March 12, 2025 • 19 mins
Step into the world of DJing with our latest episode, where we explore hilarious and relatable "Would You Rather" scenarios designed just for DJs. Join hosts Brian B. and Joe Bunn as they navigate through wild hypothetical situations, from last-minute playlist changes to handling the unconventional requests of excited wedding guests. This episode merges laughter with real-world experiences in the unpredictable realm of DJing, offering both entertainment and valuable tips for navigating common issues.
We delve into the importance of preparation in DJing, sharing personal stories that highlight the challenges professionals face on the job. Whether it's managing drunken bridesmaids or working with challenging equipment, our hosts reveal their thought processes behind each dilemma while delivering laughs along the way. Beyond the humor, we shift gears to discuss the art of gifting in the DJ industry. Learn how personalizing thank-you gifts can foster strong relationships with vendors and clients, turning a simple gesture into a meaningful connection.
This playful yet insightful episode shines a light on what it truly means to be a DJ while offering takeaways that can enhance your career. Tune in for the laughs, insights, and expert advice that will help you excel in your role as a DJ. Don't forget to subscribe, share with your fellow DJs, or leave us a review to keep the conversation going!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.
This is episode 12 of season 2.
Welcome to Beyond the DJ BoothPodcast.
(00:25):
This is episode 12 of seasontwo.
I'm Brian B.
This is Joe Bunn.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome, buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hey buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I was confused, so 12 , one away from the season ender
.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That would be true.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I wonder if we do a cliffhanger at the end.
Ooh, that'd be good Of number13.
But then, technically, we justgo right into the next season.
It's not like when they filmYellowstone and there's like a
two-year wait.
That is true.
Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Wanted to do another icebreaker with you, man.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, I like icebreakers.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
How do you?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
come up with these.
Do you Google?
This one came about with mydaughter actually you ever talk
to Chet GPT like voice functionthough I have not dead serious,
I have not.
It was scary the other day.
I had to shut it down and goback to typing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I don't have that option and I was like, and now
he said did you give her a?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
name.
I didn't go down into the youknow to the personal thing, but
it was like it started as abusiness conversation.
But it got kind of scary, man,because I forget.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Now she knows who I am yeah and like wait, so she
remembers you yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Nah, yeah, cause I even this morning I was, I was,
I was like she's like, but yourpants.
I was asking about a question,about an offering.
I was trying to do somethingabout education or whatever, and
the first thing I go is hey,just making sure you know who I
am.
She wrote like three paragraphsyeah, you're Joe bun, you're an
educator in the.
You have these companies.
You have six offices in fiveStates with Bundy Wow.
(01:48):
Like it was like and she waslike how can we get started?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And I was like oh snap, this shit's getting real
anyway, so go ahead Well thisone came from me for my daughter
, cause we were on vacationduring the holidays and I was at
a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I had an entertainer.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So I went down the.
Would you rather?
Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, you knowrabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, me and my sister used to play that game in
the car on road trips where I'dbe like, would you rather have
that beat up Ford pickup truckor that like punch bug?
Totally Like you had to pickthe car.
That's how we used to.
So this is the.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
DJ edition.
Okay, would you rather have aclient who emails you a
completely different playlistthe night before the wedding, or
one who sends you a hundredsong requests but tells you to
just read the room?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
instead I'm going to take the hundred and then just
kind of dissect it into thestuff I know that are going to
work Too much work, man, ifthey're giving me a playlist the
night before.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'm scrambling to do it my day's too organized.
I can't, that would bestressful.
I've had it happen.
You and I are very similar.
Yeah, you ever notice that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, and then Janna is just like a hurricane.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And he'll be the first to tell you.
Oh, he'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm not speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I'll speak it right here on camera.
He will call himself HurricaneJanna.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, all right, number two queue or a wedding
where no one seems to know whatanything is supposed to happen
god, this is tough.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I'm gonna go micromanage same.
I think we're both gonna be.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The other one is just like I feel like I'm, you know,
wearing seven hats.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, then I've become the everything yeah, like
everybody's coming to me.
To be fair, man, when westarted and again, this was 20
years ago and in this marketright here where we sit, you
know, and it was just me, randyand this guy greg years ago, and
in this market right here wherewe sit, you know, and it was
just me, randy and this guy GregRamsey we were in this price
tier where there was no planner.
We did so much crazy shit.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
We used to do a ton of them at beach houses.
Yeah, they don't have the moneyfor a planner.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
They're doing it at a beach house.
They don't even have it at avenue.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's probably not going to be doing it.
Those were the biggest.
Just goes, oh, I've unloadedchairs.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I've been helping move furniture, moving cakes.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, oh, it's crazy shit.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, I'm with you on that one.
All right.
Number three would you ratherhave a guest keep reaching over
the booth to adjust yoursettings, or a drunk bridesmaid
who won't stop trying to helpyou DJ by dancing next to you
all night?
Jeez you all night.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Jeez.
This one's probably the hardestone is the rise made hot that's
what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Like I think I can get it.
I think I would probably dealwith that part.
I don't want anybody touchingmy stuff, me neither I, just no,
I can't have that.
Then they get confident yeah,then they're like oh I, I can't
touch this right.
No, no, hands off no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Somebody did it to us at scotty style's wedding and
saquon was like what the hell Iwas and I was like I kind of
knew the guy.
He was a.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
DJ.
It happened that other time too, when we was in Durham and we
went to go eat.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We went to go eat.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And then we came back and this guy was behind the
booth.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Just standing there.
During dinner we went upstairsto eat, you know the planner was
like hey, we got you guys avendor meal up here.
We walked back down there juststanding there like fake DJing.
I mean, the sun wasn't evendown yet.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It was crazy A little early for that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, then he kept calling me Joey Like he wanted
to fight, he got kicked out.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He got kicked out.
He was calling me Joey.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, All right, let's get into technical issues.
Would you rather be forced tomix using two iPads, running
YouTube with ads or MC with amicrophone that cuts out
sporadically?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm going broken mic.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Are you yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't think I could do it, bro.
You're mixing it and then allof a sudden it's like Viagra the
way to the great boner.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Like what if you're doing toast and it just cuts out
completely?
You said sporadically thoughyeah, that's even worse If it
sporadically is cutting backup.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah I don't know.
Ads are playing all this stufflike, and the ads are based on
what you're watching.
Bro, what if it's like, that'strue, only fans, only fans.
And you're like, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
there's a great ackers ad all right, right, the
worst in the middle, jeez wouldyou rather have a speaker go
completely dead during the firstdance or have your laptop
freeze right before the opendance set?
Speaker dead.
Speaker dead, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
During the first dance.
It's just one, though.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You said a speaker.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, you said a speaker, because I can limp on
one and I'm just going to leavethe other one open.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think there would be too many eyes on me and I
feel like I'd have a backup oflike an iPad if my computer
froze.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I mean, I definitely had that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And I have it always like with a backup ready to go.
So I think I could probably dothat, because I feel like that.
All eyes on me and all of asudden during the dance, it just
like cuts out.
You're hearing it in stereo andall of a sudden you're down to
like one speaker.
You're like what the?
I think I'd lean towards theiPad.
I and bad speaker.
Okay, last one.
Would you rather have to endevery wedding with closing time,
no matter the vibe, or have thecouple force you?
(06:28):
to play three separate timesthroughout the night.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sorry, I didn't even let you get to the end.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
rather have to end every wedding with closing time,
no matter the vibe, or have thecouple force you to play
Macarena three separate timesthroughout the night Closing
time.
Somebody dropped the Macarenathe other night during that Drew
and Fuse set.
Oh, they did.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, you were there.
Yeah, I was.
Were you drinking?
I think so.
Yeah, you were drinking.
I believe I had a little coupleof beverages Adult beverages
yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Somebody dropped a Macarena in it.
Now, it could have been amashup, but I have a video of
people doing the Macarena.
Oh yikes, I was telling.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Saquon, that I had a couple who this guy used to work
at a gym and he's like, hey,dude, I have this song, I want
you to play this song.
It was Automatic, is the nameof it levels versus no hands,
okay.
And he's like we used to playthis at the gym on YouTube, it
was like a YouTube mix, yeah.
And so he got me the song, Iplayed it and it went over.
(07:23):
Okay, it's not a great song,okay.
And then he came up three orfour more times that night Say
hey, can you play that songagain?
I'm like bro, like you know,but our crowd is he the groom
he's?
the groom.
Oh, so I'm playing it by thefourth one.
Even his bribe is like okaydude, this is enough yeah, you
know, but I brought a sample ofthis song.
You got to hear how bad this iswait, how long was it?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
how long?
I mean it's like three minuteslong, it's a full, I just made a
small cut, but right this ishow it starts.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
How did what made you even think of this?
Because of this question, ohplaying macarena three times
imagine playing this song.
See if you can place the vocalsample.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's on this sometimes I had too many beers,
which I gladly do and which Ifully embrace automatic still is
.
I liked beer.
I still like beer automaticstill is.
But I did not drink beer to thepoint of blacking out.
(08:16):
When I was in town I spent muchof my time working out, lifting
weights or hanging out andhaving some beers with friends.
Sometimes I had too many beers,which I gladly do and which I
fully embrace.
Working out automatic.
Blacking out.
Automatic Catholic,all-girlolic, all girls, schools
, automatic still is.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Welcome to the madhouse three times I had to
play that song with that vocalyou know who that is?
No, the whole time I keptthinking it was owen wilson,
from like one of those oldschool movies, but it doesn't
sound like his voice.
It's justice kavanaugh fromlike the supreme court during
(09:04):
his confirmation hearings whenhe was getting like grilled
about drinking, like when he waslike in law school as a teacher
, and all this no totally is whoit is it's a real thing.
That sounds like it sounds realit is real, it's not a movie.
I'm like I don't get it.
Like what is the big deal?
So, anyways, I had cam reevesfrom utah.
It was a wedding that he wasdoing tech for before and he's
(09:25):
seeing this guy come up to melike five times play a song.
I'm like, I never do this likeI never play me neither like.
I barely repeat one me eitherso now it's a troll thing where
anytime someone mentions me in acomment, he just writes
automatic Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Just to go back to this particular song.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Wow, can you imagine playing that?
No, and the other thing I likelevels it gets mashed up with a
lot of things.
But no Hands is like one ofthose songs you don't touch.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That one is like Same .
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You know you don't need to bastardize certain songs
no, not good.
Speaking of bastardize, I wasriding in the car this morning
and Spotify it says likesuggested for you or new
releases for you.
So it's based off like stuff Ilisten to.
And there's this country artistnamed Riley Green.
He's pretty good, but it wasSlow Dancing in a burning room,
which I think it's a masterpiecesong yeah mayor.
Is god like to me?
I love mayor and you know it'sliterally first thing in the
(10:18):
morning.
I'm like this is a good way tostart the day to start the day I
think it's gonna be good.
Nah, man, you can't touch thatsong.
Sometimes it's just better notto cover a thousand percent.
And he effed it up.
It was bastardization yeah manand the guy's a good singer,
like he's talented artist, but,like bro, just leave well enough
alone.
You know what I mean?
Totally don't touch somethingso great she shitted it up well,
(10:38):
I got a gear corner piece.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh interesting, this packaging is pretty interesting.
Yeah, this is called the pinkstuff.
I actually had trego the djshop trego from az yeah he had
messaged me like hey, dude, whatdo you use to like clean your
gear and the things that likewhatever, this stuff is
incredible.
It can basically get any dirtor anything out of any surface.
(11:01):
Hold on what have you used itfor so far.
So I've used it on DJ booth orthe speakers, where they're kind
of a little dirty or whatever.
I have used it on sneakers Withrag Just a rag, so you dampen
the rag here.
I'll open this.
It is pink inside.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It looks like this it looks like spackle, a little
paste.
Yeah, you know what spackle is.
Yeah, like if I punched a holein that wall Caulk, caulk.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What kind?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
of caulk, do you like ?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Sorry, I had to go there.
Anyways, essentially you take adamp rag, okay, and after that
then they say to dampen on theother side just to wipe it off,
right, but you don't even haveto do it.
It kind of just dissipates onceit's doing it.
Amazon, any guess on price$7.99.
You're getting good at this,you're close, it's actually
cheaper.
It actually kind of smells good.
(11:45):
It's $5.97 for that thing.
But you should have that inyour Gig bag at all times.
100%.
It's uncredible.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Sauce pans, cooker tops, sinks, Anything.
Barbecues, ceramic towels,glass showers, garden furniture,
paint work, boats, brass, rustthe list is endless.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I spilled some marinara sauce on the couch and
I'm like I'm going to see ifthis will work.
It did, Cleaned it up.
I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
This stuff is surprisingly really good and it
didn't take the color out of thecouch, nope.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the other thing too with this is, if you've ever
scuffed it up where it's notdirt, it actually does a pretty
good job of almost likebuffering it out.
Yeah, I don't say it's kind oflike a magic eraser to an extent
.
I'm not gonna go that crazy andover promise that, but it's
pretty good in that case.
So, anyways, I keep a littlebit of this in my gig bag at all
times.
Damn, you're good at this.
I don't travel with it.
(12:35):
Obviously, right, right, right,you gotta have it local, but
this stuff is incredible andit's vegan.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So it is.
It's kind of funny.
We used to have this stuff whenI was doing screen printing.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And it was also pink.
You spray the screen to get theimage out.
It would get rid of the image Iwonder if they're using the
same chemicals or something.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Interesting.
That's what it reminds me of.
It looks like that stuff youwash your hands with.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It's like Gojo or something like that.
Is it gritty like?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
that it is gritty like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, In theYouTube video you'll see the
link to my Amazon shop.
You'll get it there.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
We always put the description of the podcast, yes,
and then there's like a dottedline, and then, right under that
line, you'll see all of theresources, the link to our
website where you can leave us areview, by the way we don't ask
for reviews.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
We need to Leave us a review, man.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
It bumps us up in the algorithm.
Then you're going to see ourAmazon shopping, shopping.
You're going to see how to bookBrian.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You'll see how to book me.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
There's some other links there, but anyway, make
sure you check that out.
That's under the YouTube video,if you're watching this on
video.
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All right, back to the show.
Before Joe starts yelling inhis extra thick North Carolina
accent about how back in his dayDJs used CDs and still had to
walk uphill both ways to a gig.
So we're going to go DJCmentoring call style two minutes
(14:46):
on the clock because we'rerunning against the gun here on
time.
But this is coming from BillyRears, our question of the day.
He's in Derry, new Hampshire.
This is a good one.
I know it's going to be toughto get in two minutes, but can
you chat about how you gift andthank you.
I'm guessing this is goingtowards vendors or venues, not
necessarily clients.
Did you do any this year?
Did you do any gifting toplanners?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I'm sure we did.
You mean last year, 2024?
Yeah, okay, okay, two minutes,here we go.
I'll say this Billy Mass appealand mass marketing is out.
It is Personalization is in.
So, in other words, we used toliterally have like a
pre-written thank you note Ithink I signed them was about
the most I did and we would justsend them out to past clients
and wedding planners.
(15:31):
Now if I genuinely want to thanksomebody, I would probably get
some sort of a brandedstationery, literally with a
blank inside.
I'd write about two or threesentences, a genuine, real thank
you note and stick it in themail Old school Mail it.
The gifting again used to domass quantities of gift baskets,
koozies, yeti cups, whatever,and they just ended up on a pile
, you know, especially duringthe holidays with all the other
(15:51):
gifts that these weddingplanners or vendors or venues
were getting, and it was justfrustrating and stupid.
Now it's about meeting withsomebody, listening to a
conversation, picking outsomething that they love or that
their kids love or theirhusband or wife loves, and
somehow integrating that into aspecial once a year gift.
And again, I'm speaking aboutpeople that generate a ton of
business for your company,whether it's a venue or a
(16:14):
planner or whatever.
How about you, brian?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I am in full agreement on the personalization
piece.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah yeah, you're really good at this.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The one thing that I would take away from this is
maybe like lean into what'spopping off in the current
trends.
So, like last year, we saw ahuge influx of people wanting
especially females wanting thoseStanley cups, yeah.
So we got them all bedazzledand they looked awesome.
We got them all kind ofrockstar out.
(16:41):
Basically, it was kind of ourthought and where do you get
that done, etsy?
Etsy is the place to go.
You're supporting smallbusinesses and if you have the
lead time and you're doing smallquantity runs, I think that's
the move.
They will love the business andthey'll take extra special care
of you, including writing thenote for you in a way that
actually is handwritten, doesn'tfeel fake or whatever the case
(17:02):
may be.
And what's cool about that isthey'll ship it directly to them
.
You don't have to be themiddleman to get them all and
now deliver them if you don'twant to do that.
The other thing, too, is thatwe don't put our own logo on any
of those gifts anymore.
We used to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, we did too.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Now, we don't, because I think it's better to
put the planner or the venue'sperson's name on it, personalize
not just the type of gift butthe gift itself, with their name
on it, or whatever.
When people ask them, where didyou get that?
They're going to remember youanyways.
If it's memorable, hell yeah,they'll remember it.
So I don't really need my.
It's not like, oh, all of asudden they're going to think of
me when they see this giftbecause it's got my logo on it.
(17:43):
I think they'd be more apt touse it if it's got their own
name on it and they don't feellike they're having to play
favorites because somebody gavethem whatever.
So that's another tip.
And then the third tip, withone minute left on the clock,
would be when you do thesethings, try to find something
that is going to be somethingthat they will use long-term
Like, not something that's justlike a piece of candy that's
going to be gone tomorrow andit's done.
There's one other gifting typethat I would recommend, which is
the they call it the year roundflower.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's like a small little flower that looks.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We used to do them all the time and we'd pick a
color that would make sense, forsomebody can mix it up, so it
doesn't always have to bewhatever.
Those things don't have to bewatered.
They can last a year long.
I bought one for myself just tosee how long if it would really
last a year more than that, and39 bucks something crazy cheap.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
So it's not expensive it was real.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, comes with a handwritten note.
The packaging is everything.
It's really done, super chic.
You remember the website.
It is, I believe, le fleur lefleur.
Yeah, a little french spot, la.
Okay, so those would be my tipson gifting To your point.
It's got to be people who aregenerating serious revenue for
you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And you think will help move the needle.
I love it, man Good stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, let's put a bow on it.
We will put a bow on it.
Thank you everybody forwatching Beyond the DJ Booth
Podcast, that's Brian B.
We have a brand new episodeevery single week, so keep on
listening, leave us a review andsupport our sponsor, dj Event
Planner.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Thanks y'all.
Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.
This is episode 12 of season 2.
Welcome to Beyond the DJ BoothPodcast.
(00:25):
This is episode 12 of seasontwo.
I'm Brian B.
This is Joe Bunn.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome, buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hey buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I was confused, so 12 , one away from the season ender
.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That would be true.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I wonder if we do a cliffhanger at the end.
Ooh, that'd be good Of number13.
But then, technically, we justgo right into the next season.
It's not like when they filmYellowstone and there's like a
two-year wait.
That is true.
Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Wanted to do another icebreaker with you, man.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, I like icebreakers.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
How do you?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
come up with these.
Do you Google?
This one came about with mydaughter actually you ever talk
to Chet GPT like voice functionthough I have not dead serious,
I have not.
It was scary the other day.
I had to shut it down and goback to typing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I don't have that option and I was like, and now
he said did you give her a?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
name.
I didn't go down into the youknow to the personal thing, but
it was like it started as abusiness conversation.
But it got kind of scary, man,because I forget.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Now she knows who I am yeah and like wait, so she
remembers you yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Nah, yeah, cause I even this morning I was, I was,
I was like she's like, but yourpants.
I was asking about a question,about an offering.
I was trying to do somethingabout education or whatever, and
the first thing I go is hey,just making sure you know who I
am.
She wrote like three paragraphsyeah, you're Joe bun, you're an
educator in the.
You have these companies.
You have six offices in fiveStates with Bundy Wow.
(01:48):
Like it was like and she waslike how can we get started?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And I was like oh snap, this shit's getting real
anyway, so go ahead Well thisone came from me for my daughter
, cause we were on vacationduring the holidays and I was at
a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I had an entertainer.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So I went down the.
Would you rather?
Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, you knowrabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, me and my sister used to play that game in
the car on road trips where I'dbe like, would you rather have
that beat up Ford pickup truckor that like punch bug?
Totally Like you had to pickthe car.
That's how we used to.
So this is the.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
DJ edition.
Okay, would you rather have aclient who emails you a
completely different playlistthe night before the wedding, or
one who sends you a hundredsong requests but tells you to
just read the room?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
instead I'm going to take the hundred and then just
kind of dissect it into thestuff I know that are going to
work Too much work, man, ifthey're giving me a playlist the
night before.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'm scrambling to do it my day's too organized.
I can't, that would bestressful.
I've had it happen.
You and I are very similar.
Yeah, you ever notice that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, and then Janna is just like a hurricane.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And he'll be the first to tell you.
Oh, he'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm not speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I'll speak it right here on camera.
He will call himself HurricaneJanna.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, all right, number two queue or a wedding
where no one seems to know whatanything is supposed to happen
god, this is tough.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I'm gonna go micromanage same.
I think we're both gonna be.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The other one is just like I feel like I'm, you know,
wearing seven hats.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, then I've become the everything yeah, like
everybody's coming to me.
To be fair, man, when westarted and again, this was 20
years ago and in this marketright here where we sit, you
know, and it was just me, randyand this guy greg years ago, and
in this market right here wherewe sit, you know, and it was
just me, randy and this guy GregRamsey we were in this price
tier where there was no planner.
We did so much crazy shit.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
We used to do a ton of them at beach houses.
Yeah, they don't have the moneyfor a planner.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
They're doing it at a beach house.
They don't even have it at avenue.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's probably not going to be doing it.
Those were the biggest.
Just goes, oh, I've unloadedchairs.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I've been helping move furniture, moving cakes.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, oh, it's crazy shit.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, I'm with you on that one.
All right.
Number three would you ratherhave a guest keep reaching over
the booth to adjust yoursettings, or a drunk bridesmaid
who won't stop trying to helpyou DJ by dancing next to you
all night?
Jeez you all night.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Jeez.
This one's probably the hardestone is the rise made hot that's
what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Like I think I can get it.
I think I would probably dealwith that part.
I don't want anybody touchingmy stuff, me neither I, just no,
I can't have that.
Then they get confident yeah,then they're like oh I, I can't
touch this right.
No, no, hands off no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Somebody did it to us at scotty style's wedding and
saquon was like what the hell Iwas and I was like I kind of
knew the guy.
He was a.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
DJ.
It happened that other time too, when we was in Durham and we
went to go eat.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We went to go eat.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And then we came back and this guy was behind the
booth.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Just standing there.
During dinner we went upstairsto eat, you know the planner was
like hey, we got you guys avendor meal up here.
We walked back down there juststanding there like fake DJing.
I mean, the sun wasn't evendown yet.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It was crazy A little early for that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, then he kept calling me Joey Like he wanted
to fight, he got kicked out.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He got kicked out.
He was calling me Joey.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, All right, let's get into technical issues.
Would you rather be forced tomix using two iPads, running
YouTube with ads or MC with amicrophone that cuts out
sporadically?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm going broken mic.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Are you yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't think I could do it, bro.
You're mixing it and then allof a sudden it's like Viagra the
way to the great boner.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Like what if you're doing toast and it just cuts out
completely?
You said sporadically thoughyeah, that's even worse If it
sporadically is cutting backup.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah I don't know.
Ads are playing all this stufflike, and the ads are based on
what you're watching.
Bro, what if it's like, that'strue, only fans, only fans.
And you're like, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
there's a great ackers ad all right, right, the
worst in the middle, jeez wouldyou rather have a speaker go
completely dead during the firstdance or have your laptop
freeze right before the opendance set?
Speaker dead.
Speaker dead, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
During the first dance.
It's just one, though.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You said a speaker.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, you said a speaker, because I can limp on
one and I'm just going to leavethe other one open.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think there would be too many eyes on me and I
feel like I'd have a backup oflike an iPad if my computer
froze.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I mean, I definitely had that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And I have it always like with a backup ready to go.
So I think I could probably dothat, because I feel like that.
All eyes on me and all of asudden during the dance, it just
like cuts out.
You're hearing it in stereo andall of a sudden you're down to
like one speaker.
You're like what the?
I think I'd lean towards theiPad.
I and bad speaker.
Okay, last one.
Would you rather have to endevery wedding with closing time,
no matter the vibe, or have thecouple force you?
(06:28):
to play three separate timesthroughout the night.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sorry, I didn't even let you get to the end.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
rather have to end every wedding with closing time,
no matter the vibe, or have thecouple force you to play
Macarena three separate timesthroughout the night Closing
time.
Somebody dropped the Macarenathe other night during that Drew
and Fuse set.
Oh, they did.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, you were there.
Yeah, I was.
Were you drinking?
I think so.
Yeah, you were drinking.
I believe I had a little coupleof beverages Adult beverages
yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Somebody dropped a Macarena in it.
Now, it could have been amashup, but I have a video of
people doing the Macarena.
Oh yikes, I was telling.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Saquon, that I had a couple who this guy used to work
at a gym and he's like, hey,dude, I have this song, I want
you to play this song.
It was Automatic, is the nameof it levels versus no hands,
okay.
And he's like we used to playthis at the gym on YouTube, it
was like a YouTube mix, yeah.
And so he got me the song, Iplayed it and it went over.
(07:23):
Okay, it's not a great song,okay.
And then he came up three orfour more times that night Say
hey, can you play that songagain?
I'm like bro, like you know,but our crowd is he the groom
he's?
the groom.
Oh, so I'm playing it by thefourth one.
Even his bribe is like okaydude, this is enough yeah, you
know, but I brought a sample ofthis song.
You got to hear how bad this iswait, how long was it?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
how long?
I mean it's like three minuteslong, it's a full, I just made a
small cut, but right this ishow it starts.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
How did what made you even think of this?
Because of this question, ohplaying macarena three times
imagine playing this song.
See if you can place the vocalsample.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's on this sometimes I had too many beers,
which I gladly do and which Ifully embrace automatic still is
.
I liked beer.
I still like beer automaticstill is.
But I did not drink beer to thepoint of blacking out.
(08:16):
When I was in town I spent muchof my time working out, lifting
weights or hanging out andhaving some beers with friends.
Sometimes I had too many beers,which I gladly do and which I
fully embrace.
Working out automatic.
Blacking out.
Automatic Catholic,all-girlolic, all girls, schools
, automatic still is.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Welcome to the madhouse three times I had to
play that song with that vocalyou know who that is?
No, the whole time I keptthinking it was owen wilson,
from like one of those oldschool movies, but it doesn't
sound like his voice.
It's justice kavanaugh fromlike the supreme court during
(09:04):
his confirmation hearings whenhe was getting like grilled
about drinking, like when he waslike in law school as a teacher
, and all this no totally is whoit is it's a real thing.
That sounds like it sounds realit is real, it's not a movie.
I'm like I don't get it.
Like what is the big deal?
So, anyways, I had cam reevesfrom utah.
It was a wedding that he wasdoing tech for before and he's
(09:25):
seeing this guy come up to melike five times play a song.
I'm like, I never do this likeI never play me neither like.
I barely repeat one me eitherso now it's a troll thing where
anytime someone mentions me in acomment, he just writes
automatic Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Just to go back to this particular song.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Wow, can you imagine playing that?
No, and the other thing I likelevels it gets mashed up with a
lot of things.
But no Hands is like one ofthose songs you don't touch.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That one is like Same .
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You know you don't need to bastardize certain songs
no, not good.
Speaking of bastardize, I wasriding in the car this morning
and Spotify it says likesuggested for you or new
releases for you.
So it's based off like stuff Ilisten to.
And there's this country artistnamed Riley Green.
He's pretty good, but it wasSlow Dancing in a burning room,
which I think it's a masterpiecesong yeah mayor.
Is god like to me?
I love mayor and you know it'sliterally first thing in the
(10:18):
morning.
I'm like this is a good way tostart the day to start the day I
think it's gonna be good.
Nah, man, you can't touch thatsong.
Sometimes it's just better notto cover a thousand percent.
And he effed it up.
It was bastardization yeah manand the guy's a good singer,
like he's talented artist, but,like bro, just leave well enough
alone.
You know what I mean?
Totally don't touch somethingso great she shitted it up well,
(10:38):
I got a gear corner piece.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh interesting, this packaging is pretty interesting.
Yeah, this is called the pinkstuff.
I actually had trego the djshop trego from az yeah he had
messaged me like hey, dude, whatdo you use to like clean your
gear and the things that likewhatever, this stuff is
incredible.
It can basically get any dirtor anything out of any surface.
(11:01):
Hold on what have you used itfor so far.
So I've used it on DJ booth orthe speakers, where they're kind
of a little dirty or whatever.
I have used it on sneakers Withrag Just a rag, so you dampen
the rag here.
I'll open this.
It is pink inside.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It looks like this it looks like spackle, a little
paste.
Yeah, you know what spackle is.
Yeah, like if I punched a holein that wall Caulk, caulk.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What kind?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
of caulk, do you like ?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Sorry, I had to go there.
Anyways, essentially you take adamp rag, okay, and after that
then they say to dampen on theother side just to wipe it off,
right, but you don't even haveto do it.
It kind of just dissipates onceit's doing it.
Amazon, any guess on price$7.99.
You're getting good at this,you're close, it's actually
cheaper.
It actually kind of smells good.
(11:45):
It's $5.97 for that thing.
But you should have that inyour Gig bag at all times.
100%.
It's uncredible.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Sauce pans, cooker tops, sinks, Anything.
Barbecues, ceramic towels,glass showers, garden furniture,
paint work, boats, brass, rustthe list is endless.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I spilled some marinara sauce on the couch and
I'm like I'm going to see ifthis will work.
It did, Cleaned it up.
I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
This stuff is surprisingly really good and it
didn't take the color out of thecouch, nope.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the other thing too with this is, if you've ever
scuffed it up where it's notdirt, it actually does a pretty
good job of almost likebuffering it out.
Yeah, I don't say it's kind oflike a magic eraser to an extent
.
I'm not gonna go that crazy andover promise that, but it's
pretty good in that case.
So, anyways, I keep a littlebit of this in my gig bag at all
times.
Damn, you're good at this.
I don't travel with it.
(12:35):
Obviously, right, right, right,you gotta have it local, but
this stuff is incredible andit's vegan.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So it is.
It's kind of funny.
We used to have this stuff whenI was doing screen printing.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And it was also pink.
You spray the screen to get theimage out.
It would get rid of the image Iwonder if they're using the
same chemicals or something.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Interesting.
That's what it reminds me of.
It looks like that stuff youwash your hands with.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It's like Gojo or something like that.
Is it gritty like?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
that it is gritty like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, In theYouTube video you'll see the
link to my Amazon shop.
You'll get it there.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
We always put the description of the podcast, yes,
and then there's like a dottedline, and then, right under that
line, you'll see all of theresources, the link to our
website where you can leave us areview, by the way we don't ask
for reviews.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
We need to Leave us a review, man.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
It bumps us up in the algorithm.
Then you're going to see ourAmazon shopping, shopping.
You're going to see how to bookBrian.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You'll see how to book me.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
There's some other links there, but anyway, make
sure you check that out.
That's under the YouTube video,if you're watching this on
video.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Hey Brian B here.
Sorry to interrupt yourregularly scheduled podcast, but
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business and if you've beennodding along like yeah, I
should totally step up my game,then let me make it easy for you
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All right, back to the show.
Before Joe starts yelling inhis extra thick North Carolina
accent about how back in his dayDJs used CDs and still had to
walk uphill both ways to a gig.
So we're going to go DJCmentoring call style two minutes
(14:46):
on the clock because we'rerunning against the gun here on
time.
But this is coming from BillyRears, our question of the day.
He's in Derry, new Hampshire.
This is a good one.
I know it's going to be toughto get in two minutes, but can
you chat about how you gift andthank you.
I'm guessing this is goingtowards vendors or venues, not
necessarily clients.
Did you do any this year?
Did you do any gifting toplanners?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I'm sure we did.
You mean last year, 2024?
Yeah, okay, okay, two minutes,here we go.
I'll say this Billy Mass appealand mass marketing is out.
It is Personalization is in.
So, in other words, we used toliterally have like a
pre-written thank you note Ithink I signed them was about
the most I did and we would justsend them out to past clients
and wedding planners.
(15:31):
Now if I genuinely want to thanksomebody, I would probably get
some sort of a brandedstationery, literally with a
blank inside.
I'd write about two or threesentences, a genuine, real thank
you note and stick it in themail Old school Mail it.
The gifting again used to domass quantities of gift baskets,
koozies, yeti cups, whatever,and they just ended up on a pile
, you know, especially duringthe holidays with all the other
(15:51):
gifts that these weddingplanners or vendors or venues
were getting, and it was justfrustrating and stupid.
Now it's about meeting withsomebody, listening to a
conversation, picking outsomething that they love or that
their kids love or theirhusband or wife loves, and
somehow integrating that into aspecial once a year gift.
And again, I'm speaking aboutpeople that generate a ton of
business for your company,whether it's a venue or a
(16:14):
planner or whatever.
How about you, brian?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I am in full agreement on the personalization
piece.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah yeah, you're really good at this.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The one thing that I would take away from this is
maybe like lean into what'spopping off in the current
trends.
So, like last year, we saw ahuge influx of people wanting
especially females wanting thoseStanley cups, yeah.
So we got them all bedazzledand they looked awesome.
We got them all kind ofrockstar out.
(16:41):
Basically, it was kind of ourthought and where do you get
that done, etsy?
Etsy is the place to go.
You're supporting smallbusinesses and if you have the
lead time and you're doing smallquantity runs, I think that's
the move.
They will love the business andthey'll take extra special care
of you, including writing thenote for you in a way that
actually is handwritten, doesn'tfeel fake or whatever the case
(17:02):
may be.
And what's cool about that isthey'll ship it directly to them
.
You don't have to be themiddleman to get them all and
now deliver them if you don'twant to do that.
The other thing, too, is thatwe don't put our own logo on any
of those gifts anymore.
We used to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, we did too.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Now, we don't, because I think it's better to
put the planner or the venue'sperson's name on it, personalize
not just the type of gift butthe gift itself, with their name
on it, or whatever.
When people ask them, where didyou get that?
They're going to remember youanyways.
If it's memorable, hell yeah,they'll remember it.
So I don't really need my.
It's not like, oh, all of asudden they're going to think of
me when they see this giftbecause it's got my logo on it.
(17:43):
I think they'd be more apt touse it if it's got their own
name on it and they don't feellike they're having to play
favorites because somebody gavethem whatever.
So that's another tip.
And then the third tip, withone minute left on the clock,
would be when you do thesethings, try to find something
that is going to be somethingthat they will use long-term
Like, not something that's justlike a piece of candy that's
going to be gone tomorrow andit's done.
There's one other gifting typethat I would recommend, which is
the they call it the year roundflower.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's like a small little flower that looks.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We used to do them all the time and we'd pick a
color that would make sense, forsomebody can mix it up, so it
doesn't always have to bewhatever.
Those things don't have to bewatered.
They can last a year long.
I bought one for myself just tosee how long if it would really
last a year more than that, and39 bucks something crazy cheap.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
So it's not expensive it was real.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, comes with a handwritten note.
The packaging is everything.
It's really done, super chic.
You remember the website.
It is, I believe, le fleur lefleur.
Yeah, a little french spot, la.
Okay, so those would be my tipson gifting To your point.
It's got to be people who aregenerating serious revenue for
you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And you think will help move the needle.
I love it, man Good stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, let's put a bow on it.
We will put a bow on it.
Thank you everybody forwatching Beyond the DJ Booth
Podcast, that's Brian B.
We have a brand new episodeevery single week, so keep on
listening, leave us a review andsupport our sponsor, dj Event
Planner.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Thanks y'all.
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