May 14, 2025 • 23 mins
Ever wonder which DJs have shaped today's wedding and event entertainment landscape? In this enlightening episode, Joe Bunn and Brian B pull back the curtain on their professional influences in a candid conversation about the figures who've transformed their approach to both music and business.
The discussion reveals how pioneers like Mike Walter set the standard for professionalism in private events, while Jason Jani showed there are multiple paths to success that don't require following a rigid formula. When it comes to musical inspiration, both hosts credit DJ AM as the revolutionary who broke the mold of chronological sets, proving you could jump seamlessly between decades and genres to create something truly magical.
Through thoughtful reflection, Brian and Joe explore how their inspirations evolved from simply emulating others to finding their own voices and styles. They highlight current innovators like Spider, Vice, Scene, Fusemania, and Drew Pierce who continue pushing boundaries with their brave track selections and technical prowess—influences that increasingly shape the private event world.
Beyond inspiration, this episode delivers practical value with Brian's "Gear Corner" featuring the Jackery 500 portable power station and a solution for maintaining professional appearance with proper cases for it. The hosts also tackle a listener question about whether DJs should take photos with couples at weddings, weighing marketing benefits against timing considerations.
What makes this conversation special is how it connects artistic evolution with business savvy, showing that the best DJs draw inspiration from multiple worlds. Whether you're established in the industry or just starting out, you'll gain valuable perspective on how to develop your unique approach while learning from those who've mastered the craft.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
welcome back to beyond the dj booth brought to
you by DJ Event Planner, our CRMof choice.
I'm Brian B and this is it'sJoe Bunn.
Hey, still, yeah, four episodeslater, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're still rocking and rolling.
Rocking and rolling Hackingover pollen coughing.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, this is going to be the.
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
you're sick or it's pollen allergy type thing.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It has to be pollen.
I don't really get sick what doyou mean?
You don't get sick they call itkind of like a pilot's immunity
okay, I'm on the road so muchthat I'm, like you know, on
planes a lot, so that's whereyou pick up a lot of the stuff
and they call it a pilot'simmunity, because a lot of the
pilots never get sick becausethey're always traveling,
they're in the air, they,they're.
You know, if you notice, mostof those guys are the most fit
people you probably ever see.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So I think I have that because I rarely ever go
down, damn.
But this pollen is next level.
Next level it's for real dude.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's serious.
Southern yellow.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I saw the stat that Raleigh is the seventh worst as
far as like allergies go.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah that Raleigh is the seventh worst as far as
allergies go.
It's the pine trees.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Did you ever do an allergy test?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's been a long time , were they like?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
prick your skin or whatever.
I did it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What were you allergic to?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
All the freaking trees and grasses Really, and
I'm like I never Like your skinwelted up.
Oh yeah, oh wow, and so then Istarted treatment for it because
they tell you that you can goto an allergist.
They basically they start youstrong and they get you like the
ones that you're allergic to.
They just kind of you get itinto your body so that you build
up immunity to it and then theywean you off, oh, and over a
two year period, so it's notlike tomorrow you're gonna get
(01:56):
done.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's not a fix.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No it takes that long for your building.
You did that I started it, Ihaven't finished it, are you?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
taking like zyrtec or any?
What was?
What did tara just send you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I need she, uh, she said well, zyrtec, I do take
that, yeah, and then um you canonly take that once a day yeah,
what's the kind of?
Uh it's wow, pseudofed.
I didn't know this.
I don't get enough meds to knowthis, but apparently the real
stuff you have to get from thepharmacist, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But they have because they make crystal meth or
something oh, I guess, I don'tknow.
Isn't that right Crack, orsomething.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So you can get the not as potent version off the
shelf.
And then we have the non-potentversion, so I took that.
That helped.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't know if I'm sick or if I've got allergies.
I mean, I got to the pointwhere, dude, I was so worried
about this cough I went to theENT ear, nose and throat doctor.
Homeboy sho boy shoved a cameraup my nose and down my throat.
That's gonna be brutal.
It was brutal.
You don't do a neti pot I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I'm not a neti potter .
Okay, do you know what it is?
Yeah, I did it.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
No, I I think you know, because my dad had
esophageal cancer.
Now I'm hyper, um, paranoidyeah, this is the word and I've
never been like that before,anything that related to that.
And then he was like you'regood, like I'm looking around in
here, there's nothing wrong.
You know, if you want to bedouble sure, get in the car and
drive down to wake radiology andget a chest x-ray.
(03:14):
So I went straight from there,got a chest x-ray.
24 hours later he's like you'regood and I'm like dude, what is
this?
three month lingering, kind ofyeah yeah, that's not good, I
don't know, dude, dude, it'skind of weird.
Opcon A.
Opcon A.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I need that Is what I've heard to try it.
Somebody swears by itsupposedly, so I'm going to get
that on the way home.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, wait a minute.
So is pollen only a problem inlike the South or in places that
have a lot of pine trees, likeheavily forested areas?
So is this happening inMinnesota right now?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if it's out.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I remember in California or New York, I think
it's the East Coast thing.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Florida gets a little bit, but not this bad.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
This has been brutal Because in Maryland where I'm
from, it's pretty bad too.
It is.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, this is when you want to own a car wash as a
business right Every time wedrive by one.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm like that place is just printing money Right and
storage facilities.
Those are my two.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The third is clothes washing, that's me Dry cleaners?
No, no, not dry cleaners, butlike the coin laundry Really.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, those do so well, they smash the one next
door to where I work.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, crushes it Always A lot of people just
don't, they don't want to.
I mean, if you get locations,everything with all of these
Right, right.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But those do well.
I'll tell you what I thoughtwas a goal win, and my buddy did
it, and he took a bath on oneof those ice machines in the
parking lot where the bag dropsout of the chute, one's down at
the beach, lying around thecorner, and they crush it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So you want to know one of my odd jobs, what I used
to work with Rooney G and weused to do gambling games in
bars and in strip clubs.
You owned them, he owned them.
I would service them Like gotake the quarters out.
Take the quarters I could wrap$10 in quarters like that,
because I just we'd go get themand then soon they became
cashless and so the stores juststarted buying them on their own
(05:06):
and we had, so we took a bathlike or he took a bath more than
me, but I mean every every weekI was.
We had like maybe 50 of thesearound yeah and so I go every
friday coin collecting where wasthis?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
what city?
Uh dustin wow, I learnedsomething about you.
Every podcast speaking of it'sa two-parter, two--parter.
I love two-parters.
Who inspired past tense you interms of, let's call it, private
event DJs that you've looked upto to either help or grow your
business.
Part A, part B what DJs again?
(05:39):
It could be DJs that play at afestival.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Could be people that play private events.
Could be living or dead.
What DJs have inspired you?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
When I started DJing I wasn't in the mobile circuit
of trade shows.
It wasn't a thing really.
I mean, they were there, I wasdoing it with Pioneer, but I
wasn't in the seminars.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So I think the first guy, I mean uh, mike Walter, I
mean he's, I would definitelyput him on my list he's.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I mean everything was super polished.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I just thought the way he carried himself, like all
of it, super successfulbusiness.
I would say he was definitelyan inspiration early on.
And then I think Jen I probablywould, probably, would be in
that list.
I think the way that he'sevolved and continued to stay at
the top of his game and withhis company, and the hardest
would you agree that New Jerseywould be the hardest market in
the country?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, totally, me too.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And then I kind of got off the whole DJ train for
business because I was realizingthat so many people actually it
was Jason who really kind ofopened my eye, because with Mike
I'm guilty of it I was verymuch a copy and paste, Like
let's just do what his book says.
Obviously, he's done a great jobhe's got to work.
But then I realized it wasn'tme, like I not the guy who's
going to go out there and, doyou know, lead line dances, yeah
Right.
And then Jason really was theguy who kind of I saw all right,
(06:51):
you don't have to do that, sure.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You can still be super successful off of that,
and so now I don't say I think Ihave somebody that I would say
I look up to.
As far as I mean it could havebeen, it was more as you were
coming up.
Yeah, right, like that youanswered the question.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
you were somebody as well, I would say, um, I mean
the, the, the whole franchisingand all of that I think is super
unique, interesting.
Yeah, I feel like you'vereinvented yourself.
I mean, I saw those old joebunn pictures back in the day,
the day with the tux and thewhole situation Rough you know.
Now think about where it is nowTo stay in it this long and
still be kind of Relevant.
(07:29):
Yeah, it's crazy.
But then DJ-wise.
Yeah musically From an openformat.
I would say Spider has been ahuge inspiration.
I feel like that guy.
He's very broad in his musicalstyles and tastes and I've seen
him play a few different times.
I would binge his podcast whenhe would do ones on music.
Yeah, I mean vice, obviouslyanother guy.
(07:49):
I love vice and if I go backolder, you know adam, you know
dj am another big one and I'dsay now like scenes, another one
for me.
I love his style, I love how hecan mix things around.
So I kind of don't really lookto the mobiles as much Not that
there's great mobiles out there,but the guys that are pushing
the envelope.
I'm starting to see theinfluence of that hitting into
the mobile world.
So those are the guys I kind oflook at and go man, I can
(08:14):
identify with those kind ofthings and see what I can do to
bring in their styles to what Ido.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The original open format guy to me will always be
AM Right.
That was the first time I sawAM play at Hard Rock Body
English was some stupid shit.
I was there Didn't really atthe time.
Am wasn't really AM, but he waskind of AM.
I just remember seeing Seratofor the first time in Vegas.
That kind of just changed mywhole world.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I was like dude there's no way there's to just
drop sweet home alabama and in avegas club or whatever right.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And then nelly or whatever that was the next I was
very, you know came up in this,this world of like pockets,
like I'm gonna start this setand I'm gonna play oh what a
night.
And brick house and play thatfunky music, and we are family,
and then I'm gonna play, I willsurvive yeah and then then I
might go to Billie Jean, then Imight go to so I'm going from
the 70s to the 80s and then bythe time the party was really
(09:07):
going, I would be in thegeneration that we were living
in currently.
That's how I would play it, andI just thought that was the way
to do it.
Back then, you know, everybodywas a different age yeah, yeah,
I feel like it depends.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, who's on the crowd?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
it could worked.
But when I saw him I'm like yoman, this dude is literally just
jumping decades of time,flawlessly.
I was just mind blown.
I mean current people that areoperating the private events
slash club space Fuse is crazy.
Drew Pierce crazy, Duder, crazythose guys to me are just
iconic, and especially Drew.
(09:38):
He's like I mean, the word isbrave, you know what I mean like
to to have the ability and theballs to drop whatever mgmt yeah
, you know or the 1975, or justlike, even like a random tribe
call quest song that wasn'treally big.
And then that to know, you knowthree songs ahead that I can
(10:02):
get out of this or that if thistanks, I'm already prepared, I
can get out of this quickly,flawlessly.
Those are kind of the guys thatI come up to.
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Speaker 1 (10:45):
I got a gear corner, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do people like the gear corner?
Do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Matt Fly was like you got to keep doing this every
show.
The gear corner, yeah.
So I was like, all right, Iwill say this before we get into
the gear corner.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
If you are missing the link, do you update your
Amazon?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
page.
I do Because I'm not very goodat that.
Yeah, I am Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So the link is in the description of the YouTube
video.
That goes to Brian's and myAmazon page.
He's usually the gear master,so you'll probably want to click
on that to find the nextproduct, which is da, da, da da.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It's a case, but I want to talk about the product
first that you would put intothe case, because I feel like
that one's kind of universal atthis point.
You know, back in the day, dude, when you would have power
problems, it was like you got tohave a generator to make it
work.
Yeah, now these jackeries, doyou?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
use one, I have one, yes you do?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
what version?
Is it?
The 500, the thousand, I mean?
I think?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I have the 1000, so I have the five.
I rarely use it, to be fair,because I use the e-verse so
much and they are alreadybattery powered.
I think I bought it pre-batterypower speaker and I also still
have my Honda gas powered.
You do, wow, yeah, whisperQuiet.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Oh, whisper Quiet.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Okay, it's quiet, but you still need to run 100 feet
to put it up in the sand dunesor something.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Right, so I use these for events where a lot of the
rooms I'm playing they're oddshaped.
Yeah.
Events where, like the a lot ofthe rooms I'm playing they're
odd shaped, yeah, and the powerisn't always really close to
them.
Yeah, so I'll use these for,like, auxiliary speakers or what
I call phil speakers yeah, butthe jackery itself I mean a 500
will get you through an eventpretty easily.
That's the 500, yeah super light, okay, and the battery life is
(12:14):
insanity.
Like you can do a five, sixhour event and it might get down
to 50 at the most, wow, wow.
So this would power up a basicrig.
It would not work with the 90sprobably.
You need a bigger, higherwattage.
But here's my problem it comesin a box Like a cardboard box A
cardboard box.
So I put on I don't rememberwhat one of the DJ groups and I
go hey, anybody else have aJackery, they don't make a case
(12:36):
for it.
I Well, of course, garrity goes, I raw dog it.
I just bring it into the venue,just like with this.
A couple other people said thesame thing.
I'm like I can't go into a FourSeasons with an orange looking
freaking battery which is whatit looks like and take it in
there.
I need something else.
So somebody shared with me thisoff-market case that basically
it's padded.
(12:57):
Is that literally for this?
It fits this model perfectly init and it's orange and black,
and it's orange and black.
It has a pocket where you canput all of the accessories.
Yeah, and it also has ashoulder strap, which I don't
have.
Is that amazon?
This is on amazon.
The jackery itself, if you werelooking for that, I think it's
like 4.99.
I got it on sale.
It's always on sale, so likeright now you can pay.
Actually, you can pay 329 for a500 right now.
(13:19):
That's a great deal.
What do you think this is?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
for let's call.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The satchel.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Here, feel it, I mean it's heavy duty, yeah, it's
nice.
It's not cheap $29.95.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You're pretty close $32.
Okay, but I like it too,because I can actually keep this
in the bag.
Yeah, and just keep it next toa speaker.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh yeah, so it's not like out in the open, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's not obvious, it doesn't look, that's your bro 32
bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Nice one.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Get yourself one If you need it.
If you get the Jackery, Ihighly recommend it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Do they make bigger ones?
Did you get into that?
They do Down that rabbit hole.
Okay, they do.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And I don't have.
This is the only one.
I have the 500.
So, anyway, highly recommend it.
Make it look more professional,yeah, and I'm like that looks
tacky too.
So then I got this bag and I'mgolden.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So but it is not made by Jackery, it's not made by
Jackery.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, I don't know even who makes it, to be honest.
Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
Do you want to do a question?
Sure, let's do it, oh this is agood question.
Richie Stedman back.
Richie Stedman my boy Salt LakeCity.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Oh wait, what is it again?
The best DJ in Utah.
Best DJ in.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Utahcom.
Wow yeah, he's a good dude.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Do you get pictures?
Why or why not?
What do you do?
I would love to have it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I just never seem to get it.
Do you try?
No, and I should.
What about you?
I don't know.
I feel like it's kind ofself-serving.
That's probably my own hang upwith it like come here, let me
get a picture with you guys,just for posterity's sake, or
whatever the case may be.
Now, if a professionalphotographer offers I'll
definitely do it.
I put this thing away.
I just I don't know.
I never find the right time todo it either, Like honestly,
like I'm not doing it when we'retearing down.
I feel like that's just kind ofcheesy.
(15:35):
I don't really get pictureswith the couples, and it's not
because I don't want to.
I just I just don't know.
I feel like over the past sixmonths and going into the future
, 75 to 80% of our weddings aredoing a private last dance.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I feel like at the end of that private last dance
is a prime opportunity,especially if you have an
assistant Saquon's with me.
They finished that last dance,you know.
By then I've got the microphoneoff.
I just give them a clap.
I'm like thank you guys.
You know, thanks for having meyeah and they're getting ready
to go out and do their sparklerdeparture or whatever.
Could I get a picture withy'all.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That seems like the most.
That's the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yes, without it feeling forced, easy.
Or yeah, because literally theonly people left in there at
that point are me, saquon andthem.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But what if, like it was a rager shirts off.
You know hair's messed up.
What are you going to do?
Are you going to put that onyour Instagram?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
The bride had her shirt off.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
No, the groom's, you know her makeup's, just like
she's been dancing sweating isshe gonna want to take that
photo?
And secondly, do you want topost that on a platform that,
because you don't even post thatstuff on your I mean would you
post on your story?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
it was story.
Is story worthy?
For me it's not.
It's not post worthy.
I mean the way.
The reason I do like it isbecause like here's what, here's
what we did.
Like here's, you know, weripped it.
The guy's got his tie off, likeyou said.
She sweaty, like I just rippedthis place apart.
So there's that, that's thepositive of it.
Is she going to love thepicture?
Maybe not.
I get what you're saying, oreven him, I wouldn't care.
(17:16):
I would be like hell, yeah, man, let's get a pic.
You know what I mean If I'mgetting married and I'm you
think people do it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I mean, is there a marketing angle here?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, for sure.
If nothing else, it's good forsocial, it proves you're working
.
But I mean you can prove you'reworking by showing the dance
floor or your gear or whateverelse.
I don't know.
Man, I think the better pictureto me is always going to be
will the couple come back therebehind the decks and put on the
headphones, right, and you'reover there hyping them up?
Or me standing beside them witha cannon and she's firing it
(17:53):
off?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
yeah, like yeah, yeah , yeah you know, keep going like
.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That's a much better image than that just three nerds
standing there, going you knowI played your wedding like I
don't I don't know it's, it'snot ever going to be mandatory
for me, but but I think it is agood part of the story.
It's a good last story of thenight kind of thing.
I don't know, let's try it,Saquon.
We'll try it.
We'll be the guinea pig.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
All right, let me know how it goes.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Are you just side note?
Are you big on private lifestances right now?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm indifferent.
Obviously, I love it when it'slike I don't have to clear
everybody out and just end on ahigh note.
Yeah, I feel like it's a littlebit of a dip.
Yeah, would you say, you stillhave about 75% doing in grand
exits too.
Oh, easily, it does help mewith that, yeah, getting people
out of there.
Yeah, hey they're going to takepart in this private dance.
We need you to exit.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, get these pictures right.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yes, yeah, and and they're still big.
We get a ton of rent exits.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Oh yeah, we do too A lot, whether it's bubbles,
sparks, whatever, we get a tonof that.
To me, if you don't have somesort of exit, it is very odd to
just end a party.
They turn the lights up andeverybody's just kind of
standing there staring at eachother.
Yeah, to me it's odd.
You got to clear that room.
Whether you come back, comeback in and get your coats or
whatever, that's a differentstory.
But like if you just say thanks, everybody, have a great
(19:09):
weekend, good night, and thensomebody you know from the venue
staff cranks the lights up andthen, I mean I just put on
something like a random just VanMorrison song in the background
, so it's not so freakingawkward.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, I got a bunch of like instrumentals I played
Right.
The other thing is if remotelyknow then they might stay out
there and stay out there andstart dancing, and then I got
another problem, exactly.
So I kind of need, and then thevenue staff's cussing you out
because you're playing past time.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, anywho, I don't know thatwe we didn't really answer the
question.
I don't.
We're not doing it.
I guess neither of us are.
Why not?
I mean it.
It should be probably done,yeah I don't shame anybody for
doing it.
No, I mean either I'm not likesome people that's like their
personality.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Like it's like, like I think Rob Frey does it too.
He's a big like get a picturewith the couple.
It's just not my MO Right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I'd rather you know figure out another way to have
that memory I got.
I got the last, last statementon this B five-star review C
picture with a couple A.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's not a question, he said.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
A yeah, tip cash money, yeah, all day.
You got enough reviews.
I feel like, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean I don't even think that matters as much
anymore.
I mean, Really, At least whenyou get to a certain price point
, it's all about the plannerreferral.
The couple's not looking atthat.
At the price point that I'm atright now, everything is planner
referred in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes, or venue referred in.
I agree with you, there is alot of referral now but to be
fair in the price point we're at, let's call it three, four
$5,000.
I do believe that reviewsmatter, but it's like we have
thousands across the platform atthis point.
I still want them, I still loveto get them, I still love to
read them.
It still makes you feel good.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh, totally.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I guess, at the end of the day, though, what was my
point, that I was going withthis?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I was just saying the hierarchy.
Like for me it's not going tomove the needle much for me,
right?
I mean, if I had zero reviews,absolutely I need some's there.
I don't need this to have onemore feather in my cap.
I do think you need to becurrent on your reviews, though.
Sure you know, if you had, thelast review you got was two
years ago.
That's a problem.
(21:16):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I agree.
Yeah, reviews definitely matter.
I guess my point was sorry.
I just remember my train ofthought here.
When you buy the Jackery bag orthe nail trimmer or whatever
we've talked about in these lastfour episodes we batch recorded
today, are you going to thereviews and seeing if it's like
four plus stars and what peopleare saying?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And don't you think people that are booking a DJ for
their wedding on the mostimportant and beautiful day of
their life are?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
doing the same.
Yeah, but if I had a Brian Bwho already knew what to get, I
would trust their judgment.
Got you Okay, and I wouldn'tneed to read those reviews,
brian B.
Yeah, that's what the planneris for this couple.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Right, they're the purveyor of the vendors, the
middleman, right the middleman.
So they're doing that.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
This guy's the shit.
You need to get Brian B episodedude.
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Hey, still, yeah, four episodeslater, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're still rocking and rolling.
Rocking and rolling Hackingover pollen coughing.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, this is going to be the.
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
you're sick or it's pollen allergy type thing.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It has to be pollen.
I don't really get sick what doyou mean?
You don't get sick they call itkind of like a pilot's immunity
okay, I'm on the road so muchthat I'm, like you know, on
planes a lot, so that's whereyou pick up a lot of the stuff
and they call it a pilot'simmunity, because a lot of the
pilots never get sick becausethey're always traveling,
they're in the air, they,they're.
You know, if you notice, mostof those guys are the most fit
people you probably ever see.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So I think I have that because I rarely ever go
down, damn.
But this pollen is next level.
Next level it's for real dude.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's serious.
Southern yellow.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I saw the stat that Raleigh is the seventh worst as
far as like allergies go.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah that Raleigh is the seventh worst as far as
allergies go.
It's the pine trees.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Did you ever do an allergy test?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's been a long time , were they like?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
prick your skin or whatever.
I did it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What were you allergic to?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
All the freaking trees and grasses Really, and
I'm like I never Like your skinwelted up.
Oh yeah, oh wow, and so then Istarted treatment for it because
they tell you that you can goto an allergist.
They basically they start youstrong and they get you like the
ones that you're allergic to.
They just kind of you get itinto your body so that you build
up immunity to it and then theywean you off, oh, and over a
two year period, so it's notlike tomorrow you're gonna get
(01:56):
done.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's not a fix.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No it takes that long for your building.
You did that I started it, Ihaven't finished it, are you?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
taking like zyrtec or any?
What was?
What did tara just send you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I need she, uh, she said well, zyrtec, I do take
that, yeah, and then um you canonly take that once a day yeah,
what's the kind of?
Uh it's wow, pseudofed.
I didn't know this.
I don't get enough meds to knowthis, but apparently the real
stuff you have to get from thepharmacist, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But they have because they make crystal meth or
something oh, I guess, I don'tknow.
Isn't that right Crack, orsomething.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So you can get the not as potent version off the
shelf.
And then we have the non-potentversion, so I took that.
That helped.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't know if I'm sick or if I've got allergies.
I mean, I got to the pointwhere, dude, I was so worried
about this cough I went to theENT ear, nose and throat doctor.
Homeboy sho boy shoved a cameraup my nose and down my throat.
That's gonna be brutal.
It was brutal.
You don't do a neti pot I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I'm not a neti potter .
Okay, do you know what it is?
Yeah, I did it.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
No, I I think you know, because my dad had
esophageal cancer.
Now I'm hyper, um, paranoidyeah, this is the word and I've
never been like that before,anything that related to that.
And then he was like you'regood, like I'm looking around in
here, there's nothing wrong.
You know, if you want to bedouble sure, get in the car and
drive down to wake radiology andget a chest x-ray.
(03:14):
So I went straight from there,got a chest x-ray.
24 hours later he's like you'regood and I'm like dude, what is
this?
three month lingering, kind ofyeah yeah, that's not good, I
don't know, dude, dude, it'skind of weird.
Opcon A.
Opcon A.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I need that Is what I've heard to try it.
Somebody swears by itsupposedly, so I'm going to get
that on the way home.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, wait a minute.
So is pollen only a problem inlike the South or in places that
have a lot of pine trees, likeheavily forested areas?
So is this happening inMinnesota right now?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if it's out.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I remember in California or New York, I think
it's the East Coast thing.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Florida gets a little bit, but not this bad.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
This has been brutal Because in Maryland where I'm
from, it's pretty bad too.
It is.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, this is when you want to own a car wash as a
business right Every time wedrive by one.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm like that place is just printing money Right and
storage facilities.
Those are my two.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The third is clothes washing, that's me Dry cleaners?
No, no, not dry cleaners, butlike the coin laundry Really.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, those do so well, they smash the one next
door to where I work.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, crushes it Always A lot of people just
don't, they don't want to.
I mean, if you get locations,everything with all of these
Right, right.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But those do well.
I'll tell you what I thoughtwas a goal win, and my buddy did
it, and he took a bath on oneof those ice machines in the
parking lot where the bag dropsout of the chute, one's down at
the beach, lying around thecorner, and they crush it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So you want to know one of my odd jobs, what I used
to work with Rooney G and weused to do gambling games in
bars and in strip clubs.
You owned them, he owned them.
I would service them Like gotake the quarters out.
Take the quarters I could wrap$10 in quarters like that,
because I just we'd go get themand then soon they became
cashless and so the stores juststarted buying them on their own
(05:06):
and we had, so we took a bathlike or he took a bath more than
me, but I mean every every weekI was.
We had like maybe 50 of thesearound yeah and so I go every
friday coin collecting where wasthis?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
what city?
Uh dustin wow, I learnedsomething about you.
Every podcast speaking of it'sa two-parter, two--parter.
I love two-parters.
Who inspired past tense you interms of, let's call it, private
event DJs that you've looked upto to either help or grow your
business.
Part A, part B what DJs again?
(05:39):
It could be DJs that play at afestival.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Could be people that play private events.
Could be living or dead.
What DJs have inspired you?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
When I started DJing I wasn't in the mobile circuit
of trade shows.
It wasn't a thing really.
I mean, they were there, I wasdoing it with Pioneer, but I
wasn't in the seminars.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So I think the first guy, I mean uh, mike Walter, I
mean he's, I would definitelyput him on my list he's.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I mean everything was super polished.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I just thought the way he carried himself, like all
of it, super successfulbusiness.
I would say he was definitelyan inspiration early on.
And then I think Jen I probablywould, probably, would be in
that list.
I think the way that he'sevolved and continued to stay at
the top of his game and withhis company, and the hardest
would you agree that New Jerseywould be the hardest market in
the country?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, totally, me too.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And then I kind of got off the whole DJ train for
business because I was realizingthat so many people actually it
was Jason who really kind ofopened my eye, because with Mike
I'm guilty of it I was verymuch a copy and paste, Like
let's just do what his book says.
Obviously, he's done a great jobhe's got to work.
But then I realized it wasn'tme, like I not the guy who's
going to go out there and, doyou know, lead line dances, yeah
Right.
And then Jason really was theguy who kind of I saw all right,
(06:51):
you don't have to do that, sure.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You can still be super successful off of that,
and so now I don't say I think Ihave somebody that I would say
I look up to.
As far as I mean it could havebeen, it was more as you were
coming up.
Yeah, right, like that youanswered the question.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
you were somebody as well, I would say, um, I mean
the, the, the whole franchisingand all of that I think is super
unique, interesting.
Yeah, I feel like you'vereinvented yourself.
I mean, I saw those old joebunn pictures back in the day,
the day with the tux and thewhole situation Rough you know.
Now think about where it is nowTo stay in it this long and
still be kind of Relevant.
(07:29):
Yeah, it's crazy.
But then DJ-wise.
Yeah musically From an openformat.
I would say Spider has been ahuge inspiration.
I feel like that guy.
He's very broad in his musicalstyles and tastes and I've seen
him play a few different times.
I would binge his podcast whenhe would do ones on music.
Yeah, I mean vice, obviouslyanother guy.
(07:49):
I love vice and if I go backolder, you know adam, you know
dj am another big one and I'dsay now like scenes, another one
for me.
I love his style, I love how hecan mix things around.
So I kind of don't really lookto the mobiles as much Not that
there's great mobiles out there,but the guys that are pushing
the envelope.
I'm starting to see theinfluence of that hitting into
the mobile world.
So those are the guys I kind oflook at and go man, I can
(08:14):
identify with those kind ofthings and see what I can do to
bring in their styles to what Ido.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The original open format guy to me will always be
AM Right.
That was the first time I sawAM play at Hard Rock Body
English was some stupid shit.
I was there Didn't really atthe time.
Am wasn't really AM, but he waskind of AM.
I just remember seeing Seratofor the first time in Vegas.
That kind of just changed mywhole world.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I was like dude there's no way there's to just
drop sweet home alabama and in avegas club or whatever right.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And then nelly or whatever that was the next I was
very, you know came up in this,this world of like pockets,
like I'm gonna start this setand I'm gonna play oh what a
night.
And brick house and play thatfunky music, and we are family,
and then I'm gonna play, I willsurvive yeah and then then I
might go to Billie Jean, then Imight go to so I'm going from
the 70s to the 80s and then bythe time the party was really
(09:07):
going, I would be in thegeneration that we were living
in currently.
That's how I would play it, andI just thought that was the way
to do it.
Back then, you know, everybodywas a different age yeah, yeah,
I feel like it depends.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, who's on the crowd?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
it could worked.
But when I saw him I'm like yoman, this dude is literally just
jumping decades of time,flawlessly.
I was just mind blown.
I mean current people that areoperating the private events
slash club space Fuse is crazy.
Drew Pierce crazy, Duder, crazythose guys to me are just
iconic, and especially Drew.
(09:38):
He's like I mean, the word isbrave, you know what I mean like
to to have the ability and theballs to drop whatever mgmt yeah
, you know or the 1975, or justlike, even like a random tribe
call quest song that wasn'treally big.
And then that to know, you knowthree songs ahead that I can
(10:02):
get out of this or that if thistanks, I'm already prepared, I
can get out of this quickly,flawlessly.
Those are kind of the guys thatI come up to.
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Speaker 1 (10:45):
I got a gear corner, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do people like the gear corner?
Do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Matt Fly was like you got to keep doing this every
show.
The gear corner, yeah.
So I was like, all right, Iwill say this before we get into
the gear corner.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
If you are missing the link, do you update your
Amazon?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
page.
I do Because I'm not very goodat that.
Yeah, I am Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So the link is in the description of the YouTube
video.
That goes to Brian's and myAmazon page.
He's usually the gear master,so you'll probably want to click
on that to find the nextproduct, which is da, da, da da.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It's a case, but I want to talk about the product
first that you would put intothe case, because I feel like
that one's kind of universal atthis point.
You know, back in the day, dude, when you would have power
problems, it was like you got tohave a generator to make it
work.
Yeah, now these jackeries, doyou?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
use one, I have one, yes you do?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
what version?
Is it?
The 500, the thousand, I mean?
I think?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I have the 1000, so I have the five.
I rarely use it, to be fair,because I use the e-verse so
much and they are alreadybattery powered.
I think I bought it pre-batterypower speaker and I also still
have my Honda gas powered.
You do, wow, yeah, whisperQuiet.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Oh, whisper Quiet.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Okay, it's quiet, but you still need to run 100 feet
to put it up in the sand dunesor something.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Right, so I use these for events where a lot of the
rooms I'm playing they're oddshaped.
Yeah.
Events where, like the a lot ofthe rooms I'm playing they're
odd shaped, yeah, and the powerisn't always really close to
them.
Yeah, so I'll use these for,like, auxiliary speakers or what
I call phil speakers yeah, butthe jackery itself I mean a 500
will get you through an eventpretty easily.
That's the 500, yeah super light, okay, and the battery life is
(12:14):
insanity.
Like you can do a five, sixhour event and it might get down
to 50 at the most, wow, wow.
So this would power up a basicrig.
It would not work with the 90sprobably.
You need a bigger, higherwattage.
But here's my problem it comesin a box Like a cardboard box A
cardboard box.
So I put on I don't rememberwhat one of the DJ groups and I
go hey, anybody else have aJackery, they don't make a case
(12:36):
for it.
I Well, of course, garrity goes, I raw dog it.
I just bring it into the venue,just like with this.
A couple other people said thesame thing.
I'm like I can't go into a FourSeasons with an orange looking
freaking battery which is whatit looks like and take it in
there.
I need something else.
So somebody shared with me thisoff-market case that basically
it's padded.
(12:57):
Is that literally for this?
It fits this model perfectly init and it's orange and black,
and it's orange and black.
It has a pocket where you canput all of the accessories.
Yeah, and it also has ashoulder strap, which I don't
have.
Is that amazon?
This is on amazon.
The jackery itself, if you werelooking for that, I think it's
like 4.99.
I got it on sale.
It's always on sale, so likeright now you can pay.
Actually, you can pay 329 for a500 right now.
(13:19):
That's a great deal.
What do you think this is?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
for let's call.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The satchel.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Here, feel it, I mean it's heavy duty, yeah, it's
nice.
It's not cheap $29.95.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You're pretty close $32.
Okay, but I like it too,because I can actually keep this
in the bag.
Yeah, and just keep it next toa speaker.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh yeah, so it's not like out in the open, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's not obvious, it doesn't look, that's your bro 32
bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Nice one.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Get yourself one If you need it.
If you get the Jackery, Ihighly recommend it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Do they make bigger ones?
Did you get into that?
They do Down that rabbit hole.
Okay, they do.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And I don't have.
This is the only one.
I have the 500.
So, anyway, highly recommend it.
Make it look more professional,yeah, and I'm like that looks
tacky too.
So then I got this bag and I'mgolden.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So but it is not made by Jackery, it's not made by
Jackery.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, I don't know even who makes it, to be honest.
Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
Do you want to do a question?
Sure, let's do it, oh this is agood question.
Richie Stedman back.
Richie Stedman my boy Salt LakeCity.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Oh wait, what is it again?
The best DJ in Utah.
Best DJ in.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Utahcom.
Wow yeah, he's a good dude.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Do you get pictures?
Why or why not?
What do you do?
I would love to have it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I just never seem to get it.
Do you try?
No, and I should.
What about you?
I don't know.
I feel like it's kind ofself-serving.
That's probably my own hang upwith it like come here, let me
get a picture with you guys,just for posterity's sake, or
whatever the case may be.
Now, if a professionalphotographer offers I'll
definitely do it.
I put this thing away.
I just I don't know.
I never find the right time todo it either, Like honestly,
like I'm not doing it when we'retearing down.
I feel like that's just kind ofcheesy.
(15:35):
I don't really get pictureswith the couples, and it's not
because I don't want to.
I just I just don't know.
I feel like over the past sixmonths and going into the future
, 75 to 80% of our weddings aredoing a private last dance.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I feel like at the end of that private last dance
is a prime opportunity,especially if you have an
assistant Saquon's with me.
They finished that last dance,you know.
By then I've got the microphoneoff.
I just give them a clap.
I'm like thank you guys.
You know, thanks for having meyeah and they're getting ready
to go out and do their sparklerdeparture or whatever.
Could I get a picture withy'all.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That seems like the most.
That's the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yes, without it feeling forced, easy.
Or yeah, because literally theonly people left in there at
that point are me, saquon andthem.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But what if, like it was a rager shirts off.
You know hair's messed up.
What are you going to do?
Are you going to put that onyour Instagram?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
The bride had her shirt off.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
No, the groom's, you know her makeup's, just like
she's been dancing sweating isshe gonna want to take that
photo?
And secondly, do you want topost that on a platform that,
because you don't even post thatstuff on your I mean would you
post on your story?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
it was story.
Is story worthy?
For me it's not.
It's not post worthy.
I mean the way.
The reason I do like it isbecause like here's what, here's
what we did.
Like here's, you know, weripped it.
The guy's got his tie off, likeyou said.
She sweaty, like I just rippedthis place apart.
So there's that, that's thepositive of it.
Is she going to love thepicture?
Maybe not.
I get what you're saying, oreven him, I wouldn't care.
(17:16):
I would be like hell, yeah, man, let's get a pic.
You know what I mean If I'mgetting married and I'm you
think people do it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I mean, is there a marketing angle here?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, for sure.
If nothing else, it's good forsocial, it proves you're working
.
But I mean you can prove you'reworking by showing the dance
floor or your gear or whateverelse.
I don't know.
Man, I think the better pictureto me is always going to be
will the couple come back therebehind the decks and put on the
headphones, right, and you'reover there hyping them up?
Or me standing beside them witha cannon and she's firing it
(17:53):
off?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
yeah, like yeah, yeah , yeah you know, keep going like
.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That's a much better image than that just three nerds
standing there, going you knowI played your wedding like I
don't I don't know it's, it'snot ever going to be mandatory
for me, but but I think it is agood part of the story.
It's a good last story of thenight kind of thing.
I don't know, let's try it,Saquon.
We'll try it.
We'll be the guinea pig.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
All right, let me know how it goes.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Are you just side note?
Are you big on private lifestances right now?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm indifferent.
Obviously, I love it when it'slike I don't have to clear
everybody out and just end on ahigh note.
Yeah, I feel like it's a littlebit of a dip.
Yeah, would you say, you stillhave about 75% doing in grand
exits too.
Oh, easily, it does help mewith that, yeah, getting people
out of there.
Yeah, hey they're going to takepart in this private dance.
We need you to exit.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, get these pictures right.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yes, yeah, and and they're still big.
We get a ton of rent exits.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Oh yeah, we do too A lot, whether it's bubbles,
sparks, whatever, we get a tonof that.
To me, if you don't have somesort of exit, it is very odd to
just end a party.
They turn the lights up andeverybody's just kind of
standing there staring at eachother.
Yeah, to me it's odd.
You got to clear that room.
Whether you come back, comeback in and get your coats or
whatever, that's a differentstory.
But like if you just say thanks, everybody, have a great
(19:09):
weekend, good night, and thensomebody you know from the venue
staff cranks the lights up andthen, I mean I just put on
something like a random just VanMorrison song in the background
, so it's not so freakingawkward.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, I got a bunch of like instrumentals I played
Right.
The other thing is if remotelyknow then they might stay out
there and stay out there andstart dancing, and then I got
another problem, exactly.
So I kind of need, and then thevenue staff's cussing you out
because you're playing past time.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, anywho, I don't know thatwe we didn't really answer the
question.
I don't.
We're not doing it.
I guess neither of us are.
Why not?
I mean it.
It should be probably done,yeah I don't shame anybody for
doing it.
No, I mean either I'm not likesome people that's like their
personality.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Like it's like, like I think Rob Frey does it too.
He's a big like get a picturewith the couple.
It's just not my MO Right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I'd rather you know figure out another way to have
that memory I got.
I got the last, last statementon this B five-star review C
picture with a couple A.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's not a question, he said.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
A yeah, tip cash money, yeah, all day.
You got enough reviews.
I feel like, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean I don't even think that matters as much
anymore.
I mean, Really, At least whenyou get to a certain price point
, it's all about the plannerreferral.
The couple's not looking atthat.
At the price point that I'm atright now, everything is planner
referred in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes, or venue referred in.
I agree with you, there is alot of referral now but to be
fair in the price point we're at, let's call it three, four
$5,000.
I do believe that reviewsmatter, but it's like we have
thousands across the platform atthis point.
I still want them, I still loveto get them, I still love to
read them.
It still makes you feel good.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh, totally.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I guess, at the end of the day, though, what was my
point, that I was going withthis?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I was just saying the hierarchy.
Like for me it's not going tomove the needle much for me,
right?
I mean, if I had zero reviews,absolutely I need some's there.
I don't need this to have onemore feather in my cap.
I do think you need to becurrent on your reviews, though.
Sure you know, if you had, thelast review you got was two
years ago.
That's a problem.
(21:16):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I agree.
Yeah, reviews definitely matter.
I guess my point was sorry.
I just remember my train ofthought here.
When you buy the Jackery bag orthe nail trimmer or whatever
we've talked about in these lastfour episodes we batch recorded
today, are you going to thereviews and seeing if it's like
four plus stars and what peopleare saying?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And don't you think people that are booking a DJ for
their wedding on the mostimportant and beautiful day of
their life are?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
doing the same.
Yeah, but if I had a Brian Bwho already knew what to get, I
would trust their judgment.
Got you Okay, and I wouldn'tneed to read those reviews,
brian B.
Yeah, that's what the planneris for this couple.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Right, they're the purveyor of the vendors, the
middleman, right the middleman.
So they're doing that.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
This guy's the shit.
You need to get Brian B episodedude.
Let's do it, let's put a bow onthis and thank our sponsors, dj,
event Planner, for sure,s-start, make sure to check them
out.
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(22:21):
Definitely some stuff you couldprobably use to upsell and add
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Check them out at S-Startcom.
Again, we love reviews.
Please leave them and also tunein every single Wednesday
morning.
These drop super early on theEast Coast, so even earlier on
the West Coast.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And if there's something you want us to cover
or a question, put it in thecomments.
Let us know, because we love towe always love your questions.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Put it on YouTube or just message us directly.
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And that's a wrap.
Thank y'all.
See ya, see ya.
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