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Hot Sauce and Hot Tracks: A Spicy DJ Cinco de Mayo
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Grab your sombreros and questionable life choices—this is a LIVE Cinco de Mayo episode of Beyond The DJ Booth, where Joe Bunn and Brian B. celebrate the only Latin holiday they truly connect with… because, well, they both really love Mexican food.
Broadcast straight from a virtual live audience session, the heat gets turned up—literally—as Brian takes on a hot sauce challenge that may or may not require medical intervention. Meanwhile, the duo dives into the hilariously honest reality of DJing Latin music as two white guys with more salsa in their fridge than rhythm in their hips.
They break down some go-to Latin tracks that cross over with any crowd—from Marc Anthony’s “Vivir Mi Vida” to the classic floor-filler “Suavemente”—with a healthy dose of humility and humor. Spoiler: there’s also a Latin-style cover of The Cranberries’ “Linger” that weirdly slaps.
But it’s not just tunes and tears—during the live Q&A portion, they field real-time questions about ceremony setups, tech upgrades, and dealing with rogue officiants. Brian recalls hauling car batteries to beach weddings pre-Bose era, and Jon reveals how they now capture content while juggling unpredictable weather and overly involved photographers.
The episode takes an unexpectedly moving turn as they share some of their most emotional moments DJing, including events for special needs communities that reminded them why they do what they do in the first place.
So whether you’re here for the tech tips, the spicy takes, or just to laugh at two guys dancing around cultural landmines with good intentions and bad hips, this episode has it all.
Hit play. You’ll never look at Cinco de Mayo (or Suavemente) the same again.
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Cinco de Mayo Intro and Hot Sauce Challenge
Speaker 1hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome, happy, I think we're on.
Speaker 2Are we on? Yeah, we're on. We're on a delay on that stream. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 1Welcome. Happy Cinco de Mayo everybody. We're having fun over here. You're having a blast.
Speaker 2That mustache actually looks good on you, Dude. It took me forever to grow this thing.
Speaker 1It's amazing, it's amazing it works.
Speaker 2It works Well. Hello everybody. If you're not familiar with us, this is the Beyond the DJ Booth podcast, the live episode. The live episode. I'm Brian B. I'm Joe Bunn. Do we have like a Latin name? Do you know what? Oh, jose.
Speaker 1Jose for you.
Speaker 2I don't think there's anything for me. No for Brian.
Speaker 1Thank Juan on the board, as always everybody. Thank y'all for tuning in live. We're on YouTube, we're on Twitch right now and I think we're on my Facebook page, so I'm sure my friends that are not private event.
Speaker 2Djs are like what?
Speaker 1is this Before we get into anything.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Shout out to Richie Stedman for suggesting this idea. Richie Stedman's like the unofficial producer of the podcast and he was, like I'm, at a podcast convention which me and you didn't go to. We should have.
Speaker 2You didn't go to we should.
Speaker 1We're going to go, so we are going in August. But he said, uh, the the hot new thing is doing a live episode. Should we?
Speaker 2cheers Sure man A little Corona. Is this going to fit your diet?
Speaker 1I know we've been talking about exactly on the program.
Speaker 2But it's, it's, it's, it's a one timer, it's a Cheers. Yes sir, yes sir, yes, sir yes sir.
Speaker 1Do you even know what Cinco de Mayo stands for? I don't.
Speaker 2I think it's an American made. Well, definitely, americans celebrate it more than our Mexican brethren. Okay, go on. So I looked it up and Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Battle of the Puebla, which took place on May 5th 1862, where, apparently, the Mexican army defeated the French forces of Napoleon. It's not Mexican Independence Day, that's September 16th. Okay, because that's what a lot of people think it is Right. In the US, cinco de Mayo is more widely celebrated than in Mexico, particularly among Mexican-American communities, as a celebration of heritage, pride and culture. You just take everything, man. Well, there we go, jesus, that's what it is. Yeah, have you. Well, there we go, jesus, that's what it is. Yeah, have you ever played saint glendomile like a party for?
Speaker 1not, but I'm going tonight. Mark t is playing somewhere at that gringo place downtown okay go, go by the long leaf, swan the barbecue yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah so does he have to do a whole latin? I don't think so. Man mark t, he can play latin, but I don't think he's gonna do the whole thing okay, are we? Gonna leave these costumes on the whole time? And are these races?
Speaker 2secondly, I don't know he said I don't know. I'm pointing this all on, richie, this is all Richie.
Speaker 1This is all Richie Stedman's idea. He lives in Utah.
Speaker 2It's about the whitest place you can be, oh geez. Anyway, I used to play the bar a lot and a couple of years Cinco de Mayo would fall on a day that we'd have, and in Southern California Cinco de Mayo is massive. It just goes off, sure. So you can take that off, go ahead. That is a mini, though I'm kind of just going to stay in costume.
Speaker 2Yeah, go ahead, Go ahead, bro Anyway so we would have all these contests, like just to do different things. One of them was a hot sauce eating contest. How many times could you take a little swig of hot sauce?
Speaker 1zero man are you? I'm not good at spicy, like hot, like low tolerance for heat, and really ethnic food in general. Now let me say I love mexican food.
Speaker 2I could eat mexican food every day I could do it every day, but like when you slide into, like india, korea, thailand, you lose me.
Speaker 1You know what they say about um mexican food what's that?
Speaker 2it's the happiest type of food what you mean like it hits your, your brain like the dopamine.
Speaker 1yeah, yeah, it gives you the most happiness. Okay, study on that. I love it.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, we talked free. Show that your tolerance is low. I'm going to take the fall for us today. Really, yeah, what are you doing? So how many of these Goya hot sauce looks like this.
Speaker 1That's not that hot, though, right.
Speaker 2I don't know. It's got Four chilies. Okay, how many? What now? How many little dabs of this do you think I can do? I won't do them all continuously.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2But do you think I can do five? Do you think I can do 10? Do you think I can do 11?
Speaker 1Throughout the broadcast, throughout the broadcast.
Speaker 2What do you think?
Speaker 1I think you can hit a dozen.
Speaker 2A dozen.
Speaker 1Yeah, you're just going to like 10. What?
Speaker 2do you think Saquon? Before you shit yourself. It could be bad. We'll go 10. 10? All right, let's just do the first one and see what works. I'll go 8.
Speaker 18?. He dropped it to 8.
DJ Latin Music Essentials
Speaker 2We'll drop it down. This is pretty. I mean, I'm already feeling the heat. It's not even out of the. Let me see, let me. Oh, there we go, there we go. Hit it one time. Oh yeah, spicy, yeah, yeah. I think it's probably better that you do them all at one time, yeah, rather than spread them out. But I'll spread them out for you. I think this could get Okay, let's go sideways. It could get frisky. Let's shout out some people.
Speaker 1Do it. So I'm watching YouTube Shout out. You can't actually see their usernames, but what's up on YouTube? Billy Rears, nathan Jones, best DJ in Utah, of course, richie Stemming in the building. Squirrel, my man in Virginia. Nadal, what's up? Jeff Brown, savannah Georgia. What's going on? Oh, wow, what's up? Ballet Folklorica. Mijerencia Mexicana, hola mis cueros. So authentic. Somebody from yo. Dominic Perrone's in the building. Love it. Nes Entertainment's in the building. So thanks, thanks for being on here. Y'all. Make sure you subscribe to my channel while you're on there, by the way. Jeremy B, what's up? Dj Dustin, what's up Down in Florida? Yeah, keep shouting out.
Speaker 2We'll check this. I feel like that's always a go-to for us.
Speaker 1That's a great call dude.
Speaker 2So you're the music king by the way, you don't do a ton of Latin shows.
Speaker 1I'm going to go this far Ready. I'm going to just say this in public Worst Latin DJ ever, wow, yeah you.
Speaker 2You're there, you can't get out. I'm gonna do the gringo thing. What is? What's the first song you're playing?
Speaker 1vivir mi vida oh, that was one of my go-tos. And then I feel like I would. I would go, uh, for merengue, I'd go suavemente, and they would be like this freaking cracker yeah.
Speaker 2So I had one this weekend that had a little latin influence. Okay, yeah, wouldn't say it's. They were mexican, necessarily, but they were from the Dominican Republic or something like that. Not nearly the same, but go on. But salsa was the move, so viver y vida.
Speaker 1Rob Ferreira just said who's your new co-host. What's that? Rob Ferreira just goes. Who's the new co-host? That's Brayon Berenicisi. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2All right, go ahead. So the Marc Anthony track yeah, Do you play it at all, or only when you have a Latin crowd? Have you ever dropped it to all?
Speaker 1No, no, somebody would have to say play salsa, and then that's my go-to gringo. Pull Okay, vivi or Mi Vida.
Speaker 2So if people haven't heard it, we actually have a sample of it coming through the board and it's not blasting Come on up a little bit. Can you guys hear that? I love it when it finally kicks in. It's just like got that full salsa beat, but this is just a go. Can you guys hear that on the stream Right there?
Speaker 1Yo, Nate Acosta's on here. He's going to be mad at us bro.
Speaker 2Yeah, totally, this is about as cultural misappropriation is what this is called.
Speaker 1So you said your second song was what Shout out to my Mexican friends, though for real, Nadek Kosta's Mexican, I think.
Speaker 2Yo, what's your second song?
Speaker 1Oh, suavemente, suavemente yeah yeah, yeah, okay, all right. I mean people are going to reach out and be like yo, I got you this, that and the other. But it's not just about that man. It's not about like, listen, don't get me wrong. Right, if I had a couple and they said we want Spanish music all night, I'm not taking the gig. If we have a couple and let's say the girl is from whatever Dominican Republic, puerto Rico, puerto Rico and then we got the groom and he's from Chapel Hill, north Carolina, Right, I like this yeah.
Speaker 1But I'm going to say I need you to work with me on the Spanish music, on the Latin music. Please give me this stuff, yeah. And then I'm going to listen to it, I'm going to track it, figure out where the ins and outs are, what the tempo is, how I can mix it with freaking black eyed peas or whatever. And again, it wouldn't matter if it was Latin, egyptian, middle Eastern, indian, whatever it is. I want the songs from them that I know are going to go over. I don't want it to be saying like you know, stick your finger in my butt in Spanish, I don't know what they're saying, right? So, like it's not your culture.
Speaker 2It's not my culture.
Speaker 1It's not my music. And then I've also mixed out of songs too early and gotten just like just death stares, yeah, because they had these big endings. You know what I'm saying. And then it's like and, and then I shit the bed and mixed out of it before that big ending where you like, dip your girl yeah, because they know how to dance like right.
Speaker 2We're just sitting there flailing around like the white people we are, but the spanish people, man, they get down anyway well, I was gonna play another track, because here's another one that is a go-to for me if I got some latin crowd. This is this mix. I think this was done by scooter. Do you have this one? This is the donza, which is like probably the most gringo sure version of a latin track right now are you playing? That one at all. Donza cadura, yeah, you play okay, but have you heard it with the pepas? No, sir, I think this is a scooter blend.
Speaker 1I could be wrong, okay.
Speaker 2But this one goes over. So it's got Donza first over a hand clap and then goes into the Pepas over a hand clap and then, with the Donza beat, always goes over. It doesn't matter if they're Latin or not.
Speaker 1Oh, this is crazy.
Speaker 2But then you can knock out two Latin songs. Yeah, they're here in the chat. Yeah, they're good. See over the Donza. So if you don't have like a massive Latin crowd but you just want to give it, a little bit of a flavor that knocks out two bangers right in a row.
Speaker 2That's good. Send me that, all right. Third song, to your point. What was it? The Elvis Cr crispo track? Yeah, yeah, suavemente, suavemente. So this is like the updated version with bailar. Okay, and this is dioro, so dioro. This is the jd live melbourne bootleg edit. You got to play this one if you want to play it to a more modern crowd so go for it. That's that merengue vibe. Now it goes harder here in a second. Okay, we're in the flavor of it right now oh.
Speaker 2Yes, total siren. Now we're in it, this goes off oh.
Speaker 1Massive. Always good for me. Damn. This is like the gringo go-to Latin list.
Speaker 2Right, you're not claiming to be like a gringo. No, no, no, no, you don't know what you're doing. No, I mean, you know these go off, I can get through it.
Speaker 1Right right, right right.
Speaker 2So over the last couple of years I feel like Lechona has been the move Absolutely. Are you playing that one at all?
Speaker 1Yes, we had a conversation about this. In fact, when I posted the graphic for this, I picked Lechona as the graphic background.
Speaker 2Before DJC, I never really heard of it.
Speaker 1I mean, this thing came them, but not really so this is more.
Speaker 2what would you classify this styling? Why are you?
Speaker 1asking the whitest dude in the room Nate Acosta knows, nate, what is La Chona. If he's still watching, he'll answer Go ahead.
Speaker 2I feel like it's like the guys that play the mariachi vibe Mariachi it could be. For those that don't know the track here, it is Okay. Oh yeah, A little that bass line oh always goes over.
Speaker 1Oh shit, he said it's called Quebradita.
Speaker 2This is the style, okay.
Speaker 1Dominic said he's offended by your outfit. Yeah, they got that big fat guitar, that's like yeah. And those outfits.
Speaker 2Man we should have gotten those. Totally Should have brought those guys in. Oh shit, next year, next year. So this is going to be so offensive in a good way. You ready? Yes, in my coaching group we once a month do music share and we have a guy from houston and there's a big latin population there so he said hey, man, if you ever get somebody who wants a little, bit of shout out who it is yeah, cory green.
Speaker 2Yeah, cory green. This is if you want 90s with latin. So this is linger, the song linger by the cranberries. But this is the easy band version Jesus, you ready.
Speaker 1You're going to love this. You've got to play it from the beginning. I'm ready.
Speaker 2You hear the strike? Yeah, I love this song. It's.
Speaker 1It's.
Speaker 2It is Okay, you think you know where it's going. You think you know where it's going, but oh, oh. You just don't see it coming. It just comes around. Is that not amazing? Is it still the? Real vocal from no, it's a cover re-record. Yeah, okay, it kind of hit.
Speaker 1You're like I know where it's going that this summer, like in the boat, just kind of ride through like I'm adding it to your playlist, that's for sure.
Speaker 2All right, even though he's, you know, not technically mexican bad bunny. What's your bad bunny track? I?
Speaker 1love how you say he's not technically mexican, he's not mexican at all right I like that bunny. What's your go-to track? Oh, um, yeah, we've talked about this before. Nobody, nobody ever, accost me.
Speaker 2You know like how that was a thing yeah, like you say accost because it's Nate Acosta, no, no.
Speaker 1I just said. Nobody ever accosts me about playing Bad Bunny. Okay, are you playing any? Yes, I'm spacing on the name dude. Whatever, it was a year or so ago that one that came out, okay.
Speaker 2All right, he had a lot of big tracks. Not here in north carolina, not not for the damn people that I played off his new album are you playing anything? Probably not, okay. You yeah, okay, a few of them. So the one that I was going to recommend was the dtm fake peso pluma the other day at the wedding. Yeah, he called it bro, he walked in, I was like yo, that's peso pluma.
Speaker 1It wasn't, but I mean, yeah, he had that same funny thing is you didn't even know who he was like. I just just called him Peso Bluma and then Saquon was like man, that's racist. I was like, no, I think that's what Peso Bluma looked like. And it did look like Peso Bluma Wow, with the shaved sides, wow. Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 2So this is one of his latest tracks. It's the DTMF. If you're getting asked for a Bad Bunny track recently off of his and this is one you should definitely be playing.
Speaker 1Okay, Good to know Because I don't know Goes over played it this weekend.
Speaker 2Going to so many different things from it too. Yeah.
Speaker 1Goes over really well yeah.
Speaker 2What I got for you. Let's watch some Latin tracks Latin gringo.
Speaker 1Good job, brian B Neda Costa. Neda Costa said he loved the Linger song. I think he gave you props. All right, la Puerta Negra will have the Mexicans lose their mind. Okay, I need to write that one down.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Another gringo said his Jeff Brown said he drops Carnival by Celia Cruz.
Speaker 2Ooh yes, that's a go-to. That's for the older crowd. Shout out.
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Speaker 1I don't know how long this is going to go.
Outdoor Ceremonies and Battery Powered Setup
Speaker 2Yeah, how many you want in a row? I mean double down, or either just turn up the bottle, just turn it up.
Speaker 1Yeah, stop being a bitch. Hit it one more time. Oh my God, nobody made you do this, it's straight, oh my. God Don't shit yourself.
Speaker 2That's three, by the way. That counts that counts, I'll go five. My lips are burning.
Speaker 1Oh God, why would you do this to yourself? That's five.
Speaker 2It's a hot wings, jesus, oh, my goodness, have a sip of a cold beer.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I'm going to have to All right. Hi, Kevin, Just joined late. He's like what the hell is happening here. Yeah this is heavy, this kid's shooting salsa.
Speaker 2I'm doing this for the pod man. This is for the pod. It is for the pod. My breath is just it's got to be T major out of San Diego. This is a great question. I hired a personal content videographer to shoot clips of me DJing at weddings. It's been great for my IG and branding. At a recent event my guy showed up like always when dancing started. The hired photo video team flipped out, saying their contract didn't allow any other shooters. I explained he was just getting DJ focused content and not stepping on toes. But the lead videographer got aggressive. My guy bailed to avoid conflict. I followed up respectfully after the event and she kept pointing us to the contract. I told her it's unrealistic to expect vendors not to create any content these days. We parted ways professionally but I left with zero footage. What would you have done? Should I have pushed harder or just chalked it up as one of those situations, this thing, if you?
Speaker 1throw up or shit yourself. I'm gonna be furious. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2I'm not even playing right now oh man, I mean, you have saquon but saquon is out there shooting dude.
Speaker 1Not only do I have saquon, who's my assistant, who is shooting, running the lights, taking requests and all the things right, I've definitely brought in outsiders with dslr cameras not these pocket osmo threes or whatever and been out there with big-ass cameras shooting footage. For me Now, two things. One, I definitely told the couple hey, I'm going to have this guy with me. You know he's got a black pants, black polo. You know he'll stay out of the way of your main video and photo guy. Is that okay? So I did get approval, especially when I was bringing in an outsider Pre-gig, pre-gig. But I did not reach out to the photo and video people Listening to this story. Maybe I should have. But also, it sounds like these people are just dicks, like this footage is for the DJ. You know, as a video and photo people, you're damn well not going to give this stuff to the DJ, or by the time you give it to him, it's Christmas, yeah.
Speaker 1And stuff to the DJ, or by the time you give it to him, it's Christmas. Yeah, you know, may, right now I don't know, man. I mean, would I have just let it go that night, absolutely, because what am I going to do? Go out there and start yelling at somebody at a wedding Like it ain't worth it. Send your guy home. Don't put him in a bad position. There's no need to, you know, start a fight or cause it exactly like he did afterwards. And you try not to burn the bridge. But I just think that those people that were were, you know, harassing his guy are just assholes.
Speaker 2that's crazy well, and the other part that was weird to me in this was that his guy just left.
Speaker 1It seems odd to me like that whole situation, like that relationship seemed well, not really man, I mean, if you if it sounds like he works with this person a lot right, and the guy shows up and he's getting harassed by these other yeah, this other media team, and you wouldn't want him to be there and feel uncomfortable and shit, do you have to pay him maybe? I mean, maybe not his full rate.
Speaker 2I'd be like hey man, I'm gonna send you 100 bucks on them for wasting your time driving out here, but like you're not gonna get any content yeah, it sounds like I think the key is communication communication always before the event always showing up and having that happen so.
Speaker 1So you think he should have gotten approval from the couple and the media team.
Speaker 2I mean the media team isn't really. I mean, I would have brought it up to the couple hey, do you have in your contract with the video people that they can be the only one shooting this event, even though this is just DJ footage which is fall mine? Do I need to have a conversation with them? That kind of thing? I'll tell you, I don't hire content people for me. I always pay the videographer in cash.
Speaker 2Day of if I know there's a videographer there to get footage for me, specifically, I hand it to them. Day of Cash, cash money, five hundo I have on hand and you're leaving that day with content. Well, I mean, I'm getting it like within a relatively short time, because they're already there, they're shooting it, they already have all the lighting, they have all the stuff. You're just, you're not even, you're not even asking, you're just just voluntarily giving them five. No, no, I go up to the guy, go hey, listen, you're here. I would love to see if you'd be available to shoot some stuff for me, specifically like within the framework of the event I'm not saying you gotta be here, like getting me doing all the stuff.
Speaker 2But just you're shooting it anyways. Yeah, can I give you some cash? I have. I mean, I can also ven too, but usually cash works better. They're like yeah, I said I have three 400 bucks, 500 bucks. Whatever the case may be, I'll look at the situation and see like how nice of a venue it is. If I know the videographer, I kind of know where I need to be.
Speaker 1And then I'll offer it within the day.
Speaker 2I have footage of me raw, raw, ready to go, and then usually they'll follow up with something else there to shoot, necessarily for me, as long as you have the footage and you can post whenever you want, sure, that's the key. Yeah, trickle it out, yeah, great call mark beecher.
Speaker 1What happens when you have an outside ceremony and it can rain any minute? Do you call for things to move to plan b? This is a great question, happens to be all.
Speaker 2We just had to deal with this we did.
Speaker 1We were just talking about this and saquon and I. You know, saquon came on board with me right after the pandemic 2021. So he didn't see some of the earlier shows, right.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1My old ceremony rig was pretty involved. It was a fast set table, a pop-up table. I had a rack. Wow, the rack went to a speaker. The speaker had to plug into the rack. The rack had to be plugged into power, right.
Speaker 2Crazy.
Speaker 1Or a whisper quiet or whatever. This was like pre-battery powered everything, and so you know we would have these planners go hold, you know, hold on, don't set up. Yet. You know we're trying to decide if this is going to be inside or outside. Chairs or everything are set up. You know we're just waiting on the storm. Is it coming or not? Right, looking at the radar. Looking at the radar and she's like we're gonna, you know, make a call five minutes before the ceremony and I'm like no, you're not. Yeah, back then I mean it would take me 15, 20 minutes set the shit up and I would be like I can hustle and it's still going to take me 15, 20 minutes. Sure, now I can literally pick the whole battery powered rig up yeah, mic, everything and just move it. But to answer your question mark, I think you do have to kind of hold to the last minute. That's why I love this battery powered stuff. I literally have everything clamped to one tripod, right? I can pick the entire thing up and walk it to the other position, right?
Speaker 2Anyway, what's your thoughts on that, Dude? I was an early battery-powered adopter, before the speakers ever had them capable of that. Yeah, this is going back to let's see when would it have been 2006.?
Speaker 1Damn.
Speaker 2I mean we're on the beach, we're on the beach all the time and they didn't have anything at that time. They didn't have a battery powered speaker. So you know how we made it work. This is and I didn't want to bring it down a generator because those things were massive. No, yeah, this was pre-jackery too. So I had the car battery. Bro stop, I'm dead serious. I brought a car battery. I had the converter with the power plug-in.
Speaker 2That's ac, I mean that's dc it worked and that was how we did. It was heavy as all get out, bringing it down to the Not like the one from your actual car, not mine from my own.
Speaker 2No, I went to the to the, but I went to the auto store place to get one. Yeah, and we used to bring that down. That used to be my go-to back in the day, cause we needed a battery on the beach. I needed it to be quiet. The beach is like, even though we're at right, it's just flat right. So you have to bring this battery right, so then that's old school.
Speaker 2The first battery speaker that I remember seeing was done by um. Who was it? Roland, yeah, and we still use those to this day because they're just workhorses. Yeah, and the batteries the other reason why I like it, because we actually we switched to I think it was a swap out battery in there, wasn't it?
Speaker 1well, it used to be at least your throat, okay, because you keep. Yeah, you're burning, you burnt your esophagus, this thing is killing me bro, he burned his esophagus.
Speaker 2Guys, I don't think I'm gonna make 10, no, I think. I think I'm gonna throw in the towel wow, intense. Wow, he burnt the esophagus guys anyway they used to make them for now. They're marketed at walmart at this point for like uh tailgates.
Speaker 2They're like an elisa speakers that is who makes them yeah, the problem is you plug them into the wall and just power them here and then you take them out to the beach. The problem is I was running into them where they would just go bad, like they'd say 100. I get out there there's a 20 left, jesus, and I'm like am I even gonna make it through this ceremony, right? So I got rid of that. Spent 800, $800 to get this Roland one that takes actually double A batteries. Huh, double A's, and I swear by it Still To this day.
Speaker 1Damn, so take it out there. You already know what I'm going to say E versus A. Well, these just came out right.
Speaker 2Right, I got you, but these things have been workhorses. They sound great.
Speaker 1They last like 12 hours.
Handling Officiant Microphone Situations
Speaker 2There's even a mode on two, not on two batteries, it's six. Okay, I'm about to say there ain't no damn way, but I will tell you that there is actually a button on the speaker itself that says max mode or eco mode. So if you see you're getting close on the battery, you put it on eco mode and it brings the whole power down a bit. Yeah, so that that way you can at least get through the ceremony you had to right.
Speaker 2But on the back it's got seven or eight channels, it's got an, so literally I could take the whole thing and move it yeah in one right and in florida it can rain in a second that's how I am, mark.
Speaker 1Mark, I would try and get your gear down. I I would. I would obey the wishes of the planner. I would obey the wishes of the couple. Everybody wants to get married outside man, and for you to try and be the person that makes the call on whether it's inside or outside, I would not want to be that person. I don't think you're going to get a lot of referrals from doing that. I would just let the planner be the go-between between you and the couple and I would try and do what they ask.
Speaker 1And if you do have more gear than what we're talking about, I would say, look, we're not going to wait until five till six to make this call. I'm going to need, you know, 10, 15 minutes, whatever you need, and then if they have to delay it, they have to delay it. You know what I mean. If they want audio and you need to, you know, move your stuff, like he was saying in the in the chat, a hundred yards. Then they're going to need to give you some time for so what's your?
Speaker 2is your mic battery powered now? Everything is so what's your mic? What?
Speaker 1mic. Are you using Sennheiser EWDX and it has two mics in one unit.
Speaker 2And it's. Is it a lapel or handheld? One of each, One of each or two of each? It doesn't matter. So for our people, they tend to want to have a lapel because they're holding a script or whatever. So my thing was, I went to the best videographer I knew and said hey, listen, since you guys have to do battery powered stuff, what do you suggest? And they gave me I believe it's an Audio Technica System 10 is the name of it.
Speaker 2Battery powered. Been using it for years, never have a problem, no cutouts, nothing. So everything is battery powered. If I need a handheld, roland makes one with that speaker Right so I can pull it out. If I've been using that, I haven't because no one's needed it, but there are times when someone's reading a poem a scripture.
Speaker 1You don't have a reader usually not.
Speaker 2Yeah, these things are short, they're 15 minutes. They're outside, it's hot no one wants to be out there for longer than 20 minutes.
Speaker 1Yeah, ours are pretty short too, I mean, and there's a lot of like my best friends, the efficient and he got his thing at the life church so he's not going to go into some sermon, yeah or a story, they tell the whole story back.
Speaker 2Nobody does that out here in the east. Northeast they do that a lot really like a long ceremony long ceremony. They're telling the whole dating story, how they got engaged. That whole thing comes up in the ceremony script. I will say this too I think people overthink it, overthink the ceremony. They're bringing all these amplifiers and I'm guys like the mics have gotten so much better.
Speaker 1I'm going to simplify it right. Mike Walter, who does more weddings than probably anybody we know Personally, he's in the hundreds. He's in the hundreds. I think he scaled back the last two years Okay well, he's 2021, 22, 23.
Speaker 2Yes, he was doing 100 plus yes Himself.
Speaker 1Yeah, Thousands of weddings done yearly at Elite Entertainment in New Jersey. Old boy's got a QSC K12. The shit's probably at least 10 to 12 years old and a wired white mic. On a white mic stand sitting between the three people.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Wired and he's just standing behind the speaker, you know, at the back of the room, wired.
Speaker 2Wired handheld.
Speaker 1A wired handheld, okay, that's different and I'm like bro, does anybody give a shit that it's in the pictures and stuff? He's like I don't care, Like this is what I'm using, Wow. He's like he tells them like, if you want people to hear, this is what I'm using, Right, and I'm telling, if you look at his Instagram, that's like every post he makes, it's like my view of a CK-12 with a wired mic. So some people are way over thinking. Dude, at one point I had, like I said, a table amp rack. I had those goddamn paddle fin antennas, like you see, on the sidelines for an NFL game, for the mic on the referee to chat back to the damn PA for the 80,000 people. Like I was way overkill. Have you gone to the road? I'm not going to the road. I'm not going to mics that are content creation mics. Have you tried it? No, don't need to. Ain't got no antennas. If you don't have removable antennas, you ain't. You're no, you're no friend of Joe.
Speaker 1Nah are you are you. I have used it in a pinch People in the they're, they're using that. That ain't it. Yeah, it ain't what they're for. Sorry, thank you, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2Thanks for shopping what else we got?
Speaker 1nathan jones. I had a wedding. Nathan jones shout out and the officiant showed up with a bob barker god dang. A bob barker type mic that he wanted to use sounded like garbage but he insisted on using it. Do you let people use their own equipment to plug in musician, Musician? I think he's saying either or Like for example, there's an officiant here that has a countryman you know what a countryman?
Speaker 2is yeah, yeah, yeah, britney Spears special.
Speaker 1And hers actually is nice. She has a good one, but she will not use anything else. Wow, we plug her into our system. But you know her, you've worked with her A thousand times.
Speaker 2But if this is Rando Rando, a random, with like a Bob Barker mic or like a Britney Spears, bobby Brown special. Bobby Brown special. I mean if they're insistent, you mean a Garth Brooks special, yeah, a.
Speaker 1Garth man, if they're insistent upon it, I mean, I'm a yes man dude.
Speaker 2I usually like Detroit. Is it just just me?
Speaker 1I'm burning up, you've got a poncho on and we got the air off. Now we've been shooting so long.
Speaker 2It's 81 outside, jeez you have a hat on a stash.
Speaker 1I'm gonna burn some cows, you've been eating damn salsa for two hours. It's all good.
Speaker 2Anyway, I'm gonna try and make it work yeah, I'll try but even if it sounds like dog shit, you know if it sounds like dog doo-doo? No, I would tell them listen, we tried it. Yeah, it's cutting out. It's not gonna make either one of us look. Good, try to paint it so that you both win there you go.
Speaker 1I've been doing this, this one's going to work.
Speaker 2I know for a fact I'm the same way Right.
Speaker 1I'm going to try it, listen to it sound, check it Right and, to be completely honest with you, if they were insistent I'm still going to hold it you know what I would and then let him hold the Bobby Brown and I'm going to run him through the lapel Right. I mean not the Bobby Brown, the Bob Barker Is he alive. Still Did he pass. I think Bob passed. Can you look that up? Can you look that up, my man? Let me see. All right, he's looking it up.
Speaker 1That is, I'm sweating over here, brian does grow a mean mustache. Shout out to Sound what's up Brandon Alley Yo.
Speaker 2he lived in 99.
Speaker 1Did he? Yeah, but what year did he?
Speaker 2die 2023. So it's a couple years ago, he lived in 99.
Speaker 1Shout out Bob Barker, tom Noob, without even looking it up. No, he's not long gone. Hi, kevin, thought he was long gone. Shout out Mark Tunney. He's going to be at Gringo Agogo tonight for Cinco de Mayo. Mark Tony, come get this outfit from Brian and wear it tonight. I'll give you $100. You got any other segments?
Speaker 2for us? I do, but I forgot to bring it over here. You want me to go grab it? Yeah, sure, you can go off camera, can you?
Speaker 1carry it. Yeah, I got it. I'm still reading the check. Any new gear you're excited to try out this year? Great question, I think. This morning, as a matter of fact fact, a new video dropped on my youtube channel um, sound precision about the sennheiser content creation mics called the profile wireless dude. Go watch that video. They're incredible.
Speaker 1Oh, and brian's bringing around some gear corner stuff right now, by the way yes, sir and so anyway, yes, I'm super excited about these new content creation mics called the profile wireless. He was asking if any gear you're excited about trying out this year.
Speaker 2No, I don't think so. I mean, I tried the 90s. Those are good you did, although you did you use mine yeah 90s are great. They're a lot like just play to the right room, yeah for the right room.
Speaker 1They're. They're perfect for that that's about it. I'm not changing controllers or anything like that. Show us what you got, mr gear corner guy. Well, this, see, this is where we need that gear.
Speaker 2Yeah, we need a little stinger there this came in handy this weekend, so I needed some wireless remotes. I do not have the e-verse 8s, so I have to use it with just normal speakers and I.
Speaker 1They wouldn't have worked anyways.
Speaker 2I'm sorry so usually I use the sennheiser lapel packs, yeah, to run a speaker wirelessly, yeah. Yeah, I had two events back to back. Are those the lawn guys?
Speaker 1out there. Yeah, yeah, are you hearing that through the headphones? Okay somebody's out there blowing leaves, sorry guys so, anyway, I ran out of batteries.
Speaker 2I couldn't believe it. I didn't have any extra batteries, I had enough to get me through, but I was like worried that I was gonna need to switch them out. So, no, double a. I didn't have any extra on me. You got all this shit every week and you and I just I. I had two boxes and they were, I guess, next to. I don't usually fill them in, I have my roadie do it, bro, real quick.
Speaker 1So Me and Saquon showed up at the gig last week. No freaking gaff tape. The planner that I'd loaned it to at the previous wedding stole that shit. Wow, $30, three inch black pro gaff. So what'd you do? We just spit on it, okay? No, we were on a stage, luckily, so there was no foot traffic Right. That's where these come in handy, okay.
Speaker 2These are Sennheiser as well. Yeah, these have to be close by.
Speaker 1I have a love-hate relationship with these. They got to be close by.
Speaker 2That's the key they do, but in a pinch they're USB-C, I know no interference.
Speaker 1What are they called?
Speaker 2I was just gonna pull that up.
Speaker 1I think it's dildo dongle it's called um? I don't think it's called dildo dongle, never mind, sorry, that's wrong. Different, different product yeah, different product.
Speaker 2This is the sennheiser xswd wireless digital xlr base set is what it's called. What do they go for? Oh, because you can get this on amazon.
Speaker 1Yeah, let me hold them up, you can't get them on yeah, uh, I think these are like 199 for the pair, 319, that's a little pricey, too much, but to have it as a backup right back up big, but you better be close all right, one more.
Creating Professional Content for Marketing
Speaker 2Okay, bob hickman, jesus dropped it. This is a content light. Okay, it's also magnetic, so you can stack multiple ones on top of one another. Okay, I think I saw justin the dj post one where he clips onto his laptop. I didn't want it clipped onto my laptop, so this goes on the dj table facing up, yeah, kind of tilted towards your face.
Speaker 1Wash your face, yes, and you can crank it. And he's got different yes aperture, all of that.
Speaker 2I forgot what they call it, the diffuser. I'm curious what you think this is going to go for I know this company.
Speaker 1They just, actually this company reached out to me, did they, and sent me some stuff to shoot knee were knee were yeah, this thing's um I think it's 1999 on the nose no 1919 I was 80 cents off.
Speaker 2It's a deal right now, literally today. So 19 bucks. But can you for a light?
Speaker 1no, 19 bucks. Yeah, usbc charge it. Change the aperture or not. The aperture, the brightness change the aperture, the brightness change the temperature Right.
Speaker 2This is pretty cool and you can stack multiple ones on top of one another.
Speaker 1Yeah, they reached out to me. They sent me a little thing from Pocket Osmo 3. That's amazing. So, yeah, I just got it. English wasn't great.
Speaker 2Shout out Bob Hickman, who I think actually got that from Bird.
Speaker 1So yeah, hi Kevin, we're drinking Coronas. I mean as well Light. I'm trying to stay on the no sugar, no starch plan. I'm just kind of sipping on it every year, allegedly, allegedly. It's been going fine Day five. Pray for me If you've ever tried to quit sugar like cold.
Speaker 2Turkey, please. Best DJ in Utah? Just gave us a little question up there. This dude's good man, he just comes up with a good stuff.
Speaker 1He's good man. He just comes with the good stuff.
Speaker 2He's good this, this kid's good. Is there anything, professionally or personal, you have left to do you?
Speaker 1go personal. I'll start personal, personal run a marathon. You've done that. Absolutely not. Don't want to personal. I need to see, like one of my favorite bands at red rocks I got I would put this on the. I still have things on my bucket list much, much, much more traveling, especially after that Iceland and Paris success this year.
Speaker 1I want to see my sons grow old. I want to see my sons be successful, fall in love, get married. I'd love to be a grandparent. Wow, I think that would be the coolest thing, because it's a returnable child, that's true, but then you've officially like crossed over at that point. Really you can't.
Speaker 2Granddad, you're going to go with a name. You're going to go Pappy. Nah, you're going to go Papa.
Speaker 1Nah, granddaddy, granddad, something like that.
Speaker 2Wow, that's what my kids call my dad.
Speaker 1Think about how cool my dad was. He wasn't like an old-ass granddad. That's true. He was bun. Gear, especially now that it is an American-based company, can be a really big thing. I think I can be much more innovative here. I'm getting ready to come out with a booth under $1,000. No more clothes. No more clothes, no more pocket squares no more pocket squares, no more bad ideas.
Speaker 2You're going straight gear, straight gear. It seems like you have been in the furniture space. Are you going outside of that and doing other?
Speaker 1No, I have been in the furniture space. Are you going outside of that and doing other.
Speaker 1no, I don't want to get into anything electronic. I think there's a big you know clearly a return problem with stuff like that. Yeah, I want to make things that people can use, that they're proud of, that makes them look better. I have, you know, 10 ideas in the cube for people that own command centers, accessories for that. I mean, there's almost a thousand command centers around the world, mostly in the United States. Okay, I'm going to make a budget more of a pop-up type booth Shout out, drew Pierce, shout out, drew Pierce. I'm going to make a bunch of stuff, man, and it's all made in the United States, in fact, made in North Carolina, shipped out of North Carolina, and I'm super proud. What's your goal?
Speaker 2quarter one a quarter.
Speaker 1Yeah, the overseas thing was very difficult, man, as you can imagine, to get it back six months later and it's not, and it's wrong. Take six months to get the next one is wrong, like that's why I haven't put the gig desk out. I showed it in august and I, you know, had all these flaws and I showed it anyway and we still haven't made it because it wasn't right. Right and I'm just not putting out like bullshit product.
Speaker 1I will never do that. I don't put up bullshit DJ shows. I'm not putting out bullshit gear Ever. What about?
Speaker 2playing a show. Any professional milestones no.
Speaker 1I would love to play before I get truly old old. I would love to play one really big show and I feel like I've exhausted my contacts at Ticketmaster. I'm sorry, at Live.
Speaker 2Nation I.
Speaker 1I just want to open, for I don't care. I don't care if it's Sabrina Carpenter or Sam Hunt, and I want to play 30 minutes on a big stage in front of 20,000 at an entertainment theater. Like I want to play one really big show. I want to shoot it well. I want to feel what that feeling is of like what does a rock star feel at the end of a show? Plan it well, play it perfectly and just get that love.
Speaker 2But that's a different kind of show because you're not getting people to really dance, necessarily no but you.
Speaker 1But if you, if they put you on at the right time, you can not it. You know, when the sun is still blazing and people are showing in the stadium you know you're not.
Speaker 2You're sitting in box seats, bro, you went. I mean maybe like show did, yeah, pipes fucking killed that yeah he did.
Speaker 1He destroyed that place and he played it perfectly. He played don perfectly. He played Don't Stop Believing and things that me and you play all the time. But there were people there from 8 to 70. You know what I mean. He's still on tour with Justin. He's obviously doing a good job. He's been all over the world with him. He hit me up the other day about a backpack. He goes do you know anybody at Jetpack? I go yeah, I know plenty of people and I go. Here's the guy's number. So make sure you tell him who you are and like, like what you're doing.
Speaker 1Cause he wanted a rush a rush order because he's going back out. Yeah, I don't want to go on tour.
Speaker 2I don't want to leave town. I want to play one big show before I'm dead. How about you, man? I don't know from a playing perspective of a tour, but I would love to go to Asia and do an. Asia tour Philippines, vietnam.
Speaker 1China, hong Kong all those spots.
Speaker 2I have been to Tokyo but I've never played in Tokyo. I just love the culture, I love the food, I love everything about it and I've never been one to go after that. I feel like from a private event DJ standpoint I don't know anybody who has Clubs, no problem. But from a private event standpoint, I haven't seen anybody pull the Asia card and that's on my list.
Speaker 1Yeah, vice definitely goes over there a lot, but it's clubs and stuff, right?
Speaker 2And even for corporates. I don't see a lot of corporates pulling people in to go to Asia, europe all the time Yep, caribbean, no problem, but going to Asia, I haven't seen time. Yep, caribbean, no problem, but going to Asia, I haven't seen that Yep. And then, personally, gosh, that's a great question. I think similar to you man, like I've traveled a lot, yeah, but I think I want to see it through the lens of the kiddo. As a kid, my world was really small.
Speaker 1Mine too Mine too.
Future Goals and Emotional DJ Moments
Speaker 2Southern California is where I lived, but we went to Vegas and that was pretty much it. You know what I mean. Like we never. First time I went to Miami is when I was working for Pioneer and I was like, oh my gosh, this is incredible, and I just was like obsessed with going to as many places in the US as I could. So I definitely want to give my kid that experience of that, because I did a terrible job.
Speaker 1I think that's a great call. My parents did not travel Passports because we went to the Bahamas one time and we went to Mexico one time. Yeah, my mom's never been to Europe. I begged her. I said, let's just me and you go, like I'll plan the whole thing. I have no desire to go.
Speaker 2Yeah, she don't want to go. Well, it's at that age, walking around for a long time.
Speaker 1My mom is mobile, though man and my dad was until cancer.
Speaker 2Like he, you know 10 miles. I mean it was mobile.
Speaker 1I almost think it's in your family dna though, that whole routine idea it is. They're very routine. Yeah, they were all they. My mom still is even without my dad, it's. It's unbelievable in the dna how routine we are. Do you ever get choked up on the? Uh, like father-daughter dance?
Speaker 2I did this weekend. Oh, I don't remember the song. It was something I hadn't heard and it.
Speaker 1Just it got me Really. Yeah, actually it was a mother. Do you think about when your daughter yeah.
Speaker 2I do, and I don't know if I'm going to be able to hold it together. No, you're not. And actually this couple did a. The one on Saturday did a mother daughter dance, yeah, and that was just as powerful. I was like, yeah, it was just like good. And I was like, oh. So yeah, those are tough, but I think it actually humanizes you, right, like I don't know of course it means you give a shit.
Speaker 1I mean, I mean I don't want to be up there weeping, but like I never got told you like now the go-to song seems to be joy of my life and that was like my sister, my dad loved that song, dude. We played it for their first dance last night or something night I was like, oh God, I'm fully turned around. Back to the audience.
Speaker 2Like there's a bug on the wall or something I don't know man there's just.
Speaker 1You know, randy has no kids and he's a crier during the first dance for the father-daughter dance sometimes.
Speaker 2I don't remember ever getting to that point until I had a kid.
Speaker 1That makes a lot of sense, I've definitely heard toast and felt that way. I've definitely um done shows, felt that way. Mitch did a show last weekend and I just saw the pictures and I damn near got choked up. Both of them had down syndrome, you know how functioning, but like they, they got. They found each other in this great big world. These two couples I mean this couple found each other. I would have gotten choked up.
Speaker 2I mean just I, I think those people are the sweetest people.
Speaker 1Anyway, I always love to meet him, I always love to talk to him, but like I saw the pic he told me about it and I saw the picture I was like, bro, I, there's no way there was like a dating show yeah, that was that oh interesting, like I don't know like a dating show, just yeah, but it was all people who had down syndrome yeah, and oh, I could.
Speaker 2I'm like how can people watch this week to week?
Speaker 1I'd be like a mess, I'd be a wreck. I know there's a special place in heaven for those people. Man, every conversation I've ever heard had with somebody with down syndrome, no matter what degree of it, it was right like I left being like maybe they got it figured.
Speaker 1You know, they got it figured out like they, they've accepted it, they're, they're working or wherever I need them, restaurants, target, whatever it's like. I wouldn't have made it to that wedding, there's no way. That's a tough one. What's the most emotional you've ever got at an event? I have one.
Speaker 2I know it.
Speaker 1I remember it like it was yesterday, 15 years ago. I remember it was our old, old office, not this building, not the last building, not the last building, but the first building we were in. It was on Atlantic Avenue, by that Bojangles. I was walking out 5 o'clock on a Friday. I didn't have a gig Friday, phone rings. This was back when everybody had like an office line Phone rings and I was like man, damn it, pick it up and it's a lady.
Speaker 1She's in a panic, she's in Harnick County, which is I don't know how far. It is an hour's halloween or the, you know let's call it two or three days before we're supposed to have a dance for all these adults. They were adults and the dj just bailed on me. Oh, this is in at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1Let's say it's five now, and yeah and this is back when I had three djs and I was just like what, like name one reason why I shouldn't go do that? And I think she was like I have a hundred dollars. I was like, oh, I'll be there, I'll be there in one hour. I mean, I just like literally just walked out, threw a few things in the car and went and did this show. It wasn't kids, it was adults and young adults, so let's say, 20 to 40 years old. Their excitement level over this party and me DJing and playing these line dances and YMCA and all the other kind of sing along and do the dancing Dude, I literally played half the show facing the wall, crying.
Speaker 2Like.
Speaker 1I was like what if I had not come? What if I had not done this party? How messed up would this have been?
Speaker 2You know what I mean.
Speaker 1Like how shitty would this party have been. How upset would these kids have been that they didn't get to have this and it dude it forever changed me man like I. I think they try to pay me like I don't need I'm good, like hundred dollars ain't gonna make or break me. Put it towards the association or whatever it's just mine was this year actually really. Yeah, that tim tebow oh, the tim tebow, because it was, uh, basically all special needs kids.
Speaker 2I think they'd never had a prom. So these kids are coming up, and not just kids, they're talking about people in their 20s, 30s and even 40s who've never had that. And to have that adulation, people cheering them on as they're being crowned Ugh Tearjerker. So, yeah, that would be it Well man, let's wrap it.
Speaker 1It's been a good episode. First of all, thank you guys watching the podcast, listening to the podcast. We drop these every single Wednesday on YouTube and wherever you stream, Except for this week.
Speaker 2This is are we dropping this one?
Speaker 1Yeah, we'll drop it on Wednesday, I think.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I think we can get this knocked out. We'll drop this special edition for those of you who join later, or whatever. We'll get it edited. New episodes every single Wednesday. Shout out to our sponsors by the way. Dj Event Planner, our favorite CRM, and S-Start, our favorite new app and suite of apps. Check out S-Startcom. Thanks to Saquon on the board. Thank you, Brian B, for the salsa, for the mustache Get this thing out of here For the gear for the cold beer.
Speaker 1Again, appreciate you guys for watching. Thanks so much Later. Have a great day everybody. Have a great week.
