Beyond the DJ Booth
Brian B and Joe Bunn tackle questions about the private event DJ industry, share music, gear/gadgets, and stories from their events.
Beyond the DJ Booth
Wedding DJ Tips and Stories: Branding, Gear, and the Impact of Iconic Songs
What’s the secret sauce that keeps your wedding DJ sets unforgettable and your podcast thriving? Join hosts Joe Bunn and Brian B as they dive deep into the vibrant world of DJs in this engaging episode of Beyond the DJ Booth. From the nuances of maintaining momentum in podcasting to the excitement surrounding the upcoming DJ Collective event, this episode is packed with insights that every wedding DJ and private event DJ needs to hear.
Have you ever wondered how songs like 'Mr. Brightside' and 'Don't Stop Believin'' shape our cultural landscape? Joe and Brian engage in a lively debate that explores the profound impact of these anthems, offering a unique perspective on music trends for DJs. They also tackle the ever-important topic of branding as a DJ—should you promote your personal brand or the company you represent? The discussion is rich with DJ tips and tricks that can elevate your presence in the private event DJ industry.
As the conversation flows, the hosts share their personal anecdotes and travel tips, revealing the ups and downs of the DJ life. From wedding DJ advice on using microphones during ceremonies to sharing event success stories, listeners will gain valuable knowledge that can enhance their own DJ setups and performance experiences. The episode is not just informative; it’s filled with humor and camaraderie that makes you feel like part of the conversation.
Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, tune in for practical DJ performance tips and insights into the latest music gear and gadgets. Joe and Brian also discuss music playlist strategies that can help you keep the dance floor packed, along with DJ equipment reviews that ensure you’re always prepared for any gig. Plus, they share entertaining stories about DJ disasters and event mishaps that remind us all of the unpredictable nature of live events.
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how we doing everyone. It's brian, one of the co-hosts. It's Joe Bunn, our secondary co-host here Secondary I don't know why I said that, but welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth podcast. It is batch day, so if you hear us not referencing anything that's just happened in Pulp Culture today, it's because this was recorded a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Welcome everybody.
Speaker 1:Guess what.
Speaker 2:Season 5, chapter one.
Speaker 1:Oh snap.
Speaker 2:Season five, episode one yeah, sometimes people take breaks between they do.
Speaker 1:We're going to find out if that's supposed to be done or not at the podcast. Would that be nice? I mean, I feel like it breaks momentum. That's what I think, man. You got to keep it going.
Speaker 2:Right, right. What if they? They are like oh, they fell off.
Speaker 1:Or whatever, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Anyway, it's august as we're recording this and it's like a cool day. We've been hot for a while, but today's 60 something trust me as a southerner, this is unheard of I'll take it. I'll take it. So do we go back out before? Is this fake?
Speaker 2:fall. Oh, this is faux fall, as I call it. This ain't even close to being over. It's gonna be 105 in seven days. I'm calling it.
Speaker 1:Okay, when does it go back? September 1st, nah, nah, deeper.
Speaker 2:Deeper, yeah, more around my birthday September 25th. Okay, so a whole month we got to suffer.
Speaker 3:I'm taking gifts from fans this year, I would say October bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah To when it cools off Proper October, I agree.
Speaker 3:We don't get fall here anymore. Yeah Ouch, it just doesn't happen bro.
Speaker 2:Ouch, the leaves do change and shit. Though that's kind of gorgeous, yeah, especially if you go to the mountains. Go back to the mountains, like you did the other day. Oh, it was great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Premium Amazing, by the way curious where this hurricane took place, because, I mean literally, I saw no remnants of it anywhere.
Speaker 2:We went all the way. Are you sure you were in asheville? We were we were.
Speaker 1:We stayed at the restoration hotel, which is kind of the cool. It's like a bank were you near biltmore. Uh, I don't know that.
Speaker 2:That was that. Well, that biltmore village outside of biltmore.
Speaker 1:Well then, we went all the way up to highlands and, like there was, the roads looked good, like I was shocked at how, if it recovered that quickly or maybe I just I think you didn't see the right part because I've still seen some pictures and videos and stuff like literally like trees down, cars still yeah, like I've seen recent stuff where they just haven't recovered yet not enough money, not enough resources.
Speaker 2:You know the the initial like help, kind of wore off type thing you have any fall trips that you're doing?
Speaker 1:I mean, that's a heavy gig season, I know.
Speaker 2:I want to. My sister called yesterday and wants me and my mom to come out of Montana before it gets cold. So I think I'll take my mom out there and, you know, just do the touristy kind of things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean my mom's not going to go hiking or whitewater rafting, but I mean direct flight. Uh, you go minneapolis or denver, got it to bozeman, so it'll be fun. Yeah, you know what I mean. Stay out there for three or four days. My mom might stay longer, and then I'll just come back and get right back into the shows. But not a lot else planned, to be honest with you concerts here and there um, yeah I don't know nothing big.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a lot of shows coming up. We do have the, the dj collective, uh we do remember good time of year what we're calling the recharge.
Speaker 2:Uh, it is a great month here in north carolina. The venue is amazing. It's one of the wedding venues that you see us play at all the time, called the merriman wind house. I think we have close to 60 people signed up over that. Uh, we could probably take 15 more. Yeah, so it's the d thedjcollectiveofficialcom Me, brian, jason, jay and I. We've got a couple of other people that are kind of filling in some speaking spots, but it's basically ask us anything for two days.
Speaker 1:But then you also are doing we're all just doing presentations.
Speaker 2:We're doing individual presentations as well, which we've never done before. You got some ideas.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've got a couple of things percolating, do you?
Speaker 1:No, I don't.
Speaker 2:I've got ideas percolating that I always just kind of save in my notes app, but I haven't really fleshed it out yet.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:You want to spill any?
Speaker 3:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:And I've got ideas fleshed out for Pittsburgh DJ Summit next year and Midwest DJs Live. Okay, I'm speaking at both of those next year, 2026.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:I did have a hot take to start the show today.
Speaker 3:Are you?
Speaker 2:ready for this statement and I don't know if I believe it or not. I'm just trying to get a reaction from the listeners, even though I can't see their reaction Right. Mr Brightside is bigger than Don't Stop Believing. Ever was Hot. Take your thoughts.
Speaker 1:Right now, current day.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying ABM now, I'm saying Mr Brightside, today is bigger than Don't Stop Believin' ever was.
Speaker 1:Nah, okay, I don't think so. Beyond that, I don't think it will keep its longevity. I think this is a Do you still play?
Speaker 2:Don't Stop Believin', I do.
Speaker 1:Almost every wedding.
Speaker 2:Original.
Speaker 1:No, not always, Is that?
Speaker 2:blasphemous to jump off the original, though I don't think so. You ever get any shit for it. No, I definitely have before. It doesn't need like a. It's got to stay true to the original in some way.
Speaker 1:But no, I mean, I've been playing a bunch of different versions of it for years. How about Brightside original? I almost always go to the original. At a certain point I usually use a mix-in version, okay, and then come to a chorus and go right to the original.
Speaker 2:You made it, mm-hmm, you made it or you're doing it live. Both Interesting.
Speaker 1:I usually play the original of both of those, if I'm being honest. Well, and I love the fact that it has a cold ending, because I can go into a bunch of different things with Brightside Agreed yes, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2:if I believe the hot, take myself. Brightside is bigger than Don't Stop Believin' Bro.
Speaker 1:Don't Stop. Believin' came out in the 70s bro.
Speaker 2:Like we're in 2020. And still tracking.
Speaker 1:Come on, bro Decade. When did Brightside come out? 2006?.
Speaker 3:Can you look that up? I would, yeah, I would say like 2005, 2006, but just look at it.
Speaker 2:Can you look it up? I?
Speaker 3:mean, are the killers as big as Journey Like?
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that that's the real question. No, that's insane. I know that's not true, but I'm just saying that wasn't even their biggest record.
Speaker 3:Like come back, like you can't even go to when it came out, because you weren't playing it when it came out what bright side?
Speaker 2:yeah, of course not. What was their big song? Somebody told me yeah that was 2004.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, 21 years old. So I probably started trending when in like 2010, let's call it, and even then I might be too early.
Speaker 2:I think you're too early with it that you had a boyfriend that looked like a girl. Did you play that track? What came out?
Speaker 1:I played in the clubs, did you? Yeah, somebody told me um, have you ever bringing that one back? No, I haven't either.
Speaker 2:No, that doesn't have that anthem appeal to it?
Speaker 1:I don't think I saw even steve put out a youtube video ranking the top katie perry songs interesting, like I kissed a girl was one of her bigger songs yeah, first came out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not number one.
Speaker 1:Now, what is firework? That would be like what I think most djs would think yeah but what do you think it is? I think it's firework. He says hot and cold, oh wow, oh, we never. And he was doing it based off of crowd reaction. What do you think? Second was and I would agree with the second one, I might even push it to number one- I don't know, I'm not a.
Speaker 2:I'm not a katie perry fan teenage dream oh that's a great song
Speaker 1:okay yeah, the bridge is so good on that song too.
Speaker 2:I think that katie perry lost a ton of longevity and bangerism on that fake moon launch thing.
Speaker 3:Bro have you seen our tour lately? Oh, it's despicable. We gotta get her a new choreographer. I haven't seen any of it. The clips from the tour are ridiculous.
Speaker 2:And then that fake the thing where they said they went up in space.
Speaker 3:You think it was fake.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it was fake.
Speaker 3:Wow, really yeah, wow. Bro, they just circled around like a plane.
Speaker 1:They went out of orbit yeah, they didn't.
Speaker 2:They didn't leave, they did. Wow, no dude, go, go watch when they, when it landed, and bezos goes and pushes the door in like if you had seen it.
Speaker 3:No, depressurizing yeah, no, it's fake as shit.
Speaker 1:I will say this, though her catalog is deep.
Speaker 2:It is deep, but I'm saying a lot. My thing is she hurt her legacy. I couldn't think of the right word by that. Stunt was just dumb. The group of women that were in there were just like these, kind of handpicked, and it was just very fake and random. It was staged like and it was supposed to be empowering but it kind of backfired on them like there was, I think that was the thing that the PR was bad.
Speaker 2:When they came back and did the interview and I feel like she said something, I don't remember what it was, but it was like, oh my God, almost like it was going to war or something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she kissed the ground.
Speaker 2:She was like yeah, that part felt garbage, garbage, garbage. She heard herself.
Speaker 1:Her catalog back to the music is deep and for a while you're going to be able to play a lot of music and I'm going to tell you this too, and I'm going to tell you who never to sleep on.
Speaker 2:And I didn't go to the show and I kind of wish I had Kesha's catalog. Yeah, bro, just go to that. This is Kesha's Spotify playlist.
Speaker 1:What are you?
Speaker 2:playing of hers, die Young, my drug. Dude she has 10 songs that were in the top 10. You still messing with Timber. Yeah, I fuck with Timber. Anything's got Pitbull on it. I'm playing Wow interesting I got some backlash for Timber. I went down this rabbit hole the other day with somebody about how good Pitbull was when he used to speak Spanish Like Calle Ocho, yeah, that anthem, yeah, all those are good.
Speaker 2:People are just kind of pitbulled out right now but, hotel room service is always one of our top three songs of the night oh, I had um this corporate I just did.
Speaker 1:One of the guys in the company said don't play any taylor swift like it's been a little backlash.
Speaker 1:She's overplayed, don't play any of it. And I was like, okay, I wasn't planning on it. A couple girls came up and said can you play taylor swift? And this guy wasn't a decision maker, so I played it. One of the bigger songs of the night played and then someone asked for another one. I played another bigger song of the night. So I'm curious if, like taylor, is going to have that longevity of a katie perry or a pitbull, do you think that that would happen? 100 taylor.
Speaker 2:Swift still is the biggest living star in the world right now, but two years after, the heiress tour is over.
Speaker 1:Katie perry's record is 20 years old at this point.
Speaker 3:Do you?
Speaker 1:think Taylor Swift's current albums are going to have that kind of longevity or will it? Still be just two songs.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I need to understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1:I'm saying 20 years in her songs hit as hard Taylor.
Speaker 2:Swift's records are 20 years old. How old is Love Story? Okay, hold on. When did Love Story come out? You're naming the two tracks.
Speaker 1:Like it's Love Story. And what's the other one, the girl from um the one about Shake it Off? No, I mean, do you still play that? No, but what are we talking about? I'm saying that the catalog of Katy Perry is stronger in 20 years than I think Taylor Swift's will be. I think what Taylor Swift's got one song, Katie.
Speaker 3:Perry. That has trended for 20 years. I see what he's saying. Listen. Katie Perry was like the pop queen at one point she had outside of Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1:she had more songs chart at number one than any other artist. The only one that came close was Michael Jackson, taylor Swift doesn't really make crazy pop music.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's what I was going to say. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:We're saying something different. As an artist that DJ plays, no, maybe her catalog won't be as relevant, unless, all of a sudden, at 40 or whatever however old Taylor is, now, she decides to start making true pop records. But as an artist that is like a singer-songwriter that actually writes her own songs, her legacy is much more important. Yeah, taylor's is. Katy Perry didn't write any of those songs.
Speaker 1:Oh I understand that's fair. I was putting it in a gig context.
Speaker 2:In a gig context, then, yes, I will retreat and say you're right. But that leads me to think about something. Are you right about? That I mean, are we really not playing any other Taylor Swift songs?
Speaker 1:No, I'm playing a bunch right now, Like give me some other titles 22. If I have a New York crowd, I'm playing that New York song that she came out with. I mean, there's probably maybe 10 that I could play at a gig currently, but I don't see those having longevity past another 10 years.
Speaker 1:If that I'm being generous by saying 10 years, not in a dance setting Right, like she's definitely going to go on and she's putting out so many records at a clip right now, like literally, she's putting one out almost one a year. No, but they're re-records, not all of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:The last one was like the Poets, one wasn't it. She did like the Taylor's version. But now she owns her own catalog, so she she's done having to do re-records, you're right. So I just think she's putting out such a clip that to sustain that level of quality is tough to keep hitting bangers like that. I mean that Katy Perry record. There's two records right that basically climb the charts. Her other ones have been stinkers, but those two, they are quantified bangers, you're right. So I don't see, in 20 years are we going to be playing as much of our catalog as we are now? I don't think so.
Speaker 3:Whereas Katy.
Speaker 1:Perry. I mean the fact that she's tracked for 20 years with those same songs.
Speaker 2:They're my bigger songs of the night Any Katy Perry song she did hurt herself with, with some corny corny clips. California girl she's a celebrity.
Speaker 3:They're all corny.
Speaker 2:You're right, they are corny.
Speaker 3:I forget that sometimes, but I am looking at this, her Spotify, and it's pretty crazy. Who?
Speaker 1:Friday Night California Girls. Oh, Friday Night, Another good one Firework.
Speaker 3:Hot and Cold Dark. Horse.
Speaker 1:Dark Horse Teenage.
Speaker 3:Dream Feels I Kissed a Girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right. But Don't Sleep on Cash either, by the way.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I agree. People have not wanted me to play that for a long time. Why, I don't know. I think it got way played out Like it was number one for the long time.
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Speaker 2:Well you want to do the gear corner. Sure, I forgot about the gear corner.
Speaker 1:The gear's here, the gear is here, so I just went on a trip and was packing, so this is a travel hack more than anything. Okay, now we've got the little one. We had to, brought the dog, we brought the whole fam, right. So we took the dog to the hotel dog friendly, so we had to pack a bunch of stuff Did the dog shit in the room.
Speaker 2:No no no, he's an old man. At this point, I got you.
Speaker 1:So we're packing in all of my packing cubes. You use packing cubes at least right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you put me on that, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we're running out. I got to order some next day. Okay, I'm looking for some new packing cubes, okay, and I found these bags that are Ziploc, okay, but what I like about them, they come in a pack of 50. Okay, and they have little holes in them that are punctured there so you can squeeze all the air out of them and what I'm doing on them.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you could use a label maker, but I literally write like the day b-boy, thursday, thursday. I don't have to think about it. One last thing in my brain that I have to think about every day.
Speaker 2:Just put them in there by the day would that have your pants, your tea, your drawers and your socks all in there?
Speaker 1:and then I have one I call bb essentials, that's for the going to sleep. You know, just kind of needing some extra stuff that I might wear two times in a week or whatever. You know what I mean. Yeah, Amazon Find Again. You can get a pack of 50 of these, Is that what they call them?
Speaker 2:I mean they really give me for anything they call them differently.
Speaker 1:They call them swimsuit bags. Interesting 50 pieces, 12 by 16 inch poly plastic frosted Ziploc bags for packing selling apparel Vent holes. What do you think they cost for a pack of 50? $9.99. A little bit more. 20 bucks, okay, for a pack of 50. But the thing is I don't mind if this thing gets destroyed, right, I'm, and like, are you saving them? I'm saving them. I mean, I even put like I had water shoes that I had to wear on the boat. Put those in there and it packs down so nicely Because you can squeeze the air out.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I think also having multiple of them. I was squeezing so many clothes into my three or four initial bags that I had that were more of the cloth. That it was also hard to get them like padded down that fast. But with them being separated by day, I can pack a lot more in them because I'm squeezing so much air out of them. If that makes sense, yeah, that does make sense. So 20 bucks, go get it on Amazon if you're traveling a lot.
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Speaker 1:Now let's hit the question.
Speaker 2:Okay, the question is from our guide, Kevin Nichols, down in Macon, Georgia. Is it better to brand your company or yourself? I usually push the company for weddings, but for everything else I brand myself. What say you? What does that mean for everything else?
Speaker 1:Well, I think he's saying I know he works for himself. Oh, I thought he was talking about if he had your team, does he not have?
Speaker 2:a team. If somebody was out there branding themselves, it worked for me.
Speaker 1:No, you as the owner. So Kevin's the owner. Are you branding everything through the company or through yourself?
Speaker 2:I mean, I would just say this I agree with you man Like the everything on the at Bun DJ Co Instagram can't just be Joe Bun having the time of his life, right? That's why I book content creators to go out on the weekends and shoot these guys, cause I know they're not going to do it themselves, so they can see different faces. That's why we post the guy's profile picture on his birthday. That's why we post pictures from their weddings, with Randy in the background, mark in the background, mitch in the background, stuff like that.
Speaker 2:But, I also do have a Joe Blunt page obviously.
Speaker 1:Would you say you're on 50% of the content or way less, probably 50% Of the Bun DJ.
Speaker 2:Co? Yeah, probably. I mean the reels at least, are usually from my shows. Okay, Because he's with me and my guys nobody has an assistant. So they're not shooting anything, so they're not going to get a reel Right. But I'm not necessarily in all the reels either. Sometimes it's just people having a great time partying and dancing you know what I mean, but usually they are generated by me. I think he is saying, though, when I read this back I usually push the company for weddings.
Speaker 3:But for everything else? I think for everything else means either club gigs or private events.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, that's what I was thinking like, yes, like that.
Speaker 1:So that would be like dj kevin nichols, not, I can't remember the name of his company now, I'm spacing on that so when you're talking about corporate events or club gigs, or are you breaking down private events separate, separated out, or are you talking about I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think that's what he's saying, though I mean what I. I would not. I mean it's, it's still going to be right. Joe bone with bun dj company, randy bennett with bun dj company. I don't mind my djs having some sort of a personal brand their laptop skin. Well, mark does club stuff too right. Yeah, mark I mean. But what I express to them is hey, man, at that wilco little bar that you play at on the weekends, if somebody comes up and goes, man, you were great. Me and my wife are getting married next year. I hope that you give them a dj mark tony card that has bun dj company yeah, why would he not?
Speaker 2:he does yeah, but I'm just saying that's what I'm always hoping for, right, as a multi-op owner. I'm not sure if we answered the question properly or not. If we didn't, kevin, write us back or just call me bro, and I'll just answer it in person.
Speaker 1:He's a Facebook messenger. He has my number. He's a Facebook messenger guy.
Speaker 2:He messaged me then.
Speaker 1:Question number two.
Speaker 2:This guy used to actually work here.
Speaker 3:Really yeah, yeah, raleigh, yeah, raleigh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nogi, how many mics do you use at your typical ceremony? I mean, for me, nogi, it is all dependent upon that final planning call, and that is like question number one. I ask how many mics do I need for the ceremony? And they'll go well, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:Do they know? Yeah, why would you ask that? And I we're just repeating what the officiant says. Then I'm not putting one on Billy. And then the last question would be is an uncle, cousin, aunt going to read a poem, a passage, anything like that, during the ceremony? No, okay, then you don't need a handheld mic, and then it's usually the officiant only microphone. So typical one mic, one mic, efficient, wireless, lavalier, and I would say 50, 50 on, if we're even doing the music or not.
Speaker 1:Most people, or 50% of the people, have live.
Speaker 3:Okay, how about you? So one mic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, typical. Okay, I'd say 90% of them are repeating after the efficient, they're not writing their own, yeah. So what I do with that is I don't ask them how many mics do I need. They don't know, right. So what I do with that is I don't ask them how many mics do I need. They don't know. So the two questions I ask are are you writing your own vows or are you repeating that tells me that I only need one mic, if they're just repeating.
Speaker 1:The second question I ask is do you have anybody speaking at the ceremony outside of yourselves and the officiant? Poem reader, scripture reader Same thing.
Speaker 1:If they say that yes, then I know I need a second mic. So I don't even ask them, because they might feel like they need one just because they've been to ceremonies where the mic hasn't been good. So I get that a lot. So what I tend to do is I have the lapel on the officiant and then I have another backup with me just in case, because I never know if I have a fail safe or something happens. I want to have one ready to go on a stand.
Speaker 2:So we have been doing the exact same thing. We've been doing the lavalier mic, putting it on the efficient, testing it, and then on the receiver we sync a handheld as well for an absolute emergency.
Speaker 1:I've had it happen where they told me in the planning meeting they weren't writing their own vows and then they show up and they tell me oh hey, we ended up writing our own vows. I'm like, well, thank God, I have an extra mic.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You know if I didn't bring it. And in those scenarios, how are you handling it? Because I can tell you how we handle it from the standpoint of when they read their vows. Number one I don't like to have anything on them because I just feel like they got to Photoshop that out. It looks bad in pictures. Even the groom it's black. Our people are wearing more colorful clothing these days. It seems like the groom. So what I do is, when that comes to that point, I bring up the mic on a mic stand, put it right there so that that way it's picking up the bride really well as well as the groom, cause most people do a lapel on the groom and it doesn't pick up the bride as well as we do a lapel on the groom.
Speaker 2:The smartest move would be a handheld right, but then tell the efficient to hold it up to their mouth.
Speaker 1:See, that's why I don't even do it that way. I put it on a stand and I bring it up, which seems weird in the moment, like obviously I'm during the ceremony.
Speaker 2:People are watching me. I don't like that.
Speaker 1:But it picks it up the best and people are only going to remember when they watch the video back and it sounds great. Why can't, though, the officiant just it and hold it up to her mouth? And then his dude? I've had them hit the button. I've had them like, not do what you just said, not put it up to their mouth. Yeah, they're holding it down here inside their wiener. It's just, it's crazy. So I found that bringing it up on a stand for that portion.
Speaker 2:They're not in pictures the entire ceremony, which would be awful, but you know that mike walter has done more weddings than anybody listening to this podcast to this day. Still has a white wired mic running back to a QSC K-12. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1:And says nobody gives a shit about it. A planner, that's their biggest thing. Like they want to make sure that it looks clean. A wire Every weekend, all the way up there, every weekend that I have any sort of problem.
Speaker 2:I always think about Mike and I'm like I swear to God, I'm going to do that. I want to so badly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think you could get away with it.
Speaker 2:I don't think I can either no way.
Speaker 3:The look of the ceremony is like no way, especially the shit dude.
Speaker 2:Dude, I agree, but I mean my nerves would go from 100 to 18. Oh yeah, my nerves would go from 100 to 18. Oh yeah, If it was a wire If I had a wired handheld on a stand, just sitting there between the three of them.
Speaker 1:And what's he doing? Bringing a?
Speaker 2:50-footer. Yeah, maybe a 100-footer Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who cares how many feet it is and it's literally just going on the outside of the aisle. I guess Across the entire where they stand to the middle of the row, I would get in the middle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's going to have to, either no, it's going to probably go down the stand behind the wedding party, where they're standing down the right side, or the left side, back to where you're standing behind the speaker, literally just taking your hand and reaching up there and turn it on off, I would be crucified.
Speaker 1:I would not get used. Now, the one caveat is at the beach, I will sometimes do a wired mic because I can bury it in the sand. You mean the cable? The cable, yeah, no one tells genius. The problem is it's nasty when you're like rolling it all up, you got sand on it yeah, the white sand sticks to it a little bit more than the gray. The darker sand is a lot less.
Speaker 2:The main problem with the beach period is the wind.
Speaker 3:That's why I want to use a giant cat head thing on.
Speaker 1:That's why I use the wire and I put the cloth thing over it. Yeah, but you don't even know, cause it's like it's in the sand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no one's stepping on it, you see the stand and the mic up in the faces, and that's in every picture. That's true. I don't know. I don't know, man. Thanks, nogi for the question. Thank you guys for listening. Thanks for watching.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't even know if we ever help people or we're just sending them down a rabbit hole of confusion and hell, I'm confused, I'm confused. Thanks for listening. Thank you, dj Event Planner, for sponsoring us All that. Yes, djeventplannercom, if you need a CRM to take care of all the leads that you're getting and all the shows you're booking, hopefully, check them out, djeventplannercom. New episodes drop of this podcast every single freaking Wednesday morning Later. Thanks, thank you.
