I'll be like,
because you used to do that,like, yeah, that's exactly why
that's why I'm not letting youdo it, I know what happens
that's why I can see him comingthis five miles away a few times
right

Speaker 10 (01:18:41):
like bro I was this close to death doing some of
that shit sometimes, yeah, andI'm not gonna let my kid do it
yeah, yeah, yeah no matter howmuch fun we had, it ain't gonna
be fun if your daughter's doingso hey, I side note man, I love
the smell of gas everybody Ilove gas man, all these hot rods
out here you can smell the rawfuel.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
It's not electronic fuel injection.
It's just dumping fuel out thetailpipe you ever go to the.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
Famoso races or the ones that used to be in LA and
they used to have the drags.
You can smell it so bad therubber.
I took my wife to a NASCAR raceone time in Vegas.
First time she went and she gotall dolled up with makeup.

Speaker 8 (01:19:20):
I'm like why are you doing all that?

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
I just want to look pretty for you.
We take pictures.
I'm like you're not going toregret it and we sat like three
rows up.
Next thing, you know, I'mlooking at her and she looked
like somebody sprayed pepper allover her face.
I said it was the rubber fromthe tires that come up and it
was sticking to her makeup ormakeup.
That's why you don't wearmakeup to these things.
I got something similar.

Speaker 10 (01:19:41):
My wife wore heels, heels, oh no to disneyland.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
And live to tell about it.
Oh no, did she eventually gobarefoot?
Did she carry them out?
I don't think she did.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
Oh, my, her slippers.
What's wrong?
Yeah, you didn't buy her somemickey mouse shoes or something
my.

Speaker 10 (01:19:58):
What did I just do to myself?

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
You know, daisy Duck has some heel slippers right.

Speaker 10 (01:20:07):
I have the princess sets for all three daughters.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Yes, I do know that.
Yeah, we went to a club onetime and I think my wife had
heels on and she said that was amistake.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
She took them off and barefooted it back to the room.
Hey, is that not?
One of the best compliments ona dance floor, though, is to see
people barefoot, see womenbarefoot.

Speaker 10 (01:20:24):
See a pile of shoes somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Yeah, they're not even going to stop dancing, do
you?

Speaker 10 (01:20:27):
guys say something like that, I do.
Do you have the heels joke?
I do put it out there.
It's time to kick off the highheels, ladies.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Let's it and spin it, make it your own.
It works.
That's one of those silent umcompliments.
It's a silent compliment that'sone of those.

Speaker 10 (01:20:47):
Yeah, just the, not a nod to the dj.
That too, yes, yes, or when?

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
they're gonna go ready to sit back down, and then
you put the next song on andthey turn.

Speaker 10 (01:20:52):
That's a huge compliment too.
That's good because and Ialways try to lock eyes with
them, because I want to laughwith them, yeah, or I want to
wink, or I want to like, I wantsome reaction and it just all it
does is just it fills the gastank up.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
I've been pretty lucky man that sometimes I'll
get somebody that comes up andrequests something.
They request a song that youknow they want to hear, or
whatnot, and I already have itqueued up.

Speaker 10 (01:21:18):
It's going to be the next song I'm about to play.
That is the best.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
And people have that intuition where they kind of
know where a song fits in withanother song, even though
they're not a DJ.

Speaker 10 (01:21:28):
Have you done that?
Uh-huh, yep, it's next.
You're going to play it, it'snext.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
It's next, it's next up.
They don't know the program oranything, so it's like yeah they
might have thought, you justlooked at it's like no I was
actually gonna play that next.
Oh it's already on the deck.
It's already on deck a.
I'm I'm ready to transition toit.
Right, right, it's not in myprepare, crate, it's nowhere.
It's already on deck a.
Man, it's already there, I'mbeat man, I'm gonna throw.

Speaker 10 (01:21:52):
In fact, you better hit the floor right now.
I'm gonna go.
Yeah, that's a big complimentright there.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
Yeah, I had I had a dude, a youngster, at a party or
actually not a party, a Sweet16 that I did and he was getting
ready to come up and ask me todo something.
And then I just kind of gavehim that, you know, just a
minute, because I was right inthe middle of the mix and as
soon as I transitioned out andthrew the next one on, I don't
even remember exactly what itwas.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
He was like never mind.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
He said I'm going to.
I got a little bit big-headedat that point.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
It's a best feeling, man.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
It is, it is and I think a lot of these guys are
kind of knowing, like they knowwhat they're doing.
They know what they're doing.
We'll maybe once in a while askfor it.
I mean, you still get your gigswhere, like, everybody's coming
up and everybody has a request.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Or the same female is coming up five or ten times.
Play this one, play this one.
It's like look, I'm a DJ, not ajukebox, that whole thing,
right.
I was about to say that.
However, I welcome requests toa certain extent.
I don't want 20 of them fromyou, but bring me a couple.
Bring me a couple requests,because I might get educated

(01:22:53):
tonight.
I might learn about a song Ihad no idea existed and or that
was as popular as it is withpeople, and then a, and then
it's added.
It's over.

Speaker 10 (01:23:02):
That's the best right there, all right so you
know, let me give you something.
Let me give you something.
Um, I I stopped using the termrequest list and I say
suggestion list.
Oh, and there's a reason why itseparates it's.
It definitely separates.
What it does is it puts theball back in our court.

(01:23:22):
Because I'm flat out, it's likeokay, gordy Marion, just so you
know, this is a suggestion list.
Right here, I'm going to playwhat I played.
It's not going to, becausepeople will think sometimes, if
they give you a list of 20 songs, they'll think that once the
party starts, one is going tolead all the way down to 20.
And you have to tell them likethat.

(01:23:42):
I always say you have to tellthem that water is wet and the
sky is blue.
So you tell them that.
But the whole thing is, youalso tell them and you have to
say it kind of like thiswhatever works for you, we
remain with full creativecontrol as to how we play, when
we play, really everything.

Speaker 8 (01:24:02):
I had a DJ.
Tell me, remember.
You're in control.
I have a buddy that he sayswhen he does requests, he says
he'll do it for the last hour ofthe gig.
What do you guys think aboutthat?

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
It really depends.
I mean, it depends on where I'mat genre, genre wise, bpm wise,
energy wise, like there's a lotfor me that I I put into it as
as a as a thought process as towhen I'm gonna play that
particular song.
If I'm in within the bpm rangeand I'm within the same genre,
I'll squeak it in, not, not aproblem.
But if I'm on country andthey're asking for you know,

(01:24:42):
little wayne or something, I'lltell and I'll educate them and I
and I.
That was going to be one of thenext things I talked about with
you guys is do you ever educateyour, your clientele?
You have to.
So sometimes I do and I try toexplain people bpm and I'll show
them.
I'm like, look, currently I'mat 120 bpm.
The song that you want me toplay is at 87.

(01:25:03):
It's going to be a little bitbefore I can get down there and
I try to educate them and I tryto be as nice as possible, right
, but I do the same thing.
To a certain extent.
It's still a request or whatnot, but I tell them I'll try to
get it in.
I'm going to be honest withthem.
I was like like I don't know ifthis is gonna be the crowd for
this song.
I don't know if it's gonna work.
I don't want to kill the dancefloor.

(01:25:23):
I understand you want to hearit and I understand it's big for
you, but I got 70 other peopleon the dance floor that I gotta
keep in mind right, like lookthis, I know you like that song
and that's cool and I like ittoo.

Speaker 10 (01:25:36):
it's cool when we're cruising or whatever the case
is, or you're cleaning thegarage or you're working out and
it's cool.
But it's just not going to.
And here's where I'm 100%,completely honest.
It's not going to work for thefloor.
Good said Lemon, it's not goingto work for the floor and
you've got to be flat out withthem, because if you're not,
guess what, they're going tocome back.
So don't do the.

(01:25:57):
Oh, I'll play it in fiveminutes, I'll play it in a
little bit.
When you have no intention ofplaying it.
Just be flat out with them.
But be respectful.
Though you know, be respectful,that always comes back and
bites you in the butt.

Speaker 8 (01:26:10):
So my question to you guys have you ever had somebody
get mad at you because youdidn't play All the time?
How?

Speaker 10 (01:26:18):
long have you been in the business?
20 years, 40 years?
Probably over a decade?
Oh, bro, come on To answer yourquestion oh yeah, all of us.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Now let me ask you the gender, because mine have
been majority females that arenot happy that I didn't play
something.

Speaker 10 (01:26:35):
Here's the issue with that.
I want to preface this bysaying my wife's hot Ain't no
thing, but the the prettier, themore attractive the female dead
bang, the more obnoxious theycan be.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
It's almost like they have the heart to be to be
entitled and obnoxious.

Speaker 10 (01:27:01):
Well, yeah, I'm 100 if it's a female.
And also we all know this asmen.
Look, you can't talk to thefemales the way you can talk to
the cats.
It's like, bro, come on man.
Sometimes you can just say comeon man and they'll blow it off.
Some guys will be obnoxious,depending on what they've had to
drink or whatever the case is,but yeah, 100% bro.

Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
The females, oh yeah.
You'll get the people that wantyou to plug their phone into
your mixer and they say like ohhey, can you play it?
Off YouTube.
I'm like no, so you know.

Speaker 10 (01:27:32):
That's a good point.

Speaker 4 (01:27:34):
And you got to be grateful with it.
Or the guy that paid said Icould do this.

Speaker 10 (01:27:38):
No bro, no Sorry no.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
What's up?
We got DJ JY over here.
Jy, we got Nonsense.
Richie Ridge.

Speaker 10 (01:27:48):
We got some people coming in man.
We got some people coming inCorey and Marion.
I just want to say thank you somuch, yo.
I have a blast every singletime bro, you're awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
So, yeah, hit me up up anytime you need me to come
by the pad and do this again.
I got you guys.
Thank you guys, yo, yo yo.

Speaker 9 (01:28:21):
Oh wait who we got there, dj Nonsense, yo, this
sounds a little dope.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Hey, it's not bad right, you can hear yourself
talking in the headphones.

Speaker 9 (01:28:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's dope.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Hey, we got DJ JY.
What are you doing, brother?
I'm just chilling right now.
How you doing man.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
I'm good, I'm good, good brother, dj Rich Rich, he's
always invited me to come outhere, but it's like you know how
it is.
Yeah, I get busy and it's hardto make it out here You're going
to have to get close to the mic, brother.
Yeah, DJ Rich.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
Rich always invites me, but I haven't been able to
make it, but today I was able tomake it.
That's awesome, man, and it'syour birthday.
Tomorrow's my birthday.
Hey, happy birthday, brother.
Happy birthday, I overheard it.
That's the only reason I know,man.
I ain't stalking you, man.
I overheard it.
Hey, nonsense man.
So how was your set, brother?
It was cool, you had fun.

Speaker 9 (01:29:08):
Yeah, I was just messing around, just, you know,
just experimenting.
Yeah, that's what Richard wastelling me.
He's like this is spot to.
That's all it is.
That's all it's here for man.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
It's not necessarily to perform for other people,
although you do by default, butit's for you to hone your own
skills.
Yeah, talk shit to some ofthese other DJs, get some
information back and forth,learn.

Speaker 9 (01:29:30):
Oh yeah, I learned so much coming here.
I came for about a month andmissed one week, but man, even
meeting you today and then goingbackwards, I got lucky.
I was like man.
I met so much people and it'ssuper crazy.
It's a dope night tonight, yeahtonight I think I met the most.
I think it's the most I've seensince I've been here, and

(01:29:54):
notable people that are handlinga lot of this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
That was a pretty big picture we took.
Yeah, there was a lot of djsover there, man.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
yeah, it's a pretty big picture yeah, I noticed that
I wasn't even expecting that, Ijust came like to visit, but
that was a great photo.
Rich, rich has been growingthis thing, man.

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
He's been trying to bring everybody out, trying to
include everybody.
Originally it was kind of likerich's friends, right, like if
you were directly friends withRich, that's who everybody
thought could come out.
But it's always been A.
Every DJ can come out, man.
Rich does not discriminate.
Man, yeah, he don't.
I don't know if Rich has anyenemies.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (01:30:33):
In the short time I've known him?

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
Nah, I don't think so .
I think I would have heardabout it, yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:30:38):
Nah, he's a good guy.
He's a good guy.
No, one time they tried to takehis tip jar though.
Oh what, yeah, he'll tell youthough, hey, but then he like
yeah, they got it back.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Hey, you're going to have to jump in here, man.
We just heard something.
What did you hear?
I heard somebody tried to takeyour tip jar once.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
Oh yeah, man, I was feeling good that night too.
And yeah, some guy was alreadykind of being annoying out here.
He was already kind of likebugging the ladies.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
They were kind of like being hey, but who's ballsy
enough to take another man'smoney, right you?

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
know, and it wasn't like I know he was.
I think he was trying to befunny, but he never even made
eye contact with me.
You know what I mean?
He felt like, like, like if I'mlooking at you and this is your
tip jar, right, and I'm likethis Lamar, none of that.
It was just like, and he put itreal close to his chest and to
his stomach.
I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa and I yeah, he was

(01:31:36):
already being annoying to thegirl he was dancing to random
ladies, right that he shouldn'thave been dancing to like that.

Speaker 9 (01:31:43):
So he has no enemies.
But one time some dude wastripping.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
Try to take a step, jordan, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't have enemies.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Hey, jay, how long you been in the game, brother,
since I was 14.
So I've caught up with you onsocial media.
I only know you from socialmedia.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
This up with you on social media.
I only know you from socialmedia.
This might be the second timeI've ever met you in person.
Um, big b-boy hip-hop, bigb-boy hip-hop.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah he could dance on his head
right now.
He could spin.
He could do the head spin rightnow.
Yeah, I actually.
Uh, I started off as a b-boyand then transitioned into a dj,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
Yeah, all right, I mean, but that was pretty
hand-in-hand right.
It's not too far apart, they'rekind of synonymous right DJing
and hip-hop and b-boying.

Speaker 3 (01:32:28):
It's part of the four elements.
Same culture Okay, yeah, allright, same culture.
There's the same dynamics,whatever you practice.
And who was your crew?
Boys in Style BIS?
I think they're a whole crew.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got togive them a shout out.
Come on, baby.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
Shout them out, brother.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
I asked because I knew, but I'm giving you the
opportunity to fucking put itout there.
Man, yeah, nonsense, man.
When did you start, brother DJyeah.

Speaker 9 (01:32:57):
Oh, probably like 2019.
I started doing it like Ibought a little controller and
then during the pandemic Ireally uh that's when I started
trying it honed in on it.
Yeah, I learned I was trying todo videos on the side and then
I started djing because I'm 33.
But when I was in my 20s I usedto make beats, all right record
on pro tools and shit like thatand um.
So, yeah, yeah, the hump met myuh, my baby mama's uncle had a

(01:33:22):
DJ controller at one of theparties and he said, hey, check
it out.
I looked at I was like, oh, thisis pretty dope never crossed my
mind ever all right.
And then, sure enough, you know, I just got like a little
Serato.
What, what was?

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
the hook.
What hooked you, what?
What made you fall in love?

Speaker 9 (01:33:39):
honestly, when I did my first wedding and I realized
that I could play music and makea living and I made a little
bit of money- yeah.
And it was like you know, Iused to work at McDonald's and I
worked for the school and I waslike bro, I was like whoa, I
was like because I love music,and I never realized why.
And then so when I startedDJing, I was like maybe this is
why you know, and then itstarted working out.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
I don't even speak Spanish.

Speaker 9 (01:34:03):
So my first wedding it was a small one in Wasco and
I had to play Spanish music Ipulled my baby mama's family and
I was like everybody sit down,we're going to write down all
the songs, like we're going tofigure this out, like what's
this?
And I was trying figure it outand that's what I did from the
beginning, just like writingshit down, and and it just kind
of snowballed, you know.
Then I started doing likepop-ups during the pandemic.

(01:34:25):
Um, you know, when they didpop-ups and there was a lot of
uh like little businessesselling shit, everybody was
doing their thing in the parkinglot yeah, and I would pull up
like hey, y'all need a DJ, do itfor free.
Next, the next time they're likewell, you know, we want you
back, break me off.
I was like pay me 200 bucksyeah, you got Break me off.
I was like pay me 200 bucksyeah, you got to break me off.
Everybody pitched in and that'show it kind of started.
And then I was handing out cardsand I was like fuck, this is

(01:34:45):
how I'm going to do it, you know, and even then I didn't think
it was going to be a foreverthing.
And then, sure enough, me andmy baby mama split, because of
the DJing because she didn'treally like it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
Yeah, it's a hard thing, man, it's a hard thing.

Speaker 9 (01:35:00):
I looked at her in her face.
I'm like yo, I can make moneyoff this and I think it could
really work.
Yeah, and she wasn't feeling it, you know, and I was like we
didn't break up because of that.
But for me I was like yo likeso when I was single that's what

(01:35:22):
I thing.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
How, how, uh, something, uh, I'll even call it
traumatic right.
Losing somebody in your life,right, somebody that you planned
on being with your whole life,or whatever it may be, um can
lead to something that you hangon to, like djing or the passion
for it, or because it was therefor you when nothing else was.
Yeah, it was there for you.

(01:35:42):
It was always there thecontroller, the music was always
there in the house for you tojump on and start playing and do
something with.

Speaker 9 (01:35:50):
Yeah no doubt, yeah.
So to have that escape, youknow, because you know we all
listen to music.
But then say, like, when youstart doing gigs, and then
you're playing these gigs andthen you're ending the night and
you're alone and you know howthe DJ life is, so you start,
you just start, you startlearning how to live with your
emotions and how do you put youremotions into the sets and how
do you, like, feed into it.

(01:36:11):
You know, and I, like I alwayswatched, I was watching Quentin
Tarantino.
I like him a lot, and he saidthat a lot of his movies in the
beginning, even now, I guess.
But he would put in whatever'sgoing on in his life.
He would kind of somehow tie itinto the movie where he
released it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
In that sense, it makes it more real for him.
Authentic, yeah, so when?

Speaker 9 (01:36:29):
I seen that I was like, okay, I like that kind of
art in that sense.
So I was like, let's do thatwith the gigs You're playing
this country what's that one?

Speaker 1 (01:36:41):
the Neon Moon?
Oh yeah, neon Books and Gun man, neon Moon.

Speaker 9 (01:36:43):
And I didn't know these songs.
So I started DJing, sort oflearning all these different
genres, and I'm like whoa, thisis a lot of good music.
And it started speaking to me.
I'm like yo, these songs arehard.
I'm like, okay, now I knowwhat's going on.
Even at the end of the samethings you're going through and

(01:37:07):
you just gotta like figure outhow to like bring it, like make
that connection, I guess yeah,hey jay, where are you at
nowadays, man?

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
what are you doing?
Where can we, everybody findyou at, man well, so this is
what I told rick.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Like people don't see me these days, you don't even
see me post on my normal feedanymore, because I I told him
I'm in the underworld.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
No, I only see stories from you.
Every once in a while I'm inthe underworld now, you already
know what, what industry that is.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
Yeah, uh, but you can find me at teaser, pleaser.
All right, yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:37:37):
But you can find me at Teaser, pleaser.
All right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
So, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
Like I can't post that stuff on my feed.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
Ain't nothing wrong with that brother, nothing wrong
with that man.
That's a little lit what youwork at.

Speaker 9 (01:37:46):
Teaser, pleaser.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
That's lit.
All he sees is TNA every day,man Well you DJ there right yeah
, dang.
I'm going to go say what's upnext time?
I know him now.
How about you, brother?
What are you up to man?

(01:38:07):
Where can people find you atman?

Speaker 9 (01:38:09):
They can find me on Instagram at All Raw Music.
That's my little company.
You can find me at the ClarkCounty Fairgrounds at the end of
the month with CardinalesUnidos, we're doing a car show.
You can find me at El Portal onFridays from 10 to 2 in the
morning.

Speaker 1 (01:38:27):
Is Eddie over there?

Speaker 9 (01:38:29):
No, okay, no.
No, I met Eddie before, butover there it's like T-Flow on
Tuesdays, fucking DJ Flush rightnow on Thursdays.
Oh yeah, flush, that's who Imeant.
I meant.
Flush, they're both clean-cutdudes so I can see how you got
that yeah, and I always see himat Costco man.

Speaker 1 (01:38:47):
He works over at Costco so when we're there I see
him, I'm like, hey man, what'sup.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
Yeah, flush is like one, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
This dude too, JC man , he's all over here hobbling
around.
Man, he's going to listen tothis.
Later I'm going to be makingfun of him hobbling in the door
right here with his crutch hehas like a nice sheepskin cover
on the thing so it doesn't hurthis underarm.

Speaker 9 (01:39:19):
Yeah, it just makes you think, you know, like now,
like you do dj-ing, and I didn'tthink like you got to protect
your hands, you got to protectlike getting hurt, like if you
can't stand then like your hands, your wrists, yeah, yeah and I
never thought about that andthen I started seeing things
happen.

Speaker 1 (01:39:30):
Other people I'm like oh hey, you see jewels over
there with a goddamn wrist braceon and I'm like hey, those are
your money makers, man yeah,yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:39:37):
So I was like no.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
So it's weird, like I said just things that you don't
think about, yeah, and youstart realizing like, oh, these
all play factors take them forgranted a little bit when
they're, when it's there, andthen when it's not, you're like,
oh shit, it's like your pinkytoe.
You don't think anything ofyour pinky toe, but once you've
stuffed that motherfucker orsomething, man, you be hot, you
be limping All that matters, forsure Under balance.

(01:40:03):
What else do you got going on,jay, you growing, you doing
anything extra man?
What are you working on,brother?

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Pretty much the same thing.
I work at Cheez-It Pleaser likefour to five days a week, seven
hours each shift, so I'm prettyoccupied with that Every once
in a while I'll take an outsidegig.
All right If the money's right.

Speaker 1 (01:40:27):
Yeah, absolutely.
You understand what I'm saying.
Yeah, if it makes sense, are wePG Dollars and cents?
Nah, we can say whatever thefuck we want to say.
Man, I'm not going to fuckingtake no shit.

Speaker 9 (01:40:38):

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
Like you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 9 (01:40:46):
yeah, like I just hey , no, I appreciate you being,
but I appreciate, but we're goodwe can say whatever the fuck we
want to say on here, man.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Oh yeah, if the money is right yeah, it has to be man
, dollars and cents, it has tomake sense.
Yeah, yeah, it's all right, man.
What do you plan on doing inthe future, man?
What do you see in in fiveyears, man?

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
um, aside from djing, because you know I've been in
this for a while now.
Yeah, I'd like to teach, oh,wow, abroad.
Okay, what is your nationality?
Um, I'm filipino.

Speaker 1 (01:41:14):
You're filipino, yeah , all right.
So is that what you're thinkingabout going to teach?

Speaker 3 (01:41:18):
no, uh, they got this thing called a tubble program
and you can teach English abroadand you get to travel to
different countries.
So that was my way.
That's lit.
Yeah, that's lit as fuck.

Speaker 7 (01:41:30):
That's a way of traveling brother.

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
Yeah, that's a way of traveling is teaching English
abroad.

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
So, after this whole DJ game, I think that's what I'm
going to lean into.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
That's awesome Nonsense.
How about you, brother?
What do you see in four or fiveyears man?

Speaker 9 (01:41:46):
In five years I'll be what?
37?
I see myself doing a lot ofweddings, a lot of quinceaneras,
making good money off that,elevating my equipment game.
I see myself putting my brandout there and becoming one of
the top peoples out here inBakersfield and then hopefully

(01:42:08):
be able to branch out to LA orFresno or different places and
just keep the snowball, justkeep it going to see how far it
can go.
You know how it is life's notpromised, so I'm just like you
know I'm at the point of noreturn.

Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
I got, I got, no other, uh, you know I work to
fall back on, yeah, I work atthe school.

Speaker 9 (01:42:28):
You know I'm a, I'm a lunch man.
You know I'm an assistantmanager, so I use that for the
benefits.
But besides that, um, so I'mjust trying to figure out what I
can do.
You know where I fit in and andwhat else is out there.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
That's good man, that's wise brother, that's wise
Like.
I work for a healthcareorganization, I work for the
hospitals, I do programming andIT, and then I do this man,
podcast, djing, whatever.
Just have fun with it, man, butalways trying to have something
, multiple streams of income.
I just don't trust anything,man, and so I feel like if one

(01:43:05):
area is down, another area willbe up.
So we're good, you know, justhave something going all the
time.
Man, what do you think?
What is your plan to expandinto other counties?
So what is your plan to getinto Fresno County and, like
Oxnard or you know other places?

(01:43:25):
Social media seems the best wayright off the bat.
Everybody has access to it.
We can join Oxnard WeddingGroup, oxnard DJs you know any
of the other pages, right?

Speaker 9 (01:43:39):
How are you trying to get out there into these other
communities, just the same way?
I came out here just justnetworking and you know, in
every situation, everywhere yougo, there's always things that
you don't know, unwritten rulesand people you don't know.
And but not just that, but justyou know social media is a big
part of it and putting out whatlike, so like my image online
where, like, if you push hardenough, hopefully, and be

(01:44:03):
creative, creative enough thatit'll be undeniable, it'll be
like like there's a lot of clubsand stuff that I feel like that
should have got me and you knowI'm saying like.
I feel like if I push hardenough and showcase what I do
and keep elevating everything,not just just the DJing that one
day they have to hit you.
It has to happen, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:44:24):
But yeah, I realize social media.

Speaker 9 (01:44:25):
Like I've been on TikTok a lot lately and I've
been going through the Chicanoroute more and I noticed that
crowd really fucks with me.
So I've just been trying topush for that, yeah.
And I've seen a guy say you'vegot to go where you shine, and I
feel like that's where I shinein those kind of lanes.
So I'm just trying to, you know, eat up that lane, all right.
And you know, I'm saying like alot of it is just who you know

(01:44:47):
and it sucks, but that's reallyhow it is what what genre do you
think you're?
you're weak in uh, my weakestgenre is like corridos and banda
but besides mine's definitelyzapatillados, yeah, well, that
one's easy.
Yeah, I can't even say it, butit's, you just gotta know those
key ones.

(01:45:07):
But those other ones though,but everything else like yeah,
you're pretty good.
Yeah, I feel like um you know Ido a lot of the old school gigs.
I like that a lot.
That's why I like playing here,because you know I can play
anything 80s you could.
You know I'm not saying you cango anywhere you want, yeah.
And it's amazing because a lotof other spots are just, you

(01:45:27):
know, cumbias, reggaeton,hip-hop, top, whatever you know.
It's like you're limited, youknow.
And then my thing is I like toget songs that are not on the
record pools, yeah people know,though they're like oh sure you
know so that that's one of adj's jobs and duties is to
expose people to new music.
Yeah, it's tough nowadays,though, because you know um, I

(01:45:50):
hear djs that are veterans, youknow, and they tell me, before
pandemic, it was like a wholedifferent world and where you
could do more of that.
And then now you know, so I, Idon't know, I wasn't there yeah
so I wonder you know, because Isee now how people are, where
you can be playing the song theywant and they're still putting
it in your face you're like broI'm playing it right now it's on
and they don't realize it.
You know it's so weird.

(01:46:10):
How about you, jay?

Speaker 1 (01:46:12):
it's crazy what.
What's your favorite genre tospin and your?

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
least I'll tell you right now if you want to make it
in this industry, you have tobe diverse.
Yeah, open format.
You'll never make it beingone-dimensional, I don't give a
fuck if every DJ hates me rightnow.

Speaker 8 (01:46:28):
That's why I'm here.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
Everyone wants.
This interview right now isgoing to be valuable to
everybody, even though they'renot going to like me.
You have to be diverse to makeit Like in Delano.
If you can't spin in Spanish orAsian music, you're not gonna
make it there.
Yeah.
I'm from Wasco, so I feel youon that I'm from Arvin, but

(01:46:51):
that's the approach I alwaystook.
Like in the beginning I waskind of one-dimensional, like
back in the day.
But then you gotta be likediverse if you want to.
You have more opportunitiesthat way.
So you got to ask yourself likeI feel bad fucking saying this
shit right now now do it.
Do it if you want to make it,you got to be diverse because

(01:47:15):
there's so many people that onlyhave one set, like a one set
genre.
There's only one.

Speaker 1 (01:47:22):
Steve Aoki and one Dylan Francis, and you know one
Marshmello, and that's theirgenre and that's it, and they
have made that successful.
But that's very, very few andfar between.
It's very rare you have to.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
The probability of you getting gigs.
You gotta compete with allthose people.

Speaker 8 (01:47:43):
Yeah, that just have one genre, you know what?

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
I mean, yeah, but if you expand yourself, then you
know the sky's the limit.
Yeah, I'm gonna be honest rightnow, like the thing that I do
is like if I have a weakness, Ilisten to whatever station or
whatever it might be, wherevermy weakest point is, and dive

(01:48:08):
into it, yeah, and learn it.
Pull through things that peopledon't want to do, does that
make?

Speaker 1 (01:48:17):
sense?
Yeah, because it's not fun forthem or enjoyable and they want
to stick to the genre that theyknow and it's hard to go listen
to a bunch of country music thatyou may not enjoy very much,
but you need that in your belt,exactly, yeah, and that opens
the doors for a lot of things.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
That's all I can say.
I'm not going to say it's asecret, but if people think it's
a secret, but you know, ifpeople think it's a secret, then
I'm revealing it right now.

Speaker 1 (01:48:43):
That's the way.

Speaker 7 (01:48:43):
I do it yeah absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
Yeah, I think that's how most of these DJs here are.
I think most everybody here ispretty open format.
That's good.
That's good.
Hey Lengu, we got some gummiesfrom her.

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
Shout out to her Thank you, girl, appreciate you,
yeah, cause I don't really seea point If I already Like I know
, you know I love this song bythe way, yeah, we all know it,
but I know it already.

Speaker 8 (01:49:08):
I don't need to practice it.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
You understand.
Yeah, if I already know it,then I'm gonna go practice
something that I don't know,that you don't know, and then
I'm gonna, because, if not,you're not going to get any
better.

Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
Exactly, you're already there.
You've already played this song.
You already know how to mix it.
You know when to mix it in,when to mix it out.
You know all the details aboutit.

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
You get stuck is what I'm saying.
You get comfortable, yeah, youget comfortable, and you get
stuck, and then years pass by.
You could have used those yearsto yes, to expand your horizon.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
I'm going to get hated for this fucking interview
.

Speaker 3 (01:49:41):
I love it.

Speaker 9 (01:49:43):
I'm dropping gems, y'all.
I'm a sponge.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
I call myself SpongeBob, but I love all these
songs, though, but there are somany DJs out there that you'll
go listen to their set andthey're just playing the same
shit all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
Oh, it's regurgitated Constant.

Speaker 3 (01:49:59):
Yeah, you know, like you know the ppms and everything
, what what goes next, like it's.
You know what I mean, but uh,it really depends on whatever
the crowd is and the atmosphereand all that stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:50:14):
Yeah, that's what I learned too is, you know,
because everybody is playing thesame stuff, you know the same
music.
Everybody you know knows, andso it's like how you play it,
that's how I realized, but someof the great ones even like
locally, you know, I mean it'slike they play it their way and
it works for them and I feellike some of them go into their
history folder and they play theexact same shit on a certain

(01:50:37):
date and they just fucking play.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
They just they don't think about it, they don't try,
they don't put any effort, theydon't try to sprinkle anything
like like pop it up, it's thesame.

Speaker 9 (01:50:47):
It's the same repeated, set over and over,
especially when they have aresidency at some spot, and you
know, and because I had one onetime and I got to experience
that for a little bit and I waslike, oh, some girls like you
play the same shit all the time.
I was like, oh, you're right,and then from there it was
something that had scrambled mybrain for a while, Like you know
, and then like, so, like we'reseeing, like Regulator, Like you

(01:51:09):
know, I've watched him a lot oftimes and what I see him do is
like he can play Blow theWhistle a different version
every night, with some kind ofextra bullshit.

Speaker 1 (01:51:19):
A different remix on it.

Speaker 9 (01:51:21):
Where he either goes out of it a certain way or
whatever Late work plays orwhatever so I've seen people do
that.
I'm like that's smart too.
You know where it's different,but you're still going through,
or even a cumbia remix or someshit.

Speaker 1 (01:51:34):
Like me, I don't play , Not Like the original version
but I'll play the cumbia versionbecause I feel like it still
has the sing-along factor, andit has, you know, everybody.

Speaker 9 (01:51:42):
It has a cultural factor for multiple cultures
yeah, absolutely things likethat.
You know.
I notice like how do you likeyou know?

Speaker 1 (01:51:50):
make it like fresher, I guess, and it really does
seem like mashups and shit havebecome all the rage.
I love that?

Speaker 9 (01:51:57):
yeah, I love that.
I love that, yeah, especiallywhen it works.

Speaker 3 (01:52:03):
What it is is Okay.
Can I say it?
Yeah, you can't get comfortablewith sets.
I have no set.
Like you start off with sets,it's off the top.
Yeah, you start off with sets,but ultimately, like the way I
was taught, basically you haveto drop the right songs at the
right time.
Yeah, that's what it is.

(01:52:24):
Absolutely you have to drop theright songs at the right time.
So it doesn't matter whatcategory it is.
Whatever's in front of you.
You don't need a set, you knowno.
Just drop the right songs at theright time.
That's facts.
Read the crowd.
That's like the second phase,when you first start DJing.
You'll have the set and this iswhere you can tell.
This is where you candefinitely tell it's not a set.

(01:52:49):
I could look at someone rightnow.
I'll know.
Whatever they're looking at,it's like okay yeah, he knows.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:58):
That's facts.
Who's your favorite DJj inbakersfield?
Who's your favorite bakersfielddj other than yourself?

Speaker 9 (01:53:07):
right.
Yeah, oh, my favoritebakersfield dj this period is my
boy t flow.
Okay, I think t flow low keylike I, so whenever ever.
You know, I took my storyearlier, my story how I got in,
so I'm got my teeth whitened bythis girl and then I told her
her boyfriend was a DJ and heknew the night scene and I was
like, how do I get in the nightscene real quick, so fast

(01:53:30):
forward?
That guy's like hey, you wantto get in the night scene?
Koda El Portao, meet my boyT-Flow, named Trevor.
You go over there and he'lltell you what to do.
You go over there and he'lltell you what to do and I go.
He doesn't tell me anything.
I just stand there for a wholenight and I never used to go out
, so it was new, but I watchedhim.
I see every DJ in Bakersfieldfrom the beginning to end.
And my favorite is T-Flow.

(01:53:51):
I feel like it's not that he'sgood, but the crowd follows.
Am I because he's young?
I don't know, because I'm alittle older than him, and so
it's weird.
But it's a weird dynamic, youknow, when you're with your
peers partying, so you know ofcourse it's going to turn up, so
it's crazy.
But my favorite, though, isT-Flow.

Speaker 1 (01:54:09):
How about you, jay?
Who's your favorite DJ besidesyourself?
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:54:14):
Myself number one.
I mean we all have to loveourselves, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:54:17):
I love me, I love me, I would like to thank me first
and foremost.

Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
I've got a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
It's hard for me to say because I feel like, if this
is heard, I might be missingsomeone.

Speaker 5 (01:54:30):
Yeah yeah, throw some names.

Speaker 9 (01:54:35):
Gordon's just trying to get somebody in trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
Send people up.
I've always liked DJ Radeem andhe knows this.
He's an.
Og and he knows what time it is.
I like Richie, rich, I like you, I like what you're doing.
I appreciate it, man.
No, because I like watchingpeople that are like me that

(01:54:59):
know how to fucking hustle yeah,I'm saying get shit done, you
know hey, are you still playingmarbles?
I haven't been, but I think Imight still be a great.

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
I was watching practice man yeah, but there's a
lot of.
I think every DJ that's in thescene though is great.

Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
Everybody's got their own style and stuff.
But well, going back to yourquestion though, like I like
what you're doing.
I like what Richie Rich isdoing Because you understand
that.
You understand how to make it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:38):
It's a lot of work.
Yeah, I think I'm going to putthis out there, man, a couple of
my favorite DJs Got to be DosMuchos.
Love that dude, I love Dos.
I love his tablism.
I love his abilities.
I love the art he's a cool dude.
What Babe.

Speaker 9 (01:55:57):
Dynamite.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
I enjoy Dynamite.

Speaker 8 (01:56:03):
I enjoy Dynamite too, man, I enjoy.

Speaker 1 (01:56:05):
Dynamite man.
I enjoy at this point in time,you know, other than people's
music selection and stuff likethat.
I like the artistry, I like thetablism, I like all the flair
right, the showmanship.
I'm into the showmanship atthis point.
You know we can all play music,we can all blend music pretty
well.
I like the showmanship.

(01:56:27):
You know Rich is doing greatthings for the DJ community, I
think you know, bringing peopleout here to Chewy's and bringing
them out to the Condors andletting them DJ at the Condors,
opening them up for the Condors,Even Eagle Mountain.
Rich will let you go up toEagle Mountain and DJ.
He gives people a lot ofopportunity to play in front of
different crowds.
So I like what?

Speaker 9 (01:56:48):
Rich is doing.

Speaker 1 (01:56:49):
All right man, I think we're going to wrap this
podcast up y'all.
We're at an hour 56 longpodcast.

Speaker 9 (01:56:56):
I see a girl on the dance floor.
I'm trying to go real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:56:58):
Love y'all.

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