June 25, 2025 • 24 mins
Welcome to Season 4 of Beyond the DJ Booth ,where the weddings are wild, the carbs are canceled, and we’re just trying to survive both.
This week, we open with a musical quiz no one asked for:
Is “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly” a real song title?
(Somehow, yes. Thanks, Conway Twitty.)
It spirals from there into a hall-of-fame list of song names that make you question how anything gets past quality control in the music industry.
Then, things heat up as Joe recounts DJ'ing a wedding that was half-Persian, half-American... and 100% confusing at least rhythmically.
He's trying to mix 6/8 into 4/4 while keeping the aunties dancing and the groom’s cousin from hijacking the mic. Spoiler: He mostly succeeds.
Joe also opens up about his month-long battle with sugar, after a doctor told him he was one glucose molecule away from becoming a donut. He drops 12 pounds, avoids bread, and somehow DJed through it all with only minor rage blackouts.
Also in this episode:
- The real price of bad weather and venue flips (and why your gear deserves hazard pay)
- How to respectfully say “I have no idea what this song is, but I’ll play it” at cultural events
- And the surprising overlap between Middle Eastern percussion and Joe’s blood pressure
So grab your noise-canceling earbuds, your ketone strips, and your cultural humility.
Season 4 is here and it’s already sweating through its tux jacket.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
what's up everybody.
Welcome back to beyond the djbooth podcast.
Cast casket, you like that I, Ilove it.
It's joe bunn with my guy brianb, we're back with another
episode of the greatest privateevent dj podcast possibly in the
world.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm gonna go with it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The numbers are good.
The numbers are pretty good,man, I'm proud of us.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's been still doing it.
Hey, it's consistent.
You can't say we don't miss.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We don't miss.
This is the last episode ofseason three, right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No, this is the first episode of season four.
Baby, oh shit, Season four.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Season four, so that means we've done 50.
This will be the 53rd episode,I guess, so that's pretty good.
That is, you think we'll quitor keep it going?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
No, I'm enjoying it, I am too.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's pretty fun.
Would you enjoy it if I madeyou come here every week, though
?
Ah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
yeah, that would get old.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You got to batch it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I got to batch it Me too.
I'm a batcher, yeah, so ifyou're listening to this and we
don't mention anything, that'scurrently happening, right.
We try not to mention thosethings very often because we
don't want to get.
We've had a couple oficebreakers where you've been a
little underperforming, if I dosay this myself.
So we're going to move intomusic.
(01:27):
I want to see how well you knowmusic.
I'm going to give you titles ofsongs and you're going to tell
me are these real titles or arethese fake titles, if you know
the artist.
Bonus points too, by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Is this either real or fake?
Or it's fake.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, the name of the song is called.
You're the Reason Our Kids AreUgly.
Do you think this is one ofthose romantic ballads that are
crushing the airwaves, or do youthink this is a fake?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I think it's real and it's either like an emo band or
like a hardcore band.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It is real, okay, but it's kind of from the 1950s, oh
shit.
So this is by Loretta Lynn andConway Twitty.
Wow, here's a little sample.
You're the reason our kids areugly.
Little darling, oh, but looksain't everything and money ain't
(02:20):
everything, but I love you justthe same.
Looks aren't everything.
Money ain't everything, but Ilove you still the same.
Wow, you're the reason our kidsare ugly.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And with a dog barking in the background in the
office building right now iseven crazier, and that just
added to the country hillbillyof that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, that's classic North Carolina.
All right, potential.
Song number two why does ithurt when I pee?
That's fake, there's no way.
You don't think it's real?
Nah, it is real, what do?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
you think is what kind of genre, what kind of what
kind of feel you think this is?
It's gotta be like, uh, like awhite dude with dreads, but he's
trying to do like a hardcorefrank zappa.
No, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Actually that tracks so here it is little sample.
Why does it hurt when I pee?
Why does it hurt when I pee?
One third of what's the fun,here we go.
I don't want no doctor to stickno needle in me.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Why does?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
it hurt when I pee Jesus.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Christ dude.
What the hell dude.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Third one here.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
How many are there Six?
My Wi-Fi left me for a betterrouter.
Real or fake?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't even know how you could put that into a
melody.
I'm going to say it's fake, itis fake, it is fake, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's too many words.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Number, number four, yank my doodle.
It's a dandy.
I'm gonna say, yes, it's realand it's really old, or country
it is both by a guy by the nameof john valby.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I don't know him.
I don't know him either here'sa little sample.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Let me hear john yank my doodle, it's a dandy.
It's the good old american way.
Grease me up and give a handythe original p diddy bro.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All right, the next one on the list who let the cows
out?
You think somebody did a parodyor decided to go down the
animal?
Yeah, I think it's real.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It is fake, my friend damn it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's two and two two and two, so the last one
here.
Nobody really cares if youdon't go to the party.
Is this a real song?
Is this a title?
I think, it's real, it is real.
Yes, sir, do you know any ideawho sings it?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't think you're going to get it, is it?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
country.
It's not Pop song, kind of likealternative.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, but you would kind of figure who is it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The artist is Courtney Barnett.
No, don't know her.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Here's what it sounds like.
I got three out of five.
Yeah, I got three out of five.
All right, a little over, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So I wanted to also just check in your Joe's journey
, as we talked about early on.
Boy, you've been posting theclips.
You've been trying.
I got A for effort.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm going to wrap it up tomorrow I'll wrap it up.
I mean, I'm not going to wrapup the Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And you think it's all because of there's.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
nothing else has changed.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You're not eating any less.
You're eating the same, butjust differently.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Correct, I'm not eating any less.
It's just different foods thanI would normally eat in a seven
day week.
So will this taper off?
Yeah, I can't.
Yes, that will be my posttomorrow, the way I've done it,
and it'll be a month tomorrow.
I started on the first,tomorrow's, the 29th, exactly
one month the way I've done.
It was too extreme, too much,too far.
(06:16):
Yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I thought that all.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Because I can't do all sugar, all simple carbs, all
at one time.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Cutting it off.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's not sustainable.
I would never be able to carryit on Like I cook probably four
out of seven nights forwhoever's at home that night.
That's not sustainable.
They don't want to eat thatshit.
It's not sustainable becauseevery day I usually like to go
out to lunch somewhere, right?
So what's the move?
I'm going on vacation Saturday,like that's not sustainable,
right?
The move is the move foranybody watching is start with
(06:50):
the sodas.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Cut out the sodas.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Were you a soda guy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I didn't realize you were.
I was a Coke.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Really, I didn't know this coke guy.
I've never seen you with a coke.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,like anytime I'd go to lunch,
I'd either get coke or sweet tea, and I'd argue sweet tea's
probably worse.
Okay, I don't, because I whenthey make sweet tea here.
I watched my mom make sweet teathis past weekend for my son
and his friends at the beach.
It was fucking crazy how out ofa pitcher of tea she put.
(07:18):
I remember my mom used to do it.
It was probably two cups, yeah,yeah, of just white sugar, sugar
in it, yeah and then, while itwas hot, stirred in there and
then the vanilla lattes you know, with either even skim milk,
but it's got all those pumps ofthat vanilla sugar right
sweetener.
So kill the sodas, the red bullat three o'clock pretty much
clockwork, every day.
(07:38):
Kill that, the sodas, the sweettea, and then, starting the day
with that blueberry muffin or ascone or cinnamon bun or sticky
bun at that bakery is the worstway to start the day, apparently
, and I think all those thingscumulatively, going into my 50s,
(07:58):
was literally just adding up topre-diabetic.
So shout out to that functionhealth test for being like yo,
you need to pump the brakes onthe sugar shit.
And I was able to do that and Ithink it is sustainable for me
to cold turkey all of that stuff.
Now, cutting out, you know, asandwich with bread or a
(08:19):
Chick-fil-A every once in awhile.
I won't be able to do that, andjust eating a salad every day,
it's just not sustainable.
So I've realized what I can doand I know I'll stick to the
drinks.
How's?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
your energy.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I don't feel any different.
People keep asking me that Idon't feel any different.
I've always had high energy.
I've always slept great.
I always will go to the gymfour days a week, no matter if
I'm on the road or in Raleigh orwhatever, and give, you know, a
hard 45 minute workout in somesort of group class setting.
So I don't feel any different.
I definitely was close to 200pounds, which is too heavy for
(08:52):
as short as I am.
All of the last, probably two,three, four years, every time
I've gone to the doctor, likeright up in the 190eties and I'm
like down to one 83, I'veprobably lost at least 12 pounds
.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What's the expectation when you do the
retest?
What do you?
Where are you on it?
I?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
need for these and they have.
You know these technical termsfor this cholesterol and this
kind of APOB or whatever.
Like I need these numbers to bemore in range.
Right, I need more numbers.
I think there was 108 testswhen it was all done and 18 were
out of range.
I need like 10 of those 18 tobe back in range.
Let's say I don't think it'llbe, I'm gonna be, you know,
(09:28):
superman, right, and havenothing out of range.
I don't think any human probablyhas that right but I need that
to be in range and I think I'llfeel a lot more comfortable well
, kudos for going this far.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I gotta got to say I did it, man.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I mean, you know, I think I just should have started
with the sodas and then worked,you know, backwards on more
protein, less bread, less pastastuff like that, right, and
tapered that off instead ofgoing full cold turkey.
My goal really wasn't to loseweight, right?
I remember you saying that.
Yeah, I still stand by that, butit was a natural occurrence of
(10:01):
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I didn't really talk about mygigs.
We had a couple gigs.
We did a really small weddingat this interesting venue in
Raleigh and we were on this kindof like the bottom of the
(10:43):
staircase.
Almost You've been there before, I have, and normally they put
you up in the balcony.
Oh, I hate that.
Oh, 75, 80 feet from the dancefloor, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I literally would like to have to send Saquon over
the balcony down to the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's the worst it's like say go on, go out there and
see if people are having fun,because I have no clue that's
how far away.
But they put me on the landingat the bottom of the staircase
and it was kind of cool, abeautiful room flip they did for
this venue.
I thought we had a great partythere and then we led right into
last weekend another greatparty, brand new venue that's
open, donovan manor, that myfriend jill owns.
(11:18):
Yeah, and a little bit weirdwhere we were set up.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But this was half american, half persian oh, you
don't get the ethnic weddings,but not a ton not a ton.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know, a couple of year I'll catch and um they
don't load you up blonde hairblue eyed girl, a friend of mine
, that was a professional likeentertainment dancer, not the
wrong kind of dancer, right likeshe's a choreographer.
She was on the uh carolinadance team.
She cheered for the wizards likeyeah she's a real dancer, she's
in the wedding party, she's thebride.
Oh, she's the bride.
So she was out there justkilling it.
(11:49):
And then the groom is, uh,iranian.
I mean it was 160 people andsaquon, wouldn't you say it was
about 50, 50 like yeah, maybenot 50, 50, 60, 40, 60 40.
There were 40 people that wereof persian descent like, so does
that and I'm not saying theyflew over for the wedding.
They've been living in theunited states.
Their children were secondgeneration, whatever, whatever.
(12:09):
But did you have to go heavier?
Yes, oh yeah, and they want tohear.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh, they do, they want to hear that shit.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
So I I luckily been been given the music and I'd
listened to it and figured outkind of where it went in.
But my set got shortened, thetimeline ran long, the speeches
were too long, the blah blahblah dinner too, yeah, and I
felt like I really had to shovelike 83 songs into like 90
minutes.
Wow, and I probably got through60, but you know, it's like I
(12:37):
needed it to breathe a littlebit more and I felt rushed.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Were there any they?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
were super happy man.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's amazing.
Were there any songs that, likeI notice a lot of times these
ethnicities they like do coversof American songs?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
There were none of those, no there were none of
those, but it was like there wastwo or three types of Persian
songs, just like.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
There are like like.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Hispanic songs.
There's salsa merengue, there'sbachata, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
What was a good mix?
You did that.
You can in or out of one.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
There's a dude named S-A-S-Y I don't know if that's
Sassy or Sassy.
His songs were good, but therewere some that sounded older.
Yeah and the time signature.
The time signature was crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Saquon was like what the fuck is happening?
I was trying to groove with it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It wasn't like that boom, that boom that boom, but
the way they were dancing it waslike Persian.
Yeah, they're like movingaround the room.
They were feeling it, bro, butme and Saquon were like
something's crazy with this beatright now, like how am I going?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
to get out of it?
I think I just let them playout.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You know what I mean.
Just move on to the next song.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It was a wild ride, man, but they, she had a blast.
We had the sweetest InstagramDM yesterday about how everybody
was complimenting her, how I'vejust kind of moved magically
between the two genres, right,you know what I mean.
It wasn't like I played twoPersian songs, I mean, I
probably played 10 or 12.
It was good, man.
Did you have those nervesthough?
A little bit, yeah, like right,when I started, but I just like
(14:03):
I said, I listened to the songs.
I was prepared.
I just kind of felt like I hadto rush a yeah A little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's good stuff, all right, yeah, man, it's good.
Yeah, I played with the band.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah yeah.
Brian texts me.
He sends me a picture of theband he goes.
I love playing with bands.
I'm about to bury these fools.
It's like cause they go on andthey do the my girls and the
bullshit they did.
Yeah, and sun goes down.
(14:32):
Brian B just goes crazy yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So took one song yeah and put the energy and it was
on.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So it was great.
The death of the cover band isnear.
Yeah, sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So we got a gear find .
Yes, sir, we do.
What do we got?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, this one's good .
We shoot this podcast with avlogger camera in the center and
then two of the Pocket Osmo 3.
You've heard me talk about it.
It's made by DJI the samepeople that makes the drones my
favorite camera.
Every wedding video you see onYouTube of our gig logs most of
the stuff we shoot here in thestudio.
We've gotten rid of all of ourDSLR cameras.
Like we use these Pocket Osmo 3.
(15:08):
Now Brian has bought one aswell.
So this and the beauty of it isyou can self-shoot.
It's like a little handheldgimbal.
You can flip the screenvertical and shoot reels.
You can flip it sideways, likeit is right now, and shoot wide.
This goes on the bottom of it.
This is a thing I got fromAmazon, so it's got a quarter
inch screw on the bottom.
You screw this on the bottomand then you put your phone
(15:29):
there and if you look at thecamera, brian, you can see
exactly where it would go underthe lens, right, I'm sorry, I'm
not like showing it to y'allwith it on there, but basically
I can put my teleprompter app onthis now and walk around and
look like I'm talking to thecamera, right, but I'm really
reading a script.
Or even just put it on a tripod.
Put this on the bottom of it.
Still be able to put the tripod, see that right.
(15:50):
Yep, nub in the bottom and I cansit there and put my screen on
any one of 3 000 probably appstore teleprompter apps and
literally sit there and read ascript and make it look kind of,
or even walk around with yeah,and I think nate acosta might
have put me onto this, so shoutout, nate acosta, down in dallas
, but this thing is I think itwas like ten dollars I love on
(16:11):
Amazon.
We'll put it under the video onYouTube and we'll also put it
on my Amazon store link.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And you're two for two.
Yeah, two for two on these Goodstuff.
Good stuff, brian B here.
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(16:39):
not only song lists but alsoexclusive edits of mine.
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(17:00):
Slash DJ Brian B official.
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Everyone's trying to figure outhow you keep your sets so fire
and planners will start nudgingtheir couples your way.
And if that's not a hard enoughsell, I don't know what is All
right.
Back to the episode.
Before Joe tries to convince usthat Sweet Caroline is actually
a banger.
Let's hit this question.
(17:20):
I think it's a two-parter.
Our boy's back Al-al Al-al FromPensacola, so this is a
two-part question.
Actually, this is funny becauseI think you just talked about a
flip.
Do you charge a flip fee forcertain venues and layouts?
Or, in the event of rain?
If you do have to move inside,do you have to move or
disassemble, reassemble yoursetup?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Number one do we charge a flip fee?
No, we don't.
We try and load in as much aswe can or either pull the van.
We pulled the van right up tothat side door last time.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What if they tell you it's hey, it's looking like
it's going to rain, we want todo it outside, we're going to
wait.
And then all of a suddenthey're like dude, it's going to
rain and you've already set up.
Now you got to pull it in.
Are you charging for that?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We're not charging for that either.
I will say, though you alsohave to remember that everything
that I run now for the ceremonyis on one stick one tripod,
e-verse 8, battery-powered micsstand that we've clamped to it,
with the mic pack sitting on it,no cables.
It rained on us three, fourweeks ago at Farrington and we
looked up at the sky.
We had just set up.
It was a gorgeous day.
(18:21):
And then, as we were kind offinishing up in the reception,
we walked back out and I go, bro, it's coming Like this.
Look at your radar, it'sgetting ready to get biblical.
And I'm telling you, he went andgrabbed the rock and roller
cart and the bags for the stuffbecause we just had them under a
tree hidden in the back.
He ran those under a shelterand I grabbed the thing and kind
of ran in part of the hotel andjust set it down and not 60
(18:41):
seconds later it was a downfall,white squall just pouring, and
luckily it only lasted 15minutes, cleared up, they wiped
the chairs off.
They were still able to getmarried outside.
But back in the day, man andI'm talking about back in the
day as in five years ago I had atable right, a rack, two
speakers, all the cables run,all the power run those shark
fin paddle antennas like you seeon the side of an nfl game.
(19:04):
Yeah, like it would have been ashit show to break that down
and maybe I would have chargedback then now man no, no to to
either one of those't what?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
if it was the reception that was outside.
And this is the case andthey're like dude, we're going
to move it in.
We wanted it outdoors, you gotall your stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I don't think anybody's that dumb down here,
man.
I don't remember the last timewe did something quote unquote
under the stars, oh don'tremember.
Yours has always been.
The weather is so volatile hereI mean, look at it right.
(19:40):
Yeah, it is the end of may,it's 65 and raining.
Yeah, that makes no sense,right for this time of year I
agree it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, it should be 85 90 today and gorgeous, yeah,
yeah something right?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
uh, what about you?
I feel like you're gonna chargefor one or both.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We don't, okay, man, we don't the way it's worded in
our contract.
I wish I had that with me.
I don't, but it's somethingalong the lines we will do
everything in our power toaccommodate if there's rain.
But I have had people go hey,listen, we want to still do it
outdoors because it's Floridaman, they want to those markets
that I'm in.
They want to have it outdoorsbecause that's where they come
from.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But when you say outdoors, you're meaning there's
no tent, it's just raw dog init Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Wow, yeah, I had one.
It was at a hotel they have.
What do they call it?
It's not like a pergola maybe,no, not a pergola, but it's
almost like a topper, like apavilion, but it comes through
no sides Rains.
It's meant for sun, so that,basically, but if it's rain, it
comes through.
Okay, I see what you're sayingand they have to make the call
(20:32):
so early because this is arooftop.
People are bringing up tablesthe floors, all the stuff so
they called it at 10 o'clock, sowe're still doing it outside.
10 am 10 am.
Okay, florida's the mostvolatile place you can possibly
be it's like yeah, I'm like whatare you doing?
Why are you making that call?
It's a terrible idea.
At four o'clock so the wholeday it's pouring.
The florist had to call insomeone to bring her a new set
of clothes because, like she'sliterally setting up in the
(20:55):
pouring rain with this like archand doing all the stuff or
whatever I can't set up becauseliterally there's no covering,
right right.
So I'm having to wait till thevery last second, which I
absolutely hate.
Yeah, because then I'm like Ican't do my full checks, all
that kind of stuff, and I go upthere, set up, and so it cleared
.
It did clear.
However, the wind starts, ohshit, and I don't notice that I
(21:17):
am by a roof gutter.
So all of a sudden I feel thisdownpour of water all over my
stuff.
I'm just like on the gear on thegear like when was this?
This is like about two weeksago.
Oh, recent, recent.
I'm like what just happened.
I'm like I didn't see thiscoming because it's sunny.
I'm like what happened, but thewind was coming and blew it out
of like yeah and so I'm like,oh, I can't stay here, this is
(21:37):
not gonna work, I gotta move.
So look, I moved to a placethat was.
I had never even looked up toeven notice I was right there no
, I had a helper, so thankfullyI had that.
But I have had it happen a fewtimes.
Where they go, hey, you know,tell them, listen, if there's
any gear that's wet, I have tostop.
It's like an electrical issueand for health I don't want to
get electrocuted myself, that'snot a good gear.
(21:57):
So we always try to make themmake the call.
But I do everything I can tostay out there if it's at all
possible.
Disassembling, reassembling allmy stuff's pretty much put
together.
So it doesn't take much toreassemble.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean and again, man , we both have assistants.
I don't know, al, I don't thinkyou would be completely out of
line based on where your priceis.
Look, if you're charging $5,000plus for your show, then it's
part of your show, right.
But if you're getting $1,500 todo a show and you feel like you
are by yourself and you need alittle bit extra money, put
(22:29):
another $150 in there for a flipfee.
If you have to strike yourstuff and reset it up, put $300
in there for that and just writeit in your contract.
Make sure you're upfront withit, with the planner and the
client.
I don't see anythingnecessarily wrong with it,
unless you're charging premiumpricing, then it's kind of the
cost of doing business.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Right, I totally agree.
You said it just a second ago.
But it's important to have asmuch of this dialogue as early
as possible and continual aspossible, because if you live in
an area like he does in Florida, where it's potentially going
to happen and they're not fromthere they need to be aware of,
like how you operate, so thatthere's no gray when you get to
the event and something likethis happens.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Absolutely Good stuff .
Let's wrap it.
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what's up everybody.
Welcome back to beyond the djbooth podcast.
Cast casket, you like that I, Ilove it.
It's joe bunn with my guy brianb, we're back with another
episode of the greatest privateevent dj podcast possibly in the
world.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm gonna go with it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The numbers are good.
The numbers are pretty good,man, I'm proud of us.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's been still doing it.
Hey, it's consistent.
You can't say we don't miss.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We don't miss.
This is the last episode ofseason three, right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No, this is the first episode of season four.
Baby, oh shit, Season four.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Season four, so that means we've done 50.
This will be the 53rd episode,I guess, so that's pretty good.
That is, you think we'll quitor keep it going?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
No, I'm enjoying it, I am too.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's pretty fun.
Would you enjoy it if I madeyou come here every week, though
?
Ah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
yeah, that would get old.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You got to batch it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I got to batch it Me too.
I'm a batcher, yeah, so ifyou're listening to this and we
don't mention anything, that'scurrently happening, right.
We try not to mention thosethings very often because we
don't want to get.
We've had a couple oficebreakers where you've been a
little underperforming, if I dosay this myself.
So we're going to move intomusic.
(01:27):
I want to see how well you knowmusic.
I'm going to give you titles ofsongs and you're going to tell
me are these real titles or arethese fake titles, if you know
the artist.
Bonus points too, by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Is this either real or fake?
Or it's fake.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, the name of the song is called.
You're the Reason Our Kids AreUgly.
Do you think this is one ofthose romantic ballads that are
crushing the airwaves, or do youthink this is a fake?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I think it's real and it's either like an emo band or
like a hardcore band.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It is real, okay, but it's kind of from the 1950s, oh
shit.
So this is by Loretta Lynn andConway Twitty.
Wow, here's a little sample.
You're the reason our kids areugly.
Little darling, oh, but looksain't everything and money ain't
(02:20):
everything, but I love you justthe same.
Looks aren't everything.
Money ain't everything, but Ilove you still the same.
Wow, you're the reason our kidsare ugly.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And with a dog barking in the background in the
office building right now iseven crazier, and that just
added to the country hillbillyof that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, that's classic North Carolina.
All right, potential.
Song number two why does ithurt when I pee?
That's fake, there's no way.
You don't think it's real?
Nah, it is real, what do?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
you think is what kind of genre, what kind of what
kind of feel you think this is?
It's gotta be like, uh, like awhite dude with dreads, but he's
trying to do like a hardcorefrank zappa.
No, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Actually that tracks so here it is little sample.
Why does it hurt when I pee?
Why does it hurt when I pee?
One third of what's the fun,here we go.
I don't want no doctor to stickno needle in me.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Why does?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
it hurt when I pee Jesus.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Christ dude.
What the hell dude.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Third one here.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
How many are there Six?
My Wi-Fi left me for a betterrouter.
Real or fake?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't even know how you could put that into a
melody.
I'm going to say it's fake, itis fake, it is fake, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's too many words.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Number, number four, yank my doodle.
It's a dandy.
I'm gonna say, yes, it's realand it's really old, or country
it is both by a guy by the nameof john valby.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I don't know him.
I don't know him either here'sa little sample.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Let me hear john yank my doodle, it's a dandy.
It's the good old american way.
Grease me up and give a handythe original p diddy bro.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All right, the next one on the list who let the cows
out?
You think somebody did a parodyor decided to go down the
animal?
Yeah, I think it's real.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It is fake, my friend damn it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's two and two two and two, so the last one
here.
Nobody really cares if youdon't go to the party.
Is this a real song?
Is this a title?
I think, it's real, it is real.
Yes, sir, do you know any ideawho sings it?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't think you're going to get it, is it?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
country.
It's not Pop song, kind of likealternative.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, but you would kind of figure who is it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The artist is Courtney Barnett.
No, don't know her.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Here's what it sounds like.
I got three out of five.
Yeah, I got three out of five.
All right, a little over, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So I wanted to also just check in your Joe's journey
, as we talked about early on.
Boy, you've been posting theclips.
You've been trying.
I got A for effort.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm going to wrap it up tomorrow I'll wrap it up.
I mean, I'm not going to wrapup the Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And you think it's all because of there's.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
nothing else has changed.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You're not eating any less.
You're eating the same, butjust differently.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Correct, I'm not eating any less.
It's just different foods thanI would normally eat in a seven
day week.
So will this taper off?
Yeah, I can't.
Yes, that will be my posttomorrow, the way I've done it,
and it'll be a month tomorrow.
I started on the first,tomorrow's, the 29th, exactly
one month the way I've done.
It was too extreme, too much,too far.
(06:16):
Yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I thought that all.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Because I can't do all sugar, all simple carbs, all
at one time.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Cutting it off.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's not sustainable.
I would never be able to carryit on Like I cook probably four
out of seven nights forwhoever's at home that night.
That's not sustainable.
They don't want to eat thatshit.
It's not sustainable becauseevery day I usually like to go
out to lunch somewhere, right?
So what's the move?
I'm going on vacation Saturday,like that's not sustainable,
right?
The move is the move foranybody watching is start with
(06:50):
the sodas.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Cut out the sodas.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Were you a soda guy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I didn't realize you were.
I was a Coke.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Really, I didn't know this coke guy.
I've never seen you with a coke.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,like anytime I'd go to lunch,
I'd either get coke or sweet tea, and I'd argue sweet tea's
probably worse.
Okay, I don't, because I whenthey make sweet tea here.
I watched my mom make sweet teathis past weekend for my son
and his friends at the beach.
It was fucking crazy how out ofa pitcher of tea she put.
(07:18):
I remember my mom used to do it.
It was probably two cups, yeah,yeah, of just white sugar, sugar
in it, yeah and then, while itwas hot, stirred in there and
then the vanilla lattes you know, with either even skim milk,
but it's got all those pumps ofthat vanilla sugar right
sweetener.
So kill the sodas, the red bullat three o'clock pretty much
clockwork, every day.
(07:38):
Kill that, the sodas, the sweettea, and then, starting the day
with that blueberry muffin or ascone or cinnamon bun or sticky
bun at that bakery is the worstway to start the day, apparently
, and I think all those thingscumulatively, going into my 50s,
(07:58):
was literally just adding up topre-diabetic.
So shout out to that functionhealth test for being like yo,
you need to pump the brakes onthe sugar shit.
And I was able to do that and Ithink it is sustainable for me
to cold turkey all of that stuff.
Now, cutting out, you know, asandwich with bread or a
(08:19):
Chick-fil-A every once in awhile.
I won't be able to do that, andjust eating a salad every day,
it's just not sustainable.
So I've realized what I can doand I know I'll stick to the
drinks.
How's?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
your energy.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I don't feel any different.
People keep asking me that Idon't feel any different.
I've always had high energy.
I've always slept great.
I always will go to the gymfour days a week, no matter if
I'm on the road or in Raleigh orwhatever, and give, you know, a
hard 45 minute workout in somesort of group class setting.
So I don't feel any different.
I definitely was close to 200pounds, which is too heavy for
(08:52):
as short as I am.
All of the last, probably two,three, four years, every time
I've gone to the doctor, likeright up in the 190eties and I'm
like down to one 83, I'veprobably lost at least 12 pounds
.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What's the expectation when you do the
retest?
What do you?
Where are you on it?
I?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
need for these and they have.
You know these technical termsfor this cholesterol and this
kind of APOB or whatever.
Like I need these numbers to bemore in range.
Right, I need more numbers.
I think there was 108 testswhen it was all done and 18 were
out of range.
I need like 10 of those 18 tobe back in range.
Let's say I don't think it'llbe, I'm gonna be, you know,
(09:28):
superman, right, and havenothing out of range.
I don't think any human probablyhas that right but I need that
to be in range and I think I'llfeel a lot more comfortable well
, kudos for going this far.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I gotta got to say I did it, man.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I mean, you know, I think I just should have started
with the sodas and then worked,you know, backwards on more
protein, less bread, less pastastuff like that, right, and
tapered that off instead ofgoing full cold turkey.
My goal really wasn't to loseweight, right?
I remember you saying that.
Yeah, I still stand by that, butit was a natural occurrence of
(10:01):
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I didn't really talk about mygigs.
We had a couple gigs.
We did a really small weddingat this interesting venue in
Raleigh and we were on this kindof like the bottom of the
(10:43):
staircase.
Almost You've been there before, I have, and normally they put
you up in the balcony.
Oh, I hate that.
Oh, 75, 80 feet from the dancefloor, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I literally would like to have to send Saquon over
the balcony down to the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's the worst it's like say go on, go out there and
see if people are having fun,because I have no clue that's
how far away.
But they put me on the landingat the bottom of the staircase
and it was kind of cool, abeautiful room flip they did for
this venue.
I thought we had a great partythere and then we led right into
last weekend another greatparty, brand new venue that's
open, donovan manor, that myfriend jill owns.
(11:18):
Yeah, and a little bit weirdwhere we were set up.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But this was half american, half persian oh, you
don't get the ethnic weddings,but not a ton not a ton.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know, a couple of year I'll catch and um they
don't load you up blonde hairblue eyed girl, a friend of mine
, that was a professional likeentertainment dancer, not the
wrong kind of dancer, right likeshe's a choreographer.
She was on the uh carolinadance team.
She cheered for the wizards likeyeah she's a real dancer, she's
in the wedding party, she's thebride.
Oh, she's the bride.
So she was out there justkilling it.
(11:49):
And then the groom is, uh,iranian.
I mean it was 160 people andsaquon, wouldn't you say it was
about 50, 50 like yeah, maybenot 50, 50, 60, 40, 60 40.
There were 40 people that wereof persian descent like, so does
that and I'm not saying theyflew over for the wedding.
They've been living in theunited states.
Their children were secondgeneration, whatever, whatever.
(12:09):
But did you have to go heavier?
Yes, oh yeah, and they want tohear.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh, they do, they want to hear that shit.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
So I I luckily been been given the music and I'd
listened to it and figured outkind of where it went in.
But my set got shortened, thetimeline ran long, the speeches
were too long, the blah blahblah dinner too, yeah, and I
felt like I really had to shovelike 83 songs into like 90
minutes.
Wow, and I probably got through60, but you know, it's like I
(12:37):
needed it to breathe a littlebit more and I felt rushed.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Were there any they?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
were super happy man.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's amazing.
Were there any songs that, likeI notice a lot of times these
ethnicities they like do coversof American songs?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
There were none of those, no there were none of
those, but it was like there wastwo or three types of Persian
songs, just like.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
There are like like.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Hispanic songs.
There's salsa merengue, there'sbachata, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
What was a good mix?
You did that.
You can in or out of one.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
There's a dude named S-A-S-Y I don't know if that's
Sassy or Sassy.
His songs were good, but therewere some that sounded older.
Yeah and the time signature.
The time signature was crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Saquon was like what the fuck is happening?
I was trying to groove with it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It wasn't like that boom, that boom that boom, but
the way they were dancing it waslike Persian.
Yeah, they're like movingaround the room.
They were feeling it, bro, butme and Saquon were like
something's crazy with this beatright now, like how am I going?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
to get out of it?
I think I just let them playout.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You know what I mean.
Just move on to the next song.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It was a wild ride, man, but they, she had a blast.
We had the sweetest InstagramDM yesterday about how everybody
was complimenting her, how I'vejust kind of moved magically
between the two genres, right,you know what I mean.
It wasn't like I played twoPersian songs, I mean, I
probably played 10 or 12.
It was good, man.
Did you have those nervesthough?
A little bit, yeah, like right,when I started, but I just like
(14:03):
I said, I listened to the songs.
I was prepared.
I just kind of felt like I hadto rush a yeah A little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's good stuff, all right, yeah, man, it's good.
Yeah, I played with the band.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah yeah.
Brian texts me.
He sends me a picture of theband he goes.
I love playing with bands.
I'm about to bury these fools.
It's like cause they go on andthey do the my girls and the
bullshit they did.
Yeah, and sun goes down.
(14:32):
Brian B just goes crazy yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So took one song yeah and put the energy and it was
on.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So it was great.
The death of the cover band isnear.
Yeah, sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So we got a gear find .
Yes, sir, we do.
What do we got?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, this one's good .
We shoot this podcast with avlogger camera in the center and
then two of the Pocket Osmo 3.
You've heard me talk about it.
It's made by DJI the samepeople that makes the drones my
favorite camera.
Every wedding video you see onYouTube of our gig logs most of
the stuff we shoot here in thestudio.
We've gotten rid of all of ourDSLR cameras.
Like we use these Pocket Osmo 3.
(15:08):
Now Brian has bought one aswell.
So this and the beauty of it isyou can self-shoot.
It's like a little handheldgimbal.
You can flip the screenvertical and shoot reels.
You can flip it sideways, likeit is right now, and shoot wide.
This goes on the bottom of it.
This is a thing I got fromAmazon, so it's got a quarter
inch screw on the bottom.
You screw this on the bottomand then you put your phone
(15:29):
there and if you look at thecamera, brian, you can see
exactly where it would go underthe lens, right, I'm sorry, I'm
not like showing it to y'allwith it on there, but basically
I can put my teleprompter app onthis now and walk around and
look like I'm talking to thecamera, right, but I'm really
reading a script.
Or even just put it on a tripod.
Put this on the bottom of it.
Still be able to put the tripod, see that right.
(15:50):
Yep, nub in the bottom and I cansit there and put my screen on
any one of 3 000 probably appstore teleprompter apps and
literally sit there and read ascript and make it look kind of,
or even walk around with yeah,and I think nate acosta might
have put me onto this, so shoutout, nate acosta, down in dallas
, but this thing is I think itwas like ten dollars I love on
(16:11):
Amazon.
We'll put it under the video onYouTube and we'll also put it
on my Amazon store link.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And you're two for two.
Yeah, two for two on these Goodstuff.
Good stuff, brian B here.
Yes, interrupting yet anotherstellar podcast episode, but
don't worry, this is a value add, not just me rambling.
Have you enjoyed the musicfinds I 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
(16:39):
not only song lists but alsoexclusive edits of mine.
Yep, custom tracks.
That'll set you apart fromevery DJ still rinsing the same
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(17:00):
Slash DJ Brian B official.
You'll be the DJ.
Everyone's trying to figure outhow you keep your sets so fire
and planners will start nudgingtheir couples your way.
And if that's not a hard enoughsell, I don't know what is All
right.
Back to the episode.
Before Joe tries to convince usthat Sweet Caroline is actually
a banger.
Let's hit this question.
(17:20):
I think it's a two-parter.
Our boy's back Al-al Al-al FromPensacola, so this is a
two-part question.
Actually, this is funny becauseI think you just talked about a
flip.
Do you charge a flip fee forcertain venues and layouts?
Or, in the event of rain?
If you do have to move inside,do you have to move or
disassemble, reassemble yoursetup?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Number one do we charge a flip fee?
No, we don't.
We try and load in as much aswe can or either pull the van.
We pulled the van right up tothat side door last time.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What if they tell you it's hey, it's looking like
it's going to rain, we want todo it outside, we're going to
wait.
And then all of a suddenthey're like dude, it's going to
rain and you've already set up.
Now you got to pull it in.
Are you charging for that?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We're not charging for that either.
I will say, though you alsohave to remember that everything
that I run now for the ceremonyis on one stick one tripod,
e-verse 8, battery-powered micsstand that we've clamped to it,
with the mic pack sitting on it,no cables.
It rained on us three, fourweeks ago at Farrington and we
looked up at the sky.
We had just set up.
It was a gorgeous day.
(18:21):
And then, as we were kind offinishing up in the reception,
we walked back out and I go, bro, it's coming Like this.
Look at your radar, it'sgetting ready to get biblical.
And I'm telling you, he went andgrabbed the rock and roller
cart and the bags for the stuffbecause we just had them under a
tree hidden in the back.
He ran those under a shelterand I grabbed the thing and kind
of ran in part of the hotel andjust set it down and not 60
(18:41):
seconds later it was a downfall,white squall just pouring, and
luckily it only lasted 15minutes, cleared up, they wiped
the chairs off.
They were still able to getmarried outside.
But back in the day, man andI'm talking about back in the
day as in five years ago I had atable right, a rack, two
speakers, all the cables run,all the power run those shark
fin paddle antennas like you seeon the side of an nfl game.
(19:04):
Yeah, like it would have been ashit show to break that down
and maybe I would have chargedback then now man no, no to to
either one of those't what?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
if it was the reception that was outside.
And this is the case andthey're like dude, we're going
to move it in.
We wanted it outdoors, you gotall your stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I don't think anybody's that dumb down here,
man.
I don't remember the last timewe did something quote unquote
under the stars, oh don'tremember.
Yours has always been.
The weather is so volatile hereI mean, look at it right.
(19:40):
Yeah, it is the end of may,it's 65 and raining.
Yeah, that makes no sense,right for this time of year I
agree it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, it should be 85 90 today and gorgeous, yeah,
yeah something right?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
uh, what about you?
I feel like you're gonna chargefor one or both.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We don't, okay, man, we don't the way it's worded in
our contract.
I wish I had that with me.
I don't, but it's somethingalong the lines we will do
everything in our power toaccommodate if there's rain.
But I have had people go hey,listen, we want to still do it
outdoors because it's Floridaman, they want to those markets
that I'm in.
They want to have it outdoorsbecause that's where they come
from.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But when you say outdoors, you're meaning there's
no tent, it's just raw dog init Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Wow, yeah, I had one.
It was at a hotel they have.
What do they call it?
It's not like a pergola maybe,no, not a pergola, but it's
almost like a topper, like apavilion, but it comes through
no sides Rains.
It's meant for sun, so that,basically, but if it's rain, it
comes through.
Okay, I see what you're sayingand they have to make the call
(20:32):
so early because this is arooftop.
People are bringing up tablesthe floors, all the stuff so
they called it at 10 o'clock, sowe're still doing it outside.
10 am 10 am.
Okay, florida's the mostvolatile place you can possibly
be it's like yeah, I'm like whatare you doing?
Why are you making that call?
It's a terrible idea.
At four o'clock so the wholeday it's pouring.
The florist had to call insomeone to bring her a new set
of clothes because, like she'sliterally setting up in the
(20:55):
pouring rain with this like archand doing all the stuff or
whatever I can't set up becauseliterally there's no covering,
right right.
So I'm having to wait till thevery last second, which I
absolutely hate.
Yeah, because then I'm like Ican't do my full checks, all
that kind of stuff, and I go upthere, set up, and so it cleared
.
It did clear.
However, the wind starts, ohshit, and I don't notice that I
(21:17):
am by a roof gutter.
So all of a sudden I feel thisdownpour of water all over my
stuff.
I'm just like on the gear on thegear like when was this?
This is like about two weeksago.
Oh, recent, recent.
I'm like what just happened.
I'm like I didn't see thiscoming because it's sunny.
I'm like what happened, but thewind was coming and blew it out
of like yeah and so I'm like,oh, I can't stay here, this is
(21:37):
not gonna work, I gotta move.
So look, I moved to a placethat was.
I had never even looked up toeven notice I was right there no
, I had a helper, so thankfullyI had that.
But I have had it happen a fewtimes.
Where they go, hey, you know,tell them, listen, if there's
any gear that's wet, I have tostop.
It's like an electrical issueand for health I don't want to
get electrocuted myself, that'snot a good gear.
(21:57):
So we always try to make themmake the call.
But I do everything I can tostay out there if it's at all
possible.
Disassembling, reassembling allmy stuff's pretty much put
together.
So it doesn't take much toreassemble.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean and again, man , we both have assistants.
I don't know, al, I don't thinkyou would be completely out of
line based on where your priceis.
Look, if you're charging $5,000plus for your show, then it's
part of your show, right.
But if you're getting $1,500 todo a show and you feel like you
are by yourself and you need alittle bit extra money, put
(22:29):
another $150 in there for a flipfee.
If you have to strike yourstuff and reset it up, put $300
in there for that and just writeit in your contract.
Make sure you're upfront withit, with the planner and the
client.
I don't see anythingnecessarily wrong with it,
unless you're charging premiumpricing, then it's kind of the
cost of doing business.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Right, I totally agree.
You said it just a second ago.
But it's important to have asmuch of this dialogue as early
as possible and continual aspossible, because if you live in
an area like he does in Florida, where it's potentially going
to happen and they're not fromthere they need to be aware of,
like how you operate, so thatthere's no gray when you get to
the event and something likethis happens.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Absolutely Good stuff .
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