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Hot Sauce and Hot Tracks: A Spicy DJ Cinco de Mayo
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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Speaker 2:Are we on? Yeah, we're on. We're on a delay on that stream. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 1:Welcome. Happy Cinco de Mayo everybody. We're having fun over here. You're having a blast.
Speaker 2:That mustache actually looks good on you, Dude. It took me forever to grow this thing.
Speaker 1:It's amazing, it's amazing it works.
Speaker 2:It 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 1:Jose for you.
Speaker 2:I don't think there's anything for me. No for Brian.
Speaker 1:Thank 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 2:Djs are like what?
Speaker 1:is this Before we get into anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Shout 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 2:You didn't go to we should.
Speaker 1:We'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 2:cheers Sure man A little Corona. Is this going to fit your diet?
Speaker 1:I know we've been talking about exactly on the program.
Speaker 2:But it's, it's, it's, it's a one timer, it's a Cheers. Yes sir, yes sir, yes, sir yes sir.
Speaker 1:Do you even know what Cinco de Mayo stands for? I don't.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:not, 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 2:secondly, I don't know he said I don't know. I'm pointing this all on, richie, this is all Richie.
Speaker 1:This is all Richie Stedman's idea. He lives in Utah.
Speaker 2:It'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 2:Yeah, 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 1:zero 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 2:I 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 1:You know what they say about um mexican food what's that?
Speaker 2:it's the happiest type of food what you mean like it hits your, your brain like the dopamine.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, it gives you the most happiness. Okay, study on that. I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:That's not that hot, though, right.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But do you think I can do five? Do you think I can do 10? Do you think I can do 11?
Speaker 1:Throughout the broadcast, throughout the broadcast.
Speaker 2:What do you think?
Speaker 1:I think you can hit a dozen.
Speaker 2:A dozen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're just going to like 10. What?
Speaker 2:do 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 1:8?. He dropped it to 8.
Speaker 2:We'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 1:Do 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 2:We'll check this. I feel like that's always a go-to for us.
Speaker 1:That's a great call dude.
Speaker 2:So you're the music king by the way, you don't do a ton of Latin shows.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go this far Ready. I'm going to just say this in public Worst Latin DJ ever, wow, yeah you.
Speaker 2:You'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 1:vivir 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 2:So 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 1:Rob 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 2:All 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 1:No, no, somebody would have to say play salsa, and then that's my go-to gringo. Pull Okay, vivi or Mi Vida.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:Yo, Nate Acosta's on here. He's going to be mad at us bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, totally, this is about as cultural misappropriation is what this is called.
Speaker 1:So you said your second song was what Shout out to my Mexican friends, though for real, Nadek Kosta's Mexican, I think.
Speaker 2:Yo, what's your second song?
Speaker 1:Oh, 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 1:But 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 2:It's not my culture.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:We'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 1:I could be wrong, okay.
Speaker 2:But 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 1:Oh, this is crazy.
Speaker 2:But 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 2:That'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 2:Yes, total siren. Now we're in it, this goes off oh.
Speaker 1:Massive. Always good for me. Damn. This is like the gringo go-to Latin list.
Speaker 2:Right, 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 1:Right right, right right.
Speaker 2:So over the last couple of years I feel like Lechona has been the move Absolutely. Are you playing that one at all?
Speaker 1:Yes, we had a conversation about this. In fact, when I posted the graphic for this, I picked Lechona as the graphic background.
Speaker 2:Before DJC, I never really heard of it.
Speaker 1:I mean, this thing came them, but not really so this is more.
Speaker 2:what would you classify this styling? Why are you?
Speaker 1:asking 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 2:I 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 1:Oh shit, he said it's called Quebradita.
Speaker 2:This is the style, okay.
Speaker 1:Dominic said he's offended by your outfit. Yeah, they got that big fat guitar, that's like yeah. And those outfits.
Speaker 2:Man 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:You're going to love this. You've got to play it from the beginning. I'm ready.
Speaker 2:You hear the strike? Yeah, I love this song. It's.
Speaker 1:It's.
Speaker 2:It 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 1:You'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 2:All right, even though he's, you know, not technically mexican bad bunny. What's your bad bunny track? I?
Speaker 1:love 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 2:You know like how that was a thing yeah, like you say accost because it's Nate Acosta, no, no.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:All 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 1:It 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 2:So 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 1:Okay, Good to know Because I don't know Goes over played it this weekend.
Speaker 2:Going to so many different things from it too. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Goes over really well yeah.
Speaker 2:What I got for you. Let's watch some Latin tracks Latin gringo.
Speaker 1:Good 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Another gringo said his Jeff Brown said he drops Carnival by Celia Cruz.
Speaker 2:Ooh yes, that's a go-to. That's for the older crowd. Shout out.
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Speaker 1:I don't know how long this is going to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how many you want in a row? I mean double down, or either just turn up the bottle, just turn it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:That's three, by the way. That counts that counts, I'll go five. My lips are burning.
Speaker 1:Oh God, why would you do this to yourself? That's five.
Speaker 2:It's a hot wings, jesus, oh, my goodness, have a sip of a cold beer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:I'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 1:throw up or shit yourself. I'm gonna be furious. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2:I'm not even playing right now oh man, I mean, you have saquon but saquon is out there shooting dude.
Speaker 1:Not 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 1:And 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 2:that's crazy well, and the other part that was weird to me in this was that his guy just left.
Speaker 1:It 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 2:I'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 1:So you think he should have gotten approval from the couple and the media team.
Speaker 2:I 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 2:Day 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 2:But 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 1:And then I'll offer it within the day.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:What 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 2:We just had to deal with this we did.
Speaker 1:We 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:My 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 2:Crazy.
Speaker 1:Or 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 2:Anyway, 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 1:Damn.
Speaker 2:I 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 2:That'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 2:No, 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 2:The 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 1:well, 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 2:Guys, 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 2:They'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 1:Damn, so take it out there. You already know what I'm going to say E versus A. Well, these just came out right.
Speaker 2:Right, I got you, but these things have been workhorses. They sound great.
Speaker 1:They last like 12 hours.
Speaker 2:There'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 2:But 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 1:Mark, 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 1:And 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 2:is your mic battery powered now? Everything is so what's your mic? What?
Speaker 1:mic. Are you using Sennheiser EWDX and it has two mics in one unit.
Speaker 2:And 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 2:Battery 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 1:You don't have a reader usually not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:Nobody 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 1:I'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 2:Yes, he was doing 100 plus yes Himself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Wired and he's just standing behind the speaker, you know, at the back of the room, wired.
Speaker 2:Wired handheld.
Speaker 1:A 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 1:Nah 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 2:Thanks for shopping what else we got?
Speaker 1:nathan 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 2:is yeah, yeah, yeah, britney Spears special.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:But 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 1:Garth man, if they're insistent upon it, I mean, I'm a yes man dude.
Speaker 2:I usually like Detroit. Is it just just me?
Speaker 1:I'm burning up, you've got a poncho on and we got the air off. Now we've been shooting so long.
Speaker 2:It's 81 outside, jeez you have a hat on a stash.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna burn some cows, you've been eating damn salsa for two hours. It's all good.
Speaker 2:Anyway, 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 1:I've been doing this, this one's going to work.
Speaker 2:I know for a fact I'm the same way Right.
Speaker 1:I'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 1:That is, I'm sweating over here, brian does grow a mean mustache. Shout out to Sound what's up Brandon Alley Yo.
Speaker 2:he lived in 99.
Speaker 1:Did he? Yeah, but what year did he?
Speaker 2:die 2023. So it's a couple years ago, he lived in 99.
Speaker 1:Shout 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 2:for 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 1:carry 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 1:Oh, 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 2:No, 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 1:They'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 2:Yeah, 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 1:They wouldn't have worked anyways.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:out 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 2:I 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 1:So 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 2:These are Sennheiser as well. Yeah, these have to be close by.
Speaker 1:I have a love-hate relationship with these. They got to be close by.
Speaker 2:That's the key they do, but in a pinch they're USB-C, I know no interference.
Speaker 1:What are they called?
Speaker 2:I was just gonna pull that up.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:This 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 1:Yeah, 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.
Speaker 2:Okay, 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 1:Wash your face, yes, and you can crank it. And he's got different yes aperture, all of that.
Speaker 2:I forgot what they call it, the diffuser. I'm curious what you think this is going to go for I know this company.
Speaker 1:They 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 2:It's a deal right now, literally today. So 19 bucks. But can you for a light?
Speaker 1:no, 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 2:This is pretty cool and you can stack multiple ones on top of one another.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Shout out Bob Hickman, who I think actually got that from Bird.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Turkey, 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 1:He's good man. He just comes with the good stuff.
Speaker 2:He's good this, this kid's good. Is there anything, professionally or personal, you have left to do you?
Speaker 1:go 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 1:I 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 2:Granddad, you're going to go with a name. You're going to go Pappy. Nah, you're going to go Papa.
Speaker 1:Nah, granddaddy, granddad, something like that.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's what my kids call my dad.
Speaker 1:Think 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 2:You'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 1:No, I have been in the furniture space. Are you going outside of that and doing other.
Speaker 1:no, 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 2:quarter one a quarter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 1:I will never do that. I don't put up bullshit DJ shows. I'm not putting out bullshit gear Ever. What about?
Speaker 2:playing a show. Any professional milestones no.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Nation I.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:But that's a different kind of show because you're not getting people to really dance, necessarily no but you.
Speaker 1:But 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 2:You're sitting in box seats, bro, you went. I mean maybe like show did, yeah, pipes fucking killed that yeah he did.
Speaker 1:He 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 1:Cause he wanted a rush a rush order because he's going back out. Yeah, I don't want to go on tour.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:China, hong Kong all those spots.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Yeah, vice definitely goes over there a lot, but it's clubs and stuff, right?
Speaker 2:And 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 1:Mine too Mine too.
Speaker 2:Southern 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 1:I 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 2:Yeah, she don't want to go. Well, it's at that age, walking around for a long time.
Speaker 1:My mom is mobile, though man and my dad was until cancer.
Speaker 2:Like he, you know 10 miles. I mean it was mobile.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:I did this weekend. Oh, I don't remember the song. It was something I hadn't heard and it.
Speaker 1:Just it got me Really. Yeah, actually it was a mother. Do you think about when your daughter yeah.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:I 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 2:Like there's a bug on the wall or something I don't know man there's just.
Speaker 1:You know, randy has no kids and he's a crier during the first dance for the father-daughter dance sometimes.
Speaker 2:I don't remember ever getting to that point until I had a kid.
Speaker 1:That 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 2:I mean just I, I think those people are the sweetest people.
Speaker 1:Anyway, 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 2:I'm like how can people watch this week to week?
Speaker 1:I'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 1:You 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 2:I know it.
Speaker 1:I 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 1:She'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 1:Let'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 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I was like what if I had not come? What if I had not done this party? How messed up would this have been?
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like 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 2:I 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 1:It'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 2:This is are we dropping this one?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll drop it on Wednesday, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I 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 1:Again, appreciate you guys for watching. Thanks so much Later. Have a great day everybody. Have a great week.
