April 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Handshakes, heritage stories, and handling awkward reception moments take center stage as Joe Bunn and Brian B share valuable insights for DJs navigating the professional and personal side of event entertainment.
The conversation kicks off with a discussion about making strong first impressions. Joe shares his father's wisdom about proper handshakes—never the dreaded "dead fish"—and the importance of introducing yourself with both first and last names in professional settings. This segues naturally into when DJs should use their stage names versus their legal names depending on the context and audience.
The hosts then dive into nostalgic territory, sharing stories about paper routes and work ethic from their younger days. Brian reveals a fascinating tidbit about his Italian immigrant grandfather who, unable to afford an alarm clock, had a friend wake him for his paper route by pulling a string tied to his toe from outside the building. These stories of determination and resourcefulness connect beautifully to the perseverance required in professional DJ careers.
Perhaps most valuable is their candid discussion about handling difficult situations at events, specifically addressing the delicate matter of overly long wedding toasts. When a father of the bride launches into a 30-minute (or even hour-long) speech while dinner gets cold and the dance floor sits empty, what's the ethical approach? The hosts provide practical strategies for managing timing while respecting family dynamics, including getting advance permission to intervene and tactful ways to conclude speeches without embarrassment.
Between personal anecdotes and practical advice, Joe and Brian also cover equipment maintenance tips, sharing specific products for properly cleaning screens and electronics without damaging expensive gear. Their recommendations could save DJs hundreds or thousands in preventable equipment damage.
Have you faced similar challenges at your events? Connect with us online and share your own approaches to handling these delicate situations. And don't forget to subscribe for more insider tips and entertaining stories from behind the DJ booth!
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
what's up everybody, and welcome back to another
episode of Beyond the DJ Booth.
I'm Joe Bunn, brian B.
What's up, dude?
What's up, dude?
How you feeling?
How you feeling you?
Alright, then you alright thenyou alright, then how are you,
man?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
When you introduce yourself.
One of my dad's big things waswhen you introduce yourself and
you shake number one, shaketheir hand, and not that dead
fish shit.
Somebody gave me a dead fishthe other day.
I hate it.
I remember who it was.
Don't say it.
Don't say it, don't say it.
He dead fished me, but a properhandshake.
And then you always say yourlast name, so I and then, um,
(01:05):
you always say your last name,so I always say hey, nice to
meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm joe bunn yeah, do you say I'm brian b or do you
say I'm brian?
Bonus depends on, like briandepends on the on the audience I
feel like it's djs you can dothat because you have two it's
only one syllable.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, two syllables.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Joe bunn, you wouldn't pull a brian bonus cc
if it's a formal setting, I'mgoing to see a CEO of some major
corporation who's going tospend a lot of money on me or
whatever.
I would do that.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, what about a high-end wedding planner?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No, because it's kind of in the DJ world.
So the only time I ever sayBrian B is in the DJ space, just
because what about an Americanborn Italian?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Is that an Italian name?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Maybe Is that an Italian name?
Maybe, maybe, maybe, jesus.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Speaking of, I just had to go through and delete all
of my data out of 23andMebecause they went bankrupt.
Did you see this, 23andMe?
I don't even know what.
That is the genetic thing whereyou send in your where you swab
yourself and send it in.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I did do that.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, they went bankrupt, so now your data is
corrupted.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You need to Google how to like wow, your stuff,
okay, Cause they're going tosell it.
They're going to sell it?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
How did you delete?
It you have to go in thesettings and like, like, tell
them to burn it and like, deleteall your data.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, this just happened, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It just reminded me of that when you said like cause
I was like.
You know, I wanted like aeuropean, like hodgepodge of
irish and english, just yeah,anybody with no top lip, like
all those countries you want totell you a funny story, though
this is.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This is pretty good kind of ties in.
So my grandfather is actuallyfirst generation italian that
was born in america basicallyactually no, he was born in
italy.
They brought him over okayright, he was one of nine kids,
so they didn't have a lot ofmoney.
I mean, they were immigrants,right, so like they were, came
here just trying to make a life,the whole family, the whole
family came over All nine, allnine Plus the parents, and he
(02:52):
was number nine, oh wow.
So what was crazy was he had todo work, he had to work as a kid
and back then they a paperroute.
Did you ever do a paper?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
route.
Yeah, I did a paper route, okay, but I think I made my mom
carry me and just whipped himout the back window and out of a
viewing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean I did both, I did one, I did the bike and the
car.
Yeah, and the car.
I always hated the sunday ones,right, because those sundays
ones were full all the ads 3 000pounds and then you get those
people who are like, hey, canyou porch it?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
and you'd have to like you know, out of the car.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, no, I would throw , throw it as hard as I could at
that door and be like you wantyour porch to paper.
Here it is Smash the door.
But my grandfather did a paperroute as a kid, okay, and he
couldn't afford an alarm clock,and where he was was on the
second or third floor of thehouse.
So what he did was he pushedhis bed towards the window, okay
(03:40):
, and he tied a string aroundhis big toe Is this made up
Totally?
And he tied a string around hisbig toe Is this made up Totally
serious?
Okay, and it went down to theliterally as long as it would go
to the ground outside, okay,and so his buddy, who was a
little bit better off, had analarm clock.
Once he would wake up, he wouldwake up my grandfather by
pulling his toe.
Stop it bro, that was how hewoke up to go do the paper route
(04:00):
in the morning.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow, that's crazy ingenuity, right like back then,
that is a great story.
If it's true that's a greatimmigrant story, I love it.
This is in new york.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
This was in, uh, california somewhere.
Yeah, that's wild, is thatcrazy.
I was like I would never havethought of that.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do you gotta do
what you gotta do right paperroute wow the thing about the
paper route too is you don't getdays off.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The news comes every day.
That's a great point you knowyeah and so, and it's raining
some days yeah we did do that, Ithink we lived in colorado for
a little while and, uh, my dad,we did this part-time, yeah, and
but we would do the mornings,yeah, because they also had the
afternoon papers that you coulddo.
Remember that they used to doan afternoon cycle of papers and
then they had the mornings yeahso the mornings sometimes the
(04:46):
news would take a while becausethey were like last minute
stories yeah printing would takelonger, sure.
So we're sitting there, like youknow, 4, 30, 5 o'clock in the
morning.
We gotta be out of there by 530, but they haven't brought the
papers in because they're stillprinting it printing at that
point.
Yeah, the machine, yeah andthen they bring it and you gotta
, you got your own littlecubicle and you're folding them
all putting the rubber band.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh yeah, the rain, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, or in Colorado it snowed yeah, so you always
had to bag it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm like I hate the bags, yeah, oh, dude.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And now kids don't have no idea what this is.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No concept of even the paper.
Right Isn't that crazy.
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And if that's not a hard enoughsell, I don't know what is All
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Back to the episode before.
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So I got a gear segment for you.
Okay.
So I get asked us a lot aboutcleaning our equipment and I
think I shared that pink stuffwith you before.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, the pink stuff is gold.
By the way, the pink stuff isin Publix and Harris Teeter and
stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh it is, you don't have to get it at Amazon
necessarily.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I did see it in the grocery store the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Okay, the other question I get now is with Macs,
with computers, what do you useto wipe your screen?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And then the juice, if you will, the spray.
At one point it was calledapple juice and I guess they got
sued.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't know exactly what it's called now I could
probably go get it.
But if you probably stillGoogle apple juice and it was a
little spray bottle, kind oflike you clean your glasses with
, and I would just hit the ragagain a microfiber a couple of
times and then wipe down thescreen of microfiber a couple
times and then wipe down thescreen.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What are you doing now?
You're still doing that applejuice.
This is actually, I gotta shoutout, drew pierce.
This is his recommendation, sothis is called miracle wipes or
electronics for electronics.
That's the clutch move.
You don't get the.
They have some general stuffthat juice does have a little
bit, but it just is a pop-offand then it's got like the
little white.
Yeah, would have a mini wipe.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Speaking of Saquon, did we ever clean this screen up
here?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, feel free.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
We might, because at some point Saquon does a lot of
recording here at night.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It was a late night.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They make records and I was like I don't know if
somebody got super excited aboutthis screen and thought it was
like a giant touchscreen.
But, I walked in one morning.
It was like a child had hadtheir hands all over it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Wow, I was like bro, what happened in here last night
?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think somebody thought it was a touchscreen and
I just they got too excitedabout the beat I was making or
something, and we're trying tofix it or point to something,
and you know when it's allblacked out right, and you just
see every fingerprint so theseare going to come in handy for
this, let's say, 9.99 16 bucksyeah, 16 bucks 15.97.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
But this lasts you all season.
Yeah, so I I don't travel withthis I just take have one in
different spots, right and umbut wait, the juice would dry
out if you pulled one out,though oh yeah, if you kept it
out, yeah, but like I mean,they're all juiced up a little
bit, right, and this lasts me,you know, a couple months, right
, I think it's important, though, because, oh, I've tried do you
(08:30):
use windex?
No dude I ruined.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I ruined a giant tv.
I didn't do it.
A housekeeper, somebody came inand sprayed something, some
chemical a harsh chemical on mytv ruined it right.
I had to take it off the walllike not salvageable yeah.
So be very careful.
These are good things, shoutout.
Drew pierce for miracle wipesfor electronics get them,
they're great okay, I love it.
(08:54):
To the question.
Okay, let's hit one.
Oh, your boy, justin the dj.
Justin the dj down in dallas,texas, shout out la force
entertainment.
How do you deal with a fatherof the bride who gives a super
long toast?
Bride is looking at you givingthe cutoff sign.
Do you just cut off his mic?
(09:15):
Seems kind of rude and mightcause problems.
This is tough dude.
This is like an am I theasshole question.
Totally.
This just happened to Randy Anhour, oh, an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
One hour.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow, he was texting me during it going yo, your boy
just went.
30 then he.
Then he texted me again 45,then he texted me again one hour
.
Food hadn't come out.
Catering's just back there withdid he have a script.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What is he off the dome?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
it was nuts.
Randy said it had musical dropsno, it was crazy full-on script
.
Yeah, wow, not off the dome.
Yeah, and like what did he do?
He said that he even saw theplanner walk over to the bride
and kind of whisper somethingand she basically shoot her away
.
Like how dare you try and cutoff my dad?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
yeah, well, if he's paying for it, I mean he may or
may not have.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But what are you doing in this?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I do try to get a sense of, like, who the toasters
are.
And when I arrive, like beforewe start the reception like this
is when people are walking inSure I go, hey, who are the
toasters I need to be aware of?
Nowadays I actually get thephoto ahead of time.
Okay, so I know who to look for.
I don't even it anymore.
And I go up to him and I say,hey, how long is your toast?
Let's talk about, like micetiquette, different things like
(10:28):
that I'm gonna repeat to himlater, but I want to get a sense
of how long is this thing?
that's a good, that's a goodthing.
A lot of people would be likeoh yeah, it's the worst and I
say it to him again becausethey'll never remember it.
You have to say it to himliterally when you hand them the
mic.
I do that and they still hold itdown right, they do, they do
yeah and then I also asked thisin my planning call too with the
client of like hey, if yourdad's speaking, how does he
normally talk at events?
(10:49):
Or if he's done events, if he'sa public speaker.
I try to find out all thatinformation as much as I can.
I actually have used an examplelike this.
I'm like, let's just say hegoes long.
How do you want me to handlethat?
Is he funny?
Could I play Oscar walk-offmusic and it would go over, or
do you think that would be rude?
So I kind of ask thesequestions in the planning call
so that that way, if I've everpresented with this like day of
and I didn't see it coming, Ican kind of figure it out If I
(11:11):
didn't ask that question.
I just was presented with this.
I'm letting them talk, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I'm not cutting them off.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I had one time where a bride goes my grandfather he
may go along and his openingline was well, I was born in
1949, on a Tuesday, and I'm likewe're starting with when you
were born, like we got to go allthe way through the generations
and about 30, 40 minutes inthey're like you can cut them.
I'm like I'm not cutting themoff.
This is a grandfather.
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You can go up to him and get the mic.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I am not touching it.
There's absolutely to answerthe question.
I'm with you, man.
There's no way to cut somebodyoff properly unless you've
gotten that permission inadvance, and the only way that I
would do is do some sort ofoscar walk.
I actually have a playlist withthat yeah, oscar, walk off music
, just like they do in theoscars when they play off and
they don't care if you're jacknicholson or leonardo dicaprio,
(12:01):
like they'll play you off andthen just kind of almost like,
fade out the mic or either takeyour second mic and be like
let's give Bob, the father ofthe bride, a round of applause.
That's a great other call.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
If I see a lull where I can insert that, I will, yeah
, Like great job.
I mean, yeah, be careful,because I mean if he's like only
halfway into his speech andyou're greeting it, you don't
want to do that because then youlook like a douchebag, but if
you can, if you see, it's kindof like he's kind of just doing
off the dome and it's nice wayto get him out of the situation
he's stumbling.
Yeah, you know the other thing Itry to do, too, is I try to
(12:32):
encourage people to do thesetoasts early, because I had an
event where I was just tellingSaquon this, we have 30 minutes
and we still gotta do a toastsomething in five minutes.
This thing went 25 minutes andit's a hard cut off.
(12:53):
You can't go a minute afterthis.
So you never even got todancing.
I played one dance song, thatwas it.
That's never happened in mycareer.
This was like 10 years ago yeah, but that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I'm like you just hired me yeah, and I basically
set up gear for the toast.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And played dinner music and played dinner music.
Wow, and that was like eversince then.
That's when I startedapproaching these differently.
Yeah, and the bride actually,she understood, she's like, I
get it.
You know he went long and itwas her dad and you know we
didn't get to dance.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Here's the thing, man , a proper toast, or like a
resolution.
He didn't say raise a glass,right he just stopped talking
and like I'm looking across theroom at it, you know cause, I
had given him the mic and then II literally had to go like, are
you done?
(13:42):
Like I actually verbally saidout loud are you done?
And he goes, yeah, or whatever,and I walked over and grabbed
the mic.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And cause mic the mic .
The toast mic is the mc mic.
But what happens if that goesbad or something happens, I
don't know, just random stopsworking, cuts out, you don't
even have a wired backup I havea wired backup.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, yeah, 100, plug in.
No, but I'm, I'm usually likebehind the booth okay
controlling the volume so let'ssay that all the way over there,
where saquon is, is the djbooth and then you're the
toaster and I'm the DJ slash MCBlah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Ladies and gentlemen, father ofthe Bride, brian B, I hand you
the mic and I just kind of stepout of the frame.
(14:23):
So I'm standing beside the guy,but for whatever reason, I
think I was across from him andhe just stopped talking all of a
sudden and I was like yeah, I'mdone.
I was like okay, and then I runover there and get the mic and
blah, blah, blah.
And then my other point was Ithink that there is a weird
(14:44):
thing in your brain, or likeit's genetic disposition, to
like some people have noself-awareness, like most people
I know that get up there togive a toast, especially if it's
after dinner, they go.
I realize I'm the only thingbetween y'all and the dance
floor so I'm going to ripthrough this kind of thing.
We hear that every weekend thosepeople get it.
(15:05):
These people that arepontificating if that's even a
word, are going on and on, arereally, at that point, making it
about themselves.
Yeah, you can tell.
I cannot imagine doing that atsomebody's wedding.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Even if it was my own daughter, I mean, I still think
in five minutes, if I had adaughter, 10 tops I could say
everything I wanted to say abouther Right and her new husband
or bride or whatever you want,under 10 minutes Right, and
still be meaningful and poignantand emotional.
And I'm out and we're on toBrian B ripping up the dance
(15:39):
floor.
Yeah, I may be wrong but, oneday that will come, when my sons
get married.
You know, I guess I may do atoast, you'll definitely do it
at the rehearsal dinner.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's on you.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, but the rehearsal dinner is different,
man.
I feel like you can do.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
There's no rules that's why I try to push as many
people towards that, asabsolutely can.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, you know I've I've been at a rehearsal dinner
before and and enough people gotup to where I was like, oh shit
, man, like all the weddingparty got up and I'm in this and
I'm.
I had not planned on speaking,but I I gotta rip something here
and I'll just come up with astory off the top of the dome
and again I'm five minutes.
I get a laugh, ha.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
At my sister's wedding.
I had something prepared.
I got a couple of chuckles, acouple of emotional moments.
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See you, see you, thank you.
what's up everybody, and welcome back to another
episode of Beyond the DJ Booth.
I'm Joe Bunn, brian B.
What's up, dude?
What's up, dude?
How you feeling?
How you feeling you?
Alright, then you alright thenyou alright, then how are you,
man?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
When you introduce yourself.
One of my dad's big things waswhen you introduce yourself and
you shake number one, shaketheir hand, and not that dead
fish shit.
Somebody gave me a dead fishthe other day.
I hate it.
I remember who it was.
Don't say it.
Don't say it, don't say it.
He dead fished me, but a properhandshake.
And then you always say yourlast name, so I and then, um,
(01:05):
you always say your last name,so I always say hey, nice to
meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm joe bunn yeah, do you say I'm brian b or do you
say I'm brian?
Bonus depends on, like briandepends on the on the audience I
feel like it's djs you can dothat because you have two it's
only one syllable.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, two syllables.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Joe bunn, you wouldn't pull a brian bonus cc
if it's a formal setting, I'mgoing to see a CEO of some major
corporation who's going tospend a lot of money on me or
whatever.
I would do that.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, what about a high-end wedding planner?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No, because it's kind of in the DJ world.
So the only time I ever sayBrian B is in the DJ space, just
because what about an Americanborn Italian?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Is that an Italian name?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Maybe Is that an Italian name?
Maybe, maybe, maybe, jesus.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Speaking of, I just had to go through and delete all
of my data out of 23andMebecause they went bankrupt.
Did you see this, 23andMe?
I don't even know what.
That is the genetic thing whereyou send in your where you swab
yourself and send it in.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I did do that.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, they went bankrupt, so now your data is
corrupted.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You need to Google how to like wow, your stuff,
okay, Cause they're going tosell it.
They're going to sell it?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
How did you delete?
It you have to go in thesettings and like, like, tell
them to burn it and like, deleteall your data.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, this just happened, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It just reminded me of that when you said like cause
I was like.
You know, I wanted like aeuropean, like hodgepodge of
irish and english, just yeah,anybody with no top lip, like
all those countries you want totell you a funny story, though
this is.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This is pretty good kind of ties in.
So my grandfather is actuallyfirst generation italian that
was born in america basicallyactually no, he was born in
italy.
They brought him over okayright, he was one of nine kids,
so they didn't have a lot ofmoney.
I mean, they were immigrants,right, so like they were, came
here just trying to make a life,the whole family, the whole
family came over All nine, allnine Plus the parents, and he
(02:52):
was number nine, oh wow.
So what was crazy was he had todo work, he had to work as a kid
and back then they a paperroute.
Did you ever do a paper?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
route.
Yeah, I did a paper route, okay, but I think I made my mom
carry me and just whipped himout the back window and out of a
viewing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean I did both, I did one, I did the bike and the
car.
Yeah, and the car.
I always hated the sunday ones,right, because those sundays
ones were full all the ads 3 000pounds and then you get those
people who are like, hey, canyou porch it?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
and you'd have to like you know, out of the car.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, no, I would throw , throw it as hard as I could at
that door and be like you wantyour porch to paper.
Here it is Smash the door.
But my grandfather did a paperroute as a kid, okay, and he
couldn't afford an alarm clock,and where he was was on the
second or third floor of thehouse.
So what he did was he pushedhis bed towards the window, okay
(03:40):
, and he tied a string aroundhis big toe Is this made up
Totally?
And he tied a string around hisbig toe Is this made up Totally
serious?
Okay, and it went down to theliterally as long as it would go
to the ground outside, okay,and so his buddy, who was a
little bit better off, had analarm clock.
Once he would wake up, he wouldwake up my grandfather by
pulling his toe.
Stop it bro, that was how hewoke up to go do the paper route
(04:00):
in the morning.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow, that's crazy ingenuity, right like back then,
that is a great story.
If it's true that's a greatimmigrant story, I love it.
This is in new york.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
This was in, uh, california somewhere.
Yeah, that's wild, is thatcrazy.
I was like I would never havethought of that.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do you gotta do
what you gotta do right paperroute wow the thing about the
paper route too is you don't getdays off.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The news comes every day.
That's a great point you knowyeah and so, and it's raining
some days yeah we did do that, Ithink we lived in colorado for
a little while and, uh, my dad,we did this part-time, yeah, and
but we would do the mornings,yeah, because they also had the
afternoon papers that you coulddo.
Remember that they used to doan afternoon cycle of papers and
then they had the mornings yeahso the mornings sometimes the
(04:46):
news would take a while becausethey were like last minute
stories yeah printing would takelonger, sure.
So we're sitting there, like youknow, 4, 30, 5 o'clock in the
morning.
We gotta be out of there by 530, but they haven't brought the
papers in because they're stillprinting it printing at that
point.
Yeah, the machine, yeah andthen they bring it and you gotta
, you got your own littlecubicle and you're folding them
all putting the rubber band.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh yeah, the rain, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, or in Colorado it snowed yeah, so you always
had to bag it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm like I hate the bags, yeah, oh, dude.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And now kids don't have no idea what this is.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No concept of even the paper.
Right Isn't that crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
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Okay.
So I get asked us a lot aboutcleaning our equipment and I
think I shared that pink stuffwith you before.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, the pink stuff is gold.
By the way, the pink stuff isin Publix and Harris Teeter and
stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
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I did see it in the grocery store the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Okay, the other question I get now is with Macs,
with computers, what do you useto wipe your screen?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And then the juice, if you will, the spray.
At one point it was calledapple juice and I guess they got
sued.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't know exactly what it's called now I could
probably go get it.
But if you probably stillGoogle apple juice and it was a
little spray bottle, kind oflike you clean your glasses with
, and I would just hit the ragagain a microfiber a couple of
times and then wipe down thescreen of microfiber a couple
times and then wipe down thescreen.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What are you doing now?
You're still doing that applejuice.
This is actually, I gotta shoutout, drew pierce.
This is his recommendation, sothis is called miracle wipes or
electronics for electronics.
That's the clutch move.
You don't get the.
They have some general stuffthat juice does have a little
bit, but it just is a pop-offand then it's got like the
little white.
Yeah, would have a mini wipe.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Speaking of Saquon, did we ever clean this screen up
here?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, feel free.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
We might, because at some point Saquon does a lot of
recording here at night.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It was a late night.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They make records and I was like I don't know if
somebody got super excited aboutthis screen and thought it was
like a giant touchscreen.
But, I walked in one morning.
It was like a child had hadtheir hands all over it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Wow, I was like bro, what happened in here last night
?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think somebody thought it was a touchscreen and
I just they got too excitedabout the beat I was making or
something, and we're trying tofix it or point to something,
and you know when it's allblacked out right, and you just
see every fingerprint so theseare going to come in handy for
this, let's say, 9.99 16 bucksyeah, 16 bucks 15.97.
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But this lasts you all season.
Yeah, so I I don't travel withthis I just take have one in
different spots, right and umbut wait, the juice would dry
out if you pulled one out,though oh yeah, if you kept it
out, yeah, but like I mean,they're all juiced up a little
bit, right, and this lasts me,you know, a couple months, right
, I think it's important, though, because, oh, I've tried do you
(08:30):
use windex?
No dude I ruined.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I ruined a giant tv.
I didn't do it.
A housekeeper, somebody came inand sprayed something, some
chemical a harsh chemical on mytv ruined it right.
I had to take it off the walllike not salvageable yeah.
So be very careful.
These are good things, shoutout.
Drew pierce for miracle wipesfor electronics get them,
they're great okay, I love it.
(08:54):
To the question.
Okay, let's hit one.
Oh, your boy, justin the dj.
Justin the dj down in dallas,texas, shout out la force
entertainment.
How do you deal with a fatherof the bride who gives a super
long toast?
Bride is looking at you givingthe cutoff sign.
Do you just cut off his mic?
(09:15):
Seems kind of rude and mightcause problems.
This is tough dude.
This is like an am I theasshole question.
Totally.
This just happened to Randy Anhour, oh, an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
One hour.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow, he was texting me during it going yo, your boy
just went.
30 then he.
Then he texted me again 45,then he texted me again one hour
.
Food hadn't come out.
Catering's just back there withdid he have a script.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What is he off the dome?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
it was nuts.
Randy said it had musical dropsno, it was crazy full-on script
.
Yeah, wow, not off the dome.
Yeah, and like what did he do?
He said that he even saw theplanner walk over to the bride
and kind of whisper somethingand she basically shoot her away
.
Like how dare you try and cutoff my dad?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
yeah, well, if he's paying for it, I mean he may or
may not have.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But what are you doing in this?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I do try to get a sense of, like, who the toasters
are.
And when I arrive, like beforewe start the reception like this
is when people are walking inSure I go, hey, who are the
toasters I need to be aware of?
Nowadays I actually get thephoto ahead of time.
Okay, so I know who to look for.
I don't even it anymore.
And I go up to him and I say,hey, how long is your toast?
Let's talk about, like micetiquette, different things like
(10:28):
that I'm gonna repeat to himlater, but I want to get a sense
of how long is this thing?
that's a good, that's a goodthing.
A lot of people would be likeoh yeah, it's the worst and I
say it to him again becausethey'll never remember it.
You have to say it to himliterally when you hand them the
mic.
I do that and they still hold itdown right, they do, they do
yeah and then I also asked thisin my planning call too with the
client of like hey, if yourdad's speaking, how does he
normally talk at events?
(10:49):
Or if he's done events, if he'sa public speaker.
I try to find out all thatinformation as much as I can.
I actually have used an examplelike this.
I'm like, let's just say hegoes long.
How do you want me to handlethat?
Is he funny?
Could I play Oscar walk-offmusic and it would go over, or
do you think that would be rude?
So I kind of ask thesequestions in the planning call
so that that way, if I've everpresented with this like day of
and I didn't see it coming, Ican kind of figure it out If I
(11:11):
didn't ask that question.
I just was presented with this.
I'm letting them talk, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I'm not cutting them off.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I had one time where a bride goes my grandfather he
may go along and his openingline was well, I was born in
1949, on a Tuesday, and I'm likewe're starting with when you
were born, like we got to go allthe way through the generations
and about 30, 40 minutes inthey're like you can cut them.
I'm like I'm not cutting themoff.
This is a grandfather.
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You can go up to him and get the mic.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I am not touching it.
There's absolutely to answerthe question.
I'm with you, man.
There's no way to cut somebodyoff properly unless you've
gotten that permission inadvance, and the only way that I
would do is do some sort ofoscar walk.
I actually have a playlist withthat yeah, oscar, walk off music
, just like they do in theoscars when they play off and
they don't care if you're jacknicholson or leonardo dicaprio,
(12:01):
like they'll play you off andthen just kind of almost like,
fade out the mic or either takeyour second mic and be like
let's give Bob, the father ofthe bride, a round of applause.
That's a great other call.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
If I see a lull where I can insert that, I will, yeah
, Like great job.
I mean, yeah, be careful,because I mean if he's like only
halfway into his speech andyou're greeting it, you don't
want to do that because then youlook like a douchebag, but if
you can, if you see, it's kindof like he's kind of just doing
off the dome and it's nice wayto get him out of the situation
he's stumbling.
Yeah, you know the other thing Itry to do, too, is I try to
(12:32):
encourage people to do thesetoasts early, because I had an
event where I was just tellingSaquon this, we have 30 minutes
and we still gotta do a toastsomething in five minutes.
This thing went 25 minutes andit's a hard cut off.
(12:53):
You can't go a minute afterthis.
So you never even got todancing.
I played one dance song, thatwas it.
That's never happened in mycareer.
This was like 10 years ago yeah, but that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I'm like you just hired me yeah, and I basically
set up gear for the toast.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And played dinner music and played dinner music.
Wow, and that was like eversince then.
That's when I startedapproaching these differently.
Yeah, and the bride actually,she understood, she's like, I
get it.
You know he went long and itwas her dad and you know we
didn't get to dance.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Here's the thing, man , a proper toast, or like a
resolution.
He didn't say raise a glass,right he just stopped talking
and like I'm looking across theroom at it, you know cause, I
had given him the mic and then II literally had to go like, are
you done?
(13:42):
Like I actually verbally saidout loud are you done?
And he goes, yeah, or whatever,and I walked over and grabbed
the mic.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And cause mic the mic .
The toast mic is the mc mic.
But what happens if that goesbad or something happens, I
don't know, just random stopsworking, cuts out, you don't
even have a wired backup I havea wired backup.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, yeah, 100, plug in.
No, but I'm, I'm usually likebehind the booth okay
controlling the volume so let'ssay that all the way over there,
where saquon is, is the djbooth and then you're the
toaster and I'm the DJ slash MCBlah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Ladies and gentlemen, father ofthe Bride, brian B, I hand you
the mic and I just kind of stepout of the frame.
(14:23):
So I'm standing beside the guy,but for whatever reason, I
think I was across from him andhe just stopped talking all of a
sudden and I was like yeah, I'mdone.
I was like okay, and then I runover there and get the mic and
blah, blah, blah.
And then my other point was Ithink that there is a weird
(14:44):
thing in your brain, or likeit's genetic disposition, to
like some people have noself-awareness, like most people
I know that get up there togive a toast, especially if it's
after dinner, they go.
I realize I'm the only thingbetween y'all and the dance
floor so I'm going to ripthrough this kind of thing.
We hear that every weekend thosepeople get it.
(15:05):
These people that arepontificating if that's even a
word, are going on and on, arereally, at that point, making it
about themselves.
Yeah, you can tell.
I cannot imagine doing that atsomebody's wedding.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Even if it was my own daughter, I mean, I still think
in five minutes, if I had adaughter, 10 tops I could say
everything I wanted to say abouther Right and her new husband
or bride or whatever you want,under 10 minutes Right, and
still be meaningful and poignantand emotional.
And I'm out and we're on toBrian B ripping up the dance
(15:39):
floor.
Yeah, I may be wrong but, oneday that will come, when my sons
get married.
You know, I guess I may do atoast, you'll definitely do it
at the rehearsal dinner.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's on you.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, but the rehearsal dinner is different,
man.
I feel like you can do.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
There's no rules that's why I try to push as many
people towards that, asabsolutely can.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, you know I've I've been at a rehearsal dinner
before and and enough people gotup to where I was like, oh shit
, man, like all the weddingparty got up and I'm in this and
I'm.
I had not planned on speaking,but I I gotta rip something here
and I'll just come up with astory off the top of the dome
and again I'm five minutes.
I get a laugh, ha.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
At my sister's wedding.
I had something prepared.
I got a couple of chuckles, acouple of emotional moments.
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