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The Soundtrack Architects: Why DJs Deserve More Respect
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Ever wondered what really happens behind the DJ booth? In this illuminating episode of Most Dope Podcast, a panel of working DJs pulls back the curtain on their craft, shattering misconceptions about the profession while sharing stories that will forever change how you view the person controlling the music.
The conversation quickly dispatches the myth that DJs simply party while working. "All we do is count," explains one guest, describing hours spent watching BPMs, monitoring the clock, and reading the room – all while standing for 5-6 hours straight. The group explores how the evolution from vinyl crates to digital controllers has transformed mixing styles yet preserved the fundamental art of controlling a crowd's energy through music selection and timing.
Between technical talk, the DJs share unforgettable war stories – including a wedding where the groom fainted before saying "I do," falling onto rose bushes and creating a bloody scene that nearly derailed the entire event. Yet through quick thinking and music, the reception happened anyway, showcasing how DJs often serve as emergency mood directors when things go sideways.
The most compelling discussion centers around value and respect. As one DJ poignantly observes, "Without us, the party's dead," yet they frequently find themselves defending their rates or being asked for discounts while other vendors receive their full asking prices without question. The group explores the business side of DJing – from deposits that protect their limited weekend availability to the community they've built that prioritizes collaboration over competition.
Whether you're a fellow DJ, someone who hires entertainment for events, or simply curious about the reality behind the soundtrack to life's biggest moments, this episode offers honest insights into an often misunderstood profession. Follow us for more conversations that go beyond the surface and celebrate the people who make our experiences memorable.
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Meet the Guests and DJ Introductions
Speaker 1Let's go Living life filled up with family.
Speaker 2We got the whole world painted Matt Miller in the most love family. What's up y'all? We're at the most dope. We have a few guests tonight. We have Jules. Welcome, Jules. Yo, what's up, how you doing, brother?
Speaker 1I'm good brother, I'm blessed. Thanks for coming on out man.
Speaker 2We appreciate you coming out, man, joining the podcast. We got Dynamite over here back on the podcast. We got D-Cross, yo D-Cross, and we got the Queen Bee over here.
Speaker 3Right here.
Speaker 2Oh, there she is. There she is. Hey, most dope podcast. This is episode 12 or 13. I'm not even sure at this point, but we keep uploading them. We keep doing them and it's great to have content. We're going to start off. Man, we got to talk to Jules first and foremost. Man, we got to put Jules right on the spot. Man, we're just kicking you into the deep end. Man, you better be able to paddle water, Wow.
Speaker 1Let's go, man it. It's been a minute, but thanks for having me.
Speaker 2I appreciate it, man. Hey, tell us a little bit about yourself, give us a quick synopsis, quick background.
Speaker 1You know two, three minutes, uh, tell us what you've been doing and uh, what you've got going on, man all right, man, uh, mainly I'm just uh doing private gigs, all right, you know, here to support other ds as well. Yeah, you see me out there. I'm just like showing love to everybody. You know there's so many DJ friends that are like legit 100%, you know, like with my, you know.
Speaker 3Good group, good community. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Including you guys as well, you know. But yeah, just staying low key, but the last two months I've been going out hey so let me ask you about that man going out.
Speaker 2Do any of your friends hit you up and just think that you're living this party lifestyle?
Speaker 1Yeah, actually, yeah, that's what they say. They're like hey.
Speaker 3I thought you were injured.
Speaker 2I mean, I think we can ask that of all of us. Do we have a family or friends that think our life is just one big party?
The Reality of Being a DJ: Hard Work, Not Party
Speaker 4right, I think everybody thinks that. But at the end of the day it's a job. It is work yes, work we're standing there for five to six hours, djing yeah doing that, you know and it gets tiring, not including the, the preps you know, setting up oh yeah, before, after or even home time, when you're putting together your library put your crates together it's work they don't understand that they think that we're up there partying the whole time. You still got to control the whole atmosphere too all we're up there doing is counting counting the beats and the hours going by.
Speaker 2All we do is count. We look at the clock man, we look at the BPM, we look at the clock man.
Speaker 1I noticed, though, just being out in the scene I feel like man. I know every one of us all of us could mix, but the style of mixing nowadays is different from where I used, because I used to do clubs in the 90s and early 2000s.
Speaker 3All right.
Speaker 1And I used to do clubs in the 90s and early 2000s. All right, and I stopped. You know like we can talk about like a little bit like 2003, when I met the Lord, like I kind of stepped down. I stepped down and then I went back in again because you know what, like this is a talent, a God-given talent. You know what I mean. All I do is play music. You know to get everybody hyped up that you know good feeling around. You know the party. You know I mean like you're the life of the party. You know I mean like without you right there, like party's dead. Yep, that's pretty much what it is like that's this guy's too.
Speaker 4At the end of the day, we are the center of attention yeah without us. I mean, yeah, you can have a band, but what's the?
Speaker 1they can only play for so long.
Speaker 4They're gonna say this was all along, and even that for five, five hours. They get tired too.
Speaker 1They get tired for up to two hours. We don't get to stop. We don't stop. Yeah, they take a break. They take a break, they take a break.
Speaker 4We can't. I'm having to run to the bathroom and run right back while I'm still playing the same song. Yeah, you know Exactly.
Speaker 2What's the bathroom?
Speaker 4sound.
Speaker 2Something long Depends, I couldn't even say Rapper's Delight.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good start.
Speaker 4I tried to go into Mexican music. That's probably the longest thing, so if you know how that is, it's more spread out. I'm able to at least go there.
Speaker 1Yeah, but it's different. So, like I said, I do that and I'm also in the groove 99 every like twice a week. Oh wow, yeah, I have a slot from 9 to 10 on Tuesdays.
Speaker 2Congrats, man, and Fridays.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've been doing that for about. I think it's coming up to four years already.
Speaker 2Oh nice.
Speaker 1So yeah, I play old school. You know throwbacks, you know you mix it all in. It's just tough, Like you're not playing for the crowd. You know it's hard to get that vibe when, like radio mixing and party mixing, you know like gig mixing and also like club mixing, it's night and day. Yeah, because now you have all this music that you gotta throw in on a 20 minute set.
Speaker 2You only got 20 minutes and you have to throw that in you have to throw those in.
Speaker 1I go from like I go old school and then 80s pop, 80ss hip hop and then you go to like throwbacks 2000.
Speaker 3All right, yeah, we stopped at 2017.
Speaker 1So anything eight years below is considered throwback. So we play, but I still haven't played anything from like 2015. I'm still like stuck to. Like you know, Eight years is throwback, it's considered throwback.
Speaker 2So so man like 20 years ago is like oldies now, or what like is is tupac oldies it's more.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's more like that now you know wow so right now if you look it up on spotify, you put throwbacks in there like I see like two thousands. Why?
Speaker 3you know, I mean throwbacks to me. That was just yesterday.
DJ Style Evolution and Music Transitions
Speaker 1Yeah, throwbacks to me is like the 90s, you know so oh man so it's just different, you know, because, like I said, I've done a lot of clubs, like back in the 90s all right and going out now. Just I mean, it's not like, honestly, I'm not putting bakersfield down, but we don't have an actual club in bakersfield. We have a club bar right okay like a nightclub club, but I think all right trying to get there, trying to get there, and I think casa maybe they're all right.
Speaker 1Tequila yeah, has it, but I still haven't seen like, like you know, like la, if you go to la, they have an actual club where yeah you know where you djs for like five different floors.
Speaker 4That's a huge place. That's the one thing I was explaining too. When those type of clubs they're you, the customers don't have access to the dj, you can't go with no, you can't.
Speaker 4You know what I mean, so you gotta let the dj cook over here, somehow we have that and they're it's a lot and it's like come on, now, let the dj do his job. Yeah, yeah, but it happens all the time. So, exactly, and that's that's the other difference on. So what do you think? That from the 80s, 90s and 2000, or even makes it now, how was the difference? It just was more slow-paced.
Speaker 1The difference is more like. So DJs now have so many access to the music and they're able to like, grab them right away. At the same time, they can quick mix Like before, like records. I mean you can quick mix, but not as fast as you can now, but it's not swapping out an entire LP.
Speaker 2Especially with vinyls.
Speaker 1You had to know what you were doing, yeah because, like me, it took me a while to get into controllers. I didn't get into controllers until 2019. All right, I've been using the mixer, but I'm still using my turntables.
Speaker 3All right.
Speaker 1It took me a while, even right now, because I feel like my muscle memory is still stuck to trying to look for records.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1So when I look at my crates I'm like man, where's the next song?
Speaker 4Unless you go to the new Oculus. Remember how they have that. Oh man the virtual DJ the.
Speaker 2Oculus, that's crazy they're talking about. You might not have to be a resident of LA to DJ in LA. Man, I know, right, digital.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean, there was one countdown just showed me the other day how he's like why don't you guys ever go digital live and get money from it? And I never thought of that.
Speaker 2Like on Twitch. No, yeah, I used to do Twitch.
Speaker 4He can actually make money on Twitch. Yeah, I did not know any of that Really, and I'm like I did Twitch back in the COVID time time.
Speaker 1That's when I got. I got hope, like, oh, you had to, yeah, like you have a choice. Really, like three months I was like already like affiliate I made it, you know, I mean because like, and then from there that's when you start getting paid all right but then during that time also I work in health care, so I was like I got no time because I'm working more, you know.
Speaker 4So like, yeah, it's a balance, it's a balance.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's about to have that time but even this point, like a lot of people still do it and they make good money. Yeah, they make good money. What's?
Speaker 2the for all of you. What's the craziest thing that's happened mid-set, whether it be a power outage, whether it be a fight, whether it be oh man.
Speaker 4Fights happen all the time.
Speaker 5I was about to say he downtown man. Yeah, you see that that's nothing.
Speaker 4I mean even in the beginning, remember when we were at Seneca and that one time that happened and I had to go and we had to put boy down.
Speaker 5Yeah, we had a situation one time. We were brothers there. Yeah, he hit a female. That wasn't right. Yeah, it was coming.
Speaker 4I was walking him downstairs from the dj, from the booth, yeah, yeah, and all of a sudden this random dude started swinging on some other chick in front of us and we were just like looked at each other like what.
Speaker 2We can't allow that yeah, he grabbed it.
Speaker 4He tried to fight him.
Speaker 1Then I grabbed dude from and gave him a toe hold on him back and he looked at me like what?
Speaker 4and he just started. Well, um, and they were just looking at us like what just happened?
Speaker 4the dj and his friend was getting the djs just whoop dude jazz I was like, and then someone told me let him go, and I was like oh shit, okay let him go, yeah it's fine, but he never should have swung on the woman in the first place no, correct and especially on us and you go after him. I was like no, you're not gonna get my boy like that, what the hell. Yeah, so I mainly took him down like, but everybody thought that we were the only cause. I was like, no, that dude swung on a female.
Speaker 3That's not right period.
Speaker 2You know what I mean.
Speaker 4It doesn't matter, it's just a certain situation that happened like that, but I would say the only thing that I've ever had that happen would be power outage going out. Power when I'm not able to actually DJ again, even though the lights are on. I was like what's up with that?
Speaker 2Well, sometimes the breakers will take out everything else Breakers and just leave lights on.
Speaker 4Yeah, but that happened before and. I was like, I'll just party this night Go off the jukebox or something or whatever.
Speaker 2Bluetooth.
Speaker 4We're firing it up and that's how you know you need a DJ Music. Going on Come on now.
Speaker 2Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1Like it's kind of like I don't know, I can't recall any, but I mean we all had that power outage or someone just trying to like you know distract you, but I had one where it's not in the middle of the set, it's in the middle of the wedding ceremony. Ooh, ooh, so okay. So this is it's out of town wedding during a ceremony.
Speaker 2For some reason, I guess the groom was already pre-gaming since this morning.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, he's been getting ready, he's already, like you know, because he's kind of nervous, but he's older.
Speaker 3He's on the older side.
Speaker 1That's typical of what happens, but he's marrying a younger woman and he was kind of nervous to meet the other family.
Speaker 1So but anyway, long story short, he had walked the aisle and right when the pastor was kind of like saying or say I do, right before he even got the chance to man, he fell. He just like passed out and then, just like a little cliff, he fell. He fell on that cliff and then, like, when we picked him out it was like bloody. Like we thought, like he busted his head and then said someone, call 911 this, this and that, and, mind you, they didn't even get a chance to say I do yet.
Speaker 1And then that time it was all bloody, we thought he busted his head, but then there's like rose bushes, so it got cut right in the eye. Right in the eye and then it kind of bleed out. And then we had to, like you know what I mean, we got to divert the crowds. You know the vibe, you know what I mean. So we went in and we got to somehow get everybody in and be like all right, let's go like a good 20 minutes. What we're gonna do is cancel everything's canceled.
Speaker 1Time to go home, you know oh and then, right when we're like almost packing up and I said, no, you know what, just throw some music, man, we're gonna get this we're gonna have a party so we did.
Speaker 2It's like a reception, but just threw a big party at the end it didn't have, wedding didn't happen oh, man, and then they end up.
Speaker 1You know, then during that time they had like quarreling, you know, like they don't want to do the wedding no more. But because of the vibe, the music put them all together and you still kept them going, kept them going. At the end of the night they did a first dance without still getting married.
Speaker 2Still gonna get married, but not that night I would imagine that's a pretty difficult thing during a very dark kind of right time but they don't pick it back up to overcome overcome that. Yeah, you're not just working from baseline to getting people partying. You're working from people being frantic or traumatized or whatever it may be to okay to partying.
Speaker 1Yeah, so at the end of the day they did their first dance and they made up.
Speaker 4All right.
Speaker 1And then I guess they got married some other day.
Speaker 5They didn't invite you back though. He's bad luck.
Speaker 1No, because the reception is already done. They already had fun, yeah. It's like we're good, we're not doing this again.
Speaker 2So they just had to do the court. They just had to do the court, yeah.
Speaker 1But the party was lit the whole time because they almost like forgot, like what happened, because they made out to actually they all.
Speaker 4right, let's do a first dance happened because they made out to actually they all right, let's do a first dance. You know, I mean yeah, so they made something out of a tragic uh tragedy.
Speaker 1Yeah. So everything started right away and be like oh, we're not even ready. You know, like man, dude, we gotta be ready, prepared for everything.
Speaker 2So we started playing the music, you know, and everybody just got up and then boom, it was good, overcame man greatly, like I said, not just from baseline, but from from a negative situation to baseline, to partying and happy and I've never seen it like that.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was my. I've been djing wedding since the 90s, like 90, like 1990, and I've never seen anything like oh man so yeah, it was like maybe, uh, three years ago, like right after, after COVID, yeah, it was one that is a story right there.
Speaker 2Yeah, I can't beat that story. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5I don't got nobody falling off a cliff.
Speaker 2Well, there's one that we went to. That was yeah, we went to a wedding. We don't even need to talk about it. We went to a wedding and I think the groom started messing around with one of the bridesmaids, or something.
Speaker 3And the wife comes.
Speaker 2Yeah, and starts slapping the shit out of them, man, just wailing on them, and then that sounds like a movie, and then they made up right there too, I think it was weird.
Speaker 4It was strange, man, but what movie was that from? I forgot there was a movie like that. I don't remember.
Speaker 1Wedding Crashers.
Speaker 5Oh, I love Wedding, wedding crashers, oh I love wedding crashers.
Speaker 2Man talk about an epic greatest.
Speaker 1Yeah, I just watched that the other week.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, hey. So, uh, let's talk about some, uh, past artists. Let's talk about some past artists. For me it's going to be mac miller, right, you know, everybody knows gordon's a big mac miller fan. Whatever, yeah, mac's dope though I love Mac. Miller. He was getting better and better and better through the years.
Speaker 4Rest in peace. He should still be here.
Speaker 2Yeah, he had a bad dealer, bad batch, who's an artist that resonates with you, that's passed away.
Speaker 1I say it's Guru.
Speaker 2Guru.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm a big gangster.
Speaker 1Gangstar.
Speaker 2Gangstar, yeah, Back in the 90s when I yeah, I'm a big gangster gang star, gang star.
Speaker 1Yeah, like back in the 90s when I started like I started DJing in 89.
Speaker 3All right.
Speaker 1But so my type of music back then is like underground hip hop, slash. You know what I mean East Coast, west Coast, but more East Coast because I like Brand Nubia and like I like the underground, you know.
Speaker 2Hieroglyphics or yeah.
Speaker 1Most Def, you know, Hieroglyphics or yeah, Most deaf, you know tropical quest.
Speaker 2Oh to live you know yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, so it's like those are like my jam back in the days and I got those records to this day, you know.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1So like.
Speaker 2How about you Dynamite?
Speaker 4I honestly can't even say it right now.
Speaker 2No, I mean, I'm a fan of all of them, that's just a part of hip hop. Yeah, so when they they all had their mark. Yeah, they all had their mark yeah.
Speaker 4It's kind of hard to say who was you know, because they were all born in the 80s when hip hop grew up.
Speaker 2So question for all Out of all of the artists that we know, that have passed away, whether it's Prince, whether it's Mac Miller, whether it's Nirvana, you know what's his name?
Speaker 3Kurt.
Speaker 2Cobain, kurt Cobain, you know, whoever it may be, whoever it may be, if you could get one last album, one last album out of any of those artists, who would that be? Everybody can take a turn here. Michael Jackson, who? Michael Jackson, oh?
Speaker 4who?
Speaker 5Oh, michael Jackson or Prince, that's the same answer to the question before Yep, it's Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4All right, someone could want to see, even live to Michael Jackson. Yeah, mj.
Speaker 5I think Chris Brown is like kind of like a he tries to emulate him, michael Jackson. But even though Mike didn't write all his music, but when it comes to directing, producing I'm talking videos, dancing, everything he was just an artist.
Speaker 2Yeah, a performer, even Janet Jackson with her videos. Man, she was so technologically advanced in some of her videos.
Speaker 4She learned that from him.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Battle of the Eras: Favorite Music Genres
Speaker 4I know all that. Her influence was Michael and he played a big part in everything.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 4So that's on all of us too. You can bump a Michael Jackson song right now and everybody's going to get up and start dancing.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, so quick question.
Speaker 3What's the?
Speaker 1first MJ track you're going to play.
Speaker 4Ooh, I know, I do. I always play yeah, like me.
Speaker 1I always have that one song that I play to get everybody dancing, at least in my type of rock with you.
Speaker 5Just the way it starts, just when it comes in Yep, and you can even spin it in two. So, depending on what kind of intro you have, you can spin it. So when it drops like that, you can even spin it in two so depending on what kind of intro you have, you can spin it, so when it drops like that, you can fade out whatever beat you have and have the lyrics over that and then, people hear that and then.
Speaker 2And they're already vibing to it, Then it's a wrap. It's just like boom, boom, boom. But that would be,
Speaker 3number one.
Speaker 1That's good. That's number one. I play with a lot of Asians and Filipinos so they like don't stop till you get enough.
Speaker 3So that's what I play all the time it's always like my number two songs.
Speaker 2I go.
Speaker 1Let's say if it's like a wedding. You know, it's kind of like cookie cutter but it always works for me. I go celebration and then don't stop till you get enough.
Speaker 3But is it a stereotype where they say that Filipinos just they karaoke, they love karaoke?
Speaker 1They love karaoke. Yeah, but not everybody can sing. That's why they made it because, like since you can't, sing, Because you can't be a professional singer.
Speaker 2you can be an amateur singer.
Speaker 1Yeah, jump on that karaoke and you're like you know, they're like a star. Well, that's how you find out too.
Speaker 2And apply some reverb and apply some reverb.
Speaker 1I won't say 50%, but I'll say the majority, though they have skills as far as singing.
Speaker 3They can sing by me, I sing when I take a shower, that's it.
Speaker 1I try to karaoke, but it's not for me. I go for the score. There's a trick to get 100 points. You know what I mean, Because at the end of your song it gives you a score really yeah, like a hundred is the best. Alright, as long as you're reading it and you don't have to sing. Good, as long as you're reading it, you're not missing any words from that song alright, you'll get a hundred percent, as long as your word matches, as long as the words are right. Yeah.
Speaker 4That's like Guitar Hill for singing. Yeah, oh, yeah, well.
Speaker 1Rock.
Speaker 3Band Rock.
Speaker 4Band had a mic. Yeah, it's the same I played.
Speaker 3I was the singer.
Speaker 2You were the singer. You were the singer in the family over here.
Speaker 3Yeah, I was the singer.
Speaker 2Oh man, how about? Let's say Battle of the Eras? Let's say Battle of the Eras.
Speaker 4That's a good one.
Speaker 3No, let's say Battle of the Eras. That's a good one.
Speaker 5Now when you say Battle of the Era, are we including all music right? Because? I'm not going to sit there and say no, I'm going to say I'm musically inclined right.
Speaker 1We're talking about rock, indie, underground like you, underground rappers. We're talking, like Dipset.
Speaker 5We're talking underground gunge music, underground bands, rock and roll. Does it include everything?
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, we bands rock and roll.
Speaker 1Does it include everything?
Speaker 5yes, yeah, we're gonna include everything on this one man, like decades too. Yeah, just one, just decade. Just a 00 to 2010, or 80.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, tens, let's go in tens um what starting in the 70s? Mine is gonna be funk the funk yeah I like the funk man, I really like funk man. I like anderson pack. Feels funky to me nowadays man, so he's got his style.
Speaker 4Yeah, I just seen a thing not too long ago where he started off as someone's drummer before he became a big artist yeah did his thing.
Speaker 2They were just seeing him shine on stage while he was drumming and people noticed during his tiny desk concert that he was drumming and singing and doing all of this other stuff at the same time yeah, that ain't easy to do yeah, so mine's funk, mine's funk, what's you know?
Speaker 4so we're talking about a genre or era oh man I'm gonna go with the funk era, funk genre, the funk era funk I mean, because that is 70s and 80s.
Speaker 1That was mine too.
Speaker 4It's the same, I mean even when the gangsta era got into the funk too.
Speaker 2That was the 90s, yeah, the G-funk era, the G-funk era.
Speaker 1You know what I mean. Okay, maybe pick three.
Speaker 2Let's go 70s, 80s, 90s. Yeah, that's mine too.
Speaker 4It's what their inspiration got from the 60s and 70s.
Speaker 2And they pulled from funk music and old albums.
Speaker 4yeah, but so I mean obviously, that's what my opinion is.
Speaker 5I can say on everybody else.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think it's very much the same.
Speaker 5I'd say the 80s era, because if you look at music now, every song you hear, you can listen and see where that sample came from Uh-huh.
Speaker 2every song you hear you can. You can listen and see where that sample came from. Yeah, we're talking like music, like and sometimes two and three times over, like we've heard three renditions of a beat of a song.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, 100, yeah, but I would say maybe the 90s, because not only did it have like the super dope r&b but it has some of the super dope like classic oldie songs. It had some of the super dope rock music. It had a little, had some of the super dope rock music. It had a little bit.
Speaker 1I think the 90s was a real hard era, and that's when I fell in love with music, though that's where I'm at, man.
Speaker 5To all the old temptations and whatnot. But when I fell in love I fell in love in that era because I listened to music differently in that era.
Speaker 2One of my first ones was the Chili Peppers. Man Red Hot, man red hot yeah, I. I loved the red hot chili peppers when I was a kid man like it, I'm not in that genre of music anymore. It's not what I prefer to listen to or anything else. Listen to that, yeah listen to everything.
Speaker 4It does not matter, it's just the mood yeah, it's what you're feeling at the point. You know what I mean, because that's those are, I remember, sublime, I remember I mean, there's some so many bands that we knew that it wasn't just about hip-hop, it was about music in general.
Speaker 5I had what I got in on the car on my way over. It was blasted, it was like 56. I was in the car like nobody was in there with me.
Speaker 3I bet you sounded great. No, I sang, I can sing, I can sing we're not going to do that.
Speaker 1Can you sing? Can you sing I can? There you go.
Speaker 5That's how actually I would say, my wife fell in love with me as I sang to her oh, oh, yeah. And then, that's how.
Speaker 2I got her. Hey, hey, Serenaded her man Drop a quick verse.
Speaker 1Let me see Drop a quick verse Calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down.
Speaker 4Joel's trying to put you on stage.
Speaker 2He's like I can see. He's like I can see. Hey, this episode is going to go viral because of D-Cross's voice, man. You know, man, a lot of producers could be listening to this right now.
Speaker 4All of a sudden we hear Keith Swede on the other side.
Speaker 2Oh man Twisted the 90s had Keith Swede.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 5That was one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, that's 90s man For me, right there thousands.
Speaker 2Even selena left. Oh man, yeah, selena was on her own. She, she crossed, she crossed everything. She crossed genre, she crossed race. Uh, she eclipsed all of that. She was able to overcome all of that and everybody, everybody's mom, everybody's aunt, everybody loved Selena.
Speaker 3She didn't even speak Spanish.
Speaker 4She learned it, she better learn it. Do y'all think it was because of what happened to her?
Speaker 5Or do y'all think it was just because she was such a dope artist? No, she was a dope artist.
Speaker 1She was dope, she was way ahead of us. She was able to when she would perform even the Spanish songs. She would do English songs and make it even sound better yeah like that's an artist and you can't do that not only that, like she's like ahead of the game, she was like ahead, like you know what I? Mean, like the way she was singing is like man, like it's not even for that era yeah, I mean like it's just like alia they had one too yeah, exactly they were all ahead of their time.
Speaker 4They were yeah, so way ahead sometimes that's what happens when someone sees you're too ahead of far of the game they want to take you out.
Speaker 3Yeah, how did we come to this world?
Speaker 4I know, how did this become? Where you can't have be an artist anymore?
Speaker 2where you know what I mean, you get taken out or you can't be happy for somebody. It's even in the Mexican culture too.
Speaker 4You gotta realize that you can't sing certain songs in. Mexico. You get taken out by the cartels. When did this just come to apply? We're just trying to love music. It's a part of our life.
Speaker 5It's either they take you out early or they take you out late Because look they'll let somebody go before it's their time to reach the pinnacle, but then look at what they do to people once they reach the pinnacle. I mean, look, we're not going to get all political, but I've got three names I already know. R Kelly is one of the greatest.
Speaker 2R&B writers. You can't take that away from him.
Speaker 5R Kelly is one of the best.
Speaker 2His music is his music. You've got to separate the music from the human.
Speaker 5Exactly, michael.
Speaker 2Jackson, they tried to put that on him, so I don't know Michael Jackson as a person.
Speaker 1I don't know R Kelly as a person, I love the artists.
Speaker 5Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2I don't know and I'm still playing.
Speaker 4More money, more problems with P Diddy and everybody else in it well, I mean I kind of mute it when P Diddy comes on, I'll be in real with you but I do the, I got morals yeah. I still listen to Biggie though, but yeah, sometimes I'm questioning now, but yeah.
Speaker 3I mean people. People are still going to love. What's his name? What is it? Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
Speaker 4They both have hits in the club. I'm still going back and back with both of them.
Speaker 2I have to play Drake. I still have to play Drake. And what I noticed I don't know if anybody else noticed this, but it seems like the younger generation goes with Drake and the older generation went with Kendrick. If you're 40 and up, 35 and up, whatever, you went with kendrick. If you were 35 below, you went with drake. Yeah, and that's because what she told me the other day was is the, the social media and the, the going viral? For what's the? The song that he, they were dancing outside the car?
Speaker 4yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2nokia oh, drake yeah, yeah yeah, so, and they they say that that's why the younger generation resonates with drake. More is because of social media and the viral videos and things that that went on with that.
Speaker 4Yeah yeah, but that only goes so far. If you realize that a viral thing sometimes it ain't about talent, it's just about a moment.
Speaker 3But the kids don't see that though. Right now they don't. They're all into the aesthetic and the picture, perfect, and they did a poll recently.
Speaker 2I've seen on social media that they were trying to find out what kids wanted to be nowadays. And there was a influencer. Uh, there was, there was, there was like a few different things I was looking at. I was a creator, an influencer of this or that, you know. Whatever you know, things go with social media. Um, there was maybe a fireman.
Speaker 4I think there was a couple other reg quote unquote regular professions, uh, but yeah that it was all a simplified jobs that they think they don't want to get away with or be a gamer, youtuber, exactly. Yeah, yeah that is the new generation. I'm trying to break my nephew it's almost like.
Speaker 5What do you consider influence, though, exactly?
Speaker 4yeah, their influence. What's in front of them, what's on the tv or their screen?
Speaker 2their tablet, their screen, their phone, you know, and it's kind of sad.
Speaker 4It gets to that point because they're easily influenced on what's in front of their face instead of who the person they're talking to yeah, exactly, you know and it's.
Speaker 3It has got generations got lost because of that but is it because we've made it so easy for our kids Kind?
Speaker 4of.
Speaker 3It's a little bit of both.
Speaker 2We pussified, sissified our kids. We've gone soft on them. That's a really good word for it.
Speaker 4Because we didn't have that. We didn't have these privileges as kids.
Speaker 3No, we didn't.
Speaker 4We were able to go outside and do our thing, but know what time to hey the streetlights, come on.
Speaker 2Your ass needs to be home.
Speaker 4We didn't complain that we were going to play a video game, we would go do something else.
Speaker 2We play in the dirt yeah.
Speaker 4Nowadays kids get to that point where if they're not satisfied, they're going to cry about it at some point. It's like we didn't have that. We would get scared for it. We would find something new to go do.
Speaker 4I don't understand that, but I guess it's. It's kind of the new era, I guess, of some I couldn't say parenting, but a lot of people have allowed certain things and doesn't mean it's it. It's okay because in a sense, when you have a privilege of money and you said you're able to support your child, there's nothing wrong with that no but they got to have a sense of balance, to know, to absolutely for the parents.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know the difference between being spoiled and being deserving exactly. You know that and I I kind of I kind of laugh about our girls and we have we kind of joke around and we talk about how quote-unquote spoiled they are. Yeah, well, our girls are good girls, so we don't consider it spoiling, we consider it rewarding. Or you know, we're rewarding a behavior and their behavior is dictates what they get, what they don't get that's why you're a great parent there's not a lot of people that do that.
Speaker 3I feel like they just hand the kids all right that satisfy them, but we're also setting their expectations really high. We have girls right, so their expectations are really Like. I don't want them to just say oh for just anybody. I want somebody to have goals like, yeah, right now you guys are kids, you guys are still building, right, but I want them to have, you know, like when they see something long they want someone like dad.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Right. So we're setting their expectations high. That's good.
Speaker 5It should be that way.
Speaker 2So as parents.
Speaker 5I got a question Do your kids have social media?
Speaker 2Oh yeah, oh yeah See that's one thing.
Speaker 5My kids don't have social media.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 5Snapchat no, instagram, no, nothing.
Speaker 2They're on my social media.
Speaker 5I got a sophomore and a freshman more than a freshman and I want to say, like I'm probably one of the only
Speaker 4parents where I'm just like nah well, I think our nine-year-old.
Speaker 5Wow, I never even knew that I'm like, I'm like no, because the one thing that, even at the age I'm at now and even at the age that we are, the emotional intelligence is a big thing, oh, huge. And if your kids are so locked into what everybody else thinks or what else is going on, well then how do they develop their own? How?
Speaker 2do they think for themselves or?
Speaker 5just find their own sense of purpose, or what is your thing? Who?
Speaker 2are you? What's your why? Who are you?
Speaker 5And we didn't know that until we grew up. But again, if you just be flooded with all this information, you're going to be pretending again being influenced by somebody else instead of finding yourself.
Speaker 2You're going to being influenced by somebody else instead of finding yourself.
Speaker 3Yeah, you're gonna emulate what you see, I think for me it depends on how open your children are with you, and our girls are very open with us. If something's going on on social media and they don't understand it, they're gonna come to us I like that, you know um they're very, they're very open or, like you know, like our 16 year old will be, like mom, this guy friended me and wants to fly me out to chicago, and but she, she tells us right she, she tells us and, and she's very open, but she doesn't mess with that stuff, she doesn't even reply, she, she just leaves it unopened right, but she yeah, oh yeah, some.
Speaker 2Some guy just got in trouble for coming out to taft. Yeah, I heard about to pick up like a 14 year old, 15 year old, something on on roblox or minecraft or something I think they got them, yeah, they
Speaker 5got them. I like, I like what's going down nowadays. With I mean certain videos where these dudes is catching these pedophiles. Oh yeah, yep.
Speaker 3It's good. Yeah, it needs to be done. I mean, I don't wish it upon anybody?
Speaker 4Yeah, but you actually need to be dealt with. Yeah, you have that mind state to do that. That's somebody's kid.
Speaker 2No, I'm sorry you shouldn't be thinking that way. They should have been able to tell it was a little 300 baby and got thrown off the cliff. I was like, nah, this baby's going to be bad Throw him off the cliff man.
Speaker 5That's one of my favorite movies too.
Speaker 2Hey, I love 300, man, this is.
Speaker 4Sparta.
Speaker 3Oh man.
Speaker 1That reminded me of Tropic Thunder, when he's running off the thing and he throws the can. That movie's classic too, though that movie's classic.
Speaker 2I'm the dude playing the other dude.
Speaker 3Wait, I have a question what is your favorite movie that has the greatest soundtrack?
Speaker 4Dang.
Speaker 2That's a good one I got one I'm going to pick Boiler Room, boiler Room, boiler Room.
Speaker 5I got one. You probably have some really common movies that we like. I have one. I'll be.
Speaker 4For me, it'd probably be the Belly soundtrack.
Speaker 2Oh damn.
Speaker 4Because, that's a hard movie and album.
Speaker 2Every time I hear Belly I always think of the neon lights with the contacts or whatever man, that whole intro.
Speaker 4Yes, but you remember, remember even when you play it, it brings you back to that memory.
Speaker 2It does and that's okay yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1One man, that's a great pick now mine is juice oh yeah, juicy, I mean tupac tupac and like yeah, naughty, by nature's there oh yeah rock game.
Speaker 2I think it's there I'm going to have to take a look at these soundtracks. I'm going to have to listen to these soundtracks.
Speaker 5They don't even make soundtracks like that. No more, I can't remember the name of the movie.
Speaker 1I got the album too, man still.
Speaker 2Hey, the Great Gatsby has a good soundtrack too.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a strange movie you like Guardians of the Galaxy too. Oh, guardians of the Galaxy, they sample all the funk, you're right, all the classics.
Speaker 2I got kids, man I'm going to say Lion King man, Hakuna Matata, baby, hey. So let's go into cancel culture, man. I'm not going to talk about the culture, but I'm going to ask you guys to cancel something. I'm going to ask you guys to cancel something. I'm going to ask you guys to cancel something, man. So you can pick a trend. You can pick an artist or a song that you would have canceled forever.
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Speaker 5Trend artist or song, I got a trend. I'm a coach man, so like I hate seeing like nowadays, where kids don't act like they've done it before oh, the showboat yeah be humble act like you've been there before. Be cool dog celebrate with your team. Don't celebrate staring the man down. Don't celebrate like doing all these. Iverson walking over him or like John Moran bro that was different though that was different, though that was different.
Speaker 3I'm a Laker fan. That was different though. Nah, but like somebody like John.
Speaker 2Moran, bro, you already know what situation you're in, oh yeah, you can't be shooting him guns anymore, man.
Speaker 5But that guy's an influencer because he's an influencer on the basketball culture and our young culture. So if they, at the skill level he's at, still acting like you don't?
Speaker 4have no damn confidence, and your dad's at all, your games and your dad can't tell you nothing.
Speaker 1Stop that influence.
Speaker 5He already got suspended for it stop that influence he's already had guns on two posts like what are we doing? What are you teaching these kids, man? Because you didn't grow up with that life. It's like Clarence's parents parents had a real good marriage. Bro, you went to private school.
Speaker 2That's not true.
Speaker 5Bro went to private school. His dad is at all his games, bro.
Speaker 2Poor Anthony Mackey man.
Speaker 5Hey, that's my guy. Though, that's my guy bro.
Speaker 2Anthony Mackey. Before everybody knew who Anthony Mackey was, man.
Speaker 4He was killing it. Battle him and him.
Speaker 2Yeah, battling him and him man.
Speaker 4Before he became an Avenger.
Speaker 2And Terrence got a real good family and Clarence Banner's got a real good marriage, Like yeah. Yeah. I know something about you. What are you canceling, babe?
Speaker 3I would say the duck lips.
Speaker 2Oh, I can't stand that shit. Oh man, oh, you know what? You're going to go duck lips. I hate to do it. I'm going to go. Eyelashes, the huge ones, the butterflies no butterfly eyelashes, no butterfly eyelashes.
Speaker 1Minus the lips. It's too much. You know what I mean it's too much.
Speaker 4I'm not with it. I don't want to piss off anybody. Hey, I want to piss all kinds of people off man.
Speaker 2I already talked about throwing a baby off a cliff. I'm sure I'm about to get canceled, man, and I'm nobody. Oh, even okay for the DJ culture just a request in the face.
Speaker 4You know what I mean.
Speaker 2Yeah, like that's annoying as shit, get the phone up there.
Speaker 4Even when you can't read it. You're like, come on now, but that's just.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you know what I did? I did a 12-year-old party on Saturday and a bunch of them are coming up because they want to hear their songs.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1So I have. You can get free numbers right.
Speaker 2Oh, like Google phone, Google app number, Google voice.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, no, no, you can give them a fake number. Oh yeah, like app. I just tell them okay, this is the number, the no request.
Speaker 2Now I have that one. They just go right. Hey, what's?
Speaker 1the name of the app. No request app. That's what it's called yeah. So anyways? No, I just gave them that number.
Speaker 2I said text everything here.
Speaker 1You, I was clear the whole night. They're coming up left and right. I'm that person.
Speaker 2She does that for?
Speaker 5me, you take it for me.
Speaker 2She does it for me, I know man. I'm lucky about that.
Speaker 3I just take a picture of it and then I text him. That way he only sees my thread, you don't have to go through different numbers.
Speaker 1He's seeing my thread, then don't have to go through different numbers he's seeing my thread yeah
Speaker 3yeah, and then he just puts it in the queue.
Speaker 4But yeah, that's, it's tough yeah, it is even for me it's annoying do you play everything you see?
Speaker 1what he goes.
Speaker 2I really try to man, I really try to play everything yeah yeah, no, if it comes way out left field and somebody wants some fucking crazy edm and we're doing country or something, no, it's not happening, guy, it's it's not happening nope, I know that's how people are.
Speaker 4I expect you to just bend the rules for them. Unless you pay me a good 20 or 50 bucks and I'm like, all right, I'll do that, yeah or if there's no one on the dance floor right like I'll play whatever you want if nobody's out there, but not when it's in the middle of high life, where everybody's going ham and you want this song and you think it's gonna hit and it don't hit yeah it had to happen, many times had to happen.
Speaker 4The other night, right dude had to ask for an Arabic song and of course he gained money, but he was in his friends room dancing everybody's like. So I immediately switch up real quick. But you know what I mean.
Speaker 3It's part of it but at least you got to cater for them, right?
Speaker 4they loved it they were recording the whole time but I'm immediately.
Speaker 2I see everybody else's face, so I'm switching you know what I take requests as an opportunity to possibly learn a new song. Yep, that's what I do.
Speaker 4That's that's what I do I don't know the indian culture like that if I know a song that's a banger. I could. I don't mind rocking it yeah I'll rock it on any set.
Speaker 2If it's a banger, like music transcends oh yeah, it really does. If it's just a banger, it has a good beat. It has you know, then you're gonna rock with it, if you're right.
Speaker 4If you're, if that song is gonna kill the vibe, then why are you coming with that?
Speaker 2He's like come on, there might be alcohol involved with that man as to why they're requesting, but first you got to listen to it, first Try to sample it.
Speaker 2If not, like I don't think we're going to go from Nirvana to Frank Sinatra, hey, so most of us? Hey look, we all have jobs. We all have we all. We all have jobs. Most, you know, we all have careers, we all have jobs. We all are not, quote, unquote, full-time professional. Whatever you want to call a dj, right, he's living the dream, man. He's living it, man.
Speaker 4Yeah but it took a long time to get there it wasn't easy, but I was also doing stage shows. I was stagehand too.
Speaker 1Doing shows and everything like that.
Speaker 4That's my other side when I don't have work.
Speaker 2Audio. All right, yeah, so if we weren't DJs, which we just talked about, it, basically you would still do audio stuff, you think?
Speaker 4I wouldn't know I've done so many jobs. I could tell you that you'd be surprised that I've done yeah said, even like when I was working on oil fields, being a confined space rescue technician also uh, hazmat technician um saving lives yeah and I'd be the one having to go in because I'm the smallest dude.
Speaker 4But I they trained me for that. You know what I mean. I was running my own crews and when I would be out there and talk to fire captains, they would trip out on the way. I would talk to them and give them a whole game plan. They were like this kid knows his stuff.
Speaker 2He knows what you're doing.
Speaker 4I was only 25, 26 years old.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4But at the time being when the incident happened, like I said, I had different plans. I took it as an initiative to do my DJ career, do something I wanted to do because I wasn't happy. Yeah, I was making money, but I was on call 24-7, not happy, you know. You see all your friends going out and doing stuff and you're just at work.
Speaker 2You're at work constantly.
Speaker 4Yeah, I have my bank account nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're doing what 12-hour shifts.
Speaker 1Jules, that's going to be me, because I work every weekend. I was telling Cross, I work every weekend, man, friday, saturday, sunday.
Speaker 2And, like man, how do you do a gig?
Speaker 1Yeah, my coworkers would be like, wow, out of all the people, why you? Why did you take that? And that's all the reason why I he gave me more money.
Speaker 2It's how I support myself and my family. That's why he gave me more money.
Speaker 1At the same time, I love what I'm doing. So this is the thing about. I tell this to every younger because we get a lot of students right. I tell them hey, do it for the love of why you chose this career, because you love it. You didn't choose this career because of your love for the money, because the money is there money is good yeah but then what happens if that kind of runs out?
Speaker 1so now you're not gonna be taking care of your patient because, like, you're just focused on trying to make this money. And then you got to the point where there's no patient care there's no patient care, and then I see that a lot like I mean not just in my department, like other departments and be like man, don't? These people have family? You know that's how are you gonna treat your family if they come to the hospital.
Speaker 1They come here because they're sick yeah you know, you can tell people come there faking, we can tell, we can all tell. But man, they went there for a reason, so you have to take care of them. You signed up for it, so do it for the love of that. And then to me, whenever I come to work, it's not work because I love what I do. When you love something, when you love something, it's not a job, it's not like you know, I mean like it's like.
Speaker 2It's like you don't have to, you get to. I get to it like I'd be like man.
Speaker 1I love being here. So even though I'm there at the same time like you said, man, my buddies is all like partying it up. And then I had to experience that the last two months because I was going out there more dynamite added aura. Living it up, man, yeah, man why did I sign up for this job?
Speaker 2living the life every weekend.
Speaker 1Dynamite, god damn you yeah but what I do now, like I said earlier, I was talking to Cross it's like you know, like I still get gigs. You know I get booked up, but now it's like I can't do A. Can you do something for me? Like in three weeks, are you available? He said I can't. I got to be at least two months in advance because I got to Request it.
Speaker 5I got to request it At the same time. You know I ever do it and call in sick anyways man, I will not.
Speaker 1I will not self-incriminate, I'll be like you guys know the answer to that, that's all I can say but yeah, man, like out of everything, I think everything we do, man, you gotta have love and passion to it, you know cause otherwise you'll get burned out. You'll get burned out, especially like you know you're gonna be there for 12 hours.
Speaker 1You know, even when we DJ, you know what I mean like we do a wedding, it's like a whole day you know, I've done a gig where I started at like 7 in and in the end I didn't get done till like 4 am oh yeah you know like yeah, so imagine.
Speaker 4That like but that's the luck for it.
Speaker 2Gigs yeah the thing, too, back-to-back and stuff man oh, we have a couple back-to-back weddings coming up, man. There's gonna be one here on saturday and one at the coast on sunday. Oh no, I think paso okay, yeah, yeah, and out of town too yeah, so we're gonna wrap one wedding up man and then possibly drive out that night and get a room and check in and then wake up out there and then go set up and everything wow that's tough. I don't think I wanna get up early in the morning.
Speaker 1I'd rather be out at night to me the toughest I've done like rather be out at night, what's that to me? The toughest I've done like this is? It was it's kind of designed because, like I remember, I went to denver, this is denver, right, I have a gig the next day, right, I was at denver.
Speaker 2I left at denver at 7 30, so they're like what an hour I think two hours maybe central, yeah, mountain okay, so I gotta be lax.
Speaker 1my gig is at 3 o'clock. I'm still in Denver at 7.30. Shit, at 7.30 in the morning. I got to LAX at like 12.
Speaker 5Oh.
Speaker 1I got a two-hour drive from LAX to Bakersfield. For some reason, I made it, man, I made it to my gig. It starts at 3.30.
Speaker 2Did you have somebody bring your equipment out or something?
Speaker 1no, what I, what I did, is, like you know, we all I mean most of us got two cars or whatever yeah I packed it up already before you had it ready to go. Hey, smart man, smart man I got it ready because I knew I'm gonna be like you know, just in case there's traffic, you know. But yeah, man, for some reason I made it. But I was like man, I was nervous, I was like yeah, that's time consuming right there especially that, yeah, we we always question that like we'll take it.
Speaker 2You know we're gonna sign up for it and everything else, but when the day comes we're like, oh shit I don't have energy for this, but I gotta get through it.
Speaker 3Yeah, I've been there.
Speaker 4I remember we did the your thing too, and I was barely hanging on oh man, you saved me that.
Speaker 2Yeah, you saved me that day, brother man, I had this poor dude out on top of a parking garage without a canopy man yeah, we need to do that again I know man yeah everybody's been wanting that yeah, yeah, we'll knock that out again. Cross man man, what would you be doing, man I?
Speaker 5think that for every stage of my life I was right where I was supposed to be.
Speaker 3Right.
Speaker 5Right. I think that when I was younger like 20, started coaching at 20, 21. I did that until I was like 30. I think at that time that's what I was most passionate about. I love back, uh, some of the kids that I coach now so you like coaching and teaching and educating and growing and developing I love being a part of. I love being a part of different legacies.
Speaker 5Yeah, like we all to everybody, you'll play a villain in somebody's story, no matter what oh, yeah, yeah as long as you don't play a villain in your own stories while it matters I won't be a villain in my story, but to a lot of people I could say I've left. I've left something right, but everything I pulled from that I was able to get back to my son in coaching right. My son was able to be around football, baseball as I coached him. He was younger and now you can tell like he he thrives and he loves it yeah so at that stage of my life that was where I was at.
Speaker 5And then now we got the restaurant thing. But in that stage of my life, like I love the bartending and the serving and whatnot, yep and then now I got the dj thing, so they go hand in hand because, oh, they work.
Speaker 2Synergy working in the restaurant bro, I get mad love right yeah and you're constantly meeting people.
Speaker 2If you're working at the restaurant, you're constantly meeting all the people that go to that area anyways. So you got that double, you got that double whammy going for you, man. That's, that's. That's a nice thing, man. You can develop all those relationships with all those chewy's customers and you also get to perform for those chewy customers and they're gonna have love for you. They know you that you, you're, you're a, you're a staple of chewy's. They know d man, you know.
Speaker 1That's where I met you Unbelievable. Hey, see, that's how we met they always have a dope crowd over there.
Speaker 4Even when he brought me over there too, I mean I had a lot of love just for the little people that I had there. You know what I mean? I was just starting it off. The environment you're in. Sometimes you got to know how to work it. That's all it is.
Speaker 1You guys did the Chichella huh.
Speaker 5Yeah, that's Uchella Rob Markman. How was it Rob Markman? It was dope, I think the dopest. Well, two of the dopest parts, like he said, to be able to get him there and get his name on the flyer and the whole weekend and be able to be like not say like my brother built his own thing.
Speaker 2Rob Markman. Yeah, yeah, Rob Markman.
Speaker 5But to be able to say like, I finally got to like crazy because I finally got to be on the same card with somebody I look up to in this industry. If we say D went first, it's because that's how the day planned out and I ended up going last. I was not the headliner, but even then, to think about it, my brother opened up for me.
Speaker 2Rob Markman, you were still out there with your brother. My brother opened up for me.
Speaker 4Rob Markman. Yeah, we still had a good time. Just chilling, yeah, chilling man. Just chilling, yeah, chilling man.
Speaker 5Yeah, chilling. I literally text him the night because it was like it was already packed when I came into my set.
Speaker 3because, we are at the band, yeah.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 1So the energy when I got off.
Speaker 5Work was like like it should have lit. Yeah. So literally from the first song on to like all the way through the set.
Speaker 2It was like some of the dopest feelings and I texted for them and I said, hey, it's the best feeling in the world. Man, that's the best feeling in the world and he's what he texted me back was even doper too.
Speaker 5When I read it, I was just like I love you, man. Thank you yeah I mean because he was like yeah, you know what you said. So it was dope.
Speaker 2It was dope. I appreciate it. I love man, I love. That's. That's true community, true brotherhood, true love, true respect for your peers that's what we need to build as a dj community.
Speaker 4Some, some people feel some type of way on. We don't need to have no animosity or no trade towards each other. Why there's enough money it's useless. Yeah, there is so, if you feel, some type of way about somebody, then that's your own issue. I have no negative towards anybody.
Speaker 2It shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 4I welcome everybody, man, I want to see you blow up just as much as the next person.
Speaker 2Hey, we just had how many DJs out at Chewy's all at once?
Speaker 5We had 11. 10, 11? I was inside, so I count you know what I mean.
Speaker 2We had to bring you out For the picture.
Speaker 4That night was 11. That's crazy to think about. When you all can get together, we can all get together and do that.
Speaker 1I don't know if you saw that one that Richie Rich did for the Condors when he had all the DJs that played.
Speaker 4I didn't see it His post.
Speaker 2He did a whole collage.
Speaker 5Oh yeah.
Speaker 1Everybody was in the picture. Yeah, I was like man, that's a lot of DJs.
Speaker 4I know I didn't expect that he was doing that either.
Speaker 1He sent it to me because I'm still trying to make one, because he made it himself. But the one I'm making is legit Because he you know every one of us like he always takes a picture or a video of us playing. And then he goes to the ice. And then ice back to another.
Speaker 2Back to another DJ Back to ice. Back to another DJ, all kinds of transitions, yeah.
Speaker 1But yeah, it's dope. Like I was like man, he sent me like 150 pictures. How many.
Speaker 3DJs did. We have beats over the city.
Speaker 2We had a lot we had all of, yeah, they showed up. They're just to show up yeah, we had a lot show up yeah, I couldn't make it.
Speaker 1I wasn't, I wanted to go now, but I couldn't. I think I had something going you were working, probably man no, no, no no. I I wasn't where.
Speaker 2I think I was maybe out of town or something yeah, I wanted to go because, like I said, man, we're, we're, we're talking about it, we're talking about doing it again.
Speaker 1Yeah I saw the pictures, though. Oh man, like everyone's there it was cool.
Speaker 2There's some things that we're going to change the layout and stuff like that, things that we're processing, you know, port-a-potties, vendor layout, dj layout, where we're going to be everything else, and we're going to move some things around, make things a little bit more comfortable, and we're planning on doing it again pretty soon. Nice, yeah, and of course, I'm going to want all of you guys out there If you guys can get out there.
Speaker 1It's a weekend, right, it's a weekend. Yeah Well, make sure it's two months in advance.
Speaker 3I don't know, man, is it right?
Speaker 1now that I need to make a request now.
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Speaker 2Hey, let me see man yeah, september yeah man, I need two months in the past.
Speaker 4We can always go on the under path.
Speaker 2Right, one lower. Yeah, one lower level it's during the day anyways, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've done it. Where I can wake up early. I was able to come and drop a set for the R&B Sundays Because every Sunday, right, so I did the last two. I dropped the set at the end Because, like hey, I work.
Speaker 2Yeah, you showed up when you could Ace and Spoon.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, so I could do it, especially during the afternoon. I could be late, I could be late.
Speaker 3All right. So I have a question. I don't know.
Speaker 4It's like a love, maybe love hate. Do you guys like getting paid in advance or the day of your event? I've never even been asked that question before.
Speaker 2Honestly, as long as I'm getting paid, that's all that matters.
Speaker 4As long as it's there by the end of your set. That's all that matters as long as you're getting paid. I'm getting paid afterwards. I know your credibility is there.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, if you're good, that's all that matters, as long as you get, as I know, your credibility.
Speaker 4oh yeah, if you're good for it, yeah because you know it happens sometimes where sometimes even that money isn't there. I'm not gonna hound them about it, but I know eventually they're gonna get they're doing what they can.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, they're good for it as I work out too.
Speaker 4Sometimes they don't have a crowd and I'm playing for three, four people I don't expect them to be a payout that night yeah give me next weekend or whatever you know yeah and sometimes we're doing enough to keep relevant.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know so I'm not hurt, I'm doing well and I'm blessed for that, yeah for the for the rest, for for, like the, the open format for the wedding djs yeah we have to secure a deposit, a deposit to lock a date in, because you're talking about wedding season is what? Six months of the year, three months in the beginning, three months near the end?
Speaker 5you know somewhere, you already know, but it also depends on where you are yeah so.
Speaker 2And then you have how many weekends per month? 52. So four times six is 24. You really only have about 24 weekend. You know days that you need to be able to make your, your money that you would. You you have set for yourself for the year.
Speaker 1You have to make it in a smaller window yeah, so um like for me, uh, I mean how I do mine, because I don't do an event or I don't do any of my gigs unless I know the person. All right, because I'm not like out there trying to like. You know what I mean. You notice I don't have, like you, probably never heard of me as a DJ. I do this, I only cater to the people I know.
Speaker 3All right.
Speaker 1So for me I have no issues about you know like they have not paid me because hey, I know where you live.
Speaker 2I know you know. Like they have not paid me because, hey, I know where you live, I know you personally, brother. I know where you live, I know where you work, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1So even if they don't pay me on the day off, because sometimes they don't Like I get paid like two days after.
Speaker 2Sure.
Speaker 1And then you know I'll be like, okay, it's cool because I know he's going to show up to work today. Oh, off to work today, oh yeah, I'm gonna see him. And then, and the other part of it is like it never happened to me, where you know, like your, your, your equipment get crashed or whatever, like someone messed up your equipment or some like in the party, like someone's trying to mess with you. It never happened to me. But I always have that thought like where, if I do somebody else's party, I was recommended by someone, unless, like one of you guys that I trust, yeah, hey, can you do, uh, this party I was recommended by someone unless like one of you guys that I trust.
Speaker 1Yeah, hey, can you do, uh, this party? I know them real good, I would do it. Yeah, someone random I wouldn't do because like have that, you know, like my ocd was like no, they're gonna miss. They're gonna miss my stuff or they won't even invite you to eat sometimes.
Speaker 2Oh man you can't get to eat or a drink.
Speaker 1You can't even get a drink, man every gig that I do, I, I do, I'm like part of the party. It's like, hey, have you sit down with us on our table real quick.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Play something else. You know Like it's always like that, so like I don't. You know, I never had an issue about like me not being part of the you know what I mean Like being part of the party, even though, like, yeah, you are part of the party because you're a DJ, but, at the same time, like, I don't have to worry about someone's messing with me. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5Like it's just me One. I got to get the deposit nowadays Because when I first started, like everything was built on love. Oh, it's cool, I got you.
Speaker 1No deposit.
Speaker 5Hit me later. Woo and then I. Then I realized, like you said, I'm occupying, I'm taking the day off of the other job which means I'm losing that money for the family.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, and then I'm losing that weekend, so I got to get deposits.
Speaker 5now Got to get contracts. What I do is I take a small deposit.
Speaker 3All right.
Speaker 5If it's a wedding and we charge whatever.
Speaker 2X amount of money Yep.
Speaker 5I'm taking a fifth of it. Yeah, I a fifth of it. Yeah, I'm taking up maybe a fourth of it because at the end I want to still feel like one going to the event when I know I'm getting a bunch of money at the end yeah you feel like you're you're gaining a reward.
Speaker 2And then two I don't want to go into an event and be paid and already spent that money, oh yeah you just have that same event like that's about it's like free, right, you feel like you're doing it free because you got paid six months ago that's what I don't like.
Speaker 1I was gonna get into that, so like I don't want to get paid in full yeah, because like, like you said, what if you have already spent it? Yep, and you go in there with a different mood your mindset? Yes, it's different, you're not actually working for it and um, I mean, like I didn't even I did a wedding.
Speaker 5I talked to you about it. It was a buddy of mine and it was his daughter's wedding and he's a dj, so he knows how it goes yeah he walked up to me as I was setting up.
Speaker 5My son was with me and he was like I know you want your cash right now. And I was like nah, bro. I said honestly, hold the envelope, just give it to me later. He's like no, I love you, bro, thank you for being here. So he gave it to me, so I took it. I'm not gonna say no yeah but at the end of the day I already put more into that wedding because that's his daughter so there was already so much and we treat it like our own daughter yeah, that's somebody's daughter and he.
Speaker 2And when, when, when our daughter gets married, we're gonna want them to, you know. Do go all out and do the best for her as well you're gonna want somebody like a, like a richie.
Speaker 5Yeah, you're gonna want somebody like somebody, like a nate or somebody like a you that looks at life the way you do when you have that person doing it, because that's a special event, yeah, and at that event you don't want to be worried about all the things that we worry about as djs yes, you want to be like yo yeah, oh, it's d we good we're good.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't even have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 5Nothing, yeah, let me, let me roll on that, let me yeah, we're good, yeah, good out here, so yeah that's what I like. I like a little bit of cash, and the little bit of cash that I get I use to pay off something.
Speaker 3I pay off my equipment, I pay off this bill, that bill the next investment check that goes into the next investment. Yeah, yeah, that's just how I look at it.
Speaker 1Yeah, you got to be money, money management yeah, and that's too like I think deposit is more important than anything else because, like, like for me, like I've never had anybody, like like I've out of all my like from the 90s to now, right, I've only had one cancellation all right and guess what, who canceled on me? I mean, you wouldn't think, because I your sister, your brother so why I cancel on me is one of the one of the church oh, okay you know what I mean and I'm already doing it like.
Speaker 1Like you know, I mean already almost pro bono yeah like whatever. Like you don't have to give me anything charity, just pay me for gas, yeah, just whatever. But at the same time, like I said, I'll have to take off work. You know what I mean? I already got it off. So when you take off work you know what I mean Like you're not making. I mean I'm still making the money because I have PTO, but at the same time.
Speaker 1Like you know what I mean. Like I got everything they canceled. Like last minute, Like I got everything loaded up. You know what I mean Like.
Speaker 2So I was like Like you didn't know a day ago, or you didn't know Eight hours ago, you didn't know 12, 24 36, anything.
Speaker 1This one happened back, like in 2009, right? So I was like. So from that point on, I said you know what? I don't care who it is, I'm just going to ask a minimum $100 deposit, whoever like. Whoever it is, it could be a friend or buddy $100 it has to be serious enough for them to commit.
Speaker 2Yes, it's a commitment.
Speaker 1You know what I mean it's like I told him that's why I said minimum is $100, so at least you get something from it, you know?
Speaker 4so it's just to me and it cancellation fee and everything else that's included yeah, yeah yeah, you're taking someone's time no reimbursement, you're putting your time in too, though, if you think about it, you're keeping it, no matter what not, no matter what if it's some legit shit.
Speaker 2If somebody just died from cancer or something, hey, take your money, go take care of your family. You don't do what you need to do reschedule yeah, but we'll do it like it.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah but on your contract. Like me, I have a contract that I pretty much copy from online. So mine is like if they cancel within the 10 days, they don't have to pay the full amount much 30 30.
Speaker 2Yeah, because I've got to take it off work yeah, we got to take it off work and we're taking a day that that day could have went to another party that was going to pay, and now I have lost that entire day's worth of money. And, like I said, if wedding season is six months three in the first half, three in the last half you know, six months times four is 24. You have 24 days Fridays and saturdays, or saturdays and sundays to make your money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, our, our, our deposit's pretty, pretty steep. Like, our deposit will be like 300 or 500, like I'm.
Speaker 2Hey, if you want me, you're, I'm still gonna make 500 that day. If you cancel on me and you pull some stupid shit, I'm still getting $500, which is pretty good days worth of money, you know. So you have to set that. You know your highs and you have to set your lows, and then that's what I base my deposits off of. Is what I want to make on a day. Yeah, how much do you make a day at your normal job? Okay, if it's $20 an hour, eight hours, you make $160. Well, I'm my, my deposit's going to be minimum of $160 because I'm going to get paid for my day of work.
Speaker 5That's pretty much how I look at it too.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 5Just in case anything happens.
Speaker 2I still made some amount of money.
Speaker 5I would have made if I went to Chewy's at the end of the day. If anything else, if all else fails, we're good yeah, absolutely back at the crib. We're good like.
Speaker 1I said for me, I give 10 days because, like I said, most of them I know it's family and friends it's word of mouth yeah, I mean like I, I do quite a bit of gigs each year but it's all like from from the friends I've done.
Speaker 2You know like they're like recommendations I have never solicited a job, a dj gig from anybody. I've never solicited. I have a career. Right, I have a job. Djing I do for fun, I love it, I love music and I love doing it and that's why I do it. I have a career, I have a job. We work for the same company. Yeah, um that's crazy. Yeah, I know, man yeah, I forgot you guys talking about that.
Speaker 2I didn't know, but I was like that's my whole world, man yeah, we work for the same company and and I have never solicited a job. All the jobs that I've gotten any wedding, any party, any something has come off of social media and or friends and family, uh, and and people that I have actually dj'd for prior. You know, speaking your name out and everything else, mine's completely all organic. I, I don't, I don't approach anybody, I don't, I don't, I don't even like getting on social media when they say, oh, looking for a DJ for a wedding, I'm like, eh, I'm the same way I know you go hit me up, hit me up, that's it.
Speaker 4But I'm not going to reach out to you, yeah.
Speaker 5I will, because even if you do the communication, that has to be had when you book. The gig is going to be organic? Yeah, because I don't have a company where I can send you listen some blank, ass fucking message that says so, and so go to this side. Yeah, now I'm like look, I'm open that day if you have any questions, dm me, yep, and if you dm me and we talk it up and we can work it out.
Speaker 2It was built organically yeah, absolutely that's me, it's like yeah, I'm not on there hunting, but I but yeah I am in there.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, if someone tags you, you're gonna reply but if somebody tags me, I expect that they know that person, right. I expect that there's a relationship there and they can vouch for that person and things like that Kind of. What you're talking about, jules, is I don't attach my name to something I can't count on somebody for. On somebody for, like, if I'm a DJ and I'm booked next weekend and I have a couple of people asking me for gigs that I know, I will match them up with a DJ. If, if you hit me up and I don't know you and you want to DJ, I'll still give your information out to somebody. But I'm not, my name is not attached to it. I'm going to let Dante know I don't know this person, I know nothing about it, but they hit me up and they wanted me for a gig and I can't do it Organically talk to them and figure out if it's a fit for you or not, right?
Speaker 4That's pretty much what it is. If it's a fit. Yeah, I feel comfortable in that place because we already know weddings are nerve-wracking period. So it's a lot to handle. It's a lot, it's a feeling, yeah it's a lot to handle.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's a feeling, though too. I won't reply on all of them Like a lot of stalker.
Speaker 2You could kind of read into some things.
Speaker 5I'm going in and I'm looking.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 5And I want to look and see one. Do we have any friends that we know? In your top eight bro, is there any people? I and from the first look I'm like that's not me or that's not my vibe, or I won't even reply back.
Speaker 2I just yeah, that's not like I never read it I I hate to say this, man, because I don't really get into this kind of stuff but if I see a bunch of politics, religion, a whole bunch of just decide divisive stuff that they've been posting or liking or commenting on, or stuff like that, I won't touch it with a 10-foot pole either man. I don't want nothing to do with it because I kind of have a feeling I know who, who you are. I I've gathered kind of who I think you are, based off of your social media, people are trying to low-cut uh-huh, yeah you do the homie deal.
Speaker 4It's like you want to pay extra for everything else, but not the dj okay, I don't make no sense yeah, I had, I had that.
Speaker 1I had that happened to me like uh, last month actually, because they hit me up. So I said, okay, I'll do it, but we never talk about the price. So I saw their flyer, because the flyer was already done right, and they got vendors, different vendors.
Speaker 3This one they paid this much.
Speaker 1And then when we started to talk about the price, I said, oh, how much do we need to pay? Just pretty much close to what you paid me last time. I said, well, my daughter kind of don't have that money.
Speaker 2She don't have that budget.
Speaker 1And then I wonder if you could do it for this much. I said like no, I can't, because I I can't do it, so I make it has to make sense to me. I have to make more if I just stay at work. I gotta call out yeah, exactly, I gotta call out, but they didn't know that I was off work. You know what I mean. But I said I gotta call out. But if I do this one right here it's not worth my time yeah, it's really not worth my time.
Speaker 1Yep, you know what I mean, like, and I, like I didn't tell her I'd be like. You got all these vendors, I know you. You're paying them more than you're paying me yeah, and then and I'm gonna be like. You know, we're the life of the party and you're trying to undercut me.
Speaker 5I mean, you know what I mean, like it depends on the situation, because me and you was talking earlier and just about his process and where he's at right now in his business and what he's doing like and why he's doing what he's doing. Right, you're taking the same steps to build some.
Speaker 1Right yeah.
Speaker 5If you're doing it and in your mind is some type of charity or some type of donation, or you're giving back in hopes of the retainment of something in the future or gaining something from that, then it makes sense you're also on a point where you don't need it yeah you have a cool job me I'm in a point where I'm not trying to get out of my job, like I don't need to leave chewy's.
Speaker 1I'm secure in my job but, bro, I want to be where danny's at yeah, I'm not looking to go find another career.
Speaker 5Or, yeah, be a gm of some store, uh, and move down. No, I want to be where Denny's at yeah, I'm not looking to go find another career or be a GM of some store and move down. No, I want to be a full-time DJ and that's wedding. Yeah, that's corporate Club, everything I mean man.
Speaker 2You have to get into it.
Speaker 5That's what it takes, that's what I want to be, but if you're not looking at it from that that lens, well then of course you can just push away gigs yeah, or of course you can say now there's a minimum I would do a gig for, and I'm gonna say like oh no, you're worth, but yeah, there's there's nothing that's for to me, that's oh, you're too good for this.
Speaker 1I'm not yeah, no, I'm never too good, so what I do is like I know this, I know them and it's a birthday party. You know it's a 30th birthday party. That's fun and and me, I know it would have been fun. Like me, like I've done so many like, like I've given, like me. Honestly, you don't have to pay me. Honestly, you don't have to pay me, but you have to get paid right yeah I love what I'm doing like. That's why I come out of chewy's.
Speaker 1I come out all these, you know, different venues. I don't get paid for it no, you know what I mean. Like you're out there for the love of DJing, yeah for the love of DJing, love of music, and I'm there. But this is a 30th birthday party and I know you guys got the money and you're trying to undercut me. I mean, come on.
Speaker 2Yeah. So I mean like you have money for everybody else. Maybe next time.
Speaker 1You know what I mean. Like I said, I already took the day off off, like you know I mean like I already switched my days so you're gonna have to make some money, yeah, so but I mean because we all, we all do, you know, we all have that account, that always there for us. You know, like right, you have like a gig, like like every year you have something solid, something that's always going to be there, like that's that kind of kind of pays for it.
Speaker 1And then I said I don't look at it as my so you're looking forward to that, like you, you have like there's like two or three gigs a year that you get to look forward to doing like me.
Speaker 1I would have done it if it was just worded differently, because the way she worded it's kind of like make me like. You know you've done it for me before this way and then and then we have all these vendors. They kind of put up, we kind of put our money there, that's when I said that was your mistake, yeah, I was like okay, all right, okay you know what I mean like, so you'd rather pay them and pay yeah, pay me like the entertainment, like honestly, like the food, yeah, they're gonna eat, but but what's gonna keep them there?
Speaker 5you can only eat so much this goes back to what he was saying there is no if. If the dj world shut down. Look how much stuff shuts down. Oh yeah, there's no wedding. I mean, you could have a wedding, but what would it really be?
Speaker 2You might as well just go to the courthouse. No clubs, yeah.
Speaker 5No.
Speaker 1No parties, no radio, that's right.
Speaker 3That's why I figure, do we get?
Speaker 4the respect sometimes that we deserve. I mean, sometimes it doesn't feel like that. You know, doesn't feel like that.
Speaker 2You know what I mean. It's soundtrack to people's lives. The soundtrack to people's lives, at least their night that they had. Yeah, so you know what I mean. All right, guys, we're gonna wrap this one up. Man, we're gonna close out a uh d d we got we got dynamite we, we got D-Cross, we got Jules we got Queen B.
Speaker 1It's DJ. It's DJ, two D's and a J.
Speaker 2Oh, there you go, man.
Speaker 1It's DJ man.
Speaker 2D and J man, we got it. Hey, let us know what you got going on, where you're going to be. We know Dynamite man has been rocking rocking aura, right brother. Dynamite man has been rocking rocking aura, right brother.
Speaker 4Rocking aura and Thursday's Murphys McMurphys.
Speaker 2Are you? I was just there yesterday, man, I'm going to have to swing in.
Speaker 4They wanted me to come. I was tired.
Speaker 2I'm going to have to swing in. You said Thursday's, I got to get my seat.
Speaker 4Yeah, I'm nervous.
Speaker 2I'm going to swing by Thursday, man. I'm going to swing by man. I've been trying to get out and support. I don't even go there to play man. I don't even go to drop a set. I get nervous anyways. I don't really like dropping sets in front of y'all. I'll go drop a set in front of a wedding Three, four, five hundred people, I don't know.
Speaker 1but I don't want to play in front of any of you, it's different because you get critiqued more.
Speaker 3It's your family. It's just like your family.
Speaker 2We're going to give each other a ration of shit, man. We're going to fuck with each other. We're going to talk shit to each other, which?
Speaker 1is good. So that's why I come out of Chewy's every Thursday. That's why we were called I guess Just a Mess of DJs, because we're like show up in there and just play our tunes. Whatever show up in there and just play our tunes, you know, like whatever vibe you're feeling hey, that's iron sharpening iron out there, man.
Speaker 4Yeah, that's how I see it. That's how I see it. It never used to be that way.
Speaker 1Now it's turned to how we're finally getting together. Most of the DJs don't like to share the spot, right?
Speaker 2Yeah, most of the DJs don't?
Speaker 1Everybody got to play. Yeah, you know what I mean Everybody got to play.
Speaker 2The kid came out from the coast. Even I don't remember his name. Oh, yeah yeah. Yeah, pops brought him out from the coast. Man, he did his thing. Bro was sick.
Speaker 5Yeah, he did, he did, he did, he did.
Speaker 2I know they added me on Instagram and I'm going to have to apologize to them. To him now I don't remember, but uh, the kid was sick man I, I loved it.
Speaker 4Yeah, I loved it good, they did good. Yeah, so dynamite thursdays.
Speaker 2Thursdays mcmurphy's friday and saturday aura aura all right d crofts uh, I mean this wedding season, right now.
Speaker 5So every every saturday I'm locked into a wedding yep, uh, I just came back from Eagle. Mountain. That was cool. What else I got going this month? I got some birthday parties going or whatever, which y'all can't pull up to them.
Speaker 2And Chewy's Thursday nights.
Speaker 5Yeah, nah, but I never really get to miss.
Speaker 2You don't get to because you're working.
Speaker 5It's either I'm at work or I'm not at work.
Speaker 2You don't want to be at work. Your boy's not coming, yeah.
Speaker 5So I think the next time I'll be at Chewy's on June 5th and I'll be with a band called Funkalotopus. They're super dope. It's a super dope vibe. The singer's off the chain. I mix for an hour first and then in between they're setting. I mix for an hour after.
Speaker 2So if you want to come up man We'll come out and support.
Speaker 5So other than that man, I'm pretty much locked into gigs you guys can't show to, but I appreciate the look, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, I appreciate it, jules, you got anything?
Speaker 1coming up, man? Yeah, I got some coming up, but again, I just want to plug. Every Tuesdays and Fridays, I'm on the groove. Yeah, and 9.3, it's from 9 to 10. All right, and Thursdays, I'm always there at Chewy's.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1And then, yeah, I got gigs coming up. I can't say the day because I'm going to be, you know, because I'm working. Yeah, I'm calling out that day In the next two weeks I got a big because, okay, filipinos are big with 18th birthdays. I don't know if you guys have done 18th birthdays, so 18th birthday, we call it a debut, a debut birthdays. So 18th birthday, we call it a debut, a debut it's called, or you?
Speaker 2can say debut okay, okay.
Speaker 1So those, are our quinceaneras. Okay, so you know, there's quinceaneras 15, there's sweet 16s, right? Yeah filipinos are 18 so probably in town. I probably do most of them. So I do that at least 10 in a year oh really it's bigger than the bigger than a wedding.
Speaker 2And this is in the Filipino community.
Speaker 1No, this is in general 18.
Speaker 2So a lot of cultures do an 18th, a big 18th.
Speaker 1Or Filipinos only.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1It's 18, because that's when they're officially an adult.
Speaker 2An adult.
Speaker 1They're leaving their home.
Speaker 2Getting kicked out the nest.
Speaker 1Or they're staying their parents kicked out the nest, or they're staying their parents. They're buying a car, so they make them get a job they make them choose because, like, do you want a car or something that you like, or you want to throw a party oh, okay, like eight, sixty percent, seventy percent, they choose a party oh really so there's a lot of 18 birthdays here all right a lot.
Speaker 1There's plenty like I mean, it's just happened to be I'm filipino and then I get most of them, because if you do one they're friends. There's 18 of them. Yeah, all of them are going to want it.
Speaker 2They're going to need it too, and then the 15-year-olds and 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds that you're affecting throughout that. Yeah.
Speaker 1So if you did, I'd say oh 18, have a 10 or 8. In eight years you'll still be doing this yeah, it'll be like yeah, I think so, yeah, so, yeah, I have. I have two of those coming up next month.
Speaker 2Oh, all right. Hey, nobody knows where you work. Man, you're good brother, I'm not gonna snitch you out that far, man, I'm gonna. I'm gonna give you a hard time about having to call out, but, man, I'm not gonna completely put you on.
Speaker 1Blast, man it's good about our job right now, when you call out like you don't have to talk to anybody, we just text. You text in I can't make it tonight and I go all right. I hope you feel better or we'll see you tomorrow or in two days, or whenever we don't really have to make an excuse. It's just straightforward, Like I can't make it to work tonight Sorry for the late notice and then boom. All right, that's it.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, we do have a pretty good company. We work for man Works out pretty good. Well, I appreciate you guys coming out. Man, I love you guys Always love here. You guys are always welcome here. This is always home, Whether we DJ, whether we sit here, whether we watch a movie, whether we just shoot the shit. Man, I appreciate it and we'll close it out with that man. Love y'all.
