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Ever had a season where everything hit at once—new bookings, broken systems, surprise travel, and a crowd that flipped your plan the moment you pressed play? That’s where we’ve been, and we’re talking about the messy middle: how our entertainment brand grew stronger through rain-soaked weddings, a spontaneous Prius run to Vegas, and a high school homecoming that reminded us culture—not algorithms—should drive the set.

We walk through the practical stuff we wish someone told us sooner. We rebuilt our ops after a couple gigs slipped the calendar, locking all bookings into our CRM with clear deposits and due dates. We doubled down on a digital-first photo booth model, then added premium layers—on-site printing with attendants, supervised props, and custom templates—so pricing actually matches support. On the performance side, we’re bringing the show: cold sparks, low fog, and RF LED wristbands that sync to the music for a full-room light experience. We’re also investing in fast setups and clean visuals—column arrays where they fit, big rigs where they matter, four-foot marquee letters, and a modular DJ booth we’re building from CAD.

Behind the scenes, we’re wiring a home studio for content, moving to multi-cam video podcasting with auto-switching so the stories match the work. And we get personal: caring for nine premature Rottweiler pups with only three survivors, navigating a family surgery in Ohio, and drawing a line between performative grief posts and the daily work of real friendship. If there’s a throughline, it’s this—systems protect your energy, culture fills the dance floor, and relationships are the only metric that matters when the music stops.

If you’re into business growth, honest lessons, and how to turn chaos into a better show, press play. Then subscribe, share this with a friend who loves events, and drop us a comment: what song never fails to light your dance floor?

Chapters

• 0:01 Catching Up After A Break
• 0:46 Business Updates And Rebrand
• 2:03 Weather, Weddings, And Rain Wins
• 3:42 New Prius And Spontaneous Vegas Run
• 5:08 Eagle Mountain Casino Fallout
• 9:31 Why El Cortez Treats Us Right
• 11:16 Hard Rock Tahachapi And Cheap Trips
• 12:56 Family Health And Ohio Visit
• 15:17 November Events And Home Studio Build
• 16:45 Tech Toys And LED Wristbands
• 18:36 Big Quince Setup Plans
• 19:10 Arvin Homecoming And Cultural Lessons
• 22:04 Requests, Ego, And Reading The Room
• 25:06 Selena, Docs, And Dance Floor Stories
• 25:59 Premature Puppies And Survival
• 29:14 Naming The Pups And Keeping Three
• 31:07 Current Music Obsessions
• 32:15 Morning Routines And Pet Peeves
• 36:18 Missed Gigs And Fixing Systems
• 39:20 Social Media Grief And Real Friendship
• 45:20 Travel, Expansion, And Skill Growth
• 49:12 Effects, Teams, And Show Flow
• 52:35 Photo Booth Strategy And Printing
• 56:19 Gear Wishlist And Video Podcasting
• 59:27 Marquee Letters And Custom DJ Booth
• 1:01:12 Website, LLC, And Community
• 1:03:10 Thailand Plans And Travel Tradeoffs
• 1:06:10 Beats Over The City Returns
• 1:10:20 Community Support And DJ Shoutouts
• 1:12:24 Real Life Beyond The Highlight Reel
• 1:16:40 Parenting Teens, Trust, And Openness
• 1:20:24 Everyone’s Struggling And Final Sign-Off

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

What's up y'all? We are back on another episode of Blue Slide Serenade.

SPEAKER_05 0:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 0:08

It's been a while.

SPEAKER_05 0:09

It has.

SPEAKER_00 0:09

September.

SPEAKER_05 0:10

So September, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

September 3rd, so roughly going on um three months almost? Two months?

SPEAKER_05 0:19

Yeah, it's been a while. We've been busy.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

We've had a lot going on in the last two or three months. Lots of uh lots of gigs, lots of chaos, lots of craziness. If bad could happen, it seemed like it did. Yes for a while. It was kind of like, hey man, I need a break. That's enough.

SPEAKER_04 0:39

Yeah.

Business Updates And Rebrand

SPEAKER_00 0:40

I need a break. It was uh it was uh quite a bit. But um work work has been good. DJ Gordy B. Yeah. Lots of gigs, Busy B creations, lots of backdrops, lots of balloons, lots of photo booths, lots of custom one-off items. Yes. Um Cali Entertainment Group as a whole is just our parent company. It oversees Gordy B and Busy B creations, so that's uh as a whole, but we've been working on some things with Cali Entertainment Group. You know, the website's getting worked on some more. Um, email domain hosting is getting worked on a little bit more. Uh we had some new uh graphics done for for all of our businesses for Busy B, for Gordy B, for Cali Entertainment Group. So we have a lot of new material that we gotta get printed. You know, we gotta get business cards and things of that nature going. Um what do you think?

SPEAKER_05 1:45

Yeah, we just have a lot of stuff going on right now. And then it's only gonna get busier.

Weather, Weddings, And Rain Wins

SPEAKER_00 1:52

I'm kind of glad that it slowed down for a period of time. Yes. Uh and when I say slow, that it's probably not everybody else is slow, but for us it slows down a little bit. Uh I I don't like the weather.

SPEAKER_05 2:05

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

I'm not a fan. Uh A, I don't want to be cold. Uh B, I don't want my equipment to get wet, uh, anything like that. So extreme weathers, um I hate to say it, but Gordy B's probably not your guy.

SPEAKER_05 2:19

No. And we've done it.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Yeah, we've done a lot of them.

SPEAKER_05 2:22

We've done it, and we've had some amazing weddings in the rain.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Yeah, we have, surprisingly.

SPEAKER_05 2:30

The Kern County Museum.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Yeah, Gary and Lakeisha's wedding in the rain.

SPEAKER_05 2:35

Which was awesome.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_05 2:37

Remember that that guy that was scene, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

We made we got one video. Well, we have multiple, we have content throughout, but we there was one video at the end of the night that was just my favorite video. And it it was all the LED neons from all of Old Kern County there at the at the uh museum, and uh the ground was wet, yeah, so there was a reflection of neon lights off of the ground as well.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

Yes.

New Prius And Spontaneous Vegas Run

SPEAKER_00 3:04

And uh this cat he was into uh I don't know if it was EDM or house music. Okay, he was into one of them, and he asked me if you know, this was at the very end of the night we were about to pack up and everything, and he asked me if I would play a couple of them. I think, you know, absolutely, man. Like, yeah. And this dude got out in the middle of the rain. I don't know if it was still raining at that point or if it was just wet. Right. And and he started dancing, and we got it. And and that was uh that was a real nice moment. It was that was a real nice moment, but yeah, anyways, uh all of our businesses are extremely busy. Uh, we're busy. Uh news, we uh bought a new car.

SPEAKER_05 3:45

We do.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Um it was a Toyota Prius, and I remember the old Prius', and I remember saying I would never be caught dead in one of those things. No, those things were hideous, ugly, shaped like an egg, whatever it may be.

SPEAKER_05 4:01

No, they're where we're looking.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

But this new 2026 Prius, it is a uh plug-in hybrid to be specific, which means it runs on electricity or gas or both. You're supposed to get like five, six hundred miles range from a tank.

SPEAKER_03 4:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Um, if if the battery's fully charged, if you're not driving it like a maniac and you know, everything else. So uh we decided to test it out on a whim one day, actually. On a whim. We were getting ready for an event.

SPEAKER_05 4:36

Yeah, we were.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Uh Marion had her gimbal out, and she was gonna do a time lapse of of stuffing balloons for a particular color and and blowing them up and everything else. And I was just sitting there chilling, and I said, You wanna go to Vegas?

SPEAKER_05 4:52

Yeah. In the new car.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

And the new car, yeah. So we said yeah. Uh she said yeah, of course. I don't think you know.

SPEAKER_05 4:59

I never really say no to Vegas.

Eagle Mountain Casino Fallout

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah, gambling or Vegas, right? Slots or Vegas. Um, which I have to say, look, we we used to go to Eagle Mountain Casino. Yeah. We used to go to Eagle Mountain Casino, you know, it was 45 minutes or what, maybe less, maybe more sometimes because that highway is dangerous. It is, and you get stuck behind Yeah, you get stuck behind trucks, and you know, I don't know about y'all, but I don't know if you've really paid attention driving that much out there. But uh the lines on the road are not very safe. And by what I what I mean by that is is that it will go to a uh you know, a dotted line or whatnot, and it's really not safe to pass.

SPEAKER_05 5:44

No, because it's like how are you gonna put a dotted line when you're about to curve?

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Or go over a hill. Yeah, you can't see over it. No, no, I ain't doing it. That's it, you know. So whoever designed that highway, uh, whoever analyzed that and said, hey, there's a hundred-foot, three hundred foot, four hundred foot stretch of road where somebody could pass here. Um, I think they failed. I think they fucked up. I think there's probably uh multiple people that their lives paid for it. Uh and they need to fix that situation out there. But anyways, we're talking about Eagle Mountain. Uh, we were big Eagle Mountain fans. We were out there all the time, every week, every two weeks, every three weeks. And uh we had a falling out with them. We had a falling out with them. We uh we were just mere points away from their legendary or whatever that tier is, the top tier. And we decided to go up there and play, you know, give them some money, make some points, and get to our legendary tier.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

And we were playing and we hadn't we hadn't hit legendary yet. So we pulled our card, we went to the the desk and we said, hey, you know, I want to know if you could look at this for us, tell us how much we're off, you know, you know. No sooner than we give our card to the guy behind the cage and he swipes it, he tells us we are just going into elite status, I think, or something. The blue card icon, right? Um, and that was wrong. Uh not only do we have the EMC app on the phone that told us we were just points away from legendary, but uh several things. So uh we asked to talk to a manager, we asked, you know, they called security on us because the the girl that was there was super rude. Uh she wasn't she wasn't friendly, she wasn't helpful, she had an attitude, and she was already talking poorly to other staff behind that cage, right? Uh, which didn't sit well with me. Yeah. So so I made sure, A, I don't work there. B, I can say whatever the hell I want to say to you. These other people that you're not being kind to and that you're talking to and treating that way, they can't say anything to you because you're their boss, you're their manager, you're their whatever. Me, motherfucker, though, hey, I I I'll tell you whatever the fuck I want to tell you. And if you're being a bitch, I'm gonna tell you you're being a bitch. Uh if you're being rude, I'm gonna tell you you're being rude, and I'm gonna tell you it's not okay. So they called security on us, needless to say, security wasn't needed. Obviously, I wasn't gonna go ape shit and break machines or anything.

SPEAKER_05 8:15

And the management was was nice too. Once they heard the story or whatever, we're nice and they said they were gonna look into it, but yeah, two ladies came out, management, they were nice enough.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Uh, we talked to a pit boss as well. Um a few days go by, there was some email communications back and forth. They said that they were gonna uh have their database guy look at it and see what was going on. Needless to say, none of it was resolved. No. I even contacted the COO at the time. He's probably still the CEO, CEO, whoever that is anymore. Um I tried to contact them, I tried to get it resolved. They didn't seem to care for some reason. Uh so we blasted them. Well, you know, Google Review blasted them, and it's their top review, a negative review, unfortunately for them.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

And in that review, I said, Hey, you guys, you know, you're not gonna be the only shop in town.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Yeah, absolutely.

Why El Cortez Treats Us Right

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Not only is there Tatchy out there a little bit farther away from us, but now Hard Rock was coming. Yeah, and now officially Hard Rock is here. Yes, which you know I suspect that not many people are gonna want to go to Eagle Mountain very much longer. A, if they're getting treated any of the type of way that we were treated, um, B, just for that dangerous highway, and C because Tahone is closer, bigger, more beautiful, everything else. Yeah, you know. Um, so, anyways, we we came up with the conclusion that look, if we're gonna go gambling, we're gonna go somewhere that that appreciates us, that takes care of us. Yeah, and that is the El Cortez in Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_05 9:54

Yes, they do, they take very well care of us.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

You know, we're on a, you know, funnily enough, somehow we're on a first name basis with the the GM Adam. Uh on a on a phone number basis with a GM Adam. Uh something that I don't abuse, something that I don't use, I don't like calling the guy, texting him, nothing like that. I won't do it. Uh we have our our own little VIP.

SPEAKER_05 10:17

Uh we'll message him and tell him, hey, we'll see you out there, but that's it. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, hey Adam, we're gonna see you at the end.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Yeah, so we we made it a point to say, look, if we're gonna go gamble somewhere, we're gonna go gamble somewhere like El Cortez, where uh they're they take care of their members. Um we get we get our rooms comped, we get food comped, we get play comped, we get everything. And you know, Vegas is just a short three or four hours.

SPEAKER_05 10:47

Yeah, it was the trip is not bad.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

And now with the new car, it's like yeah, with the new car, uh not taking anything, you can get out there on a single tank easily.

SPEAKER_05 10:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

Um, the Jeep, however, uh we would have to fill up two times there and back.

SPEAKER_05 11:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Once there and once back.

SPEAKER_05 11:05

And then had to fill back when we got home so that we could have gas for the week.

Hard Rock Tahachapi And Cheap Trips

SPEAKER_00 11:10

And it just didn't like the hills very much. It didn't. It's a heavy, heavy, heavy vehicle, doesn't like the hills very much. Um, but yeah, uh, we decided we were gonna go out there. If we're gonna go gamble anywhere, the the car will get us there for free, basically. Uh it's just a matter of our time and you know, three, four-hour drive, whatever it may be. And now we have to hone, which we'll hit as soon as we can, you know, as soon as we got some time and and budget and everything else in in the cards for us.

SPEAKER_05 11:38

Uh, that's not gonna cost us anything in gas.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

No, and and you know, that's that I'm sure they're gonna have chargers there.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

You know, so we're just gonna charge before we leave. We're gonna charge while we're there, and we're gonna come back. It's not gonna cost a single drop of gas to go to and from Tahone.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

It's gonna take a little bit of time and that's it. What is the time? How how far is Tahone?

SPEAKER_05 12:03

I'm gonna say, since we're so close to the freeway, maybe 25 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Yeah, like 25 minutes. We're going how fast?

SPEAKER_05 12:15

Like 70?

SPEAKER_00 12:17

I I doubt that. I'm thinking 35, 40 minutes.

SPEAKER_05 12:21

Nah.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Yeah, then pull it up real quick. Pull it up. Pull it up. Google Maps directions to Hard Rock Tahone casino. And we'll pull it up. It's gonna say 37 minutes.

SPEAKER_05 12:34

25 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Oh, 20, 25?

SPEAKER_05 12:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

Well, that's not bad.

SPEAKER_05 12:38

Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

That's not bad.

SPEAKER_05 12:41

I don't know how many I don't know how many miles that is from here, though.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Minutes and miles don't don't they're not the same.

SPEAKER_05 12:49

So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:51

Just because we're so close to the freeway, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:56

But we uh we had to take a trip out to go see mom. Um we got a call that mom fell and broke her hip.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

She did.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

Uh so she went to Ohio State Wexner. Um, it it was determined that it was broke, and I think it was a partial replacement, partial hip replacement. And we were already scheduled. We had already planned on going out there at the time we were going out there. It just worked out that, you know, we were gonna be out there at the same time she was gonna be recovering from hip surgery. And we h we hung out there for uh 10 days, nine days, ten days. Helped her around, helped her on the house, cooked, um, you know, just played funny videos and we played games.

SPEAKER_05 13:44

Mom loves to play games, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

Mom still loves to play games. She loves Yahtzee and Uno. Um yeah, she's she she'll play those until your hands are sore, I think.

SPEAKER_05 13:57

She got three Yachtis in a row.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

Not in a row, but she got three Yachtsis in one game.

SPEAKER_05 14:02

In one game, yes.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

In a row is a little bit excessive, but yeah, in one game. We're exaggerating now. And you know, you got two in one game or three?

SPEAKER_05 14:10

No, I got three too.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

You did two? Yes. I never did.

SPEAKER_05 14:13

No, you didn't.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

I never did, but I was still whooping on you guys all the time.

SPEAKER_05 14:16

You did whoop on us a couple times.

November Events And Home Studio Build

SPEAKER_00 14:18

If you didn't get your yachtsis, you were in danger. Oh man. So this month, we got a lot of things going on this month. We got a lot of events. We have some uh charity events that we're doing. Uh-huh. We always give back. Everything's not about money, um, especially during the holidays. So we got some charity stuff we're doing to give back. We have multiple photo booths going out, uh multiple DJ events going on. Uh we just hosted the Most Dope podcast, had a bunch of DJs over here. I called it the Unk episode. The Unk episode. It was a bunch of old, a bunch of old guys, all of us old DJs. We were uh just talking, you know, going over everything. It's um we got all that going on. We got our regular jobs. Uh setting up a studio. So this room that we're in right now is where my office is for work work. Um, but I am expanding it uh for another desk, workstation, futon, TV, ceiling fan, uh wall switches, wall outlets, paint. Um, what else am I missing? We'll be podcasting in here. Oh, we're gonna get the soundproofing done on the walls, uh, try to reduce, you know, and enhance sound, all of that good stuff.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Um we've been messing with all of our little devices. Right now we're talking our our little wireless pro go uh uh road microphones. Uh we didn't even hook up our regular mics, so we're just on some wireless mics sitting here and sitting in the room. But we got our little Mac 1, Mac M1 Mini.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

Uh, you know, we got our little Hercules Starlight controller, we got dual monitors, we got you know, studio speakers, we got a sub. Um, we got a lot of stuff. Well, we test we're testing out some new technology. Tested out some new technology, some uh uh radio frequency RF uh bracelets.

SPEAKER_05 16:31

Yes.

Tech Toys And LED Wristbands

SPEAKER_00 16:31

Uh you can put them in groups, you can assign several groups to several of them, several colors to several of them. Uh the audio sync is mostly what we're gonna be using them for, so they're gonna hook up to our controller, our system, and uh the dance floor is gonna be lit for reels. Like none of this fake lit stuff. No, this is real lit.

SPEAKER_05 16:57

Just like that music video you like.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

Yeah, you know what? Uh when my when our clients came over and was we're talking about it, I immediately remembered uh Coldplay. Coldplay had a concert. Uh is it all the stars or is that a Kendrick song, All the Stars?

SPEAKER_05 17:12

I think it's All the Stars. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

All right, well, there's a uh Coldplay song where they're in concert and you can see all of these wristbands throughout the entire venue, throughout this entire Coliseum, this stadium. And it was just it was kind of breathtaking. It was really pretty amazing. A sky full of stars, a sky full of stars, and I think I got a couple different um versions of that song. Um I don't know. I'm on the computer right now looking sky full of stars. So yeah, we got a couple versions. We got an Avici Don Diablo cold play version. We got the cold play version. We even got vitamin string quartet wedding violin cover version of it.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

Oh I'm sure we've played it.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

So they're all BPM 125. Um, but I'm thinking the cold play Avici Don Diablo would be a good bootleg remix to play of that particular song.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

Uh for these some of these events that we're gonna be playing. Because it's one of my favorite songs.

SPEAKER_05 18:25

Yeah, it's it's pretty the video. If you guys haven't seen the video, you should watch it. It's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Yeah, you'll get an idea of what is going to happen in two Saturdays.

SPEAKER_05 18:34

I know.

Big Quince Setup Plans

SPEAKER_00 18:35

In two Saturdays, we got a big event. We're gonna bring some subs out, we're gonna bring some tops out, we're gonna bring this wireless bracelet uh RF technology out. Uh it's for uh kinseh.

SPEAKER_05 18:47

Kinsey. They're supposed to be over 250 people.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Yeah, at least.

SPEAKER_05 18:52

At least and growing. And growing. Apparently. But you know, give or give or take.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Yeah, yeah. You know, I'll settle at 200, that's fine. You know, as long as I have 100 on the dance floor, I'll be I'll be super happy.

SPEAKER_05 19:02

Yeah.

Arvin Homecoming And Cultural Lessons

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Right. Um, speaking of that, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta point this out. We also did Arvin High's homecoming. And that's my alma mater. I graduated Arvin High in 1998. And I was getting ready for this. I was a little stressed about it. And I was talking to some other DJs about it. Uh my concerns are always explicit versus clean and uh the innuendo or tone, the sexual theme or whatever it may be, right? You're like, man, well, there goes for 80% of the music nowadays, right? And then that's what these kids listen to.

SPEAKER_05 19:40

Yeah, and we talk to our 17-year-old too, right? Yeah. But she goes to a whole diff different She goes to Stockdale. She goes to Stockdale High, but a whole different how do you say it?

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Like it's a different environment. Culture, yeah, culture environment, yeah. So, anyways, you know, I'm doing my homework, I'm trying to get ready, I'm trying to be prepared, and I do everything I can.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

I I source music, I build crates, I do everything. We get out there, and they wanted what their parents listened to in Arvin, cumbias, zapateado, yeah. Bandas, apateado, uh like they wanted all of these just and it it really made me start thinking and wondering. A, I probably uh what it's not typecast, but I I I made an assumption about that all the high schools that they're that they are 17-year-old kids and they want to listen to 17-year-old music. Yeah, right. I made that assumption, and I think that assumption might be correct at Stockdale High School.

SPEAKER_05 20:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

Uh it might be correct at South High School.

SPEAKER_05 20:49

Liberty.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Marvin culturally superseded uh era and genre. It superseded it. The the the cumbias, the banda, the tejano, the uh zapateados, everything is what they wanted out there. Yeah, and it was a cultural thing. Now I feel like when you come into Bakersfield and you go to these high schools and invent here in Bakersfield, and and you know, I feel like most of these kids want the newer music, 2010s, 2020s, right? Um, and I'm gonna have to do some research on that.

SPEAKER_05 21:29

I'm gonna have to talk to some DJs, I'm gonna have to to They even like the old like old school stuff, like Foot Loose, and uh um there were some other ones, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

It was pretty wild. It was pretty it was a successful event. It was ultimately it was successful. I will say I feel like I had a rough start.

SPEAKER_05 21:50

You did, but you you know how to pivot really well. And you did.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

One song will pivot.

Requests, Ego, And Reading The Room

SPEAKER_05 21:56

Yeah, it's it's like once he somebody comes up to you and says, I want to listen to this, then it's like you already know, okay, this is where this is where I need to go.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Yeah, and that's one of the things, the beauty of being uh not having uh uh what is it, not having uh an ego, right? Yeah, I don't have an ego, I don't know everything, I don't know every song, I don't know every genre. I I I know most of them, um, but there's ones that I'm missing, right? There's there's things that I'm missing. And I always welcome requests slash suggestions from people. I'll do my best to play them. Uh, I will look at them, I will listen to them, I will make a decision as to whether that flows currently or doesn't. I'll throw it in my prepare crate and have it ready for later, you know, whatever it may be, right? Um, but yeah, if somebody comes up to me and says, hey, we we we really want to dance some cumbias, right? And I play a cumbias banger and I get 50 people on the dance floor. Well, now I'm going to re-gear, I'm gonna reshift, and I'm gonna start playing a lot of cumbias.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:10

And then every once in a while I'll try to sneak something else in there for everybody else, right? The people on the sidelines to see if they want to come out. But if they don't come out, I'm gonna play the music that the people are out there dancing to.

SPEAKER_03 23:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

That's that's what it is. And I think that's probably a good uh piece of advice for anybody that goes to an event and wants to hear uh particular genre or or era or whatever it may be. Uh show that DJ love by getting on the dance floor and and and enjoying that music and and and look, especially if you request a song. Oh, if you request it and you don't dance, I'm calling you out on the microphone. I've done it and I will continue to do it. I will. I'm like, hey, you requested this, you need to be out there.

SPEAKER_05 23:53

If not, I'm going out there and grabbing you. Remember that Christmas party? Some um lady asked for Selena and she went to go sit down and I said, nope. Come on.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

No, you can't. That's not okay.

SPEAKER_05 24:05

And she was probably the only one spent there. But we played it for her, you know.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

And again, look, Selena is uh is a uh an artist and a genre and a music that that goes past everything, right? Anyone can uh enjoy and appreciate Selena. Anybody.

SPEAKER_05 24:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

I tried to watch a new documentary, I couldn't watch it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 24:33

We might have to try again.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

We can try again, but it seemed like a whole just a whole bunch of high eight or or old video clips, you know, old recordings just bundled together, and here's a here's a documentary.

SPEAKER_05 24:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

I don't know. I I didn't give I probably didn't give it the the fighting chance that I should have.

SPEAKER_05 24:51

Yeah, but maybe we just sometimes we just like to stick to the original, right? Like the original Selena.

Selena, Docs, And Dance Floor Stories

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Let's see. Hey, we had uh speaking about chaos, we had Rottweiler puppies.

SPEAKER_05 25:06

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

We uh we have Max and Roxy, those are our adult Rottweilers. Roxy was only about a year old.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

All right, she uh was on her first heat, I think.

SPEAKER_05 25:20

Freaking Max.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Uh Max took advantage. Good job, Max.

SPEAKER_05 25:24

What?

SPEAKER_00 25:26

Get some handle it, Max, handle it. That's what I got her for for you. No, um, you know, you you're not gonna be able to like just keep these dogs away from each other, humping on each other. Yeah, they that that's they're around each other 24-7. It is what it is. Uh, but with that, um uh there's a lot of birth risks, um, a lot of risks, and we experienced all of them. Uh all all nine puppies were premature.

SPEAKER_05 25:54

Yeah.

Premature Puppies And Survival

SPEAKER_00 25:54

Um we didn't even know she was due. We knew she was pregnant. We knew her little Chi-Cis were growing and everything else. We knew she was pregnant. Um, and I I had about the right timing. I thought it was about time uh in the next week or two, uh, but it had already happened, right? Yeah. Um, one of them passed away during birth.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

So that left eight. Uh we brought them all in. We did the best we could, right? Uh bottle fed them, resuscitated them. Uh they they they seized up and passed away a few times, almost seemingly all of them, multiple times, right? It was a constant, I was I was giving puppies mouth to mouth, blowing air in their lungs, uh, pumping their chests, bringing them back to life, being as happy as I could possibly be because they were alive and we didn't lose them. Um, but nevertheless, not all of them made it. And we uh have three left in our litter. And they seem to be thriving. They're they're big, they're rambunctious, they're running around, they're crying like crazy. Uh, they're now on mush slash uh solid food.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

Uh you know, bringing Roxy in to feed them every two or three hours. We're done. We're done. Done with that.

SPEAKER_05 27:12

You know, I'm just, you know, Roxy's still, like we said, still a baby herself, and I could tell her little Chichitos are all red, and I'm like, okay, it's time to wing these. Yeah, that's a crazy thing.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

You know, ladies, when you guys got nipple creams and all kinds of stuff to help you out, you know, during I think dogs do too. Oh, do they? You can put nipple cream on them.

SPEAKER_05 27:30

So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Well, but that's torture. We were having to keep the the the house in an uh what we call a hot 78 degrees, uh, because puppies can't regulate their temperature for the first four weeks or so.

SPEAKER_05 27:44

They had a heating pad.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

They had a heating pad. I mean, we did everything, and it it's like having a toddler, it's like having a child, a newborn, uh, and being up with them every two hours on the dot to feed them, to clean them, to bathe them, to wipe them, to to to do whatever, to keep them warm, to keep them, to keep them moving, to keep them alive, especially because they were premature. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:08

We tried our schedules off, right? You you were staying up at night. I was staying up during the day, and it was just a lot. And I had to wake you up a couple times because some of them seized up, you know, and so but we did it. We we did the best we could, and we have three Rottweiler puppies.

SPEAKER_00 28:31

Yeah. And we're thinking we're gonna keep them. We we don't know. We haven't made that final decision yet. Um, but originally when we had nine, we were like, well, shit, man, I'm not keeping nine of them. I I I I chat GPT'd how much does it cost to feed nine grown rottweilers? It was like a thousand, two thousand dollars a month or something. It's like, well, I can't afford to do it. As much as I would love to have eight rottweilers, you know, I love dogs, right? I love dogs. Um we can't afford it. Now the three, I I I can do what I need to do to afford it.

Naming The Pups And Keeping Three

SPEAKER_05 29:04

Yeah, we can make it work, but it is a lot of work having three puppies, and you know, we have our businesses, and it's it's a lot, it's a lot of work. So we would end up with six dogs if we keep all three.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Well, bear doesn't count. He's a he's a toy poodle.

SPEAKER_05 29:24

He's still a dog.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 29:27

He eats like a little bird.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Bear counts as like an eighth of a rottweiler, like that don't count.

SPEAKER_05 29:32

But imagine poor bear. He's gonna be scared all the time.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

From eight rottweilers, or or or bear becomes part of the pack.

SPEAKER_05 29:43

Oh my gosh. Imagine what if he leads them.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Yeah, what if he's the alpha? Bear, the little toy poodle, is the alpha of six rottweilers, five rottweilers, right? Like, man. So, anyways, we got names. Uh Max was our first, ends with an X. Yes. Roxy was our second. Has an ex. Uh Phoenix is a new puppy. Yeah. One of our girls.

SPEAKER_05 30:09

Phoenix. And she's the biggest one.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Phoenix, we we called her Big Bertha at first because she's a little chanchita.

SPEAKER_05 30:16

And a chancha and a torta.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

Yeah, she's a little fat shit, man. She uh she never had to be resuscitated. No. Never, never in danger of anything. That girl got in there and did what she needed to do.

SPEAKER_05 30:29

She did not care. She was gonna survive.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

So who does that leave?

SPEAKER_05 30:33

Um then we have Lexi.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

Lexi is our other female puppy.

SPEAKER_05 30:38

And then we have Rex.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

Rex is our male that made it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:43

She didn't have very many males. I believe she only had either two or three. I don't know what what the baby that was when we found the litter, the one that had passed away first. I don't know it what his sex was. But we had two boys, and then he was the only one that survived.

Current Music Obsessions

SPEAKER_00 31:06

What's a uh what's a song that you're all about right now?

SPEAKER_05 31:12

Oh my gosh. I'm so in love with Jesse Reyes right now.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Jesse Reyes.

SPEAKER_05 31:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Is that the one?

SPEAKER_05 31:17

Jesse Reyes.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Um with black or with Miguel or just Jesse Reyes? What's what's your what's your joint?

SPEAKER_05 31:23

So I like, I have two. So my favorite right now is jeans.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

With Miguel.

SPEAKER_05 31:29

With Miguel, and then I like Forever with Black.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

With black. Black's clean. Yeah. Yeah, black is clean. They call him six lack, but it's supposed to be black.

SPEAKER_05 31:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

You know, that's the way he spells his name on you know his artist profile.

SPEAKER_05 31:43

Yeah, and that that's those are my favorite. And then, you know, our go-to is Mac Miller, too.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

That's my go-to.

SPEAKER_05 31:50

But you know, it's kind of grown on you.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

It's grown on you, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:53

Yeah, it really has. I mean, I didn't even know who Mac Miller was until I met you.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

A lot of people don't know Mac Miller. You know, Mac Miller wasn't mainstream, he wasn't radio, he wasn't, you know, a lot of people don't know Mac Miller.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

For me, I got super excited because Big L's posthumous album came out. And it had a track with Mac Miller.

SPEAKER_05 32:13

Oh, yeah.

Morning Routines And Pet Peeves

SPEAKER_00 32:14

Forever. Um, and and Mac Miller cites Big L as one of his biggest influences or reason he started rhyming and rapping and everything else. So both of them are gone now, but it it was nice to see that they both finally got to do a track together, even though they're both gone, right?

SPEAKER_04 32:31

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Yeah, they're both past. Um, and that that just means more Mac Miller music. Yeah. Not to mention Mac Estate came out with uh, you know, anniversary editions of a couple of his albums and released additional songs for them. Which I think I already had. I think I pretty much have every Mac Miller song ever created. Um but yeah, that uh them songs right now, those are uh those are up all the time. And and we'll just go to YouTube radio and uh we'll play forever, Big L Mac Miller, or jeans, Jesse Reyes, Miguel, and then let it play, right?

SPEAKER_05 33:11

Yeah. And then we're like, oh, well, this is a nice song. We haven't heard this song in a while.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

Yeah, other artists, other music, you know, and different suggestions and things like that.

SPEAKER_05 33:21

Um yeah, that's my go-to right now, Jesse Reyes. And you know, I've been listening to her for a long time. And then I recently started listening to her again, and you know, I'm I'm loving her music right now.

SPEAKER_00 33:39

What uh what's something I do to drive you crazy? This is a safe space. Sure. This is a safe space. We listen and we don't judge. But if it's if it's if it's crazy, you can't say it. If it's super crazy, if you wouldn't want somebody to know something about you, they they're not that crazy.

SPEAKER_05 34:06

Okay, it's not that crazy. I think for me is the morning time. You drive me nuts in the morning when I've been up for an hour, and you get up and I'm just ready to just talk your ear off. And you're like, woman, I just woke up.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

Yeah, man, you gotta let people wake up. Jesus Christ, man. She does that shit to me. And you want to put me in a bad mood? There's probably no easier way to ruin my entire goddamn day than to just start bombarding me with updates and news, and this is happening and that's happening, and we need to do this, and we need to go do that. And it's like, hey man, can I just fucking open my eyes, man? Like, can I, can I, can I have some coffee? Can I can I wake up? Can I and yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:58

And it's not his fault, right? Like he's he's been on leave for a little bit. So he wakes up a little bit later, maybe 10-ish. And then I'm already awake for a while. And so people have already been texting us about gigs or this and that. And when he gets up, I don't have an answer until you get up.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

So you gotta run everything by me. And we got this, this, and then I need answers for all of these items. But they don't have to be done that nickel. You know, open your Apple phone, open your fancy little Apple phone. There's a program on it called Notes. Open notes, write down the things that you need to speak to me about that day and wait 30 fucking minutes. Jesus Christ, man.

SPEAKER_05 35:48

I already waited two hours for you to get up.

SPEAKER_00 35:51

Man, but you have to wait until I'm awake and uh alive and processing. Because when I open my eyes, that just means my eyes are open. That doesn't mean I'm awake.

SPEAKER_05 36:02

I know, I know. I need to work on it. I need to work on it. But yeah, I think that's there's really nothing bad.

Missed Gigs And Fixing Systems

SPEAKER_00 36:09

All right, who leaves the most messes? You mean I will somewhat agree, but I will disagree as well. I will put your ass on blast right now. I will put you on blast.

SPEAKER_05 36:24

Okay, I might not put things away sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

No, or you put them in the wrong place.

SPEAKER_05 36:30

Like what?

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Everything. Shit, man.

SPEAKER_05 36:35

No.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Let's talk about let me. I think we're pretty equal.

SPEAKER_05 36:38

No, no, no, fuck that. You said it was me.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

So now we're on. So let's talk about. Let's talk about your nightstand drawer and your nightstand. Can you tell me how clean you are versus how clean I am?

SPEAKER_05 36:53

That's my space. That's my cleaner.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

I didn't say it wasn't. I said clean. I said cleanliness.

SPEAKER_05 37:00

It's not clean.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

I said who's the question was who leaves messes?

SPEAKER_05 37:05

They're not messes, it's just everything in that drawer I use.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

No, you don't.

SPEAKER_05 37:09

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

No, you don't.

SPEAKER_05 37:11

People don't want to know what I have in that drawer.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

Okay, let's go let's go pull that drawer into our our studio and open it and start going through all the stuff in it that you use. Yeah, bullshit. Who who takes too long?

SPEAKER_05 37:26

Who takes too long for for anything? Me.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 37:32

Yes, I take a long time.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

You take way too long. Who forgets everything?

SPEAKER_05 37:37

Who's impatient?

SPEAKER_00 37:39

Me? Who forgets everything?

SPEAKER_05 37:42

You?

SPEAKER_00 37:43

I do forget.

SPEAKER_05 37:44

You do forget, but I do forget too. But you forget like big things.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

Yeah, like my fucking laptop.

SPEAKER_05 37:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:53

But I'll forget to tell you that I'm dropping somebody off somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

No, you forget more than that. Come on. You're trying to make yourself out. Look, we're supposed to be honest on this podcast.

SPEAKER_05 38:03

Like what? When do I forget? I do. I do forget something.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

You forget gigs? Oh we Oh, oh, do you now do you want to talk about it?

SPEAKER_05 38:14

Yeah, we can talk about it. That was a big, a big, big um. It happens.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

We don't need to talk about it, but look, there was a gig that slipped through the cracks. Um, it was a photo booth backdrop or just a photo booth.

SPEAKER_05 38:31

It was just a photo booth.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

It it it slipped through the cracks. I don't know if we were in Columbus at the time. I don't know if we were in Denver flying. I don't know if we were in Vegas, you know.

SPEAKER_05 38:42

Somehow it didn't make it to our calendar.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

It didn't make it through our CRM software onto our calendar, anything. Um, and there was actually more than one because there was another one that was uh uh that somebody hit me up and said, Are you gonna come set up today or tomorrow? It was for the hotels.

SPEAKER_05 39:00

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

So there was a couple of them. So uh we've rectified that. Uh anything and everything goes through our booking software, period. Bottom line, no question. Here's the link. You gotta fill out your stuff, you gotta put it in there, uh, you gotta make it work.

SPEAKER_05 39:15

Yeah, but yeah, I mean we made it right. Um, like talk to them.

Social Media Grief And Real Friendship

SPEAKER_00 39:19

I I what I we still showed up, we still delivered, we still set up, they still had a photo booth. Uh, we were just slightly late.

SPEAKER_05 39:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

Um, but uh you know, professionalism, uh, your your next photo booth's on us. Yes. And not not a worry. Uh, we apologize, we're not sure how this happened. We are going to investigate it, we're going to uh figure it out, uh, we're gonna make sure it doesn't happen again.

SPEAKER_05 39:41

And they were the nicest, most sweetest. Yeah, you know, they were and we've worked with them before. And if anything, they were worried and thought something was was wrong with us, right? Like something had happened to us.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

Oh, yeah, they they had contacted me multiple times. Um, my shit's always on silent, and I try to stay off of my phone a lot nowadays. I don't want to be on it. Um, I just don't want to be on it, uh, especially when there are some uh racial, political, any kind of divides like that that really uh uh uh polarizes left versus right versus good versus bad, you know, whatever. And I'm I try to stay off of it because uh a lot of times I get disappointed in friends or family or um and that's not to say that I'm right. Yeah, uh it's just to say that the way I see things, the way I view things, the way I feel about things, uh it couldn't be farther from how they do.

SPEAKER_03 40:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:38

And it's it's upsetting whether they're responsible, whether I'm responsible, whether that's just normal, right? You know, people have, you know, people were raised differently, grew up differently, whatever it may be, but neither here or there.

SPEAKER_05 40:51

Yep, and then that same day, our car gets hit.

SPEAKER_00 40:56

Our brand new 2026 Prius XSE plug-in hybrid. Uh, some kind of special black uh paint, and this and that, and and smart this and smart that, and some abulita that wasn't wearing her goddamn glasses uh at midnight, uh backs up and scratches and dings our brand new car. Uh luckily, uh very nice woman.

SPEAKER_05 41:25

Very nice.

SPEAKER_00 41:26

Luckily stayed there, luckily didn't run, luckily had insurance, luckily everything, but uh the car's getting fixed, so not a big deal.

SPEAKER_05 41:35

Not a big deal, but you know, it was just one of those days, those days that we just couldn't chaotic.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:44

We just couldn't get a break that day.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

I I think it was uh there was three or four things that happened that day that were just, I mean, you you want to test a human being that that would probably test pretty much any human being. It was it was just rough. It was rough. Yeah, it was definitely rough, but you know how about this one who makes plans without telling the other?

SPEAKER_05 42:07

You excuse me? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:12

Excuse me?

SPEAKER_05 42:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Uh you make plans with our daughters uh before telling me all the time.

SPEAKER_05 42:20

Yes, but that doesn't say that that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 42:24

Everybody's gonna get a sneak peek into our relationship and and they are going to finally be able to chime in and say, you know what, Gordon's right. Or you know what, Marion's right.

SPEAKER_05 42:34

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 42:35

What do you mean, no?

SPEAKER_05 42:36

No.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

So you're so confident that you're right and you're infallible that if somebody listening to this show couldn't say, you know what, I feel for Gordon here because that's true. My wife, you know, makes plans with our daughters and kids all the time and doesn't tell me until after they've already made the plans. Right?

SPEAKER_05 42:56

Fine, you can be right. You can be right.

SPEAKER_00 42:59

I don't need to be right.

SPEAKER_05 43:00

You're fine, it's me. It's me.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

Is that helpful?

SPEAKER_05 43:04

No, it's not helpful, but all right.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

So we're on a podcast and you're not being helpful to the podcast or to the relationship at the end of the podcast, but you're not being helpful.

SPEAKER_05 43:13

I think yes, there's times where I make plans and I just think sometimes I think, oh, he's not gonna care. And most of the time you don't care, but you like to know. You like to know.

SPEAKER_00 43:24

I like to be in the knowing, I like to be aware, I like to I like to be in the knowing, I like to be aware. Man, that's it.

SPEAKER_05 43:29

Yeah, but it's like like sometimes I can tell you, hey babe, I'm gonna go to the mall with the girls. I don't care. You don't have to tell me. Yeah, you know, like, but I'm like, yes, I do have to tell you, you know, but you know, I do. There is times where I do make plans with the girls, and I just feel like it's not that big of a deal.

SPEAKER_00 43:51

I don't make plans in the sense that I make plans personally or whatever else. Uh the plans that I make are probably about the podcast. I'll tell you, hey, we're gonna have a podcast here next Wednesday.

SPEAKER_01 44:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Right? Like I'll do that to you. Um, I booked a gig for next Friday. I'll tell you that, or whatever it may be, right? Um, but as far as plans, plans, yeah. I mean, look, the studio may I might have made these plans for this studio.

SPEAKER_05 44:19

Um but it's not anything I didn't know wasn't coming.

SPEAKER_00 44:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:23

You know, we've been talking about it for a long time.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

Yeah, nothing crazy.

SPEAKER_05 44:27

You know, like I'm you know, I'm probably gonna get a couch without telling you.

SPEAKER_00 44:31

I told you we can go buy one. I told you, let's go. Who uh who's a blanket stealer?

SPEAKER_05 44:40

You mean?

SPEAKER_01 44:42

Yes, you okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:43

Let me ask you something. You end up with the guy that runs hot, the guy that sweats in bed, the guy that is just burning up all the time is somehow the one stealing and using the blankets. Okay, that you know what that doesn't add up. It doesn't make sense. You know what we end up having is is we we we've gotten up and down multiple times out of bed, whatever else. Uh we've we've wrestled.

SPEAKER_05 45:14

Uh-huh. Wrestled.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

Wrestled. This is PG 13, baby.

Travel, Expansion, And Skill Growth

SPEAKER_05 45:19

You end up with four corners.

SPEAKER_00 45:21

We were fucking. Yeah. And we'll and that's that is our thing. It's like, why do you have three corners? I only have this one corner. You have three corners, right? We do that.

SPEAKER_05 45:33

Yeah, there's one thing you do do. You like to tuck the blanket underneath you.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

What's wrong with that?

SPEAKER_05 45:39

And so when I'm trying to get in bed, I have like like a quarter of it, and so I have to kind of like pull it from underneath.

SPEAKER_00 45:48

You're being a little extreme, once again, a little untruthful, a little, you know, whatever. I don't tuck them under me. I tuck them into my into the edges, into the sides, but not under. That doesn't take up a full half a blanket because I I I push them up under my legs a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 46:08

You know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

No, not what you mean. Nobody knows what you mean. Everybody listening to this podcast right now only knows what you say. And if you say I steal blankets, and if you say I tuck blankets under me, then people are gonna say Gordon steals blankets and he tucks them all the way under him and wraps himself like a burrito for some reason. When that's not true. He doesn't, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. That's not true at all. You gotta be accurate with with these answers and questions.

SPEAKER_05 46:42

I'm just being silly.

SPEAKER_00 46:43

No, you're not. Yes, no, you're not. No, you're not. You're embellishing and generalizing.

SPEAKER_05 46:52

Okay, I'm embellishing.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 46:54

Okay. What do you mean? What's the next one?

SPEAKER_00 46:57

No, we're talking about this. We're talking about this.

SPEAKER_05 47:05

I'm exaggerating. I am ex I do exaggerate. That's probably one annoying thing, huh? It's a huge annoying thing.

SPEAKER_00 47:11

Shit, man. Because nobody knows the goddamn truth when it comes to you. Nobody. Okay. Because you quote unquote embellish and you say all these, and then everybody else takes it verbatim, word for word, and they believe everything you say.

SPEAKER_05 47:30

I will work on it.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

I don't wrap myself like a burrito.

SPEAKER_05 47:33

You don't want to be. I don't steal blankets.

SPEAKER_00 47:36

I wrap the blanket under me.

SPEAKER_05 47:39

You tuck it.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

Not under me.

SPEAKER_05 47:42

But okay. Okay. Okay. I embellished everybody.

SPEAKER_00 47:46

And then all of a sudden, uh, poor Marion only has a quarter of a blanket because I use so much blanket to let it lay down the sides of my legs.

SPEAKER_05 47:59

I did not say it. Yes, you did.

SPEAKER_00 48:01

Look, it's recorded. We're gonna be able to play it back. We're gonna be able to listen back to it. It's recorded.

SPEAKER_05 48:06

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

You're gonna have to hear how foolish shit you sound.

SPEAKER_01 48:11

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

Let's see, what else do we got? What else do we got? What are you changing? What's changing in you as a person? Personally, emotionally, as a partner, as a business owner, as a parent, as a creator? How are you evolving? What's changing within you?

SPEAKER_05 48:34

I think for me is um, I think I've since I've been with you, I think I've learned to stand up for myself a little bit more and not let people take so much advantage of me. You know, like I don't let anyone take advantage of me, and there's a lot of things that I'll run by you and you'll be like, that person's full of shit, babe.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

You know?

SPEAKER_05 48:59

Like I think that I've learned to do that and learn to like, hey, like, that doesn't seem right, you know.

Effects, Teams, And Show Flow

SPEAKER_00 49:07

I think something that you've learned is that you have to be a little um stricter or harder when it comes to business and money and how a business runs and not uh, oh yeah, you can pay me the day of or you can pay me after, or when they short you and don't pay you fully what they're supposed to pay you, and you accept that, right? Yeah, you know, that that was something that we had to address. And it's not something that's comfortable to address, right? Um we had to talk to this person and say, hey, uh not only did, you know, you're you're shorting me here, but you shorted me the last two events too. And I don't know if you're just so busy that you don't remember what the the agreement on the price was or whatever it may be. But you have to get to the point where a which you have and you did with them and you said, A, it's this much up front to secure your date, and it's this much remainder one week prior to your event.

SPEAKER_05 50:13

Yeah. You know and I've grown in my in our business like that a lot, right? But also in in my circle, you know, like I've had to remove a lot of people from my life.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Yeah, yeah, and you've had to check people.

SPEAKER_05 50:33

And we've had to check people and it's uncomfortable, it sucks.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

You don't wanna do it, it sucks. But it's like, look, if you're crazy enough to do some shit that is gonna cause me to have to check you, yeah, you got other issues. You don't want me to check you. I will check you, and I will check you very, very quickly and efficiently and lethally. Yeah, I will eviscerate you, I will check your ass into another arrow.

SPEAKER_05 51:03

Yeah, but you know, like for instance, when we first got together and I worked in the real estate world, right? And people were texting me after nine o'clock. Ten o'clock.

SPEAKER_00 51:17

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 51:18

And uh and to me it was normal, right? And that's just because But there's no work-life balance. My boss made it nor normal at the time, and and uh Gordon's all like, no, that is not okay. You might be salaried, but you're not well it happened in retail too.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

It happened to you in retail too. The the the the newer manager at one of the retail establishments that you had, uh, he didn't understand uh work-life balance or or respect of other people's time or anything else. Uh, and I had to check him.

SPEAKER_01 51:51

Yeah.

Photo Booth Strategy And Printing

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Like I I'm not gonna allow it. I'm not gonna do it. I've done it myself. I I've worked through, you know, my ex giving birth to a baby. I was in the hospital working while she was giving birth. Like I, you know, and like there needs to be a separation. There needs to be, but you know what? Now that you're talking about that, right? Yeah, uh, we're gonna redirect a little bit. Um something happened recently. Something very, very terrible happened to somebody that was a very close friend to you. Very dear, very dear, very close for a long, long time. And and this is on a daily basis, talking on a daily basis, including weekends and everything else, every day of your life talking to somebody. Yeah, every single day of your life talking to somebody. Um, and it always seems like there's a hundred people on social media that are so hungry for attention that they will post this horrible news or they will post, oh my poor friend, uh, I wish you were still here. I'm so sorry this happened to you. All of these people will be posting this stuff seemingly because they need attention, because A, they weren't really friends with the person.

SPEAKER_05 53:19

Um what are you gonna get from that posting attention? Sorry, comments, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:26

Attention, that's what I just said.

SPEAKER_05 53:28

Yeah, the first thing someone's gonna message you is who was it?

SPEAKER_00 53:31

Yeah, unless you actually include who it was and you say, you know, Rip, my poor friend, you know, whatever else may be, right? But you have all of these attention-seeking people on on social media wanting to be the first or wanting to be the closest friend, everything else is like, look, motherfucker, you didn't hang out with this person, you didn't talk to this person on a daily basis, you didn't call to check up on this person, you didn't go on trips with this person, you didn't go out to lunch with this person, you weren't involved with this person, you weren't celebrating this person's wins and you weren't there for their losses and everything else, but all of a sudden, rest in peace, my poor friend. Like you people fucking disgust me. Yeah, these people disgust me. I like I told you, if and when I die, there might be 10 people, you know, that have permission to post about me and say, hey, my friend. Because I don't really have that many friends. I have a shit ton of uh acquaintances, everything else, but who calls me? Yeah, who texts me, who checks up on me, who congratulates me when I post something, you know, great, who interacts with that, you know, who does all of these things? So I'm gonna say right now, I'm so disgusted and tired of people, uh, social media, the the constant just need for attention at the expense of somebody else's life and their family members that are having to endure the fact that they're never gonna see that person again. A real friend that's never gonna see that person or talk to that person again, a real family member that's never gonna see or talk to that person again. Yet there's a hundred people out there posting this and that and that and the other. Uh, my poor friend, this and that, didn't deserve this, didn't deserve that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you can't post a single picture with them. You can't post a single picture with them. You don't have a picture with them at lunch. You don't have a picture of them dancing with you or dancing at a party. You don't have a picture of them at an event. You don't have text messages and emails from them. You don't have all this stuff, but suddenly you were just some great friend. You know what? I'm gonna tell 99% of you guys out there right now, you guys are shitty fucking friends. I'm gonna tell you right now, 99% of you guys are shitty fucking friends. You guys suck, you're terrible. Do better. Call your loved ones, call people that are important to you, text them, be a part of their life, do everything else, or keep your mouth shut and stay off of social media when those people are no longer here.

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SPEAKER_05 56:16

Mm-hmm. You know, I wasn't close to her anymore, you know. I haven't even had the courage to post about her, you know, and it was terrible. The way things happened to her, it was terrible, and you know may her soul rest in peace.

SPEAKER_00 56:38

Yeah, and it doesn't matter. Her, him, whoever. It doesn't matter. Uh the only thing that matters is that you're a shitty friend and do better. You're a shitty friend, do better. Um you you don't just get everybody wants a title, I'm your friend. Well, how? How so? How are you my friend? Were you there when I needed help moving? Uh were you there when me and my my spouse were fighting and I needed to get out of the house and go somewhere and and just go have a drink and go eat somewhere with somebody and just get away. And and uh, you know, you know, were you there when uh you know I opened my business? Were you there on my on my house warming? You know, were you there for many things? And the answer is no. You're not my friend. You are not my friend. I'm I'm sorry to tell everybody right now, all 5,000, 6,000, 20,000, whoever, however many. I I got like 15 friends, maybe, maybe, maybe 10, maybe five, to be honest with you. Um I don't I don't understand the fake that people have in them and their ability to just be fake and it not bother them at all, like nonchalant. Oh, this was my friend. No, it wasn't. It wasn't your friend. It wasn't your friend.

SPEAKER_05 57:55

But may her soul rest in peace.

SPEAKER_00 58:00

Yeah, she will now. She'll she'll be in peace now, you know. Luckily, luckily. Um, let's see. We're about 58 minutes in, so we still got some time. We can still shoot the shit.

SPEAKER_05 58:12

We have all the time we want.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

And say whatever we want on here. But that was kind of a dark little portion of the the the podcast. Yeah, and I apologize right now. I don't I don't like going off, I don't like cussing and you know doing everything else. But you know, it some of y'all are just just ridiculous. And you look ridiculous, you sound ridiculous, uh, you look like attention seekers, you sound like attention seekers. Like somebody else dies and you make it about you and your loss. Like, like how, how, who does that? Who dies and then you make it about yourself and what you lost? I lost my friend. A, they weren't your friend, and B, somebody lost their life, not just a friend. There's some real shit that happened, and you're over here um acting like something terrible happened to you when it didn't. Nothing happened to you. You lost an acquaintance, uh, whatever. I'm not talking about it anymore. I'm done with it. I'm done with it. Um, what else do we got?

SPEAKER_01 59:19

I don't know.

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SPEAKER_00 59:20

Um how about our trips? Where have we been? We've been to uh Denver, we've been to Columbus, we've been to Vegas. Um Cali Entertainment Group is trying to expand across California. I don't want to be stuck in Bakersfield.

SPEAKER_05 59:37

No.

SPEAKER_00 59:38

Bakersfield's my home, that's fine. Um, but there's a lot of business. There's a lot of people, there's a lot of cities, there's a lot of counties, there's a lot outside of Bakersfield and outside if you just want to travel. And I feel like as a business, I it's a twofer, right? Not only do I get to expand and grow and and you know. Get business outside of my city, but I get to travel.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:03

Yeah.

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SPEAKER_00 1:00:03

Right? Like, you know We get paid to travel. You know, if I do something up in Santa Cruz, that's wonderful. I I get paid to go up there, get paid to work, get paid to stay there, and I make a couple days out of it. You know, and and I I explore and walk around and enjoy and and take pictures and everything else. It's uh we're really looking to expand. Looking to expand. We got a lot of work going on on like I said earlier in the podcast on this website, on marketing, on on everything else. Um and I feel like I feel like I've been making some strides in DJing. Right? I feel like I've been getting better. I feel like I've had some not so great events sometimes, and you have to learn from those. But then I feel like a couple of our latest events were some of my greatest performances, you know, and uh that makes me happy, you know. I think it'll make anybody happy to to work for something and to struggle and to succeed.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:13

Right? To succeed. Now I'm hard on myself. You are, and you're a fan, you're a Gordy B super fan, right? So it doesn't matter if I do well or not, you're gonna say, hey, you did good, baby. But me, I'm never happy. Yeah, you know, if I'm happy, uh, it's rare. And if I'm happy, I will still find something that I'm unhappy about inside of it.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:37

But I'm they're always there to remind you that you did good, and I'll record like your transitions and then I'll be like, oh, that was good. So I kind of try to bring you back and you know, try to help you. And um, you know, that's the role that I play. I I'm there, I'm your number one fan, and I hate missing any gigs you have. I like to be able to.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:02

It's very rare.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:03

It's very rare.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:04

Very rare.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:04

I mean, the last time I missed a gig was because I had surgery. Yeah, that was the only time. And then after that, I haven't missed another one.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:13

But it's always great to have a partner there with you that that can take content, that can help with content, that can help with other stuff. For instance, uh, two Saturdays from now, we got a big kinsei, like we were talking about with the LED bracelets and everything else. And there's gonna be a lot to set up. There's gonna be a lot of moving parts. You know, there's gonna be cold sparks, there's gonna be low fog, there's gonna be wireless uh bracelets, uh, there's gonna be all of the festivities, all you know, the shoe changing, the crown, the dance, you know, there's gonna be a lot of moving parts. And DJing and MCing is enough on its own. And then you have to add, hey, hit the button for the cold sparks. Then you have to, hey, put the ice, put dry ice in the low fog machine. Uh, and that's a lot of work to do to juggle all three or four of those things. So, you know, I'll have you, I'll have Summer. I think Omar is going.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:09

Yeah.

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SPEAKER_00 1:03:09

Uh, so we're gonna have a whole little group, a whole little team.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:12

A little family team.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:13

Little family team. Um, and I the another thing that we were talking about, I think we're finally gonna buy a printer, a photo booth printer.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:23

Um, now I'm gonna let everybody know right now uh our business strategy with our photo booths is uh kind of a set it and forget it kind of thing. It's uh a microwave. I always tell people it's a microwave. You can't really fuck a microwave up, right? No, you put your time in and you hit start. Well, our photo booths are digital, uh cellular. Uh you you hit the the picture button, you hit the gift button, you hit the boomerang button, you hit the video button, it prompts you, it takes them, and then it asks you for your cell phone number. You put your cell phone number in and it sends it to you immediately. And that doesn't require an attendant. No, however, we have been getting some requests here and there for uh printers, right? A printed uh photo, which uh for the most part, I'm gonna say does require an attendant. It's gonna require somebody there to make sure it doesn't jam. It's gonna require somebody there to put paper in it or do whatever.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:25

And to put these, there's little kids that will take a million pictures. And that's just gonna take a look at the controlled.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:35

And and at that point, then then the business strategy and the business model is gonna be you get 200 prints and that's it. Everything else is digital, you get 200 prints, that's it. You know. Um, but it is going to cost more because of the printer and because of the attendant. Um, and that's the same thing to go with props. Uh, we stopped doing props a long time ago because um they get torn up, they don't get respected, kids tear them up, parents don't pay attention to their kids, parents steal them if they like the prop, whatever it may be. So we don't do props, we just do not do them. If we're gonna do them, uh it's gonna be supervised. We're gonna have somebody there, and of course, the photo booth is gonna be more expensive than our our all digital photo booth. But yeah, we're we're thinking about getting a printer for it.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:27

Uh just so we'll be nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:29

It'll be nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:30

And and Marion's real good at the Canva and all the graphics and setting up templates and things like that. So it'll all be customized and everything else, which is again another charge. Yeah. Uh you're gonna want a custom template. Well, that's gonna be another$50 or whatever. You know, I don't know what it is. I haven't really done my homework on the model per se quite yet. Uh, but the the template is gonna cost, the printer is gonna cost, the the um props are gonna cost, and us having an attendant there is gonna cost.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:03

Yeah.

Beats Over The City Returns

SPEAKER_00 1:06:04

But that's why we've been so successful and so uh formidable, right? Uh so competitive is that our units are they don't require any of that.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:16

No, they don't.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:16

So I don't have to pay a 20-year-old kid, a 30-year-old person, whatever it may be, a couple hundred dollars to go babysit a photo booth. I don't have to do that. I'm I'm not going to.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:27

And we're not just gonna drop it off anywhere either. Like we we make sure we know our people and make sure our photo booths are gonna be okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:37

Yeah. Yeah. So we're we're growing that part of the business. What else are we trying to grab up on the on the entertainment and DJ photo booth side of the businesses? I thought there were some other things that we were gonna speak about investing.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:52

You're looking into those speakers. Not sure if you want to get those.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:55

Yeah, so I'm looking into some of the column speakers, you know, column arrays, whatever you want to call them. Um, I'm not real, really sold on them. I don't really uh love the appearance of them. What I love about them is their portability, um, how quick they are to break down, how easy they are. Um and I think if you're within a certain size room and or a certain uh attendance level, uh they work fine. And and they have little subs built in, they have the tops built in, everything else. And in the case that we have a 300-person event in a bigger hall or something, then we'll bring two additional 15-inch tops. Uh so yeah, I am thinking about investing in that. Um, also uh video podcasting. So I've been looking at all the video podcasting equipment, which A goes back to what we were talking about. I don't tell you everything, right? I've been looking at video podcasting for uh a few days now, maybe a week now, and I don't think I've told you about it, but I have a plan to do video podcasting eventually. It's not like so the road has a video S, a video podcasting unit. I'm gonna grab a couple cameras and a video podcaster, and uh we're gonna start doing some video podcasting as well, I think. Um I've already looked into all the technology, all the software, all the features. I've already learned how to link a mic to a camera. So if I'm talking, it'll go to the camera that's pointing at me. If you're talking, it'll go to the camera that's pointed at you, and it'll do it automatically. Okay, cool. So there's some production value there, right? Yeah. Um, and this will be a perfect little place for, you know, we'll put a table here in the middle, people on the left, people on the right, camera over there, camera over here, and we'll just go back and forth, you know? Yeah, we'll go back and forth.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:49

Um, I know I want to get some more like backdrops and yeah, we need to invest.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:54

We need to invest in the businesses some more. We need uh we need some more backdrops, we need we need more.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:00

Just more like look, we have cold sparks.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:04

Yeah, we have low fog, we have photo booths, we have audio guest books, we have um four 15-inch tops, we have two 15-inch subs, two 18-inch subs, a 12-inch sub. Um, we have sound. Oh, the the uh I I don't I don't know how we forgot about this, but the marqueese letters.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:26

Oh yeah.

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SPEAKER_00 1:09:27

We are starting to get into the marqueese letters business. Four foot letters. Um we're gonna get into that. Um, we've been working on that. I got all the the plans, all the schematics, blueprints, whatever you want to call them that plug into the CAD software that they cut the the joints out for you. Uh so at that point we'll have to, I don't know, brad nail them or whatever, nail them together, uh glue them, nail them, paint them, primer them, paint them, put the uh put the lights in them, everything else. Uh, but we're gonna start doing uh the Marquise letters. Um and I think we're gonna build a DJ booth, uh a podium, podium style. So, you know, there's Danny Max and Bun Gear and a couple of them other outfits out there that sell them. And uh personally, they're pretty pricey for me. Um, they are super professional, they're super clean, they're beautiful units. Um, but I think we can build some together on the CAD software, cut them out, put them together, and and we'll make it modular. We'll have a base, we'll have a column, and we'll have a top. And on that top, we'll have interchangeable shelves uh that will uh accommodate whatever controller that you use. You know, if you use uh a rain, then it will, you know, you'll have a rain top. If you use 1200s and an S9, you'll have 1200s and an S9 top. If you use an SR2, you'll have an SR2 top.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:52

If you want to expand that to include like the sound switch over off to the side and have everything right there on your booth, then that that'll happen as well.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:02

Yeah, we we have a lot of a lot of plans and a lot of things to grow our business. Um, I think the website's gonna get a new look to it.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:12

Yeah, slightly new. We're not gonna completely revamp it. We're happy with portions of it, and we're not happy with portions of it. So we're gonna do that. We will have uh uh at Calientertainmentgroup.org email addresses. Uh so very official, very official. We have our LLC. We just renewed that this year as well, a month or two ago. Um you know, we we got a lot going on.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:37

And we'll update you guys as time goes by and you know, um we've we've um gotten some new great friends, you know, and people that are rooting for us and yeah, you know what?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:56

We do. And some unlikely ones, ones that I wouldn't have thought of that hey, you know, we're gonna become good friends with these people, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:04

Um This is where it comes in the sayings where your clients become your friends, are more friends than your actual friends.

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SPEAKER_00 1:12:13

And I think that's I think that holds true. I think that holds true. I think we've developed a lot of relationships with our clients, and uh, we're on social media together afterwards and everything else, and uh we're a part of each other's lives. We can see them grow, they can see us grow, all of that good stuff. It's uh it is a very, very nice thing. But we're we have trips planned this next year.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:39

I know that's gonna be nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:40

We have a big one planned. I consider big. It is Thailand.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:46

Thailand.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:46

So we're talking about going to Thailand in June, sometime in June, some weeks in June. Talking about going to Thailand. Um, long ass flight. Uh you know, look, that's one of the main things that concern me all the time is flights. Like, I can barely stand to sit in an airplane for two hours, let alone 16. I don't know what the flight was to Thailand. Do you remember how long the flight was?

SPEAKER_05 1:13:12

I'm gonna say 16 hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:14

Yeah, so crazy, right? Like, I I I I don't even want to think about it. Yeah, I I think I'm gonna like try to take a Xanax and a sleeping pill or something and try to sleep through most of it, right? Um, there's only so many movies you can watch, only so many TV shows, you know, only so many games, only so many whatever. And like, man, I'm I'm I'm over this shit. And I'm a bigger guy, you know, these airplane seats are not friendly for us bigger guys. Anybody 6'3, 250, 260 pounds, wide shoulders, long legs, you know, it's not it, it is not the business. It's not the business.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:54

So we have that. We'll probably be out in Columbus again hanging out with mom. Um, we'll still have a couple trips to Vegas. Yeah. Um, and then I think we're gonna take one, I say for ourselves, but just us two.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:11

For us, for ourselves, wherever that may be, whether that takes us to Costa Rica or Ireland or Hawaii or Japan or wherever, right? Yeah. Uh Rome, you know, or want to go to Italy, want to go to, you know, see all of that and do all of that over there.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:28

Um we'll get there. We'll we'll be able to do everything we want to do, and we just we work hard, we play hard.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:37

Yeah, we really do. We really do.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:39

You know.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:39

We're gonna see about expanding and getting into the drone stuff a little bit more. I I really think there's a a market, uh, a business for aerial photography, for um, you know, you you have wedding photographers, right? Do you have like a a w a person that does drones during your wedding? Yeah. Right? Captures all kinds of different angles. And you know, there was one that we did over at Nirvana, the guy had a drone, and I specifically cranked that dance floor up, and I got on the microphone and I said, Hey, we got a drone above us, you know, let's give them a party. And everybody went crazy. And I can I don't think I ever seen the footage, but I can only imagine, and it was some pretty banging footage, right? A full dance floor with LEDs and and and dance lights and people and and just celebrating and a drone capturing it, right? Um, not to mention just you know, all the other stuff that you know drones are used for as far as uh uh scouting and and looking ahead and looking out at terrain and and things of that nature that you know normal person isn't gonna want to climb through or do or whatever it may be. You know, you put your your first person goggles on and you fly away. I've already wrecked a drone, broke a drone, a couple of them. Uh there is a learning curve. There is a learning curve. Uh the better the drone, obviously the the I think better experience you get. Uh I think uh you know, whether it goes it's the flyability, uh the safety features, the built-in, you know, safety features. Hey, this is happening, let's bail this guy out real quick before he smashes his drone into wall. Right. Um I also think that uh growing next year. I also want to try to do an event or two.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:31

Yeah. You like beats over the city?

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SPEAKER_00 1:16:33

Yeah, maybe Beats in the Park. Beats Over the City again, part two, right? I want to do a couple more events. So uh I really was impressed with our Beats Over the City. Uh it was our first event we ever did, first event we ever organized, first event we ever ran. Um MC'd, DJ'd. Uh, it was just a great overall experience. And every time I talk to people about it, they love it and they ask when we're gonna do it again.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:02

So I I think I want to do it again.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:04

That'd be so nice to do it at night and have those bracelets.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:08

Oh man.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:11

That's a wonderful idea.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:12

It is, and pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:14

It's uh one minute or one hour, 17 minutes and 15 seconds in. We need to remember that.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:22

Because we gotta do some bracelets uh for beats over the sea, or we gotta do a nighttime one.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:29

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:30

Beats at night, or whatever it may be. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:33

It'll have to be maybe closer to the summertime where it it's not so cold at night. Maybe more.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:41

Yeah, I want I want perfect weather. You know, I want perfect weather. I I shoot for perfect weather. And uh I think the only bad thing about beats over the city was is we didn't have porta potties.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:51

Which I think we'll be able to get this time.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:53

We'll get this time, yeah. Yeah. Um and I don't know that we made money on beats over the city. I almost venture to guess that we lost or broke even.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:02

We did it for we we did it for this the community, and you know, which we like to do. We like to give back, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:09

And I don't even yeah, like you said, I don't even care about making money on Beach Of the City. It's an event that I like to do, to give back, to give families something to do, um, to hang out. You know, Rick helped us out a lot with the the jumper and everything else. Uh uh C10 came out with there with his show cars. Uh we had primos, we had uh lemonade, we had uh vendors, we but things like that.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:34

It's not about the money. It's it's the money will come. If it's gonna come, it'll come. But I think we had so much fun. The families had so much fun. They brought blankets, they picniced, they it was just it was just a great event, and the support from the DJ community that we got was amazing. We had maybe over 20 DJs there.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:02

Yeah, there was a lot of DJs there, lots of DJs, and that that that made me very happy. Um because like we've said multiple times, I'm a newer DJ. Like I haven't been DJing for 40 years, I haven't been DJing 10 years, and to have the respect of other DJs in town and the support. Um and there's a couple of them, there's a couple of them that always show up. Cheeto, 1200, Cheeto, he always shows up to my stuff. Dose always shows up to my stuff. You know, um the guys Rich, you know, shows up, supports uh in the world.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:41

And even if Rich shows up for an hour, he always shows up, and it's it's you know, it's just he's busy, he really is busy, and he takes the time to come out and support, and we have a lot of people like that. A lot. Dante, you know, it we've just our community has grown so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:05

Dynamite did a lot. Dynamite did a lot for beats over the cities.

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SPEAKER_05 1:20:10

He did, he was so awesome. Every everyone, you know plays a part and we welcome it. We welcome it. We're not gonna push anyone away. We welcome it and it's nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:29

Well, I think we're gonna wrap it up. We're an hour and 20 minutes in. I think we talked about a lot. We still have a lot we can probably talk about. We'll save it for the next episode or whatnot. You know, this is just a glimpse into us. Uh, we tried to get a little personal during this, you know, during this episode to give you guys a glimpse of just a Gordon and Marion are just two regular ass people that have a device that lets them podcast and and we we get on it and we talk shit and you know whatever. Uh, but also, you know, a glimpse into our life and and how social media may not always accurately depict um happiness or success.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:13

And we we have regular problems like any marriage couple, and you know, we have our disagreements and you know, but we love each other. At the end of the day, we love each other, we support each other, and we're each other's number one fan.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:28

Yeah, so it's uh it's a real glimpse. And we're gonna try to do some more of that stuff on the next episodes and everything else, you know, just letting you into our life. Because look, everything that I post on Instagram, glitz and glamour, looks great, fun, happy, everything else. But the the heartache, the work, the the sweat, the tears, everything you don't see and everything you don't know about, our lives are not perfect. They are far from perfect, but they are good.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:57

But they're perfectly imperfect.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:59

They're perfectly good. It's a good life.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:01

It is. We do have a good life.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:03

You know, there's more that I want and more than I want to do, and that and that's just my my personality. Uh, it's not that I'm not happy with what I have, it's that I want to keep growing. Keep growing. I want to do more, I want to experience more. I think that's the main the main thing. Experience more, adventure more and experience more.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:24

And we want to give our kids things that we didn't have. You know, and and I think we do pretty well for the most part, you know. And I I want them to be able to experience everything we didn't get to, you know, which is it's nice. It's nice to be able to do things for our senior right now, you know?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:49

Yeah, these seniors are no joke. I I know we said we're gonna cut the podcast, but now hey, like we're talking about these goddamn seniors, hey, seniors plus female, uh, very expensive. Very expensive.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:02

The shoes, the nails, the dress.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:04

But you know, look, at the end of the day, and we've said this on many of our podcasts, our girls are damn near perfect. I couldn't ask for some kids that gave me less problems. Because our girls do not really provide us with problems. We're not we're not having to talk to schools and parents and and juvenile systems and this and that and that and the other. Look, man, if if the the biggest thing that my daughter Summer wants is to go hang out with her boyfriend one one day during you know the time that we have her, or she needs uh some money to go on a date or you know, nails, or hair dye, or some clothes, or you know, events like Marion said, proms and homecomings and you know, all of that stuff. I'll gladly work two or three jobs for that. Um that makes it worth it, and and that makes it easy to do. Uh you you're such a good kid. I have no problem doing that shit for you.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:07

We raised them to be very open with us. And if there is a party going on, she'll literally tell me, I'm not gonna go, mom. I found out there's gonna be drugs and drinking, I'm not going.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:19

Yeah. You know, and which I'm looking I'm still sure that she has been to a party that has had drugs and alcohol, but she doesn't do them. She's not interested in them, she don't care about them. She's she was raised, you know, correctly. And look, if if once she's 18 or 21 or whatever else and she wants to experiment with something, by all means, you know, let's do it in a safe way, in a safe space. Come do it with dad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:43

And I know we know that if she were to make a mistake, we would be the first one she would call.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:49

Yeah, see, that's the other thing is a lot of these kids are so afraid of their parents that they can't talk to them and they can't tell them and they can't reach out to them and go to them. If our kid gets in a bind and is doing something that they shouldn't be doing, they are still comfortable enough to call us, knowing that I'm gonna give them tough love, uh, knowing that they're gonna hear about it a little bit from mom and dad. Uh, but at the end of the day, they know that they can call us and they know they have an out and they know they're safe. Um, and and that's the key. That's the key. We don't have all the answers as parents. You know, I'm 45, whatnot, and Marion's 29 and 39.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:29

I was 21. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:34

And you know, we got we got five girls between the two of us and a and a son. Um, and we're always learning. We're we're always learning.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:43

And growing, learning and growing. And you know, our kids didn't come with a manual, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:49

And none of them do, just like those puppies didn't. We had to figure everything out as we went with them puppies. We were chat GPTing every hour or two, hey, the puppy's doing this, hey, the puppy's doing that, how do I do this? How do I do that? Same thing with parenting, you don't really know. Uh, and that's where, you know, talking to other people who are truly friends, right? Um, somebody that you respect, you know, their opinion or or you know, who they are and and uh and things of that nature, and people that you can go to and talk to, your parents, right? Which is not always the right answer either, because our parents raised us in a particular way, um, and some of that wasn't right. Um, so you can't get information from your parents just because they're your parents. Uh, you have to take everything with a a grain of salt, if you will. You have to uh pull the information that's good, uh, get rid of the information that's bad, uh reformulate, re, you know, do everything, and then come up with, you know, your attack plan or how you're gonna handle something or or what you're gonna do and and things like that. It's a constant, constant, constant learning. And this is the first time we had puppies. This is the first time we had kids. This is the first time and it's gonna be last time any of this. Who knows? We might have puppies again. And this next time we have puppies, we'll we'll be all the more wiser and be able to take care of them better and everything else.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:09

But just know that everybody's going through something. Everybody, you know, you guys need to talk or anything. We're here.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:21

Well, Mary, maybe I don't know about me. I I am not a talker. I don't like I don't like being on the phone. You can text me, but if you text me and say, hey, gee, I really need your help or advice or thoughts or whatever else, I will be more than happy to sit down with you in person or over a phone call or whatever else, and I will do whatever I can, whatever wisdom I may or may not have, I will give you and try to help you with and talk you through things. Because look, if I don't have the answer, I'm sure both of us can figure it out. And then I will have that answer going forward. And if and when whatever scenario is happening to you happens to me, I will have a solution for it now, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:28:07

But just know you're not alone. Everybody is going through something. You're not alone.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:12

Yeah, you're alone if you've crossed me, though. You're dead to me. I don't don't don't call me asking me for shit. Don't ask me for advice. Don't even if you've crossed me, you can go fuck yourself.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:23

Babe, but what? All right, all right, we're gonna we're out of y'all. Bye, guys.