April 23, 2025 • 29 mins
Brian B takes us back to his origin story as a teenage karaoke host with frosted tips in late-90s California, revealing how this unlikely start built the foundation for his DJ empire. With disarming honesty, he explains the perfect karaoke host paradox: "You can't suck, but you can't be so good that people are intimidated." This delicate balance created the stage presence and crowd reading skills that would later positively impact his career.
The conversation shifts to practical business strategies as Brian and Joe break down the economics of weeknight entertainment. They calculate how a DJ willing to hustle can build a six-figure income by combining weeknight trivia or karaoke gigs ($200 for 3 hours) with weekend weddings. It's a masterclass in entrepreneurship disguised as casual conversation, offering real pathways to financial stability in the entertainment industry.
When a listener asks about tackling marathon four-hour dance sets, Brian B reveals his secret weapon: carefully crafted "mini-sets" or "routines" that can be mixed and matched throughout the night. This approach prevents the common DJ mistake of frontloading all the best material and ensures consistent energy from start to finish. The hosts then share their holy grail of timeless ballads that work across all generations, from Righteous Brothers classics to slowed-down EDM tracks that create unexpected perfect moments.
Gear Corner brings practical solutions to common DJ problems, with a reviews of a pair of Bose noise-canceling earbuds and an unexpected find: a portable electric nail trimmer perfect for DJs concerned about hand photos. It's these blend of big picture career advice and practical everyday solutions that makes Beyond the DJ Booth essential listening for any entertainment professional looking to elevate their game.
Want their curated playlist of perfect multi-generational ballads? Comment "timeless" on Joe's Instagram reel and discover the songs that connect 20-somethings and 80-year-olds on the same dance floor.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.
I'm one of the co-hosts, BrianB, and this is Joseph Bunn Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Formal name again Formal name.
I'll take it Joseph Bunn's here.
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm good man, Feeling good since the last episode 30
seconds ago 30 seconds ago thatwe just wrapped.
I don't know why it's a go-tofor me.
I just always like to ask howyou're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I feel for me.
I just always like to ask howyou're doing.
I feel pretty good.
I started watching the showlast night, uh adolescence.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Have you seen this on netflix?
I've heard about it, everyone'stelling me it's super
disturbing.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I only got through the first one but like, oh, how
many episodes is it?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I don't know, uh, I thought it was just like one
documentary.
No, it's like a series.
Yeah, it's a show, it's not ait's not true?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't think, oh Like how it's just disturbing
man.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's about a 13-year-old that's suspected of
murder.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That's as far as I've gotten oh my God, Not sure.
See how many episodes there arein Saquon.
You like Beavis and Buttheadwhat you like.
Beavis and Butthead yeah, Ilove Beavis and Butthead.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Mike Judge effects is it a comedy?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
yeah, comedy cartoon, but like adult cartoon okay
it's about this mushroom.
It's pretty cool all right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Do you have to be high to like it, or okay, it's?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
about, like, the pharmaceutical industry.
Okay, it's really good becauseI'm watching white lotus now.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm caught up on that yeah, I don't know how you have
time I finished severance, Istarted this other one called
paradise.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But I don't really like to watch shows at the same
time because the storylines getconfusing to me Anyway, but I
noticed I had to turn thesubtitles on, which is very rare
for me, but they had heavyBritish accents or either
Scottish maybe, and it was likeeverything when you were saying
how you doing it's like you'reall right, You're all right,
that's like.
They must say that 50 timesLike any that all right, you're
(02:06):
all right, that's like.
They must say that 50 timeslike any, that's like a hello,
like it's.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's the most common greeting.
It sounds yeah, you're allright love.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You're all right anyway.
Just made me think of that.
Um, so I learned somethinginteresting about you last week.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You did yeah I told you yeah oh, we're playing
trivia.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, and we, we are at this um pizza place, slash bar,
right by my house.
Brian picked me up and we'rethere, and I don't know how this
topic comes up, but I find outyou used to host karaoke.
Yeah, talk to us about that.
I mean how old are you at thispoint and what city are you
living in?
18, 19 years old.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You're Cali, california.
Yeah, this was Frosted Tips,frosted Tips.
Old near cali california.
Yeah, uh, this was frosted tips.
The frosted tips frosted tips,so it's the same bar that I used
to dj at.
Okay, and actually they neverstarted.
They started with karaoke first.
It was a karaoke bar thateventually turned into dancing
okay, and so the marketingmanager at pioneer at the time
we were friends and so he saidhey, you want to come out and
(03:03):
shadow me and do some karaokestuff?
And I'm like I was in a band,so I kind of already sang a
little bit.
I mean, I wasn't a lead singerby any stretch, but I could
carry a tune.
And so I go to this thing and,man, that is a whole nother
world so these were like the offnights.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
This would have been like friday, saturday this would
have been like tuesday no, no,this was a friday to start.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Then when I came in to start djing there, they had
me on saturdays.
It was doing so well that theymoved the karaoke to thursday.
Okay, so I was doing djingfriday, saturday at this bar.
Yeah.
Then they moved karaoke towednesday and I was doing
thursday friday saturday dancing, so I was there four nights a
week okay.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So this was my favorite part, like what and,
and I didn't really know, youcould sing.
Tell us your go-tos, what wereyour, because this is gonna
shock people.
I've never done karaoke, never,nah, wow, I don't want to you
kind of okay.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So the key to being a good karaoke host like drunk,
yes well well the thing is to begood, a good karaoke host has
to be able to carry a tune.
You can't suck, but you can'tbe so good that people are like,
oh, I'm not doing that oh, yougotta be kind of so I'm like the
perfect kind of host yeah,because I'm not great.
Yeah, I'm not terrible, right.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So people feel like they got a little bit of
confidence, sure you know kindof come in there, sure um, it
was 90s alternative, oh yeah soslide goo goo dolls was like a
go-to.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Why don't you slide that vertical Vertical Horizons?
Oh God, I love that song.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Everything, she.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, everything she wants, yeah, and then you Only
Get what you Give oh NewRadicals.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, I mean, I was pretty much.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That was the era of all of that, you know.
So it was like Wow, oh, andthen the one that I would shine.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I can't even do it now, because I don't remember,
no, oh, one week bare nakedladies when we do the rap yeah,
chickity, chinese, the chinesechicken that's pretty much all I
remember now at this point, butI used to have it down but the
thing is, you space it out whatdo you mean?
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
like you don't sing all these songs in a row, sure,
when you see a dip or you'relike, if you see like the same
person if people just write onpaper, paper, paper, paper they
turned it in back, then yeah,you have the professional
karaoke singers or who theythink they are Sure, so they'll
give you like 10 slips at onetime.
I'm like, I'm like I call you upfor 10 songs in a row, Right?
So that's when I have to kindof interject myself into the
order and sing so it doesn'tsound like it's this person's
(05:18):
you know concert.
But I will say it was a greatforay into learning what songs
work for DJing on mobiles,because they're all sing-along
songs.
Yeah, right, right and those arethe ones that did the best.
Yeah, so you kind of learnedreal quickly what songs could
work at a wedding or whatnot.
Number one and number two it'sa great place to get gratuity,
because people always want tomove up in the order.
(05:39):
Oh, so I would prime that tipjar with, like you know, 20s and
50s in there.
I'm like, well, hey, the lastperson put in a, it was me but
you know you don't know that offthe get it's so loose there.
So you can really test likejokes material if you want to
throw that in there.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So that was like a good foray into, like getting me
into MC.
I feel like it's a, you know,if there's any things, one I I
would think it would be a greatway to polish your mc chops
thousand percent, because thereare lulls, there are, you know,
breaks.
You do want to be on the micbut don't want to be, you know,
too awkward.
You want to keep it moving,right, right.
And then I also and I've toldmy guys, you know there's
(06:19):
several guys that work hereeverybody that works at bun dj
company has another job, justperiod, and you know, people
often express hey, man, you know, I just I hate my job and I
wish I could do this full timeand I'm like you could, but
you're gonna have to go outthere and hustle up these
weekday shows, yeah, and it'sgoing to be karaoke or what we
were at the other night, trivia.
(06:40):
Yeah, that guy could have beena dj.
He was doing that.
Uh, you know what where did uhbowling, you know, become
invented or whatever you know hewas doing that kind of voice
like this?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
but you had a good point.
You said that that night thatlike he was on from 7 to 9 30 at
the latest, it stopped at like9 9, 30 yep probably made Easily
, I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I would guess the same.
I think the gear probablystayed there.
Yeah, I think he walked in withthe questions they had.
This particular version was onour phones to answer.
He tallied it.
Read the thing he made $200.
Well, let's just say if he didthat four nights a week, that's
$800.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
For three hours, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's including driving there.
Yeah, 800 times four, 3,200.
I mean 3,200 times 12, I meanmade $40,000.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right, Plus, I had a wedding on a Saturday or
whatever.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean you could be making six figures.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But you're going to have to get out there and either
do trivia or karaoke.
You're going to have tobasically go door to door say,
hey, do you have a slow night?
I'd love to try this triviathing.
I'd love to try this game show.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I'd love to try this karaoke thing and you're going
to have to build it and the coolthing about that is if it's
consistent, you get this likewith karaoke.
I can tell you for sure you getthe regulars man.
They get to know you, you knowtheir songs you know.
So you can kind of get it inthere and the bar thinks you're
a hero, right?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Because nobody was there Right.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And karaoke and trivia are great because you're
sitting drinking right Eatingfood.
You're not like at a club whereyou're dancing.
You know what I mean.
Right, you're making them moneythe longer they're there.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Dude, this is I mean.
When I left Wilmington in 99and moved here to Raleigh, those
club gigs and again this wasDJing, not karaoke or trivia
were exactly what I justexplained to you.
I would go in a bar onHillsborough Street, so here in
Raleigh, you know which is thecollege the main drag for
college and I would go in thisplace the Big Bad Wolf Tuesday
(08:40):
night.
I mean there were three peoplein there and I'd be like, hey,
man, I feel like we could do aDJ night in here and this was
like really the starting pointof a DJ even being a thing, and
like they had a booth and they,you know, they probably did okay
on the weekends and I'm gonnago around and I literally would
go to those wooden things aroundcampus and put flyers up and
(09:00):
there was no social media, therewas no text blast, email blast,
Like we had nothing.
But first week there'd be 20 ofmy friends there and then 20
became 40.
40 became 80.
80 became you know, 300 lyingdown the block.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, and I got.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Brian, my friend, sitting there at the door taking
$5 cover from everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And that was my money .
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I kept you know, so I'd go home with $1,500 minimum.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I would do that two or three nights a week.
You know, as what was I backthen?
20, 27, something like that, 26, 27, just crushing it, just
cash money, you know, and theywould keep the bar, yeah, like,
and it was a huge win for them,yeah, and a huge win for me.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Get my name out there and make a bunch of cash money
which was cash money still king?
Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 1 (10:16):
I got another gear corner for you.
Sure, all right.
So I lost my AirPods recently.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm concerned that you've gone to another brand,
but let's hear it, let's hear itand let me tell you.
I'm very particular about theold school style of AirPods
because they fit my ears, notthe long ones, not the long ones
I hate because they not thelong ones, not the long ones.
I hate the long ones, theshorties with the with the
rubber tip.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No, I'm sorry, I guess they are the longer ones.
Then yes, the old school onesbecause they stay in my ear
better, but they don'tinteresting whenever I listen to
music.
They never sound great, but youlook poor though when you're
wearing the.
I know, but they stay in there,they don't pop out.
They don't pop out, okay.
So I I lost them, and this islike my eighth pair I've lost
over a course of years, becauseit says airpods number eight on
my oh no, it does yeah sobecause in case I ever find them
(10:58):
, you know, I'm like ah, maybeI'll have them in there, but
then I started deleting them alljust the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I'm like get rid of all these.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm never gonna get them again so I started putting
on the social media.
I was like, hey, who has?
Good airpods, yeah, or orearbuds I guess it would be
shout out casey rush where's heout michigan, I don't know
that's my boy, though, good dudebows now.
These are not cheap I will tellyou 500 ish.
Okay, but they had a deal atthe airport at that little.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's called emotion I think whatever, yeah 250, so it
was half price.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So I was like I really can't pass this up, to at
least try it.
Sure sucks, great, okay, butthese are premium.
Do they have a name?
They uh, I can give you theactual.
They'll all have the link upthere.
But the the the basics.
They're noise canceling numberone which is really great, but
you can also turn them on toatmosphere so you can hear
what's happening.
Sure, the bass in them aregreat, the battery life is great
(11:48):
.
I now use them everywhere andyou can get those on amazon as
well.
Any idea what the?
I think I just kind ofmentioned it but it's yeah, you
did.
So it's actually $5.98 onAmazon, Wow you got them for
$2.50?
$2.50,.
They had a deal.
That's the only reason I got it, because I was like I wouldn't
spend 500 bucks on it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
There's no way I would lose it anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know myself with them, so highly recommend it.
They're definitely nice.
The case is a little bit bigger.
Yeah, the the bud itself isabout the same right, I don't
want to put it in, but the aircance, the noise cancellation.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I didn't realize how crucial that was I didn't have
that on the old.
I know airpods right so I couldalways hear.
But to listen to music travelon a plane, yeah, it's crazy how
it can block out so much itdoes do great crying babies and
stuff.
That's number one okay, I'mgoing to two for today, okay,
two for this is kind of bougie,oh, bougie, but not bougie.
Okay, what's the one area thatyou think you get photographed
(12:40):
the most at a dj gig?
What part of your body do youget?
Oh, either my hands around yourhands right yeah, so I was
always getting frustratedbecause you know I'm, I know
that, so I'm like I got to makesure my nails are in on point.
Oh, wow, right, okay, but whenI would bring that little
clipper with me, I'm like I'malways snagging it on stuff.
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Electric nail trimmer , Stop it bro.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So this is the little holder that holds all the nail
stuff that you drop off.
It's empty, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, I'm going to in there.
No way.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I wish mine were longer try it you can try it,
just put it on the top part andthen basically, this holds.
It holds it down for the um,for the speed I feel like I have
to use this.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You got to.
Oh wait.
Well, and also, man like bro,have you ever been somewhere
like in public and seen peoplecutting their nails?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
oh yeah, that's gross , that's disgusting.
Dog, public is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Right, it's got two speeds, okay if you hit it again
to go faster so if I just putmy nail in here, oh it's, it's a
buzzer, yes, it's not a clipper.
It's not a clipper like asander, like a sander kind of.
Yeah, I kind of like this.
I told you I didn't know if I'dlike it or not.
Oh, I see exactly what you'resaying, dog.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is nice now hit the double speed.
Now we're going to hear thehigh speed.
This thing is going nuts nowbut let me get my save yourself
some money on a manicure.
You don't got to do it at alldamn bro then you just hold down
that side button to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I feel like you found a gym, the thing is going off,
and then you just dump it.
Yeah, you're done.
Um, you want my price?
Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I'm 1999, 1999 I can't remember, so I gotta, I
gotta, look it up okay, I feellike I'm close on this one 1999.
Let's see what we got here.
We have 28.99.
Okay, so I keep it in my snackbag.
I thought you mean it was gonna.
No, that's the thing, because Ialways sometimes get it like uh
, cut and, like you know, hungon something yeah, yeah this
doesn't.
This is like a full-on sanderdamn, he said a sander bro.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This is nice.
This is so small, and the onlything I think about with you and
all the gadgets is when youpull them out, are they actually
charged up?
Because I feel like everythingyou have is it's wireless.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It is I mean, if you're, I'm using them so
minimally, right, right, like soI I I mean, I've had this thing
for a couple months now.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I feel the same.
I'm just like an overcharger,quite frankly, like with my
lights and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, that, yeah, you got to, which is not good.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I just feel like I'm always constantly charging
myself and then I try and pullit off the charger because I
know you're not supposed toleave them on there forever and
blah blah blah, but I think thatwould be the only thing that
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would give me like low keyanxiety is just to have all the
nails.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Are that long?
No, I mean, I'm just saying ingeneral with you and all your
gadgets, I gotta be charged.
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right.
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Caroline is actually a banger.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Let's go to the question.
Jesse Palencia shout out JessePalencia out of Chicago,
Illinois.
How do you tackle a weddingthat requires four plus hours of
straight dancing?
I'm gonna let you go first,because I feel like you have
these I do, uh, lately.
I mean I feel like all weddingsare kind of moving this
direction like less formalities,not here, really okay I mean
(16:45):
less formalities, yes, but stilltwo and a half would be
probably the most, the new formfor us this wedding this weekend
and, uh, the one I just did wascrazy long they they did have
food, but it was state, it waslike roving stations, it was a
moving technically that sayinggeek wasn't a wedding right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Correct okay, but but I've had to do four plus hours
before.
So I would say the the magic ispacing.
You don't want to go out of thegate, two guns blazing, but you
can't also do a slow, slow rampup, because then it takes too
long to kind of get.
So it's really gotta be likepeaks and valleys, like every 30
minutes, with the energy youknow and and flipping it enough.
(17:23):
You know, one of the thingsthat I've I've got better at
doing, uh, and this is really aCOVID thing, honestly I started
putting together like these minisets, like if I could play a
full hour where it was like whatused to be two or three songs
that were really hype, butcutting these songs so short and
doing it in a full set.
Now you might think, well, is hegoing to play the same set
every wedding?
No, I take pieces from thoseroutines.
(17:45):
I call them routines.
Now I've built up about 15 ofthem and, yes, there's three or
four that go in a row together,but I can go out of one into
another.
Could I play the whole thingtogether?
I could, but now I'm moving inand out of stuff and I'm finding
things that are like evergreen,that aren't going to go out
like tomorrow.
Some stuff are new.
But like that I can kind of mixand match so you might hear me
play those same songs, but notthe same way twice but you're
(18:06):
also saying, though, that theyare not pre-recorded.
You just have them in littlepockets, little pockets, and
that helps me get through thesefour hours where it doesn't feel
like, hey, the first hour wasamazing because this guy was
hitting all of his bangers andthen last three hours was just a
suck fest because it wasn'tlike programmed as well as it
was in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So those little pockets really do help if I was
going to answer the questionwhich, again, I haven't had one
of these in a long, long timeI'd say the same thing you, you
gotta just peaks and valleys itwhich parlays me into, parlays
us into the music topic of today.
All right, you want to do it?
I think so because I think thatin a four-hour dance set, I
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believe and again I'm saying,use these sparingly.
And in a two and a half hourdance set, unless I'm told to do
so, I rarely, rarely use them,but they are da-da-da-da ballads
.
I repeat ballads, slow jams, ifyou will.
Now here's the precursor, and Igave Brian this pre-show so he
had some time to think about it.
(19:06):
I'm not just springing this onhim.
The precursor is it transcendsall generations.
In other words, if you dropthis ballad to kind of reset the
dance floor, as you call it,this is going to work from age
20 to age 75, 80.
You want to talk about some ofthese.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
This came about because you had a groom.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I did Last weekend.
The couple in the what I wouldcall the final planning or the
advance call, said hey, just onething, there are going to be a
lot of older guests there.
We went to a wedding recentlyand the dj just completely
alienated these people, went outof the gate too hard, too fast,
never, never, rolled it back inlike he just just hammered them
(19:47):
and they didn't.
They just sat down and theycouldn't keep up.
Right, can you interject acouple and a couple?
I've?
I took that, I mean two or threein that first hour ish.
I think we played two and ithelped when we were having that,
that power issue that I talkedabout on the last episode, where
I kind of had to, you know, runsome extra cables and I played
a ballad and played the fullthing.
(20:07):
So that's how this kind of cameup and you and I were talking
about, you know, the musicepisodes do really well and we,
you know, put together togetherthe Spotify playlist and then we
say a word and basically peoplecan get the link to our Spotify
playlist.
So this episode we will say ourballad list, our let's call it
Timeless Ballads by Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Bunn and Brian D.
So should we call the wordtimeless?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I like it.
Okay, the keyword's going to betimeless T-I-M-E, l-e-s-s.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Ooh, wow, do that together.
Yeah, I put it together.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I feel like we're going to have some similarities.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I just know your style.
You're going to be like oldsoul.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So I kind of steer clear of that Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So you want to go with your first one, and I can
pull mine up.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
As much as I hate to say this, because I feel like
I've literally been playing itsince the day that I was born,
Unchained Melody, RighteousBrothers.
Wow, and it still freakingworks and I guess you know it
was in Ghost or whatever it wasin.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, it was Top Gun too, right?
Maybe it was in Taco.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, that was.
You've lost that level.
Oh yeah, right, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Even for young people , and I and I don't, I don't
really like, I don't want to sayI like these songs, but I'm
just telling you it's neverfailed me Go ahead with yours.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So I went current Okay, cause I figured that's
going to be a Like to your point.
They are timeless yeah, they'renot.
So I was trying to findsomething current that would not
alienate the older folks, okay.
So this is a shout out to BobHickman, who hooked me up with
this.
I have a coaching group Anotherplug If you want to be a part
of that, we once a month go overmusic finds Okay, and he shared
(21:44):
this with me.
This is Teddy Swims Okay, thisis his cover of Let Me Love you
by Mario.
You can get this on Spotify.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I made a little edit.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
His voice is just, but I like it because it's got a
beat and if they're not, youknow they may not know the song,
but it's enough of it's notover aggressive where you're
going to be like what is this?
Yeah, it's just kind of smooth,yeah, and I feel like, in a
Southern context especially,people would get out there
because his voice kind of evenan older couple.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Okay, remember that came out when we were like in
our heyday.
Right, so, like a lot of the,40, 50-year-olds are going to be
in that kind of feel, and thatgot redone by somebody else
recently, so I think the youngerfolks would know it as well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Dude Brad stood up last week to dance with her dad
and I looked at Saquon.
I'm like holy shit, I thinkthis dude's younger than I am.
I fell out.
Yes, it was nuts.
If he wasn't younger, he wasclose like same age.
Okay.
Anyway, I've been in the game along time.
What's your second?
Randy is telling me he'sgetting this on the band list,
thinking out loud, cheering.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Okay, I would have gone.
Perfect.
And the reason for it Perfectwith Beyonce.
Yeah, wow, there's one with thedude from the Italian opera
singer, oh Bocelli, bocelli.
Yeah, just because it's alittle bit more romantic, okay,
than the the typical standard.
I'm not a big beyonce fan meneither, but I would do that one
if I was looking for a balladover the original but I like
(23:36):
that one that's, uh, the onethat you just mentioned thinking
out loud.
But isn't that the one that says, like, if I don't have legs or
whatever, like that whole thing,like I can't?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
play that video, that video that went viral yeah,
that's the reason I can't playit.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Unless the couple wants it, I'm not touching it.
I mean can you just make anedit as long as there's no like
handicapped people yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wheelchair people, right yeah I don't know, can you
just make an edit?
I think about everything.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'll be laughing as I see it, because I feel like god
, that was a rough one to watch.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Um, I still pull that .
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Okay, it works so this is a new one that you
probably don't know of thisartist.
Tara didn't know it and I waslike how do you not know this
artist?
His name is lucas graham.
I know this guy, yeah.
So the song is called lovesomeone and it's it's.
I mean it was a hit.
I like it because I think,again it's, it's a song that's
not overly aggressive.
If you're older, I think youcan still dance to it, okay
because when you love someone.
Oh, I know, this one are youplaying it.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's a good dinner song.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It's catchy.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That's the other reason why I like it.
It's got to be English.
It's written.
Great song I love that song.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You're right, it's a great be English Great song.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I love that song.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You're right, it's a great dinner song too.
We should add that to thedinner list and our ballads list
.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I think this ballad list is going to be.
I put some time into it.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I got some other ones .
Can I give you two country?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
give me two.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And I actually love these songs.
And you know I'm not a hugecountry fan, I have a very
select few artists I like.
I actually love both of thesesongs.
First one is Die a Happy man.
I knew you were going to saythat.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Thomas.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Rhett, thomas Rhett.
I love this song, man.
It never gets old to me, italways works.
Yeah, the lyrics are so good.
I don't know, country artistsusually don't write their own
songs, but whoever wrote thatsong is a genius.
It's just such a great song.
And then the other one, but itjust absolutely fucking ruins me
, because my sister and my dadlove this song uh, joy of my
(25:39):
life, chris stapleton, and shepicked it last week and I swear
to god it was all I could do notto think to dance with her dad,
I was like oh my god, pleasethe bride picked it up.
Yes, the bride picked it andshe's out there dancing with her
dad.
And I'm like, bro, just pleaseget to the end of it and luckily
she only wanted 90 secondsbecause.
I would have been a mess if wehad rolled three minutes of this
(25:59):
song.
Both of those, to me, are likeactual masterpieces.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Masterpieces.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So one I don't have a sample of of, but since you
gave two, I'm gonna get two, soone of them.
I think this one's anothermasterpiece, uh, it's van
morrison's into the mystic.
It's masterpiece.
That song will never get old tome it can't get old, because
it's just it's a masterpiece.
It's so incredible and I try toplay at every wedding if I can
fit it in, wow like not duringthe ballad, no, no, no, just
play it during dinner.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Me too, I just love the song, but I think it could
work as a ballad.
For sure it could.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It could, just in the south yep, and this last one
I'll play for you is my boy,benny blanco.
You've been following that.
I sent you that instagram I'vebeen on it coming up on your
feed.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It is now dude, I had no idea.
Wall or something.
Yeah, there is nobody operatingin the current pop market that
has produced or written more hitsongs than benny blanco I had
no idea, did some but like whenit really goes into the like
when he starts listening offMaroon 5, katy Perry, like
anybody, that's pop royalty.
(26:59):
He wrote their biggest songs,yeah, or produced it or both,
and that's unbelievable talent,bieber, bieber.
Yeah, Bieber, I mean dude justanybody yeah, he's Bieber.
I mean dude, just anybody.
Those Maroon 5 songs they'vewritten no anything that was a
hit that.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Maroon 5 had on the radio.
Yeah, he did that.
Yeah, oh no, totally yeah, he'scrazy incredible, so he did a
song with um Calvin Harris.
It's an EDM song called I Foundyou okay and a groom found this
okay so.
I can't take credit for it.
This is him bringing this to myattention this is the.
I believe it's called the Nilda.
I think it's like a romanticversion of it.
It's a slowed down version of Ifound you.
You will play this as a ballada lot, so here it is.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Hopefully I get to the chorus, I finally believe in
you.
I've traveled many roads.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hopefully I get to the chorus.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Don't know what to do , and my world is never changing
.
If there's anything, I can do.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I hear it is Cause I found you.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh, I know this song.
Yeah, it's usually way faster.
Yeah, like 128.
Yeah, it's usually way fasterLike 128?
.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
One of his lower, lesser known songs, but for a
ballad, I think somebody, evenif you don't know it, you're
like hey, I got there and dancedto that.
I'm finding a lot of EDM songsthat are done acoustically do
really well for me.
I can see that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, especially for that generation.
It's familiarity.
It's the same reason thatvitamin string quartet is
popular for prelude music Likewould you rather sit there and
listen to Handel or Mozart whileguests are being seated, or a
string version of Coldplay?
Yeah, me, I like.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Coldplay yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Or Dave Matthews or Red Hot Chili Peppers as string
versions, yeah, and I find thatalmost all of my couples are
like, yeah, that's exactly whatwe'd rather be playing.
You know, from 4.30 to 5 whilepeople are sitting down.
Sure, good stuff, man, it'sblazed by.
So thanks everybody forwatching.
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Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.
I'm one of the co-hosts, BrianB, and this is Joseph Bunn Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Formal name again Formal name.
I'll take it Joseph Bunn's here.
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm good man, Feeling good since the last episode 30
seconds ago 30 seconds ago thatwe just wrapped.
I don't know why it's a go-tofor me.
I just always like to ask howyou're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I feel for me.
I just always like to ask howyou're doing.
I feel pretty good.
I started watching the showlast night, uh adolescence.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Have you seen this on netflix?
I've heard about it, everyone'stelling me it's super
disturbing.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I only got through the first one but like, oh, how
many episodes is it?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I don't know, uh, I thought it was just like one
documentary.
No, it's like a series.
Yeah, it's a show, it's not ait's not true?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't think, oh Like how it's just disturbing
man.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's about a 13-year-old that's suspected of
murder.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That's as far as I've gotten oh my God, Not sure.
See how many episodes there arein Saquon.
You like Beavis and Buttheadwhat you like.
Beavis and Butthead yeah, Ilove Beavis and Butthead.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Mike Judge effects is it a comedy?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
yeah, comedy cartoon, but like adult cartoon okay
it's about this mushroom.
It's pretty cool all right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Do you have to be high to like it, or okay, it's?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
about, like, the pharmaceutical industry.
Okay, it's really good becauseI'm watching white lotus now.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm caught up on that yeah, I don't know how you have
time I finished severance, Istarted this other one called
paradise.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But I don't really like to watch shows at the same
time because the storylines getconfusing to me Anyway, but I
noticed I had to turn thesubtitles on, which is very rare
for me, but they had heavyBritish accents or either
Scottish maybe, and it was likeeverything when you were saying
how you doing it's like you'reall right, You're all right,
that's like.
They must say that 50 timesLike any that all right, you're
(02:06):
all right, that's like.
They must say that 50 timeslike any, that's like a hello,
like it's.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's the most common greeting.
It sounds yeah, you're allright love.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You're all right anyway.
Just made me think of that.
Um, so I learned somethinginteresting about you last week.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You did yeah I told you yeah oh, we're playing
trivia.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, and we, we are at this um pizza place, slash bar,
right by my house.
Brian picked me up and we'rethere, and I don't know how this
topic comes up, but I find outyou used to host karaoke.
Yeah, talk to us about that.
I mean how old are you at thispoint and what city are you
living in?
18, 19 years old.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You're Cali, california.
Yeah, this was Frosted Tips,frosted Tips.
Old near cali california.
Yeah, uh, this was frosted tips.
The frosted tips frosted tips,so it's the same bar that I used
to dj at.
Okay, and actually they neverstarted.
They started with karaoke first.
It was a karaoke bar thateventually turned into dancing
okay, and so the marketingmanager at pioneer at the time
we were friends and so he saidhey, you want to come out and
(03:03):
shadow me and do some karaokestuff?
And I'm like I was in a band,so I kind of already sang a
little bit.
I mean, I wasn't a lead singerby any stretch, but I could
carry a tune.
And so I go to this thing and,man, that is a whole nother
world so these were like the offnights.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
This would have been like friday, saturday this would
have been like tuesday no, no,this was a friday to start.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Then when I came in to start djing there, they had
me on saturdays.
It was doing so well that theymoved the karaoke to thursday.
Okay, so I was doing djingfriday, saturday at this bar.
Yeah.
Then they moved karaoke towednesday and I was doing
thursday friday saturday dancing, so I was there four nights a
week okay.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So this was my favorite part, like what and,
and I didn't really know, youcould sing.
Tell us your go-tos, what wereyour, because this is gonna
shock people.
I've never done karaoke, never,nah, wow, I don't want to you
kind of okay.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So the key to being a good karaoke host like drunk,
yes well well the thing is to begood, a good karaoke host has
to be able to carry a tune.
You can't suck, but you can'tbe so good that people are like,
oh, I'm not doing that oh, yougotta be kind of so I'm like the
perfect kind of host yeah,because I'm not great.
Yeah, I'm not terrible, right.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So people feel like they got a little bit of
confidence, sure you know kindof come in there, sure um, it
was 90s alternative, oh yeah soslide goo goo dolls was like a
go-to.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Why don't you slide that vertical Vertical Horizons?
Oh God, I love that song.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Everything, she.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, everything she wants, yeah, and then you Only
Get what you Give oh NewRadicals.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, I mean, I was pretty much.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That was the era of all of that, you know.
So it was like Wow, oh, andthen the one that I would shine.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I can't even do it now, because I don't remember,
no, oh, one week bare nakedladies when we do the rap yeah,
chickity, chinese, the chinesechicken that's pretty much all I
remember now at this point, butI used to have it down but the
thing is, you space it out whatdo you mean?
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
like you don't sing all these songs in a row, sure,
when you see a dip or you'relike, if you see like the same
person if people just write onpaper, paper, paper, paper they
turned it in back, then yeah,you have the professional
karaoke singers or who theythink they are Sure, so they'll
give you like 10 slips at onetime.
I'm like, I'm like I call you upfor 10 songs in a row, Right?
So that's when I have to kindof interject myself into the
order and sing so it doesn'tsound like it's this person's
(05:18):
you know concert.
But I will say it was a greatforay into learning what songs
work for DJing on mobiles,because they're all sing-along
songs.
Yeah, right, right and those arethe ones that did the best.
Yeah, so you kind of learnedreal quickly what songs could
work at a wedding or whatnot.
Number one and number two it'sa great place to get gratuity,
because people always want tomove up in the order.
(05:39):
Oh, so I would prime that tipjar with, like you know, 20s and
50s in there.
I'm like, well, hey, the lastperson put in a, it was me but
you know you don't know that offthe get it's so loose there.
So you can really test likejokes material if you want to
throw that in there.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So that was like a good foray into, like getting me
into MC.
I feel like it's a, you know,if there's any things, one I I
would think it would be a greatway to polish your mc chops
thousand percent, because thereare lulls, there are, you know,
breaks.
You do want to be on the micbut don't want to be, you know,
too awkward.
You want to keep it moving,right, right.
And then I also and I've toldmy guys, you know there's
(06:19):
several guys that work hereeverybody that works at bun dj
company has another job, justperiod, and you know, people
often express hey, man, you know, I just I hate my job and I
wish I could do this full timeand I'm like you could, but
you're gonna have to go outthere and hustle up these
weekday shows, yeah, and it'sgoing to be karaoke or what we
were at the other night, trivia.
(06:40):
Yeah, that guy could have beena dj.
He was doing that.
Uh, you know what where did uhbowling, you know, become
invented or whatever you know hewas doing that kind of voice
like this?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
but you had a good point.
You said that that night thatlike he was on from 7 to 9 30 at
the latest, it stopped at like9 9, 30 yep probably made Easily
, I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I would guess the same.
I think the gear probablystayed there.
Yeah, I think he walked in withthe questions they had.
This particular version was onour phones to answer.
He tallied it.
Read the thing he made $200.
Well, let's just say if he didthat four nights a week, that's
$800.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
For three hours, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's including driving there.
Yeah, 800 times four, 3,200.
I mean 3,200 times 12, I meanmade $40,000.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right, Plus, I had a wedding on a Saturday or
whatever.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean you could be making six figures.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But you're going to have to get out there and either
do trivia or karaoke.
You're going to have tobasically go door to door say,
hey, do you have a slow night?
I'd love to try this triviathing.
I'd love to try this game show.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I'd love to try this karaoke thing and you're going
to have to build it and the coolthing about that is if it's
consistent, you get this likewith karaoke.
I can tell you for sure you getthe regulars man.
They get to know you, you knowtheir songs you know.
So you can kind of get it inthere and the bar thinks you're
a hero, right?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Because nobody was there Right.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And karaoke and trivia are great because you're
sitting drinking right Eatingfood.
You're not like at a club whereyou're dancing.
You know what I mean.
Right, you're making them moneythe longer they're there.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Dude, this is I mean.
When I left Wilmington in 99and moved here to Raleigh, those
club gigs and again this wasDJing, not karaoke or trivia
were exactly what I justexplained to you.
I would go in a bar onHillsborough Street, so here in
Raleigh, you know which is thecollege the main drag for
college and I would go in thisplace the Big Bad Wolf Tuesday
(08:40):
night.
I mean there were three peoplein there and I'd be like, hey,
man, I feel like we could do aDJ night in here and this was
like really the starting pointof a DJ even being a thing, and
like they had a booth and they,you know, they probably did okay
on the weekends and I'm gonnago around and I literally would
go to those wooden things aroundcampus and put flyers up and
(09:00):
there was no social media, therewas no text blast, email blast,
Like we had nothing.
But first week there'd be 20 ofmy friends there and then 20
became 40.
40 became 80.
80 became you know, 300 lyingdown the block.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, and I got.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Brian, my friend, sitting there at the door taking
$5 cover from everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And that was my money .
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I kept you know, so I'd go home with $1,500 minimum.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I would do that two or three nights a week.
You know, as what was I backthen?
20, 27, something like that, 26, 27, just crushing it, just
cash money, you know, and theywould keep the bar, yeah, like,
and it was a huge win for them,yeah, and a huge win for me.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Get my name out there and make a bunch of cash money
which was cash money still king?
Yeah, totally.
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I got another gear corner for you.
Sure, all right.
So I lost my AirPods recently.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm concerned that you've gone to another brand,
but let's hear it, let's hear itand let me tell you.
I'm very particular about theold school style of AirPods
because they fit my ears, notthe long ones, not the long ones
I hate because they not thelong ones, not the long ones.
I hate the long ones, theshorties with the with the
rubber tip.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No, I'm sorry, I guess they are the longer ones.
Then yes, the old school onesbecause they stay in my ear
better, but they don'tinteresting whenever I listen to
music.
They never sound great, but youlook poor though when you're
wearing the.
I know, but they stay in there,they don't pop out.
They don't pop out, okay.
So I I lost them, and this islike my eighth pair I've lost
over a course of years, becauseit says airpods number eight on
my oh no, it does yeah sobecause in case I ever find them
(10:58):
, you know, I'm like ah, maybeI'll have them in there, but
then I started deleting them alljust the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I'm like get rid of all these.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm never gonna get them again so I started putting
on the social media.
I was like, hey, who has?
Good airpods, yeah, or orearbuds I guess it would be
shout out casey rush where's heout michigan, I don't know
that's my boy, though, good dudebows now.
These are not cheap I will tellyou 500 ish.
Okay, but they had a deal atthe airport at that little.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's called emotion I think whatever, yeah 250, so it
was half price.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So I was like I really can't pass this up, to at
least try it.
Sure sucks, great, okay, butthese are premium.
Do they have a name?
They uh, I can give you theactual.
They'll all have the link upthere.
But the the the basics.
They're noise canceling numberone which is really great, but
you can also turn them on toatmosphere so you can hear
what's happening.
Sure, the bass in them aregreat, the battery life is great
(11:48):
.
I now use them everywhere andyou can get those on amazon as
well.
Any idea what the?
I think I just kind ofmentioned it but it's yeah, you
did.
So it's actually $5.98 onAmazon, Wow you got them for
$2.50?
$2.50,.
They had a deal.
That's the only reason I got it, because I was like I wouldn't
spend 500 bucks on it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
There's no way I would lose it anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know myself with them, so highly recommend it.
They're definitely nice.
The case is a little bit bigger.
Yeah, the the bud itself isabout the same right, I don't
want to put it in, but the aircance, the noise cancellation.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I didn't realize how crucial that was I didn't have
that on the old.
I know airpods right so I couldalways hear.
But to listen to music travelon a plane, yeah, it's crazy how
it can block out so much itdoes do great crying babies and
stuff.
That's number one okay, I'mgoing to two for today, okay,
two for this is kind of bougie,oh, bougie, but not bougie.
Okay, what's the one area thatyou think you get photographed
(12:40):
the most at a dj gig?
What part of your body do youget?
Oh, either my hands around yourhands right yeah, so I was
always getting frustratedbecause you know I'm, I know
that, so I'm like I got to makesure my nails are in on point.
Oh, wow, right, okay, but whenI would bring that little
clipper with me, I'm like I'malways snagging it on stuff.
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Electric nail trimmer , Stop it bro.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So this is the little holder that holds all the nail
stuff that you drop off.
It's empty, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, I'm going to in there.
No way.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I wish mine were longer try it you can try it,
just put it on the top part andthen basically, this holds.
It holds it down for the um,for the speed I feel like I have
to use this.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You got to.
Oh wait.
Well, and also, man like bro,have you ever been somewhere
like in public and seen peoplecutting their nails?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
oh yeah, that's gross , that's disgusting.
Dog, public is crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Right, it's got two speeds, okay if you hit it again
to go faster so if I just putmy nail in here, oh it's, it's a
buzzer, yes, it's not a clipper.
It's not a clipper like asander, like a sander kind of.
Yeah, I kind of like this.
I told you I didn't know if I'dlike it or not.
Oh, I see exactly what you'resaying, dog.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is nice now hit the double speed.
Now we're going to hear thehigh speed.
This thing is going nuts nowbut let me get my save yourself
some money on a manicure.
You don't got to do it at alldamn bro then you just hold down
that side button to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I feel like you found a gym, the thing is going off,
and then you just dump it.
Yeah, you're done.
Um, you want my price?
Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I'm 1999, 1999 I can't remember, so I gotta, I
gotta, look it up okay, I feellike I'm close on this one 1999.
Let's see what we got here.
We have 28.99.
Okay, so I keep it in my snackbag.
I thought you mean it was gonna.
No, that's the thing, because Ialways sometimes get it like uh
, cut and, like you know, hungon something yeah, yeah this
doesn't.
This is like a full-on sanderdamn, he said a sander bro.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This is nice.
This is so small, and the onlything I think about with you and
all the gadgets is when youpull them out, are they actually
charged up?
Because I feel like everythingyou have is it's wireless.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It is I mean, if you're, I'm using them so
minimally, right, right, like soI I I mean, I've had this thing
for a couple months now.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I feel the same.
I'm just like an overcharger,quite frankly, like with my
lights and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, that, yeah, you got to, which is not good.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I just feel like I'm always constantly charging
myself and then I try and pullit off the charger because I
know you're not supposed toleave them on there forever and
blah blah blah, but I think thatwould be the only thing that
(15:21):
would give me like low keyanxiety is just to have all the
nails.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Are that long?
No, I mean, I'm just saying ingeneral with you and all your
gadgets, I gotta be charged.
Or you enjoyed the music findsI share on here.
You know the ones that Joepretends he discovered first.
Well, if you didn't know, I'vegot a Patreon where you can grab
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(16:10):
and planners will start nudgingtheir couples your way.
And if that's not a hard enoughsell, I don't know what is All
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Back to the episode before Joetries to convince us that Sweet
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Speaker 2 (16:22):
Let's go to the question.
Jesse Palencia shout out JessePalencia out of Chicago,
Illinois.
How do you tackle a weddingthat requires four plus hours of
straight dancing?
I'm gonna let you go first,because I feel like you have
these I do, uh, lately.
I mean I feel like all weddingsare kind of moving this
direction like less formalities,not here, really okay I mean
(16:45):
less formalities, yes, but stilltwo and a half would be
probably the most, the new formfor us this wedding this weekend
and, uh, the one I just did wascrazy long they they did have
food, but it was state, it waslike roving stations, it was a
moving technically that sayinggeek wasn't a wedding right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Correct okay, but but I've had to do four plus hours
before.
So I would say the the magic ispacing.
You don't want to go out of thegate, two guns blazing, but you
can't also do a slow, slow rampup, because then it takes too
long to kind of get.
So it's really gotta be likepeaks and valleys, like every 30
minutes, with the energy youknow and and flipping it enough.
(17:23):
You know, one of the thingsthat I've I've got better at
doing, uh, and this is really aCOVID thing, honestly I started
putting together like these minisets, like if I could play a
full hour where it was like whatused to be two or three songs
that were really hype, butcutting these songs so short and
doing it in a full set.
Now you might think, well, is hegoing to play the same set
every wedding?
No, I take pieces from thoseroutines.
(17:45):
I call them routines.
Now I've built up about 15 ofthem and, yes, there's three or
four that go in a row together,but I can go out of one into
another.
Could I play the whole thingtogether?
I could, but now I'm moving inand out of stuff and I'm finding
things that are like evergreen,that aren't going to go out
like tomorrow.
Some stuff are new.
But like that I can kind of mixand match so you might hear me
play those same songs, but notthe same way twice but you're
(18:06):
also saying, though, that theyare not pre-recorded.
You just have them in littlepockets, little pockets, and
that helps me get through thesefour hours where it doesn't feel
like, hey, the first hour wasamazing because this guy was
hitting all of his bangers andthen last three hours was just a
suck fest because it wasn'tlike programmed as well as it
was in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So those little pockets really do help if I was
going to answer the questionwhich, again, I haven't had one
of these in a long, long timeI'd say the same thing you, you
gotta just peaks and valleys itwhich parlays me into, parlays
us into the music topic of today.
All right, you want to do it?
I think so because I think thatin a four-hour dance set, I
(18:45):
believe and again I'm saying,use these sparingly.
And in a two and a half hourdance set, unless I'm told to do
so, I rarely, rarely use them,but they are da-da-da-da ballads
.
I repeat ballads, slow jams, ifyou will.
Now here's the precursor, and Igave Brian this pre-show so he
had some time to think about it.
(19:06):
I'm not just springing this onhim.
The precursor is it transcendsall generations.
In other words, if you dropthis ballad to kind of reset the
dance floor, as you call it,this is going to work from age
20 to age 75, 80.
You want to talk about some ofthese.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
This came about because you had a groom.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I did Last weekend.
The couple in the what I wouldcall the final planning or the
advance call, said hey, just onething, there are going to be a
lot of older guests there.
We went to a wedding recentlyand the dj just completely
alienated these people, went outof the gate too hard, too fast,
never, never, rolled it back inlike he just just hammered them
(19:47):
and they didn't.
They just sat down and theycouldn't keep up.
Right, can you interject acouple and a couple?
I've?
I took that, I mean two or threein that first hour ish.
I think we played two and ithelped when we were having that,
that power issue that I talkedabout on the last episode, where
I kind of had to, you know, runsome extra cables and I played
a ballad and played the fullthing.
(20:07):
So that's how this kind of cameup and you and I were talking
about, you know, the musicepisodes do really well and we,
you know, put together togetherthe Spotify playlist and then we
say a word and basically peoplecan get the link to our Spotify
playlist.
So this episode we will say ourballad list, our let's call it
Timeless Ballads by Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Bunn and Brian D.
So should we call the wordtimeless?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I like it.
Okay, the keyword's going to betimeless T-I-M-E, l-e-s-s.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Ooh, wow, do that together.
Yeah, I put it together.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I feel like we're going to have some similarities.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I just know your style.
You're going to be like oldsoul.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So I kind of steer clear of that Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So you want to go with your first one, and I can
pull mine up.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
As much as I hate to say this, because I feel like
I've literally been playing itsince the day that I was born,
Unchained Melody, RighteousBrothers.
Wow, and it still freakingworks and I guess you know it
was in Ghost or whatever it wasin.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, it was Top Gun too, right?
Maybe it was in Taco.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, that was.
You've lost that level.
Oh yeah, right, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Even for young people , and I and I don't, I don't
really like, I don't want to sayI like these songs, but I'm
just telling you it's neverfailed me Go ahead with yours.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So I went current Okay, cause I figured that's
going to be a Like to your point.
They are timeless yeah, they'renot.
So I was trying to findsomething current that would not
alienate the older folks, okay.
So this is a shout out to BobHickman, who hooked me up with
this.
I have a coaching group Anotherplug If you want to be a part
of that, we once a month go overmusic finds Okay, and he shared
(21:44):
this with me.
This is Teddy Swims Okay, thisis his cover of Let Me Love you
by Mario.
You can get this on Spotify.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I made a little edit.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
His voice is just, but I like it because it's got a
beat and if they're not, youknow they may not know the song,
but it's enough of it's notover aggressive where you're
going to be like what is this?
Yeah, it's just kind of smooth,yeah, and I feel like, in a
Southern context especially,people would get out there
because his voice kind of evenan older couple.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Okay, remember that came out when we were like in
our heyday.
Right, so, like a lot of the,40, 50-year-olds are going to be
in that kind of feel, and thatgot redone by somebody else
recently, so I think the youngerfolks would know it as well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Dude Brad stood up last week to dance with her dad
and I looked at Saquon.
I'm like holy shit, I thinkthis dude's younger than I am.
I fell out.
Yes, it was nuts.
If he wasn't younger, he wasclose like same age.
Okay.
Anyway, I've been in the game along time.
What's your second?
Randy is telling me he'sgetting this on the band list,
thinking out loud, cheering.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Okay, I would have gone.
Perfect.
And the reason for it Perfectwith Beyonce.
Yeah, wow, there's one with thedude from the Italian opera
singer, oh Bocelli, bocelli.
Yeah, just because it's alittle bit more romantic, okay,
than the the typical standard.
I'm not a big beyonce fan meneither, but I would do that one
if I was looking for a balladover the original but I like
(23:36):
that one that's, uh, the onethat you just mentioned thinking
out loud.
But isn't that the one that says, like, if I don't have legs or
whatever, like that whole thing,like I can't?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
play that video, that video that went viral yeah,
that's the reason I can't playit.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Unless the couple wants it, I'm not touching it.
I mean can you just make anedit as long as there's no like
handicapped people yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wheelchair people, right yeah I don't know, can you
just make an edit?
I think about everything.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'll be laughing as I see it, because I feel like god
, that was a rough one to watch.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Um, I still pull that .
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Okay, it works so this is a new one that you
probably don't know of thisartist.
Tara didn't know it and I waslike how do you not know this
artist?
His name is lucas graham.
I know this guy, yeah.
So the song is called lovesomeone and it's it's.
I mean it was a hit.
I like it because I think,again it's, it's a song that's
not overly aggressive.
If you're older, I think youcan still dance to it, okay
because when you love someone.
Oh, I know, this one are youplaying it.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's a good dinner song.
It's great.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It's catchy.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That's the other reason why I like it.
It's got to be English.
It's written.
Great song I love that song.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You're right, it's a great be English Great song.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I love that song.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You're right, it's a great dinner song too.
We should add that to thedinner list and our ballads list
.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I think this ballad list is going to be.
I put some time into it.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I got some other ones .
Can I give you two country?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
give me two.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And I actually love these songs.
And you know I'm not a hugecountry fan, I have a very
select few artists I like.
I actually love both of thesesongs.
First one is Die a Happy man.
I knew you were going to saythat.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Thomas.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Rhett, thomas Rhett.
I love this song, man.
It never gets old to me, italways works.
Yeah, the lyrics are so good.
I don't know, country artistsusually don't write their own
songs, but whoever wrote thatsong is a genius.
It's just such a great song.
And then the other one, but itjust absolutely fucking ruins me
, because my sister and my dadlove this song uh, joy of my
(25:39):
life, chris stapleton, and shepicked it last week and I swear
to god it was all I could do notto think to dance with her dad,
I was like oh my god, pleasethe bride picked it up.
Yes, the bride picked it andshe's out there dancing with her
dad.
And I'm like, bro, just pleaseget to the end of it and luckily
she only wanted 90 secondsbecause.
I would have been a mess if wehad rolled three minutes of this
(25:59):
song.
Both of those, to me, are likeactual masterpieces.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Masterpieces.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So one I don't have a sample of of, but since you
gave two, I'm gonna get two, soone of them.
I think this one's anothermasterpiece, uh, it's van
morrison's into the mystic.
It's masterpiece.
That song will never get old tome it can't get old, because
it's just it's a masterpiece.
It's so incredible and I try toplay at every wedding if I can
fit it in, wow like not duringthe ballad, no, no, no, just
play it during dinner.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Me too, I just love the song, but I think it could
work as a ballad.
For sure it could.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It could, just in the south yep, and this last one
I'll play for you is my boy,benny blanco.
You've been following that.
I sent you that instagram I'vebeen on it coming up on your
feed.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It is now dude, I had no idea.
Wall or something.
Yeah, there is nobody operatingin the current pop market that
has produced or written more hitsongs than benny blanco I had
no idea, did some but like whenit really goes into the like
when he starts listening offMaroon 5, katy Perry, like
anybody, that's pop royalty.
(26:59):
He wrote their biggest songs,yeah, or produced it or both,
and that's unbelievable talent,bieber, bieber.
Yeah, Bieber, I mean dude justanybody yeah, he's Bieber.
I mean dude, just anybody.
Those Maroon 5 songs they'vewritten no anything that was a
hit that.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Maroon 5 had on the radio.
Yeah, he did that.
Yeah, oh no, totally yeah, he'scrazy incredible, so he did a
song with um Calvin Harris.
It's an EDM song called I Foundyou okay and a groom found this
okay so.
I can't take credit for it.
This is him bringing this to myattention this is the.
I believe it's called the Nilda.
I think it's like a romanticversion of it.
It's a slowed down version of Ifound you.
You will play this as a ballada lot, so here it is.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Hopefully I get to the chorus, I finally believe in
you.
I've traveled many roads.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hopefully I get to the chorus.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Don't know what to do , and my world is never changing
.
If there's anything, I can do.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I hear it is Cause I found you.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh, I know this song.
Yeah, it's usually way faster.
Yeah, like 128.
Yeah, it's usually way fasterLike 128?
.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
One of his lower, lesser known songs, but for a
ballad, I think somebody, evenif you don't know it, you're
like hey, I got there and dancedto that.
I'm finding a lot of EDM songsthat are done acoustically do
really well for me.
I can see that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, especially for that generation.
It's familiarity.
It's the same reason thatvitamin string quartet is
popular for prelude music Likewould you rather sit there and
listen to Handel or Mozart whileguests are being seated, or a
string version of Coldplay?
Yeah, me, I like.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Coldplay yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Or Dave Matthews or Red Hot Chili Peppers as string
versions, yeah, and I find thatalmost all of my couples are
like, yeah, that's exactly whatwe'd rather be playing.
You know, from 4.30 to 5 whilepeople are sitting down.
Sure, good stuff, man, it'sblazed by.
So thanks everybody forwatching.
(29:12):
You are listening to this.
If you want to watch this videoof two very handsome people one
with hair, one without you cango to my YouTube channel and
again shout out DJ Event Plannerand S Start and the playlist.
And the playlist that we'redoing on this episode is
obviously ballots.
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